Have been trying to find out what this Friday today is about, one week after Good Friday, one day before the Orthodox Pascha kicks off … late Saturday night till Sunday lunchtime … will need to recheck this as I need to send messages including this:
Far from being an authority on ecclesiastical matters, I’m an eternal learner, doing the best I can to keep up. In western tradition, it seems that this today is part of some “octave” … I tried to find out here:
Anyway, there happen to be these two pieces of music in my “to post” list, among others … my question to you is … which “laudate” do you prefer (following on from yesterday’s similar question):
There’s some added sadness with the first soprano:
… having been born in mid 1998, she died in late 2023 of cancer, so her musical heritage was shortish.
Only speculation on my part but I wonder how far the murderous vaxx was behind the cancer. I also relate to such matters the recent sidelining of RFK Jr by the WH on his anti-vaxx statements … WH policy on vaxxes is now controlled by Big Pharma … easy to see why. How many more dead young people?
(0842) Bleah out there, poisoned, wall-to-wall cloud now billowing in. (0910)
10. This could have been anywhere
… it happened to be Nebraska below but there was another from the Brit east coast, one from Oz and others too, inc. ours outside on that warm, sunny day we had two days ago … up went the planes, laying trails again.
The difference now is they’re not just spraying from above but also firing from the ground … there is a truly psycho agenda being pushed now, with a sense of urgency.
9. Moo corner
… just lurve the names …
8. Florida
7. Georgia, USA
They had moved the polling station in that notorious county into a mosque…
6. Canadian horror
5. DAD at 1348 this morning
a) France’s Fuel Shortages expose Europe’s new energy crisis. Three years after reducing its dependence on Russian gas, Europe is still heavily dependent on imported oil and on strategic routes. The supplier may have changed. The dependence has not.
b) France: Sabotage Incidents, attacking Arms Industry, on the rise. Under cover of darkness on the night of April 6–7, a series of coordinated arson attacks struck multiple sites connected to the arms industry in France’s Cher department, raising concerns about targeted sabotage and the security of critical infrastructure….
c) The megalithic site of Wéris, (Belgique) listed as a heritage site of the Walloon Region and located in the municipality of Durbuy, suffered significant damage this weekend….
d) In Devon two locals find two men fly tipping. They call them “dirty, horrible, stinking c***s.. This is our f-ing country, you might be used to it back to where you come from.
4. Valerie Anne doubles down on food
… this is mainly the US but also Oz, maybe implications for the UK:
(0706) Not altogether sure the best way to proceed this morning. Seems there’s nothing at OoL, we have Steve and DAD, Microdave, there is also some westwide news I’d best get posted earlier rather than later, certain other sources seem to have gone quiet … shall go with what we have. (0842)
3. Summary of main online points this morning
2. Steve from last evening, later, at 1348
Stats Show Trump’s Immigration Policies Are Doing Very Real and Long Term Damage to the Political Power of Blue Cities and States
RINO Rep. María Salazar’s Mass Amnesty Bill Will Allow Illegal Aliens Deported Under President Trump Since 2017 Flood Back Into US — Here Are the 19 Republicans Backing It (JH: I have more on that later in sshot form)
Russia’s Putin Announces Orthodox Easter Truce In [The] Ukraine During the Weekend (JH: That’s coming up too later)
Billionaire Expat Returns to Britain To Be Able To Donate Millions to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK (JH: That also later, esp. on the uniparty candidates just appointed)
Bahrain Reports Fresh Drone Attack Day After Suspected Emirate Strike On Iran
Vitamin D in midlife linked to lower Alzheimer’s risk decades later, study finds
Farm Subsidy Scandal Opens (Greek)Mitsotakis’ Biggest Crisis Since Taking Office
The Australian deep state is now run by US intelligence services (JH: Always was, ASIO … post later)
Chaperones to Walk Children Home From School in Knife Crime Hotspots (JH: This is looking very much like State mentoring again by the back door … possible OoL post tomorrow)
Much more.
1. Some sort of op ed
Opening with this because it came first, chronologically. Last early evening, I wrote to a friend that I’d fairly much lost interest in major league sports, whereas once I’d been right into them. My stepfather (good man) decades ago had done similar and I’d never understood why at the time … I do now.
It’s not just the utter corruption at the top, the money-grubbing by all or even the intrusion of leftwing tropes in sport … though all those certainly count … it was more that … well there were other things going on. Anyway, no sooner had a reply come about interest in major sport than this appeared in my YT recommended list:
All right, that was amusing but then, straight after came this:
Flicked through, usual points, types, then started thinking about the other side … men whom women should avoid at all costs.
Ahh, not so prolific on YT, that one, very few videos … there was one done by a young man … usual types again … shapeshifters who are one thing today, another tomorrow, the mummy’s boy, the violent, the insincere sweet talker … yes, fine, then this appeared in comments:
Not sure what a flamer’s meant to be … someone stirring things up? A troll? Maybe gay?
What was starting to come through with all these sorts of videos was that no nuances are covered … it’s 5 types of this, 10 types of that … and viewers pick up on a negative which they immediately apply to the person their dealing with in RL, on the say-so of someone making money on YT.
I’d suggest that if your personal life is ruled by what you find in a YT video, with its own agenda … that’s a bit sad and even incomplete. For sure there are the usual red flags to watch out for … look at our own watch lists here … just now, everyone’s looking at Donny’s behaviour, the pressures on him and so on.
