(0403) Redacted has asked me a question, so I’m going to answer it below but it also applies, that answer, in general. (0552)

 

3. In answer to a fair question

Redacted asks Toodles and I do we consider him a troll? I do vaguely recall recently using the word “troll” but it was not in connection with him, nor with any of our chaps and chapesses. However, it’s certainly a bit mongrel, us (plural) … someone once asked me to call off the “rottweilers”, which was a very left liberal mindset … I have zero influence over our lot, inc. Redacted. Unherdable Cats we are.

Every single reader who sticks it out here, unblocked, is a bit of a dangerous character in him/herself, is resourceful … in short, is a curmudgeon to a point, so niceties are what I do here in a Teddy R manner. “Keeping the peace” does not describe it, as I have very little influence … more it’s trying to keep this show on the road afap, dealing with this or that. That’s about it.

I’m loathe to enter disputes but again … no you’re not a troll … sometimes you can flood the comments thread (my problem mainly) but so can any here … observe Steve, DAD, IYE now and then. Talk about disparate tavern of patrons though … I hesitate to say “dirty dozen”, so let’s just say there are very few beg pardons.

The link in the sidebar called “Your Longer Pieces” is still useful though, in case you have some highly sensitive links … it gives a measure of protection, not being strictly front page … my job then is to signpost. Also, in a while, I’m going to shift that link to just below the “Succinct Words of Wisdom”.

Lastly, I have to come back to that Reagan comment, over and over:

2. Intriguing Xer I’ve seen around on X

Goes by the moniker Rus Garbage Human@RusGarbageHuman and his blurb goes: “Culturally English, Ethnically Russian. You cannot coexist with people who want you dead and your children sent to re-education camps. NEVER give up your guns.”

Given my own years spent in Russia, plus the way the ptb vilify anything and anyone Russian here, in the EU and in the US, plus being metaphysically Christian myself, I’m used to being vilified because I (sort of) do go looking for danger but not foolhardiness.

The vilified Baden-Powell (only of late have I been told why) nevertheless said some wise things and one was that “a good bushman never tries to rough it”. That is, he sees his situation at that moment, e.g. on bivouac on the side of a hill near, but not quite on the ridge, as what it is, he adapts to it and makes it as comfortable as humanly possible.

As a soldier, I was strategically bad in that my fellow squaddie and I used to spend half an hour of our allotted sleep gathering bracken to put under our ponchos, to act as palliases. Which got us into trouble with the sarge next morn, rested, as the whole idea of bivouac was to leave the surrounds as undisturbed as possible.

As I pointed out … we were on exercise, not for real, so we’d prefer to be in trouble and do the fatigues later back in camp, but gain valuable sleep for now … a habit not broken to this very day. Robert Baden-Powell’s point had been just that … create order out of chaos wherever you find yourself, create comfort out of hardship, be eternally aware, protect your fellow soldier or traveller, plus the Khalil Gibran maxim of “if possible, be at peace with the other person” … but I’d add the Teddy Roosevelt “speak softly but carry a big stick”. Also learn to blend into the background when required.

This Russian guy on X is quite adept … I’m still observing for now … what I like is his uncompromising way of telling it as it is … a bit like Redacted’s manner in his question … but Russkies are survivors in harsh conditions, so as far as I’m concerned, he’s welcome … I’ll drop something on him later in Russian. This is one of his tweets:

“Why was a white girl in the car with three blacks?” That was his comment on the news headline: “Drunk driver was speeding at 94mph before crash that killed four Essex university students – inquest”.

I’m going to reply to him: “Привет! Почему она вообще была с ними в машине? Почему в парке в пять утра нашли ещё одну мёртвую девочку? Интересная демографическая группа. Девочки никогда, никогда не учатся, особенно девушки из Эссекса и леволибералы, так почему же мы вообще о них заботимся? Древний вопрос, нет, уходящий корнями в глубокую древность?”

1. DAD

a) Arrested in 2017 for large-scale cannabis trafficking and finally sentenced two years later on appeal in Versailles (Yvelines) to eight and five years’ imprisonment, the B. brothers clearly didn’t take long to return to action.

b) Marine Le Pen announces her intention to bring down the government and stands ready in case of snap elections.

c) There is a massive misconception that All Epstein Victims were Teens. This is Far from the Truth.

d) In the chic 6th arrondissement of Paris, residents of the Vavin and Bréa streets neighborhood—backed by several celebrities—are opposing the opening of a Carrefour City – a cheap mini-supermarket.