Saturday, May 21, 2022

Saturday [8 to 13]

Afternoon all.

13.  Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2022/05/house-of-crims.html

12.  Ian J

Was reading bayourenaissanceman this morning and saw a ref to weather forecasts for arthritis on this site:


It accepts UK postcodes and looks comprehensive (and NOT the BBC) - I shall be monitoring it

11.  First Vox
There is going to be a lot of this sort of thing happening around Western Europe, the UK, and the USA:

A British father-of-two has dumped his partner after falling for a 22-year-old Ukrainian refugee who came to live with them to escape the war. Tony Garnett, 29, and his partner Lorna, 28, took in Sofiia Karkadym at the start of May, but just 10 days later their seemingly-happy marriage was torn apart when the he ran away with the refugee.

The security guard, who lives in Bradford, West Yorkshire, says he has fallen in love with the 22-year-old and wants to spend the rest of his life with her.

Yes, he's a fool, he's being eaten but by the same token, there's a certain something gals from over there do which British women would feel beneath them ... and that is actually care about their men or at least make a huge show of it.

In short, they're all woman, let's say, not demi or fully fem-man.  of course, is he man enough for her?  they're pretty orthodox in the gender department over there. Something our society has lost all concept of.

Now, of interest to me but maybe to no one else, I'm in the middle of converting my two novellas into one novel, not a huge change in plot but much in the redacting department and the bit I'm up to right now is the gal from Brno, groomed and abducted, sent to Blighty, freed by raid, but the local Big Guy skims off two girls for PAs ... and that's where it is right now.

Westerners are such fools and the worst are the wimmin over here. Not going to make me popular, this, sorry, but were it not true, I'd not write it.

Obviously there are exceptions over here but the pro-men women are what ... maybe 10% here, like hen's teeth, while in those countries, maybe 70 to 75%.  Stats do affect things.

10.  NYP

‘Frustrated’ Clinton lawyer shopped phony Trump-Russia data to CIA in ’17: witnesses

"Sussmann gave the men two thumb drives that he said came from unidentified “contacts” and showed a secret, cyber back channel between a Trump Organization server and Russia’s Alfa Bank...

'He said he was not representing a client...'

Sussmann also said he’d previously given 'similar but unrelated' information to the FBI."

9.  Another drop at NOWP

Not saying who.

8.  CS Lewis

On Living in an Atomic Age, 1948

"How are we to live in an atomic age?"

I am tempted to reply: "Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents."

In other words, do not let us begin by exaggerating the novelty of our situation. Believe me, dear sir or madam, you and all whom you love were already sentenced to death before the atomic bomb was invented and quite a high percentage of us were going to die in unpleasant ways. We had, indeed, one very great advantage over our ancestors - anaesthetics; but we have that still.

It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance at all, but a certainty.

This is the first point to be made: and the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things - praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts - not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds."

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