Considering the electricity rates here in New Hampshire have been some of the highest in the lower 48 for years, the result of decades of efforts by Watermelon Environmentalists to prevent expansion of the state’s generation capacity...unless it was unreliable, weather-dependent, non-dispatchable and expensive renewable sources, the doubling of our already high rates was adding insult to injury. (We know it’s their plan because they’ve fought tooth and nail against reliable, non-weather dependent, dispatchable and inexpensive sources like hydropower, successfully blocking two different powerline projects that would have brought that inexpensive green energy into the state.)
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What is it that has been causing homes to explode? We had one home here in New Hampshire that blew up (fortunately with no fatalities and only minor injuries) and another home in Indiana that exploded, killing three people and damaged 39 other homes.
Both appear to have been caused by gas leaks. Both had had recent work done to their gas appliances – the first to a stove and the second to a water heater.
I don’t like ‘splody houses. The former Manse used propane, but we never had any issues with the furnace, water heater, emergency generator, or clothes dryer. The Gulch uses oil for heat and hot water and all of the other appliances are electric. (Yes, we do have a generator that will run from gasoline or propane, but it isn’t a standby generator like at the old Manse.)
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Good is Bad. Bad is Good. Black is White. White is Black. Up is Down. Down is Up….
Pro-life proponents are Extremists. And Pro-abortion proponents who assault Pro-life proponents and firebomb their pregnancy centers are the Good Guys.
Notice that it is the folks who have no problem terminating innocent life also have no problems committing acts of violence against those who disagree with them...and have the backing of the Governor of New York while doing so.
What do you expect from worshipers of Moloch?
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How deluded is this?
It looks like an media institution, one dependent upon the Constitution, more specifically the First Amendment, has no use for the Constitution, as a recent op-ed in the New York Times shows us.
In recent years, many liberals have become openly hostile to the Constitution. The present moment in history, with the Democrats controlling the House by the barest of majorities, a 50/50 Senate with a Democratic vice president, and a Democratic president, has heightened liberal frustration with the Constitution. With their hands, for a brief moment at least, on all of the levers of power, why can’t the Democratic Party effect a total transformation of American society?As anyone who has any understanding of human nature knows, the desired “pure democracy by plebiscite” can lead in only one direction – a tyranny of the majority. We’ve seen the results of that before, with the worst being The Reign of Terror. We’ve also been seeing it at the state level, specifically after the Reynolds v Sims and Baker v Carr Supreme Court decisions which created de facto tyrannies of the majority in the states.
To a normal person, that question perhaps answers itself. But check out this op-ed in the New York Times, which is literally one of the stupidest things I have ever read. Its authors are Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn, professors at Harvard Law School and Yale Law School respectively. The op-ed advocates doing away entirely with the Constitution. Why? The authors don’t quite put it this way, but the reason is that the Constitution fails to establish a pure democracy by plebiscite, and makes it difficult to use a transient majority to effect radical change. Those who had a high school civics class understand that this is more or less the point.
Some of those states immediately started using those majorities to marginalize the rural areas, minimizing their power in the state legislatures and reversing the flow of tax revenues, making sure a majority of them left the rural areas to feed the ‘needs’ of the urban areas. All one has to do is look to New York as an example. Upstate New York – defined as any area not part of the Metro New York City area – is virtually invisible to the Metro area and the state government in Albany. The rural areas are getting poorer at the behest of said Metro New York City area with the help of Albany.
Need another example? Then look to California, a state that has done very much the same thing, with the coastal Blue enclaves ruling over the rural and agricultural areas of the state and, like New York, sucking them dry and imposing increasingly harsh regulations which crippled them, affecting both small businesses and agricultural operations.
Bring that to the federal level and I guarantee it would lead to civil war. Maybe that’s what the New York Times wants.
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In light of yesterday’s post about how climate change will be affecting ketchup and salsa, I had to include the latest bit of climate change idiocy.
It appears climate change is causing Muslims in Nigeria to kill their Christian brethren.
Is there nothing climate change can’t do?
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Is the FBI now Joe Biden’s Gestapo?
According to a new Rasmussen poll, a majority of voters believe that is indeed the case.
Up until recently, it would have been unthinkable, but one of the numerous catastrophic consequences of the Biden administration’s reign of terror has been a plummeting of trust in once-revered institutions. Former Trump advisor Roger Stone said it in November 2021: “We have a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden‘s personal Gestapo.”With the FBI acting more like secret police, working at the behest of the Biden Administration, and by extension the DNC, and less like an actual law enforcement agency, is it any wonder the public’s trust in the FBI and other government institutions has been crumbling as each one has become weaponized against the American people?
After the FBI’s raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago, Rasmussen Reports surveyed Americans regarding their attitude toward the FBI and reported on Thursday that “a majority (53%) of voters now agree with Stone’s statement — up from 46% in December — including 34% who Strongly Agree.” That’s an extraordinarily severe credibility problem for the FBI. But will they do anything to correct this impression? Almost certainly not.
Rasmussen noted that their “new national telephone and online survey” found that “44% of Likely U.S. voters say the FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home made them trust the FBI less, compared to 29% who say it made them trust the bureau more. Twenty-three percent (23%) say the Trump raid did not make much difference in their trust of the FBI.”
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the summer heat and humidity have returned, the summer itself is slipping away all too quickly, and where we’ll need to jam in as much summer as we can in the remaining time before it fades into fall.