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Saturday, July 3. 2021A few Saturday morning linksLegal lunacy: Judge tosses gun case over grand jury’s lack of diversity Powerful, Prestigious Legal Organization Rejects “Affirmative Consent” Caving to the Mob Week in Higher Education Ohio private school expels students because their MOMS launched campaign against woke curriculum and Critical Race Theory HOW RADICAL ARE THE TEACHERS’ UNIONS? Watch out for the extremists around you Target has now acknowledged that San Francisco is the only city in America where they have decided to close some stores early because of the escalating retail crime. " What the f- is going on in California?" MC: Justice In This Country Is Not Dispensed Impartially Between Democrats And Republicans I wish I were in Wellfleet this weekend
This weekend, I'd like to be in Wellfleet with all of my extended family (some below dragging out the kayaks), oysters, wine, maybe a little fishing and a little tennis. They also have a darn cute parade on the 4th. Little kids on little bikes decorated with flags, with a fire engine in front.
Friday, July 2. 2021Friday morning linksThe Margaret Mead problem. Mead, so radical about gender and sex in her early work, doubled down on the differences between men and women later. If a Person Can Be Trans-Gender, Why Not Trans-Race? Most of FL condo board quit in 2019 as squabbling residents dragged out plans for repairs Biden Official Claims Climate Change May Be To Blame For Florida Condo Collapse… California Begs For More Electricity As Shift To Renewable Power Leaves State In The Dark ELECTRIC VEHICLES ON COLLISION COURSE WITH REALITY ‘Tree Inequity’ plaguing ‘peoples of color’ The week in whoppers: Randi Weingarten’s chutzpah, The Gray Lady’s revisionism and more MSNBC Expert Seems to Leave Mika Speechless When He Delivers a Harsh Blow About Trump Charges Trump must be extremely clean if this is all the NY prosecutors came up with The Bill Will Come Due on Biden's Trillions. Biden's infrastructure package is really a jackpot for public unions and big business. Why Is the Buttoned-Up Biden White House Leaking Dirt on Kamala? Thursday, July 1. 2021Re-learning boat-handlingI have had to re-learn much of what I once was comfortable with about boat-handling. Midlife crisis issues, I guess. Gotta keep learning or re-learning skills, or decay. I am blessed with many interests and hobbies, but am at best mediocre with all of them. Due to time spent, I am at my best at my day job. - This craft is a deep-V single diesel Downeast-style thing, Maine-style, lobster-boat-style. Heavy. Pretty, I feel. Designed to go from place to place regardless of weather and not a toy boat. - It's all about "feel". Each boat has her own handling qualities. Like a horse, you have to know it, learn how she responds to things, make her an extension of your brain and body. Takes me many, many hours to do this without causing a problem. Maybe more hours than I have left. Mrs. BD: "Aw, you'll get used to it. It's just bigger." Good, bold life attitude on her part. - Boats steer by the stern. Turning left makes the stern turns right to reorient the vessel. Duh. I knew that. It makes the stern turn into the damn dock. - A rudder does not work in reverse. Duh. Well, you can steer in reverse with an outboard or sterndrive, but otherwise, not really. Easiest to handle is twin engines because you can steer with the engines alone. I don't have that so I have to learn like the guys with their lobster boats. We actually wanted a twin diesel but could not find one we liked from up north even down to Texas. Boats are in short supply right now. - Docking and mooring in wind is as much of a bitch as it ever was. Can I back this boat into a slip? No way, even without wind. Well, probably could on a calm lake but not on real water. - When over age 45, scrambling around a slippery bow deck feels (is) treacherous. Gotta hold on to something. - Winds and currents can mess up your best intentions. - Checklists. Gotta use them for everything. It's tough to remember everything, which is why pilots use them. Very easy to forget to check the oil in the generator. - Put a little bleach in the water tank, and a little water-softener in the head to keep it sweet. - Nighttime boating? I am so past that, and there are idiots out there. Could include me I guess. - I do love the chug of a diesel engine. They just want to work hard at 3000 rpm. Work makes them happy. - New GPS. I have little problem plotting a course on a chart. Not used to GPS plotting, but I will get it after a while. Anyway, 90% of the challenge of boat handling is at docks and in harbors and marinas. - The basic knots? It you knew them once, they will come back. But they should be automatic. Clove hitch, bowline...Darn. - Dockhands? God bless 'em. When they are around at the fuel dock. Do we have any salt-water boater readers?
