(1714) Evening all. Main aim is to post the things which have been accumulating … some similar to each other … still good.
18. Moo corner again
17. Interesting trend in thinking
16. More vandalism of fine things
15. Devolution of mayors?
14. Moo corner
13. Avoid midwife headed units
12. Another Bobbie screenshot
(1343) Just the one item, then a film … I’ll use the film to have a snooze.
Bit of an op ed
Way back in the N.O. days, longtimers might recall I wrote a post about misfortunes poised to hit us … I used the words Sword of Damocles. Not the best term as it supposes that whichever way one writhes, it’s still coming down, as Them have planned it that way … one stricture at a time. The aim of course is to make life impossible for family or individual.
Why? Coz these are demons, fiends. How did all this even get a foothold, gradually leading to today’s dystopia?
There are people I admire who would never have said they were “religious” and yet, they see certain things happening today, they note that if there’s no Triune God as the godless rationalists try to prove, then how come there are so many bowing and worshipping to a metaphysical Enemy? That’s a sociological question too, it involves politics.
Then the keen observer might look at the fiendishness of the attacks on humans, the real edge of hatred in stabbing someone over sixty times … and it’s certainly getting worse with each new generation as the last gen become the parents and teachers. Then the invasion of course, with utter impunity.
And yet normies simply can’t see it. Read Lord T on intelligence at OoL today … many “modern” people are bright, they can reason, be logical and sientifik-like, the new man and woman … yet they are actually rattling away from metaphysical reality like a runaway train.
All right, moving on … there are misfortunes which pursue us … might be our bad choices but they might also involve getting caught in a deliberate trap, failing to escape in time. I saw this in Russia where there is one law on one thing but if you follow it … it automatically puts you in breach of another. Designed that way. So far, none of that is my situation in this post.
Yes … then there is a situation where you’ve been ultracareful, guarded the nest egg, not fallen for the jab, are careful what you say to whom, done the tight thing … and suddenly a letter arrives saying a major institution which could never be in any danger … suddenly is … they’re folding and while their platitudes are reassuring, anyone knowing how bureaucracies work is super-wary … it just needs one pedantic or even non-comp new-gen pen pusher and everything is gone. Everything.
I am in that situation, the third in six months … MMutR said it’s one thing the organisation saying this or that will be. Then it isn’t. But conversely, what if the organisation suddenly folds? Nowt to do with us. It’s not far from those with farms right now. Suddenly, it’s all gone.
Reaction? My sympathy is with every poor sod in Britain just now who has done the right thing … regular people, not crims … Them can literally commit grand theft on you with utter impunity. Or not. That’s the Russian roulette of it all.
How does it affect this blog and all blogs in the complex, plus X? The praying folk might like to help out that way now.
(0841) Brightening up a bit or else it’s trying to fool us. (0919)
10. Moo corner
9. Not enough punishment yet, Britain?
8. Think it’s about some mythical “English” team
7. Off to Sunday lunch this coming Sunday?
6. Mandatory artificial folic acid additive and prostates
(0550) Morning all. The issue for y’all today is whether to read top to bottom, trying to make head or tail of it … or else read the intended bottom to top, in which case … good luck. Weather outside … damp, grey, otherwise nondescript. (0648)
5. Lord T on Citizen Vigilante
“Citizen Vigilante is just another step towards a violent vigilante future. There have been many films that people have predicted will trigger vigilantism and a civil war since the 1970s and Death Wish. V for Vendetta who had Starmer in a starring role ironically. Nothing happened because we are all a bunch of wusses compared to 100 years ago.
It’s worse in the UK because we simply don’t have guns. We all know it is the first thing that tyrants clamp down on but the West meekly just handed them in. Now it is citizens with sporks up against a heavily armed government who we know are more than willing to shoot unarmed civilians. Those sporks are dangerous.
The US at least has its second amendment so they alone of the West have a good chance of surviving.”
4. Steve, adding to the peace and mutual understanding at 1428
3. That recent (and upcoming) heatwave … Steve opens
“Regarding last week’s heatwave, here’s how it played out..
We didn’t have enough electricity so we were forced to buy 2.3 gigawatts of it from places like the Netherlands. We payed because clueless ideologues who couldn’t run a whelk stall are at the helm of this nation. Can’t go on.”
Toodles comments:
“In response to Steve: I wonder if the royals and the landed gentry had air conditioning during the ‘We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave’?
So sorry for the misery and tragedy there during the heat wave..”
Worth noting I think that Toodles lives in a near permanent heatwave in southern Bama, by Brit standards.
2. At this point, lets insert today’s DAD from 1428
a) The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism’.
b) In France, The Government Tries To Prevent The People From Getting Air Conditioning.
c) Bafflement! Germany, a global leader in renewables, but has one of the highest EU electricity prices. [The same for the UK.]
d) Lewis Carroll vs. the Biscuit tin. (JH: Ah, same “party” motif as earlier I note?)
e) Leo Admits He’s Francis 2.0 Trouble ahead for the Catholic Church. (JH: Chicago gangster v Brazilian communist?)
1. Making icecream on the Day of the Somme
Must admit, this one had me nonplussed. I had written about some great comments here and being nonplussed as to how best to highlight them. IYE had written:
“Screenshot? Sorry bit distracted reading the instructions of our new ice cream maker.🍨😉 Also there’s a debate about which flavour to make first – vanilla or chocolate.”
The item from NOWP by IYE (in the post) had mentioned:
”America’s 250th birthday party is starting to look like one big money-laundering scheme, with your tax dollars funding PragerU propaganda trucks and our favorite foreign agent, Brad Parscale.”
All right … birthday party, vanilla or choc ice cream, and in came Toodles, who has a birthday party she’s preparing for daughter dear and wider family. Perfectly logical, as she had just finished baking the cake and thinking whether to ice it or not. Toodles commented:
“I suggest vanilla first in case you run out of time. You can always add chocolate or fudge sauce to the vanilla. You can’t go wrong either way! 😋🤤😋 for both. I do have a delicious chocolate fudge sauce I make. Heavenly 😇. I give as gifts sometimes if we don’t inhale it all first! Placed in little mason jars, of course. I had to toss my machine. I wish I had another old fashioned crank. It could keep the children busy this coming Saturday. Also tossed a fast freeze. What was I thinking? Keep us updated on your endeavors, if you please!”
Hmmmmm … 🤔 … logical for a birthday party hostess I’d think. At which point, Steve brought it back to the Somme itself:
“The Somme – my Great Uncle Frank was there, drove the horses that pulled the guns. He survived the war but like so many he was psychologically damaged. For the rest of his life he hardly spoke. The day before he died he asked where his mate was, a man who’d died next to him in France, in 1917. RIP Frank.”
Can’t help thinking there was a little cross-pond detente going on here, with Leah and Toodles, of America, referring to one thing, and us over here referring to another. Might be worth going back and re-reading Leah. Meanwhile, we seem to have scored a tavern ice cream maker and cake baker, which will keep the patrons happy for awhile.
In a second thought I had, to keep the other one company, it struck me like a smackeroo blurby right between the eyes that perhaps IYE had been thinking of this post, part 16, in which Lainey had commented over on Gab. Lainey is a fine lady from a southern American state, pissibly one of the Carolinas?
Oh bliss, oh joy … look what I just found in comments under that link?
Andy:
“The close knot I talian community in town have long been small business owners, enriching us all with delis and restaurants. A proper gelateria has opened in town, making fresh traditional ice cream daily from natural ingredients. I hope they do well, I see plenty of young mums with delighted looking children in there.
Poor smelling but you get the drift I hope.😔”
To which IYE responded:
“You’re blessed, Andy!
I’ve just looked at the ingredients of an artisan company over here ( regarded as a premium brand).
Their Cognac Raisin tubs contain apart from the 4% Cognac, rapeseed or sunflower oil – I suppose that is on the dried raisins, concentrated butter, powdered skimmed milk, milk proteins, citrus fruit fibres, pea fibre, caroube, guar gum in addition to the main ingredients which are rehydrated defatted cream powder, egg yolks, glucose syrup and cream. Cream is midway down the list.
That’s industrial ice cream not like Grandma used to make at home!”
What a relief, chaps and chapesses.
(1400) Afternoon all.
15. Sphinx
14. They are trying to cripple industry
13. Toodles’s second, as promised
12. IYE
”America’s 250th birthday party is starting to look like one big money-laundering scheme, with your tax dollars funding PragerU propaganda trucks and our favorite foreign agent, Brad Parscale.
A decade ago, Congress set aside $150 million for America’s 250th and created a bipartisan commission to run it.
That commission has received just $25 million and is now begging for more. The rest was steered to “Freedom 250,” a shell LLC Trump stood up in 2025 and hid inside a National Park Service charity. It has pulled in around $80 million.
It gets worse.
Follow the money highlights below:….”
|https://substack.com/@theleahfiles/note/c-285879596
11. The Somme
Phew! Found one in passing: