Author Archives: James Higham

Sunday [1 to 3]

(0037) Middle of the night situation again, which is no great shakes as it at least gives the nightowls something else to look at. Hope you’re sleeping as snug as a bug in a rug. I’m off there again for an attempt at sleep n2. (0204)

 

3. Rivets

The youtube

Screenshot from it:

Some comments from the thread:


2. The helicopter crash in more detail

Just a note on Vince … he’s American but the dubbed text made me smile because of the nearly hysterical man in the clip who nonetheless seemed to know a fair bit and he’s certainly not American.

MMutR was here yesterday and we were discussing precisely this thing, plus the mast bumping of the previous post on the issue, also yesterday.

The thing which struck me, a layman, was just how fragile the whole rotor attachment to mast is .. it has a circular motion, plus up and down motion, plus twisting and flexing motion, let alone dipping for fwd thrust … all on the top of that thin mast, with body and six people below it?

Also given thermals, birds, congested airspace and all sorts … even on a regular flight path. Yes, regular is good but contingency allowance is also vital with such an “unsafe”, in my book, piece of machinery.

My last catamaran was a racing boat, it was built to tolerances, inc. alloy beams, very light but engineered well. However, all machines develop fatigue in certain places after a certain time, in its expected lifespan. The reason I was thrown from her on that last fateful day, about fifteen feet through the air, whilst she happily sailed on, was that my checks were all vulnerable parts except one … my own trapeze wire … and that’s what snapped, nothing on the boat itself.

Yet that error was only half life threatening … there were actually options, inc. swimming for shore. In a copter … there are no options. Also combine this post item with the one above it, Sun 3. Last thing … consider two versus three blade if ever planning to go by copter.

1. IYE corner

a. On Sat 17. Good. Bring it on.
https://brutalproof.net/2024/05/the-cia-created-the-european-union-eu/

b. Also this:
https://archive.org/details/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discover_202308/mode/2up

Saturday [18 till close of play]

(1607) Almost evening all.

 

22. Keep on chooglin’


21. Good


20. How corrupt are governors?


19. Crims and the concept of truth


18. Steve corner at 1019

a. Hearts of Oak: Reverend Canon Father Phil Harris – The Cost of Courage: A Religious Leader’s Battle in a Secular Age

b. Quite different from the previous incumbent..

c. War Room:

  • “Federal Court Cannot Order The President To Conduct Foreign Policy” Davis On SCOTUS MD Migrant Case
  • Richard Baris Reveals Americans Are Looking To Take Back Power In International Trade Deals
  • Perjury: New Ruling In Lawsuit Over George Floyd Case Reveals Neck Restraint Was A Legitimate Tactic
  • John Solomon: NSA Director Told FBI Pulitzer-Winning WaPo Story On Russian Collusion Hoax Was ‘Wrong’

Saturday [15 to 17]

(1447) Afternoon all.

 

17. Giorgia has eyes for Elon, that’s what it is


16. Do you get the feeling they’re all crooks?


15. Remdesivir

Yep, they knew full well, Birx was in it, David Brock, Pence was heavily involved with PEPFAR … the lot of em are crooks. Meanwhile, we were putting up with grief from intolerant karens.

Saturday [7 to 11]

(0845)(0854)

 

11. Moosh corner


10. Excerpt from AK Haart

Here


9. So … count the good Tories

… Jenrick, that girl yesterday, some of John Redwood’s ideas … anyone else in that Uniparty branch? John Redwood:


8. Interesting concept

… Jewish diplomat on the Christian Resurrection Day:


7. Badenoch comes good for once

Saturday [2 to 6]

(0556) Morning all, rise and shine. Busy one this morning around here, hopefully to settle down in the afternoon. (0632)

 

6. Saturday satire from Andy


JH: Were you to go into the “more” part at his YT site, you’d find a petition:

5. Torquaymada raises the tone at 1018

For consideration…a little (if not in these times, confusing) Kipling. Who is who these days?

https://allpoetry.com/Norman-and-Saxon


“You can horsewhip your Gascony archers, or torture your Picardy spears,
But don’t try that game on the Saxon; you’ll have the whole brood round your ears.
From the richest old Thane in the county to the poorest chained serf in the field,
They’ll be at you and on you like hornets, and, if you are wise, you will yield.”

……

JH and TQM: Be sure to read it all, else you’ll have the Saxons at your door.

……

TQM is also fond of Shirley Bassey but alas, we cannot run Beeb media here for legal reasons. Never mind, here she is:

This Shirley Bassey’s Life

4. Bindergate revisited


3. Steve at 1018

  • Sen. Hawley Considers Criminal Referral for Zuckerberg
  • Top Biden Officials Held Secret Talks with Chinese About Their Spy Balloon Traversing the US Before the Public Spotted It in the Sky – They Were Worried About Optics
  • ‘We May Be Dealing With an Artificially Engineered Virus’: Hungarian Senior Official
  • Obama Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Revoking Legal Status
  • Alina Habba Opens Criminal Probe of New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy For Obstructing ICE
  • Pam Bondi goes after Tesla terrorists
  • Trump envoy Witkoff in Russia plus Uke sit rep
  • Attali: Euthanasia essential instrument for those costing society rather than producing *
  • Eco-zealots are not having children because of the carbon they emit **
  • Much more.

……

*Such as politicians of course

**Natural selection of species

2. DAD at 1018

a) This is another refusal to comply that ended badly. The individual who was riding a scooter at high speed in Paris on Wednesday, fell after refusing a police check. He was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries……

b) France “Deliberately Colluding” with Illegal Channel Migrants. Keir Starmer’s ‘coalition of the willing’ buddy Emmanuel Macron has been accused of encouraging the lucrative migrant Channel crossings…..

c) In an explosive report by the French Government, the transnational[…] organisation […] Brotherhood has been portrayed as “a threat that is spreading in a pernicious and progressive way”.

d) “Tusk’s Poland is no longer a democracy”….“They are losing and that is why they are resorting to more persecution, more circus instead of bread.”