Thoughts On A Sunday

There have been two big events for the WP family that have taken place over the past few days. The first?

On Wednesday BeezleBub closed on the farmhouse he bought here in town.

The second?

It was 21 years ago yesterday when I adopted BeezleBub as my son. It was one of the best days of my life and I am very happy that I’ve been able to be his dad.

Today was the day that BeezleBub picked up the trailer for the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout from the boatyard. It will reside at his new house until we pull the boat from the water in a couple of weeks and it makes the trip to the boatyard for winterization and shrink wrapping. Then it will return to BeezleBub’s to be stored for the winter.

A lot of boats have already been pulled from the water as can be attested to by empty slips and a lot of boats on trailers waiting at marinas and boatyards fro winterization and storage. However, there is still plenty of boating activity seen on the lake. From prior experience it is likely lake area residents enjoying the lake and the coming foliage colors without having to worry about summerfolk being out on the lake, too.

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I saw this over at Instapundit 10 days ago and it took me a while believe that it wasn’t a joke. Kamala Harris is really that clueless.

@LeadingReport https://t.co/dgHWny6Ljo

— Bored Certified (@Bored_Certified) September 23, 2026

To quote the late great Kevin Samuels, “You can’t make this s*** up!”

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I’ve been having discussions with folks about high gas prices and many of them are surprised when I tell them prices were higher about 4 years ago. They didn’t believe me. I showed them a picture on my phone taken at a gas station in my area from about 4 years ago showing the prices or Regular gas and diesel and they saw that the prices back then were indeed higher. (I wish I could post pictures here on Blogger, but I still can’t as something is still broken and Blogger has been absolutely no help in fixing the problem. However, I can embed posts from ‘X’.)

This is something I also saw on Instapundit recently and it addresses some of the gas price issues.

Wow I can't believe Diesel is over $9/gallon Wait nevermind this was 2022 under Biden https://t.co/YzxSsFjeaN

— RightWI (@RightWI1776) September 19, 2026

Yes, this is California and prices still aren’t as high today as they were 4 years ago despite its efforts to make sure it will be a dwindling supply over time.

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From the “Just When I Thought They Couldn’t Get Any Stupider” Department comes this little gem:

White Paint is Racist

My first thought was somebody must be off their meds or has escaped from a mental institution. But this appears not to be the case as Associate Professor Wendy S. Walters at Columbia University has actually written about this.

According to Professor Walters, there are “black transwomen murdered with alarming targeted frequency”. When she saw the walls of her children’s school, she felt “apprehension” and wrote, “I could not stop thinking about the walls. I said to myself: They are so very white.…”

Oh The Horror!

A less sensitive person might assume that white is the most reflective color and painting walls white maximizes the effectiveness of natural and artificial light. But that person is probably a white racist who drinks milk, lives in a house with white walls and has never even thought about the targeted campaign of mass murder against “black transwomen” by Sherwin-Williams.

What gets me the most is that other people are taking her seriously. Really? White paint is racist? This is effin’ ridiculous.

It’s getting to the point where everything is racist. But if that’s the case, then that means that nothing is racist, right? The folks that believe this tripe need to give it a rest because this has slid from the sublime to totally and inequivocally insane.

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It seems Hollywood is about to prove that they’ve lost their ‘mojo’ if what I’ve heard about Tom Cruise’s latest movie is true.

Tom Cruise’s Global Warming Propaganda ‘Digger’ About to Lose $100+ Million

Based on several reviews, even from leftist critics, Tom Cruise’s Digger is a shrill, unsubtle, 129-minute attack on those of us who dare to use oil to better our lives.

And it’s about to lose a fortune.

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“Endless speeches, most involving the horrors of Climate Change and how dern evil oil is. Cruise’s Digger gets an extended close-up where he rants, raves and reveals the truth about oil and culture,” warns Christian Toto. “We need it. We crave it. We’ll risk everything to burn it. So this is all our fault.”

“Digger is bloated, dull, obvious, utterly lacking in self-awareness and, yes, exhausting. Would you want to spend two hours with grown men screaming at the top of their lungs?” Toto asked.

