Maggie's Farm

We've been posting too many menus. OK, Christmas Eve here, after church, is usually poached salmon with yoghurt/dill sauce. I like that sauce more than I like salmon. Christmas Eve is sposta be a "fasting" thing.

Christmas morning? I make breakfast for Mrs. BD: Scrambled eggs with good caviar on top, and a stinky French cheese. We aren't much into the presents thing, but I do put the caviar in her stocking. Yum.

Christmas Day with some family? Made it easy for us: Spiral ham, roast carrots, roast brussel sprouts, mashed taters, and Grandma's Corn Pudding. Then a Santa cake. 

What about you? 

The student loan scam 

 It’s Almost 2024 And Doctors Are Still Misleading The Public About Youth Gender Medicine

A Week in Education 

 ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Doctors Without Borders Needs To Be Investigated For Acting Like A Hamas Front Group

 The Progressive Approach To Homelessness Comes To Madison, Wisconsin

Kimball:  Will The Guardians of The Narrative Win? We watch the unfolding of an unedifying spectacle

Stuart's Miscellany 

 If Rumors About Who's Running the Show Are True, It'll Be a Very Houthi Christmas

 Biden Might Lose, So Screw the Constitution

 Does Ditching Your Phone for Three Days Actually Rewire Your Brain? I stuffed my iPhone in a drawer for 72 hours. Here's what happened.

 The Perils of Online Dating

Maybe, but you can meet lots more people online than in daily life 

 Pope Francis’s vandalism of tradition distracts us from being good Christians

 NY’s exodus won’t stop ’til the state reverses its ever-leftward course

 Elite American Universities Completely Beyond Hope

 Why Do Poor People Commit More Crime?

Do they? 

 The Colorado Insurrection

 TGIF: Down with Democracy! Colorado revolts against Trump. Chicago rebels against migrants. NYC mayors go rogue. A Senate sex tape goes viral. Plus, how I learned to stop worrying and love the Houthis.

 Ramaswamy Threatens To Boycott Colorado Primary, Turley Rages, And Luntz Warns Of 'Backfiring' Lawfare Against Trump

 Trump Derangement Syndrome Meltdown of the Week — New Year's Resolution Liberal Tears Edition

 Will Partisan Lawfare Destroy Trump? We have never seen anything like this before in American history

 Tucker Carlson Discusses the Big Picture of The Colorado Supreme Court Decision and the Use of the Term “Insurrection”

Yes, Americans, We're Being Replaced — ALL of Us

 Biden is breaking the border on purpose — he wants mass amnesty

 Cry Victim: Chicago Mayor Rages Over Buses Of Immigrants From Texas

 Israel Expands Gaza Operation as Netanyahu Tells Hamas Terrorists to “Surrender or Die”

 Why Antisemitism Sprouted So Quickly on Campus

I support Israel's self-defense 

 Israel charts unmapped ways to treat trauma of freed child hostages

 Washington Post: Ukraine War Is No Longer Newsworthy

 New York City is still the best — except when it isn’t

 ‘DINKs’ Should Rethink Their Anti-Child Views

Update on climate litigation

 Women Are Fat Not Because Donuts But Because “Discrimination”

 Teacher Union President Randi Weingarten: School Choice ‘is About Undermining Democracy’

 Ending Environmental, Social, and Governance Investing and Restoring the Economic Enlightenment

 Time to Throw Chevron Overboard: Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo

 'There's no more room': Migrants being held for days at Eagle Pass are seen passing out as THOUSANDS cram makeshift pen with no roof because ALL Border Patrol facilities in Texas are full

 ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Colorado's unconstitutional anti-Trump judicial power grab will trigger Republican retaliation and plunge the 2024 election into chaos

Who would invest in a Nigerian business? 

 The Global Empire of Palestine - The Palestinians have something better than a state. They have the backing of today’s worldwide power brokers.

 The Rolling Stones rocker Keith Richards celebrates both his 80th birthday and 40th wedding anniversary

Does the 12-3-30 workout really work?

 Why Does the Industrial-Medical Complex Want You to Fear Ketamine?

 Americans Yawn at CDC Warnings About 'Tripledemic'

 How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism

 Achieving Equity Through Mediocrity: Chicago Moves to Eliminate “High-Achieving” School Programs

 EU Commission Opens Formal Proceedings Against Elon Musk’s Platform X for Not Caving on Censorship

 Vivek Ramaswamy tells CNN’s Van Jones ‘Just shut the f–k up’ 

 Trump: Illegals Are “poisoning the blood of our country”

What? 

 MASS OF THOUSANDS of Illegal Aliens Wait to Be Processed at Eagle Pass – Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen 

 'Operation Prosperity Guardian' - Pentagon Launches Expansive Naval Coalition To Defend Red Sea Passage

 HAS HITLER WON ON THE LEFT?

Quarter of Americans stressed ‘all the time’ — but cooking might be key to calm

 Online dating’s long-term effects on marital outcomes explored in recent study

 Honest Conversations About Abortion - The case of Kate Cox and the importance of difficult discussions.

 ‘Transgenderism has become a youth subculture’

 Canadian Medical Schools Asked to Shift From “Medical Expertise” to Anti-Racism and Social Justice Training

 A Victory against DEI in Wisconsin

MacDonald:  The Academy at the Crossroads, Part Two.Penn 2.0 and the larger ideological problem: universities are waging a war on the West.

 Anti-Semitism at Harvard

VDH:  We Are Well Beyond Hypocrisy. Have we again forgotten the subpoenaed Trump children?

 Arizona Governor Hobbs Calls Out National Guard to Deal With Crisis at Border

REPARATIONS, GOODBYE

 Meet the Totally Badass Republican Mom of Seven Running for that Santos Seat

 Over 67K migrants are living in NYC shelters - more than triple the 2022 holiday season total - as Mayor Eric Adams calls Biden's lax immigration policies 'baffling'

 It’s time for a ‘broken windows’ policy for schools

" Those of us who have been overeducated–and I include myself in this class–cringe when we hear Trump go off on one of his hyperbolic rants. “Why can’t he just state things clearly and without exaggeration?”

 The legacy of Volodymyr Zelensky

 "A majority of young Americans said they believe Israel should 'be ended and given to Hamas,' according to a shocking poll."

 Why No Shrieking About Egypt's Border Wall With Gaza, Which is Getting a BIG Upgrade

 Why is #MeToo Covering for Hamas?

Bill Maher discusses Israel 

 New study reveals link between diet and brain matter volume

 American physical and mental health in shocking decline since COVID

 There Is No 1.5°C Climate Cliff. The world will not come to its end in 2030 because of climate change.

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

Ex-FBI Intel Chief Who 'Investigated' Trump-Russia Collusion Gets 4 Years In Prison For Colluding With Russia

 Without major policy changes that secure our border, America will be overrun.

 Illegal Border Crossers Complain About the FREE Food They’re Being Given at Their FREE New York City Hotels

 The Democrats’ appeal to racial resentment is wearing thin.

 Media warn if Trump wins again every bad possible thing will happen

 Giorgia Meloni Falls Short. Yet another populist politician fails to stop migrants. Is the failure her fault or the system’s?

 Flying when fat

Stop planting trees 

Jeffrey Dahmer's father  

 COP28 update

 A five-point plan to save Harvard from itself

 The Lie At The Heart Of The College Free-Speech Debate Is That Free Speech Exists On Campus

 The police won't protect you; you're on your own

 More than 1-in-5 Mail-In Voters Admit to Cheating in 2020 Election

 IBM CEO Goes on Defense with All Staff Call After Insider Leaks Damning Tapes to O’Keefe Media Group

 Video Shows Tens of Thousands of Migrants in Mexico Trying to Catch a Train to Border. “It’s not going to stop. And Mexico is allowing all of it.”

Ten Israeli soldiers aged 19 to 35, including a high-ranking battalion commander, are killed and three injured in worst loss of life for the IDF in a single incident since Gaza war broke out

 Poll shows soaring Palestinian support for Hamas; 72% back October 7 atrocities

At War with China

 80% Of French Support Ban On More Immigration, Two-Thirds Back Referendum

Update on the Pilot Who Tried to Bring Down Alaska Airlines Plane With 83 People on Board

 Climate Cult Super Worried About Artificial Intelligence

Controversy Erupts When Student Fails Quiz for Answering CORRECTLY!

 Music education ‘remains inherently racist,’ scholars say

University of Wisconsin Regents Would Rather Lose $800 Million of Funding Than Submit to DEI Reforms

 Columbia University Students Organizing ‘Tuition Strike’ to Force School to Divest From Israel

 Harvard cancels congressman who mocked Harvard’s speech hypocrisy

 ALAN DERSHOWITZ: Claudine Gay Is Unfit To Lead Harvard

 Columbia students call Hillary Clinton class huge disappointment

Stuart's Wednesday Potpourri 

 America Is Taking a High-Speed Train to Bankruptcy. Every dollar wasted on political pork, fraud, and poorly considered infrastructure makes the country’s fiscal situation even worse.

