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Saturday [6 to 8]

(0953) Just ticked over to elevenses near the end. (1118)

 

8. The Unherdables approach to its incoming intel

There’s been a bit of confusion about how readers should take what appears here … is it a ringing endorsement for, even pushing hard for all that is stated in the item? For example, here?

Last supper and agony in the garden [12 till close of play]

Answer is … sometimes, in some respects, rarely every single word of it. There’s a delicate juggling act going on on my part … yes, shutting out Wokery and Globopsycho narrative but letting through our chaps and chapesses who are regulars, plus occasionals and some newbies who obviously seem good hearts who are for saving the west, our heritage, our faith, our families etc.

On the Seder question, for example, I explored and foubd this:

“A core section of one text said: “Some Christians choose to observe a Passover Seder, adapted to emphasize Christ as the Messiah, as a way to understand the roots of their faith and the significance of Jesus’ death.”

Sounds reasonable to me … but we do need to read the fine print … plus some sources need to go on our watch list in the navbar and at NOWP.

Then we come to items 7 and 6 below. If I might take the moon landings from 1969 onwards, there are clearly anomalies, Diamonds Are Forever satirised it, so many articles also have, in detail. Some is speculative, some ask good questions. Against that, what of the moon rocks? Were they real? What of maps with the Van Allen Belt?

I simply don’t know. I do lean towards no, they did not land but you might have a good case as to why they did.

I just think we need, at Unherdables here, to at least present what people are saying, somewhere on-site, barring Woke and Globopsycho narrative of course … if any of the latter stands up in some respects, then ok, our own sources will at least address those worthy points. We don’t need trolls though, muddying everything. That’s all.

The model we follow here is … look, let’s table it, examine it, comment, see what we think of this new snippet or that. …/END.

7. IYE corner

“Hey, Franklin Graham! Read Your Bible. Or Your Torah. Or A History Book!

On the Book of Esther, the evangelical delusion, and a warning about lying about the wickedness of other people to those in power.”

”……

The alignment between American evangelicalism and Israeli hard-right politics is one of the more remarkable theological phenomena of our era, and it deserves to be named clearly: it is not principally about Christianity. It is about the myth of American providential destiny, dressed in biblical clothing. As I’ve written about here.

When Franklin Graham maps Donald Trump onto Esther — a Jewish woman who risked her life going to a foreign king uninvited, who survived by hiding who she was, who acted in secret and in fear — the theology has departed the building. What remains is something older and more American: the conviction that God is on our side, that our enemies are History’s enemies, and that military power exercised by the right people is the same thing as divine intervention.

This is not Christianity. It is not even a particularly coherent reading of the Old Testament, which is, if nothing else, a sustained argument against exactly this kind of self-congratulation. The God of the Hebrew Bible has a habit of using the wrong people — the foreigner, the woman, the coward, the liar — and embarrassing the ones who were certain of their own righteousness. Haman was certain. He had the king’s seal. He had the gallows ready. He had the date on the calendar……”

https://jonathanmillard.substack.com/p/hey-franklin-graham-read-your-bible

(What a week for Donny to be likened to Esther and Jesus! [sarc] )

6. Just reviewing this again and adding to it

… with a view to taking that, plus IYE in n7, plus Seder the other day, and drawing the threads together, restating Unherdables’ overall stance on such things.

Easter Saturday [3 to 5]

(0747) Morning all … the cloud has filled the sky-ceiling wall to wall again … swirling poison. Windows closed. There’s a post up at OoL on state pension(0829):

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/state-pension.html

 

5. What the eye might not at first see


Sometimes, an item adding to the whole topic disguises an interesting hidden point … in this case, Cathy O’Brien herself … some of us here know exactly who she is, others might not have been around in the early 2000s … online I mean.

Yes, she’s a bookwriting, whistleblowing, satanically abused lady, like Sue Ford and they blew the topic wide open back then. The attempted debunking said she was controlled opposition, her handler being Ted Gunderson, the three letter officer … most interesting story, horrifying.

Naturally, if you start researching through officially approved engines such as ggl, wiki, you’ll immediately hit things such as “conspiracy theorist”, “satanic mind control hysteria” back in the day, attempting to debunk through pre-emptive attack before it even starts.

Hysteria? Wot, MK Ultra? It was dealt with in court in 1973 … anything but bunkum … very real indeed, just as in Belgium. See Bourne Ultimatum for a film take on some of it.

4. Andy at 1342

“A while ago I enjoyed news videos from an Indian perspective delivered very eloquently by an Indian lass. This is my latest muse. News from a Russian perspective, humourously delivered by a rather severe looking russian girl.”

3. Steve corner at 1342

Lest we forget:

  • A-10 Warthog Downed and Black Hawk Helicopters Take Fire Amid Search for Missing F-15 Pilot – Pilots Safe
  • Hegseth Signs Order Restoring Second Amendment Rights on Military Bases — ‘Gun-Free Zones Are Over’
  • Big Pharma Giants Pfizer and BioNTech Forced to Shut Down COVID-19 Booster Shot Trials After Americans Refuse to Be Guinea Pigs
  • US Special Forces Land In Iran On Daring Operation To Rescue Downed F-15E Pilots
  • The Disinformation Dozen” are still facing censorship
  • Battle for Hungary: Could an Orban win trigger ‘Maidan on steroids’?
  • Indians Are Online Bragging About Scamming Europe’s Education System
  • Much more.

Easter Saturday [1 and 2]

(0611) Awoke just now to a reddish dawn, angry dark clouds and street lamps still on. (0733)

 

2. Easter Saturday

… is a most curious day in the Triduum, a word I discovered lately, as distinct from, say, Churchmouse who knows exactly how to put it in the right order.

The trouble with a middling course, which Unherdables steers, a learning course by the way, as distinct from a lecturing course, is that we are rammed into by boats going in each direction … one direction sees us as not going far enough at a solemn time of year, sees us perhaps as Laodecian, whilst the other sees us here as “religious fanatics” on the strength of a few bible verses picked up along the way.

Thus I for one disappoint both my devout friends, plus my atheistic libertarian friends which, however, is a place I’m quite used to … being spurned or skipped over by nearly all.

Wonder how Jesus felt at this point, back in AD33 in our calendar, on April 4th at 0642 (in the morning). The timeline says He was betrayed by Judas at around 9 p.m. Thurs, was taken and had a torrid time meted out by both Roman and High Priest, through the night, was crucified at 9 a.m., was in agony for 6 hours (have you ever stopped to think how it might have physically felt) … and it ended around 3 p.m., Jerusalem time.

He seems to have been entombed soon enough after, maybe into the evening …

… and here we are now at 0647 BST, not quite au fait with what He’s up to just now but it seems to involve descending to the dead or even to hell and walking out again. The miraculous part, seems to me, is right now, through today … the part we don’t see for ourselves.

Thus the Saturday or second day is when the really heavy work is going on. Then we get into the issue of Sunday or Monday for Mary Magdalene … which day was it? I’m not sure that that matters … just the very assertion of Resurrection blows minds from Caiaphas to the other whited sepulchres to the disciples themselves and company, the emerging church.

Today, it’s a bridge too far for most but for those knowing their scriptures, old and new, if one accepts a divinity in the birth and in the ministry, then what’s one more miracle? It does not, for one, put me in a quandary … for a start, just look at the logic of it all … all the way through it comes down to faith, just that. Once you remove all the chanting and trappings, regalia, what you’re left with is that question … is it true, is it not?

I opted for “true”, to see what happened, also observing the emerging Christology, the way it gripped people, the way it’s gripping people today, esp. the younger set … only yesterday, massed rallies by old and young at a troubling time for the west. Most did not see this as it was on X … but not in the MSM, as one would expect. And don’t forget the Nigerian and Syrian pogroms this weekend, let alone Iran/Persia.

In my case, personally, various signals appeared at points over the decades … enough to certainly not dismiss it out of hand … but more than that … certain events followed after each re-affirmation in my brain … might have been some miraculous recovery of a child, certain things surprisingly falling into order, whatever. Don’t forget that this is one miserable sinner here writing at you, not some saint … as I keep returning to ad nauseam. And what?

While there’s certainly a thing called believing in fairy tales, there’s also the phenomenon of a faith which cannot be quite snuffed out, as Chesterton pointed out … and there’s a human wholeness to it all, compared to the alternative. Science? Well what are we doing at Unherdables? Is it not constantly exploring, observing, recording?


I keep coming back to that bit in The Day the Earth Stood Still, when the alien visits the professor. The professor wasn’t three wise monkeys, wasn’t standing in a river in Egypt … but at the same time, he did require at least some sort of signal, some sort of evidence. And received it. …/END for now.

1. DAD at 1342

a) Two researchers from Cevipof see the violence that accompanied the installation of some new mayors as markers of a growing polarization of society, to which social media contributes.

b) Rennes (35): A Catholic sticker reading “Hope and salvation of France” triggers a reprimand from the Socialist Party president during a regional council session.

c) Germany. A man, armed with two knives, detonates grenades on a moving train: twelve people injured.

Good Friday Mat

 

“This is another of the often ignored ‘small’ Guinness films from the early and mid-50’s that rarely get the attention they deserve. While it had a brief revival last fall at Britain’s National Film Theatre, it doesn’t seem to show up that often in Guinness retrospectives.

A number of elements in this gently comic film that are worthy of notice: Sir Alec’s performance is deft, subtle and delightfully wry whether he is playing the sleuth or spouting philosophy to the villain Flambeau.

An added treat is a cast that includes Peter Finch, who won an Oscar for Network, Joan Greenwood, who was Lady Balleston in Tom Jones and Bernard Lee who portrayed M in the James Bond series. Guinness, Greenwood and Cecil Parker (The Bishop) also appeared together in the Ealing Studio comedy, The Man in the White Suit.

Another interesting aspect is that a large part of the film was shot on location in Paris and rural France, apparently a rarity for the British films of that era.

Finally a bit of trivia: After his portrayal of Father Brown, Guinness converted to Catholicism.”

……

Another bit of trivia … yesterday was Alec Guinness’s birthday.

Friday [11 to 15]

(1145) Nearing the end of elevenses, folks. (1145)

 

15. Thems were the days


14. Safe passage


13. Moo corner


12. Lord Toby’s site this morning

Nike is sliding towards disaster as its stock slumps to its lowest level in a decade and sales are forecast to continue to decline following a woke rebrand that sent customers looking elsewhere. The Mail has the story.

Nike’s stock has slumped to its lowest level in more than a decade after the sportswear giant warned sales will keep falling through 2026. 

Shares hit an 11-year low on April 1st, capping a brutal stretch that has seen the company lose around 75% of its value since shares peaked in 2021. 

It is now worth under $68 billion – a third of the value of TJ Maxx. 

The latest sell-off was triggered by a bleak outlook, with Nike forecasting sales will slump 4% this quarter – a staggering $500 million fall in the value of shoes, tracksuits and t-shirts. 

The brand is being hit by a triple whammy: backlash to its more ‘woke’ image shift, a failed retreat from major retail partners in favor of direct-to-consumer selling, and a deepening slump in China. 

11. Why am I half expecting Graham Chapman?

Try these

 

  1. Which ship’s name was derived from Burns’ poem Tam o’ Shanter?
  2. Name a famous structure close to the Garden of Gethsemane.
  3. What’s the consensus on today’s name for where Jesus was buried?
  4. Name of the upper arm’s bone on a human.
  5. Whose beard did who singe, in whose reign?
  6. Line between the numerator and denominator?
  7. Write any quadratic equation … correctly.

……

More than one correct answer in many cases at 0606 Sat morn:

  1. Cutty Sark
  2. Temple, Al Asqa, Western Wall etc. … many
  3. Holy Sepulchre but IYE’s too
  4. Humerus
  5. Phillip etc., see comments
  6. Vinculum
  7. (𝑥+2)(𝑥+3) =  𝑥2+5𝑥+6

Friday [6 to 10]

(1012) Chaps and chapesses, Steve and now Penseivat, plus Andy, have got this thread moving under the Last Supper final Thursday post. Can we keep the treatises on things Christian there, under that post … until Sunday coming, at which point we could continue from Sunday post? I’d ordinarily not ask but it would be nice for blogreaders and Xers to have it in one place at a time. Ta. AFAP of course. (1056)

 

10. Blanche


9. Our own poor and huddled … Moo corner


8. Tulsi


7. I’ve also been running this blurb on X

“Over the 20s, I’ve slowly failed to delete various truisms and memes from the pic library. They’re just sitting there, thought I might run one here every so often.”

Then posting one of the pics from my library, for example:


6. Just posted this on X, mentioning “our chap”

10-4

 

I actually had a short Scouser video on KP nuts which would have been good but guess what … the prat or YT had it “embedding disabled”. Ho hum … this below was available, strong US accent, drowned out by “music” as usual … at least at first. He seemed to wake up after a minute and just let the presentation fill the senses.