Maggie's Farm

 How To Talk To Terrified Children About Hotcoldwetdry

 EV Dealers Are So Desperate to Offload Stock That They're Offering Lease Deals For $20 a Month

 Hillary Clinton Says Americans Should Be Criminally Charged and Jailed for Spreading “Misinformation”

 CNN Destroys Kamala Harris Campaign For Spreading Disinformation on Social Media

Scientific American Endorses Kamala Harris, Persuading Nobody

Did the Mainstream Media K.O. Kamala?

 What Do You Call a Conspiracy to Assassinate Without the Conspiracy?

VDH:  The Deadly Get Trump Climate Continues….

Trump’s policies are far more popular than Harris’s, and it’s as simple as that

  Gen Z on the Job

 ‘Snowflakeism’ Gen Z hires are easily offended, and not ready for workplace: business leaders

 Your quest for work-life balance could actually be ruining your life — try this method instead

Depends on what your work is, in my view. I like to be useful.

 Where Virtue Meets Terror: A Brief History of Proto-Communism. In a new book on the history of communism, Sean McMeekin traces the movement’s roots to egalitarian creeds embraced throughout history by prophets, philosophers, utopians, and serfs.

 Seattle pastor arrested for reading the Bible receives monetary damages in court victory

Does climate scare you?

Not me

Warming Alarmists Again Give Away Their Real Objective

 ‘Am I Racist?’ Opens As Third-Highest Grossing Film In The Country

 Bernard-Henri Lévy: ‘Today’s woke thinking is straight-forward racism’

  Australia’s Wild, Draconian New Speech Law Targeting ‘Misinformation’

 California Crews Begin Mowing Down Region’s Iconic Joshua Trees for Solar Farm

Northwestern University bans fat jokes. Making weight-related jokes counts as ‘harassing conduct that may create a hostile environment.’ ‘You’d think Northwestern administrators would focus on weightier issues,’ said one commentator.

Picture 20,000 Haitians moving into Mayberry

GOP Rep. Burchett on Trump Assassination Attempt: ‘The Left Has Just Ramped Up Their Vitriol — They Know Exactly What They’re Doing’

 Reckless rhetoric from Dems and media to blame for second Trump assassination attempt

‘I Met Trump’s Would-Be Assassin.’ Plus. . .Are U.S. airlines effectively boycotting Israel? Matt Walsh’s new film on anti-racism grift. And much more, in today’s Front Page.

 Kamala’s First Solo Interview Was a Total Train Wreck

The debate: Trump could have done much better

For sure. He was just not into it

Amusing: Deployed Military members react to Kamala Harris lying about deployments during the debate

 Brian Stelter: Image of Kamala Harris as ‘Hope and Change’ is More Important Than Anything She Actually Says

Yep

 Pennsylvania: A Single Grain of Rice Could Win the Presidency

NATO Threatening to Launch Long-Range Missiles into Russia from Ukraine - Vladimir Putin Responds

Crazy. Who is running this crazy? Ukraine is not NATO.

Handy when you need to move lots of stuff from kitchen to outdoors. I doubt many readers have outdoor kitchens (I don't, except a charcoal grill which I rarely use), but if you do, these are useful.  Or for outdoor suppers.

If you have a rooftop garden dining area, even better. Load it into the elevator:https://www.amazon.com/BolDuck-Utility-Capacity-Commercial-Shelving/dp/B0CKT4X669?th=1

Darn, can't post the photo.

 Mark 8:27-38

8:2  Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?"

8:28 And they answered him, "John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets."

8:29 He asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Messiah."

8:30 And he sternly ordered them not to tell anyone about him.

8:31 Then he began to teach them that the Son of Man must undergo great suffering and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes and be killed and after three days rise again.

8:32 He said all this quite openly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

8:33 But turning and looking at his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said, "Get behind me, Satan! For you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things."

8:34 He called the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “If any wish to come after me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

8:35 For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.

8:36 For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life?

8:37 Indeed, what can they give in return for their life?

8:38 Those who are ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of them the Son of Man will also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels."

I know that there are a few flight simulation online programs, but this is the real deal:

 Portuguese wines are back

The Lost Art of Waiting - Americans are more impatient than ever—and it’s affecting everything from our waistlines to our relationships.

 How much can the way cities grow tell us about the economic trajectory of their countries? According to the father of modern sociology, quite a lot.

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

 Kamala Harris Completely Bombs Her First Solo Interview

She's an airhead, a Party placeholder

Seeing a Trump Speech In Person Was Just What the Doctor Ordered

The Imminent Russia-US War

I find it fascinating. Whether a pilot or a controller, you have to think and talk faster than I can.

 Great Moments in Maine Real Estate: The Holy Shit Edition

What does Appalachia mean?

"How did members of Venezuelan gangs suddenly find themselves in suburban Colorado?"

  Interest On US Debt Surpasses $1 Trillion For First Time Ever, Exploding August Budget Deficit To Record High

 Parents Revolt Against Social Justice in... Math

 Influx of wild-driving Haitian migrants turning streets of Springfield, Ohio, into combat zone: ‘Eight to 10 accidents a day here’

 Who will fact-check the fact-checkers?

Yes, Kamala does support tax-payer funded trans surgery for illegals

Here are some of the biggest falsehoods Harris told during her debate with Trump.

TGIF: Concepts of a Plan - Kamala wins the debate, Trump hangs with a 9/11 truther, Biden enjoys retirement-in-office, the media cheers censorship, and OnlyFans models are thriving. Plus: Is anyone actually eating dogs?

 New York City Council Advancing Slavery Reparations While City Spends Billions on Illegal Immigrants

 WSJ:  The Left’s Assault on the Constitution - It goes beyond proposals to pack the Supreme Court and even targets the freedom of speech.

Germany Suspends Schengen, Immigration Repercussion Across The Entire EU

Is Kodak still in business?

How to change your perception of time (and make life seem longer). Can we feel like we have more time by bending our perception of it?

The Front Page: ‘I Was Forced to Marry. In Iraq, Nine-Year-Old Girls Could Share My Fate.’ Plus. . .http://www.example.com/Link0

Silver:  Kamala Harris got the debate she wanted. 16 quick thoughts on tonight's debate

 Joe Biden Put on Trump 2024 Hat During Visit With Pennsylvania Firefighters. I cannot wait to hear the explanation.

Gov. Walz’s Legacy is That Majority of Students Can No Longer Read

Surprise: Election Officials Say There Could Be Problems With Mail In Ballots

Shut Up, Germany http://www.example.com/Link1

 What Happened to Tucker Carlson?

A history of tractors, plus AI

 James Earl Jones: 10 Iconic Performances

Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships?

 Oh, the Ingratitude! ISIS Plots to Murder Pope Francis

 Where Virtue Meets Terror: A Brief History of Proto-Communism - In a new book on the history of communism, Sean McMeekin traces the movement’s roots to egalitarian creeds embraced throughout history by prophets, philosophers, utopians, and serfs.

 What’s At Stake in the Censorship War. The fight for a free Internet is raging globally.

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri

The Front Page: Fight Night - Eli Lake on the presidential showdown. A report from The Free Press debate in Washington, D.C. Plus. . . The truth about price gouging.

Kamala Harris did just enough in the debate — with help from ABC

A Disaster For Trump?

Chaos in Aurora - How the federal government subsidized the migrant madness in suburban Colorado.

 Why do Stupid People Exist?

 Marx of the Libido - The destructive influence of Wilhelm Reich, father of the sexual revolution

A Stupid Cartoon and the University Ideology - Frantz Fanon, Stokely Carmichael, and the roots of the uproar over Zionism.

We’ve never paid migrants’ costs before — so why is Eric Adams doing so now?

Biden-Harris Border Crisis Now a Public Health Crisis

 Dana Bash Defends Kamala Harris’s Evasive Answers During Interview

  ABC Campaign Coverage Has Been 100% Positive for Harris, 93% Negative for Trump

 When Dick Cheney and Vladimir Putin Endorse You...

 Did Tim Walz ‘Let Minneapolis Burn’?

 UK: Starmer's Dictatorship?

Hamas Exposed

 Islamist terrorism is staging a barbaric comeback. From Solingen to Moscow to Hartlepool, jihadist attacks risk becoming the new normal.

