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Monday, August 22. 2022Monday morning linksWhere did American states get their names? Yale Professor Helps Toddlers With Their ‘Gender Journey’ Minnesota teachers unions defend "fire whites first" policy Over 1000 Scientists and Professionals Sign Formal Declaration: “There is No Climate Emergency”“There is no cause for panic and alarm. We strongly oppose the harmful and unrealistic net-zero CO2 policy proposed for 2050. UPDATE: ‘IS HISTORY HISTORY?’ ANSWER: SADLY, YES WSJ: Education Schools Have Long Been Mediocre. Now They’re Woke Too. University of Wisconsin campuses openly embrace a Marxist program called ‘critical pedagogy. Student newsies seek to cancel University of Virginia founder Thomas Jefferson NY progressives have spawned a bloody war on the streets — and innocents are paying the price The Left talking nonstop about civil war: Victor Davis Hanson The Criminal Case Against Trump is Another “Slam Dunk” Feds Intend To Deprive Arizona Of 21% Of It’s Supply Of The Colorado River… Sunday, August 21. 2022Perfect and peelable hard-boiled eggsA pal sent me this: I have the perfect method of producing boiled, peelable eggs. Steam them. Put them in a vegetable steamer basket and bring the water to a boil. Top on the pan, reduce heat to where steam is barely escaping the pan. If you have four eggs cook 12 minutes. Add 1 minute for every 2 extra eggs. Don’t do more than 8 eggs at a time. Do them in batches. Drain the pan at the timer’s chime and fill with cold water. Then change water and add some ice cubes to the water to bring down the temp fast and avoid the dreaded grey mantle of sulfur. Perfect peelable eggs. Try it. West Texas HummingbirdsHummingbirds always chase eachother away
From today's LectionaryLuke 13:10-17 13:10 Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. 13:11 And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. 13:12 When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, "Woman, you are set free from your ailment." 13:13 When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. 13:14 But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, "There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day." 13:15 But the Lord answered him and said, "You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? 13:16 And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?" 13:17 When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing. Saturday, August 20. 2022Saturday morning linksI'm 30. The Sexual Revolution Shackled My Generation.Sexual symmetry between men and women was, is, and always will be a lie. The Nation wants you to remain scared about covid Christy Olezeski Phd., Director and co-founder of the Yale Pediatric Gender Program, bragged about her work helping children as young as 3 years old in there ‘gender tourney’ in a recent YouTube video. After widespread backlash, the original video has been removed. Spectator: Donald Trump has enemies everywhere. Even, according to Peter Navarro, inside his own house Sam Harris defends media bias (and lies) Elon Musk Reacts To Border Crisis, Says Lacking Media Attention 'Strange' Saturday Verse: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
The Childrens' Hour Between the dark and the daylight, I hear in the chamber above me From my study I see in the lamplight, A whisper, and then a silence: A sudden rush from the stairway, They climb up into my turret They almost devour me with kisses, Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, I have you fast in my fortress, And there will I keep you forever, Friday, August 19. 2022Friday morning linksWhy there's no 'Dijon' in Dijon mustard In Surreal Story, 20-Year-Old Student Acquires 6% Of Bed Bath & Beyond, Makes $110 Million In 3 Weeks Pandemic babies are behind after years of stress, isolation affected brain development Majority of college students have a mental illness: study Texas School District Removes “Diary Of Anne Frank” And “the Bible” From It’s Library Shelves… Silencing the Opposition to Child Mutilation Sanctuary cities not enjoying actually being used as sanctuaries
Yet another refugee professor: English scholar explains why politics drove him out of academia The Powerful Leftwing Journalists' Union and the Conflicts of Interest News Junkies Don't Hear About After Liz Cheney’s whopping defeat, leftists rant against the ‘uneducated’ Michael Hayden, Advisor to ‘Misinformation’ Watchdog NewsGuard, Says GOP More Dangerous than Al Qaeda, ISIS Trump's house: This is why it appears this was a raid in search of a crime. Here's What Led the FBI to Seek a Search Warrant on Trump's Mar-a-Lago Home The Revolt of Empty Spain: A nonpartisan movement to bring attention to the depopulation of Spain’s countryside has begun to shape national politics. Thursday, August 18. 2022Tomato seasonAugust/September is tomato season in the northeast and central US. Why are so many varieties red? Because marketing, same as apples. Much genetic engineering to come up with the amazing Beefsteak Tomato. The first tomatoes were introduced to Europe from Mexico via the conquistadores. They were mainly viewed as ornamental plants. The fruit was the size of cherry tomatoes, and yellow-green when ripe. I guess that was the real "heritage tomato". Why pomodoro? Pomo d'oro - Golden apple. Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years Italian food before the tomato. He is wrong about one thing - peppers came to Europe and to the world via Central America too. Same as polenta (maize meal), beans, and so much else. Thursday morning linksPhoto: Grilled Porgies Astronomers looking at Webb: What if the Big Bang didn't happen? Environmentalists don't seem to care about golden eagles when it comes to wind power The Failed Campaign To Kill To Kill a Mockingbird. Recent moves to censor the book have come from Virginia, Mississippi, and California. 'Someone's taking the p***': Fury as Scotland's first ever male period dignity officer is appointed Savage Restaurant Owner Completely Fed Up with 'Holier-than-thou' Vegans, Will Now Make Them Go Hungry British Royal Air Force No Longer Offering Pilot Jobs to White Men — Only Womenand Ethnic Minorities May Apply The Elite Panic of 2022 -From the end of Covid restrictions to Elon Musk’s Twitter bid to the Dobbs ruling, startling developments threaten progressives’ grip on power. A complicated fall vaccine campaign As DC Plans to Ban 40% of Black Teens From School, Mayor Rejects DC COVID-19 Vaccine Numbers Twitter and Groomers MC: Report On Yesterday's Soho Forum Climate Change Debate White House climate official sanctioned by key science body CNN: Our Democracy Is In Danger Because Liz Cheney Lost… The Left Always Considered Trump an Illegitimate President. Trump himself said, and he was correct: “They’re not after me, they’re after you – I’m just in the way.” The Raid that Red-Pilled America. The FBI Gets Political and Goes Too Far “THE ONGOING VENDETTA OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AGAINST DONALD TRUMP” Wednesday, August 17. 2022Cave paintings
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Wednesday morning linksOn Rich Friends and Poor Friends UVA student paper demands removal of all things Thomas Jefferson Boston Children's Hospital supports castrating kids and I have evidence Rents for One-Bedroom Apartments in Manhattan Hit a Record High of $5,100 in July. Here’s Why Supreme Court sets date for UNC, Harvard affirmative action cases Mick Mulvaney, Laura Ingraham reach the same conclusion - Trump policies are good but drama is bad TDS persists How can people be so insane when it comes to Donald Trump? People were just as insane about Nixon, Reagan, and Bush Most illegal immigrants do not qualify for US asylum Sanctuary Cities Seethe as Illegal Immigrants Actually Arrive Sri Lanka faces looming food crisis with stunted rice crop Tuesday, August 16. 2022Tell me what is inaccurate, misleading, or wrong in this articleIt seems likely correct that 5-6 days of working out, in varying forms, is good for building or maintaining fitness, but tell me what the weaknesses are in this piece: Exercise answer: Research shows it’s how often you do it, not how much
Tuesday morning linksNavy SEAL Kaj Larsen’s Guide to Becoming a Better Swimmer. The best waterman in his class talks dolphins, breath exercises and something called "surf torture" Chocolate ICE CREAM is more nutritious than a granola bar, bacon is better than couscous and McDonald's pancakes are healthier than an omelette Atlantic writer claims the rosary is an extremist symbol Doomsday Climate Predictions Meltdown: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Reaches 12-Year Mid-August High I blame climate change Why all kids should take the SAT: Student’s defense of standardized testing Pediatricians slam pediatrician group for pushing puberty blockers for children Have we reached peak insanity yet? An Unjustified Fear Of Nuclear Energy Is Holding The Industry Back WSJ: ‘But Her Emails’? A Defense of ‘Whataboutism’ - Mrs. Clinton should take her hat off. Treating like cases alike is crucial to the equal protection of the law. KAMALA HARRIS, SPACE ODDITY Always incomprehensible
From Rio Grande to The Row Hotel! Migrants bussed in from Texas will be housed in $400-a-night luxury NYC hotel within a MONTH
