The question has to be: “why did every Government exaggerate the dangers of Covid 19 and insist we all took the jabs?” Follow the money.
20. Alabama-Georgia game 0030 Sunday BST
The Harris campaign is going to troll Trump at tonight’s huge Alabama-Georgia game with a banner mocking Trump for refusing to debate Kamala Harris. This comes as Trump will be in attendance for the game. This is going to be epic.
19. Rosie Duffield MP quits the Labour Party
“The sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice are off the scale. I am so ashamed of what you and your inner circle have done to tarnish and humiliate our once proud party.”
18. Meanwhile
17. Helene report at midday our time, from NBC
What we know about Helene
Helene has weakened to a post-tropical cyclone and is moving north, bringing what the National Hurricane Center called “catastrophic, historic flooding” over parts of the southern Appalachians.
At least 42 deaths across the Southeast have been reported as a result of the storm.
At 11 p.m. ET, the storm was about 115 miles east-northeast of Paducah, Kentucky, and moving west-southwest at 8 mph. It had maximum sustained winds of 30 mph.
The storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 4 storm Thursday night at 11:10 p.m. Emergency services were rescuing people trapped by fast-rising waters.
More than 3.8 million customers are without power across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Illinois amid fears that outages could last weeks.
16. Steve has war room at 823
… and Andy has two exciting geo-eco-political pieces there too.
15. Cunningly disguised Sat-Mat
Worst film ever, ever made?
For anyone that wants to make movies, Plan 9 is a must see. Not for it’s lush style, great dialogue, fabulous production design, nor for the compelling performances given by the players. It doesn’t have any of that. What it does have though, is poor production design, continuity gaps you can drive a space shuttle through, and writing that’s so bad, it’s amazing anyone had the nerve to show it. That is what makes it a must see.
Ed Wood, Jr. was not talented, but he was determined. He did something that many extremely talented people have not done. He got it released. He wrote it, produced it and directed it. When his star, Bela Lugosi, died during filming, he still finished it. Not just this one either, he put out several films, and not one of them is any good.
So for all of you aspiring Scorseses or Spielbergs, when the world gets you down, and you just don’t know how you can get it done, when you feel like you’ve lost it, pop in “Plan 9”. I bet you’ll feel better.
(1229) Afternoon, chaps and chapesses. There are posts at UHC and Jstack. (1257)
13. Moosh corner
12. Power to the people
11. The power of the meme
10. No link on this
… you’ll get an idea where to find it:
9. Vaxx
Chap at TCW put a remarkably short piece, with link and my first thought was muddled … why not run the article?
More measured thinking told me Kathy was wise, in this fascistic country under Starmer and Rowley, to do it that way. See, the thing is that she continues to put out her content.
Rep. Eli Crane Warns President Trump Against Returning to Butler
Man from 3:
ICE Report Reveals Over 13,000 Murderers, 15,000 Rapists, and 425,000 Convicted Criminals Allowed Into America by Biden-Harris Open Border
Man from 2:
Zelensky to leave US without permission to strike deep into Russia
Man from 1:
Entire UK Labour Government should be thrown out and banned from public office
7. Penseivat at 822:5b
I understand that a shed load of Labour MPs, who either voted for, or abstained over, the cancelling of the winter fuel allowance, are requesting the heating in their offices be turned up, as it’s too cold for them. If this is true, it shows the hypocrisy of this government.
On the same topic, my mate down the pub suggests that pensioners, especially those in Labour constituencies, all gather together in council office foyers, or even constituency offices …
6. To post or not to post
… that is the question … whether tis nobler in the mind to say it … or whether to shut it because certain good people close to me are part of the species, biologically … the good part, natch, nothing like those mentioned below … plus it’s written by a man, Neon Revolt, who does not like this demographic at all but like most men, does love the best of the species … largely on our side, natch.
The question then arises … am I a man or a mouse? In failing to address this egregious lot who’ve always been nothing but trouble, like certain invaders … is that pathetically weak of me, fearing that our good members of the species here might be miffed?
So here tis … in two parts:
a. This is a problem.
You see, the reason we have elections is because they are a cheaper proxy than war. In elections, the biggest side wins, which would probably be the case with war too. But in elections, no one dies, and you don’t have to spend money on weapons etc. So it’s a good proxy.
However, it doesn’t work when one side is significantly weaker than the other, such as when women are on one side and men on the other. In this case, even if the women outnumber the men and would win an election, the women would not win a war, and so the proxy is no longer an adequate proxy.
And if we were to switch from elections to war, it would be one side that is mostly women against another side that is mostly men. Men would win easily with very few casualties.
So why would men consent to be ruled by elections when they could more easily win a war? This is why women never should have been allowed to vote. It nullifies elections as proxies for war, and we end up having to have war instead.
Uh huh.
b. Kamala literally **is** a Boomer.
Go to her rallies. You will see it lined, wall-to-wall with Boomer cat ladies. I would go so far as to say her voting base is almost exclusively Boomer women – aka AWFLs. Stop deluding yourself.
These are awful people, the absolute spoiled, entitled detritus of humanity willing to condemn all of us to a thousand years of darkness because they want a “fellow vagina-haver” to have the nuclear football.
My own feeling about it is a quandary … they are precisely the ones who wormed their way into key positions or were parachuted … they support all those Haitian cat eaters, the wrecking of towns, families, the murdering of full term and beyond babies … and yet they see themselves as kind and compassionate.
Whereas we, in our curmudgeonly way, do not support such satanic things. Go figure.
5. Oz Grand Final (Premiership), MCG
Had forgotten, saw, looked into it, surprised.
Last week, some might recall, the Lions held off the Cats and they did this from 5th place, almost unheard of with the League’s algorithm of top four, bottom four in the finals (playoffs).
120 to 60 points it seems.
My thoughts? Well both Swans and Lions are displaced “development” teams from the 80s when the competition went truly national. The Swans had been the “Lakeside” team:
I once used to sail about 50 metres from the corner of that ground, so I’ve affection for the Swans. They were then displaced to Sydney. No affection for Sydney but the team … yes. Interestingly, they had a longtime hold over the Cats, the Swans did … winning many encounters. I’m thinking part of the reason is it’s tough to hate them, most people have affection for them.
I also have affection for the Lions because they were originally Fitzroy in Melbourne and the colours were maroon and navy. No one hated them except mongrel teams … I was once at a game at the Cats’ ground and there were families in the outer … goodness me … snacking and handing out cups of tea. Both team’s supporters intermingled … I mean, really! They were near impossible to hate, the Lions … displaced to Brisbane.
So how did I feel, seeing the score just now? Slight disappointment … the Swans deserved it but also pretty amazing of a team from 5th … they deserved it.
Either way, the mongrel teams I detest were not part of the playoffs.
… then look him up, he’s a hoax-finder, anti-Zionist, not solid enough to build a case on, any more than is Alex Jones or those clobbering him on the other deep govt side. More broadly, is Jones a fake? I’ve read and seen much on’t but nothing convinces either way.
Seems to me that we’re in a sort of bubble of never knowing … how to resolve it? Actually travel there to the site, seemingly now demolished? What will that prove, any more than the Ground Zero rubble, now well removed from the 911 site?
Reminds me of many conundrums, from JFK to the McMartin preschool tunnels to David Kelly (clever fiend, Blair). Bottom line is “no one can prove finally, one way or the other” and no amount of blunt, convinced, dogmatic statement is going to alter that.
Lastly for now, it reminds me of The Thirty-Nine Steps (the Buchan book from 1915) and the character Hannay mentions, a South African Peter Pienaar, appearing in a few Hannay stories of the time and illustrating the whole thing about plausibility.
This continues at OoL … Peter Pienaar and Richard Hannay.
2. The Daily Sceptic (blogrolls)
2c above (meaning the Thueringian parliament) reminds me of A Man for all Seasons (Bolt) and the way More placed great faith in The Law. Bolt had (my memory is vague) one of the churchmen regret pursuing the King’s interest with zeal but not God’s (can’t remember if Wolsey or Cranmer).
1. DAD at 823:1
a) The new French Minister of Higher Education and Research is not exactly making the scientific community happy, due to his positions on hydroxychloroquine and homeopathy …
b) What does a student put into his school satchel these days? A calculator, pens, books………… and a hammer ! The future of France is in hands such as these …
c) While France mourns Philippine … a march in support for her may have a counter march, by the left, in support of immigrants.
d) Wise words from an old lady.
On the occasion of her 90th birthday, Brigitte Bardot gave an interview.
An excerpt……..
“There are so many people of good will and deeply believing people who are no longer practicing. So many churches are closed… We can’t even go in to say a prayer. It’s tragic. When I think that Notre-Dame burned down. It’s as if we were living in a satanic, negative and destructive era.”
……
JH: Symbolically, looking at Brigitte, at DAD, then at those of that vintage in France, then returning to Brigitte … it’s as if Marianne herself, minus the revolutionary, secular trappings, was now ageing and who will now defend her?
I am not that age by a long shot … I try to imagine the world by the time I am that age … if a world still exists … my feeling is the Messiah will have long returned by then. Who was it said that the collapse, when it does come, will be sudden and complete, after a slow descent over a long, termiting, undermining time.
I’m thinking that the vast majority will be still-bewildered, while the usual 10 to 15%, even in enlightened days, will gaze on if still alive, shaking the head but nonetheless welcoming the bloody end. Small consolation that Man, by himself, cannot see a secular solution through the morass. So be it.
(1548) Including quiz if I can stay awake long enough. Nigh nigh all. (2149)
20. Steve at 822:4
Summary now, at 2030. There has to be a starting point in dealing with what we’re facing. It could be anywhere … say Friday 8 or 9 or a couple of yesterday’s but the message is exactly the same … we’re dealing with a level of unprofessionalism in security which is jawdropping … and at the very highest levels … not just with the Woke left parties but with the fake conservatives too … the Uniparty.
This is why 822:4 is so good, though even she was being unprofessional talking over the speechgiver at the start. Once she stops that and even stops his long, rambling speech (at that age), then we start getting somewhere. She has two security-minded professionals on the show there and they lay out the mindboggling danger the enemy has asked us, the ordinary people to accept as “normal”.
Why do we accept it? Combination of decades of lies from fakers, a Uniparty, the way they now get to children and the lack of father in family to teach the chn well, such that no one can prevent the things we’re seeing in schools any longer. We’re dealing, not only with very, very bad players but with a shellshocked, dazed public unable to even contemplate the actual level of danger we’re in …
… real danger, not theatrical hyperbole. The speaker at 822:4, the one at the microphone I mean in the opening clip … he understands … and yet fails to take care of his own security. This is … frankly … bizarre. Part of it is the utter disbelief that all failsafes have in fact already been breached … no one can believe they have been.
For what to ask people … why your incredulity? Why is it so hard to see it? Answer … this is classic enemy action upon us, dear fellow humans and the worst enemies are right there in parlmt, in congress. I mean true enemies, actively acting against us … see 822:5 a and b. Not just rhetoric. How can Steve see it, how can I? Because we were trained to, decades ago. Not only us but we’re just the loud ones.
We can only take series of steps, one by one and the very first is the security of the speaker in 822:4 … yes, this also impinges on our own security here and in Europe. Plus you, I, all our readers … need to start looking our own outer, middle and inner defences, making decisions.
More soon.
19. Toodles
18. Try these
a. Apples and strawberries are actually types of which popular flower?
b. Which not really fruit can baking soda sweeten?
c. Are tomatoes and pumpkins both fruits?
d. Getting to Know You comes from which Rodgers and Hammerstein musical?
e. Name of two famous bald actors?
f. In which musical did she wish to wash him right out of her hair?
g. Which is the second stroke in a piston engine?
17. Afternoon roundup
a. Blogrolls:
b. Sidecar instead, mini-cabin?
c. At least he admits it, the prat:
d. Today’s maths quiz:
e. Not too safe being a man either:
16. Storm report
“Thank God we’re both alive to tell about it,” Rhonda Bell said after a towering oak tree outside her home in Valdosta, Georgia, smashed through the roof.
(1220) Part of this post will be political stories but part is to chat about the set up in the light of a new project tried and ditched. I’m in bed ill-ish, blogging from here on ipad. Slowly. (1428)
15. Ladies for afternoon tea
Only two pictures, interesting, of fellow Xers … very strange poses.
Check the feet:
And with this gal … is it the logo of interest?
14. Steve at 822
Big Tish James is back in the news, she’s the crooked New York Attorney General who swore to “get Trump” when she ran for that office. It’s not looking good (for her) on the appeal of the civil fraud case which ended in Trump being fined $355 million in damages …
JH: more over there, inc. link.
13. The latest project testing here at unherdable holdings limited (of brain)
Time to come clean … a bit. Part of this new fun cybersystem here is we can try out website builds to one side while Unherdables continues to do its thang … most useful indeed, as well as having our own search engine. Plus various failsafes.
Right, so I was playing with Ghost … my mate loaded, I played. Ghost is a perfectly acceptable CMS (content management system) for someone at intermediate coding level. In skiing terms, it’s red intermediate slope, whereas I’m blue/red, which is middling-good, no way expert (black).
Now, Ghost is just raw code and so a nice front page can be set up … except … there are no bleedin’ comments on offer, unless you get one, called discourse, and enmesh it … that takes coding skills. For me … a pain. Ghost simply offered no comments thread. Whaaaa?
Which leads to the difference between comments and forums. Forums (fora) are best for expertise chats, i.e. you need to know the best way … go to ghost forum or “headline” forum (a theme not offered but gettable in zip form) … ask your questions.
Where they fall down, fora, when used as blog comments, is that they need reader registering and logging in every single time. Also, our model at Unherdables is not that you would go through all that each time, just to see if anyone’s posted something interesting on the forum … there’s a certain amount of shooting blind there.
This is why sidebar “latest comments” is so important … you only need one click to get to HQ in the first place, glance at comments, start scrolling down (remember I must make this not endless). If there’s anything at NOWP, I signpost that, ditto with UHC or Jstack (nothing today so far by the way at those two, as I’m ill in bed).
Fora do not allow that, they’re blind entry, by definition, plus ugly … plus the last point now:
Both Jstack and Ghost work on a model where you, let’s say you’re a blogger, want your readers’ money, you just gotta have oodles of it … or else you want your readers all signed up, their details now sellable for hackers. Plus it’s assumed that you, this new blogger, wants maximum traffic, never mind how many bots, trolls, dumbos pile in, riff-raff from anywhere … and they all argue and insult each other.
It’s a totally different model to Unherdables.
Here, we have regulars who know the ways of the others … we don’t want, we don’t need, “blind” traffic … we’re a tavern which a certain clientele find to their taste and the beer’s not bad.
Now, in Ghost, the set up stage involved over half how to sign up to this or that in order to maximise my “message”. Ain’t got no message, I’ve the running of a friendly tavern where discussion sometimes gets willing but mainly it’s an alt-source of checked out news … that’s it. Trolling and baiting would only get in the way … your maniacal thirst for traffic in the new blog models would be a giant turnoff in ours, quite against our blogging model here. Bad enough with substack.
So you see … nearly all “modern” blog sites, blog themes, have lost the plot imho. There was one theme only on offer at Ghost working anything like this one … ditto at WP themes library. No one seems interested in just the main blog big column on the left plus sidebar layout on the right anymore … not snazzy enough for modern cool dudes. Today, you need designer front pages with masses of white space … why?
Look, you come into a blog … you want the first post to start just under the narrow navbar, you want latest comments in the sidebar. The picture there is just a concession to pretty colours. You have an opening window, right? You want to decide interesting or not without needing to scroll. At least … that’s so with me.
And who needs Read More lines? I want to be able to scroll down and see all the day’s doings aqap.
Upshot was I ditched Ghost. Shall I try Joomla or the dozen others? Sorry but seems to me that WP and Blgr are still the best … but there’s a heavy price though, innit? “Community wokery”, though to be fair … WP is far better with this.
12. The unlettered screenshots with no links (roundups)
If you scroll down to the Alex Bath piece on Starmer’s BS, where Alex asked was there any need to comment … no there wasn’t any need … it was all in the screenshot and needed no link.
Now, Denileriverafter has this Brad Paquette posting with just the text below but I’ve run it instead as the link and the link expands as you see below, with everything included:
“..It looks like Gretchen Whitmer leveraged the office of the Michigan Governor to send out disinformation alongside mail-in-ballot applications intended to solicit votes from inactive voter registrations like that of my mother’s maiden name from the 70s.
Gov Whitmer sent a letter to the house my mom grew up in (a hard dem household) claiming that freedom and voting rights are at risk, to then implore the reader to sign a prefilled application allowing a ballot to be sent to seemingly any location, permanently, based upon a signature. ..”
2:21 PM · Sep 23, 2024
It looks like Gretchen Whitmer leveraged the office of the Michigan Governor to send out disinformation alongside mail-in-ballot applications intended to solicit votes from inactive voter registrations like that of my mother's maiden name from the 70s. @GovWhitmer sent a letter… pic.twitter.com/p2T8XCzNPV
Now we get into an argument here … you can click that letter and if on X, enlarge it … but not if not on X. And do you actually need all that extra page space? Because it means it exponentially increases the scrolling required for the reader, given the sheer number of topics we cover.
Plus there’s the time involved. The Brad P link was a one click thing … easy on me, not cumulatively easy on the reader. So both methods have their annoyances. Here’s a mini roundup in our regular style:
I’m suggesting, reader, that as there are no links involved or provided by them, as said links are not necessary in order to get the general idea, then that’s fine, as long as it’s four, max five.
Now, just had a criticism from one our regulars that it’s all sorts of topics in the one post … that apparently does his head in and fair dos if that’s so … sorry me.
The only way I have around that is a separate number for every single item. Fine for the reader … not so good for me and here’s why … every new subheading is purple. There is no autosetting at this WP theme. For every heading, I must turn the ipad into portrait, click select, click bold, click colour bar, click the second panel, click the hexcode panel, use delete to take away the default six letters and numbers, type in six new ones, save …
… which creates a revision with WP … which is a complete “shot” of the post, each one occupying disk space. Multiply that by every sub heading in the post, times the number of posts in the day … you getting the idea?
Now it’s all well and fine saying to me, “I’m not interested in your blog issues, Jimbo.” Fine but they’re still issues for a’ that. And there’s the rub. On the other hand, with DAD and Steve, I do put in a, b, c, d … which does make it easier all round … readers understand that it is a different topic on each issue.
(1015) Cold and windy, had a cold attack again earlier … old codgers need to stay warm 24/7. I have some big screenshots today and other items not for a “roundup”, plus some for a roundup. The eagle-eyed will have noticed a feature post on Old Ireland (colourised) and it loaded fine … all good. Tested it … prats insisted we “sign-in” to their “community” to watch. Goodbye.
11. Moosh corner
… as one does.
10. One of “ours” from a few years back
As Alex says:
9. I’m calling this one inconclusive
I went into the docpetechambers … guy with stetson, possibly connected to Alex Jones … I’d say be careful at this point.
8. The rampant election fraud, the open lying
… the punishing of those calling it out, plus no way to redress it … it really must be addressed by some regulatory mechanism:
7. Views the shadow psychos don’t like
There is something totally out of kilter here when someone is treated this way over a viewpoint … is it really THAT threatening to the PTB?
James….I need to do a follow up but I glanced at something earlier. According to the writer, our area was hit by a storm Sept. 26, 1958. It was a category 4 storm named Helene.
