The General Discussion Thread

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Okay as an experiment here it is. Discuss your favourite generals here!

Well perhaps… Really this is simply the place to post news-items, fun-items or whatever takes your fancy. In short just post what you want here.

It’s just another wee experiment – comments welcome.

Squonk.

[Image: General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay Melchett (Stephen Fry)]

17,285 thoughts on “The General Discussion Thread

  1. Jeez Trow get a grip, all indication show that we will get another El Nino year, according to a friend who works in the climate unit and who has been shufflin’ data for the last two weeks, another record breaking year.

    California deserves all the rain it can get, just not all at once.

  2. Trowbridge, if only you were right, because the world’s problems would all evaporate as soon as the US economy crashes. In reality, we’re in far deeper shit, because our whole way of life is unsustainable and destabilising the biosphere.

  3. It’s Doris Day.

    Doris arrived here at about 08:45, announcing her presence by lashing hailstones against my front window for less than a minute. She’s very moody. It’s sunny and calm right here, but I can hear her over in the nearby trees, but occasionally she suddenly slams into the front of the house making all the windows shake. She hasn’t hurled any trees across the ‘phone or electricity cables or I wouldn’t be able to post this. The prophets at the BBC reckon I’ve got about six hours of this, peaking at mid day before she starts to calm down. The hooligan in 1987 cut the power and it was nearly two weeks before they got it back on. I suppose Trowbridge’ll tell me she’s just dancing to the HAARP.

  4. Ah, Doris has brought my wheelie bin all the way round to the back door; what a good girl! It’s very kind of her but I’m glad it was empty because she didn’t manage to keep it upright.

  5. Trow

    Kindly Sop it

    Doris was Beautiful to watch.. Quite natural for this time of year… Two years ago Summer was Colder..The Climate is Fucked… And Don’t Eat Tuna. Fukushima Tuna

    Farewell Oceti Sakowin –

    we used yo listen to this Cd every friday… on the way to our Island Chelet –

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CJ4csLMNQk

  6. Hello Brian, I’m glad you enjoyed the stormy visitation. Doris eventually got around to cutting the power at just after 16:00, so had an evening of oil lamps.

  7. Yes Doris got me very excited. She is nosy alright, lifting up my shed roof felt to have a look underneath,
    trying to huff and puff until my birdhouse falls over,
    providing some exercise for me in retrieving a large piece of plastic, once covering my woodpile, from a young tree some 400 yards away,
    and kicking over a fence panel with vigour.

    now the wind is cold and spring is on hold again.

    Thanks for all the links to music everyone, memories from yesterdays.
    @Clark hope your power is back and the wheelie bin is behaving again.
    Many trees have come down yesterday which should provide fuel for the next two winters.

  8. Hiya Nevermind; yep they’d got the power back on some time in the evening. I don’t know how long I’d been sitting in the dark before I tried an electric lamp. I can just imagine the scene at yours. I’ve just been out and tidied up. I saw one big tree that had been blown over, and lots of branches and boughs that had been brought down.

  9. Sorry for defending myself from a liiar who volunteered that I am a “nutter’.

    Have gone after bigger “nutters”, especially the USA, which provided South Korea with some of its VX nerve gas who used it to kill Kim Jong-Un in the hope of triggering North Korean regime-change.

    Too busy to enjoy the pleasure of ‘atmospheric river’ Doris.

  10. Trowbridge, I did NOT call you a nutter. I affectionately referred to two blokes in a video I linked to as nutters, because their hobby seems to be melting items from their toolkit with some high-power electrical kit.

    You ASSUMED I had referred to you. Sorry to say it but I ignore most of your comments because you just make up conspiracy theories, never verify anything and write as if the facts of our universe flow directly from your own imagination. I find that disrespectful to others because anyone could do that with equal validity, which would swamp any signal in the informational environment under their noise.

    I am NOT a liar. I may be mistaken or misinformed, but I lie only in the direst necessity, and even then I’m no good at it. I regard it as everyone’s responsibility to be as truthful as possible, whereas you act as if it’s your right to make stuff up and impose it on everyone else.

  11. Trowbridge, the ethical way for you to proceed would be to write fiction, clearly labelled as such. That can be a very valuable contribution.

  12. You certainly did imply I am a”nutter” which you continue to maintain here.

    You referred to your blokes afterwards. and they are certainly NOT geezers, though I am.

    As for writing fiction, I am currently trying to help the new investigation of PM Olof Palme who was assassinated by Anglo-Amercan spooks as part of the Iran-Contra conspiracy.

    Fiction is your suit.

  13. Trowbridge, I WAS REFERRING TO THE TWO BLOKES IN THE VIDEO I LINKED. I wrote:

    You do get some nutters. Things to do when you get home from the pub

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJOX0c60wQE

    …and if you bother to watch the video you’ll hear one of them say that they’d just got back from the pub. I don’t know the meaning you attach to “geezer” because it’s a colloquialism, but how could you possibly be TWO “geezers” as per my following comment? I had no idea that you think of yourself as a “geezer”. I certainly don’t think of you as such. I think of you as a rather dour walrus with heavy whiskers, in case you’re wondering.

    You’re having the same problem with me as with the stories you post. You’re assuming that your own assumptions are true, “as if the facts of our universe flow directly from your own imagination”. But you’re just one of millions of paranoid conspiracy theorists who can’t possibly all be right. At least you haven’t joined a gang like the 9/11 lot.

  14. Trowbridge, look. Just leave me alone and I’ll leave you alone. Deal? I was leaving you alone, until your conspiracy theorist’s sense of self-importance led you to think I was referring to you when I wasn’t.

  15. Trowbridge,

    Pull your head in. It was quite clear that Clark was talking about the guys in the video, NOT you. Now accept that and move on. You’re making an entirely unacceptable fuss here, about nothing at all. And insulting Clark in the process.

  16. I looked up “geezer”, as there seems to be some misunderstanding. It doesn’t mean the same in Britain as it does in the USA.

    A geezer in Britain is “a man” – roughly the equivalent in America of a “dude”.

    In the USA it’s derogatory. It means an “old man”. In particular one who is eccentric or cranky.

  17. You all seem to side with Clark no matter what he says about me and you, and what he does when he gets home from his nutters at the pub.

    And a geezer in Britain is defined as an old man, usually an eccentric, like I am constantly made out to be since I appeared on this site as a critic of A, V. Dicey as an important maker of The Troubles, and defender of Henry Brougham as more important in the making of the Victoria nage of equipoise than his ignorant critics make out.

    Don’t see that this blog is worth being insulted, by being called a boring wanker without any evidence.

  18. Trow

    A Geezer is …. To My concept..a Mate… Friend… There is NO term is Scots to call this an insult…. But …It’s an English saying.. So I don’t Know…

    I don’t Hate….Pissed off is not hate… If You were in Clark’s Company you would get on Fine…Communicate Properly…
    I’ve been Working on putting a wee Book Together… Poems.. At the request if not Pushing by some experts…

    But Between You Two…Whos Who –

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2k3cV6a3Cs

  19. So now South Korea is thinking of condemning the North at the UN’s Conference on Disarmament in Geneva of committing a crime against humanity for having killed Kim Jong-Nam with VX gas at Kuala Lumpur on February 13th which induced Clark to imply that I am a ‘nutter’ for thinking that it was a most sophisticated ‘false flag’ assassination.

    Looking more and more like Nam was unnecessarily murdered by the new Trump Administration, like Navy Seal William “Ryan” Owens in Yemen, as part of its plan to remake the world to suit the USA.

  20. Now AG Jeff Sessions, an ardent opponent of pedophilia, has lied about talking to the Russians about it during Trump’s campaign.

    And there can de no doubt that he was confirming for Moscow her pedophilia, though the media, as usual, makes no mention of what Sessions was referring to.

    Sessions promised the Senate to recuse himself if confirmed as AG from any investigation of Hillary for lying, cheating, and pedophilia which Trump, Flynn and other traitors were claiming justified lher being locked up pronto.

    This is the alleged evidence that Russian hackers, led by Edward Snowdem, were looking for.

    If I survive, I am getting out of this shit hole pronto..

  21. Trump’s problems are starting to sound more like Watergate where Nixon’s people took over the whole national security apparatus at J, Edgar’s expense, though Trump’s Plumbers, while not apparently resorting to murder, have engaged in treason.

    Some improvement over Hillary!

  22. Looks like ardent Putin opponent Michael Lesin was beaten to death in November 2015 because he suspected what was afoot with Trump, and DNC staffer Seth Rich was shot to death in July 2016 to make it look like the Clintons did it to hide their apparent criminality.

    Both crimes remain unsolved because of the FBI’s hatred of them.

    Sounding more like Watergate now. Remember what happened to Hoover and Governor George Wallace.

  23. Why doesn’t the media remind readers that Trump’s wiretapping attack on Obama is just like Nixon’s on LBJ, resulting in his convenient demise on Air Force One flying back to Texas, thank’s to Tricky Dirk’s private physician recommending dilantin for his angina?

    This is the most clever assassination of a POTUS.

  24. Is the latest release of Wikileaks documents describing how the CIA, controlling the NSA through its Special Collection Service, was able to track down a disoriented John P. Wheeler, III in Wilmington, Del., effectively torture him for helping Iran’s nuclear program, and then murder him which was only discovered by a conspiracy mistake.

    No wonder the Maryland AG Rod Rosenstein at the time didn’t look into the case after a leader of the Beltsville facility Brian O’Callaghan, suffering PTSD, beat his adopted son to death in the same manner a few years later, and Rosenstein took no interest apparently in it.

    Rosenstein is damaged goods for the Democrats, and will be confirmed.

  25. All sources are being engineered toward distrust. Parsing facts to fit your opinion has reached a critical mass and promoting one’s ideology is Trump’s forte. All he’s done is capture the devolutionary zeitgeist and distill it into a movement. We’re all doing it, just not as well. Craigs ethnocentrism and comments reflect that dystopia trend.

    Brian..howzit?

  26. Trow: former NSA John Schindler who said Trump will spend remaining years in prison was an early supporter and worked to promote Trump Presidunce.

  27. Hope Schindler and you are right, but Rod Rosanstein’s nomination to replace Sessions doesn’t look good, especially if he is confirmed by the Senate.

    Media, of course, has taken no notice of his arranging General James Cartwright not going to jail for leaks about dirty tricks against Iran which resulted in Wheeler being brutally murdered under Obama back in 2010-11.

    In short, Rosanstein has helped cover up a domestic, vicious murder which the CIA-NSA cannot legally do.

    It should have stuck to killing me back in Sweden.

  28. The convenient cover-up artist’s name is apparently Rod Rosenstein.

    Cannot understand everyone being concerned about CIA leaks, showing that it can intrude into their privacy when they also show that it can locate, disorientate, tellingly torture, murder, and dispose of troublemakers like Wheelers with impunity.

    The only mistake it made in this domestic assassination which it is doubly prohibited from doing is that his body fell out of the dumpster on the way to the Newark landfill as if he were another Jimmy Hoffa,

    Remember Donald Trump even blaming for Bill O’Reilly, about the only true thing he ever said, it doing such terror,

    Most people’s privacy isn’t worth intruding into as they are uncaring loons.

  29. Heh. The media is stressing that spooks are THINKING of hacking on-board vehicles..we already knew they could self enable e-devices so why the panic over mere confirmations?

  30. Did Farage carry a Trump message to ASSange? Is he another bag-man for our beloved Presidunce?

  31. Looks like North Korea and China are winning the showdown with Washington and the South with the ouster of President Park, and travel restrictions between it and China.

    Park’s associate Choi Soon-sit was apparently soaking businesses to promote American aims, particularly ousting Kim Jong-Un’s regime, but the plots have blown up in Seoul’s face. And now the country is to suffer a loss in air flights and tourism.

    Beijing – 2

    Washington – 0

  32. Can you believe that Colm Connolly, who is representing John P. Wheeler’s widow over his unsolved murder, was still the US Attorney for Delaware in December 2010, and was replaced by Charlie Oberly while it was actually happening, and it was apparently never discussed afterwards, even when NSA’s Kevin O’Callaghan of its SCS office beat his adopted son to death in a similar manner a few years later?

    Joe Biden’s Delaware is a police state of incredible proportions.

  33. Rhode Island and Delaware compete with Texass for most corrupt and anti-democratic states. Biden is a Nerf liberal with more sentimentality than the most apologetic and sensitive progressive. No self awareness whatsoever.

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