Saturday [9 to 14]

14.  Gender neutral in France

DR adds, "A bit of sense still prevails amongst the lunacy."  My comment is that the next time anyone says "they" to me [in English], meaning one or the other sex, then it's "he" or "she" or "he/she" we'll speak in or else I'll stop the conversation.

13.  Haiku corner

a.  Dark pipeline:

I think the ransomware group pissed off too many Americans at once. Time to let the dogs loose.  Worth reading for the comments.

Few things are more terrifying than millions of Americans suddenly deprived of their God-given right to drive 30 miles each way to

Costco to fill their SUV with 32 packs of beer and enough $2.99 / lb. ground chuck to feed the family for a month.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/pipeline-attacker-darkside-suddenly-goes-dark-heres-what-we-know/

b.  Could be a game-changer - need to visit:

https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2021/05/apple-has-developed-a-way-to-deliver-true-3d-content-on-device-displays-without-requiring-the-use-of-3d-glasses.html

Never know if haiku is tongue-in-cheek or not.

12.  Distant Relative on Diabetes

Type2 diabetes is a family trait with the DRs but it can be halted without meds. I speak from experience. This is how I did it after digging through info. Disclaimer - this is not medical advice. It is what worked and continues to work for me.

First step was to get the guts working properly. A good probiotic usually natural yogurt none of the Activia muck and the like with all sorts of nasties slipped in, including the diabetic's enemy *sugar*. Also a cup of homemade bone broth everyday for about a week.

I also started to pay attention to what I'd been shovelling down the ol' bone-chute. Esp the carbs. Quite a lot as it turned out. I take the blame for that for listening to the advice we've been given that fat is bad and carbs are filling. Fat is not bad as I came to find out - it is what the body is designed to run on. However, some fats are better than others. Unrefined carbs are the problem-causers. Spuds, white flour and products made from same, white rice, pasta - all the fillers in a meal. Chip butties are definitely out!!!

To stop me piling the pounds back on I cut out all obvious sugar. The difficult bit was the various forms of sugar manufacturers slip into foods on the sly. The big realisation which was a bit shocking was the fruit juice which I thought was healthy actually equated to several spoonfuls of sugar everyday. Some juices equated to 10 teaspoonfuls per serving. Much better is to ditch the juice and eat the whole fruit.

This gives the idea:

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/prevent-diabetes

11.  On Biden's secret deals with the bloody mullahs

I've made certain remarks about Gatestone but on this matter, plus what's happening in Gaza now, the same old “hide the terrorist among the innocents” thing, methinks this is well worth posting:

• Is the effective US news blackout about the negotiations with Iran meant to keep the allies and American public in the dark to prevent an outrage that may scuttle the administration's effort to revive the 2015 nuclear deal -- which Iran by the way never signed?

• If the Biden administration, like the Obama administration, suddenly surprises everyone that a deal has been reached, will it then be too late for the public to act? Is a return to the nuclear deal the price Biden agreed to for Obama's support before the November 3, 2020 election?

• The American public has the right to know what sanctions the Biden administration are planning to lift because this regime has been killing Americans and taking hostages for almost four decades.

• "Last week, Iran's chief diplomat allegedly admitted the IRGC calls the shots in Tehran. Now, Iran releases a fake video of the IRGC blowing up our Capitol. The Biden admin's priority should be ensuring Iran cannot carry out such an attack, not capitulating by removing sanctions." — US Senator Pat Toomey, Twitter, May 2, 2021.

10.  Stubborn, obtuse blindness

Right, have a quick look at this:

I wonder if you can see it.  I made comment on the most obvious thing to stand out like a sore index or pinky finger with closed thumb and its horned origin and got the reply, 'What exactly is a satanist sign?'

Rather than directly reply, let me draw your attention to the first post of the day here, today, about fatigue.  Let me also add that I am dieting [a bit] and am cranky, that I bought only two pieces of meat which have to last and they fell into the bath.  Of water.  At the same time, I was inundated by info coming in [a very good thing, no complaints], was in the middle of the vaxx post, sorting out a few aspects which weren't working ... at that moment, a dear ladyfriend wrote [paraphrased], 'This is the question you did not answer me about,' followed by a link to the email I'd already answered ... etc. etc.

I paint that picture only to illustrate why we do need to train ourselves to:

a.  Never knee-jerk respond to something;

b.  Especially not to a close friend whose friendship one wishes to maintain;

c.  Remember that he or she is under the same strain we are ... or worse;

d.  That one can't really expect that person to have read all 2000 or so posts on it.

One of the things the inimitable Chuckles and I had in common was that we were not noted, either of us, for our patience.  In short, we were liable to snap back in a sharply florid way, often in Latin.  This was an error we did try to subsequently avoid.  Percentages.  Battles engaged in, battles avoided.

Which reminds me of my own dad and to start with, he was a dour Yorkshireman of few words [my verbosity came from my mother's Irish side].  Add to that emphysema, leukemia and hepatitis from the war and methinks you get the idea - hence his impatience with us. I improved a bit but my mother was my mother to the end, bless her.

Which is a longwinded way of saying I'm not running those video clips but shall look at them and good lessons from them shall be transcribed for N.O. readers, obviously not attributed.

9.  That OoL post on vaxxes

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2021/05/avoid-test-jab-and-vaxxed-people-like.html

That leads to the main point in Saturday [10]