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Friday, July 31. 2020Friday morning linksUN Officials Cite Study That Finds Lockdowns, School Closures Killing More Kids Than COVID Teachers Unions Want Wealth Taxes, Charter School Bans, and Medicare for All Before Schools Can Reopen Masks are the new condoms — and Americans need to get on board now! Fifty-four scientists have lost their jobs as a result of NIH probe into foreign ties Failed to disclose China ties Multiple Outlets, Journalists, Push False Stat that GDP Fell 32.9% in Q2; It Fell 9.5% I admit I believed it
Good Riddance To Drudge He served a purpose With silencing of speech, is America entering Orwellian territory? Dems Fear A Campaign-Altering Surprise From Durham CNN Claims Congress Can Pass Law To Stop Economy From Contracting Cool! Cuomo: Federal government needs to fill New York's budget gap States, seeking more coronavirus relief funds, have hardly spent the $139 billion approved in March: report. The National Governors Association said states need $500 billion to replace revenue lost during the recession From whom? Is New York Reaching Herd Immunity? What does China want? Thursday, July 30. 2020Thursday morning linksHedonism Leads to Happiness Ocean Grove, New Jersey travel notes Salt Water New England: Nice photos Charity Navigator is launching a new rating system to help better evaluate nonprofits Trader Joe's to keep popular international food labels, denies packaging is racist Social media mocks NYT report stating that teachers are ‘wary’ of both in-person and online courses UN Officials Cite Study That Finds Lockdowns, School Closures Killing More Kids Than COVID A Few Tips In Case You Find Yourself In A Mandatory "Anti-Racism" Struggle Session Day Care Fine, School Not Fine BoJo To Britons: You Fat People Are Making The Pandemic Recession Worse Firing White People Will Improve Diversity True After Ending Police Contract, Minneapolis Schools Quietly Post Job Listings For Security Guards Democrats Make Mockery of Barr ‘Hearing’ CNN Attacks Barr For Caring About Black On Black Crime… Portland Police Raise Millions By Letting Citizens Throw Tear Gas At Antifa For $5 A Pop How to Hold Beijing Accountable for the Coronavirus - Why did China cover up the epidemic? Was the Pentagon’s Blacklist of Chinese Companies Justified? Reshaped After the Pandemic: Turkish Aggression in the Eastern Mediterranean Wednesday, July 29. 2020Wednesday morning linksThailand: Police say monkeys have taken over city and fight to control them is now ‘hopeless’ I Was Invited to Testify on Energy Policy. Then Democrats Didn’t Let Me Speak Illinois can not run itself 1619 Project Creator Admits “It Is Not A History” But a Fight “to Control the National Narrative” The 1619 Project: When ‘History’ Isn’t History Arson Isn’t Violence, Argues NY Times 1619 Author Should they be trying to injure federal officers every night with rocks, cans, lasers and fireworks? That’s the question BLM activists are wrestling with according to the NY Times. Dispatch From Portland: The Morning Crew - A tarot card-reading liberal arts major, a Sudanese immigrant, and a former restaurant worker explain why they are out protesting in Rose City. Trump reroutes pharmaceutical manufacturing from China to New York Kodak plant AG Barr destroys Jerry Nadler in another House Democrat testimony disaster Tuesday, July 28. 2020Home workouts: BandsI've taken fitness classes which only use bands for resistance. In a way, band workouts are calisthenics with extra resistance. For general fitness, bands are all the equipment you really need to buy unless you are in a serious muscle-building program. Believe me, the guy in the video did not grow that muscle bulk with bands alone. Example:
Tuesday morning linksSchool Vouchers As Pandemic Response Supreme Court Backs School Choice – For Now California Cancels School. Declaring that there will be no in-person instruction this fall, Governor Gavin Newsom puts teachers’ union interests over those of children and families. How to bring New York City’s refugees back home Uncanceled: After Threatened Lawsuit, Charity Boss Who Criticized BLM is Reinstated, Cancel Mob Resigns Kimball: It Doesn’t End Well. The hooligans smashing up courthouses and police stations as they pursue indiscriminate carnage are fired by the same unholy “train of disorderly appetites” that Edmund Burke anatomized 230 years ago. Downtown Portland Businesses Seeing Business Collapse Due To “Protests” Seattle’s progressive prescription for rapid urban decay The lunacy of the ‘largely peaceful protest’ - The media says one thing while also saying the opposite Nadler Calls Antifa Violence A 'Myth' In Stunning Example Of DC Disconnect Soros Pours Record $50 Million Into 2020 Election Rwandan asylum seeker admits to setting fire to French cathedral Israel Was Ground Zero for the New Woke Religion. How coverage of the Jewish state became a signifier of the ideological activism that now permeates Western cultur Monday, July 27. 2020Monday morning linksIt's up to Grandpas to teach kids to fish The Sly Psychology Behind Magicians' Card Tricks - Is this your card? A recent study found that participants will select the suit or number they were primed to choose.
