That animals seem to be leaving Yellowstone Park en masse … there’s footage in different posts but these days, it could be a hoax. Anyway … forewarned, just in case. (1959)
20. This and more from IYE is in comments
19. Just as with IVF
… for years, it was presented as something not particularly bad:
18. There was a cartoon of a naked Harold Wilson, heaven forbid
… and the Grauniad naturally reported, with glee, only on the litigation and OTT fine for The Move. The Wail did a bit better:
Apparently, it involved this lady in bed with him … both thoroughly deny it of course:
Labour doing anything untoward? Not possible, is it?
17. Steve and war room at 1109
Richard Barris: “Tax Cuts Are Popular. Ukraine Funding And Epstein Mishandling Are Not.”
Political Hit Job: Tom Fitton On Obama Intelligence Laundering The Steele Dossier Into The Public
French Archbishop Appoints Priest Convicted Of Rape As Chancellor, Frank Walker Reacts
Jenny Holland: “What’s Driving Young People To Catholicism Is That They Are Fleeing From Horrors Of The Modern World”
This is one of those difficult posts which has a viewership of maybe two or three, inc. me, it being of fleeting interest to others, a relic of “back in the day”.
Three reasons for running it at all … one for the song itself which kicked off a short period in my life which was fairly bizarre … two is looking at interesting reactions to that song and three is how this timeframe from one September, through the following year, into the January following that, ended in collapse and loss … talk about highs and lows early in life. There’ve been other intense periods since then, as with you no doubt, but this was the first sustained time period of constant highs and lows over 16 months.
Imagining this as a short film … scene one opens with me with a gf at a distance, gal of the same age in Sutton Coldfield, Brummyland, while I spent my spare time on this lake, sailing:
She and I became as close as anyone separated by thousands of miles could get, I’ll use initials only … hers were TN … I had my dinghy which I actually won a few races in, it being superlight, built by my dad who’d once been a carpenter. She was right into the local music scene and Sutton Coldfield had a revered, if shortlived band, almost as shortlived as this mini-saga. That song coming up in scene three.
Scene two saw my parents driving me for I think our regular September hols but this time the car broke down, had to be garaged as it was a German make, Goliath, no parts out in the sticks. Anyway, we boarded the national express equivalent in the late evening, just our bags with us and my parents promptly grabbed the first two seats at the front … passengers having alighted.
Oh wonderful, thought I, so I’m stuck all night alone, blow that. So I went looking for someone to talk to and lo and behold, rear bench seat on their own … two girls five years older than me … one was distinctly not interested but the nearer was … MB … long story short, I ended up sleeping with her in a manner of speaking. I’m still wondering if females put out pheromones or it’s just perfume.
Scene three was the release of the Sutton Coldfield song below in October … TN and friends were right into it, I loved it too and thought the message was a nice one between us, she did too. Playing a reaction vid version of it because it’s good commentary around 2:46, plus it’s a black couple and I’m going to be racist here … these guys felt the music immediately, whereas the white reactors only wanted to analyse it, technically … sorry … b-o-r-i-n-g.
And so into the following year, difficult scholastically but the high points were two school dances … scenes three and four … our type of music from that year and I imagine this song would certainly have been played those evenings. One was a girl I met newly, if that’s a word … the other had been my first gf at age 4, walking her to kinder, then mates again at 8, now once more together … that took us into the end of year holidays, and that’s when I met my first “full on” so to speak, JH, now JF, in January … no need to go into details.
Reason for no details is that I’ve just recently ‘met’ her again and she’s possibly going to be reading this.
Our paths geographically, then romantically parted, new academic year started … I’m preparing to ask her again about that time. End of story.
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First afterthought about those two reactors above … how old would you say? Mid to late 20s? I’d say Gen Zee … listening to Boomer music. Hmmmmm.
Last afterthought is more universal. As young people of that age, living in the present, we could never have thought it would all become turgid, complicated, pretentious, even develop a nasty edge as it did in the 70s with punk. Plus we grew up, studied, joined the workforce, got down to the serious biz of families.
Those almost carefree beach days … sigh … well, I’ve written on those before. If we were blessed to have those … well we can just say thank you. There were plenty of highs and lows in the following decades … not sure we should even try to recapture past glories … just be thankful for what we had, while we had it.
