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Saturday, April 24. 2021Saturday morning links"Agricultural Disaster" - Frost Blast Decimates French Vineyards, May Slash Total Wine Output By Third US President Joe Biden to 'propose hiking tax on rich' A tax on hiking? John Kerry Implies Net-Zero Emissions Goal Not Good Enough, Says We Need To ‘Get Carbon Dioxide Out Of The Atmosphere’ New York City, Which Survives On Fossil Fuels, Sues Fossil Fuels Companies Progressives Have Gotten a Lot of What They Want in 2021—So Why Are They Still So Miserable? Wokeness Reaches The Final Frontier: NASA Shifts Focus To Space 'Diversity' The Toxicity of the Permanent Outrage Mentality Corporate Media And Other Race-Baiters Have Incited More Violence Than Trump Ever Did Why do white people hate Mother Earth? AOC, Sierra Club expose real causes of climate change Saturday Verse: Vladimir NabokovRevolution (2005) I found a lengthy word with a non-Russian ending, That word contained the writhing of mysterious passions: the sinuous streets, the evil-auguring constructions, And, once upon a time, how sweet I used to find it But now the fateful word above my childhood tales, now crepitate like gray newspaper sheets. —Translated by Dmitri Nabokov
Friday, April 23. 2021Russell Brand with Jordan PetersonPeterson is back, it seems, but this is sort-of strange.
Friday morning linksCDC chief: A third of "breakthrough" infections are asymptomatic and "many" infected don't transmit the virus to others Celebrities will not have to wear masks at the Oscars while the cameras are on — but they will need to wear them during commercials Virginia moving to eliminate all accelerated math courses before 11th grade as part of equity-focused plan Workplace wokeness: The moment I couldn't take it anymore Mass. Locals Organized to Force Businesses to Embrace BLM The Courage of Our Convictions - How to fight critical race theory I still do not know what it is McCarthy: Derek Chauvin Convicted — but What Comes Next? Getting Rich in the Diversity Marketplace - Ethnic studies consultants ride a wave of profits across America’s schools and corporate workplaces Taking Off the Mask - The Department of Education just made it clear that it will promote critical race theory. Media trust is at an all-time low Caught Red-Handed: NBC News Busted for Editing Out a Crucial Detail in the 911 Call of the Ohio Shooting "It was just a schoolyard fight." Ma’Khia Bryant Police Shooting: Media and Activists Try To Stoke Racial Tension With False Narrative Dershowitz: The Jury Was 'Under Extraordinary Pressure' To Convict Chauvin ‘I Didn’t Want to Go Through the Rioting’: Juror in Chauvin Trial Makes Stunning Admission over ‘Guilty’ Verdict China's Fishing Fleet Is Vacuuming the Oceans Israel intensifying air war in Syria against Iranian encroachment Thursday, April 22. 2021Thursday morning linksComing Out of the Chemical Closet - Neuropsychopharmacologist Carl Hart says most of what the public knows about drugs is both scary and wrong. I'd prefer a cocktail, but who knows? Only opiates I've had were after dental procedures, and they made me feel sick. Almost forgot - had fentanyl for a colonoscopy years ago. That did feel nice. Floaty, without a care. The predicted COVID apocalypse in ‘Neanderthal’ Texas never happened How Government Subsidizes Obesity Overweight is the #1 COVID risk factor Andrew Yang has momentum — can he keep up to be next NYC mayor?: Goodwin Tucker Carlson says Washington Post contacting his 'old college classmates' looking for dirt Glad nobody is looking for dirt on my foolish youth John Kerry in Earth Day wonderland Commentary: The Problem with ‘Systemic Racism’ After the Floyd verdict: the US is not a racist dystopia. George Floyd’s killing united America in outrage. But some want to use it to keep us permanently divided. Portland Rioters Smash Windows at Starbucks, Attack Police Officer Vile response to the verdict: Devine Biden: Chauvin Verdict Can Be 'Giant Step' Forward Toward Justice in America LeBron James Threatens Hero Columbus Police Officer Because He Stopped a Teen From Stabbing Another Girl Some of these people need to spend a day with a working officer Land of Confusion. Review of 'The Last Shah' by Ray Takeyh Russian and Chinese Shows of Force Confront Biden Administration Of course Afghanistan’s war and US stake in it won’t end when troops leave Wednesday, April 21. 