Freedom to Deface - Mayor de Blasio cancels a graffiti-eradication program, accommodating vandals who make the city uglier. Canada Approves "Glory Holes" For Safe Sex During Pandemic Sheesh Does Mathematics = Western Imperialism? Why Are We Even Contemplating Canceling Aristotle? These are the innocuous words progressives want to ban you from using The Left Has Turned Into A Crazed Maoist Cult. It's Time For The Sane To Exit. DC goes back to work - and online porn up 1600 % Las Vegas Casinos Are Making Another Round Of Brutal Furloughs And Layoffs When to re-open schools? How about never? Approval of Trump's handling of coronavirus hits new low Walmart, Home Depot Won’t Enforce Face Mask Rules Following Violent Confrontations More riots and lawlessness in cities across nation - Saturday’s unrest included damage to federal buildings and local police precincts -- and even a fatal shooting Police Tell Business Owners in Seattle 'You're on Your Own' Democrats’ Strategy – Slander the Police, Defund the Police, Close Prisons and Set Criminals Free – What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Radio host mocked Trump by claiming Seattle is peaceful, then rioters torched his apartment building American protests: Demonstrations, violent riots expected to continue throughout the country Protesters Gather Outside DHS Secretary Chad Wolf’s House… "Portland is leading. They’re showing what it looks like to stay in the streets despite police oppression, despite the federal forces being sent in. This kind of energy is actually what’s needed." Armed Militia Group Joins BLM Protest In Louisville, Three Members Shot “It’s Dangerous and She Should Immediately Apologize for That” – DHS Secretary Chad Wolf Blasts Nancy Pelosi After She Compares Federal Agents to Nazis 'Trump Might Not Accept The Results Of The 2020 Election,' Says Movement That Still Hasn't Accepted Results Of 2016 Election More willful blindness by the media on spying by Obama administration Sunday, July 26. 2020The Victim, the Persecutor, and the RescuerA friend told me about the Karpman Drama Triangle. It's a model for (dysfunctional) family dynamics. One aspect of the model is that the Victim is not necessarily a literal victim, but one who assumes the victim role.
Still not clear what they are protesting
I beieve that there is a calculated strategy: To expose the violence inherent in the system. Going after Federal buildings is just begging for that. The feds are obligated to protect Federal property and people. There is nothing these protesters want more than to receive some real bullets. Seattle police: We can no longer protect citizens or property The Kingdom of GodMatthew 13:31-33, 44-52 13:31 He put before them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field; 13:32 it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches." 13:33 He told them another parable: "The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened." 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. 13:45 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls; 13:46 on finding one pearl of great value, he went and sold all that he had and bought it. 13:47 "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net that was thrown into the sea and caught fish of every kind; 13:48 when it was full, they drew it ashore, sat down, and put the good into baskets but threw out the bad. 13:49 So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous 13:50 and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. 13:51 "Have you understood all this?" They answered, "Yes." 13:52 And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old." Saturday, July 25. 2020Tyler ChildersSaturday morning linksHow Costco Convinces Brands to Cannibalize Themselves - An unlikely marriage where both sides win We Are About To Find Out What An Economy Looks Like When You Throw Tens Of Millions Into Unemployment Overnight Andrew Cuomo to Chicken Wings: You're Not Real Food COVID deaths per 100,00, by state Two Florida Mayors Urge Residents To Wear Masks At Home CDC Sides With Trump, Says Students Need To Go Back To School The Models Were Wildly Wrong about Reopening Too Polls Show Americans' Mood Deteriorating Over Virus, Economy The Wall Street Journal's Conservative-Leaning Opinion Editors Respond to Demands by the Left-Leaning "Reporters" That Their Lefty Reporters Get Veto Power Over Opinion: We're Not the New York Times and We Don't Give In to Woke Retards. The Harper’s ‘Letter,’ cancel culture and the summer that drove a lot of smart people mad Democratic National Committee platform mentions ‘whites’ 15 times, all damning Why? Black Americans do not dislike other Americans in my experience. Nobody dislikes Black Americans either Americans Say Blacks More Racist Than Whites, Hispanics, Asians