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16. Toodles part two

The Nash Rambler:

15. When one has a bad feeling about things

… but can’t quite pin it down, get a line on it … talking about on the personal front mainly:

It wasn’t just that … I had a nasty email from a firm, they were wrong, I talked to the govt, the govt were nice … work that one out. I thought at OoL it was 911 today, others had glitches … not a good day.

14. Three more

13. Toodles part one

JH: Nixon is an enigma. At my age then, too young, it was all leftwing … Nixon was the baddy, the Demrats fine people we thought. Then he started getting ideas (see clip) and it was inevitable. All the while, there was Kissinger in the room.

Research rather than quiz.

a. What’s the English for the place name Himmelreich in Germany?

b. It lies at the edge of the Höllental … meaning?

c. In which Canadian province is Swastika?

d. In which city was Kinki University before 2014?

e. The Dutch digraph IJ refers to which city?

f. How do locals say Canberra (Oz capital)?*

g. There are two Normanslands in the UK … which counties?

* Write the stressed vowel as capitals.

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12. Cyber matters connected to this site

Concerning blips, glitches … there are multiple IPs involved with me and they switch. At worst, they can create 2 minutes downtime during the changeover. Moves were made this morning that will always make it no more than 2 minutes, so my suggestion to readers is the same as if they’d been on Gab or X and there’d been nothingness for a few minutes.

Put the kettle or the coffeebrewer on, visit someone else or NOWP. Come back and it will be fine … in fact, it was already down this morning, as we tried it.

How often might this happen? Two days, two months … no way of knowing … once in a while is the short answer.

Bottom line is that there’s nothing really wrong … give it a few minutes, come back and refresh the page. Cheers.

11. Short roundup

Right, I’d like to address John’s and Alexandra’s points. As I was rushing, I saw JB’s comments on “exact opposite”, thought Starmer … then realised/remembered it was US politics … and yet it read out just like UK politics. Think there’s a message in that somewhere.

Now EllyMelly. Sigh. She’s a girl. She’s saying (and genuinely thinking and feeling) all the right things. At some level, she even understands what they’re doing to the Donald, Telegram, Rumble, X … but still sees herself as the fearless warrior, still taking public transport to work, plus being provocative, arguing with trolls, rather than shutting them out.

Thing is … they CAN hurt her … she’s messing with The Man there. Juss sayin’. She’s revelling n being notorious. The rest of us are just being careful, watching our backs.

10. Ladies at lunchtime

… all in one pic today:

My interest, apart from the one we recognise, is actually the social grouping at the table behind … that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

9. Now these psychopathic loons “above”

First off, at UHC is the (almost) daily post on “Two PTB pariahs and one tolerated”, which does set the scene for the (almost) daily post there on “Your personal Rubicon”.

Theme is that if we individually take care of ourselves and our families, the cruel and psychotic PTB who really hate us with a passion knowing that full well … then they know that only one by one will we reach that personal Rubicon … which then makes it easy for the stasi to then pick us off and punish.

They are playing, risking all, on the principle that ordinary, reasonably sane and decent people do have this Achilles heel, to mix metaphors, of being unherdable cats … our weakest point.

8. IYE at 802

Germany – AFD calls for an end to mail in ballots…

{If you keep scrolling down that page other items appear. BMW and Hungary’s solar park, for example.}

(0724) Bleah out there, not dry, no leaves fallen, washing on, writing to you.

7. Haven’t even read this yet

HERE

The Democrats have sent this out to their fold:

“… we’re strengthening our largest-ever voter protection program to protect against Trump and his allies’ attacks on our voting rights. It’s why we’ve made a six-figure investment in the Democrats Abroad program to register and earn the votes of the nearly 9 million Americans living and serving overseas. And it’s why we’re expanding our successful virtual organizing efforts to engage and mobilize as many volunteers as we can, so you can get involved no matter where you are.”

6. IYE, at 802:5

… runs some Jeffersonian history.

5. Thoughts from above

Occasionally, ideas flit through the mind and one just now was to click on 1 Cor 1 and there in front of me was this:

[22] For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
[23] But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
[24] But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
[25] Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men

Uh huh … insight into the fledgling church going out to the gentiles … interesting.

4. 911

I have a post up at OoL right now on that infamous date.

3. Dearieme wondered

… about the now too complex blog system.

And well he might … I prefer to euphemise it as “diffusing”, as not putting all the eggs in one basket. In practice, it was a result of the stolen ONO … first one version of N.O. stepped in, then another, I made a third, my tech mate made a fourth, which you’re on now.

This site you’re now on, (which I’m shortening to just HQ as the five letters are unwieldy), is where I blog from … Julia saw that yesterday and altered her blogroll accordingly. This site is where I intend to blog from but it seems there’s a tech glitch which has not yet surfaced. If it does, blogging switches to UHC for the interim.

NOWP remains “reader drops” as it has been … quite a history there actually … goes right back.

Which leaves Jstack … in some ways unworkable for both blogger and commenter, best as a fourth site.

UHC and Jstack I’ll keep posting at (almost) once a day, with some post of interest … purpose of that is to just keep them ticking over, keep them in good nick. I also post at OoL three times a week … can’t see that altering … there’s one from me on 911 right now.

2. Torquaymada quoted ZH last evening

Here’s the writer’s take on “futurism”:

Futurism is, in my view, the key to all modern authoritarianism. It’s a philosophy that has been present at the birth of nearly every major despotic government in recent memory and it’s the root of leftist ideology today. Futurists argue that history is, for the most part, dead weight. They believe that every notion of heritage, the lessons of the past, the ideals and principles of our forefathers are all irrelevant.

Futurists think nothing is sacred and all new ideas are superior to all old ideas. Therefore, they claim, any society that clings to (or conserves) the old ways needs to be dismantled because it is holding humanity back from progress. In other words, anyone promoting or defending traditional norms must be silenced in the name of “progress.”

I suspect most people reading this at least intuitively understand the monstrous nature of this belief system. The very structure of futurism is based on a lie – The idea that all change is good and that any oppression committed in the name of change is justified.