With a couple of small exceptions, all preparations have been made in case the storm is worse than predicted. The Official Weekend Pundit Generator has been prepositioned and was fired up just long enough to ensure it would start if needed. A stop by one of our favorite farm stands on the way home from church this morning let us stock up on storm snacks. We’re set to go.
I still have to move the trusty RAM 1500 into position in front of the garage and everything should be all set, but won’t do that until later today in case I need to run any errands.
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By way of Instapundit comes this story from the Babylon Bee:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the United States Senate progressed toward voting on the SAVE Act, Democrats warned that requiring voter ID would disenfranchise their key voting demographic of people who are too stupid to get an ID.I question whether this is satire…or maybe a bit of truth…or even worse, the absolute truth.
Party leaders made the urgent plea as Republicans prepared to bring the bill to the floor for a vote, stressing that people who were not intelligent enough to obtain legal, valid forms of identification would be locked out from selecting who should be in charge of the country.
"We cannot shut out our voting block of morons," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. "If this bill becomes law, then our most important demographics — dead people, illegal aliens, and people who are too stupid to know how to get an ID — will be lost to us. We can't allow that to happen. Total morons must have their ability to vote preserved for future generations."
Scary to think about, isn’t it?
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Canadians are now poorer than Alabamans. Many wonder how that has come to be. All Canadians have to do is look towards Ottawa to find the answer. After all, this didn’t really “happen out of nowhere”.
When you have a government that is hostile to large scale economic engines like oil, gas, mining, and agriculture, what do you expect? It is this hostility from Ottawa that has driven the so-called “Wexit” movement by the western provinces to leave Canada and either go independent, form a new nation, or join the US. The dismantling of the Canadian economy has been ongoing since Justin Trudea was Prime Minister and has continued under Carney.
That Alabama has been working to strengthen its economy shows they are serious about leaving the bottom of the state economies list and it’s been paying off.
Canada importing millions of people from Third World countries certainly hasn’t helped things either.
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Why does this not surprise me in the least?
California Politicians Propose Law Hiding Corruption from the Public
California’s ‘train-to-nowhere’ program started with a $10 billion budget in 2009 which shot up to $135 billion with no end in sight. The Trump administration has tried to cut off billions in federal funds for the money pit on rails and there are signs that even state voters are growing sick of it.Heaven forbid the public get a glimpse of how their legislators and state government officials have been wasting and/or stealing billions of dollars from California taxpayers…and constantly increasing taxes and fees to make even more money available. Is it any wonder California is becoming an economic basket case as it chases an increasing number of businesses, investors, the wealthy, and the Middle Class out of the state?
But California Democrats had an answer.
Around the same time that the CEO of the California High-Speed Rail Authority, was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery after an appearance with Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrating the progress of the ‘train-to-nowhere’, Democrats were moving forward a bill to ban the public from getting crucial information about the project whose budget is more than 5 times that of NASA.
The cost of returning to the moon is estimated at under $100 billion. California is spending more than that on a rail project that still hasn’t gotten anywhere and which no one is interested in.
California Democrat legislators had already become infamous for covering up their own corruption. The California legislatures claimed that disclosing how much they were spending on defending their members against investigations would “violate attorney client privilege”.
The California State Senate had refused to release records of federal law enforcement subpoenas and search warrants, claiming that “the public interest served by not making the record public clearly outweighs the public interest served by disclosure of the record.”
The public interest in this case is that of members of the legislators being raided by the FBI.
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I am working on updating something my dear brother and I have been advocating for a good 25 years or more, that being a constitutional amendment that would change how members of Congress, more specifically the House, are selected. This would also roll in a repeal of the 17th Amendment that would return election of the Senate to the state legislatures with additional provisos that would ban the use of referendum or plebiscites to do so.
While in the past it was a bit tongue-in-cheek, I have come to think it is something we need to do to fix problems we have with the existing means of filling the seats in Congress. It also removes the possibility of being a member of Congress as a career. For too long we’ve had that problem plaguing us and it needs to be fixed.
Hopefully I’ll have it squared away in the next week or so.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee where winter weather is coming for another visit, thoughts of the upcoming boating season are intruding, and where many of us are getting ready for Town Meeting next month.