Monday, August 15. 2022Monday morning linksWhat do Americans hold as sacred? Besides coffee and beer? Back to the office Breakthrough: Ignition confirmed at California fusion reactor San Francisco's $20K trash cans Now it's 'mega-floods' that will destroy the whole world Episcopal Church Endorses Sex Change for Children Boston Children’s Hospital Creates Bizarre Video Promoting ‘Gender Affirming’ Hysterectomies for Kids Monkeypox is getting a new name because the WHO says the name is racist AG Merrick Garland’s raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago is a farce of law Thomas Piketty Wants To Bring Back Communism In The Guise Of Democratic Socialism Great Barrington Declaration Scientists Join Missouri, Louisiana in Lawsuit Against Biden Administration For Censoring Covid Facts Go Woke, Go Broke: Fitness Company Peloton Announces Massive Layoffs Amid Cratering Stock Price Education System Produces Staggering Ignorance Pelosi and Democrats Cheer After They Pass Massive ‘Bidenflation’ Bill – Will Raise Taxes on Middle Class During Recession – Create 87,000 IRS Jobs to Harass American Families I once hated America, but now I can’t wait to be an American The FBI and its media allies scramble to justify the Mar-a-Lago FBI raid Nancy Pelosi's Son a Major Investor in Chinese Telecoms Company An Education in Price Discrimination- colleges charge more to those most willing to pay Atlantic: Trump’s Scandals Are Never Done But aren't they all hoaxes and smears? FBI Agents Involved in Trump Raid are Under Criminal Investigation by Durham For Abusing Their Power in Trump-Russia Probe Salman Rushdie Off Ventilator and Condition Improving, Agent Says The Rushdie Attack. He was assaulted by an enemy of free speech while about to speak in defense of free speech, a principle of which he has been a staunch and brave supporter. We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning. Words are not violence. Violence is violence. Liberté, égalité, nudité: France’s new sexual politics. Are perverts ruining the country’s proud tradition of naturism? "Nothing Left In Pipes": French Towns Rely on Water Truck Deliveries For Survival German Shipper To Halt Rhine Operations As Water Level Drops Below Critical UN official fired after condemning Palestinian rocket attacks on Israeli civilians Sunday, August 14. 2022From today's LectionaryLuke 12:49-56 12:49 "I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! 12:50 I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what stress I am under until it is completed! 12:51 Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! 12:52 From now on five in one household will be divided, three against two and two against three; 12:53 they will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law." 12:54 He also said to the crowds, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, you immediately say, 'It is going to rain'; and so it happens. 12:55 And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, 'There will be scorching heat'; and it happens. 12:56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time? Saturday, August 13. 2022Saturday morning linksPlant-based diet is not always virtuous—or healthy, says new book Denmark outlaws the COVID vaccines for children Departing Whole Foods CEO: ‘My Concern is That I feel Like Socialists are Taking Over’ Soldiers for the Gender Revolution. Left-wing activists have smuggled radical gender theory into more than 4,000 school Portland: The city’s public schools teach K-5 students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers” and begin exploring “the infinite gender spectrum.” On The Causes Of Racial Health Disparities In The United States Latest Update on FBI's Trump Raid Is Beyond Laughable CODE RED FOR THE DEEP STATE?
Friday, August 12. 2022Friday morning linksThis giant isopod lives in the crater of a dinosaur-killing asteroid. Meet the newest relative of the roly-poly. CDC drops quarantine, distancing recommendations for COVID Well over a year late In the wake of Biden’s COVID-19 infections, here’s what regulators should do to limit Paxlovid rebound Elite All-Girls School in Nashville Will Now Admit Biological Males Who Identify as Female “Any student who identifies as a girl may apply to our school.” Tavistock transgender clinic could face mass legal action 'from 1,000 families of children who claim they were rushed into taking life-altering puberty blockers' weeks after NHS shut it down in wake of damning report TGIF: Dark Brandon Edition Beto at rally: Stop laughing at me, "motherf****r" Identity Politics Now Pits Black People Against... Other Black People The real cruelty of Biden’s open border policy — it hurts low-income Americans Texas Governor Hits Back At NYC Mayor Adams Don’t blame Texas for New York’s immigration ‘crisis’. Eric Adams needs to stop playing political games and fix his broken city Thursday, August 11. 2022Thursday morning linksThe best hobbies for warding off dementia revealed I am skeptical, but all are good for life Florida Board Of Medicine Moves To Ban Transgender Treatments For Minors South America's 'lithium fields' reveal the dark side of our electric future Israeli students accuse Ben & Jerry’s of ‘illegally occupying’ Native American land New York bans the word "inmate" to describe people in prison When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education. Glenn Greenwald Goes to Town on Why Dick and Liz Cheney Hate Trump so Much If Dems’ DOJ doesn’t have enough to convict, Trump will be back in Oval Office Convict about what? The FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago, and I Have Questions The NYS AG still persecuting Trump Four freight ships leave Ukrainian ports carrying nearly 170,000 tonnes of vital corn and oil as export deal aims to prevent global food crisis Wednesday, August 10. 2022Wednesday morning linksExercise Like Your Life Depends On It. Because It Does. Exercise is likely to be the single best way to extend lifespan Is Britain coming apart? The country feels poor, weak, and increasingly bitter We've Got the Deep State on the Run. Here's What Needs to Happen Next. Lawyer Marc Elias Shows the Mar-a-Lago Raid is All About Disqualifying Trump in 2024 "The Whole Enchilada": Pundits Wrongly Claim Trump Raid Could Disqualify Him From Future Office TikTok’s Owner ByteDance Quietly Changed Its China Unit’s Name After U.S. Political Fears The conservative reaction to George Soros’s recent Wall Street Journal op-ed exemplifies free-speech principles—in contrast with the behavior of left-wing papers like the New York Times. Tuesday, August 9. 2022Another squall photoThe second squall on Sunday afternoon
Tuesday morning linksHow Does Age Affect Sexual Desire? The Dismantlers - San Diego public schools want to overthrow “heteronormativity” and promote “genderqueer,” “non-binary,” “pansexual,” and “two-spirit” identities. French Scientist's Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo. Étienne Klein’s tweet was liked and retweeted thousands of times before he revealed he was trolling and the photo showed a slice of sausage, not Proxima Centauri. Despite Climate-Doomsaying, Great Barrier Reef's Coral Growth Soars To Record Alan Dershowitz Rips FBI Raid on Trump, Raises Legal Questions About How It Was Conducted Quiet quitting: why doing the bare minimum at work has gone global. The meaninglessness of modern work – and the pandemic – has led many to question their approach to their jobs "Revolution Has Begun": 75,000 Brits To Stop Paying Power Bills Amid Inflation Storm Chief of the United Nations chastises oil companies for their ‘grotesque greed’ Monday, August 8. 2022A TheorboA rare instrument
Monday morning linksThe Sublime Danielle Steel: For the Love of Supermarket Schlock This Is What Your United Flight Could Look Like in the Near Future. Production for Boom Supersonic's Overture passenger jet is set to begin in 2024 University in the UK Puts Trigger Warning on 800 Year-Old Religious Text. “Staff also flagged ‘outdated’ language in the 1970s translation from Latin” Naked 80-Year-Old Protests a Biological Male in Her YMCA Shower, Gets Banned for Bigotry A NYC school diploma isn’t worth the paper it’s written on Biden Regime Plans to Extend Covid-19 Public Health Emergency Once Again Beyond the Midterm Elections Pennsylvania Department of Education says three-year-olds should have their preferred pronouns honored Net Zero Is Not Just For Carbon Emissions -- Now It's Nitrogen THE COMING WAR ON AGRICULTURE Why Is Everyone Talking About the Claremont Institute? Shame of the Nation - The root cause of the American crisis is the moral depravity of the ‘Woke’ progressives. Illegal immigration: Bringing the havoc home "If the president is working so hard to free someone who is in jail in Russia for some weed, shouldn’t we free people in America?" Taiwan’s Inconvenient History Taiwan Says China's Drills Are Simulating A Full Attack On The Island CBS News Exposes Ukraine Weapons Scam: “30% Maybe Reaches Its Final Destination” Sunday, August 7. 2022Beautiful squallsWe had three squalls pass over the boat today. Some with thunder and some visible lightning, and some without. I find such storms majestic, dramatic, and exciting. Plus the rain is refreshing. When I raced sailboats as a lad, I remember times when 20 or 30 boats capsized in a row with their spinnakers up. Drama. Here's one of the squalls today, on its way out of otherwise blue skies with fluffy clouds:
From today's LectionaryLuke 12:32-40 12:32 "Do not be afraid, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom. 12:33 Sell your possessions, and give alms. Make purses for yourselves that do not wear out, an unfailing treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys. 12:34 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. 12:35 "Be dressed for action and have your lamps lit; 12:36 be like those who are waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet, so that they may open the door for him as soon as he comes and knocks. 12:37 Blessed are those slaves whom the master finds alert when he comes; truly I tell you, he will fasten his belt and have them sit down to eat, and he will come and serve them. 12:38 If he comes during the middle of the night, or near dawn, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves. 12:39 "But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 12:40 You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an unexpected hour."
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