(1355) Afternoon all. (1426)
20. What’s Wales?
19. Same everywhere in the west
18. A lady who’s reached great heights
17. I’m more interested in this
16. Steve has a few things on Trump and Obama
JH: This one was not definitively proved but neither was it definitively disproved:
(0855)(0914)
15. I saw a different take on JDV than this
In the X post I saw, possibly Demrat, possibly RINO, possibly not … it said that JDV is not noted for his loyalty and that he met up with the Murdochs just before DJT came out with the WSJ takedown.
Need to stress here that I’ve not the slightest corroboration, it’s just something to place in some shelf space, ready to look at again, should anything come through.
14. This has been going a long time
13. Wonder why they’re like that?
Missing chromosome?
12. She certainly has a point
11. Finally found out what this is about
… or in a queue:
(0646) As it’s too early (usually around 0800) for the first mini feature, let’s have another five of politics. (0726)
10. As it says
9. Just this, nothing more as yet
8. There’s a lesson in here but neither Newscum
… nor the (e)toopid voters of CA seem able to see it … or just don’t wish to:
7. Good, it’s starting to unravel for the ecoloons
6. Toodles, Redacted and the unsung patrons
Toodles herself is too modest to say but she plays quite a role at Unherdables, she nourishes obscurity one could say … she’s a personal friend, she proofreads everything after the event and spots anomalies, she suggests and notes … she has a sense of the wholeness of our conglomeration … plus I know she is valued by most of our patrons here.
This, plus Redacted’s kind comments about me are here:
… and that post is looking better and better imho. For a start, it preserves more safely … HQ is more lively, more frenetic, news item summary after news item summary after news item summary … yes … but remember that warning in May about HQ easily going down suddenly?
I know it seems a cheek on my part to move Toodles’s and Redacted’s longs to L001 at UHCWP but you see, I wished to up their chances of preservation, given those lost comments at HQ.
But what of shorts and mediums, e.g. Andy’s I’ve just transferred? Steve has some I’d like to too, e.g. on military issues, Dorset etc. Well, there’s a place for those at Reader recollections:
It just feels safer there at UHCWP plus NOWP. Not knocking HQ but it’s a rollercoaster ride, plus it’s not the place for long dissertations and diatribes.
Where are IYE, Microdave, Torquaymada, Woodsy 42, Isilme? Around and about. IYE’s archive is buried in our navbar above.
(0540) Morning all … bleah out there. (0617)
5. Frequent flyer points
4. Steve at 1112
3. The uncivilised
2. DAD at 1112
a) Patrice V. struggles with frustration. On April 1st, when prison guards at the Baumettes prison in Marseille told this inmate he would not be participating in the graffiti workshop, the 25-year-old reacted badly…
b) A two-year hiatus is coming to an end for the Champagnac Asylum Seeker Reception Center (…) The large common room has been transformed. No more salvaging the original building…
c) [Several] Countries defy the ECHR: Is the end of ‘human rights’ in Europe approaching?
d) Russia is a “nuisance power,” declared Thierry Burkhard. The French Chief of Staff explains Moscow’s distrust by Paris’s commitment to the Ukrainians.
Housekeeping
“An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”
Yesterday, starting with IYE at 0647, and finishing just after 2020 with Redacted, was actually an exercise in administration, rightly considered. We think of bureaucrats as mindless, pitiless automatons within an ideology but I’ve seen examples, within the very monoliths we’re calling ou,t of “good” bureaucracy … orderly storage for example such that an authorised person can enter and access … manually.
And it’s the manual bit which is the key. IYE has a store of files only he can access … better I can’t so that there is never a question raised such as yesterday’s at 0647 … “need to know” in other words.
Similarly, we have files too, dotted around in known places … known to those with memories and/or orderly habits. And spread onto different devices, not all kept at the same venue.
Quiz question … do you recall the url of that HQ page I set up for “longs” yesterday, linked in the sidebar? Now deleted, that link, from the sidebar? But the page itself was never deleted. Pity if you cannot recall or you did not store because at the end of that link is a second link, called Mike Davis on X. And if you click on that, it takes you to his X account.
But it also takes you to a raw text store LPHQ001, where you’d find Mike’s post on the raid on Mar-a-Lago and it’s implications.
Part two of that is here:
“Maybe there is a reason Bill Barr consistently knifed Trump after the Mar-a-Lago raid, pretending Trump committed espionage by having his (damning Crossfire Hurricane) presidential records the Presidential Records Act allowed Trump to have? Bill Barr should explain himself. And
@CIADirector John Ratcliffe, who served as Trump’s DNI at the end of the first administration, was terrific. He finished the job
@RichardGrenell and
@Kash_Patel started in declassifying and releasing Crossfire Hurricane.
Trump was surrounded by numerous traitors. The problem is that he is still surrounded by many of them who are hiding & pretending much better now.
@LauraLoomer is seemingly the only one doing a decent job exposing them. Glory Bee commented You left out that Trump had to deal with the disaster who was his first AG, Jeff Sessions, who recused himself as AG then resigned. That, along with Chris Wray, set him back significantly.”
……
News through that Toodles has also dropped a “long”, so must go have a look.
All right … she has dropped three in. One is connected to this old post:
… so is best left in situ, methinks. There’s a second at HQ which can just sit where it is as well.
But I’m going to transfer Toods’s third in the same way I transferred Redacted’s longs last evening as it’s not about IYE per se but a long reflection on another matter … exactly the type of long which fits into the UHCWP category..
Thus you’ll find, by glancing at our sidebar here for now … two of Toodles’s new comments at the link panel above, inc. heartfelt feelings for IYE’s little doggy …
… plus her third comment, a long, over at UHCWP, here:
……
Bottom line is that nothing is lost. Method was to copy Toods’s long, put it in L001 at UHCWP, save, double check it’s there, take the url and come back to HQ, paste the url in the already selected comment panel, save. That’s all it was.
……
“Comments open” facility in Settings, in the guts of HQ … changing 6 days to 5 days and there’s reason for this … namely that I can keep a weather eye open for any other removal of comments such as that noticed by IYE yesterday, and can act sooner.
It all sounds more complicated in the explaining than it is in Real Time … it’s been tested now, this morning, it works, with one very nice surprise … WP itself have every comment here as a url. Both those panels above are there because I took the specific comment url and pasted as a panel.
Sadly, deleted comments don’t have that anymore, i.e. if an external miscreant deleted them … they are, sadly, gone from the hard disk. That miscreant knew that and I therefore know it too.
This is precisely why I use a combination of manual removal of spam, plus a blacklist facility, rather than anti-spam programme. I trust neither McAfee nor Avast for example … I have the spam programme right there if needed, I can invoke it at any time, plus WP itself have universal spam settings.
……
It does come down, in the end, to systems => bona fides => trust. That’s especially so with the real world analogy of Obama-Trump-Epstein, say, plus every pundit purporting to be a “good” person. IYE mentioned yesterday that someone who would remove two comments about a little doggy is a *&£#£&* type of nasty person (if it was a person).
My comment is yes, quite agree … but we know such people are psycho, conscienceless … we’ve seen them in operation. And don’t forget the “banality of evil” … bureaucracy in particular. It takes humans to gum that up, to make it a real pig’s breakfast.
Thank Goodness.
(1655) Evening all.
26. Far right are they, these people?
What say you, Starmer?
25. Epping
Look what the state’s rolling out to intimidate middle-aged Brits:
24. Leading Report
DNI Tulsi Gabbard announces that there are “whistleblowers coming out of the woodwork” from the Obama administration.
23. Housekeeping … slight blog revamp
To put it mildly, I have not been happy with today’s events and part of that is blog-organisational … going to have to be more insistent with non-regulars, plus do some revamping work myself.
I see HQ here as a place for reasonably short comments or summaries … that’s how I also run my own data presentation to you. To give you an idea of the comment length we wish to get … look at Steve’s in today’s comments threads, plus my medium length comment … that’s what HQ is about … around that sort of length or shorter, give or take.
To put it another way, HQ is essentially a news headlines site, certainly not for disputes between readers. It’s our flagship.
Long dissertation types of articles aren’t really for HQ … they’re welcome to our conglomeration, make no mistake, esp. with links or media … but not here at HQ … they need to be over at UHCWP, which now runs a more NOWP format (see sidebar over there).
Now, Redacted was not to know this as I’d not left it anywhere openly stated but have now. So let’s say a less regular commenter drops a dissertation or sermon … drop it at UHCWP please. If by mistake it’s dropped here, I’ll need to transfer the comment to UHCWP, then signpost from here where precisely it can be found. In other words, making extra work for me.
I’m hoping this principle will not turn into a clash of wills as it’s for our readers overall.
Now, Steve and DAD and anyone really, as we’ve been doing … I’m loathe for NOWP to change as it’s sound, regular and readers know exactly where to go for the long, linked version of those drops … I’ll still number as I’ve been doing but that’s it … as has been the case for quite some time. Remember that media expands at NOWP in many cases … but not all that often at the other WP sites … and not at all at Jstack … that’s just a quirk of WP and Jstack I’m afraid.
My attempt to put a rants/longs link here in the sidebar has been, today, an ignominious failure, so I’m removing the “longs” link from the sidebar here now, forthwith.
What all this means
*If you have a short to medium, there are three sites within UHC-NO you can leave it but your choice will depend on whether you want expanding media or links.
*If you have a long, then HQ is not available … I shall move it to the latest UHCHQ longs page in your name for now. Sorry but I need to, to prevent flooding or infighting at HQ. In the evening, I go beddy-byes around now (2020 Brit time), dog tired, needing to be sure HQ is safe enough to get through the night without some sort of war.
Overnight
You still have that choice of three sites to drop a short/medium at but a long will end up at UHCHQ first thing in the morning. Oh and don’t forget Jstack … that’s also available for commenting at if you wish.
Removal of your comments
The ONLY situation where I’ll remove a comment at HQ is if it’s long and discursive and not dropped by one of our longtimers or it’s a declaration of war … as written about above … and it can be found at UHCWP.
I would NEVER summarily remove comments by longtimers … they should know that by now, esp. if it’s good for the site. So if your comment disappears, with no word from me … then something has been going on without my knowledge, some miscreant’s got in and done that.
To help prevent that happening in future, comments are closed after 6 days, universally. This is to stop someone going in after 6 days and causing mayhem. If it still happens, then someone is hacking the site and that will involve my techie mate’s help to identify and reverse hack the bstd.
22. Tom Homan
21. Was he deported? Executed? Jailed for life?
20. What constitutes misconduct?
Seems easy enough to determine with women and children but trickier with us:
I’ve mentioned it before but there I was with epoxy caused skin rashes, there was a lady doctor, plus a younger nurse, both of our ethnic stock. Let’s just say it was the full check up all over. Out of order? Not in my eyes. What if it had been reversed? Undoubtedly misconduct on my part, it would have been.
That’s just the way it rolls in real life.
19. Be careful what you wish for
18. That last item in Sun 17 once more
“You Trained Us To Go After This Issue” Mike Benz On MAGA Base’s Long Fight For Epstein Transparency.
Precisely.
17. Steve at 1112, with war room
16. Two songs about our current atmospherics around here
(1504) Afternoon all. (1522)
15. Having written that comment at Sun 14
… I’m not above a bit of validation from the right quarters, must admit:
Those end of alphabet names really get under one’s guard, break through one’s defences.
14. Validation
13. Still on pets … cats this time
… the veg they fear:
12. To vaxx or not to vaxx them
11. Rolf with PMQs
https://theylaughedatnoah.blogspot.com/2025/07/huzzah-for-hols-pmqs-16th-july-2025.html