This past week as seen some changes, with one of the biggest ones being BeezleBub’s departure from the farm he’s worked for over the past 16 years. While I do not know the details behind his departure, I am not going ask him or his former employers. That’s between them. He started a new job this past Tuesday, one that has him spending most of his time outdoors, something he prefers. He figured he needed a break from farming for a while. One of the nice things is that he can use his experience running heavy equipment at the farm at his new job.
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Is Newt Gingrich right that the Fulton County DA’s office was pressured into indicting Trump as a distraction, a way to pull attention away from Special Counsel David Weiss’s screw up?
Knowing how the Biden Administration works, I’d have to say the likely answer is “Yes”.
It’s just another in a string of actions taken that show me the Administration (or WRBA) is doing its best to whittle away one Constitutional Right after another. One of the more recent actions taken by the Administration is the ATF pulling the licenses of hundreds of gun shops “amid [a] Biden administration crackdown”. The ATF never said why those firearm dealers licenses were revoked. It also appears the gun shops weren’t informed why either. To me and many others this is a backhanded way to squash the Second Amendment. But then we know WRBA has no use for the Bill of Rights as we’ve been seeing efforts to whittle away at the First Amendment, the latest effort bymaking normal political activities criminal. Goodness knows the Democrats want to make all political activities and speech by Republicans a criminal act as a means of keeping Democrats in power, something John Yoo, a law professor at Berkeley, and John Shu, an attorney, both say “is very, very dangerous.”
In their quest to sink Donald Trump, state prosecutors have expanded the criminal law dangerously far into the realm of politics, and have threatened legitimate First Amendment activity. District Attorney Fani Willis' use of the Georgia Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ("RICO") Act to charge a political campaign with conducting a criminal enterprise makes innocent political activity into fodder for prosecutors, all without providing defendants a clear guide as to what conduct violates the law. While Democrats may cheer Willis on in her effort to convict Trump and his hodgepodge of allies who sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election, their triumph may turn to regret when Republican prosecutors turn these tools on their own political campaigns.In other words they are warning Democrats that “What goes around comes around”.
I have a feeling the warning will be ignored because too many of the Democrats figure it doesn’t apply to them...or they think they will have total control of everything so only their political opponents will have to worry about having their doors kicked in and being hauled away to the gulags.
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For once it seems Europe is ahead of the US when it comes to Green Energy, in this case “putting the brakes on it” because they’re finding that it isn’t all that green, it’s expensive, it can’t meet the energy needs of the EU, and the overly ambitious emissions goals can’t possibly be met.
. . . Britain and the European Union have pledged to go “net zero” by 2050, with steep cuts by 2030. But across Europe — where this summer has brought brutal heat waves and raging fires in the Mediterranean region—a backlash is simmering against some of the world’s most ambitious green targets.Things went very wrong in Europe the deeper they got into Green Energy. Electricity rationing, insufficient heating in the winter, and in light of the hotter than normal summer, insufficient cooling (mostly fans since A/C isn’t all that common across Europe), has shown Green Energy can’t meet the energy demands. Then add in the overly ambitious emissions regulations and things will become increasingly worse.
Last week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak traveled to Scotland to announce with a big splash his decision to open the North Sea to more oil and gas drilling.
. . . . Sunak’s gambit to commit to more domestic drilling was inspired in part by the results of a one-off parliamentary election in the London suburbs—for the seat that former prime minister Boris Johnson abandoned when he quit the House of Commons. There, voters signaled they were opposed to the pollution charges ordered up by London Mayor Sadiq Khan, from the opposition Labour Party, to limit the number of petrol cars allowed into the central city.
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. . . The proposed Euro 7 regulation [which tightens vehicle emission limits on nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide] was “clearly wrong” and not even helpful from an environmental pint [sic] of view, said Italy’s Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the League coalition party in Italy’s right-wing government.
“Italy, with France, Czech Republic, Romania, Portugal, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary, has the numbers to block this leap in the dark,” Salvini said during an automotive dealer conference in Verona.
“We’re now a blocking minority, we want to become a majority,” he added.
European carmakers have been fighting back against the proposed emission regulations they argue are too costly, rushed and unnecessary. The European Commission says are needed to cut harmful emissions and prevent a repeat of the Dieselgate scandal.
Is it any wonder European nations are backing away from it? Sweden has already abandoned Green Energy and is going nuclear. I have to wonder if Germany will recommission its nuclear power plants it shut down, particularly in light of the coal plants Germany has been forced to use to make up any generating capacity deficit.
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It seems ‘woke’ is losing its luster, is in decline, and becoming passé.
It’s about time.
The original meaning devolved into something closer to ‘delusional’ as so many of the present day ‘woke’ become offended over all kinds of things, usually on the behalf of people they think should be offended by “This, That, and the Other Thing”...and become offended by those on whose behalf they are being offended because they aren’t offended. Like I said, they are delusional.
Sultan Knish has his take on ‘woke’:
‘Woke’, the term, peaked in 2020. In 2017, it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary and appeared as a category on Jeopardy. Next year, Essence magazine announced its list of ‘Woke 100 Women’. In 2020, Disney’s Hulu aired ‘Woke’:, a tedious series about a college activist.Indeed. Now that ‘woke’ is a loser of a term, I’m sure they’ll come up with a new one that will become as equally reviled.
By 2023, wokeness has come to mean leftist extremism. It’s most often used by Republicans and hardly ever by Democrats who act baffled at the idea that there was ever such a thing as wokeness. Much like ‘Defund the Police’, a set of sounds that once defined lefty culture, has been flushed down the memory hole and everyone is pretending they never heard of it.
“That word has been taken,” Erin Jones, a DEI consultant who charges $1,000 an hour for her workshops, admitted. “There’s no good way to use that term. I think it’s been so weaponized at this point that there was not a positive way to use the word ‘woke.’”
What happened to ‘Woke’ is the same thing that once happened to ‘Liberal’. Conservatives seized on it and used it to sum up everything wrong with leftist extremism. Before long, no one wanted to identify as a liberal because it meant being seen as a lunatic fighting for sex ed for kids, free needles for addicts, political correctness in the office and surrendering to enemies.
Leftist support for these policies never went away, but leftism underwent a rebrand.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where summer is trying to hang on, the summerfolk are starting to dwindle away the closer we get to Labor Day, and school up here starts after Labor Day weekend...just like the old days.