(0535) Morning all … saw a full moon behind the clouds, thought hmmmm, seems always full these days … then realised it was the sun. Ho hum. (0717)

 

4. Moosh corner

3. Steve at 1057

• The Five People Who Allegedly Ran the Biden White House, According to New Tapper Book
• OpenAI’s o3 Model Disobeys Human Instructions During Tests and Sabotages Shutdown Mechanism *
• British Government Officials Afraid King Charles’ Tuesday Speech in Canadian Parliament May Offend Trump
• ‘I Am Roman!’: American Pope Leo XIV Enthroned Bishop of Rome **
• Trump Threatens to Take $3 Billion of Grant Money from Harvard and Give It to Trade Schools
• FBI Reopens Investigation Into Cocaine Found at Biden White House
• Trump Insulted Russians, Russia and President Putin
• 44% of the increase in UK energy bills is due to net zero
• Trump Sends Free-Speech Squad to Interview UK Activists Arrested for ‘Silently Praying’ 
• Much more.

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*Never changes, does it … HAL 9000, Skynet, I Robot.
**In yer dreams, chum.

2. DAD at 1057

a) French MPs to vote on one of the world’s most extreme Euthanasia Laws. Deterring a suffering loved one from receiving a lethal injection could earn you up to two years in prison and a €30,000 fine…..

b) Italy, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic and Belgium – have co-signed an open letter […] ‘irregular immigration’.

c) When being German becomes a Federal Crime.

d) Camilla’s daughter cuts all ties after shocking DNA reveal her true paternity…..

1. Housekeeping and op ed of sorts

Decades ago, eons ago, I had a headmaster in charge whom many, esp. the more vicious women, saw as weak … he’d sit on the fence, ‘gathering data’ he called it, before deciding. It came over as weak. Pity, because it was only a bleedin’ school, meant to operate as … um, er … as a school, not as a warzone.

In short, he was ‘nice’ but not dim … educated chappy … you’ve gathered we got along. The female rottweilers did for him and one of them became the new head. I wrote to her, saying I planned to show her exactly the same loyalty she’d shown our former leader.

A coordinator/redactor/chief cook and bottle washer, whatever you label this job as … he needs to combine two things … the velvet glove, yes … but also the iron fist. That former leader in that school lacked the killer instinct. In my case, I do my utmost to keep the monster within me tethered but occasionally one must act … and this is one such case.

I watched DM winding up CM (see Scriblerus list) the other day, was going to wade in but didn’t … but I saw CM take the bait. Pity. Yesterday, I deleted DM’s post on ‘Americans’ for two reasons … one being it was a commemoration, not the usual socio-political fayre we’re into.

Actually, he was not wrong in his thesis, which called out every American leader since WW2 for empire building and attempting to be the world policeman … whatever happened to Monroe (?) but here we get to the second reason for deleting … the place for that was in one of these posts, not on a Memorial post. Same goes for a service at our Cenotaph, same goes for any remembrance of any rank and file, those making the sacrifices.

Whether it’s our boys here (girls too) or across the pond … same level of respect please. On July 14th, respect for the ordinary Frenchman who would be in the Bastille or in the trenches or in the resistance. Respect for the ordinary German trying to kill our ordinary Tommies. It’s Them above, that lot … the Macaroni hubby v hubby type … the Schulzes, Soroses, von Leyens etc. … that’s where we concentrate our withering fire … not upon our own lot down here.

Lastly, we are assuredly in a war and one skill we must develop is not to engage when there’s little advantage in it for our mission or project. For a start, this site categorically does not engage with the Wokerati or globopsycho … their aim is to provoke, upset, delay, ruin, their agenda is clear enough … we’ll engage all right, terminally for them … but when the time is auspicious.

Meanwhile, chaps and chapesses … eyes on the main game, eh?