(1449) Afternoon all … not a lot happening. (1804) Evening all.

19. Moosh corner

18. Westminster Abbey

17. State of play at Higham Mansions

There were three issues sapping my blogging time, demanding to be addressed … one was the cyber issue, more extensive than most know but, although still not out of the woods, it’s not major now, thanks to my techie mate … the second is medium serious … some health issues impinging more than they should, inc. end of day exhaustion … as in now … the third is existential, involving my abode, with some unfriendliness going on and demanding attention every time I think it’s sorted … not neighbours, who thankfully are great.

There is a fourth we all face … that which we blog about but that’s just ongoing, inc. having ONO stolen without so much as a by your leave. I just saw a fifth … what if you do actually come face to face with machete man or plod kicking the door down or whatever? N16 below is one version of that final showdown … written by a field pastor flyer I think:

16. A plane’s last moments

What do pilots say to the passengers of a plane when it is crashing? Is it like in the movies, or is it completely different?

“The captain of Alaska Air Lines Flight 261, last message to passengers (4:14 pm): “Folks we have had a flight control problem up front here we’re workin it uh that’s Los Angeles off to the right there that’s where we’re intending to go. we’re pretty busy up here workin this situation I don’t anticipate any big problems once we get a couple of sub systems on the line. but we will be going into L A X and I’d anticipate us parking there in about twenty to thirty minutes.”

After trying desperately to regain control of the plane, and being unsuccessful, the plane, headed to LAX, was actually upside down. To other pilot (4:20pm): “gotta get it over again… at least upside down we’re flyin.”

Plane is now heading for the water, and pilot comments to himself (18 seconds after last comment): “ah here we go.”

Between the statement to the passengers and the last statement, there were six minutes of conversation between pilots, and from pilots to control in LA. They were calm, cool-headed, and under control, trying every option available.

His statement about at least flying, even upside down, was even a moment of tiny humor. His last statement, with no panic, screams, or profanity, showed he was professional to the last. I even like the last message to the passengers, keeping them as calm as possible, and giving them a scrap of hope to hang on to, the same one he was clutching at.

(Readers, I did have a link here, had a warning about it, am now looking at the subheading link. Back in a moment. Right, leaving that link in at the top.)

15. Do you think this is what sent George crazy?

14. Three more

13. Mechanical engineering

12. Read the fine print at the bottom

(0759) morning all! Looking sunny out there, diffuse, wispy cloud in a way. (0839)

11. While IYE has the DJT assass-attempt covered at 807:7

… and I added but one Natalie Winters comment to a few items in the roundup in 10, my thoughts have been on the Ruairidh MGB piece reworked and revisited … as a dedicated ragtop little roadster fan forever, now probably settle on the MX 5, a neat little machine, two things keep coming through quite powerfully to me:

*Just how much a small, convertible roadster really means to lifestyle, to civic life, to the simple enjoyment of life and I point to my “crazy” decision to visit the Cairngorms in midwinter in that car during a cold snap … just how great the renovated ragtop was in that biting wind, just how well the heater had worked.

*Just how bafflingly bad British management was … and is even today … just how bad the political class are … really the pits, the dregs of society.

These thoughts kept coming through as I watched Ruairidh on the whole Healey, MG, BMC, Leyland debacle, esp. that last noncomp of a boss … why on earth can Britain not get actual managers instead of graduates of the up themselves managerial class?

On the other hand, even if the MGB (I was always Healey oriented, not MG) had continued as the MX5 does … incremental tweaks with succeeding models, improvements in suspension and handling, modest engine improvements … would it have survived the total change to society?

This hit me more, say, than the person who largely stayed here through the Blair years, give or take a holiday abroad. I departed a quirky, immediately pre-Blair Britain … and came back to sheer hell … exacerbated by having to go through London itself, which was now no longer the London of a dozen years earlier and now, a dozen years after that in 2024 … now a cesspit, something from a dystopian film.

10. Another roundup

(0555) Lovely darkness out there … I can see … well … maybe … hmmmm. (0659)

9. Moosh corner

8. TDS (blogrolls)

7. Sarah corner

… there are only two regular Canadians in our circle just now … Sarah and Emily Jane. Sarah’s latched onto IYE’s and Griftie’s topic:

I’m duty bound to Sarah to also ask her regular sign off question: “Who killed the Shermans?”

6. Starmergate

Remember … 17% of you voted for that lot.

(0409)(0546)

5. DAD at 807

a) French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has a higher approval rating than President Emmanuel Macron as he works to form a new government, according to a poll by Ipsos.

b) Is the Rassemblement National the New French Kingmaker? The final objective must remain the departure of Emmanuel Macron.

c) The gag on ‘Climate Reporting’ is another French obscenity. A few days prior to the [Olympic] Games, French authorities fined the country’s second most popular news channel 20,000€ for challenging the popular narrative about a purported climate crisis.

4. The reflection of every one of these motifs already

… in film, TV, novels, should be noted by all … I mean, they’re putting it all out there for you, should you care to just notice. There are four major threats and have been for some time:

*Agency or state hits

The Parallax View puts it succinctly … also Three Days of the Condor, Manchurian Candidate, Quantum of Solace … Diamonds are Forever puts the moon hoax, should it be so, Die Another Day puts Icelandic Star Wars.

*Leftist/anarchist groups

Take your pick of films … Die Hard etc.

*The new invaders

Machete world … no one’s yet dared make films of it.

Buying everything up, controlling ports, Fang Fang, Murdoch’s chick etc. any films yet?

*China

3. SF gate might be worth a look (it was on Gab)

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/disgraceful-end-california-water-king-19743239.php

Mulholland’s great achievement came when Southern California needed him the most. He is LA’s first water king, the man who brought much-needed Sierra snowmelt to the city by completing the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Finished in 1913, the 233-mile-long aqueduct runs from the Owens Valley in eastern California to the San Fernando Valley and on to countless homes and businesses. Because of Los Angeles’ semiarid Mediterranean climate, Mulholland’s massive public works project enabled dramatic population growth, which in turn fueled the explosive development of the motion picture industry — and LA’s many grass-covered properties.

2. Classic case of my comments here

I appreciated AKH’s and Dearieme’s jazz comments and wanted to get to them quickly … I did not want them to have slipped off the sidebar list already, which would have happened had I replied to that and other people visiting.

Therefore, if regulars know that any response of mine would be in-post unless I have added info to impart … it’s the second best option.

As for the history of the Baehrs name … interesting. Profound, eh?

1. A first look around at what’s what

a. IYE and shots fired at Mar-a-lago

Both the report and Laura Loomer are at 807. To my mind, if Them wanted, they could take out not just DJT but anyone else and the same in reverse … agency heads, inc. Schultz, Blair, Gates. It can be done by dedicated teams … question is … who’s dedicated to which goal?

b. Andy having a second look at Moseley and Enoch at 807

Nuff said.