(1616) Almost evening, all. (2006) I’m off to zonkland, mateys and mate-ettes.

 

17. DAD at 1043 on Léon Quatorze

Robert Francis Prevost, nommé Léon XIV, is the new Pope as Leo XIV.

JH: As bad as the last, maybe worse … also see IYE in comments:

IYE’s link:

”Individuals in the Chiclayo diocese would later accuse Prevost of failing in 2022 to open an investigation into their accusations of abuse against two priests. The diocese vigorously denied the claim when the cases made international headlines in 2024.”

16. Roobeedoo (url left column, brolls)

Brian Cates on the Granny Harmer deal: “The globalist cult would have never allowed this deal to go forward if they still had control of the UK. This is how you know the strings have been cut.”

15. Steve and war room at 1043

• Natalie Winters: “Where Was The Due Process For Americans Who Faced Government Mandated Censorship”

• Laura Loomer: Trump’s Medicaid Promise Under Siege By RINO Saboteurs Like Paragon Health CEO Brian Blase

• Laura Loomer Reacts To Dr Janette Nesheiwat Getting Axed From Surgeon General Appointment

• Columbia Lays Off 180 Staff After Trump Pulls $400 Million In Funding, Evita Duffy Reacts

• Breanna Morello: Biden Admin Sent DHS, HSI Fake Addresses for 300K Missing Migrant Children

• “Those People Should Be Prosecuted For Murder” Winters Calls For Accountability For Border Invasion

14. Andy at 1043

… has an exciting meme.

13. Moosh corner

12. The formally educated

11. IYE on curry

Sit*rep*m* werx
Main takeaway, imho, curry flinging crazy flights and UK stymied an attack on a cine gog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4–RH6qzho

10. Steve on carriers

As far as I know there are two US Carrier Strike Groups in the Middle East, one in the Red Sea (USS Harry S. Truman) the other in the Eastern Mediterranean (USS Carl Vinson). The latter has the F-35C. With regard to F/A-18 losses we should cut them some slack as they are in a zone of conflict and with an upward tempo things do go wrong. A huge ship like a carrier, executing hard-a-port to avoid an incoming missile? Well if it’s loose it’ll roll. The second where there was a problem with the arresting hook could be a simple malfunction due to extended use – it was a night landing but I don’t know it that had any bearing. The Yanks had been bombing the shit out of the Houthis for six straight days and nights. Here’s some vid:

Weapons Used Against “Houthi” Threats – Aboard Dual Carrier Strike Groups | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzA8S1m0o90

 

 

The film was made in 1940, about events in 1939, and the gaffe is that Churchill was not yet PM.

(1116) Happy elevenses, all. Happy afternoon. (1224)

 

9. Lully

8. Putting two items, one after the other

… and there seems something quite wrong going on:

If you put those together with Gabbard’s triangle sign, also Bondi’s, one does start to wonder who’s vetting these people? If not DJT, then who? I’d say Wiles.

7. Those doing some good things

… but also some very bad, e.g. Rand Paul, Speaker Johnson … and Massie:

6. Quotes at UHC

Quotes

 

The bizarre fact is … I could not have a better situation for blogging right now … at the lower end of the income spectrum, nevertheless I eat well, the site HQ is a dream to compose from, with oodles of disk space, plus good security, my abode is organised, there are dear friends, there is home security.

Yet this summer, starting June and possibly stretching through to the following February, there is every chance … real chance, not speculation … that I am about to lose all, including income and home, freefalling into the abyss as I did in 2008, 2003, 1998, 1993, 1988, 1983, 1978 and so on backwards … 2025 breaking the numerical pattern … but always in summer, early or late.

The only reason for mentioning it is that readers visit on the understanding that HQ is quite likely to suddenly cease, just as N.O. ceased last July … lock, stock and barrel. This time though with forewarning. Therefore, anything you wish to salvage from HQ, something you value and need a copy of … you’d best start doing that now.

My cunning plan is always to keep blogging one way or another and the best chance would seem to be UHC, the WP version as the new flagship … though the severe 1Gb disk space restriction, as against about 2Tb at HQ, changes the whole way I’d blog.

For a start, I’d be sending from phone, not from the ipads, a major killer for readers. It would be almost entirely text, mainly headlines, with some youtubes. There might be a few weeks when I’ll be completely incommunicado during the changeover, but I’ve every intention of getting around that silence, finding a way through.

Unless govt start doing what they are doing to increasing numbers … they’re the wildcard.

 

The news, courtesy of daughter:

The Late Grandad

Grandad, whom Longrider and I knew as Richard … well, the three of us started up Martin Scriblerus, while Longrider and I started up Orphans … obviously with other fine folk too.

There is Richard’s wife, plus at least one daughter I know of.  She is the one who posted.

One of the interesting aspects was that Richard liveblogged the whole saga, not unlike Grandpa at Orphans and I also fully intend to do so if possible, when the time approaches.

Many thoughts about the whole saga.

 

Or not daft at all … bear with the narrator … rather interesting:

(0619) Morning all on this commemorative day. (0659)

 

5. More than snouts in the trough

4. You’ll never die wondering

3. Just as bad elsewhere

2. Steve at 1042

• “Patel and Bondi Have Allowed the FBI to Continue its Pattern of Obfuscation and Delay”
• Attorney General Pam Bondi Responds to Rep. James Comer’s Bombshell Allegation Regarding the Epstein File
• CE Agents Raid Restaurant Owned by Husband of Far-Left Norah O’ Donnell
• Deportee Nightmare – A Very Questionable Rwanda Is Eyeing America’s Illegals
• Trump to Welcome First Batch of White South African Refugees
• Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On May 7, 2025
• India – Pakistan Escalation
• Pfizer mRNA Shots Alone Likely Responsible for Well Over 470,000 Am Deaths
• DOD Controlled COVID Program From the Start
• Macron visits the Freemasons
• Much more.

1. DAD at 1042

VE Day.

a) Macron attempts to influence the Papal Conclave. [A report from ‘Infowars’ so …..?]

b) [One for Steve.] StormBreaker Advanced Glide Bomb lands In Yemen largely intact.

c) New polls in France showed National Rally (RN) President Jordan Bardella gaining traction, outperforming even his political mentor and de facto party leader Marine Le Pen.

d) German […] border police were now instructed to turn back most undocumented asylum seekers, with the exception of vulnerable groups such as pregnant women and children.

On the 80th anniversary of 1945.

Agincourt, Crecy, Waterloo, Armistice Day, Battle of Britain, Dunkirk, VE Day, VJ Day … these are all days worthy of commemoration and I for one believe they should be commemorated on the day, not for the convenience of Them above.

The issue with the argument is that people work (or at least did before Tory’s started and Labour finished the tradition off), with the indigenous population having jobs, plus man the main breadwinner, women mixing part time with child rearing … and so it goes. In wartime, women stepped up and their lives became doubly onerous.

The degree of self-sacrifice of these men and women is something which should be commemorated forever.  This captures the relief of those on that day of relief, VE Day:

And here:

It would be narrowsighted to only think of Britain in this, as the Americans, Canadians, Commonwealth countries, European countries involved, plus the USSR were all involved … the Russkies commemorating theirs on May 9th Day of Victory.

Some of our reflections were posted across the way at Unherdables, not forgetting DAD:

Dearieme: I don’t remember any fuss about VE day when I was a boy. It was Armistice Day that we did fuss about.

……

JH: Ditto. It was Armistice Day for us.

……

Steve: I concur, there was little to no observance up until the 50th. I certainly can’t remember anything about VE Day even when I was serving. We did a D-Day parade on the 40th at the Commando Memorial, Achnacarry. I was listening to a historian on GB News and she said these commemorations (D-Day VE/VJ Day) only took off in the 1980s. This VE Day will probably be the last major one where veterans are present. Those with us today are over 96 with the eldest 104.

And over at OoL … Grandpa:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-ve-day-memories.html

I can only finish by saying that, especially in the light of the current attempt by Them above, plus other groups around the world, including those who have invaded, to kill off Allied countries’ identities, heritage and culture … over the dead and wounded bodies of those who fought and served earlier, plus ourselves in the coming events … no way will the evil, anti-western and anti-second world forces prevail.

Remember VE Day today.