(1208)

 

14. In Flanders fields

Good to remember the sacrifices but what’s this? The British Legion have gone Woke and perverted the memory, as Julia points out:

By the way … Agincourt yesterday (1415 … the year, not the time):

Longbow

13. There’s a time to euphemise

…and a time NOT to euphemise, BTP:

12. Midday and the Brits are already gathering

(0924) Morning all … looks bright out there. (1003)

 

11. How long will it take the three wise monkeys?

10. Meanwhile, apart from liars Two Tier and Reeves here

… there’s this Oz report from downunder:

Now for those not familiar with CHOGM, I’ve a little tale … back in the days of WN1, early days, we were lying there around 9 p.m., whispering sweet nothings concerning what the new mar-romance required, when suddenly there were spotlights above us, choppers, they shone the lights at our bedroom window, there were these disembodied military voices too, we were awaiting the descent lines, they were so close that the bed was vibrating and equally suddenly … down fell the heart shaped soft toy she’d suspended from our brass bedhead … right between us it landed … across it was stitched: “Love.”

Awwww, thank you, CHOGM, thank you thank you. We always remembered those CHOGM copters, half expecting them to reappear at significant moments in our future … but no. And dear reader … that is a true story, not embellished in any way.

9. The heavyweights are slugging now

Maybe it’s just colourless Starmer (remember John loves Ginny too?) but US politics is so much more entertaining, esp. in election year:

We’ll obviously keep reporting Brit horrors in Westminster and Guido’s in my blogrolls if you need your daily fix but really, the action’s daily across the pond:

 

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8. Longrider and heat pumps

If they were any good, incentives wouldn’t be needed. See also the white elephants that are EVs.

7. “The left does not care about you”

Of course the Democrats are threatening the McDonald’s in Bucks County, Pennsylvania where Donald Trump cooked fries and served people.

Listen to what this gal had to say in the video and how she calls out the hypocrisy of the left. She’s 💯 right. pic.twitter.com/GpcOJAvQhe

— ❥❥❥ᗰoᒪᒪie❥❥❥ (@mollie_don) October 25, 2024

6. TDS (blogrolls)

5. DAD drop at 856 (hope it works)

a) 23 have gone – plenty more to follow [I hope]. This Thursday, October 24, 23 people boarded a Georgian Airways plane departing from Rennes airport.

b) They said that there would not be a slide into judicial killing. “Canada has just killed the first citizen under the Canadian government’s controversial new plans to begin euthanizing patients who have been injured by Covid “vaccines.”

c) How do you ‘lose’ 24 billion dollars? A new Oxfam report shows that over six years, $24,000 million dollars (at least) has probably gone missing off the balance sheets, but it could be as much as $41 billion.

d) JD Vance: Kamala Harris said you’re at the wrong rally. Well, if you think Jesus is Lord, you’re at the right rally.”

(0353) Let’s go. (0524)

 

4. Andy flashback two years

”Move along there, you’re having far too much fun. Tuba Skinny confronted by police in New Orleans.”

You remember it at the time? Just coming out of the plandemic horrors, performing seals, standing on spots in supermarkets, 6 feet apart, never 5’10” … care home deaths etc. Then this, where bands had at least for a decade performed on Royal Street … wtaf? New Orleans cultural icons … grrrrr.

3. Steve drops at 855 … selections

MftWC 4: Dirty Mitch McConnell Attacks Trump and Rick Scott 2 Weeks Out from Election – Refused to Fund Scott, Kari Lake and Ted Cruz but Blew Millions on RINO Larry Hogan’s Losing Campaign

MftWC 3: Mayhem at Washington Post After Bezos Kills Harris Endorsement – Staff Threatening to Quit and Denounce Company

MftWC 2: Russian Lancet Destroyed German IRIS-T System Deep In Ukrainian Rear 

MftWC 1: New version of “hate speech bill” is rushed through Irish parliament; it excludes “speech” but includes a new crime of “aggravated by hatred”

2. Billy loves Kari! Billy loves Kari! Nyaa nyaa nyaa!

Did you catch his throwaway comment, Clinton, on Kari Lake being a looker, a good sort? She remarked in one of her campaign speeches that she was probably a bit old for Billy … didn’t he prefer interns?

1. Rogan

The Joe Rogan Interview with President Donald Trump

Had a quick look through the interview … thing which came through to me was that it helps if the leader or the person you want achieving something has this element in the head of “couldn’t care less nutter”.

You remember the Sherlock Holmes eccentricity and someone said thank goodness he fights for good (as we might define it in eternal terms) … it does need that sort of person … today they might call it sigma … he’s flawed, too human in a way … that’s true.

So while there’s a screw loose, as Trump describes Bolton … it’s a case of what fruits result from that tree … look at Bolton … wars … Mattis, Kelly M.I.C. … there’s something necessary in having someone who’s eccentric and unpredictable … G Gordon Liddy was that but he was also willing to do highly dangerous things for the “gung ho”.

The ones you want are that ledger balance being for “good” … also usually hard workers, two speeds, stop and go … quite the untrusting loner … such that the observer (you, me), in order to decide on him, must look at the track record overall, how positions developed and why … esp. what his bottom lines are, his red lines? That’s where the confidence comes from in the observer … or not.

Many times I’ve written that in the final analysis, we’re only our track record and our positions on this policy or that. The Jewish-Arab thing is a perfect case .. what if your chief loyalty, after God, is your own country? So you judge behaviour according to eternal verities first, then to what’s best for your nation, your area, your family, friends, ultimately you … but not if it destroys other “good” people … everything’s a balance of positions developed over decades.