Wednesday, November 23. 2016
 Image via Ace
Giving thanks for the invisible hand of strangers, spontaneous order, kaleidoscopic market energy & no turkey czars
Renewed Circus Maximus reopens after 6 years
The Factory of Fakes - How a workshop uses digital technology to craft perfect copies of imperilled art.
Obama Education Secretary John B. King Calls for End to Paddling in Schools
Paddling in schools? Bring it back.
William & Mary Offers ‘Thanksgiving Toolkit’ for Sensitive Students
How come Trump voters do not get toolkits for dealing with their moonbat relatives?
Watching the Snowflakes Melt
But Don’t Call Them Hysterical
The Trump-Climate Freakout
Possibly scariest interview with college Social Justice Warrior I’ve ever seen
University Bullied Students to Change 'America' Theme Party Because Trump Won - America party 'provides an opportunity for students to dress or behave in a way that offends or oppresses others.'
How about a Cuba-themed party?
There is great irony in the sheer hate from those who whine about Trump being hateful.
VDH: Who Are Wise, Who Not?
Manhattan doesn't love The Donald anymore
After 30 years of love and admiration, a sudden divorce
Green Incoherence: Reaching Out to the Deplorables
The trouble with Keith Ellison
Liberals Are Freaking Out Over The Possibility Of Questioning “High Risk” Immigrants
Every immigrant to the US should make legal application, and be vetted, interrogated, and given probationary status. That's normal everywhere. Basically, a would-be immigrant is applying for membership.
Trump is right: Let’s finally move on from the Clintons
Dem Lawmaker: We Are a Permanent Minority – Not a National Party, We Are a Coastal Party
Jeff Sessions May "Prosecute" Sanctuary Cities That Don't Obey Federal Law
Illegal immigrants pose as families, tell tales of woe to gain entry to U.S.
Illegal Immigrants Set Record By Using Children As Deportation Shields
THE HIDDEN COSTS OF IMMIGRATION
Academics are dangerously racist
Do red state Americans and blue state Americans live in the same country anymore?
America has many more than two subcultures
Democrats’ Answer Is Always the Same: Move More Left - Nearly
every time the Democrats face a crisis, their answer is the same—move
left. This time, they’re about to fall off the edge.
Delusional
Belmont Club on elections:
In socialism's 1930s heyday cadres were exhorted to bear on their shoulders the task of murder, genocide, deceit etc -- so that the masses might be happy in their simple hopes for a Worker's Paradise. The ones in the know knew the earthly paradise would never come. The Grand Inquisitor wore Chekist uniform but his function was otherwise the same. In 2016 the Inquisitors no longer shoot people but they still kept the secret. The reason the liberal project will never perform an autopsy on itself is because that would reveal there's no there there. It's the pretend that counts. The big secret the Left never wants to face is there's no "arc of history" they control.
Still there are always enough people who would rather be ruled by Grand Inquisitors than bear the burden of freedom; enough to keep a leftist project alive indefinitely. Life in a community is simple. And perhaps they are on the correct side after all. There may be nothing beyond the Big Crunch and the Big Pretend. So let's pretend.
I have never met a lib who could tell me when the Progressive Project of government expansion could be considered completed
Trump needs to stop denouncing nutcases every time the media heads to the fainting couches
Time for him to rise above. But can he? He's a street-fighting man like Obama wanted to be
MEDIA MOGULS COMPLAIN ABOUT MEETING WITH TRUMP, GET SPANKED BY . . . GLENN GREENWALD?
A Third of Germans Report Feeling ‘Like A Stranger In My Own Country’
A Tiny Minority of a Million Muslims in America
Muslim Refugees: "We Must Have More Children than the Christians Because it’s the Only Way We Can Destroy Them Here.’”
The UK has to accept not being special to the US
World Leaders Gather to Worry About Trump
Migrants Burn Down German Refugee Center After Camp Runs Out of Nutella and Gummy Bears
Tuesday, November 22. 2016
 We used some of those plastic Cajun Classic meat injectors (image on right) to inject our birds (ducks, turkeys, pheasants, etc): Deep Fry Turkey Day with Red-neck Yankees, aka Les Tres Riche Heures du Bird Dog.