Probably wrong Why You Need to Stay Out of Seattle This Weekend Portland Cult Sing ‘Hands Up, Please Don’t Shoot Me’ Nonsense. They would love another Kent State and look as if they are trying to provoke it What, exactly, is the message when mostly white Leftists are involved with vandalism, graffiti, property damage, assault, and arson, among others? What does it have to do with black lives matter? Chicago Mayor Agrees to Allow Deployment of Federal Police to Chicago after Call with Trump With No Deal to Curb Drug Costs, Trump Tries His Own Changes Schiff Runs Interference For Chinese Gov’t, Calls Stopping Chinese Spying A U.S. “Escalation”… The Democrats' Pro-Iran, Anti-Israel 2020 Platform Palestinians: Victims of Arab Racism Arabs have always hated the Palis. I do not know why Friday, July 24. 2020Two parts genius, one part crackpotBernarr McFadden invented the American fitness "movement" around the turn of the century. Not too different from today's fitness gurus. He got women on board with it too, back in the time when prosperity had been signified by a belly for men and women. The opposite, now. Entertaining podcast: The Crazy, Forgotten Story of America's First Fitness Influencer
Friday morning linksThe Climate Virus: Hysteria Needs To Shelter In Place The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of ‘Cynical Theories’ How Dalrymple got canceled: Mob Rule comes to Britain White parents need to quit caring about their kids The Racism of Anti-Racist Education Success Academy shows how school leaders behave when kids come first Orchestrating Outcomes: NY Times’ Music Critic Says Blind Auditions Should End To Ensure Racial Equity Rioters Rejoice as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Announces Columbus Statue Will Be Torn Down Sierra Club Apologizes For ‘Deeply Harmful Racist Stereotypes’ Of Founder John Muir Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Joins Antifa-BLM Street Protests — Gets Cursed and Mobbed The Media’s Political Suicide - The dying media is dying to kill America. Will the NYSE quit NYC? Chinese Researcher Accused Of Lying About Military Connections Is Now Hiding Out In Chinese Consulate Trump's press conference hit it out of the park Thursday, July 23. 2020How stupid are dogs?We're talking about domesticated dogs, from Chihuauah to Malamutes - all genetically-modifed versions of the Wolf, designed to serve or entertain humans in some ways. The domestic dog appears to be a neotonal wolf. They are certainly trainable and well-adapted to interacting with humans, but not as clever as many other mammals. (I hear some reader thinking "But my dog is different. Yeah, right."). Why do humans anthropomorphise animals? I am a dog guy, and know how easy it can be to view a dog as a pal. They sure can be great companions if well-trained, with none of the demands of human relationships. I guess I am talking about pets, not pure working dogs. Are they pretend people? Thursday morning linksEarth, moon were bombarded by asteroid shower 800 million years ago Star of David taken down by Twitter, citing 'hateful imagery' Sierra Club removes monuments to John Muir over racist ties Planned Parenthood removes founder Margaret Sanger's name Know What We Really Need? A Department Of Climate ‘Walking On Eggshells’: 62% Of Americans Are Afraid To Express Political Views, Survey Finds De Blasio Blames Coronavirus For Spiking Crime, Murder In NYC Dem Rep. Adam Smith Defends China’s Coronavirus Response: ‘It’s Not Their Job To Warn The American People’ Trump campaign jet fuel? Republicans pin hope on Durham Russia-hoax investigation China Is Ready for a Space War.Beijing is making new developments in space after spending decades envying NASA’s dominance in the region. The US needs to take action to deter near-peer rivals in space Wednesday, July 22. 2020Exercise can be costly
I never had a flab or weight problem, but before I got into my program I had a weakness and endurance problem which kinda depressed me. Sarcopenia due to physical neglect. After around 4 years of my almost-daily weights/calisthenics/cardio program, I have gained only about 6 lbs. Probably lost some fat that was not obvious to me so maybe 7-8 lbs. of meat. I do not have a beefy build, so there are natural limits. Also, probably from weights, my neck size has gone up over an inch. I can't button my dress shirts. Is that bragging? Also, my sports jackets are tight in the shoulders. Trust me, I am not over-muscled by a long shot, just fit, energetic, and functional. I have enough dress clothing (and every other sort of clothing) to last the rest of my life and more, whether it fits perfectly or not. I am done with new clothing forever. Except maybe workout stuff - they seem to wear out fast. The sneakers, mainly.
Wednesday morning linksRutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar ‘in solidarity with Black Lives Matter’ Schools are being politicized, much to the detriment of children Climate-change hysteria costs lives — but activists want to keep panic alive The real climate conspiracy by attorneys general for hire Reopening Schools and the Limits of Expertise News media stoke COVID-19 anxieties; yawned during 1968 pandemic Yale Epidemiologist: Hydroxychloroquine Could Save 100,000 Lives If Widely Deployed Codevilla: The COVID Coup Teachers Unions Will Sacrifice Their Students For Their Politics Dem Rep. Blumenauer: ‘Portland, Oregon Is Not Out of Control’ Even More Now Oppose Defunding Police, Fear More Violence 'Cancel Culture' and the Historical Illiteracy That Fuels It Biden Vs. The Most Interesting Man In The World High School Teacher in Michigan Fired for Saying 'Trump Is Our President' on Social Media Nike, Other Global Brands, Complicit in China Slave Labor Tuesday, July 21. 2020Sondheim and the Art of the MusicalMy favorite quote in this Paris Review piece on Sondheim is that music can make a word explode. It sure can. One quote:
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Tuesday morning linksSunday Sermonette: 10 Safety Tips For Going Back To Church Catholic churches across U.S. suffer week of vandalism and arson AVI explains that free market capitalism is a force, not a system The Science Is Very Clear: Schools Should Reopen This Fall Joe Biden Fights Science: ‘Just Plain Dangerous’ for Children to Return to School Florida's Broward County Orders Residents To Enforce Mandatory Mask Rules At Home Drop tests for blacks, say college coaches Glenn Loury interviewed on Race And Equality
Trump Was Right: Biden First Said He'd Defund Police Voters See Media A Lot More Eager To Help Biden Than Trump Mandated Diversity Training Portland Rioters Burn American Flag, Break Down Fencing At Federal Courthouse As Officers Respond En Masse Homeland Security plans to deploy 150 agents in Chicago this week, with scope of duty unknown 18 Chicago Cops Injured in Riot and Activists Scream 'Police Brutality' We immigrants know the America-bashers are ridiculously wrong UN Secretary General Calls For A “New Model For Global Governance” To Stop ‘Climate Change’ Mission creep? I thought they try to stop wars and genocide. Without much success. Monday, July 20. 2020Monday morning linksWhat is a bad smell? In Canada’s Version of Portland, Cancel Culture Comes for ‘Steve-O-Reno’s’ Left-Wingers Are Hysterical About Federal Agents Policing Protests in Portland Border chief fires back at Portland mayor, defends 'absolutely necessary' policing tactics Portland Rioters Smash Through Door of Portland Police Association, Light it on Fire Portland’s Mayor Is Still On The Side Of The Rioters Black Woman Defaces Black Lives Matter Mural Outside Trump Tower: "Re-Fund The Police!" America Held Hostage - This is how the Left campaigns to remove President Trump. Prof. Glen Loury: ‘You Can Live With Disparities, Or You Can Live In Totalitarianism’ "The white man’s path is a rut for the rest of us" — writes a privileged white woman... This ‘anti-racism education’ sure looks awfully … racist Trader Jose Is Now Racist San Francisco’s experiment housing the homeless in hotels during pandemic working out as expected Hong Kong Outbreak "Out Of Control" As City Suffers Record Jump In New COVID-19 Cases The pandemic could actually strengthen the U.S. food system. The shock to U.S. food chains from the coronavirus has been a boon to small- and mid-sized farms and distributors. Could it be the start of a new way to get food? Paul Krugman Rejects American Elections, Again The Chinese Holocaust: Modern China Looks Like WWII Germany, Horrifying Video Shows BAD Things Are Ongoing With 30 Submarines, Japan Could Shape The Pacific’s Undersea Defenses Sunday, July 19. 2020Stuck inside of the USA with the Italian/Southern France Blues AgainNot a retirement type of person, but Mrs. BD wants a new boat (I thought I had had enuf boats in my life to worry about already, but I love boats. Love farms too, but I like hiking and working the most. Yeah, I likes me a bit of hunting too. She likes the custom Hunts. She likes the trawlers too. This wonderful adventurous couple downsized their trawler to make it trailer-able, and go all around the country - and especially Canada - exploring and having fun times. Trawler Trailer Life. Carpe Diem. Yes, their home base is Florida, but they seem to not spend much time there. If forced to retire, what would you do for fun and excitement while awaiting the Grim Reaper? From today's Lectionary: "...lead me in the way everlasting."Psalm 139:1-12, 23-24 139:1 O LORD, you have searched me and known me. 139:2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. 