(1125) This job and that, some blog reading and writing.
21. Modern primitivism?
It might not be good form to run this London band in the current political climate but I’m a-gonna coz dat’s the type of I guy I am, mun. First one’s a jaunty little number:
The second is loud but to my mind a mini-classic as it’s based on an African comic inside joke and the variation, the build, the bottoming out, all sorts of elements, the harmonies … it’s almost the African equivalent of The Stranglers’ down in the sewer … same vintage, more or less. Naturally, the musically pure will hate this:
20. Isilme has a prayer request
I have a friend from school, so I have known her for over 40 years. She moved out to the USA many years ago. She lives in Franklin, North Carolina. I’m worried because I can’t contact her and I’ve read about the devastation in her area. She’s a widow and her parents are dead. She has a brother in Australia but I don’t have his contact details. I have messaged her several times but no reply. Prayers would be welcomed for her.
Meanwhile, Toodles heard back from her friend over that way, plus she might just be beating the setback, she’ll know in a week … those who pray please put in some overtime here as well, plus for Britain after the latest treason from Starmer with the Chagos Islands.
19. Badlands, via IYE, open with Associated Press
”State and local election officials have made so much progress in securing voting, ballot-counting and other election infrastructure that the system is more robust than it has ever been, said Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. As a result, she said, there is no way Russia, Iran or any other foreign adversary will be able to alter the results.”
Before their response, my immediate reaction (JH) is someone called Jen in charge of something? Prime enemy Russia, Iran? How about Demonrats, Obama etc.? Part of their response:
“(Former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, Chris) Krebs was replaced after the 2020 election with Jen Easterly, a career intelligence official who served as special assistant to Barack Obama fromOctober 2013 to February 2016. She was also the National Security Council’s senior director for counterterrorism. After that, and before being sworn in to head CISA in July 2021, Easterly was global head of cybersecurity for Morgan Stanley.”
18. IYE at 830
“The very word secrecy is repugnant, in a free and open society. For we are, as a people, inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret proceedings and to secret oaths”…
“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence – on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day.”
17. Wimbledon pitch
More than 100,000 litres of water were pumped out of Plough Lane after the nearby River Wandle burst its banks at the beginning of last week, but Jackson is confident the pitch will be playable for the Dons’ next scheduled home league game, against Carlisle on 12 October.
It would be a fair question just how many football teams I support. Well, currently, Alabama Crimson Tide, the Wombles, LFC, Geelong, St Johnstone, Calgary, plus plenty I like a lot.
16. Quite some fine for the day
15. Steve at 830 with War Room
a. Natalie Winters Highlights How Dems Are Ramping Up Their Efforts To Stop Disinformation
b. Mike Davis: “They’re Desperate, They Know Trump Is Gonna Beat Kamala Like A Drum On Nov. 5th”
c. Jonathan Keeperman: “It’s Time For Us To Focus Our Efforts On Our People First”
d. Ralph Reed Breaks Down The Evangelical Vote For President Trump
14. Sometimes it helps to go local
13. Rupert Lowe
Speaking to contacts in Gibraltar, they are incredibly concerned following the Chagos Islands capitulation – ‘the thin end of the wedge’… The message is loud and clear – this Labour Government is a disgrace.
12. I don’t know … you go out for a meal
… at a floating restaurant:
Target practice do you think? I dare not repeat the WW2 joke about how you can tell US ships from the others? They’re the ones with the dents. I’m sure it’s completely untrue and apocryphal.
11. Three items about women
a. Look at the size of the victim:
… who went to a school meeting about porn being shown to kids, woke karens called the police … now look at the size of the young policegirl. Need I spell out about front line policing or armed forces?
b. IYE on the Ukraine bullying lawsuit:
Not buying into the particular female at issue but it IS a major issue for gals on the whole … yes, men also struggle through diet and couch potatoing, but it’s not as critical for the male … we have other things we worry about more.
It was especially an issue in Slavic countries where the girls were competing far more for war depleted male stocks, not eternally sozzled. In the 90s, the west infiltrated and my Russian mate and I were at a shopping mall, one of the new ones, and there were girls with stomach over their belts, whereas even in my time there, you would never have seen that. Apparently it was a sign of rich man’s daughter in the new young culture … many of my older female students were quite scathing about the younger sisses.
c. Again, not buying in, as I don’t know the ex-couple and each party couches his or her own guilt or not in a certain way:
There are some general observations:
*Article, from his point of view, is at Conservative Woman … impressive of a gal to allow that.
*Similarly, I’m badmouthing, not the ex wife per se but the culture which has made this sort of thing oh so prevalent now.
*And yes, I do say that the loss of society’s underpinnings, mores etc., has produced monsters.
13. If the numpties in the government had any backbone, they would challenge the Spanish claim to Gibraltar by comparing the two Spanish enclaves in Morocco, enclaves which the Spanish government states will remain as they are – part of Spain.
“You want Gibraltar? Then you first. Otherwise, STFU.”
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JH: Treasonous govt on track to give it all away.
BL News Brief for 3/10/2024
“It’s a Big Club. And It’s Going Down.”
https://badlands.substack.com/p/badlands-news-brief-189
20. Isilme, we have friends just outside Ashville. There are volunteers trying to check on folks and fortunately we heard yesterday (indirectly) that someone had managed to contact our friends and they were OK. I understand local groups of neighbours were working together, helping one another, food sharing etc. But in rural areas there have been no phones, no power, no internet and roads are impassable due to fallen trees and flood damage. I very much hope your friend is OK, getting no reply to messages is to be expected..