10. IYE seems to be hard at it today in the sidebar
9. There are a couple of a/cs just now which seem impressive
… to li’l ole me … No Context Brits and Amuse. Amuse seems to be privy to some inside information at times:
8. Classic case we were discussing
… at least, I was discussing with MMutR … that of links here at HQ and formerly at … t’other place. Thing is, some readers like to be spoonfed and if that link they see before them does not go directly to the required page, they become miffed … yessiree … miffed I say.
This is the complete intolerance of any delay whatever in this online era … gimme it all now or I’m leaving. Matters not if I explain that there is only so much one aging man can pack into a day’s blogging, whilst trying to keep the reader from having to go to an older page … in other words, putting abridged versions up to avoid space wastage … endless scrolling down.
Plus these days, certain links are verboten … bots look out for these, certain things happen to the site, esp. if British, as we’re under a communist regime right now … incarceration etc., ten plod at your door early morn. Why do you think I use the word Nole for my favourite Martian? Our reader droppers get it … sadly, some of our reader “fly in, fly out esteemables”, worthy souls all … don’t quite get it.
Take this one for example:
Now, I do see how difficult it is for a backend techie to take that half url and find the article … it takes anything upwards of two clicks … but I’m relying on our boys to be able to do it, seeing if there’s anything worth following up. If so … then we follow it up.
I for one am in two minds on this … illegals? Well ok … deported … but as hard working labour, as distinct from our own indigenous, entitled lazybones? Hmmmmm. Where I live, the hardest workers are EU on work permits … the most feral are British on benefits.
Against that … why are the young British in this house not working? Phew … that’s mixed, not all the young Brit males’ fault … not at all … it’s highly political. Phew again.
5. For Andy
4. Steve’s gone overboard at 961
… six parts indeed! All fabulous stuff.
Six: [The] Ukraine Ready for Peace Now (lol) … challenge to the Biden pardon … Bundeswehr currently undefended … Mandleson … much more…..
Five: How Gaza would work … leftist woman sterilises herself … Trump to eradicate anti-Christian bias (JH: hmmmmm, really?) … much more…..
(0808) Morning all, not as foggy out there … yesterday, I saw unrepentant chemtrail layers up there after the fog dispersed. (0926)
3. Rennes University
A fair translation imho:
Rennes 2, ransacked by the far left, cannot reopen its doors! The presidency of the University of Rennes 2 has just announced the total closure of the university for at least 1 week following the ransacking of the university by the far left.
Right … someone like The Donald would send in the equivalent of ICE to track down this far-left and send them to the French equivalent of a Gitmo. Softer people such as I/me would write “learn’ed” philosophical articles about the history of France, the Revolution, 1968, all the rest of it.
I’m actually going to write of my university days … there was a university with its proportion of public school boys and girls … sons and daughters of the rich, the movers and shakers, there was the middle class represented, there were some from working bkgds, often on scholarships.
Guess who the real radicals were? Well let’s just say the key instigator, name withheld, a quite well fed lad, went on, after university post-grad studies, into his father’s firm, ending up in charge of that by then multinational company … hardly one of the starving masses.
I don’t recall what the mass sit-in was about and that’s stated seriously, call it early Alzheimer’s, but the most radical occupied the admin building, taking staff hostage … the actual brass notably absent that day … I understand they all had cuppas from the teamaking machines and presumably their home-packed sandwiches. Lots of chanting … so we could hear from the other buildings.
The ringleaders were suspended for some time later Ron, in the denouement. One thing I vividly recall was the MSM arriving, as if to a war zone and a total scumbag presenter striding into the main square, cameras, mics, entourage, live broadcasting from the scene … the cars and vans had actually torn in and slammed brakes on, ultradramatically … and so on.
I watched that report that evening on the prime news channel … my dad asked if I’d been involved. Not only had I not but the place had been near deserted … students either in lectures, tutorials, absent or in the Union cafe. That damp squib was translated into mass insurrection on the evening news.
Which faction were we then? Anarchist Revolutionary Students in Education … we held our meetings in the bathrooms and sent our demands on loo roll paper. The Fabians, Stalinists, Trotskyists and whatever dismissed us as “unserious” … nous! Cochons.
Yes, I’ve withheld the name of the Chief Student Radical because it sounds quite similar to the luminaries of the Frankfurt School, certain banksters and WEFers and I’d not wish to be calle antiS, would I now?
To the Rennes thing … go on a rampage, daub walls, deface paintings, tear down statues? Nope … we’d certainly have sprayed on an outside wall: “Kissinger out!” or similar. In short, unlike the Weathermen (Obama’s mentors), Baader-Meinhof, the Munich games massacrists etc., we’d never have acted completely OTT, completely out of control with zero respect for anything and anyone from any side … we targetted people like Moseley, Powell … Thatcher would have been a target a decade or two later … LBJ earlier.
So what’s happened since those days? Well … breakdown of families, death of authority, absence of any code of restraint … you could write this article yourself. And all instigated by very bad people behind the scenes over a long period … institutionally. Mark Elias would be one of those in the US … but always one of the myrmidons. The real baddies? Put a zu or von in front of the name, maybe Prince … no different to Buchan’s paragraph in The 39 in 1915. Also read The Missing Children post again. END.
2. DAD
a. (DAD asks what’s at Rennes and Nantes? Answer in Fri 3, a mini-essay by li’l ole me, JH).
b. The End of ‘Palestine’. Donald Trump reminds the world that ideas have sell-by dates.
c. Sen. Marsha Blackburn. I have repeatedly requested a subpoena for the Epstein flight logs……
(0148) A middle of the nighter again, main thing is not to worry … continued below … (0241)
The importance of kidding ourselves plus not kidding ourselves
… in fairly equal measure. There’s a balance we must strike. Things we must do, attend to … silly not to … do them at the time, then switch out, expunge thinking about unpleasantries, do not dwell, can’t stress that enough … think of nice things, friends, laughs, get enough sleep overall in the 24 hours, liquids, exercise, watching the vulnerable bits.
Mine are knees … they’re in good nick and I wish to keep them that way … no twists, turns, brain way ahead of bod … not to have mobility does not bear thinking about, it simply does not. What we eat, liquids, looking after ourselves. We’re not much use to our family and friends otherwise.
I’ve some ongoing trouble coming up in RL, we were discussing it yesterday … might be terminal to the blogging and soc-medding, might not. To a person used to anticipating, thinking ahead, difficult shutting things out, constantly shoring up perimeter defences … what we can’t control though, we then need to shut out … that is … kid ourselves things are ok.
Within our citadel itself we are ok, providing we did our routines right, checked our defences.
Then turn to the pleasantries such as writing to you. I’ve written before about mental health … Them wish to impair it, impair us ourselves, kill off our life in this land … they’re not going to win, that’s that. Is this kidding ourselves?
What I’m trying to get at here is yes, we need space to withdraw for sure but … but … but … only once we’ve shored up our defences, taken care of what has to be taken care of. The worst possible thing is to dwell on horrors, even on what we must do tomorrow, next week … as long as we’ve done what we can, then shut it out, let no one drag us back to it until it’s time to do it.
Refusing to dwell in some sort of perma-despair is the best thing we can do … it keeps the mind clear, able to help others who need us. I’m quite categorical about this … yesterday, we made a time to discuss all these things, MMutR and I … we then did that … I now shut it out until the time to address it again and turn to other matters … a mix of reporting the world’s horrors, plus time for pleasantries … was looking for Christmas cake to buy, no luck, settled for muffins … 3 for 2 deal. Nice coffee here.
Having a sort of ongoing diary is good … make notes to do this or that on this or that day … plus actually do them, that’s the buzz of “being on top of things” … so be realistic … and the lovely thing about notes is we can leave them in the tray, secure they’ve not been lost, relax, mind clear … next week, close to the time, bring them out, skim down, address whatever it is.
Someone wants to drag it all back up in the meantime? Nope. Flat no.
I’d obviously suggest the help of our Maker in this … look, you dismiss or consider that statement as is your wont … I’m just saying it’s an enormous comfort and if we’re comforted, able to be, then those who know us can feed off that too, a bit.
The tavern idea of this blog is very nice too, the chapel in the grounds as well … sounds crazy coming from me but I enjoy returning, seeing who’s said what, dropping back to sleep, just checked out NOWP, will do the rounds in a few hours.
(1717) My mate just went, we covered an enormous amount of ground, now to piece by piece construct the evening fayre, plus eat dins.
24. DAD 961:5
The Beloved Leader’s secret meeting with students in Southport.
23. DEI crimes
22. Activist judges
21. Kash Patel delay
20. 5.5 million voters disenfranchised by Starmer
19. South Africa and Rubio
18. IYE in our sidebar
“USAID’s defenders say it’s about charity and development in poor nations. It’s not. It’s a $40 billion driver of regime change abroad. And now the evidence suggests that it, along with the CIA, were behind the 2019 impeachment of Trump — an illegal regime change effort at home.”
Two Shellenberger links in the sidebar, plus:
“The whistleblower who triggered the impeachment was a CIA analyst who was first brought into the White House by the Obama administration.”
a. Dave Brat And Jim Rickards Fireback On Claims Of Trump’s DOGE Violating Article I |
b. Carrie Sheffield On President Trump’s Executive Order: “This Was The Restoration Of Women’s Rights” |
c. Natalie Winters: USAID Is Used To Destroy The Country |
d. Todd Bensman Breaks Down How Mass Deportations Will Play Out
16. Moronic Rep Connolly
(Much more at 961:2)
“NEW: I just moved to subpoena Elon Musk to appear before the Oversight Committee to answer for his unlawful takeover of agencies across the government. Republicans blocked my motion without allowing any debate.”
“With its small town setting, use of a local ‘roadhouse’ and the casting of Charles Coburn and Barbara Bates it’s fairly obvious the British-made crime melodrama “Town on Trial” had its eye on the American market, (even the title sounds more American than British). John Mills is the policeman investigating the murder of local good-time girl Molly, (Magda Miller), and the movie is told in flashback. All we know is that the killer is one of a group of men seen watching Molly bounce around on the tennis court in the opening sequence and director John Guillermin does a fine job of keeping us guessing as to which one it might be. All the performances, particularly Mills and Coburn, are excellent and as murder mysteries go this one is surprisingly intelligent and consistently enjoyable. One of Guillermin’s better efforts.”
(0846) MfuTR visiting today, part biz, much to cover … shall switch to one of the three films late morn … interesting that … never rains but it pours. (0956)
Seasonal thing. Went to lights off at 0745, on at 1645. Conclusion? This lengthening of days is not at both ends equally … sunrise and sunset. Sunset is “latening” daily in leaps and bounds, whilst sunrise has only “earlyered” about half an hour since the solstice.
Also, there’s a peasouper out there right now … the fog right over our road. No wonder so many, inc. our Julia, are down with lurgy (last I heard, must check).
9. From DAD drops at 961 … BNE link
“The EU entered this year with 5% less gas supply, following the expiry of the five-year contract covering Russian natural gas transit through Ukraine on December 31. This has already triggered major supply shifts, as buyers in Central and East Europe have scrambled to find alternative supplies. Russian gas supplies through the TurkStream in January were up 27% year on year and 4% month on month, reaching 1.56bn cubic metres, as Hungary imported more gas via the route to offset its lost deliveries through Ukraine. Slovakia, which had relied on Ukrainian transit to cover roughly 60% of its demand, is likely to follow suit in using TurkStream, importing via Hungary.”
