Thoughts On A Sunday

The weather here at the lake has taken a decided cooler turn with the past two nights seeing temperatures in the lower 50’s to lower 40’s. While it will be in the 70’s today and over the next few days, I think it’s safe to say the summer weather is pretty much done for the year.

I can say that we are starting to see some of the leaves changing color, with the swamp maples usually being the first to change from their usual green to bright red. I have also seen a few others changing here and there, but some of that could be due to the stress of the dry conditions we’re experiencing. I any case we usually see peak foliage colors during the first half of October here at the lake. It’s one reason I keep the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout in the water until mid or late Oc tober as it allows us to see the brilliant colors from the lake. But it looks like that won’t be happening this year because of the lack of rain over the past three months.

As I mentioned in last week’s TOAS, Lake Winnipesaukee’s water level is about a foot-and-a-half below normal level for this time of year. One of the downsides to the water level being so low is that it might make some boat ramps unusable, something that has me concerned. After checking with BeezleBub and the folks who will be winterizing and storing the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout, it looks like it will be coming out of the water next weekend, about three-plus weeks earlier than usual. However, rather than going directly to the boatyard it will be going to BeezleBub’s so I can take care of some repairs and cleanup I’d like done before it goes into storage.

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The following is ironic considering my post of yesterday looking at left wing violence.

There was a shooting at the Sky Meadow Country Club in the city of Nashua, NH yesterday evening, with one person killed - 59-year-old Robert Steven DeCesare - and two others wounded.

The shooter, 23-year old Hunter Nadeau, is reported to have shouted “The children are OK!” and “Free Palestine!” before opening fire in the dining room at the country club.

So far authorities haven’t been able to establish any connection between Nadeau and his victim DeCesare.

Was this a politically motivated killing, the actions of a mentally ill man...or a combination of both? For the moment I am leaning towards the third option, particularly in light of so many of the Left are also mentally ill.

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Then there’s this, which seems timely, ‘this’ being Powerline’s The Week In Pictures: Party of Peace Edition.

Nothing more need be said.

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They say that what goes around comes around. So it appears with The Won.

Obama, who created cancel culture is now whining about cancel culture. Who’da thunk it?

He wanted to “fundamentally” transform America…. He even started cancel culture for those who didn’t agree with his communist policies, and had people fire[d], debanked, censored, or banned on social media if you dared to say how you disagreed with anything he said or did. Now that it coming back to bite him and the rest of the communists in the ass after Jimmy Kimmel get indefinitely suspended. After over 30 ABC affiliated stations dropped Kimmel’s lame unfunny show, ABC had no choice but to do something, and Disney pulled the plug. Their goal is back to making money. It used to be sucking up to Democrats and DEI sh*t, but that ship has sailed. Now Obama is whining about the same cancel culture he created.

That seems to be a particular failing of Democrats in positions in power, taking actions that at some point will come back to be used against them somewhere down the road. We saw that when Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) who was the Senate Majority Leader at the time, exercised the so-called “nuclear option” by changing the Senate rules which removed the filibuster from confirmation of Supreme Court Justices as a means of getting one of Obama’s nominees conformed by the Senate. That came back to haunt the Democrats during the first Trump administration when the Democrats were unable to block any of Trump’s nominees.

Now it’s cancel culture that is hammering Progressives/Leftists/Democrats after many of them posted hateful tweets and videos celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder and praising his murderer.

Too bad.

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There was a fatal traffic accident just down the road from The Gulch yesterday, with a Ford Bronco crossing the centerline on the road and striking two motorcycles head-on, killing two of the three motorcyclists.

Gilford police said Anthony Summers, 32, of Goffstown, is charged with two counts of negligent homicide and one count of falsifying physical evidence.

The crash happened Saturday on Route 11, police said. Two motorcycles, one with two people on it and another with one person on it were heading eastbound when a newer model Bronco crossed over the center line and collided with the two motorcycles, police said.

A man and woman on one motorcycle were killed and a man on the other motorcycle was taken to Concord Hospital for serious, life-threatening injuries.

No mention has been made whether or not the Bronco driver was under the influence, but I think that would have been included in the report if that was the case. That makes me wonder if it was distracted driving as that particular stretch of road does have some small, gentle curves that could have led a distracted driver to cross over into the oncoming lane. I know I’ve seen that happen more than a couple of times along that road.

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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the nights are chilly, the days are warm, and where the leaves are already starting to change color.

Far Left Violence

From a comment on a PJ Media post:

"Left-wing violence doesn't happen, most violence is right-wing!"

Far-left violence since 2016:

2016: BLM Riots
2016: Police shooting in Dallas
2016: Police shooting in Baton Rouge
2016: NYPD Officers shot as "revenge" for Eric Gardner
2017: Trump inauguration riots
2017: Berkeley Riots
2017: Congressional GOP Baseball Practice Shooting
2019: ICE facilities firebombed (This was listed as a 2018 event, but it took place in 2019 – ed.)
2019: Dayton Shooting
2020: BLM Riots (countless damage/fatalities)
2020: Fatal CHAZ shootings
2020: Shooting of Aaron Danielson
2021: Unjustified Ashli Babbitt Shooting
2021: Waukesha Massacre (Looking over the info about this attack, it looks more like an attack by a mentally ill man as there doesn’t seem to be any political motivation for the perpetrator’s actions. - ed.)
2022: Far-left assassination plot on Dem mayoral candidate (I couldn’t confirm that the assailant in this case was associated with the Left. - ed.)
2022: Lee Zeldin stabbing attempt (Another incident where I couldn’t confirm the assailant’s motive or political leanings. - ed.)
2023: Tennessee Christian School (Looking over the info about this attack, this also looks more like an attack by a mentally ill man as there doesn’t seem to be any political motivation for the perpetrator’s actions. - ed.)
2023: Evergreen, CO school shooting (There was no school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado in 2023. However, there was a shooting there earlier this month. The only fatality was the shooter who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. - ed.)
2024: Butler (First Trump assassination attempt)
2024: Second assassination attempt on Trump
2024: Abundant Life Christian school shooting (femcel) (This appears to be another shooting committed by someone suffering from mental illness, in this case a 15-year old girl. Looking through numerous stories and reports I couldn’t find anything regarding a political motive. - ed.)
2024: United HealthCare CEO Murder
2025: Teslas lit on fire
2025: Murder at the Israeli embassy
2025: Josh Shapiro firebombing attempt by Hamas sympathizer (perpetrator may have voted for Trump, but only for accelerationist purposes)
2025: LA ICE Riots, and attacks on ICE officers
2025: ICE Facilities ambushed, officer shot
2025: Minnesota Lawmaker Shooting (disputed--perpetrator allegedly mildly supported Trump, but worked for several Dem governors and claimed he was contracted to kill by Tim Walz, probably just a schizo)
2025: Minneapolis Christian School
2025: Anti-white NC Stabbing
2025: Various attacks on GOP offices
2025: Attempted Utah news station firebombing
2025: Charlie Kirk assassination in Utah
2025: Bomb planted on Fox News Truck near Utah shooter's house.

Some of the list above appears to be wishful thinking on someone’s part, while other items on the list are legitimate. I didn’t add links on some parts of the list either because there were eleventy-eleven articles, posts, and references I didn’t have the time to parse, or they are more recent (or big) that just about everyone has heard about them and the motivations behind them.

But then there’s “hit lists” being posted by the Left of people they want murdered next.

That tells us a lot right there. If the Left says they want you dead, believe them and prepare accordingly. But don’t attribute all of the incidents of attacks and killings on the Left. Some have been committed by mentally ill persons...but that doesn’t mean they weren’t supporters of the Left.

Friday Funny - Am I The Only One

I'll Tell You The Story - Judge Binky

Thoughts On A Sunday

It’s been nice weather up here at the lake. Perhaps too nice.

We’ve had very little rain since June and it has caused the water level on the lake to drop about a foot-and-a-half which has led to problems for some boaters. Sand bars are now poking above the water level. The same with rocks and ledge in some places. One of my favorite places to anchor for swimming can only be reached from one direction as the channel that leads to it from the west is too shallow on its eastern end. The rock formations known as The Witches on the lake are fully exposed, something we usually don’t see until the lake is drawn down for the winter.

Normally, I pull the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout out of the water some time after Columbus Day Weekend. However, seeing the low water levels has me thinking about pulling it out at the end of September. One thing I had to do last weekend was lower the fenders at my boats slip to keep my boat from rubbing up against the dock. But in order to do that I had to replace the existing lines on the fenders with longer ones because the exiting ones were too short to get them down to where they needed to be. I’ve never had to do that in the 20-some years I’ve had that boat. So my boating season my be ending three weeks earlier than usual.

