One thing that needs to be done around The Gulch is removal of all of the leaves. They have piled up and even with the efforts of yours truly and my neighbors, there are still far too many to pick up. We do have a landscaper that is supposed to be here with leaf blowers and leaf vacuums to pick up the above average crop of leaves, but so far they haven’t made an appearance. I just hope they’ll get things cleaned up before the first snowfall.
An upcoming event that will help prepare for winter is the trusty RAM 1500’s trip to the body shop. I am trying to stay ahead of the rust, hence the trip to the body shop. This time it will be for two new front fenders as the body shop owners said they could repair them, but that I’d be back in a couple of years to have it done again. While a little more expensive to have them replaced, they should be good for another 10 years. Next year it will be some body work at the rear of the truck next to the tail gate. That should do it for rust.
After its trip to the body shop it will be going to have its annual undercoating taken care of to help hold the rust at bay. I am hoping to get another 10 years out of the pickup. At least it is in good mechanical shape, but then I have been staying on top of the maintenance. About the only thing that will need to be replaced any time in the next few years will be the tires...I hope.
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As a follow up to yesterday’s post there’s this from Ed Driscoll: We Need A Mental Health Checkup On Millions Of American Leftists.
Is something I thought was a send up actually a reflection of reality? Just how many on the Left have had a mental meltdown over the results of the November 5th election?
If this is for real then we have a bigger problem than I thought. What’s worse is that we may not have the mental health resources to deal with it.
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In light of the blatant and violent antisemitism shown in Amsterdam, I have to agree with Datechguy: This is why we need the 2nd Amendment.
This morning I woke to the news that there were folks in Amsterdam who used the excuse of a soccer match to start a pogrom against Jews:I’ve heard some people state “That could never happen here”. They’re wrong. We’ve already seen examples of blatant institutional antisemitism in our colleges and universities. It isn’t all that far for that antisemitism turn into violence, to become another pogrom.
They’re beaten, kicked, run over, thrown in the river. In one instance, a fan was reportedly held against his will until he said ‘Free Palestine’. When terrorist sympathizers chant globalize the intifada, this is what it looks like. Every one of these are anti-Jewish hate crimes, plain and simple.The Dutch authorities apparently no longer having the courage or those who fought the Nazis or Michiel de Ruyter are apparently sitting this one out…
Self defense against such violence is a must and why we must preserve, if not strengthen the 2nd Amendment. The Jews in Amsterdam have no such means to protect themselves. Jews in America do.
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Oh, this is going to work out well...NOT!
Reverse-Discrimination and DEI Now Part of NY State Constitution as Proposition 1 Passes.
The Equal Protection Project (EqualProtect.org) was the first to sound the alarm about Part B of Proposition 1 in NY State, the misleadingly-named Equal Rights Amendment. Under the guise of protecting abortion in NY State — which was not threatened — the Democrat legislature added not only a wide swath of new protected categories such as ‘gender expression’ giving rise to concerns about parents’ rights and girls sports (Part A), but also a completely new Part B that embedded core concepts of reverse-discrimination and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into the constitution.That someone thought codifying reverse-discrimination and adding the racist concepts of DEI into a state constitution seemed like a good idea completely baffles me. Do the proponents of New York’s Proposition 1 (Part B) think that SCOTUS will let something like that stand considering it is so blatantly unconstitutional? If I had to guess, those supporting Proposition 1 were mostly in the Metro NYC area and along the I-87 corridor to Albany. Those opposing it were mostly outside that area.
As history has shown us, reverse-discrimination does not solve the problem of discrimination. You don’t solve racism by committing reverse-racism. You stop it by not being racist, period. You stop discrimination by not discriminating.
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And this is the (abbreviated) news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the leaves are piling up...even more, the last few boats are being pulled from the water, and where I’m still recovering from the long long day of Election Day.