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Labor Day is in the rearview mirror and the long, sickening slide into we-know-not-what (but it can’t-be-good) commences! Well, there are a few things we know, but only in the shaggy outlines because the folks who are supposed to inform us — the news media, the public health gang — like to keep the real action behind a scrim of unicorns cavorting through a rainbow-lit candyland. Of course, we are not all the idiots they want us to be.
Here’s one thing we sort of know: you-all vaxx-happy Wokesters are about to have a new BA-5 bivalent booster laid on you. The Darwin Award season has been extended at least another six months! You’ll be glad to hear it’s been tested in a trial involving eight lab mice, and quickly approved by our FDA. The bad news is that all eight mice got Covid. The worse news is that the booster was wildly inconsistent in producing antibodies among the eight identical mice, meaning the ultimate effect on their immune systems is a crap-shoot — but, hey, they’re only mice.
Thus, some more good news: humans were so far spared any testing for this new miracle treatment. Pfizer and Moderna didn’t hurt anyone in any cobb-job trials, like they did the first time around (hiding the results). The not-so-good news is: nobody, especially no one in the FDA, has any idea what effect the new booster will have on humans. The best news is that our beneficent government will only make the new vax available to people who are already vaxxed. You have to be “eligible,” in the club, so to speak. Aren’t you special! I never joined that club, so it works for me.
I’d suppose, though, that a lot of people who originally joined the vaxx club will demur from pharma’s latest offering. Actually, most of them. Perhaps they’ve heard that each shot drains more mojo from your immune system. Perhaps they’ve heard about friends and relatives who developed sudden vicious cancers, neurological difficulties, vascular disasters, or lingering, unshakable Covid symptoms. Suppression of news has been epic, of course, but surely you’re aware that Justin Bieber lost the use of half his face six months ago. No world tour for Justin.
Another thing we know (this one for certain): a new leading cause of death throughout Western Civ in people under 60 is “Cause Unknown.” At least that’s the official designation because the officials running public health and the medical establishment don’t want to know what’s killing people. Or, more precisely, they don’t want you to know, so they pretend not to know.
If they suddenly felt the itch of curiosity, they might discover that the mRNA shots were behind the spread of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) — the interchangeable and equally ambiguous tag for this mystifying phenomenon. That might suggest to a Nancy Drew level medical sleuth that mRNA vaccines are not good for you, not “safe and effective,” that is, meaning that the entire two-plus-years of vaxxing up roughly 260,000,000 Americans has been a fraud, which would vacate Moderna’s and Pfizer’s liability shield for these products. Cue, every lawyer born after 1940.
Another thing we know for sure now is that people who are vaccinated are far more likely to catch Covid and also more likely to be hospitalized for it. One in fourteen Brits are currently infected with it, mainly the vaxxed-and-boosted. The media propaganda is full of people bragging that their bout of Covid, or several bouts of Covid — from which they were supposedly immune — “could have been much worse.” Actually, for many of the vaccinated, it is much worse. They don’t hear about it because the news media won’t tell them, and the news media executives do what their commissars in government and pharma tell them to do. “Jump!” (“How high?”)
A federal judge this week ordered the White House, Anthony Fauci, Secretaries Becerra and Mayorkas, and a slew of other US officials to surrender their email correspondence with social and news media companies in the matter of government working to suppress the first amendment and, in the censoring, de-platforming, and defaming of many individual citizens who attempted to present views of the Covid melodrama contrary to the official narratives. This was in a suit brought by state Attorneys General Eric Schmidt (MO) and Jeff Landry (LA). From it, a million more lawsuits for personal injury may bloom. Mark Zuckerberg let the cat out of the bag days ago as to how the FBI leaned right on him.
Prepare for an avalanche of unwelcome news evading the censors as we slide out of summer into the cold-and-flu season, as it’s called. Hundreds of millions throughout the highly-vaxxed nations will be walking around with crippled immune systems. The life insurance companies may require a bail-out, from all those “unknown causes” that killed people. But so will every other institution in Western Civ.
Alas, the money for that is fated go up in a vapor later this fall as the history’s greatest margin call gets underway. Let’s face it, Europe and North America are sloughing off their industrial economies and the financialization racketeering underneath all that doesn’t produce anything of value. Seventy percent of the pubs in the UK are shuttering because they can’t pay the electric bill. Germany is just flat-out hanging itself the basement. The Euro is going to trash.
A little birdie told me to expect a last gasp stock market rally the next ten days, with the Dow nearing 35,000. What a set-up. Markets are truly diabolical the way they prey on human wishes. God help the suckers watching CNBC.
Following his Mouth-of-Hell speech last week, declaring war on half the country, “Joe Biden’s” prospects are dimming along with sclerotic circuits in his brainpan. The Party of Chaos is desperate to survive the midterm election. Therefore, look for them to grudge up an excuse to make them not happen. They need a “national emergency” and they’ll manufacture one if necessary. Wait for it.
A postscript: the seemingly everlasting presence of Queen Elizabeth has peacefully departed this plane of existence. The old girl had a mighty good run, perhaps the best that will ever be, temporally at least, for any sovereign outside the sci-fi movies. This leaves Britain and its chattel domains with a king, Charles III. I’ve long identified, in a half-assed way, with this quirky fellow. We were born only a month apart, and I’ve witnessed all of his agonizing endless wait for the electric moment when he would rise to the crown and scepter.
Charles was very active in mid-life in the New Urbanist movement, as I was. I gave some talks in those years to the Prince’s Foundation, though I never met the guy. He did some really nice work, notably building the walkable town of Poundbury, Dorset, which he sponsored as a demonstration project to show that England would benefit from quitting its mode of suburban sprawl — which it most surely must do now with all its oil-and-gas problems.
There is chatter that King Charles has lately become a tool of der Hoch Schwabenklaus and his World Economic Forum, with its Satanic program for revising the human project into a nanobot horror show. I hope that is not so. The world needs a lot of help right now, and not from that gang. Here’s wishing Charles an upright and valiant go at the kingship thing, at least lending some honest moral support to his floundering country.
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Eight cord in the pile. C’mon Winter! Pantry & root cellar are full… it’s gonna be one hell of a show!
Yes but can you defend it from all those that believe they are entitled to what others have?
We are about to see a sea change in those now on the government tit when currency stops working. If they can’t buy what they need do you think it might occur to them to visit your house some night?
I posted about this on Monday, I think, the fact that there is “emergency” legislation that allows the government to do just this.
I’ve been yelling for some time that the issue the candidates need to be running on is taking away their so-called emergency powers so that crimes against humanity, like that covid fiasco, can never happen again.
What I overlooked on Monday, is that I have strong allies pushing this issue to the forefront:
“It is clear that the Covid “emergency” is in fact over and has been for quite some time. The “emergency” is being maintained for one reason only — it allows pharmaceutical companies to manufacture and sell products that do not meet the legal requirements for sale under other than “Emergency Use Authorization.”
It is long past the point where we, the people, must end this charade and thus the following is proposed.”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=246857
If we don’t take care of this now, it does not matter who we elect. They ALL have the same proclivity to play a superhero, and the same stupidity to not know what their job is.
Sunset Clause?
Emergencies end, the authorization to act to meet the emergency should have an extremely short life.
We probably have enough ’emergency’ laws already, an inventory would be appropriate, with a good clean sweep close behind.
Governments readily grab more power but rarely, if ever, relinquish any.
Didn’t the Patriot Act have a sunset clause or two?
Declaring and “emergency” is the classic totalitarian playbook, end run around democratic processes.
Of course, creating the “emergency” precedes declaring the “emergency.”
Cue Reichstag Fire.
Cue 9/11.
Cue Covid.
Next up —
Cue climate emergency?
Cue economic emergency?
Cue war?
Seven years after 9/11 came the economic meltdown of ’08. I’m afraid there may be some shenanigans in or about 9/11/22 that will create further chaos so we all run to Daddy Government for protection from the latest Boogeyman.
Having the right tools and in sufficient quantities will certainly be priority number two but having a network of human beings that can be counted on to protect all of what all of those who prepared have compiled will be priority number one.
Fighting the government is not something that is going to go well without F-16s, (right Joe?), but I would think that depending where you live, marauding bands of ne’er-do-wells will not be that large and can easily be dealt with if you have a dozen or so people that can be counted on and stay alert and under the radar.
I sincerely hope that absolutely NO ONE takes any action against any form of official government, no matter how much they try to goad us into doing something stupid. That is what Dopey Joe wants. If, however, they break down your door in the middle of the night it’s not like they are going to show you any ID first, so I say odds are that they are drug crazed Ninjas and should be dealt with accordingly. You can always ask the Lord to forgive you later.
Sage advice, Walter B.
@ DanandMary:
Pretty much the same situation here–but the canning just continues, as the tomatoes, peppers, and okra are still rolling in non-stop, and soon it will be time to harvest more collards, turnips, and turnip greens. I should have adequare firewood soon, but I don’t need but about two cords. I’m planning to plant lettuce and spinach soon. Spinach will over-winter here, so that it comes back quite early in the spring.
I love to can, but it’s to the point where I’m starting to get tired of it.
I started the process of saving tomato seeds a few days ago (ferment, wash, and dry). I have one tomato plant that is very unusual. It is definitely not one of the varieties I planted–though it certainly came from one of the seed packets. I especially wanted to save the seeds from this one, as (whatever it is) it’s a real winner: immensely productive, good tasting, and very nice looking. I’ve never seen a tomato that was such a uniform brilliant red–not a hint of green shoulders, either. It’s also beatifully ruffled, so it has that heirloom look, and a cross-section cut gives a beautiful slice.
I don’t know if the seed company mixed up some seeds, or if one of the plants they saved the seeds from inadvertently crossed with something else. If the latter, it won’t come true from seed, but it has me curious.
So: seeds saved from the mystery tomato, Cherokee Purple, Persimmon, and Amish Paste. The Early Girls are very productive this year, but this one is a hybrid, so there is not use in saving the seeds. I highly recommend Persimmon, if you want a yellow/orange tomato. The seed is hard to find, and, in the process of saving it, I noticed that it has few seeds. That’s probably why they’re hard to find, as it’s an outstanding variety. (HUGE tomatoes, and lots of them.)
I predict that there will soon be a slew of RICO suits filed against Fauci & Friends. Many thanx to the state AGs mentioned above, and Naomi Wolf, Steve Kirchner, Ed Dowd, et al. for chumming the waters for the private sector attorney sharks.
I hope so. I have long thought that if this thing really turns around that it would kick off in US courts.
Here in Germany, the Bundestag just agreed to start up with masking and offer states the option to go full Nazi again when the fake “incident” counter rises too high.
Keep up the fight.
Germany had a taste of freedom. Didn’t want it; didn’t want it…
Nonsense.
The problem is the coalition of Green and SPD. Look at the vote count. Most of the other parties didn’t even have one member vote yes.
But curiously enough, the WEF partners were installed at just the right time in history, and have just enough of a majority to push tyranny.
Imagine that.
I know quite a few people in Germany, though I wouldn’t claim I could make any sort of judgment about trends based on that. Still – it’s worth noting that every single one of them is desperate to keep sending everything they’ve got to keep the war going in Ukraine, and can’t wait to line up for more jabs and more masks. I’ve wondered exactly how much it will have to personally hurt them before they change their tune, but no sign so far.
Piglet,
The media-conditioned zombies are largely in the big cities. In the villages and smaller cities there are quite a few people not interested in the plan.
Large parts of Sachsen and Thueringen would probably be ungovernable if the nutters push far enough.
I keep saying this, but IMO it is no coincidence that the current government is a coalition of the SPD and Greens. They are the two parties who are largely controlled by the WEF crowd.
I have little doubt the election was fraudulent, and interestingly enough, that idea is starting to get some traction here.
The problem is Germany’s proportional system used in elections. Too many political parties.
I am out of touch with most of my friends in Germany.
One was refusing the jab. Not sure how that ended up for her.
Another, 80 years old, in Munich, was uncomprehending as to why I would not get jabbed.
In Austria, a friend was fretting about her dad, who was refusing. Ca. 80 yrs old. I told her I thought she should be supporting her father in exercising choice and control over his body and not adding to his stress at being coerced into unwanted medical treatment. .
I think they rescinded the mandate and FINES in time for him to escape the claws of death.
My close German relatives had their nice big upper middle class home destroyed in an air raid, and all the habitable part that was left was the basement. So they cleared and worked on the rubble and built a sort of roof for themselves over the basement and for a few years lived like rats, barely making it sort of camping in the ruins. Up until then they’d been living in relative comfort, the next minute BANG and it was over, and it took them at least a decade to get back to where they were, with a lot of help from the Marshall Plan. The house was rebuilt after the war and is now an apartment building where one relative still lives. However, the ones that had learned anything from the Nazi catastrophe have all passed away. It seems the younger Germans just can’t wait to try the basement living routine again, with nothing but rotten potatoes and old sauerkraut to eat. Forget about having any eggs or coffee.
Kunstler says Germans are looking to hang themselves in their basements. My forebears wouldn’t have been interested in that, they’d been working too hard just to make it from one day to the next to throw it all away and chicken out by hanging themselves.
What part of Germany?
Meine Mutter war ein Berliner Kindl.
Munich. Their neighborhood got hit pretty bad.
I lived in Munich for some years.
Schwabing.
Amalienstrasse.
Kaiserstrasse.
Vorher: Hohenzollernplatz.
Then I moved out of the city to a big farm.
Near Tutzing.
Plus ca change . . .
I had a great aunt that lived in Schwabing, she was a musician/artist type. I was told that Schwabing once was to Munich as Greenwich Village was to NYC. Maybe call it the “beatnik” part of town for lack of a better word. And that Lenin once lived there as a rabble rousing young communist/leftist.
Hope so, Bob.
I’ll be amazed if TPTB let any such thing go forward in this endgame stage. They have the nooses already fitted to the majority and hardly a whimper arises in spite of all of their proven gross illegalities and egregiousness already so publicly displayed.
This doesn’t mean I don’t hope you’re correct, but I think things are much further advanced into totalitarianism than we allow ourselves to imagine,
Bob12065, “…chumming the waters…” got a nice five a.m. snort of appreciative laughter out of this elderly language-lover. It has the ring of authenticity and the edge of irony.
Thanks. [cue theme from JAWS.]
England is not that suburban, nothing like the US. The British can walk more.
Her, now His, Majesty’s government is the biggest instigator leading to the Russian Special Military Operation.
Said government pushed for the SANCTIONS that are the root cause of the skyrocketing price of energy, which are wrecking Europe.
Our host had kind words for the new monarch. We will see if he makes the jump from extremely wealthy activist (much richer than say, Al Gore, or Leonardo DiCaprio, with their penchant for mansion and private jets) to figurehead head of state.
My apologies, Britain is SECOND biggest instigator. US DEEP STATE and BIDEN are top (of course Biden had the gravy train from the Ukraine for him and his boy, but that’s not a factor)
The US government is the biggest. But what the UK government lacks in real stature, it has tried to make up for with the MOST bellicose rhetoric.
Some say that Boris Johnson himself torpedoed the peace talks when the Ukraine govt appeared willing to make some “concessions”. While I personally doubt they would have been sufficient, Johnson made it moot and ENSURED the war would go on.
Official US Govt position: “we want to bleed Russia”.
How’s that working for you today, Europe? Tomorrow, Europe and USA? Who is bleeding?
China and India are happy to get your old oil and gas at a discount. Cheers!
And the collective West is going to own nothing and be happy, so we are told.
Or else!
I beg to differ only in that this partnership of elites I think manifests as co-equals going back to the founding of the CFR, a Brit-instigated adjunct to Milner’s Roundtable; the Rhodes Trust arm that has been pushing for world domination since the early 1900s. That includes primary goals such as the re-ascession of the USA into the british Empire. These people are serious about this and also serious in their goal to subsume Russia. After all, they supported not just the Bolsheviks and the ascension of the Nazis pre-WW II, but also started both world wars and the Cold War (1.0) to that very end.
The sad part being, this is documented and well-so, hardly “conspiracy theory.”
Socrates-Detroit – count in Indonesia’s 270 million as potential beneficiaries of cheap energy from the Russian Federation, in spite of a lengthy on-and-off relationship since WW2.
Blinken came, he huffed and puffed, he left, no conquerer. Uncle’s mojo is thinning out fast in East Asia. The whiteys who run Oz and NZ are going to be left standing there with their dicks in their hot little hands. That includes you, JacAr. Honorary dick.
Doesn’t Indonesia have oil?
Or is it now gone?
I do remember that they were a supplier at one time.
It’s almost as if there is such a thing as peak oil, one field at a time.
I am surprised at our host enchantment with British Royalty, and what’s more, with this Charles. These are the most vile, evil creatures the world had ever seen! What is wrong with you people who think that they are some harmless, benevolent, old traditional establishment that is there doing some good? Far from it! On the contrary, they are an integral part and parcel of this indescribably evil, satanic, parasitic entity that is trying to destroy us all, as a human race.
And always HAVE been, but the brainwashing of public with regard to this “Royalty” has been exceptional!
Among many, David Icke has been exposing them for the last 30 years; read some of his work to get a much clear picture. It would make your hair stand on end..
Naw Charles isn’t evil. He’s just a dunce. The royal family as an institution on the other hand…
Now, we will see how “not evil” he is. I think you might be dissapointed. This is the so-called “royal family” where his father, the parasitic Duke of Edinburg, proclaimed some years ago, that he wished to be re-incarnated as a VIRUS to reduce the global population of “useless eaters” – that’s us. That is how these parasites see the human race. To them we ARE the useless garbage that needs to be exterminated, since we consume the finate global resources, which they believe, should belong only to them! The plan is to reduce the global population by 3/4, leaving just enough to serve their needs, i.e. slaves.
For this purpose, wars are great, where millions get killed and what is even better is a made-up “pandemic”, where they can “vaccine” you with a kill-shot. And if that does not work right away, you will be receiving the “boosters” to finish the job!
Tell me this is not an absolute satanic evil.
i too am amazed at so many people i follow/read/watch …. how they can be so insightful in areas and then blinded in others, that shows they are not putting so many of the obvious pieces together. i followed peak oil,,, even sat at a conference table with the host himself. but i have since learned,,, that dissing “urban sprawl” promotes compact, walkable smart cities that are indeed fuel-less with complete track/trace/social credit systems easily implemented. i’d be curious what jhk things about rosa koire’s work regarding the master plan for intentional urban sprawlessness. charles 3 seems to be in his prime as the poster king to push it down our throats like we have never seen.
England and Europe are not as suburban as the US, but they’ve been catching up in the last 50 years. I had the pleasure to visit Sweden 8 times a while back while working for a Swedish company. I’d rent a car and drive around after work. Once you get out of the postcard city centers, you could be in suburban Detroit or Minneapolis.
I totally agree. The “newer” parts of Athens (say post 1980s/90s) tend to be in areas that are further out (this being a relative term), and are NOT served by the buses. So these people need a car to get to wherever, or to get where they can park and ride.
The distances are smaller, but the traffic moves more slowly. Covering 10 miles by car in Athens can take as long as 25 or 30 miles in metro Detroit.
And Greece is one of the “poorest” EU countries. Even the TV shows and commercials show bigger nicer homes, which are further way.
While there are many more of them, they are a rather small percentage of the population.
Heat and electricity are more pressing, for most people. If the buses and trains run, not having a car can be inconvenient, but it’s not like being carless in the US. I suspect northern Europe is similar.
Remember decades ago when every now and then a photo would show up of streets in China clogged with thousands upon thousands of bicycles? That’s where Europe is heading.
I’m starting bicycling again and trying to get in shape for longer rides. I’ve a few friends a lot younger than myself that are bike nuts. They can get places very fast, and think nothing of riding 30 miles round trip to go somewhere. Not having a car wouldn’t slow them down all that much. In city traffic like NYC, sometimes a bike can get you someplace faster than a car can.
I used to love riding my bike in NYC. That was in the 1980s. You could get from the Upper West Side to the Village in about 20 mins, on 11th or 12th or maybe it was 10th Ave.
It was the best way to appreciate NYC—Flying downtown with the river on your right . . .
Woodchuck, yep, I just got done with a 4 mile ride up the big hill and over, the one they call Slide Hill, that is the big hurdle on the road to town. At almost 70 and ex-smoker, that’s pretty good. We must keep pushing, though.
To quote Nelson DeMille, the future has gone from being a place that people welcomed, even celebrated, to a place that more and more people don’t want to be. At least that’s how I remember it. i guess time has a way of disappointing all of us.
People disappoint themselves with “tomorrow is going to be better”.
It is a slow march to death after all.
Nelson had some sort of issue with his publisher, and switched when his Cuba novel came out.
I had been noticing areound the time when he book came out, when I was still reading a lot of books, that an unusually high number of new books contained gratuitous criticism of Donald Trump. Even in novels.
It also appeared to have been added to the books after they’d been written. As if it were a condition of getting your work published.
I once drove with a Brit on his first trip to NYC. He was amazed that you could drive for hours and still be in the middle of nowhere, before you got there.
Shoulda taken him to Texas.
My dad had a poem for Texas:
The sun has ris
The sun has set
And here we are
In Texas yet
Actually I said it wrong:
The sun has ris
The sun has set
And here we is
In Texas yet.
That way it rhymes.
I love that! Thanks, Paula.
I used to have a car like that, Beryl.
@Hereward: every time I you post, I see your name as “Werewolf”, LOL.
Wherewolf?
Therewolf!
There caslte!
youtube.com/watch?v=9Gt3QY2Aa2I
Ha! Cactus girl, I think you’ve discovered my alter-ego! Don’t tell the others here, will you! 🙂
Hahahaha. I have had that a few times, too.
Werewolf the Woke.
Change your name, Hereward.
Some years ago, while attending the big airshow in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, I met a Brit who was there with some other friends from England. He was a flight attendant for British Airways, and his whole experience of the USA at that point was JFK airport and the hotel. They put him in my buddy’s small plane and flew him around rural Wisconsin, and he was absolutely overwhelmed by the open farmland that stretched to the horizon in all directions. Just couldn’t get over it.
their whole big island is only about 600 miles long and 300 across at the wide bit down the bottom. further north it’s not even a hundred miles across.
sort of like a drive to visit the rellies when I was an outback kid.
the 600 miles or thousand kms one I meant.
My dad used to drive 1200 kms or 720 miles to visit his girlfriend.
As far as I know he did it in one go every time, just straight through.
Just measured it on the google map and it’s 1200 km as the crow flies, so even further by road.
well, being google there’s no excuse to not just ask, 1583 kms via the Bruce Hwy (yes really, Bruce) or 1676 kms via the Gregory Hwy.
The Bruce Highway runs along the scenic coast, while the Gregory goes up the tablelands behind the Great Dividing Range
please start walking home then. . .
The mere thought of “royalty” is repugnant and should have been stricken from the history centuries ago.
Here’s hoping the British, Dutch, Belgians, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, Norwegians, Swedish, and Spanish vanquish the idea sooner rather than later.
Aw, c’mon. Every country deserves a mascot.
I was never a fan of Lizzie et al, but if you have to have a head of state, I prefer someone like her a million times more than some crummy PoS president like Biden or Macron.
I like the living history aspect of it.
Wasn’t she from a different branch that the old ones?
Here’s a handy chart.
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a20736482/british-royal-family-tree/
I agree, Beryl. She gracefully represented Britain far better than any diplomat could do, and worked until the day before she died. Anyone who thinks someone in her position has a comfy life is grossly misinformed. No privacy, every action scrutinized, constantly meeting strangers and having to make small talk, endless formal dinners where you can’t choke or sneeze, that red case of papers to be read and understood every single day of your life, thousands of public appearances where you have to smile, look tidy and not trip over your own feet. I can’t imagine anything worse, and a few luxurious rooms (which is all you can really live in) would certainly be poor payment. And then to see your life portrayed on tv, entirely made up by writers, and be unable to say a word about it. A form of torture, I’d say.
Britain has a long history, and to just throw away all the ceremony and tradition and become yet another poor, drab little socialist country with no history at all, brimming with migrants who hate everything about it and everyone in it. A sad fate, and a needless one.
As for Charles, I’ve worried in recent years but really admired him when he was younger. I remember his advocacy of the book “Small is Beautiful,” a seminal text for me. I’ve had the feeling for quite a while that Elizabeth, elderly and frail as she was, was holding together a host of things that would unravel and fall apart when she was gone. I hope I’m wrong.
@Rowdy: “I’ve had the feeling for quite a while that Elizabeth, elderly and frail as she was, was holding together a host of things that would unravel and fall apart when she was gone. I hope I’m wrong.”
YES! That’s exactly it. I’ve been trying to put a finger on why I felt so bad yesterday when I heard she had died. I’ve never been a royalty lover, but I kinda liked Liz. Ever since I heard (and it seemed to happen pretty suddenly), I’ve had this terrible, empty feeling. Like the cork has been let out of the bottle. Like the last adult in the room has finally left.
Cactus Girl, that’s the feeling – empty and ominous. The last adult has indeed left. Whatever anyone may think of her, she had a gravitas and stoic grace that her children entirely lack. I’m not yet prepared to give up on Charles, but I don’t have a good feeling. She was an oak and he’s a stick of bamboo.
@Rowdy, I am trying to think of anyone on the world stage who has Elizabeth’s gravitas and stoic grace. Can’t think of a one.
Same here, Cactus. I never liked the royalty love-in in the UK. However, I am left with a sense of foreboding at her death. It’s another reminder that we are truly at the end of an era and moving into much stormier waters.
Elizabeth was schooled to duty.
I always liked the fact that during the war the ladies of the family were out on the scene in London, not hiding away in safety somewhere.
I think the real heart of this iteration of the Windsors was the queen mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon or something like that. I think she came from an ancient but “lesser” family in Yorkshire. She had no expectation of ever being the queen when she married the younger son. She had the “common” touch, and also an unerring sense of occasion and public presentation. Appropriately queenly but warm.
She trained her daughter to take over.
I used to think the same.
I do not jive with the idea of “royalty” however a monarchy is often a stable form of government. It’s about having a leader that cares for his country and its people in a real sense because its generational.
Oh, I know. It sounds so archaic and possibly ridiculous but we cannot claim that our democratic representative republic works that well or cares. Or ever can.
Our government is specifically designed so there is never stable leadership. Sure that makes it dynamic but does it work well?
What we have now is a bureaucracy which is anathema to the idea of anyone being in charge. It’s a muddled mess of consensus, group-think and fear of offending. Incapable of actually doing anything.
The morass of government we’re stuck with means there is no one we can ever hold accountable.
Would I want to live under a King or Queen? I can’t say that I would but I currently exist in a country where our “leadership” endorsed a medical procedure to cull the population so I don’t currently feel particularly partial to our representative form of government.
Without direct democracy we’re all being scammed
It gives people a stable figurehead to symbolize their nation and culture.
Here we have people worshipping someone like Barack Obama,, and then the disruption every four years when another group wants their monarch to come in and replace everything the old monarch symbolized.
This leads to elected officials getting an exaggerated idea of what their place and job are.
A proper monarch stays out of politics, represents the country with dignity (a position they’re trained for their entire lives), presides over state dinners and the like, and – most importantly – is a kind of permanent, benign parent figure who can’t be voted out of office and who represents everyone. I think there’s great value in that.
I agree with you Rowdypiglet and would like to add Elizabeth earned her country’s respect and kept it for 70 years. Not an easy thing to do. Neither she nor her family were perfect but she behaved with dignity and showed consideration for the people she was dealing with. The last time we saw that level of class in America was JFK and look at the trail of grifters, clowns and incompetents that followed.
And the American women who married into the royal family — Wallis Simpson & Megan Markle — no wonder they’re glad there’s an ocean between us.
I hope for Charles’ sake he rises to the occasion and earns the same respect his mother did. I saw a documentary on him probably 10 years ago and he was a advocate of small, organic farms and had good ideas. Maybe now is his chance to implement them.
piglet writes:
“A proper monarch stays out of politics, represents the country with dignity (a position they’re trained for their entire lives), presides over state dinners and the like, and – most importantly – is a kind of permanent, benign parent figure who can’t be voted out of office and who represents everyone. I think there’s great value in that.”
What you are writing about is a fake monarch that is little more than a hood ornament. As everything else in the world is fake right now, fake monarchies are part of it, yes. But the “Mad Monarchist” website says this:
“Monarchs are so set apart they cannot represent ordinary people.”
Actually, that is precisely why they can represent everyone in a way no politician ever could. President Hollande of France is an agnostic socialist, so how can he truly represent those French who are Catholic or capitalists? President Napolitano of Italy was a long-time communist, which is certainly not representative of most Italians. President Obama of the US, a liberal from Hawaii, cannot have much in common with a conservative from South Carolina. Yet, a monarch, because they are set apart, can represent everyone because they are not from any particular group.
“Republics bring progress, monarchies only oppressed.”
Historical fact says otherwise. Time and time again history has shown that the end of monarchy makes things worse for a country, not better. In France it resulted in the “Reign of Terror” that saw tens of thousands of people get their heads chopped off. In Russia, the loss of the monarchy allowed the Bolsheviks to take power who then created the Soviet Union which spread oppression around the world and murdered millions of people. In China the result was a chaotic period of warlord rule followed by the bloodiest civil war in human history and then a communist dictatorship that took the lives of 60 million people. The end of monarchy in Germany and Austria resulted in divided republics that allowed Adolf Hitler to come to power, devastate the continent and butcher 9 million people. The fall of the Shah of Iran allowed a radical theocracy to take power that has spread terrorism around the world and brutally oppressed its own people. These are only a few of the examples that could be cited and the facts are inarguable.”
The House of Windsor is an example of a fake monarchy that really serves no good purpose. Right now, it is just a silly anachronism.
SW: Like any leader, a king needs good advisers. I hope Camilla is not his only adviser . . .
I wonder what her status will be now.
somehow, Queen Camilla doesn’t have a good ring . . .
Well said, Woody. But remember, being the Queen of England is a very different thing than being the Queen of the English. As I have already proven to you, nations are all to do with race and/or ethnicity. Culture matter too of course. No Germanic Muslims need apply.
Well said.
People are desperate for someone to be an authentic leader so a simulacrum is offered up. The Controllers did that most recently with Fauci. You can tell they’re a demonic bunch since that’s who they want you to worship.
D from Or,
When you say “…but I currently exist in a country where our “leadership” endorsed a medical procedure to cull the population…” I truly wonder whether more than a very few of those in power have really thought that through. And accepted their part in it.
Denial, massively, more likely. Unless you are a Pol Pot, a Himmler or Beria, how could you live with such guilt?
Well @SpeedyBB I don’t know if I quite believe those manipulating the situation are human like you and I. They may look like us but they sure don’t act like us.
You may scoff and I certainly used to when people brought up the notion of evil or evil people. I just reserved that idea for fairy tales, bible stories and the rare creature like a Pol Pot for example. I now know how foolish I was.
With no check on evil we get a Covid vaccine for example and with it a populace with no moral grounding who will call your suspicions of evil at work “conspiracy.” It’s likely how those in state agencies, hospitals and the doctors themselves have dealt with it. As we know the narrative they’re clinging to is flimsy and tattered at this point.
In this case of culling there is no central figure to focus attention on (Fauci maybe but we know it isn’t just him) to have a sense of resolution. It’s a systematic problem from top to bottom so the resolution is going to look different than it has in the past that is for certain.
Narcissistis can’t think beyond themselves. Sociopaths by definition are incapable of feeling guilt.
Sorry to break it to you, D of Or, but direct democracy isn’t that great either. Here in Switzerland, DD has given us “gay marriage”, some of the harshest Covid laws in the world that will be in place at least until 2032, oh, and probably worst of all, cyclists’ rights enshrined in our constitution so that you can no longer drive along a road without staring into the backside of a latexed lout. DD maybe the “least worst” of all political systems, but there’s a surprising amount of coercion involved.
Yes @Hereward I’m not entirely sure DD is the answer.
As I’m sure you know it is quite different here in the U.S. and we are not like Europeans.
For example your country could nicely fit within the borders of my state with room to spare. Two weeks ago we drove 7 hours to go camping in a remote area and didn’t leave the state.
All this to say it creates a mindset. This is the way it is in most of this country. We are big with large open areas. Lots of people live in those areas and they don’t want to be messed with. Our country is dominated by the cultures created in the cities but it doesn’t replicate everywhere like they’d like you to believe.
The representative republic worked when we were a small country but it is archaic and is failing us. The Federal government dominates when the design was to be precisely the opposite. It’s not going to hold together the way it is now.
Hate to tell ya about this, but monarchy is the default setting of mankind in history. European monarchies started after the end of the Dark Ages when rule by warlord was the system in place. Around a thousand years ago those warlords, with Charlemagne being the best example, established royal families that ruled for many centuries to follow.
We’re approaching the beginning of our Dark Age. And after its over and things recover, we’ll have learned our lesson by then that republics and democracies simply cannot work due to basic human nature. The mentally ill psychopaths take over and your republic fails after an average lifespam of 250 years or so. The USA is right on schedule for collapse, what’s happening now is actually normal and is what happened to all the other failed republics that came before us.
I disagree, Woodchuck, about the “fake monarchy.” In the UK, the monarch has little political power, but contrary to your thought that it serves no purpose, it does – as you also said – represent everyone. Instead of representation, though, I’d say that it gives people the sense of a family of which the monarch is the parent. And most people actually relish the pomp and circumstance, the continuity and security of re-enacting rituals one’s ancestors would recognize (of course, none of these things apply to the masses of illegal migrants who despise everything).
Aside from that, the king and queen, prince and princess, are human archetypes. Someone will always hold those positions. The question is whether it will be someone trained to do so with dignity or whether it will be left to the people’s choice – the Kardashians or some equally crude abominations.
“It gives people a sense of family.”
You know who gives a sense of family? Your family.
The Queen and all her evil (Andrew) or immature (Harry) relatives care about appearances and money. And why should it matter if they “cared” about you, anyway? Why would you need that?
They refused to pay taxes on their billions for decades. Their money came from infinitely poorer citizens who often worshipped or at least admired her, and who often had real jobs. Elizabeth refused to cave to mounting pressure to pay her share in the early 90s, and it was left to Prime Minister Major to force the issue.
Soul Forensics, I agree that your family is your only real family, and have always resented when someone referred to their co-workers as family. But that’s not what I meant at all.
Your actual family may break apart or you may not really have one to begin with, as is often the case now. And whomever in your family is thought of as the center may die and leave no real heir. But the royals function as a kind of remote set of relatives who continue to be there regardless of what happens in your own family. People do need some symbols of continuity, whether you like it or not, and whether or not you think they should. Fundamental human needs seek to be accommodated, whether you approve of them or not.
Your local priest and the Mass used to perform somewhat the same function. No matter what happened in your personal life or on a larger scale, when you attended Mass you took part in the same ritual that you always had, and it didn’t matter if the priest was a different person from the week before; this one thing continued the same and acted as a fixed point of security in the vicissitudes of your life. It was a source of comfort, to know you could rely on at least this one thing remaining as it was.
There is nothing comparable that I know of in modern life. Everything is up for grabs, everything is for sale, every promise has an escape clause. Nothing is solid or substantial, anything may disappear, anyone may discard you for any reason or none at all. Do you not think that there’s value in something that remains as it has always been?
Successful couples form families, families form clans, clans form tribes, related tribes, nations. Two parents and a kid aren’t enough. Nor a bunch of “relatives” you never see and/or you don’t like. Nor your brothers and sisters who believe what the Media tells them and got jabbed.
Such “family” is a liability at this point. Real culture means getting a large number of related people on the same page.
I think piglet has a point here. I’ve encountered his view in other blogs, and it’s worth looking at. I’ll be softening my position somewhat.
Exactly what’s repugnant about it? Liberal democracy is no utopia.
Another great one, Jim. Suggestion: I’m going to start referring to the mystery disease popularly known as Covid-19 as “the Covid,” (with irony quotes) in recognition of the fact that we don’t even know if it actually exists (I’m convinced it doesn’t, although the vaxx injuries surely do), no matter how convinced it’s highly suggestible slack-jawed adherents think it does.
Once again, that tried and true ancient truism still applies, albeit with a new twist:
– Ya just can’t cure gullible and stupid! –
I’m starting to think, “the Covid,” was just a snazzy repackaging of the common cold, flu, and other respiratory diseases with billions, possibly even trillions behind its marketing campaign.
Exactly!
How else to shovel trillions into the collapsing “economy”?
Yep. It has never been isolated. And the fake PCR test was created from a computer model of what they “think” the so-called virus looks like.
IMO, all the GOF research went into producing the poison.
If the virus exists, prove it.
Whatever it was, we have overwhelming evidence now that the response to it was planned before the first person got sick with it.
Why were there ANY deep state types on that coof committee, let alone a whole slew of them?
How was it that the worst possible people, out of all the doctors and scientists on earth, ended up running the show?
I had thought that Adams’ presence was accidental, because of course they’d have the Surgeon General on the team, even if the Surgeon General was an Affirmative Action dummy.
I was overlooking the fact that Adams was Pence’s guy all the way.
Pence brought him with him from Indiana.
Fauci- if the president’s people had his back, as they were supposed to, someone like Anthony Fauci would have been shown the door fifteen minutes after he got there.
You know what else was a red flag. Mr. Holier-than-thou Pence didn’t seem all that disturbed about it when it was his pick, Birx, who was blocking the free exercise of religion with her bizarre “no singing through your masks” nonsense.
Anybody familia with any curch that calls itself evangelical?
Then you know about the importance of singing to worship.
They also def used some sort of bioweapon though in heavily populated areas to cause a few horrific reactions in people with weak immune systems, etc.
Because there are too many stories of people getting something odd.
I just figure if they’d do that in 1957 (and it’s no secret) why not in 2020?
Oh what people got was akin to being poisoned… same symptoms.
Dis
The medicos designed a package that when injected make us produce s proteins, right?
So if s proteins cause the damage we observe, what are the things that put s proteins into us when we catch The Covid out of the thin air. Must be something there that started all this in Dec. 2019, way before the vaxx was created. Something that carried the s protein into bodies to create the symptoms of The Covid.
The worst idea in human medical history was when they chose to use the great problem causer, the s protein, to be the antigen in the vaxx. In hindsight, really really stupid.
Even more stupid are people that have the knowledge available now that it is extremely dangerous and accumulative and still get the newest booster because the government told them to.
The same lemmings that follow the Deep State and Joe’s Mob. Maybe they should be encouraged to get the jab.
My words, stupid and insane. Like people who believe in the Leftist cause while they are being led right over the fiscal cliff.
Just had a thought. If MMT becomes the rules of the road for our economy, the the green back will become worth less than Monopoly money as you have to pay something to get the game.
Not stupid, evil. Part of the plan.
JAZ-
I think MMT is already here.
They’ve simply gone ahead and done it without making any sort of formal announcement.
What do you think MMT is?
Most of the commentors here have no clue about MMT outside some curmudgeon paleo-conservative rant model. The same ANTI-MMT crowd said Japan would go bankrupt or have their currency attacked by bond vultures and it never happens. Good luck winning elections Longterm if you don’t utilize degrees of Federal spending some of the time.
Modern Monetary Theory
The (erroneous) idea that currency is money, and can be created at will.
Already exists as monetization of the debt, by the central bank buying the government bonds.
spaingaroo! The Tooth Fairy assured me that MMT is the real deal, take it to the bank, no way that a superpower can ever go bankrupt.
Are you insinuating the Tooth Fairy doesn’t know what she is whispering?
FUN QUIP:
During one of Brazil’s periodic economic catastrophes, a reporter asked the Minister of Finance: “Are you not concerned this time that the international institutions won’t rescue you? Could Brazil not fall into the abyss?”
Minister: “Brazil is bigger than the abyss.”
FUN QUIP2:
During one of Mexico’s periodic economic catastrophes, a reporter asked the Minister of Finance: “Are you not concerned this time that the international institutions won’t rescue you? Could this current crisis with the Bank of America not destroy Mexico?”
“The Bank of America could never destroy Mexico. But Mexico could certainly destroy the Bank of America.”
(As my dear old dead dad used to put it, lovingly, when borrowing ten bucks from me, “Son, I’d rather owe you always than beat you out of it.”)
I think it was a real bioweapon, deliberately released, along with the later release of the various “variants”.
I don’t know where people get the idea it wasn’t isolated and identified.
Anyway, it wasn’t as lethal as they had apparently planned so expect a more deadly one to be released later.
We already know it wasn’t the flu because the earliest cases came back influenza negative.
It wasn’t until they rolled out the PCR test, which tested “positive” for the flu as well as for the bioweapon, that the flu “disappeared” and covid “cases” skyrocketed.
“I don’t know where people get the idea it wasn’t isolated and identified.”
Not sure you are right about that.
If they didn’t isolate it, then how did they track the variants?
McCullough discusses the development and spread of different variants in detail—the trail of mutations. This is not dependent on the origin of the virus. It coiuld have come from a lab and then mutated like any other coronavirus. Per McCullough one of the oddities of Omicron was that it deviated in multiple locations on the chromosome, whereas other variants were just one mutation apart from the previous.
I am sticking with McCullough and Malone on this issue.
Oops, sorry, Paula, I think I misread your first sentence.
Yes, not sure where this idea is coming from.
Yes, I agree with you. They have isolated it AND Omicron was far too different to be a “natural” variant.
That one for sure was another deliberate release of another bioweapon.
Another clue was the way they announced it’s spread. They just skipped all the epidemiologic evidence they used for the first few outbreaks. It turns out that Americans are so frigging clueless that they will believe this chronology:
Thurs: “A new variant is discovered in South Africa”.
Fri: “We have named it Omicron and it is a variant of concern”.
Mon: ” We have identified Omicron in two US cities”
Fri: “The Omicron variant has now spread all over the US, in every city and town”.
It’s real because there are variants? No, it has to be real to have variants. There saying there are variants proves nothing. It’s like believing in Daylight Savings Time.
No, it’s real because it is a virus, which has been isolated, AND it’s real because it makes people sick AND it’s real because it is passed person to person.
What isn’t real is that is a natural virus. It isn’t, it is a bioweapon.
And what isn’t real is that the “variants” are natural mutations. They aren’t. They are new bioweapons.
What isn’t real is the spread. It is not natural. Viruses spread person to person, they do not spontaneously appear in multiple places all over the world.
It is just as backwards to believe in spontaneous generation as it is to believe that there are no such things as viruses.
What are we, in the 15th century here?
safe for refusers, most effective for idiot believers. How bout those six foot clots !
There was a video of a doctor removing one of them. It was horrifying.
And right on cue from here in Switzerland: we are experiencing excessive morality like every other nation that went full in for the jabs. And of course, the hacks, pols and medical crooks here have absolutely no idea what could be causing it.
This entire month has felt like the day before a hurricane. You know it’s coming – the forecasting models have all locked on, you’re battened down, and there are still a few idiots running around buying last-minute gasoline and beer – and there’s nothing to do but wait and watch fitful gusts of warm humid breeze shake the trees in the yard.
You know that you’re ready. But ready enough? Sometimes there’s a late intensification and it’s hell on wheels with the roof flying off, other times the storm unexpectedly collapses and you just have a nasty rain event. But ahead of time, you can’t do anything but watch and sweat.
We constantly find ourselves reliving the past or fretting about the future without realizing what is happening to us. When we are active, focused on something and concentrating, the present becomes more real to us.
But when we stop moving, studying or meditating on our task, automatically our mind travels into the past, or by imagination traverses the future either through hope or worry. When we are still, often without being aware of it, our mind becomes a time traveler.
That’s what happens to me. The long past keeps floating up into my consciousness as if it happened yesterday.
I think that countries under long periods of suppression, didn’t have enough of the new coming in, and that’s why the mad rush to settle old scores happens in places like Sarajevo.
People living in a free society, like we used to be, could not really understand places like Ukraine, for instance.
I also find myself daydreaming, something I haven’t done much of in years and years.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
William Faulkner
“There is no tomorrow. There’s only yesterday over and over again.”
I was told this was a French proverb.
Tomorrow never comes because when it does, it’s today. And how quickly today becomes yesterday. Soon even today just becomes yesterday’s tomorrow.
We need epiphanies, moments out of time to reset the our clocks.
When will then be now? Soon.
Even the present doesn’t exist in individual consciousness. Try thinking about it, and it’s past. And when you don’t think of it, psychological time doesn’t exist.
QE2 reined over the absolute loss of the British Empire, and even the loss of her major cities to foreigners.
London is not an English city.
Nothing to celebrate.
I could go on with the grooming gangs and the rainbow deluge, etc.
She just got richer.
Just look who she knighted.
Jimmy Saville, Tony Blair etc. etc.
Charles will be much worse
When I saw the abbreviation ‘QE2’, at first I thought it meant ‘quantitative easing’. 😀
Queen Elizabeth presided over the freeing of a colonial empire hardly firing a shot. That in itself is amazing.
I agree with you that the invasion of all of Europe by N. Africa and the ME was the stupidest political decision in history, England included.
One issue will make or break Charles. Climate change. If he signs up to the WEF power grab called AGW, England’s and probably Europe’s goose is cooked.
The King is a symbol now. Think England, think the king. What would England be without the royals, nothing. Just like the US. The US has used war as the catalyst to sustain nationalistic emotions, patriotism. England uses the king.
Monetarily, the pay their way with tourism.
Queen Elizabeth II also presided over the consolidation of the Bank of England with world banks in other jurisdictions.
People are stupid. If they don’t see a Gulf War on TV, then war doesn’t exist.
Now that he has been inserted as king, it’s hard to forget Charles, on the phone, longing to be Camilla’s tampon.
Yes, Conservatives are making fools out of themselves over this departed woman. She had a lot of poise, I’ll give them that. But she did nothing to stop the rot or the invasion. Your list of the knighted is a good indication of that. Maybe she had no say about it, but she ever refuse to play her part in the charade, the drama of the decline?
Never.
Once, as a young woman, she waltzed with an African dictator who had been involved with the Mau Maus of Kenya. She waltzed with a cannibal in other words. That’s England now.
And she happily signed the bills for abortion and “gay marriage” into law.
If you understood how knighthood worked, you would know the Queen doesn’t choose the recipients. Nor does she involve herself in politics or control politicians or what they do. Read up on the position of the monarch. Your comments were uninformed.
So everyone should just shut up and stay in their land so we can get this shit over with as fast as possible?
The Mike Pence philosophy.
I think she has to say as to approve or not of the choices made for her, but I sure as shit am uniformed on royal protocols, by choice. Although, she was my queen too.
Agree. He’s not gonna throw his pedo/perv brother under the bus. Oh and BTW, isn’t that who they get once Charles the Turd kicks it?
Ugh.
When Chuckie checks out, Prince William gets the crown. Willie and his 3 kids, and Harry and his 2 kids, would all have to be removed from the line of succession for Randy Andy to move to the front of the line.
I have long thought that the tarnished Prince Charlie should abdicate after one day on the throne. “King for a Day”. Let Willie have the seat while still young and popular, maybe he could even outlast Granny. That way he could have the honor of having been King, but without insulting the throne with his fancy pants. Going out with that kind of class would go a long way toward redeeming him in the public memory. But no…
If we’re picking teams, I’m with the anti-monarchists. I see no evidence that the ability to rule is a heritable trait – but depravity sure seems to be. If we need to create demigods to stand over us, then we need to outgrow that need.
But I do understand tradition. Not my preferred method of decision making, but emotional works for most people.
Heck, she just go wit dee flow.
I went to the physio yesterday, for the first time ever.
The masked receptionist told us we had to put on a mask, so I offered to walk right back out the door.
Still obligatory here in medical centres.
The receptionist went and consulted and came back to say no worries and we went maskless and later I noticed she pulled hers down to her chin.
I tried to get the physiotherapist to remove hers but no go.
I did my standard line that we need to be rebellious and ignore what the .gob says.
etc.
got to keep pushing.
They are sure to re-up the ante soon with the masks, but I ain’t playing.
Evil old bitch Kathy Cuomo, noted scientist, just decided there is no need for a mask on the subway. Seems that there is an election coming up.
Agree, Spaingaroo. The best tactic is stubborn resistance and refusal to go along with their plans.
They want us to do a terror so that they can clamp down more. Just say “Nope”.
It’s mostly over here, but when it does rear its ugly head, I do the same. I don’t even flash my mask medical exemption anymore. I just say, “Nope!” and act as if they’re insane. No problems so far.
how can those who did what it took to endure medical school possibly resist any BS ?
yes, there’s been some fine discussion on this topic here in the comments over the past week or two.
I was lost on orientation day when they told us 220 mostly eager faces, “you are the cream of society”
I knew it wasn’t going to work for me.
I had a similar incident going to a testing lab a couple of months back. I won, they just said don’t bother and then the woman attending to me pulled hers down too.
Progress.
The overlords have realized that there is no overcoming “sprawl”. Given the choice, the ascendent familial classes, and they are legion, prefer a single-family-home and a sliver of land AKA personal green space over a 2 bedroom overpriced rental flat in one of our lawless and dystopian cities.
Surely the billionaires even recognize the importance of respite from their 7,000 sq.ft penthouse pied-à-terre’s in any one of the decaying cities across the world. The intensely instinctual allure of coastal villas, woodland Jackson Hole ranches, and Vail chalets. The primeval need for nature’s close proximity. Even if reduced to a crape myrtle off your Ryan Townhome’s front stoop.
In this acquiescence there was still a solution: keep ’em at home. Telework, remote-learning, grub-hub, Prime deliveries, etc. And when they do need to leave their home for some confounding reason, they can take their EV’s, now mandatory by 20thirty-something!
In the meantime one can see the return, or rather the introduction, of mix-use adjacent to the suburbs. First floor retail, apartments, townhomes, condos. Springing-up all over. So when one does have that sudden urge to see other humans be it at a pub, a restaurant, or the purple-haired-weirdo employment center known as Pet-Co/Smart, they can walk, ride a bicycle, or unplug their EV.
Coupled with inflation and rising interest rates, the familial classes who want nothing to do with crime-ridden cities and who prefer the education opportunities of the burbs will have to be content with living in the aforementioned apartments, condos, or townhomes located in the burbs (brought to them by BlackRock, et. al.)
But then again, anything is better than a non-elite-class family trapped in the thunderdome of a modern city.
I see a lot of apartment blocks springing up in suburban areas.
No doubt these are earmarked to house all the wonderful new ISIS, Al-Shebab, MS-13, and Los Zetas folks the regime is planning to import.
They’re going to the cities and the original old-home suburbs within the city limits. The 1930’s through 60’s homes that predate the burbs.
Go ahead, drive through some.
Besides, it’s well past planning. Millions upon millions have already been let in under the imposter Latino Mayorkas.
You make a great point.
Where exactly are the 2 million known immigrants and the millions of illegal unseen immigrants going?
We are seeing panics in northern cities when a few bus loads of them are carted there. They cannot afford the new folks, they cannot even handle their homeless.
If these cities cannot handle the increases, how can the rest of the nation.
The Biden Mob should be executed for what they are doing about immigration.
JohnAZ, I mentioned here before that, even though the northern cities can’t afford to care for their own homeless, their quisling city councils and others who infest local governments are actively seeking to bring those illegals to already stressed cities that can’t afford and don’t want them. Working class people in Portland, Maine waited as long as eight years for Section 8 housing, which was then provided to the influx of Somalis welcomed by the local government. It’s an outrage, but you’ll be cancelled for saying so.
They are coming to my small town also, Rowdy.
We already pay high property taxes for the school, but instead of the money going to educate the children, it goes for ESL and security guards.
Housing is cheap around here and there are lots of empty houses due to the depopulation of Flyover Country.
That also means that we are too poor to pay for the special needs of a couple of thousand refugees dumped into our town.
I note that when the mayor of Wash, DC complained about the busloads in her town, she said that there was ”a plan” already in motion and sending them there messed it up.
A plan? What plan? That sounds ominous to me.
Likely, I escaped a bit inland to the more rural region of this state. Cities are close, but not too close and not too big.
Still, keeping a watchful eye on it, figuring those people need to be housed somewhere.
Many are going to rural areas, naturally and traditionally, as that is where a lot of agri-business is located.
That and many of the towns in these rural areas are decrepit and desolate.
But where? Slave quarters?
I disagree with JHK relative to the economy. The economy is not being destroyed never to return. Every industry lost, every job being lost is replace by one that is part of the illicit trades. It is self feeding, the more legitimate jobs lost, the more need for alcohol and drugs, and the illicit trades bloom. Blacks are already fighting back against the encroaching Latinos in Chicago. Denver, for example, is on the I25 drug conduit and it’s influx of young folks is inflating its prices to the unaffordable point for Joe Everyman.
Letterman wants to legalize drugs and he represents a good sized chunk of the Left with that suggestion.
Dignity? The Left does not comprehend that word. BTW, the other illicit trade, human trafficking, which is being encouraged by Biden policy, used to be called slavery. Remember that simple fact, Black folks, when you vote for that decrepit party.
Fetterman, not Letterman, sorry.
Have you been in *the city (*any city) lately?
Weed wafting through the air block after block. One can’t have an open container of alcohol in most places, but smoking weed in public spaces is AOK.
Now I don’t have a problem with people smoking weed, in fact, it’s preferable to hard drugs, the pills from the pharma-opiate cartels, and malt liquor.
A great way to chill out an enormous segment of the population who has no past, and certainly no future.
On our vacation last week, we refused two hotel rooms in Colorado because they had very obviously has marijuana skunk smell in them, non smoking rooms.
It still puzzles me, why would anyone want to smoke , take in anything that looks and smells like a turd?
According to the Detroit Free Press (1/14/22), Michigan has welcomed 1,603 Afghan refugees to enjoy our booming economy and robust job market. And we’re gonna make sure they succeed.
Hospitals and clinics provide free health care. The Feds hand out $1,225. The city will work with non-profits to find them jobs and a place to live, as well as arranging “English as a second language” classes. (How about English as a first language?)
If you are a citizen and you go to the unemployment office (I don’t know what oxymoronic euphemism it is known by these days) they will let use one of their computers to type your resumé and give you some brochures on how to look for work. Walk into a hospital with a broken finger and no insurance, walk out with a bill of $400 for x-rays – without even getting a copy of the damned pictures! – a broken finger, and the advice, “keep doing what you’re doing”. Homeless? We’ve got a lot of overpasses.
Our nimble, acrobatic government, bending over backwards for strangers, while bending its citizens over.
Postscript: I’m no Trump fan, but, “Under President Donald Trump’s administration, refugee resettlement was curtailed significantly. …what used to be hundreds of placements had dropped to single digits, especially with the travel ban”, so for that, thank you Mr. Trump.
Paul Joseph Watson has had a few good videos recently about these square pegs in round hole immigrant ‘placements’
example
youtube.com/watch?v=i5joIkwczW0
I’ve lived in the suburbs* since 2016 and do not own a vehicle. It can be done. On a 1/4 acre lot we grow enough to be self sufficient in tough times…
Speaking of those who are not self-sufficient… The military base in my town seems to have hosted some sort of exercise yesterday. On Wednesday afternoon a “command” plane flew into town. Yesterday morning that plane flew to Nevada/Utah and returned to circle the air base for hours. At the same time, a spy plane based in Nebraska flew by on it’s way towards Alaska (it went off flightradar24.com somewhere around Glacier Bay) and was followed by a refueling plane from the local airbase. Meanwhile a refueling plane flew from the Tampa area into the local air base and another refueling plane left the local base and flew in circles over Montana for hours. We are insane and are definitely lacking any “intelligence” agency.
*Our neighborhood was not developed fully until the 50s and 60s because we are on a big basalt column.
That is interesting, BD. And ominous.
Hey, they made a “bilieber” out of Justin Bieber with the vaxx hoax. Now he is paying the consequences. Too bad because his musical style was really starting to take a turn for the better. I wonder if he is still banned from Mexico for desecrating the Mayan ruins?
The Biebs tried to warn us about trafficking in his industry.
Go watch the video for his single, “Yummy.”
Interesting, hadn’t seen that one. After watching it, the video certainly featured a lot of Jello dishes. I wonder where they casted that old guy sitting next to Bieber, the guy in the natty bow tie and interesting eye glasses? That old fellow must have had the time of his life making that video!
I don’t think we’ll see that flirtatious, fun loving Bieber ever again.
Warn us? LOL.
The last scene in that video is a picture of him on a cake plate when he was about 15, with the caption “yummy.”
Looked like mockery of the “Biebs” by his pedo handlers to me.
Shitty production values, in an elaborate setup.
Get all the (expensive, complex) camera movement. Trying to make up for the essentially limp & silly musical action in front of the camera. No shot longer than a second or two. Store dummies in animated action
Watched about a minute. JB looked right in his element. Too bad the spike proteins spiked all that.
And the missus with the brain clot. “Jeez, did I sign up for this”
Bell,
” but surely you’re aware that Justin Bieber lost the use of half his face six months ago. No world tour for Justin.”
Yes, paralysis after the shot. I , myself, am suffering similar symptoms…I have contracted erectile dysfunction from just reading about the side effects! I have been diagnosed, and the conclusion was, that the dysfunction would be much worse had I not read of the issue.
And here I told my old lady that ED was caused by lights on in the bedroom.
My cheek still hurts.
this blog needs a like button on comments.
This comment needs a like from me.
Maybe you should move over to Substack JHK, there commenting system is much more intuitive and there are notifications when someone actually replies or interacts with a comment.
You would probably quickly make a lot more money too. Although you are doing alright no doubt.
But a lot of the the best writers on substack have thousands of paying subscribers.
The crowd is very very likely to welcome your writings. The two main places I hang out, this blog, and several to many many substacks, although I comment little on either place, I read many of the comments and find some very useful stuff, and lots of entertaining views.
You blame erectile function on Pfizer? It’ll never stand up in court!
Woke,
Yes, the Pfizer attorneys would argue that I had no standing….
It’s a pun, son. Love it or leave it. >stand up, get it. nudge nudge wink wink say no more <
Major False Flag coming for sure, count on it. I’m guessing one of a nuclear variety, what better way to get the population down to 500 million. I’m also guessing that is the number that will fit all those guv fallout shelters for every guv around the world. You know they are all in it together. The only thing I’m wondering is if that includes all their slaves, oops, minions, no, how about cronies. It must or they will have no more slaves when they gopher out of their holes. Bunch of freaking Morlocks.
I’ve figured this is on the way once the collective West realizes they don’t have the industrial capacity to fight a conventional war against Russia, China, or even Iran.
Note the weird nuclear attack PSAs that emanated from NYC several weeks ago.
This week we’ve been subjected to the top Ukrainian general popping off about, “….fighting a limited nuclear war…” against Russia.
Prep accordingly.
Noted that Russia is acquiring weapons from N. Korea and Iran.
Rapidly becoming BRICS vs, the West.
The sad part about all of this is that years ago, the West still felt like it was worth defending.
Not sure how many people are going to defend an incoming digital plantation where we eat bugs and own nothing.
ha ha ha! my last laugh maybe–we have less than 2 months before they false flag us–good one stepup–the rooskies have nukes buried off the east coast ready to roll–i keep seeing the nuke sniffers flying up and down the coast looking for them–no doubt highly shielded–they will send a 1500 ft high wall of water to DC and drown all the rats in their tunnels under DC–the rest of us don’t matter anyways…
The Boomer fleet on both sides obsoletes any tactical thinking of a successful nuke attack. There is enough mega tonnage in those subs to take care of both sides.
The ASW capabilities of both sides is incapable of stopping them from blowing up the earth.
It is the main reason that MAD was finally acknowledged in the 90s.
Nothing has changed since then.
I have been arguing with a neighbor who works with the ABM effort, which still continues. He is convinced that the technology will knock down all those incoming missiles. My point, I doubt it, but even if you believe the always optimistic views of the MIC, the subs cancel it out.
Legitimate tactical nukes?
Mission Impossible.
Drives the MIC crazy that their hands are tied. So they go proxy over in Ukraine. Besides, we cannot let the Biden Mob lose its Ukraine investments. Might be La Cosa Nostra in Cuba all over again.
Yes, each sub can carry over a hundred nuclear warheads. That’s more than enough to end either nation. A dozen could do in the United States if used in EMF fashion.
One EMP over Kansas, and all the nuke power plants on the Big Muddy, over a hundred, goes china syndrome, dont need a tsunami as everyone east of the Mississippi will be gone within 6 mos tops.
Why do I have to come to a (relatively obscure) media source like CFN to read such vital, urgent, obvious facts?
What the merry futurist Herman Kahn tipped us off about sixty years ago basically holds, with the important proviso that the Russian Federation is up to speed on MAD (and the PRC is scrambling to get there as well).
My late elder brother, a colonel career USAF officer who wanted to be a fighter pilot but was too tall – so he ended up a tanker pilot – commented after the Cuban Missile Crisis “The only danger to our side would have been from our bombers running into one another”.
That was then and this is now. A real shame that most earthlings are either unaware of the existential danger or prefer to ignore / belittle it.
I was thoroughly terrified in October of 1962 and wisps of that fear cling onward.
The Ukies have been shelling the Zaporizhia nuke plant – with its Ukie crew still working inside. If they manage to hit it, you can bet Russia will be blamed. I think this would be most effective in the very short term, the likely goal to make this winter more difficult for Europeans through increased sanctions on Russia.
Poland seems eager to get into the war. I expect a false flag there (but after the election – and probably after the ‘Ho’s “assassination” and the Big Guy’s abdication) to pull us more actively into the war – with the Hildebeast holding the reins. But no nukes. We didn’t go nuclear over Korea or Vietnam or any of the other skirmishes during the Cold War. I don’t think we will over the Ukraine either – just another Syria.
For the election, I expect a new Plandemic. My favorite at the moment is, “Monkeypox* mutates into virulent new form of Smallpox!” Lockdown. Vote by Facebook.
*Honkeypox
also that plant is enormous and supplies power to a very large area. They can’t just shut it down, although I think it is down to one reactor functioning
If premonitions are correct, in the coming months the big ” Storm of the Century ” will be hitting the fan. Jim you always hit the nail on the head totally love your straight forward honesty.
Excellent article today. Where do I begin? I’ll take it from the top.
The sky darkens. Yes it does. Are we going to go back to natural time or not?
Just when we were getting somewhere, in making people understand that Daylight Saving (not “savings”) time was not only stupid and unnecessary, it was bad for us, the Republicans, the REPUBLICANS, during a so-called national state of emergency decide that the issue of most importance was trying to pass a “daylight preservation act” or some such delusional and retarded thing.
People, the length of the days IS NOT AFFECTED BY THE CLOCK.
No wonder people bought into the mask-and-social-distance crapola and the “climate” hoax.
You don’t like the climate? Here’s a tip- MOVE!
Which is exactly what is going to happen, already has started, ask u haul.
DST?
it fits a robotized scenario to allow summer rec time after slavery prior to recharging. pure evil to human beings, common sense to a pent up dog though.
“The long, sickening slide into we-know-not-what (but it can’t-be-good).”
Perfect! Exactly!
Yes. And scary!
I read upstream how a prepper has 8 chords of wood and is ready for winter and “the show.”
To paraphrase Gil Scott-Heron:
“The collapse will not be webcast.”
www_youtube_com/watch?v=vwSRqaZGsPw
“The Show” for the prepped will be tedious yet anxious hours/days/weeks wondering wtf is going on out there followed by the sudden Zombie Invasion.
To really prepare:
Beg God for His forgiveness of your many sins.
We all know that.
Gil Scott Heron turns out to have a lot of really real stuff.
Don’t know it all, but a few years ago just before his death (so many decades after The Revolution will not be Televised) he put out a new album of some great spoken word stuff, with amazing production.
Will find a link, as I am sure it will appeal to many Clusterfuckers.
This is an example which got to me.
youtu.be/gbZVdj_d62M
Yes! I have been listening to GSH for this past hour – just random songs on YT. He had a great band. There are some real tasty early ’70s-style jams.
The world seemed so hopeful in the early ’70s!
But “I’d like to teach the world to sing” became “I’d like to buy the world a Coke.” Sad but True.
And we would rather had John Wayne…
We would rather had John Wayne”
“
8 cords of wood? Ha.
People just do not understand that sustainability is the problem. What happen when that runs out, where do you get the next 8.
Right now, water and food are rapidly entering the sustainability mode.
What you’d call a cord measuring contest.
there’s plenty here (fire wood) as it it the olive tree pruning that supplies 90% of wood here, (the rest from cherry and almond trees and some people are moving to pellets based on the olive pits.
Only going to be hard to get all that from out there in the groves into town without plenty of petrol, two-stroke oil and diesel.
People are not much chop as donkeys, and donkeys are nearly extinct round here
Wood lots of sufficient size can be managed sustainably. Small acreages (5-10 acres) are often about half woodlands–which have been left as woodlands because they are not tillable, due to being steep slopes, rocky glades, or rocky bluffs. (That’s probably why these lots were broken up into small acreages in the first place; much of their land area was undesirable as farmland.) The new owners usually don’t cut down the woodlands, as they don’t want to mow ten acres.
Depending on the size of your woodlot and how much firewood you need, much or all of your firewood needs could be supplied by deadfall.
@ Rhett Dawson:
While what you say about the need for constant anxious vigilance on the part of the prepped is true, but contrast this with the plight of those who are not prepped. It’s better to have food and firewood than to not have food and firewood.
Besides, what we call “preps” are no more than what any sensible rural person does every year at the end of summer: fill the pantry and the root cellar, and cut and stack a few cords of firewood.
My facebook friends are all posting pictures of the 20 pounds of tomatoes and 10 pounds of peppers they picked today. They are not letting this stuff rot on the kitchen countertop; it’s going in the canner or the freezer. It’s a busy time of year, since all this stuff must be turned into tomato juice, tomato sauce, whole canned tomatoes, roasted peppers, canned peppers, pickled peppers, peppers preserved in olive oil, or salsa. Over winter, all this (along with all the other fruits and vegetables) will be turned into some very fine fare–with the addition of the beef and venison, pork and goat and mutton, and chickens and turkeys culled from the flock, and maybe a Christmas goose.
Beats spending “tedious yet anxious hours/days/weeks” freezing your ass off with no food in the house and two feet of snow on the ground.
Her’s a link to data about the boosters and Britain.
Do boosters save people from getting very sick with Covid? New data from Britain say the opposite.
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/do-boosters-save-people-from-getting
Someone needs to do a student as to whether the people who got hospitalized or died were careful to recite the Covid Prayer (I am thankful to be fully vaccinated) as soon as they saw the first symptom.
I hear i works beter than ivermectin.
Variants are survivors, genetically. You try to kill them all with a vaxx and some survive. They become the next variant.
That is why the new omicron booster is a joke, hit everyone with it and alpha pops out of a mutation and starts killing again.
Why is there no vaccine for colds, you ask a virologist?
Because the viruses mutate too fast and there are too many variants around.
Hmm! Sound familiar.
And the vaxx kills! Maybe more than the virus itself.
You do not chase a virus with a vaxx. Every informed person knows that.
OK, Jaz, A or B?
A) They love us, are trying to keep as many of us alive as is possible but are really stupid.
or
B) They are lying, evil … pigs.
Honestly, I do not know.
If B I hope the entire Federal Government gets the Designated Survivor treatment.
They definitely do not love us, the populace, as we are their enemies, so my feelings, my gut leans toward B.
If you’re in the UK, Beryl, maybe you have an insight into why they banned the jabs for the under-12s. To me, that really goes against the Davos narrative, as jabbing the youngsters is a key goal of theirs.
Paragraph three- extra credit for using cobb-jobb in a sentence.
Spelled correctly, of course.
I really cobbed up that post, didn’t I?
Beryl, I must say: You are not the first CFN poster that comes to mind when one reads, “cobb-jobb.”
Speaking of that news media, I came across this tweet by Cait Johnstone that expresses something that has been bothering me.
How is it that I can be very aware of complexities surrounding issues of the day, and peope who call themselves journalists aren’t using the massive trove of information easily available to them?
They don’t even have to get out of their chairs and go down to the public library, to find a slew of publications from all over, even translated for them, and to watch television on channels you don’t receive in your home.
Journalists pass on info they were given, instead of going and getting the story and giving it to us.
That’s backwards.
“It’s not okay for grown adults to call the invasion of Ukraine “unprovoked”; that’s a fartbrained fairy tale for idiots and children. You have a whole internet full of information at your fingertips. Fucking use it.”
https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1566940335036542976
Johnstone was doing the same thing until fairly recently.
She still doesn’t acknowledge the Great Reset & she thinks Trans ideology is just fine.
Much like Abby Martin.
How is it?
There are 2 forms of journalism today:
1) Easy Street. Working for MSM, you will be a government mouthpiece while your Blackrock-owned corporate employer jockeys for market position amongst the other Blackrock-owned government-mouthpiece corporations. You will soon understand that information disputing the government’s dictates are verboten.
2) Blogging in your underwear from your mother’s basement with the constant threat of being cancelled.
“And they call it ‘Democracy'”
– Bruce Cockburn
*is verboten.
The MSM groups hire only Leftist thinkers. The Dior’s, the in charge folks, tell the op-ed folks and talking heads exactly what to say, who they can interview.
Not a democracy, always biased.
Problem is how to make unbiased change.
The best way to kill a snake is to cut off its head.
Lord,
Editors, not Diors
she is an enigma.
She writes great stuff, but then turns around and shits all over it.
I bought her book and on the second or third page of the story, there was a full page endorsement of Bernie Sanders.
I sent the book back. (the only book I have ever sent back, in my memory)
I was actually shocked, but realised I didn’t know who I was reading as well as I thought I did.
You can only read 3rd person opinions of others that match your existing opinions? Why buy books at all?
I am not sure I understand your comment, or you didn’t understand mine.
no, I won’t read a book that is written by someone who claims have a special critical way of looking at things but then endorses Bernie Sanders.
That’s a special type of stupidity, (Joe Rogan’s type too) that I won’t pay for. I spend plenty on books believe me, but she fooled me into buying hers.
So I fooled her right back, by sending it back.
Not sorry
yes, I still read her and usually enjoy it. But I don’t seek her stuff out as much anymore.
My problem certainly isn’t that she has different opinions on things.
She endorsed a political candidate in a book called “Woke: A Field Guide For Utopia Preppers” with a straight face and not just any old candidate, but an ageing commie with million dollar houses.
That doesn’t work for me.
(from here, the name sure sounds like I wouldn’t want to buy it anyway, but I loved many of her online writings, so sort of thought it must be special satire or something.)
Don’t know why I bought it, but I regretted it and it wasn’t exactly cheap, so I just stopped there and sent it back in crisp saleable condition.
fuck her and fuck all the Bernie bros
Yes she is. I disagree with much of her opinions, but then she will say something that is so spot-on, it makes me think more about the issue than I would have.
She keeps me on my toes, in other words.
I still read her a bit Beryl, but from a different perspective.
She does come off differently now.
That’s just how reality works.
In one of her latest articles she makes it sound like she believes that Zelensky was elected to make peace, in a way that makes me believe she believes the fairy tale version of Zelensky, and not what is openly obvious to my eyes.
It takes all types.
Agree. Lots of inconsistencies with her journalism.
These very same “journalists” have also forgotten what they recently regurgitated themselves, when they wrote about the corruption in Ukraine and referred to it as the most corrupt country in the world – right up to the moment that they received and regurgitated the new narrative of Poor Helpless Honorable Ukraine.
“There is chatter that King Charles has lately become a tool of der Hoch Schwabenklaus and his World Economic Forum, with its Satanic program for revising the human project into a nanobot horror show. I hope that is not so.”
Nothing ‘lately’ about it, unfortunately. Charles has been up to his eyes in this stuff for decades.
Here he is with Uncle Klaus at the 1992 WEF get-together.
ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-9th-september-2022
And 8 minutes in you can see him co-inaugurating the ‘Great Reset’ session of the WEF, along with Klaus and explaining why said reset is vital.
Alex Thomson, at the beginning of that news eposode, said he put up a poll on his Eastern Approaches site, which found that a majority of responders believe that Charles’ reign will see (achieve?) the end of the monarchy and the end of the Union. He also mentioned that a number of his listeners/viewers – on a site that is not for the most dumb in the country – said ‘we don’t know what you mean by ‘the Union’. Good grief.
Anyway, I think you can rest assured that Charles will follow on from his mama’s vaxx pushing by doing everything he can to advance Klaus’ agenda, which appears to be also the Windsors’ agenda. And his papa memorably said he wanted to come back as a virus to wipe out most of the human population.
BTW, I seem to recall someone was killed in Poundbury – hit by a vehicle, possibly a delivery van – because they didn’t want to spoil the pretence of being non-modern by putting a Stop sign on the road at the junction where the person was mown down.
I can’t find the reference article but it’s briefly mentioned in this article about driving and parking chaos in Poundbury, with a statue of the Queen Mum causing particular confusion.
thelondoneconomic.com/news/somebody-will-get-killed-here-prince-charles-perfect-village-of-poundbury-comes-under-fire-290332/
My understanding as well. A hardcore Globalist, perhaps sincere in his environmentalism and perhaps not the only one of them to be so. But they want a clean world only for themselves and on their terms, that of being the Lords of it.
My understanding, too.
Charles is not the sharpest tack in the drawer.
It is not hard to see how an idealistic but basically underifnormed, scientifically unsophisticated support for “green” can be manipulated into support for the New Green Deal, the Global Warming agenda, and the Great Reset.
I think their sense of innate entitlement would take them beyond ‘green’ to tacit acceptance of the necessity to elimate the useless eaters. Even though a bunch of equally useless eaters would be hard to find.
Back when George Bernard Shaw (as I recently learned, by actually seeing and hearing him say the words in a very old but still legible recording, was playing mouthpiece for the Astor family, he was openly opining that people should have to present themselves before what can only be described as a death panel every year or two.
He literally said that each person would have to demonstrate that they were producing more than they consumed, otherwise ‘why should we keep you alive?’.
Obviously, royalty would need to be exempted, because otherwise the ratio would be off the scale.
The people behind the current holocaust have been promoting it for over a century.
*eliminate* Not doing too well today with the typos and have just had a couple of last-day-of-the-holiday glasses of prosecco to make the fingers skittish.
Nice Tweet: https://twitter.com/JoyCannabis/status/1568068887375413248
That’s what you get without a belief in God. Utter hubris. Trying to become the god they don’t believe in.
Thanks for all this GA. Of course he’s a WEF puppet.
Good to have backup for the claim.
Yuppers:
https://twitter.com/NobodyCitizen/status/1567959493065019394
Yep, that about sums it up. Terrifying.
Western Civ grew past any reasonable boundaries, became infatuated with itself, and forgot to prepare for its demise; too many humans weren’t able to avoid the temptation and followed its lead.
Collapse won’t be pretty – may you face it with peace of mind.
(not our merit , nor our fault)
Mankind is exactly what God (aka The Everlasting Dissatisfaction) intended it to be.
But if you are one of those true believers in the non-existence of the Divine at least you should be aware that the Universe doesn’t care about ethics, and that we are no match for It.
God – the Universe, if you will – only cares about aesthetics, and how to permanently rearrange it.
There is a God. He has a plan. He even gave us His plan millennia ago. He is a Truly amazing God!
Revelation 13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
—–
This shit is real. Repent!
Nah.
Balls.
God is the universe if I will? Nah. What kind of God would that be? I don’t will that at all.
Mankind is exactly what God intended it to be? Every religion says the opposite, else what need for religion?
A terrible post, unlike your usual excellence. What are you not smoking today?
Just another example of Smorgasbord Religion.
Armenio never makes any sense.
Other interesting pick-up from today’s UKC news was the adoption of the expression ‘flatten the curve’ in the context of electricy use.
I’d have to watch it again to see who coined this for use in the new context – Gruesome Newsom was on there, so it might even have been him.
electricity, even …
Climate Change Lockdowns coming to HELP flatten the curve.
The Earth is angry because of our racism. Even our human racism. If we didn’t exist, She wouldn’t be so angry. Also look how we’ve treated her prophet.
Greta, we’re sorry!
“How dare you?!”
GA: Where have I heard that phrase before?
Well, exactly, Hereward. I think we may find we get lockdown Sundays to flatten the power-demand curve, then lockdown weeks, then … you get the picture. Works for climate change too.
Anyway, just remember that you should buy an EV, but should not be anti-social and try to charge it. 🙂 Consider it like the fancy china people used to keep in display cabinets and never use.
Paris has been known to have Sundays where only cars with registration plates ending in even numbers could drive. The next Sunday it would be odd numbers. This was when air pollution got really bad, so fair enough.
Wealthy people managed to figure out that they just needed to buy two cars.
GA:
I can see this—taking these measures—if those making the diktat are just honest about it.
Then it can be discussed and debated. The use of weird, misleading terminology throws the whole public discussion of our situation, and our choices, off track and into a muddy bog. .
Careful! NO is all about muddy bogs.
Madrid had that for weekdays too at one point. Or maybe it was all of Spain, I can’t remember well, because I didn’t have a car for all those years I lived in Madrid.
Must of only been Madrid I think.
“flatten the curve” means
reduce demand.
More Orwellian language fuckery.
Hey, I have no probs with EVs, Green. Don’t you just plug the socket into the ground? After all, that’s what most EV owners think before they buy them!
I think they’re great for cleaning up the air in cities, but that’s a different matter from questions about power supply, embedded energy, batteries and whatnot. I think my brother has one – or at least a hybrid. I don’t pay much attention to cars so you could be showing me anything, but he pointed to what I think was a new Mini Cooper and said something like ‘we’re doing our bit’.
Triple jabbed too, so doing his bit for Billy and Klaus as well.
I posted a tweet of this WEF puppet using it the other day:
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1567462388898594816
Looks like a chuckle or two is dying to come out of her.
Ah, that’s right – it was her. They must have shown the clip on UKC news. They’ll be talking about flattening the population curve soon, without even hiding it.
David A. Arnold has died at age 54 from “natural causes.” It looks like this Sudden Adult Death Syndrome (SADS) event may be vaccine related, but, so far, nobody has blamed experimental mRNA drugs. I’m guessing that Mr. Arnold’s upcoming show is now cancelled:
David A. Arnold – VACCINATED ONLY SHOW
Saturday, October 02, 2021, 7:00pm.
Prior to his facial paralysis issues that began in June, didn’t Justin Bieber require ALL who attended some of his shows to provide proof of “full vaccination?” And what’s up with Bieber’s 25 year old wife suffering a stroke back in March of this year?
Oh well, this is probably just a coincidence because everyone knows that Covid vaccinations are safe and effective.
Couldn’t happen to a better candidate, well, there is always Bon Jovi.
We can’t get him in a helicopter.
Dave Grohl. Definitely Dave Grohl.
Seconded. Wouldn’t that be nice?
Don’t forget Mick!
At least Mick’s got to have one foot in the grave by now
C’mon, NO. Dave Grohl is a rock star and we all know what fearless, anti-establishment rebels they are! /s
I single out Grohl as he comes from out of the indie rock scene in DC that I was part of. Used to practice in their old practice space in Alexandria, VA.
There are lots of stories about how that guy screwed people over, and his public image is really something to take in.
And now old “punk” Dave is a shill for Pfizer.
There is no bigger cunt in modern music. Just my opinion, though.
Grohl’s satanic movie where he murders a band mate then the band mate died less than a month later still creeps me out.
I sure hope that my family members who fell for the Safe and Effective bullshit don’t fall for the new GMO product also.
In other news, Facebook bans the phrase #suddenandunexpected as going against “community standards”.
Interesting. I note that the phrase is no longer used in msm obits, also.
Too obvious, I guess.
The vaccine killed them. Plain talk.
Now the Brits have to pay, out of the public purse, for a grand state funeral and a lavish coronation for that dimwitted, feckless, cuck and probably the ghastly and almost universally disliked Camilla as well. I don’t see how they can afford it. I don’t see how they can have the effrontery when the people are being relentlessly pinched. If he were wise, and I think he is not, he would step down in favor of his son and his duchess, who are much better thought of.
I saw something on Bitchute last night that speculated that William is the anti-Christ.
Personally, I think that President Barrack Obama is the anti-Christ.
Who do you think?
OG. Another query.
How many of these immigrants are ending up in Canada? Ironic here that the same political party keeping the border open are trying to stop the northern movement into the cities. How stupid is that?
Does Canada acknowledge the illicit border crossing. Does Trudeau acknowledge the situation?
My answer, neither of these two have enough power to be the Anti-Christ. He, who is coming, will explode onto the scene rounding up all the evils of society, consolidating them and moving the world Politico to follow him.
KLaus is not him, but he may be his precursor.
The new John the Baptist?
Hysterical. They are human like anybody else.
God’s Word is hysterical, Slugger? Ya think?
The Anti-Christ will turn out to be every bit as human as Our Dear and Dearly Departed Queen Lizard, of that I have no doubt.
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Did you know that us True Christians actually revel in your public scoffing and scorn? You fulfill His Word when you act thus. TruStory
God’s word, man’s word, pffft. FalsStory.
I’d say it’s pretty obvious: Billy Joel. Worst signer ever, and thinks he’s The Beatles and Elton John rolled into one.
Yes, of course. The Big 3. Will, Barry & Bill.
I don’t believe in the anti-christ. The evil in men is quite sufficient.
The Truth is The Truth. Your determination of sufficiency is, of course, not relevant to reality.
Superstition as reality? Oh, my.
I think we need to define “reality” here before we take this conversation to the next level.
The word “anti” has two defintions:
1. against
2. in place of
A saviour type will save us from ourselves, politically. These obviously evil, ignorant, arrogant individuals who can only deceive those like themselves, do not qualify.
And the offsetting carbon credits that “the people” will have to buy.
Out of all the crap that my tax gets wasted on I don’t mind throwing a few shillings in the ring for Lizzie. Contrary to the popular opinion here that she is some sort of Lizard, I thought she was one of the better ones. Willy and Kate seem alright too.
The worst thing is we’ve now got a month of wall-to-wall ‘coverage’ to suffer, not that it bothers me much since I don’t watch TV or listen to mainstream radio.
I see the BBC are already spewing out the “diversity” and “white privilege” bollocks. Everything is turned on its head these days.
I sure hope the BBC ask Gavin Newsome about white privilege
It’s the hats. English aristocrats are programmed to be turned on by those hats the ladies wear, the bigger the better. Poor Diana didn’t know the secret to Bonny Prince Charlies’s heart.
And I thought it was the high heels and the nylon stockings with the prominent seam up the back.
He used her and abused her. He just wanted an heir and a spare.
Beryl- Didn’t the polo player provide the spare?
Who cheated first?
He did. He was having an affair with (married) Camilla before and during his marriage to Diana. She was only 19 when they got engaged and was picked because she was a virgin. The hypocrisy was off the charts.
I think I must be the only person (well, nearly) in the country who didn’t watch either of their soul-baring documentaries because they were too cringeworthy, but I heard he asked her why she thought he would be the first Prince of Wales not to have a mistress. Fine, Charles, but the time to make that explicitly clear – preferably in writing – is before you get engaged. Fair do’s.
The Brits love that stuff. In fact, people the world over come to England just for the tradition and the ceremony.
They put the pomp in pomp and circumstance.
lookin at the lil frumpy bowlin balls dressed in black this morning on their walks past that FKA “the festival”
who needs a trip to UK ?
That would suggest that people the world over love that stuff just as much! Many of us in the UK take no interest. Now I just watch them to see what evil things they’re up to. My husband, who isn’t even British, thinks the Queen was superb, although he doesn’t care for Charles and thinks the whole WEF thing is a conspiracy theory.
I stumbled onto the feature film “My Son Hunter” on Bitchute last night. It is quite the film. I like the intro line:
This is not a true story …
… except for all the facts.
I just stumbled on it on Odyssey too – here:
odysee.com/@MalC:3/MY-SON-HUNTER-%28Full-Movie%29:d
Haven’t had the pleasure of watching it yet.
Crap, already blocked. LOL. I’m sure I’ll find it elsewhere.
Probably a copyright thing rather than a censorship thing.
still here
bitchute.com/video/GbR3F9v28bd8/
It’s still working for me on the Odyssey link, oddly, as well.
It’s told from Joe Biden’s pov, pre-dementia? I think they got the timing wrong from the clip Tucker showed. But it’s a good format to use in any case.
No, it is not from Joe’s POV. A pre-demented Joe is a key character (played brilliantly by John James), but the main character is Hunter.
Fictitious characters are used to allow a fictitious screenplay to present historical facts. It is very well done!
From the Guardian:
theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/06/my-son-hunter-review-rightwing-biden-movie
“My Son Hunter: the rightwing Hunter Biden movie is for fringe lunatics”
“Laurence Fox and Gina Carano star in an unhinged low-budget drama based less on fact and more on conspiracy theory.”
“Never mind that the contents of said computer have been proved non-scandalous, and never mind that Russian state media has eagerly embraced the cockamamie narratives peddled here.”
I thought the story was that Hunter Biden’s laptop wasn’t even a thing.
Anyway, a review worth reading (thanks to Neil Oliver for retweeting from Laurence Fox!) just for the experience of seeing a Guardian ‘journalist’ having a nervous breakdown.
LOL, it’s nice to seem them running scared.
29 April 2022 – 26 August 2022
All-cause deaths in England & Wales vs the 5-year average:
45-64 +10.4%
65-74 +7.0%
75-84 +15.8%
Over 85 +13.8%
Good job everyone’s vaccinated or the rates would be far higher.
Don’t know if you’re acquainted with Professor Norman Fenton, Slugoon. He’s a mathematian – professor of Risk Analysis and something or other. He’s interviewed by Brian Gerrish on the UKC site somewhere, but also elsewhere. Now smeared, of course, for pointing out that the covid statistics never made sense.
There was a very crass BBC propaganda programme recently, called ‘Unvaccinated’, which put some unvaxxed ‘weirdos’ in a house together to try to figure out their unvaxxed weirdness. (UKC also did some detailed burrowing on who exactly Dr Hannah Fry – the presenter – is and the unacknowledged affiliations of the doctor they were taken to in case any of them changed their silly unvaxxed minds (they didn’t). Anyway, Dr Hannah claimed 4 million Brits weren’t vaxxed (to make them sound fringe and weird), but Professor Fenton pointed out that the government’s own ONS figures show that almost 19 million adult Brits aren’t vaxxed at all, which (a) must be more than a third of the adult population and (b) makes the figure of 94% of covid deaths being in the vaxxed population even more stark.
I haven’t heard of said gentleman but will endeavour to acquaint myself. I like catching up with UK Column whenever I have the time to sit down and watch anything (thank you for putting me onto it a long time ago). Brian Gerrish is a gem, as is Mike Robinson, and I like the grassroots nature of it.
I’ve just got back from the Faroe Islands where rt.com is still accessible. How refreshing it is read and hear things that aren’t pumped out by this awful government and MSM and, Gods-forbid, make my own mind up.
There’s also a very recent interview with Brian G. and Mark Sharman, a former ITV/BSkyB producer and whistleblower who exposed an Ofcom instruction to all UK media not to deviate in any way from the government’s covid narrative – or else repercussions. It’s on the Home page, along with an also-recent interview with Dr Sam White, the English GP who went to the police with massive amounts of evidence of crimes against humanity and whose case got thrown out, despite dozens of expert witnesses having declared their willingness to testify.
Here’s Norman Fenton, though, as he’s no longer on the Home page:
ukcolumn.org/video/professor-norman-fenton-questions-vaccine-data-analysis
Faroe Islands, eh! I’m typing this from a nice little holiday rental in Berwick-upon-Tweed, so only just in England and possibly anomalously so. 🙂
There is a Lowry Trail. Apparently Lowry was inordinately fond of Berwick and nearly bought a very impressive house behind the ‘Elizabethan wall’. Ours is more modest, 3 minutes’ walk from the station!
There seems to be massive collusion between media and governments all over the world. Almost like it’s orchestrated, eh!
I quite like Lowry’s paintings. Educated around these parts I believe? It’s been a while since I’ve ventured to Northumberland but I found it quite magical. I remember seeing Berwick on the map and thinking it a little too close to Scotland to venture there. (Scarred from Thurso I tell you!) You must come to the north-west some day!
Thanks for the fresh data, Slugger. As startling as those numbers are (a 10% increase in all-cause deaths would be a statistical once-in-200-years 3-sigma event), Edward Dowd cites numbers far worse in the USA – both all-cause deaths (40%!) as well as self-claimed disabilities (an increase of millions of victims).
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How’re the friendly skies, Slugger? What’s the scuttlebutt amongst European commercial airline pilots?
I think the 40% was during the lockdown plus the Vax, the former creating a lack of lack testing for non-covid conditions, treatment for same, suicide, domestic violence, recreational drugs, etc.
Once things returned to relative normal, the increased death rate decreased to a staid but monumental 20%.
Kinda. It was a 41% increase in all-cause deaths by One America of Indianapolis for the period of 2021Q4.
To this day, Edward Dowd cites many all-cause deaths increases of much more than 20% for 2022Q1 & even early Q2 results.
I will be sure to post a link the next time I hear him say as much.
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Ed Dowd has earned my respect. He was very successful working in the same industry that I put in 22 years (Wall Street). I worked with dozens of guys like Ed Dowd. Good times. Good memories. Until the housing bubble in 2008 and I got slapped upside the head that I was making ridiculous (top percentile) income being a cog in their evil machine. That took all the fun out of it as I looked at my hard-working, greedy colleagues differently after that.
Interesting info. What does he say about Britain? Why would they be way less than the United States?
Say hi to Rhett if you see him up there.
That was my point as I started this thread under Slugger’s fresh stats. Why is the UK’s awful data better than the US’s even worse results?
While I have never heard Ed Dowd comment on UK data, I speculate that AstraZeneca has different properties and timelines vis-a-vis Pfizer, Moderna and J&J.
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Rhett sez “Hey, Yoho!”
Re AstraZeneca, my impression is that it was mostly used for the first two iterations (and people like my husband, who were early on the list, got Pfizer from the get-go because AZ wasn’t yet approved) and that the first boosters onward have primarily been Pfizer. AstraZeneca has been used widely in poorer countries because it was offered at cost ‘until the pandemic is over’. Luckily for them, most of those poorer countries have been less than enthusiastic about the entire vaxx agenda, as wekk as having supply problems, which has left them in the fortunate position of having more knowledge of the consequences.
On the UK’s Yellow Card system, AZ still leads in terms of deaths and other adverse reactions.
yellowcard.ukcolumn.org/yellow-card-reports
According to insurance actuaries, the excess death rate has doubled in the 35-44 age group and is significantly high in other age groups.
I can’t post the link without the comment going to moderation, but the article is on zerohedge.
It’s mostly back to normal, thanks Bob, with restrictions largely gone. (What were you in a former life/handle?!) It’s been a spring/summer full of management incompetence and cancellations but in short, we’re busy again and back to our full-time contracts.
Most of the First Officers have been jabbed up, from what I sense in chatting to them, but none have dropped dead, as far as I know. Many of us grizzly Captains have not been jabbed, and none of us have dropped dead either.
I got talking to one of our Cabin Crew last week about vaxxes. You know when you get a hint that ‘someone is on your side’ so you begin to divulge a little more of your thoughts, then a little more. That turned into a fully-blown rant against the insanity of the past few years. Rare but lovely and cathartic to find someone that sees past the propaganda to the facts and reality. (And for the record, I don’t begrudge anyone who’s been vaccinated, I’m not anti-, I’m just pro-choice.)
We’ve had a ridiculous policy with masks. Instead of getting rid of them like many other airlines did long ago we kept them on routes where the host country recommended them on public transport. It continued to be the most pointless, constantly changing, confusing policy until recently when nearly all the crew said “fuck this” and just stopped wearing them.
But no, nothing much on the gossip airwaves (Galley FM as we call it). Business as usual. Lots of chatter from management about sustainability and running planes on hydrogen or unicorn dust etc. but it’s standard big corporation virtue-signalling bollocks for PR more than anything.
I’m learning to ignore it along with all the Pride crap they keep pushing down everyone’s throats and March for Peace (presumably in relation to Ukraine). Vomit. In fact, the recent Pride march was full of management types from Head Office running photo ops. So few actual gay crew attended they were bribing people to go by giving them the day off work. I think the actual gay people, who by the way are cherished, valued, massively over-represented and have always enjoyed equal treatment at work, are seeing through the nonsense of it all, and that it’s all being hijacked by virtue-signalling hand-wringing do-gooders.
Sorry for the extended rant!
I think JohnAZ might have reached his final form.
Consistent with many traditional, former white shoe GOP stalwarts who have transitioned before, he combines knowledgeable insight with new found revolutionary zeal.
It’s why he’s able to post informed, detailed posts/replies to almost any thread, but without wasting time on complaining, snarking sarcastically or socializing/trolling, but rather drives matter-of-factly right to the heart of the “issue”.
You know, vocalizing typically unsaid proposals, suggestions & solutions about power groups that elevate you from a mere watch list notation to something perhaps more ‘comprehensive’.
At that stage, you either disappear from public view, or you develop a talent for framing everything in a more abstract and oblique fashion, all the while hoping others will follow the logic trail to reach their own conclusions.
If this trend can continue, then the truth will eventually permeate out into the general public mind (aka normies) regardless of mainstream/DS suppression and counter propaganda efforts.
I think you’ve got a little crush on the JAZ’er. Go ahead and admit it, man love is apparently cool these days.
King Charles III “lately” of the WEF? Chuck has been there for more than a short duration.
Then the facsimile of the WWF, an ostensible “Save the (your choice of furry/cutie)” His father gleefully announced his own eugenics leanings in an infamous quote:
“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.”
(I understand Bill Gates swooned, and hugged Prince P’s knee)
Then there’s the royally-favoured, MI-5-Pentagon-supported “Amnesty International,” a hoot among a host of others.
The largest landholder in the world, the King of Real Estate, the Scion of Skulduggery. Let us be done with illusions.
Albion remains Perfidious. The die is cast: It’s Them against us’ns.
It’s Them against us who live in Blighty too. Always has been.
So I was out to lunch this afternoon at my favorite burger joint. As I was eating in the patio section, I noticed a family leaving comprised of a husband, mother, and their two darlings. After the mother had both children safely buckled up in the rear section car seats of their mid-size SUV she proceeded to sit in the back seat between them. This left the father figure to serve as nothing more than a glorified chauffeur to the family, with an empty front passenger seat. Very sad to see that this is what the state of manhood and fatherhood has become. The look on his face as he drove away appeared to be rather full of despair.
Bell,
Perhaps you misread the situation. Is it possible that one of the husband’s drinking buddies cried “shotgun”, and was taking his good, goddamned time to get to the car?
Bitch was lucky that the vehicle had no trunk….
LOL! Poor emasculated SAP!
“Honey, do you have my balls? I can’t seem to find them and I’ve looked everywhere!”
“Idiot loser! That’s why I always hold onto them for you! You wouldn’t know what to do with them anyway!”
he might find his shit out on the front lawn soon as shes ready to get with the gubmint program. he might even be the bestest hard workin chauffeur ever. right up till SHTF and pwb turn her womb against him.
Maybe the kids scream unless someone is there to comfort them.
Maybe the father would rather drive without his wife in the front seat than drive listening to stereo screams.
Yes. That is probably the explanation, Sherlock. Good thinking!
“Maybe the kids scream unless someone is there to comfort them”
Paula,
Well, during my extreme youth, if I were screaming in the back seat, my Sainted mother would say…”Be quiet or I’ll give you something to scream about…”
Comfort the little snot nosed vectors? Show them the back of your hand…
It’s probably in the Bible somewhere…you could look it up….
This is a very negative view of children. When small children cry and fuss it’s invariably because they are hungry, thirsty, tired, and have a wet or dirty diaper. Or they may be hurt or sick. If you take proper care of the kids, you won’t have a problem.
My youngest daughter literally never cried until she was about six months old. Granted, this is very unusuall in a kid, but wtih small children, “screaming kids” means you’re a shitty parent, unless there are circumstances beyond your control.
Kids do reach an age where some behaviors need to be curbed, such as deciding to climb up onto the roof and crawl around before they’re old enough to walk, escaping from the house and crawling several blocks down Antioch Road, or escaping from the back yard by climbing a chain-link fence and running across the street, dropping their diaper in the neighbor’s yard and climbing another chain-link fence to visit with thier dogs. Kids will also do things that are deliberately naughty, as opposed to just overly adventurous. I never found spanking to be effective.
“This is a very negative view of children”
Anthea,
Guilty as charged.
@ Paula D:
Yeah, there are about a million possible reasons for the wife to be sitting in the back seat. Maybe they’re on their way to visit his mom, and the wife wants to get the applesauce out of the kids’ hair and the mustard out of their ears. Maybe they’re on their way to pick up his sister, who gets carsick if she has to ride in back. Maybe the wife just came from an eye exam and her pupils are dilated, and she can’t stand the glare through the front windshield.
The fact that cowbell is hell-bent on assuming that this is an insult to the husband suggests that he himself devotes a lot of his mental energies to thinking up reasons to take offense about nothing at all and get angry over imaginary slights to himself. (Many of us know such people. They are a PITA.)
The only conclusion many men up here come to without knowing the real story: Women are horrible bitches.
Sad.
@ MaryQueen:
Seriously, what kind of person looks at total strangers in a restaurant parking lot and concludes that their car seating arrangements are proof that the wife is a bitch and that women in general have grown unendurably uppity?
Sounds to me like such a person is a little bitch.
Reminds me of my late mother-in-law. We’d be driving down Antioch Road in Overland Park, Kansas, and she’d look out the car window, see some woman she didn’t even know, and remark, “She’s put on a little weight.”
This is borderline mental illness.
On the other hand, maybe I’m being a little too harsh. It is very difficult to govern one’s thoughts. There is a constant temptation to think ill of people and to give way to brooding and thinking angry and negative thoughts about people in general. Old people are especially susceptible to this.
I once mentioned to my daughter that I often found myself thinking critical thoughts about other people when I was in church–that they’re fat or wearing a tacky outfit. My daughter replied, “That’s why I keep my head down when I’m in the communion line–so I won’t look at someone and think bad thoughts about them.”
Governing your thoughts is a task we have to undertake. Everything–evil words and bad actions–starts in the mind. You have to get the mind under control, assuming you don’t want to be a little bitch.
I personally think that these evil thoughts are satanic attacks. They don’t even necessarily come from within yourself, though you may have certain weakness that a “satanic attacker” can easily exploit, such as a tendency to anger or pride on certain points. The best strategy is to treat them as satanic attacks. When you experience this, it is good to say the prayer to St. Michael, or just pray, “St. Michael, defend us in battle.” You are in a battle to defend your mind against these satanic intrusions.
Seriously, again, why does the sight of a couple with young children cause you to react by thinking of them (and referring to them here) sarcastically as “the little darlings”?
You know they ARE little darlings, right? They are the beloved children of God. And you, as a manifestation of the divine in the world, will properly see them as beloved children.
Some discussion upthread about the ‘beneficent’ and ‘ceremonious’ office of Queen Elizabeth II. I guess it’s a holdover from when most kids got excited during the slow passing of parades. Those strange countenances who look human but must be Gods and Goddesses! One poster even showed pity and admiration for Elizabeth, stating that it must’ve been tiring, having to smile and get dressed up and meet so many people all the time.
Are you fucking serious!?
The monarch is worth $88 billion, and the Queen’s personal share was over half a billion, sans property and other perks (stocks, e.g.). Her talents and skills for accumulating such wealth? Lottery winning birth. Oh, and those same skills (smiling and waving) are no better than that of a Rotary club member during a group good-bye.
But she was a nice lady, so I’m just a meanie. As a published poet, and someone who believes poetry is the highest of the word arts, it was sickening to me to see someone like Andrew Motion succumb, as poet laureate for a decade, to the worship of the Queen. The quality of his poems promptly went into the toilet after his first few duties for occasional verse became part of the public sphere. Even the great Ted Hughes fell under the spell when he got tapped as laureate years before.
King Arthur was a good man
Merlin was a wizard
She perfectly fit the plan
You see, the Queen was a lizard
She & Phillip came to Kamloops
October, Nineteen Sixty-four
Now Justin Bieber’s face droops
Guess there isn’t any more
Keep em comin Lance!
Here’s a poem just for our times:
One dark night when all was bright
Two dead guys came out to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other
A deaf man heard the shooting noise
And went to find the two live boyz
If you don’t believe this poem’s true
Ask the blind man – he saw it too
While peeking through a knot-hole
In a chain-link fence
And his deaf mother
Listened to his fingerless daughter play the piano
While his mute sister sang along
I’m astonished at some things I’m reading about concerning EII. People are shocked that she passed away? What’s shocking about someone in their upper nineties leaving us?
I find her about as interesting as I found the homecoming queens in 1960’s high school interesting. You know, one of the best lookin’ girls in the school that get to dress up, ride in a convertible wearing a crown and a white dress, and she’s waving to everybody watching the parade. She’s smiling and waving, and smiling and waving, our homecoming queen! Queen for a day, and forgotten tomorrow. A memory and a pic in a class yearbook.
Anyone interested in what a *real* queen is like, and history has produced them every now and then – look up Elizabeth I. Wikipedia will do fine. Liz I was not a “smile and wave” type person. She was a fierce, hands on manager with a lot of charisma and skill. I you made serious problems for her, she could do to you what she did to Mary Queen of Scots. Lock you up for a while in a dungeon and then have you executed. She presided over a prosperous and artistically creative era called “Elizabethan”, and was a fan of Shakespeare I believe. She was actually running things very well, she was not just parading around and waving.
Another interesting royal alpha female who was basically running running an empire was princess Sophie of Bavaria, sometimes called the “tigress of Bavaria”. People learned to stay out of her way when she was archduchess of Austria.
Thumbs up for fine comment.
Reminds me of another one, but my mind won’t supply the data.
thanks
JAZ:
“How many of these immigrants are ending up in Canada? Ironic here that the same political party keeping the border open are trying to stop the northern movement into the cities. How stupid is that?
Does Canada acknowledge the illicit border crossing. Does Trudeau acknowledge the situation?”
I don’t think that many (any?) of the people illegally entering the US from Mexico keep going all the way north to Canada. I believe that the USA and its welcoming Dem gov’ts are their finally destination.
The happenings between the US and Mexico would rarely (if ever) draw comment from Canadian leaders. We rarely comment beyond our own concerns unless it is to stand behind Washington with a placard:
Ya! What he said!
Canadiens, with the exception of independent truck drivers, are ‘nuched. Just like their Australian commonpoverty brethren.
Now, ‘muricans on the other hand, they need to be outnumbered and diluted.
Pronto.
Lo mas pronto de posible ayyyyyyyy yayyyyyyyyyy yayyyyyyyyyyy!
You are sadly correct. Canadians are, by in large. sheeple.
Well, America is only pulling up the rear. Kardashian started a private equity fund
“the money for that is fated to go up in a vapor later this fall as history’s greatest margin call gets underway.” I believe you, Jim, and it might be an understatement at that. I’m reading a book about the Fed and their role in creating the dot.com bubble, housing bubble and now the debt bubble that hasn’t burst yet. Powell raising interest rates might slow it down but (according to this book) nothing can stop it.
Powell, btw, made a fortune in the Carlyle Group by running up debt on a company and then selling it to another group that kept running up the debt, selling it, then sold it to another group that ran up the debt, then sold it …..
“… vaxx-happy Wokesters are about to have a new BA-5 bivalent booster laid on you… it’s been tested in a trial involving eight lab mice, and quickly approved by our FDA.”
In the future, all Big Pharma Toxic Concoctions will be pre-approved by the FDA… BEFORE THEY HAVE CREATED THEM YET. No reason to waste time with what we know will always be full and enthusiastic approval by Medical Grifters with big titles and inflated egos who are already on the Big Pharma payroll.
And the lab mice are all on board with this as they will no longer have to sacrifice themselves on the altar of our phony Big Pharma Toxic Concoction ‘approval’ process which always leaves a long and painful trail of dead or dying field creatures and human beings.
“… a new leading cause of death throughout Western Civ in people under 60 is ‘Cause Unknown’.”
And that is most certainly a damned lie. The cause is damn well known. It is not ‘Cause Unknown’ but ‘Cause UNACKNOWLEDGED (and never will be)’. But that’s too many letters for the ‘Cause Of Death’ line on death certificates so let’s just go with Cause Unknown. Don’t want to overtax the medical examiners or create a massive PR problem for the Big Pharma Toxic Concoction Cartel who are working tirelessly to greatly reduce the human population for fun and big profit.
“… the spread of Sudden Adult Death Syndrome…”
This might be shock to them but EVERYONE will die of Sudden Death Syndrome. Why? Because one moment you are alive, and the next you are dead as a doornail and ready for some medical examiner to fake your true cause of death for the benefit of the
Big Pharma Toxic Concoction Cartel on your death certificate. Who says that creative writing is dead these days? Big Pharma and Medical Examiners are writing up all kinds of fantasies these days.
“God help the suckers watching CNBC.”
There’s nothing wrong with watching CNBC. The problems begin if you BELIEVE anything you see or hear on it. CNBC makes for great comedy and various exercises in reality denial. Lots of times funnier than NBC’s SNL.
“The Party of Chaos is desperate… They need a ‘national emergency’…”
The Party is Chaos IS a national emergency.
They named the national emergency, the new bogeyman, and more than once. He goes by various names, perhaps you have heard of him:
-Deplorable
-White Supremacist
-MAGA
-Ultra MAGA
-Trump Follower
-Conservatives
-Republicans
-White cisgenders
-That fellow across the street who won’t vote democrat
Hehe!
Most natural death is not sudden. Humans can last longer than you would ever suspect. They just keep on breathing, even when their minds are gone and multiple organs have become dysfunctional.
It’s a lot like the US. It just keeps on stumbling along, although it is dysfunctional as hell.
P- Biden is just a metaphor.
lol, now that you mention it…..
Canada is getting a ton of Ukie refugees, among others…Syrians etc.
Though James believes the Prince was golden
It’s his carbon you be holdin
He’s the sink and you’re the chosen
To be oil when you’re dirt dozin
Soon enough the tide will turn
But first of all the world must burn
I hear it said from high above
‘The end of a good reign
Off comes the glove’
Soon we will be in the eye
Some will change and some will die
When it hits you have 6 weeks
To make your peace
Or join the freaks
Ta da
Brilliant!
The shit house poet strikes again.
Chucky III has been a dip-shit greenie loon from day one.
God help the English.
Republic within 30 years.
Oh one more thing, the next plague will be a skin bourne disease. It is in your tap water. BOIL WATER for consumption and keep calendula cream on hand.
So I make calendula cream with the orange bits of the flowers and it is indicated for sunburn or radiation poisoning, which is telling.
Do you have a source? Will it afflict the jabbed and the non-jabbed alike? Thanks.
I believe a voice told him
Afterthewarning.com
I think luz or shelley anna.
Drinking tap water, unless it is filtered, is a Bad Idea. There is all kinds of harmful crap in it.
I have read that filtered tap water is okay. You can also buy distilled water by the gallon and using for all drinking and cooking water. I did this for years, but my present house has filtered water.
September 9, 2022…another turn of the screw.
Anyone on this god-forsaken blog familiar w/ Oberlin College? I didn’t think so.
But in the off chance there is, and you’ve had the pleasure of enjoying a cruller from Gibson’s (I have), what ya think of “the verdict”?
Not many midwest donut shops get a pix on the front page of that woke catbox liner, the NY Times.
$36M
time to pay out pseudo-ivey (your parents ain’t got enough $ and you ain’t got enough smarts)
Good. Should have been more money.
My own alma mater is quite similar to Oberlin, wouldn’t surprised to see a story like this happen there.
I would hope several wokey admins will be fired for this…but…ya know.
Of course I am familiar with Oberlin College.
But, what is the news about it?
Some racist thing or another leveraged against the bakery, trying to cancel them for their misogynistic and Whitewashing ways.
Islander – The gist:
The bakery accused some youths of stealing (which they did), and the youths were not white but the ownership was.
So the youths complained, and then Oberlin called the bakery out for being institutionally racist, and protests/picketing by students ensued.
The bakery proved the kids were stealing, and Oberlin had to pay them a shitload of money for their baseless defamation of their business.
Just a hilariously dumb move by admins at a hopelessly woke liberal arts college.
Christ.
Good one James. Market crash of all time right on schedule,
Buy in, whereby your unpaid mortgage gets called.
Digital dollars available to the vexxed, chipped and marked,
With a sign of convenience to buy and sell.
The Antichrist is a middle eastern man, born of a hebrew nun who communicated with the Devil.
He will stop the war, WWIII.
People will fall down and worship him.
His own will hunt down & kill the unmarked and Christians who will not join his church.
He will sit on the throne in Rome, and rule the world from there and Brussels or London.
He is already on the scene, in the background of the wef, Davos, etc.
Will they like trip and fall down, get pushed, or will they throw themselves down? It’s just that I’m all about the small details.
Wow, edge, funny.
not as funny as the rapture folk’s tales
Catholic up in here. We don’t do rapture.
This is not the end but the purification of the world.
Wait for it.
Rapture is delusional hope for ill-informed chickens.
Like a roller-coaster train slowly climbing higher and higher into the blue sky – we’re doin’ this thing!
The rapture doctrine can be traced back to John Nelson Darby. Some centuries ago, the Darbys owned the most notorious and supposedly most haunted castle in Ireland, Leap Castle. This didn’t bother Mildred Darby at all when she was living in the place. She was into “the occult” and was a well known author of gothic novels. She claimed that she’d seen many ghosts in the castle, but the worst was something she called an “elemental”. It smelled like a rotting corpse, had a man’s head, a sheep’s body, and black holes for eyes.
John Darby founded the now extinct Plymouth Brethren Church. The church ended in fighting factions, but lasted long enough for famed black magician Aleister Crowley to grow up in it. The source of the rapture doctrine is associated with a *very* questionable family with a *very* dark past.
“The Antichrist is a middle eastern man, born of a hebrew nun who communicated with the Devil.”
Will he be “against” Christ or “in place of” Christ?
If someone tries to replace you, it can be assumed they are against you, right?
Can you try a little harder?
Has anybody else here used the line of Molton Brown bath and soap products? Their company’s tag line is: “By Appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, Supplier of Toiletries Molton Brown London.”
It is actually a quality yet decadent line of products they offer. Highly recommended if you want to splurge and treat yourself!
I wonder if they will have to change their company tag line now in light of the circumstances?
Several companies carry such a Royal Charter. I suppose they’ll need a redesign, omitting the word ‘her’ or ‘he’ of course.
“How many companies have a Royal Warrant?
800 companies
Approximately 800 companies hold a Royal Warrant in recognition of the goods and services they provide to the three most senior royals, HM the Queen, HRH the Duke of Edinburgh and HRH the Prince of Wales.Aug 8, 2022”
Boy, have the medicos and scientific bureaucrats screwed their own pooch:
cnbc.com/2022/09/09/new-york-declares-state-of-emergency-over-polio-to-boost-vaccination-rate.html
Gotta be honest, three years ago I would have seen the above article much differently. Now…well…
Seems to me they’re now just throwing reasons to get a new shot at the wall to see what sticks, and if they can jab a few more people with the use of a new scary backstory, they’ll take any that sign up.
Pretty soon it’ll be ebola shots because one person got it somewhere outside of Frogballs, Arkansas. . Then, who knows, cancer shots, if they can make people believe that somehow.
A gem of a quote from the article: “On polio, we simply cannot roll the dice,” Bassett said. “I urge New Yorkers to not accept any risk at all. Polio immunization is safe and effective — protecting nearly all people against disease who receive the recommended doses.”
Gee, where have we heard that before?
Of course polio was a big deal. But because of their own deceptions, I think they’re bald-faced bullshitting here. I, to be sure, ain’t planning on taking whatever is in that vial after the last few years of official medical fuckery.
Or maybe I’m a jackass and will die of polio someday.
Careful what you wish for, you might end up being the next Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Well, I guess I’ve long accepted the fact that if you live long enough, you’re eventually gonna get somethin’.
All children should receive four doses of the polio vaccine. The first dose is administered between 6 weeks and 2 months of age, the second dose is given at 4 months, the third at 6 months to 18 months, and the fourth dose at 4 to 6 years old.
Adults who have only received one or two doses should get the remaining one or two. Health officials said it doesn’t matter how long ago the first doses were given.
My main point is I don’t believe what’s in the vial anymore, I see no reason why they aren’t putting their mRNA crap in there…who would know? No doctor or nurse that administers them at a clinic oversees the production of what’s in the vial…they just open it and give to the patient after reading what it says on the box.
Again, I may be very wrong here. But they screwed up the many decades of trust, not me.
My understanding, primarily from listening to Debi Evans, a retired nurse who delves deep into all things health-related for UK Column, is that the intention is for all ‘vaccines’ to be mRNA concoctions in future. I wouldn’t let anyone inject me with anything any more. I am presuming that mRNA is always encased in synthetic lipid nano-particles and I understand that these are implicated (like the spike proteins) in acute coronary issues.
I also recall Dr Robert Young explaining that the LNP has an electrical charge which is the opposite of the charge of your cells, and that this causes radiation at cellular level. He said that every individual has their own level of tolerance to this radiation (as with any radiation) but that, eventually, a shot would kill you.
“Synthetic lipid nano-particles.” – Yes, I heard they present all kinds of problems for children who are born to parents with these things floating in their system. These are plastics that do not bio-degrade.
Conception takes place and a baby is handicapped BEFORE birth.
Dr Igor Shephard, in Wyoming, by way of Russia, pegged it as “Global Genetic Genocide.”
I sometimes admit a homicidal grudge against health workers… in particular Doctors who were gung-ho on the vaccine program. Did you say trust? That’s a long gone thing.
Also:
Polio spreads between people when the virus enters the mouth, typically through hands contaminated with the stool of an infected person.
The chain of transmission that introduced polio to New York is thought to have originated from abroad in someone who received the oral polio vaccine. The oral vaccine uses a weakened form of the virus that still replicates. In rare cases, the virus used in the vaccine can mutate, become virulent and spread to others.
The U.S. stopped using the oral vaccine more than two decades ago. It now uses a vaccine administered as a shot in which the virus is inactivated, which means it does not replicate and mutate. While this vaccine is very effective at preventing disease, it does not block transmission of the virus.
The oral polio vaccine can block transmission of poliovirus that occurs in nature, but carries the risk that the strain used in the vaccine could mutate to become virulent and result in spread of what’s called vaccine-derived poliovirus.
Is the oral vaccine still used in Hondarus and el Salvador? If the answer is yes that clears up a lot of mysteries.
They probably were given all the US rejects as part of some kind of “humanitarian” mission.
Vaccine-derived polio has overtaken wild polio as a cause of child paralysis in huge swaths of Africa that benefited from the kind attentions of one William Henry Gates III.
I think also in India.
India threw the Gates Foundation OUT in ca. 2009. Then, when Modi came in, Gates engineered a big award or prize for him, the prick, and he welcome the Gates Foundation back into India.
It is now virtually impossible to find on the web the Indian health ministry report—and the video of the presser where it and the Gates defenestration was announced— that found gross negligence on the part of the Gates Foundation. Not sure whether this was the polio thing or some other jab that injured young women—possibly caused infertility.
It seems only five minutes since Prince Harry *allegedly* got vaccinated against HIV (and said that, obviously, we should all follow suit), although he didn’t mention who he thought was likely to give him HIV.
GA, I told you she was a hussy.
The royal family didn’t remove all of that soft porn for nothing.
🙂
Haha. I remember! What stupidity, though, trying to push an HIV ‘vaccine’ on people who are at no risk of HIV.
Polio is the one Gates got banned for.
Totally safe and effective.
LOL>
Polio was environmental poisoning. I am also convinced smallpox and AIDS and covid19 are as well.
or maybe you want to read this extract from “Turtles All The Way Down:
Vaccine Science and Myth” and then probably the whole book as I am doing
drive.google.com/file/d/14N6IgJDr3A8E7gRL4PdqpQs7ePthfRRB/view
You’ll never see polio the same way again.
Dissolving Illusions, by Suzzane Humphries has a similar analysis
Thank you.
‘Space nerd’ Kamala Harris on Friday got cut off from her call with astronauts aboard the International Space Station when it orbited out of range.
