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2026-05-16T15:24:41.744+08:00

Some good news.

2026-05-16T15:21:55.748+08:00

“Tonight, at my direction, brave American forces and the Armed Forces of Nigeria flawlessly executed a meticulously planned and very complex mission to eliminate the most active terrorist in the world from the battlefield. Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS…” -… pic.twitter.com/KF8MYet9CB
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 16, 2026

The western press tends to ignore such deaths because the victims are CHristians and moderate Muslims, and it is not just the radical Islamic types trying to impose a radical Islamic govt but some of the atrocities are tribal feuds between Islamic herders and local farmers, and these tribes are now embracing Islamic extremism to recruit and justify their aggression.

from EWTN:

56,000 killed in Nigeria’s ethnic and religious violence; Christians disproportionately affected 56,000 killed in Nigeria’s ethnic and religious violence; Christians disproportionately affected

and that article is in 2024

the Independent Sentinal has a more recent article:

As of August, 2025, 185,000 have been slaughtered by radical Islamists. It includes 125,000 Christians and 60,000 ‘liberal’ Muslims. Those are the tolerant, peace-loving Muslims.

and more die because they fled and are refugees, and those who stay often can't plant food because they fear being kidnapped.

no water now brownouts

2026-05-14T12:53:06.010+08:00

The city is fixing the water supply so no city water.

Our water pump is working weakly but last night we had a brownout for 3 hours and it was so hot I couldn't sleep

The maid was in the ER with the same bronchitis I had last week and she is diabetic and they added another medicine to try to control her sugar.

She is too sick to work

so my room isn't being cleaned. I can do a light dusting etc but she will send her sister to do the wash tomorrow if there is enough water

It is still hot season so I stay in my air conditioned room with the dogs

update

the maid came in to say she is out of the hospital (She had IV for dehydration) and to get money to buy her new medicines.

She also said five nearby houses burnt down from using candles. No one hurt but the families are now homeless.

Today they fixed the pump so I could shower, but then I went outside and found water cascading from the third floor. We thought it was a leak in the water storage tank, but apparently someone was watering the plants and after they ran out of water, didn't recognize that they hadn't turned off the water.

another fake epidemic caused by not following simple rules

2026-05-12T08:36:00.007+08:00

quarantine has been used for hundreds of years to stop the spread of disease.\

But someone left a lot of infectious people off of the Hanta virus ship to go home and spread it to other countries.

UKGuardian says:

The complex operation to repatriate passengers and crew of the hantavirus-hit cruise ship, the MV Hondius, is almost complete. Up to 150 people have started flying home aboard military and government planes from Spain’s Canary Islands, and the World Health Organization has recommended, but not mandated, a 42-day quarantine once they have landed.

Why

using quarantine to stop the spread of an infectious disease has been around for hundreds of years, but instead of using this policy, someone decided it's okay to let them go home and now we have a lot of hysteria on line.

Theory one: These passengers are rich

Two: it allows the WHO to complain that Trump cut their funding and if the epidemic spreads, blame him, not the fact that basic public health policy was ignored.

Three: Vaccines already are in the pipeline to be made.

Four: Expensive medicines will be pushes to treat it.

(will Ivermectin work? Some sites say maybe. And ivermectin has few side effects. So why not treat before symptoms start?)

CDC says they will let people self monitor their health. WTF?

they are insisting there is no risk, but this policy is based on the US version that does not spread person to person.

WTF?

Hey RFK Jr, maybe tell the CDC to check on the reality that unlike the Hanta virus we had in New Mexico etc a few years back, this one spreads person to person so they need to update their rules.

update

stories below the fold: Conspiracy theories again

2026-05-11T10:53:00.001+08:00

the Catholic church is imploding but the press loves Pope Leo for being obedient to the fads of the global elite.

Global warming for example.

Here in the Philippines for example, the church is backing no investment in fossil fuels at a time when people are hurting from the high price of Diesel and they now found a natural gas field that could help the Philippines.

But the bishops are pushing solar panels all over the place.

I haven't heard if they have approved of the valuable rice land in our area being diverted into solar farms to supply electricity to Manila ... And of course no one wants to ask what will happen when a typhoon hits (they will just blame it on global warming of course).

but the main problem is the synodality scam is the blurring of the importance of chastity. Pope Leo already has said he wants to decrease the emphasis on sexual sin (never mind that the sexual revolution has led to the breakdown of families with the resulting drug use, depression and abortion).

So how will he do this? Quote scripture? Stay true to the traditional teachings of two millenia?

Nope. Let the synods do it and then claim that they are the voice of the people and therefore the voice of God.

Synodality is of course a scam.

Supposedly the parishes met with people who were asked what they wanted the church to do:

but this ignored that such meetings tended to be hijacked by those who have time to be involved political activism, which results in normal folks being silenced or just not coming to the meetings.

This remind me of the encounter groups we were forced to attend in medical school: at the start of the first session we were always asked personal questions supposedly to enhance trust but in reality they would remember what we said and would bring it up later. In other words, it was not helping us to communicate as much as to intimidate those of us who tended to be disagreeable and of course it was a warning to the quiet to remain silent.

Me? I always arranged to get an emergency call from the nurses during the meeting so I could leave.

But once my roommate's group met in our apartment, and when she objected they all attacked her.

Although it was not my group, I came over and pointed out they had their facts wrong and since unlike my group, who could use the embarrassing information we gave at the start of the meeting, they didn't have any way to destroy me and of course they didn't use things like facts to disagree with me, so voila, they then shut down the meeting.

But you can see how easily such meetings can be manipulated.

