TTFN

Does anyone else feel overwhelmed by the conflicting sources of information out there, from the misinformation peddled by the US and other Western administrations? COVID and the excess death count due to vaccines and lockdowns, the ludicrous arguments dragged out to support ‘global boiling’ and minority organisations going after certain people and blackmailing their memberships into ‘cancelling’ them.

Neil Oliver had the right idea. “Are my views incompatible? Okay, I quit.” Any organisation that ‘cancels’ anyone has limited facility in their membership anyway, and if you can’t freely speak your mind on a topic, it’s time to walk away. Because if you can’t have an open and honest conversation, there’s no point in playing the game. Also, maybe it’s not your ‘views’ that are the real problem?

Also; you know all those Ukrainian refugees we were encouraged to welcome? Looks like they’re going to be sold down the river to feed the Ukrainian war machine, with repatriation in the works for all military age males, even from neutral Ireland. Money has been offered with few takers, but as the Ukrainian regime runs out of fighting age men to throw into a modern version of the Somme or Verdun, mandatory repatriation has been mooted. So it may well be TTFN and off to the meat grinder for you, sonny Oleg.

However, repatriation for Ukrainian refugees isn’t likely to happen if how repatriations for other groups is any guide. Might happen in more hardline states like Poland or Estonia, but countries like Britain or Ireland where deporting actual criminals is no easy task? Dog in the euro-manger Hungary have stated they won’t be sending refugees back into a war zone to feed the US administrations proxy war against Russia. (And the warmongers call Orban a ‘fascist’? – do they not understand irony?) Germany and a few others are backing away from mandatory repatriation of fighting age men. Still ‘standing with Ukraine’? How hollow that virtue signaling now sounds.

Ask yourselves these questions. 1) Who seceded over poor treatment by a particular party after they took power? 2) Who began shelling civilian targets for over eight years for their daring to vote to secede? 3) If this is a ‘war for democracy’, then how come a democratic vote was answered by military force? Answer honestly. Look it up if need be. 4) Who are the real bad guys here? Specifically? Don’t make excuses for them, no matter who they are.

On the home front, at present it feels Like I can’t catch a break. The weather has been so poor there’s no honey at all this year. Mrs S’s car needs a rare and hard to find power steering pump, and I think I’m in the dog house, even though it’s not really my fault.

The rain is back with a vengeance and I’m waiting for contractors to turn up yet again. So while I’m waiting I’ll sort out the underground cable to the sheds and get those securely wired ready for when they’re water tight and drying out. Externally there’s no point in railing against the machine, all I can do is tell it to sod off and mind it’s own damn business, because perhaps it’s a club I don’t want to belong to.