Author Archives: James Higham

Tuesday [17 to 23]

(1145) Afternoon all. (1248)

 

23. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2024/11/ginge-and-whinge-are-far-more-than-joke.html

22. Merseyrail farce

There are two aspects which hit me … one is the woeful state of the kit … the second being how little they care about ordinary folk … totally out of touch, not unlike Starmer and Westminster as a whole.

“Merseyrail passengers have slammed an “absolute farce” from the operator after a notice was issued at 9pm on Monday evening warning of major changes to timetables the following morning.

The notice stated that the network’s New Brighton and Headbolt Lane lines would be operating a reduced timetable today (Tuesday November 12). It was explained that the sudden changes were down to an increased number of the operator’s new fleet of trains undergoing maintenance.”

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/merseyrail-passengers-say-its-farce-30350322

21. Moosh corner


20. Fanatics


19. Saw this at Dan Wootton

Same old same old … various blacks we like, e.g. music reactors, those on X … but corporations, for profit and Woke cred, ignoring home grown talent … no way. So Boots is off my list altogether.

18. Tucker



17. Housekeeping

Further refining this housekeeping v some sort of op ed thing (in my own mind), a better distinction is housekeeping is within these walls … ss of oped is outside there in the big, bad world.

This is housekeeping. If I have the slightest lurgy coming down, first hit is throat, second is the “phone ear”, then the rest follows. Only solution is hoody on, hood up, into bed (where I’m typing this at you from) … and having the luxury to do that is a boon … liquid, good food … st some stage get up and do jobs, get the bod active, back to bed. That usually kills it in 24 hrs.

Give you an idea of brain fade … I saw the Sterling post and the autumn leaves in the sidebar … groan, thought I’d posted it at UHC. Slowly realised I hadn’t. That level of malfunctioning brain ain’t good. However, there are some screenshots to post.

DAD, I’m beyond finding baroque music for now. Once recovered.

Tuesday [13 to 16]

(0916)(1018)

 

16. The USA does have a real problem with those *&£&* s


15. Were Kate Hoey and Sarah Champion

… the only nice Labour people while they lasted?


14. Kristi Noem to Homeland Security

It’s CNN who are, natch, very anti. Hmmmm. 🍿🍿🍿

13. Copyhold at Gab on Starmer

“Keir Starmer is pulling the strings of project risking industrial ruin for the UK”

True. Except that he’s not just “risking” it. 

It’s happening now. Whole swathes of industry are vanishing: steel, fertilisers, oil refining, car production….

Goering’s Luftwaffe could only have dreamed about causing destruction like this.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1974558/keir-starmer-labour-industrial-ruin

Tuesday [4 to 12]

(0142) Trying for a second sleep in the middle of this post. (0832) Back !!! (0909)

 

12. Pat Kashel


11. Melania enters the fray


10. Won House, lost Wisconsin when not watching carefully


9. TDS


8. IYE and Griftie (ie if female?) at 875

”Not only have the Duke & Duchess of Sussex been collaborating and funding many members of Issue One’s Council for Responsible Social Media, but they have also been engaging in a Military Grade Censorship operation that has been going on as early as 2019.”

7. Housekeeping experiment for DAD

https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1855776505135305073



For those who still cannot access from 875 … it published for DAD but did not expand … primary reason is often that it’s in comments, not the post proper. Having said that, the account type at X does come into it … if it checks certain boxes and more importantly, does NOT check some, politically.

There are also platform or company reasons … one’s PC or laptop, its settings, the size of file, if more than one company must combine to bring it … the long and short of it, DAD, is that any one of those factrs, plus being in France, can be the trigger.

Here, I get a 50/50 result on it expanding, provided I use the url itself, rather than X’s own embedding process. Ok … just for the record, it was Halloween night, people left parcels for the kids and a note on the door I think, the boys were discussing whether to ring, said they hated Harris, loved Trump.

One other factor comes into it … it was expanding here if a double gap was left between bottom edge of vid and the next line of text … if single line as it should be, it stops expanding.

Then expands after ten minutes, then disappears again. We could keep troubleshooting all day for the reason but must post some items, deal with domestic things etc.

Oh and it just shut me out of the site and I had to go through the original process of logging in from scratch again. A right pain.


6. No more Walkers Crisps?


5. The perennial GOP Senate problem


4. That IYE brought statement by DJT on Stefanik (874)


Yep, obvious question is Elise’s ethno-religious ties, hence her commitment to warmongering in the Ukraine, perhaps lack of judgement? Who knows? Perhaps just reward, the two being close.

There are times one needs a man … to blast through, be a rock … but a man gets ideas and his own agenda most times. With a gal, you know the job will be done, plus her proximity is most pleasant … she softens the atmosphere … at least DJT and I find both so … times are it juss hastabe a guy for the job … other times, juss hastabe a gal.

Tuesday [1 to 3]

(0040) Strange days and nights … see Some Sort of OpEd below. (0121)

 

3. Partly related to my comment in Tue 2

… is that the “glitches” can be partly us ourselves. At 58, my mother said that we are our health and memory. Oh so true but we could also say we’re our spiritual … and therefore mental … health, our being at ease with ourselves … which can come back to our physical health … which can come back to gremlins brought on by the heart attack revisiting. I find immediate resort to bodily warmth, esp lower legs and walkupons, plus this vital hoody when sleeping … such seemingly minor things can completely alter the picture … last few days, I ain’t been all that well, just as many out there have not.

At a time in society when conspiracy theory turns out to be largely WITH foundation, not fantasy … I’m suspecting they’re tampering with heart meds, inserting deathjab nasties … because I’m certainly feeling blockage around head and neck. Might be age, cold, winter … could be … I do know that sleep, exercise, liquid, nutrition (cutting out the junk) does ameliorate it.

That’s just me … then there’s you, reader, and your particular situation … where you live, draughts, poison in the air, diseases brought by “guests”, Chris Rea’s “perverted fear of violence” … to me, he was telling porkies about the origins and meaning of that song … it may well have started at the M25 but the themes are quite apocalyptic all the same.

Then we get to DJT, MAGA and the betes noires Thune and Cornyn … what if they’re actually right? Not suggesting they are but there IS this thing about separation of powers. What undercuts that in the Senate is that Senators are beholden to funders and other “influencers”. 🍿🍿🍿

2. IYE

…and the DJT statement on Elise Stefanik (at 874).

JH: (Housekeeping) This block system is jumping around all over the place … you the reader don’t see most of it, as I struggle to get it back to some semblance of normality. You the reader strike it now and then in commenting, which annoys me because I’m used to glitches and gremlins, plus all the other cyber issues, but a reader has a right to expect he/she can just come in and comment.

Regulars know that that’s furthest from Them’s minds … the notion of free comment … and it could be any part of the chain coming in and “glitching” … it could even be Micron’s myrmidons. We press on.

1. Steve drop excerpts

Evets 4: Woman Fired For Refusing Covid Vaccine Wins Record $12 Million From Rogue Employer

Evets 3: Maricopa County Releases Another Bogus 97K Ballot Dump as They Steal Kari Lake’s Race

…but: Four Counties In Michigan Find Over 26K Votes Days After The Election—Several Seats Flip From Democrat To Republican, Including One Michigan House Seat

Evets 2: Moscow: No Trump Putin Call, Slams MSM; Scholz Wants Putin Call, Russia Enters Kupiansk – Alexander Mercouris

Evets 1: Pedo-crime: former Pixar and Disney graphic designer sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes of unprecedented violence

Try these

 

  1. In the U.S. what name was Armistice Day changed to?
  2. In Romania … their flower bujor today is called what in English?
  3. In Poland today is not just Armistice … what happened in 1918?
  4. In which year did the British move Armistice to the wrong day?
  5. What was unusual about when South Africa commemorated it?
  6. in which country is Natalie’s ramonda part of the commemoration?

Hints:

2 starts with Pe…. 3. I.D. 5. Time of day 6 Had worst WW1 casualties as % of population

Veterans Day, Peonie, Independence after 123 years in 1918, 1939 not to interrupt war prep, had to be in the dark, Serbia.

Monday [10 and 11]

(1207) Afternoon all. (1258)

 

11. Some sort of op ed

Did the reveille, two minutes silence, rouse thing around 11 a.m., parents’ photos out, candle, usual thing.

Was thinking though … just how long do we commemorate all these things? We commemorated Agincourt not long ago, you’ll recall. 1066? Looking at my parents today, would have been over 100 … I’m thinking it needs to be till the day I die … it just seems meet and right.

What would they think of their son today? Was in tight corners many times, was even on route marches, but never in a Uke type meat grinder. I’ve been through two recessions … one in Russia in 98, one here in 08, only twice unemployed … nothing like the hell my parents saw … they did all they could to spare me hell on earth.

Anyway, we have sunshine today, you have a good one now. Washing to hang out. Am concerned about quite a few friends, more than usual … both men and women but esp. women … the gals seem to be going down with the lurgy sommit awful … Julia not wel, I can name many others, the darlings.

Warmth at all times, liquids, nutrients, keep the body moving, heaps of sleep … you know the score. Prayers for others, them for you.

10. Housekeeping at NOWP and here

Going to separate “Housekeeping”, which is cyber and blog things, from Some Sort of Op Ed, which might be reflections on life or the past week.

Housekeeping

Remember OoL is ggl, these things are happening more and more … some laddies and lasses have issues on other platforms. Way too complicated to sort out exactly where the glitches are. In some cases, it’s the platform protecting me … I’m on normal security, not high.

At HQ here, I’m getting spam but not a lot … Akismet’s doing its thang. All up, compared to many colleagues, acquaintances, friends, we’re doing all right. Watch trigger words though … it is a factor.