Those plastic injectors are worthless crap. The herbs and spices jam up the injector holes, and the whole thing falls apart after a few birds.
We then made do with a large-apertured medical syringe which one of our medical friends had (which I hope was clean), but this is really the cooking tool that is needed: the stainless steel Bayou Classic with one needle for herb mixtures and another for marinade (photo below).
Many folks like to inject a turkey with sherry or cider.
I bought a couple of those for my cooking buddies. (Update: I did, and got one for myself too. Would be scary to see a nurse approaching you with one of these.)
This year, I am going to inject those big SOBs with a warmed mix of sherry, butter, honey, and herbs under the skin and deep into the meat. That can not be bad. The Indians did it that way, didn't they? Of course they did - when they weren't busy scalping, raping, and torturing their neighboring tribes.
Monday, November 21. 2016
 We always have this on our Thanksgiving menu, but there's no reason to limit it to Thanksgiving. Comfort food.
Here's a good easy recipe.
 Tame vs. Domesticated: How did a dog get on my bed?
Not tame: Officials Move Closer To Delisting Yellowstone Grizzlies
Iceland does not want tourists
SNL Fake Ad Offers Liberals Their Very Own ‘Bubble’ to Live In
UK Researchers: Tax Food to Reduce Climate Change
Largest oil discovery in US history
The musky smell of Elon Musk
What Is With This Infrastructure Fetish?
What Happens When You Give Basic Income to the Poor? Canada Is About to Find Out
I'd consider the unintended consequences
Thanks to pension funds, Los Angeles is close to becoming a microcosm of Greece
Thanks to Wikileaks we know at least 65 MSM Reporters Were Meeting with and/or Coordinating Offline with Top Hillary Advisors
America Called Bullshit on the Cult of Clinton:
We mortals are not worthy of Hillary. "Hillary didn't fail us, we failed her," asserted a writer for the Guardian. The press, and by extension the rest of us, "crucified her," claimed someone at Bustle. We always do that to messiahs, assholes that we are.
President Obama Blames the Internet for the Rise of Trump – Technology Needs “More Control”
Sheesh. "Obama and Angela Merkel Blame Internet and Social Media for Disrupting Globalism." I guess our moral and intellectual superiors don't like us having too much information.
The Age of the Honey Badger Dawns
Donations to Clinton Foundation fell by 37 percent
Big surprise. They have nothing to sell.
AAUP: Trump 'greatest threat to academic freedom' since McCarthy
Maher: Trump is Stalin
Outrage as reporter is sacked for praising Donald Trump and criticising Obama
Ingraham Decimates Juan Williams on Trump 'Team of Radicals' Charge
The “American Conservative Movement” Has Ended. the American Right Goes On.
Sign Language Interpreter Licenses and Wisconsin's Other Costly, Pointless Permission Slips
BLACK POLICE OFFICERS MORE LIKELY THAN WHITE OFFICERS TO SHOOT BLACKS
Stemming the Rot in American Manufacturing May Defeat Even Trump
Colorado Voters Send Message: Universal Healthcare Too Expensive
According to the school district, the girl violated the county’s weapon
policy when she used her butter knife in the cafeteria to cut the peach.
Everyone needs to stop talking about ‘white people’ - How the elitist fear of the underclass was given a PC makeover.
Calling everybody you don't like bad names loses its effect
Pat Caddell: CNN ‘Smearing’ Trump Supporters — ‘They Just Call Everybody a Racist’
Town and Country becomes Town v. Country
Hinderaker: I could go on for a long time; this AP story is a target-rich environment.
Whoopi Said Trump Nominee Wants to Bring Back Slavery
Post-Election, Why Don't We All Just Skip Thanksgiving This Year?
Via Insty:
Both Brexit and Trump were manifestations of cascading failures of the governing elites of the Western world, who pushed too hard for universalistic values and grew fundamentally disconnected from their populations. Saving liberalism will require elite introspection and a deeper understanding of our current crisis of governance. Self-satisfied assurances that anti-establishment voters are clueless—that they didn’t understand the significance of their vote and will now change their minds, or that they could be educated if social media sites simply promoted the right news outlets—are borderline suicidal.
