It also helped that it was cool this morning though we did lose the sun about an hour into our cleanup. Temps only made it into the mid-50’s today and should be in the low 60’s tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll get a chance to make it out on the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout for a quick jaunt on the lake.
We’re about a week away from the peak of fall foliage and I am hoping one of my last trips out on the lake this season will will be next weekend at peak foliage. It’s not a bad way to close out the boating season.
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Just when I though AOC couldn’t get any stupider I find proof to the contrary. Does anyone else need any more proof of her absolute cluelessness?
(H/T tricknologist)
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With Putin threatening use of nukes if he doesn’t get his way in Ukraine, there’s one question only a few of us are asking, that being “Have the Russians maintained their nuclear weapons any better than the rest of their military equipment?”
If I had to guess, and I do, I’d have to say the answer is ‘no’.
Maintaining nukes is not the same as maintaining tanks, trucks, planes, ships, artillery, guns, and so on. It takes highly trained and capable specialists with equipment that you won’t find at your local maintenance depot to maintain a nuclear warhead in operational condition. Nukes don’t like sitting around in storage for years on end without maintenance. Considering the state of maintenance of the rest of Russia’s military equipment which is easier to maintain than nukes, I’d be surprised if more than 20% of all their nukes might work. Do the Russians know which of their warheads might work?
The same is true of many of the delivery systems. How many warheads and their delivery systems can be considered operational?
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The claim keeps being made that renewables are the cheapest form of energy. However, it seems that manufacturers of renewable energy systems in Europe are struggling to survive the soaring energy prices.
It’s ironic considering Europe has made itself so dependent upon renewables which haven’t been able to meet demand and aren’t likely to do so any time in the future, particularly now that the renewables manufacturers are teetering on the edge. One, like French solar module manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies has had to shut down its factory because of rising energy prices as well as increasing costs and taxes on materials. According to a Maxeon spokesman, they could no longer compete in the European market.
How many other manufacturers and suppliers are in the same position?
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Then there’s this:
It seems that Tokyo has seen no warming in 34 years.
34 years.
There’s another Japanese location, the island of Hachijojima has an automated weather station that shows a similar lack of warming, but for 47 years.
I’ll bet that if we looked at pristine weather stations in the US we’d see something similar.
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Yeah, this is going to go over well with already over-burdened California residents.
They have already been told they will be forced to buy EVs they can’t afford and won’t be able to charge. Now they’re being told the overbearing California government is going to start reducing available parking spaces.
How wonderful that moonbats like Newsom are improving the weather by leaving you with no place to park. Maybe this sudden commitment to reducing housing costs will motivate California Democrats to lighten up with the repressive regulations that have driven them into the stratosphere.What will Californians do? If I had to guess, they’ll park their non-EVs in states other than California.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the leaves are still turning, the leaf peepers are showing up in increasing numbers, and this Monday is a holiday.