(0358)(0414)(0734) Morning all, looks cloudy with sun behind it out there. (0837)
5. Steve at 1475:8
- President Trump Signs Executive Order Renaming Lake Ontario to “Lake America” – And Explains Why
- DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin Orders Mandatory Random Paper Ballot Audits for 2026 Midterms — Warns Chinese-Made Voting Machine Parts Pose “Significant Security Risks”
- 133-Year-Old Church in Grand Rapids Burns Down
- Outrage After Alleged Leaked Memo from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Instructs Reporters to Not Refer to 9/11 as ‘Terror Attacks’
- Russia Threatens to Strike UK Over British Missiles Used By [The] Ukraine*
- Why Are Liberal White Women So Angry?
- Cloward, Piven, And Zinn Told Us They Wanted To Bankrupt America
- The New Religion of Anti-Speciesism Values Animals Above Humans
- Much more.
*The item with the asterisk has far more about it than at first appears … see Friday [7]
4. Now, if you’re looking for shenanigans, Andy’s our man
Also at 1475:9 … a video.
3. DAD’s back … surprised he survived the wild 5 a.m. shenanigans
It’s at 1475:10
Friday. Visitors gone – all calm and quiet at Chez moi.
a) Une tornade de 125 km/h frappe la France ! 300 maisons détruites, 41 blessés, un véritable désastre.
b) France to survey 10 million pupils on sexual violence.
The government expects the nationwide survey to reveal the scale of abuse as authorities face scrutiny over tens of thousands of cases awaiting action.
c) Spanish police shield Ceuta migrant camp from residents.
Officers fired warning shots on El Trampolín beach as demonstrators pulled down tents at a settlement the city government has asked Madrid to clear.
d) Ethnic Memory: why Societies should be Mono-ethnic.
Multiculturalists who dismiss concerns about Islamic or African immigration by comparing them with past hostility to Irish, Italian, or Slavic immigrants overlook the vast differences in ethnic memory and cultural distance that can make integration more difficult.
2. Whoa, what’s this at Lord Toby’s site?
Talk about wake up after a successful second sleep, only for sommit to do m’head in. You see, I get all sorts coming in (may we call this “incoming”?) … some is from a sleepy city of Geelong on the Bay, some is when I check the AFL site, much is from Kobie in Sydney … and that’s my Oz news done, apart from some on X from various people, inc. Alex Marshall.
So what was this then? This was Lord Toby’s site, mean the Daily Sceptic, in England, meaning from inside the M25 bubble. So why was it leading with someone called Bettina Arndt? Now hang on, I know that name somehow … isn’t it a food writer or cake maker or sommit?
Bettina Arndt for the Daily Sceptic
But there it was in Lord Toby’s newsletter … headed by five ugly muvvas in red guernseys, Sydney Swans players? But that’s Oz Rules, not FA or WNBA and lately, I’ve also seen Alabama Football. This is doing m’head in. Best look at it …
“The Swans fiasco had it all. Here was feminism’s prized foe — brash young footballers hoovering up millions for kicking a ball for one of Australia’s top teams— caught in the mother of all own goals. An early morning hotel frolic, paid strippers, industrial quantities of drugs and a sexual assault allegation. Christmas had come early for the culture warriors.
And boy, did they line up to tar and feather the five young men caught up in it. Captain Callum Mills set the tone early, fronting the cameras looking suitably shattered to declare that the whole sorry affair had caused him to “put the mirror up” — not just at his five teammates, mind you, but at “all men within society”.
Every bloke in the country, apparently, now owed the nation an apology for something that happened in a hotel room they’d never set foot in. “We need to do better,” Mills intoned, apparently unaware that most men were fast asleep at 5am that Monday morning, not haggling over spanking surcharges in a Melbourne hotel room.
The men in sports journalism were quick to show they were on the right side. “Guys, it’s us. We’re causing this. And we’ve all got to do more to stop it,” wrote Rohan Connolly in the Canberra Times.
The Governor-General weighed in too, declaring herself “shocked and troubled”. Funny how selective this moral crusader’s troubles are.
Not a word on 27 year-old Oliver Conroy, lured last month to a Brisbane car park by a fake dating profile and killed by seven teenagers — two of them girls. Not a word on the homeless Afghan man charged with stabbing two women in separate Melbourne street attacks in the same week Mostyn spoke out. Not a word on the Perth man charged with threatening to “hunt down and kill” Pauline Hanson. Not a word on the ABC’s skit joking about sodomising and torturing Gina Rinehart to death.”
Sommit’s happened downunder and that above tells me little … footballers have always done such things, no? Esp. downunder. Going to have to re-read this and check with Kobie.
And who’s this Bettina Arndt?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bettina_Arndt
1. Sleep
In your travels around the net, in mine, we see many references to being unable to sleep, especially with females and more particularly with those overthinking late night. Not seeing quite as much from males … maybe males care less? Who knows?
Not being able to leave one’s troubles at the bedroom door is compounded by ipads and the like, wifi, constantly pinging, tickering … which is what someone in my role needs to have happening. Damage to eyes/brain is another possible result.
In my case, there’s a half hour science lecture I listen to and the tone of the voice almost always does the trick. There’s a second similar. It did not work this time … heard the whole lecture … still wide awake.
Then realised why … I’d done little work after waking the first time just before two. Usually I’d post … this time I took a chance on on going straight for shuteye again. Simply could not zonk. Often, dealing with ladies wears me out, ha ha, but this time … I retired early from the female. Bad move. One needs to be uber-fatigued it seems. Thus they’ll now probably dump me.
So… there’s a long line of posts ready, some even vitally interesting, but can I awaken in time for our usual, dear reader? I’m thinking no … that it will be another 0730 job or thereabouts. See y’all when we do.
