Happy whatever you wish to call it, readers

We like to ask the easy questions here:

Is there some "art" which deserves to be cancelled, with changed sensibilities?

As this is an OoL type question ... the right to do this or that, cancel culture etc. ... the bulk of this post will appear in both places.  Consider this, by Ms Eliza Goodpasture (is she for real?) at the Grauniad of course:

https://dailysceptic.org/2023/04/08/cancel-culture-sets-sights-on-picasso-on-50th-anniversary-of-artists-death/

Even as other ‘great artists’ are beginning to be held to account, Picasso has clung on to his status as the most important, and most famous, artist of the 20th century. Genius transcends misogyny, apparently. It is impossible to separate Picasso’s work from his life, and equally impossible to escape the legacy of his enormous oeuvre. But we can escape the narrow definition of ‘great’ that limits the history of art to men like Picasso.

Up front, I'm going to opine that I don't really like his art, even Guernica, but he certainly had some skill, as did Dali, Magritte and Escher.  So did Leni Riefenstahl, so did the Soviet artists whose works were in the Moscow Metro.  So did Hirst with his preggers teen?  Probably Tracy Emin did not have what it took, nor Jackson Pollock.And what of Michaelangelo and the Last Supper?

Anyway, getting back to Picasso:

So "we" ... as if "we" have any relevance whatsoever to anyone ... to the cabal of psychos above ... to their myrmidons ... to the "vee voz just following orders" karens ... to the ovine normies with their reality TV and talkback radio ... what if "we" decide something is now in poor taste?

Do we start making every man, woman and child pay interminable reparations, as a certain loony royal plans to do, just because he's Green Man and he says so? And what if a bunch of mutilating, family wrecking, violent psychos get it into their heads that non-women are just as much women as women?

Do 92.3K people's voices count for anything?  Or what of the millions across cities and towns in France right now, singularly ignored by the MSM? Or what of the good people of Tintagel, Cornwall?

Is this so offensive to public taste below that you must send the riot squad in to apprehend the lady who had these in her local pub?

While this is completely ignored:

And what of the unfashionable Christians such as that lady "silently praying in her head" near a local abortion clinic in the light of this:

And if your conclusion is that we must be fanatically libertarian, that anyone can do anything and not be restricted whatsoever, in any shape or form, even to save someone ... what about this lot?

Have that lot the right to ply their raping and murdering trade because it's their culture's values?

And lastly, on Resurrection Day today, do you know what Maundy Thursday actually means (Last Supper again)?  It means where the Lord gave his greatest commandment:

Love one another as I have loved you.

Go ahead, do all the things covered in this post as your interpretation of that commandment.

Easter Saturday

The theology of this thing I’ve left over at NO, hence the vast slump in visitor numbers yesterday … we all have crosses to bear … and those reading this are probably largely unsympathetic … again hardly the point … but I’m suggesting that it’s this day today, this uncommemorated fallow or layday, as it was 2000 or so years sgo, which was the most crucial day in the history of this world … certainly of the west.

Whether it was so, whether it was not, is again not the point of this post. The point is, as Rev John AT Robinson pointed out … a Christology started taking hold within 20 years of the crucifixion.  That is … initially small but then larger numbers, under threat, started to openly believe that a Christ had appeared … openly until the persecution started. 

Yes, granted, how many false messiahs have there been throughout history? But this one seemed to grab people and far from the subsequent persecution killing it off, it was like burning heather on the moors … it just came back with a vengeance.  And not only fanatical zealots you’d prefer not to know but educated men and women of the various eras started to look and think … there’s something going down here.

Of course it was hijacked, anything like this is … the tea party was hijacked, MAGA, Brexit … that’s what happens.  Nevertheless, this fallow or lay day, 2000 and something years ago … caused something to happen which altered history and a certain number of those reading this know that. 

For the majority, have a relaxing long weekend and enjoy the commercial choc bunnies and eggs.

The Easter weekend

Whatever you’re up to, stay well, stay safe, my post on the occasion is due tomorrow morning.

Meanwhile:

The eternal libertarian dilemma

Consider this from Rolf (Sackerson) at Now and Next:

https://rolfnorfolk.substack.com/p/fake-freedom-alcohol-tobacco-and

Moral issues can’t be simply resolved by analysing cashflow; that’s the sort of thinking that could even be used to justify killing unproductive people, which is exactly what the writer and socialist George Bernard Shaw advocated in 1931 - and again in 1948.

Keeping the debate on the ethical level, liberty is a strong counter-argument to puritanical bans, though one has to weigh freedom in one’s personal habits against the harm and expense they cause to others.

Black magic

TDS mailing this morning:

Equality Law to Be Changed to Protect Women By Clarifying ‘Sex’ is Biological

Why?

At the immediate political level ... to disguise the real changes ... that was discussed across soc-med yesterday.  At a deeper level ... psy ops of the NLP type, chanting, putting a spell on the normies through car radio talkback jocks, TV scripts ... Yuri Bezmenov nailed it, Steve Miller sang it:

I heat up, I can't cool down
You got me spinning
'Round and 'round
'Round and 'round and 'round it goes
Where it stops nobody knows

Agenda, timing, framing, language to be hijacked and skewed ... planned in advance ... sprung on the normies through every outlet and orifice, getting anyone to belueve anything if enough normies, in unison, chant imhotep, imhotep, imhotep, imhotep.

Ridiculous things, swirling around in a sea of loving, kind, beautifully coloured words ... total psy-ops. 

On the other hand, consider this Twitter exchange yesterday, concerning the total tranny twisted tosh:

The second part of that is that men also have to ditch the resentment, the porn, and get back to chivalry with a difference ... women fight alongside for this one ... driving this insanity right out of politics and driving a stake through its heart.

Let's have another look at that far right extremist idea again ... men and women, women and men, working together in harmony.  Radical, weird and extreme, huh?  This is from Susie Lindeman's site, it's the Maigret episode:

Diametrically opposed to the paradigm pushed by the psy-op pervs and paedos ... opposites attract, as Paula Abdul sang.

But not opposites at all - just two halves of the whole human. Man and woman, woman and man ... it's the true communism before Marx perverted it ... from each according to her and his ability, to each according to her and his needs.

That Definition Of Madness Again...

A pre-inquest review hearing was today (Monday, March 27) held at Bolton Coroner's Court.

The hearing was told that there was still some evidence yet to be submitted in the case. And Emily's father Mark Jones said: "I just find the process very frustrating. Deadlines are set and are never adhered to. It's like groundhog day coming her all the time."

Mr Jones made the comment after correspondence he sent to the coroner's office airing his frustration was referred to by the coroner.

Understandably so. And how did the coroner deal with it? 

Senior Coroner Timothy Brennand said to Mr Jones: "I am sorry you saw fit to communicate in those very clear and upsetting terms."

Yes, I just bet you are... 

He added that he wanted to address Mr Jones' concerns as he didn't want him to feel there were 'in any way being swept under the carpet'.

He already feels like that, and it's no surprise... 

He said the coroner's service always tried to work 'collaboratively with families' and to 'manage expectations' however he said Mr Jones had made it clear that in his case he did not feel they were being met.

"All I can do is apologise," Mr Brennand continued. "Your experience is your experience and I am not going to in any way quibble with it."

Because you can't. So...how are you going to deal with his belief that the case is being delayed unnecessarily by people who don't adhere to deadlines? 

Mr Brennand set deadlines for the disclosure of remaining evidence and legal submissions ahead of the inquest at the short hearing.

*sighs* 

Living on top of one another

Noah Carl, at TDS, writes on lockdown ... the site was originally Lockdown Sceptics.  

Most of it's been said since the excrescence but just a few more oblique points ...

My friend in Alabama is in more open space, homes are further apart, less densely populated, so when I mentioned something near midnight last night, where the walls are so thin and a food preparation bench with all is clattering is not great two feet away from my pillow and perfectly normal noise is amplified ... the clattering of plates and cutlery ... then the question comes up of people living in cattle truck compartments next to one another.

