1/31/2021

Thoughts On A Sunday

It was another frigid night here at Lake Winnipesaukee, with single digit temps (0ºF here at The Gulch) and wind chills well below below zero. In other words, a normal day/night in late January. The furnace would run a little more often than usual, but it was nothing that was unexpected considering the time of year. The winds have made it brutal to be outside for more than a few minutes at time, but it isn’t the worst it’s ever been by any means. I expect we’ll see much colder temps before the end of February.

One thing we can look forward to is an upcoming snowstorm on Tuesday, something we’ve actually needed. The Weather GuysTM are still unable/unwilling to commit to a prediction about the storm track, but one means we might see 6+ inches here which would be a good start. We really need a couple of feet to get where we should be. Only time will tell.

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I have to wonder how long it’s going to take before someone in Congress is going to say “Enough!” when it comes to President SloJoe’s endless Executive Orders, some of which have been challenged by the states affected. I expect we’ll see more of that, particularly if Joe’s actions regarding EO’s continue. It was SloJo who, just back in October, stated “...you can’t [legislate] by executive order unless you’re a dictator.” It’s ironic that he’s issued so many EO’s in the 10 days since he took office.

So it’s a bad thing to do when someone else is in the White House, but perfectly fine if he’s the one sitting in the Oval Office?

What is it they call it? Oh, yes: hypocrisy.

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One has to wonder if the endless stream of Executive Orders from President* SloJo will result in a rebellion by the American people. I’m not talking about violent rebellion. There won’t be any armed conflict, pitched battles between citizens and government forces, or guerrilla warfare.

Instead it will be quiet. It will be silent. It will be widespread and the Progressive elites who believe they are running the show and can force those they consider Deplorables to fall into line will find out they can’t.

It will be “Irish Democracy”, where the people will ignore edicts and laws they see as oppressive, illegal, and unconstitutional. They won’t comply. State, county, and local government officials won’t enforce them either. The ‘sanctuary’ state movement will grow, much as we’ve seen Progressive-led states and cities do likewise regarding immigration and illegal immigrants. But this time it will be ‘Second Amendment’ sanctuary states, ‘First Amendment’ sanctuary states, ‘Non-Green Nude Eel” sanctuary states, and so on.

I would like to think my home state, the Live Free Or Die state of New Hampshire, will join the sanctuary movement and practice Irish Democracy as the Progressive federal government starts curtailing one freedom after another ‘for our own good’. (History shows that it is never ‘for our own good’, but for the good of those in power to make sure they stay in power.)

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Is Dementia Joe’s incoherence contagious?

Seeing John Kerry’s ‘return to glory’, I’d have to say the answer is ‘Yes’.

...at the press conference the 77-year-old Kerry seemed to have been infected. All dialogue guaranteed verbatim:

“And we don’t have to have uh you know the the burning of a fuel uh which uh uh clearly contributes to a scientifically-arrived-at conclusion about the warming of the planet and the dangers to this planet. This is so logical uh I I don’t understand the opposition. I don’t think there’s any gain in it politically.”

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“We could go to zero (emissions) tomorrow,” he admitted, “and the problem isn’t solved.”

The only way we could go zero emissions tomorrow would be to kill everyone on the planet. We can’t get to zero emissions in 30 years, even with the Green Nude Eel to lead the way.

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Considering I have to get to actual ‘work’ work, I have to keep this TOAS rather short. It didn’t help that I had some town-related duties to perform today as well. With that in mine, that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the lake has finally frozen over from shore to shore, the temperatures will be a little warmer over the next few days, and where we might get up to a foot of snow on Tuesday.