Oh dear. How sad.
Open Thread – Weekend 11 Jan 2025
- Trump Alone, No-One Else
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- Is prosperity slipping away?
My mate did duk. His was fed from a dam. Misting system over the whole house. When it was operating…
United States Is Crippling Itself With Climate Change Regulations, China Is Not
The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship
Media continue to refer to conservatives as “far right” or worse. I listened to Alice Weidel talk to Elon Musk…
Or should that be lack of water chief?
@LucasFoxNews
L.A.’s water chief makes $750k a year.
The president of the United States: $400k
@MikeBenzCyber
I’ve held off commenting on this publicly as it played thru the courts, but I feel compelled as the [TikTok] ban may now go thru to say it is likely to have an absolutely devastating impact on the ability of US diplomats to defend US social media companies operating in foreign countries.
@MikeBenzCyber
Here are the receipts on Meta bending to Biden government censorship demands because Meta had “bigger fish to fry” for its business interests than free speech issues and Meta needed the Biden government’s backing “on multiple policy fronts”
on a per litre basis, that’s awesome !
LA Descends Into Chaos as Looters Exploit Wildfires
From memory, there were riots and looting in Los Angeles, in either 1968 or 1970, and the Army was called in to keep the peace.
An “urban sniper” was being interviewed – yes, he shot at the police, the fire brigade and the National Guard, but “Shooting at the 82nd Airborne? Are you crazy, those dudes shoot back!”
My father used to tell me how during WWII looters were shot on sight.
Bring it back!
Jeju Air ‘black box’ data missing from last 4 minutes before crash that killed 179 people, South Korea ministry says
People will disagree. Mark Dice is the KING of media commentary.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Latest Move is Causing Liberal TOTAL MELTDOWN!
Taj Mahal, Agra, India
In the early seventeenth Shah Jahan so much loved his wife who died giving birth to their fourteenth child (note that he had other wives too) that he built a mausoleum in her memory and to honour her. This was the century that saw the English Civil War – a dynamic time. The heartbroken Shah spent twenty years and much treasure creating for this wife, as an eternal byre, a building of such poignant beauty that it still breaks hearts today, as it surely did mine. You cannot but be touched by its sense of romance and fancy, by the glowing white marble of which it is composed, by its minarets, domes and towers, and when closer, by the spiraling floral-inlay decoration of glue-set and polished semi-precious stones. Here in undying flowers are found shining mother-of-pearl, turquoise, blue lapis lazuli, jade, cornelian (a red stone that glows in the dark), green anthracite and black onyx. From tiny chips 20000 artists housed in a local village toiled for twenty years to create the intricate decorations for the splendid interior as well as thousands of others employing in carving out and erecting its marble walls and features.
What is more, I’ve always thought of it as an average tomb-sized building, because I’ve never seen it against people as a comparator; yet on first viewing it is overwhelmingly huge, especially when you see visitors against it. At the base and on the external walkway into the shrine, people seem like ants. It has the same visual emotional impact as the huge Christ the Redeemer that dominates over Rio.
Leading up to this shrine are long fountain pools surrounded by perfumed gardens and one well-placed seat that is now famous for those photographs of a disconsolate Princess Diana seated alone brooding over her failing marriage the Charles, Prince of Wales. Needless to say, in the crowds there that day, largely tourists from within India, there was a queue for your photograph to be taken alone on that seat with the Taj behind in all of its glory. For my turn, I tried to look pouting with unhappiness but couldn’t manage it. Too happy, I say to Hairy.
The next morning we are taken to a workshop where skilled artisans work now on making table tops and souvenirs utilising these same traditional techniques. In the village behind the Taj, over the river, there still live families maintaining this traditional skill; only 2000 people now know it, and their numbers are dwindling. Not surprising, because it is tremendously finnicky and difficult work, but reasonably paid and with some OHS applied now. We purchased a marble table top and marble latticed base to be shipped home, as our memento of this romantic place, as did three other couples in our small tour group. Future antiques, we tell each other, falling for it all, we of the spending generation. Hairy and I didn’t take the tour of the village starting early the next morning. Our American Trump supporting friend stayed away too. I hate to see poverty turned into a zoo, she said, rather as we thought too. There’s enough on the roadsides and in the old towns without having to make a display and tourist feature of it. Some of our purchase price does go to the workers, so we thought that a good contribution.
Forgot to mention that this Shah had a son who killed all brothers who might succeed him, took the Peacock Throne, and imprisoned his father in the great palatial ‘Red Fort’ and palace we visited before the Taj Mahal. There Shah Jahan could view his beloved’s mausoleum from a beautiful set of rooms and gardens. The view over the river to the Taj in the early morning mist was quite magical, such that Jahan opted to be buried there next to his true love, in the Taj. It is said that this usurping son was so hopeless a ruler that he began the steep decline of the Mogul Empire that followed.
Today’s busy tourist ruined Taj interior for Hairy, who recalls almost no-one else there in his visit in 1975 with his first wife For us now, endlessly shouting Indians jostling each other were a distraction, as were the police whistles which the military in full camo gear used to keep the crowd moving. Re crowd control at these intensely protected sites, entry to them in India is often streamed into ‘tourists’, ‘Indian Ladies’ and ‘Indian Gentlemen’. I think this is because in long packed queues the sexual harassment of Indian women by Indian men was severe.
This is also the fort where later a British general killed in the 1857 mutiny was buried, his impressive grave site is still as it was under the British, prominently displayed in the parade ground.
That son was Aurangazeb. He was a zealot. His reign was the beginning of the end of the Mughals.
Thank you Lizzie.
This is the kind of travelogue I like, never had the desire to go to India but it is a fascinating place, to learn about it vicariously is great.
PS, that goes for the reports from Gilas as well, sorry if I miss anyone else.
Week In Pictures.
From the fight fire with fire dept…
BREAKING: Former Labour MP Ivor Caplin, who criticized Elon Musk on British TV last week for his remarks about Keir Starmer, has been arrested following a sting operation by citizen pedophile hunters.
Caplin allegedly attempted to arrange a meeting with a 15-year-old boy.
Former Hove MP arrested – Brighton and Hove News
Better link to the Ivor Caplin arrest story showing the ‘who me’ face
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/32746797/former-labour-mp-arrested/
From the article:
In June 2024 Caplin was suspended from the Labour Party over undisclosed serious allegations, which he denies.
Well well well, what say these allegations?
Greg Gutfeld on the left’s hoax matrix going down!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MpihOuk1ps
When a major fire breaks out in an urban or city environment it is quite common for a pumper or two to tap in a block or so away from the scene in order to “boost” the mains and therefor provide more than enough water to the units actually fighting the fire. In other words a single fire fighting effort can severely degrade local water pressure/flow rate.
I’ve been wondering about this “LA hydrants running dry” thing for a few days thinking something else could be at play.
As if the draw on the system wouldn’t be huge enough with the dozens of pumper units they use it appears another very significant factor was having an effect.
A crew chief I saw interviewed on a news report last night was lamenting that nearly all the houses are equipped with their own indoor sprinkler system, which is useless against fire from the outside but when house after house etc go up and all these sprinkler systems activate at full flow it bled critical flow out of the mains. The system was overwhelmed.
It also explains all the water you see running down driveways from most destroyed houses.
Ive yet to see an Aussie style external sprinkler system powered by a diesel pump and fed from the ubiquitous swimming pools. I also wonder why the LAFD trucks didnt draft from said swimming pools, do they not have the capability to do that? All aussie bush trucks do.
My mate did duk. His was fed from a dam. Misting system over the whole house. When it was operating you could hardly see the house. His house had previously burnt down.
Looks like Fluffy needs to check in with RFK Jr. for advice about the American Diet.
Over in Airstrip One, the dying media have been working hard to pretend nothing never happened. In 2024 the BBC aired ‘Liar: The Fake Grooming Scandal’ and only last week Channel 4 launched a three parter on the same case.
Meanwhile, at the blog where no on reads the comments, they’ve been having a bit of a look.
@MrWinMarshall
You can’t make this shit up
A week ago Former Labour Minister Ivor Caplin was on TV lambasting @elonmusk about mean tweets
Today he has been arrested after he allegedly attempted to meet a 15 year old boy during a sting operation by a Facebook paedophile hunters group
How is this short of torture?
@OKPrayinPatriot
As I sit here in Oklahoma watching the snow fall outside my windows, I can’t help but think about the horrible treatment my husband and other January 6 defendants have received from the Bureau of Prisons, the D.C. Jail, and various facilities across the country.
My husband has not seen sunlight in months; he has had only about ten hours of sunlight in the past eight months. He is in a prison where the temperatures in the cells in the morning are around 45 to 50 degrees. In other facilities, the heat is unbearable and makes the detainees feel sick. Sparse communication is the norm. Constant lockdowns are as well.
My husband suffers from severe PTSD from his combat service, severe depressive disorder, and several other ailments. He is a 100% permanently disabled combat veteran, fully service-connected. He honorably fought for this country, earning many awards for his valor in combat. Now, he is rotting in a prison cell without proper mental health treatment or care for his physical ailments sustained from combat. He cannot receive the therapy, counseling, or medication he needs to help improve his mental or physical state. No reasonable accommodations are made for him.
Do you know what a lack of sunlight does to someone with PTSD and severe depressive disorder? It’s devastating! To make matters worse, he has no quiet; he is bunked with another inmate, and at times the noise and chaos is completely unbearable.
What the January 6 defendants have endured at the hands of the Biden administration, the weaponized FBI, the DOJ, and the January 6 Unselect Committee is horrific and should never have happened!
January 6, 2021, was not the insurrection—November 3, 2020, was. The Democrats stole an election and caused a riot on January 6 at the instruction of Pelosi and Milley, among others, to cover it up so they could certify a largely contested election.
Joe Biden is an illegitimate president, and everything he has done while in office deserves to be closely examined and likely overturned.
All charges against the January 6 defendants should be dropped; they all deserve pardons and compensation for the hell they have endured since January 6, 2021.
Nothing can completely fix the fallout from January 6 for the families affected—no amount of time can return what has been lost: relationships, celebrations, funerals, and goodbyes that never happened.
Finances have been destroyed. SSDI Benefits lost. Retirements lost. Careers and businesses have been lost and may never be able to be regained. People have lost their homes. The defamation and the smear campaigns that have damaged their images forever will haunt them.
However, one thing that can begin the healing process is releasing the January 6 detainees on day one. Let my people go; let them start to rebuild their lives.
Some have families and homes to return to; others, sadly, do not. Some have children they have never met or who they haven’t seen in months—years for many. Every case is unique, but all are devastating in their own way.
@realDonaldTrump, as a wife of a January 6 hostage, I urge you to release ALL January 6 detainees on day one.
Issue pardons of innocence, just as you did for @GenFlynn, to all January 6 defendants. Please don’t leave any behind. All are victims of a weaponized government.
Free the January 6 hostages so our country can begin to heal. Our families can only start to mend with your help. We cannot do it without you.
We are counting on you, sir.
@Texasbrn
Palisades fire is approaching Brentwood California.
@DC_Draino
Map Time: These fires aren’t caused by “climate change”
Anyone with a functioning brain can see these LA fires are being started by arsonists in separate locations
@KarluskaP
Greenland Prime Minister says he’s ready to speak with Trump
Not to mention that they’re promising to fully compensate losses while they not only ignored North Carolina but actively worked to block local help.
@AdrianneCurry
Have you all noticed the news coverage of North Carolina was almost non-existent in comparison to Los Angeles? The government hardly cared. Los Angeles all over the news and Biden personally goes out there immediately?
Night and day the response from the press and Biden.
Fauci is on record in 2008 saying that hydroxychloroquine (then chloroquine) was effective against corona viruses.
@CreasonJana
PFIZER JUST RELEASED ITS LIST OF SIDE EFFECTS OF ITS “C-Shot”
Blood thrombosis,
Acute kidney injury,
Acute flaccid myelitis,
Positive antisperm antibodies,
Brainstem embolism,
Brainstem thrombosis,
Cardiac arrest (hundreds of cases),
Heart failure,
Cardiac ventricular thrombosis,
Cardiogenic shock,
Central nervous system vasculitis,
Neonatal death,
Deep vein thrombosis,
Brainstem encephalitis,
Hemorrhagic encephalitis,
Frontal lobe epilepsy,
Foaming at the mouth,
Epileptic psychosis,
Facial paralysis,
Fetal distress syndrome,
Gastrointestinal amyloidosis,
Generalized tonic-clonic seizure,
Hashimoto’s encephalopathy,
Hepatic vascular thrombosis,
Herpes zoster reactivation,
Hepatitis Immune-mediated,
Interstitial lung disease,
Jugular vein embolism,
Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy,
Liver damage,
Low birth weight,
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children,
Myocarditis,
Neonatal seizure,
Pancreatitis,
Pneumonia,
Stillbirth,
Tachycardia,
Temporal lobe epilepsy,
Testicular autoimmunity,
Thrombotic stroke,
Type 1 diabetes mellitus,
Neonatal venous thrombosis,
Vertebral artery thrombosis,
Pericarditis,
Sudden death…
Note … Fauci got the emergency distribution order because “he” told Trump there was NO OTHER medical treatment available to handle the virus.
Ivermectin was one of the cures (and Fauci knew this) … that’s why he told the media to say ivermectin was only a horse medicine.
I’m hoping that knowledge is a loophole families can use to sue him and his team.
Perhaps I’m doing it wrong, but searching judiciary.uk for more on UK Labour’s favoured cultural enrichers isn’t working out too well.
However I have occasionally stumbled upon species which should never be imported.
His oldest daughter didn’t want to carry on the family tradition.
You can guess the rest.
@catturd2
LMAO … Facebook literally permanently suspended our podcast account for saying the exact same thing.
And Zuckerberg proudly did it to millions of accounts and spent over 400 million to interfere in the 2020 election.
He’s a snake – he should be arrested and thrown into prison, not celebrated.
Puke making how you can have a ‘degree’ in journalism to pontificate about automobiles but don’t need to be a mechanic or an engineer. That’s the FMIC for you.
Another parting Biden blow to American families: A war on water heaters
While California Burns, Dems Hold Special Session Protecting Illegal Alien Criminals
Media continue to refer to conservatives as “far right” or worse.
I listened to Alice Weidel talk to Elon Musk yesterday, and her policies were all standard conservative common sense. This doesn’t matter to either the legacy media or the rent-a-crowd with nose rings that have gathered to protest in Germany.
The Cost of Facebook’s Now-Repudiated Censorship
United States Is Crippling Itself With Climate Change Regulations, China Is Not
Oh dear.
How sad.