The Hammer Falls

You'll Have To Forgive Me If This Is A Bit Patchy

My sources are primarily people posting on Twitter (which I refuse to call anything else) and official South Canadian websites, the first of which tend to be over-dramatic, and the second of which tends to be dry as dessicated dust.  Nor has this news broken here in Perfidious Albion.

     To what am I referring?  Why, none other than news that Modern-day Mordor has been caught paying South Canadians to traduce Ukraine, their own nation and Prez Biden, and to big-up Pumpkinhead.  Art!

     The bumbletucks you see here are: David Rubin, Tim Pool and Benny Johnson.  I'd only encountered Pool on Twitter and imagined that he'd not only been dropped on his head as a child, but on every subsequent birthday since.  He was raucously pro-Ruffian, and now we know why: he and others named in an indictment had gleefully accepted $9.7 million to read Ruffian scripts.  

Tim last week: "Ukraine is the #1 enemy of America and the world"

     

     Well, it becomes abundantly clear why he and other sweaty-fisted grifters were pushing drivel like this.  Caught red-handed!  I have focussed on Tim 'The Fool' Pool because I've taken an unreasoning dislike to him, which ought to discommode him somewhat.  The Curse Of Conrad is worrisome to behold.

     Mister Fool, once the news came out, started bleating that he was in fact the victim, trying to claim that he'd been fooled.  So, he never wondered where the money came from, nor what poisonous screed he had to push, as long as the money came rolling in from 'Tenet'?  Notably, he has not offered to repay any of the toxic funds because treason is forgivable and forgettable but a dollar remains a dollar.

     "Should the allegations prove true, I as well as the other personalities and commentators were deceived and are victims."

     <self-pitying wall of text redacted>

     "Putin is a scumbag".

     Art!

Imagine the noise (of hammering)

     Bit late to have a change of heart, matey.

     This information comes a few weeks after a certain professional vomit-spitter named Scott Ritter was detained by the FBI as he was about to  travel - or flee - to Ruffia.  Scott, as those on the internet who detest his very tripes like to point out, is a twice-convicted paedophile who shills for Modern-day Mordor.  The FBI confiscated his passport to stop him trying to flee - or travel - to Barad-Duh, and when they raided his home earlier this year O my! the amount of kit they took away with them.  Art!

No, there is no kitchen sink.  They're not Ruffians.

     Interestingly enough, Ritter's name doesn't seem to be on the indictments that the Department of Justice published, although in August it was confirmed that he was under suspicion of election interference.

     This has led to the more conspiranoid loonwaffles wondering if Ol' Scott has, perhaps, cut a deal with the DoJ to mitigate his sentence and they had him dead to rights with all the digital kit and papers they removed from his house.  If he skates through the rest of 2024 without getting charged then he may have given up bafunes like Tim Not Cool Pool.  In which case all the other indicted will fall upon each other like starving rabid dogs, each declaring that they weren't a stoolpigeon for the Feds.  Art!

     Typically, one of the more thorough delvers and diggers on Twitter is Prune60, or 'Mighty Prune' as I like to call her.  What you see above is an English version of the original Ruffian one, targeting South Canadian 'influencers', which she posted in a long Tweet.  The DoJ has coyly redacted "US Political Party A", but only those who were ever surprised at the end of an episode of "Scooby Doo" where the villains are revealed will be aghast to know that they mean the Republican Party.

     This is fascinating stuff and will echo on for months to come.  Bring on the buckets of popcorn!

The Journey With Bernie

Our exploration of the trading cards Ol' Bern did for FPG continues.  I've gotten rid of the link to "Print" that I was using as they didn't give titles, media or dates for the artworks they put up, which an orderly mind like mine detests.  So -

     Hmmmm Conrad suspects Bernie was using artistic licence here, because this whatever-it-is still possesses eyeballs, whereas the nose has decayed completely and those peggies need an urgent appointment with Mister Tooth Doctor (I use this term as it ups the word count a lot more than simply saying 'dentist').

     Let's really set this burg on fire and have a second of his cards.  Art!

     Conrad unsure where the 'Knights' bit comes in, unless Bern was going to add in armour and horses.

     To those wondering about how this run up to Card #8 seems to possess a lot of the same elements, don't forget that these cards came in randomly-assorted packs, so the prospects of getting numbers 1 - 8 and feeling disappointed is as remote as the heat death of the universe.

Kyle's Isles

A change of tack here, onto more bucolic and pacific matters rather than slavering over treason and zombies.  Yes, we are back at "Geography King" and Kyle's pick of unusual or interesting South Canadian islands.  Art!

     This is Pea Patch Island, sitting in the Delaware River in the state of - you may be ahead of me here - Delaware.  Actually, New Jersey argued that the island was theirs, until legal counsel informed them that, no, it belonged to Delaware.

     The island's name seems to be attributed to a rather hazy and possibly apocryphal story about a freighter losing a cargo of peas in the river, which sprouted and helped to form the base for the island.

     Rather less arguable is the use of the island for the site of a naval fortress.  Art!

     The original fort burned down, and what you see here is the 1860 replacement, which was used to house Confederate prisoners from the battle of Gettysburg.  The fort was decommissioned by the South Canadian Army in 1944.  Art!

     Looks a bit tidal to me.  Next!

An Offshoot Of 'Daylighting'

As you should surely know, that's the practice of unsealing and uncovering rivers in urban environments that have been hidden away for possibly centuries.  Auckland, capital of the Polite Australians, has really suffered in recent years with regular huge floods, caused partially because there is nowhere for large amounts of water to go when it suddenly arrives.  

     Here is one potential solution.  Art!

     In the architecture and city design community, this is known as a 'Green roof'.       As is clearly visible, it's been designed to create a small urban park atop a skyscraper, which will probably require a reinforced roof to cope with the extra tons of earth applied so that things can grow.

     What does this do to prevent flooding?  O I thought you'd never ask!  The plants and earth soak up rainwater, some to be used by the plants directly, the rest of it being gradually and slowly released into the building's drainage systems.  Key words 'gradually' and 'slowly' meaning that sewage and piping systems are not overwhelmed.

     Another, simpler solution is just to use porous concrete.  Art!

A Bit More Gloating

I forget when we last checked on 'Trump Management & Technology Group''s stock values, but they're not doing very well.  Here's the 5-day analysis.  Art!

     O dearie me.  That poor man.  Getting poorer every day!