(1108)(1317)

 

14. Moosh corner

13. Nation’s past and present going down the gurgler

12. It’s nice when compatriots dig in and say no

11. There are posts up

… at UHC and Jstack

10. Confucius says

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Confucius_Institutes

9. The problem with govts

This is the young Scot’s YT, part one, which goes into three forms of govt, how they are when good (early in the history cycle) and when bad (where we are now near the end of this cycle). Warning … this is a Christian perspective which I support, except his use of “left” and “right”. Left is sinister in my eyes, right is dexter, not the other way around.

He’s presenting a philosopher here who apparently was a bggr for the bottle:

A natural extension of the argument … and the yS goes there … is that there does need to be some powerful force which causes a “leader” or group of leaders … and in turn a people who follow the example … to have a moal compass, an ethical core so to speak … which makes the system work.

You can have the Demonrat “democracy” prevailing by importing hordes and letting them vote but that = the destruction of the system. Alternatively, you can have highminded Founding Fathers, including rats like Jefferson, but the “rattyness” is kept under control whilst highminded people with an ideal are still in charge.

The bottom line, according to the yS and also according to me, is that the issue with governance is not the system per se … it’s those implementing and practising it … what these people are like inside themselves is the crux of the matter. Starmer? Cooper? Rayner?

And that requires a moral code which most tacitly accept. There were many goodhearted people, decent, moral, before Christianity, there have been zillions wearing a cross who are anything but good people since, e.g. the Franks in Constantinople.

An effective curber of our excesses over two millennia has been Judgment Day and eternity.

If you push a philosophy based on Man can do anything, can make his own destiny, is his own brilliant god, which is similar to Woman can do anything, watch me roar … then you are blindly doing the devil’s work for him with this nihilism thing.

And in the spirit of Dirk Gently’s fundamental interconnectedness of all things … once a sufficient number of humans in the society abandon the code, start abusing it, then all bets are off and sodom and gomorrah follow Swiftly after it.

 

No sooner does a post go up on nature abhoring a vacuum than I take a quick look at my feature stock and there’s a total vacuum, unless it’s a YT on the ridiculousness of absurdism and what seems the young Scot’s reply … too heavy around cuppa time, so how about some naughty sweeties instead?

(0742) Forbidding and foreboding, low, dark-grey sky out there but who cares, right? We’re all singing and dancing to Taylor Swift, like hordes in The Mummy chanting Impotep (sic), Impotep, k*ll, k*ll, k*ll. (0813)

 

8. Three snippets

a. Telegraph, behind paywall:

Trump makes legal complaint over Labour’s ‘blatant foreign interference’ in US election … Republicans claim activists sent to US is ‘foreign interference’ but (Comrade) Starmer denies the row will damage relations with Trump.

b. Question is who’ll step in to do the biz?

c. We need reparations from the EU:

7. Michael Pruser, via Denileriver after

“..Shout out to Murray County for being the first county in Georgia to exceed its 2022 total early vote (currently at 108% of 2022)…”

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6. Harris antecedents via Denileriverafter

Kamala Grew Up Around Terrorists

The untold story of Kamala’s grandfather and her childhood in Africa.

“..On the last leg of her African tour, Vice President Kamala Harris paid a visit to an otherwise unremarkable office building in Zambia. Her staff and local embassy personnel had spent a great deal of time looking for it and everyone was hoping it was the right place.

Kamala, with her Jamaican and Indian roots, needed a tangible connection to Africa to win over African-American voters and convince them that she was one of them. And everyone settled on the office building as being the next best thing because it was the former spot of the building where she had once stayed as a little girl with her Indian mother on a visit to her grandfather.

President Hakainde Hichilema welcomed her as “a daughter of our own country, someone who spent time here in her early years.”

Kamala responded by launching into a story about having visited “Zambia, Mr. President, as a young girl when my grandfather worked here” as “an advisor to Zambia’s first president, Kenneth Kaunda” to “serve as a director of relief measures and refugees…”

October 22, 2024 by Daniel Greenfield

5. TDS (blogrolls)

4. Rolf at Now and Next

You wait ages for a euthanasia Bill and then three come along at once.

First was the ‘Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill’introduced on 27 March 2024 by Liam McArthur MSP (Lib Dem). There is no specific limit to the sufferer’s expected remaining life: ‘a person is terminally ill if they have an advanced and progressive disease, illness or condition from which they are unable to recover and that can reasonably be expected to cause their premature death.’ The Bill does not define the term ‘premature’ but the World Health Organisation seems to be working with age 70 as a marker, outside Africa ……….

(0614) Dark out there, in more ways than one (see Wed 3 today). (0712)

 

3. Nature abhors a vacuum

There is a very real Gestalt reaction going on in every human’s mind … every human of a certain age who does see the issues but his/her mind flatly refuses to accept even its possibility … let me repeat this meme:

An example of my own refusal is the picture in DAD 851:8a at the end of the link … I’m simply not going to run it here at HQ, though in keeping with our practice, it can still be found if you bother to follow links and pointers. Whole point is that that way, I preserve my sanity, control my anger and quest for revenge on those savages … it’s a mental health thing in order to be able to carry on.

One example of Gestalt oft mentioned is a broken circle which the human mind wants completed, closed. So the mind closes it … it’s also whence the idea of “closure”, say after a tragedy. The whole point of Christ dying on the cross was that it provided closure, both in mind and in metaphysical reality … it cut the nexus between ongoing outrage => revenge => further outrage => reaction … and so on. It removes the necessity for endless blood sacrifice because Christ’s sacrifice atones.

Now, you can say all you like that the whole thing is bollox and have a good Wednesday, I reply … however, this thing is ancient, it’s part of an ancient war across dimensions … human arrogance asserts its own gestalt closure and says that the closed human physical world where the only reality is that which can be observed by the five human senses … is the only perception possible. Very gestalt.

The obvious retort is … what about animals who perceive that which humans cannot? And extending that … who said, anyway, that the only senses possible are the five human ones … who made that rule? Gestalt says, in the case of a rationalist, a secularist, an engineer for example, that we just ignore those other realities, those other pesky inconveniences which don’t fit the general narrative … just ignore em, as Sgt Holcombe told the court in Perry Mason’s Purloined Parrot story.

If you create a west based on Christian precepts, however well or not humans stick to those precepts, esp. the enemies of humans (today’s globopsycho, myrmidons, karens and wokerati) … then, far from Klaus and Two Tier’s communist utopia, you have in fact created a vacuum into which rushes the Great Wind of Eventual Human Oblivion.

And that oblivion can be seen in the Ukraine for example, and in the middle-east. Talk to the fathers and mothers of those slain in those places … and soon to be in Britain, North America and in the antipodes … talk to them about this communist utopia they brainwash kids and the simple with … the wonderful image western “leadership” has in store for us … tell the victims to ignore the slaughter, the human misery, the degradation of trafficked children for profit … very gestalt, innit, to obey, comply and ignore just who the monsters are?

What does a shellshocked soldier do upon his demobbing? He’s out of his brain, sorry to say, he’s dissociated. And what do the “leaders” do? The monsters and their puppets? They ignore returned service men and women, leaving them on the street whilst housing the new satanic army … at taxpayer expense. Speak to Reform UK about that situation … or about children taught pron in schools under the guise of rainbow.

Toodles has a link … have a look around the 10 minute mark or so. Says it all.

Look, patient regulars and occasionals … at what point does the west say, “Enough of all this sh*te!” … ? This whole gestalt conundrum?

2. DAD drop today at 851, plus 852

a) Evil, in the form of a giant Lilth, comes to Bordeaux.

b) France has a plan to recycle some of its nuclear waste and to turn it into table forks, doorknobs, and saucepans.

c) Alexander Van der Bellen, president of Austria, has decided to betray the will of the people by tasking Chancellor Karl Nehammer, head of the centre-right People’s Party (ÖVP), rather than the election-winning FPÖ’s Herbert Kickl, with forming a government. The ÖVP secured 26.3% of the votes on September 29th, while the national-conservative anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPÖ) received 28.8%.

[Must do all that we can to keep out those extreme, far, far-right people.]

1. Steve drops last evening at 851

Evets 4: Team Kamala Harris Colluding with Far-Left British Political Operatives to “Kill Musk’s Twitter”- Musk Responds with Fiery Message

Evets 3: Georgia SoS Raffensperger Secretly Raising Millions Through Newly Created Organization to Silence Election Officials Fighting for Election Integrity — Georgia GOP Chairman Blasts Raffensperger’s Corrupt Tactics

Evets 2: Ukrainian Officials Send Their Children To Europe But Want To Lower Conscription Age To 18

Evets 1: Terry McMahon: One word sums up what the controlling class are doing to Ireland – Treason

Austrian President Asks Election Runner-Up—Not Winner—To Form Government

(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: