“Dr. Paul Thomas: “We looked at every single patient born into my practice… We stratified them according to the number of vaccines they had… and what we found was actually even mind-boggling for myself.””
Oh my goodness, went completely out of synch there … Wednesday disappeared, DAD borrowed it and had a second Wednesday … we must get our act together, crew!
(1420) Was sorting out Christmas shopping for the limited number involved, time got away. (1452)
16. When you’ve made yourself obnoxious to all and sundry
… money and destructiveness may remain …
15. Well it’s one view
14. Aixelsyd can be a problem
13. Lord T reports from the BBC
Cash use in the shops rose for a second year in a row after a decade of falls, according to retailers.
Notes and coins were used in a fifth of transactions last year, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said, as shoppers found cash helped them to budget better.
The amount spent per purchase also dropped slightly from £22.43 in 2022, to £22.03 last year, it said.
The findings were published after charities told a committee of MPs that numerous groups were excluded from essential services and community venues that had started to refuse cash.
(0657) Greetings humans, this dark morning as we hurtle towards the shortest day. (0749)
7. Badenoch
6. It would make a MAGA blanche
5. Rare earth
That’s according to TGP … problem for me is the map, leaving out Oz uranium and bauxite. The map is clipped at the bottom … not my doing … which is as annoying as I sometimes get to be 😎. However, as the story is that China is banning certain key elements, this might affect the USA’s warmaking ability … or else it’s a giant Pentagon ruse. 🍿🍿🍿
“One of the PM’s stock phrases is ‘fixing the foundations.’ Is he the one to do it?
‘Starmer is already in a flat spin from which he will not recover,’ Dominic Cummings said last week (47:46). ‘He has no idea how to do the job… He will just thrash around failing.’”
JH (0713): Nor have any of them except Putin and Trump it seems.
Four: SpaceX Wins Contract To ‘Destroy’ NASA’s International Space Station, Cicago resident upset, Eric Adams acting interestingly just now, plenty more.
Three: Navarro, Hegseth, Newsome, plenty more.
Two: Alex C you saw below, Russian army, war situation, more.
One: German lab has started to offer tests for spike proteins and plasmid DNA, Arla’s drug, Trump news, more.
2. DAD has his time-war at 899
z) Thursday [I think, since yesterday was Wednesday. But the day before yesterday was also Wednesday; so, it may be it’s Friday. I leave it to you to decide]
a) The French National Assembly brought down Michel Barnier’s government. An unprecedented move since 1962, which plunges the country into a period of great political and financial uncertainty, six months after the dissolution.
b) French President Emmanuel Macron has vowed that he will not resign no matter the result of Wednesday’s no confidence vote in Prime Minister Michel Barnier, which is likely to collapse the second Macronist government this year.
c) I am pleased to announce that Peter Navarro, a man who was treated horribly by the Deep State, or whatever else you would like to call it, will serve as my Senior Counselor for Trade and Manufacturing.
d) d) It would appear that the BBC, like Sir Kneeler, does not know what a woman is.
The two compositional issues in putting up every post can be divided thus: a) one par for the course in this game b) one unnecessarily complicated. Both take the same length of time to prepare … thereby doubling what used to be a simple operation at ggl.
*The first is reducing size/resolution of images so as not to fill up disk space … it’s called compression and each image must be done … look at the number of images used here, inc. screenshots of text. No moaning about that … it’s part of the job.
*The unnecessary bit is this overcomplication of composing and posting at WP, called block. Ggl is a dream, comparatively.
As I’m in this “between two sleeps” mode, heater off, under the covers, I’m not keen to do both the above* in the middle of the night, so have done a) resized/compressed images for tomorrow morning … er … later this morning … but b) the actual posting, is an utter pain at WP so in a few hours when I can face it, refreshed.
Meanwhile, here’s Alex C, from Steve’s 898:9b and the reason to run it expanded is at the start, where a clip of Tucker speaking in Moscow is most disturbing. See you again in a few hours.
Cheers to my good friend Gail Slater on this crucial nomination by President Trump to lead the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division. Gail Slater is a brilliant antitrust attorney and America First populist.
23. Navarro
22. Awwww, shucks!
Truly someone said: “Evil indeed is that man who has not at least one woman to mourn for him, to weep …” or words to that effect. Well Pete H is going to have many women watching his back.
By the way, my mum’s birthday is this week.
21. IYE at 898
George Webb was mentioned elsewhere. Regarded as iffy (and flaky) in the past so not willing to go down that rabbit hole again. A lot of his stuff has been scrubbed from the web (no pun intended!)
Can’t verify this source either so fwiw, if anything …
20. Another six snippets
There was another tweet saying Jenrick was always an opportunist … so who knows?
19. Housekeeping
I’m concerned that our chaps and chapesses here who drop drops don’t get miffed at my skipping over some items, posting others. For example, Juan’s are vital but must not go on the main page just to protect the sources. We live in the present here … the comments thread in the sidebar lasts 12 comments … during that time, serious commenters should have noted the posts under which vital urls appeared which they might wish to access much later.
They’re not going anywhere, those urls, plus I have the advantage in that I can just find Juan in comments in the engine room. It’s far more piecemeal for the reader though … once it’s off the page, it’s far more difficult for him/her to find again. In short, I’ve buried it in a mass of posting. As mentioned, it’s still there but ya gotta find it yourself, ditto with NOWP.
Bloodymindedness on my part? Security, people, simply security. In previous iterations of the blog, having lists of posts and urls turned out to be too easy pickings for hostile people … it needs to be diffused.
So good droppers, there’s no question of ignoring you … it’s simply what we can afford to run openly … and what is buried. Write on paper if it’s vital … something like “Sun Dec 1: n12” or something like that … keep scraps of paper in a box or tin … I keep mine in a tray.
One thing which will not work, nor should it, is to ask me much later if I remember some link … no, I don’t … both genuinely due to failing memory … plus deliberately, as eyes watch out for this as well as yours. All this is esp. so in Starmerland.
Healthwise, I just ate, did chores (moving about), upped the sipping with lemon … already feeling better.
18. Steve at 898
On Chad Chronister, then:
Incoming White House Deputy Chief of Staff @StephenM: “Everything in the world is going to change on January 20th because the President of the United States is going to use every single legal, diplomatic and financial tool to halt the entry of all illegal aliens into this country.”
Plus war room:
Raheem, Burisma, Natalie, Liz Harrington.
17. Andy at 898
Andy also has a Neil Oliver over there.
16. Thlot pickens … at 1639
15. The drop in same-demographic babies
Plus this from Mandy in Ireland:
14. Even after everything in 12 and 13, this hangs over us
… like a sword of Damocles:
13. First half of twelve “shorts” which need posting
12. Frankly, I’m not well and must act
It’s core … heart, arteries … I can surmise a few causes:
Exercise dropping off
Water sipping dropping off
Too much choc, milk, dairy, that sort of thing
Dropping off of meat and veg
Taking shortcuts with packet additives
Winter cold contracting arteries
Being outside
Way too much internet … radiation etc.
They’re just a few possible reasons. Another way of viewing it is when I feel worst:
When sleep is too much, too little, body not moving
Lately, even std exercise causing jabs of pain, nothing too dire yet
Failing on the above list.
And when feeling best?
After two sleeps are done, of about 3.5 hours each
When sipping water all day, less coffee … maybe I’ll start tea
When in an exercise regime
When at least I’m physically moving, not sitting or prone
Better diet regime
Not going outside
Stopping time, not getting older, ha ha.
Today, I had to go out a few times for some time … was not good. All right, that’s for me to sort. Meanwhile, “just” at Leggy’s pointed to this … take it or leave it:
