Maggie's Farm

Many of us find the energy in gyms a support for the discipline required for fitness. I do.  

For a gym workout, the only discipline involved is to get there. Then you get in the groove whether it's a calis class or a yoga class or just doing your own thing. 

Luckily for me, I am still working with my trainer 3 days/week. We figured out a way to do it and it is so cut-rate now that I can't afford not to do it. Plus I enjoy the guy's company a lot so we have a good time listening to podcasts. Scott Adams, Mike Rowe, Rogan. Of course, with heavies, you do not hear anything but you do during the rests.

I am getting myself out early for a run twice a week (sprint/walk intervals). The month of May is perfect outdoor running, but I miss the killer stair machine. 

What are y'all doing now?  Things are looking up around here, headed in the right direction but I don't know whether I want to pay my excessive gym fees in the future.  

 A man in the Netherlands has some pretty unusual new neighbors and they spend most of the day staring at each other.

Government Announces Lockdown Of All Fast-Food Restaurants To Prevent Heart Disease

 Here are the Chinese 'propaganda' centers currently operating in the US

 WHICH IS MORE RACIST—HIKING OR JOGGING  - or running?

All or Nothing - How a selectively pedantic media is trying to rewrite history about the sloganeering of #MeToo

 U.N.: Stop Using Gender-Based Language. Social Media: Shut Up.

 ‘I am in their crosshairs’: John Brennan says he hasn’t been interviewed by John Durham — yet

 Ben Smith’s NYT Critique of Ronan Farrow Describes a Toxic, Corrosive, and Still-Vibrant Trump-Era Pathology: “Resistance Journalism”

Why is the CDC a failure, with their ballooning budget? 

Mission creep 

Ticket to Cancel - Travel and entertainment will need to find new ways of doing business.

 This Is The Most Desperate Hour For Small Businesses

 California: Give Us Money Or We'll Fire Cops and Firefighters

Jerk. He wants people in Alabama to help the richest and most profligate state in the US? 

California’s Budget Bust-Up - The Golden State’s record-breaking deficit owes as much to its progressive politics as to the virus lockdown.

 Tucker: The time for mass quarantines has passed

Crenshaw nails what’s fueling deep partisan divide, and why the Left’s in ‘no rush’ to re-open America

 Failures of an Influential COVID-19 Model Used to Justify Lockdowns

 Will Americans Submit To A Second Lockdown?

Ummm, no 

 Trump Cutting More Regulations to Boost Virus Recovery

 What the Cold War Can Teach Us About Deterring China

Dating today 

 Their Happiness Hurt My Feelings

Vice: “White Supremacy Led To the Climate Crisis”

 House Democrats Say Trump-Russia Obstruction Investigation ‘Ongoing’ – Could Result in New Articles of Impeachment!

 How ‘collusion’ conspirators tried to oust President Trump

 On Trump-Hatred

 Gallup: Trump Approval Rating Higher Than Four of the Last Six Presidents, Including Bush and Obama

 New York’s emergence as the epicenter of the coronavirus was far from inevitable. 

 Grandma Killer: Andrew Cuomo Murdered 5300 Elderly New Yorkers But He's a Hero Because He's a Liberal Psychopath

 Wuhan Virus Watch: NYC Mayor de Blasio’s Memorial Day Threat – Fence Off Beaches, Pull Swimmers Out of Water

 Social Distancing Is State-Mandated Humiliation. Change My Mind

China slaps an 80 per cent tariff on drought-affected Australian exporters starting TODAY as brutal punishment for push for COVID-19 inquiry

A quick explanation

How to Restore a Million Acres of Strip-Mined Land? Bring in the Elk. Central Appalachia reintroduced the species to restore wildlife habitat—and help devastated economies. Here’s what happened next.

 Zoom is Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines

 Bailed-Out Colleges Should Be Forced to Cut Administrative Bloat

 How Concerning Are the Trump Administration’s New Title IX Regulations?

 How the FBI's intelligence experiment went wrong

Plagues and Saints in history 

Virology for Dummies 

MC: Everything Important In Life Involves Tradeoffs

 COVID-19 Prevalence: John Ioannidis Responds to His Critics

 Why is a Social Worker Dictating COVID-19 Policy for the Country’s Largest County?

Antibody Tests In Washington State Indicate The Coronavirus Was In The U.S. Much Earlier Than Thought

 Andrew Cuomo: Older People Are Going To Die From The Virus, No Matter What You Do

 Barstool Sports Founder: ‘When Did Flattening The Curve Turn Into Finding The Cure?’

Maher On OCD Pandemic Overreaction: ‘What’s The Point Of Life If You Can’t Live It?’

 Colorado amends coronavirus death count - says fewer have died of COVID-19 than previously reported

YouTube locked out an epidemiologist who disagreed with the WHO

China's State Media Declares It Will Meddle in the US Election Against Trump

The statistical differences

John 14:15-21

Muffy's stack of bird books is almost identical to mine:

Viruses hate rhubarb. Do not scoff. Did you ever hear of a rhubarb with a + test? That's scientific proof. 

Damn is it good, with some vanilla ice cream on top. So good, it adjusts the brain to a positive outlook. Trust me.

Useful detail: 6 cups of roughly-chopped (1" or less) rhubarb stems = 2 lbs. 

Stanley Tucci's life in quarantine

Samuel Pepys: The first pandemic blogger 

 The ACLU’s Conversion to Wokeness

How Dov Fischer learned to hate 

Sad story, but understandable. I do not hate yet, but I do get p-ed off often 

Transcripts: Clinton Aides Allied With Fusion GPS Pair After Election -- to Re-Push Anti-Trump Dossier

Big Surprise! 

 Nevada's vote-by-mail primary stirs fraud concerns, as unclaimed ballots pile up: 'Something stinks here'

Duh 

 Some Bearish Market Forecasts

 CNBC: Get Ready For New Trump EO To Force Essential-Drug Production In US

Good 

 Florida Man Wonders: Why Does Cuomo Get Better COVID-19 Press Than DeSantis, When Florida Has Done So Much Better?

Cuz "D" 

 Coronavirus job losses are hitting these states the hardest

 What’s Next For Bat Soup Virus? A Massive Wave Of Bankruptcy Filings

 Head Of NYC Hospital System Urged De Blasio To Follow Herd Immunity Strategy

DeB followed different experts. In hindsight, locking down NYC for 2 weeks might have been enough, and saved a lot of states a lot of trouble. 

 Coronavirus Isn't Nearly as Deadly as We Thought. So Why Did the Lockdowns Happen in the First Place?

Because of fear + lack of good data. Nobody's fault. 

 Gov. Cuomo extends New York City’s stay-at-home order until June 13

 Another Headline about ‘More New Virus Cases!’ That Ignores the Increasing Number of Tests

Obviously - but not to reporters who know no stats 

"According to a CNN poll released this week, nearly three-quarters of Democrats said the worst of the crisis is still ahead of us..."

Interesting... 

Related: The Lockdown Class War 

Related,  Protests show two Americas — those who lost their jobs and those still getting paid. People don’t appreciate being condescended to and bossed around, especially when the leaders ask them for sacrifices without empathy and humility.

There really are two Americas here: Those still getting a paycheck from government, corporations or universities, and those who are unemployed, or seeing their small businesses suffer due to shutdowns. And the America still getting paid is, so far, not showing a whole lot of sympathy for the America that isn’t.

Coyote chases Roadrunner 

 Georgia officials warn of 4-foot-long invasive lizards that eat 'anything they want'

 Norway to excavate first Viking ship burial mound in 100 years

Getting Distance Learning Right - Once again, Success Academy leads the way.

 Climate Change Experts Explain to Insurers They Don’t Understand Risk

 Are Democrats Trying To Eliminate Proof Of Who You Are To Vote?

 Flynn Was Never Charged With Perjury, But Now Could Be Facing Charges…of Perjury

 The New York Times Surrendered to an Outrage Mob. Journalism Will Suffer For It.

 Pediatrician: Closed Schools Could Be Harming Kids' Mental Health

Is Sweden's Herd Immunity Strategy the Best We Can Do?

 36,000,000: America's Disastrous COVID Unemployment Crisis Deepens

The ‘Just Stay Home’ Message Will Backfire. We need less extreme and more nuanced recommendations for navigating life during the pandemic.

 Los Angeles Will “Never Be Completely Open Until We Have a Cure.”

Why shutdowns are useless 

 Why Do Progressives Want To Keep The Economy Shut Down?

"Science shows" - which science is that? 

 World Health Organization doctor says coronavirus 'may never go away'

Powerline:

 The conventionally posed choice between fighting the disease and salvaging our economy is entirely wrong. The choice is not disease vs. economy. The disease is here, and there is nothing governments can do to stop it. (They can, of course, close down access to nursing homes, a mixed blessing if you are elderly.) The real choice is between the disease with a flourishing economy, and the disease with a devastated economy. The disease is a constant.

Revisiting of Sokolow v. PLO gives hope to victims’ families. The case, Sokolow v. PLO, has its roots in the bloody years of the Second Intifada – a terror wave that killed more than a thousand Israelis and dozens of Americans.

 Communist China Continues to Target American Creativity

 Rolling Back Iran in Iraq

 How much of a lemming was President Trump?  Or the state governors?  All of them were, to one degree or another.  Thus, we were plunged into the grandest of experiments in authoritarian paternalism, whereby we plebeians — i.e., those without government jobs — are deemed incompetent to judge if it's safe to take a dip in the ocean or a walk in the woods.  We can, though, crowd into a Walmart or the local supermarket.

Los Angeles Headed To Lockdown … Forever?

California Universities Cancel ‘In Person’ Classes for Fall Semester 2020

To reopen, Washington state restaurants will have to keep log of customers to aid in contact tracing

Makes zero sense 

 As Lockdown Grows Political, Resistance Stirs in Rural Maine

Ace:

We've been told that we need to "flatten the curve" before we can reopen the country. We were told that we don't want to overwhelm our country's healthcare system.

But I think we've done this. In fact, many hospitals that have geared up for a covid-19 rush are nearly empty and are laying off staff.

But now, suddenly, it's different. Now we're being told that we can't reopen the country until we get widespread testing. And when you ask them how much is widespread, the response is always more than we have now.

Soon it will be we can't reopen the country until everybody gets tested.

Coming up:

We can't reopen the country until there are no new cases

We can't reopen the country until we have an infallible vaccine

We can't reopen the country until Luke Skywalker and his plucky band of rebels destroy the Death Star

We can't reopen the country until Marshall Dillon marries Miss Kitty

We can't reopen the country until Jerry Lewis releases his 'The Day the Clown Cried' movie to the public.

We can't reopen the country until the return of Halley's Comet.

We can't reopen the country until Arthur returns as the rightful king of England

But ultimately it all boils down to: We can't reopen the country until Joe Biden becomes President.

Americans Have Baked All the Flour Away. The pandemic is reintroducing the nation to its kitchens.

Half-Time High School May Be Just What Students Need. For older students, the virus will change how the school day is structured. It’s about time.   

 The Title IX Pendulum That Wasn’t

Apple To Move A Fifth Of iPhone Production From China To India In Massive Supply-Chain Shift

 Trump To “Concast”: Fire Chuck Todd Over Barr Interview “Fraud”; NBC Admits “Error”

 The Real Reason Trump Didn't Name Obama's Specific Crime in 'Obamagate'

 "OBAMAGATE!" Trump Tweets Tucker Carlson's Crushing Breakdown Why The Former President Should Be Panicking

 Obama's Coup Attempt

 So What Was The Russia Hoax Really About?

 Twitter Takes Its COVID-19 Censorship Into Overdrive

 Facebook's Evidence-Free 'False' Rating

 “There Is Nothing from the CDC I Can Trust!” – Dr. Birx Tells Off CDC Director, Claims COVID-19 Mortality Rate Inflated By as Much as 25%!

 Has The WHO Done Anything Correctly? One More Example Of their Incompetence...Or Malfeasance (You Be The Judge)

 Germany’s Bild Newspaper Says ‘Lockdown Was a Huge Mistake’

The Wuhan Virus Lockdown is a Colossal Blunder

Lancet: Lockdowns just delay the inevitable 

Dr. Fauci Testifies: Trump Admin Hit The ‘Accelerator In Every Aspect’ In Responding To Coronavirus

From Vermont Digger.  Skiied it, and Smuggler's on the other side, many times. Never been there other than in winter. 

Sorry about that, but either the bug or governments' responses to it are messing up everybody's life in the US. May I ask one question: What happened to the "two weeks to flatten the curve" that was offered?

Let's return sanity to college admissions. Coronavirus pandemic gives us an opportunity.

Rutgers University prof: Reopening the country is about killing black people

Column: Americans are too afraid of risk. What we need in this pandemic is balance

 Social Distancing' is Snake Oil, Not Science

Could help flatten the curve, maybe, but lengthen the pandemic 

 Should Patients With Mild Cases Isolate At Home? 

Jacobson:  The center did not hold under prolonged and arbitrary lockdowns, as predicted. We are at the inflection point I predicted two months ago would arrive in May. Reopening the economy is the only sustainable option.

 Scientists Pushing The Goal Posts Further …Vaccine Needed Before Normal Returns

Don't hold your breath for that 

 Americans create new economic threat with their own savings

 Steven Mnuchin: Reopening needed to avert 'permanent economic damage' to the public

Some permanent damage has already happened. Seen it. 

 Now Chinese Hackers Are Trying to Steal Coronavirus Research

Duh 

Was there an emergency shutdown of the Wuhan lab in October? 

Whistleblower Chinese all died. Sheesh.

Mother's Day:  Michelle Obama describes having children as a ‘concession’ that cost her her ‘dreams’

Always unhappy 

 This Real Life ‘Lord Of The Flies’ Story Is Very Different From The Book

 80 years ago, lethal Nazi T4 center began euthanizing Germans with disabilities

 How the World’s Only Feudal Lord Outclassed the Nazis to Save Her People

  Muslim Students Threaten to Kill Prof for Suggesting Islam Is Violent

 Why Don't I Hate Donald Trump?

He tried to hate him, failed 

Mexico's president calls for investigation into Obama-era Fast and Furious Operation. The Mexican government is asking Washington for cooperation in discovering how Operation Fast and Furious happened

 This Oval Office Meeting Attended By Obama and Biden Was Key To the Anti-Trump Plot

 Dirty Dozen: The 12 revelations that sunk Mueller's case against Flynn

Brian Stelter Flips Out That Fox Is Covering Flynn Dismissal Rather Than Virus. How dare people cover a huge, unprecedented in history scandal. Once again, it says something about CNN that they aren’t covering it.

 Jonathan Turley Rips Apart Obama’s ‘Leaked’ Statement About the DOJ and Flynn, and It’s Glorious

 WH Press Corps Learning The Hard Way – Don’t Mess With Kayleigh

MC:  Why Are Government Employees Supposedly Immune To Layoffs?

 FLASHBACK: NBC Prez Declared We Are Winning War With White House

A war? 

My Blood Boils When I Think Of Hypocrite Neil Ferguson

 The coronavirus lockdown is a luxury many Americans can’t afford

I think most 

  Economic Lockdown Is the 'Catastrophe'

Coronavirus in Minnesota 

 California's Governor Keeps Moving the Goalposts to Reopening State. Why?

 Narrative Fail: 15 Days After Lockdown Ease, Georgia Sees Lowest Day Of COVID Hospitalizations

 Republican Governors Are Kicking The Butts Of Democratic Governors On Covid-19 Response

 Ten Reasons To End The Lockdown Now

 Don’t Let Karens Kill Your Community

 San Antonio: No Calling Chinese Virus “Chinese Virus”

 China asked the WHO to cover up coronavirus outbreak: German intelligence service

 EU Defends Bowing To Communist Chinese Censors

 Italy: China's Trojan Horse Into Europe

From 1970: Greenwood Mississippi  (h/t Powerline)

 John 14:1-14

I never knew that the Beatles had been an opening act for one of his tours: Rock ‘n’ roll pioneer Little Richard dead at age 87.   Here's Ready Teddy from 1956.

 Schools Risk Drowning in Red Ink

 “Predictive models” rarely are predictive

 How can governments learn from their expert failings?

Why do so many diseases come from bats? Many viruses originate in bats, but that doesn’t mean we should live in fear of them.

 How the 1619 Project slandered America

 Banish Wrong Thoughts In Higher Ed Week At Legal Insurrection

 Biden Pledges To Strip Students Of Due Process Rights On Campus Reinstated By DeVos

 Everyone Deserves to Live Under the Biden Standard

 Facebook's New Censorship Czar Is Anti-Trump Leftist Who Made Barron A Punch Line

 Kayleigh McEnany DESTROYS Liberal Hack Yamiche Alcindor and Fake News Media at Friday Presser

New Red Flags Emerging From FBI's Handling of Michael Flynn's Case

Related:  BARR SPEAKS

 Where Does Lt. Gen. Flynn Go To Get His Reputation Back?

 Trump On Obama Officials Behind The Russia Collusion Hoax: ‘Hopefully They’re Going To Pay A Big Price’

A Key Obama Meeting Was Held to Ensure FBI Russia Collusion Probe Wasn't Discovered by the Trump Administration

 Trump: The ‘So-Called Journalists’ Who Received Pulitzer Prizes for The Russia Hoax Should Be Forced to Give Them Back

 New Documents Show Obama Involved In The Flynn Takedown

 Democratic congressman said opening California beaches was 'reckless.' Then he was seen at a private beach.

 Bad State Decisions about Nursing Homes Are Heavily Driving the Coronavirus Outbreak

 Reopening The Country Seen As Greater Risk Among Most Americans

Coronavirus pandemic may lead to 75,000 "deaths of despair" from suicide, drug and alcohol abuse, study says

America the Wuss - From Rugged Pioneers to Cowering Sheep. What happened to the American spirit?

Althouse:  There's never enough freedom from all the things in the world that might hurt us if we're not kept in eternal lockdown.

 Worst Jobs Report In History: 20.5 Million Jobs Lost As Unemployment Rate Hits Record 14.7%

Dalrymple:  The Pandemic of Authoritarianism

 Nate Silver: 'Basic error' on coronavirus stories reveal media’s true goals

To Speed Vaccine Development, Infect Me With the Coronavirus

 Niall Ferguson to Newsmax TV: China Screwed Up, Covered Up

 The EU has admitted it let China censor an op-ed by the bloc's ambassadors

 The Future of the U.S. Marine Corps

 ACADEMIC ABSURDITY OF ALL TIME?

 The Five Worst Types of Virtue-Signaling

The Pulitzer and  The Collapse of the Fourth Estate

 Facebook's New Censorship Czar Is Anti-Trump Leftist Who Made Barron A Punch Line

 THE PRESS SECRETARY THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS DESERVES 

 Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Issues New Title IX Rules To Protect Free Speech, Due Process for Accused Students

 House intel transcripts show top Obama officials had no 'empirical evidence' of Trump-Russia collusion

 Justice Department dropping Flynn’s Trump-Russia case

Powerline:

Over and over, we see it asserted that the Wuhan epidemic is an “unprecedented” public health crisis. In what sense is that true? Certainly the reaction to COVID-19 is unprecedented...

Democrats hope killing the economy means an invincible voter base

 Tinseltown Moonbats Never Want to Go Back to Normal

 Are You A “Grandma Killer” If You Want To Reopen Now?

Some states considering house arrest tech to keep coronavirus patients home

 The Left Is Not Going to Like This, but Trump Has Been Proven Right Over and Over Again