YEP! Trump just won the election with just this one video of him working at McDonald's. He has now officially worked there longer than Kamala Harris ever has
17. Three items I’d call Gals’ Biz … best I run them now
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16. Steve at 849
15. DAD at 849
… shows how to move a house with just 600 hands.
14. Storm Ashley
Was going to run the plastic patio chair tipped over but then looked and we are … er … in a sort of storm. It’s centred on Scotland and NI but the wind shadow extends south to batter the Welsh coast, parts of England as well … west coast though, not inland, not south, e.g. not over Bristol, Poole.
Anglesey has it worse than us:
Speaking personally, the wind direction is hitting the other side of our hill and is therefore diminished on our house … my neighbours are getting it worse than I am. Message now is that John Lennon airport has just been closed.
So it is actually a “thing”, Ashley, it’s certainly happenning.
… has started to kick in in our area … it always starts with the house rocking, doors banging on hinges, windows swinging open … to my mind it’s the advance gusts, more later. Had a quick look at the forecast … yep, it was to have been tomorrow just before dawn but now it’s now.
At 40 mph, it shouldn’t take down the broadband or power … but it might. Am going to schedule the 1600 jazz and if all is still unbroken, shall post around 1700.
If 1700 post does not appear, then net or power is out. Not expecting our own lines to be down, more at a distance from us, some miles over.
(1557) Died away for now, just a strong breeze.
12. BC flooding, esp. West and North Van
This is uncannily like NC in the States … I know West and North Vancouver fairly well … West Van is where the money is, i.e. anti-Castro, North Van less so but still a better area. Where the flooding is not is the Woke left section of druggies and violence across the bridge. If the torrent had taken that out, good job but can’t see it. And all on election day, eh?
(0859) Morning all … bleah out there. (0936) Short break, maybe 1030 return, ok? (1030) Back again, no. 8 being compiled now. (1051)
9. Great training for us just now
Consider:
It’s really that old chestnut about trust. I was looking at Roy Orbison’s bio and his cheating on Claudette. He was 21 in 1957, she barely 16, so the bond faced challenges, let’s say. From what I can gather, she was still besotted, he was maniacally narcissistic even before he’d had the voice epiphany but there was only so much she could take of his attitude, so she cheated … they were on a motorbike, a truck came through and hit them, she was soon dead … at 25. Nine years of “marriage”.
Did he learn? Nope. Would you trust him with your daughter? Nope. Same sort of thing with Haley. No way.
More interesting though is how many snakes are putting on a pro-Trump face now, esp. as the steal looks like it’s very much on the cards (District 16, Georgia yesterday). Leopard … spots?
8. Waste management
In what was essentially a puff piece in one of the local rags (and why not?), nevertheless there was some interesting data near the end:
Wirral Council is currently reviewing its bin contract ahead of its current contract with waste company Biffa expiring in 2027. The local authority is currently exploring three different options for future bin collections as it prepares to spend more than £300m over the next 15 years.
The current Biffa contract covers all household waste and recycling collections, waste collection from council premises and schools, and street cleansing of adopted highways, pavements and alleyways. However, collection of litter and fly tipping on other council land, including parks, is not part of this contract.
At a meeting in July, councillors agreed to develop a business case to either outsource all services, create a council run company to run all services, or bring street cleaning in house while waste collection is outsourced. Big changes are also around the corner as food waste recycling will be rolled out nationwide by 2026 and an update on the issue is expected in January 2025.
Over the last two years, Biffa’s collected bins 17 million times, cleared 26,000 alleyways, cleaned 12,000 streets, and lorries have carried out over 75,000 trips to the Bidston tip. Since 2006, services have been provided through Biffa for roughly 147,000 homes.
Things haven’t always been smooth since Biffa started working for the council in 2006. Biffa was involved in a pay dispute with union Unite at the end of 2022 which saw strikes take place in the lead up to Christmas. Collections were disrupted for weeks long after the strikes were called off, leading to heavy criticism of the company.
Uh huh.
7. Why do people keep doing the same stoopid things?
During the Canadian trucker convoy thing, people were donating to GFM who allegedly embezzled, froze funds, whatever it was, such that all major pundits said don’t go near them … apparently there’s a better crowd called give something go.
So why the heck would anyone still send to this lot?
Major lawyer, major platform … why on earth would you not heed that?
6. “Par for the course” can sometimes strike a chord
… and then a mental process starts, bumping it up to a much higher place in the pecking order.
Tavern visitors and regulars … consider how much info you process daily now … it’s even biblical … knowledge will increase in the end days … plus there’s 5G damage to consider, WiFi, the constant bam bam bam … for example flooding in Sicily, France, elsewhere … just how much can you take in and process?
And after that … just how much can I, as the bottleneck admin here, post in a given time? What topics? There are two bottlenecks here … my router, and me. This is where you need to be bolder, methinks. If you think something needs publicising, within our constraint of no overt Wokery, then go for it … there are four sites in the herd where you can leave comment … choose your poison. There’s no rule about “on topic”, given security concerns we have at our bottleneck.