2021Lunges vs. Squats - Which is better? RepostedThey are both valuable for lower body fitness. Squats are more about strength-building, lunges are more "functional." This article is good. I think lower body conditioning for strength, endurance, and athleticism ought to include (not all on the same day) barbell squats, leg press, kettlebell lunges, stair machine (which is good cardio also), deadlifts, box jumps. I do sets of each just once weekly. No time for more. I omit mentioning cardio exercises which use legs (all of them do) because the emphasis of cardio is, obviously, cardiac fitness. Lunges with weights are easy to hate. Gotta get in shape, though. Wednesday morning linksJust stay home: U.S. puts 80% of the world on Do Not Travel list The World Is “On The Abyss” From Climate Crisis Biden Set to Push Critical Race Theory on U.S. Schools How L.A.’s Brentwood School Became a Battleground in the Culture Wars Joe Biden Is Using Your Tax Dollars To Make American Kids Hate Their Country Shining A Spotlight On Critical Race Theory In New York High Schools Nancy Pelosi Celebrates Chauvin Guilty Verdict by Thanking George Floyd for Dying Legal Insurrection: Derek Chauvin Post-Trial Analysis Ontario’s Covid Tyranny and Democrats’ War on Police Anti-Police Thugs Target EMTs, Paramedics In NYC… More Than A Third Of Liberals Believe 1000+ Black Americans Were Killed By Police In 2019. Black People To Boycott Home Depot Because It Won’t Issue Negative Statements About Georgia Voting Law… Glenn Greenwald on what the truth about Officer Sicknick's death says about the media Who Killed Adam Toledo? How did a 13-year-old boy end up in an alley with a gun at 2:30 on a Monday morning? The New York Times Has Just BeenCaught In Two Monstrous Lies Tuesday, April 20. 2021Not too scared to go placesMrs. BD and I have been fairly COVID-fearless during the past 12 months. Call us stupid if you want to. Our Hadrian's Wall hike was cancelled last summer because the UK blocked foreigners (except immigrants - we blocked Europeans too). As Mrs. BD is getting ready for a long-weekend trip to Texas to get together with gardening friends, I decided to recall all of the places she, or we, have been during COVID Year (not including restaurants - we've done them all along): Florida, Cape Cod (twice), Eastern Shore of Maryland for crab cakes and boats, NYC about 5 times, and Rhode Island. We tried to get a hiking week in Sedona for May, but every darn place was full. We have one of our group hikes in Upstate NY next week with great dining and beer at the bitter end. We want to get to Europe this fall. Today, Mrs.BD is off to an architectural and historical hike around Staten Island with a pal. That is an Urban Hike. Carpe diem. I think our running around has been about average for Americans in COVID Year. What have our readers been doing for fun trips and adventures since last April?
Tuesday morning linksMontana man dies following attack by grizzly bear. Investigators later shot and killed male bear near site of mauling Chronicle: The Abiding Scandal of College Admissions - The process has become an intrusive and morally presumptuous inquisition of an applicant’s soul. Scott Adams considers conservative and liberal happiness, at the 32:29 mark Double racism at Cigna:
Chauvin Trial: Jury has “a basis” to “find reasonable doubt here, but it’s not what I’m expecting” UT Austin Approves Orwellian “Strategic Plan for Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity” FROM THE BIZARRE TWIN CITIES HELLWORLD All Adult Americans Are Now Eligible for COVID-19 Vaccine NY Times newsletter: Maybe these COVID fears are a bit irrational Utah news outlet runs entire segment about local paramedic for ... donating $10 to Kyle Rittenhouse After California's $100 Billion Light Rail to Nowhere, Biden May Fund More California Rail No One Needs Andrew Cuomo just keeps the lies coming New York State Did Worst in Pandemic, Study Says New Study Shows Just How in the Tank for Biden the Legacy Media Is Biden’s ‘Back To Normal’ Is Not What Voters Were Promised NH GOP Chair torches Kamala's plan to visit, Border Czar headed to the wrong border UN: US Vaccine 'Hoarding" Endangers Africa, Africa: We Don't Want Vaccine Monday, April 19. 2021Flying on MarsJohn Dowland's "A Fancy"500 year-old pop music
Monday morning linksLeft Coast Preparing For First Emergency Water Shortage Declaration… Too much desert with too many people relying on the Colorado River. Only real solution is massive desalinization systems. Conservative Women Are the Happiest People in America Glass half full, or glass half empty? Gratitude, or bad attitude? Education Insanity: Top 10 Stories Of The Week Ron DeSantis Delivers a Message to Vaccinated Americans, Hysteria Follows The Search to Explain Our Anxiety and Depression: Will ‘Long COVID’ Become the Next Gender Ideology? "Our?" Remote Learning Prompts Cheating Scandal at West Point You Will Not Believe the INSANE Proposals Austin Is Considering for 'Reimagining' Public Safety The never-ending story: Rioting and arson in Portland State Budget Time In New York And Florida Dominion Advisor Met With John Podesta Offering ‘Anything’ That Would Help Defeat Trump, According to Email Released by WikiLeaks Joe Biden Now Describes Migrant Rush on the Border as a ‘Crisis’ Biden explains:
Sunday, April 18. 2021Goodbye to the old boss..The Castros are gone, but I still see no hope for the Cubans. I see lots of hope for the Cuban Sandwich.
From today's LectionaryActs 3:12-19 3:12 When Peter saw it, he addressed the people, "You Israelites, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we had made him walk? 3:13 The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, the God of our ancestors has glorified his servant Jesus, whom you handed over and rejected in the presence of Pilate, though he had decided to release him. 3:14 But you rejected the Holy and Righteous One and asked to have a murderer given to you, 3:15 and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this we are witnesses. 3:16 And by faith in his name, his name itself has made this man strong, whom you see and know; and the faith that is through Jesus has given him this perfect health in the presence of all of you. 3:17 "And now, friends, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. 3:18 In this way God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, that his Messiah would suffer. 3:19 Repent therefore, and turn to God so that your sins may be wiped out. Saturday, April 17. 2021Is this offensive to people of Yorkshirian ethnicity?Saturday morning linksThe SEC V. Ripple: Testing The Limits Of A Regulatory Vacuum National Geographic’s Pollution Of Scientific Discourse " There has to be a point where any decent parent will say, Oh, my God, this is the crap they are feeding young minds, including my beautiful child!" CBS News slammed for cropping bodycam footage of Adam Toledo holding gun before fatal shooting Portland Rioters Set Fire To Apple Store; Smash Up Church, Veggie Grill, Historical Society Liz Cheney Was A Primary Culprit Of Spreading Fake News On Russian Bounties To Undermine Trump Kamala Harris comes out of the woodwork with plan to solve all those 'root causes' of migrant surge Venez: Dollar triumphs in socialist hellhole, rescuing high quality producers Berlin’s Disastrous Rent Control Law Gets Scrapped Biden finally saw the folly of our Afghan adventure, but Trump got it first Chinese government worker goes viral after battering her boss with a mop after he had allegedly harassed her Friday, April 16. 2021Friday morning linksBernie Madoff’s secrets revealed by his prison pen pal Rep Dan Crenshaw Had Emergency Surgery on His Only Eye The Truth About 'Papa John' Schnatter Finally Comes Out Comedian John Cleese 'Apologises' For Making "Fun Of White English People" Why cheese is racist “Consensus” Becomes a Scary Word COVID: We're in a 'Perpetual Pandemic' With No End in Sight Global Warming Rebranded as “Climate Emergency” A number of major news organizations worldwide, ranging from Scientific American and The Columbia Journalism Review to The Guardian and Al Jazeera, have signed a pledge to begin referring to "climate change" as a "climate emergency" in their reporting. Chelsea Clinton Calls on Facebook to Ban Tucker Carlson Video After His Takedown of Dr. Fauci Goes Viral Fascist Jack Dorsey Purges James O'Keefe From Twitter Border agents arrest more criminals, see spike in meth and pot seizures as cartels exploit migrant surge Biden's CBP nominee defended sanctuary cities, criticized police working with immigration authorities Retail explodes, jobless claims drop nearly 200K to pandemic low ACE goes quite sarcastic re Afghanistan Dozens of Gitmo Captives Confirmed to Reengage in Terrorism after Release are At Large The Biggest Threat to the Climate: China Thursday, April 15. 2021Woodland forensics: An education in Northeastern forestsI thought I knew quite a bit about North American (mostly meaning east of the Mississippi) forests. Nope. This helped me be a far more informed hiker. This is a sequential series of 3. I had to watch it all twice. One of the best youtubes we've ever posted. I lied - I watched it 3 times because it was so absorbing.
Conditioning for those with a gray hair: "It's not fun, but it's done."Been thinking about this more. We like terms like sturdiness and conditioning. Our fitness posts (many of them for years) have never been about body-building or training for a specific athletic pursuit. It has all been about maintaining good fitness for life for those over 35 years old so that the interests and pleasures that life offers can be engaged as much as possible for as long as possible. One hour or so daily, plus a nutrition plan to stay trim, are not very difficult even for the most sedentary. I have to say that I envy Bulldog, who plays basketball and tennis every week. How good is that? Great fun.
Thursday morning links
Sorry, but I forgot where that toon came from Our internet pal David Warren is recovering from a stroke, heart attack, and bypass surgery Who Is Freer These Days? Rand Paul Calls Fauci a 'Petty Tyrant,' Urges Americans to 'Go About Your Lives' Nate Silver Accuses Dr. Fauci of Gaslighting on COVID Transmission Teacher’s ‘come at me’ rant caught on video by Reopen California Schools group California Public School Teachers Being Told to Hide Critical Race Materials From Parents CEOs’ Surrender To The Mobocrats On The Left Will End Poorly No Charges Against Officer Who Shot Ashli Babbitt: DOJ John Durham scrutinizes Steele dossier source through Brookings Institution subpoena The Georgetown Affair: New Levels Of Progressive Reality Denial BBC diversity chief says Idris Elba's TV detective Luther 'isn't black enough to be real' because 'he doesn't have any black friends and doesn't eat any Caribbean food' Students support voting bill...then learn it's actually Georgia's law Did the cop who shot Daunte Wright experience "slip and capture?" The border is even worse than you think Guatemala: We have no idea what Biden and Harris are talking about Israel: A “VERY BEAUTIFUL” ATTACK Wednesday, April 14. 2021Ginger Baker soloWednesday morning linksI Refuse to Stand By While My Students Are Indoctrinated. Children are afraid to challenge the repressive ideology that rules our school. That’s why I am. A VACCINATION PAUSE THAT SEEMS SENSELESS AND HARMFUL Chicago Teachers Union Plans To Walk Off Job Over Re-opening Schools… Government Against Bourgeois Values. Encouraging drug use and other vices risks social catastrophe. NCAA Upholds Policy of Transgender Women Competing in Women's Sports They went from ‘Everything White Is Bad’ to ‘Everything Bad Is White’ so fast we didn’t even notice. Leaked Video Shows CNN Director Admits Matt Gaetz Stories Are Democrat Propaganda. Liberals Are Really Going to Hate Ron DeSantis Over Florida's Latest COVID Benchmark Biden Faces His First Disasters in Yemen and Afghanistan FULFILLING OUR DUTY TO AFGHAN AND IRAQI INTERPRETERS IS A MATTER OF HONOR—AND OF NATIONAL SECURITY Tuesday, April 13. 2021Tuesday morning linksLessons In Woke "Science": Covid-19 And Climate ‘Dirty Jobs’ Star Mike Rowe Just Totally Debunked the Argument for a $15 Minimum Wage. Rowe knows the value of hard work, so it’s worth taking his recent warning on minimum wage hikes seriously. How Will Decolonizing the Curriculum Help the Poor and Dispossessed? CDC Director Rejects Michigan’s Plea for COVID Vaccines, Suggests State ‘Shut Things Down’ 10 Easy Ways To END RACISM FOREVER Can American Cities Manufacture Again? Industry needs lower taxes and fewer regulations, rather than more economic-development policies. Gov. Cuomo shut down Indian Point nuclear reactor, now the electricity it produced will come from fossil fuels VP Harris is hiding because she's got nothing to say A ‘Woke’ Minority Has Seized America 100 Top CEOs Plot To Punish States Which Pass 'Restrictive' Voting Laws Taiwan Records Largest Ever Incursion By Chinese Air Force With 25 Planes Monday Monday, April 12. 2021Monday morning links
Are Organ Meats Healthy? Metal detector finds ancient treasure in Rhode Island tied to famous pirate ‘No community should suffer this’: Florida’s toxic breach was decades in the making A Self-Loathing Ruling Class Cannot Endure Fonts can be racist IS RACE DISCRIMINATION LEGAL, OR NOT? Another, Clearer Take on the Chauvin Trial BLM Founder Not Only Has One Million Dollar Home But Four… Northern Ireland Violence Worst In Decades; Fears Of "The Troubles" Return Sunday, April 11. 2021From today's Lectionary: Doubting ThomasJohn 20:19-31 20:19 When it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and the doors of the house where the disciples had met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." 20:20 After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples rejoiced when they saw the Lord. 20:21 Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you." 20:22 When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 20:23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained." 20:24 But Thomas (who was called the Twin), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came. 20:25 So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord." But he said to them, "Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my hand in his side, I will not believe." 20:26 A week later his disciples were again in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were shut, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you." 20:27 Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt but believe." 20:28 Thomas answered him, "My Lord and my God!" 20:29 Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe." 20:30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 20:31 But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in his name.
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