The roads are slick, hence our church canceling in-person services and resorting to an online church service this morning.
But wait, there’s more!
It looks like all of this precipitation will be changing to rain sometime tonight with some of it being heavy. I have no doubt the snow and sleet will all be melted and washed away by tomorrow’s rains.
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What happens when men are denigrated, marginalized, stuck with nonsensical “toxic masculinity” accusations, told they aren’t needed, are blamed for all the ills in the world, and deemed expendable in this modern world?
For some men it means nothing. They soldier on, ignoring the vicious and ignorant diatribes. For others it means they see themselves as nothing but a burden and withdraw from society. And for others, it means they see themselves as useless and they end themselves, slowly through drug and alcohol abuse or quickly through suicide. What’s worse is that some of the more vacuous members of our crumbling society see it as a good thing.
What many of those vacuous members seem to overlook is that without men, modern civilization and all its amenities will die. As one commenter on the linked post explained it:
What amuses me is how many modern women believe the trope that "they don't need men."The willful blindness about these issues both baffles and disappoints me. This is something that can come back to bite those same ‘vacuous members’ in the butt.
But then their car breaks down or a pipe springs a leak or their house needs a new roof or...well, you get the idea. They also don't seem to understand that it is those 'men they don't need' that make their comfy lives possible, that build and maintain the infrastructure upon which they are totally dependent.
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Could it be that preventing and treating Parkinson’s Disease is as simple as taking extra B vitamins?
Researchers have suspected for some time that the link between our gut and brain plays a role in the development of Parkinson's disease.It’s seems to be turning out that a number of degenerative diseases may be tied to the human gut biome. If Parkinson’s can be prevented or treated via nutrition, be it by supplements or a change in diet or both, then this is groundbreaking.
A recent study identified gut microbes likely to be involved and linked them with decreased riboflavin ( vitamin B2) and biotin (vitamin B7), pointing the way to an unexpectedly simple treatment that may help: B vitamins.
"Supplementation of riboflavin and/or biotin is likely to be beneficial in a subset of Parkinson's disease patients, in which gut dysbiosis plays pivotal roles," Nagoya University medical researcher Hiroshi Nishiwaki and colleagues wrote in their paper published in May 2024.
There has also been some connection suggested between gut biome and Alzheimer’s. If that is also the case then we might see the scourge and heartbreak of Alzheimer’s disappear.
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Oh, yeah, this will be a winning team for the Democrats to push an increasingly Socialist agenda.
There are just some things so ridiculous they defy parody. Putting 83-year-old-shakes-fists-at-clouds, communist Bernie Sanders or finds-math-hard AOC as the new face of the Democratic Party for 2028 is even beyond The Babylon Bee’s imagination.So, the cabal that runs the DNC has decided to double and triple down on a narrative that a growing number of Democrats are rejecting, figuring that somehow it will return them to power? As I have asked before, will the Democrat Party end up going the way of the Whigs?
Who knew this Marxist interpretation of Burns and Allen would be traveling the nation on an “Embrace Covetousness Tour” so soon after the majority of citizens made it clear that it rejects Leftwing ideology which, over the last several decades, has made life worse for proletariat while delivering goodies to the Inner Party.
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The AOC/Bernie populism goes about promoting values — like males can be women by declaring it — that an overwhelming majority, even among Democrats, reject.
Kinda puts lie to populism, eh?
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It seems that Germany is suddenly taking military spending and readiness seriously. Is it the Trump Effect?
During his first term, President Donald Trump was mocked when he wanted our European allies to spend more on their defense while relying less on Russian energy. Ironically, After Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, many European countries moved in the direction Trump tried to get them to move years earlier. Conversations about Europe in the leaked text did not appear to be what Europe wanted to hear either. The Europeans may be starting to get the message that they need to increase their own capabilities instead of taking advantage of their arrangement with the US.Germany has increased military spending, meeting the 2% of GDP required under NATO and slowly exceeding that amount. It has also been providing more military equipment and armaments to Ukraine. The first is something that Trump brought up during his first term, castigating our European allies for not meeting their military spending commitments and coming to depend increasingly on the US military umbrella and the US taxpayers that pay for it all. It looks like that is coming to an end as other NATO nations have been increasing their military spending and readiness as well.
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So, how did the “We Hate Elon And Tesla” protests on Saturday go for the Left?
Not so great.
The left built up March 29th as some epic, anti-Elon Musk, anti-Tesla day of rage… The so called “protests” turned out to be complete and total flops.. Not only was attendance at these hate rallies much lower than the left was expecting, but these bone headed communists needed to read their chants off large font scripts, you know like Hollywood liberal actors.. What a complete and total failure!Not that I really expected there to be a big turnout or the effects the Left was hoping for. It looks like the whole thing can be summed up with one word:
“Meh.”
‘Nuff said…
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the rain has been just rain for the past few minutes, the ice has melted away on the trusty RAM 1500, and where Monday is returning...again.