Thoughts On A Sunday

I was out making a quick trip to our local Walmart to pick up a couple of things I needed to help my friend I mentioned in yesterday’s post when I ran across Skip of GraniteGrok fame. He was doing some grocery shopping with his grandson when he spotted me and wondered what I was doing there on a Saturday afternoon. (As I have mentioned more than once in TOAS, I tend to do my Walmart shopping Sunday mornings prior to church. So me being there on a day other the Sunday was unusual.)

As I was driving to and from my usual Sunday Walmart shopping run, I saw that much of the ice that had formed on the lake during the sub-zero temperatures a couple of weekend ago was gone. There were still sections here and there that had a thin skin of ice, but there were large swaths of open water. This is going to be one of those few winters where the lake never freezes over entirely. I can think of three occasions over the past 20+ years when Lake Winnipesaukee did not freeze over entirely, so it is not an unprecedented event. Of course the Climate Change Faithful will point to it as yet more proof the Earth’s climate is warming. If the failure of the lake to freeze over had occurred only over the period of the past 20-some years, I might agree. But history shows numerous winters where the lake didn’t freeze over entirely over the past 150 years or so.

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Skip at GraniteGrok (mentioned above) has posted about the logic we use up here in New England to decide whether or not it’s time to turn on the heat in our homes. Considering the cost of heating oil, propane, and natural gas, the decision can seriously affect our bank balances, so it’s something we take seriously. If the house is heated with wood, the decision is more about when it’s time to put more wood in the stove.

As I think I’ve written before, back when I was working for Digital Equipment Corp (“DEC”), I was transferred to Honolulu for a 3 month stint. I remember a couple of days after arriving that the morning was around 65 degrees F when I got up for work. Coming from a few weeks of 10-28 degrees, this was SPRING TIME! Just a polo shirt and khaki pants.

The locals were walking about in puffy down jackets. Quite the contrast.

The above also ties in with my post from yesterday.

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Richard Fernandez reminds us (and the Progressives and their ‘followers’) what Communism is all about and how it’s been a dismal failure everywhere it’s been tried.

It’s really amazing how Communism, even after killing hundreds of millions of people on the past 100 years and ruining every country it ever ruled – without exception – can routinely take the moral high ground and unfailingly strike the pose of the movement of tomorrow.

That some of our young people think communism, or it’s slightly less destructive sibling – socialism – will solve ‘problems’ that aren’t really problems shows they have never cracked open a history book and have absolutely no understanding of human nature. If they had, they would be running away from those related genocidal ideologies as fast as they could.

Communism and socialism go after the ignorant young because they have no basis to make any judgments about whether or not what they’re being told is BS or not, makes any sense or not, will work or not. They’re gullible, inexperienced, and have little knowledge of the real world. That makes them the perfect target for indoctrination, exploitation, and use as cannon fodder.

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It turns out the ignorant young aren’t the only ones supporting Progressive ideology. The willfully ignorant white liberals aren’t much different than the indoctrinated youth, particularly since they don’t have to deal with the fallout of destructive Progressive legislation, regulations, and programs.

My good friend Harrison Finberg — OK, OK, I’ve never actually met him, but we can be good friends on Twitter these days — noted this tweet from Philly First Ward, the Democratic Executive Committee in Philadelphia’s First Ward. We have previously noted the mayoral candidacy of Helen Gym Flaherty,[1] one of the furthest left of the ever-growing list of hopefuls, whom The Philadelphia Inquirer described as a “longtime activist who is typically aligned with the Democratic Party’s left wing”. Mrs Flaherty’s campaign website is full of the usual ‘progressive’ bromides, but, at least as of this writing, there’s no actual issues page, telling the city’s voters — of which I am not one — what she would actually do, other than those bromides, in office if elected.

While she says that she will fight “gun violence,” what she doesn’t want to do is fight the criminals who use guns. I guess that’s not much of a surprise, since ‘progressives’ seem to think that guns simply levitate and shoot people all by themselves.

As long as none of the laws and policies put forward negatively affect them they don’t care what their Progressive politicians do to others that are not “them”.

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First, it’s Elizabeth Warren. Then it’s Rachel Dolezal. Now it’s Raquel Evita Saraswati.

What do they all have in common?

They are all liberal white women who claimed ethnicity they don’t have.

Elizabeth ‘Fauxcahontas’ Warren claimed Native American heritage. She doesn’t have a single drop of blood that allows here to make that claim.

Rachel Dolezal claimed to be of African American heritage. But like Warren, she has no such genetic heritage.

The latest is Raquel Evita Saraswati who claimed to be a “queer, Muslim, multiethnic woman.” However she, like Warren and Dolezal, is not what she said she is.

But now it has come to light that contrary to her claims, she is infected with the Left’s original sin: Raquel Evita Saraswati was born Rachel Elizabeth Seidel, and is as white as the native population of Switzerland.

And so it continues.

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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the ice is receding, the skiers are still coming to hit the slopes on this holiday weekend, and where I do not have the holiday off.