Yet another ‘message’ movie that no one wants. Hollywood has indeed forgotten the lesson from the late 60’s to mid-70’s, that lesson being “No one wants ‘message’ movies. If people want to be preached to they’ll go to church.” Moviegoers avoided those movies like the plague. Studios lost money. Studios stopped making ‘message’ movies and started making movies that people wanted to watch again.

I just have to wonder if what’s left of Hollywood will learn that lesson again in time to save themselves. If I had to guess, and I do, I’m going to predict that they won’t.

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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee where the leaves are turning color, die-hard boaters are still out on the lake, and where Monday is showing up prematurely.

Educational Spending In New Hampshire - Who's Keeping An Eye On The Ledgers?

While the topic upon which I am pontificating about tonight is more New Hampshire-centric than it might otherwise be, I think it has some relevance in other states, too. To what am I referring?

Education funding.

I will not be getting into the bits and pieces about how it is handled in New Hampshire as there is already debate enough about it going on and there is one ballot question related to it that will be addressed during the election in November>

Instead, I have some questions for the school systems in New Hampshire that had some pretty large budget deficits over the past school year. One community, Claremont, has a $5 million deficit. Concord’s school budget deficit was almost $17 million back in February of this year. Yet another town, Milton, is also reporting that it has a $2.5 million school budget deficit.

Just what the heck is going on in these communities that is causing such large deficits? Haven’t there been any audits that show where the money has gone? When an audit of Windham’s school was performed a while back it showed all kinds of vulnerabilities which could lead to misspent funds. I have to ask just how often such audits are performed in our towns and by whom? My town’s school budget is around $32 million for the present school year. I’d like to make sure it is being spent properly and that we aren’t overpaying on some line items. I’d also like to see whether what are normally “Nice To Have’s” haven’t been morphed into “Need To Haves” when they really aren’t. That goes for our municipal budget as well.

Considering that the school budget in most towns ans cities are between 60% and 70% of all municipal spending, ensuring the spending of those funds is being handled properly is paramount.

Friday Funny - Dirty Old Lady

Thoughts On A Sunday

It’s been a rainy and windy weekend up here at the lake. We’re at the northern edge of the Nor’easter that made its way up the Atlantic seaboard over the past couple of days. We haven’t had to deal with the heavy rains and wind being seen along the seacoast, but we are seeing some rain. The winds aren’t nearly as strong as seen elsewhere but there have been a few power outages due to the winds knocking down trees and tree limbs here and there.

If we’re lucky we’ll see about 1.5 inches of total rainfall here by the time this Nor’easter wraps up sometime tomorrow. Goodness knows we have certainly needed it.

At least once this Nor’easter has departed we’ll be seeing warmer temperatures.

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Just when I thought those running my alma mater couldn’t get any stupider they prove me wrong. What’s it doing that has me making this declaration?

The University of Connecticut will be holding three sex toy workshops this fall.

My first thought was that was an article from the Babylon Bee because it must be satire. But it’s the real deal.

The University of Connecticut (UConn) in Storrs will hold three workshops on Oct. 6, Oct. 22, and Nov. 16 where students can handle demonstration versions of sex toys, including vibrators and plugs.

The events, titled “Good Vibrations: A Pleasure Pop-Up Workshop,” will be led by the “Sexperts” student group and are being advertised by the university’s Student Health and Wellness.

Really? Is this something that really needs to be taught? Are student activity funds being used to pay for this?

This is the same university that wanted to bring back segregated dorms at the request of minority students but decided not to go forward when both the state and federal government reminded them that segregated housing was illegal and could mean the loss of both state and federal funds.

If I went back in time and visited the Storrs campus in 1978 and told the students, faculty, and staff that this would be happening in the future, I doubt anyone would believe me.

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By way of the comments to this Instapundit post – Why Are Heterosexual Women Attracted To Each Other – comes this comment that almost had me spewing coffee on my monitor:

As the joke (?) goes, “All women are bi. It’s up to you to figure out if it’s polar or sexual.”

‘Nuff said.

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Anyone paying attention knows this was coming.

Trump Ends Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle Mandate.

It’s about time. Such a mandate may have sounded good, but it wasn’t realistic for a number of reasons. Two that came to mind when I first head of it were these:

Where were we going to find the materials needed to manufacture the number of batteries that would be needed?

Where were we going to get the electricity needed to charge all of those EVs?

