On two different occasions, once yesterday and once today, I had folks who were obviously “from away” asking me for advice of where they might go for great views of the foliage and I obliged them. However, I did not point them to places where folks from here would go. We’ve got to keep those places to ourselves. (As a note, for some of us all we have to do is look out of our windows to see wonderful views. I wish I could say that was true here at The Gulch, but my home doesn’t have that kind of view. The home I am hoping to build, tentatively named The Redoubt, will have great views of some of the surrounding mountains.)
There was one downside to the weekend, that being I found the batteries on the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout were run down, making it impossible to start the engine. I had to pull one of the batteries out, bring it home and connect it to a battery charger I borrowed from BeezleBub, then take the battery back and install it, start the engine, then change the battery switch to charge to second battery. The cause of this problem comes down to two simple things: we haven’t used the boat much this season and the batteries are getting a bit long in the tooth. If they get me through the next couple of weeks, I’ll see about replacing them next spring.
Oh, I almost forgot. The Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout will be coming out of the water in two more weeks. It isn’t the latest I’ve pulled the boat out of the water by any means, that being November 9th one year, but it’s right around the time my boating season usually ends.
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Iran is seeing increasing unrest, something that has been taking place over the past 5 weeks, with the latest incident taking place at Evin Prison where a large majority of anti-regime protesters are being held.
Is this a sign that the Iranian people have had just about enough of the theocratic regime that has ruled Iran since 1979? The increasing unrest seems like a mirror image of the unrest that took place back in 1979 which helped bring the Ayatollah Khomeini to power, deposing Shah Reza Pahlavi. The fundamentalist rule has gotten increasingly repressive and the people are no longer afraid to voice their displeasure with the regime.
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Any of you who have been reading my blog know my feelings about the ‘woke’, likening their beliefs to untreated cases of mental illness. Mark Judge goes a step farther, relating it to a form of narcissism and referencing the book The Culture Of Narcissism which certainly explains the woke and why they are the way they are.
The nature of the Left in 2022 is rooted more in psychology than political science. Specifically, liberalism is suffering from narcissism.There’s also this take on the issue, courtesy of Instapundit commenter No Feelings:
To understand how, it’s essential to grasp the true meaning of narcissism. In its clinical definition, narcissism is not self-love — it’s the opposite. The narcissist isn’t full of ego. Rather, he has no real sense of self. Where the self would be is emptiness, which results in a mad effort to fill the psyche with meaning. Lacking a stable and confident sense of identity, the narcissist hunts for meaning in therapy, self-help, sex, or radical politics. None of these can give meaning to empty lives.
What I find ironic is that a large majority of the woke are not from the disadvantaged socio-economic demographics, but from upper middle-class and upper class upbringings. It seems they think they have to make other people’s lives fit what they define as ‘right and proper’ even though that definition goes against human nature. It also allows them to virtue signal their ‘superior’ viewpoints and beliefs. That most people see that virtue signaling as something to be devoutly ignored drives the wokerati to make their ‘inferiors’ care. This led to the so-called “Cancel Culture” which has damaged many lives, many careers, many businesses, and many communities. That Cancel Culture is now being targeted for cancellation is a sign that everyone else has had enough of their twisted nonsense.
It’s time to get these narcissists into treatment and to undo the damage they have done.
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This shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s been paying attention.
It seems CNN is upset that the American people are more concerned with rampant inflation rather than the January 6th investigations. Could it be that the American people have a better sense of what’s important than CNN does? Could it be that the American people know the ‘importance’ of January 6th is nothing but yet another form of TDS?
I’ve seen a lot of hypocritical headlines, infuriating headlines, stupid headlines, and manipulative headlines, but this is probably the most pathetic headline I’ve seen recently. It’s tragic, really. You can practically hear the disappointment and frustration in this headline: “Voters may care more about the cost of French fries than January 6 panel’s compelling evidence.”The things that the media and their DNC masters think are important are entirely different from what a majority of the American people obviously think are important. That’s not really any different than it was over 20 years ago, but the people are more cognizant of the fact that the media are not their friends.
Y’all, the people who are in trouble for the events at the Capitol on January 6th should certainly be punished for their crimes. Which are probably mostly trespassing related, if we’re being entirely honest. Does it deserve a year and a half of investigation by a special committee of lawmakers who have far more important things they should be doing for the American people? No. It doesn’t.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the weather has been great, the latest crop of campaign signs are growing like weeds, and where the fall foliage is spectacular.