To make things worse:

quiet believers and those busy with their families and those like me who are essentially home bound were not involved,

hence the data base they are using is not an accurate survey, so the reports will not represent the actual opinion of the average practicing Catholic.

In other words, the reports of these synods are:

GIGO: Garbage in, garbage out.

Father Murray, best known from the Prayerful posse with Raymone Arroyo, has several essays pointing out some of the other problems: they are being used to destroy the sexual ethics in the church.

His latest from the Catholic thing:

The latest imposition of the Synod is the recently published full-fledged endorsement of the homosexual lifestyle in the Final Report of Study Group Number 9 “Theological Criteria and Synodal Methodologies for Shared Discernment of Emerging Doctrinal, Pastoral, and Ethical Issues.”

This report attempts to dismiss Catholic teaching on the inherent immorality of homosexual acts – and the disordered nature of the homosexual inclination – by stigmatizing that teaching as the expression of an obsolete “paradigm” that no longer can be relied upon to communicate God’s will to His people. Even worse, Report Number 9 considers all Catholic teaching as subject to change...

The Synod has become the Holy See’s officially sponsored agent of destruction of Catholic doctrine, which is disparaged and dismissed.........

He then gives this example:

The Synod office has decided to publish the claim of a lobbyist for the homosexual lifestyle that, “I know of many priests who have been attacked because of their support for LGBTQ folks. . . .they get hit by the hateful arrows of homophobia.’

Then Father dares to sardonically point out

Is this claim an example of the “sense of faith of the faithful”? Or a repudiation of the Faith of Christ on behalf of immorality?

He summarizes that this won't stop with this report:

This Vatican-sponsored destructive subversion must come to an end now. Souls are endangered by the scandalous false teachings being propagated by the Synod. Pope Leo needs to strengthen the brethren in the Faith by putting an end to this poisonous betrayal of God’s truth.

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sigh.

happy mother's day

2026-05-10T17:39:00.002+08:00

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family news

2026-05-08T12:38:00.001+08:00

Update: Our pump is working: Slow but working. So we have running water. Good. I can take a shower.

Kuya is busy panning for gold in the fields, and also preparing other fields to plant rice.

It is still hot season: Hitting 100 degrees F every day. But we are starting thunderstorm warning for the late afternoon, meaning that the monsoon is starting.

The secretary and her husband who helped at the farm etc. have left for another job after eight years here. So we have several women coming to do various jobs around the place, and have just hired another live in couple so that there is a man here at night for security purposes.

My asthmatic bronchitis is better, but U tend to stay in the airconditioned bedroom during the day because of the heat.

hot season: So turn off the city water

2026-05-07T01:01:00.003+08:00

it is the end of the hot season (monsoon and typhoons should be starting any time). So there is the normal water shortage, which the press is crying global warming but it is actully normal this time of year.

So the city has announced that they are turning off the water for a week.

Probably checking for broken pipes etc.

But very inconvenient.

Lolo put in a water pump, but it needs fixing and although Kuya is fixing a lot of stuff right now, the pump is not a priority.

I had our main handiman fix it but it may or may not be pumping enough. Kuya filled the overhead tank but we empties it to do the wash today.We usually do it on Saturday, but decided to do it early.

So now there is the question if the old water pump can supply us water, or will we have to get containers and fill it at the farm where we have another pump for clean water

Spit baths for the next week.

Oh the joys of living in a tropical paradise.

The hidden woman behind the dictionary man

2026-05-04T17:58:00.002+08:00

I knew nothing about Dr Johnson before hearing this podcast, and it is fascinating

But what interested me more than this intellectual is his relationship with Mrs Thrale, the wife of Mr Thrale who took in Johnson as a houseguest.

But what caught my eye is Mrs Thrale: an arranged marriage, an unfaithful husband, and constantly pregnant, and losing many of her children, including her beloved sons.

But once she and her husband had invited the chronically ill Dr. Johnson to supper, he became friends with both of them, and when he had a nervous breakdown, they invited him into their home, where he loved the food, the suppers with his literary friends the care by Mrs Thrale, the friendship of her husband, and the fact her kids would play with him.

But what was interesting: After the husband died, she closed up his business and the house, essentially leaving Johnson on nis own, and he died soon afterward, so maybe she is to blame, but then why should she spend her time and money on a house guest that she essentially cared for in the same way she cared for her children, as a nanny not a lover, making sure he was comortable and fed and entertained.

He did have other friends and he was the one who broke the friendship.

A more serious charge is that she also left her children behind, although the older girls who were teenagers in school also condemned her marriage (but one book notes she took the youngest one with her to live).

after she turned him down for a year, she was into a deep depression and the doctor told her oldest bossy daughter she would die if this continued, so the daughter gave her permission. So she married an Italian musician (who was condemned as marrying her for her money, but actually he was from a good family and independently wealthy).

So a woman who for 20 years obeyed her husband and spent her time running his home and having guests and having children, once free, she married for love, and happy.

and Johnson? Died of dropsy without her loving care for him. Would her care have lengthened his life? Maybe not (a rich diet similar to what he ate at her house would have made his dropsy worse at an earlier date)

There are lots of books about Johnson on line, and ironically her books are also on line for example Thraliana, a book of anecdotes. The Book Dr Johnson and Mrs Thrale is on line, and gives the back story of the dictionary man and the woman whose hospitality kept him comfortable for nearly 20 years. LINK

longer version here.

another day another volcano

2026-05-03T15:14:00.006+08:00

south of Manila, not near us. But hard for people in the area. https://t.co/Lf7ydvSs7b
— tioedong (@tioedong) May 3, 2026