To address the second question first, I (and others) figured it would require a doubling of the electrical grid capacity in the US to meet the demand. Anyone understanding how long it can take to expand grid and generation capacity knew that wasn’t going to happen. It didn’t help that a lot of the focus on new generation capacity in general was on renewables, something we have come to see isn’t workable. We have an endless number of examples showing renewables aren’t nearly as effective as claimed and are a lot more expensive per megawatt-hour than some of the more traditional generating technology. (I know from the options we have here in New Hampshire for electrical suppliers - not to be confused with the electrical utility companies that provide the transmission grids - the higher the percentage of renewables we select should we desire, the higher the price we pay for the electricity.)

As to first question, considering the materials needed to make the present generation of EV batteries, in this case lithium-ion batteries, both the cost and the means of obtaining some of the needed materials are too high.

Removal of the mandate is a move in the right direction. Let the market decide. If EVs are viable, let the market decide that question, not the government.

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Could the Governor’s office in Oregon flip from blue to red in November?

According to some of the latest polls the GOP challenger Kristine Drazen is polling 2% over the incumbent governor, Democrat Tina Kotek.

Two percent is within the margin of error for most polls. Seeing that the election is still over a month away that lead may not last long...or it could widen as more Oregon voters decide they’re tired of Kotek’s leadership.

Only time will tell.

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It appears the Governor Kotek isn’t the only one who may have a reason to worry about the November election. Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazer (FL-27) released a campaign ad that has been receiving quite a bit of backlash.

On September 17th, Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (FL-27) released a campaign ad in both English and Spanish in which she lectured President Donald Trump about immigration policy while standing in front of the White House.

In it, she suggested that some of his “immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far,” pointing to ICE data she claimed showed that 50% of detainees apprehended in July “had no criminal convictions or pending charges.”

“Be careful what your advisors are telling you on immigration policy,” she went on to warn, adding that “the same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”

Towards the end of the clip, Salazar stressed that she wasn’t “talking about giving them amnesty. I’m talking about giving them a dignified life in this promised land, and only you can do that.”

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Salazar is facing a tough reelection fight in a midterm election year. The Cook Political Report noted that “though Salazar has a history of overperforming the top of the ticket, Trump’s sinking approval rating in South Florida will be an anchor on the congresswoman.” On September 25th, it changed its race rating for the district from Likely R to Lean R.

One has to wonder what the heck she was thinking. Her claim that Hispanics who help Trump gain the White House are feeling betrayed seems to go against polls and studies that show no such disatisfaction.

Again, only time will tell.

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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the wind and the rain have yet to depart, preparations are being made to pull the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout out of the water, and where Monday is yet again harshing our weekend mellow.

The Rhetoric Is Cranking Up

Watching the multitude of campaign ads on TV, Letters To The Editor in our local paper, posts on blogs and on Facebook, it is easy to see the political rhetoric has been cranked up to ‘11’. There’s a lot of opinion out there about various candidates or government policies and so on. There are plenty of reasoned opinions on both sides and well as wholly delusional and ignorant opinions, too.

However, one topic that has been very hot, specifically on Facebook, has been something I wouldn’t have expected, something that crosses political lines as those on opposite sides of this issue does not fall along political lines. What issue am I talking about?

Daylight Saving Time.

There has been a running debate between people who want to remain on DST year round and those who want to remain on Standard Time.

I have been passionate about wanting to remain on DST or , if not possible, switching New Hampshire (and Maine) to the Atlantic Time Zone. Then I would be quite happy to remain on Standard Time.

As I have mentioned now and then, here and there, I think the support for remaining on DST is probably heaviest for those who are on the eastern edge of the four time zones in the Lower 48. This also implies that support for remaining of Standard Time is probably heaviest from those who live on the western edge of the four time zones.

I dislike the idea of remaining on Standard Time over the summer because that means sunrise will be taking place at just after 4AM here at Lake Winnipesaukee on the first day of summer. Thanks, but no thanks. Sunset will be at 7:30PM. On the first day of winter sunrise will be at a little after 7AM and sunset will be at a little past 4PM. (Both of these times are a little misleading because with the hills and mountains around the lake, sunrise and sunset is a little later or earlier, respectively. Here at The Gulch the sun disappears behind the surrounding hills at between 2:30PM and 3:30PM during winter months.)

I know I would much prefer to have light in the afternoon rather than the morning over the winter months. Those against the idea of DST year round keep bringing up the issue of kids having to go to school in the dark. During the depths of winter, quite a few of our school kids do that anyways because they have to catch a school bus at a little after 6AM which means they are going to school in the dark. It seems to me that in a lot of places kids are going to school in the dark, particularly places that even farther north than New Hampshire and Maine and they don’t seem to have problems doing so. Another solution is to start school later in the morning, something that a number of groups have been advocating for, specifically for teenagers as their circadian rhythms are off and they do better with a later starting time.

A number of states have already passed legislation to remain on DST year round, neighboring Maine being one of them.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out going forward. One thing that both the pro- and anti-year round DST folks do have in common is they both hate having to change their clocks twice a year and deal with the aftereffects of doing so. Count me as of those folks.

Friday Funny - Abandoning My Family

Thoughts On A Sunday

It’s been a cool weekend here at the lake and rainy today on top of it. Of course ‘cool’ is a relative term. In this case it’s meant high temps in the 60’s (Saturday) and in the 50’s today. Overnight lows have been in the 40’s. And it’s not even officially Fall yet. We have also been seeing some of the trees starting to change color. Generally the first trees to change tend to be the swamp maples followed a couple of weeks later the other tree species.

We’ve barely recovered from summer and now we’re having to get ready for foliage season. A lot of the ‘leaf peepers’ will be heading up north of the lake into the White Mountains and the North Country as the foliage there is ahead of what we’ll be seeing here by a a couple of weeks or so. The leaf peepers will follow the colors as they make their way south through New Hampshire and Vermont and into Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

The leaf peepers are a different crowd as compared to the summerfolk being as they aren’t nearly as numerous and are from more diverse locations, with quite a few visiting from foreign countries. For the most part they won’t be flooding our roads, hotels, and restaurants to the level seen when the summerfolk are around and the won’t be here nearly as long, either.

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Why doesn’t this surprise me in the least?

Things that are now rightwing: Investigative journalism Academic rigour Scientific dissent Nature Facts Biology Politeness Punctuality Normality Free speech Individual rights Rationality Objectivity Self-reliance Emotional restraint Delayed gratification

— Alice Smith (@TheAliceSmith) August 15, 2026

I remember when these were pretty much normal across all political and socioeconomic classes. And it wasn’t all that long ago.

Some of the follow on responses delve into that, too.

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Uh-oh. It seems that San Francisco has reached another tipping point.

It seems that robbers and thieves have announced they are going to be leaving the city because they’re running out of things to steal.

You know it’s bad when even the criminal element is leaving because of the effects of decades of bad government by California Democrats. Is Los Angeles next? It seems so as it appears Hollywood is packing up and leaving.

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I find this hilarious if for no other reason that I’ve been thinking this for some time.

Zero Hurricanes Formed By Peak 2026 Season.

I have been seeing claim after claim after claim that this lack of Atlantic hurricanes so far this year as all the fault of climate change. But, weren’t these the same folks claiming that climate change was going cause more hurricanes, with most of them being more destructive?

A former climate reporter said she deliberately avoided covering positive weather developments because doing so would have complicated the narrative that climate change posed an existential threat.

“When I was a climate reporter, I never covered positive climate stories because it would ‘muddy the narrative’ that climate change was an existential threat,” Lucy Biggers wrote Tuesday on X. “No one told me to behave this way. I chose to do this of my own volition.”

Biggers, who now works for The Free Press, pointed to the historically quiet 2026 Atlantic hurricane season as an example of the type of story she believes climate reporters may be reluctant to highlight.

“I think this is why we rarely see events like this year’s historically quiet eastern hurricane season covered widely by the news,” Biggers wrote. “Many reporters believe covering it will ‘give fodder to climate change deniers.’”

Yup. Can’t have any reports getting out that go against The Narrative that climate change is going to kill us all and that it’s All-The-Fault-Of-The-Evil-Humans.

That much of the lack of Atlantic hurricanes can be laid at the feet of this year’s ‘Super’ El Niño is being ignored by the climate change faithful.

Meteorologists have largely blamed the unusually quiet season on a powerful El Niño, a climate pattern marked by an unusual warming of the Pacific Ocean’s surface temperatures. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said El Niño increases vertical wind shear over the tropical Atlantic, making it harder for hurricanes to form and organize.

I wish I could remember where I saw the following, but I did see an article that dove into the whole “Carbon dioxide concentration increase will destroy us” claim and finding the experiments that correlated atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration with rises in global temperatures were flawed, not because anyone was trying to deceive anyone, but because the experiments only looked at one aspect of the effects of carbon dioxide – radiative heating – but ignored convective heating which counteracts a good portion of the radiative heating. Recent follow-on experiments show the atmosphere isn’t nearly as sensitive to carbon dioxide concentrations as was once believed.

In the mean time, I am going to enjoy what I hope will be a relatively quiet Atlantic Hurricane season which ends on November 30th.

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I’m sure just about everyone has been hearing the ongoing saga of the Lindsay Clancy case and particularly the revelations that have come from interviews with jurors which may end up with some of them being brought up on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. One YouTuber, a fellow I watch to from time to time, delved into this with the subtlety of a semi crashing the front of a toy store.


Do I agree with everything Dan brings up? For the most part, yes. And if I disagree it’s a matter of degree and not magnitude.

One thing he brings up is a question he asks right at the beginning of the video, that being “Were they actually looking for justice or were they looking for an excuse?” Listening to some of these jurors it seems they weren’t going to convict her no matter what. The had their minds made up before the trial even began. They were not impartial by any measure. They also seem to forget why Lindsay Clancy was on trial – she murdered her three children by strangling them to death. No one denies that, including her defense attorney. But these jurors, with one brave exception, chose to make this about her and not about her children.

I hope they decide to try her again, maybe with a change of venue to one of the rural counties in central or western Massachusets where this nonsense is nowhere near as prevalent. And this time voir dire has to be harsh and unforgiving to weed out the bias seen in the jurors of the first trial.

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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee where it’s presently raining to beat the band, the weekend traffic was light, and where Monday is returning again all too soon.

They Just Don't Get It

After 70 years on this earth, I wish I could say that I not am surprised by the number of people, particularly those in government, that appear to have no understanding of economics. I’m not talking specifically about the various theories of economics like those of Adam Smith or of Marx and Engels or others. I am talking about basic economics such as bottom up free markets versus cronyism versus top down planned economics. Goodness knows we’ve seen more than enough examples of each throughout the past couple of millennia.

Free market economics such as those put forth by Smith have seemed to work pretty well, though like any system it isn’t perfect. We’ve seen the ‘socialist’ economics as outlined by Marx et al tried again and again and seen them fail...again and again. We’ve seen cronyism, often mislabeled “crony capitalism” even though it is an economic system in and of itself and can be seen as a parasitic entity in every economic system. (Yes, there is also “crony socialism”. Goodness knows we’ve seen it in a number of socialist and communist countries.)

But I am not specifically address those systems per se. Instead, I am addressing some of the street level economics that most people do not or will not understand. They don’t understand how the costs of everyday items is determined, what factors can affect costs and in their turn the prices everyone pays.
They don’t understand how taxes can affect an economy.

They don’t understand how regulations, be they economic or environmental, can affect prices across the board for the worst or the better.

They don’t know how prices are determined, how both demand and supply works and affects prices.

They don’t understand how government mandates can damage or cripple an economy, or how those who put those mandates in place don’t understand the effects of them either.

Too many people have no idea how money ‘works’, meaning they haven’t a clue about things like wealth or poverty. My biggest gripe is that so many people seem think the wealthy are just sitting on piles of cash stacked up in their basement, said cash just gathering dust. They don’t understand that cash is working by ways of investments – stocks and bonds – or venture capital to fund new businesses, and business loans or mortgages or auto loans and so on. They have no idea that diverting the working capital to fund someone’s dream government program can have a negative effect on the economy if it goes too far. (We passed that point a few generations ago which is why the US is $44 trillion in debt.)

None of this is a diatribe to say how gawdawful our economic system is. It’s about people’s absolute ignorance about how thing actually work and because of that ignorance they’re willing to believe the silliest and most unworkable economic theories even with all of the historical evidence of what works and what doesn’t.