Boeing's Starliner capsule just landed with no crew aboard. What's next for this astronaut taxi?

A Georgia Teenager Killed 4 People at His High School. Why Is His Father Charged With Murder?

 Celebrity Children Going Trans

 Overcoming Loneliness

NJ Offshore Farms Sucking Wind: Packing Their Bags and Turbine Troubles

Meet Ohio State’s new ‘intellectual diversity’ center director

 College Warns Professors to Report Student “Mocking of Our Pronoun Policy” - As a "women’s college that is gender diverse".

 The Front Page: America’s Weakness Is a Provocation. General H.R. McMaster on the dangers of ‘de-escalation.’ Plus: River Page reviews ‘Reagan.’ ‘Brat’ summer is over for Harris. And much more.

America is Run By a Movement, Not a Man

DOJ Public Affairs Chief Says Alvin Bragg's Case Against Trump Was 'A Perversion of Justice'

This Is Why Democrats Won’t Let Harris Or Walz Do Any Real Interviews

Sunday Talks - CNN's Dana Bash Attempts to Resuscitate the "Russia, Russia, Russia" Election Year Narrative

 1.3 Million Native-Born Americans Just Lost Their Jobs, Replaced By 635,000 Immigrants

 U.S. Cuts Another Massive Check to Ukraine

 In Germany, The Energy Transition Situation Only Gets Worse

It's time when most summering, breeding birds return to their homes in South America.

The brilliantly-colored (male) Eastern US Scarlet Tanager is heading home. They look like tropical birds because they are.

Up here, they are more often heard than seen as they are birds of the woodland treetops.

The pic is a male in breeding plumage. Now, they are yellow-green.

Scarlet Tanager

James 2:1-10, (11-13), 14-17

2:1 My brothers and sisters, do not claim the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory while showing partiality.

2:2 For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in,

2:3 and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, "Have a seat here in a good place, please," while to the one who is poor you say, "Stand there," or, "Sit by my footstool,"

2:4 have you not made distinctions among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?

2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers and sisters. Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?

2:6 But you have dishonored the poor person. Is it not the rich who oppress you? Is it not they who drag you into court?

2:7 Is it not they who blaspheme the excellent name that was invoked over you?

2:8 If you really fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

2:9 But if you show partiality, you commit sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.

2:10 For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become accountable for all of it.

2:11 For the one who said, "You shall not commit adultery," also said, "You shall not murder." Now if you do not commit adultery but if you murder, you have become a transgressor of the law.

2:12 So speak and so act as those who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

2:13 For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it?

2:15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food

2:16 and one of you says to them, "Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill," and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that?

2:17 So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

I am having a good time with this book: Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food

It must be nice not to have a lawn. Out in Wellfleet, you just have beach grasses and sand.

Of course, fancy places in Nantucket have irrigated, fertilized regular lawns. Totally fake and unnatural, but some people expect it.

I have around an acre of regular lawn. I'd prefer 50 acres of meadow, but it's what I have here. No choice but to keep it civilized.

We have posted many times about lawn care. I understand that a lawn is meant to imitate the sheep-mowed English estates.

Lawns are good for croquet and soccer. Plus they just look nice around a house in a temperate zone.

Today, just about getting your lawn power-seeded if it needs it. In September around here, it can work pretty well.

Powerseeding

 I’m a trad wife — here’s why a lot of women just want to take back their homes

Totems and Taboos - A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties

 Climate Indoctrination Accelerates As The Narrative Breaks Down

 Say, Why Has Hurricane Activity Been So Low The Last Few Weeks?

America's killer cars

 When Students Become Terrorists - The Weather Underground railed against the establishment. Today’s campus protesters are supported by it. Call them the Weather Overground.

 Sony Humiliated After $200 Million Diversity Video Game Disaster

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany

Criticizing the press is not censorship

 Alan Dershowitz leaves Democratic Party, cites DNC: 'I was disgusted'

 Harris Wants National Rent Control. Here's What Happened When the Dutch Tried a Similar Plan.

Of course not. Still works for practical purposes.

There is no foundation to reality