Maggie's Farm

The weight of all the fruit has broken many limbs, so it's the last year for this old tree. Such fruit trees have a limited life span. 

It has produced abundantly every three years. Feast or famine. My pic does not capture the amount of fruit.

Invited a gardening pal over to share the harvest.

I think the wood might be nice for smoking a turkey on Thanksgiving. 

The new chief chaplain at Harvard? An atheist

 New York magazine’s shocking revelation: The liberal media are biased!

 Americans Are 'More & More Dependent' On Big Govt - Things Are Never Going Back To 'Normal'

 Cutting to the Chase: Why Trump Was Driven from Office

Quote via Powerline:

  “Ladies and gentlemen, they gave me a list here. The first person I was instructed to call on was Kelly O’Donnell of NBC.” Biden’s minders in the daycare operation at the White House have failed to impress on him that he is to omit their instructions from his remarks.

Taliban Win Liberal Hearts and Minds by Promising to Fight "Climate Change"

 Where will Afghanistan’s refugees go?

 Penn offers course on ‘White Nationalism in the Age of Climate Change’

How to eliminate crime 

 Illinoisans Paid Almost As Much On Unemployment As At Work

 America Is Now Actually the Mess Dems Pretended It Was Under Trump

Critical Race Capitalism - Verizon teaches employees that America is fundamentally racist and promotes “defunding the police.”

Dead at 80. Charlie Watts Should Be Remembered as the Coolest Rolling Stone. In the very serious business of rock stardom, the late drummer always made room for humor and humility

As I understand it, he was a Jazz drummer but never minded playing with the Stones. 

In the Start Me Up video they post, watch Watts smirking at Jagger. 

Windfinder. Wind, weather, waves and tides, for those who seek fun in or on the water.

According to my pal, they accurately noted that the Henri storm would be a non-event. 

The Good News—A COVID-19 Update By Thomas T. Siler, M.D.

A Famous Honesty Researcher Is Retracting A Study Over Fake Data. Renowned psychologist Dan Ariely literally wrote the book on dishonesty. Now some are questioning whether the scientist himself is being dishonest.

 Toon via Lucianne

NYT: Hospitals and Insurers Didn’t Want You to See These Prices. Here’s Why.

 Nearly 15 Million Mail-in-Ballots Unaccounted for in 2020 Election, Report Says

MC's  Initial Reaction To Charles Murray's "Facing Reality"

 Antony Blinken Causes Alarm After Refusing to Answer Key Joe Biden Question

  “The Taliban Now Has US Biometric System Used to Identify Afghans – Know Who Worked with the Government” 

 Taliban Sets Woman on Fire for 'Bad Cooking'

Taliban Draw Up Kill Lists and Demand Girls as War Booty To “Marry” Fighters. Taliban commander: “All girls over the age of 15 and widows younger than 40 should be married to the insurgent fighters.”

 HOWIE CARR: Biden voters — are you tired of losing yet?

Too bad he messes up the lyrics

From one of our Colorado friends: Rubber Rabbitbrush and Baldwin's Ironweed. I may use this image as a Christmas card! And snow fell near the Eisenhower tunnel last night.

 It Turns Out All Those Plastic COVID Barriers Might Have Made Things Worse

Confirmed: "Cancel rent" Tlaib was collecting thousands in rent

Investigation: Medical Education And Research Crumbling Under Racial Identity Politics

Bank of Amerika - The financial giant teaches that the United States is a system of “white supremacy” and encourages employees to become “woke at work.”

 Biden Scrapped Trump Afghanistan Rescue Plan

 "[I]t seems that the president simply didn’t want to appear to be abiding by the terms of a deal negotiated by his predecessor."

 Et tu, Atlantic? Mainstream media pitch Biden over the side

Via American Digest,   Jobs that white men do 

 Socialist magazine founder fires staff for socialist organizing, confesses he felt ownership of what he'd made

 Now even rape victims are being called bigots

Requiem For Afghanistan

It is not a country. It is a region. 

 How Russia-China Are Stage-Managing The Taliban

Chris Rufo more than held his own in this NY Times interview on Critical Race Theory

It's said that he performed this in memory of Miles Davis, with whom he had played. (h/t, reader)

Strong Demand for Gas Vehicles Drives Detroit Production Plans, Clouds Biden’s 2030 Goal for EVs

Call For ‘Decentering Whiteness,’ Blame White Children. “White children have been done a great disservice by sustaining white-centered schools in America over all these years."

 New Zealand to go into national lockdown over one COVID case

Media Literacy’s False Promise - Another social-justice-steeped pedagogy is gaining ground—and like the others, it won’t help students understand the world.

 AMERICA’S SUICIDE ATTEMPT—THE SEQUEL

Under the southern portion of the city exists its negative image: a network of more than two hundred miles of galleries, rooms, and chambers.

I feel no desire to see that.

For the Love of Music - Conductor and violinist John McLaughlin Williams’s work constitutes a profound rebuttal to the constricting vision of today’s race arbiters.

Scottish Schools Will Allow Kids as Young as Four to Change Gender Without Asking Parents

 ‘Pregnant People’ and the Erasure of Motherhood

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine suggests ‘chestfeeding,’ ‘father’s milk’ in new guidelines

 THE UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO IS “JOIN[ING] THE NATIONWIDE EFFORT TO DECONSTRUCT ANTI-BLACKNESS [AND] DISMANTLE WHITE SUPREMACY”

 Teachers Union Sues Mom for Demanding to See Her Child’s Curriculum

The Fears of the Elite - We aren’t a normal society, and the timid reticence of the elite whenever a charge of political incorrectness is launched is one of the sure signs of abnormality. 

 DHS List of Terror 'Threats' Should Raise All Kinds of Eyebrows

Cori Bush Wants to Defund the Police. My Neighbors (in Oakland) Have Other Ideas.. The congresswoman can afford private security. Those who live in Oakland, California, don't have that luxury.

 The Afghan military was built over 20 years. How did it collapse so quickly?

LGBT Pride in Afghanistan 

 Hemingway: Afghanistan Disaster Is The Result Of 20 Years Of Failed Interventionist Strategy

We Once Waltzed in Kabul. The U.S. abandoned my friends. Now they are trapped in Afghanistan and hiding from the Taliban.

I did not know that he had a stroke, but I have been a fan for many years. Rick Beato gives you a taste of why.

Yes, he is/was a concert pianist, but for improv he is mind-boggling. For starters, try his Koln concert recording. You will not want to turn it off.

9 essential exercises to include in any full body workout

For sturdiness and functionality, the basics for age 16-95.