Saturday [1 to 5]

(0549) Morning all. Time starts its mad charge towards evening. (0714)

5. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/02/rubbish-disposal-flytipping-and-modern.html

4. Steve at 1293

Dubai’s DP World CEO Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem Resigns After DOJ Forced to Unredact Name in Epstein Files, Revealed in Email About a “Torture Video”
Why X is So Important: Apple News Pushes Almost Exclusively Left-Wing Content, Excludes Conservative Outlets
SpaceX Shifts Priorities Away From Mars and Focuses on Self-Growing Moon Colony
Trans Mass Shooter Pattern Continues: Canada, Kirk, US Christian School, and Catholic Church
Trump Says Pam Bondi’s Congressional Testimony on Epstein Files was “Fantastic” (it wasn’t)
Woman Caught on Tape Setting Fire to Warehouse Rumored as Potential ICE Detention Center
Russia back to USD? Rubio, old world is gone. Macron out, Meloni in.
Ireland plans fast-track citizenship for migrant military recruits
Much more.

3. Some sort of Valentine’s Op Ed

Trouble is … V Day means different things to different corners of the west. To some, it’s strictly two partners, e.g. hubby and wife, fiance and fiance, to others it’s two lovers, to others someone you’d love to be with, to others sordidly sexual, no finesse … to others a reaffirming of close friendships. Any sort of Valentine’s message is a mood lifter, whatever its intention, unless it’s a bad reading of signals.

For me, it’s the most awkward day of the year, simply because of how recipients read signals … it’s too easy to either overstep and assume something we have no right to or else we fall short of how (usually she) sees it. Plus, if a lady is already in an understanding with some fine chap (e.g. her hubby), then no man I know wishes to tread on his territory … we tend to step back due to the “bro-code”.

There are about two dozen ladies I call friends … and they wildly vary in closeness. A few days back, certain very close ladies inc. exes) made contact or I did, then them … that’s well sorted, we all know where we are to a tee. But on X, it’s the wild west, ranging from real affection to a bit of banter online which keeps us sane in this dystopic west now. The chances of overstepping or falling short are many.

So my approach will be to use Valentine’s on X today as my usual greeting to this lady or that, hoping my male friends will understand that this day is not for me to propose to them. With ladies … well, they are the ones calling the tune, it’s ever so, laying down the rules of engagement (unfortunate word in this context?), issuing the signals.

At OoL and UHC (two blogs), I’m assuming all chaps would join with me in wishing our lady or ladies warm wishes … it’s then up to our gallant chaps whether to add to these words or stay shtum for reasons of safety.

2. DAD at 1293

a) Here is someone who found that Friday 13th was unlucky. Released from prison last December and listed as a security risk, he had announced his attack and had been on the run ever since… The suspect, born in Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines) in 1978, was currently residing in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis)…..

b) Soros interfering in elections – again. Wokist campaigns for the municipal elections: 300 “citizen” lists supported by activist networks close to Soros…..

c) Dr Delphine Prénat-Molimard expressed her outrage…..“I’m angry because I spent 15 years studying only to be asked to offer death to patients.”….

d) I think that ‘The Sun’ did not expect this as a result of their poll:

e) The British Police act as a Postboy for the French government…..

1. Rupert and Restore as a party

… has set the internet abuzz but at the same time, we have our other items to run, plus Valentine’s Day and an Op Ed of sorts from lil ole me. So I’ll just run some screenshots on the Rupert biz:

Imagine Rupert having that in his arms (spoils of war?):