(1458) Afternoon all! Fab day out there … hope you’re out there enjoying it! (1926) Evening all.

22. Saw this earlier and thought that’s nice

… piece of cake running the song under it:

And that’s where the difficulties began … at every turn, there was an obstacle. First thought was Rod Stewart but then realised I’d never listen to anything by him any more after his DeNiro type entry into political comment of the most egregious type.

Uh huh … well … Tom Waits then, the writer of the song … checked out his whole bio, the Brennan girl, still married, three children, so many years … seems good … except, as he said, he’s almost a caricature now of the dissolute down and out, the despair, the glimmer of hope. It’s just a bit much for me.

Which leaves one version by the respected Everything But The Girl … a nice enough version:

A very nice version actually but the song itself … too good … so good it got under the guard and reminded me of past anguish with ladies … putting them on pedestals, expecting some sort of angelic behaviour when they are, after all, just humans and not always as nice as we dream of them being => heartache for a smart operator who could find his way through … now a gibbering wreck with his heart on his sleeve which is not what any of those females were looking for. Do we need that, I ask?

Quite a song.

21. This is the X version of Ripper

… I promised to run this:

He’s been at this long time now … might be worth checking out.

Our erstwhile Ripper here … have not heard in quite a while.

20. Kapow!

https://gab.com/WorldNetDaily/posts/113153658327097578

19. AKH

This 👇🏻

“For a number of decades we have created a stream of intelligent, well educated, ambitious, socially competent but untalented people by expanding university education. How does this stream of people fulfil their ambitions without taxing the talents they don’t have? For the amoral among them, a career in mendacity may beckon.”

HERE

18. Steve at 809

War Room snippets…

a. Jack Posobiec Reveals Trump Shooter’s Link To Intelligence Agencies And Legacy Media 

b. Natalie Winters: “They Know The Only Way Trump Can Lose Is By Killing Him”

c. Erik Prince: “It’s Hard To Have A Republic When One Side Wants To Kill Your Presidential Candidate”

d. Mike Benz On The Assassin: “This Guy Is Like The Forrest Gump Of CIA Paramilitary Activity” 

17. TV film as an item, not as a separate post

16. Equinox

Sun, 22 Sept 2024, 1:43 pm BST

15. Steve

“The public deserves to know the truth about how this assassination came to be. And I have directed all state agencies to work expeditiously to be able to uncover the truth, in addition to holding this suspect accountable.” — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

14. Late afternoon roundup

13. IYE at 808

Wo ho ho … José Andrés.

12. The classic error Elon is making

Elon is trying to be “evenhanded” between two clearly demarcated sides. This was nowhere more clearly shown than when JD Vance took Dana Bash to task over the way Harris was fed multi-choice answers while she she started arguing with him. It’s really become a bore.

A friend of mine just wrote to me:

“I know people on the opposite side from me and they go on about love others, of peace  to all races, religions and so on, but there is none extended to those who do not support their causes to a tee. They are so harsh and vitriolic and (their behaviour) would be justified by them were they and others like them ever called out on it. Hypocrisy seems a rather tame word to describe their behavior.”

There it is. Now Elon possibly understands that that side is anything but evenhanded … they are violent, win at all costs, morally, spiritually and politically bankrupt. In short … they’re mentally children.

However, he must maintain this “evenhanded” thing whilst they, inc. the Woke left tech press, print things like this:

There is no dealing with the type … we must ensure that our numbers overwhelm them and they are removed from positions of power over us.

(1135) Post-cod brunch … quite warm out there already. (1445)

11. Comparison between two versions

The original with Johnny Kidd and the Pirates:

… and the version by Winnipeg’s Guess Who (the more famous one):

10. Yorkshire Wolds Weather

To which I replied:

9. Rupert Lowe on health tourism

I’ve had a response from the Department of Health for my question on health tourism. How much is the British taxpayer losing through treating ‘chargeable overseas visitors’ and not recovering the fair cost? The results are staggering.

In 2022/2023, the ‘aggregate income identified’ was £100,000,000. Enormous. Cash payments received that year? Just £32,000,000. The year before – £67,000,000 with £25,000,000 recovered. For 2020/2021? £61,000,000, and £21,000,000 paid. Not only are we losing vast amounts of money, it’s a rapidly growing problem.

The NHS is the National Health Service, not the International Health Service. Something must be done to recover these funds, and ensure that British taxpayer money is treated with far more care and respect moving forward.

8. From my hillside

7. Now and Next

It’s quite possible to not agree on this point or that, even a centre-left stance overall, whilst admiring the way things are written up by a good blogger … and Rolf is one of those:

Lord Mandelson is said to be behind the gifted-clothes hoo-ha about Lord Alli, the PM and his wife. Nonsense: this is Hamlet without the Prince. 

Casey Michael in the Mail on Sunday says that Tony Blair ‘is offering extensive advice to Sir Keir Starmer behind the scenes.’ Alastair Campbell, too – maybe Ali was behind Starmer’s headline-catching visit to Italy’s Giorgia Meloni ostensibly to learn from the right-winger how to deal with immigration. Mandelson – wasn’t it Blair who mused that maybe Mandy wasn’t as good as his sofa cabinet had thought?

Blair fancies himself as an expert on presentation, though his facial expressions and gestures belong in the am-dram classic ‘The Art Of Coarse Acting.’

These “reworkings” by Ruairidh, imho, are often better as they include updated info and thinking on the topic.

(0633) Morning all … nondescript out there … summer is over. (0849)

6. Steve is back with his report on the fjords etc. at 807:6

… plus a few extras, e.g.:

During an interview with Fox News, Martin County Sheriff Will Snyder said the “million dollar question” is how Routh knew where Trump was going to be.

5. One more procedural thing, sorry me

Dearieme, in deliberately asking the questions about London Bridge etc., was doing a good thing … testing me out on this comments in the sidebar thing. Was speaking to my techie mate … it’s quite easy for a mid-tech to go into the script, find the 5 and make it 10 etc. etc. etc. … I’d say don’t mess … the designer entered universal settings … best leave that route and do something far more simple:

If it’s a question or something requiring insta-response in under a line … do that within the commenter’s comment, at the foot, after JH. If it needs more, such as this item 5, then just do it like this item 5.

Also … methinks same applies at NOWP and UHC … going to do the same thing there … at NOWP though, the numbers in brackets will still go in.

4. IYE is doing a service mentioning iffy players

… and methinks it’s time to start that iffy players page. Of course it depends on your point of view … Gab is full of antisionists (to disguise it) but even that depends who and in which context, also in which historical context.

However, there’s one starting to flood Gab and that’s the first red flag … the “flooding”. Name of Patrick Howley. We too need to have a watch list, not just the state and its backers. Maybe IYE can kick it off with a comment at t’other place … a pain of me, big ask etc. I can remember some of them.

3. ZeroHedge in Springfield, Haiti

HERE

We spoke with one employee at a local shop, and we will keep his name anonymous for fear of retribution by local officials or the federal government. He provided us with helpful insight into the Haitian crisis in Charleroi. 

He said at least half of the town’s population is now Haitian, noting the influx began to become noticeable under the Biden-Harris’ first term, adding there was just a recent surge in new Haitians. Many of these migrants are beneficiaries of Temporary Protected Status. 

As far as what is visible by residents, they explained the primary reason the Haitians were dumped into the town was because of Fourth Street Foods, a food manufacturer that produces quality frozen food products for the processed foods industrial complex. These foods end up being sold in major retail stores throughout the US. 

Let’s remind readers in March, we penned a note titled “How Shadowy Network Of NGOs Supplies Mega-Corporations With Migrants To Exploit Cheap Labor,” which is possibly how this entire scheme is being operated. The federal government alone can’t possibly plan shelter and transportation arrangements for the migrants.

a. Copyhold:

Of course they could easily set up a really professional hit using one of their trained, officers. But this would leave a big arrow pointing to the agency involved. So if the Deep State did want to get rid of Trump, they would need to maintain deniability. And this means working through third parties, who are necessarily flaky, unreliable people, employing sketchy methods. People like Crooks and Routh.

2. Some quotes today from X

a. Mark W:

“If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.” (Sir Karl Popper, 28th July 1902 – 17th September 1994)

b. Alexandra Marshall:

Why do people want politicians to control and moderate ‘the truth’ online? No, seriously. Why are so many on the left incapable of thinking for themselves to the point the need a government to pre-edit the social conversation for them? It’s rather pathetic that a human mind could be so weak.

JH: Decades of seeping indoctrination, intergenerational.

c. Peter D. Clack:

If carbon dioxide doubled overnight it would make no measurable difference at all to weather or temperatures anywhere on earth. This is because the effects of CO2 are logarithmic & when you add CO2, the effect diminishes sharply on a sliding scale. Alarmists hope no one notices.

d. Dan Wootton:

Not just a day of shame for the BBC, but the discredited leftist pundits who defended Huw Edwards for political reasons while calling for my cancellation after a left-wing witch hunt. Notably Owen Jones, Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Narinder Kaur. (I’ll) ever listen to them again.

e. Students for liberty:

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.” (Thomas Paine)

1. DAD at 808

a) Trouble a t’mill. The Commission president continues to struggle with her self-inflicted gender woes.

b) also….France’s Thierry Breton announced on Monday he was quitting the European Commission with immediate effect, claiming ……..

c) ‘Queers for Palestine’ offered $1 million to hold LGBTQ parade in Gaza.

[DAD – I hope that they accept ;o) ]

d) The very first halal butcher’s shop in Creuse [Central France] will open in October.

(1449) Afternoon all … not a lot happening. (1804) Evening all.

19. Moosh corner

18. Westminster Abbey

17. State of play at Higham Mansions

There were three issues sapping my blogging time, demanding to be addressed … one was the cyber issue, more extensive than most know but, although still not out of the woods, it’s not major now, thanks to my techie mate … the second is medium serious … some health issues impinging more than they should, inc. end of day exhaustion … as in now … the third is existential, involving my abode, with some unfriendliness going on and demanding attention every time I think it’s sorted … not neighbours, who thankfully are great.

There is a fourth we all face … that which we blog about but that’s just ongoing, inc. having ONO stolen without so much as a by your leave. I just saw a fifth … what if you do actually come face to face with machete man or plod kicking the door down or whatever? N16 below is one version of that final showdown … written by a field pastor flyer I think:

16. A plane’s last moments

What do pilots say to the passengers of a plane when it is crashing? Is it like in the movies, or is it completely different?

“The captain of Alaska Air Lines Flight 261, last message to passengers (4:14 pm): “Folks we have had a flight control problem up front here we’re workin it uh that’s Los Angeles off to the right there that’s where we’re intending to go. we’re pretty busy up here workin this situation I don’t anticipate any big problems once we get a couple of sub systems on the line. but we will be going into L A X and I’d anticipate us parking there in about twenty to thirty minutes.”

After trying desperately to regain control of the plane, and being unsuccessful, the plane, headed to LAX, was actually upside down. To other pilot (4:20pm): “gotta get it over again… at least upside down we’re flyin.”

Plane is now heading for the water, and pilot comments to himself (18 seconds after last comment): “ah here we go.”

Between the statement to the passengers and the last statement, there were six minutes of conversation between pilots, and from pilots to control in LA. They were calm, cool-headed, and under control, trying every option available.

His statement about at least flying, even upside down, was even a moment of tiny humor. His last statement, with no panic, screams, or profanity, showed he was professional to the last. I even like the last message to the passengers, keeping them as calm as possible, and giving them a scrap of hope to hang on to, the same one he was clutching at.

(Readers, I did have a link here, had a warning about it, am now looking at the subheading link. Back in a moment. Right, leaving that link in at the top.)

15. Do you think this is what sent George crazy?

14. Three more

13. Mechanical engineering

12. Read the fine print at the bottom

(0759) morning all! Looking sunny out there, diffuse, wispy cloud in a way. (0839)

11. While IYE has the DJT assass-attempt covered at 807:7

… and I added but one Natalie Winters comment to a few items in the roundup in 10, my thoughts have been on the Ruairidh MGB piece reworked and revisited … as a dedicated ragtop little roadster fan forever, now probably settle on the MX 5, a neat little machine, two things keep coming through quite powerfully to me:

*Just how much a small, convertible roadster really means to lifestyle, to civic life, to the simple enjoyment of life and I point to my “crazy” decision to visit the Cairngorms in midwinter in that car during a cold snap … just how great the renovated ragtop was in that biting wind, just how well the heater had worked.

*Just how bafflingly bad British management was … and is even today … just how bad the political class are … really the pits, the dregs of society.

These thoughts kept coming through as I watched Ruairidh on the whole Healey, MG, BMC, Leyland debacle, esp. that last noncomp of a boss … why on earth can Britain not get actual managers instead of graduates of the up themselves managerial class?

On the other hand, even if the MGB (I was always Healey oriented, not MG) had continued as the MX5 does … incremental tweaks with succeeding models, improvements in suspension and handling, modest engine improvements … would it have survived the total change to society?

This hit me more, say, than the person who largely stayed here through the Blair years, give or take a holiday abroad. I departed a quirky, immediately pre-Blair Britain … and came back to sheer hell … exacerbated by having to go through London itself, which was now no longer the London of a dozen years earlier and now, a dozen years after that in 2024 … now a cesspit, something from a dystopian film.

10. Another roundup

(0555) Lovely darkness out there … I can see … well … maybe … hmmmm. (0659)

9. Moosh corner

8. TDS (blogrolls)

7. Sarah corner

… there are only two regular Canadians in our circle just now … Sarah and Emily Jane. Sarah’s latched onto IYE’s and Griftie’s topic:

I’m duty bound to Sarah to also ask her regular sign off question: “Who killed the Shermans?”

6. Starmergate

Remember … 17% of you voted for that lot.

(0409)(0546)

5. DAD at 807

a) French Prime Minister Michel Barnier has a higher approval rating than President Emmanuel Macron as he works to form a new government, according to a poll by Ipsos.

b) Is the Rassemblement National the New French Kingmaker? The final objective must remain the departure of Emmanuel Macron.

c) The gag on ‘Climate Reporting’ is another French obscenity. A few days prior to the [Olympic] Games, French authorities fined the country’s second most popular news channel 20,000€ for challenging the popular narrative about a purported climate crisis.

4. The reflection of every one of these motifs already

… in film, TV, novels, should be noted by all … I mean, they’re putting it all out there for you, should you care to just notice. There are four major threats and have been for some time:

*Agency or state hits

The Parallax View puts it succinctly … also Three Days of the Condor, Manchurian Candidate, Quantum of Solace … Diamonds are Forever puts the moon hoax, should it be so, Die Another Day puts Icelandic Star Wars.

*Leftist/anarchist groups

Take your pick of films … Die Hard etc.

*The new invaders

Machete world … no one’s yet dared make films of it.

Buying everything up, controlling ports, Fang Fang, Murdoch’s chick etc. any films yet?

*China

3. SF gate might be worth a look (it was on Gab)

https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/disgraceful-end-california-water-king-19743239.php

Mulholland’s great achievement came when Southern California needed him the most. He is LA’s first water king, the man who brought much-needed Sierra snowmelt to the city by completing the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Finished in 1913, the 233-mile-long aqueduct runs from the Owens Valley in eastern California to the San Fernando Valley and on to countless homes and businesses. Because of Los Angeles’ semiarid Mediterranean climate, Mulholland’s massive public works project enabled dramatic population growth, which in turn fueled the explosive development of the motion picture industry — and LA’s many grass-covered properties.

2. Classic case of my comments here

I appreciated AKH’s and Dearieme’s jazz comments and wanted to get to them quickly … I did not want them to have slipped off the sidebar list already, which would have happened had I replied to that and other people visiting.

Therefore, if regulars know that any response of mine would be in-post unless I have added info to impart … it’s the second best option.

As for the history of the Baehrs name … interesting. Profound, eh?

1. A first look around at what’s what

a. IYE and shots fired at Mar-a-lago

Both the report and Laura Loomer are at 807. To my mind, if Them wanted, they could take out not just DJT but anyone else and the same in reverse … agency heads, inc. Schultz, Blair, Gates. It can be done by dedicated teams … question is … who’s dedicated to which goal?

b. Andy having a second look at Moseley and Enoch at 807

Nuff said.

(1618) Including two jazz numbers if I can find two good ones we’ve not had dozens of times.

15. Housekeeping

We were doing security things earlier at HQ and its dash, which meant that in the last hour, the site was down and up, down and up. It’s up again now for me … should be for you too, if you’re still about.

Now, it’s going to have to be looked into again but not for “a few days” according to our techie. I’ll warn you when it’s going to be.

Just reiterating the order of sites for putting up warning/explanatory notes … the rank order of sites is HQ, NOWP, UHC, Jstack, OoL (I’ll try to keep OoL out of it).

So, let’s say it was HQ down (most likely) … notices would go up at NOWP, then UHC (just two, no more). Let’s say it was UHC down … notices would go up at HQ and NOWP … it will always be the first two in the ranking list. Thus, this notice is here and now I’ll post it at NOWP only.

14. Rolf on school fees

The average fees of a British boarding school are £37,000 a year. Adding twenty per cent VAT brings that up to £44,400.

In Portugal the cost would be about 30,000 euro = under £26,000. Children can attend established ‘international schools’ to learn in their own language.

https://rolfnorfolk.substack.com/p/next-to-leave-uk-schoolchildren

As an ex-prep-school-headmaster, with boarding, I can only concur with this idea, as long as Woke values or EU communism were not being taught.

13. This directly relates to Dearieme, IYE

… and all who comment at this new site. At Blgr, I wrote the script for sidebar “latest comments”, which meant I could stop mine from showing and cluttering up the sidebar. At NOWP, UHC and here, even though HQ here is “indy”, I can’t stop my comments from appearing in the sidebar and so I’m loathe to comment under posts … this plug-in only allows five comments total at a time.

Which leaves me with the thorny question of how to show chaps and chapesses that I saw, read and would like to respond, as AKH does at his site. This way here … commenting as a post item, is one way.

12. Just two jazz numbers

… the first from Atticus today:

… and the second one of my ole faves:

11. Lee Anderson MP asks about our view

… of the murder the elderly bill: