“A Rabbi and Catholic priest share a railway compartment on their way to an interdenominational conference. After a brief general chat, the priest asks the Rabbi if he would answer a personal question? The Rabbi agrees, and was asked if he had ever eaten pork, something forbidden in the Jewish religion. The Rabbi eventually admits that he had eaten pork, and then asks the priest to answer a similar personal question. The priest agrees to do so. The Rabbi asks if the priest has had sex with a woman after joining the priesthood, where he is expected to be celibate? A brief silence, then the priest admits that he had done so. The Rabbi leans forward and, softly, says, “It’s better than pork, isn’t it?” “
19. In which I agree with the Catholic Church
18. Same down there
17. DAD at 1170
A dramatic turn of events took place on Monday, October 6: just hours after the government’s announcement, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu submitted his resignation to Emmanuel Macron, who accepted it.
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu submitted his resignation to Emmanuel Macron on Monday, October 6, 2025, who accepted it, the Élysée Palace announced in a press release. Appointed on September 9, he had come under fire from opposition figures and the right after unveiling part of his government on Sunday evening. He was due to deliver his general policy statement to the National Assembly on Tuesday.
16. Steve at 1170
Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . Andrew Bridgen
Quick note to tavernisti … medium break now for breakfast, washing, other jobs as in starting the second major clearout, have to call MMutR … not sure exactly when back, enjoy your elevenses.
Had to quickly rush for the ipad … heard them all calling first before I could see them, suddenly they were flying over … apple logs about the picture (also must clean the windows outside):
A blonde sits down on a plane and starts to read her book but the guy sitting next to her, a lawyer, won’t leave her alone. Finally, he says to her, “Let’s play a game. I’ll ask you a question and if you can’t answer it, you owe me five dollars. Then you ask me a question and I can’t answer it, I owe you a thousand dollars.”
The blonde says, “Okay.”
The lawyer says, “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?”
Without a word, the blonde opens her purse, takes out a five-dollar bill, and hands it to him. She then asks, “What goes up the hill on three legs and comes down on two?”
The lawyer thinks about this; he does an internet search; he calls his friends and asks them but he’s stymied and he hands the blond a thousand dollars. She puts it into her purse and goes back to reading. The lawyer says, “Hey! What’s the answer?”
Without a word, the blonde opens her purse, takes out a five-dollar bill, and hands it to him.
(0911) Universally low grey cloud out there, no sun. (0919)
11. Nick Dixon … no url, sorry but he can be found
… concerning his show today:
10. Steve B’s chart quiz
Please repost so others can play ! Top songs chart A nice uk chart .what year is it from Try to do it without using google or Grok . Some great tracks here . #music#popchart#mondaypic.twitter.com/aD7ZZZNLpi
It seems, with the ladies, to be not so much a continuum or normal curve but fabulous versus appalling.
Then we get this below way too often, which triggers thoughts of barge poles and would not go near:
Only as she was called out repeatedly on TV … which is part of the wider malaise of unprincipled young females of zero moral compass, slave to me me me, instant gratification via n1s, diseases and nothing but trouble …
… which in one sense protects them from rape by indigenous males but in increasing danger though from invader savages who see them as easy meat. And as our boys won’t go near them now … to whom do they turn in parks at night?
While grandmothers and mothers were still a factor in families, the insanity of the hormonal years was tolerable … but now? Especially with no fathers around?
7. It’s hit the fan dowunder this morning, UK time
6. Steve at 1169
Portland Police Bureau Blames Conservative Journalist for Being Attacked by Antifa
Gavin Newsom Flips Out Over President Trump Ordering California National Guard Troops to Portland After Judge Blocks Oregon Guard Deployment
Transmissions Reveal Democrat-Controlled Chicago PD Was Ordered to Stand Down During Ambush on Federal Agents
While Kyiv Waits For NATO-Made “Ukrainian” Flamingo Missiles, Russia Keeps Striking Hard At Ukraine’s Energy And Infrastructure
“Czech Trump” Andrej Babis Wins Election, Returns As Prime Minister
“Shock Outcome:” Japan Hardline Conservative Takaichi Elected Party Leader, Set To Become First Female Prime Minister
Russian-led union of Eurasian countries, modelled on the European Union, strengthens ties with the UN
Much more.