Still, Harris was excited about the long distance conversation, describing herself as a ‘space nerd.’
‘I am so excited to be with you as vice president and as the head of the Space Council,’ she said. ‘And as an American who is a space nerd.’
The conversation, before it got cut off, focused on what the astronauts were learning about earth as they studied it from above.
Cowbell comments: Indeed, what the astronauts saw and learned about the earth while studying it from above was the following: (1) Russia takes up too much land which is bad so that country must be destroyed; (2) There are too many people on the Earth resulting in destruction to the environment, so more people must be eliminated; (3) There is a lot of Covid virus replicating among the masses on Earth, so everyone must be inoculated.
What’s with all the talk I’ve heard about man going back to the moon, Is that actually being planned? What the f*ck for? There’s nothing there.
The not-very-educated father of my grandson thinks he’s a follower of ‘science’ and assured me years ago that our energy problems were going to be solved by mining helium 3 on the moon. I am hazy on the details, as was he.
Is this what Jim calls ‘techno-narcissism’?! I can’t work out whether it is better or not to believe in such things and have that perennial optimism.
What’s with all the talk I’ve heard about man going back to the moon, Is that actually being planned?
Slugoon – Supposedly by 2024. The Artemis program, they call it. She was, of course, the twin sister of Apollo…therefore, they are laying it out there that this one will be bullshit, too.
The scary part is the CGi is so good these days they could show video of Oprah landing on Tatooine in a Tesla to visit with the Hutts and work out an interplanetary book publishing deal, and most would believe their eyes.
So…it shall be interesting.
Though NASA does apparently have to figure out how to make a space suit again, as well as how to navigate the Van Allen Belt without getting fried, so that could be an issue…but I’m sure it’ll happen flawlessly on the first try. Murka!
Perhaps we can get Hugo Boss involved on the suits. And maybe Folgers, Ziploc and Reynolds Wrap can make them a new crap can to land them there. Sponsored by Red Bull.
I believe Michael Bay is signed on to direct.
I choked on my Earl Grey tea reading that, Mango.
But seriously, what’s the stated aim? Or is it just a vanity project?
vanity project
Hope the cup of Earl Grey wasn’t wasted!
Why didn’t they use a landline, the way they did when the astronauts called Richard Nixon?
LMAO!!!
Ha! Good point. Improved optics, I presume.
If I had had the opportunity I would like to have poked one of the medals/ribbons on the chests of Princes Phillip, Charles, William or Harry and asked “wudja get this one for?”
They churn ’em out on an as-needed basis.
Had a bowl of Fruit Loops this morning? Here’s a medal for ya!
Took a nice dump in the crapper last night? Here’s a medal for ya!
Made another billion dollars off the backs of the working class? Here a medal for ya!
Prince Andrew got one after losing his sweat glands in the Faukland Island war.
Ha, ha, I forgot about that but you are right.
He was a helicopter pilot. The Argies failed to blow up Andy’s chopper. Unlike Fergie and those girls on Epstein’s island.
Have you ever noticed that whenever someone dies at home (or in a castle) they are said to have “died peacefully in their sleep?” Nobody ever dies in great pain and scared shitless of the state on non-existence that comes next?
of non-existence
Sugar-coated for public consumption.
“Nobody ever dies in great pain and scared shitless of the state on non-existence that comes next?”
Why would you be scared shitless of non-existence? Also, if you were in great pain, I’d have thought non-existence would look pretty inviting.
It’s called being conflicted.
Do you feel non-existent when you are sleeping?
No, not even close. But when I’ve been put under for a colonoscopy that’s as close to non-existence as I’ve come.
I come out of the anesthesia wondering when the hell are they going to do this thing. The nurse says “haha, we finished on you 20 minutes ago.”
I can imagine some of us reacting the same way after our resurrection.
Q – Good point. I imagine it’s peaceful for a few lucky folks. The rest feel terror and then it’s gone. My grandpa was essentially in a coma for the last few days of his life…peaceful. When he went, he suddenly sat up straight and his eyes opened wide. Then he laid down and left.
A quote from Garrison Keillor in a recent book about his view of death while nearing the age of 80:
“Not that I feel immortal, I don’t. I’m a daddy mouse in a cornfield, shopping for my family, and suddenly there will be a rush of wings and a huge shadow and I’ll feel the claws in my back as I rise high in the air.”
(whether you like him or not, I think that is beautifully written)
Poundberry. When my son was little he had a Bear In The Big Blue House book and it had a game in it where you had to look for the Christmas berry, which was hidden somewhere in the picture. (Hidden In Plain Sight some might say.)
A Christmas berry? What on earth does that mean?
Poundberry, Dorset … that’s near where two tribes from the Congo fought it out with spears and machetes a few weeks ago, about 100 warriors in all engaged in bloody combat on an Island that was formerly known as the Christian Kingdom, now known as Londonistan.
Tourism campaign slogan: “Visit Today: Get your berry pounded in Dorset”
NO is all … ears.
Poundbury, not Poundberry.
But do provide a link to the Congolese machete action in Dorset.
You’ve clearly never been to Dorset, brh.
GA I’ve been to Dorset, Vermont.
Why do Americans name towns after counties?
Like calling a town Something-shire. A shire isn’t a town.
GreenAlba last time you said that Americans named their boys a word that means ‘horny’.
So I tried to google ‘horny in UK’.
That was not a wise decision.
What is the name please?
Randall
Thanks, Edge.
RANDY
Randy Scouse Git was a fine song made by the Monkeys. Mickey Dolenz wrote it (I remember) but I am not sure if they played the instruments. The ‘four kings’ mentioned are said to have been the Beatles. Mickey wrote it after a party where the Fab Four were sitting on the floor, or something.
Scouse means Liverpool; a Scouser is a Liverpudlian. Git is a swear word, a milder version of &&&& or even &&&&! Alf Garnett was fond of saying it on the BBC in the Sixties. I am unsure if Mickey knew what the song title means.
Besides Alba the UK is so small anywhere you go is near somewhere else. You could be slashed with a machete at Piccadilly Circus by an enraged Tutsi one moment; in the blink of an eye be in Manchester amidst a Pakastani uprising lol.
Have you ever seen Far from the Madding Crowd, brh? That was Dorset (Hardy’s ‘Wessex’). Manchester or Picadilly it ain’t.
Interestingly, Manchester’s main railway station is called Manchester Picadilly, though. 🙂
I remember this kid from a ship I was on, all he talked about was Thomas Hardy. He was from out in Palookaville, Nebraska somewhere, used to wear cowboy boots and a cowboy hat on liberty — a real sh#tkicker, but he knew about Thomas Hardy. It was uncanny.
from a ship I was on
Your first mistake.
He was from out in Palookaville, Nebraska somewhere, used to wear cowboy boots and a cowboy hat on liberty
Your second. Most people don’t survive that combination. Count yourself lucky.
Ah, Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd. Great novel, great movie.
Set at the same time as the first oil discovery across the Atlantic. And not coincidentally, where nothing had changed socially for two hundred years, and where ‘exotic foreigner’ Sergeant Troy was born in Wessex, went off to war, and then returned.
She still denying the coming colored takeover of Britain because “it’s not happening around here” – her little neighborhood in Edinburgh.
I said nothing about Edinburgh, but merely pointed out that Dorset is not where you’d go to find machete fights.
Alba,
Might there be a “Poundtown”?
An American tradition…going to poundtown….
There is a Pound Town in Wisconsin…
I fear googling the name any further to see where else there might be such a combination of those words.
watch the first few minutes of this video (and then the rest) for a good related laugh.
youtube.com/watch?v=6d8U7AVLJro
Remember when Gen. Milley said that the greatest threat to the US military was white men?
And they picked a fight with Russia in Ukraine, vowing to kill the Last Ukrainian before they would stop arming them.
Ukraine just threw 30,000 men into an attack on Kharkov. Where did they get those men?
They have been kidnapping and conscripting men from 18 to 60 for months now, and now they are starting to conscript women, so I doubt that they came up with 30,000 soldiers from that pool.
Reports from the battlefield say that a lot of those men speak English. They must be mercenaries, imo.
So who are US mercenaries? They are usually country boys who come out of the military and can’t find a decent job. Mercenary pay is very good.
We are talking mostly white boys who are patriotic, military trained and might be resistant to host families of refugees in their farmhouse. They are therefore a threat to the US ruling overlords, as Milley stated.
Is the plan to kill not just the Last Ukrainian but the last US patriot in the bloodlands?
Those aren’t patriots
Those are useful idiots
Easily confused by many
Indeed, what they are doing is neither patriotic nor moral. I guess if they want to get poured into the meat grinder and churned out like so much tripe, then that is their business.
I agree that they are useful idiots.
I agree that are wrong to go kill Ukrainians and Russians.
All I am saying is that it seems like a small form of the depopulation program being used on Ukraine.
In other words, our overlords might be killing two birds with one stone.
(Also I am against killing birds.)
Yet tribalism remains human nature. If you’re not for Whites, who are you for? Mary is for women. That’s her tribe. If you’re for unrelated assortments of people (countries), then the Upper Class is your tribe because that means no real nation, and thus a big government that does the will of the Elite.
“While Jesus was still speaking to the crowds, His mother and brothers stood outside, wanting to speak to Him. Someone told Him, “Look, Your mother and brothers are standing outside, wanting to speak to You.”
But Jesus replied, “Who is My mother, and who are My brothers?” Pointing to His disciples, He said, “Here are My mother and My brothers. For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
Yup. New Testament Christianity is an acid that dissolves cultures and races. Incredibly destructive without balancing it out with Earthly wisdom of the kind contained in the Old Testament or I’m sure, in the oral traditions of our European ancestors.
PHANTASMAGORIA NEWS R US.
Queen Camilla has a ring of Cruella de Vil to it.
You say Camilla; I say Kamala. Let’s call the whole thing off …
Ha ha!
Good one!
Edge Lord…my parents are dead and I’m a very good driver plus I am very smart, but very poor. What makes you think I went to Oberlin, asshole? Maybe I was just passing thru town and got the urge for a Gibson’s cruller. You need to go back and read “The Phantom Tollbooth”, featuring the Island of Conclusions which can only be reached by jumping.
“I am a very good driver”…..also said by Dustin Hoffman in Rainman.
Who accused you?
Must be your victim syndrome kicking in
Good news from Israel, 2% have complied and are fully vexxed as of Sept. 2nd.
They figured it out! All praise Dr Zelenko, rip.
That IS good news.
Indeed, Cowbell, Dustin H. did say this in Rainman. You are a very good driver.
Well, ladies and germs;
I am off to bake a loaf of rustic Chiabatta bread…crust so tough you need your original teeth to eat it. Cruel crust, difficult to cut with a knife.
However, it is becoming very hot in the house…78f inside, 109F registered outside. That is what’s known as Bakersfield hot…Vacaville hot…Redding during fire season hot.
But I will man up and bake today! Did I mention I use a sourdough starter?
Yeah….
Damn, you some tuff sumbitch, cowboy!
Did a pour in a tad of Wild Turkey for flavoring?
The Kickin’ Chicken
@ Edge Lord:
I have not tried the Kickin’ Chicken. I did try Slap Yo Mama and was disappointed. It is mostly salt.
I would probably not use the Kickin’ Chicken in bread. I think I’d go with tapenade for an Italian bread, if I wanted to go to the trouble to make tapenade. But I think you can buy it.
Wild Turkey?
Not in this weather. Gonna be Gin and Tonic, a man’s drink, even with the umbrella and garnish.
And not just any gin…I pour the pig….
Ciabatta out of the oven…the crust is intimidating…the loaf thrown could kill a dog.
You’ze an ornery bastaad, I reckin’. What ya got agin’ the damn dog?
Dis,
The dog, also, is an ornery bastard….
Did a pour in a tad of Wild Turkey – BRH
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pour (Brit) = por (American)
So you have the air conditioning on to chill the house to 78 and you turn on the oven and people congratulate you on your manliness?
This is why they have rationing, just in case people don’t realize it.
Some people have no common sense.
Q do you see this?
Q do you see this? – Paula
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Yes, I see it but what is your point?
Don’t bake and air condition at the same time?
If so, how does that relate to me?
I thought you disapproved of wasting energy.
LOL! REAL men sweat it out in silence.
Are you saying, “No baking during A/C season(s).”?
Manliness aside, I enjoy a good, woman-made fruit pie 12 months per year. They can pry my a la mode spoon from my cold, dead hand.
LOL! Beat that drum with a sledge hammer!
Of course that’s what I’m saying.
It’s just common sense, especially when power plant employees are struggling to provide enough electricity to a very large population.
What the hell is wrong with people?
And no, I only bake in the winter. That way I get baked goods and the house is heated up.
Paula,
The room was 78 degrees because the house is well built and well insulated. I know this because I built it myself. I have central air conditioning, but have only used it once in…20 years, and that was years ago, when the wife was alive.
The oven is a 120v countertop model…
You are probably right regarding the common sense.
…But I have rustic bread at 25 cents a loaf, and $7000 worth of dental work last year allows me to eat it…barely.
I have a 120V countertop oven. I love it. Definitely the way to go if you are going to bake during the summer. They don’t heat up the house much. Plus you have a backup in case your kitchen range goes on the blink.
My apologies then, elysianfield.
I assumed that you had used electricity to cool your house down 30 degrees.
Props to you for building well.
I am mostly opposed to baking in the summer. But I’ll make exceptions.
Bob Moran’s take on the Charles and Klaus bromance:
bobmoran.co.uk/?ss_source=sscampaigns&ss_campaign_id=631ba114a65f45243f6dc10d&ss_email_id=631ba1baa65f45243f6dd252&ss_campaign_name=%E2%80%98Rein%E2%80%99&ss_campaign_sent_date=2022-09-09T20%3A28%3A01Z
On a email list of a professional group of which I am a member, the following was posted:
“The lodge in our 55+ community is hosting a vaccination clinic on Tuesday. I just received a reminder email with the subject line:
‘On-Sight Vaccination Clinic’
Noooo! Please!!”
The problem was “sight” instead of “site.”
No problem with the jab message to those 55+.
EEEEK !!!
Hahaha!
Not feeling so sanguine about King Charles III. He’s sure to put his blessing on every cockamamie woke agenda.
I agree.
But Camilla might apply a restraining hand.
Can’t say that I’ve ever felt “sanguine” about anything. Charlie’s just another pure bred puppy who’s sure to show more signs of his inbred neuroticism soon enough. Maybe hip dysplasia too? Might be a fun watch, though.
The owner of Romania’s most famous football team just banned VACCINATED players from the team because they have poor cardiovascular function
Mr. Becali noticed that athletic performance slips in vaccinated players. He also singled out players from rival clubs – CFR Cluj and Rapid Bucuresti – whose athletic performance and mental acuity fell off after taking the jabs. “Haven’t you seen it at CFR? With Rapid, the players seemed to be fainting. They slept on the ground. All vaccinated people lose their strength!” Becali continued: “I also see mine, the vaccinated ones. It doesn’t affect some, but it does affect those who are older. Haven’t you seen Deac? There is no more storm.”
Becali said that the jabbed are “powerless” and are more likely to die in hospitals, whether from covid, respiratory distress or adverse events from the vaccine itself. This is a frightening situation, a reality that has become more common for individuals who were fooled into poisoning themselves.
citizens_news/654281.html
Leave it to them crazy Romanians to be the first to figure this out. The Mouse that Roared, possibly?
Businessmen always face reality. This guy signs top athletes to multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts. If he is correct and jabbed men are, with the passage of time, slower, weaker, less elite, then pro sport’s many contracts will be a leading indicator as the jabs have been available to under 40s for, what, 16 months now?
Fascinating, Rhett.
If true, (unvaxxed) Kyrie Irving will be the clear superstar of the NBA in a year or two.
Geriatric-level basketball — not too sure many would be renewing seasons tickets to watch it.
My favorite ethnicities are Romanians and Bulgarians.
You like the gypsies, I’m guessing?
Say that to a Romanian if you want to grossly offend him. It’s their version of our race problem with Blacks.
Jarek is , generally, correct.
Anyway , in simple , general terms I like Romania and Bulgaria for the same reason my favorite part of Eastern North America is Appalachia.
— the scenery is drop – dead gorgeous
— Poverty is proverbial.
— it’s the European equivalent of Fly – over country.
Jarek’s wrong, lots of gypsies are proud to call themselves that.
Boise happenings: We are in the middle of horrible smoke from myriad fires, a map shows most of Idaho in the red. Yikes + yuck.
In several cities including Boise, a “Drag Kids” show was planned but so many people have complained and gone after the sponsors (which include my credit union and Fred Meyers and Albertsons) that many sponsors have dropped support and the events are ‘postponed.’
I was at Albertson’s today and saw on the pole I was parked in front of a sticker with a picture of Klaus Schwab, saying “WANTED for Crimes against humanity – REJECT THE RESET”
Good times in Idaho!!
So much for the Gay resistance you spoke about, eh? The mainstream movement is on board with what the Elite want.
Keep making no sense, Jarek.
It’s what you do.
Another excellent article today James, thank you!
“The Darwin Award season has been extended at least another six months! You’ll be glad to hear it’s been tested in a trial involving eight lab mice, and quickly approved by our FDA. ”
Hahahahahahahaha!
Lab mice, it would seem, are worth much more than mere humans, to the reset/eugenics crowd.
Gotta say, my sympathies are more with the hapless and helpless mice than with the humans eagerly volunteering themselves.
Same!
You choose, you lose, at least it was your choice.
Exactly. Well you probably already know I detest animal experimentation.
““The Darwin Award season has been extended at least another six months! – This one’s over my head, Q.
Darwin Awards are a joke award given out to people who injure or off themselves in very stupid ways.
MQ…go back to CA…air’s a lot cleaner than Boise.
Doubt that. It’s just dumb luck who gets the worst fires. In 2020, it was CA. Still might be as fire season is only starting.
San Fran peninsula and Berkeley, etc. have the worst air quality in the US.
San Fran has the air-quality bonus of homeless dookie everywhere.
Whatever turns your crank, tightens your screw, spins your top, etc. in the world where anything goes and nothing matters. What are “facts” anymore, anyway? Spin ’em however you like. Red Dog Rules. TC
Floats your boat
Fills yer boots
Brings the runner around to score
Converts your touchdown
A la modes your pie
“The only conclusion many men up here come to without knowing the real story: Women are horrible bitches.”
Ya think?
I get the much more accurate impression that CFNers are realists and KNOW that SOME women are, indeed, horrible bitches.
Surely you do know that horrible bitches are not mythical, right? You do know that horrible bitches do exist, right?
What an utterly imbecilic response.
As usual.
“Ad hom, ad hom, ad hom.
Ad hom.
Therefore, here in Grade 3, I win.”
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Never mind me, Proud Mary. This is not about me. Answer my questions. If they are “imbecilic,” then they should be easy to answer, right?
On the other hand, your attacking me while pretending that these valid questions do not even exist speaks volumes. We all know that.
Oh go seethe and cry and fume elsewhere. No one here cares any more.
“Ad hom, ad hom, ad hom.”
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You are not a CFN spokesperson. You are a corrupt bully.
EVERYONE cares about The Battle of The Sexes, Proud Mary.
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The answer that we all KNOW:
Yes, there really are horrible bitches.
They exist. In fact, in women born after November 22, 1963, horrible bitches are far too common. There are plenty more than enough. TruStory
Wow how many socks are you operating now, OG?
Let’s add schizophrenic to the list of possible pathologies you suffer from.
I am irrelevant, Proud Mary.
While the children have taken over the school and misandric corruption destroys honest, hard-working men’s lives with the constant ad hom attacks of “asshole!”, you refuse to even admit that horrible bitches really exist?
And you’re keeping lists on me? That’s weird.
Like NO & SSL point out, you clearly love me but, as I indicated, I am not interested.
Good call, Mary.
Incel boy is Lance, too.
How did I miss this?
LOL.
And Bob, too.
The Incel.
LOL.
He’s got 3 socks he’s juggling now.
Maybe he’s Freddy Fudge too!
Who knows.
Whatever’s wrong with him seems to be getting worse, though.
Hey. Be a man.
Are you saying that real men hide from reality? The first step of solving a problem is acknowledging that it exists.
/www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SB9wu-DIdQ&ab_channel=MIX
@ Rhett Dawson:
“Women are horrible bitches.”
Cowbell has proof: he saw a strange woman leave a restaurant and get in the back seat with the kids.
If I were going to generalize, I’d say that what we have here is proof that men are stupid bitches.
Plus, if you’re an alcoholic, there is a really strong likelihood that your wife will find occasion to criticize your behavior. Probably often.
And of course Jarek thinks that such ill-natured people (implying that strangers’ kids are brats), uncontrolled emotions, and poor reasoning powers (namely men) should “rule” over women.
I laugh at him every day.
Bingo.
Oh snap!
What more proof do you need of the innate evil of women than seeing one get into the back seat with her children?
There is a helluva lot to the satanic thing that many up here like to dismiss.
https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/theres-something-wrong-with-disneys-little-demon-and-its-executive-producer-dan-harmon/
This article is really comprehensive, breaking down this new horrid cartoon called “Little Demon” but even more disturbing is its creator, who actually submitted a pilot for ShowTime in which the theme was the necessity – and humor – of raping babies (warning: graphic).
This is the mindset of the people that rule us, don’t think it’s just Hollywood. There has to be a LOT of support and money behind these ideas to get them to the screen. And they want our kids depraved as they can be, malleable and without boundaries.
https://streamable.com/e/umhyw
Is Elliot Page going to play the daughter in the movie ?
What really upsets me ?
When people get upset when I say there is zero justice in this justice system.
Look at that second part again , and then , don’t take my word for it , Google a dozen or so States laws on illegal porn.
What you see in that second link is supposed to be heavy felony shit.
People have gotten hard time for drawings that weren’t that explicit .
No , don’t look at that second part again.
Anyone who hasn’t seen it ; Don’t look.
I’m pretty damn hard to unnerve.
That was worse than some real crime scene photos.
Geez Mary Q , that really fucking sucked !
It sucks and people just refuse to see they are coming for the kids. this is just ONE example. But imagine how many kids are watching this filth.
I looked, and I’m sorry I did.
That’s something you can’t unsee.
I know, sorry. This is what the Hwood folks are really like. Sadly.
After this exchange, I’m gonna take everyone’s word for it and not look at this article.
YES. And here in Idaho, they were trying to put on a ‘Drag Kids’ show but too much public outcry got it canceled (for now). Someone posted a link to a statute which clearly stated that that shit is ILLEGAL but the problem is (as usual) laws like that are violated and it’s become normalized. So it goes on.
Horrifying.
They? You mean the Gay Pride parade organizers? In other words, “The Gays”?
The LGBTQWERTYUIOPS.
Some gays, some lesbians, but mostly the Trans.
Because drag = trans. Not necessarily gay.
And now it’s Pride not Gay Pride.
Actually many gays & lesbians have been kicked out of it because they won’t go along with the trans bullshit.
Ah, Dan Harmon is involved, of Rick and Morty fame.
R&M was famous for an episode on baby rape, IIRC.
Such wholesome people.
Ah, I now see the article had this at the end. And it was from another series.
This dude should be boiled in a vat of acid.
He should.
Most people don’t pay much attention and I don’t watch it but saw Pockets Paul talk about a few – Saturday Night Live has always done skits on child molestation as humor. They really helped normalize it. I remember it even in the 1970s when the show was half decent. Well, I thought it was but I was young so liked everything, even sucky comedy.
While idiots and social misfits abuse this great information tool, perhaps a moment of clarity is in order:
Which UN security council members (reminder, there are 5) have essentially refrained from commenting on QE2?
Surprise! 3, with perhaps dear France ( oh how I loved Paris and hated to discard her) the most obvious in their silence.
The French, like Washington and John AZ, knew what the final solution entailed. And yet, they too were corrupted by the same obvious appeals to greed, last and comfort.
There’s that JAZ thing again. Are you two a couple now? Do tell!
Huh?
News to me.
Maybe we just agree on a few points, Dis.
Just like you and OG and I do once in a while.
mc keeps bringing you up JAZ. I’m thinking he might have a little man crush for you. Understandable, I guess, now that you’ve been to Wall Drug and all. The experience makes you project a certain worldliness.
Hahaha! You crack me up, Dis!
And, yes, JAZ: Beware! Dis is right. Mitch has a man-hankerin’ for ya. Think ‘Brokeback Mountain.’
LOL! True love, whether it’s the internet kind or in person, always makes me tear up. ‘Man-hankerin.’ I’m borrowing that one (with proper attribution, of course!) soon.
Don’t forget, “I wish I could quit you!”.
Uhh… there was nothing clear in that passage
Discarding Paris? Uh…Washington? Like George?
Don’t drink and type
So now, you ask what is coming?
Perhaps a storm that removes all traces of the awfulness many things have become.
Yes! Praise God!
Got my annual flu shot today (as I have for years), formulated for the flu season just for me, of course. Still alive and kickin’. I’m a lucky sumbitch, I guess. Probably more likely I’d get shot in today’s world than die of the flu. Covid’s another matter. I’ll leave that to CFN to sort out. CFNers seem to have all the answers.
God says you gotta keep breathing so you can. Keep posting on CFN !
😀
Lucky you! You probably got a twofer. Flu vaccine with a little “CV-19” chaser thrown in.
Are you more alive and kicking than someone who hasn’t got the flu shot and is alive and kicking?
” You can only read 3rd person opinions of others that match your existing opinions? Why buy books at all? ”
Question directed at someone else , but never mind.
I love to read Vladimir Lenin. Very interesting writer and thinker.
70 years of Communist propaganda , from Iowa to Mongolia , was based on this one writer.
I think he was diabolically evil though.
The original Wokie ; great privilege and wealth , but his idolized older brother got hanged.
I read Kathy Lee Gifford’s , ” I can’t believe I said that ” cover to cover.
Not sure why I did that ? Maybe just so I could tell someone I did so someday.
Kathy Lee Gifford — now there’s a real Cheerleader Mafia type !
A half – Jew become charismatic Protestant rich person.
Claimed to be conservative, the kind of conservative who never saw a latest opinion poll where she fell in the fringe – outcast category.
Married an NFL quarterback, PERFECT marriage — until word got out he was dicking some other chick.
Gotta give her credit ; she managed to look 20 years old at 50 years old.
Reminds me of a line from an old Blondi song ,
” …she looks like she washes with Comet ! … ”
It’s anyone’s guess ; would she viscerally despise me more , or would I viscerally despise her more ?
Reading enemies can sometimes be fun.
Frank Gifford. He was setup. Entrapped. Honey-pot.
“Shall we?” Right, NO?
If you say so.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he was set up .
I didn’t fill myself in on the details.
Just what I heard.
And I didn’t fill myself in on the details because , like I indicated , I’m hardly a neutral umpire , not a good jury pick in this case.
When you WANT to hear the worst , that should give you pause.
She became an obvious lush with a flush that no makeup could hide. So they took her off the air.
Oxygen is a drug just like Carbon Dioxide.
” Wow how many socks are you operating now, OG? ”
Is — whoever ??? — OG ?
If so , I’m glad to hear it.
I was afraid the Mounties in Saskatchewan hauled him off to the jug to do some jail ministry .
I wonder if he ever found a reasonably priced Royal Canadian Mounted Police Barbie for his Mountie cousin ?
I wonder what jail is like in Saskatchewan?
Questions, questions , questions!
There has to.be an afterlife so you can get answers to questions like that .
I should have just purchased a grossly over – priced Royal Canadian Mounted Police Barbie ,
Put a tramp stamp on her butt in permanent ink that says , ” French Canadian Catholic Girl .
And hid a tiny Rosary under her Smokey the Bear hat , and sent it to him.
So I got me a pen and a paper
And I made up my own little sign
It said: “Thank you, Kesa
For thinkin’ about me.
I’m alive and doin’ fine.”
Another sock?
LOL
“Put a tramp stamp on her butt in permanent ink that says, “French Canadian Catholic Girl” ‘.-KA
Lol. There it is folks the ‘kill line’, more CFN gold courtesy of KesaAnna.
”
(Also I am against killing birds.)”
— Paula D
I go out and buy a 50 lb bag of sunflower seed because the cutest thing in the world is fat Cardinals.
But there is always at least one pink pigeon sitting on the electrical wire , on lookout to see when I fill up the bird feeder.
So I fill the bird feeder, and an hour later there are 50 pink pigeons crowding out my Cardinal friends.
I have not shot any pink pigeons , but some days I wish I could.
I didn’t know there was such a thing as pink – colored pigeons.
But , as I said , I now have about 50 permanent resident pink pigeon welfare recipients.
Grrr.
I have that problem with squirrels.
A few towns over a local police sergeant, age 41, drops dead at home.
In his bio, amongst other duties, the officer is described as his departments ‘Fitness and physical training officer’.
No cause of death is given, a heart attack is suspected.
He had the SADs.
BBC was reporting that gardening is very dangerous for our hearts as well, so maybe he was gardening.
Hey NO,
FYI – Insults work better when they are True. Like you are a pompous prick full of himself, are way too proud of your mediocre info sources and are rude and dismissive of others’ thoughts and opinions. Like that.
Calling me an ‘incel’ does not even make sense. If anything, too many women was my problem.
Thank God I am now in a stable, loving, monogamous relationship with my beautiful gf, Marina.
I am not an incel. You must try harder, NO. We all know that you dislike me because I am always right. That pisses you off so you corruptly choose Wrong over Right when it involves me. You side with blatant bullying over Logic. Sad but True.
So … Go ahead, NO. Insult me … but act like a man. Insult me with the Truth (if you can).
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Freddy? Where are you? I made you a promise and then you disappeared. Now I’m self-editing for a guy who isn’t even here!
Roll on the next ban.
Do you think you’re smarter than Sean Coleman because he’s Irish and you’re English?
Yes.
For realz.
What a nut.
Mary likes you!
Freddy Kugerand for your next Nome de Plume.
Gnome de plume?
The Gnomes of Wall St and Zurich were portrayed as a race of aliens on Deep Space Nine. Some people noticed.
Gnome Sayin?
Since we’ve had incel and fudge-packer, perhaps we could call it quits?
That works for me, GA. Thank you for brokering Peace.
I would thoroughly enjoy civil discourse of the day’s events, JHK’s brilliant essays, the future, science, religion, etc. with fellowship and good humour.
But I say Truth that people don’t like … and then instead of arguing fact & opinion Logically like men & women, I get sniped in ad homs here and strawmen there like Grade flippin’ 3!
Let’s discuss messages not messengers and then we will have civil Peace.
What an absolute laugh.
Rhett/OG/Polecat/LancedBoil starts all the trouble up here. Even if I ignore him, he comes around looking for trouble on posts that have nothing to do with whatever kneejerk spewage he adds.
Now he’s suddenly the peace broker? Read below: He lied and instead ramped it up about 80% more.
My father was a LEO, once they passed age 40, they dropped like flies.
however that was 40-50 years ago so things [fat -fit ratio] may have changed.
I do hear horror tales of the vax and fewer about the flu.
Too much time sitting in the car. Long hours with coffee and sugar as the fuels.
Paula and Islander don’t seem to realize the big switcheroo. They think Covid is real and don’t realize it was simply the Flu and/or regular Colds rebranded.
You don’t believe in viruses, Jarek.
Therefore you can’t believe in colds or influenza, both viral illnesses.
This was doubtless due to the police sergeant’s being under all those towns. He must have been crushed by the weight. (I’m taking up where Q left off here.)
You need a comma in there.
It’s always a ”mystery”.
We’re back to the Middle Ages, just shrug and chalk it up to God’s will or something.
No one wants to be burned at the stake, or today’s version, being fired, (fired at the stake?) by pointing out the obvious.
Huh, sez here the Bank of America will be offering $0 down, race based mortgage loans to Black & Hispanic applicants. 15 years since the 2008 debacle, apparently no lessons have been learned.
BRH
Think about it.
Business needs growth. Growth eventually need Ponzi schemes to offset market saturation.
As the mortgage market gets beyond certain limits, say all legitimate qualified folks, and the builders just keep on building, eventually the lenders just give away money to unqualified buyers. The speculation multipliers like CDOs take off and destroy the market and Zillow and Blackrock. BTW, I just did my monthly assessment and the half of my portfolio with Blackrock did horribly compared to the local bank’s investing arms. Hmmm?
Sorta like the Federal government we have right now.
No lessons have been learned from the Big Short, as the American public has just become economically stupider since 2008 since the Dem mechanisms, you know what they are, to lower intelligence have worked well.
Inflation has been started by the actions of the federal government and their belief in MMT, the mortgage rate is climbing weekly due to Fed actions with the interest rate, the mortgage decline has begun, the inventory is growing, buyers are getting scared, prices are falling weekly, and foreclosures are starting. Michael Burry is counting the days and going short on housing again.
It is inevitable what is about to happen. Big difference though, the government has no reserves this time and no suckers to buy those worthless bonds. Tax and spend is going to collapse the economy.
The inflation reduction law is a frigging joke. Stand by for heavy rolls!!!
“I just did my monthly assessment and the half of my portfolio with Blackrock did horribly compared to the local bank’s investing arms.”
That is the most interesting anecdote that I have read in a long time. Thx, JAZ.
It is true. Anyone who uses real estate as a prime investment is going to get clobbered.
Another interesting observation is the bond funds did worse than equity funds. Reflection of Fed rate moves? My own home has lost 5% in the last month and a half. Still going down a few thousand a week.
This is real, folks.
“It is true. Anyone who uses real estate as a prime investment is going to get clobbered.”
What do you mean by “prime investment”?
Someone who buys a house, or someone who invests in, say, REITs?
“Business needs growth.”
Why?
This is what crashed the economy the last time. They know they don’t have to pay these loans back so they won’t.
“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.” Marshall McLuhan – Culture is Our Business
“……..So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late” Dylan-1963
and you think YOU are not a culture warrior? or perhaps it is July 21st 1861 and you are on your way to Manassas?
see ya Monday
Marshall McLuhan is another perfect example of how a neighbour can sometimes see things about you that you do not see yourself.
Like John Candy.
He wasn’t on our side though, was he?
How so? I have never heard such talk of him before now … but I’m no McLuhan expert either.
This, from his wiki page, is interesting:
Conversion to Catholicism
At the University of Manitoba, McLuhan explored his conflicted relationship with religion and turned to literature to “gratify his soul’s hunger for truth and beauty,”[27] later referring to this stage as agnosticism.[28] While studying the trivium at Cambridge, he took the first steps toward his eventual conversion to Catholicism in 1937,[29] founded on his reading of G. K. Chesterton.[30] In 1935, he wrote to his mother:[31]
Had I not encountered Chesterton I would have remained agnostic for many years at least. Chesterton did not convince me of religious faith, but he prevented my despair from becoming a habit or hardening into misanthropy. He opened my eyes to European culture and encouraged me to know it more closely. He taught me the reasons for all that in me was simply blind anger and misery.
At the end of March 1937,[c] McLuhan completed what was a slow but total conversion process, when he was formally received into the Catholic Church. After consulting a minister, his father accepted the decision to convert. His mother, however, felt that his conversion would hurt his career and was inconsolable.[32] McLuhan was devout throughout his life, but his religion remained a private matter.[33] He had a lifelong interest in the number three[34] (e.g., the trivium, the Trinity) and sometimes said that the Virgin Mary provided intellectual guidance for him.[d] For the rest of his career, he taught in Catholic institutions of higher education.
Thanks. I’ll have to look into it. But as it says, his religion was a private matter. His official work seemed to tie into and support the growing Media dominance in the Western World, obviously a necessary precursor to Globalism.
He definitely recognized the future.
Whether he warned us of it or facilitated its emergence, I do not know.
McLuhan’s famous “the medium is the message” ties in very well to the current and growing backlash against media propaganda by those who can still discriminate, especially his idea of “hot” and “cool” mediums.
TV is cool, because the process of viewing it is passive, perfect for implanting bullshit like poisoned water in a spongy brain. It’s not just that easily falsifiable and ridiculous “news” stories are rife, but that TV itself — the medium — is conducive to one becoming a mouth breather.
And as other propagandists have learned since McLuhan, it only takes 7 repetitions of an egregious lie for it to become “truth” in the majority of those who view it.
Radio, however, is a “hot” medium, which is why you see more intelligent conversation among those who get info from good radio/podcast sources. It’s participatory, the mind is more actively engaged (not stupefied and brainwashed by subliminal images).
Even newspapers are better than TV since with a newspaper you can pause and reflect, impossible with a TV. Who pauses their TV and reflects on bullshit? On the contrary, people will often channel surf even the shows which have narrative build-up instead of the usual fractured, disjointed presentation.
Fascinating, SF. Thanks.
Can you add a couple more paragraphs?
internet & CFN
Can’t do his ideas much more justice here, sorry. I’d advise picking up McLuhan’s Understanding Media for more of the hows and whys.
OG
Are you sure no Latinos or others are not sneaking across the Border from the US.
We do not even count 50% of the folks getting across the southern border.
Thanks to Justin, you guys probably do not even look.
Good morning, JAZ.
I am pretty sure. Back when I lived in Ontario, I’d see a school bus full of young Mexican men. They’d fly up and work the apple orchards east of Toronto. Sometimes I’d run into them on their school bus weekend excursion to the Metro (super-market). But it was pure seasonal.
I really believe that the USA is the final destination for the people illegally entering USA via Mexico during the “Biden” Administration.
I have never heard, “Boo” about them continuing their journey to the Land of Winter. They’re not really German or Scandinavian folks when it comes to winter.
As ani mentioned, Canada is absorbing many Ukrainian immigrants now. Western Canada has strong ties to Ukraine. (e.g. Edmonton is still referred to as Edmonchuck; Growing up in Regina in the ’70s, we told Ukranian jokes like Americans used to tell Polish jokes)
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Where are you in AZ? I was there once. 2016. Stayed in the East Valley, went to a Coyotes/Sharks game, road-tripped up to Sedona and the Grand Canyon. AZ is beautiful … with kick-ass A/C, of course.
Live in the East Valley.
Nice. My uncle & aunt own a house in Johnson’s Ranch. They are snowbirds and bought a beautiful place there after the 2008 housing bubble burst. My uncle loves it down there – except for “the pickleballers.”
SK has many Ukrainian people as well.
My family emigrated there from Odessa and lives around Saskatoon/ central SK.
They consider themselves Russian, not Ukrainian.
Yes. The Canadian prairies (Manitoba, Saskatchewan & Alberta) are very similar to The Steppes. There are large Ukrainian populations throughout.
On the Yellowhead highway, between Saskatoon and Edmonton, you can’t miss the World’s Biggest Easter Egg in Vegerville, AB.
As we have discovered this year: Most people Odessa & east consider themselves Russian.
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On a personal note: If I ever meet a 3rd Ukrainian Brenda, I will turn and run!