All in all, it’s been a low key weekend for yours truly and that suits me just fine. However, next weekend will be busy, at least on Saturday, as our town will be having its annual Island Cleanup Day. That’s when island residents can bring their junk to our town docks and the DPW will load that junk into dumpsters and dump trucks, said junk to be hauled away to our dump...er…Solid Waste Center for disposal. You would be surprised to see what comes off of the boats for disposal...or maybe not. But it will be busy at the docks while it’s taking place and yours truly will be there to help with the effort just as I have for the past 8 years or so.
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I have been seeing the laments from the Left about Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show being canceled by CBS when his contract expires next year. Some have claimed it is an entirely political decision to stifle the First Amendment and others that it’s because of the $16 million CBS had to pay Trump as a result of his lawsuit.
But could it be that the viewership just isn’t there and as a result CBS is losing $40 million a year on the show? It doesn’t help that the show has a top heavy staff and a shrinking and aging viewership. (When Colbert took over The Late Show the average age of the viewership was 60 years of age and it’s now 68 years of age.)
Now if we could see the same thing happen to The View on ABC as it is just outright awful and is more deserving of being canceled than Colbert.
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You know it’s bad when NPR had to issue a warning that the Declaration of Independence “contains offensive language.”
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The anti-ICE moonbats are taking their ‘protests’ even farther, this time by slashing the tires in ICE vehicles. In this case the perpetrator was pepper-sprayed and tackled after he slashed the tires of a number of vehicles used by ICE during a raid in California.
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Seeing what has been happening in England over the past few years, one has to wonder if those in charge have been using Orwell’s 1984 as a how-to guide rather than as the warning it was meant to be. This begs the question “There will always be an England, but will it be free?” If things keep going like they have been the answer will be “no”.
Does England mean as much to the ruling establishment as it once did? The words “free” and “freedom” are repeated several times in “There’ll Always Be An England.” That’s the theme, the hope, the conviction: that Britain would triumph because of its native love of freedom.This isn’t going to end well.
How do things look now? Let me introduce you to two recent developments that would have astonished Messrs. Parker and Charles—police tracking of “non-crime hate incidents” and a so-called “banter ban” that is on the threshold of becoming the law of the land.
The practice of recording “non-crime hate incidents” by the police became law in June 2023.
Ponder this:
Where there is no criminal offence, but the person reporting perceives that the incident was motivated wholly or partially by hostility, the incident will be recorded as a non-crime hate incident. Police officers may also identify a non-crime hate incident, even where no victim or witness has done so.--snip--
Just in case the recording of people saying mean or “hostile” things is not enough to stifle free speech, Britain is about to pass a Labour-sponsored law banning hurtful or possibly hurtful “banter” in pubs and other public places.
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It appears the energy problem in the Netherlands is getting worse...and it’s being done on purpose.
The Netherlands is rationing electricity as its overloaded power grid buckles under the pressure of rapid electrification and ambitious climate goals.What’s worse as this is a preview of what awaits Belgium, Britain, and Germany if they stay on the course they’re following. They have become an object lesson, one that we should take to heart. We see what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t work. We have seen that the various solar and wind projects where billions of dollars were poured into them and see them fail, not providing the amount of power promised nor when needed. The energy is expensive, even taking into account the taxpayer subsidies. If these power systems were viable they should be able to do without any taxpayer money once they are online, but too many of them aren’t.
More than 11,900 businesses are stuck in a queue for access to the network, alongside public buildings including hospitals, schools and fire stations.
Thousands of new homes are also waiting to be connected, with some areas warned they may have to wait until the 2030s.
The crisis has emerged as the country scrambles to cut carbon emissions.
And now experts are warning that Britain, as well as Belgium and Germany, are all ‘in trouble.’
The countries should ‘definitely’ see what is happening in the Netherlands as a warning, says Zsuzsanna Pató, from Brussels-based energy think tank RAP.
After shutting down production at the massive Groningen gas field last year, the Dutch government has pushed a fast transition to electric heating, solar power and battery storage.
But the national grid has failed to keep pace, creating widespread bottlenecks and driving up costs.
It must also be understood that neither solar or wind are carbon neutral, nor are they environmentally friendly despite what the climate change cultists claim. Better that we spend money on a nuclear power renaissance as nuclear can supply electrical power 24/7/365 for years on end and is not dependent on weather.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where thunderstorms are popping up here and there, the A/C is running, and Monday is waiting in the wings.