N.O. current state of play

UPDATE 10:50 a.m., Monday, June 13th, 2016

Back in the main site for now but shall be blogging from here, not there.

Previously

Love thy murderers, say the gays

This was a tweeted response from the gay lobby to the massacre:

Don’t you dare use dead LGBT people to justify your Islamophobia. Don’t you dare use us to further your campaign for hatred and inequality.

Our old mate Katabasis replied using choice language. 50 people dead to jihadis and this lobbyist does not want gay people "used"?  Is the man a total moron? If he even set foot in one of those sad countries, he'd find himself thrown off a building.

This is the thinking which is afflicting so many, this desperation to let the enemy in and rampaging because some ideology tells them that these are really sweet, cuddly bears with beards and guns, instead of the throwbacks they are.

If the shootings themselves were beyond any sort of civilized people, there were other issues too.

Blogging from here for now

N.O.'s main site is currently down, meaning neither the front page can be accessed nor the dashboard.

Cloudflare has always been a problem where I/we have had sites. Cloudflare call it a 522 error, meaning they send out some packages to N.O. to make contact, N.O. then should respond with a thing called an ACK.

It is not doing so and Cloudflare surmise that it is because the host's server has something on it hogging resources. Could be a firewall, could be a limit on processes, whatever.

Why Brexit is crucial for your heirs

The Invaders

The cold, dark heart of the British public

Matthew Parris writes:

What Jeremy Corbyn, like David Cameron, understands about the cold, dark heart of the British public - leave compassion to journalists and Lib Dems. Voters want a dash of acid.

Oh yes, I can relate to that and so, it seems, can the "cold-hearted" British public:

I think Mr Parris is on to something. When the little boy refugee was found drowned on a beach in Greece, the media tugged hearstrings for the plight of all refugees. But I found a much colder attitude amonst people I knew. There was universal sadness that such a small child should suffer such a tragic fate, but that sadness did not translate to a willingness to be open armed to every refugee. Rather, the sadness was offset by questions about why the family left a safe location in Turkey, the responsibility of that family, and the responsibilitry of the people smugglers. I do not think this is new - the British have always been a less emotional, more pragmatic, more realistic, people than, say, some continentals. Whether Jeremy Corbyn, champion of the underdog, will connect to this realism is another matter - I doubt it.