(0428) Morning all you nightowls or earlybirds. (0529)

 

5. It started with some banter with the Venerable DAD

… who pointed out that soon he’ll be nonagenarian and that we wimpy youngsters don’t have the stamina they did. I gave some “banterish” retort but then started to think it through … then started exploring the second half of the 30s onwards culture, houses, work, dental care etc.

Yesterday I discussed it with someone the other side of my age and was surprised that he experienced some of what I did too … I thought it was far better in his day. From my day … no anaesthetic at dentist visits but an ether cloth over your nose if bad cutting was needed … polio … twin concrete tubs with wringer for washing, outside loo in the backyard, Merchurochrome, cod liver oil … we could go on in a Four Yorkshiremen way but I’m thinking it was maybe 30% of the privations DAD had.

Thinking about it … just past midway through the 30s, Depression time, then war, evacuation, rationing … we also had the tailend of that last one. Primitive heating. But comparatively, it was hell on earth for DAD compared to today and yet I bet he didn’t feel deprived … just went out to play after school until the blitz.

I looked at that key set of years 1955 to 59 and wondered really why so raucous just then? Why the West Side Story stuff? The James Dean, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane posturing? The Peter Gunn? Why the seaside riots, e.g. Mods v Rockers? I did the Rocker bit when I was 11 … slicked back hair, greasy with Brylcreem … then realised I was way out of time by a decade. Went crewcut thereafter, well before the skinheads.

So yes, DAD was 70% right on that crack I’d say. As for men during the war, plus the Landgirls etc. … they were genuinely toof … and that time is almost upon us again … Starmer drones, the maniac, attacking Vlad’s home.

4. Interesting that they’d target this lot

Apart from the Blue Orders (the lowest three or “entry” levels), the Masons have been largely Illumined at the chessboard hooded ceremony levels for hundreds of years … the n1 enemy in those days were the Moose Limbs. Venezia comes into the equation too. But another enemy are the Catholic Knights, quite powerful.

So, who is behind this move on the Masons? The Moose Limbs?

3. Steve at 1248

• The Daycare Pirates of Somalia – Mainstream Media Calls It Islamophobia
• Tim Walz Lashes Out Blaming “White Supremacy”
• Former Trump Spox Liz Harrington Calls Out DOJ — Demands “Real Accountability” for Minnesota
• Ukraine’s “War Party” Provocation Targets Putin, Tests US-Russia Rapprochement
• Sasha Latypova: The Mysterious Death of Prof. Francis Boyle Before Testifying
• Cardiology is improving, focusing on inflammaton, not just cholesterol, to stop heart disease
• AI will eat itself (JH: See upcoming post on the subject of X)
• The Beginning of the End for Europe’s Old Security Order: Towards a Geoeconomic Architecture Emerging from the Washington – Moscow Dynamic
• Much more.

2. Why such appallingly low quality people in power?

1. DAD at 1248

a) The Trump Administration is considering the possibility of sanctioning judges or security officials if measures were to be taken against its European protégés, such as the AfD in Germany, or the RN in France, according to revelations by the weekly magazine Der Spiegel….

b) As a reminder, the Metz City Council, on Monday, July 15, 2024, decided to grant a subsidy of half million Euros to the Great Mosque of Metz association to contribute to the financing of the building’s construction….

c) The events in Brussels at the end of this year confirm what many of us have been warning about for years: The EU is sleepwalking into a self-inflicted historical catastrophe that bears a closer resemblance to the collapse of the French monarchy than any other event in modern history….

d) Arcom, the French broadcasting regulator [= Ofcom in GB], has issued a formal notice to CNews, projected to be the leading news channel in 2025, for comments made on air regarding immigration and Islam during two segments that could incite discrimination, according to a decision published Tuesday in the Official Journal….

e) I leave you with Hélène’s viewpoint on BB. Brigitte Bardot was more than just a beauty: she was an allegory of France.

(1604) Near evening.