Wishing Steve well and hoping he survives the family get-together. I once went on a road trip to avoid the family-gathering on Christmas Day, arranging to rock up around 1600 to my parents’ place … not sure it was ever forgiven by the wider family, never checked to find out.
5. The multi-decadian Charlotte
4. Andy at 1169, also here
Just before he was brutally murdered, Colonel Muammar Ghadaffi (sp?) said something along the lines of, “get rid of me and the floodgates of sub saharan immigrants will open”. Like so many dictators who have been swept aside in recent years he only cared for his own people. He kept his southern border tightly shut. Jobs in those oil fields were for Libyans, not Africans from the south. I was reminded of his statement when I saw this article. | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/05/libyan-national-army-offers-to-help-uk-with-migrant-crisis/
… but reader comments are a vital part of this blog complex of four sites, plus OoL. Were I to x-y graph HQ as first column of the “x bar”, then NOWP, UHC-WP and lastly Jstack, excluding OoL altogether, it would come out as a hyperbola, its nadir being UHC-WP till recently … slight rise to the neglected Jstack due to quite a few mutual subscriptions between fellow substackers.
I’ve no idea of HQ stats, deliberately not installing it in the dashboard for operational reasons … I’ve found, from long experience that they become the focus for the blogger/tweeter and he/she will tailor the content to up the stats. I don’t like that on X and don’t like it on blog or vlog because it prevents going after this or that topic freely.
There’s been some activity at Jstack in comments … always was due to the nature of substack … I’ve been thinking I need to get comments there more visible here, as they tend to be thoughtful:
Meaanwhile, WP itself (across the two WPdotcom blogs) sent this yesterday:
This is the second most neglected site after Jstack until recently when I’ve started bringing it more into action and I really must get Jstack into it … problem at the latter is the dash and navigation tools are appalling there, requiring all sorts of clicking which they want us to do, plus it suits text only there with one pic per post, which is not my mode of blogging on the whole. To be fair, it arranged the line in the sand text nicely yesterday … Jstack does well text only on a “select all and paste” basis.
NOWP? Well comments count, by definition, is high, plus views. OoL wildly varies from a few hundred a day to a thousand and a half, depending on post … as it should be imho … the nature of the post determining interest at OoL.
2. DAD at 1169
a) Meet the new French government: same as the old government. Twenty-six days after being appointed—a record under the Fifth Republic—Sébastien Lecornu has named the first part of his government. Unsurprisingly….
b) “I’d Rather Die in Jail”: Telegram boss slams EU over Free Speech. Pavel Durov says French prosecutors and Brussels elites are using his case to intimidate platforms into censorship….
c) Cover-up at the EU! EP leadership blocks committee of inquiry into EC chief’s vaccine deal….
d) Grandad Gaston, an octogenarian will not have to leave his resin harvester’s hut in La-Teste-de-Buch (Gironde), as demanded by the Conservatoire du Littoral (Coastal Protection Agency)….
1. Met office dishonesty via TDS
This opened the TDS post on their reports on Lowestoft and a few others:
“Last August, the Daily Sceptic drew attention to the UK Met Office inventing temperature data at its fictitious ‘open’ weather station at Lowestoft. Figures were said to be compiled from “well-correlated neighbouring stations”, but research by citizen sleuth Ray Sanders found there were no such operations within a 40-mile radius. At the time, the Daily Sceptic referred to the matter as a “smoking gun” and said that unless the Met Office could finally reveal its workings out, “the only realistic conclusion to draw is that the data are invented”. No explanation has been provided but in a shock unannounced move the Met Office has now withdrawn all the Lowestoft data from its historical record back to when the site closed in 2010. Similar withdrawals of data have also occurred in the stations at Nairm Druim and Paisley.”
Further down in the article, it mentions that they’re “calling on” the Met Office to investigate all temp readings up and down the country but of course … only inaction and brick wall. That is, citizen journos will have to do it station by station by station, while the M.O. unprofessionally and unethically sits on its haunches, obstructing.
Here are the opening TDS items today … see Blogrolls, centre column:
