For the most part I have avoided much of the bike traffic. Part of the weekend was spent out on the lake on the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout, avoiding the motorcycle traffic filling the local roads altogether.
Four things I did take care of over the weekend in the way of chores weren’t all that time consuming, with only two of them requiring venturing out onto the roads – having the oil changed in the trusty RAM 1500 (which was almost 1000 miles overdue) and hitting the local barber shop for a haircut (which I did right after the oil change was done).
The other two were rather mundane, the first being correcting a small error I made assembling the new Official Weekend Pundit Gas Grill (which took all of 5 minutes to correct). The second was troubleshooting a problem with the garage door opener which didn’t want to be found...until the chain sprocket on the drive motor came off, snapping off the sprocket shaft right where it comes out of the motor casing.
So ended my efforts at fixing it this weekend. In the mean time I’ll be spending time online to see if I can find a replacement part.
Normally I wouldn’t be worried about getting it taken care of so quickly because the door can be opened manually, but in this case the WP Mom uses the garage and I don’t want to make it any more difficult for her than absolutely necessary. So if I can’t find the parts I need in the next couple of days I won’t waste any more time and I’ll get a new garage door opener.
And so it goes with home ownership.
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As the debate about racist Critical Race Theory being forced down the throats of kids at school or adults at their places of work expands, I find that many of the proponents of CRT have absolutely no idea what it entails or its history. They only know what they’ve been told be people who do not have their best interests at heart.
While CRT has its roots in Marxism, another socialist group used it to justify the murder of millions of people they didn’t like. The parallels between CRT and the Nazi ideology of hate are striking.
Could some of the support of CRT come from ignorance, willful or not, or people’s lack of understanding when it comes to history? (I find that the two are not mutually exclusive.)
In either case, people supporting something they do not understand, something hateful and racist, will come back to haunt them when they see their children acting with racist intent that CRT was supposed to ‘cure’. They won’t understand that they’ve allowed racism to re-establish itself in a country that has fought harder than most to do away with racism.
Just how effed up is that?
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Skip over at GraniteGrok brings up a good point regarding Progressives - Progressives are, in general, angrier about more things than Conservatives.
Writes Skip:
I don’t understand this other than having a Savior complex in which EVERY STUPID thing has to be taken as a crisis and everyone besides themselves and their SJW-wrapped-up ideological kin must be made into second or third class citizens (if not demoted to evil subhumans).From the comments comes this follow up:
This is something I've been thinking about for some time, seeing the depths Progressives will sink to to elevate some trivial matter to MAJOR CRISIS! status, just so they have something to be 'for' or 'against'. They need a "cause" or they feel their lives are without meaning. They can't do the Civil Rights thing since their grandparents were at the forefront of that fight. There's not all that much left unless they truly want to put their lives on the line (which they won't because they aren't that brave). So they take that aforementioned trivial crap and blow it all out of proportion so they have that something to be 'for' or 'against'.
However, there's a problem with that, that being the people now realize what they're doing and aren't willing to buy in to their latest MAJOR CRISIS! The people understand it is the fruit of people desperate to be relevant.
It seems there’s an ever growing list of things we’re supposed to be concerned about, to torture ourselves over, things over which we have absolutely no control. If we did as the Progressives demand, nothing would ever get done, the economy would collapse, people would starve to death or die of otherwise treatable diseases because there are no medicines available and...well, you get the idea.
It’s time to show the Progressive obsession with trivialities for what they are – absurdities worthy only of being ridiculed and then ignored. We all have more important things to deal with in our lives. Maybe our Progressive brothers and sisters need to do likewise.
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The latest victim of Get Woke, Go Broke?
HBO-Max.
In the rush to elevate anyone shouting about the evils of white people, HBO Max is littered with basement garbage that looks like the work of college students laboring on public access TV.HBO-Max rolled to the Left and has seen its subscriber numbers falling off, just like so many other corporations and organizations that preceded it. Pandering to a small percentage of their customer base at the expense of the majority is always a losing proposition. It has been proven again and again over the past few years, yet the corporate C-level executives choose to ignore the lessons of those who went before them and then suffer the same fate.
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And speaking of Going Woke (and likely going to go broke), it looks like Victoria’s Secret has been infected with the ‘woke’ virus.
One has to wonder what the folks at Victoria’s Secret are thinking. Haven’t they seen the outcome of other businesses when they went ‘woke’? Is it something they truly believe they should do, or is it just yet another example of corporate virtue signaling? In either case, it isn’t going to help them, particularly in light of their already falling sales numbers. At worse, this will merely hasten their fall into bankruptcy.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the weather has been great, the lake keeps beckoning, and where the rumble of motorcycles is fading away.