Maggie's Farm

 The Tale of the ship Alden Besse

Scolding Beachgoers Isn’t Helping. People complain that going to the shore is a careless act during a pandemic, but the science so far suggests otherwise.

As COVID-19 Cases Surge, Daily Deaths and the Case Fatality Rate Continue To Fall. Expanded testing, a younger mix of patients, and improved treatment help explain the seemingly contradictory trends.

Harvard: No in-person classes for 2020-21 year 

 Confessions of a COVID-induced temporary OCD victim

The Latest Toppled Statue Should Be a Wake-Up Call for the Left

 Cancel “Hamilton”?

 College Student Calls Police on Prager U. for Having the Wrong Opinion

 Protesters In DC Are Pretty Much What You Thought – All White Kids…

 Who Needs Police? Shootings In New York City Continue To Climb

 Chicago Mayor Cites COVID-19 For City’s Escalating Murder Rate

 With murders up nearly 80% in Chicago last month, Lori Lightfoot blames guns

 President Delivers Patriotic Speech Sending Trump Deranged Media Into Rage

 Senator Duckworth and Most of the Press Are Lying about Trump’s Speech

 Tammy Duckworth Goes on Bizarre Rant About Trump’s Speech, Cites ‘Dead Traitors’ and Russia

 A ‘Viral’ New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune

America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms

 The Canned Lion Industry: An‘Unfair Game’ Of Breeding Lions To Be Hunted

MC:  It’s the Fourth of July, and everyone in America has so much to be grateful for. 

 Happy 4th of July! US Sets Record for Most New Jobs in a Month Ever! 4.8 Million Jobs Created in June!

Well, lots of those are restored jobs, I'd guess 

 When WWII Spies Created Explosive Coal To Sabotage the Third Reich

How progressive urbanists want to take over the suburbs 

France bans Dutch bike TV ad for creating 'climate of fear' about cars

 Forbes falls to cancel culture as it erases environmentalist's mea culpa

 Another Academic Firing

Are we in China yet? 

 Elderly Florida Man Charged With Committing Aggravated Battery To Maintain Social Distancing

I thought Karens were female 

  Study Finds That Hydroxychloroquine Helped Patients Survive Coronavirus, Cutting Death Rates In Half

 GREAT NEWS! Number of Cononavirus Deaths Down to Lowest Levels Since Beginning of Pandemic – Media Silence

 Hillary: I Would Have Done A Better Job Handling Coronavirus

Who asked her? 

 WILL A COVID VACCINE BE RUSHED TO MARKET?

 "Don't Let Them Vaccinate You": Farrakhan Warns Africans That Dr. Fauci Is Trying To Kill Them

 This fall, get the children back in school

 California accuses Cisco of job discrimination based on Indian employee's caste

The ‘Diversity’ Trap - Progressive ideas about diversity have taken over the corporate world but they offer a skin-deep version obsessed only with color and conformity

 In Minneapolis, shootings have more than doubled this year compared to last.

"We're In Your House. Let's Go." - Black Armed Protesters Challenge White Militia At Confederate Monument

What white militia? 

 A Young Doctor Sees Oppression Everywhere

Hearing What Black Voices Really Say About Police - African-Americans have mixed attitudes, but most are satisfied with their local departments.

 Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks

Not Portlandia anymore:  Antifa Rioters Throw Bricks, Mortars, M-80s at Police as Portland Descends Into a War Zone

Nightmare in New York: How Covid-19, BLM protests and a liberal mayor are turning the city into a no-go zone as murders skyrocket, shops are looted and 500,000 middle-class residents flee

 Former G.W. Bush appointees supporting Biden have embraced socialist policies – why?

Trump Repubs:  “They Won’t Talk Publicly, Because They’ll Lose Their Golf Game”

 Did Trump Break America's Brain?

Trump’s Syria Policy Is Working. The Assad regime is cracking under the pressure of stalemate—just like the State Department planned.

 Slavery Rampant in Africa, Middle East; The West Wrongly Accuses Itself

This 250-year-old NYC farmhouse is for sale — and shockingly pristine

 Beavers causing global warming

 ‘Climate Change” Is The Social Justice Issue Of Our Lives

 Going to National Parks Is Racist, Declares ABC News

  Happy 4th of July! US Sets Record for Most New Jobs in a Month Ever! 4.8 Million Jobs Created in June!

 Our National Panic Attack

 New York Gov. coronavirus orders unfairly targeted houses of worship, federal judge says.

 Parents Everywhere Agree: Reopen Schools -- IMMEDIATELY!

We Have Reached Peak ‘Wokeness’ Now That They Burnt The Elk - Racism is gone, all is now right with the world, stupid white leftists burnt an elk.

