Understanding is beginning to dawn! Now, at least, I am beginning to fully understand what "Going to Hell in a handcart means!" Perhaps, Field Marshall Foch put it better with "My centre is giving way, my right is retreating …", although he added that in response he intended to attack! Whatever, both 'over here' and 'over there' our societies appear to be disintergrating and the (so-called) 'powers that be' appear to be clueless over what to do. Sometimes, edging ever closer to our mutual, good friend, Death, is a comfort!
Oh no, I've been 'Hefferlumped' - again! Well, of course, as I intimated earlier, I have just finished Simon Heffer's superb - and I do mean superb! - history of Britain during the Great War. So now I have bought his earlier work "High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain". I have no doubt that it will as perceptive and well-written as his later work "Staring at God". Dammit, I just 'lurve' history and my only regret is that I will never be able to thank the late Miss Purvis, an elderly, unmarried lady, like several others who taught me at school and who were doomed to spinsterhood having lost their beloveds during WWI.
Latest score: Dom 1, Blob 0: According to reports, Sir Mark Sedwill, the 'Grand Blob of Blobs' (ie: the Head of the Civil Service), is to be fired. The lesson is obvious now to all the lesser 'blobs' - don't mess with the Dom! Dammit, up above I intimated that I was asking "Death where is thy sting-a-ling?" but now, I want to live at least another 25 years to find out the background to this example of 'history in the making'!
All this knee-bending is ludicrous! And I can state here, clearly, that I will never 'bend the knee' to anyone except Her Maj, er, on the understanding that one of her footmen will help get me upright afterwards!
Yes, that about sums it up: I was much taken with these words from Andrew Stuttaford at The National Review:
What is really killing Italy’s economy, Italy’s banks, and Italy’s public finances are the consequences of Italy’s decision to cheat its way into the euro, a currency for which it — as at least some of those putting together the single currency knew — was never suited.
Italy wasn’t suited to the one-size-fits-all euro then, and Italy is not suited to the one-size-fits-all euro now. The least bad way out of this mess remains, as it always has been, the division of the single currency into ‘northern’ and ‘southern’ units.
But don't hold your breath waiting for Brussels to see 'the bleedin' obvious'!
Who is Zion Lights? I don't know for sure but I think I want her to have my babies! Well, I nearly always admire people who learn things and then change their minds. It's nearly my bedtime so I will not go into the details, just pop over to the CAPX site and read about a remarkable and rather attractive lady.
No more Rumbles . . .
... the (so-called) 'powers that be' appear to be clueless over what to do.
That's what happens when the 'powers that be' are headed by a clinically mad and supremely cynical "businessman" who squandered an inherited fortune and declared bankruptcy 6 times whilst being a con man, game show host and sexual predator. Who woulda guessed?
Posted by: Bob | Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 15:36
I guess my question in "Britmiliation" number 2 has been answered! Sir Mark exits.
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 16:33
You’re referring to Bill Clinton, right?
Just spitballing here Bob, but say for the sake of argument that the governors and mayors are responsible for law and order in their states. Imagine that they cynically, heaven forbid, decided to create and allow riots with property destruction etc etc in their cities and states in order that the president ordered the NG or even the military to intervene to restore order, in the hope that there would be injuries or death. Now imagine if the president is way too smart to fall for that and leaves them hoist on their own petard.
BTW if you look up “sexual predator” in the dictionary you will find pictures of Clinton and “Tuna-fingers Biden”.
Posted by: Timbo | Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 16:41
"Knee bending" current usage--groveling for power in front of the mob.
Posted by: Whitewall | Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 17:27
Timbo,
Just imagine if Martians invaded and we were losing real bad but then COVID-19 killed them all.
Being a law and order type, I agree on Clinton. He should have been shot in the knees at sunrise then hung almost until dead then boiled in oil - not because he lied about getting his knob polished, but because the lied about getting his knob polished under oath! If he'd had any sense he would have refused to testify, like Trump. And if any women still read this blog, they probably really appreciate the "tuna fingers" thing.
Posted by: Bob | Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 17:47