I haven’t seen anything like this for a number of years, the last time being 2007 when there had been so much rain and snow melt during spring that many docks on Lake Winnipesaukee were under water and there was a lot of debris floating in the lake. Going at anything above headway speed would have caused erosion along the shores and also put boats in jeopardy if they hit any of the floating debris.
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Speaking of the heat and humidity, whenever I hear the media crowing about temperatures across the globe being the highest on record, I cringe. As I said to the youngest WP Sister (who is visiting The Gulch this weekend), “on record” doesn’t really mean much because those records go back about 160 years, a proverbial ‘blink of an eye’ in meteorological time. The ‘record’ doesn’t include the Little Ice Age, the Medieval Warm Period, or the Roman Warm Period, the two warm periods being warmer than the present “highest temperatures on record”. Hence the cringe whenever the media makes that claim. But then, it’s the media’s job to support the Climate Change narrative no matter what.
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Have you noticed there are times when the ‘woke’ would be better served by saying nothing but can’t help themselves, and by opening their mouths end up having karma slap them in the face?
This has been seen recently when Ben & Jerry’s released a statement “calling for the return of ‘stolen indigenous land’ in the United States.” It didn’t take long before that statement came back to bite them.
If Ben & Jerry’s wants to really put its money where its mouth is, it would give back the land upon which Ben & Jerry’s headquarters is built. In fact, that’s what members of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation are calling for.Is Ben & Jerry’s serious, or were they just virtue signaling?
“We are always interested in reclaiming the stewardship of our lands throughout our traditional territories and providing opportunities to uplift our communities,” Chief Don Stevens of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation told Newsweek when asked if his tribe would like to see the land returned.
My thought - They were virtue signaling and were figuring it would have to be others who would have to give back the indigenous lands, if at all. They weren’t expecting the Abenaki to call their bluff. What has Ben & Jerry’s done in response to the Abenaki’s response?
Absolutely nothing.
I think that would be the definition of hypocrisy.
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If we needed yet another sign that Portland, Oregon needs to be destroyed, this is it:
Portland Govt Tells Staff Not to Say ‘Pregnant Women’, ‘Breast Feeding’ and ‘Citizens’ in “Woke” Language Directive
As Portland struggles to manage crime and an increase in homelessness, city staff members are being told to adopt a more “culturally conscious” vocabulary that includes not using words such as “women,” “Caucasian” or “citizen.”I wonder how long it will take them to force languages with gendered words like Spanish or French, just to name two, to create gender neutral words to replace them. Yeah, I’m sure that will go over well with the millions and millions of people who speak those languages. I expect the response to such demands will be along the lines of “¡Oh diablos, no!” and “Oh putain non !”
The Office of Equity and Human Rights pushed an Inclusive Writing Guide in June as part of a “city-wide collaboration” to alter commonly used terms that they feel have evolved.
The guide suggested removing femininity from terms commonly used for women, including replacing “pregnant women” with “pregnant people” to be inclusive of those “who have this experience [pregnancy] but do not identify as women.”
Portland officials also advised staffers to “instead of women’s health rights, say reproductive rights, instead of feminine hygiene products, say menstrual products or period products, and instead of breastfeeding, say chest feeding.”
Have you noticed that the “inclusive, non-offensive” language is neither inclusive or non-offensive. It offends me to no end. It offends a very large percentage of the population all in the name of not offending an extremely small percentage of the population, many of whom could care less.
The only safe option is to nuke Portland from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure we destroy the xenomorphs running the city.
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Is Hollywood finally waking up to the fact the DEI, a racist, leftist, anti-American movement that poisons everything it touches is a loser when it comes to the bottom line? Are they learning the lesson so many other woke corporations have learned, that being “Get woke, go broke”? Or are they gonna stay stupid?
An example of what’s happening:
Hollywood is suffering “diversity fatigue”, insiders have said, after four leading inclusion executives left high-profile roles in the space of 10 days.Studios can only afford to lose money for so long before they go bankrupt or the shareholders start firing people on the Board and telling C-level executives they should “seek employment elsewhere”. Considering the stinkers that have been coming out of Hollywood for the past few years, the moviegoers staying away from the theaters in droves, and even streaming revenues for these stinkers in the cellar, is it any wonder that at least some of Hollywood has decided ‘woke’ isn’t working. Like what happened back in the 1970’s, Hollywood’s ‘message’ movies are box office bombs. Hollywood learned the lesson back then and stopped making them. The movie industry started making money again. Hopefully they’ll learn the lesson this time, too. If they don’t, they won’t be around too much longer.
The departures came at three major studios and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Commentators in Hollywood suggested it showed “diversity fatigue” and it led to complaints that the entertainment industry was not fully committed to implementing inclusivity policies.
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Among those leaving was Disney’s chief diversity officer Latondra Newton.
Her job was to produce entertainment that “reflects a global audience and sustain a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone”.
Disney has produced one bomb after another, losing something like $900 million on its last eight releases. Disney’s losing streak is generally attributed to its left-wing, “woke” ideology. Are companies still trying to fulfill their legal duty to make money for their shareholders? If so, heads needed to roll at Disney.
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee where the weather is weird, the summerfolk are weirder, and I’m actually glad Monday is returning for once.