 UMass Nursing Dean Fired For Saying "Everyone's Life Matters"

 Reminder: How Progressive "Programs" Keep African Americans Down

Quillette:  Neo-Totalitarianism and the Erasure of History

 NY Lawyers Who Torched A Police Car With A Molotov Cocktail Are Out On Bail

 NYPD Police Retreat in the Face of Taunting City Hall Protesters

Woke Harvard Grad Has Meltdown, Says Lost Dream Job After ‘I’ma Stab You’ Video Went Viral

 Russians Voters Approve Plan To Extend Putin’s Rule Until 2036

Israel annexing the West Bank isn't the disaster for peace everyone says it is. The move is a mostly symbolic acknowledgment of the current reality rather than a change. That could help both sides be more realistic in negotiations.

 A Massive Star Has Disappeared Without a Trace

 ONLY SIX MONTHS TO SAVE THE PLANET!

NYC:  Bringing Education to Minority Children

The agenda of Black Lives Matter is far different from the slogan

Yes, they could be educating children 

 When Police Kill

 Seattle Police Dismantle CHOP After Protesters Threaten Mayor's $7 Million House

Some animals are better than others 

 Protesters, politicians slap the NYPD for a quarter-century of saving lives

 Bottles And Trash Thrown At NYPD Responding To Crimes

 SLOGANS FROM THE POORLY EDUCATED

 NY Times: Say, Mount Rushmore Is Pretty Problematic

 Two Americas: Risk-Tolerant vs. Zero-Risk—Will One Ruin the Other?

Mask Wars - While facemasks can’t hurt in the fight against Covid-19, the outrage directed at skeptics is excessive.

 Mainstream Media Go All In With ‘Panic Porn’ Over COVID-19

 Herd Immunity To COVID-19 May Be Closer Than We Think, New Studies Say

 The Real Pandemic Was a Nursing Home Problem

Salon:  It's going to be a long four months: Trump and Fox News just keep ramping up the racism. Desperate to distract from the coronavirus catastrophe, Trump and his media allies are going full-on rabid racism

What? Really? 

Powerline:

President Trump has an excellent record to run on. His tax cuts, trade deals and deregulation generated the strongest economy, probably, in American history. Overseas, we are at peace while still strongly advancing American interests.

The USMCA, the trade agreement with Canada and Mexico that replaced NAFTA, goes into effect today

 Media Are Playing Games Yet Again With Anonymous Russia Leaks

 China Has ‘First-Strike’ Capability To Melt U.S. Power Grid With Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon

 Genetic clusters in the US

 Dr. Scott Atlas Calls For Schools To Reopen: "This Is The Most Irrational Public Policy Probably In Modern History"

Kneeling in the Church of Social Justice. America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward.

California Legislature Votes to Strike ‘the State Shall Not Discriminate’ from Constitution, Opening the Door to Legalized Discrimination. Equality before the law is at the heart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The ‘Diversity’ Trap - Progressive ideas about diversity have taken over the corporate world but they offer a skin-deep version obsessed only with color and conformity

Marginal Rev:

 Social media has messed with our minds. The madness of crowds used to be limited by geography, time, and transaction cost–all of which have been lessened by social media. As a result, the crowds are now bigger and madder. And our brains, which are finely tuned to listen to the crowd (meaning the tribe or village ala Dunbar’s number), are overwhelmed when the crowd is in the thousands or millions. We should discount signals which come at the cost of a tweet but we can’t and so the pressures to conform are intense. If your job isn’t protected, stay off social media or at least use a pseudonym. Even if you do nothing today, the crowd may come after you years later so you can never feel safe.

 St. Louis Homeowner Speaks Out After Confronting BLM Militants with Firearm, ‘The Only Thing That Stopped the Mob Was my Rifle’

 The Mobs Are Coming for the Progressives

De Blasio Announces Proposal To Slash NYPD Budget By $1 Billion, Divert Cash To ‘Young People’

 Police ‘Reform’ and the Making of a Racism Narrative

 Scholar forced to resign over study that found police shootings not biased against blacks. Union rep tells College Fix that university should not share data that runs afoul of its support of BLM protests

VDH:  The Strategies of Dementia Politics

 It took more than five years, but the corporate media finally have the tools and strategy to successfully defeat President Donald Trump.

 First Arrests Made Under New Hong Kong "National Security" Law As Thousands Flood The Streets In Protest

 India Bans TikTok, Other Chinese Apps Over Security Concerns

Kimball: America’s current straits represent the victory of 1960s radicals

Roger K is a smart guy, but I think he's wrong about this. This sort of power stuff has gone on, on and off, since the 1800s. Race just happens to be the hook right now.

Does the hook bring you back?

Neurosurgeon Dr. Russell Blaylock: Face Masks Pose Serious Risks to Healthy Individuals

 Recent Coronavirus Data Suggests the Lockdowns Were a Colossal Mistake

 How Deadly Has The Covid-19 Pandemic Really Been?

 Reopen The Schools!

 Michael Shellenberger: “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare”

Mt. Rushmore is racist 

July 4th is racist 

Thomas Sowell at 90 

 Academic department calls on Penn State to require 'structural racism' courses

 Black Lives Matter NY President: Crime Needs To Be Looked At As A Health Issue, Not A Police Issue

 ARE THE WHEELS COMING OFF IN ATLANTA?

 An African Country Still Has Slavery — Obama Awarded Them Trade Benefits, Trump Reversed It

European Union Will Ban Travelers From America/Russia…

 1619 Project Author Claims Africans Visited America Before Columbus, Used Ancient African Technology

 Is Foster Care Racist?

 Virus death toll drops to 5 in NY, once the U.S. epicenter

The problem with meritocracy 

MC:  Examples Of The Worst Of Progressive Racism

 OF STATUES AND SYMBOLIC MURDER

White Fragility 

 Black Lives Matter Organizer: 'Give Me Money or We'll Break Windows'

 Black Billionaire Robert Johnson Demands $14 Trillion in Reparations

"The Princeton University Board of Trustees voted on Friday to remove Woodrow Wilson’s name from the university’s School of Public and International Affairs."

 Minneapolis council members who voted to abolish cops get private security

 Greg Gutfeld Goes Off On Liberal Juan Williams For Blaming Inner City Violence On Trump

 De Blasio’s performance grows worse by the day, making NYC unlivable: Goodwin

Toppling attempt led by Harvard student ends after confrontation with statue defenders

The guy is a complete jerk 

Trump admits it: He's losing. Amid a mountain of bad polling and stark warnings from allies, the president has acknowledged his reelection woes to allies.

My advice: Don't be an a-hole 

 Nancy Pelosi: Nationwide Mask Requirement Is ‘Long Overdue’

 What It’s Like to Live in a City Full of Moose

 Revisiting Mengele’s Malignant “Race Science”

 The Declining Case for Municipal Recycling

 Journalist Absolutely DESTROYS California Officials on Coronavirus and Face Masks 

 UK Government: “we must seize the opportunity to make the COVID-19 recovery a defining moment in tackling the climate crisis”

 1 in 5 Ballots Rejected as Fraud Is Charged in N.J. Mail-In Election

VDH: When states go wild 

Noonan in WSJ: The week it went south for Trump

 JUDGE BLOCKS NEW YORK’S LIMITATION ON OUTDOOR RELIGIOUS SERVICES

 Does the Black Community Support Abolishing the Police?

 Then They Came for Abraham Lincoln Week in Higher Education

 Tear Gas And Dumpster Fires: Antifa Militants Try to Take Over Portland Police Station

Ace:

I vote we should surrender and appease some more.

Even though following the C*ck plan of giving them the confederate statues doesn't seem to be working.

Quite the opposite: Meeting aggression with weakness seems to have just encouraged more aggression.

Weird that alleged "Reagan Republicans" would have to relearn that in 2020.

The good news on COVID 

The CDC Lost Control Of The Coronavirus Pandemic. Then The Agency Disappeared.

Cuomo on tearing down statues: “It’s a healthy expression of people saying let’s get some priorities here and let’s remember the sin and mistake that this nation made and let’s not celebrate it."

 With Statues Gone, Pigeons Forced To Poop On Rioters

 Mayor: ‘What Happened Last Night In Madison Was Far From Peaceful And Exceeding Dangerous’

 Donations to BLM Are Funneled Through Democrat Related ActBlue and Handled by Organization Led By Member of Weather Underground Terrorist Group

Dalrymple: It's 1968 Again 

According to Ted Cruz, Attorney General Bill Barr Is the Honey Badger

 MAN BITES DOG: NY TIMES HAS SOMETHING POSITIVE TO SAY ABOUT THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION

 NYC Marathon cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic

 A Third Of Americans Have Gained Weight Due To Coronavirus

 NY, NJ, Conn. to Quarantine Visitors from Worse-Off States

Good luck with that 

 THE HOLLOWNESS OF VIRTUE SIGNALING

 Here Come The Bourgeois Bolsheviks

"And all it took was one generation of neglect, just one, and poof, the reserve of bourgeois values necessary to maintain Western Civilizational disappeared. And I'm not sure it's possible to ever get it back."

 NASCAR's Bubba Wallace Angry at Attacks on His Character After Fake Noose Incident

Noose stories are pretty much always fake 

 #FAKENOOSE STORY PROVES RACISM IS OUR NEW RELIGION

 The Arrest That Led To The Riot In Madison, Wisconsin Last Night

 US brands four Chinese state media outlets 'foreign missions'

 Pentagon Names 20 Chinese Firms It Says Are Military-Controlled

Twitter marks Trump tweet in violation of “policy against abusive behavior, specifically, the presence of a threat of harm”

Even I am finding it difficult to keep up a solid routine. Maybe making excuses, but I had a good daily routine which blew up and with all of life complications, it has not been good.

I do not like the new rules at my gyms. I will not deadlift with a mask on, and forget cardio with a mask. That is just unhealthy.

I'll be back to my trainer's home garage on Monday for my heavy weights, I hope. Legal or not, I do not care.

What about you all?