We’ve had very little rain since June and it has caused the water level on the lake to drop about a foot-and-a-half which has led to problems for some boaters. Sand bars are now poking above the water level. The same with rocks and ledge in some places. One of my favorite places to anchor for swimming can only be reached from one direction as the channel that leads to it from the west is too shallow on its eastern end. The rock formations known as The Witches on the lake are fully exposed, something we usually don’t see until the lake is drawn down for the winter.
Normally, I pull the Official Weekend Pundit Lake Winnipesaukee Runabout out of the water some time after Columbus Day Weekend. However, seeing the low water levels has me thinking about pulling it out at the end of September. One thing I had to do last weekend was lower the fenders at my boats slip to keep my boat from rubbing up against the dock. But in order to do that I had to replace the existing lines on the fenders with longer ones because the exiting ones were too short to get them down to where they needed to be. I’ve never had to do that in the 20-some years I’ve had that boat. So my boating season my be ending three weeks earlier than usual.
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All I can say is “What an Leftist a**hole!”
He deserves to get fired...out of a cannon.
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All I can say is “It’s about frickin’ time!”
It looks like the US is finally trying to kick-start a “nuclear energy renaissance.”
In May, President Donald Trump signed four executive orders to facilitate the construction of nuclear reactors and the development of nuclear energy technology; the orders aim to cut red tape, ease approval processes, and reshape the role of the main regulatory agency, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC. These moves, the administration said, were part of an effort to achieve American independence from foreign power providers by way of a “nuclear energy renaissance.”Despite claims of the climate change cultists, renewables aren’t the answer. They don’t have the energy density, don’t have the efficiency, don’t have the reliability, and aren’t dispatchable. They are also nowhere near as cost effective or as cheap as the renewable proponents claim.
Self-reliance isn’t the only factor motivating nuclear power proponents outside of the administration: Following a decades-long trend away from nuclear energy, in part due to safety concerns and high costs, the technology has emerged as a potential option to try to mitigate climate change. Through nuclear fission, in which atoms are split to release energy, reactors don’t emit any greenhouse gases.
The Trump administration wants to quadruple the nuclear sector’s domestic energy production, with the goal of producing 400 gigawatts by 2050. To help achieve that goal, scientific institutions like the Idaho National Laboratory, a leading research institute in nuclear energy, are pushing forward innovations such as more efficient types of fuel. Companies are also investing millions of dollars to develop their own nuclear reactor designs, a move from industry that was previously unheard of in the nuclear sector. For example, Westinghouse, a Pennsylvania-based nuclear power company, plans to build 10 new large reactors to help achieve the 2050 goal.
That there are a number of individual companies developing new Generation III and IV reactors that do not have the issues seen with Generation II nuclear reactors, the biggest one being the lengthy and costly construction timelines. Most of the Gen III and IV reactor designs are modular, meaning they can be built in a factory, then transported and installed at the construction site. Build times will drop from 10+ years (figuring in all of the lawsuits and court orders) to less than 2 years. They may not be huge 1000MW reactors like a good number of the Gen II reactors have been, but they don’t need to be. It will be cheaper to put three smaller 300MW small modular reactors (SMR’s) at a single site than a single 1000MW reactor built the “old fashioned” way.
My state’s governor, Kelly Ayotte, made a nuclear power renaissance part of her campaign platform as she sees nuclear as the way to ensure a reliable supply of electrical power.
I agree.
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This news doesn’t surprise me. What surprises me is that it was NBC News that reported it.
FDA to present data it claims ties Covid shots to child deaths at CDC meeting.
Food and Drug Administration officials plan to present data they claim links the Covid vaccine to 25 deaths in children at what’s expected to be a closely watched vaccine advisory committee next week, a source confirmed to NBC News.What I have to wonder if the number of children who died due to the Covid vaccine is much higher than the 25 they mentioned. Then there’s the the question of the vaccine’s effect on pregnant women as it has been suggested that an unknown number of pregnant women who received the vaccine being adversely affected, including miscarriages. There’s also the question the increase in the number of cardiac arrests in otherwise healthy young adults who received the vaccine.
The Washington Post first reported the expected data.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, or ACIP, is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday to review and make recommendations on several vaccines, including this fall’s updated Covid shots.
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William Jacobsen reminds the Left that the “Tea Party” was a “Leave me alone” movement, but they didn’t leave us alone, and now it’s FAFO.
I attended and reported on some Tea Party rallies in upstate NY.Now, the Left seems to be bent on killing us, at least the loudmouth ‘woke’ a**hats who prefer feelz to facts and call anyone who disagrees with them fascists and Nazis. What’s ironic is that so many of those same folks have turned out to be the actual fascists who want to go “full Nazi” on those who dare oppose them. They think the murder of Charlie Kirk was “a good start”.
Our archives dating back to 2010 document the vicious smear campaigns not only from leftist groups like the now-defunct Think Progress, but also establishment Republicans. In a hint of what was to come against Trump, the IRS was weaponized against the Tea Party.
The Tea Party was at heart a movement of people who just wanted to be left alone in the face of accelerating governmental mandates and intrusion – epitomized by the Obamacare mandate which forced you to buy private health insurance policies. It didn’t matter how much you tried to insulate yourself, you had to buy the policy.
The Obamacare mandate eventually was saved by John Roberts in the 2012 Supreme Court decision holding the mandate fell within Congress’s taxing power.
The Tea Party eventually fell by the wayside unable to withstand the pressure and from internal divisions.
Which brings me to a tweet by Prof. Randy Barnett about how suppression of the Tea Party gave way to MAGA.
This @politico analysis of Charlie Kirk’s role in the conservative-MAGA movement is informative. But it doesn’t get what happened to “Tea Party libertarianism.” The Dems demonized and suppressed the Tea Party constitutionalists with everything they had. MAGA was the response.
Some of them are likely to find out just what FAFO means…
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where we’re still boating despite the low water level, schools are now back into full swing, and where Monday is returning...again.