In this case, it's not just the paper thin modern walls in Britain, it's also other people's lifestyles today, compared to yesteryear ... what they find acceptable. And age comes into it too.  My friend mentioned Russian buildings, outer walls two foot thick concrete, inner one foot. Any normal living noises ... there are ways to get around them.

Ah, but that's the Soviet buildings which were good. After the 1990 fall, new, westernised, corner-cutting buildings were built and for one year, I was in one.  If you turned a tap on, someone in a downstairs flat was woken up.  My friend hit the nail on the head when she put it this way ... "not good for people to live one atop the other.  Close qtrs to nonfamily".

That's the operative word ... non-family.  Zero influence and non-family today meaning all sorts of weirdos ... just look at the tranny, lbheebyjeeby thing and CRT in schools, Antifa violence the norm, no one caring for anyone in any civic way, me me me.

Compound that by forcing people to stay at home or in 15 minute city zones and the obvious question is ... what diabolical mind dreamed all this up for humans ... and why?  Why such hatred for human beings?  For the dignity of life?

As it turns out, my neighbours are good either side, neither do anything wrong, I'm as quiet as a mouse most times myself. We do all right, except when someone makes a full-on meal on a clattering bench at midnight, someone else's head two feet away next door.  

My friend wrote, scathingly: "Oh no...he is preparing food! What comes next???" Yes, easy to say when it's not you. In a similar way, easy to smile at Julia's view of today's cyclists as they try to mix with car traffic and lorries. And if a lane is set aside, it endangers the car driving and pedestrians.

Is it the fault of the players in the drama?  Initially no, it's in the "planning" ... but then it becomes the sheer numbers, not of us but of imports to the land ... and finally the new learnt behaviour by bloodyminded Brits, fed up wi'it all, while psycho monsters above dream up new impositions, such as forcibly constraining cowfarts and forcing us to eat insects.

Ladies and gentlemen, there are normal, natural stresses and strains, and as long as we're not snowflakes nor psychological messes like kids in today's sick cultural climate, then we'll get around it.  But not when the thing is designed in a lab, at an Event 201 or similar.  Because then we get into malice aforethought from above.

And poised to cash in are commercial enterprises, now diversifying:

Desperate to roll this moneyspinner out, it's Big Biz now in the west ... the Wellness industry ... while fighting age fourth worlders continue to pour in with govt and "charity" admin  connivance and collusion, all on obscene salaries.

Oh and by the way, there's a massively attended blog coming out of America, Psych2**, which counsels kids, that's its purpose, using a soothing Caribbean voice.  If you explore, writing the scripts are Chinese women.

"It doesn’t have to result in a nanny state telling us how much to ration."

No, maybe not. Yet, somehow, it always does, doesn't it, Reader?

Ofwat chief executive, David Black, insisted the new differential charging is good for consumers and urged other water companies to follow the example set by Affinity.

He also made clear that a key aim of the scheme is to reduce water use, saying: ‘Water resources are being impacted by climate change which poses significant long-term challenges to river water health and security of water supply.

‘While charging is only one approach, companies need to use every tool at their disposal to support affordability, encourage us all to use water wisely and reduce our impact on the environment.

‘We want to see more companies seeking out and implementing innovative solutions.’

I want to see more companies cleaning up their own house first, before telling us how to behave while they are rifling through out pockets. 

A Tough Solution for the Sewage in Our Rivers

Water companies could face unlimited fines for dumping sewage under government plans due to be unveiled in the coming days. I’m sory, but this ‘talk tough’ message from this so-called Government comes about thirty-five years too late. 

I used to work directly inside some of the major British water companies, so I know exactly what was needed thirty-five years ago, and what is still needed now. I supervised, when at Welsh Water, the upgrade to a dilapidated run-down sewage works, an upgrade to the civil, mechanical, electrical and electronic gear so that it complied with the call to treat the raw sewage which used to flow, unchecked in heavy rain conditions, straight into the streams and river leading the the sea. 

The works took eighteen months to build and equip, and it worked fine, but it was still too small to cope with heavy rain condition. There were two overflow tanks, each the size of about four football fields, which was where the heavy flood water was directed, but they always overflowed, and the untreated sewage still flowed into the sea.

To cope with the constant heavy overflow condition, the plant needs to be upgraded again, an increased in capacity for both treatment and flood storage by around 150% of its present day load. The costs would be around £7.5 to £9 millions, just for the plant alone; and the land purchase would be in the region of about £15 millions. Multiply these two costs by around at least one thousand for the sites in England and Wales and you are looking at a figure topping £24 billions. 

Then you must gaze at the largely foreign-owned water companies, who have taken out dividends of around £1.8 billions every year for the past thirty five years, making a grubby total of around £63 billions; and possibly a great deal more..

So if the dividends had been halved, making a total of £31.5 billions, that would really have covered the cost of around ninety percent of the funds needed to upgrade that 1,000 sewage sites.

So, all the Minister has to do is to state to the major water companies, floating happily on that self-same sewage, that there will be NO Dividends until all that work is complete and tested. The Government has the power to give OfWat, the Regulator, that power: let them carry on and make the water companies do the upgrades: out of their own greasy pockets, and with NO increase in the Water Bills.

What's in the simple English word "the"?

(The) definite importance of (the) article

Kassie Troy understands what this whole act of pedantry means, she lives in Greece, quite close to all the action:

There's a reason for this seeming pedantry, aside from "correct form" in English and the reason is tied in with the Orthodox Church in THE Ukraine. Readers, this is far more than pedantry, it is taking a stance. 

You may or may not be aware that the Orthodox monasteries are being attacked by Zelensky's thugs and so far, the clergy have been winning but obviously, against the Azov murderers behind the whole struggle in THE Ukraine ... they cannot hold out forever.

Kassie Troy is Greek Orthodox and is obviously at one on this issue with THE Ukrainian Orthodox and Mother Russia herself, which is anti-communist.  I myself am not Russian, not Orthodox, my christening was in the Church of England as my non-religious mother back then thought it was probably the right thing to do. 

The last time I was in a church was Chester Cathedral in 2013 for the commemoration of my deceased ladyfriend I'd worked with. 

There was a new, rainbow service being held by a Woke woman priest in the main part of the cathedral but the traditionalists had been sent to a different service out of the church, over to an outbuilding and up some stairs, where we could be hidden away from society so we would not taint the population.

In 2013 ... yes, even back then ... the church of england was no more. What's more, I went up to one of the priests/vicars/whatever ... he saw me coming and scurried away to a priest hole in the wall and escaped. I was already a known-known during the short time surrounding my lady friend's funeral and commemoration due to my difficult questions no one was prepared to answer.

Readers, there's a hell of a lot going on here that I'd wager the average Brit or indeed westerner has not the slightest clue as to what is really going on in this war for civilisation, soon to go nuclear. 

Yet our country's "leaders" and their leaders, the WEF, CFR etc. are happily sending trillions, plus equipment to THE Ukraine ... and for what?

Do you really, really think this is just about Russia itself?  Or is it about what Russia has now become a symbol of, out of the embers of communism?  

The last bastion?  Bastion of what though?  Think on't dot dot dot.

Here is part of a long response to Zelenskyy concerning the priests under attack:

And further on:

If you do doubt, dear reader, this very war for civilisation, look no further than the antiPope in that monstrous receiving room, telling the Imam that the two faiths are the same.  Opposed to that is the dissident priest Vigano, one of the lone voices out there.

The reason the modern, cabalist translation into English drops THE in front of (...) Ukraine is quite specific ... it's that "Ukraine" in Russian actually means "borderland" of the tribe Rus ... Kiev itself is the heartland of ancient Rus, long before Lenin and communism.   

In your insistence, in the cabal's insistence, in the WEF's insistence on dropping THE is also Lenin's insistence. This is what you're supporting by your dropping of THE. World communism.

There are two sides in this war for civilisation, as the cleric above points out ... you can support the depraved, drag shows for kids, toxic chemical train derailing, the Orwellian slide which the Obama and Biden touting west has become ... or you can take the opposite stance ... through one small gesture of every westerner to show its govts it does not support what they're doing ... that gesture being the definite article.