(0615) Unfortunately, that “throat” going around in England seems to have hit me in the last hour and I’ve headed back to bed. On the plus side, there are films and enough polit material in sshots to keep going … sadly, no baroque nor jazz prepared. Let’s see how it goes today but expect blank spaces. (0650)
5. Steve at 1336
- Houthis Join War Alongside Iran, Fire Ballistic Missile At Israel
- Iranian Strikes Wounded Nearly 30 US Troops, Hit E-3 Sentry And P-8 Poseidon Aircraft
- Why Does the UK Appease Tehran Despite the Dangers to Itself?
- Trump Expected to Endorse Ken Paxton in Texas Senate Runoff Against RINO John Cornyn
- British Assisted Suicide Bill Stalled in Parliament as 50 Members of the House of Lords Pen Letter Sayin It ‘Didn’t Guard Against Coercion’ or ‘Protect the Most Vulnerable’
- Ruling on whether the Dutch court will allow nominated witnesses in a potential case against Bill Gates is expected on 9 April
- Chabahar–Konarak: The Makran Coast Where the US Is Most Likely to Land in Iran (we’ll see)
- Much more.
4. Palm Sunday and “cultural” Christianity
Was talking yesterday with MMutR and mentioned a fellow blogger from around 2012 … we had a group blog of several authors … he took umbrage at me using Ephesians 6:12 about the “principalities” we are up against in high places. Suddenly, this became, in his brain, me “proselytising” or evangelising.
Interesting, considering firstly that we are a culturally Christian nation, even Europe is, mixed in with other roots … and secondly that he was meant to be a “libertarian” … obviously libertarian on some issues but not on others he didn’t like … given all that, I was unsurprised when he took his bat and ball, along with a swathe of left libertarians … and thus began the Great Schism.
To be fair though, subsequently, we became friendly again and that came to a head when he actually defended me strongly against an aggressor newbie in a project called Martin Scriblerus … so that was nice.
This whole thing about “cultural” Christianity … norms, values, approaches to justice, charity etc. … ethics … well it’s served us well for quite a long time but now of course is currently under serious assault. I really only have two verses I quote more than a few times … John 3:16 defines what a Christian is … but of late, there’s been a third verse … Revelation 3:9, regarding those who say they are Jews but are not.
That last one brings in Red Shields, globopsycho, the forces trying to split or wreck the west.
Anyway, it’s Palm Sunday for us but other denominations have it on a different Sunday … ditto with Christmas … to my mind, it scarcely matters as long as it’s recognised as a series of events.
There’s an argument that we’re on firmer ground in dating events, e.g. in which year Jesus was crucified … have a look at this:
I’m not fussed, as mentioned, when precisely it was … as long as it’s neither forgotten nor snuffed out by hostile forces.
3. DAD at 1336
a) With nearly 37,000 inhabitants, 107 nationalities, a 25% unemployment rate, and over 50% social housing, Creil, the third largest town in the Oise department, is among the poorest in France.
b) The New Stasi? The Moscow-based German journalist Ulrich Heyden, who has been covering Russian affairs for a wide variety of German media for over three decades, recently learned that his German bank, the Hamburger Sparkasse, is cancelling his bank account, apparently for reasons relating to the EU’s Russia sanctions.
c) A man has been arrested after a car struck “multiple” pedestrians in Derby city centre on Saturday evening, police say. A “number” of people were injured, some of them seriously, and were treated at the scene by paramedics before being taken to hospital.
d) Tucker Carlson’s sickening praise for Sharia tyranny.
2. Yes, they’re the second “religion of peace”
… the crazed Woke far-left, n’est-ce-pas? Or the third after globopsycho itself?