139:3 You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways. 139:4 Even before a word is on my tongue, O LORD, you know it completely. 139:5 You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. 139:6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is so high that I cannot attain it. 139:7 Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? 139:8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, you are there. 139:9 If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, 139:10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me fast. 139:11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night," 139:12 even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you. 139:23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. 139:24 See if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Saturday, July 18. 2020Saturday morning linksPhotos show "ultra-black fish" camouflaged in the darkest parts of the ocean 63% Say Most News Organizations Are Politically Biased Prof: Trump is the 'worst criminal in history, undeniably' Princeton Professors Rip 'Cancel Culture,' Dems' History on Race How Non-Existent Cancel Culture Works at Princeton and Elsewhere - When a university president threatens a professor with consequences for writing an article, free expression loses out. The Minority Victims of Whitenessphobia - For minority members, whiteness has become an accusation of acting white. The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility - The popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people. Black Portland Cop: ‘More Minorities On The Police Side Than You Have In A Violent Crowd’ UConn student government leaders resign because they’re white Boeing Exec Resigns Over 1987 Article Arguing Against Women in Combat. In woke corporate America, there's no statute of limitations on wrongthink. Coronavirus: Five Reasons Public Health Experts Have Lost Credibility Locking America Down Again Is Exactly What China Wants Because It Will Ruin Us. Stop trying to make lockdowns happen again. The world can't afford it. Cuomo Passes The Buck Again: “Trump Is To Blame For The Virus Coming To New York” Kayleigh McEnany is so effective that the MSM now lying by deceptively editing her The New York Times Has Been Ridiculous for a Long Time Should People in the NYT Glass House Throw Stones?
Mueller and Weissmann Op-Eds Greatly at Odds With Their Report and Evidence Why China Picked Amnesty International's Ex-Chief as U.N. Free Speech Monitor Friday, July 17. 2020Friday morning links"We'll Have To Suck It Up" - America's Nut-Glut Sends Prices Plunging MIA: Remus and the Woodpile Report Chief of Department for the NYPD Wounded in Black Lives Matter Violence Insanity Wrap #7: Vote-by-Mail Madness and the Riveting Body Cam Video You Can't Miss Oprah’s 1619 Project California to Release 18,000 Prisoners by End of August to ‘Slow the Spread of COVID-19’ Live as a Conservative, Vote as a Leftist “The concept of white privilege can’t explain why several historically marginalized groups out-perform whites today." Thursday, July 16. 2020Thursday morning links
Apple wins fight over $14.9 billion tax grab in blow to EU Genius Trump Wears Mask Causing Media To Question Effectiveness Of Masks California faculty union calls for free tuition for Black students, removal of campus police The Illiberal Liberal Media - As Bari Weiss’s departure confirms, the New York Times has narrowed its spectrum of allowable opinion. Byron York's Daily Memo: Crisis in New York NYPD Officers Brutally Attacked By BLM Protesters Who Tried To Block Brooklyn Bridge… When they’re going after the Virgin Mary, you know protest has turned to madness Althouse on Douthat's "10 Theses About Cancel Culture/What we talk about when we talk about 'cancellation.'" THE SMITHSONIAN HAS LOST ITS MIND - with a chart defining whiteness Never Trump Lincoln Project Devoted 89 Percent of Disbursements to ‘Operating Expenditures’
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