(0349) Readers will ustd that, given the time at which this is being posted, plus a second sleep after it … it might be around 0730 or so for the next post. (0417)
6. That Midas touch
5. What’s in a name?
4. Dearieme at AKH
3. DAD at 971
a) Strange happening at court. An altercation in the Court involving the lawyer, his friend, the counsel for the civil party, a police officer and gendarmes in the middle…..
b) How do you deal with someone like this? This young man, aged 17 and a manga fan, was born in Vitry. He left his house with two sabres…..
c) At this moment in history, as AI takes off, France has a couple of gigawatts of reliable baseload power to spare…..
2. Steve at 970
Four: Vance’s speech again (we’ve posted already) … Rubio … Lindsey Grahame and Zelensky … Macron … Orban … more…..
Three: He Who Saves His Country Does Not Violate Any Law … Eliminate DEI Programs Within 14 Days … DOGE … Newsom … immig judges … more…..
One: UK government is regulating farmers off their land, DOGE workers “dug in” … House GOP prepares to impeach Fed Judges … Romanians into Canada … much more…..
(0203) It’s all in our attitude towards events, people, things.
One reason to run this first item as a standalone is to avoid that situation of WP creating its own list, independent of my own through the day. In fact, truth is … it’s probably the only reason.
The logical time to run an introspective “sermon” is middle of the night … cold outside and in, black as pitch out there, plenty of food here still … for how long? Perfect atmosphere to get into the chilling topics … such as age.
a. Don’t dabble
Good advice to the head of, and staff of, skynet in Terminator 3, also advice a young man in Russia gave me about portals and hexes people put on someone, also HAL 9000 in Space Odyssey, also avoiding obelisks and 3D geometric shapes, plus numerology, astrology, cards, the Mummy, etc. etc.
Part of this is not to name. Works in reverse if praying for someone’s recovery but as the young man said to me … naming opens a portal, chanting is worse … avoid all of it, keep things general, stick to known paths, as Trump lawyer Davis advised someone after Trump’s election.
What brought all this on? Well I awoke just now, thought of this and that, dropped into my routine, third or fourth was to check the email box, there was one of these Bored Panda collection of freaky fotos, I was silly enough to look, many of them were just before someone’s death … clicked out after a dozen of those.
One was the Columbia University massacre … no thanks, none of that sort of thing … call me an increasing fuddy-duddy, Mr. Morality, an aspiring saint, but there are things that the ole instinct says don’t go near. It possibly kept me alive in Russia … what’s it going to do in Llama-Harmer land? Seems to me we’d do well to stay a bit like a droll, cynical Lee Anderson (Reform).
Rid yourself of anything naughty, vile, untoward, have nothing on file anwhere, not on hard drive, not on stick etc. Anything subsequently found … someone put it there, not you, guv.
b. Stick to carefully worked out routines, become a creature of habit. One of those habits is to be unpredictable, to have a plan b, a plan c, an escape route at all times. Today, being caught in a confined space … a supermart, a square, a mall, an auditorium with others … I’d not have given it a second thought years ago … in the light of today’s nutters though, from deep state to govt to the judiciary … to just other people, esp. the young … best not. Work on 270 degree vision, vertically as well as horizontally.
Plan, for goodness sake. That silly man burning that book … at least work out the plan … have three mates with cudgels placed a short distance away in a car, in a booth, whatever. One angry old man near an embassy? Insane.
c. Take care of the diet, liquid and exercise … make it routine. Don’t drop that for any reason. Next to godliness and cleanliness, take care of house and self, if only not to become obnoxious … people are more inclined to talk to you, even to help.
d. Keep a sense of humour but not a weird one, nothing sicko, which only freaks others out. Might be funny to you … it certainly ain’t to anyone else. Humour, even cynical humour, e.g. memes, break the diet of daily horrors, take the mind off … within limits, to a point.
Reason is it’s your network which will be your only real chance in a crunch situation … not possible if you’ve no friends. Keep options open … sigma was for another past era … now you need your network. Unherdables is one part of that if you want, but not the only. Options open, remember.
e. Stay rational, not weird, be dependable (routines), be there to help … I like how Donny is keeping the friendly face going … he may need any one of those friendly faces one day. There’s a time to be firm, even summary … but mostly it’s best to just be even tempered, slight cynicism perhaps.
Part of it is to develop a charitable side if possible … choose your charity or -ies.
f. Keep away from entanglements, esp. the younger ladies, young people in general … for a start, you’re not going to keep up, plus they have no intention of being your nursemaid. Once that part’s through your skull, once that part of your quietus is sorted … the rest becomes easier. Last night, there were two twins, plus one narrowboat gal … stay friendly like a rock but that’s it … there’s no percentage doing more.
g. I was going to do a separate post, already have mentioned this but have you seen the ski poles every skiier uses? You never lean on them, they’re just reference points, right? Like a hiking pole but not for leaning on. I’ve already written about travelling, walking, moving through narrower spaces, assuming you’ll fall over.
In fact, I use doorposts to bounce off as part of the locomotion … even your legs uses low sideboards, drawers to keep you upright. I have a walking stick with rubberised ends, had it for decades, don’t need it for support but it acts a bit like those ski poles … uncanny how just having it gives balance … I’ll push a window ajar, touch the floor wi’it, hang it back in its place in the hall … I’m thinking it’s not much as a weapon … I can think of better weapons such as sword in a walking stick … but I already have a bo stick for defence.
h. The increasing Alzheimers. Look, you’re going to be one lucky chappy or lassie if you don’t go at least a bit gaga, troppo as you approach the final analysis. All the above most certainly help, they keep you active, busy, thinking, never time to feel sorry for yourself or regret … what’s the point of wallowing in that? Regret past actions of your own, things you said … but then shut them out … they can only stop your ability to be effective for others. That’s the mindset, even if they’re aren’t others.
This is why all the above points, combined, are important … I’m sure you could add others … but one MMutR and I discussed … vigilant calmness, air of assurance, which that book burner most certainly did not have … he was open to being stabbed, he invited it. Be nimble on the feet but also stand still, calm, awaiting, judging when to switch to attack … for goodness sake ditch the bewildered and vulnerable these days … it buys nothing with nutters.
Never put yourself in a position alone, outside your citadels. If your routines involve that, then change the routines … those of faith in a triune God have an excellent weapon there but it also helps to help yourself.
You will eventually die, no choice, maybe even part gaga … but until then, do all those things above and your chances increase. END OF at 03:33, a good time to stop.
Former NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer: “We are very fortunate to have a sport where somebody as powerful as the President of the United States wants to come and be a part of it… It means a lot.” #DAYTONA500pic.twitter.com/OdSC6I8Gt4
”The prison has banned him from ordering food for a week—his only source of nutrition, tinned tuna and mackerel—just because he spoke to his son on speakerphone when on a call to another family member. They’ve blocked visits. Cut off phone access.”
Lost weight, not in a good mental state. Whatever he was meant to have done, this breaches every human rights provision regarding inhumane treatment. His ite admin speaks of a street protest near the prison.
(0731) Morning all. If you glance at the end of the last post (0316) and the start of this one, that’s a neat second sleep, aiming for about seven hours over the twenty-four hours. So quota is up, boy is refreshed.
This continues in item 6. By the way, UK temps are due to steadily rise after today. (0927)
7. DAD at 970
a) Suspected of having ignored warnings of physical and sexual assaults at Notre-Dame de Bétharram, a private school in Béarn, François Bayrou met with victims’ representatives on Saturday, February 15. He “was not aware”…..
b) Macron is pushing for Referendum—but not on Immigration. The French are to vote on three subjects, but not the one that matters most to them…..
c) Nadège Lefèbvre (LR) received a delegation of elected officials from the municipality and representatives of the opposition group on Monday evening. “To make people believe that we are going to place delinquents in Maignelay-Montigny is completely false,” she repeated.…..
6. Kathy’s Klown
That could well be me as I’m about to embark on some severe abridging of her entire TCW newsletter below and by the way, don’t read too much into the Klown bit … have you not heard of the Code of Chivalry? You know … Klown on Blogback in Shining Armour dontchaknow?
Do you believe in God? Well the topic has relevance to Kathy’s Missive today and I’m seriously not kidding as I write this but I was not quick enough to screenshoot the ticker notification at the top of the screen but as I wrote “Kathy’s Missive”, at that very second appeared in ticker “TCW Kathy Gyngell” … I B-S you not … yikes!
One of our Kast of Kharakters at Unherdables is IYE and he might ask, in reaction to that … coinkidink? One wonders. The alternative is that some intelligence causes certain things to happen in a certain way … after all, to everything there is a season and it’s Donald J Trump’s right now … a window.
Last evening, preparing materal for today, I saw one of those Drumpf articles which went on about Edomites … uh huh … was that meant to be significant in some way or just the rantings of the demonrat party across the pond? Idea was the Donald is actually Esau returned … you can look that one up if interested. One name cropped up and I’ve kept coming back to it myself … Barron.
Let’s get to Kathy and as mentioned, I’m abridging this now so it doesn’t go on forever:
”I HAVE BEEN left pondering this week about the point of TCW, and indeed the purpose of the criticism and dissent which we publish – that is, apart from it giving us all a chance to ‘vent off’.”
At that point, the local rag online arrived and this:
Hmmmmm … MMutR and I were discussing a similar scenario of late, how one would react. Also, Toodles has gone ‘absent WITH official leave’, ditto with Isilme. Hmmmmm, back to Kathy:
”My musings were prompted by two article submissions, both fluent and well-argued, one of which I decided to publish and one I didn’t. The one I ‘spiked’ was an attack on Donald Trump, not from the Left but the sceptical Right, for his failure to follow up the vast network of USAID fraud and corruption with arrests. Trump’s first time in office in mind, the writer posited that without this, the swamp would stay. He had a point, but surely it was premature and unduly negative?”
There are quite a few Donald anomalies akshuli and I’ll mention some further down.
”I asked Bernard Carpenter, TCW’s man in the States, for his opinion. It came back, beautifully (and enviably) expressed: ‘Just look at what he has achieved in three weeks. No one said it would be easy. Leftists of one stripe or another are so embedded in the American body politic, dominating its governmental and cultural institutions, that it will take wave after wave of what Joseph Schumpeter called “creative destruction”.”
Yyyeeessssss … hmmmmm. Remember all that Q biz and how the Donald had it all pegged? The White Hats etc.? Remember how he did not turn it around on Jan 6 and told everyone to go home? And many were RayEpped over to the Capitol where they were invited in through a sidedoor? Remember Michael Byrd and Ashli Babbit?
But have you also noticed that the classic pic of her always has her giving the horned satanic sign, which youngsters pretend is peace and love or some hogwash? Not unlike Tulsi’s triangle fingers. Remember the Donald not placing his hand on two bibles which Melania was prevented from getting to him with? Coinkidink? Quite possibly, possibly not. Back to Kathy.
“To repurpose a quote from one of my favourite films, Trump isn’t all we’ve got, he’s what we’ve got. Imperfect vessel though he is, I’m with him all the way. Without him, the country is lost. With him, there is hope’. More so now that Robert F. Kennedy Jr has been installed as Secretary of Health and Human Services (in defiance of Big Pharma and all those screeching Democrat swamp monsters!) Hope, in a nutshell, is exactly what I felt when Nigel Farage decided to step back into the political limelight, another figure who, ‘without him, the country is lost. With him, there is hope’.”
Ah yes … that was when Nigel stormed out of UKIP in a huff, then sold out TBP to the Tories in the hope of a Tory gong? Still … Nigel’s time came, he’s an MP and so is the man who flew to the Ukraine for a war zone photo op … Mr. Tice.
“But, what about TCW? If I knew how to run a political party, no doubt I’d be running one. I don’t know how, so I don’t propose getting into the business of telling an old pro. What we do know at TCW is how to think and what really matters which brings me straight to a podcast that one of our writers told me I must listen to. I hate podcasts, to tell you the truth – they ramble on, tend to be egoistic, and lack the discipline of the written word. However, he was right.”
Really, Kathy? He was right? We are, in the end, the sum of our sources, n’est-ce-pas? As for podcasts and vlogs … yep, I loathe them too … vehicles for ego, always long after the event.
”(Betz) thinks we are impotent against this untenable status quo, all we can do is look after our middle class selves. That is where he lost me. In less than a sentence, he dismisses Donald Trump and the possibility of his making any difference. Reform UK doesn’t even get a mention.”
Kathy’s a darling, frankly, a real woman wanting men who are men to boldly don the armour and make the land tenable … and who am I to argue? The Klown in Shining Armour is readying his trusty steed as I write, ready to charge off and slay the demons.
And this is where the conundrum of the reasonably well read Christians come in, particularly ones knowing their eschatology … Isaiah, Daniel, Revelation, and esp. Jesus of Nazareth’s words themselves in the gospels. I’ve read a few times from nonChristians … that if so-called Christians know these things … how the end of the world comes, the antiCh, the mark of the beast, CERN, the history of bad semitic tribes v the lamb of Judah, the tribe of Dan, the arising of what Israel claims is the Messiah-returned to the middle-east through the land of the Philistines, the rebuilt third temple … if learn’ed Christians know such things …
… then what’s this truck they have with inevitability? Why so willing to fully support the temporal fight for God and country? Part of the answer is Saul/Paul and writings by and about him.
But shirley Christians want to get it over and done with, no? Shirley they want Jesus to actually return?
In an ultra-humble way, in my long book (Masquerade), I created a scenario where an angel told the listeners that things could not happen until a conjunction of circumstances occurred … call it preconditions.
Did I make that up out of my head? Or did a voice suggest it was a logical scenario? Thus no one can know the date nor time, though there do seem odds it might be not too far from Jerusalem. Another voice told me ten seconds ago that in fact, He might appear all over the earth at the same time, snatching away those in rapture … well, that’s just me talking again now.
Thing is … I as a human don’t know, can’t know, should not know … mine but to record what happens and be vigilant, be ready to jump onto the steed as and when required, the soldier inside ever ready, even at this age, to do his duty. Complacency is the one thing all voices coming at me, inside and outside, are agreed upon. Keep our powder dry for now, be ready to charge in and blast away.
Yes … I’m sure you’ve noticed it by now … voices in the head? Really? Isn’t that the stuff of lunatics? Well yes, it can be but it’s also the reason to know more before we spring into action … it cuts both ways. This generation will look for a sign, no?
The Donald, good or bad … which human knows? At the same time, it’s foolish to ignore an overwhelming preponderance of signs … plus to everything, there is a time and season. DJT did not get his second term … why not? Because the conjunction of circumstances was not yet right. Abram’s wife did not conceive until late in her years … the circumstances had not come together before that.
I used to tell a tale, long ago, about it being a bit like the boy with his model yacht at the seaside. Off it goes and he follows it, watching it do this and that, the wind catches it and it is worth all the building of. But then it suddenly changes course out to sea, slap bang into a rogue wave, he taps it back on course after the wave passes … and so on.
Anyway, I need to get onto signposting DAD now, then think of some brekky or brunch. Till later.
