All in all, it was a dreary day, weather-wise. But otherwise it was a good day.
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It is getting closer to Christmas and the pre-Christmas craziness is ramping up. It can be seen in the eyes of desperate shoppers, looking for the ‘perfect’ gift for family and friends and finding the supply chain issues have thwarted their search.
I am feeling a similar desperation, but not because of Christmas shopping. Rather, it is based on the fact that this coming week is my last week working prior to vacation. I am trying to get three weeks worth of work done this week before taking two weeks of vacation. It doesn’t help that work is seeing the annual ‘End-of-the-Year’ crush of customers using up the last of their capital equipment money before the end of the year. We also have annual processes we have to go through starting December every year. I am hoping to get them all done by this coming Friday.
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The Progressives are pushing their Green Energy ‘ideology’ hard, knowing their window of opportunity may be closing. So they are doing everything they can do to destroy the existing energy infrastructure, block green energy infrastructure that we know work, push green energy infrastructure we know can’t possibly provide the energy a modern 21st century civilization needs. It might provide just enough energy to keep our Progressive elite in the 21st century. The rest of us will be out of luck.
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Speaking of Green Energy ideology, there’s this from Watts Up With That showing how Green Energy is not so green after all, particularly when it comes to the ecological damage green energy projects cause all in the of Saving The Planet.
Green supporters of renewable energy are horrified at the devastation construction has wrought on pristine Cairns wilderness.This is something that is ignored with a number of green energy projects: The amount of land that will have to be cleared for those projects. The worst offenders are the solar energy projects which can require clearing square miles of forests in those areas that are heavily forested, like we see in the Northeast. Windfarms cause their own havoc between wildlife kills, infrasound and light-flicker health effects and the damage excavation for service roads, wind turbine bases, transmission lines, control buildings cause over such a wide area.
The wind farms angering renewable energy fans.
In the ranges behind Cairns, bushland is being cleared in the name of climate action. It’s pitting eco warriors against green energy projects.
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Talk about the Law of Unintended Consequences coming into play!
The Push For Electric Vehicles Is Causing Massive Deforestation And Environmental Damage.
A major nickel mine in a Philippines rainforest has continued to expand, mowing down acres of trees as global demand for minerals essential for electric vehicle manufacturing surges.This is but one area where the efforts to prevent climate change are doing far more damage than climate change could. Many of the materials needed to make EVs come from mines. Expanding mining a couple of orders of magnitude to meet the demands for materials required by EVs will cause environmental damage on an unimaginable scale. This is something proponents of EVs are either ignorant about or are willfully ignoring. If I had to guess I’d say it’s a combination of both.
The Rio Tuba mine in the region of Palawan supplies an important mineral for electric vehicle batteries in Tesla and Toyota cars, but the mine is nearing an expansion that would cause it to grow from four square miles to 14 square miles, according to an NBC News investigation. The growth of the mine would cause massive deforestation of the land which environmentalists warn could destroy the area’s ecosystem.
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As I mentioned two weeks ago, The Powers That Be are subtlypushing the narrative that the Omicron variant may be the next Black Plague, giving them an excuse to impose the same useless but damaging ‘precautions’ that didn’t work the last time, further crippling our economy.
However, that narrative is going to be a tough sell. The WHO is reporting that so far the Omicron variant is nowhere near as severe as the previous variants and has, at this point, recorded no deaths from this variant. None.
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How demented is California Governor-For-Life Gavin Newsom?
This demented.
Newsom asked his staff, the state legislature, and Democrat attorney general to craft a bill that “would create a right of action allowing private citizens to seek injunctive relief, and statutory damages of at least $10,000 per violation plus costs and attorney’s fees, against anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in the State of California.”Justice Clarence Thomas made the same point, asking the plaintiffs’ attorney where the right to abortion is found in the Constitution during the recent Texas abortion law case.
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State Sen. Brian Dahle, a Republican from rural northeast California, opposes the plan, and believes it’s a stunt for Newsom to gain praise from his radical base ahead of a possible run for president.
“The right to bear arms is different than the right to have an abortion,” Dahle explained. “The right to have an abortion is not a Constitutional amendment. So I think he’s way off base.”
Firearms, and the right to bear them, are specifically mentioned in the Bill of Rights and enshrined in the Constitution, whereas abortion is mentioned nowhere.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee where further preparations are being made for Christmas, Christmas shopping continues apace, and where Christmas will get here sooner than we think.