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21. What chance society?
20. The threat from the medical services
19. Moo corner
18. She could be out today
17. Terrible advice or in thrall?
16. The question is how to stop it
Thursday [16 till close of play]
Author Archives: James Higham
Thur Mat
Thursday [11 to 15]
(0952) Morning all … grey sky but some brightness out there. (1103)
15. What is wrong with Trump’s brain?
He’s endorsing Cornyn of all people and asking Paxton to stand aside for the Texas Senate place. The outcry is near universal over there. Cornyn = Thune = McConnell. Is he unaware, Trump? WTH is it about?
14. There must be some form of recall
13. This was a comment under the Young Scot’s YT
… which was on ridding ourselves of denominations, an idealistic hope:
It’s all very well saying well, as long as we’re all biblical … yes? Just which parts are emphasised, which interpretations are adopted? Which anathema? For example, there was much the Methodists said which made sense but I just did not wish to sit through one of those happy clapping, “modern” services.
And then those looking to find any verses supporting their perversion or claiming something was not named in the bible, therefore we can go ahead. And then the whole hierarchical structuring with so-called elites at the top … no thanks.
I saw a post on X from the Orthodox Church, trashing all protestantism, i.e. biblical teaching … it seems only the primates or whatever they are have The Knowledge, a bit like 33rd degree Masons/Illumined. Interesting that they weren’t also trashing the Roman Rite.
12. History Girl
11. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/03/dont-let-govt-or-bureaucrats-get-their.html
Break ups
Many potential red flags here … not least that that Nazareth song of the time resonated with the young of the time … we’re mostly beyond all that now, so what’s in it for a 2026 UHC reader? Then we have those who were never into that sort of “noise” anyway … the musical divide, maybe even the gender divide.
Then we have two youngsters here finding the song resonating with them … so what, we might ask? He also points out that he does not like people saying “you’re young” as an argument … dashed love is just as real for a young person. What’s a young person’s world to us in our dotage?
To me, it’s the same argument as those saying who cares if Persian girls are ecstatic? What’s that to us? I’d just say that these young folk are taking the trouble to explore our world back then … we can at least hear them out, otherwise … whither society?
I didn’t originally like these reactors, esp. her with that harsh, “modern” self-satisfied, ubiquitous crow’s voice … but slowly my opinion changed … she’s a bit shy, truth be told, tears come to her eyes quite often, his affection for her is touching … plus they’re both of our stock.
May I ask you to bear with them, esp. the analysis after the song. As for Nazareth, what appalling fashions and hair of 1976 … but that’s just my 2026 opinion. Song is a classic, his voice too.
That’s as far as I meant to go with this post … the intergenerational theme … then checked my inbox about 0700 … there was a letter from “her”.
Some months back, I made contact again … only way it happened was a guy who’d been with the younger sister was referred by another lady to my request, saw the project, made it happen. Code of the Bros.
Her reaction was “sounds like you’re still working things through”. But she was still excited by the idea, half a century later. Different people now and yet not different from how each was in some ways. There’s an old joke about guys … she moves on, no damage, stepping stone stuff, you know the score … but the more sigma or right bstd he’s seen as, the more devastated he really is …
Two months later, he makes contact, insults her but says we can still be together. Er … no mate … it’s over. Get it through your head.
If you do make contact, gentlemen, it’s with a different person now, different set, children, grandchildren. And yet it can still be nice. That Nazareth song above I generally cannot listen to, strictly for personal reasons. The Eden Kane one … weeeelllll, I’m admitting nuffink, ok.
This one below … I find it too difficult to watch, for personal reasons … you see, the lady in the clip looks a bit like “her” back then:
Incidentally, both have the same initials in our names. Had.
Thursday [6 to 10]
(0540) IYE on Speakers Corner at 1313. (0603)
10. Moosh corner
9. Good to see people no longer being drawn into things
8. “Morality” police HQ gutted
7. Seed oils
6. Donny makes some quite bizarre decisions
… it makes a MAGA wonder where his loyalties lie.
Thursday [1 to 5]
(0431)(0513)
5. I for one have learnt to respect many “community notes”
4. Steve at 1312
- Commanderâs Messages on the Eve of Iran Battle CENTCOM Commander Follows Historic Tradition
- Wayne Root: Itâs Not âRacistâ to Ask These Questions. Itâs Necessary.
- Trump-Supporting Iranian Diaspora Face Off With Italian Leftists Protesting the Strikes in Front of the US Embassy in Milan
- It Escalated.. Massive Change.. Second Stage Started in Iran. Operation Epic Fury. Update
- Forgotten Front Ignites: Russian Gains In The North As Eyes Are Fixed On Iran
- Unlike other industries, vaccine manufacturers are shielded from safety design defects
- Crusader-in-Chief: Pete Hegsethâs Christian Zionist Mission to Help Israel Confront Iran
- More.
3. Microdave
“I’m in “Bomber County” – aka Lincolnshire – and spent a couple of hours watching the antics at RAF Coningsby this afternoon. Now having returned to my campsite I thought I’d see if the Eurofighters were still airborne – they weren’t – but I noticed a very unusual flight track nearby. It’s a drone from RAF Waddington, and I wondered if you’d be interested?”
There was further description but MD will add if he feels it should be.
2. DAD at 1312
a) Not content with being Tory 2.0, he now wants to be Labour 2.0 as well. Reform UK is the Uniparty.
b) How Europe made itself irrelevant on AI. Europe has built, brick by careful brick, a political and economic order structurally hostile to innovation.
c) Donald Trump has driven a poleaxe through the Climate Voodoo Machine â destroying the legal basis for climate activism, pulling out of 66 Globalist agencies, setting the dogs of………
d) Why loaning the Bayeux Tapestry to Britain has triggered a 1066-style battle among experts.
1. Archiving
Bookmarking and archiving is not an exact science … all sorts of rules are inserted by the platform, theme or author, many which render the url near unusable. A very useful symbol is |.
Not all archives here are in Other in the navbar, one for example is on July 26th, 2024 at NOWP. Here are two more:
|https://unherdablecats.com/assorted/
|https://unherdablecats.com/2000-interview/
Wednesday [12 till close of play]
(1500) Still early but might as well start this.
20. Sorry, sorry, sorry, chaps and chapesses
… been chasing the Holy Grail
… and ran out of blogging steam as you know around 1700
… just as Microdave, IYE, Steve and Andy drop pearls of wisdom upon us , thankee, thankee.
Shall have to explore in the wee hours, crashing right now, was watching Mr. Williamson as well.
19. Moo corner
18. The unprepared
17. Hormuz again
16. Amen
15. IYE and Steve
There are links at Wed 1 to 5 and 6 to 10 to get to those articles. I prefer to read them in situ, one by one. Ditto at NOWP.
14. Mentally ill criminals endangering us
13. The guilty politicians … those still alive
… need charging with crimes … if guilty, unaliving.
12. Blast from the past (Sep 2024)
Wed Mat
Yes, well it was going to be Blonde for a Day but it seems below par, so a rerun of an old fave:
“A precursor to the Thin Man series, starring William Powell as a detective (but without the very supplementary Myrna Loy). And this is directed by none other than Michael Curtiz (“Casablanca” and “Mildred Pierce”), and you can often tell, scenes characteristically complex with lots of people and foreground/background. As a whole the movie races along, to the point that the huge cast (all introduced with visual vignettes at the start) is confusing. But hang in there. because a third of the way through Powell kicks in full time.
There are few actors like William Powell in the history of American film. He is peculiar in charming ways, and makes no bones about it. He lacks any sense of what we might think of as cool or hardness–there’s no Bogart in him, no Cary Grant of course, nothing but what a character actor might have. And he made it a virtue, visible even here. The rest of the cast is good or very good, with a few other recognizable faces, and it gels increasingly as you go until a series of dramatic whodunnit style conclusions wraps it all up.
Powell’s detective, Philo Vance, was a snobby socialite, and the plots have a quality of private detective vs. police (which gets used in a lot of these kinds of series, of course). There are four movies with Powell playing the part (and many others with other actors in the role. This is the fourth, and best of them, the first going back to the dawn of sound, 1929. It’s not as slick or warm (or sophisticated) as “The Thin Man” series, which is a high water mark of the effete detective, but it’s terrific in its own way, and really well constructed. I’d not miss it.”
Wednesday [11]
(1205) Afternoon all, just finished a nice brunch, coffee at the ready, here we go. (1237)
Personal defence
Defence is only partly this scenario:
It’s also the home invasion, due to come soon enough when Them decide it’s time to send out the sleeper cells armed from the cache in religious buildings.
Aside from both those scenarios, there is also your decision whether to venture out or not. These are decisions of life and limb. Now … it’s all very well us going on here about how it should be out there … it’s simply not, is it … thus personal safety is the primary thing to take care of. Much easier at home, as you can arrange the “welcome”, plus the fewer the entrances to the abode, the narrower the entry … the more easily defended.
Govt is your next consideration. If you do any more than shield, e.g. with old style rubbish bin lid, then you are the “aggressor” in corrupt and/or Woke Plod’s eyes … minimum “process is the punishment” nine hours at the station, through to being banged up with the very elements you’ve been attacked by.
I’d suggest that that’s the worst scenario, that last one, whilst the second worst is the one in the picture above … and the third is the home invasion. Any which way, expect zero mercy.
In certain ways, the outside encounter gives you a better chance, providing you can be back to a wall or able to scarper (preferable). So build your route into your plan. It would need to be some compulsory call from outside to force you out, e.g. a medical appointment.
If I say use your stout walking stick as a blocker, that’s legal to say. What I can’t say is how to attach something you’re carrying concealed onto the end of that stick, I can’t suggest you think “thrust”. I certainly can’t suggest where to thrust to.
What I can say is that if you get jumped, as that man did … why did you? I’m suggesting that that is way too late. Also, how can I put this … three to five assailants are too many, esp. if older and/or out of condition.
I also must not suggest, legally, that you pre-empt. I can suggest though “learned calm demeanour”. Panic is death, odds on. I’d suggest a metre and a half as your Rubicon and the word Stop delivered calmly. Anything after that is fair game.
I’d further suggest that anything after the Rubicon is you behind bars in this society, either way. So you do have decisions to make before you even think of going out, locking your front door. Plus the “resolve” to go with your pre-decisions, no backtracking.
See, we’re not talking bravado here, being a hard man, any of that. We’re talking survival … simply that … unmaimed.
That’s as much as I can legally suggest.
Wednesday morning