(0952) No IYE for a week … hols, could not get a comment through, hot on a trail or something else. Y’all have a good week now. (1012)
18. We could do with one of these
17. Buying a motorbike?
16. Needs to be stopped, at least in the US
15. It might be current
14. A good site for American politics
(0810) Morning all … sunny out there, through the Gates billowing cloud. (0839)
13. Good number for this item
Need to preface this with some comments about things like Life of Brian … as people, the Pythons were certainly non-Christian but the points made about anomalies in organised religion were well made I thought, plus it did not step into what most would call outright blasphemy … it was having a go at Churchism, Synodism, rather than at the faith itself … it was having a go at Schism, false prophets, not following one’s precepts one’s paid lip service to … and so do these below:
12. Three quickies
11. Points about punditry
Just thought I’d drop this one in from this early morning:
Anything vital in there? The spam count really … this is fairly typical for this time of day, it will build again later … not sure why they bother.
Not totally sure what their feasibility is … it’s the Geelong, Oz regional rag … maybe half a million people, so not nothing for sure but … well … why exactly would you pay $7 per week or whatever for a local rag? Ads? Hatch, match and dispatch notices? Or you think the the Wokeleft politics is worth it? Puzzled.
Plus … who can afford subs to maybe half a dozen publications, inc. nationals? Given the economic situation?
Now to one of their headlines today:
So, it’s not just Britain and European nations, is it? This thing is global in scope, a cunning plan.
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10. Moosh corner
9. TDS today
JH: The Joan of Arc one is the most sickening of those to me. As for TDS and TCW, sadly, the latter no longer sends newsletters, either in Ms Gyngell’s wisdom or else it’s a blanket policy at her site now. I’ll check this out at some stage.
8. This one’s about nasty pieces of work
… disguised as good MAGAs to a point … insinuating themselves into positions of influence or else the machine insinuates them in … they make MAGA noises in general terms but at crucial votes, the Rand Paul cloven hoof appears. The ones who should be policing this are Chairman Whately and/or Johnson and Thune … naturally they fail just short of being thrown out. Plus voters are truly easily gulled, just as Reform’s are here now.
7. Gab can be described as
… 80% dross, 20% pure gold … it often runs scoops which may or may not be … or it revisits old material, e.g. from the early 2000s and any alt pundit worth his salt will include it on his rounds. Such as this from Dutch Jim:
This about Gary is in the Seth grouping of issues to a point, though Seth had been doing wrong and knew the Clint skeletons … Gary found out, as one of the last real investigative journos and it was well put above by Jim.
6. Steve at 1014 Monday morn
5. DAD at 1014 Monday morn
a) The Left has a long, storied tradition of staring reality squarely in the face and refusing to believe their lying eyes. And nowhere is this more evident than the Left’s defence of multiculturalism—a project so disastrous that even its architects have admitted it to be dead.
b) Ursula von Der Leyen’s European Commission paid Millions to ‘environmental associations’ for targeted campaigns to smear political opponents and dissenting voices.
c) People smugglers are turning to Chinese and Vietnamese encrypted apps to get small boat migrants across the Channel, head of Britain’s FBI warns.
d) Yesterday Marine Le Pen and her party held a rally in Paris.
(2357) Almost Monday and this post is the result of having crashed early, then awoken at the wrong time. In these situations, one just uses the hour or so waking time as best one can. (0057)
4. This 👇🏻
3. Fine group of hardworking grassroots people
… pretending there’s no inundation, no rape gangs and murder epidemic and that Yusef is not aligned with the shariah agenda, that Farage is not aligned with the Uniparty, hence defections to the Tory notion of Reform … and that there’s no imminent Uniparty induced crash about to occur in summer.
2. The irony would be delicious
… were there not such vital issues hanging on it:
Kakistocracy, eh?
Least qualified, most unscrupulous, eh? As in bussed in by DNC hired foreign firms (see previous Loomer report) … that sort of unscrupulous? And they have the vote?
1. Oil and Gas … Nick Drew at C@W
“[British Gas had] contracted vast quantities of gas in long-term contracts during the huge boom of the late 1960s, priced in single-digit pennies per therm. Being thus sated, they’d bought very little in the 1970s. One day, they re-did the supply/demand sums and noticed – guess what? – a looming shortage! Owing to the low gas price and, at the same time, booming oil prices after the twin crises of 1973-4 and 1979, everybody was exploring only those hydrocarbon plays that looked set to yield oil. And new gas developments take several years to bring on stream…..”
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15. Great place to live
14. Customer service in the UK
13. I’ll not be shopping at Marks and Sparks again
First:
Not just on this account above but also because of their constant, 100% woke adverts, always non-white males and a variety of females … clearly, they do not want my custom, M&S. Not a good look from that old firm.
12. Steve at 1013
Yes, I’ve been Van der Valking a bit because it’s a slice of our lives, the early 70s and early 90s … the episode already shown here was 1972 and this is 1992 … much water had been passed under the bridge inbetween.
The episode I clicked out of quickly, from series five, the final series of three, had VdeV trying to team up with an offsider, not unlike with Morse … they’re trying it as well below with greater success … plus they’ve put VdeV’s screen son in this … a youngish, more brash version of dad … jury’s out but methinks it would have worked, had they given it a few more episodes.
By doing it this way, father and son at some distance from one another, each with his own team (entourage), wife in a strange middling position … there were far more characters to get a line on, esp. in the plot, which involves members of a city firm, plus their family members.
One major plus of this short fifth series is location shots around Amsterdam … usually a lovely addition to a show, pity about the film copy (feature length by the 90s). For some reason, reviews of series four, after a good start, were fairly ordinary … this is rated better but maybe they were attempting too much … jumping the shark?
One thing methinks they avoided fairly well in this one was DEI, perversions … it was mainly adultery in this one, also starting to portray men as either violent or weak, women as strong, except when they break.
Still trying to get a handle on the early 90s … clearly once Blair arrived, it fell apart in the UK but I was overseas, so missed the second half in the west. What were you doing?
(0953) Morning zooms by. (1335)
11. Spoilt for choice
10. They’re everywhere, they’re everywhere
9. Swampy Roberts
8. The hypocrisy is unacceptable
… the tweet was a bit silly really.
7. Interesting (pour moi) about these two seventies bands
The good die young? For me, “glam” rock was an excrescence at worst, ok I suppose at best … Slade I never got into, nor bands like Sweet, Strawbs, Queen, Oasis, boy bands (girl music) … but to a point liked Free and Bad Company … my tee shirts were Ramones and Stranglers, which gives you an idea, liked Splodginessabounds too.
Having said all that, I wasn’t crazy for punk punk, e.g. Johnny Rotten, unless it was both driving and highly melodic, with harmonies … the Ramones did that with California Sun, Do You Wanna Dance, Swallow My Pride. This below was, imho, classic Ramones, dressed as young street males should have dressed, not that *&£#£&*-y stuff with Slade etc.