 What Happened to Ron DeSantis?

Likeability 

 Is Northern Ireland a Failed State? The question must be asked

 Abandoning Ukraine sends message that US is no longer leader of the free world

Is the US supposed to fight every war? 

 Zelensky Dubiously Pledges 'Victory' While Biden Says 'Don't Give Up Hope'

 Our LGBT Empire - Why is it America’s business to queer the Donbass?

 The Things I Never Thought Possible—Until October 7, Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner on the many illusions shattered by Hamas’s pogrom and the orgy of antisemitism it inspired.

 Assaulting Women is the New Feminism. Feminism became complicit in violence against women long before Oct 7.

 Will Javier Milei abandon his radicalism? Even in a country used to living with economic crises, the situation today is bleak

 After Melville - The great author is eternally pursued and rediscovered

 Climate Hersteria

Lab tests and race

Don't get on Bill Ackman's wrong side 

 Niall Ferguson: The Treason of the Intellectuals

Bari Weiss:  How to Really Fix American Higher Education - Our universities must return to their original purpose: to seek the truth and give youths the knowledge they need to flourish. Here are four ways to do that.

 America is on the verge of a new space age—if apathy doesn’t kill it.

 Biden So Unpopular He’s Turning to Hillary Clinton for Help

Morning Joe has a case of TDS 

Culture clash in French schools 

 Germany, Growing Desperate - War, terrorism, immigration, and America.

 The Genocidal Imagination - Philosophies of human cruelty, from Sade to October 7th.

Humans have a dark side 

 Javier Milei Takes Office in Argentina, and His First Move Immediately Triggers All the Right People

 Meet Florida's Python Bounty Hunters. Eradication of the apex predator is “likely impossible.”

UPenn President Liz Magill, board of trustees chair Scott Bok resign after donor revolt over disastrous antisemitism testimony

 CDC Director Issues New Covid Alert, Urges Americans to Wear Masks 

 Al Gore Says There is a Mental Health Crisis Around the World Because “We Are Not Solving the Climate Crisis”

ACLU to defend NRA 

Why Two Parents Are the Ultimate Privilege - Half of American babies are born to unmarried mothers. And those with two parents, Melissa Kearney argues, have an immense advantage.

Baltimore owns a Hilton Hotel 

Sullivan:  The Day The Empress' Clothes Fell Off - Did the Congressional hearings finally expose the scandal of the Ivy League?

 50,000 Migrants Apprehended at Southern Border in December’s First Week

 Biden Border Crisis: Military-Age Men From Across the Globe Flood Across Arizona Border

 Blinken: Cease-Fire While Hamas Still Intact Will Simply Perpetuate the Problem

 Misogyny as a Weapon of War

Mrs. BD has been binge-watching that series. She claims it's the Montana version of Downton Abbey.

Yeah, all soap operas in my view. 

 Parenting In The '80s Vs. Parenting Now

 The latest woke California insanity? A gender-neutral-toy law

 Long After COVID Pandemic Ended, Not One Federal Agency Has More than 50% of Its Staff at Office

 No White Faculty Allowed- At the University of Washington, civil rights laws have not stopped blatant racial discrimination in faculty hiring.

 The FAA is seeking people suffering from "severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities" to be air traffic controllers.

 TERF Wars at Lesbian Speed Dating - Jenny Watson wanted to create a space for lesbians to find love. That’s not what happened.

More $ for high-speed rail 

 Cuomo Aide: How We Killed New York

Stuart's Saturday Miscellany 

 TGIF: The Academy of Dunces - College presidents fail the test. California cancels Christmas. White House interns call for cease-fire. John Fetterman triumphs again. Plus, responsible yachts, Moms for Liberty, and more.

My favorite Ron DeSantis moment: Asked which U.S. President would inspire him, he said Calvin Coolidge.

