Monthly Archives: October 2026

Wednesday [6 to 10]

(1021) Right, dear reader … there’ve been issues this morning and it has me very late getting going. I still need to go to X, which has shut me out, for material, so maybe 1130 for fresh post. (1059) Done. (1156)

 

10. Moo corner


9. Budget Day


8. Restore … the Reform honchos/Uniparty


7. Bolsonaro


6. Nice

Wednesday [1 to 5]

(0813) Morning all, nondescript sky again, a few things were going on earlier here. (0847)

 

5. Canada and Alberta


4. Steve at 1527

  • Trump Says if Democrats Win Congress, “I Have a Strong Veto” to Make “Strong Deals” – Will Accept Results “If They’re Honest Elections”
  • White House Says Illegal Alien Population Has Dropped by Over 2.3 Million Since Trump’s Return, Border Crossings Plummet by 95%
  • Minnesota Official Tells Somalis How to Vote With No ID and Same-Day Registration – All They Need is a Phone, TV, or Internet Bill!
  • Iran Threatens Sinokor as Korean Tanker Giant Dominates Oil Flows Through Hormuz
  • Houthis Get Annihilated As Iran Says Hormuz Is Completely Closed
  • No Volunteers Left: Ukraine Turns Factories Into Recruiting Offices
  • War Will Cover Up the Losses: How Europe’s Crises Are Fueling Escalation with Russia
  • Kitchen Medicines and Lifestyle Habits: Strengthen Your Cold-Season Immunity
  • Politicians hate poor people, old people and the truth
  • There is no end to social justice warriors’ insanity; now they say textbooks about plant reproduction perpetuate misogyny and “rape culture”
  • Much more.

3. Three hush hush scandals not now mentioned


2. DAD at 1527

a) France now runs on one fuel alone: hatred. France has descended into a political culture where hatred has replaced reasoned debate, with President Macron facing crude verbal abuse and the country trapped in reflexive opposition, a commentator warns.

b) Finnish and Norwegian leaders hold direct call with Putin, prompting unease among allies. The discussion focused on prospective conditions for de-escalation in Ukraine ahead of planned multilateral talks in Abu Dhabi.

c) Audi CEO Gernot Döllner has been accused of campaigning for an ‘autocrat’ and dragging Volkswagen—a company founded by the Nazis—to a ‘new low’ after appearing with Donald Trump at a Republican rally. The backlash comes as Audi announces a $4 billion US plant expected to create 4,500 jobs while preparing to cut 7,500 positions in Germany by 2029.

d) Green VP of Parliament attacked AfD-supporting Students when she was a teacher. A German Green Party parliamentarian faces criticism after video showed her describing classroom battles against student slogans, raising questions about required educator neutrality.

e) Here is one for James – The Brilliant Engineering of the Revenue Cutter. (JH: Thankee kindly, DAD.)

1. Bolsonaro

Tuesday [6]

(0918) Morning all. Still line ball, chez higham, shall know better later.

 

We’re not talking zero sum here

Let’s start with that clown on GB News, supposedly a retired general … looked the part in the clip, maybe 70 years old. Problem was, he only had part of it right.

In common (to a point) with Steve here, my “bellicose” attitude is warrior, I would certainly have been in WW2, was military trained and in the ranks a few years. However, I agree more with Tyler below on this particular issue … he’s one of the new, young Restore chaps. Look though at his profile pic and compare to that retired soldier … I’m far closer to the clown on GB News going apoplectic over a clear misunderstanding.

Before getting to that, a memory decades ago of a news item where a recruiting officer stood up at a football match, urging young men to sign up. Problem was, it was late in the war … either WW1 or 2, and the casualty level, the utter dislocation, had the entire stadium booing him. He asked his superiors not to send him to anything like that again.

There’s another thing with Tyler. As someone in the teaching game many decades, the change came over western education around 1970/71 and it became steadily worse after that. I say that Gen Xers and early Millennials are in no real position to judge, being the youbgsters of the time. The gen before me could judge though. So I’m saying that Tyler is part of a cohort which thinks and decides on what is now quite apparent on soc-med concerning the donkeys over us.

Not just donkeys either but nasty pieces of work as Renata illystrated earlier. Communists. So any war they want me for … I’m not joining up. However, the real war is inside the land and of course I’ll join up, were Restore people in charge.



And that’s it. Explained further:


The older man, the retired soldier, cannot see the difference … there was none back in WW2, in which he was not. What the leader class said was what everyone then did … as they were told to.

Incidentally, let’s say an 18 year old was signed up in 1945 … he’d have been born in 1927, 99 years old now.

And lastly for this post … that young so-called manager of Gosport Wetherspoons … the one with bits of metal stuck through his face … out of order refusing on the basis of the poppy.

Now, I’ve seen commenters say no jo, it was not over the poppy, it was over thugs outside.

Bollox … it was most certainly over the poppy. The poppy represents all returned servicemen and women. To refuse service to them was well out of order. Particularly coming from that young deviant.