14. Housekeeping
Quite a bit at 874, esp. from Steve. Also posts at Jstack, UHC.
13. Toodles out of nowhere
Don’t let the door hit you on your way out…or do let it! Who cares?
JH: Do you get this sort of feeling that We the People are not well pleased just now?
12. Having a grand time across the pond
Hints:
2 starts with Pe…. 3. I.D. 5. Time of day 6 Had worst WW1 casualties as % of population
Veterans Day, Peonie, Independence after 123 years in 1918, 1939 not to interrupt war prep, had to be in the dark, Serbia.
(1207) Afternoon all. (1258)
11. Some sort of op ed
Did the reveille, two minutes silence, rouse thing around 11 a.m., parents’ photos out, candle, usual thing.
Was thinking though … just how long do we commemorate all these things? We commemorated Agincourt not long ago, you’ll recall. 1066? Looking at my parents today, would have been over 100 … I’m thinking it needs to be till the day I die … it just seems meet and right.
What would they think of their son today? Was in tight corners many times, was even on route marches, but never in a Uke type meat grinder. I’ve been through two recessions … one in Russia in 98, one here in 08, only twice unemployed … nothing like the hell my parents saw … they did all they could to spare me hell on earth.
Anyway, we have sunshine today, you have a good one now. Washing to hang out. Am concerned about quite a few friends, more than usual … both men and women but esp. women … the gals seem to be going down with the lurgy sommit awful … Julia not wel, I can name many others, the darlings.
Warmth at all times, liquids, nutrients, keep the body moving, heaps of sleep … you know the score. Prayers for others, them for you.
10. Housekeeping at NOWP and here
Going to separate “Housekeeping”, which is cyber and blog things, from Some Sort of Op Ed, which might be reflections on life or the past week.
Housekeeping
Remember OoL is ggl, these things are happening more and more … some laddies and lasses have issues on other platforms. Way too complicated to sort out exactly where the glitches are. In some cases, it’s the platform protecting me … I’m on normal security, not high.
At HQ here, I’m getting spam but not a lot … Akismet’s doing its thang. All up, compared to many colleagues, acquaintances, friends, we’re doing all right. Watch trigger words though … it is a factor.
(0956) For those observing the two minute silence at 11 a.m. … this. (1102)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_Day
9. Good question
8. Mendacious pysch fanatics simply will not stop
… unless stopped:
7. Just the stats, ma’am
(0735) Morning all. Commemorations … I have one more, at 11 a.m. for Armistice Day … Mon 2 will be about that in the post around 1040 this morning, not just yet. Just out of second sleep here. (0914)
6. More US electoral news
5. Chinese illegals at the border
Last time I looked at Chinese troops on Vancouver Island, this time it’s at the Mexican border crossing:
4. The mendacious and risible bbc
First out of the blocks was a promotional piece which has been running on BBC television for a couple of weeks. I have seen it a few times and it bears all the hallmarks associated with the BBC – smug, self-regarding, pompous and disingenuous.
Fronted by Clive Myrie and featuring well-known presenters such as Fiona Bruce and Orla Guerin, it imparts to the audience the extraordinary lengths to which BBC journalists go to obtain The Truth and fight the threat of disinformation.
While the 90-second puff piece is risible, it is the accompanying press release that encapsulates the hermetically sealed bubble that these people work in. For aficionados of left-wing cant, a hotly contested field, the BBC press office has excelled in smothering itself in ectoplasmic quantities of claptrap.
3. Steve drop excerpts at 873
MftWC 4: Would a Fascist Take Policy and Nominee Advice from the Citizens? Trump Admin Websites Let the People Vote on Policy and Nominees
MftWC 3: The Hawaiian ‘Forbidden Island’ Where the President-Elect Scooped All the votes in 2020 and 2024
MftWC 2: Russian Troops Have Entered The Decisive Battle For The Town Of Kurakhovo
MftWC 1: “Show No Mercy”: Trump’s Pledge To Annihilate Mexican Cartels Goes Viral
2. DAD drops this morning at 874
a) Israel told citizens on Sunday to avoid going to cultural and sports events abroad involving Israelis in the coming week …
b) The other day I reported that a Bank had employed Security Guards to escort workers to and from work to the Train Station and Bus Stops; now the State is doing the same. The area concerned is located on the border between the 19th arrondissement of Paris and …
c) Islamist radicals in Spain are starting to threaten the police directly. According to a report from the Catalan regional police force …
d) “Back in July after the first Trump assassination attempt, I wrote that there can be no national unity, no burying the hatchet or cooling the rhetoric with people who have been encouraging political violence …
e) No fog here this morning, but yesterday morning a football match had to be abandoned.
f) The MAGA YMCA dance has entered Greece TV.
g) The Frence magazines respond to DJT’s election win… “Repeat offence”, “smashing comeback”, “American nightmare” …
(0325)
The parlous state of US federal politics right now
A young person said the other day that she “wasn’t interested in politics”. My reply was that it’s interested in you remaining uninterested. Yet you have the vote.
Trump being able to put his policies through is crucial, if only because the people endorsed them in the main … despite the documented cheating so far (fraud) … overwhelmingly endorsed in fact … but also because those policies directly affect other countries/blocs such as the Ukraine and the EU, Mexico. Plus Britain through Labour’s policies becoming unworkable … the zeitgeist shifting.
At every step, there are traitors entrenched who can stymie the overwhelmingly elected President. And in fact, it starts Wednesday.
Apart from the Presidency, there’s a battle in SCOTUS, where Sotomayor is being pressured to retire (they have life tenure) and she is refusing to budge. This prevents demonrats putting in Cortez. If she stays long enough for Trump to take office, then dies, GOP can make it 7-2, not that that helps in all ways … Roberts … nuff on that for now.
The House looks like going narrowly GOP, which means they at least control the purse strings.
The Senate is the focus till Wednesday and beyond. On Wednesday, for those not following closely, the Senate Leader is voted for by all GOP Senators. Traitor McConnell, arch-RINO who hates Trump and is beholden to special interests has put up three names, two who are just as bad … anti Trumpers and RINOs … one, Cornyn, has just deleted his anti-Trump tweets. They’re snakes, these three.
The sole pro-MAGA on the list is Rick Scott. If he secures the leadership, he’s non-RINO, anti-demonrat and so … if Trump brings in the program, the House funds it and it goes to the Senate, it pretty much goes through. Which affects, not just the USA but those parts of the world mentioned. Directly.
Publius (on X) has uncovered this:
Remember … Thune and Cornyn are bad lots, Scott is the pro-MAGA. Many Xers have published Senator phone numbers to phone and demand Scott. Good but two dismaying things.
Demonrat Schumer is refusing new GOP McCormick permission to attend the Orientation Day, which apparently is pretty vital, such that Mike Lee, MAGA and good guy, has offered to personally escort McCormick into the Senate.
However, check the list above on whom he plans to vote for. Also check Cruz from Texas. Think you’re seeing the dismaying treason just below the surface, preventing Presidents “presidenting”, unless demonrat, in which case they are all in lockstep and controlled by Obama.