THE FORGOTTEN MAN: No Longer Forgotten?
That Time Steve Bannon Tried to Arrange a Trump Visit to the Golan Heights
To All the Peter Pan Republicans: Trump Bests Captain Crook Clinton - The businessman succeeds where the GOP has failed
Trump succeeded in doing something Republican strategists and campaign geniuses have failed to do since 1932: smack down an ideologically hostile press.
The Economist is worried: The new nationalism - With his call to put “America First”, Donald Trump is the latest recruit to a dangerous nationalism
Isn't the job description to attend to America's needs?
Donna Brazile Calls For Senate To Reject Sessions’ Confirmation As AG
Why the Dems Are Hysterical About Jeff Sessions, and Why They Don’t Mean It:
So the Democrats have pulled out their old reliable, the race card. Which causes me to wonder: has the race card ever actually worked? The Democrats obviously think that false accusations of racism are political dynamite, but if that were true, why don’t they win more elections?
It's just an all-purpose smear, same as "He's a poopy-face."
NYT: The End of Identity Liberalism
The Clintons burrowed into the brain stem of the Democratic party, like one of those ear-tunneling scorpion things in Star Trek II.
Trump will have vast powers. He can thank Democrats for them.
Democrats suddenly thinking that states' rights might be good
Finally
Jihadi Invaders in Germany
UK Passes the Most Extreme Surveillance Law in the History of Western Democracy
What's the excuse for that?
Tony Blair is back?
Sunday, November 20. 2016
The exact locations of album cover photos and other visuals of pop history and how a Pop Culture Detective tracks them down.
Luke 23:33-43
23:33 When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified Jesus there with the criminals, one on his right and one on his left.
23:34 Then Jesus said, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." And they cast lots to divide his clothing.
23:35 And the people stood by, watching; but the leaders scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself if he is the Messiah of God, his chosen one!"
23:36 The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,
23:37 and saying, "If you are the King of the Jews, save yourself!"
23:38 There was also an inscription over him, "This is the King of the Jews."
23:39 One of the criminals who were hanged there kept deriding him and saying, "Are you not the Messiah? Save yourself and us!"
23:40 But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation?
23:41 And we indeed have been condemned justly, for we are getting what we deserve for our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong."
23:42 Then he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
23:43 He replied, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in Paradise."
Saturday, November 19. 2016
Delicious stuff, especially with chicken and other fowl. Right now is the only time of year to buy cranberries in volume.
I freeze them in the bags because I am fond of them, but chutney is one tasty way to put them up. There are many recipes online. Here's one: Putting Up-Cranberry Chutney
For Thanksgiving, we make the one on the Ocean Spray bag, and also this one: Fresh Cranberry Orange Relish
 Image stolen from Am. Digest
Review of ‘Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812’
Weakening polar vortex may yield longer, harsher winters in North America
District Court Judge Discovers Constitutional Right to Publicly Financed Sex Change Operations
Really? For cosmetic surgery?
Privileged college kids don't understand real social injustice
Harvard Law commemorates one-year anniversary of (likely hoax) ‘black tape’ incident
Race hoaxes are what keep the race baiters in business
NYC scores big by hanging on to charter-school visionary Eva Moskowitz
What American law professors forgot and what Trump knew
TV reporter fired after writing Facebook post praising Trump
Hillary "Attack Dog" David Brock Plotting With Soros, Steyer, Sussman To "Kick Trump's Ass"
Regardless of what he does, I assume. There will be no honeymoon this time.
Pitt students offered extra credit to attend anti-Trump march
Students Target Columbia Wrestlers Over Leaked Chat Room Messages
Memo To Millennials: That Awful Feeling You've Got Is Called Losing
How Affirmative Action Really Works
The truth of the matter is that the Obama administration saw the high-water mark of progressivism.
Is it any wonder, then, that the pragmatic and commonsense Americans, along with those whose consciences and religious freedoms were constantly violated, revolted at last? Is it any wonder that when an elite few invent a world without any relationship to reality, the rest of unconverted society refuses to accommodate itself to their confabulist insanities? Is it any wonder that honest Americans saw, as did the late theologian John Webster, that “The lie can be kept intact only if anything which threatens to expose it is destroyed?” Is it any wonder that the mere mortals among us have seen that the progressive gods are mad, and that their insistence that we retrofit our existence and all of society to accommodate their insane demands was a potentially fatal assault on life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Think federal policy matters? Here’s why conservatives have a once-in-a-lifetime legislative opportunity at the state level
Think
federal policy matters? Here’s why conservatives have a
once-in-a-lifetime legislative opportunity at the state level - See
more at:
https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/11/think-federal-policy-matters-conservatives-have-a-once-in-a-lifetime-legislative-opportunity#sthash.WffBKmgm.dpuf
Shoes.com Bans Ivanka Trump Products Because of Politics – THEN BRAGS ABOUT IT ONLINE
Thanksgivingmanship: Your Guide to Surviving the SJW Imbeciles Who Have Spent a Week Reading Vox Articles About How to Survive You
The Term "Fake News" Joins "Hate Speech" As A New Tool for Ideological Speech Suppresion
Liberals who claim history’s on their side got a cold wake-up call
Steve Bannon Vows ‘Economic Nationalist Movement’ from White House — ‘As Exciting as the 1930s, Greater than the
Reagan Revolution’
Hmmm. How?
Does America have too much trade protectionism?
" I’m trying to imagine a similar story in, say, 2008: high school students and their teacher enact the assassination of Barack Obama."
Z-man:
Calling modern Progressives “the Left” turns history on its head. Progressives are the champions of privilege and advocate what amounts to the return of active and passive citizenship. They and their attendants will be the active citizens while the rest of us, including whoever happens to wander in from who knows where, will be the passive citizens. The only difference is the 18th century aristocrats were honest about what they wanted. The modern aristocrat prefers to lie about his intentions.
I will assemble my Granada pics soon, I hope. It was a good hike down the mountain on which Alhambra sits, then back up another big hill while getting lost in the maze of the old Moslem quarter (got together with a lost German couple and a lost sweet Turkish gal to form a search team) to reach this evening view of the Alhambra from the mirador.
Friday, November 18. 2016
FTC tightens up on Homeopathic products
Homeopathy is big business
Guy who beat Vegas and Wall St.
New technology aims to make photovoltaic cells 70% more efficient
Help for the Shy Guy: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Your Shyness
How to Pull Off Vegan Thanksgiving
Well, the sides and the desserts are the best part anyway. But no gravy?
Titanpointe - The NSA’s Spy Hub in New York, Hidden in Plain Sight
White police officers don't unfairly target black suspects, study says
‘Feminist’ Snow-Plowing System Brings Stockholm to a Standstill
College Faculties Are Mostly Leftist and Becoming More So
University of Colorado Professors Take Anti-American Revisionist History Into Overdrive
On the UW–Madison campus last night, student activists obstructe the speech — by conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro —
"Dismantling Safe Spaces: Facts Don’t Care About Your Feelings."
Bill De Blasio calls for more 'disruption' to protest Donald Trump
Can't imagine a conservative mayor talking like that
ESPN’s Public Editor Agrees With Viewers That Network ‘Has Moved Leftward’
Why are they doing politics?
USA Today editors call for an end to “sanctuary cities”
News flash to protesters: Obama has deported 2.5 million illegals
Mexico lists plans to 'protect Mexican community' in U.S.
California Teachers Offered "Anti-Hate, Trump Teaching Plan" To "Empower Students"
Students and faculty and George Mason: get a grip.
Good election summaries at Betsy
President Trump is Going to Hit Some Very Nasty Greenies Where it Really Hurts
Harry Reid: I Wondered After the Election ‘Is the World Gonna Be Destroyed?’
Howard Dean Compares Trump Election to Kent State Shootings, Selma AL’s ‘Bloody Sunday’
Democrats know why they lost, but won’t fix their problems
Can America Survive the Mass Panic of the Adult Babies?
The Left’s descent into childishness and irrationality following Trump’s election is as frightening as it is amusing.
One of the biggest themes to emerge so far from the 2016 U.S. presidential election is a widening rural vs. urban divide.
