One nice thing is that the weather is cooperating this year with warm (if not toasty) temperatures, plenty of sun, and any rain forecast to occur during late evening. Yes, I know forecasts can change but so far things are looking good. That will certainly bring in a lot more motorcycle enthusiasts.
The downside to all of this is that there are going to be a lot of motorcyclists around until the end of next weekend. The roads will be full of them and that means taking a lot of extra care when out on the road. While that means I may not be out and about as much as usually am, I will be out. But that will mostly be for going to and from work and two town-related meetings at the beginning of the week.
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Now that the New York Knicks have won the NBA Championship, we can pay attention to all the World Cup matches taking place across the US.
Our ‘local venue’, Gillette Stadium located in Foxborough just south of Boston, was temporarily renamed Boston Stadium. I am assuming that was done to either reduce the confusion of soccer fans attending the game being played there, or to reduce the “crass commercialism” of how we name our stadiums. Maybe it was a little of both.
In any case, it hosted Haiti vs. Scotland yesterday, the first World Cup match being played there. Scotland won that match 1-0.
If nothing else it will give we Americans a chance to meet a lot of folks from across the world and vice versa.
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Just when I thought I couldn’t dislike the delusional Left any more than I already do they come up with something else I have to roll my eyes about. Mike Solana certainly sums it up about the Left’s hatred of Elon Musk:
[L]sten up, we have to vote for the man with the nazi tattoo so he can stop the man landing rockets and curing the blind from making any more money, otherwise we’ll get fascism.I’m not sure who they hate more, Musk or Trump. Not that it really matters in the end.
[Y]ou see how stupid you sound, yes?
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Yup, this sounds dead on target.
Socialism is the merger of envy and government.
Just ask Bernie Sanders…
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It seems a new study is confirming what I’ve known for a long time and is backing up the conclusion of similar studies in the past.
“Conservatives are happier than Liberals.”
As one commenter put it:
My wife spent her career as a licensed clinical psychologist and confirmed this for me repeatedly. The majority of her patients over decades, including the unhappiest, were overwhelmingly white, leftist women. Many left her care when she wouldn't agree with them or justify their complaints. Those were immediately replaced with more just like them, all complaining about how unhappy life had made them. They were mainly overweight, single and childless.What’s even worse are the AWFLs, Affluent White Female Liberals.
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It’s not like this is news by any means.
The Breakdown of Civilization in California
This latest bit of savagery perpetrated in the Pyrite State has become far too common. It doesn’t help that the state seems to be ‘legalizing’ crime. We certainly see that with the shoplifting mobs that hit stores, cleaning them out in moments. Even when they are caught they aren’t jailed, being released under California’s reformed bail laws where they can go on to commit more crimes. Even violent criminals are released. And of those, how many actually go to trial? Considering how many of the DA’s are so-celled “Soros DA’s” I’m surprised if any of them make it into a court. But then, that’s what Soros and so many of the lunatic Leftists want.
This is what the globalists want, the complete breakdown of civilization. This is the end-stage of toxic empathy, giving people what they say they want (e.g. drugs) and not what they need (i.e. help). 37-year-old man stabbed to death after violent dog attack on Hollywood Walk of Fame.So did this miscreant and his friends do something similar to this before? Is that how he and his dog are known by law enforcement?
The unprovoked attack happened on May 20 as Berry Henderson, 37, was standing at a bus stop near Hollywood Boulevard around 3 p.m.The guy with the dog was known to law enforcement, and so was the dog.
Surveillance video showed Henderson running into the street as a dog was seen chasing him and aggressively biting him.
That’s when a group of four men, one of whom was the dog’s owner, rushed over to attack Henderson. A suspect who was armed with a machete was seen stabbing and punching Henderson.
Let us hope that barbaric ‘custom’ doesn’t make its way outside of the blue states. On the other hand, in a lot of the non-blue states the citizens have the right to keep and bear arms. If something like that had happened here in New Hampshire it is likely the dog, the dog’s owner, and the machete wielder would have been shot by the victim, a number of bystanders, or both.
I have to wonder if California might be heading towards a Death Wish scenario?
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I have been seeing more YouTube videos that tout other YT videos made by Europeans who have been touring the US, both prior to and during the World Cup matches. What’s been surprising to me (and others) has been how positive they have been about the US. It seems many Europeans think the US has no culture, no heritage, and that we are all like the images of people they see in the movies and TV shows from the US. Many have been pleasantly surprised about the American people and where they live. More than a few have expressed the desire to relocate to the US, particularly the British visitors. (Gee, I wonder why?)
I’ll keep an eye open to see if this shifts as the World Cup matches continue and people are expozed to more of America.
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the weather has been more humid than expected, where heavy showers/thunderstorms are expected overnight, and where Monday’s return is refusing to “harsh my mellow”.