(1829) Evening all. 50-50 here, pegging out a bit.
23. Waterstones … sad loss of the bookshop
22. Let’s toast
Appears to be the day of repeal … one of the prohibition pics Atticus was using.
21. And as for our roads now
20. Deryl is a former model and business lady, current friend
Looking bad now in both town and country … civic pride has, essentially, died.
19. Moosh corner
18. IYE has a fair bit up again in comments
Ta to all three chaps … I’ll tackle that, fresh, tomorrow morning … it’s best I do my reading early morn, too many things crowding the evening at this end. Slight injury to the hand (cut), should be ok.
17. Steve at 1290
a. Hearts of Oak: Nicolas Hulsher, MPH – Lingering Vaccine Components, mRNA as Bioweapons, and Ivermectin Efficacy.
b. Steve has Bannon’s war room up at 1290 too and it’s a curious thing, this Nietspe connection with him … I’ve awaited some sort of defence of Bannon from someone or else corroboration of the charges … nothing so far either way. Think the best thing is wait two days to see … if nothing, we’ll return to the normal patter, Steve willing.
16. DAD at 1290
DAD has an operation tomorrow morning, so his column is up at 1290 now, details there. We wish him the very best and those who pray shall do so. I’ll do my summary tomorrow morning for readers who drop in then.
“The Killers is an expansion of a short story by Ernest Hemingway. The first ten minutes of this film is pure Hemingway with two contract gunman occupying and terrorizing a greasy spoon diner. Two of the most malevolent character actors around, Charles McGraw and William Conrad are the hit men.
They’re there to kill Burt Lancaster, known to the town as just a simple garage mechanic. Because he left a small insurance policy, his death was investigated by insurance cop Edmond O’Brien. Naturally Lancaster was no simple garage mechanic by any means. O’Brien comes up with Burt’s real identity and the reason why a few people wanted him dead.
The Killers was a big break film for Burt Lancaster. He had only done one previous film and that was Desert Fury for Paramount studios which had signed him. Because Universal was looking for an unknown to play the victim, Lancaster’s agent was able to land him the part. And because Desert Fury was held up, The Killers became his debut film and he was a star from his first film.
This was also a milestone film for Ava Gardner as well. After The Killers, Louis B. Mayer was most reluctant to lend her out any longer due to the notice that she got.
The plot of The Killers is very similar to that of Out of the Past with Lancaster in the luckless Robert Mitchum role. As for Ava Gardner in her portrayal, she’s taking a couple of pages from the Mary Astor school of double crossing, two timing dames. At least Mary had Sam Spade’s promise he’d wait for her.
The Killers is a must for Burt Lancaster fans who want to see the film that launched his career.”
I do take on board what DAD was saying about AI … there was one song “she” sang which could only appeal to Gen Zee tastes, awful, but that’s where “she” is aiming … the young, weaning them off the Woke. As for us, well I just say go for it, love if “she” brings Jerusalem, Flower of Scotland and Men of Harlech to the young … good in my book.
With Steve’s (Tuesday 1 to 5) and IYE’s (Monday 13 till close of play) … I want to run them as posts here … they’re important posts in themselves … but that’s to invite the algorithm bots in to hit the site.
It’s all a juggling exercise … I consider HQ, its comments thread, NOWP comments thread, UHC-WP plus comments, Jstack and X as separate sites but I also have certain bookmarking pages which can be brought out as and when, as archives and then the laptop, into which various usb sticks or harddrives can be attached. Then there are dead tree notes on top of that. Before even looking at our chaps’ and chapesses’ own archiving systems. Each house some of the data.
I’ll be archiving both those items in comments to outlying parts of the network in our corner of the sphere. Good reader, I am NOT leaving THIS LINK up here after elevenses, I do suggest you keep it somewhere, on dead tree I’d advise, then you can always access sensitive items.
8. From The Daily Sceptic newsletter today
“The Ministry of Justice is ordering the deletion of a large archive of court records, raising concerns that the Government is fleeing from transparency over failings in the justice system amid a string of murders and sex attacks by asylum seekers. The Times has the story.
Courtsdesk, a data analysis company that supports media and campaigners in monitoring court records, has been ordered by the Government to delete its archive, which provides a crucial tool for journalists covering the justice system.
The project was approved by the Lord Chancellor in 2021 to explore how a “national digital news feed of listings and registers can improve coverage of the courts by the news media” by opening up magistrate court records.
According to Courtsdesk, the platform has since been used by more than 1,500 journalists from 39 media organisations and the data provided have highlighted serious failures in the courts system. …”
(0601) Morning all. About 50-50 here, healthwise, am proceeding slowly. Hoping you’re on top of things. (0644)
5. Apart from the Labour govt implosion
… this might be the next major UK issue, along with the verification scam by govt.
By the way, students of the ladies would know that Wilma is not a common Brit speaking female name. Here’s a hint of where it is more common. And the profile pic is also a bit of a giveaway above left.
4. This is the big one right now in the US
… and across the world, rightly or wrongly. Trump’s attitude is puzzling. Maybe he sees that, as Pammy and Killery say … if that list becomes public, the govt falls, the whole of the US falls.
3. Steve at 1289
Senator Hagerty Defends ICE Agents, Blasts Democrats for Chaos in Minnesota – “It Takes Four to Eight Times More Agents to Go Into the Field to go After the Same Criminal”
Affirmative Action Quotas in Question as Female, Minority Pilots Caused Half of Pilot-Error Crashes
Tennessee State Senator Janice Bowling Introduced ‘Sansone mRNA Bioweapons Prohibition Act!’ Third State to Introduce Legislation Classifying mRNA as Weapons of Mass Destruction or Bioweapon
The Great Oil Conspiracy: It has been known since the end of WWII that oil is not a fossil fuel; it is abiotic
Israel Is Going To Attack Iran Even If The US Does Not – A Major Showdown In The Middle East Now Appears To Be Inevitable
Much more.
2. Birthdays and birth fortnights
There are good reasons not to divulge, except to those in our inner circle, our birthday or any other private information. I do divulge them, e.g. to govt itself, I would to our core readers/tavern patrons but online like this … I just can’t, for security reasons. Plus I really want no fuss over it.
Therefore, I run a birth fortnight. If you divided February into thirds, well this is the middle third, starting yesterday the 9th, through to the 23rd, taking in a few old time friend’s bdays, plus Valentines, itself one of those friend’s bday. Works for me anyway. So yes, mine is during this fortnight.
1. DAD at 1289
a) Nearly 50 years after defending sexual relations with minors, Jack Lang finally falls. [Because of the] Hypocrisy of the French system: it took the Epstein scandal for Jack Lang, an untouchable figure of the champagne socialist left, to agree to resign….
b) Two journalists take great delight in tearing down the man, Renauld Camus, who merely observed the great replacement: telling the truth has become a perilous occupation.
c) The Berlin Senate is obsessed with “Right-Wing Extremism”: [but there are] no lessons are learned after January [electricity] blackout [by a Left-wing group.
d) “A major, underestimated scourge”: France remains the European champion of car thefts in 2025; at least one car stolen every 4 minutes.
e) Fleury-Mérogis prison. The CGT [Communist] union representative and his sister, the prison’s financial director, are at the heart of a cigarette smuggling operation worth over one million euros; €180,000 in cash was recovered.
“Curl up with this one on a dark and stormy night and prepare to be alternately amused, irritated and frightened. The creaky old plot about about a phantom train that’s said to run through the lonely English countryside at dead of night may be implausible, but it’s a lot of fun. There are some wonderful old cliches like “THE ACCIDENT” which the locals can remember but won’t talk about. But primarily the movie’s a vehicle for comedian Arthur Askey to showcase his particular brand of vaudeville style humour in between the scary bits. Askey’s corny humor is not very trendy these days but if you just let it wash over you it can be fun. This is probably the best of Askey’s movies.”