5. Ha ha, like it at TCW
THIS may come as a surprise, but behind the bluster of Donald J Trump is divine inspiration. The remarkable story of the 45th President of the US began long before his birth. The year was 1919 and the setting Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, where one of the worst tragedies in modern British history occurred.A thousand men from the sparsely populated Outer Hebridean terrain of Harris and Lewis (a single island divided by mountains) had died in the Great War. This was a significant loss of labour to the community, which worked hard to survive in a harsh climate. On New Year’s Eve 1918 the surviving soldiers were at last returning from their service on the Western Front.
The enemy, naturally, top of ggl rankings … Reuters etc. … has the first few pages of “debunkings” that Reagan ever said it and both Snopes and some Reagan library woman weigh in, in similar vein, using the old “could not find” gambit. Look the other way, say you searched thoroughly and “reluctantly” could find no reference. Means diddly squat.
Left pundits then move it one stage further and say it was never said by Reagan. Of course that means nothing at all. Samuel Johnson said many things to his scribe, many which made it into print. The Oxford Book of Quotations has many “attributed” quotes and that’s the most honest stance to take, provided of course that you have a name to attribute it to.
In this case, there’s not and so the quote is useless. And as a leftist on Quora asked … who cares about Reagan anyway? That’s really not the issue… the issue is how much of it is true. So what does ggl say?
Thomas Ludwig John D’Alesandro Jr. (August 1, 1903 – August 23, 1987) was an American politician who served as the 41st mayor of Baltimore from 1947 to 1959.
Pelosi’s mother was also active in politics, organizing Democratic women and teaching her daughter political skills.[9] Pelosi’s brother, Thomas D’Alesandro III, also a Democrat, was elected Baltimore City Council president and later served as mayor from 1967 to 1971.[7]
Interesting thing is the link would not embed … kept saying “bad request” … you’re following all this I assume. Now note that this is all still enemy territory … haven’t even touched Gab or X on it yet. The prime issue is … is there prima facie cause to keep investigating the notion of c*rr*pt Balti**** politics … city hall, not unlike Tammany Hall … or is there not the slightest reason to dive more deeply?
On the above, given her own subsequent behaviour, there’s plent of reason to deep dive. For example:
“In July, PaulPelosi, the husband of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, sold over $500,000 of Visa stock, two months before the Justice Department launched an antitrust lawsuit against the credit card company.”
That’s part of it … there was this too:
Now the issue of one day before or two months before is not all that relevant … DJT is taking an enormous risk if it was not one day before, so our stance here is let’s wait till Pelosi sues Trump to see if she has a case or not. If she does, I’m happy to take down the post item here, along with grovelling apology, along with anything nasty I’ve ever written about Baltimore being corrupt … for all we know, it might be a paragon of virtue.
3. DAD at 822:1
a) The news of the rape and murder of 19-year-old Philippine on the outskirts of Paris, involving a Moroccan illegal immigrant who had already been convicted by the courts and was facing deportation, exacerbates the anger of French citizens …
b) Naturally, Guido had a peek at the records. The dates of their luxury £20,437.28 stay? From 29th May 2024 to 13th July 2024. The first GCSE exam was on 9th May 2024, and the final one wrapped up on 19th June 2024. So, not only did Starmer’s so …
c) Migration and crime top the list of topics that Austrians are most concerned about, a newly released survey reveals.
d) Friday funny. Been there. Done it. Felt foolish…
2. Steve drops at 821
a. NATO Prepares Mass Evacuation and Rescue Plans as Senior General Warns of World War 3 with Russia
b. Pittsburgh Public School Issues Statement on Allegedly Forcing 17-Year-Old to Register to Vote Democrat Without Parent’s Consent — Outraged Mother Fires Back in Scathing Response
c. Has [The] Ukraine lost all of its NATO-supplied F-16 fighters? – Levan Gudadze
d. Governments and shadowy organisations secretly collaborate to silence dissent
