Author Archives: James Higham

Saturday [9 to 13]

(1057) That was elevenses. (1109)

 

13. Codify

12. The twisted web


11. Same story here


10. The Yentob factor


9. Interesting

Saturday [4 to 8]

(0512) Light appeared at 0412 in this part of the world today. Morning all … menacing bleah sky so far, cosy inside though. (0611)

 

8. Moosh corner


7. There might actually be something to this


My illness started after I made salmon fillet scrambled eggs. I’ve certainly had a bad reaction to eggs in the past, being quite ill when eating too many in a week but have had no trouble generally with salmon … until this decade, when I don’t know but something seems off in the taste, in the texture … and yes, the problem did recur.

Cod and haddock on the other hand … not so bad. Beef? So far ok, if dried, sliced … or steak … but not minced for some reason … esp. in soup.

6. Elon’s key to the White House


5. Sad Australia

As it is in Aus, so it is in the rest of the west … it’s just that Australians, being the most naive, the thickest westerners next to NZ … well, it’s more readily observable:


4. DAD at 1061

a) Another Auto manufacturer has looked into the future – and does not see many EVs.

b) A recurrent problem in the countyside is ‘Rave Parties’. Noise, vehicles blocking access, damage to crops, livestock released, etc.

c) The UK have plenty of Turkish Barbers, in France it is Dentists. Of the nearly 2,900 new dentists who set up practice in France each year, 1,450 were trained outside France.

d) NEW UK POLL: Reform leads by 10 points — and wipes the floor with both Labour and the Tories.

Saturday [1 to 3]

(0258)(0326)

 

3. For UK readers … Justin

The original was Rupert on the subject (Friday 14) and that’s what Justin is referring to.


2. Housekeeping

Think I need to compile a navguide for “new regulars”, plus occasionals, but not so much for stumble upons … plus revamp Policies in the navbar, which takes you to a single page with all this on it. Shall get onto it now.

(0509) Done! Policies page is revamped.

1. Steve at 1061

  • Anti-Trump Defense IT Specialist Arrested For Attempting to Provide Classified Information to Foreign Government
  • DHS Reports 1 of 6 Lahaina Wildfire Survivors Were Forced Into Prostitution to Gain Basic Necessities Such as Food and Shelter
  • New Round of Peace Negotiations Between Russia and {The] Ukraine To Take Place on Monday in Istanbul
  • State Department to Launch ‘Office of Remigration’ to Help Accelerate Mass Deportations
  • Moscow Ultimatum For [The] Ukraine, West In Istanbul
  • Left-wing pundits refuse to recognise [about] the rape gangs operating in the UK
  • US government cancels funding to Moderna for its bird flu vaccine
  • Are Incompetent Humans More Dangerous Than AI?
  • Much more.

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JH: Having an issue myself with Steve’s drops, in that I can’t open the 1061 post. That’s all right for me, personally, in that I can go to the dash and get in that way … hence this post item here … but you don’t have that facility … feedback please on whether you can open 1061 or not.

Friday [15 till close of play]

(1600) Getting on for evening, all.

 

19. Steve and war room

  • Joe Allen: The Technological Singularity is a Suicidal Sales Pitch
  • Joe Allen: Agentic AI Will Replace Human Agency
  • Brian Costello: “Need To Formulate A.I. In Ways That Benefit Country, Not Jobs From Workers.”
  • “10-15 Years Of Innovation Consolidated In Months” Brian Costello On A.I. Workforce Race
  • The Constitution Give President Discretion How He Carries His Foreign Affairs Powers
  • Josh Hammer Slams Rogue Courts Attacking Trump Tariffs

18. Moosh corner


17. No way around this

… except drastically:


16. Precursor to the Treaty of Venice


15. Vox hits the nail on the head

… in fact it’s embarrassing … who the heck is advising him?

An ecumenical post

 

Feel free to skip over this post if rationalist, humanist, godless or otherwise uncomfortable. It’s intended specifically for those who’ve already got past the Christology obstacle (John 3:16) and that leads all denominations to the questions of the Crusades, the Schism, the Inquisitions, the play The Crucible, Bosch fanaticism and all the foibles of each denomination. Also to paedo priests, nuns, cults, non-biblical teachings or those cherry-picked, plus that meme yesterday when Mormon meets Jehovah’s Witnesses (yes, I do run for the backroom and stay very quiet).

“Ecumenical” refers to:


The odds of the Christian readers at this site being of different denominations, some main tenets quite disputed … the odds are high, let alone sniping by the godless themselves. It’s difficult for me as admin to steer some sort of ecumenical course, also in the light of these:




Gibson is Roman, Kassandra eastern Orthodox. In other words … Frankish crusaders v Byzantine. Let alone the Filioque clause. Then we get to protestant churches and/or cults, e.g. the Woke service DJT was forced to attend with that nutter female priest.

Looking at the Filioque clause itself, I start with there being a Father, which brings in the OT, there’s obviously a risen Son in this Christology … the Holy Spirit is the issue. To me, what’s it matter, in fine, disputed detail, if sent by the Father, the Father through the Son or the Son sent the HS … and to whom.

To laymen, one way to explain it is as our conscience. Another way, once we agree there’s a thing called possession, e.g. by the demonic … then why not, in the same way, for the HS also entering the human soul through opened portal? Causing an obvious clash.

My concern as one of the billions who accept the core beliefs, pretty much as laid out in the Apostles’ or Nicene creed … is how to get along without acrimony … agreeing to disagree on aspects like saints, mother Mary, rosaries, mass hysteria. To me, the priestly caste are not the church … it is the laity. In politics, the laity are also my chief concern, in each western nation.

And the reason I say we need to take immediate stock is that the faith is close to going back to the early Christian era … hiding in rooms, raided, murdered … all churches burned down or turned into m*squ*s … with us westerners all facing communism, masli, satanism bigtime.

As long as we’re divided by non-core doctrine, we have no hope but prayer … but what sort? Oh Lord, make these heathen protestants conform to Roman sun worship … the one true church? Excommunicate, burn the heretic? Or the Bishop of Rome is one of many patriarchs, say the Orthodox, a history of Borgias and Bergoglios. As for the protestants … the new Woke churches of “modern” twisted theology?

An example. The irreligious, yet educated, might note in the hymn below just how pure, torchsonglike, husky, plaintiff the girl’s voice is. The Catholic might say all fine. The Protestant might see it as quite Roman, ignoring the redemptive power of Jesus.

And while we’re on the topic of who misses out on a dedicated hymn … how about the Father? Does any Christian sing hymns about the Father Himself? Which is not diminishing the phenomenon of Jesus, otherwise, it ain’t Christian … but it’s saying there are THREE supposedly co-existing, co-eternal persons in this.

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And getting back to this political blog in general … I’m not going to badmouth the Brits, French, Americans, antipodaens, just because they have idiosyncratic ways … I’m not going to badmouth Germans or Scots … so what if we have different ways? We are allies up against a coming existential snuffing out.

Therefore I’m for any of these who share our core beliefs underpinning us as the west.