Not that there won’t be motorcycles around after Bike Week ends. We see groups of them around from late spring through early to mid-fall, with their presence tapering off after foliage season. New Hampshire has miles and miles of scenic roads all throughout the state, as does neighboring Maine and Vermont. That we see groups of motorcyclists traveling around, enjoying scenery, restaurants, and attractions is no surprise.
Oh, and one more thing:
It’s the first day of Summer!!
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It looks like Derek Hunter over at Townhall has brought up a question too many folks in the Democrat Party have been choosing to ignore, that question being “Were Democrats Always This Dumb?”
I admit that my first thought was “No. It’s only been over the past few decades we’ve seen their collective IQ tumble.” To paraphrase one of the commenters to the piece put it, I didn’t really understand politics until the late 1960’s/early 1970’s and the Democrats didn’t seem dumb back then. Misguided, maybe, but not dumb.
It’s a rhetorical question, but it’s one worth asking: Were Democrats always like this? Did they always hate the country? Did they always side with our enemies if they didn’t like the President? Did they always choose abusers of women if they voted in the right way? Were they always willing to overlook anything, no matter how horrendous, if it was done by someone on their team? Ultimately, the real question is whether or not Democrats were always this dumb?The ‘dumb’ has been taking over the Democrat Party and is moving higher up the ‘chain of command’. That does not bode well for either the Democrats of the nation.
I’m not talking dumb, as is a stupid person, no. Kamala Harris is a stupid person, educated well beyond her intelligence, famous for tossing word salads full of empty calories and meaningless platitudes.
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Kamala Harris was chosen to be Joe Biden’s running mate because she, like a short person hanging out with midgets to seem taller, was one of the few people on the planet who could make Joe Biden seem smarter than he was.
Harris, however, was more the norm than an outlier.
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Frankly, none of this surprises me in the least. The latest ‘dumb’ stuff from Germany?
German Wind Turbines Face Regulatory Shutdown Due To Excessive Noise
Wind turbines are not only blighting Germany’s landscape everywhere, but are also creating excessive noise.Anyone that lives near a wind turbine knows they generate noise, including infrasound that is below the human frequency hearing range. It can all have a deleterious effect on health, not just of humans but of domestic animals and wildlife, too. I find it difficult to think that Germany didn’t take any of this into account beforehand.
Germany’s online Blackout News reports that two Nordex wind turbines are exceeding the permitted nighttime noise limits at the Königseiche wind farm near Uhingen-Baiereck, (south Germany).
One would thing the Germans of all people would have figured that into their calculations when they decided to go all Net Zero. It’s only been after the fact that they started regulating noise levels from wind turbines and it’s starting to come back to bite them. (We have to remember they also planned to cut down a “storybook forest” that has been around for centuries in order to build more wind turbines.)
If they want quiet, they should consider recommissioning their nuclear power plants as they are pretty quiet and only take up a fraction of the land that wind turbines do for an equivalent amount of power generated.
It seems the Germans have fallen into the “replacing what works with things that sound good” paradigm. In this case the “sounds good” part isn’t true because the turbines are making too much noise.
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Apparently a lot of people are not enamored with the new Obama Presidential Library. I think the kindest thing I heard it called was ‘monstrosity’. I have to say that it is indeed ‘fugly’.
The Obama Presidential Center finally opened to the public on Friday (not that you care), and the verdict from the internet was swift and brutal. People are calling it a "monstrous insult to architecture," a "concrete nightmare," and simply a "monstrosity." Social media has spent the week comparing the thing to a trash can and a dystopian movie set, which, having seen the photos, feels generous.It looks more like a defensive installation one would find on the Death Star of the Empire of Star Wars fame. I keep waiting to see the pulse cannons to deploy and fire.
It’s hideous.
Naturally, the man who helped design the building's most mocked feature has a different take. Chris Bird, the Washington structural engineer who designed the upper portion of the center's towering centerpiece, sat down with Fox News Digital just before the doors opened and insisted the design is not a monstrosity at all. It's a "grand gesture." A "bold statement." Something with "no architectural precedent."
As seen on another blog, Bustedknuckles, it looks more like a large refuse can.
How much money was wasted on this...this thing?
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It was Father’s Day today and we celebrated it over a BeezleBub’s with some nice brisket he’d made. He broke out the smoker, fired it up, and a few hours later we were dining on nice brisket.
All in all, it was a pretty nice celebration and a great dinner!
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And that’s the news from Lake Winnipesaukee, where the roar of motorcycles has faded away, the traffic has died down...until next weekend, and where Monday is coming around again.