But there’s another factor … your own mental health and general health … walks, projects, house chores … they all take the mind off the horrors for a time. By no means would I you expect you’d hang in here getting constant bombardment about the horrors out there. There are parts you just have to shut out for your organism’s own health.
Having said all that … this seemingly par for the course item below … well, it certainly has me thinking.
Why? Because of things we’ve had here, e.g. from DR, on MM for example … and when you retrieve that from your mental and data archives, they do paint a picture. For example, Svali spoke of the tunnels under the Appallachians, others wrote of tunnels under Denver airport … forget not Terminator 3 (ending) … FEMA camps … Annunaki, Nephilim … Toodles’s point about the significance of locusts, literal and figurative … just throw it all on the table, then consider this:
Trump saw, Johnson saw … a clear game changer, yes? I’ll throw in here about the Statue of Ish in NY harbour, similar in Paris … which group donated it? Also, whom are Catholic knights, e.g. Malta, dead against … they immediately say Masonry but that side itself lambasts Loyola and Jesuits. Think on’t and there’s just so damned much we’re missing … chunks of the truth suppressed.
… Guess who has the biggest investment in the lithium mine industry in North Carolina? Doug Emhoff, who is Kamala’s husband.
… what does a pundit initially do? Check Wiki of course … subject avoided. Failing that and still on p1 of ggl, from whom you’d expect similar, some snippets do emerge:
… Kamala Harris’s husband, Douglas Emhoff, could profit from Hurricane Helene due to his investments in Albemarle Lithium Mines in North Carolina …
… Emhoff has financial ties to companies like Piedmont Lithium, a fact that should concern all Americans. While his wife advocates for clean …
… Kamala Harris’ husband, has very strong ties to lithium mining. He is one of the largest investors in North Carolina …
So that puts us in the realm of confirmation bias, yet those appeared on ggl first page on Emhoff. Plus other things we’ve run. The obvious question is what to about it? Well vote for starters.
Now I am of a generation that was all but oblivious to the music of the boy band that made him famous – One Direction. Liam’s life ended a few days ago (“fell off”) balcony.
He goes on to say:
People will make their own minds up about Cowell. To my mind, the Music Industry itself is corrupt and Satanic. I have no idea what sacrifices are made of those who make it to the top but the smell of sulphur is always present.
Well yes. The exact circumstances, no one’s saying but clearly lost inside, as was Roy Orbison and the various Beatles, so many others … Kristofferson accused by a few of being a vicious abuser, Swift we’ve covered, that Canadian woman, plus Whitney Houston … dark doings … that Diddy creature, Jimmy Page, Dylan … goes on and on.
3. Kathy wakes up ConWom (excerpt)
Like most people I’d got so wrapped up in the iniquities of Stalinist Starmer’s post-Southport ‘swift justice’, his blatant hypocrisy and greed, his winter fuel allowance cruelty and his net zero nightmare (to say nothing of the tax bomb about to fall) that I lost sight of the bigger picture. But the fact is Starmer doesn’t care what anyone thinks of his first 100 days. He doesn’t need to.
a) Keen to shed light on the dysfunctions that led to the assassination of Samuel Paty by an Islamist on October 16, 2020, his sister, an anesthetist nurse, has just published a book.
b) Schengen is dead, but not forgotton. France has announced the reintroduction of temporary border controls with Luxembourg and five neighbouring countries from 1 November 2024 to 30 April 2025, highlighting growing security concerns in Europe.
c) The Italian right-wing [sic] government has said it intends to continue to pursue plans to examine asylum applications outside the EU, despite a legal defeat over the processing of the first group of migrants that arrived at Italy’s new camps set up in Albania.
d) The Mail reports: Girl, 17, with suspected autism faces 12-match ban from her football team for asking adult transgender opponent: ‘Are you a man?’
1. Over at Churchmouse (blogrolls, Scriblerus first column)
… Dearieme wrote:
I’ve just seen a fascinating little story. What is to become of the expelled people of the Chagos islands who do not want to live under the Mauritian jackboot? Apparently HMG is considering settling them on St Helena. But they have consulted neither the Chagossians nor the government of St Helena.
CM replied (excerpt):
I have not seen the article about resettling them on St Helena. That is shocking! There is nothing there, other than the governor’s house. That was why the British chose it for Napoleon’s exile, at which time there was no governor’s house. Pure punishment for Napoleon.
These are supposed to be historically oppressed persons of colour (POCs). The great tragedy is that they are being further oppressed by a powerful man who is himself a POC. Furthermore, this man is courting an internationally known oppressor, the Chinese. Last I knew, the Chinese did not look particularly kindly on POCs.
Oh, the sad, sad irony of it all. Lammy has said during the Chagos statement and debate that not everyone — meaning the Chagossians — agrees on what should be done. However, by saying that, he is indicating that Labour do not really care about the needs and wants of the Chagossians. Incidentally, Lammy considers himself to be a practising Anglican. That’s something else to add to the mix. Agree that Labour are frightful at governing.
I still do not understand why that land is being given to Mauritius. They never had an empire. From what I know, the Spanish had the Chagos islands centuries ago, then ceded them to the Dutch, who ceded them to the French, who ceded them to the British. Feel free to correct my history.
