(1548) As it was in the old days:
16. JD Vance
There’s been considerable murmuring about JDV and his reaction after meeting with DJT. The most extreme position I’ve seen was calling him a Pence. The average position was that they don’t know if he can be trusted. Some still back Rubio but he’s a neocon mired by the less than spectacular end to the pre-midterms Iran situation.
Going to need the first half of the afternoon off for RL, so here’s a film … yes, we’ve seen it.
Spoilers below:
“John Payne stars in “Kansas City Confidential,” a 1952 noir also starring Preston Foster, Colleen Gray, Jack Elam, Neville Brand and Lee Van Cleef.
Payne is Joe Rolfe, a WW II vet who delivers flowers for a living. He finds himself accused of a spectacular robbery of $1.2 million because the thieves used a truck like his as their escape vehicle.
With the help of a buddy, he finds out that a criminal has split town suddenly for Mexico, and he goes there to locate the man and hopefully clear his own name.
What he doesn’t realize is that there were four thieves, and all of them wore masks to shield their identities from one another. When the man he’s tracking is killed, Joe assumes his identity and goes to the place where the other thieves are supposed to await further instructions from their boss.
Phil Karlson directed this good noir, which has an excellent cast that includes a favorite actress of mine, the lovely Coleen Gray as an ex-cop’s daughter. She shows up at the locale to surprise her dad (Preston Foster), who is actually the mastermind of the heist.
Like any actor who worked for 20th Century Fox, John Payne had to be versatile, and he was. Here he plays a rough-around-the-edges war hero who has to survive among thieves by being tougher than they are. The man known as “The Singing Tyrone Power” at Fox pulls it off.
A handsome leading man, here Payne steps into John Garfield territory with ease. Elam, van Cleef and Brand are as mean and low-down as you can get, and the film gets quite violent at times.
The print I saw was very grainy; this wasn’t a studio B movie but one made on the cheap, though the film was distributed by UA. However, it stands up very well next to other noirs of that era.”
(1039)(1107)
15. Same story downunder
Woke major department store, refused to allow the unvaxxinated in, has just gone bust.
14. Just a thought or two
13. Prayers for the lass
I found this post quoted by Galloway the communist but could not access him … he’s blocked me … his loss.
12. Roob explains Evergreen
Yesterday, the last beam for the WH ballroom was lifted into position (apparently, it came from one of the WTC buildings/911) and on top of it was a little Christmas Tree and an American flag. ‘Evergreen’ refers to Hillary Clinton – it was her Secret Service code name.
11. The Walk
Just got back and there were some curiosities. Apart from the requisite woman and dog on the way there, I glanced left at the corner and there was no ship up that way, except one far off … I went right and there was a tug right there which seemed Ukrainian … hmmmmm, wonder why. They’re quite large up close, tugs.
Right, into the walk-proper and today was duck day 🦆🦆🦆🦆. I’d like to know how all these birds work out their rosters … some days it’s all pidgeons-english, other days all gulls. Some days, they seem to have the roster confused and it’s gulls and pigeons. Today … all ducks floating around.
However, no humans … strange … was thinking of that film posted before I went. Wonder if all the humans had been eaten or invisibilised. Did see one man of the lanyard class closer to home … but the interesting part I’ve not got to yet.
Remember above I mentioned no ship up to the left? On the way back (same route), right there in front of me, to that left … was a bloody great ship with conning tower, bridge etc. And it was facing away. Now it had either backed into that spot from further up left, or else it came past me on the walk to the right.
Can’t see how. Of course, there’s another explanation (thinking of that film before). It had been there to my left all along but I’d not seen the ship I must have seen. Or else I’ve gone crackers.
“Now here’s a fantastic hidden gem from the almighty B-movie emperor Roger Corman! Arguably even his finest directorial accomplishment of the 1950’s, unless of course you fancy laughably inept monster movies like “Attack of the Crab Monsters” or “Creature from the Haunted Sea”.
“Not of this Earth” is an exceptionally atmospheric and solidly scripted Sci-Fi tale, with remarkably strong acting performances and even a handful of visuals and sequences that are genuinely shocking considering the time it was made. The eerily charismatic Paul Birch depicts an atypical alien ambassador from the planet Davana, on an attempted mission to rescue the population that is slowing dying following the results of a devastating nuclear war.
He names himself Mr. Johnson and follows a 6-step program in order to fulfill his mission, which includes daily blood transfusions and selecting earthly specimens (like street bums and random Asian guys) to teleport across space through a closet door in his house. He hired the lovely Beverly Garland as a private nurse and also employs a lowlife thug as his servant/chauffeur. Johnson’s deadliest weapons are hidden behind a thick pair of sunglasses and near the climax he suddenly also controls some kind of flying and bloodsucking jellyfish!
Admittedly this all sounds like a bunch of campy nonsense, and it actually is, but it’s the most entertaining type of campy nonsense imaginable! Traditionally these good old-fashioned fifties Sci-Fi flicks don’t feature any (unnecessary) sequences or unnecessary sub plots, only straightforward action and relevant dialogs!
Paul Birch and Beverly Garland are terrific in the lead roles, but also the supportive cast deserves some praise. Notably Corman’s loyal buddy Dick Miller is memorable as a sly door-to-door salesman of vacuum cleaners.
Roger Corman also produced a sleazy 80’s update of his own gem in which contemporary porn star Traci Lords reprises the role of Beverly Garland. The plots are largely similar, but the 1988 version is more difficult to follow since the lead actress is parading around naked the entire time. Equally good fun, but go for the 50’s original for sheer Sci-Fi nostalgia.”
(0830) Morning all … awful out there. (0830)
10. Moo corner
9. The character of Carney
8. Urgent prosecutions
7. Guy Fawkes Night
We do need a few of these “26 minuters” for this slot, sometimes late. Have a glance, see if you like.
(0638) Today’s main post.
The assault on the farm
… and in particular on the cow
The overriding question, after the deep state attack on farming itself (so many other articles) … is that of food additives … and today, the humble cow.
Any ideas for a solution to this, some way to stop these deep state monsters doing these things to humans … plus cows themselces?
Here’s one idea:
(0458) Dark out there. (0535)
5. G.U.S.’s Gateway headline
RINO John Thune Releases Self-Congratulatory Statement After GOP Gets Crushed in Midterms — Immediately Gets Destroyed Online for Failing to Deliver: “You are a Demon Inside a Human Skin Suit” …
4. Great Uncle Steve (G.U.S)
3. A burner or a burier (nibble nibble nibble)?
Jen (Everywoman):
2. DAD at 1534
a) Terror in French school: Illegal immigrant mother holding principal hostage at gunpoint in Nice performs mock execution. “A firearm was used. I do not know yet if it was a replica or a real gun. A knife was also used,” said Mayor Eirc Ciott emphasising the trauma experienced by the staff. “They are terribly shocked.”
b) France. Prison time for discussing the ‘Great Replacement’? French left-wing lawmakers push for new draconian law. The Great Replacement “is not a theory, but the name for a phenomenon that I consider the most important of our time. With this chrononym** we can describe our era of the beginning of the 21st century to characterise the century as that of the Great Population Exchange, comparable to the Great War, the Great Depression, and the Great Plague,” said French philosopher and author Renaud Camus. [**Noun chrononym . A term for a specific period of time, such as “summer” or “week.” ]
c) UK. Tory MP: Millions unknowingly eating halal meat, demands mandatory labelling. Millions of British consumers unknowingly buy halal meat due to absent labelling laws, with a Conservative MP pushing for mandatory labels despite 88 percent being pre-stunned.
d) (Image)
e) What the French told me off-camera, but were afraid to say publicly. Peter Boghossian.
1. Andy
This is where we are between Telstar and Skynet.|
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2595529-photo-of-14000-satellite-trails-shows-how-busy-space-is-becoming/
(1657) Good evening almost, all. For me here, it started going dark inside around 1530, to the extent I needed lights on. Now at 1658, it really is darkish out there and we still have just short of two months to Midwinter.
25. The criminal Slotkin
24. The spies within
23. New steam train
22. German invasion
21. DAD has an update on Danny Tommo
It’s a plea issue and change of jail, court.