So what?
How Trump’s Plan to Deport Criminal Illegal Aliens Would Work
Krauthammer’s Take: Press Itching to Attack Trump and ‘Can’t Take a Month or Two Off’
Always collecting Repub scalps
"Racist," Sexist", etc. You Are Still Crying Wolf (h/t Am. Digest)
Trump made gains among blacks. He made gains among Latinos. He made gains among Asians. The only major racial group where he didn’t get a gain of greater than 5% was white people. I want to repeat that: the group where Trump’s message resonated least over what we would predict from a generic Republican was the white population.
The Steve Bannon Bogeyman
There are some people in this world, let’s just call them Social Justice Warriors, who see a racist under every bed
No they don't. False accusations are just an Alinsky tactic
David Axelrod tweets defense of Trump
The Bottomless Ignorance of Donald Trump - His poor grasp of policy makes past leaders look brilliant by comparison.
The coming Trump administration’s yuuuge transformational opportunity
Obama sets new record for regulations, 527 pages in just one day
Wilbur Ross: Need to Change 'Culture of All of the Government Departments'
Good luck with that
French PM: "Europe Is In Danger Of Falling Apart"
Britain’s new surveillance law will have privacy advocates wincing
Orwell as how-to manual
Foreign tour: Obama’s Never-Ending Lecture Tour
Latest Atomic Energy Report on Iranian Compliance With Nuclear Deal ‘Borders on Deception by Omission’
The Continuing Decline of America's Military
We have one just like this. When I was 10 I had to stand up to use the clutch. This one only needs a little work:
Thursday, November 17. 2016
I have liked kippers since I was a kid. Kippers and scrambled eggs for breakfast. I also love pickled herring with that cream sauce. I raised my kids on that. Canned salmon is disgusting. Canned salted anchovies? Well, there are good ones and terrible ones. The worst ones are used by pizza joints. Always wonder why they call canned Tuna "Tuna fish"? Is there some other kind of tuna that is not a fish?
Via Am. Digest, an Ode to Canned Fish
China's Xi urges cooperation among nations in governance of global internet
"Governance"?
Secret Back Door in Some U.S. Phones Sent Data to China, Analysts Say
Nimrud: Photos show IS destruction of ancient Iraqi city
The USGS Just Found 20 Billion Barrels of Oil
The Transgender Tragedy
Will the Surge of Support for Free Speech on Campus Do Any Good?
Slate: GOP stole the Supreme Court and ‘we need to go lower’
It’s Time to Stop Spending Taxpayer Dollars on Elon Musk and Cronyism
How to Make Drug Prices Fair to U.S. Consumers
Oregon Official Who Shut Down Sweet Cakes Loses Election Bid to a Republican
Trump’s campaign kills the ‘money buys elections’ cliche.
Research Guru saw Trump phenomenon coming before anyone else
She tries to measure the deep currents
The Exhausted Epithets of the Left - They didn’t work against Trump and won’t work against his aides.
The Left’s trivialization of the charge of racism only made it easier for Trump to win. Previous GOP candidates lived in dread fear of the media’s PC mau-mauing. Trump didn’t and ended up getting a higher percentage of the Black and Hispanic vote than Romney. While Hillary wrote off half the country as a basket of deplorables, Trump turned up in inner cities. Obama and other Hillary surrogates mocked him for his “Make America Great Again” slogan, but next to the “God damn America”-style multiculturalism of the Left, Trump’s simple nationalism looked less scary than sane.
Federal Judge Proclaims a Stable Climate to Be a Fundamental Constitutional Right
Sheesh
Four things you can do to stop Donald Trump from making climate change worse
The left is a regular riot
Press dig in for long battle against Trump
Trump Goes Out to Dinner, Press Has Hissy Fit
Boston Globe: I don’t want Trump to succeed. I want him to fail spectacularly.
Why No One Pays Any Attention To The New York Times Any More
Guardian: Don't call Clinton a weak candidate: it took decades of scheming to beat her
What the elites still don’t get about American politics
Vox: Trump’s coalition won the demographic battle. It’ll still lose the war.
Hillary Clinton Was The Lady Ghostbusters Of Presidential Candidates - It turns out that people liked the original, male version of the Clinton candidacy a lot more than the expensive reboot.
Sultan: Let's All Go To the Arafat Museum
I Watched Donald Trump Blow A Hole Through The European Elite’s Minds - Looking
out on a valley in the Schwarzwald surrounded by posh European men with
pants tight enough to ensure they could never procreate, my mind
embraced Donald Trump.
Wednesday, November 16. 2016
Re-posted from past Thanksgiving seasons -
We did one turkey in the oven, stuffed with cornbread stuffing, and the other one on the grill with occasional doses of soaked apple wood chunks from my neighbor's tree, and with white wine in the steam water. Both birds were brined 24 hrs before cooking, and each around 18 lbs. but I feel that's a waste of time.
We had plenty of family and friends to eat it all up.
I think people preferred the grilled (no stuffing in the grilled bird). It was my first time trying grilled turkey. Beginner's luck: It came out perfectly: moist, with a pleasant hint of smokiness. It took around 3 1/2 hrs to cook. Keeping the temp at near 325 involved carefully titrating the number of briquettes and fruitwood chunks to keep the heat low, but to not let the fire go out. Basted it with veg. oil and honey. Just for fun, I use my heavy-duty poultry injector to squirt sherry or cider into the meat. Why not? I don't buy butterball turkeys.
Nice grill, eh? This cast-iron thing weights 500 lbs. I had to assemble the darn thing off a truck, and got most of it right. Except for the wheels, which fell off. Now it takes a few pall-bearers to move it.
This is halfway:
And done:
The puppy seemed equally happy with scraps from the grilled and from the oven-roasted turkey.
Dylan’s reply when a fan gushed, “You don’t know who I am, but I know who you are.” Dylan: “Let’s keep it that way.”
Found Sketchbook With Drawings Is Not By Van Gogh, According To Van Gogh Museum
One fact about New England stone walls
Sheep? I am not sure about that.
‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found
The Case Against Cats - The animal so many dote on is among the world’s most destructive predators.
Chicago's Airbnb Rules Are Unconstitutional Many Times Over, Lawsuit Argues
Universities devolve into pre-schools
Protests shook Yale a year ago. Here’s what has changed since.
PRO-ISRAEL ARTIST THREATENED WITH 5 YEARS IN JAIL FOR ANTI-TERROR POSTERS AT GMU
Better Off Before Obamacare?
Twitter Initiates Mass Purge Of Prominent Alt-Right Accounts Following Trump Victory
I still do not know what alt-right is, but I guess they do
Saying ‘shut up’ to the author of ‘All men are created equal’
Was he alt-right too?
Trump's transition team bristles with … conservatives!
Why the Big Lie About Steve Bannon?
Schoolyard tactics
Alan Dershowitz Defends Steve Bannon: ‘Not Legitimate To Call Somebody An Anti-Semite Because You Disagree With Their Policies’
A Latino barista
WHY ARE DEMOCRAT-DOMINATED INSTITUTIONS SUCH CESSPITS OF MISOGYNY AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION?
The Obsession with Race Is Eroding Our Ability to Reason
Donald Trump’s victory exposes liberal hypocrisy on free expression and democracy.
STANDING OVATION for Donald Trump on New York Night Out
Trump Sticks with People Who Stuck by Him, Media Bewildered
The Left Freaks Out Over Ken Blackwell, Trump’s Domestic Transition Team Leader
They will freak out about everything. Honey Badger don't care
Obama's sad legacy
Obama warns against a "crude sort of nationalism"
Washington Post Hopes Trump Fails
They will do their utmost to make that happen
Krauthammer’s Take: Obama ‘Destroyed His Presidency’ with Liberal Overreach
Obama in a state of denial about Trump, as Democrats work through the stages of grief
Hillary Clinton Screaming Obscenities and Throwing Objects in Election Night Meltdown
That's her MO
Clinton Campaign Official Invokes ‘Internalized Misogyny’ in Talking About Women’s Vote
European Temper Tantrumps: "A World Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes"
Get a grip
Stock of Israeli Company Specializing in ‘Smart’ Border Fences on Sharp Rise Since Trump Election
America wants legal immigration
Tuesday, November 15. 2016
(My first Spain post was A few comments on visiting Spain, with lots of Seville photos plus Carmen's work site)
After a few days in Sevilla we hopped the high-speed north to Cordoba - once a Roman city - to spend a couple of days there. Unlike Seville, Cordoba is a normal city which happens to have a couple of must-see attractions - mainly the Mosque - the Mesquita, which has an amazing history.
