Chivalry Is Dead, No Flowers Please...

Karen Alcock, 41, faced a judge at Lincoln Crown Court following the death of her daughter Kyra Leanne King.

She was charged with being the owner and/or in charge of a dog which was out of control causing injury resulting in death. Alcock today pleaded guilty while Kyra's father Vince King, 54, denied the charge.

Oh..? 

Alcock will be sentenced next year while King will stand trial next June.

Addressing them both, Judge Simon Hirst said: 'Miss Alcock you've pleaded guilty and taken responsibility for what's happened and that will stand you in really good stead with the court when it's your sentence time.'

Counting on a pussy pass, I'm guessing? 

'Mr King you wish to have a trial as is your right.

'Given that your defence is effectively this is nothing to do with you, it's all to do with Miss Alcock, I'm afraid Miss Alcock will have to wait till the trial to be sentenced.'

What a fine specimen of manhood you chose to breed with, Miss Alcock.

Lincolnshire Police said the dog was being kept in isolation at secure kennels and officers were seeking a court order to have it destroyed.

Once again, the expense could all be avoided if ppolice shot the thing on the spot... 

Is it our favourite demographic itself …

… or is it someone organising them for some purpose?

First, the beloved NHS:

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/26/nhs-orders-interview-panels-to-justify-hiring-white-job-applicants/

Woke NHS bosses are forcing interview panels to explain why they have hired a white person over a non-white applicant. The Daily Mail has more.

A policy at the Royal Free in north London requires staff to compile reports justifying why the successful candidate was deemed ‘more suitable’.

They must write to the trust’s chief executive with evidence on how they scored the non-white applicant and come up with suggestions on how the candidate can improve for next time.

Frustrated staff say the system is a ‘tick-box exercise’ that is adding yet another level of bureaucracy to an already creaking NHS.

Ministers recently pledged to crack down on “waste and wokery” that costs the NHS billions of pounds, with trusts told to cut “diversity and inclusion” jobs to focus on frontline care.

On Saturday the Mail revealed how the NHS is offering more than £1million of “woke non-jobs” in hospitals and trusts at a time when it desperately needs more cash for patient care.

The latest policy applies to interview shortlists that involve both white and non-white applicants, according to documents seen by this newspaper.

It has been in place at Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust since July 2018 for staff in senior positions, but was expanded in recent months to any role within the trust. If a white candidate is chosen, the panel chairman must write a report explaining why they were “more suitable” for the role. It does not apply the other way around.

Then the big freeze across America:

This is not the looting of the Family Dollar stores by our fave demographic, it’s Paris and the Kurds:

… but there was “extensive footage” in video after video of our fave demographic over in America looting and trashing various stores, of yoofs, faces even showing, carrying goods out and running … it went in and on and then two things happened:

# The footage completely disappeared off social media.

# Someone asked, “Why?”

Why the looting and trashing? No, why the “extensive footage”?  Why did someone have cameras at the ready at the stores?  Why did no authorities move in to arrest the savages?  Would this aid the favourite demographic cause in any way?  Advance it?

Perhaps there’s a different agenda going on there.  Same in Paris.  Understandable why so much footage in Paris … Manchurian sent out to kill some Kurds, Kurds hated by Erdogan who wants to join the EU with Micron support among others. Were these even Kurds?

Either way, it’s hardly a normal situation on any of the items in this post.

Have They Thought Of Taking This To Its Logical Conclusion?

McDonald's has opened up a fully-automated restaurant in Texas, which is completely run by machines so you don't have to speak to anyone, and it has left people on the internet divided.

Between those who think it's a great idea, and those who think it's a wonderful idea, I assume? 

In a press release, the fast food chain explained that the restaurant, which is now open, is geared towards customers who are planning to 'dine at home or on the go,' so there is no seating inside the restaurant and it's 'considerably smaller than a traditional McDonalds.'

It described the new concept as a 'fast and seamless experience for both customers and crew.'

'There's never been a McDonald's restaurant quite like this before,' the press release stated.

And oh, what the 'staff' will miss! So...why stop at automating just the food delivery?

 You know it makes sense!

The Twelve Days until and including Epiphany

This post, ladies and gentlemen, is starting now at 00:12 GMT, just into December 26 … or in other words, we have just entered The Second Day of Christmas.

This was the previous discussion which this post follows on from:

Any “Day of Christmas” includes a morning, an afternoon and an evening.  Where the confusion can come in is to ask, “Well when, then, is the night? Shirley it follows evening?”

Logic would agree with that but this is not logical from here-on-in.  In Russia, yes, there was evening, followed by night next calendar day. However, in the west, we might ask, “What are we doing tonight?” … meaning, “What are we doing this evening?”

When applied to Twelfth Night, it’s not a reference to the nighttime after midnight but to the period before and ending with midnight January 5th, before Epiphany begins.

Let’s say we now agree we’ve ticked over into Epiphany, January 6th … what then is Epiphany, what does it mean?

Were we to accept the Wiki explanation above, which imho is a good one, then what coincided with the visit of the Magi … let’s not define them for now, nor their number … usually 3 (western) or 12 (eastern)?

Was it not Herod asking the Magi to report back to him, once the Magi had found this child, “in order to also worship him or pay homage”?

And by the Magi failing to report back, instead going home by their own routes, did that not infuriate Herod in the story, leading to the dream in which the Holy Family of Three were warned to fly into Egypt tout suite?  Meanwhile, Herod pronounced his edict or whatever.

Christmas wishes

While there are many quite rightly enjoying this with family if they still have one intact:

… let’s spare a thought for those in not such a good position … for example our contributing reader at N.O. who lost his mother yesterday, our own co-author here who sometime back lost his wife to the NHS, all the other victims of the NHS and health crims all over the west banning correct medicines and pushing damaging procedures … taken to its logical end game in Canada … it just goes on and on.

To those looking after ageing relatives, to those, including me, who are ill because the boiler is dead and there’s no hot water or heating, to those who lost their jobs in 2022 due to Woke mania, to the unjabbed vilified by everyone from govt to your average karen, to those defrauded, from the Donald to Kari Lake, to those subject to the rulings of the corrupt judiciary … it just goes on and on.

To the situation in Paris where certain invaders took it upon themselves to enrich Christmas this year on the streets and in shops, to children telling their parents they’re now tranny, to the corrupt pollies gorging themselves over their Christmas dinners after shafting their people … are there any I’ve forgotten?

It just goes on and on.

Websites and money

It may be tacky to talk money the day before Christmas … so let’s talk money.

Long ago, in another galaxy, some of us decided we did not wish to get into this whole advertising/monetising thing because for a dissident political blogger, it’s fraught … and how. They control you once you’re on that bandwagon. We have no tip jar, no Paypal, no nuffink. We want no money.

How do OoL and our respective sites operate … after all, there are expenses you know? 

Well firstly, we use the free hosts ggl and WP, each of which has set, Woke rules and that’s another issue again. But overall, it’s still the better choice for now … tip jars and bloggers constantly moaning about money are just a bit offputting in my book, plus we’re then on the treadmill. And as for vlogs … I detest this constant subscribe and bell thing … if it’s prominent, that ding ding ding, I for one just click out … couldna be bothered.

However … and this is a big however … there are sites where the expenses are a bit beyond and Toby’s Daily Sceptic is one. He apologised, mentioned what Paypal had done to them (never to the Woke left of course), then came this, which perhaps needs to be read by onliners:

Second, an organisation called NewsGuard, which ranks websites according to how ‘safe’ they are for companies to advertise on (among other things), decided to downgrade the Daily Sceptic on the grounds that we frequently publish ‘misinformation’ about the Covid vaccines and climate change. I was sent a long email by an employee of the company, listing all the articles on the site that had been red-flagged by supposedly impartial ‘fact checking’ organisations – as well as NewsGuard’s own employees – and inviting me to mount a defence. 

Knowing how damaging a poor NewsGuard rating can be to a site’s ability to attract advertising – and this coincided with our decision to start selling ads on the site – I sent back a lengthy response in good faith, rebutting each of the fact-checks in turn, but saying I would link to them beneath the articles in question (as well as to our rebuttals). 

I duly spent a couple of days sticking ‘postscripts’ beneath the articles, as well as below some additional pieces NewsGuard hadn’t mentioned but which had also fallen foul of fact-checkers – and I let NewsGuard know about that, thinking it would be pleased. 

After all, I thought, it would be able to tell its big clients – which include Microsoft – how it had prompted a website that publishes ‘misinformation’ to include links to dozens of fact-checking websites.

Instead, NewsGuard wrote back to tell me it had downgraded the Daily Sceptic to 37.5 out of 100, about half the points it had before. The reason was because I hadn’t said beneath the articles that the content that had been identified by the fact-checkers as false was in fact false. 

My defence is that in every case the fact-checkers hadn’t red-flagged the articles in question because they contained factually inaccurate information; rather, they just disagreed with our interpretation of the data. But – as is common among fact-checkers, who are invariably Left-of-centre – they pretended none of this was up for debate and labelled our interpretation as ‘misinformation’. 

I explained all this to my NewsGuard correspondent but it didn’t cut any ice, presumably because he shares the same ideological biases as the fact-checkers. Its website now includes the following note about the Daily Sceptic: “Proceed with caution: This website violates basic journalistic standards.”

The American Institute of Economic Research, which published the Great Barrington Declaration, has had its own difficulties with NewsGuard, which Phil Magness, Director of Research and Education at AIER, labels a “propaganda entity”. Magness’s piece on NewsGuard and how it operates is well worth your time.

Let’s just say that I (for one again) take a decidedly jaundiced view of what is done to “us” but I can’t help wondering, all the same … how come it’s always globo-Woke running these things?  I mean, are we, the supposed arch-Capitalists, not the likely ones to be running such organisations?  

How come the left, which supposedly eschews Capitalism, is the side running the money-raking schemes?  In such an authoritarian manner?

Are we so incompetent?  Or just ideologically and money-grubbingly naive?

Glad tidings, stony-faced, we bring …

Last year, Julia brought readers glad tidings and why should this year be any different … except the horrors perpetrated by Them reached proportions it’s increasingly difficult to ignore.  Our own Grandpa here lost his most beloved, Julia and I both have issues … you do too.

All we can do is put a brave face on it and at least enjoy this weekend’s festivities.  From Julia, Grandpa and I … we wish our readers a Merry Christmas and shall talk about the Happy New Year closer to the time.

SECRET! Squaddies Manned Unauthorised Road Monitoring: Early days of Lockdown!

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I hear from a source that when the Lockdowns were first imposed, every night, the WHOLE oF CATTERICK CAMP GARRISON were ABSENT! They weren't in the boozers, they weren’t on leave, THEY WERE PATROLLING THE MOTORWAYS AND MAIN ROADS OF ENGLAND. It was Undeclared MARTIAL LAW!

To Be Fair, It's Only A Little Problem...

*sighs*

This winter has seen the release of two new major fantasy series, Willow (Disney+), set years after the original film, and The Witcher: Blood Origin (Netflix), a prequel to the hugely successful series The Witcher, based on the books of the same name by Andrzej Sapkowski. Both feature actors with dwarfism playing fantasy dwarves in central roles.

You might be thinking “hurrah for diversity!”...

No, as a long-suffering 'Guardian' reader, I can assure you I'm not! I know what's likely to be coming. 

...but the existence of fantasy dwarves on screen holds a complex and sensitive history for those of us who have dwarfism off screen.

*sighs even harder*

So, you want to ban real-life dwarves from acting? 

On the other hand, the decision Peter Jackson made not to cast actors with dwarfism in his The Hobbit film series and The Lord of the Rings felt frustrating at the time, given the aforementioned lack of jobs offered to actors with dwarfism.

Oh. So, you want to have your cake and eat it. Like so many professional whingers... 

Of course, all of this is only fantasy, and people might be reading this thinking “it’s obvious those characters aren’t real, so what’s your point?”. My point is that we need to see more accurate dwarfism representation on screen before people who know nothing about us can reject the wealth of misinformation they often subconsciously consume.

Funny, whenever I watch 'Tenable', I think of it as 'that quiz show Warwick Davies hosts'. I don't think of it as 'that quiz show hosted by the dwarf actor'. 

Isn't that what we're supposed to be aiming for? 

Opening Christmas salvo

The main Christmas message from us, readers, will be tomorrow morning.

There’s a point, methinks, where we gaze out and it’s all just too much. There was the egregious gang in Washington, the murderous thug they fawned over and the last item before I crashed and actually had a good sleep was this first one of DAD’s today:

British police arrest woman for silently praying. Several videos:

https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/she-was-arrested-for-an-actual-thought-crime/

The expression running through my mind, over and over, it’s not even strictly biblical, is: “Have no truck with the unfruitful works of darkness.”

The most egregious thing about this scene below was firstly that she was a lady, not a nose-boning, rainbow coloured, tattooed shrieking harpy. And the copper was desperate, the little thug, to make it a crime.  She was keeping a vigil, Christians always have and so the pre-Cross era was also a vigil.  Vigils are in every faith, even the godless candle kumbaya after Charlie Hebdo.

What was her beef?  The spare baby-parts trade, the paedo trade, before even getting to the theological side, concerning the sanctity of life, the sanctity of marriage. It was an abortion clinic.

Very powerful image, that lady standing alone in the cold.  Very powerful.  Perhaps we need our iconic images too.

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Everything within me cries out about that young thug without cap … a post-millennial telling her what’s what.  Father, forgive him, for he knows not what he does.  Pastor Pawlowski springs to mind too.

Protection, guidance and comfort, but only in order that we can do the work we have to do. Whether tis that lady or just a humble blogger, if it’s you in your abode, if it’s your day job today … whatever vicissitudes are thrown at you over this period … take it on the chin if poss.  

The one thing you must never, ever do, is despair, fall to pieces. Nils carborundum or whatever the expression was.

There was a comment below those videos, from a lady called Lola, presumably in America:

This is how persecution begins. The seats in the coliseum are starting to fill.