 'Never Leave Home Without It': Israeli Forces Discover Hamas Leader's Credit Card

 Israel's IDF flushes Hamas's tunnels with sea water

 The Meaning of the Menorah

 This is how you should be grinding your coffee, according to science

 Climate doomsayers’ cooked up coffee crisis

Episcopals Super Excited To Force Other People To Be Part Of Climate Cult

 More than 75% of STEM workers say China and others have surpassed US

 THE PRESIDENTS WALK IT BACK

 UPenn's President Magill is Probably Toast

VDH:  How Were the Universities Lost? The Ivy league and their kindred so-called elite campuses may soon go the way of Disney and Bud Light

 Arizona Sheriff: Illegal Immigrants Being Handed $5,000 Visa Gift Cards, Cell Phones, And Plane Tickets

 UN Climate Summit Includes Session On ‘Responsible Yachting’

 Totalitarian Bid To Censor Entire Internet Behind Ireland Hate Speech Crackdown

 Busload of Illegal Aliens Dropped Off at Colorado Capitol

  Hillary Claims ‘Climate Change’ Killed 500,000 Last Year, ‘Particularly Pregnant Women

 Gold Bars Found At Democrat Senator’s Home Linked To 2013 Robbery

Sheesh 

 Safety First on Campus. Except for Jews - Watch our video on the hypocrisy of the college presidents.

 The Weird Sisters Go to Washington

 Why all this Trump hysteria? America won't descend into an authoritarian state

Just political BS

 Here's the 'Jan. 6 Jurisprudence' About to Be Unleashed on Trump

"They're Saying The Quiet Part Out Loud": Tucker And Massie Slam Additional Ukraine Funds For 'War They Cannot Win'

 Another Conflict In Which The Left Has No Interest: Venezuela/Guyana

 IDF eliminates senior Hamas commanders in tunnels

 Depravity that defies comprehension: Women raped - whether alive or dead. Others tortured until every organ was removed. The horrifying accounts of Hamas 'rape genocide' that left survivors so traumatised some have taken their own lives

Readers may recall for no reason that I like my Alfa. Not flashy, but zippy, with a happy real rumble, and it's never had any problem. But needed a new battery, cuz with temps below 30 F it won't start so I brought it to the dealer yesterday, and they offered me a ride back home which I accepted.

OK, you can't just pick up a new 12 V battery and pop it in yourself anymore. On a small boat you can, but not on these computer cars.

Car is off warrantee, or I think so. Picked it up this morning. New battery installed and calibrated, car washed inside and out, washer fluid refilled, tires filled up. "No charge, thanks for coming."

 What is toxic ‘breadcrumbing’? Experts share signs and how to address it

 School Assigns 11-Year-Old Girl to Sleep With Boy

 Mayor Adams’ hotel-for-migrants money pit

 ‘Decolonization’ dominates Georgetown international relations curriculum

 The extensive rot at the heart of Human Rights Watch.

The obesity pay gap? 

 Congressional Campus Antisemitism Hearing: “The three presidents were, frankly, fairly pathetic”

 Billionaire Bill Ackman says Harvard, Penn and MIT presidents ‘must all resign in disgrace’

 Pope Francis Calls Climate Change A ‘Religious Problem’

Why John Kerry Would Force Poor People To Burn Wood And Dung - The main alternatives to coal are oil and natural gas; he says he's against them, too.

 Zero Public EV Chargers Built Since Congress Approved $7.5 Billion To Expand Network

 What Climate Crisis? Private Jet Demand Surges 

 Greenie jets bound for COP28 stuck on the tarmac, covered in snow in Munich

 Kendi: White People Can't Connect to Humanity

Californians are Suing to Stop the Planting of Trees

 Out: Tripledemic. In: Syndemic

 Surprise: People With Gender Dysphoria Are Mentally Ill, and Remain So After Transition

 How millennials learned to dread motherhood

 Disney CEO Admits ‘Wokeness’ Made Company ‘Broke’

 UF Western Civ center wraps up second semester, plans dozens of new classes for spring

If you aren’t talking about Chinese emissions, everything you are saying about global warming is a joke. 

Parents of Chiefs Fan in Team-Colors Facepaint Threaten Massive Lawsuit Against Deadspin

 EPA Seems to Be Setting Up U.S. to Join the Globalist “War on Meat”

VDH:  Weimar America

 Campus antisemitism has become systemic due to ‘diversity, equity and inclusion’

 Biden to phase out American (coal) power

 Israel Expands Ground Operations To Whole Of Gaza, Seeking "Total Victory"

 Even Hateful Protests Are Protected, Free Speech Group Reminds Congress

Feeding the Birds in England is 'Anti-Social Behavior'

UK:  Bans on festive markets and vegans up in arms about pigs in blankets jokes mean I’m dreaming of a woke free Christmas

 Not getting dressed is a disaster for mood and self-esteem, and productivity

Nostalgia for what? 

 "Since college, I have had an 'obese' to 'morbidly obese' body mass index — a measure that is at best inaccurate and at worst racist."

 Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital Declares War on Juror #1

 Easy A’s in Ivy League Women and Gender Studies

 Yale Awards 80 Percent Of Grades In The A Range

 If you have nothing better to do with your mind, you might try torturing it with the question of why so many of today’s American marriages end up in divorce. 

 CDC is slammed for confusing and woke new guidance for winter vaccines that describes women as 'pregnant people'

 Climatism Has Gone From Virtue-Signaling To Vice-Signaling

 EPAs Own Data Shows Only 19% of All Climate Stations Reported Warming Since 1948

 Elon Musk has a big X on his back as Bob Iger pulls ads from platform

 Woke Disney’s New Kids’ Christmas Film Features Homosexual Parents, Sexually Charged Dialogue

 The Scariest SCOTUS Case This Term - Moore v. United States will determine if the IRS can tax income you have never received.

To those who never listen to NPR in car or wherever: Try it for a week or so. Educational...

 Your tax dollars at work: Minnesota is spending millions to fund marijuana companies

Chronic Absenteeism in DC Schools Was at 43% This Year (Where Are The Parents?)

 Hell Freezes Over: Maher Is Onboard With This Part of Trump's Education Policy

 Businesses Begin Abandoning DEI Initiatives

Stuart's  Saturday Miscellany

 The Left’s fear of fascism under Trump is the ultimate example of projection

 Another Lie! Joe Biden Claims He “Taught at the University of Pennsylvania For Four Years” 

He's always been like that

 Rogan: Democrats Have "No Cards To Play" For 2024, Except Imprisoning Trump

 Déjà Vu All Over Again: Hamas Ends 'Pause' With Rocket Fire

 Save The Salmon, Kill The Humans?

 CNN: ‘It’s Time to Limit Travel’ for Climate Change

 Mark Steyn Vs. The Appalling Michael Mann

 Don't Introspect!

 Entire Board Of Major UK Charity Sacked For Being White

 HBCU fired professor for complaining about inflated grades: report

 The ‘American Dream’ is not about getting rich

Dreams differ 

 TGIF: You Win Some, You Newsom: Ron and Gav get Trumped. Segregationists take back our schools. Capitalists win back AI. Elon, unplugged. Plus, shenanigans at the UN, the WHO, and the CIA.

 The left disgustingly dances on Kissinger’s grave because it hates America

VDH:  The Unhinged Among Us - Is the pro-Hamas crowd ignorant of Middle East history? 

 Pro-Hamas Protesters Get Violent, Try And Stop NYC Tree Lighting

 India Produced Record Amounts Of Electricity From Coal In October

DeSantis DOMINATES in Red State-Blue State Debate With Newsom

 Gavin Newsom Is Not Ready for Prime Time

 The Athens of Asia: A History of Gaza. For much of its history, Gaza moved people, things, and ideas by land and sea, and its name was associated with geographic interconnectedness.

 Israel Had Hamas' Lethal Attack Blueprint a Year Ago: NY Times

 The first women-led armored battle in history - And not just Israel's history. History period. An interview with six women soldiers who drove their tanks into battle early in the morning of October 7th

 Hearing grammatical errors affects your heart rate variability

Doctors lobbying for Medicare for All should be careful what they wish for

 Coal Dust Is Claimed To Kill Old People: A New Instance of the Epidemiologist Fallacy

 UN: Okay, Maybe the Planet Isn't Warming That Quickly

 No proof face masks ever worked against Covid, claims UKHSA boss 

...  converting this building has shown that retrofitting a central heat pump system like this for such buildings is infeasible to the point of being ludicrous.  But of course, this is New York, and nobody is allowed to say that.

 One Example of How Media Creates Racial Panic

 PSNI treating Belfast 'Irish lives matter' graffiti as 'hate incident'

 ‘Don’t Advertise…. Go F*** Yourself:’Elon Musk Lashes Out at Companies ‘Blackmailing’ X/Twitter

 Douglas Murray: Wartime Diary - ‘As the helicopters carrying the released hostages landed, traffic stopped. People got out of their cars and broke into song.’