(0415) Not a bad sleep at this end. (0529)
5. DAD at 1478
a) Marseille: Fighting Crime With Couscous and Karaoke. Marseille’s Socialist mayor prioritises karaoke and festivals while crack consumption surges and residents fear open-air drug use near homes and businesses.
b) This is what the streets of Ceuta look like at night. Would you go out? Would you let your wife, your mother, your sister, or your daughter go out alone? Would you let your children go to school? Well, it’s been like this for 30 days, and the government is doing absolutely nothing.
c) Historic Australian victory: One Nation Party takes WA “safe” state seat from Labour with thumping win and 39% primary vote.
d) DAD’s pet hates.
4. Subrosa retweets someone called TobeHonest
Wonder what Professor Charles Kelly, Lady Thirlwall’s husband thinks about his wife being tasked with justifying witchcraft and ignoring things like antibiotic resistant pathogens found in Countess of Chester (pseudonomas) when it’s his specialism? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11060770/
No idea what that one’s about but you might have.
3. Some sort of op ed
John D wrote, at OoL: “Oi! As someone who is almost 89 and still driving, don’t write off everyone who has reached a certain birthday.”
That’s similar to item 17 yesterday about Boomers and the young bucks snapping at their heels. It also shows that it’s possible for an admin at a site to point out anomalies without “sky is falling” overreaction. Something either IS so or it’s an a-priori interpretation based on tribal loyalty … “tribe” here meaning on any grounds, e.g. sex.
Last evening, the Paul Temple I was listening to, trying to create some downtime to relax, had PT say to Steve (interesting feminist name) that women were extraordinary (or some such name), to which Steve took exception and Sir Graham walked in at that point, Steve tried to co-opt Sir G, to which he replied that he was not entering into this argument (between hubby and wife).
One can make the division about anything at all if wanting to prise a fissure into a chasm and certain groups with influence globally do just that. It’s possible to quote someone “we’re” quite against as “enemy”, should that person say something we agree with (the clock right twice a day argument) …for example:
Which brings in the issue of consistency as well as the nature of the division itself. It’s a minefield. And yet another aspect is allowing personal leanings to descend into emotion, esp. anger, when on an investigation depending on dispassionate heads to able to pick up on anomalies, esp. on one’s own side.
Which brings us to that point made by Fido on looking for “common ground”. Which in itself comes back to the ole “80-20” point … that at best, two people, two sides, are going to, at best, agree on 80% and the remaining 20% are ranked, prioritised, in order of decreasing compatibility … we’re speaking here of “deal-breaking” red lines.
The person sending me the Chere Denise series had reservations over some things CD was saying, putting it down to age again. At what point would it become a deal-breaker? Similarly or the opposite with Erika Frantzve Kirk … despite CO’s and TC’s interesting behaviour and strange (to us) positions … that does not, by definition, exonerate EFK herself on many points, inc. Romania, inc. all the anomalies, aling with Shapiro.
This was the case with Colin Ross’s taking down of the global “psychiatric community”. So what does Wiki do? Spends the first part taking down Colin Ross on his own general whackjobbery. Which still does not negate Sid Gottlieb, Jolyon West nor Ewen Cameron, Selwyn Leeks.
In fact, an “independent” (often self-styled) might look at all this and say “they’re both as bad as each other”. They might not be though. One might be far worse in terms of ongoing damage done, as distinct from mere eccentricity.
Think you get the overall idea of this post item.
2. Steve at 1478
- US Signs Historic Venezuela Oil Deal Giving America Majority Control of 65 Billion Barrels
- Democrats Advance Bill Recognizing Two Moose Limb Holidays and Authorizing Eid Lessons in Public Schools — No Matching Provision for Christmas, Easter or Good Friday
- Moose Limb Migrants Threaten To Go on Strike in Venice After Local Mayor Blocks Construction of Large Mosk
- Fauci Told Aide to Permanently Delete Emails About Gain-of-Function Research
- Russia Prepares Massive Strikes On Ukrainian Power Grid, Calling It Retaliation For Kyiv’s Attacks On Civilian Targets
- Summertime and Antifa was Uneasy
- Much more.
1. Grand Canyon flooding
This is from CBS News, August 30:
