Monday [6 to 10]
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10. Moosh corner
… she’s in Amsterdam today, assures us not in the red light district 🙂
9. The sacred feminin?
8. IYE under “Sun till close of play”
… had an item on sophiology. For a Christian, it’s anathema, it’s the other side’s, the illumined’s “sacred feminin”, in the tradition of Lilit, different other beast to, say, Mary Magdalene.
7. Redacted
There are, in the sidebar, and esp. under last night’s last post, so many topics, so many memes as well I’ll keep dipping into. This was one:
6. More housekeeping
Systems issue … unlike our “beloved guests” pouring into the country, Redacted’s flooding of the comments thread poses a conundrum, in that they’re quality rantings, with useful links … I see this deep digging usefulness more in line with IYE’s style.
Issue is that, with “comments” not being set up in forum format, but as a nested-comments thread under each post … there’s no issue with that whatever in itself … just comment away.
The issue is in the sidebar widget, which displayed 12 comments till a few minutes ago, when I increased it to 15. I looked at changing site themes, e.g. to that of UHC-WP, which puts the comment count near the top of the post but some advantages of this current theme stayed my hand.
Hmmmmm. The dilemma is how to still get the Redacted input whilst not flooding the sidebar widget, driving everyone else’s comments into the ether?
There’s a way around it … by scrolling to the foot of the post and if you see a comments count there … click … plus that works for a fortnight, thank goodness, which means as long as anyone’s likely to be interested. Also, it’s a nicer, more contextual way to read and to add comments … it’s probably the least bad option just now.
The flooded sidebar is still useful … it just tells me to go to the other method of scrolling down the front page => older posts => scroll down again => rinse and repeat. None of it’s a core problem, plus we pick up great pointers along the way.
The Pembleton
Monday [1 to 5]
(0623) Morning all … a late (for me) start but that helps with the day’s doings, as it repairs and restores. There’ll be a “Housekeeping” post in Mon 2, between DAD and Steve. (0757)
5. Advance UK
4. Big beautiful bill*
It’s obviously of concern to many. I draw that conclusion through this number bothering to note my own comment (uncommon occurrence in more than two people on X) …
… which translates into huge numbers retweeting big accounts … Thune is obviously not the most popular man in the US just now.
3. Steve at 1091
- Elon Musk Goes Off On President Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” After Senate Makes a Significant Change to the Legislation *(see Mon 4)
- Spain to Jail Parents for Protecting Kids from Gender Transitions
- Austrian Schoolchildren Forced to Learn Arabic
- New Female Intel Chief of MI6 Is Revealed To Be Granddaughter of Ukrainian “Butcher”
- Iranian fatwah on Trump
- B-2 Bomber Pilots Who Bombed Iran’s Nuclear Facilities Will Visit the White House
- Russia’s Largest Airstrike On Ukraine Since The Start Of The Conflict
- Rising CO2 levels are making trees BIGGER and stronge
- 2,000 people in two days: Citizen patrols at the German-Polish border
- Much more.
2. Housekeeping
By using comments as jumping off points for further exploration, in a brainstorming rather than confrontational, adversarial, oratorical way, there’s always going to be a downside … by the very nature of our commenters being forthright, there are potential clashes as tavern patrons are dropping in from all different places and angles.
Our whole approach here is “just the facts, ma’am” … civilly.
It’s one reason I can’t go “over-denominational” in Christianity … but at the same time … can’t be “milquetoast” about the core principles … it’s just the trappings, pageantry, chanting and praying to any but the Triune God which I don’t run with … this is an internal matter within the faith.
Outside that, from the Great Science Godists, e.g. the Royal Society, Smithsonian, IPCC, to the straight out atheists … well, that’s your bed you choose to lie in.
MMutR points out a constant observation … the moment you go beyond core statements, e.g. freedom of thought, word and deed … the problems begin, as even if we’re agreed in general, in principle, the very next policy someone thinks that includes is very much NOT included by so many others.
Therefore any progress is stifled or stymied … unherdable cats simply cannot combine for long enough. So it’s far more a case of Alliances within this “parliament” rather than Party positions which need to prevail. It was always tricky in WW2 with the various national armies combining for the combined goal.
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In practical terms, on this blog, as long as there are provided sufficient outlets … HQ, NOWP, UHC, Jstack … then you can put your ideas fairly freely and civilly but with two caviats:
a. No Wokery whatever;
b. We’re going to be using the scrolling and click in and out a heck of a lot.
Redacted and Steve tend to expand and cover ground … that’s their way, I’m loathe to influence it. Equally, I’ll repost some, signpost others, comment on some, not on others, according to the material, nothing to do with any ranking order … keep it as freeflowing as poss, though always watching out for trollery, e.g. pushing MMCChange as a “thang” … go somewhere else for that guff.
There’s a principle here too … what you don’t like to see here, someone else does like … you have a clicking finger and scroll wheel, no? And finally … if I see the M or I word “in plain”, I’m going to redact, euphemise, codify … for security reasons. Regular tavern visitors know that full well.
1. DAD at 1091
All very quiet here in France, perhaps it was the hot week-end, so I have dug out some news from earlier in the month.
a) A culture-enriching “French” youngster has been arrested for plotting an attack on synagogues, sex shops, and other dens of infidel infamy….
b) French mayors have been stepping down at an unprecedented rate, with almost 2,200 resignations since 2020….
c) Ms. Bergeaud-Blackler interviews Dr. Herrera at length about jihad, Europe, and the submission of the West to….
d) The constitutional court of Berlin has approved a planned citizens’ petition to limit drastically the use of private cars in the German capital….
Sunday [16 till close of play]
(1702) Evening all … another day done.
20. Women’s and girls’ safety, plus boys’
@WomenSafety_UK … @officialsammyuk … @SamanthaTaghoy … @RupertLowe10
What these and many others now are doing is great … ending rape gangs, women unsafe, justice … good but you also need to educate girls not to go near known bad demographics for girls. 👇🏻Plus for boys … I was abused multiple times as a boy.
19. Kate
18. Twats
17. Dearieme
It’s all very well saying “That judge must be moron” but the US has indeed made a moron into a SCOTUS Justice. When allied with the semi-moron and the Dem hack woman, they provide a steady three votes for any decision likely to harm the USA.
The “Dem hack woman” is the subject of this:
16. Steve at 1091
Hearts of Oak: Dr Andrew Wakefield – RFK Jr.’s Health Revolution, Autism Review and Transforming Vaccine Narratives
Plus: on 5. Andy at 1090:
Iraq (Blair), Libya (Cameron), Ukraine (Johnson). We’re up to our necks in it. The new head of our Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) is the granddaughter of Constantine Dobrowolski, a long deceased Ukrainian soldier who served with the SS during WW2. She goes by the name of Blaise Metreweli but that is the surname of her mother’s second husband David, a Georgian. Her father’s surname was Dobrowolski however he later changed it to that of his stepfather. She’s a strange choice indeed. Stranger still is UK foreign policy in Eurasia since the reign of Queen Victoria.
Plus: 9. Legalese:
A type of language lawyers use and Jackson has her very own version..
Early Tuba Skinny
From the clarinetist in the first … to the mayhem in the second in which Shaye goes all clucky … to the unbridled energy in the last … this is early Tuba Skinny in a spirit of long-before-Covid fun … cunning plan is these now, two more next week, with a third from another band yet to be decided.
Sun Mat
Sunday [11 to 15]
(1149) Afternoon all by the time this closes. (1510)
15. Meanwhile, in Ireland
14. Tinderbox
13. The female sex did not send their best
… come to think of it, the males in there are just as bad.
12. From Trump HQ
11. TPA newsletter (paragraph from)
“So why is the health service so inefficient? In large part it’s due to the NHS spending balance. Capital spending, the money used for investments long term, is often raided to pay for day-to-day spending needs. In most cases, this is bailing out trusts in debt or hiring more staff. While this is good for headlines, it is not the best way to improve productivity.”
Divertimento
Sunday [6 to 10]
(0821) Slow just now, as befits a Sunday. (0853)
10. History girl
… who has some sort of connection with Bobbie:
9. Legalese
8. In one
7. Stating the bleedin’ obvious
… still necessary:
6. From Michael Schiavo, Traffic Court judge, NYS
… on Quora today:
“In George Martin’s memoir, All You Need Is Ears, he said this about his first meeting with The Beatles:
“I remember George Harrison being the most talkative at that first meeting, and Pete Best not saying a word throughout that whole afternoon. But he did have the advantage of being the handsomest of the group. His drumming, on the other hand, was not good. At the end of the test (the audition), I took Brian (Epstein) to one side and said, ‘I don’t know what you’re going to do with the group as such, but this drumming isn’t good enough for what I want. It isn’t regular enough. It doesn’t give the right kind of sound. If we do make a record, I’d much prefer to have my own drummer — which won’t make any difference to you, because no one will know who’s on the record anyway.’ What I didn’t realize at the time was that the group already wanted Pete Best out and Ringo Starr in, and that my remarks were something in the nature of a last straw.”
The accounts I’ve read describe Best as a drummer of very limited skills who had trouble with basic tasks like keeping a steady beat. It sounds to me like the decision to remove Best was the right thing to do.”
In my own lil ole way, I too was dumped as a drummer as essentially lacking sparkle, vision, though as the keeper of the kit, they had to come to my place for rehearsals. I was 14 at that time. In retrospect, they were quite right to drop me. Our repertoire included Wild Thing, Gloria, Little Red Riding Hood, She Loves You Yeah Yeah Yeah, Wooly Bully. We were called The Other Side.