(0515) Good morning, good start time, rested, augurs well. (0559)
5. Stupid young college-aged girl called out by JC
Really wish I could find that Sherlock Holmes tale again … basically, new client, his/her daughter (college or debut age) has got herself involved with a bad playboy in high places … her mind is defiant and all the right people try to show her but the fox has already prepared her with his own version of the truth.
Holmes realises the only way to break the spell is to show her he’s been doing the same with other girls. Now … which year was it written in? Girls never, ever change … nature of the beast.
4. Not sure I’ll run these as feature shorts
… too easy to reply:
a. Coz it’s a s***h*** (excuse the language) b. Coz it’s s*t*nism writ large.
[Black] Ohio Woman Who Fatally Stabbed 3-Year-Old [White] Boy in Grocery Store Parking Lot Sentenced to Life in Prison without Parole (JH: Finally some justice)
Scientist Who Discovered Species of Butterfly Names it After Iryna Zarutska to Ensure She is Never Forgotten (JH: And Lola? Lee Rigby?)
Plus the Lola and Ruby Moir gang in Scotland jailed.
15. Housekeeping
Have hit the hay and am typing from the pillow, prior to crashing. If I start posting middle of the previous night, but no respite during the day (usually a snooze), then I crash about now. Oh couldn’t I “just” this, “just” that? With the best will in the world, post meds … no, sorry … zzzzzzz.
Now, I’ve no idea if Steve has posted yet at NOWP because it involves a signing in for me these days … a new one they’ve dropped on me as they tighten overall control. To Steve, IYE, other chaps, our two girls … lovely to see Isilme again, I know where Toodles is and am in touch too … just wanted to say plenty of appreciation of what you wish to drop on us, no expectations though, no pack drill.
Many of you are in a similar boat to me, many though are still too young and fit, thank goodness.
Delighted to see the raped girls getting the confidence to speak out, see the groundswell across the country … brilliant. On the other hand, that deathculter in NYC and stupid AOC going mental in front of a microphone, ditto other silly bints saying they’d voted for the (alleged) killer … WTAF is wrong with their brains? Zero concept that they’re in line to be raped and murdered too. Xavier good too.
Anyway, enough of all that, have a relaxing evening and nightzzzzzzzzzz…..
“Chayley” (John Gregson) comes from good Yorkshire stock where thrift and prudence are the order of the day. That attitude is thrown to the wind, though, when on a visit to London he encounters the glamorous and charming nightclub entertainer “Ruth” (Diana Dors).
Now she knows when she is onto a good thing, as soon has this poor lad hook line and sinker. Despite his upbringing, and the ghost of his father warning him of the coming dangers, he is powerless – he is addicted to her, and soon she has come to his town, they are engaged, and she is looking for a nice big house.
Can he see reason before it’s too late? Is she really quite such a gold-digger? For the first half hour, when it’s just the two at the top of the bill, the film – and the dialogue – work quite well. You can see her manoeuvring the vulnerable but proud young man and it looks like both are having fun.
For the rest of this, though, it really is just a bit of a stereotype-fest that runs through the joke as quickly as she would run through his inheritance. It’s always good to see Ernest Thesiger (the doting “Lord Dewsbury)” and there are a few lively cameos but not enough to sustain this after about an hour when the writing is on the wall for a rather tame solution that lets it all fizzle out.
The moral might be, though – always check your restaurant bill!
In each case, match the second half of the romantic quote with the first.
John Donne 1595: Love built on beauty …
Phineas Fletcher 1614: Love is like linen often changed …
Andrew Marvell 1681: Had we but world enough, and time …
Charles Dickens 1848: If you could see my legs when I take my boots off …
Thomas Hardy 1876: A lover without indiscretion …
a…This coyness, lady, were no crime; b…Is no lover at all; c…You’d form some idea of what unrequited affection is; d…Soon as beauty, dies; e…The sweeter.
(0821) Morning all … awful out there. Short hiatus after this, maybe even until elevenses but let’s see. (0827)
Of swedes, apples and Isilme
On Wednesday I went to the pop up pantry and got a very large swede! I took a photo of it next to a grapefruit so you can get the scale of it. It’s almost the size of my head. I’m not sure how on earth I’m going to cut it up to cook it. Perhaps my Beloved will have to take the chainsaw to it…
Our next door neighbour (in her nineties) and her daughter (in her sixties) asked if they could have some of our apples a week or two back and I said yes, go and help yourselves. They very kindly picked all our apples.
Actually, that’s not true, they picked all the eating apples and about a quarter of the Bramleys. Two crates of Bramleys and one of eating apples (pippins). The ladies said they thoroughly enjoyed their afternoon of apple picking, and they kindly cleared up the garden a bit in the process! There are still Bramleys left on the tree. Probably another two or three crates worth – I kid you not.
Today Beloved is trying to get a garden shredder to work to see if he can quickly shred apples to make cider. We don’t like cider, so it will end up as cider vinegar, which is really good for you.
Why is a member of British royalty performing investitures in the USA, apart from the fact hes the “Grand Prior”…
JH: From the get-go, this one was antiChristian, despite any regalia or maltese cross, it also brought in elements of the earlier post Mon 2, plus this look at the Anglican schism and conservatives finally waking up.
His premises in that argument are fraught. He says, rightly, that “conservatives” in the old sense were moderate, go no further, keep dialogue open with the other side, hence CK on enemy territory … Woke universities … while the other side, the Wokerati, hate conservatives with a passion, want them expunged, just as the death cult is committed to doibg with all … Wokerati through to conservatives.
There was another youtube about five types you never help, if Christian. One of those is the compromised, as it inevitably corrupts over time … the other is the enemy sworn to destroying you. Officially forgive but be on alert and have your defences at hand nonetheless.
The argument the Wokerati can then put is that the new toleration-of-evil-intolerant … us … are just as uncomprosing as the Wokerati are.
I’m afraid this argument does hold water. This blog itself is Woke-intolerant, so are we not as bad as the Wokerati? Just a different camp? Each camp utterly convinced of their own first principles!
If you accept that, then the proof can only be in subsequent events following one side or the other having the hegemony. The current is the globopsycho, marxist, deathcult hegemony with all the paedo, invasion, rapes, penury etc. versus the old hegemony with “home is your castle”, job, house, car, family etc.
Even there, the perps of the current hegemony are never going to admit their folly … ever. Their solution is to expunge us … what’s our solution?
Thanks, Steve, just watched a bit late for 26 Aug, 1346, but there it is. I enjoyed it but there was much criticism in comments:
Oh I don’t know … thought the footage of the event quite good for 1346. Naturally, after Crecy, one reads Agincourt and by degrees … the Siege of Orléans … which in turn involves Jeanne la Pucelle.
The Rothschilds own Europe (including Britain) and Europe does whatever their owners want done. A significant majority of (((tribe))) across the West – 70-75% – yearn for the “good old days” of their Messiahs – Lenin and Stalin – ad intend to get there BAMN. And that is on BOTH side of the Pond. Hence Rabbis for Mamdani, Soros, and Sanders.
They screech “NAZI! NAZI! NAZI!” and call all who oppose them “Hitler”. But none dare mention Stalin, even though he made Hitler, Tojo, and Mussolini COMBINED look like angels in comparison. And they ignore the foulest Nazis of all – the Ashken!
4. Steve at 1184
Massive Purchases of Riot Gear Suggest Antifa Backed by Major Dark-Money Organization
UK Government’s Grooming Gangs Inquiry Faces Crisis: Resignations, Cover-Up Claims, and Calls for Accountability
Ireland Elects Far-Left President in Landslide Victory — Says Her Priority is to ‘Existential Threat’ of Climate Change
Michael Shellenberger Suggests the Growing Rift on the Left Could Spell the END of the Democrat Party
The hidden driver of aging: How your stress hormone predicts your healthspan
Governments Keep Letting AI Make Decisions & It’s Already Going Wrong (JH: Coz it’s Machine Learning, fed by humans, not AI, plus conscienceless choices)
Much more.
3. DAD at 1184
a) Politics in France continues its crazy path. A day off this Sunday in the National Assembly, but the pressure remains. Socialist Party leader Olivier Faure continues to raise the specter of a new vote of no confidence…..
b) … but the French Senate [Upper House] puts in the boot. The Senate, controlled by the right and centrists, will “reinstate the pension reform” as part of the review of the 2026 Social Security budget…..
c) Moody’s maintained its rating for France but changed its outlook from “stable” to “negative.” Fitch and S&P Global lowered their ratings by one notch. A critical situation, according to the Governor of the Banque de France.
d) Two men were arrested on Saturday, October 25, 2025, following the theft of jewelry from the Louvre Museum in Paris on October 19, 2025. They were taken into custody for organized theft and criminal conspiracy.
Was thinking to m’sel at the above time … now what exactly do Andy and other nightowls need at the bottom of their glasses in the middle of the night … I know, a learned youtube on Manichaeism and Gnosticism during the time of Augustine … a full blown debate over Original Sin and Original Guilt, stemming from naughty Adam in the Garden of Eve-den.
Yep, that’s just the thing, just the ticket, to take the night owls through to brekky and DAD’s report from Macronland. So here tis, over a new cuppa coffee:
Free will v Determinism
Firstly free will, as expressed in John 3:16 … we can all be redeemed, we are responsible for our choices as adults and what flows from those. We are not born depraved but innocent, and from that moment, in infancy, are influenced by our situation, e.g. born to a prostitute or raped girl, liable to be drawn into that lost life unless something happens to break you out of it. Or born into a sanctified marriage and therefore trad family upbringing, along with its values.
The Determinists say you cannot escape, therefore the wrong you do is the fault of your bad childhood, therefore you are locked into cycles forever, plus your children’s children. Blacks start talking reparations. In “Christianity”, it means you cannot escape Adam’s and Eve’s sin, you are born depraved, plus it’s predetermined already who is saved and who is not, so no point even trying.
Complication here for free willers is that there are such things as congenital defects and today, that’s especially so with jabbees, those mothers who took the death vaxxes because the hospital pressured or fooled them into protocols. Free willers say yes, that may well be so … your parents transfer much to you but you can fight to minimise, to manage, plus you can be redeemed. How? Well a Christian says through faith that you can be. On the basis that a Certain Person died on a Cross 2000 years ago in order to do away with all other sacrifices.
The Determinist asks, sardonically … oh, so you can do all sorts of sinning during the week, then on Sunday restate your faith, you now say a few hail Marys and you’re free to start sinning again on Monday, are you? If the priest tells you so. The free willer says there are consequences to all your actions, choices. But you can be redeemed through remorse and atonement. Providing you believe you can. If you don’t believe you can, then you won’t be.
I have something to add. I’ve always seen that model of the upwards road and everyone strewn along that road at different levels of understanding as a good model of our path through life. So why would I argue with someone halfway back down the road?
Ah, says the contrary me … so some sort of “special knowledge” of someone further up the road makes them somewhat druidic? Priestly? Superior, as yet hidden knowledge?
The reply to that is that everyone knows more on some things than others, and others know more than I do on other things. People who’ve studied the bible in fine detail know vastly more about it than I do.
But the idea of a pointy hatted clerical conclave further up the road determining my fate like a college of cardinals, a synod or a Masonic Temple of the Illumined, a guild, keepers of the Secret Knowledge … sod off with that idea. In that youtube just now were two chaps, both with a certain knowledge and respectful of the other … that’s it. Hopefully, after their discussion, both have increased that knowledge and will again the next day, in a process of constant learning, until finally shuffling off.
Charlie Kirk’s idea was that it’s never too late, that you have free will to reject what is destructive and forced on you by a college of baddies, e.g. academic staff who themselves only keep their jobs because they obey some other ideological compliance or be destroyed. Incidentally, in a second youtube, I saw that CK was given to wearing flak jacket. If that were so and others knew it, then to kill him, you’d need to hit head or neck, rather than chest or arms.
There were obviously many priestly castes who didn’t like his redemptive message … that those kids did not need to be brainwashed by priestly castes such as govt, globopsycho, the Fabian caste, the deathcult imams or zionists for the truth … Ardern’s single point of truth … they could read the bible for themselves … Gideon had an idea like that … they could reject the moral malaise, the hookup culture, inflated pride, ego, entitlement etc. etc. … the cult of victimhood as well. Big bucks of course.
Cultleaders would not like that, having expended so much money, time and effort to hook entire generations.
Determinists like the Manichaean gnostics, with their dualism of doing equal amounts of good and evil to keep things “balanced” … hence Gates’s “philanthropic” work, as with every other alleged mass murderer of means … these are damned from birth in their eyes and as Svali and others mentioned … they start ensuring their progeny’s depravity and misery from the womb onwards, intergenerationally. No one gets out alive.
The sort of Christianity Augustine had started teaching in the middle period was redemptive, very John 3:16. Forces got to him though in his later period, obviously, and he returned to Manichaeistic gnosticism blended in, in order to corrupt the message. Hence Calvinism.
There’s one more factor for now … trad is a bulwark against “change for the sake of change”. If you’ve had a system which by and large worked, without the situation we see out there now, then the key tenets you obviously protect. To overturn it, you need a new, corrosive, compulsory ideological straitjacket, imposed from above, vast resources expended to impose it, draconian punishments for resisting … and all the while, the new stasi congratulate each other on being so tolerant. Douglas Adams summed it up with the robots of Krikkit … extermination of all life forms not Krikkit.
Whilst dedicated to soft live, peace and mutual understanding … so sod off, you others … you’re all going to die.
