(1012) Elevenses coming. (1114)
15. We’re in it right now
14. How to ruin someon’s Saturday evening
13. Housekeeping again
Yet again, I have a delicate situation … or rather DAD does. He showed me this he’d received (more than once):
From where I sit, with no overview of what you encounter at your end, I know nothing of the process of subscribing, liking, giving personal info … I do not personally ask for nor need it, I’m not after traffic, am not building an account’s “reach” … but I can see why WP would want it … to make some pennies, for us to “pay our way”.
I’m thinking they already have your email … so why again? On the other hand, emails are generally ubiquitous, no big deal. An IP address though is a bigger deal … don’t openly give, though it’s usually behind the scenes they find such things.
For me, subscribing is akin to giving money. I’ve mentioned before … I must not take any money, nor cause someone to have to pay somewhere else in order to read Unherdables. I have nothing “monetised”. I check stats only at OoL, as it’s our joint account.
12. From earlier in the day
… usually Antipodaeans, Americans, Canadians first up.
11. Hormuz oil
You might almost think that the attack on Iran was another of those mega-gormless foreign adventures that the US ruling class has such a weakness for – Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, …
A country famous for its population’s ignorance of history, geography, and foreign languages is not particularly well-placed to make judicious decisions on such policies.
They elected Trump, despite all his obvious vices, because they hoped his virtues would outweigh them – and because the Dems seemed to have no virtues at all. It was an understandable gamble. I do hope it pays off.
As for us: Starmer’s Labour Party; the Greens; the Moslem parties … we’re really in the soup, aren’t we?
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JH: I really could not comment (coughs, shuffles away quickly).
15. We’re in it right now – couldn’t agree more as I gaze at the photographs my Dad took of our family, up in London during the summer of ’67. We spent a week there as my parents wanted us to see the capital. So off we went to Cricklewood and my Mum’s auntie’s house. We had no money for holidays back then, it was always days out and a week with my Nan in Torquay. I remember one evening; a Saturday, we went to the local working men’s club. It was packed and full of smoke – had my first sip of beer that night. Didn’t like it!
The Londoners there talked a lot about the war, something I didn’t get till years after. The Blitz had such a profound effect on them once the alcohol flowed they had to talk about it. Not the death and destruction though, it was humorous tales of trying to get by in city that was under constant bombardment. London looked like the rest of England when I was there. After a week with the working class of that borough I now know I’d been with some of the best if us. Mass immigration has done more damage than the Luftwaffe ever could.
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JH: Feel we’re coming back to similar, but from within, just up the road.
Towards the end of the film Saving Private Ryan there’s a scene called the Battle at Ramelle where the Americans are defending a bridge – the action draws on real events that took place at the Battle of La Fière, a hamlet in Normandy. The Germans are attacking the fictional town of Ramelle and at one point bring up a 20mm Flak 38 anti-aircraft cannon to use on the defending Rangers and paratroopers. The effect is devastating, as portrayed in the film it literally tore the soldiers to pieces.
That same type of weapon was rolled out by the IRGC and used on the crowds of people in the streets of Tehran in January. Witnesses said the weapon cut down hundreds of youngsters as each cannon round went straight through dozens of them at a time. In London, today, there are people out on the streets demonstrating in support the Iranian regime that did this to its own people. Take a moment to think about that and why Trump is right in what he’s doing.
A photo of the Flak 38 anti-aircraft cannon from the film Saving Private Ryan:
http://www.sproe.com/images/screenshots/flak38-05-large.jpg
Some words from Stephan in Sweden:
https://rumble.com/v76t554-israel-trump-and-iran.-and-what-david-beckham-said.html