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Thursday morning linksPhysician Practice Acquisitions Accelerated During COVID-19. A new study shows an acceleration of physician practice acquisitions, leading to nearly half of US physician practices being owned by hospitals and corporations. It is a short easy read and is chock full of information that challenges the woke narrative How did Bill Cosby's conviction overturn happen? Legal experts weigh in Vogue declares Jill Biden 'a goddess' and puts her on their cover as the epitome of style Supreme Court Says Students Who Identify As Teachers Must Be Allowed To Use Teacher's Lounge Majority of liberal college students not proud to be American, favor socialism, NDSU survey finds If Trans Women Are Women, What Does That Make Women? Crime: What Was California Thinking? HOW LOW CAN HOLLYWOOD SINK? California: Put your masks back on, and don’t whine about it Global Warming 33 Year Birthday a Celebration of Failures Via Schneiderman:
NSA VS. TUCKER: AN UPDATE [UPDATED!] If the Woke Revolution Cancels Truth Itself, What Then? Kamala Harris Has a Big Problem The incredible shrinking Kamala Harris Putin Declares The Age Of American Dominance And Leadership Is Dead… Wednesday, June 30. 2021Sumertime BluesWednesday morning linksDriscoll: I’m already on (at least) my fourth apocalypse Putting Climate Models On Trial With Its Power Grid Under Pressure, California Asks Residents to Avoid Charging Electric Vehicles Rand Paul Blows Up Another Fauci Claim, This Time on the Delta Variant The Left Is Now Scaremongering The COVID ‘Delta Variant’ Attempting To Silence Your Opponents Is A Sign You Are Losing The Debate US just finished dead last among 46 countries in media trust — here's why Why Fake News Flourishes: Emitting Mere Information Is Easy, But Creating Actual Knowledge Is Hard University Allows Deadline Extensions for Nonwhite Students With Self-Reported 'Racial Trauma' Shocker: Cutting Federal Unemployment Benefits Is Getting People Back to Work The left’s dangerous push to hook the middle class on government ‘help’ Homicides Have Skyrocketed in These 6 Democratic Cities. Black People Are Disproportionately the Victims, Data Shows. Is The Entire Democratic Party Compromised By China? Tuesday, June 29. 2021Tuesday morning linksComputational Origami Rome's Colosseum opens its underground for the first time in its history Bryan Caplan's Profound Understanding of Human Nature Romney Blames Climate Change For Severe Weather…. Climate Anxiety Is Bad For Solving Climate Crisis Officials Denounce National Archives Rotunda as Racist Nike chief executive says brand is ‘of China and for China’ WHEN CITY OFFICIALS ARE PRO-CRIME USA Today: To Fight Toxic Polarization, We Need All Sorts Of National Service GEN. MILLEY FEARS “WHITE RAGE” OF GRANDMOTHERS Brandeis U takes woke language policing to new depths of stupidity Democrats Get Some Really Bad News as Normal Americans Wake Up Here’s a Look at the Shocking White Privilege, Gender Equity Lesson Plans Used To Indoctrinate Your Kids Is Your School Hiding Its Critical Race Theory Teaching? Here Are 5 Things to Ask About The Left Is in Panic Mode Over Losing Voters of Color Leftists Discover They May Be The White Supremacists They're Looking For “This is Bull Sh*t” – Iowa Teacher Fumes She Can’t Teach Marxist CRT in Her Classroom, ‘We Need to Tear the Systems Down’ WaPo Shoots Down Biden's Cannon Misfire Democrats Are Considering a $6 Trillion Infrastructure Plan That Has Little to Do With Infrastructure The US Military’s Perilous Experiment Biden's Lawless Bombing of Iraq and Syria Only Serves the Weapons Industry Funding Both Parties Monday, June 28. 2021Monday morning linksThe Solution To California’s Water Crisis Lies Off Its Coast The NYT worries about the politics of crime Higher ed: Has The “Victim Bias” Bubble Burst? A Fascinating Interview with the Composer Whose Career Was Canceled About the Indiana Grandmother Forced to "Confess" to Her Wrong-Think at Sentencing for Her January 6 Actions Dealing with the Pandemic — An Authoritarian Precedent New York Has No Idea Whatsoever How To "Decarbonize" Its Electric Grid Some 'root causes' for Kamala to hunt down at border: Venezuela's migrant surge snowballs Sunday, June 27. 2021From today's LectionaryPsalm 130 130:1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. 130:2 Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! 130:3 If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand? 130:4 But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be revered. 130:5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope; 130:6 my soul waits for the Lord more than those who watch for the morning, more than those who watch for the morning. 130:7 O Israel, hope in the LORD! For with the LORD there is steadfast love, and with him is great power to redeem. 130:8 It is he who will redeem Israel from all its iniquities. Saturday, June 26. 2021Fun with sawsSaturday morning links1910: The Summer of Our Content Trudeau government unable to define the term 'woman' Hungary Told To Repeal Law Banning LGBT Promotion To Children "Or Else Leave EU" Simon Campbell Calls Out Pennsbury School Board During Public Comment Asian Enrollment Slashed at Top Virginia High School After Admissions Changes Subject Of Lawsuit The Morning Briefing: Humorless Democrat Marxists Are Terrified of the Babylon Bee Calling Out the Propaganda Media Yesterday, the House Judiciary Committee, which is the body that has jurisdiction over antitrust law, wrote and voted on legislation to break up big tech firms Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook. Glenn Loury talks to Charles Murray about the "shift away from racism as a moral issue to accusations of racism as a kind of attack on [white people] as people." What is Behind Gen. Mark Milley's Righteous Race Sermon? Look to the New Domestic War on Terror. Kamala Blames Trump for Biden Border Crisis, Lashes Out at Trump for Kids in Cages — Something They’ve Quadrupled! Friday, June 25. 2021Why is this song great?Are there Youtube people who do this sort of thing for adult music?
Best Jewish jokesFavorites of comedians. One sample: A priest, a minister and a rabbi are playing golf. It is the looooongest front nine holes they’ve ever played. Maybe three hours long. They go into the pro shop to complain, and the pro says, “Oh, didn’t you know? The foursome ahead of you are all blind.” The priest says, “Forgive me Father, for I know not whereof I speak.” The minister says, “Forgive me Father, there but for the grace of God go I.” And the rabbi says, “What? They couldn’t play at night?”
Friday morning linksYour Fault: Crushing Climate Impacts Sooner Than Feared Spotify Bans Song For Having Lyrics Critical of BLM… Homicides Have Skyrocketed in These Six Democratic Cities; Black People Are Disproportionately the Victims, Data Shows Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial
Green New Deal Illinois Style: Unions Battle Greens Over How To Screw Taxpayers The Republic Is Preserved – But The Democrats Will Try Insurrection Again US has lowest levels of public trust in media among 46 countries: Reuters survey Attack Damages Iran’s Nuclear Centrifuge Manufacturing Facility Thursday, June 24. 2021Thursday morning links
Secret Room Holds 'Lost' Michelangelo Artwork. These rarely seen drawings on the chamber walls may have been created when the famed artist took refuge from the Medici family in 1530. First Clear View of a Boiling Cauldron Where Stars are Born - UMD-led team used NASA’s SOFIA telescope to capture high-resolution details of a star nursery in the Milky Way Climate Today: Guardian Pushes Nuclear Power eBay Bans Dr. Seuss, Allows Hezbollah Suspending Reading and Math Requirements for Oregon Students U. of Oklahoma Instructors Receive Training on How to Censor, Indoctrinate Students MacDonald: Down a Black Hole - Even the hard sciences are no longer immune to the ongoing racial hysteria. Fat Liberation Joe Rogan Explains Why Hollywood is So Liberal ‘Huge Win for Democracy’: GOP Blocks Federal Election Takeover Who won the NYC mayoral primary? Nobody knows Joe Biden’s policy puts America last: Goodwin Biden Administration Undermines Women’s Equality Under Title IX The Russian Navy Loves Drones (And For Good Reason)
ColoradoFrom our friend in Colorado, yesterday
Wednesday, June 23. 2021Squats, repostedImage shows two things: the difference between half squat and full squat, and terrible form in the second image Squats (and deadlifts) are the two most functional muscular exercises. The former is getting up, and the latter is picking up stuff. Squats are known as "The King of Exercises" because so many muscle groups are stressed. They are also said to be beneficial for knee joints. Squats come in many forms: the basic barbell back squat (a power lift), and calisthenics like body-weight squats, squat-and press, side squats, squat jumps, heavy ball wall throws, etc. I have been thinking about how to deepen my barbell squats. With body-weight or hand weights, I can do full squats easily, but with heavier weight I do not go below 45 degrees. It's partly confidence and partly weakness. To do full squats with barbell weights (instead of half-squats, 90 degrees) I think I need to reset my barbell squat program with the plain bar (45 lbs) or light weights and to try to work up quickly from there. I'm convinced that the full squat is the real deal. Also, Squats Are Safe, But You’re Probably Doing Them Wrong
