I was up two hours later, getting ready for the day. (I was attending a Ham Fest, a gathering of amateur radio enthusiasts buying and selling used ham radios as well as parts and accessories, which was taking place about an hour away from The Gulch.) By the time I departed for the gathering the rains had stopped. By the time I’d arrived at the Ham Fest the clouds had broken up and the sun was out. It turned out to such a nice day - warm and sunny – that I was not about to complain.
Katy was dog-sitting for her son and was also able to take advantage of the unexpectedly great weather with a lengthy walk with the dog during the afternoon.
Cooler temps are on their way, with the same Weather GuysTM telling us they will be more seasonable. (We haven’t even had our first frost yet, something that usually takes place around October 11th here at Lake Winnipesaukee.)
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Is it just me or does it seem some of the media pollsters are bending over backwards to make it appear SloJo’s approval ratings are still in positive numbers? Some are going to suffer major bodily injuries if they keep trying to twist reality to meet the narrative as the human body isn’t made to contort itself to that extreme.
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Is there anything left that isn’t racist in this country? Apparently not.
The latest thing that the purported woke ‘anti-racists’ have now declared to be racist?
The two-parent family.
Do you think I’m kidding? Try this one on for size:
Despite its name, the National Council on Family Relations is looking to destroy American families. It claims that the nuclear family – consisting of father, mother, and children – is merely an extension of white supremacy. NCFR has joined with critical race theorists and Black Lives Matter in this outright attack on the foundational values and norms of American culture.So rather than trying to help more families stay together, or to be formed to begin with, these purported ‘experts’ have decided it is better to lower everyone to the lowest common denominator? Yeah, that always works so well.
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According to NCFR, the nuclear family is now a vehicle of “family privilege” – yet another new term – and white supremacy, a “structure” that no longer is viewed as one that nurtures young children, provides them with stability and security, and prepares them for successful and emotionally sound adulthood.
Instead, NCFR now says the family of mom, dad, and kids has mistakenly been upheld as “superior to all others” and “creates systemic barriers to equal opportunity and justice for all families.”
Oh, wait! No it doesn’t!
History has shown again and again that pulling the founding principles of any society down to the lowest common denominator destroys that society. What replaces it is always worse. Barbarism rules as anarchy takes over. Quite often, the very people who helped bring this about become the victims of their creation. (See the French Revolution as but one classic example.)
An endless series of studies show that a family consisting of two parents does better than single-parent families regardless of race. That it was the government that helped create so many single-parent families among minorities by way of the LBJ’s Great Society reforms is ironic. It was white liberals who pushed the very programs that destroyed minority families. Now another group of liberals..er...Progressives are working to spread that destruction of their own making, yet blaming two-parent families of all races for spreading white supremacy?
What they need is a good, hard punch to the face.
Or they need to be sterilized so they don’t reproduce and have a racist white supremacist family of their own.
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Which state in the US is the safest state in 2021?
According to FBI crime statistics, that state is New Hampshire.
This is the second year in a row that my home state has been the safest state. It has exchanged this title with neighboring states Maine and Vermont over the years, with the three swapping 1st, 2nd, and 3rd safest states. Maine holds the 2nd spot for 2021. However, this year another state has usurped 3rd place, supplanting Vermont in the standings. That state?
New Jersey.
Fourth is decent overall, but Vermont used to rub shoulders with and even surpass New Hampshire on these sorts of surveys, and I doubt we’ll be saying any more of that because of places like ultra-liberal Burlington.How is it the Democrats can’t make the connection between defunding/dismantling/hamstringing their law enforcement operations and major jumps in the crime rate? How many times does this Progressive ‘experiment’ need to be run before they realize it has failed miserably? Or is this a deliberate act to undermine the public’s trust in government?
The Green Mountain State’s largest city shows us that even in a state as safe as Vermont, Democrats can screw things up. In the heat of the BLM, protest summer it defunded its police force by 30%.
Property crime in Burlington is now more than double the state average and above the national average. And while this survey – using older FBI data from 2019 – suggests low violent crime – violent crime is now also twice the state average. Assaults have exceeded the national average, while rapes are more than twice the national per-capita rate and the locals are unhappy.
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That hardly sounds like scenic idyllic Vermont because it’s not. It’s incompetently run Burlington, though the city is not alone.
I believe it to be a combination of all three: the inability to make the connection between dismantling law enforcement and a jump in crime rates, ignoring the evidence that proved they were doing the wrong thing, and deliberate actions to ensure violent crime increases.
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At least one US airline has decided to ditch the vaccination mandate.
Delta Airlines made the decision that with a ‘large’ percentage of their workforce already vaccinated, the mandate made no sense. Or as some have put it, Delta caved to pressure from their still unvaccinated employees, seeing what’s been happening to Southwest Airlines and American Airlines.
In any case, it seems Delta is telling both Biden and Fauci to “suck it”.
How many other companies will be willing to do the same thing?
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where fall temperatures have arrived (sort of), leaves have been falling from the trees in increasing numbers, and where we’re nearing the peak of foliage colors.