Author Archives: James Higham

Sunday [1 to 6]

(0414). Things are much clearer at this hour. (O517)

6. Shane Schaetzel at Real Clear Catholic

Is any act of disobedience to a command of the pope by itself schismatic?

No. One is not schismatic if he resists a pope or refuses to obey a particular teaching or command of his that is manifestly contrary to natural or divine law, or that would harm or undermine the integrity of the Catholic Faith or the sacredness of the liturgy. In such cases, disobedience and resistance to the pope is permissible and sometimes obligatory.

In 357, St. Athanasius refused to obey Pope Liberius, who commanded him to recognize the Arian bishops of the Orient. Thereupon Pope Liberius excommunicated St. Athanasius.

— CREDO, Part I, Section 1, Paragraph 566, Bishop Athanasius Schneider, https://sophiainstitute.com/product/credo/

5. Snippets

Josh Waller:

One of the things that concerns me in our circles is the heavy emphasis on platform building. Didn’t we see how that worked out for the previous generation of online speakers and pastors? It seems we are gaining ground, but we have to be very careful what we wish for. Monetizing Christianity is unwise at best.

ZeroHedge:

… on Sweden’s 31,000 euro bribe to leave: “They’re going to refuse to leave because no matter how much they say they hate Europeans, hate our culture or say we’re evil racists, they want to live in societies we create, not ones they create. They will just turn our societies into the same as theirs by refusing to leave though.”

Illuminatibot:

My favorite part of being a “conspiracy theorist” is not having myocarditis.

Rodge Scruton over a pint or eight:

“The countryside is not a slice of untilled nature. It is a human institution built over centuries in the image of the people who made it.”

4. Zero reason for the EU to exist

… VOA News via BigDKnight on Gab:

Von der Leyen said Friday the European Union plans to lend Ukraine $39 billion to help rebuild the nation’s economy and energy grid, both heavily damaged by Russia’s invasion.

(She) made the announcement during a joint news briefing in Kyiv with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The $39 billion loan is part of a $50 billion loan package using frozen Russian assets, which was agreed upon by the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations during a meeting in June.

The EU has frozen about $235 billion in Russian assets. The European Commission — the EU’s executive branch — has signed off on the $39 billion loan, but it still must be agreed to by a majority of EU member states.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s most immediate use for the EU funds will be to shore up its heavily damaged energy grid ahead of the winter.

Von der Leyen’s visit Friday follows an announcement she made Thursday in Brussels of a European Union plan to provide Ukraine with about $180 million in energy funding — about $111 million of it coming from the frozen Russian assets.

The funding was prompted by a new report showing nearly two-thirds of the nation’s energy grid had been destroyed by Russian attacks. 

3. Steve at 816:1-4 (looks like a biblical verse)

Selection for now:

MftWC 4:

Italian Parliament Begins Drafting Law To Treat Violent Sex Offenders With Chemical Castration 

JH: P Diddy type?

MftWC 3:

Harris’s Mocking of President Trump on Mass Deportations Comes Back to Bite Her as Team Trump Features Her Words in New Ad

MftWC 2:

Europe Playing With Fire By Calling For Deep Strikes

JH: More like the psychos who grabbed power are playing with fire … and luvving it.

MftWC 1:

US Congress must oppose the UN’s Pact for the Future regardless of what Biden says 

2. Andy in the wee hours at 816:5

Good to know that there are some scientists who can link faith with science.

1. The Final Solution

Over at OoL

Saturday [12 till close of play]

(1630) Sort of evening all.

15. Megyn

14. Steve with war room

a. Liz Wheeler Details How The State Of Wisconsin Is Brainwashing Children

b. Liz Harrington: “That’s What They Fear The Most, They Fear Your Vote”

JH: Have you noticed how the gals have come to dominate the alt-media and I for one think it’s duck to water. They’re built for it. The guys though are still needed for the heavy work, such as Charlie K and Vivek on that campus … not sure a gal could have handled those young bints.

That’s been my case since 1973 when I first remember saying it … male and female tag teaming.

13. Text snippets

Deryl Lynn

If anyone is wondering why there is no opposition to the freeloading cabinet led by “I won’t take lectures Starmer’ it’s because there isn’t any . Quietly the Tories agree with all of the pain being inflicted on the people of Britain. They hate us.

Ireland:

Hate speech laws scrapped.

Giorgia:

“From now on, if you enter Italy illegally, you will be immediately deported!”

Wide Awake Media

“It scares me that scientific fraud is so easy to conduct… Anything that comes out of the UN should be dismissed.” Geologist Prof. Ian Plimer on the UN’s tampering of historical temperature data to fit the “climate crisis” narrative.

12. Well Kathy’s excited about the conference

… as well she might be:

WELL here I am at the Reform UK party conference, the day after the night before, at the NEC in Birmingham. There’s enough to say about this spectacular conference – the like of which nobody’s going to be seeing at either of the Uni-party efforts – without going back to the beginning of the week.

However before I get going on Reform’s new fun politics (when last did you think politics could be enjoyable?) I must blow the trumpet for TCW and our journalism. We are what the Spectator ought to be, a reader told me last year. Actually we are far more than that, as our lockdown and covid vaccination coverage proved.

Sally Beck’s scoop last week on the UK’s Counter Disinformation Unit advising on US big tech censorship, if the MSM were doing their job, should have been their front page news.

My attitude, whilst being wary of hoping for too much, was still caught up in yesterday’s fervour … there were thousands in Brummitown … how many more thousands up and down the land? Answer … 4.1m all up I think it was.

The lovely thing for me was how it gave such joy to so many so you’ll get no diminishing in the smile if you say get real, Jimbo.

Also … Nigel F said a couple of policy things I do not run with, nor do most of us … he’s my least fave right now … not sure I trust him … nor Tice. The others there were wonderful though … nice to see.

Sat-mat

This neat little thriller from 1950 is all the more interesting since Ann Sheridan is the woman in the title. Miss Sheridan is most convincing as she searches for her husband who witnessed a gangland murder and must find him before the underworld does. There are many tense moments along the way especially when she ends up riding on a roller coaster. Good support from Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith and Ross Elliott plus a good screenplay help this film rise above B status.

Saturday [9 to 11]

(1011) Awful day out there, fair result so far downunder. (1429)

11. Ian J on the flooding of Red State towns (815)

Right now, the Biden administration is callously and deliberately dumping the majority of those crossing our borders into Red states and communities. As a matter of policy, they’re overwhelming those places with a huge influx of dependents whose needs can’t be met locally, and who will overload the system, both locally and statewide.

10. This will be the football post item for the day, for the week

(1049 BST) Lions looking good, Cats within one kick though, about 12 mins to go, with extra time. 78-83 … one kick will win it, time for heroes. The feed (a goal is 6 points):

“As we head into red-time, the Cats trail by five points. Geelong averages 8.6 points in red-time in last quarters this year – the equal second-most.”

84-83 … Cats by one point. Exciting.

Lions just kicked one … 84-89.

84-95 … oh dear. 😟

It’s over … 85-95.

Lions (5th), playing the Swans (1st) next week. On form, the Swans should take it but it will be fun … no idea which I’ll choose … I like both. The teams I strongly dislike are not in it this year.


Had everything? Oh yes, win or lose, anything the Cats are in is exciting. Congrats Lions.

9. Isolated case or sign of things to come?

Liverpool Echo just now:

Thousands of people have lost their jobs after a major UK construction company collapsed. ISG has been involved in numerous government projects, including the refurbishment of HMP Liverpool’s B-Wing, and entered administration earlier in the week.It led to the redundancy of most of its 2,400 UK employees. The firm ceased trading immediately after appointing joint administrators from EY, who confirmed that efforts to find a buyer were unsuccessful.

Saturday [5 to 8]

(0848)

8. Steve at last (815)

Evets 4

Female Arkansas State Trooper Shoots Allegedly Drunk Illegal Alien in the Head After He Assaults Her

Evets 3

Bombshell Transcripts Reveal Trump, in Fact, Ordered National Guard for January 6th — General Milley Confirms Trump Urges Top Pentagon Officials to Deploy’ Guard, or Soldiers, Active Duty Soldiers’

Evets 2

Zelensky to meet Biden on September 26. Israel – Lebanon Escalation. US Navy Prepares for War – Levan Gudadze

Evets 1

Testing in Australia confirms mRNA injections contain plasmid DNA and SV40 promoter

(JH: One of many such reports now)

7. Another good one from Rolf

HERE


6. TDS (blogrolls)


5. Pointy end of the Oz football season

There are four weeks of finals or playoffs, eight teams. Cats ended up, after the Home and Away, in third.

First week … 1 plays 4, 2 plays 3 in top tier

5 plays 8, 6 plays 7 in lower tier … these last two games are sudden elimination.

Second week … winners top tier last week have a rest, losers top tier play winners lower.

Third week (today) … last four remaining play off, the two winners go on next week to the Grand Final.

All right … I saw this in passing:


This is a much loved former champ … my quick question is … vaxxed? Meanwhile, the game has started, as of 0857 our time:


Those times are British times, not Oz. Quick look before posting:

0857 our time … 17-27 … hmmmmm.

0900 our time: 23-27 … better.

0908 our time: 35-27 … even betterer.

Not long to half time … Lions caught up, Cats kicked ahead again, I’ll try to give halftime score, then give it a rest. My fave teams down there are Cats, Melbourne, Lions, Swans in that order.

Halftime … 55-36 … right, fine, I’ll take that but it’s still early days. Cats head coach was a Lions star in his playing days … triple premier, real headkicker of a player.

Third quarter: 68-60 Expected. Cats have never done well after a layoff … they relax too much. Thus the Lions got away early today but were pulled back. Plus here they are pulling back on the Cats in the second half, early. Remains to be seen what happens.

Saturday [1 to 4]

(0721) Awful Gates sky. (0752)

4. The fourth item lost was about education

It’s mentioned at OoL … how the items were removed by some tosser … but Toodles’s quote points out that this thing has been going on a long time now … mindless, creepy seventies onwards, based on no known science … the posts of mine removed by the tosser were quoted educational articles, precisely on why all these changes were at odds with child psychology and could only lead to anti-social behaviour and insecurity in children … so they go wild.

Here’s Toodles’s text:

Education. What we have today has been in the works a long time. The creepy seventies and the fads in teaching. Open classrooms and pods and group …too much of that…cooperative learning…that is what they called it. Sone of that is fine….but really that is stupid.

The Americans would go to England to study education for their master’s. Japan and other Asians would come here and observe our public school schools and classrooms. I know they came to Mobile and I know the schools they visited. Oh my, oh my….did they not go home tee hee heeing about us!

They knew they had us in their clutches back then! I cannot begin to tell you how undisciplined sone schools were. At one school at the end of the day the teachers let their children out and the halls were wild. No exaggeration. They would run at full speed darting in and out and all sizes and ages.

Hey I understand they were wanting to get out and going. I understand the students letting off steam but the way they were allowed to behave was just terrible. Absolutely out of control. Dangerous. I would stand outside my door…and I was not a curmudgeon teacher….and make them slow down a bit and no darting, pushing willy nilly. I was the only teacher doing that. I could just see someone getting hurt and very hurt.

It was by the grace of God that no one that I know of got hurt. 

3. The third item lost was this

Christian preacher, Hatun Tash, has won a £10,000 settlement after being falsely arrested again at Speakers’ Corner in London.

On Sunday 26 June 2022, Hatun was setting up a camera at a crowded Speakers’ Corner preparing to preach. As she was setting up, a man snuck up on her belongings, grabbed her copy of the Qur’an and ran off through the crowd.

The Christian friends accompanying Hatun called the police to report the theft. However, as the police arrive, instead of establishing what happened, without any discussion, an officer tries to draw her away from the growing crowd.

Refusing to move from where she planned to preach, the officers then put Hatun in a hold and began to frog-march her through the crowds to waiting police vans.

The video which goes with it is DAD item “d”. Now this two-tier plod policing … don’t those men and token women have any feeling of shame, of right and wrong? Any moral spine? Let alone British and English law going back centuries now?

2. DAD

One of the post items I lost was the DAD drop summary … sorry but I’m not doing it over again … (and it’s good too):

HERE

1. WordPress is utter trash

The joke is that my techie mate, trying to wind me up yesterday, said I’d been “moaning” the whole time about this stoopid bloody block system they impose on bloggers.

I pointed out that I went ballistic around the time of the loss of the second last site (Chuckles and Wolfie era) … that was true. Since then, I have not … or rather had not … even through the fixing of NOWP, even through the setting up and running of UHC … all was well to that point.

With this site, I made a major error this morning … trying to blockquote. A simple operation at Blgr … select the text, press blockquote. Done. It just indents the text.

Not at WP which the scriptkiddies got to … oh bloody no … all this *&£#@#£&* stoopid crap in composing forced on us, to overwhelming protest from users. Trouble is … there really are only two choices on earth right now … Blgr and WP. Yes, I’ve tried Ghost … it’s rubbish, I’ve no time to P about with things like that at a most unsettled time, domestically and with health.

Thus, to get anything out for you to read … I’m afraid it’s this new sodding WP composing pig’s breakfast.

My second error was to try to escape all this block grouping or whatever … why the hell can’t we just write a bloody post and post it? Total waste of time this morning from 3 a.m. until 7 a.m. … four bloody hours gone.

Friday [7 till close of play]

(1524) Afternoon all.

11. Steve at 815

… saying no more … for safety.

10. Sound climate policy for grown-ups

9. Uh huh … saw this on X

https://youtu.be/9Ew1FxWY83g?si=v4pmvTDB3LoxG9MT

8. War Room with Steve

Both parts of 814:6 are important.

7. Reform

Pretty impressive start to their conference … you may like to look at 814 items 2 and 3 (unnumbered). Also these:

It’s looking pretty exciting … Jenrick and Jenkyns of the former conservatives are trying to reverse it now they’re out of power but they’re a busted flush.

Try these

a. What’s this?


b. Is gravity the same everywhere on earth?

c. Maxwell’s equations, plus L****** force law, form the foundation of classical electromagnetism, classical optics, electric and magnetic circuits.

d. The purpose of an alkyd in art?

e. Which non-English team won the FA Cup and when?

f. How many is a quire?

g. On our nudiustertian day, HQ ran Downtown Train and showed Bezo’s bird. Which day was that in day-of-the-week terms?