Nature abhors a vacuum

Whilst it's true that Conan-Doyle's and Kipling's notions of "the magnificent fair play of the English" are quite mythological and one need only look, for example, at Jethro Tull's lyrics on that:

Playing at the hard case
You follow the example
Of the comic-paper idol
Who lets you bend the rules

So, come on ye childhood heroes!
Won't you rise up from the pages
Of your comic-books, your super crooks
And show us all the way

So where the hell was Biggles when you needed him last Saturday?
And where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you through?
They're all resting down in Cornwall writing up their memoirs
For a paper-back edition of the Boy Scout Manual

(Kindly note my avatar by the way which I use across socmed ...)

... nevertheless, the tendency to plunge into despair at that realisation is to ignore another reality which does exist ... that even the literary, religious and MSM bestowing of impossible nobility on a people is, in itself, an inspirational thing to enshrine in that nation's heritage.

In short, if all these ideals, impossible to achieve on earth, are still to be aspired to ... then that society survives. 

As long as I can still charge around on my white charger looking for damsels in distress to rescue, as long as you can open your paper in the daily train commute and all is well in Panglos's best of all possible worlds, even if we do muddle through a bit ...

... those values do survive as the summum bonum ... we all kid ourselves that most still subscribe and I for one ask, "Why not?"

But once the Tull cynicism consumes us and it becomes dog eat dog, me me me ... a process of a few generations until the new teachers and pollies are nearly all ideologically satanic and the children stand no chance ... as Jim Morrison sang:

All your children are insane ... ride the snake, the ancient snake

... then in pour hordes from outside the borders and Ancient Rome is the model for horrors to come ... not that Rome itself was societally any great shakes in the first place.

Is there some sort of happy medium? Well the Good Book certainly lays down aspirations for mankind but when the children no longer even know about the Good Book, let alone embrace its values ... there does come a time where we can only hope a new generation, as in The Who's song 905, starts to realise that something is missing.

Meanwhile, I see two distinct sets of memes going about the net, of the non-despairing kind ... one stems from the precepts of the Good Book and the other is reiteration of the Stoics, the Kipling mentality:

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more— you’ll be a Man, my son!

If you can put together both sets of precepts, not just the second, if you can draw strength from your Maker, as Psalm 23 illustrates, plus the Beatitudes, if you can subscribe to the ten commandments, wherever they came from or whoever wrote them ...

... if you can warn the children of the seven deadly sins, seven holy virtues and note that ourselves by the way:

... then, miserable sinners such that I for one am, far from any claim to saintliness in my conduct, at least have a code of conduct vastly superior to that of the deathcult and poison of communism.

Nature abhors a vacuum ... all that a vacuum does is invite itself to be filled ... inevitably by slime and bilge, not by nobility ... so the solution is to emind society that that vacuum is not freedom in the least ... it's the worst kind of internal slavery within us.

We can go all woe is us, heads in hands as the hordes gallop in and slaughter us ... or we can show a bit of spine and start adhering to a code we once did, minus the hypocrisy of pointy hatters like Welby and the antiPope and slimy politicians  ... plus heads of armed forces saying we should all charge off overseas to be cannon fodder whilst leaving our own land undefended.

A cartoon which, unfortunately, is deadly accurate.

 

Courtesy of The Telegraph

Cartoons, by their very nature, are supposed to poke fun at those who set themselves above us.

From the published garbage which is supposed to represent the thinking behind our modern Armed Forces, and the Royal Navy in particular, I shudder to even think what the true outcome will be.

Photography And The Police In The UK

Filming in public? Cut it out!

A pianist has slammed the 'ludicrous' demand from flag-waving Chinese tourists not to film them as he performed at a busy London station.

If they don't want to be filmed, stay in China, where the police enforce it, not in England, where the police w...

Oh, FFS! 

After the footage of the row went viral on social media, Mr Kavanagh appeared on TalkTV where he slammed the 'ludicrous' demand - including from a British Transport police officer who asked him not to upload it.

Ask away, you've no right to compel him. You've been told this over and over again and you've lost every time.  

This comes after one of two police officers, who were walking by and stopped due to the loud argument, told the pianist 'this is not to go on your channel' as Mr Kavanagh kept on filming after the officers intervened.

I know what you're thinking, Reader. Just another case of an ignorant male cop who isn't au fait with the law. Well...not quite!

When the police officers approached, one tourist said to the male officer that Mr Kavanagh filmed them and they asked him to remove the footage, but he refused.

'You're in a public place,' the policeman explained repeatedly - until the female officer chimed in and said to the cameraperson: 'Excuse me, if we're having a police matter, you need to put that phone down.'

No. He doesn't, Miss Diversity Hire, you should listen to your colleague.  

Meanwhile, elsewhere, filming your neighbour's children in their back garden? Go right ahead!

A grandfather has been told it's 'not a police matter' after he found a secret camera pointed at his grandson's treehouse that might have been put there by a convicted paedophile.

Martin Prior, 65, first contacted police on December 22, 2023, after discovering a CCTV camera placed on a lane by his property in Cross Keys, near Hereford.

An officer visited the next day and spoke to the suspected owner of the camera but Mr Prior was shocked when the police said they were powerless to act.

A spokesman for West Mercia Police said: 'We are aware of a concern raised about the placement of a CCTV camera.' 'However, no crime has been reported to us and therefore it is not a police matter. CCTV concerns need to be raised with the Information Commissioner's Office.'

And what does the Information Commissioner's Office say?

'The use of recording equipment, such as CCTV or smart doorbells, to capture video or sound recordings outside the user's property is not a breach of data protection law.

'People should try to point their CCTV cameras away from their neighbours' homes, shared spaces, or public streets. But this is not always possible.

'If someone is recording your child using CCTV, we would suggest talking to the person doing the recording.

'If you feel the person is filming your child inappropriately or to cause them harm, you should contact the police.'

A perfect snapshot (Ed: *preens*) of the situation with the police in this country. 

Update: And it's not just photography. Who is in charge of recruiting these people?

How to Smother the Truth

 

Over the many years of watching and learning about American politics, media, politicians and media editors, I have learned many truths. Possible the most important ‘truth’ is how an impossibly small number of people judge how any political story can be either spread or ignored, how the facts can be ‘spun’ by those same people: and how the most important of stories, based not upon supposition, but on demonstrable fact, can simply be ignored by ALL the news media in today’s America.

I should begin by reminding people of the sheer amazement in both political reporters and commentators when, against all beliefs, Donald Trump first swept into the White House. TV Station after station, when covering the results, were questioning the polls as the numbers for Trump rose inexorably, with State after State falling to the Man who came from Nowhere. Hillary was supposed to be a shoe-in; some were actually saying that the Election wasn’t necessary; her polling numbers were so good that she would crush this interloper from the world of business in every State.

I had actually watched the former President several times as tv broadcasts of his speeches were becoming more frequent once he had secured the nomination, and: “My prediction at the time? If the ballot-stuffing Democratic bunch can be forced away from the boxes and voting machinery; Trump; the ineffable Donald himself, might just turn the corner and win in the final furlong!”

I think it is a fact that many voters were at least intrigued when Trump lacerated Hillary Clinton’s chances by a carefully contrived, carefully-sensed and timed attack on Hillary’s husband, the well-known philanderer Bill; a.k.a. The loosest Zip in Town. The very fact that Trump was able to locate these four women, rape victims all: hold a mini-styled press conference, with all the accusations recalled about how Hillary knew her client was guilty, but managed to virtually get him off the hook by lacerating the victim in open court: and then place all four in full sightline of Bill Clinton was a demonstration of his determination to take the fight to Hillary, and through her of course to the ex-president. America has always had a sense of ‘fair play’, and those voters who watched that verbal assault knew what had happened, and perhaps that persuaded them that Hillary just was not worth trusting with their votes. 

But Trump’s enemies were legion, and many were highly placed, both in Government and in the many Agencies in Washington, and the plots and planning brought forwards the ‘Russia’ impeachment and also the ‘Jan 6th Insurrection’ Impeachment; but both times Trump survived. But the former President’s many anguished claims of Election Fraud were summarily dismissed, and even the meticulously documented ‘2000 Mules’ was given little coverage. 

However,  in a Federal Court In Atlanta, Georgia, University of Michigan Professor of Computer Science and Engineering J. Alex Halderman testified in front of Judge Amy Totenberg’s courtroom in the Culling vs. Raffensperger lawsuit on the insecure Dominion voting machines used in Georgia elections since 2020.

As reported earlier, during his testimony, Halderman was able to HACK A DOMINION VOTING MACHINE and change the tabulations in front of U.S. District Judge Amy Totenberg and the entire courtroom!

Halderman USED ONLY A PEN TO CHANGE VOTE TOTALS! 

But here’s the thing which proves, beyond any doubt, my premise that ‘an impossibly small number of people judge how any political story can be either spread or ignored’. 

The ONLY news media organisation which both published the story and provided a video of the anchor telling how Halderman changed voter totals in front of a Federal Judge was the Gateway Pundit!

The greatest threat Britain faced in 2023

Horrific, simply horrific!

Orphans reminds readers of our policy against hateful conduct … so we’re having none of that, you lot, awright? That’s right out! With big spikes inside. We adore Plod and adore friendly little golliwogs … I even had one as a child, ok?

The childlike ... sweeties or right little chuckies?

There's a thing called childish, which includes potty humour, sulking and so on ... then there's "childlike", which is values-free, neither good nor bad ... at least in a person who's of child age, say eight years old.

If you glance at the email feed below from tech magazine Wired, glance lower right to the iphone holding a drawing ... look at the drawing ... it's that of a child, yes? I mean, it's hardly one you'd see in world renowned galleries, cathedrals etc. as the finest art Mankind has produced ... hardly Sistine Chapel, is it?

Frankly, whoever drew that is a child ... at least in the mind. Eight years old? I'd say more likely to be twenty-eight ... but retarded.  

I agree that retarded is an insulting description, so let me soften it by saying "politically childlike" instead ... the type of person who is sophisticated in tech wizardry all right ... quite adult in that respect ... but politically ... oh dear ... prime fodder for ideological kool-aid ... the type of person who appears with cattle like nose-rings and blue hair in order to be "individual" (think Python) ... then goes out and glues himself to a road in front of traffic.

A child in other words who sees big bad far-righters as the enemy driving their cars to work when their own handed-down ideas on climate are vastly more important than other people's daily lives ... a big game where all sorts of shenanigans such as Demonrat crooked judges are quite ok coz they've identified Bad Man and you hate him, you hate him, you hate him, the big horrid monster, make him go away, mummy and it's quite ok to technically rig voting machines and create AI to lie coz they're all Bad Men anyway and it's all in a good cause and oh dear, I'm going to have to go out and hug a tree, crooning kumbaya and lighting a candle.

Incidentally:

Moving obliquely for the moment ... let me ask you ... do you put your title and strings of letters after your name in your soc-med handle, such as this lovely lass below?

She can be forgiven of course because she's sided with the sane ... you know ... families, working people, those not on benefits paying mortgages ... that sort of person, the sort who has not the time to march for Hamas every third day and desecrate memorials to heroes of the past, national monuments ... the sort who never shoots swans nor breaks shop windows coz they have to make us understand that exploding EVs are the future and we say beastly things, don't we and the Woke hate us, they hate us, big brutes that we are when they're so sweet, loving and childlike, wouldn't hurt a Gates mosquito.

And that, ladies and gentlemen ... yes, two sexes only, no pronouns ... that's the sort of retarded mind we're up against.  The morally bereft, new ignorati.

And Maybe The Supermarkets Are Proving Unwelcoming?

Ocado’s retail arm returned to the black last year as customers had more Marks & Spencer food options and shoppers switched back to online grocery shopping after a post-pandemic slump.

The group, a joint venture between M&S and the technology company Ocado Group, said price matching with Tesco and better service had also helped increase sales, while the closure of an old warehouse helped cut costs.

And maybe it's also a fact that the rise in self-service tills has made shopping in store a very negative experience for many? 

The WHO takeover and Britain’s criminal govt

Reposting Peter Sweden’s tweet:

The WHO pandemic treaty could be FAILING 

The controversial agreement is at risk of falling apart. Slovakia has REJECTED it and New Zealand has voiced concerns. 

The chief at the World Health Organization recently said at the World Economic Forum that countries should sign up to their pandemic treaty to prepare for "Disease X". The pandemic treaty is an agreement that the WHO is working on which would essentially hand them powers in the case of a new pandemic. 

They would get powers like deciding to implement lockdowns, introduce vaccine passports, quarantines and even to CENSOR things that the WHO deems to be "misinformation". 

At the WEF they held a meeting called "Preparing for Disease X", warning that this new unknown diesease could be 20 times more deadly than covid. But now it's in jeopardy. The pandemic treaty is now at risk of falling apart because of "misinformation" with the chief at the WHO warning that "future generations may not forgive us" if we don't all jump on board and sign the agreement, which will hand over power from sovereign countries to a bunch of un-elected elites at the WHO. So what is causing this?

Surprise surprise, the WHO is complaining that "a torrent of fake news, lies, and conspiracy theories" is the reason that the pandemic treaty is at risk of falling apart. In other words, people are reporting on it and they don't like that. 

So of course they come back to the old classic of blaming "conspiracy theories". The WHO has been working on this pandemic treaty for several years, and the plan is that almost all countries of the world should sign up by this year. Slovakia is among the countries that have rejected the pandemic treaty as well as New Zealand having concerns. 

The government of New Zealand has to ensure a "National Interest Test" before they accept any agreements from the UN or UN agencies like the WHO "that limit national decision-making, and reconfirm that New Zealand's domestic law holds primacy over any international agreements". 

The man who is now Deputy Prime Minister in New Zealand, Winston Peters, posted in May last year that people in New Zealand would be "highly concerned that the World Health Organization proposes to effectively take control of independent decision making away from sovereign countries and place control with the Director General".

Peter Sweden:

But Shouldn’t The Purchaser Do Their Bit Too?

... but (coroner) Dilks said she would not be making any direct recommendations to the three major food ordering apps, which had no legal requirement to provide allergen information.

Speaking afterwards, James’s parents, Stuart and Jill, said they believed the inquest had “shone a light on much bigger issues that need urgent attention”. They said the UK had one of the biggest online food delivery markets in the world and one in four people lived with allergies. “Online food platforms have a major role in choosing who they partner with and how food is safely provided to customers by their partner providers.

“We now take this opportunity to publicly call on the bosses of the big 3 apps, Will Shu of Deliveroo, Matthew Price of UberEats and Claire Pointon of Just Eat, to meet with us to carry out a collaborative review of what further steps can be taken to better protect consumers. This is not about competition or sales. This is about people’s lives.”

Those wicked food delivery companies, eh? Just careless about whether they poison their customers? Well... 

Karen Dilks returned a narrative conclusion outlining how Atkinson ordered the food on the app, that he did not contact the restaurant directly to inform them of his allergies and that he did not have an EpiPen available once he started to feel unwell.

Hmmm... 

To a very special lady

  Grandpa and I, plus I’m sure thousands of readers, wish Julia:

Remember … you won’t see her coming!