Largest (ex-) mosque in the Western world. Can not capture its magnificence with a camera:
More Cordoba pics and comments, with food, below the fold -
Continue reading "Andalusia Photo Travelogue #2: A visit to Cordoba"
 Why Is Sleep Improvement So Important?
Can kinky sex make you more creative?
Meteorites reveal lasting drought on Mars
Climate change again
The Supermoon and Other Moons That Are Super in Their Own Ways
First Ever Quadriplegic Treated With Stem Cells Regains Motor Control in His Upper Body
Record Global Cooling Over The Last Eight Months
I blame Trump
How To Indoctrinate Students: “What Do I Say” Stories From Teachers After Election Day
How TV news is made
Report: Three Million Votes in Presidential Election Cast by Illegal Aliens
Obama told them to vote
National Populism
That's it - what the heck is wrong with nationalism?
2008 Obama Memo: Border Fence Useful In Stopping Illegal Immigration
Jonathan Gruber Discovers ‘Stupidity’ Is Wrong Word For American Voters
Never support any government power you would not want your ideological enemy wielding
NYT: Dems slowly realizing Obama led them into a cultural dead end
Memo to the Left:
The fact is that everything you liberals wanted to do, except rebuild America’s bathrooms to suit a more transgendered sensibility, is done -- and it probably could have been done without all the intellectual terrorism inspired by Karl and Fritz and Max and Ted and Herb, scaring the pants off the victims and silencing the bourgeoisie. So you can take your street armies and your racist BLMs and La Razas and your segregated dorms, your “Studies” degrees, your “mostly peaceful protests,” and demobilize the activists and tell them to go get a job.
Reporters Spin Furiously Against Trump
Expect 4 years of this. It's the routine demonization of Repub administrations.
Liberals Scared to Death by Their Own Caricature of Trumpettes
When the Left-media Becomes a Crying Cult
The NYT publisher and executive editor would like you to take them seriously now... now that they are done putting their all into getting Hillary Clinton elected. They'd like to be empowered for the purpose of undercutting President Trump.
The Stupefying Hypocrisy of the Luxury-Peddling New York Times
Sadly, Trump’s victory has driven some at the WaPo to the breaking point
Dowd's obituary for Obama's presidency
Donald Trump Will Prove to Be One of the Greatest and Most Consequential Presidents
We'll see...
How Donald Trump brought populism to Washington
How President Trump Could Reshape the Supreme Court—and the Country
I doubt a reshape. At best, a depoliticization of the Court
Trump transition team begins minority outreach with "new deal for Black America"
Trump’s election is shaking up British politics, too
Iran FM’s Advisor: Missiles outside Iran not Limited to Syria
Monday, November 14. 2016
The Spanish version of Cappuccino, or of Cafe au Lait. A good shot of espresso with same shot of scalded milk. Good with or without sugar. Like the others, it's a morning drink but I will have it anytime to perk up. That, or a Coke.
I found we have a milk-scalder in the pantry. Never used it. One of my many cafe con leches in Spain 2 weeks ago, this one in Cordoba:
Leon Russell, RIP
No amount of analytics are going to get me to buy an $800 iPhone nor will it make the cheap mobile phones hip and trendy.
The FBI May Have Run Not Just One But 24 Dark Web Child-Porn Websites - The sites are thought to have accounted for roughly half of all child porn websites on the dark web.
A tornado deficit?
I blame climate change Trump
Attacks On Catholic Church Require People Of All Faiths To Say ‘We Are Catholics Now’
Why a lot of people are moving out of California
Why is America taking in Australia’s illegal immigrants?
New York Times publisher vows to 'rededicate' paper to reporting honestly
That is not from The Onion
NY Times Refused to Run Negative Stories on Hillary Clinton
Maggie's posted negatively on all the Repub candidates, including Trump. Also on Hillary and Bernie.
