Howard Johnson’s used to boast over thirty flavors of ice cream. It was great to have so many choices, but sometimes, you simply want a scoop of vanilla ice cream. I went through a period when all my cars were white. It was not a social statement. I love the clean look of a white car. I now drive a beautiful chocolate brown Jeep.

The color is not a statement, just a choice. Choices are wonderful, as is diversity, but only when organic. Would it have been any better for society if the government had forced Howard Johnson to have 35 flavors instead of 31? Absolutely not. Forced diversity is a subliminal form of racism and is harming the quality of American life.

When choices are limited by the boxes that need to be checked, then you do not get the best option for the situation. If you focus on politics, limiting the pool to a Black woman did not give us the best person for Vice President or Supreme Court justice. The choice satisfied certain voting groups, like Blacks and women, but shortchanged America by not putting the best person in place. This also happened at the state level when Gavenor Newsom used the same thinking to replace the late Senator Barbara Feinstein. Biden brags about his most diverse cabinet in history, but he does not discuss it being the least effective either. The administration’s focus on diversity and abortion has taken its eyes off the target issues like the border, economy, inflation, Fentanyl, and trade issues.

Our military effectiveness has declined as the WOKE culture infects all branches. The surrender of Afghanistan was an example. The military is more concerned about access to abortion and gender reassignment services than recruiting. We have not hit recruiting targets under Biden’s term, and people say it is because of the weak attitude of our Defense Department.

Colleges across the country are feeling the impact of “peaceful” demonstrations, which are a result of WOKE DEI thinking amongst indoctrinated students. These students have been told for 15-16 years how evil and destructive America is, and they are all feeling hatred and antisemitism. This environment is not sustainable, and Presidents are reaching out to the leadership, police, and the FBI to intervene. The institutions show their weakness by negotiating with protestors who have violated school policy by setting up encampments instead of taking charge and shutting them down.

The attention the WOKE is getting is all negative and is resulting in the slow, eventual death of Woke and DEI. Just like BLM was shown to be a sham and a Ponzi scheme, DEI has been exposed as a progressive attempt to reshape our culture and future direction, and it failed. These movements attempted to use the Millenials and Gen-Z groups that people recognized as young morons who were allowing themselves to be used as pawns by progressive operatives like George Soros.

DEI needs to die and should have sooner than this. It aimed to feature groups that wanted recognition when they should have earned it with merit. To isolate groups and elevate them above others is racism. Black History Month, Gay Pride Month, and Women’s History are all efforts to isolate and recognize one group over all others. How is this allowed when people are seeking equity and equality? How about we get back to celebrating humanity as a whole and let Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion happen organically?

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It was inevitable. My yard is still damp with March and April showers (and muddy in places), and the Fire department says the Fire Danger is High. Okay. We’ve also got reports of wildfires in Canada (are the arsonists starting early this year?), and me with my mud season decorations still up. What the heck!

Meanwhile, in Maine, a bit closer to where I sit than British Columbia, they are also reporting dryconditions and some brush fires. “Authorities have been fighting several small wildfires and brush fires around the state Saturday.”

If you look at this wildfire map, there are zero in New Hampshire or Maine.

If you look at the ARC GIS Map, there are reported fires (all from 4/27).

There are three in New Hampshire and three in Maine (it helps to have good tools), though I can’t say what the difference is or why Map One isn’t showing these events. I zoomed down on both to get them to show up. But we all have a similar problem.

Related: CO2 Increases “Linked to” Rising Education Costs and More Gun Crimes in Democrat Cities but not Forest Fires.

While we didn’t have much snow, we did have a lot of rain so it will be interesting to see how that plays out. The winter before last, the West and Left Coast got a lot of snow and rain. That tends to result in an increase in wild grass (as it does here), which is a fuel that lends itself to a potentially crazy wildfire season, but not last year. 2023 saw fewer acres burned in this century. The Wild West and crazy Left Coast didn’t burn as predicted. I blame Global Warming.

Fewer than 3 million acres cooked.

I can’t say with any certainty that people just behaved themself and listened to Smokey the Bear. Maybe the climate cult nutters were all up in Canada last year? They had a lot of arsonists starting fires north of the 49th parallel, much like Australia a few years back. Pro Tip: If the media is hyper-focused on some country and its unusual number of wildfires, human beings are very likely the reason why they started.

Climate nutters engaged in “real action,” starting fires and blaming it on Global Warming. So yeah, it is man-caused, but not because you drive an SUV.

Additional Reading.
Massive California “Wildfire” (Allegedly) Started by a Former Forestry Student Not Global Warming
Louisiana’s Largest Wildfire (ever) Was Man-Made, as in Arson
Are They Really “Wildfires” if You Arrested 79 Arsonists for Starting Them?
Australia’s Brush Fires – Arson is Playing a Huge Role
Suspected Arsonist Caught Starting Fires in Italy and Sicily

I have to go take my mud season decorations down, even though it is raining and still muddy.

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Here is Florida Governor Ron DeSantis telling the Biden-Regime to pound sand in response to the Regime’s redefining Title 9 … which is supposed to protect girls and women … to accommodate men and boys who identify as girls and women: FLORIDA WILL NOT COMPLY.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for Chris Sun-King Sununu or his underling Sununicans, i.e. Imposter-Republicans, to say something similar.

Sununu-Republicans, AT BEST, pay lip service to the rights of female athletes … while they make common cause with the DemocratsWoke-Communists to turn New Hampshire into a sea of shanty-towns (ADUs) and apartment complexes, where single-family zoning is illegal. Ask them about it, and what you will hear in response is the usual pablum about EFAs and Parental-Bill-Of-Rights, neither of which will do a damn thing about protecting girls’ and women’s sports.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says the state will not comply with the Biden administration's efforts to push gender ideology into education. pic.twitter.com/kIjy8HXePY

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) April 25, 2024

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Did that title get anyone’s attention?  Hopefully, it will get Tim Lang’s sometime before the senate meets this Thursday, May 2.  On the agenda is the dastardly RTK Tax, known as HB 1002, which Tim Lang supports.

We know that Judiciary Chair Sharon Carson moved OTP, and her four peers went along with it. Shame on her and the two gentlemen lawyers on that committee! But shame on Tim Lang also!  I found it necessary to shame him to his peers in, but let’s talk about Tim for a moment and the background to this article’s title.

Tim is a member of the Senate Education Committee and was captured in Allison Dyer’s video montage when he asked the NTU lobbyist if teachers had an obligation, to be honest with parents and was given word salad for an answer, both to his question and even more snarky one to his follow up.  Keep in mind, dear readers, that this is the kind of treatment that Laurie Ortolano and her affiliates regularly receive from city hall.

SB 272, which was the senate counterpart of newly deceased HB 10, died an unfortunate death in the House when it was “indefinitely postponed.”  I leave it to you to look up what that means and why, as Senator Gray would say, “butts in seats” matters when the House is in session, but let’s get back to Tim.

Because another Parental Bill of Rights cannot be resubmitted until after the next election, Tim cleverly repackaged it and filed it as SB 341 with a new name.  Most people already know this, but I’ll point out again that I don’t have kids, but I made a special trip to Concord to speak in support of SB 341.  Not only did I do that, but I also made reference to his 3/7/23 question to the NTU lobbyist while at the mic speaking to him and the rest of his committee on 1/4/24.  This was something Tim and I agreed on, and I was happy to, as Nurse Terese would say, “lift him up in battle”(for parental rights).

Allison and I live in the same city as Laurie Ortolano, and it would be nice if Tim would “lift us up in battle”(against Nashua City Hall’s fortress of secrecy), especially considering that 2/3 of the city is being misrepresented in the senate by the mayor’s friend, neighbor, and water carrier, Rosenwald.

Public records should be open to the public, and Tim wants to tax access to them.  So, back to the question, “How would Tim like to pay a Report Card Tax?”

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