(1056) Things a bit frenetic just now, various threads at the same time in RL. Cunning plan here is radio play later (at 1330), hopefully throw a quiz in after that, mid-afternoon. Hope all well with you. (1238)
17. Back to our situation here … sorry, Brit readers
(0611) Morning! Opening with an Op Ed below, too long for this opener. (0720)
6. Torquaymada at 1041:3
Jesus lookalike guitarist wows the street crowd. Because the YT successfully expanded there, this item here is over there. Unherdables is two venues … NOWP and HQ, with other fallbacks.
5. With respect, the Bee misses how this thing works
Not going to work, girls and boys. Look at our financial situations … even those “with” are committed to disbursing them to debts, family etc. Also, a reader might subscribe to one or two cutting edge, newsy sites, knowing the bias … and that’s it. Cost of food, energy takes the rest, p,us hedging sgainst Starmer/WEF. The Bee is nowhere in that mix.
Us here? As long as our news is fresh, yes … relevant but it relies on incoming. Keep money out of it afap.
4. Alberta
Note Weedistan below … clever.
3. Steve at 1041
Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth Orders Pentagon Purge
Harvard is Just a Symptom of a Much Bigger Problem
Flynn Ready to Return as President Trump’s National Security Advisor
America First Legal Drops Lawsuit Against Chief Justice John Roberts
Tom Fitton Explains on War Room How President Trump as Chief Executive Magistrate Can Run Special Counsel Targeting Deep State Criminals from White House
More lowhanging fruit from Pammy
Military Situation In [The] Ukraine On May 6, 2025
Moscow Maintains Ceasefire Commitment for Victory Day *
The US Constitution is a Contract
Much more.
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*Big weekend for Russia influenced places … ordinary folk opening up the dachas, cleaning, planting … working bees, gathering, cooking etc. Major weekend … and Zelensky knows it full well.
2. DAD at 1041
a) In what appears to be an astonishing volte-face, a WHO systematic review has found reliable evidence that radio-frequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) increase the risk of cancer in animal experiments.
b) Silenced for your safety: wokeism study shakes French Academia. A scientific investigation concludes that woke thinking is appallingly poor.
c) My President want to kill me. “Let the Freemasons take up this fundamental debate, the end of life, I say here, is a good thing,” says Emmanuel Macron.
d) Marion Maréchal reclaims conservative roots in Joan of Arc’s hometown. While the leader of the new Identité Libertés party continues to affirm her loyalty to her Aunt, Marine Le Pen, she is carefully carving out a distinct political identity of her own. *
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*Taking her time about it.
1. Systems and rounds (op ed)
Routines are good at this age, following the notes around the abode, taking each step one by one, not rushing. This bad craziness outside, from the low, billowing Gates cloud poisoning the air if I open the window … to the politics just now, to heavyhanded gummint on each of us in some way … it could drive us to despair unless something gets in the way to block despair.
A Christian would give an instant answer as to what does, a secular might point to some peoples being more naturally stoical, other ethnicities not … some peoples being locked into murder rape mode … they’re the ones taking over, needing stopping.
Watching Martin in the States just now, Alberta, Starmer’s latest idiocy. Online, at this time of day, North America dominates, Aus starts coming through, our early birds such as Julia and Moosh are around … Brits come into it more an hour or two from now.
It’s near impossible, with music, to make everyone happy. For example, I went through eight performances of this below before choosing this version … even the John Williams’ was at breakneck speed … this one, if anything, is too slow for mine … yet the music itself, the composition … many would say it’s a worthy piece of music. Played quite well.
I’ve been making statements about some rock genre performances which were musically near note perfect … for example Dire Straits, Alchemy, Sultans … or CCR, Woodstock, I Put A Spell On You … within the genre both created for themselves, they were right up there … there was mastery of the instruments, plus chemistry within the ensemble … classical musiciand in particular commented on Knopfler.
Snobbishness is one of those things which needs to be in fair measure … not too much, not too little … but then we get to simply not liking a type of music … for me, that would be 40s swing or 60s/70s metal. Queen did nothing for me, though the singer and guitarist have been complimented.
The 80s was pretty dire … New Order lost their Mojo imho, then came Hammertime, Betty Boo. Glad I never saw Slade in those clown suits or Kiss in that get-up … glad I never saw the Stones after the early b&ws, drowned out by girls screaming. To be fair, Stairway to Heaven had been, still is, a masterpiece of composition and pacing.
Perhaps the worst was prog posturing and posing as great artists in the Mozart mold of Sting, plus many of these from 1983’s pop chart:
Not one of any lasting value. Then again, some of those might say that the songs were just pop at the time, not meant to be masterpieces … they catered for a niche. I’m thinking Judy In Disguise With Glasses … just fun, like Purple People Eater.
A good example of a fine, well produced, well played, well sung pop song was Crispian St Peters’ Pied Piper … it was what it was, there were no pretensions to greatness in the song, though he lost his head to fame and started acting like a superstar, just as George Lazenby did.
This above by Vivaldi was rather nice, did you not think? And yes, it’s an understatement.
”Even by Dickens’ time, the lure of a cosmopolitan life had created a sharp contrast with the staid life of managing a country estate with its onerous management, upkeep costs and predictable social routines.”
(0822) Sun’s still out here, I’m watching the bleah clear. (0930)
9. Collective, selective blindness
Strangely, I do see Reform voters’ point to first secure these council seats and mayoralties, then to pressure Farage and Co, whilst meanwhile we’re just dirty rotten spoilsports to point out what Farage is up to …
… I do see it … many at ground level have invested so much of themselves to get this far and after all, Nige is such a sweet chap, loves a pint, loves a woman. Such babes in the wood as new Reform people … er, um … do not know the Farage history at UKIP, then selling out TBP, now doing it over again behind the charm. Except the cloven hoof appeared with Ben, Rupert, TR … now us.
Are we nazis to be against grooming gangs and illegals ferried in en masse, fighting age men, mind? If so, so be it.
All right, Higham, what’s your solution then? As with everything else, it all requires time … how long did it take for people to finally wake up to the deathjab? Maybe Nige will see his base gradually disappear, his chance of the PMship and gong … and then strategy would demand he actually attacks this double issue head on, freeing TR for a start.
For now though, LibLabConGreen are perfectly happy how it’s all going, local elections notwithstanding.
8. Quite to the point downunder
… clearly a Queenslander, state which presumably voted against Labor:
7. Alcatraz
6. Justin has, at 1040:6
Great minds obviously think alike … the sshot was ready to roll here as well.
As for the issue … it’s so far beyond human reason, as was Steinepisland, as was Belgium back then, that I do feel a French Revolution type thingy might be on its way.
Then again, that’s just little kids being savaged by the “elites”, innit, it’s not people’s own lives personally, so the “elites” seem safe enough.