What about you? Below the fold, image depicting all of the muscles engaged in a full squat. She's using dumbells, but it is not as if gals cannot do barbell squats. They sure can, and using the bar makes it more reliable to keep a chest-up posture. On the other hand, dumbell squats get you low if you touch the dumbells to the ground...but on the third hand, barbell back squats let you squat with more weight than your grip is strong. Continue reading "Squats, reposted" Wednesday morning linksWith Its Power Grid On The Verge Of Failure, California Begs Residents To Change Their EV Charging Routines Senate Republicans and Democrats Agree To Double Amtrak's Funding. A bill approved by the Senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation would give the money-losing rail company $19 billion over 5 years. "I'm Not Going Back To Work": Indiana Residents Sue After Governor Nixes Unemployment Benefits Ikea Atlanta Juneteenth menu changed after blowback over plans to serve fried chicken, watermelon WHO Stealth Edits Page Warning Against Vaccinating Children University Lab Finds 11 Dangerous Pathogens on Children’s Face Masks Democrats' voter ID debacle Black parents furious with Critical Race Theory Woke, Inc: Why I’m blowing whistle on how corporate America is poisoning society Cal State professor worries Victorian literature studies promote ‘white feminism’ A Court Ruled Rachel Maddow's Viewers Know She Offers Exaggeration and Opinion, Not Facts Gen Mattis on law, lawyers, law school, and the commanders’ role in military justice Tuesday, June 22. 2021Tuesday morning linksCalifornia Will Now Fight Wildfires … by Trimming Back Forests. File this item under: “Trump was right. Again” University of Oregon can discipline students for off-campus offenses under new policy 85% of Liberal Students Think Professors Should Be Reported for Offensive Comments What Is Going On at Yale Law School? The prestigious institution has tied itself in knots over a dispute involving one of its most popular—and controversial—professors, Amy Chua. American University Has Maoist Self-Incrimination Session, Decides It’s 'Islamophobic' Greenfield: THE WHITENESS OF WOKE Slave Stories History 'Forgot.' Black People Owned Slaves Too What If the Media Had Told the Truth? Five MSM Lies for Which Trump Has Been Vindicated, and the Damage They Caused Has the average member of the press corps ever actually met anyone in America? Alleged Hate Crime At Florida Gay Pride Parade Yesterday Was Actually Drunk Gay Man Who Stepped On Wrong Peddle… Could Israel Replicate Its Syrian Military Strategy in Gaza? Monday, June 21. 2021Monday morning linksWhat Are Dads Good For? Youth Protest Group Inspired By Greta Thunberg Disbands, Accuses Itself Of Racism Bill Maher to Lin-Manuel Miranda: Don't apologize to these whiny progressive bullies Bookworm Beat — the stupid leftist’s illustrated edition A disturbing look at corporate Critical Race Theory brainwashing CNN IS CRAZY All the Projection That’s Fit to Print. On the New York Times’s blindness to what it has become Chicago Alderman Says Gangs Are Responsible For Chicago Problems, Not Racism, As Mayor Lori Lightfoot Claimed Singer Macy Gray Calls for Replacing ‘Tattered and Divisive’ American Flag Taibbi: Why Has "Ivermectin" Become A Dirty Word? Following the Scientists Who Were Destroying America Just to Spite Trump Palestinians reject 1 million corona vaccine doses from Israel Sunday, June 20. 2021Summer Solstice todayIt's the first day of summer
Ladder safety, the basicsLadders are necessary but they are dangerous. Guys like roofers and framers are experts with them, but the ordinary person is not.
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From today's LectionaryJob 38:1-11 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: 38:2 "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 38:3 Gird up your loins like a man, I will question you, and you shall declare to me. 38:4 "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. 38:5 Who determined its measurements--surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? 38:6 On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone 38:7 when the morning stars sang together and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy? 38:8 "Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?-- 38:9 when I made the clouds its garment, and thick darkness its swaddling band, 38:10 and prescribed bounds for it, and set bars and doors, 38:11 and said, 'Thus far shall you come, and no farther, and here shall your proud waves be stopped'? Saturday, June 19. 2021A big cicada year?I have not seen or heard one of these big bugs yet. Maybe in July. How is your Year of the Locust?
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