Monday [15 till close of play]

 

16. The utter imbecility of these clowns


The politics of greed and envy, big time, innit. The notion of wealth being some big endless pot from which you squander on vanity projects, the lack of any understanding whatever of privately owning assets from what you’ve earned, the lack of any understanding of the word “incentive” … mindboggling until we realise we really are under full blown communism now.


15. Steve has a Neil O double at 850

… but it seems Them have blocked it.

Try these

 

  1. Which number stood for England in Nelson’s signal?
  2. What was: “L’Angleterre compte que chacun fera son devoir”?
  3. What was Lieutenant John Pasco’s job?
  4. What in the ground caused the Aberfan slurry slide?
  5. Significance of the Danville train in the Civil War?
  6. What did Cornwallis later do in Ireland?
  7. Where was the US v France Quasi War mainly fought?

Monday [10 to 14]

(1108) Hmmmm, usually thinking ladies at lunchtime about now, only two pics so far, shall postpone till Friday, run something else around 1330. Chores day here, handwashing clothes and bedding just now. (1313)

 

14. Rupert Lowe back home



13. Steve has three links up at 850


12. Mark Steyn


11. Wes watch

Over at AKH:

https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/10/the-wes-watch.html

10. Sleeper topics

Sometimes, some news looks like a “snippet”, not a filler, as it really was news, but no plan to expound. That was the first thought, looking at Laura Perrins:


… and at her post at TCW:

Kindly put your toes away, I’m trying to eat

Essentially, concerning a high-end restaurant, not cafe, Michelin starred, in Tuscany and her two points are firstly about a restaurant owner who wants one star removed as he’d prefer to be more downmarket, less “w*nky”, more popular … and secondly … about feet and toes putting her off her food.

I’d agree about a high-end eatery as a rule, esp. in the evening but … and again, it’s a big butt … this is Italy she’s talking about, presumably in summer … hot climate and the girls have these designer flat sandals costing a fortune, floral, gemstone, suitable for semi-formal day wear … plus gals always seem to have as much upper foot and ankle on show across the world as possible … why not … it’s a gal thing, innit?

Plus, if you do have a nice set of pins and their lower extremities are shapely, not mutant, no awful tatts … such as in her post pic … then to my mind, it’s less of an issue for a pretty gal … maybe for a raucous demi-man it is.

With men though, the hairy beasts, well, the less of their flesh I see, the better, sorry to offend you boys. Men, let’s face it, are better covered than uncovered … even supposed Adonises.

Back to the gals one moment … it really depends on femininity. One of the greatest turnoffs in Britain is those gigolos and hard, near-naked hoofers who dance with them on shows such as Strictly. Thing is … they really feel they’re ravishing.

I’m going to take a random file pic from archives of one lady I find better than any of those celebs, stars, whatever … how about … hmmmm, this lady:

Can’t get much better than her!

Monday [6 to 9]

(0758) Just coming light … bleah out there. (0853)

 

9. Trafalgar


8. Aberfan October 21st, 1966


Bells of Rhymney preceded Aberfan but the spirit of the song fits the circumstances in 1966.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bells_of_Rhymney

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster


7. More of the same


My thought on this is it’s a bit like speculators “shorting” … get in, making a big thing of it, get out. Dominion is reaching backlash stage, they’ll fight with litigation, get out, change the name, start over … the blackmailed will say nothing.

Further:


6. Alex Bath, my financial go-to man, says

Saw a comment on it: “With all the government spending this seems logical, no?”

Monday [1 to 5]

(0614) Late start for me again … Trump trolls Harris in a McDonald’s, Tommy R returning to probable arrest. (0729)

 

5. Buying the utopian lie

… the one which feeds our fantasies. I say “our” as males have hopeless dreams as well.


The reality is that females have immense power in a society based around chivalry and “cuteness” of kids and usefulness of women … how many men who achieved had strong women behind them? Plus the skills set in areas men are not fabulous in … it’s a perfect blend.

But evil muvvers fed unrealistic fantasies of worth, value, ability beyond … listen to Danika Patrick on what women can actually do and can’t … and so it’s coming back to bite feminist-blinded demi-women … sommit awful. Meanwhile, western men are increasingly wimpy and emasculated … do women really want pet poodle males?

But the main strength of chivalry was that it papered over obvious gaps in ability and achievement in both sexes. And the Christian church wedding did actually mean something … look at the numbers who stuck together, stuck it out … look at the stability. Threatening it was always men’s arrogance, bullying, women’s harpiness, men’s over-reaction. Egos. Matriarchies are utter bollox but so are gross patriarchies giving themselves insufferable airs.

Why oh why can’t they find that middling way? What is so difficult about that? Well a pastor would instantly say … the Tempter and Liar since antiquity of course.

The truth of any of this is somewhere nebulously in the grey zone, not at the extremes. Give and take.

4. Steve selection from 849

Evets 4: Sky News (AUS) Reporter Roasts Kamala Harris For Falsely Trying To Take Credit For Death of Hamas Leader: “We? We will always bring you to justice?”

Evets 3: The All-Too-Short List of Conservative, Anti-Globalist Leaders

Evets 2: Zelensky Admits Capitulation But Calls For Escalation

Evets 1: Two nefarious organisations are attempting to shape how Ofcom regulates “disinformation” under the Online Safety Act

3. It’s because people enable it

Looking beyond the Bernie and Lucy v Lowles and The Machine issue itself, the next step is how they continue to get away with it, the bad people … coz they do get away with it, with total impunity. And what of police officers failing to act? Jobsworthism? And cynical Jenrick finally pretending to be “of the right”? People buy that?

2. Finks indeed

In a world where despised pollies know only three things … photo ops, soundbites and failing to address core questions, that was so in yer face, the Gates and Fink meeting … they did not exactly disguise it, did they?

1. DAD drops in at 850

a) The 2025 budget presented by the French government includes an increase of almost 10% in the amount allocated to State Medical Aid (Aide médicale d’État, or AME), a publicly funded system for paying for migrants’ healthcare.

b) A leaked email has shown that Italian leftists within the judicial branch are seeking to derail Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s immigration policies amid the standoff over removing illegals to Albania.

c) Cuba’s electrical grid collapsed again on Sunday, the fourth such failure in 48 hours, with a hurricane making landfall to compound the island’s misery and threaten further havoc on its decrepit infrastructure.

d) The Guardian is evil.

JH: Haven’t looked yet but am guessing it’s about describing the girl beaten to a pulp as “smacking”. (0623) Ah no, different other topic. I’ll keep an eye open for the “smacking” one.

Sunday [14 till close of play]

(1659) Evening all, hope it was a good weekend.

 

21. Would you like French fries with that?

20. Scotland the efficient


19. Toodles has an unattributed post at UHC

… interesting.

18. Whatever you think of RFK Jnr

… he did win this case … there are implications:


17. Three items I’d call Gals’ Biz … best I run them now

a.

b.

c.


16. Steve at 849


15. DAD at 849

… shows how to move a house with just 600 hands.

14. Storm Ashley

Was going to run the plastic patio chair tipped over but then looked and we are … er … in a sort of storm. It’s centred on Scotland and NI but the wind shadow extends south to batter the Welsh coast, parts of England as well … west coast though, not inland, not south, e.g. not over Bristol, Poole.

Anglesey has it worse than us:


Speaking personally, the wind direction is hitting the other side of our hill and is therefore diminished on our house … my neighbours are getting it worse than I am. Message now is that John Lennon airport has just been closed.

So it is actually a “thing”, Ashley, it’s certainly happenning.