Plans for getting the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout launched have been made, with a tentative date of May 14th. I will require the assistance of BeezleBub’s girlfriend to pull the boat gear out of storage and get it stowed away on board before we put it back into the water.
I can hardly wait!
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If you want to survive a gunfight, the best advice is to go back to basics.
As the Instaprof suggests, the first step is to make sure you have a gun.
The second step comes from Robert Heinlein, that being “Get your first shot off fast. That will startle your enemy and give you enough time to make your second shot perfect.”
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Speaking of Heinlein, here are two quotes that are quite timely.
“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn't the whole population.”Sound familiar?
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
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Taking a look at today’s economic news – record low unemployment, record labor participation, low inflation, rising wages – one has to remember that Democrats want to take all of that away from you “for your own good” or because “you didn’t build that” or because of income inequality or a whole host of other reasons to explain why we don’t deserve economic success and that only the Democrats can provide what they truly believe we need but are too stupid to realize. They’ve been pushing the false narrative that the minimum wage is supposed to be a living wage capable of supporting a family of four and have instituted in a number of cities with the expected “unintended” consequences of job loss, business closures and relocations. They also seem to believe they can cure poverty by impoverishing the wealthy and regulating businesses to the point where they can’t even change the locks on their doors without permission.
As long as you remember that, the Democrat’s economic policies make perfect sense. Too bad they don’t reflect economic realities and will cause damage to America’s economy.
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If murals portraying George Washington in a high school named after the first President of the United States are “traumatizing” the students attending that school, one has to wonder why they haven’t been institutionalized.
Of course, I must wonder whether that is really the case as I have my doubts that it is the students really complaining. (If they are, it might be at the urging of their teachers.) Instead, I think it is more likely one or more of the administrators and/or teachers who are projecting their own feelings of inadequacy as compared to accomplishments of George Washington. After all, this high school is in San Francisco, one of the centers of a spreading mental illness that causes people to try to erase history, eliminate concepts such as manners, and chooses to reverse hundreds of years of hygiene science by allowing defecation in the streets. Or could it be Russian collusion?
In 1936, Victor Arnautoff painted the 13 panels that make up the “Life of Washington” mural at the San Francisco Unified School District campus. Arnautoff was a prominent Russian-American painter who created the murals as part of a Works Progress Administration project undertaken during the New Deal.The people in coastal California have lost their minds and the best thing that could happen to the US is that they secede and form their own People’s Republic of Kalifornia (and the rest of the US builds a wall around it to keep them from infecting the rest of the US), or that a major earthquake causes it to slide into the ocean.
Russian-American painter? That’s why! San Francisco, perhaps the most liberal city in America believes their mural colluded with the Russians.
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Has Burger King just committed suicide? Not that it’s been all that healthy over the past decade. But offering things like a new menu of meals like McDonald’s Happy Meals may have sounded like a good idea when Burger King’s Powers That Be got drunk that one time and brainstormed this lame concept.
Does anyone really want a DGAF (Don’t Give A F**k) meal?
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It’s telling that even after the successes of the use of stealth technology by the US Air Force during the Gulf War and subsequently in other conflicts, the Russian military has tried its best to denigrate and minimize the importance and efficacy of stealth even as they have been developing their own stealth capability.
The successful employment of the F-117 during the 1991 Gulf War vindicated the utility of stealth. Soviet/Russian opinions, however, were mixed, often assuming a dismissive tone. As former Senior Research Associate at the RAND Corporation, Dr. Benjamin Lambeth, observed in a 1992 RAND study on Soviet/Russian reactions to Operation Desert Storm, “there was a tendency in some Soviet circles after the Gulf war ended to depreciate the tactical advantages offered by the F-117’s low-observability features during the earliest days of Desert Storm.”7 These claims, however, were erroneous, running contrary to findings by the comprehensive Gulf War Air Power Survey (commissioned by the USAF following the war), which concluded that USAF “EF-111s never provided jamming into the Baghdad area during the first strikes, so that F-117s that attacked the first targets in the capital… flew into, over, and through the heart of the fully operating air defences of Baghdad with no support from electronic countermeasures.”Our stealth technology has evolved since then, is being more widely deployed by the USAF as well as the Navy and Marines, and along with networking capabilities that act as a force multiplier by giving our forces better situational awareness, knowing where the enemy is as well as where it is not.
That’s something not easy to beat.
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A new experiment has proven the Double-Slit Experiment also works with anti-matter which means that it keeps with quantum theory.
Who says there’s nothing new to discover?
All they need to do now is figure out how to build a warp drive.
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From the Just When I Thought They Couldn’t Get Any Stupider Department comes this.
Apparently the SJWs have their knickers in a twist over Brie Larson’s portrayal of Captain Marvel because she’s a white heterosexual female. They have demanded she step down in favor of a gay woman of color.
Really? This crap has gone too far. Hollyweird should tell them to go to hell, that they aren’t going to bow down to these snowflake idiots who seem to believe their opinions and ‘feelz’ outweigh everyone else’s wants, needs, or demands.
Maybe the only option is to nuke Hollywood from space. It’s the only way to make sure the madness doesn’t spread.
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If we need yet another example of why we should be ignoring the demand we switch a majority of our electrical production to renewables, all we need to do is look to Sweden and the major negative effects that country has been suffering when they started in that direction.
From a financial point of view, the push to renewables has never made sense to me. The numbers didn’t add up, particularly the all-in costs that also took the tax incentives/subsidies into account. From an engineering point of view renewables have never made sense to me either because of both technological issues that have not been resolved (storage) and resistance to construction of the powerlines needed to get the power from wind turbines, solar arrays, and other renewables to where it is needed.
New Hampshire saw that when a major powerline that would bring cheap and clean hydropower from Quebec into the state was killed off because of over-the-top NIMBYism and BANANA foolishness. The objections were based upon appearances even though the more critical and visible paths would have seen the powerlines buried and out of sight. What’s ironic is that many of the same people who worked to kill of the powerline project complain bitterly about the cost of electricity and the size of their electric bills. Talk about cognitive dissonance!
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the number of boats on the lake are increasing daily, more boats are being pulled out of storage, and summerfolk have been starting to get their cottages and lake houses ready for the summer.