(1701) Evening all.

 

17. One hopes

RFK Jr. Vows to Stop ‘Crime’ of Chemtrails as Part of Trump Administration “We are going to stop this crime.”

16. Steve at 851

War Room snippets…

a. Kash Patel Exposes The Government Gangsters Attacking President Trump

b. Dr Steven Hatfill Reveals Investigation Into Adverse Effects By The Government’s COVID-19 Vaccines And Other Medicines

c. Noah Formica On Pennsylvania: “If We Win This State, There’s A 95% Chance We Win It All”

d. Liz Harrington: A Movement Unlike Any Other

15. Time machine

Another of these hiding to nothing posts … neither the experience talked about nor its music, I’d imagine, was also the experience of those patrons/readers for whom the past was sport, concerts, study, hiking, travel, marriage, pets, allotments, friends … nor would I expect anyone to like the two songs below … for me though, they’re special..

Maybe I might come at this thing from a different angle. Imagine that some kind soul was able to transport you back to a year of your choice … time machine alone, not a geographical mover … plus you can’t know the future under this deal at any stage … the upside though is that you can take your current wisdom with you … old head on younger shoulders.

You don’t have to, you can stay here in 2024 if you wish. But it’s there on offer … take it or leave it. Ah, say you … but if I do go back just prior to one of my monumental foul-ups, can I change the outcome?

Yes, of course, the future does change for you … but as you have no memory of the foul-up itself, as the future is not yours to know, then it’s just your current level of wisdom you travel back with. So, which year shall we drop you off at?

…..

I’d personally choose, upon reflection, either 1974 or 1996 … the latter for personal, family reasons … shan’t go into those but the other, 1974 … yes, it would be to drop back into that lifestyle again when society itself was still not too far gone, plus, with this level of awareness today, just maybe I could help make a difference.

My greatest pleasure in those young, wild days, was road trips … went on plenty and we had the music then, through the cassettes, to go with it … plethora of “road” bands … JJ did go with me on each trip too:

The music over the next ten years was going to be superlative for “born to be wild types” … I’d have asked a gal to go with me … grand tour and all that.

…..

Now to the second song and this is the one which knocks me around, as it was directly my situation. In the lyrics below, the part in blue I very much agree with, it was my life … the faded part though is Jackson Browne’s life, not mine:

Lookin’ out at the road rushin’ under my wheels
Lookin’ back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In ’65 I was seventeen and runnin’ up 101
I don’t know where I’m runnin’ now, I’m just runnin’ on

Runnin’ on empty
(Runnin’ on) runnin’ blind
(Runnin’ on) runnin’ into the sun
But I’m runnin’ behind

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Tryin’ not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In ’69 I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don’t know when that road turned onto the road I’m on

Chorus … Runnin’ on empty etc.

Everyone I know
Everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don’t know about anyone but me
If it takes all night
That’d be alright
If I can get you to smile before I leave

Lookin’ out at the road rushin’ under my wheels
I don’t know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Lookin’ into their eyes, I see them runnin’ too

Chorus

Honey, you really tempt me, you know, the way you look so kind
I’d love to stick around, but I’m runnin’ behind
(Runnin’ on)
You know I don’t even know what I’m hopin’ to find
(Runnin’ blind)
Runnin’ into the sun but I’m runnin’ behind

The notion of leaving her behind is not mine, the notion of having to find that fool’s gold … that was never my thang. Opportunities arose every so often, came from nowhere, sometimes I thought why not, now is the time, upped sticks and went … but always with a plan at the other end. Usually between gals.

The person I’ve known longest in life virtually grew up behind me, making her way, just as I was doing … her hubby once called me a “drifter”. Maybe, maybe not … I always had a plan but if an offer arose which one could not, as they say, refuse … then I took it.

That’s a bit different to Jackson B … he was searching, I wasn’t … if there was even a half chance, then I thought why not. What needs doing, I’d ask, to make it happen? Cost doesn’t matter within reason.

I’m thinking though that the frenetic pace of the song from the get-go … yep, that’s lil ole Jimbo all right … two speeds, stop and go. In that, I’m similar to him, also in his intensity, his slight seriousness, his watchfulness.

I met him once you know … had to have been mid-80s … he was with Daryl Hannah … I was more interested in him. I asked him about his wife … I really did not know the story.

”She committed suicide.”

Gulp, end of conversation after the niceties.

(1414) Afternoon … hope you’re enjoying it.

 

14. Fair summary, methinks

13. For how much longer?

12. The answers

These quizzes seem to have lost takers … maybe they’re best as research for a day or two, then I’d give the answers I have here, such as with yesterday’s:

1. Which number stood for England in Nelson’s signal? 253
2. What was: “L’Angleterre compte que chacun fera son devoir”? England expects etc.
3. What was Lieutenant John Pasco’s job? Signalman for Nelson
4. What in the ground caused the Aberfan slurry slide? Springs underground
5. Significance of the Danville train in the Civil War? Munitions south
6. What did Cornwallis later do in Ireland? Act of Union
7. Where was the US v France Quasi War mainly fought? Caribbean

 

(1130) Current thinking … some Barocca around 1300 after training. If I can find some good clips.

 

11. Our beloved NHS

10. Not too sure

… who’s actually doing the commenting here but it sounds reasonable to me:

9. Seems reasonable to me

8. Care to cast an eye over these names?

https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/university-officers/chancellor/chancellor-election/candidate-statements

The post is here:

http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/10/farcical-election-for-oxford-chancellor.html

 

Ruairidh is guilty of the bonnet beauty, not me, guv, not this time:

(0829) Morrrnnniiinnnggg !!!

 

7. TDS (blogrolls)

6. Our beloved NHS

5. Back to the returning of sausages next

4. Fiscal responsibility

(0633)(0733)

 

3. The issue “in these days” is whom to trust

Part of that is waiting 🍿🍿🍿but even if they do, too many are still not self-trained enough to pick up on red flags, symbols … also on expected beat-ups in order to blacken.

There’s a current example of MAGA finding Trump’s frying activity amusing and heartening, in contrast to Team Harris calling it demeaning and shaming. The whole thing reveals something about each. In her case, go back to Kavanaugh. Though she, Harris, was too thick and lazy to do due diligence, there was some evidence Brett had been a bit naughty but it was swamped by her obvious lawfare.

We need mental data banks … anyone remember Witness for the Prosecution (Christie)? Moving onto the Jesus is King thing at her rally … what if there’d not been a Christian shouter present? How many at her rally heard her response and saw them muscling them out, at a time when churches are burning, along with the history inside?

The groundwork was laid long ago … where do we want to start? American Pie … I was listening to a reaction video last night and immediately picked up on “if the bible tells you so”. Yeah? Which books then? OT? NT? “Father, Son and Holy Ghost … they took the last train to the coast.” JFK, RFK and MLK according to many left and other pundits. Mocking according to Christians, otherwise replacement icons … and here’s the son of one of those currently on the stage.

Uh huh … throw in other Don Maclean activity, e.g. with Tuesday Weld, in that infamous hotel … throw in that every era has its Jezebel, Semiramis, witch (Kate Bush), every era has its chief SpAd too with the ear of the boss … Colonel House, Kissinger, Cheney … the “work’s” still being done to divert kids and others away, play on their naivety and kool aid drinking. Keep wars bubbling.

Any time a singer is connected to Laurel Canyon … that brings in drug dealer Mama Cass, paedo (daughter testimony) Phillips. The joke is calling these creeps Mamas and Papas … exact opposite of wholesome. Deep state military at the canyon … why Woodstock? So Phillips could coordinate the pushing of narcs on the kids, girls dissolute, STDs, the Pill … Sodom and Gomorrah revisited … only a Christian would mention it … a bible-read opponent would know all that, but ain’t sayin’ nuffink.

And so it goes on as the sun rises here at 0719. We could go on and on with snippets, little vignettes … at least I could. Why me? Firstly open to Christian thinking, secondly, ferreting and looking at the ferreting of others … triggers all over the place. Ignore it because your a priori mindset refuses to accept that it does not fit life experiences? Sheltered?

For a couple of days, we’ve had something up about Elon … the collator doesn’t trust him, gave reasons … too left field? So what’s with this current biz, also the illumined triangle Tulsi? Again … 🍿🍿🍿… eyes and ears open.

2. Andy at 851

a. So we still have a navy, I do hope all the bits and bobs work as advertised and that the commanders are sufficiently capable. Big exercise in the North Sea eh?

b. Remember, remember the fifth of November. | Off topic a bit, when was the last time you had local children pushing a stuffed dummy in a pram around while scrounging a Penny for the Guy?

1. DAD at 851

a) In Armenia, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of a Christian church dating back to the 4th century AD, considered one of the oldest ever discovered.

b) The police immediately understood when they came across the driver at night that they had to stop him quickly. In the vehicle, a minor aged 13, refused, and was forced to stop his vehicle in the streets of Nîmes around midnight. But once the car was immobilized, the young man decided to flee on foot.

c) A quarter of town halls in England are likely to need emergency bailouts from the UK’s central government to avoid bankruptcy in the coming years, according to a survey of council chief executives that lays bare the parlous state of local authority finances.