Well, You've Convinced Me...

Yaa Gyasi, a novelist apparently, and one can only hope she writes more coherently than in this whine for the 'Guardian':

I was thinking about that driver’s words again last summer as news poured in about the killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. I was thinking about the way in which white people, in order to justify their own grotesque violence, so often engage in a kind of fiction, an utterly insidious denialism that creates the reality it claims to protest. By which I mean an unwillingness to see the violence that is actually happening before you because of a presumption of violence that might happen, is itself a kind of violence. What exactly can a man with a knee on his neck do, what can a sleeping woman do to deserve their own murder?

Well, on the one hand, be a convicted career criminal who held a gun to a pregnant woman's belly, and on the other, be the ex-girlfriend of a drug dealer and sleeping with a man who shoots at the police when they enter with a warrant.  

You've never heard that expression 'Lie down with dogs, wake up with 9mm bullet holes', Yaa?

So many of the writers of colour that I know have had white people treat their work as though it were a kind of medicine. Something they have to swallow in order to improve their condition, but they don’t really want it, they don’t really enjoy it, and if they’re being totally honest, they don’t actually even take the medicine half the time.

You've convinced me your brand of snake oil isn't worth taking, that's for sure. I won't be buying your opus. Or reading it for free, either.

This is why this poison must be rejected for now

I'm trusting no reader has been silly enough to get jabbed yet.  This below is the latest LDS emailing, not at the site as yet [methinks]:

Better late than never I suppose. Tonight’s episode of Panorama – Undercover: Inside the Covid Testing Lab – reveals that staff at the Lighthouse Lab in Milton Keynes have been cutting corners and processing samples in a way that could lead to cross-contamination between test samples. Readers will recall that Lockdown Sceptics published an expose of the very same lab – “Heath and Safety Breaches at the Milton Keynes Lighthouse Lab” – by an ex-member of staff in November of last year. BBC News has more.

A BBC reporter working as a lab technician, filmed staff cutting corners and processing samples in a way that could cause contamination.

This means some people who had taken a test via NHS Test and Trace may have received no result or a wrong result.

The lab said it had followed all necessary rules and regulations.

Evidence at the lab captured on film shows:

Readers - consider this if you would

The value of a blog is not, IMHO, in irreconcilable diversity of opinion because all that comes out of that is blogfighting, trolling, mucho ad hominem, deleting and blocking - what an utter waste of time.  We see it at Breitbart, we see it at most sites - in come the trolls, often paid, and that's the end of any viable discussion.

Think it's fair to say though that writers and regular readers at OoL all detest this current Wokery going on, this cancel culture, this lockdown mania, this paedo thing - what connects us is our dissident anti-Wokery and that can cut across the old political lines ... we're vaguely in this dissident frame of mind, demanding our freedoms be protected because without those, we're gone.

Having said that, we do come at things from different angles, we don't agree on all the others' policy positions within this vague political sphere we find ourselves in.

In my case, I have particular angles at my blog and it's unrealistic for me to come here and post contrary to those angles, ditto with Julia and hers, ditto with Grandpa and Churchmouse.  

The solution is simple - set up a way which does not have to involve signing up with Google system but is free enough that you could send a piece of any length with as many or as few links as you deem necessary, send it to one of us, we put it up, within our house rules, as Guestposter.  

The Common Purpose assault on your right to opine

Pat sums it up nicely:

You Don't Say, Judge...

District Judge Joanna Dickens at Swindon Magistrates Court lays into the bugling Wiltshire Police and CPS:

'This case does worry me, and trouble me, that there could be a situation where other ten thousand pound fines have been bandied about by police in circumstances where they shouldn't have been.'

'Could be'..? There almost certainly is, and likely more than one! 

But let the Blame Shifting begin! 

A spokesman for Wiltshire Police said it was 'surprised' by the dismissal and will seek a review with the CPS.

Why? They didn't threaten the fine, you did... 

'Our policing response to the ongoing public health pandemic will continue to be robust, proportionate and consistent.'

But not accurate? 

'It remains vital that everyone takes personal responsibility for their actions and adheres to the restrictions which are in place.'

What personal responsibility are you taking for your officer's ignorance of the law he or she was laying down? 

A CPS spokesperson said: "We note the judge's comments and are examining what happened in this case before deciding next steps.

"The CPS also conducts a monthly review of all finalised coronavirus cases to ensure that the right person is charged with the right offence."

I wonder what you find in most cases? No, it's OK. I already know. 

This goes way beyond crackpottery ...

... it's crime against the person of a child.

Sorry to put you off your Sunday supper but someone has to mention it:

To have the temerity to try on the idea that this is libertarianism when it's crime, unadorned - these people who do it to their kids must be charged.

Maybe Their Proofreaders Are Very Slow..?

Britain's most dangerous prisoners are more likely to reoffend when they leave jail if they are put on a high-profile rehabilitation programme, the Daily Mail can reveal.

A bombshell study reveals that offenders who went through the programme posed a greater risk than those who had not – and they went on to commit more crimes after their sentences ended.

Well, thank goodness someone was evaluating this and can take swift action to...

Oh. 

Yet the Ministry of Justice, which commissioned the study, has still not published the report – nearly three years after it was finished.

*sighs* 

The OPD pathway budget in 2016, the last year for which figures are available, was £64 million.

The beancounters are clearly even slower! 

Russia, and the Ghost of Neville Chamberlain

 I have spent the decades of my life doing what I consider to be right for my family, for my beloved wife, and lastly, for myself. 

Over that time also observing politicians of all Party colours, creeds and shades of belief; stances taken and promises kept. I have come to the conclusion that we here in Great Britain & Northern Ireland,(GB&NI), apart from the brown swarms which have been imposed upon us under guises such as ‘The Commonwealth’ and ‘We mustn’t be nasty to “Refugees”, even if they wish to do harm to both us and our very way of life; have been consistently ignored as to the manner in which ‘WE’ wish to proceed.

We are, I believe, a Nation which holds, in varying degrees, a Right Wing attitude. But we have allowed ourselves to be ruled, and indeed overruled, by a cabal of politicians from both the Left and the Centre; who have consistently promised one ideal, but secretly worked to dilute the very thing which made us British.

Can the reader imagine a situation today where the Government, facing a bloodthirsty Dictatorship which not only threatens a friendly Nation which has diplomatic and treaty ties to GB&NI, but also proceeds to attack and invade that Nation; has to decide, very speedily, what to do? 

The feebleminded acceptance of clear wrong by people

First this at LDS:

“As a Scientist, the Most Striking Moment was When Whitty and Vallance Stood in Front of a Graph They Knew To Be Wrong”

Shades of the hockey stick and the IPCC.  

Now the latest via Distant Relative:

https://www.unite4truth.com/post/norwegian-chief-physician-professor-astrazenca-vaccine-directly-correlated-to-blood-clots-death

And now onto this:

The pincer movement which Kristi Noem is caught in

It doesn't take too much thinking to see that the Federal v States issue is fraught.  If you have a pro-American Pres v corrupt DemRat States then one leans federally and more pro-EO.  If it's a pro-South Dakota good person v corrupt DemRat DC, then one is anti-EO and pro-States Rights.

No one can envy the poor woman, particularly as her prime directive is to get business into South Dakota, her job does not involve supporting MAGA.  However, her personal upbringing and mindset is very much God and MAGA, and to complete the pincer movement on her - businesses have almost all gone over to anti-MAGA, Woke practices and the global communist paradigm.

Thus Amazon, among others, say to her yes, we'll invest in your State, as long as you accept our Woke evil.  Tucker represents the understandable national reaction to her capitulation [H/T Steve here]: