(1100) Elevenses. (1115)
15. Time for elevenses?
Here perhaps?
14. Curious, that, innit?
13. On “fire weather”
12. While the performative Reform show goes on
… Restore keeps putting out policy documents, some a hundred pages long. Reform are reading them and making them into their own, nominally. If asked. Rupert Lowe was asked point blank by Dan Wootton if he had any deal with the Tories. Not at all, he replied.
11. One from downunder
This is more a prelude to today’s film later and if you can put up with that new youtube way they insist uploaders follow, then it does put some existential and theological points.
(0924) Some cloud definition out there. (1008)
10. Moo corner
9. It’s bizarre over there right now
8. IYE
A still unsolved case.
“Jill Dando Knew Too Much”
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akyr-u3MS20
JH: I’ve put it at NOWP as well.
7. Classic inversion by Them
6. There’s a Russian song of old “v poslednuyu ocyen”
… which means last autumn but I was never sure if it meant last autumn last year, remembering it … or if it meant the coming autumn being the last one. Revered band over there, it was.
Doesn’t help us here that the lyrics are superimposed in Russian … it’s the native version:
However, it can be rendered in English thus:
In the light of some gutwrenching things of late for me, I’m thinking of that song a bit.
Nevertheless, the story is interesting and tragic too, one of many such tales on youtube. The twist near the end is interesting, if such a horror can be called interesting. The uncovering of the perp showed what could be around us and Sophia’s quote is to the point:
Also, why can’t AI say the date “thirty-first” properly?
(0559) Morning all. Some big decisions today for many people … for Reform/Restore, for Donny, for Caitlin Clark … for me. More later. (0734)
5. There’s a Christie quote which underpins much of what I write today
… it affects my entire mindset, along with other factors … first being (The Blues Bros) Mission from God, plus the song Que Sera Sera in third place. This theme runs second throughout today for me:
That’s an excellent piece of advice to anyone contemplating suicide (not the medical establishment variety). All my decisions are based on these listed factors, balanced with personal life.
Plus Sod’s Law:
Sod’s law is a popular British expression stating that if something can go wrong, it will go wrong, usually at the worst possible time. It is the British equivalent of the American phrase “Murphy’s law”.
I’d like to take that even further … have you ever considered, especially if you are godless (or at least have other gods … wealth, women, power, the bottle etc.) that Sod’s Law is inextricably tied in with the first law … Mission from God?
Because if you have sold your soul to the Triune God, then He is obviously going to protect His interest in you, His agenda, His mission. And if any other mission clashes … guess what? Now, at the moment, these last twenty years, finding ourselves dropping into this complex of sites online, the obvious question is … for how much longer? On July 26th, 2024, we had an inkling of the shape of things to come.
And I have something nasty coming up in early September which may well see me out of home, offline, no hyperbole here. I’ll keep regulars in the loop as it approaches.
4. Uh huh … for your perusal
3. Steve at 1457
2. Was going to run this at one stage at OoL/Jstack
… think it belongs here more. It’s about the C of E, burning church buildings, wildfires and so on.
You conclude as you wish but my conclusions are:
I’m mainly a secular blogger and Xer … nature, retro scenes, politics du jour … but esp. on X, there’s also a Christian component … Christendom in other words, meaning the West, as in its survival, a ragtag in the face of the hordes.
1. DAD at 1457
a) Spanish officials said at least 72 people had died during the unprecedented migrant influx into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, after an estimated 60,000 people entered the territory in a matter of days. Latest reports suggest most have since returned to Morocco, although hundreds—including unaccompanied minors—are believed to remain in the enclave.
b) Hungary’s power grid is entering a critical period as the country’s only nuclear plant, Paks I, shuts down for the first time in 44 years, removing around 2,000 MW of capacity during the hottest days of the summer.
c) The constitutional coup and the building of an authoritarian regime in Hungary. Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party are dismantling democratic Hungary as we have known it since 1990.
d) MAGA exiles including Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson plot to launch NEW political party after waging war on Trump: ‘He betrayed us all’.
e) Artificial intelligence labs are in a new arms race to buy up millions of rare books, slicing them open, scanning the pages and pulping the remains — sparking concerns that the last remaining copies of out-of-print texts are being destroyed on an industrial scale.
15. Steve on the F35B
I still think we should have gone with the F-35C. But we’ve got B’s, with 12 A’s on order. Why do I not like the B? Take a look..
The Shocking Truth Of The Marine F-35B That Just Crashed:
14. No one can criticise a woman
… quite like a woman:
13. The envy of the world
12. Download the app
11. Pamela Hensley double
(0824) Morning again all … many chores await. (0909)
10. Moo corner
9. Farage and all that
8. Of plandemics or no demics at all
Remember this?
7. IYE and MM on Fauci
”Prosecution Follies”
https://mileswmathis.com/fauci2.pdf
6. NHS Rich List
TPA news:
The NHS is forever pleading poverty. Yet while patients wait in corridors and taxpayers are told to dig ever deeper to fork over more cash, the management class at the top of the health service is doing rather nicely.
The latest TPA NHS Rich List lifts the lid on senior pay across 220 NHS trusts, and the figures are hard to defend.
In 2024-25, 1,758 senior managers received at least £100,000 in total remuneration, covering salary, expenses, benefits, bonuses and pension benefits. Some 574 had salaries higher than the prime minister, up 12 per cent in a single year. Even more strikingly, the number receiving at least £300,000 in total remuneration surged from 125 to 292, a rise of 134 per cent.
For patients stuck on waiting lists, these numbers will be galling enough. But the real sting is that bumper pay packets are still showing up at trusts with dreadful performance. East Cheshire was the worst-performing trust in England for A&E waiting times for the second year running, with just 43 per cent of attendances seen within four hours. Yet its chief executive’s total remuneration rose from £172,500 to £377,500. Crazy, right?
Firstly, what the screwtape letters (a novel) is all about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Screwtape_Letters
We can come at this from a number of directions. CS Lewis and this lady below, Tilley, a pastor’s wife, come at it from the moral imperative as laid out in the bible, plus the need for women to remember their biological design and what it involves once fertile and ready …
… whilst I see it … yes, having biblical backing … but primarily in my eyes as the sociological dangers which this blog and contributors constantly point out … the extant threat that “screwtape” poses when evil in the form of fabianism and such devilry back to 1776, for want of a startpoint … once that gets into women’s minds and aspirations … once it gets a hold, women’s vanity, as Tilley describes her own sex’s weakness takes over and it’s all “I can do anything, I am Woman, worship me, see me roar” … it threatens that very society itself, it tears it apart.
In the devil’s clutches, women can so easily be led astray … and so can men.
I’ll say here and now that that sort of maniacal power hunger ain’t biblical for a start, it comes from another source. And it’s relentlessly pushed by (single) mothers, teachers, peers, media … Christy O took it apart in her old series.
And men? Loss of testosterone, wimpishness, SNAGishness … it’s no basis on which to defend your society nor build anything substantial. Especially once men drop into that antifa, rainbow, sicko mind virus, pontificating about love but being right vicious little bstds in reality, useless up against the savage invading hordes.
As a man who is no way MGTOW, though I see the arguments, my outlook has always been men and women in partnership, neither oppressing nor tyrannical towards the other … partnership, not constant war.
And the biblical model in the NT lays it down, though I see Paul as too “male society”, too patriarchal, calling everyone “little children” … better is the model in the gospels imho. We can argue over that one.
Going to finish this with Pat Connell’s selective logic … he had a tweet up about being an atheist. Uh huh … and his reason? Well just look at how churchmen (and now women) have behaved, paedo priests etc, narrowminded bigots.
Not disputing that, I’m no fan of priesthoods, grand masters etc. and as for the Spanish Inquisition, which nobody expects …
Pat gets onto the other killer religions causing nothing but horror and misery, he joins Karl Marx in expunging “them all”, quite ignoring that churchmen in no way equate to the societal model found in the gospels … one is human foibles, ego, incense and gobbledegook … while the other concerns how to personally reorder one’s life to become useful and help one’s fellow humans.
Plus the little matter of redemption, paid for with blood.