Family news

my stepson is in the US planning to move his mother from her nursing home there to the Philippines where she can stay with family since she no longer could care for herself,  

The bad news?

The extra bedroom is in my house.  

Actually he wanted me to move upstairs to the apartment we have there, but my walking ability is shot since I had neuromuscular complications from dengue and I can't manage the stairs

So we will be in the same house.

So right now, we have all sorts of workmen cleaning and painting the aging house including my bedroom.

I am not sure who he will hire for a caregiver (he probably expects his wife, who is a trained caregiver, to do it, but she runs her own business  so we might have to hire one.

Oh well. Does it bother me that my husband's ex is moving into what is essentially my husband's house? No because she is now senile and can't walk around, but needs a walker or wheelchair. So I can just lock the door and I still have two dogs in the room with me (she is a cat person and hates dogs).

  My main dog died last week, and I miss him. But his two smaller siblings are now trying to take their place in my room at night, so now I have two in my bedroom instead of one.... 

Luckily we still have two other (larger) dogs outside to guard the business compound and an old female dog to guard the office upstairs.

 so people all over cleaning and washing and painting: the place is in an uproar.

Sigh.

catching a rocket

 

more here.

and here

:Starship meanwhile continued firing its own engines to reach a preliminary suborbital flight path. Near the end of that burn it lost one of its outer engines. It nonetheless reached the right preliminary orbit, but because of the engine loss engineers spent about fifteen minutes discussing whether that engine issue would preclude going to full orbit and completing all six orbits. In the end they decided to go to orbit, and were successful. The ship that successfully deployed all 26 Starlinks, all of which appeared to be operating as expected. Because of the engine issue, however, the decision was then made to de-orbit early, after completing about two orbits, bringing the ship back over the northern Pacific, likely to have it avoid habitable land as much as possible. At landing Starship successfully completed a soft vertical splashdown, but it then exploded. No recovery of this ship will take place, as occurred on the previous flight.

So who is watching the terrorist suspects:

according to Trumpieboy, the terrorists who were caught with car bombs near an AFB in the UK were being watched by authorities.

But apparently not watching them very well.

They were actually stopped because a farmer returning from a party noticed them and called the local cops.

So a civilian and local bobbies, not high falutin expert anti terrorism cops, stopped them..

From a UKTelegraph article that quoted the farmer mentioned in  a local tabloid

“A plucky amateur shouldn’t be spotting an unusual bit of activity at 1am when the air base is on high alert,” she said. “I think it’s absolutely astonishing.”

Place conspiracy theory here.

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update: There were 5 guys arrested (the farmer said she saw 8 to ten) and then left out on bail by the judge. They were "British citizens".... and the cops claimed no viable explosives found (presumably they found dead explosives)

Conspiracy theory A: A false flag.

Conspiracy theory B: Incompetnt

Conspiracy theory C: They don't want to hurt the feelings of the Muslims in the government or have the Muslim mobs upset or the patriots upset at a time when 1000 boat people mainly military age men are arriving on their shores.

Sigh.

The street dogs who live all over the world

The Pope in Paris:

the Pope is in Paris, and lots and lots of folks are there.

PBS reports 800 thousand attended his mass in Paris.

the NYTimes however is sarcastic as ever pushing the idea: 

Trying to Be Everyone’s Pope, Tours Secular France  

After visiting Africa, Pope Leo’s four-day trip to France shows how he is seeking to appeal to Roman Catholicism’s original heartlands as well as to the church’s newest strongholds." 

trying to be everyone's pope?? seeking to appeal? who is the gender expert Karen who wrote this article?

A Catholic would say it was an outreach to remind people about the importance of Christ and how the church helps people to know love and serve the Lord.

But that's just me.

This secular video is a better summary of what is going on:

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Doing his thing: Multicultural outreach.

 Catholicism is not European or white Anglo Saxon church. 

Which is why the Pope is pushing outreach to migrants, even though in the US a lot of ordinary folk in the USA are upset on how the church used their money to help  the drug cartels smuggle people into the USA along with drugs and gang members hiding with real refugees and those seeking to better themselves ,

( There is also a lot of resentment because migrants are easily underpaid and steal their jobs but that could be fixed with amnesty and rules)

In the USA, the religious revival tends to be evangelical and Catholic and partly inspired by Charlie Kirk, who was killed for daring to outreach both politics and conservative religious ideas to college students.

but in France, like in the US, the younger folk are slowly returning to church.

