Finestkind Clinic and fish market

alas sounds about right

2026-10-06T18:43:54.472+08:00

I just found the most brilliant bit by @JohnCleese He explains Leftism better in 90 seconds, than you could learn from any academic in 20 years. https://t.co/xtubCcbRdi
— Dr Manhattva (@Manhattva) October 3, 2026

it isn't only about the left (the right does it too). It is actually a sign of being a true believer, needing a purpose in life and directing self hatred against others instead of actually doing something that might help others.

I saw this in medical school and I saw how very few anti VietNam war protesters bothered to help the boat people or the other refugees who fled that country when the communists took over. Nope, they were into other things: Jane Fonda for example started putting out exercize videos. About the only anti war activist who actually helped was Joan Baez...

that is why all the stress on training social justice warriors is nonsense. Are any of these folks building houses in Appalachia? working in food banks? Helping in emergencies such as helping to fill sandbags to stop flooding, evacuating people, taking groceries etc to those fleeing fires or floods?? Church groups do this all the time...

another lab accident

2026-10-05T06:40:19.463+08:00

BREAKING: 5 hospitals have been closed for quarantines in Siberia due to a possible plague outbreak. The 28-year-old lab technician Darya Shipilova, died yesterday after breaking a test tube with live Yersinia pestis the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute on September 25th while handling samples. A mask mandate has now been introduced at the huge aluminum plant in Irkutsk. Some U.S. politicians are now calling for commercial air travel to and from Russia to be stopped until the situation is clarified. This first symptoms of pneumonic plague typically start about 4 to 7 days after exposure. 200 people are under observation.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) October 4, 2026

,,,

physicians working in the Navajo area of the IHS see a few cases every year, mostly from flea bites. These are treated and most survive. but Pneumonic plague is highly fatal and can kill you within 24 hours, even with treatment.

Family news

2026-09-29T14:14:13.842+08:00

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

2026-09-29T07:39:09.378+08:00

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:

2026-09-28T06:39:03.006+08:00

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

2026-09-27T14:30:59.322+08:00

The Pope in Paris:

2026-09-27T12:54:34.743+08:00

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

2026-09-26T17:54:50.005+08:00

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

2026-09-26T09:33:22.882+08:00

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

2026-09-25T09:02:25.666+08:00

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.