At 1006, a long, discursive ramble over many topics … but with certain core arguments along the way. First … a seemingly random set of screenshots, in no particular order:

 

Where to start?

a. Science is not exact … it can change the moment new evidence is authenticated by what most would agree are reasonable tests … provided that there was not suppression of parts of the evidence going on, e.g. with the lawfare on Trump, with the climate bollox, with the covid and spike “vaxx” issue … anywhere largesse and intimidation were involved and even the question Cui Bono requires us to ask who even decides that? What’s their own motivation?

b. Further to that … dogma is a horror in the hands of Councils of this or that, pointy-hatted, be-robed, Paisley type priests … not worth a tinker’s cuss in the light of “a” above. I was reading of the demise of Thomas Cromwell … yikes … when the King is so infirm in his gout-pained mind that he’d listen to Norfolk et al, especially on some obscure doctrinal point … Cromwell was a dead man walking thence onwards. Whom to trust? Honest scholars who admit their bias and try to do a Holmes, opening the mind to real evidence afap.

c. And so to my main point … the totality of evidence. The downside is that if you consider the totality of all that is available … there’s a lot of trolling in there as well, spurious guff inserted just to muddy the waters. Again … whose evidence is it in the first place and cui bono? I was looking back at the Meredith Kercher trials.

What lines were pursued in the Kercher investigations and court cases?

The police plus prosecution took the line of “totality of evidence” as the clincher. The defence, plus who was funding them, plus Berlusconi, the deep state, the US MSM and special interest groups, plus much of the more ignorant English speaking west in love with pretty Knox … took the line that you only need to establish doubt over even one aspect and the whole case, over all aspects, thus falls to the ground.

It’s not completely spurious, that line. In Nero Wolfe, he was unimpressed with one young lady, established she’d lied over one piece of evidence, and therefore concluded that she was thereafter “unreliable” at the very least.

I could mount a case against that though … she may have had a particular motive to lie on the one single point … protecting someone?

Where does that leave us? I think pursuing the totality … much more work than establishing “reasonable” doubt, yet both have a role. The cui bono aspect is crucial imho, every single time.

As for the dating of Jesus’s birth … not vital to be precise … there were different calendars for a start. There was Josephus, plus Tacitus on His existence at least as a local radical … again not conclusive … far more conclusive, as Robinson pointed out, was the rapid development of a Christology and attempts to suppress it, which were on the historical record. There was also evidence, by omission, of a suppression of AD70 in available records today. Small wonder, given the illumined cult in charge of western society.

So September 11th? Why not? It’s just not all that vital to me, as it cannot be 100% established when … and what’s it matter anyway precisely when it was? We know it was moved to December 25th to stiff the pagans.

 

It was not easy deciding which would fill the final pre-Xmas slot, with Cantique Noel tomorrow and Stille Nacht on Christmas Eve. What tipped it was the need for a more adult tone today and up until the day, then have mainly children on Christmas morning itself … the Bulgarian girls plus King’s boys … it just seems to sit better imho.

(h/t prm)

(0756) Wild weather out there as the light comes up pre 8 a.m. … so it’s already started … summer. Can’t open windows here in the 60 mph gusting wind, down around 50 mph low end. (0841)

 

5. We Three Kings

4. Quick look across the pond and elsewhere

New NYPD commissioner, third in a year, some disarray (photo is of a new woman commissioner?), DJT claiming the Panama Canal … well it would have changed my route for sure, had the boat gone ahead, although around the Horn is romantic/wild.

Syria’s central bank gold still there, says Reuters, which is Rothschilds anyway … Chinese infiltration of US politics (tell us something new) … that was Gab today. On X:

Steph: “So, DeSantis wouldn’t appoint Lara to the senate seat. I can understand that would have been a tough sell to the party apparatus. It would have demonstrated a commitment to MAGA had he chosen to do it, but of course he would not.”

Rupert: “I sit in Westminster, listening to politicians bang on about these ‘desperate’ asylum seekers and I just think – am I losing my mind? Look at the pictures, look at the facts.” Easy for you to say in parlmt, Rupert, we get thug plod at the door.

That killer was shouting hello snackbar as he was arrested … overheard.

Aussies furious … sit down, shut up, we voted no. That was their referendum on Aborigines having a special place in parlmt. Oz voted for all equal instead. Our equivalent is Brexit, which Starmer is ditching, thinking no one will notice, the criminal.

Kisin: “Western countries won’t stop suffering terrorist attack after terrorist attack until they let go of their most cherished belief: that all people are equal and that all cultures are the same.”

Chrimbo markets “too dangerous to trade” in the UK. Allo snackbar danger? Not according to Brummieland: “Christmas markets this weekend due to the weather forecast. Expected gusts of high wind have forced Harborne Market to cancel and the Birmingham Artisan Markets’ Kings Heath event will now be a click-and-collect service inside a local shop.”

Nuff for now.

3. Kathy’s newsletter

Hmmmm, girls can be slightly careless or very brave, noble, whichever way you see it, when defending family, country etc and I for one say well done, Kathy, Laura, all the other gals … however, you’re going to be in trouble, sweetheart, not unlike Bernie and others … this is Stasi land now … the demonic creep Granny Harmer will almost certainly send in the Rowley orcs.

So most of the newsletter I could not reprint … full marks to a fine gal who is outraged as we are, but we’re playing it a bit closer to the chest … here she is anyway:

“I am praying for even a bit of the Tom Homan effect to arrive here. He doesn’t suck it up, no siree. If you haven’t seen this Tucker Carlson interview with Trump’s new ‘border czar’, premiered last week and titled ‘Plan to Destroy the Cartel Empire, End Child Trafficking, and Secure the Border for Good’ you have a treat in store. One tough and clear-thinking man. He will shut that border down. We don’t even try.

Which brings me to the full beam of Trump’s headlights thrown across the world. Still a full month away from taking office yet he has already shifted the tectonic plates of politics out of recognition. Not since one Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill back in 1939 have we seen how one man with courage, confidence and certainty can change the political culture and public mood.”

Look, there is simply no place in western society today for morally weak men … I’m sorry but it’s so. And one of our jobs is to make it safer for the ladies … even if they don’t always help the cause themselves. Plus it’s our job to be physically all right, to be able to keep the thing running … I just can’t be doing with men acting like girls.

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2. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-serious-prospect-of-reform-as.html

1. Steve at 915

Four: Magdeburg terrorist*, false flag drones, Slovak PM Zelenski, Salvini, Mandelson, more…..

Three: Johnson/Jeffries deal, Rogan Slams Democrats, Media, Deep State, much more……

Two: Uke sit-rep, missiles exchanged, detail……

One: Spike protein persistence, DoD Controlled Covid Program From the Start, much more…..

*JH: The position of the majority of soc-med pundits, esp. in Germany/Austria, is no way was he genuinely anti-deathcult … so obviously deep state activist and very much deathcult.

(1636) Evening all. Just hung out the washing, no judges among em … two longish items by Tim Monty and Dame Andrea … think they’d best start the morning tomorrow. Meanwhile, lean political pickings for now.

 

12. Ghosts of Chuckles and haiku

Just been reflecting on departed colleagues such as those two gents … plus Ripper … plus Ian … plus Ivan … well we could go on and on. A song for those still hovering somewhere or still upon this earth:

11. Toodles with some thoughtful thoughts

10. Steve at 915

They thought they’d get a whole barrel of pork but ended up with scratchings..

9. Just thought it might be of no interest whatsoever

It’s my compressor readout after reducing or compressing a few items together to go up on the site here. That’s a heck of a saving in disk space. The fact that I never used to do that on ggl … hmmmm, wonder how much that was a factor … the yuge size of the site?

8. Shirley it can’t go on forever

7. Think it’s in Oz by the flag

6. A Labour peerage, eh?

To the daily sceptic? Hmmmm.

 

I’ve run out of politics for now … let’s have a movie:

 

(1104) Morning all. (1104)

 

5. Why do the Augean stables spring to mind?

Suella and The Telegraph:

 

Always scheduled on the winter solstice, this carol … said solstice was on:

As it’s precisely 0930 GMT as I write, it has passed … and I am sad. More as to why below the carol …

In the carol, there’s a mournful or melancholy tone to the earth and nature resting but I for one beg to differ … there is no season so restful, so hushed, so without stress, bar that which humans bring to it … whilst a “proper” perspective, not just in my eyes, might be:

There’s a song I sometimes run at this time, by Richard Thompson, sung by Fairport Convention:

The album was about Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow, and ultimate defeat, but the lyrics do add to the feel of a wintry Britain just as well … requiring of us hearts of oak.

This is my time now, ladies and gentlemen … possibly yours too … a time of intimacy with nature, with our Maker … of reflection … of hush, except for a roaring fire, good cheer, good fayre, bonhomie … I’d vaguely date it from the solstice to maybe January 8 to 10, somewhere there.

(0842) Only just surfacing now, overslept second time. (0924)

 

4. From Capitalists at Work

http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2024/12/polly-toynbee-true-believer-hope.html

“The public career of Polly Toynbee is a continuous source of mirth.  How many socialist saviours has she hitched her wagon to, only to have her hopes crushed.  Owen, Blair, Brown, Patricia Hewitt (sic), … and now Starmer/Reeves.  Always bearing the imprint of the last person to sit upon her / brief her confidentially over lunch.

But before the worm turns & the Great Disappointment strikes, whilst her wagon still hitched there’s nothing she won’t do by way of providing what she thinks of as helpful outrider support.  Here’s the latest – in the Graun, as usual: 

The Waspi women suffered outrageous misogyny, but in poverty-stricken Britain they’re not the top priority. The government is right in its decision not to pay the women up to £10.5bn in compensation … a government [does not] have a financial duty to repair historical sexism.

Polly: calm down!  Starmer & Reeves – just like your former beau Brown – don’t mind lying & brazening these things out.  It just doesn’t bother them!  They don’t need your sophistry.”

3. Andy hisself has delivered a Chrissy present to Unherdable Cats

… Burns’s Ode to a Mouse (915)

I wish Andy a speedy recovery too from feline tooth and claw.

2. DAD is not a well cat this morning

… so he’s taking care of bod biz. I join Andy in wishing him a quick recovery (915).

1. Politicised judges and the politics of envy

HERE

“HOW RICH is too rich? According to judge Kathaleen McCormick, Chancellor of the Delaware Chancery Court, in her ruling on Musk v Tornetta in January this year, the 2018 remuneration package given to Elon Musk for growing Tesla into a 1.2 trillion-dollar company was way too generous. At the same time she appeared to mock his aim to colonise Mars.

McCormack ordered a rescission of Musk’s options package. He was thereby deprived of all compensation for his work of the previous five years. Two weeks ago, despite an overwhelming and larger second vote by shareholders in June in favour of Musk’s remuneration, judge McCormick, a politicised Democrat, stuck to her ruling that Musk should get nothing.”