Will the Democrats Learn Anything at All from Defeat? The party’s crack-up has arrived, and the fight will revolve around federal interventions and authority:
... a deeper dive suggests that actually, in the end, she (Clinton) does stand for something, and that's government intervention in every single problem that exists, anywhere. It may not seem like policy played a role in this election, but I suspect in the end that's like saying that water plays no role in fish behavior. It was always in the background.
Clinton's campaign pushed out several policy memos and briefs, and what they all had in common is that they called for federal involvement in every single solution, with very few exceptions. She is known for being an interventionist in foreign policy, supporting military action in Syria and Libya and elsewhere. If she thought any particular outcome was a good idea, she wanted to a federal law to make it happen or a government subsidy or grant to push it along.
The idea that government, especially federal government, is supposed to solve our problems is a sickness. In America as I see it, government's first job is to do no harm. Its second job is to get out of the way so people can solve their own problems.
"Everybody has gone coo-coo. The only sane person is this crazy Russian immigrant..."
Generation Snowflake Dissolves
Der Spiegel: A dangerous president
They got the vapors
David Warren: "The most reliable “safe space” is a padded cell. The least reliable ought to be on campus."
The new Blue America
The riotous inside story of Farage's astonishing coup as he became the first foreign politician to meet President elect Trump
Funny. Farage had to have a smoke on Donald's terrace. Man, Trump's crib is vulgar. With luck, he might do a great job, vulgar or not.
"I won." The Left will not enjoy living with its own precedents.
The pretensions of the imperial presidency are going to haunt Democrats for the immediate future, but they’ll quickly rediscover their belief in limits on the executive. While they’re rediscovering old virtues, they might take a moment to lament Senator Harry Reid’s weakening of the filibuster, an ancient protection of minority interests in the less democratic house of our national legislature. They might also lament Senator Reid’s attempt to gut the First Amendment in order to permit the federal government — which in January will be under the management of Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, and — incredibly enough — President Donald Trump — to regulate political speech, deciding who can speak, about what and when, and on what terms. Perhaps they’ll thank those wicked “conservative” justices on the Supreme Court for saving basic political-speech rights. If they are smart, they will rediscover federalism, too, and the peacemaking potential of a school of thought that says in a diverse nation of 320 million souls, there is no reason that life in rural Idaho must be lived in exactly the same way as it is in Brooklyn or Santa Monica. As Charles C. W. Cooke pointed out, the same people who until ten minutes ago denounced federalism — which they mischaracterize as the doctrine of “states’ rights” — as an instrument for the suppression of African Americans are now embracing secession, which, in the American context at least, has a little bit of its own racial baggage.
Time to Boycott Pepsi - CEO Says “Employees Are Scared for Their Safety” After Trump’s Victory
Bogeyman gonna getcha
The 'Millionaire-Socialist-Class' (Or, Why It's Important To Be 'For' Rather Than 'Against' Something)
Cracked: How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
A Prof: "... the administration that was just elected is demonstrably anti-science, anti-climate, and by extension anti-ocean."
Anti-ocean?
The coalition for diversity whose diversity did diversity just win?
Slate: White Women ‘Sold Out the Sisterhood’ by Voting for Trump
What???? If I vote for a woman, do I sell out my manhood?
Hillary Lacked Female Voters? Sex Traitors!!
A Rebuke to the Media From Joe Scarborough
‘What’s Happening to America?’ Trump Supporter Beaten by Chicago Mob Speaks Out
Former Navy SEAL Becomes First Jewish Governor Of Missouri…
Obama’s main legacy: the collapse of the Democratic Party
Pardon Hillary
Freakout at the YWCA
Freakout at Whitman College
Krauthammer: ‘Obama’s Legacy Is Toast’
Trump is already working to erase Obama’s legacy from history
Meaning Obamacare and the Iran pay-off?
Liberals are in such disbelief/shock on Myron Ebell appointment for EPA transition, he has a Snopes page
Theresa May will vow to TAKE BACK CONTROL of British borders after Trump’s election win
PARIS: ONE YEAR ON
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