WELL, GOOD: I'm not going to miss the climate Armageddon.

If Beto makes it to the Oval Office (fat chance!) I'm sure his first executive order will be to delay climate change for 8 years....

WE ALREADY KNOW IT INCREASES STUPIDITY: California tap water could increase cancer risk.

BERNIE BROS:

Heh. Linked from Townhall.

THIS CARTOON got me thinking that even if there was a vaccination for stupidity, Democrats would refuse it.

SPRING LIVES: Episode 6 of the series.

It's been a near-perfect couple of days, so much so that I've been busy with outside chores and neglectful of posting times. Here are today' s pictures. First the standard view pondwards from the deck:

Much greener this week. The bigger trees began budding out last week; now they're displaying actual leaves. The ridgeline across the pond is getting obscured, as is the pond itself by the lower growing vegetation. By next week, I expect the pond itself will be almost completely obscured except for that always visible slice at the base of the stairway.

The fire pit area has gotten much greener, but we still have some sky visible since the big trees still haven't begun to leaf out yet. As the canopy fills in, it will become much darker and 'foresty'.

The house is still relatively clear, but you can see that the canopy is developing in the upper left corner of the picture. Proof is also in the deeper shadow on the ground. We've had a couple of trees taken out (by falling) over the winter, so I'm hopeful that perhaps we can eventually have a somewhat grassy back yard.

Here's a different view from my usual - this time looking back up the stairs toward the house from the base (roughly the dock area). There are 112 steps from the dock to the basement of the house - roughly 70' and 2 'regain-my-wind' stops enroute.

The final picture is my usual from-across-the-pond view. Our house is still visible, but it'll soon disappear as the tall trees down along the pond edge add their leaves. They've been notably slow this year.

As usual, last week's pictures are here.

THE GREEN NUDE EEL IS NEITHER GREEN, NOR NUDE, NOR AN EEL: A 'Green New Deal' smackdown.

Update: be sure to watch the two videos at the end.

AMERICA'S PAC banned by Google for opposing infanticide. Takeaway: "The case for regulating tech giants like Google as public utilities, and paying their employees accordingly, continues to grow stronger."

RANDOM THOUGHT: It's a safe bet that the one who cries 'racism' the loudest is the real racist.

PAYBACK'S A BITCH: Trump ramps up campaign to target Democrats who 'colluded'.

About time.

SHE MUST NOT BE A FEMINIST: Internet trolls attempt to discredit Katie Bouman's black hole project.

More here.

THIS COULD GET INTERESTING: Former FBI official admits Hillary Clinton emails were found in the Obama White House.

If it's pursued....

THE WHEELS GO ROUND AND ROUND: Buttigieg's desire for a forced servitude is unacceptable.

I'm so old I remember when involuntary national service was considered a good idea.

WELL, IT WAS SAID BY AN UTTER LUNATIC: Bernie Sanders' call to let felons vote is 'utter lunacy'.

EVER NOTICE that students who spend their time on SJW protests tend to be the students in need of spending more time on their education?

They don't need no education; they already know it all....

MONEY WELL WASTED:

To let them do it?

IT WASN'T CHRISTIANS, it was Easter worshipers.

Instapundit takes note.

THINKING IT WAS A JUST A MALE PROBLEM, the Democrats nominated Hillary in 2016. Now it's coming up 2020, and judging from the ostensibly male (and female, for that matter) candidates, they're going to go gender free....

SQUEAKY WHEELS (AND CRYBULLIES) always get the grease.

RANDOM THOUGHT: The 2020 pre-election Democrat primary circus is proof - if you need any - that the inmates have taken over the asylum.

OTHER THAN AS PAWNS, Democrats have no interest in illegal aliens.