Seeing what we’re hearing during the run up to mid-term elections in November has me worried to too many of the electorate will buy the ignorant BS put forward by one party as a solution to all of our problems despite hundreds of years of historical data showing they don’t really understand economics.

Friday Funny - Google Knows Everything

Thoughts On A Sunday

It was a gorgeous day yesterday, sunny, warm, and a little breezy. Today was different with rain starting early in the morning and not ending until early evening. The promised sunshine never appeared as the clouds that were supposed to clear of didn’t do so. Despite all of that it was a relatively quiet weekend.

Not many of the summer folk came up for the weekend, but that’s okay. One of my favorite ice cream stands is now only open on weekends and then, only for the next couple of weekends until it closes until next spring. Many of the summer attractions are now closed, with most of those closing after the Labor Day weekend. There’s still plenty of boats out on the lake and that will likely continue until the end of the month. Many of the die-hards will wait until after Columbus Day Weekend to finally pull their boats from the water. BeezleBub and I haven’t decided when we’ll pull the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout from the lake, but I have a feeling it won’t be pulled out early. We didn’t get out onto the lake nearly as often as we would have liked, but it was more a matter of being busy and trying not to venture out during the weekends.

And so summer is winding to a close.

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I have to agree: The best political ad I have ever seen.

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From one of the comments to the above post comes this challenge to “liberal White Women…who constantly complain about White Men.”

How many liberal White Women do you think would take her up on her offer? I’m thinking ‘none’.

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Just when I think they can’t get any crazier or unhinged they prove me wrong.

Democrat Candidate Suggests Nazi-Style Death Camps for Trump Supporters

Anyone familiar with 20th century history can guess how ugly it will get if the maniacs who have been taking over the Democratic Party seize power nationally. Shelly Headen, District 62 Democrat candidate for the North Carolina House of Representatives, provides confirmation.

Via Breitbart:

Headen posted a Facebook story from a vacation showing her in front of ovens in a German concentration camp memorial, saying, “Visiting Dauchau [sic] Concentration Camp in Germany… This is where Trump supporters belong.” …

In social media photos, Headen is seen smiling as she stands in front of what appears to be crematorium ovens, which were used by the Nazi SS to burn the bodies of Jews and other prisoners who died or were murdered at the camp.

The concentration camps of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party were preceded by those of Hitler’s fellow socialist Vladimir Lenin, whose Soviet Union went on to kill far more people than the Nazis and to inspire the current generation of Democrats.

For folks who say they are antifascists, they’re certainly acting more like fascists every day.

Yeah, I’m sure the folks in North Carolina are going to flock to her banner.

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This is something I have been saying for decades, yet I have been ignored. What is it I’ve been saying? Something right out of Santayana:

“Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.”

We see otherwise smart people ignoring the danger of the Democrat/Democratic Socialist/Progressive/Communist party even though history shows us what’s in store for our country if the gain power.

We see otherwise smart people ignoring the danger of the “Forever War” that has been going on between the US and Iran since 1979. Some say that it isn’t true despite Iran funding international terrorism, some of which has killed thousands of Americans over the past 47 years. At least one fellow Granite Stater sees that it is true, too.

...December 7, 1941 proved America’s vulnerability. Our Presidents mostly ignored Muslim terror attacks so we suffered the World Trade Center attack and 9/11/2001.

The lesson: believe and stop an enemy who hates you, attacks and kills your people, declares its intent to destroy you, and develops nuclear weapons capable of killing millions. This describes Iran’s actions and stated intent.

Iran has been killing and maiming Americans since 1979. Iran’s nuclear program exists to deliver “Death to America”.

As with North Korea, we unsuccessfully asked, negotiated, threatened, sanctioned, and bribed Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. Every President since Carter has warned that Iran mustn’t get nuclear weapons.

Do we wait until there are nuclear mushroom clouds over New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, and so on before we believe Iran wants to destroy us? Or do we put up with the existing hostilities that have been destroying Iran’s ability to make war even though it does mean higher fuel prices? (I must note here that Don Ewing, the author of the linked and quoted post above has pointed to a website showing that after adjusting for inflation, gas prices are still lower than those during the Obama and Biden administrations.)

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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee where its been raining all day, the summerfolk were scarcem and where Monday is once again arriving to harsh our weekend mellow.