(0548) Morning all … fab Gates cloud out there, smothering everything wth it’s poison. (0719)
5. Moosh corner
The solution to our transport issues?
4. Huge tailback of heavy lorries
… near us, transporting building materials for the new illegals’ dwellings in Manchester, along with getting all the ghettos clustered around local minarets in order to be supplied with arms quickly when the conflagration begins.
Oh me of little faith … it looked to be total gridlock of heavy vehicles but then I saw a car come from the opposite direction and it was able to weave in and through … those drivers were no mugginses.
3. DAD at 1108
a) “Politicians: I hate them. Emmanuel Macron tells bereaved parents to stop dwelling on their stabbed children and focus on saving the planet.”
b) Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has denounced two bishops at the Vatican for supporting citizen patrols on the border with Germany…
c) “Wake-Up Call”: Farmers mobilize in Brussels in last-ditch effort against EU Budget cuts.
d) A regional court in Düsseldorf sentenced the 1sl@mist influencer Dehran Asanov for fraud.
2. Can reason prevail?
1. DAD opens his spiel, quoting TDS
“Politicians: I hate them. Emmanuel Macron tells bereaved parents to stop dwelling on their stabbed children and focus on saving the planet.”
Obviously we’ll need to go to source via 1108, only to discover that the article is behind a paywall, so no corroboration for normal, non-moneybags folk. No matter … it leads into the point of this item …
People suddenly turning on others, such as MAGA turning on MAGA, at Donny’s behest.
The two most worrying features are firstly … the vehemence, the violence behind the online putdowns, the foul language used, the hatred for Demonrats suddenly turned upon other MAGAs. The second is that it’s at the behest of an 80 year old, beleagured politician … how safe are we then?
Of course the Demonrats are more monstrous … constant lying, cheating, e.g. over the Afghans, violence in the streets, at protests … Yuri Bezmenov was quite right in 1985 about people no longer being able to reason, to make any sense of things, running around lashing out over dashed hopes which were unrealistic in the first place.
And it all turns on what I call a “lie-slide”. That is … the bare statement itself is quite true … there is certainly no single Epstein list … I myself wrote that days ago. So, what are MAGA going on about? Well, they’re going on about perps, child rapists, satanists, protected at all costs … which is also a bare statement of fact.
This is no oversimplistic zero sum game … it is a cunningly devised plan to confuse and confound undevious people … to get us at each other’s throats.
I can help kickstart the naming with one name … Rachel Chandler … were you aware she subscribed to satanism? You’d not know … no … not if you didn’t buy God-satan in the first place (snorts of smug disgust). Plus utter fatigue with it all, causing people to lash out, verbally in the case of MAGA. Start with dark Rachel and spread the ferreting out from there.
Staying calm and exploring, on the other hand … sound sources … turns up all sorts of corroboration for both Donny’s and MAGA’s angles … there is no single list any more … but there are certain crimes against nature, depraved, as low as humans can sink … raping babies and selling footage … they’re very real. Maybe Donny has it under control, in hand … maybe he’s forgotten his allies … who can say?
Whom can humans, ctizens, trust anyway? Well not the wisdom of an isolated 80 year old man, subject to Wily Wiles for a start … unless … unless of course … unless he truly is Christian in a real way, someone himself trusting in the efficacy of prayer to the genuine triune God … that’s if he truly believes … if a nation does too.
Coz no other hope is there … look at the calibre of corrupt Congress, parliament in the UK, the judiciary. However, there is just that chance that this biblical thing might be true, and starting with DJT anything is then possible … but first ditch that ridiculous “faith office” … it does not work that way. And ditch the heatd rhetoric against one’s own.
From there, it spreads down through henchmen, myrmidons, more localised officials … it eventually sways the victory if enough people have faith it can be turned around and are willing to call for it. But not by berating fellow MAGAs … there’s no “unity” as long as you’re busy insulting your allies … you’re better off hoping that the spirit of Godliness is driving DJT, rather than just an angry 80 year old man.
This once more from Reagan:
The founding fathers and mothers did pray to the Christian God.
