Armistice Day

Today, the 11th of the 11th, at 11 a.m., the formerly allied world pauses and remembers the fallen and the sacrifices.  Poems were written, poppies were chosen as the symbol of hope eternal.

But even in a seemingly simple idea as that, in the UK it was changed for convenience changed and it's now a virtue signalling politician fest on the Sunday.  

It's not my intention to go further into that in this post now - Julia, Grandpa and I just commemorate either today or Sunday at the Cenotaph and whatever one is meant to say about the day - we say it to our readers.

How much longer for?  How many more years?

Ah, that's another matter. 100 years?  Longer if we are commemorating sacrifice for one's country and western values as they were - that goes on forever.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: 

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning

We will remember them.

https://churchmousec.wordpress.com/2021/11/10/november-11-armistice-day-we-will-remember/

https://youtu.be/e4NtSqZcT_4

Apologies - the Wail mentioned it:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10190311/Britain-fall-silent-war-dead-Armistice-Day-services-country.html

I Wonder What Else Has Increased Along With It?

The number of “honour-based” abuse (HBA) offences recorded by English police forces has soared over the past five years, figures suggest.

Hmm, what else has 'soared' over the past five years in tandem? 

While some of the increase in HBA offences could be down to more victims coming forward and improved identification of offences by police...

That 'could be' is doing a lot of work, eh? 

...Imran Khodabocus, a senior associate at the Family Law Company who represents families in such cases, said the rise was alarming.

He said: “It’s essential education around what honour-based abuse is and how it impacts families is improved across the country.”

Education for whom, Mr Khodabocus? 

On a friend of ours

Bucko:

Hi all

The service for Frank was held last Saturday and I had the opportunity to attend along with Mrs Bucko and 20Rothmans, who you will know from this blog and also attended the Smoky Drinky bar as one of the regulars.

Frank lived in Hereford, which was a three hour drive for myself and Mrs B. It was ok on the motorway until we left the M5, but then it was 30 miles of country road hell to get to the Premier Inn where we were staying. Hereford really is miles from anywhere.

The service was very nicely done and somewhat emotional in places.

The main theme was of course the smoking ban and how it affected Franks social life and how angry he was about the whole thing, which prompted ‘Banging on About the Smoking Ban’. That wasn’t all though. Frank was involved in many things, some that i knew about, like the Idle Theory and The Theory of Ice Ages, but there was plenty of other stuff I wasn’t aware of, much of which I’m not ashamed to say, was way above my reading level.

We had the chance to meet Franks brother who had nothing but praise for the online community of Franks blog and the SDB. He told us that Frank did not have a large circle of friends in the real world and we had become his community and support network. He repeated his praise a number of times for those who read and commented on Franks blog and he was very grateful to all those people for giving Frank a network of friends he otherwise probably would not have had.

We were invited back to his house for a brew after the service, which was another 20 miles of country road hell, but a georgous house on a hill with lovely views. Following a brew and a piece of cake, we were invited to go on a family meal with them, where we had the chance to sit and get to know other members of the family.

They were all really friendly and welcoming people, considering it was the first time we had ever met. We all got on very well and will keep in touch.

I’ve embedded the video of the service and added some extra detail:

http://fuelinjectedmoose.blogspot.com/2021/11/frank-davis-rip.html

https://cfrankdavis.wordpress.com/

Misandry and misogyny

One good aspect of retirement, as a friend of mine wrote yesterday, is that now, as our own bosses, we decide how to spend our quarantined time until interned in camps [which may well be coming, depending on who prevails] - the one good aspect is that we can still reflect in the wee hours on all we've presented over the past few days and relate it to critical earlier points over the years.

And thus I cast an eye down the topics below and at t'other place, and then think of something Christy said a decade ago:

https://youtu.be/zCAmg4jXzvs

She made herself unpopular by squarely attacking the low quality of feminists, in their behaviour, in their ability to carry out duties in roles above their station of capability and in their quite twisted and self-centred ideology.  

What has been demonstrated over and over is that they might spout fine words about it being on behalf of 'all women' but they actually can't give a rat's about other women - allowing women to progress on their own terms, at their own pace, within the comfort zone where they feel capable.  Therefore, the ladies could feel confident. The feminists are not interested in other women.

Two quite telling examples included when the paedo-excusing Harbag of Labour infamy held a harpies meeting over Gordon Brown and certainly they had a case - I'll come back to that case.  

But the telling part was it got nowhere between themselves because they weren't in the least concerned about others landing high roles, plum jobs, they were concerned only with li'l ole N1. Thus there was trouble with Ms Ambitious Flint who was carving out her new empire as well ... they all were.

Odd Way Of Trying To Say...

...'illegal immigrant dies trying to enter the country illegally'. 

But it is the 'Guardian', I suppose.

The latest suspected tragedy emerged after 500 more migrants crossed the Channel during the day, taking the total so far this year to over 20,000 – more than double 2020’s 8,420 total.

The words 'tragedy' and 'migrants' grate on me. As does the naked appeal to emotion:

In the port of Dover, dozens of recent arrivals were brought to shore by RNLI lifeboats, reports claimed.

A young child holding a cuddly toy and wearing just one wellington boot was among the large numbers of people seen being brought ashore.

Awww, the poor mite! No, don't you dare question the parenting of those responsible for this journey, just give them a council house immediately! 

Amnesty International UK’s chief executive, Sacha Deshmukh, said: “We need to remember that these dangerous crossings are taking place because the government has provided no safe alternative for people to exercise their right to seek asylum here.

“If Priti Patel is truly concerned with tackling criminal gangs and their exploitation of people, she needs to set up safe asylum routes so people no longer need to depend on smugglers.”

That's like burglars getting together to form an organisation to claim that burglary has to take place because householders refuse to open their doors and give the burglars all their money...

Wokery

"Wokeism is intellectual herpes disguised as tolerance."

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/11/the_fatal_flaw_at_the_core_of_wokeism.html

Why does Wokeism encourage victimhood for those with power, pretend to aim for harmony while stoking division, and elevate superficiality? Looking at how wokeism works helps explain.

Wokeism lives and breathes through criticism and accusation. The strategy of “let’s all criticize each other’s flaws until we all love each other” creates mutual implosion. 

Something Odd About This Case...

Loui Phillips was murdered in broad daylight in Monk Bretton on Sunday, August 8, by a 17-year-old boy he had never met.

The young Barnsley football fan was stabbed in the chest as he rode his bike with a friend along Fish Bank Lane at around 2pm and his killer then walked away.

A no-motive stabbing murder of a 15 year old stranger, and this isn't headline news? 

DCI Mark Oughton said: “This is an incredibly tragic case where an innocent young boy was stabbed to death because his attacker was jealous.

Jealous? Of what? We aren't told.  

“The killer planned his attack, locating Loui and his friend having purposely set out to go and stab him.

This doesn't add up - it may just be clumsy phrasing, but it sounds as if the attacker did know the victim and targeted him personally.

He has shown no remorse for his actions and always maintained his innocence until Monday.

“Loui was still conscious after he was stabbed and managed to give a full account of the attack to a police officer on the way to the hospital. All he wanted to know was where his mum was.

“My thoughts are with Loui’s mum, and his family and friends today; they have suffered unimaginable loss this year and no court result can ever make up for that.”

The teenager will return to Sheffield Crown Court for sentencing on Friday, December 17.

Maybe we'll get some answers about what provoked the attack then. But isn't it odd that the national press seems to have taken no interest in this at all? 

H/T: kwilliam111 via Twitter

Come, let's bonk by the bonfire and repopulate our warble gloaming earth

So now they sense the pushback on vaxx mandates, the evil muvvers above, and they're onto the next idiocy which will be lapped up by the compliant and may we reflect, chaps and chapesses, on the sheer empty-headedness of Jon Snow the other day who informed us he was driving into work and saw the result of climate change - autumn leaves falling.

Yes Jon, yes. Have some carbon with your coffee.

More on the global wodgebunging

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2021/11/03/china-and-india-demand-a-trillion-dollars-to-reduce-co2-emissions/

http://foggy-mirror.blogspot.com/2021/11/and-then-enough-already.html

Reader Amfortas:

The next climate-fest should be held in Versailles, where the Glorious fly-in Elites can distribute cake to the huddle, sans-pants masses. They, the super-rich and even superer Important, would not personally have to do the distributing, of course. They would have pneumatic young women (some on bikes to reach the back of the crowds) dressed in fashionable hessian bikinis.

Weakening Justice Even Further...

A mother imprisoned for causing serious harm to her baby has told the court of appeal she lied at her trial because of the control her former boyfriend had over her.

Ah, the modern-day equivalent of 'pleading your belly'. 

The woman, known as Jenny, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the appeal court it was her partner at the time who caused their son’s skull fractures and bleeding on the brain in June 2017.

The landmark hearing has the potential to change the way coercive control is understood in cases where a victim feels that abuse has led them to lie in court.

And of course, if she wins, there'll be a rush to the lawyers from every female incarcerated for killing her child, or standing by while her partner did so... 

At the original trial the woman, Jenny, said she caught her cardigan on a cupboard door while preparing her son’s feed, causing him to fall to a concrete floor. She was given a 10-year extended sentence, later reduced to five.

On Thursday she told judges the baby’s father punched her in the head as she held their son, causing them both to fall.

So she lied. Why do they never do them for perjury when they change their story? 

She claimed she was unable to tell police the truth because her boyfriend was present.

“I did not want to anger him or agitate him as he [was holding] my baby.”

While police were in the room? Pull the other one, love! 

Representing the Crown, John Price QC said the appeal was seeking a “second bite at the cherry”.

Actually, a third. She's already had her sentence reduced, remember... 

He said: “The evidence the applicant gave introduces nothing new about the degree of force with which the child struck the floor – whether that was caused by a cardigan catching or by a punch.”

He focused on the veracity of her reasoning as to why she failed to tell the jury the truth. “We submit there is no credible explanation for that,” he said. Price pointed to witness reports that after the incident the child’s father shouted that she had thrown the baby and she replied: “I was feeding the child, you hit me and that is how the baby dropped.”

Price argued they later changed their accounts and formed “a cynical agreement to further their mutual interests”.

Yup, no doubt. Why not? It's likely to work, these days... 

(Lady Justice) Macur acknowledged that coercive control victims could find themselves isolated. But she added: “I keep coming back to that incident. We have still got to make a decision about whether her evidence is worthy of belief.”

She's a proven liar. If that doesn't help with the decision, what will? 

File under "snivelling toadies"

Morrison's would do well taking a look at the OoL banner line:

https://order-order.com/2021/11/02/morrisons-triggers-salty-remainers/

It did make me curious though:

The UK's largest rock salt (halite) mine is at Winsford. It is one of only three places where rock salt is commercially mined in the UK, the others being at Boulby Mine, North Yorkshire and Kilroot near Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland.

Hancock's brother owns the mine?  Whitty?  Ferguson?