(1657). Evening all … are you Scottish then?
27. Actually, Senator Scott …
As of 1712 GMT:
26. Somewhere almost as bad as here now
25. Steve and war room at 949
Burns Night [25 till close of play]
Author Archives: James Higham
You old enough to remember?
I’m saying nuffink.
IYE Sat Mat
Saturday [20 to 24]
(1231). Afternoon all … sunny but chilly.
24. Cynarae St Mary’s next two hats
Other pic of her current fave:
And my second fave:
23. The Communists at it again
22. Dale Vince is the latest solar miscreant
… money into Labour coffers at the expense of this country.
21. Businesses, manufacturing => Britain now truly 3rd world
… Labour, Tories, Libdums, Greens ecstatic.
20. Utterly disgraceful medical crime
”WHAT IF the vaccine you received had not been in a clinical trial? For millions of people worldwide, this is precisely what happened when they unknowingly received a covid vaccine manufactured using a process where the end product had never been trialled in humans. This manufacturing shift resulted in significantly higher rates of adverse reactions – 13 times more in some cases – representing a regulatory failure with profound implications for public trust and safety. Yet, the UK Covid-19 Inquiry tasked with investigating these critical decisions has avoided addressing this issue, which lies at the heart of the controversy on regulatory failure.”
Saturday [15 to 19]
(1044) Tempus is fugitting again … frightening really. (1152)
19. I’ve forgotten who the Secretary even is
18. Poor South Africa … dear oh dear
We once had a South African influence here with Chuckles and haiku and Za news came through … they are sorely missed by the site. This thing going on with the Bantu down there … bad, bad … payback time.
17. This 👇🏻
16. IYE at 949:2
… probably required watching in JH’s humble op:
15. The conundrum of women and power
As has been demonstrated o’er and o’er and as many go-getting men will attest … behind every successful man or even one just with a mission, the quality of the woman is everything. If she’s ambitious for him and for her own place in the sun, e.g. the WEFer wife of DeSantis, she in fact holds him back by her raw, scathing ambition … she would say it’s in his mind, he is reminded by her constantly that he has his own masculinity to fulfil.
To my mind, any man all for himself, any woman all for herself, is useless because there is no deep bond, just ongoing war at home, on the pillow, personal ambition. If a team though, with that deep understanding, then the “badder” one of them sometimes leads the other astray, e.g. Bonny and Clyde.
The purpose of Melania beside the Donald in public, the purpose of Susie Wiles in the WH … is that the man is the blaster-through, the muscle, the woman observes, notes, never forgets, is the real gatekeeper … and if her aim is noble … then good things result. She is a stone wall though … implacable … good thing too. She wants him as a rock, he needs her steadiness and constancy … see Pam Bondi.
In a full on battle between other males and her, guess who wins?
“The ‘ice maiden’ at the heart of the Trump administration has won her first big battle this week — denying Elon Musk a permanent base in the West Wing of the White House.” The Times: https://thetimes.com/article/1a9c06
I’ve said since the dawn of time that women need to play to their strengths, not this other rubbish of this LA mayor or Merseyside feminazi or a Hochul, Fani or whoever … women are not good when given ultimate power … ask any observer of the henpecked hubby and the dragon … it’s quite offputting and bad for her character … that’s a monster in the making, not a woman.
It’s a fine balance which needs maintaining … hellishly difficult, unless she wants it to work.
As you’ve had Napoleon and Spain on the brain
… of late … and quite rightly too … this 👇🏻
Rabbie Burns’ B’day [10 to 14]
(0749) Morning again, all.
14. How fads change
In Russia, I had a boatbuilder lined up to build a hydrofoil to use on the Volga but red tape and other internal matters wrecked the idea … most reasonable cost too it had been, sponsored.
Decades later now, I’d dodged a bullet methinks. The premise had been fine … they do work … but highly temperamental speed machines and I was getting no younger. In 2025, there is now this:
The way it changed over the years, sailing hydrofoils, was that initially on small craft like the 11 foot Moth (I owned one), they were supported in three places beneath the hull by foils but when “the money” came in big time and the America’s Cup went foil … they were initially two hull, even three … the most famous at that time being Hydroptere – its stbd wing collapsed near the outer foil.
Someone came up with the idea … why go multihull at all? Thus a new generation of canting foiled monohulls came in, acting as a sort of Bruce foil machine (technically quite workable, yet capricious).
Also, space age materials were taking over, e.g. carbon fibre making way for polyimides and that’s the point where my own aging and new synthetics parted ways … these materials now having taken it again back into the realm of a wealthy person’s sport.
13. Here come dat EU army
Fighting age hordes up and down country finally to be activated:
12. Nick Timothy MP
How is this allowed? Ed Miliband has approved another giant solar and battery farm. 49% of the site is top-graded agricultural land. The applicant? Ecotricity, owned by … Labour donor Dale Vince. They’ve given £5.4 million to Labour since 2022.
11. A genuine notice just now from the dept.
10. DAD drops at 949
Immigration vs Political Correctness: French Interior Minister Picks Up the Gauntlet – France has introduced stricter rules aimed at curbing the influx of illegals (finally) – March for Life Education and Defense Fund is honored to announce that Vice President J.D. Vance will make his first public appearance (in DC) – Kennedy clan at war over release of long-secret JFK files …… more at 949.
Saturday [1 to 9]
(0130) Just posting these, then back to bed. (0304)
9. Steve at 948
US State Department Is Still a Major Funder of Illegal Migration – Trump DOJ Directs All 93 US Attorneys Offices to Prosecute State or Local Officials Who Obstruct Immigration Raids – Vice President JD Vance Will Make First Public Appearance After Assuming Office – pesky priest (thank God) Vigano: “The Chair of Peter is not a Pope but an Emissary of the Globalist Elite” … Fauci – Biden’s Corrupt Bureau of Prisons Director Out – Why Do They Need Pardons?” Speaker Johnson to Investigate … Uke sit-rep – Saudi crash oil, hurt Putin … Stargate Stunner: Sam Altman Is Not Who We Thought – “blocklist” US conservative news organisations ….. plenty more.
8. Confirmed
7. Just as he should be doing
6. Send in the clowns
5. “Dust on his boots”
Precisely.
4. Look who’s announcing it … the baton changes?
3. Here come da pushback
2. Remember “euphemisms”, dear droppers
1. An interesting half hour
Friday [21 till close of play]
(1657) Evening all, storm passed over here, chill in the air, I’m warm … are you?
27. That other result today
26. IYE
https://www.usmarshals.gov/news/press-release/missing-kids-canton-recovered-iceland-us-marshals
25. Many of you know Legiron
https://underdogsbiteupwards.wordpress.com
… and he has an utterly darling partner:
Plus she knits … hats at the moment as it turns out. Now, don’t wish to spoil y’all, so two per day till Monday, ok? This is her fave first:
Plus mine:
Plus that was her quilt here:
24. Moosh corner
23. Steve at 948
22. Vrooommm!!!
21. Steve’s and IYE’s in comments, my thoughts on 20 below
It’s speculation on my part but based on the sum total of what we’ve been looking at:
a. DJT has a lot on his plate, his concentration was on Day 1, he can’t watch everything.
b. In the past, he’s been quite suceptible to gruff, straight speakers … at least they present themselves that way … Pompeo, even McCarthy.
c. He loves to be around the high and mighty … but he likes achievers above all … his major thing is to achieve and succeed .. if those around feed that, he’s susceptible. Though Fauci’s a weasel, he was still the main guru in his eyes and the idea of Warp Speed appealed … wanted to quickly wipe out the virus in America first … easy meat for Birx, Brock, Pence etc.
d. Stargate is an extension of that … wanting to be associated with the Big Venture … our type of person loves that, just as MAGA and MtheWGA have loved the turnaround … compare to Starmer’s utopia.
e. I’m not disagreeing but do pause and look at the clear downside mentioned by a few, not just naysayers … all of these have seen the Skynet implications, esp. the mRNA implications … and it’s those in the vaxx field who know it’s bollox … that hitching it to an exciting adventure is wrong. The exciting adventure itself is magnifique … this tawdry hitching though will kill humanity, as sure as night follows day.
f. An extension of this, another way to look at it, is “bundling”, which the Chinese do. Introduce “the” first two items of a finite three, say. The first two always are what the people desperately needed. The bundled in third though is the killer. Beneath the euphoria of all the early victories, seeps in the killer virus of the third. The euphoric exclaim, annoyed: “But it’s all wonderful, don’t be so “negative”.” Negative? Preventing global atrocity?
g. The snakes are all around DJT … are they to be found far away, or else trying to sneak in to influence him close up, backed by organisations with untold funding? They’re no use far away. If they’re clear enemy type, he sees it instantly … McConnell, Graham, Murkowski, Collins … so what do the snakes do? Appear as gung ho men speakin’ DJT’s language instead. McCarthy did that, Matis. Donald loves the police and troops, loves to be around them and vice-versa. Not so Vindman, Milley. They don’t love him at all, nor do the Capitol police, under Pelosi influence. He sees it too late.
h. The Donald wants to be loved … a great weakness. If not, then respected … which is better. Coupled with the art of the deal in his eyes … he’s both succeeded and failed in the past.
i. Is this vastly better than the whole shower of the past four years? Well obviously so … is the Pope globalist as they now say? Yes, so many good things going on right now … telling off the WEF like that. Except they know that anyway, it was nearing the end of its usefulness as a tool. If they can bundle in death during their very capitulation, they can feel “not a complete loss” … the west ruined, civil war, all good stuff.
j. Doing great things, the Donald? No argument … in the main … but some things he’s just not seeing … no time to see, plus they’re hiding these things … things being bundled in. Watchers can see them, even Alex Jones, and we’re also shouting out: “Behind you! Behind you!” But the tech gurus swiftly pull the plug on us … you saw that earlier with Mike E. Go over and read The Slog today.
k. 🍿🍿🍿🤔
Friday afternoon
Not enough time before politics for a film, how about a Nero Wolfe episode?
This series of Wolfe stories had some great episodes, some not so good, the acting variable, the production values good, some of the storylines good. My main criticism was that they were an ensemble, taking different parts in different episodes, displaying their stage acting chops … some doing it well, two or three almost insufferable, quite OTT. One of the baddies here overacts something awful … never mind … overall not a bad episode.