Would you like Haggis with your Sermonette?

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Larry-Lambert

I have to borrow from Hollywood for the line, “What we do in life echoes in eternity,” I don’t know if I have a personal tagline. I never thought about it until now, but if there is one, that’s it. A friend from my personal dim and distant past reached out to me and reminded me of what I did on August 15, 1976, how it changed his life forever, and how thankful he is for me being there. The date was not a bellwether for me, but for him, it was. My point isn’t that I’m cool. It’s simply that what we do or don’t do matters, and by making good choices, our lives change, and it changes the lives of others for good in ways that we can’t grasp at the moment. Only with time does the mist clear at times. That’s the sermonette. The pictures (caption and right) remind me of Edinburgh, Scotland, where I lived at the time. The art is from an earlier age – though the place doesn’t change that much

I was at the Edinburgh Tattoo a couple of Augusts ago, walking up Princess Street toward the castle where the military music would be played, and MRSLL, who is roughly the height of the average Scot, walked next to me. I stood a foot taller and could see over the heads of the people crowding. It rained (of course). A sea of black umbrellas deployed, and I could still see over them. She asked me how I knew which way to go in the crowd, and I laughed. Scotland.

In 1976, most of the home heating still came from burning coal, and the buildings were black. At times, the fog that rolled in from the ocean mixed with the coal dust in the air, making the atmosphere black. We ate fish and chips (fried in lard) from newsprint, and the black ink was partially transferred to the fish. The vinegar may have caused the business, but you can’t eat fish and chips without HP sauce (rich with vinegar). The buildings aren’t black anymore, and they fry the fish in oil, which isn’t as tasty, but Scotland remains despite its efforts to remake itself.

(tune) “Land of the blooming heather, land of the rotten weather, land of my heart forever, Scotland the Brave.” (not the approved lyrics) Now they’ve got a weird Paki serving as Prime Minister, and the Church of Scotland has gone 100% homo/tranny/illegal Mohammedan. The Scots are as messed up as the Americans.

 

Bullet Points:

** Cultural divides are explored at Target.

** Moscow is still reeling from Ukraine’s surprise incursion into western Russia earlier this month. More than 130,000 people have fled or been evacuated from the territory that Ukraine now controls. And this week, Russia began withdrawing some of its troops from Ukraine to help contain the damage. It remains unclear how this Ukrainian offensive will alter the war’s course, but it already undermines the Kremlin’s narrative that victory is inevitable. (h/t FA)

Remember that the US counts the Russian armor, its disposition, troop deployments, and logistic readiness daily and passes that on to Ukraine. We listen to their communications and monitor everything (In God We Trust – all others we monitor).

** In the days of fighting sail, it was important to ‘learn the ropes.’

** How many National Socialists are ‘out there,’ and how do they differ from other Socialists or communists in 2024? I always hear NAZI this and NAZI that, and I recall dealing with Stan Widdick, president of the American Nazi Party, when I handled organized crime matters in Southern California. Stan told me once that it was a mistake for him to have gone for the top job because any gainful employment he obtained ended when they found out that he was a Nazi. Tom Metzger, of the White Aryan Resistance, was part of the KKK, and I dealt with him as well. Widdick was always broke, and Metzger seemed to have money and a compound in Fallbrook, CA. They had a scam going and collaborated with Irv Rubin (Jewish Defense League) to gin up contributions. I didn’t believe it at first, but Widdick was right. I saw Nazis bodyguarding Rubin. Other pieces came together.

National Socialists don’t fit on the “right” side of the political scale. They’re socialists. Some time ago, political scientists intent on demonizing people who want less government (political right) as Nazis. It strikes me that there are a lot of realpolitik similarities between groups like the modern Nazis, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, etc.

Note: When I write (as above) that I dealt with Metzger, Widdick, Rubin, et al., who are now dead, I am not implying that they were informers to me. When various crimes were committed by their groups, tribes, etc., I had contact with them, and they had contact with me. When it was in their interest, they cooperated with the government.

 

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On the Ukraine Front

Ukraine struck and destroyed the bridge across the Seym River in Kursk Oblast. The Russians threw up a pontoon bridge to move logistics south, but I doubt that it will last long (HIMARS). Units south of the river face significant challenges. The area south of the Seym amounts to 700 km². The map notations are incorrect.

The Russians will have difficulty stopping the bleeding in this area simply because they’re stretched thin along the rest of the area they hold against Ukraine. I expect that the Ukrainians will allow the Russians to build up a bridgehead and concentrate logistics around the pontoon bridge (and subsequent bridges) before they take those down and wipe out the ammo and supply dumps.

 

Identify the Armor

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Identify the Aircraft

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58 thoughts on “Would you like Haggis with your Sermonette?”

  1. Tanks looks to be a French Char2

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    Haggis- Even though my great grandfather (Scottish/ Norwegian) came to Australia from Scotland in 1870 at age 15 by himself none of us like haggis.

    1. I love Scotland, but haggis is nasty. How could a country give us a delightful single malt beverage and — haggis?

      1. Shirley you jest. Haggis is a perfect accompaniment to bashed totties and neeps (or is it totties and bashed neeps?) Anyhoo my conversion came while working temporarily in Glasgow. Haggis was on the menu every day for breakfast. As long as you don’t dwell on what goes into it, it’s all good.

        1. I don’t know about that, Tim. Yes, one should never ask how the sausage is made or question the contents. It’s like asking how many rat parts per million are in hot dogs (even Hebrew National). However, I’m not big on blood sausage or haggis. I’d rather hand it off to someone at the family table. Bangers, ok, mince, ok, taddies, of course, trifle, yes please, Yorkshire pudding with gravy and beef Wellington – absolutely. But haggis when there are other options?

          1. >not big on blood sausage
            Me neither. People who like it (or don’t deal well with disgusting stuff) may want to stop reading now …
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            So years ago my girlfriend and I were splurging on this extravagant multicourse dinner. All was good until the blood pudding course came out. I couldn’t bear to even taste it. And at the time I couldn’t explain what was bothering me, because: The appearance (and worse, the blood smell) reminded me of a huge mass of clotted, rotted blood that came out the lower end of an unfortunate 90-year old woman who turned out to have had weeks of internal (intestinal) bleeding. She had just been admitted to our inpatient unit. I was talking to her when she got this look of alarm, grimaced, and expelled at least a pint (~500 ml) of old, black clotted blood and liquid stool, mixed with bright red threads of fresh blood. She coded about 30 seconds later . We were not successful in resuscitating her.
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            Sorry folks. I did warn you.

          3. I didn’t want to be gross, Mike_C but that’s what comes to mind when I think of blood sausage – obviously not that memory you have, but the same thing.

      2. Why? Because when you’re poor as (copulation) nothing gets wasted.
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        My dad called stuff like that ‘Garbage Soup,’ which I further codified as ‘The Garbage Soup Theory. Every culture has their version. “What’s about to go bad? What didn’t we, can’t we sell?” Gumbo, Fried Rice, Bouillabaisse, Paella, Blood Pudding, Head Cheese, Haggis, Balut, even vegetable soup with meat. All use everything down to the… ‘oink.’
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        Not saying that haggis is good, but there’s a reason for crap like that. And it’s usually ‘the national food of’ that is the culprit.

          1. Scrapple, known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name Pannhaas, is a traditional mush of fried pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and wheat flour, often buckwheat flour and spices. Scrapple and panhaas are commonly considered an ethnic food of the Pennsylvania Dutch, including the Mennonites and Amish. It tastes fine. Nothing like haggis.

  2. Identify the Armor:
    1. Char 2C
    Identify the Armor:
    2. Consolidated B-24H Liberator
    3. Northrop YA-9

    1. #3 was easy for the model. Very American, pilot and copilot, obviously heavy bomber, fuselage is not circular, obvious heavy tail with (unseen) twin rudders, and obvious .50cal mgs. Narrowing down the variant, that’s a tad bit harder.
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      Good job, Surly.

  3. Three is Northrop YA-9 that lost to the A10.

    Think you have used it before.

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    Vietnam Veterans Day here in Australia today (Sunday). Went to local service. At least 3 of my recruit platoon of 20 were veterans who were rejoining the army.

    1. All honor to the soldiers who served shoulder to shoulder with us in Vietnam.
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      Yes, I’m repeating more now simply because. There are some new ones tomorrow.

  4. I think it was some Scottish Presbyterians who had a large impact on one of the US spiritual revivals. Wonder what those guys would think of what they’d see today.
    Effects on others – people are watching, whether you know it or not. Best to be your best, in order to have the best effect on them.
    Saw a tagline elsewhere: If your love life requires close air support, something is very wrong. Can’t say I would ever have thought of it that way…

    1. The Scottish Presbyterians may have impacted the US spiritual revivals, but more and more it seems that the Scottish Levelers have taken over.

  5. (Forgive the rant but it ain’t over until WE say it’s over)

    RE: Edinburgh Tattoo. I just came across this ~ https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/when-the-saxons-begin-to-fight?publication_id=30495&post_id=147720773&isFreemail=true&r=1tuj8g&triedRedirect=true

    Which reminded me of Animal House :

    Bluto: Hey! What’s all this laying around shit?
    Stork: What the hell are we supposed to do, ya moron?
    D-Day: [to Bluto] War’s over, man. Wormer dropped the big one.
    Bluto: What? Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
    Otter: [to Boon] Germans?
    Boon: Forget it, he’s rolling.
    Bluto: And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough…
    [thinks hard of something to say]
    Bluto: The tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go!
    [Bluto runs out, alone; then returns]
    Bluto: What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you’re gonna let it be the worst. “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. Wormer, he’s a dead man! Marmalard, dead! Niedermeyer…
    Otter: Dead! Bluto’s right. Psychotic… but absolutely right. We gotta take these bastards. Now we could do it with conventional weapons, but that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part!
    Bluto: We’re just the guys to do it.
    D-Day: [stands up]
    Boon: [stands up] Let’s do it.
    Bluto: [shouting] “Let’s do it”!

  6. what was that quote? something like “if we don’t fight now, while we have some slight chance at winning we will be forced to fight later when we have absolutely no chance of victory, but we will…” churchill? i can’t find it on the gullag search….

      1. The past year or so I’ve been thinking of Solzhenitsyn’s quote…

        “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
        ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

    2. “If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed;
      if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may
      come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.
      There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”
      ― Winston S. Churchill

      1. Most of us won’t live past 90. Who wants to live past 100? Yes, better to take some of the bastards with you. (The Grave of the Hundred Head – Kipling)

      2. that’s the one!!! indeed, i think we are already to that precarious chance, and headed quickly toward no chance at all, but to die making the cost high for them. i felt i had missed my destiny, now i find it coming round the bend like a freight train. tallyho!

  7. Yep, the Scots are as messed up as we are but we have our guns, at least for a little while. And taking them away from us will not be easy.

    2. What most people don’t know about the Scots is, well, they’ve been the epitome of a failed socialist country since at least the English Civil War. Bunch of progressive dumbasses who never seem to learn.

    1. Come then, achieve me and then sell my bones. […] We are but warriors for the working day […] But, by the Mass, our hearts are in the trim. […] Come thou no more for my guns, modern STASI. You shall have none, I swear, but these my joints, which, if you have, as I will leave ’em them, shall yield you little.

  9. Metzger/Rubin/Widdick kayfabe:
    Why does this sound like our national politics writ small? Who among them are NOT in cahoots with each other? I’m sure not all are part of the charade. But who is trustworthy?

    1. If you can’t trust Nazis and the KKK to be true to themselves, who can you trust? The Jewish Defense League and the Nazis formed a mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationship. I wouldn’t have believed it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, but it made sense. Both relied on donors to survive, and outrages (like painting swastikas on synagogues or desecrating Jewish cemeteries) made the money flow in. I wasn’t on the inside, so I can’t say for certain that Rubin kicked back to the Nazis, but I saw them bodyguard him. They had a vested interest in his health and didn’t want some whacko to take him out. One day, goose stepping in a brown shirt, the next in a suit protecting Rubin.

      1. Stan Widdick (IQ about 80) was an interesting guy in his own right. He worked in warehouses for a living and was bitter about life when he reached middle age. Three or four marriages, ex-wives, ex-kids, ex-dogs, ex-houses. It’s not unusual that he would lash out and the Nazis (like Black Lives Matter, etc) embrace the bitter and angry. He wasn’t a socialist or a national socialist, just a guy who had 80% of his check garnished every week. It’s the same as the Palestinian scam that’s been going on. They get money from everyone to screw with Israel. Israel got money to defend itself from them and it worked until they want too far and the Israelis said, “time to turn the place into a parking lot.”

  10. *”Would you like Haggis with your Sermonette?”
    Yes, please. Sounds absolutely scrumptious;
    then again, you’ve never had my aunt’s Califlower and Cabbage Supreme.
    *The art IMHO is superb and getting better daily (“I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like.”)
    *what you do/don’t (deliberately) can/may/will always affect the lives of others (this is assuming I stayed awake for the entire sermon [I normally used to leave just before the rabbi began his rant – too far left for my tastes]) – and your placement in the afterlife if Dante’s vision/dream was correct

      1. it was a very common, very filling, typical meatless Depression dinner for poorer people (who didn’t want to get their protein from rats, mice, and bugs, though cats and dogs might have been at risk) in the ’30s and ’40s when there was little (zero) government (tax-supported charity) assistance and people had to rely on family and/or church assistance

        1. There is a seafood gumbo/stew (of sorts) that is popular in Asia and is often referred to by Farangs as “jungle soup.” I like it and have eaten it more than once. On one occasion I got violently ill from it and one of my buddies smiled at my discomfort (coming out of all orafices at once), saying, “I told you not to eat the jungle soup.” That was the end of me eating jungle soup.

  11. I agree with Boron on the art, definitely appealing. Gee LL yet another career. Maybe you could sell them for $500K like that other guy. You know, the one whose dad occasionally resides in the White House.
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    Haggis. Nope, didn’t enjoy it the one time I had it. It was in Glasgow and I was told there were regional variations of haggis so maybe another regions would be more palatable? Did enjoy Scotland quite a bit, especially a couple of the smaller distilleries. My wife definitely did NOT appreciate being the designated driver but she did a great job getting us back to our hotel (actually MOD billeting). This was in the 90s and the fish and chips had already switched to fried in oil and wrapped in paper but not newsprint.

    1. Hunter’s art was based on him using a straw, and apparently, he was deft at that. You do what you know. In terms of his camera work and selfies, I think that he could have done better. Clearly, as a chronicle of descent, he inadvertently explained how Your brain on drugs works.

  12. > [American Nazi Party and White Aryan Resistance and Jewish Defense League had a scam going and collaborated to gin up contributions]
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    Now do the NRA and gun control.
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    Two English Kings, who are cousins, meet at Bilderberger. One says to the other, “I’ll tell my people you’re attacking me, and you do the same. We’ll both be ‘war kings’ and increase taxes and central planning under a state of emergency.”
    .
    I think the 200 year cycle of decline where the rulers become uncompetitive (“Tytler Cycle”) is because nobles send their children to elite universities. These don’t teach kingsmanship, but instead teach the non-sense concocted to confuse the upper-middle class and make them unable to compete with the nobles.
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    > It strikes me that there are a lot of realpolitik similarities between groups like the modern Nazis, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, etc.
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    The true political spectrum is between more and less centralized control. The big difference between the German and Russian systems was, which country’s nobility gets to rule.

    2. The NRA has always been about protecting the FUDs, while not actually protecting peoples’ 2nd Amendment rights. The Charlton Heston era was a fluke.
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      Most NRA members before Heston were all about protecting their bolt action hunting rifles over semi-autos. And they sided with the Feds against select or full auto weapons.
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      They try to cover it up, but the Fudd shows just about every time.

      1. Just back from the over-the-course and mid-range segments of the NRA national rifle matches, Beans. You would not believe (or maybe you would) the level of managerial arrogance and incompetence on display. NRA are doing their damnedest to kill it off. I fought acceptance of that thought for years but after this one, no other explanation makes any sense. NRA have done such a good job there were a mere 37 competitors for OTC. THIRTY-SEVEN FOR A NATIONAL LEVEL COMPETITION! They suck.

  13. .”I expect that the Ukrainians will allow the Russians to build up a bridgehead and concentrate logistics around the pontoon bridge (and subsequent bridges) before they take those down and wipe out the ammo and supply dumps”

    Some 58 years ago I was an enlisted man in an Army float bridge company (814th Engineer Company). The Army doctrine at the time was float bridges shouldn’t be built when the area was under direct artillery fire but OK if under indirect artillery fire. At this point I should say I know little about cannon cocker work. We still had WW II and Korea vets NCOs who had been under fire. They told us green peas a float bridge can take a lot of damage and still be useful.
    Still, I wouldn’t want to be a Russian sapper. Drones have changed everything.

    Pontoon bridges readily adapt to ferries. that would be a better way to go for the Russians. Many smaller moving targets and any twenty degree or less slope bank is a bridgehead.

    1. US satellite targeting can put HIMARS on the particular rivet they want to hit. What you want is the troop concentrations and the dumps. Leave the bridges as chokepoints.

  14. The Russkies, do they have the depth of population and manufacture that they had before and during WWII? No. Which means throwing soldiers away like they’ve been doing does have a finite end-date.
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    The real questions are, will the Russian people put up with the losses? Will he Ukes run out of people before the Russians quit?

    1. Good question. The Russians are capable of enduring misery as a people and fighting through it. We’ve seen it historically time and again.

  15. What great opening infographics and yes, Edinburgh springs to mind, along with Whitehall and all of that. Of course I love both, in their different ways. Always refreshing to fall back to Edinburgh after a week or so in London. It has that city feel allied to country town, sorta thing. Nice.

    Unlike the HomoTrans Church of Scotland and its hideous “Parliament.”

  16. To haggis or not to haggis, that is the question. In my visits to Scotland, haggis was not available in the hotel nor the nearby restaurants. Since our work hours were generally in the wee hours of the night, there wasn’t much time to explore and we were lucky to get sandwiches in the evening and a small breakfast dish in the morning. Just recently, one of my friends returned from Scotland and told us about the good haggis that was available. During the lunch talk, our world traveler revealed that haggis is available in cans for those who want to have some at home without lots of bother. Apparently, tinned haggis doesn’t phase our customs officials.

    Reference: Fish and chips wrapped in newsprint. In the 80s I was stationed on Guam. During one visit to Korea, as the shops were closing, we stopped for tempura from a street vendor outside Osan AB. A paper cone cost 1 buck US so we picked up several and ate them before turning in. I noticed writing on the paper cones and moved closer to the street light to ascertain what was written there. It was the current week’s lesson for USAF’s Command and Staff College by seminar notes. One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

  18. Haggis, never had the pleasure, however growing up on a dairy farm people were mistaken that we had ribeye steaks every night. Not even close, when we took a cow to the meat locker it was a 12 year old gummer on her last legs. The butcher would look at her all disgusted. “What do you want me to do with this George?” To which my dad would reply, “grind it all into hamburger, and save the liver!” Liver and onions were our ribeyes!

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