There are two key versions of this on youtube which, imho, are the best going. One is the 1977 live version, showcasing not only Jackson Browne and his reddish brown hair (which incidentally was also my own colour in younger days, plus that of the ladies in Friday [4]) but also showcasing David Lindley on fiddle/violin … a marvellous version, a bit blurred visually now.
The other is below, a slightly shorter version with a (sadly) shorter outro and yet it’s the musically purer version, plus that wonderful album cover, a play on Rene Magritte, befitting these crazy times we’re in. Plus of course David Lindley’s haunting violin again.
JB was of course of the 60s/70s early Boomer left, as I later became, in turn, and the concerns then were warmongers, banksters, corporatists. The left were of course prone to violence themselves … Baader Meinhof, Weathermen, Bill Ayres, Obama later, Patty Hearst etc. etc. … they just did not wake up to the paucity of their ideological behaviour.
JB sings here of dreamers and other groups but could not have known about the horrible events westwide, culminating in the horror of Spain last night at Ceuta.
All of which could have been avoided, had people not turned their backs on their Maker and the Christian underpinnings of the west as it still was in the late 50s, a west the enemy is so desperate to kill off.
(0605) Morning all. Routines are essential as you know and it’s a dutiful son or daughter who includes “the olds” in the list of “responsibilities”. Failing that, if I can provide some here, it gives some sense of things functioning, even though we saw Spain late last night … horrific. So yes, we recheck our perimeter, second and inner defences, check what heeds cleaning and maintaining today … and so on. Many readers would add that keeping our connection with our Maker in good repair is our first defence. (0702)
5. Steve at 1453
Greg Gutfeld Explains a Hard Truth About Socialism: ‘Cannot Exist Unless You Enforce it Aggressively’
Thousands of Illegal African Migrants From Morocco Storm the Spanish Border in the Enclave of Ceuta
Large Wildfire Raging Just 3 Miles Away from Britain’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant
Houthis in the Iran Conflict: Asymmetric Warfare and Unlikely Surrender
US F-16s Just Took Apart Iran’s Coast
Russian Army Tightens Grip on Key Donbass Routes
Beetroot juice and other natural remedies for high blood pressure: A breakthrough in heart health
Fauci’s attorney is kicked out of Senate hearing on COVID; the public erupts in applause
EU’s Green Deal is pushing Europe into decline
Much, much more.
4. Revamp
Emphasis on vamp too … some weeks back, I foolishly ran an excerpt from my long book which caused all sorts of mayhem behind the scenes (astute readers might be aware). Well, part of that was a chapter heading pic, followed by a (cough) indefensible first half page of, as Toods called it … bawdiness.
Useless for me to argue that that was just the prelude to horrible things happening to all the perps in the story … it was actually a cautionary tale, centred around a song by Merrilee Rush and her huge hit song, which appears within the text. Anyway, I had to change the old pic I’d seen somewhere because its signals were not too good.
Within the song was this pic of Merrilee Rush and I asked and was told she was 23/24 here, which is still lineball in my eyes but anyway … that’s now the pic in the book. My regret is that MR herself is too nice a person, whereas the character in the book is a (spoilers) killer vamp (end spoilers).
Hmmmmm … as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb … I’ve been thinking that a certain lady in Alabama has a similar hair colouring, so does a certain lady in Alberta and a lady in Massachusetts. And now a lady from Seattle with similar hair? Hmmmmm.
3. DAD at 1453
a) France. Thibault de Montbrial argues that the deterioration of public safety is not simply a series of isolated incidents but rather the culmination of a decades-long decline. The attorney describes France as being on a dangerous slide where violence intensifies progressively while the state loses its capacity to impose authority. Burglaries, assaults, drug trafficking, urban violence, and attacks on state representatives all point to a structural phenomenon that has now taken root.
b) France. Question to various Christian groups: “Do you believe that all the great religions of the world are equally good and true? [Is this the result of the changes that Vatican 2 [a man/world centred philosophy] made to the Catholic Church?]
c) Germany. One of Germany’s largest police unions has called for sweeping changes to the country’s citizenship, deportation, and asylum laws following last weekend’s Islamist terror attack in Berlin.
d) In an astonishing move, YouTube removed a video from The European Conservative‘s official YouTube channel after it had garnered 43,000 views. YouTube classified the content of the conversation that centred around re-migration as “hate speech.” We made an appeal, but the decision but it was rejected in one minute.
2. The Spanish horror last night
1. Steve (early)
In Thurs 17. Mercenary army, or brainwashed one – both probably. We’ve still got the numbers and that’s what they’re worried about..
The surname Albiston is of English origin and is classified as a locational surname, typical of Anglo-Saxon naming conventions. It derives from the Old English personal name Æthelbeorht, which means “noble and bright”, combined with the suffix -tun, meaning “settlement” or “enclosure”. Therefore, the full meaning can be interpreted as “the settlement of the noble and bright one”
(1730) Evening all … time just fugged it today … could not keep up. So here we are, best get posting.
21. IYE
”You were taught the story in school. Fascism rose, democracy fought back, and a new order was developed so it wouldn’t happen again. The countries that tore each other apart twice would tie their economies together, making war nonsensical.
To this end, Bretton Woods stabilised the global money system while the Marshall Plan rebuilt Europe, and the UN gave every country representation. The whole thing rested on a simple promise: never again.
The only problem is that this story is a figment of imagination…..”
(0904) Have I already said morning all? Morning all. The post is up at OoL and at Jstack, plus I’ll add some sshots here too below on the Fauci issue. (0959)
15. ☺️
14. AW
13. Just look at those brutal faces
… the lack of humanity, the self-delusion. This is the pair who tried to trip up those two girls with the Sophie signs as they went by:
(0451) The current state of play you’ll find summarised in Thur [1]. (0640)
5. At Lord Toby’s site today
The scale of the challenge of ‘decarbonising’ transport is very large. Transport accounts for 26% of total UK emissions, which is 0.27% of total global emissions. As a rough guide from Government statistics, the major contributing sectors to transport emissions are road transport (70%), aviation (20%) and marine (8%). In Great Britain, there are around 42 million registered road vehicles – 34 million cars, five million vans and 0.8 million heavy goods vehicles and buses. Of these vehicles, as of March 2025 only 1.5 million were pure battery electric vehicles. Cars and vans account for about half while heavy goods vehicles and buses account for 15% of total transport CO2.
In 2024, 28 billion litres of diesel and 18 billion litres of petrol were used on British roads. Alternative fuels like biofuels cannot fully replace such large volumes and have significant performance and environmental downsides. Being forced by regulations to ‘cut’ pure fuel with bio-ethanol adversely affects fuel power density and also allows algal growth in storage tanks. It perishes seals and can block pipes and filters unless powerful biocides are routinely added to stored fuel, as farmers are now obliged to do to protect their tractors. Growing crops for fuel is also an opportunity-cost against growing food.
4. Steve at 1452
Fauci Invokes Fifth as Ron Johnson Unloads Huge Stack of Ivermectin Studies: “You Said There’s No Evidence… There Was All Kinds of Evidence!”
Award-Winning Journalist Lara Logan [had] Likened Dr Fauci to One of the Most Notorious Monsters in History – New Evidence Shows She Was Right!
Drone Attack Sets US-Owned Gas Tankers Ablaze In Egypt
Russia’s Fuel Campaign Strangles Kharkiv And Ukraine’s Northern Front
Porsche to cut 5,000 more jobs, bringing total to nearly a fifth of workforce as German auto crisis deepens
Burnham claims to support new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea. Is he being genuine?
AI and digital devices are causing children to become depressed and confused
Much, much more, esp. on Fauci.
3. This is an army
… and the arms caches are in religious buildings.
2. DAD at 1452
a) Germany. The Lebanese–German Abdul Ballout, who ran a van into a crowd killing one and injuring 29 on Saturday, had been convicted of plotting a terror attack by a German court in May, but the judge suspended his 22-month sentence. He was also found guilty by a military court in Lebanon and was deported to Germany for inciting religious conflict.
b) Italy jails a jeweller who shot armed robbers, reigniting a fierce battle over self-defence and whether justice protects criminals over victims.
c) UK. Lord Walney, formerly Labour MP John Woodcock, served as an advisor on political violence under the previous Conservative government and now argues that lessons must be learned from the protracted banning process of Palestinian Action, according to Breitbart News.
d) Germany. Four days after the attack on Berlin’s Christopher Street Day LGBT parade, the debate in Germany is moving away from empirical reality and descending into ideological demagoguery. Queer Commissioner of the Berlin State Government, Social Democrat Alfonso Pantisano, has placed the “far right” and the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at the centre of his criticism.
1. Some sort of op ed, plus housekeeping
a. The current topics out there are Fauci, the insult to those girls at the basketball game … and the Manchester mayoral election today. The current topic to me is a devastating loss last night, late, my worst since maybe 2018, including Covid (Fauci, Whitty, Ferguson, Hancock).
I did not run my own situation on this page last night because it was personal and did not directly involve this site’s scope but it’s a huge test of faith today to keep doing this … blogging … yet I feel I must, especially as our enemy closes in for the kill. To all our regulars, longterm and newer, I do pray for your protection and wellbeing today … each and every one of you. Similar prayers my way are much appreciated.
b. Coming back to that seemingly unimportant behaviour towards those two girls (Wed 20) … I need to say first off … what on earth is that “game” even doing existing, let alone being nationally broadcast and internationally discussed for its ongoing outrages? It’s bizarre that it has any audience at all. The WNBA can only exist on the outrage it triggers, certainly not for any quality of play but last evening’s crossed a line in this way …
The woman who confronted the girls over their sign supporting this Sophie C was apoplectic over the latter’s stance on men in women’s sport, known as the XX-XY argument. Obviously, this blog and afa I know the vast majority of regulars consider the two sexes just basic logic, hardly needing any explanation or requiring any body mutilation, esp. on children.
Yet this “creature” who confronted the girls at the game, a grown woman, adopted two stances in order to give herself the moral high ground … first was to attack the XX-XY stance but the second was to invoke the Christian God in defence of body mutilation, calling it “God loves everyone” … twisting that to support very great wrong being done.
Whoa! God loves behaviour designed to wreck marriage and procreation? Contrary to the clear indication in the Gospels … and in the Torah (OT)?
“Tolerating evil is no virtue” is a well known adage and this blog for one supports that. Claiming divine approval of evil and speaking in this pseudo-religious manner about it in order to reinforce it is not just wrongheaded and deluded, let alone being badly un-read … but it is doing the work of evil in pushing it. At the behest of the hijacked communist State.
c. Then there is the sdulteration, the poisoning of the skies, land water, food, even in the plastic containers used.
These young women are heroines. They're peacefully protesting against the grotesque unfairness of men playing in women's sport. The only people who are "f*cking insane" here are those making a mockery of fair sport for women and trying to bully girls like this into silence. https://t.co/ARKp2ruLRa