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All I can say is “What an Leftist a**hole!”

He deserves to get fired...out of a cannon.

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All I can say is “It’s about frickin’ time!”

It looks like the US is finally trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance.”

In May, President Donald Trump signed four executive orders to facilitate the construction of nuclear reactors and the development of nuclear energy technology; the orders aim to cut red tape, ease approval processes, and reshape the role of the main regulatory agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC. These moves, the administration said, were part of an effort to achieve American independence from foreign power providers by way of a “nuclear energy renaissance.”

Self-reliance isn’t the only factor motivating nuclear power proponents outside of the administration: Following a decades-long trend away from nuclear energy, in part due to safety concerns and high costs, the technology has emerged as a potential option to try to mitigate climate change. Through nuclear fission, in which atoms are split to release energy, reactors don’t emit any greenhouse gases.

The Trump administration wants to quadruple the nuclear sector’s domestic energy production, with the goal of producing 400 gigawatts by 2050. To help achieve that goal, scientific institutions like the Idaho National Laboratory, a leading research institute in nuclear energy, are pushing forward innovations such as more efficient types of fuel. Companies are also investing millions of dollars to develop their own nuclear reactor designs, a move from industry that was previously unheard of in the nuclear sector. For example, Westinghouse, a Pennsylvania-based nuclear power company, plans to build 10 new large reactors to help achieve the 2050 goal.

Despite claims of the climate change cultists, renewables aren’t the answer. They don’t have the energy density, don’t have the efficiency, don’t have the reliability, and aren’t dispatchable. They are also nowhere near as cost effective or as cheap as the renewable proponents claim.

That there are a number of individual companies developing new Generation III and IV reactors that do not have the issues seen with Generation II nuclear reactors, the biggest one being the lengthy and costly construction timelines. Most of the Gen III and IV reactor designs are modular, meaning they can be built in a factory, then transported and installed at the construction site. Build times will drop from 10+ years (figuring in all of the lawsuits and court orders) to less than 2 years. They may not be huge 1000MW reactors like a good number of the Gen II reactors have been, but they don’t need to be. It will be cheaper to put three smaller 300MW small modular reactors (SMR’s) at a single site than a single 1000MW reactor built the “old fashioned” way.

My state’s governor, Kelly Ayotte, made a nuclear power renaissance part of her campaign platform as she sees nuclear as the way to ensure a reliable supply of electrical power.

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This news doesn’t surprise me. What surprises me is that it was NBC News that reported it.

FDA to present data it claims ties Covid shots to child deaths at CDC meeting.

Food and Drug Administration officials plan to present data they claim links the Covid vaccine to 25 deaths in children at what’s expected to be a closely watched vaccine advisory committee next week, a source confirmed to NBC News.

The Washington Post first reported the expected data.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday to review and make recommendations on several vaccines, including this fall’s updated Covid shots.

What I have to wonder if the number of children who died due to the Covid vaccine is much higher than the 25 they mentioned. Then there’s the the question of the vaccine’s effect on pregnant women as it has been suggested that an unknown number of pregnant women who received the vaccine being adversely affected, including miscarriages. There’s also the question the increase in the number of cardiac arrests in otherwise healthy young adults who received the vaccine.

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William Jacobsen reminds the Left that the “Tea Party” was a “Leave me alone” movement, but they didn’t leave us alone, and now it’s FAFO.

I attended and reported on some Tea Party rallies in upstate NY.

Our archives dating back to 2010 document the vicious smear campaigns not only from leftist groups like the now-defunct Think Progress, but also establishment Republicans. In a hint of what was to come against Trump, the IRS was weaponized against the Tea Party.

The Tea Party was at heart a movement of people who just wanted to be left alone in the face of accelerating governmental mandates and intrusion – epitomized by the Obamacare mandate which forced you to buy private health insurance policies. It didn’t matter how much you tried to insulate yourself, you had to buy the policy.

The Obamacare mandate eventually was saved by John Roberts in the 2012 Supreme Court decision holding the mandate fell within Congress’s taxing power.

The Tea Party eventually fell by the wayside unable to withstand the pressure and from internal divisions.

Which brings me to a tweet by Prof. Randy Barnett about how suppression of the Tea Party gave way to MAGA.

This @politico analysis of Charlie Kirk’s role in the conservative-MAGA movement is informative. But it doesn’t get what happened to “Tea Party libertarianism.” The Dems demonized and suppressed the Tea Party constitutionalists with everything they had. MAGA was the response.

Now, the Left seems to be bent on killing us, at least the loudmouth ‘woke’ a**hats who prefer feelz to facts and call anyone who disagrees with them fascists and Nazis. What’s ironic is that so many of those same folks have turned out to be the actual fascists who want to go “full Nazi” on those who dare oppose them. They think the murder of Charlie Kirk was “a good start”.

Some of them are likely to find out just what FAFO means…

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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where we’re still boating despite the low water level, schools are now back into full swing, and where Monday is returning...again.

"I Am Charlie Kirk"

I have been watching the media frenzy following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I have seen the awful social media posts from the Left celebrating his murder. I have seen a number of the MSM being fired for their support of his murderer. A couple of teachers here in New Hampshire have found themselves in hot water for expressing much the same thing, their continued employment in our schools being reviewed.

Some of those on social media have tried to paint Charlie’s murderer as a disgruntled Republican, which his is not. Disgruntled, maybe. Republican, no. He’s been radicalized by the Internet, supporting Antifa and more radical LGBTQ+ viewpoints.

But the one thing Charlie Kirk’s murder has done is unleashed outrage and a growing movement to continue his work. That’s just the opposite of what his killer (and his supporters) intended. Where on Charlie Kirk stood, there were hundreds. Then thousands. And there are more every moment. His widow is continuing his work. So are many others as they will not let his message disappear.

So many who celebrated his murder saw him as some kind of monster, not because he was one but because they didn’t like his message. He would debate anyone, spend time discussing a wide range of topics, but always framing his replies in line with his conservative beliefs. He challenged those who disagreed with him to “Change My Mind”. He didn’t preach. He debated. He was respectful. And he changed minds, something too many of his opponents didn’t like. He appealed to the younger generation, something else the Left couldn’t abide.

And someone decided the only way to stop was to silence him...by murdering him.

However, it has had just the opposite effect as more people are putting themselves out there, to challenge the Left to change their minds, to show people that the Left has run out of ideas and have abandoned many of the ideals that made America the great nation it is.

A violent act has “awoken a slumbering giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.”

I am Charlie Kirk.

Friday Funny - Bohemian Rhapsody Flash Mob

I figured we could use something more fun than funny considering what's taken place this week. I saw this and knew it would be just right.

Remembering That Awful Day

This was something I wrote back in September of 2002 and thought it was fitting to bring it forward for the 24th anniversary of That Awful Day.

Like many people on the East Coast, I was at work that day. I was in the engineering lab trying to finish the paperwork on a project that was soon going in to production. It was shortly before 9 AM when one of my coworkers came through the lab, telling us an aircraft had crashed in to one of the World Trade Center towers. I turned on the radio at my desk and tuned to the local NPR stations. As I listened to the reports, one reporter interrupted to inform us that a second aircraft had crashed in to the second tower. At that point all of us in the lab knew we were under attack.

And then my pager went off.

One thing I have to explain is that I have been involved with emergency services since I was a teenager. These days I volunteer as a communications reservist for the state Office of Emergency Management and am a captain in the Civil Air Patrol.

Pages flew fast a furious, from both OEM and CAP. It looked like I would busy from that day on. Staying at work from that point on became impossible. I headed home to change and gather a few changes of clothing and stuff them into my flight gear bag. From then on it was hurry up and wait.

I didn’t stray far from the telephone or the TV. I watched as first one tower, then the other, collapsed. I remember thinking They should be rolling the credits any time now. But the credits never came. This wasn’t a movie. It was real.

In the mean time, reports about an aircraft crashing in to the Pentagon came in, setting off another surge in pages from OEM and CAP. Reports from the TV also stated that the FAA was ordering all non-military aircraft grounded. That would complicate things for CAP, but as it is part of the U.S. Air Force, it wouldn’t complicate things much.

I remember turning on my scanner and listening to the local aircraft frequencies. Boston Center was directing aircraft to land at the nearest airport, regardless of what their destination was supposed to be. I also listened in on the HF frequencies that are used for contacting and controlling transatlantic flights. All aircraft westbound were told they could not enter U.S. airspace. Some aircraft decided to turn around and head back to Europe. Others continued west and landed in Canada. In less than three hours the skies above America were empty. The lack of contrails in the upper atmosphere or the sound of aircraft passing overhead was missing. It was eerie, surreal.

The rest of the day was a blur. So many things were happening. So many things were not happening. I don’t know how many times I watched the towers being hit and the subsequent collapse. No matter where I happened to be, I didn’t stray far from a radio or TV. Somehow it still didn’t seem real to me. It wasn’t until later that evening while watching the evening news that reality came crashing in.

There was a series reports about reactions around the world to the attacks in New York, Washington D.C., and Pennsylvania. It was the report from London that brought it home to me. I don’t remember what the correspondent said, but the images that played during the report caught my eye.

It was the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, something I’ve seen many times when I’ve been in London. Normally, after the routine changing of the watch and the playing of God Save the Queen, the marching band plays something martial and stirring as they march off the yard of the palace. But this time they did something unprecedented.

As they approached the gates of Buckingham Palace, they stopped. They stood motionless for a moment, then raised their instruments……….

….and played the Star Spangled Banner. It was then that the tears began to fill my eyes, the reality of what had happened crashing over me like a tidal wave. Hearing our national anthem played in a foreign country, seeing the anguish and tears on the faces of the people watching, knowing that many of them were American and just as importantly knowing that many were not, made it real for me. As un-macho as it is for me to admit this, I bawled my eyes out for the next hour. Even thinking about it today makes me choke up.

But watching that display of solidarity and condolences in England brought to mind a line from a movie I’ve always liked, Pulp Fiction, spoken by Samuel L. Jackson:

”Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is He who in the name of Charity and Good Will shepherds the weak through the Valley of Darkness, for He is truly His brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon the with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the LORD when I lay My vengeance upon thee!”

Thoughts On A Sunday

The thunderstorms we experienced yesterday were widespread, but some were heavier than others. While we didn’t suffer any damage anywhere near The Gulch, there was damage in other towns, primarily in the southern tier of New Hampshire. The only thing we suffered here were brief power outages, flickering lights now and then, and an Internet outage that didn’t get resolved until late last night.

We woke to more rain this morning, though nothing like we experienced yesterday. Goodness knows we’ve needed it as it has been rather dry over the past couple of months. We could certainly use a couple of inches of rain, but that doesn’t seem to be in the cards, at least not over the next week.

One thing that’s been quite evident is the large falloff in traffic since Labor Day weekend. It has been easier to get around and some of our favorite eateries have had parking available even during the ‘busy’ hours. Many of the seasonal eateries will be closing soon, with some having already closed after Labor Day. Almost all of them will be closed by Columbus Day.

A lot of boats have already been pulled from the water and are awaiting winterization and storage. The Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout won’t be coming out until sometime after Columbus Day as we do want to be able to enjoy the lake now that most of the summerfolk are gone. We also want to be able to enjoy the fall foliage from the lake since we won’t need to compete with the leafpeepers on the roads starting later this month.

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Frankly, this doesn’t surprise me in the least.

Places in the US that allow concealed carry are safer than places that don’t.

It’s not a matter of opinion but of crime statistics.

As I commented:

We have constitutional carry in my state, New Hampshire, as well as two of our neighboring states, Maine and Vermont. We also have the lowest violent crime and property crime rates in the nation. Funny how those two things relate to each other.

One thing Maine needs to do is end the ban on firearms in establishments that serve alcohol. If that hadn't been in effect, the mass shootings that took place in Lewiston two years ago wouldn’t have. The shooter chose his targets because he knew no one at either one would be armed.

Someone did make mention that it’s also because those three states are the “whitest states” which is true, but our neighbor to the south, the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, is also “quite white” and they have a lot more crime than we do per capita.

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I have been seeing news reports on US media about China’s recent military parade in Beijing to show off their military might, but there are questions about it’s apparent strength versus reality, with some claiming a lot of China’s military equipment on show during the parade isn’t real, is nowhere near close to being ready to deploy. This also brings forth questions about its economic strength, that it’s economy is contracting at an increasing rate. One of the things that drives this narrative is increasingly empty streets with empty stores, empty shopping malls, empty businesses, and empty factories.



This isn’t the first video I’ve seen about this, with such videos from a number of different sources.

There have also been questions about China’s actual population numbers as the CCP’s claims appear to go against direct evidence of empty cities (no, not the so-called ghost cities), empty villages, and empty factories. What is the truth? Is China’s apparent population decline true or is it a master stroke of disinformation?

Only time will tell.

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This should be posted and linked again and again and again to show the people of the US why the Democrats do not deserve to be returned to power in 2026...or 2028.

And just like that, it's over for the Dems in the 2026 midterms. Maybe even the 2028 general election. Maybe this is even the final nail in their creaky, splintering, mentally ill, Marxist coffin.

Right now, they're trying to ignore it, the way they tried to pretend Hunter Biden's laptop didn't exist back in 2020. They were successful enough that time to push their vote machine over the finish line in Biden/Harris's favor, but that won't happen this time. This story, this image, is already out there.

Still, they're trying to ignore it, hoping it goes away…

The only explanation I've seen anywhere is, "Oh, it was never covered nationally because it was only a local story." Sure. Like George Floyd's overdose in police custody was only a local story. Good luck with that dodge, lefties.

In all fairness to Democrats, their policies have made this situation so common that it may well have disappeared into the din. A violent lunatic with fourteen previous arrests under his belt but who still freely roamed the streets randomly and viciously stabbed a young woman on the train, killing her. The murder occurred over two weeks ago, and they had every reason to believe the "local crime story" was as dead as the beautiful young victim.

But then, the video emerged. It's chilling and terrifying, the horror that every urban female (and plenty of males) fears. The still image of the moment the madman's knife begins its descent is the most damning optic I've seen in years, and it will now become the face of the modern Democrat party.

If this was a once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, I might buy it. But it’s not. It’s happening again and again and again and the Democrats do nothing. Whether it’s a lethal attack like the one above or shoplifting mobs or armed robberies or carjackings and on and on and on, it seems the only thing the Democrats in charge will do is lament the events, but do as much as they can to make sure the criminals won’t be stopped, won’t be arrested, won’t be tried, and won’t be imprisoned.

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I have to agree with Mike over at Cold Fury about his latest post: Is it madness or method when it comes to the UK’s crushing of dissent regarding free speech, particularly when it comes trans issues?

Oh, I dunno; I think maybe “diabolical stratagem” might actually be more the mots juste, with “Satanic plot” overtopping all comers to take the prize for accuracy, honesty, clarity, and forthrightness. Regarding the UK’s arrest of decidedly non-Woke comedian Graham Linehan for the heinous crime of Aggravated DoublePlusUngoodthink W/ Intent to Poke Fun at Pyrsynzz Of “Transgender,” Steyn opines:

I was glad to see Rupert Lowe post this…

However, I disagree that it is “MADNESS”. It is not. It is conscious strategy – because even any residual culture of free speech is incompatible with what they’re planning to do to you.

As the saying goes, Read The Whole Thing. Mike is on a roll!

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I would consider this a good start.

PBS Trims 15 Percent of Its Workforce

PBS’s chief executive told public television officials Thursday that it was cutting about 15% of its jobs due to the move by Republicans in Congress to eliminate all federal funding for public broadcasting starting on Oct. 1.

Thirty-four PBS staffers were notified Thursday that their positions were being cut. Taken with the loss of a longstanding federal grant for an educational initiative earlier this summer, and the elimination of about three dozen other vacant positions, PBS will have lost more than 100 jobs in all.

I haven’t liked the idea that taxpayer money is going to fund media outlets – PBS and NPR - that have degraded into a mouthpiece for the Left. While the argument has been made that it provides programming for those who have no other source, it is a specious argument because there are so many similar outlets available that don’t depend on tax dollars to fund.

If they want to survive then they can extend their fundraising efforts, or like other broadcasting entities, go ‘commercial’ and fund their operations via ad revenue.

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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the summerfolk are finally gone, the weather has brought some much needed rain, and where once again Monday is coming along to screw up our weekend.

Uh-Oh

Saturday's post is being delayed as I haven't had Internet service since early Saturday afternoon as thunderstorms worked their way through New Hampshire. Service was restored just a little while ago and it is a bit late for me to put together a post for tonight. I'll just have to make Sunday's regular post longer to compensate!