(0550) Morning all. The issue for y’all today is whether to read top to bottom, trying to make head or tail of it … or else read the intended bottom to top, in which case … good luck. Weather outside … damp, grey, otherwise nondescript. (0648)

 

5. Lord T on Citizen Vigilante

“Citizen Vigilante is just another step towards a violent vigilante future. There have been many films that people have predicted will trigger vigilantism and a civil war since the 1970s and Death Wish. V for Vendetta who had Starmer in a starring role ironically. Nothing happened because we are all a bunch of wusses compared to 100 years ago. 

It’s worse in the UK because we simply don’t have guns. We all know it is the first thing that tyrants clamp down on but the West meekly just handed them in. Now it is citizens with sporks up against a heavily armed government who we know are more than willing to shoot unarmed civilians. Those sporks are dangerous.

The US at least has its second amendment so they alone of the West have a good chance of surviving.”

4. Steve, adding to the peace and mutual understanding at 1428

• DOJ Launches New Crackdown on Birth Tourism After Supreme Court Blocks Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order
• ICYMI: Chief Justice Roberts Is Good Pals with Trump-Hating Deep State Leader Norm Eisen and Vacationed at His Palace in Czech Republic for a Weekend (What colour is “compromised”?)
• In a Rare Public Statement, First Lady Melania Trump Praises SCOTUS Ruling Protecting Women in Sports
• Northern Ireland: Historic Catholic Convent Near St Patrick’s Tomb Destroyed in Deliberate Fire as Christian Europe Burns
• Trump Is Considering Return To Full-Scale War With Iran
• Phantom Offensive: Is Kyiv Manufacturing A Russian Threat To Justify Striking Belarus?
• Andy Burnham’s Operation Hexagon was built to hunt the whistle-blowers, not the rape gangs
• The UN wants to impose de-growth on the world; it will make everyone poorer by design
• Much more.

3. That recent (and upcoming) heatwave … Steve opens

“Regarding last week’s heatwave, here’s how it played out..

• Britain paid 15 times normal wholesale prices for emergency European electricity.
• Emergency imports cost an estimated £11 million in a single evening.
• Four of Britain’s ten nuclear reactors were offline during the crisis.
• Solar panel efficiency degraded in extreme heat, compounding supply problems.
• Multiple gas-fired power plants were down for routine maintenance.
• Local councils have ordered residents to remove air conditioning units.
• The grid operator underestimated demand by up to three gigawatts.
• Britain has blocked new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea despite the crisis.

We didn’t have enough electricity so we were forced to buy 2.3 gigawatts of it from places like the Netherlands. We payed because clueless ideologues who couldn’t run a whelk stall are at the helm of this nation. Can’t go on.”

Toodles comments:

“In response to Steve: I wonder if the royals and the landed gentry had air conditioning during the ‘We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave’?

• How tragic for those who succumbed to a preventable death and/or sickness, not to mention the rest of you experiencing extreme discomfort.
• My air went out recently during one of our hottest and most humid days. The maintenance men from the company we use came post haste. I was so grateful. 
• I do have ceiling fans as well as personal oscillators, just in case. I understand it is rare over there to experience such extreme heat, but even so how nice to have a fan to pull out of a closet. Well, who wants a fan taking up storage space to use so seldomly? 
• How awful the other tier allowed (caused) such misery. Also, to actually demand removal of air conditioning units is shocking. Those people may have had terrible health issues. 
• Solar power as a dependable power source in cloudy, overcast England? That is a head scratchy one! 

So sorry for the misery and tragedy there during the heat wave..”

Worth noting I think that Toodles lives in a near permanent heatwave in southern Bama, by Brit standards.

2. At this point, lets insert today’s DAD from 1428

a) The UK’s secret government propaganda unit dedicated to praising multiculturalism’.

b) In France, The Government Tries To Prevent The People From Getting Air Conditioning.

c) Bafflement! Germany, a global leader in renewables, but has one of the highest EU electricity prices. [The same for the UK.]

d) Lewis Carroll vs. the Biscuit tin. (JH: Ah, same “party” motif as earlier I note?)

e) Leo Admits He’s Francis 2.0 Trouble ahead for the Catholic Church. (JH: Chicago gangster v Brazilian communist?)

1. Making icecream on the Day of the Somme

Must admit, this one had me nonplussed. I had written about some great comments here and being nonplussed as to how best to highlight them. IYE had written:

“Screenshot? Sorry bit distracted reading the instructions of our new ice cream maker.🍨😉 Also there’s a debate about which flavour to make first – vanilla or chocolate.”

The item from NOWP by IYE (in the post) had mentioned:

”America’s 250th birthday party is starting to look like one big money-laundering scheme, with your tax dollars funding PragerU propaganda trucks and our favorite foreign agent, Brad Parscale.”

All right … birthday party, vanilla or choc ice cream, and in came Toodles, who has a birthday party she’s preparing for daughter dear and wider family. Perfectly logical, as she had just finished baking the cake and thinking whether to ice it or not. Toodles commented:

“I suggest vanilla first in case you run out of time. You can always add chocolate or fudge sauce to the vanilla. You can’t go wrong either way! 😋🤤😋 for both. I do have a delicious chocolate fudge sauce I make. Heavenly 😇. I give as gifts sometimes if we don’t inhale it all first! Placed in little mason jars, of course. I had to toss my machine. I wish I had another old fashioned crank. It could keep the children busy this coming Saturday. Also tossed a fast freeze. What was I thinking? Keep us updated on your endeavors, if you please!”

Hmmmmm … 🤔 … logical for a birthday party hostess I’d think. At which point, Steve brought it back to the Somme itself:

“The Somme – my Great Uncle Frank was there, drove the horses that pulled the guns. He survived the war but like so many he was psychologically damaged. For the rest of his life he hardly spoke. The day before he died he asked where his mate was, a man who’d died next to him in France, in 1917. RIP Frank.”

Can’t help thinking there was a little cross-pond detente going on here, with Leah and Toodles, of America, referring to one thing, and us over here referring to another. Might be worth going back and re-reading Leah. Meanwhile, we seem to have scored a tavern ice cream maker and cake baker, which will keep the patrons happy for awhile.

In a second thought I had, to keep the other one company, it struck me like a smackeroo blurby right between the eyes that perhaps IYE had been thinking of this post, part 16, in which Lainey had commented over on Gab. Lainey is a fine lady from a southern American state, pissibly one of the Carolinas?