Thursday [11 till close of play]

(1516)

 

19. The Bill


18. Lies in parliament


17. IYE

a. Have we had this load of old codswallop?

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/environment/king-charles-iii-starts-climate-clock-countdown-2030-after-repeatedly

b. The Persuaders – Documentary on the TV Series

https://archive.org/details/the-persuaders-documentary-on-tv-series

16. Counterproductivity


The other item was of Dems falling asleep behind Jeffries.

15. Moosh corner

Never upset a surgeon.


14. Knives are certainly out

… Mossad would have a file.


13. Steve at 1095

  • “Growth Like We Haven’t Seen Since Post-WWII” Treasury Secretary Bessent On Advancing The MAGA Economic Agenda
  • “It’s A Shot Across The Bow To The Social Engineers In Our Public School Systems” Showalter On 6-3 Parental Rights SCOTUS Ruling
  • “The Renewal Has To Happen Faster Than The Islamization” Frank Walker On Europe’s Christian Crisis
  • Jenny Holland: “In 2011 60% Of Britons Identified As Christians, In 2021 Less Than Half Identified As Such”

12. Is Pammy to blame for Ms Comey?

A counterview … while this may have been technically how it started, it was still “arranged” and Pammy had the power to stop it once she was in position … if DJT said yes of course.


11. Total incompetence, plus arrogance

Thur Mat

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma,_Lady_Hamilton

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Hamilton_Woman

“If nothing else, ‘That Hamilton Woman’ proved two things: Vivien Leigh is just as beautiful in black and white as she is in the glorious technicolor of ‘GWTW’; and when it comes to the cinema, her acting technique on screen is every bit as expert as Laurence Olivier’s. (In fact, Olivier himself admitted this when he saw a screening of her Scarlett O’Hara performance.)

At any rate, my main interest in seeing this film was that I learned it was Winston Churchill’s favorite movie during World War II, dealing as it does with the British admiralty and the threat of war and domination. As Lady Hamilton, Vivien Leigh narrates the story and since it is told from her viewpoint, she manages to dominate with her beauty and acting prowess. How she rises from abject poverty to become Lord Nelson’s mistress makes up the bulk of the story–which sometimes seems a bit unbelievable. However, since both stars were at the time married to others, one can easily see that these roles suited both of them to perfection. Surely, if anyone could identify with these characters, they could!

Slow moving in spots, handsomely photographed in black and white, it is interesting to note how very British Leigh actually was when not assuming a more American way of talking (as in ‘GWTW’) — proof indeed that she was a good actress. Of all of her films after “Gone with the Wind”, I prefer her in ‘Waterloo Bridge’ (with Robert Taylor). Following that, I would choose this one.

Some of the ships are obvious models–but other than that, the production is a handsome one. Worth seeing for the two stars alone.”

Thursday [7 to 10]

(1130) Late brunch or early lunch. (1215) afternoon all. Looking for a film … part two of Isilme tomorrow morn. (1216) Late note from Steve … it’s passed 219 to 211. (1221)

 

10. Moosh corner


9. Need to talk about this one


8. It needs fixing all right


7. Comey M and Diddy

Thursday [6]

 

Isilme and that time of year again (part one of two)

It’s that time of year again. Our strawberries have not been that prolific, but furnished us with strawberries to have with cream the other day. The remaining few will likely go into a trifle. We had a few raspberries and yoghurt last week too.

Strawberries

Then the blackcurrants started to ripen. Well, they were well-ripened by the time I got around to picking any. The birds were certainly upset. The jackdaws were doing low fly-bys and squawking. This set the sparrows off.

Blackcurrants and bay

The sparrows were sitting on the guttering angrily chirping at me. Then one, a teenager no doubt, decided to risk it and flew into the bay tree. Some of the blackcurrant branches poke up through the bay tree.

Broccoli

Teen sparrow was chirping as if to say, “I’m going to show her. I’ll take some of the berries. I’m going to do it. I’m going to do it” The others were chorusing, “No, come back, don’t risk it. Don’t risk it!” You could hear the urgency in their chirps.

Creeping Jenny and Seedum

I walked round the tree (the long way, just to sneak up) and tried to see Teen sparrow but the others obviously alerted him and he flew off before I got to see him. And then there was complete silence.

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0557) Sun is coming up over there, so maybe a fine day … always that poisoned mist and yet the sky wants to go all cumulus and blue. Low wind, high pollen, medium uv, low pollution, top of 19C.

 

5. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-arrogant-criminality-and.html

4. More of this morning’s topics


3. Steve at 1094

  • ‘Citizen Patrols’ Form To Keep Migrants From Being Returned to Poland
  • Mass Executions in Iran
  • British Nursing Council Drops Charges Against Dr Niall McCrae on COVID Vaccine Risks
  • CBS, Paramount Forced to Pay Trump Massive 8-Figure Settlement for Deceptively Editing ’60 Minutes’ Kamala Harris Interview
  • Ratcliffe Declassifies CIA Documents – Reveals Comey, Brennan, and Clapper Purposely Corrupted Trump-Russia Investigation
  • US Stops Ukraine Military Aid, Admits Key Arms Shortages
  • Australian government races to destroy evidence of COVID vaccine harms
  • Germany, Italy pressured to repatriate $245B worth of gold from US
  • Much more.

2. A few topics this morning


1. DAD at 1094

    a) Meet France’s new anti-green movement.

    b) US President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” (BBB) is causing shares to slide in Europe’s renewable energy sector.

    c) “Hit them with anything you can”: Pro-EU Media calls for “War” on Hungary and Slovakia.

    d) As Germany’s economic malaise persists, the number of unemployed people has climbed by 7 per cent in June compared to a year before.

    Wednesday [21 till close of play]

    (1513) Final stretch for the day.

     

    27. The post item I don’t know how to write

    I should write something about our tavern being welcoming … meant to be so, we’d never drive a new patron away but it might sound patron…izing … so I’ll say nothing.

    However, I did see something about the infighting Uniparty v Reform v Restore v Advance v UKIP v Homeland and someone tweeted: “Why must the Right, whenever someone tries to advance our cause … always descend to infighting like rats in a sack?”

    Thought that an interesting observation.

    26. Moosh corner


    25. Steve at 1094 with War Room

    • “We Lit Up The Senate” Mike Davis Takes Victory Lap On Defeating AI Amnesty 99-1
    • Natalie Winters: First Rare Earth Mining Facility To Open In Over 70 Years Under President Trump
    • Election Singularity: Proactive Prevention By We The People In Las Vegas, Nevada
    • Ungar-Sargon: “We Had One Party That Wanted Millions Of Illegals On Medicaid Rolls, And Another That Wanted To Kick Off American Citizens”

    24. Las Vegas endtimes?

    23. Alligator Alcatraz

    22. From downunder

    21. Rachel Reeves

    Wed Mat

     

    A review:

    “I have to take exception to other reviewers calling Time Limit, a courtroom drama. There are no scenes in any courtroom, military or civilian. Still it’s a very engrossing story.

    Richard Widmark is acting as an investigative officer for the Judge Advocate General’s Office trying to ascertain if there are enough facts to bring Richard Basehart to trial for treason. Basehart was a prisoner of war in Korea who is accused of collaborating with the enemy.

    Through a lot of patient probing of Basehart and others, Widmark arrives at a very ugly story that while it doesn’t totally exonerate Basehart it does give him the basis for a defense. So much so that Widmark requests he be assigned as Basehart’s attorney when he does come up for court martial.

    Time Limit ran for 127 performances on Broadway in 1956 and starred Arthur Kennedy and Richard Kiley in the roles Widmark and Basehart play. Widmark’s good friend Karl Malden did this one time only job of directing and gets good performances from his cast.

    Time Limit asks a lot of disturbing questions about the behavior of prisoners of war and whether we expect too much from them. Ironically when the USS Pueblo was taken by the North Koreans in the late sixties, these same questions were asked for real.”

    As usual, there are other spinoff questions attached to Korean War and Vietnam dramas, not least the Manchurian Candidate, esp. the 1962 version with Frank Sinatra, which both he and JFK himself were involved in … whether to release, whether not. It was a wild time from the late 50till, say, 1973 and the MK Ultra trial.

    Wednesday [13 to 20]

    (1229) Afternoon all. (1255)

     

    20. How well fed will they be?


    19. Reasonable force


    18. High Theatre


    17. The insanity of it all


    16. 🍿🍿🍿


    15. Turkey violating Greek waters


    14. Given carte blanche, the psychosis soon shows


    13. The endangered English

    Wednesday [12]

     

    On a roll here, chaps and chapesses .. that song by Ry Cooder, sung on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1982, was of course Elvis Presley’s, from 1961 … meaning 21 years later … so there’s a lot of this sort of thing going on. Written by Doc Pomus.

    Doc Pomus, Wiki bio:

    (Written) for what he said were “… those people stumbling around in the night out there, uncertain or not always so certain of exactly where they fit in and where they were headed.”

    John Lennon told Pomus the first song the Beatles practiced together was a Pomus song. Bob Dylan came to Pomus when Dylan was experiencing writer’s block.

    Pomus also focused in later life on helping forgotten R&B artists who had fallen on hard times.[3] The Rhythm and Blues Foundation provides artist grants through The Doc Pomus Artist Assistance Fund.[21]

    “Save the Last Dance for Me” has been called his crowning achievement. The lyrics came to him at his wedding, watching his wife dance with others, Pomus being unable to dance because of polio’s effects on his body.[12][9]

    And that very song is the finale in my long saga/trilogy called Masquerade, in which the two partners in life have passed over to the next house, about to go through yet another door to the next phase, apart, so they dance to this Doc Pomus song:

    All right, enough nostalgia for now … let’s get back to the current day and its horrible politics … after an episode of The Saint which, incidentally, I’ve just sent to a friend of mine called lida, an architect/artist: