Friday [14 to18]

(1345) Afternoon all. (1430)

 

18. You a speaka da English?


17. Wondered when this idea would rear its ugly head


16. Interesting intrusion by Ivanka


15. What does NOT make a good film/movie?

Let us count the criteria … I can only list those special to li’l ole me.. This is one:


It’s not just overt sex for sex’s sake, demanded these days … look, if you want the full-on thing, there are these sites ya know. To my mind, a movie is different and using cheap gimmicks such as sex or violence or in In Bruges, gross pottymouthing the entire time … that’s not a great movie.

Pushing political views, even our own in wartime, say … nah, it detracts from the standing of the film. For sure have a credible villain, maybe working for a dastardly group … fine … but not too easy to define, ok?

Certain actors/actresses … if they’re in it, I’m not in the theatre … and it’s quite different for you, for me … my list might seem bizarre .. no-nos include Brando, deNiro, Grace Kelly, Stanwyk, Dustin Hoffman, Dreyfus, Michael Caine half and half, Al Pacino, Jason Statham, Bette Davis, Joan Collins, Burton or Taylor, John Wayne … essentially those up themselves, e.g. Sting … or too associated with causes. There are many. Not Jack Lord but yes to Robert Stack, Robert Mitchum.

Needs the works … great opening, range of settings, some SFX, some action, romance, comedy, mystery, plausible plot with no gaping holes, sex and violence just hinted at, using the imagination … not overly American nor overly British, not overly ethnic in any way … different ethnicities in context all right.

The ladies might need a great leading man and support … I need a great leading lady and her support gals.

Nothing nauseating, e.g. in Casino Royale when the baddy gets testicular with Bond … no sick sex of any rainbow flavour. In real life, I can handle some female on female but not in a film please.

They need to take the tale seriously, not be hamming it up, “interpreting” in their own idiosyncratic way.

In short … there are few movies I’d sit with anyone to watch.

14. Kristi Noem

Sundance

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem will appear before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee today as part of the confirmation process for her nomination to Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary.  This nomination hearing will likely be combative and filled with opposition.

The original hearing for Noem was postponed due to “paperwork issues.”  Democrats now will advance against Noem because the DHS role is critical to border insecurity.  However, with President Trump appointing Border Czar Tom Homan to the border and illegal alien crisis, Noem has a point of support but not direct action in her responses.  Noem has previously held a very strong pro-immigration perspective given her deep connection to Big Ag.

The Democrats will likely shift to issues of ‘national security’ in their pointed questions.  However, these are also the types of national security issues that Noem has a tendency to frame around constitutional freedoms, liberties, and restrictions against the rights of Americans. Points that are directly in her wheelhouse.  The Democrat Senators would also like to weaponize the controversial parts of Noem’s recent book.

Ladies at Lunchtime

 

As promised (threatened?) … three young ladies, two modestly dressed … one with a strident voice, one with a soft, one too young … all “nice girls” … message ain’t bad either.

Of the four … these three, plus the one in the cadence post … who sounds most listenable to you?

Friday [9 to 13]

(1145) Cunning plan is this post now, L@L around 1230, who knows after that? (1145)

 

13. Julian Twelfth Night plus Epiphany


12. NHS


11. Kathy


10. Thethree letter sites (blogrolls)



9. IYE and the 1871 Constitution

Fascinating … may I suggest bookmarking the url now, as I’m not running it in the body of the post here for … er … reasons.

Pitch and cadence

… especially in a female.

 

This post is the end result of planning a Ladies at Lunchtime which I mooted to be three young ladies in a youtube, three sisters. That was because I had no pictures for L@L at that point.

Naturally, half a dozen flooded in after that:


… of good quality, so what to do? Well, the cunning plan now is to run them next Monday and the following Friday, as we used to … and today … to run this youtube now on knitting, thereby covering Isilme at the same time (knitting, not crochet) … plus the L@L after noon being the three sisters, plus this lady now … for other reasons too, not only Isilme.

One of those reasons concerns ads or lack of, another is to do with the nice knits themselves, another is to talk about the whole world of knitting itself … dangerous for a male to venture into … and the reason I really want to look at … pitch and cadence, manner.

All right … the world of knitting itself … no sooner did I switch to knit-vlogs from crochet than I was flooded by knit-vids, each over an hour long … aaaggghhh!!! This thing’s like Andy’s bowls (as in bowling balls of the bias type, on greens) … quite a vicious game, violent, with great intricacy in every aspect, from yarns to needles to tricks of the game … fascinating, plus lovely lasses.

And the thing which hit me like the proverbial smackeroo blurby was … er … pitch and cadence. When a female feels she has to Present something in a Formal way, her pitch rises … that is, it becomes strained in her upper register, she becomes shrill … or shrill-er, … it’s really not a pleasure to listen to.

But when she’s happy in her topic, the pitch drops to lower register, the cadence kicks in, she becomes a dream to listen to and watch. Unfortunately, when she starts nattering … not chattering nor pattering … nattering is nicer, it suggests good vibes … well, confession here … the man tunes out of the actual words she’s saying and just hears the voice, the tone, the … cadence … and it can put him to sleep.

And I need sleep at certain times during day and night … you catching my drift yet? Not musical instruments as such … but her. This is the whole thing with both women and men … at a certain pitch, with a certain harshness and stridency, we just want out of there aqap, escape … but when both sexes drop into a lilting pitch and cadence, we can’t get enough.

This is precisely what Jason Bourne said to Marie … don’t stop.

He was not dropping compliments as a player … he was serious … her voice cut straight to his soul, his brain, she had this way to disarm a man. Or a baby … mum’s face, plus gestures, plus voice … they soothe. And I need that too.

Now there are two views of this over-an-hour-long lady … disorganised, boring, you can only stand so much and that’s it … or perhaps she’s mesmerising … a bit like listening to a later Paul Temple radio play … difference being … she is restful. Real cream tea material.

Friday [5 to 8]

(0727) Continuing this attempt at early to bed, up middle of the night, bed, up around 0730 … that gives sufficient sleep and a nice time to first blog. Almost didn’t work last night. (0854)

 

8. How about li’l ole Britain?


7. USA, anyone?




6. Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water

… hereeeeeeee’s Australia (January 26th):


5. Well, I asked for things Canadian good and hard

… and the algorithm happily flooded the timeline … no particular order:








Friday [1 to 4]

(0155) Middle of the night job again. (0334)

 

4. IYE at 939


3. Steve at 939

Four: LA fires, Giorgia bday, AfD, much more…..

Three: Bessent, Hegseth, Hollywood appointees, much more…..

Two: Uke sit-rep, Gaza ceasefire, much more…..

One: Lab out of touch, US energy, businessmen at inaug, much more…..

Housekeeping

There’s a problem at NOWP … I can still put in the comment number at the top but now it only offers html mode (code) to edit, not plain text:


Technically, yes, I can find, in the code, where to put a. b. c. etc. but firstly, it quintuples the required time to doing it in plain, plus if I accidentally hit any other code, it could lose Steve’s or IYE’s copy … it’s not worth the risk.

A further danger is our droppers thinking I’m not interested enough. Look, in plain, it’s a doddle lettering. In code, it’s fraught … imho quite unnecessarily. There is no option given to go plain for me.

2. Canada and Alberta

Of Britain and the former “European extraction” commonwealth, Canada’s one I know least, though I’ve been there, stayed for some time in BC. There are, though, things we all know … Canadians tend Woke left, that even when conservatives are in power, it’s in deep thrall to globo, e.g. Harper … I’ve just read that Danielle Smith is half globo, half “Trumpish” about Alberta.

Below one or other of the screenshots below, the comments sections at X were marginally helpful … marginally as it was not clear whether the trolls and others were from Quebec, from other provinces, leftist or united Canada. Remember also that Poilievre is globo too. It’s certainly a cancer in every western nation.

Thus, the overall attitude to DS’s stance was less than complimentary but the support was Albertan. These were old, deep wounds in Canada, a divided and wrecked nation … even the RCMP seem corrupt to the core, as ours are.


My own Albertan connection, Sarah, seems to have gone silent. Aha … so this was why they were marched out of the presser by Carney’s goons:


1. Reflecting on the US before getting onto Canada

… there are things we all know, not from the MSM but because Americans are not shy to put it out there, esp. on social media but even that, while very good, still does not give us out here the full undercurrents, esp. the historical undercurrents … for example:

Then there was the 1910 Jeckyll Island, Georgia, meeting, resulting in the 1913 Fed, the guilty party Woodrow Wilson in allowing it, not much choice, given the previous Bank of the United States.

If we’re going to dabble … as distinct from meddle … in another country’s political history … the better to understand why things happen … it’s as well to know some … and one constant American gripe I’ve read by pundits such as Mullins is that Royal institutes and/or the BofE or the BIS owns America.

The counter claim is that the British/English need not have lost that last one with Washington, that it was a prearranged outcome, part of the theatre, that Britain had other things on its mind. I’m thinking, as on other topics, and mentioned in a previous post … that we can but gather, lay it all on the table and look at it with as little a priori prejudice as possible.

Also don’t discount the Statue of Ish*** in NY harbour, the sister statue to the one in France, built and given by the Masons who themselves were infiltrated and rotted by the illumined. It’s all added grist to the mill.

Thursday [17 till close of play]

(1647) Evening all.

 

23. Criminal insanity in Georgia


There’s footage of him being thrown to the floor on the orders of the Speaker. DJT has made a statement on it.

22. Evening roundup


21. Dismal growth


20. Inauguration and Robert E. Lee Day


19. Still up against it, aren’t we?


18. Steve at 939


17. While I’m for Pam Bondi, as many are

… I’d still like to know more about this:

Pam Bondi’s “Second Amendment Problem”