 

Explaining American foreign policy

 

full transcript here

QUESTION: So, while you were here, the Iranian president spoke at the United Nations. And he said that President Trump’s speech “goes against the very essence… of the United Nations.” He said that President Trump “must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, [and] increased bullying.” And he said, “We will never bow our [heads] or bend [our knees].” Do you have a response to him today? SECRETARY RUBIO: Yeah. I think slaughtering 10,000 of your own people in protests is a violation of the UN – I hope it’s a violation of the UN principles. I think sponsoring terrorist organizations in the region to attack your neighbors, attack energy infrastructure, attack civilian sites, is a violation of the UN system. So, I don’t know what standing Iran has to lecture anyone on human rights or the international system when they habitually violate it. They violate the sovereignty of every one of their neighbors by sponsoring terrorist organizations that reside within the borders of those countries. They slaughter their own people. They violate rules that were – and sanctions that were imposed by the international community against their nuclear weapons program. So, I just – honestly, I don’t know how you stand up there and argue on behalf of the international system when you are the world’s leading – the world-leading violator of the international system. That’s what the Iranian system has been, unfortunately – sadly, tragically.

the Democrats are being manipulated by the socialist/Islamicist juggernaut (paid for by whom I wonder) so Iran thinks things will change in November after the election.

And the MSM in the US are happy to publicize the propaganda of these bozos instead of trying to put things into perspective.

Child kidnapping by Russia

 One little known story of the Spanish civil war was that Russia kidnapped Spanish children to raise them as communists.

the Wikipedia article frames it as keeping the children safe in a time of war (as were many thousands who were taken in by France etc) but if you read down the article the real reason is noted:

Communist propaganda portrayed them as the future political elite in a Spanish socialist republic which would emerge from victory in the Civil War. The children and their families believed that their time in Russia would be short, and in their later testimonies they confirm that they were happy with the adventure of travelling to a foreign country.

the evacuations of children during war is controversial because of the separation from family and culture, yet the alternative might be a dead child.

Yet the high casualty rate in the Spanish children in Russia suggests that safety was not the real issue.

So fast forward to the Russia Ukraine war, where again Russia is kidnapping Ukrainian children claiming they just wanted to keep them safe.

From StrategyPage:

September 19, 2026: Since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia has kidnapped nearly 50,000 Ukrainian children and sent them to Russia to halt its population decline...

 

The Russian government developed a formal system to obtain children. The easiest method was to find young, orphaned children, from infants to 7 or 8 years old, and send them to Russia to be adopted. When Russian troops took some populated Ukrainian territory, special filtration teams were sent in to find any children they could kidnap without meeting violent resistance from families or neighbors...

 

What is most unusual about this use of children as hostages to pacify occupied regions is that it is happening in Donbas, which has been under Russian control since 2014 and initially supplied troops for the 2022 invasion. As that invasion went badly and got a lot of the Russian soldiers killed or wounded, the surviving volunteers from Donbas refused to fight any longer....

One underreported story about getting these children back to their families is the work of Melania Trump.

Yum! BBQ chicken feet

 Yanks eat chicken meat, mainly breasts and legs, so what do they do with the rest of it?

Well, for example, Tyson sells the chicken feet to China 

Yes, Tyson does sell chicken feet as a byproduct of processing chickens for meat. Chicken feet are often used in soups, stews, and other dishes in various cultures around the world. It is a common practice for poultry companies like Tyson to package and sell chicken feet as a way to minimize waste and provide customers with a diverse selection of products.

so how do you cook them? This is one way:

our neighbor used to grill cheap chicken feet/ chicken heads/ chicken intestine, sliced pork and hot dogs  outside her home, and sold them mainly to the tricycle drivers who drove to and from the Palenke. However for the last two years, several restaurants have popped up, so she doesn't do it anymore because of competition.

Chicken heads anyone?

he mentions the intestines. Yes they are grilled also.

CS Lewis link

 just a link to an article about CS Lewis and his relationship with various children. 

LINK

more HERE.

links posted so I can read them later on my tablet

Rogan publicizes Blood Cobalt

 

recent report Blood Batteries.

I am aghast of how the left gets hysterical over "Children" in Gaza, i.e. teenage soldiers being killed because Hamas recruits child soldiers, even though using children/young teenagers in the military is a war crime by the way...or point out that Hamas deliberately puts weapons in civilian areas (a war crime) so that they can point to civilian and children casualties when Israel bombs the weapons (and don't forget the secondary explosions) 

 But people being pushed out of their villages by mining or dying in mining accidents or children working in these mines. Silence.

Why? Chinese influence on the left in the USA and MSM

Similarly the environmentalists don't complain about Africa's environment being destroyed by Chinese mining companies.

 Come to think of it the environmentalist left isn't complaining about China destroying the ecology of the West Philippine sea, or about Chinese factory ships overfishing and destroying the fishing areas all over the world, including South America.

Press Bias? Who wudda thot

Trumpieboy is having another fight with the MSM. 

Well duh.

 It's not just Trumpieboy criticizing biased news reporting: the naysayers about covid vaccine side effects is being exposed on the alternative media.

 It's not just about exposing the lies and manipulation behind the Covid shutdowns, that harmed individuals and the economies of entire countries who obeyed the advice from the CDC etc...

So the MSM alas too often in politics or overseas news about the Middle East distorts reporting, where you read stuff from anonymous sources or terrorist organization as the truth: 

but it is not just about the Middle East news distortions. Try being a Catholic.

Father Leo opines:

and here he discusses the covid coverup and the truth.