 

23. Had a message through

Things seem unchanged about OandP’s good lady, no message there … there was a message from Amfortas’s son. No detail but I’m gathering from it that he may be in a better place now. I’ll report when I can. IYE look after yourself. All of you too.

22. Ta, gentlemen, for the additional incoming

Just skimmed Novgorod and Silver, need to click through one of Steve’s. Almost crashing, night night.

21. Did Two Tier try to top Vlad?

CLICK5: Swans & Spiders…

20. Parking fines in the UK

All jolly good fun.

Well I wasn’t Expecting That

19. Moosh corner

18. Steve corner at 1248

Hearts of Oak

Hearts of Oak: Dr Gavin Ashenden – Worship, Warning, and Protection: Events Following the Birth of Christ

War Room

• Bradley Thayer: China Wins If We Make This Strategic Commitment To [The] Ukraine. Xi Jinping Is Going To Be Dancing In The Street If We Do This

• Ben Harnwell: a 15-year “US security guarantee” is a terrible blow to the America First movement

• Curt Mills: Zelensky Doesn’t Sound Like A Man Ready To Make A Deal. Calling Putin Evil Isn’t Pre-Handshake Talk Unless We’re Missing Something

• Bishop Strickland explains his famous declaration that Pope Francis had “usurped St Peter’s Chair”

17. June Slater

16. James Melville

 

(1139)(1159)

 

The only hope for the west now

… is through Zoomer thinkers finally getting Zoomer sheeple to see, using the available tech of the day.

Melissa Kristin is 37, born 1988, just a tad earlier tham mid Millennial. The acting in the clip is appalling, she’s trying to be evenhanded, calling Millennials “mouth running off” and Zoomers “silent” … the clip is about that. Actually, the Zoomer has zero time for the Millennial … the Kardashian, La La Land, Me Me Me Wokerati generation of Millennialism … and the obvious question is … who allowed Millennials to get like that?

Zoomers see a society collapsing around them … some are finally waking up.

(1059) Guess what it’s time for again. (1113)

 

15. Labour’s pitbulls turn on them

14. Permawar for an EU with communist Britain as part of it

13. They were all involved

12. Women’s wear

11. Bad player Soetoro again

 

The narration a few seconds in sounded like an upper primary or junior secondary lesson but became bearable, plus there was no music drowning it out, another positive. Not a bad topic, given that if we find ourselves soon enough in barracks or cells … how would we fare? I’m thinking we’re a tad soft these days, though body memory might return.

And once again, as is my wont, I’m coming back to generations. Given that one of our patron droppers here is coming up to the big nine oh next year, he is clearly from late Depression times, through the war and ration books, through to the supposed nirvana after that.

I’m from that nirvana but also saw the last of the austerity, then good times, yes, then the Gen X “lost-chn” gen after that. Also, in Russia, I was at the tail end of Soviet austerity, saw the “good times” roll in, the chn become obese.

(0839) Morning all … work day here, with blogging and it seems … sleeping. Which will prevail? So far … sleeping. (0850) Eating?

 

10. Moosh corner

9. These two in congress will surely be getting theirs

8. Sit-rep

7. This needs a full post on why I’m glad to be out of teaching

… but you know what I’d write. Question is if that stance washes in 25/26 or whether we need to be more proactive … and how?

6. Minnesota continues

(0413)(0432)

 

5. Seed oils

4. DAD at 1247

It’s the same the whole world over. isn’t it a bleeding shame…….

a) French politicians were divided today over how to pay tribute to the late Brigitte Bardot, who despite her screen legend courted controversy and convictions in later life with her far-right views.

b) The left-wing Irish government has vowed to push for the European Union to prohibit the use of anonymous social media accounts….

c) Iranian traders and shopkeepers staged a second day of protests Monday after the country’s currency plummeted to a new record low against the US dollar.

d) At least 15 federal inmates in Canada have died by state-sanctioned suicide, classified as euthanasia, since 2018, according to newly released government records….

e) “Brussels doesn’t believe its policies have failed: it believes you are the problem”. “There is no genuine desire for public debate….

3. This one needs bringing to account, as with Fauci

2. Steve at 1247

JH: I have to keep asking with Steve as I think he misses the housekeeping posts. So, again, it would help immensely if a line did not open with a single talking mark as it skews the compose page and makes it impossible to copy and paste a whole line.

It’s partly a WP thing but also an ipad thing, plus Apple have these things sticking out, e.g. opaque arrows, which cover text. With double talking marks … ” … it does not happen. Single though gums things up.

• Russian Officials Agree With Trump That Ukraine Peace Deal Is Very Close
• Trump Confirms First Land Strike Against Drug Facility in Venezuela
• Gen. Michael Flynn Issues Urgent Open Letter to President Trump – Says “We The People demand Accountability!”
• Bad outcome for Zelensky. Trump; No ceasefire, return to Alaska deal. Estonia, no Russia threat
• [The] Ukraine Calamitous Month; Mirnograd Huliaipole Rodinska Stepnogorsk Fall; Trump Dumps Zelensky
• U-turn after two years: Munich Security Conference gives up exclusion of AfD politicians
• Christians are Disappearing from the Middle East – And the West Is Doing Nothing About It
• The UK Health Care Disaster is a Cautionary Tale for America’s Rising Class of Armchair Socialists

1. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/12/somaliland.html

(1353) Some nice things happening to counterbalance the bad … afternoon all.

 

23. Just saw this

In 1959, Volkswagen Beetle cars offered a coffee maker as an optional extra.

pic.twitter.com/vcyglr1oMc

— Science girl (@sciencegirl) December 29, 2025

22. (2025) Phew, just awoke after snooze, another coming up

I really do crash here about 1700, try to stay awake for Steve, IYE, other chaps but then just crash. Please forgive any neglect after 1700 … just incapable. Prayers please for those we know are in need … your folk too at home. Vigilance, chaps and chapesses. Ok, signing off, unherdables … health fine, just zonking.

21. Steve corner

Iran

This Vox Ummah is death cult news:

… while Jodie Cohen is a good Jewish name:

War room

• Mike Lindell: These Somalian Fraudsters In Minnesota Have Infiltrated Every Government Welfare Service Available!

• Rosemary Jenks: We Have Been Importing People Who Are Not Used To The Government Being Benevolent And Handing Out Money. Of Course They’re Going To See How Much They Can Squeeze Out Of Government Programs!

• Bannon: We Have A Somalian Crime Syndicate Here On American Soil! We Must Deport It ASAP, Starting With Ilhan Omar!

• Bannon: We Need A Ten-Year Moratorium. No Immigration Whatsoever! We Can’t Do This Incrementally! Get Rid Of H1B’s Today, Ship Them All Home, And Give Those Jobs To American Citizens!

20. What a misogynist this honey must be ☺️

19. Moosh corner

18. Just a reminder

17. The Bad Enough Tories are some of the bad news

16. Some of that good news

 

The year before Lord of the Flies and JFK … uncanny how space women look like californian actresses…

“I actually found this to be a decent movie. Yeah it suffered from some silliness and goofy stuff like the scene where they space walk to repair their ship and their tool of choice? A wrench, ha!! However, from the point where the astronaut landed on the asteroid it was pretty good. The story was well written for the most part and the acting wasn’t that bad. The girls were really cute and if i had landed there, id probably stay and enjoy myself!!! This truly played much like an episode from star trek, with another actor subbing for captain kirk. Some of the special effects on the asteroid were pretty decent, especially when the main character shrank in his space suit. The bad alien crashing rocks into his invisible prison out of frustration was pretty cool too, but the alien itself was kinda stupid looking. There were some genuinely touching scenes: the astronaut saying the Lord’s Prayer while he floated helplessly doomed in space, and the final goodbyes there at the end. This was released in 1961 so maybe that explains why its a notch or two better than the typical fifties stuff. I actually enjoyed this one. I’m sure audiences in 1961 weren’t let down. Heck they might have caught this one and The Three Stooges Meet Hercules at a drive in double feature. Cool!!!!”