(0758) Morning all. (0903)

 

8. Spending bill

7. Domestic issues

6. DAD at 979

a) To end the France – Algerian war, Charles de Gaulle had to agree to certain everlasting actions. Recently Algeria has been playing ‘Hard Ball’ in refusing the paperwork to enable Algerians subject to OQTF [Order to quit the territory of France].….

b) It all started with a video posted on social media. On September 15, 2024, Étienne Delarcher, a journalist under a pseudonym, posted a video shot in the prayer room of the Arrahma mosque in Hautepierre…..

c) Recent reports from the “Brussels Morning” newspaper said that the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf had uncovered findings that are now shaking the entire European Union.….

d) It’s not only in France that children are accused of whichcraft [See yesterday – “Mademoiselle from Armentières has a problem.”…..

5. Steve at 978

Four: Vet Affairs religious discrim … Enrique Tarrio … Biden’s IRS Caught Leaking Taxpayer Information … Leavitt … Maddow … more…..

Three: Trump poll … security clearances … Open Borders … Kristi Noem … much more…..

Two: Uke sit-rep … Macron … more…..

One: Tyranny … unvaxxed … Austria … CDU and SPD … more…..

4. The DEI conundrum

First look at this from TDS today:

Amanda Pritchard has stepped down from her role as Chief Executive of NHS England amid growing discontent with the state of the health service and the “complacency” of its leadership. The Telegraph has more.

Whilst there’s a certain amount of being thrown on her sword in this … in other words, it’s not all her fault … she was allowed to preside, a la Pam Landy (in Bourne) for the death knell, just as Marissa Mayer was for real with Yahoo, just as Rachel from Accounts is now … I suspect some very real misogyny in those above her in each case, “knowing” she’d fail, as the whole deep state fourth turning idea was that she’d fail … Cressida Dick, Joyce Thacker, the whole shower of non-comps … Priti Patel, Caroline fashion couch Flint, Paula London of late with her hot swimsuit shots on X, assuring slavering men that her “lady bits” aren’t showing … whilst all that’s happening, showing “Women” as narcissistic non-comps, sort of lesser men in a way … at the same time, focus on the so-called men …

…Biden, Starmer, Brown, Call Me Dave, Schiff … it goes on and on in a different way … incompetence plus massive ego and short fuse … you’d have to conclude, really, that we’re not seeing the best of specimens in key roles … and those who are half ok at their jobs are just too old or too Gen X fanatical.

If one of them is halfway competent at her job, such as it is, such as Karoline Leavitt, then you delve, you find she’s married to a man 32 years her senior … in short, we never see much of the trad style senior commander, quite capable, keeps on his known rails.

And don’t forget one reason for DEI hires, esp. in HR:

That was posted, by the way, by a competent woman, a colleague.

Is it ascribing way too much cleverness to baddies in the deep state or are they, in reality, just as incompetent? Or is someone actually most competent, knowing that clearing out this riff-raff by eccentric and narcissistic Trump will leave the country seriously undermanned or womanned by competent people?

Especially as what they’re being taught at school and university is poor quality and ideological … so even clearing out the flotsam is just going to leave gaping holes? And Nole and his Big Ball bright boys? 🍿🍿🍿.

(0123) Second sleep after this. (0244)

 

3. Final solution?

2. Steve mentions the near miss at the airport

HERE

To my mind, it was DEI ATC again or foreign language pilot(s) but 🍿🍿🍿.

1. Film review and other matters

One of the nice parts of this blogging lark is how unpredictable and dynamic it is … for example, I’ve just gone back through till Feb 2nd, looking for AKH’s film reviews. You’ll find them signposted below the film itself. No requests, no expectations, no pack drill but still nice. It does require clicking on the post header though to bring up the separate page and comment below. Or on the comments link.

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At the same time, another unpredictable item (has become so) is the baroque (or thereabouts) music. Yesterday turned out not possible but today I have two pieces … immediate thought is to split them and run on Wednesday and Sunday morns.

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My replying to comments … you may have seen AKH’s method of replying to all comments at his place in one reply comment. Again, there’s no hard and fast on this here, esp. with late commenters. So far, I’ve commented below your comment, as JH … remember, with WP, as distinct from blgr, comments can be edited later.

My own JH comment I’d like to be one line or so … if more substantial, it should be in the body of the post… either-or, not both. With your short comments, sometimes they don’t really require a reply from me … again, there’s no hard and fast on it … a tome does not always require my reply … something with links usually gets a mention in the body of the post. Keeping it all “take as it comes” for now.

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Toodles brought up something about the old N.O. way back … that it was more “free” to comment at but she added that times change and now one has to be more careful. She still likes the site but it’s tighter, let’s say. My feeling is no hard and fast but we do need to adjust to the changed policies, e.g. of WP, YT.

Talking with MMutR about Xes which sometimes expand, sometimes come as a panel, sometimes as a url, sometimes not at all, so I need to euphemise. One way around, as with Grifty, is for me to lift it and put it at NOWP.

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Some items people post are full of the grisly mooshes of horrid people or some violence … I for one do NOT wish to see those displayed and might “forget” to repost the item. There was an exchange on X:

A recent miscreant was dear Lisa reality (profile pic in red) who wrote: “Toilet pull chain” … with an attached face of some vile creature with nose ring, bits sticking out here and there … ewwwww, ugggggh … so I checked my options. Did not wish to block Lisa but sometimes there’s no option. Fortunately, there was a “not interested in this” option, I clicked, it disappeared, she’s still unblocked.

I’m not sure which part of “vile, not wanted on my timeline” so many of our lot fail to understand, feeling they must inflict it on us … not me … sorry, call me precious, call me genteel, but there’s enough ugliness around as it is. Bliss Beach was right.