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Sunday, September 5. 2021From today's LectionaryIsaiah 35:4-7a 35:4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart, "Be strong, do not fear! Here is your God. He will come with vengeance, with terrible recompense. He will come and save you." 35:5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped; 35:6 then the lame shall leap like a deer, and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy. For waters shall break forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert; 35:7a the burning sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water. Saturday, September 4. 2021A few more Sat. links
ET TU, PRINCETON? WSJ: What 9/11 Taught Us About Trauma and Resilience. Distress is a normal reaction to mass tragedy, but so is a relatively prompt climb back to good mental health. MC: The topic of the moment here at Manhattan Contrarian has been how judges with a religious zeal to perfect the world (according to their own woke vision) can go completely off the rails with sweeping orders to transform the entire country. China Rebuffs Kerry In Climate Talks: 'We'll Follow Our Own Roadmap" Joe Manchin Is Singlehandedly Destroying Biden's Presidency. Friday, September 3. 2021Friday morning linksCannabis not good for teen brains Sociology journal calls for papers that ‘critically examine’ racism in sports development Should Public Schools be Allowed to Deceive Parents? 16% of Black Families Left the Corrupt Educational System
Powerline again: I know what you’re thinking, and I checked: this is not a Monty Python skit. Stella Parton: Women in America are treated worse than women in Afghanistan, you know Code Pink Goes All Red Defending Tiny Little Communist China Against Imperial Taiwan No, the Woke Won’t Debate You. Here’s Why. Newsom's closing message: More people will die if I'm recalled GOP hopes of ousting Gavin Newsom fading in the California recall election? DHS, CNN Scramble To Flip Biden Afghanistan Narrative Back To Domestic 'White Supremacists' Threat BIDEN TRIED TO SEND PALLETS OF CASH TO THE TALIBAN AS KABUL FELL Thursday, September 2. 2021Protein supplements and weight trainingThis article applies to heavy weight training, not for the hand-weights typically used in conditioning classes. Age is a factor. Also, there is an amount which is optimal. More is not always better. I do heavy weights (powerlifts, etc) twice weekly, but have been slacking off on the nutrition.
Wednesday, September 1. 2021Wednesday morning linksStudy shows evidence of beer drinking 9,000 years ago in Southern China Hydroponics Reveals That Organic Food Is About Ideology, Not Sustainability More On European Climate Change Litigation: These People Are Crazy U.S. Aid Will Keep Flowing to Taliban The Media Will Lap Up Biden's Afghanistan 'Victory' Speech Like Dogs Returning to Their Vomit Kinder, Gentler Taliban Murder Afghan Folk Singer, Because Music Is Un-Islamic Taliban Expected To Double Down On Drug Trafficking Taliban Committing House-To-House Executions Of “Traitors”… Government Teachers Gone Wild: Teachers Direct Students to Salute the Gay Pride Flat and the Antifa Fla Report: Libs ‘Discouraged’ After Months of Getting Owned by Kyrsten Sinema. 'Demoralization is setting in' among left-wing activists as Democratic senator ignores their pointless whining Tuesday, August 31. 2021Tuesday morning linksCape Cod: eight great white sharks seen feeding on humpback whale carcass. Expert marvels at ‘biggest smorgasbord a shark could dream of’ Epoch: 800-Year-Old Medieval Chain Mail Vest From Norman Period Discovered in Longford, Ireland Epoch keeps getting better, but $. Greedy capitalists. HHS Plans To Treat Climate Crisis As Public Health Crisis LA Teacher's Union President: 'Our babies may not have learned all their times tables' but 'they know the words insurrection and coup' Obama Education Secretary Loses His Mind, Compares Anti-Maskers To Kabul Suicide Bombers They Openly Mock Us Now: Taliban Hangs “Traitor” by the Throat From US Helicopter in Kandahar Left Behind by Joe Biden Biden Will Fund Taliban Through "Humanitarian Aid" American University of Afghanistan Students Struggle to Flee the Country Playing the Race Card on Larry Elder. Engaging in shameful duplicity regarding crime and policing, the media attempt to portray the California gubernatorial candidate as anti-black. Kamala Harris: The absentee VP by design The Story About Biden Checking His Watch During Dignified Transfer Just Got a Lot Worse Did not like being there Monday, August 30. 2021Rick Beato on J.S. BachMonday PM linksThe kinky secret sex lives of sharks ‘We are burning our cultural inheritance’. Heather Mac Donald on how high culture has been destroyed by the culture war. Strange Daze: The American Anti-American White Anti-White Sleepwalking “Woke Folk” Among Us Scientific American (and math) go full woke Stop enabling people to avoid work because of Covid Who’s Skipping the Vaccine? The Answer May Surprise You After implementing a vaccine mandate, Amherst requires double-masking and limits student travel Kamala Harris and Jane Fonda Sunday, August 29. 2021The story of the YardbirdsSunday afternoon link dump
AOC Decides To Jump In On The Science Of Ice Cream From a doctor bewildered at where all this COVID stuff is going Bill Maher Crowns Greg Gutfeld the ‘New King of Late Night’: Conservative Comedy Successful Because Liberals ‘Sound Like an Onion Headline’ New documents detail behind-the-scenes turmoil at UNC journalism school over Nikole Hannah-Jones hiring Okla. Woman Took Credit for Rescuing the Afghan Girls Robotics Team—and Many in the Media Fell for Her Lies The Atlantic: The dark, destructive place the GOP has found itself in isn’t shocking. What??? What Took You So Long? After Years of Antifa Assaults, Portland 'Journalists' Finally Muster Outrage at Latest Attack Australian state's new "reward" for full vaccination: Two hours allowed outside your home each day instead of one Life in America: Peaches and PorgiesOne of my daughters and her pal caught 12 Porgies this morning from the boat. It is Porgie season in New England. Last night I made a bowl of Peach salsa from our peaches to accompany Indian take-out, and Mrs. BD made a peach pie (yeah, she always makes her own crust - rolls them out with her grandma's rolling pin). Thing about peaches is, for cooking, best if they are firm and far from ripe. For salsa, not ripe but slightly softer and crunchy like an apple. A skewer of hard peach chunks on a grill makes them perfect. For fresh peach chutney that you don't want to bother canning (I am done with canning - it's a pain), you want to use unripe fruit. Just cook it up and put it in the fridge. Peach salsa and peach chutney go with everything, but especially shrimp and fish. And Porgies. From today's LectionaryMark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 7:1 Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 7:2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 7:3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; 7:4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) 7:5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?" 7:6 He said to them, "Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; 7:7 in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.' 7:8 You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition." 7:14 Then he called the crowd again and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 7:15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile." 7:21 For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, 7:22 adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. 7:23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person." Saturday, August 28. 2021Bumper crop of peaches right nowThe weight of all the fruit has broken many limbs, so it's the last year for this old tree. Such fruit trees have a limited life span. It has produced abundantly every three years. Feast or famine. My pic does not capture the amount of fruit. Invited a gardening pal over to share the harvest. I think the wood might be nice for smoking a turkey on Thanksgiving.
The models for American GothicFriday, August 27. 2021Friday morning linksThe new chief chaplain at Harvard? An atheist New York magazine’s shocking revelation: The liberal media are biased! Americans Are 'More & More Dependent' On Big Govt - Things Are Never Going Back To 'Normal' Cutting to the Chase: Why Trump Was Driven from Office Quote via Powerline: CNN Shocked to Discover Democrat Voters ‘Frustrated,’ Want to Recall Newsom Too Thursday, August 26. 2021Thursday afternoon linksTaliban Win Liberal Hearts and Minds by Promising to Fight "Climate Change" Where will Afghanistan’s refugees go? Penn offers course on ‘White Nationalism in the Age of Climate Change’ Illinoisans Paid Almost As Much On Unemployment As At Work America Is Now Actually the Mess Dems Pretended It Was Under Trump Critical Race Capitalism - Verizon teaches employees that America is fundamentally racist and promotes “defunding the police.” Charlie Watts, RIPAs I understand it, he was a Jazz drummer but never minded playing with the Stones. In the Start Me Up video they post, watch Watts smirking at Jagger. Wednesday, August 25. 2021Cool world-wide weather websiteWindfinder. Wind, weather, waves and tides, for those who seek fun in or on the water. According to my pal, they accurately noted that the Henri storm would be a non-event.
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A few Weds morning linksThe Good News—A COVID-19 Update By Thomas T. Siler, M.D. A Famous Honesty Researcher Is Retracting A Study Over Fake Data. Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest. Illinois sex ed classes to teach gender expression as early as K-2 starting next school year ANDREW CUOMO’S PARTING SHOTS Progressives have ruined California. Governor Gavin Newsom's hapless reign exposes the rot at the heart of America's liberal elite.
The UK police are getting serious about hate crime Monday, August 23. 2021This guy knows his boatMonday morning links
Toon via Lucianne NYT: Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why. Nearly 15 Million Mail-in-Ballots Unaccounted for in 2020 Election, Report Says MC's Initial Reaction To Charles Murray's "Facing Reality" Antony Blinken Causes Alarm After Refusing to Answer Key Joe Biden Question “The Taliban Now Has US Biometric System Used to Identify Afghans – Know Who Worked with the Government” Taliban Sets Woman on Fire for 'Bad Cooking' Taliban Draw Up Kill Lists and Demand Girls as War Booty To “Marry” Fighters. Taliban commander: “All girls over the age of 15 and widows younger than 40 should be married to the insurgent fighters.” HOWIE CARR: Biden voters — are you tired of losing yet? Sunday, August 22. 2021Shooting StarToo bad he messes up the lyrics
From today's Lectionary: Pray in the Spirit at all timesEphesians 6:10-20 6:10 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his power. 6:11 Put on the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 6:12 For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 6:13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, so that you may be able to withstand on that evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. 6:14 Stand therefore, and fasten the belt of truth around your waist, and put on the breastplate of righteousness. 6:15 As shoes for your feet put on whatever will make you ready to proclaim the gospel of peace. 6:16 With all of these, take the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the flaming arrows of the evil one. 6:17 Take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. 6:18 Pray in the Spirit at all times in every prayer and supplication. To that end keep alert and always persevere in supplication for all the saints. 6:19 Pray also for me, so that when I speak, a message may be given to me to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel, 6:20 for which I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I may declare it boldly, as I must speak. Saturday, August 21. 2021Saturday PM linksLazy man's guide to strength, at ACE What I Learned While Eavesdropping on the Taliban. I spent 600 hours listening in on the people who now run Afghanistan. It wasn’t until the end of my tour that I understood what they were telling me. Media Turns On Biden: "Why Do You Continue To Trust The Taliban Mr. President?" Actual LA Times Headline: “Larry Elder is the Black Face of White Supremacy. You’ve Been Warned” ColoradoFrom one of our Colorado friends: Rubber Rabbitbrush and Baldwin's Ironweed. I may use this image as a Christmas card! And snow fell near the Eisenhower tunnel last night.
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