Since yesterday when I went on a wild film hunt, there are sufficient films plus 20 to 26 minute shorts to get us through the coming weekend and week. This today had mixed reactions, some saying that the 80s series was not a patch on the original and some praising various episodes such as this below:
(0627) Light appearing out there … morning all. (0635) The pink dawn has arrived out there … magnif. (0735)
10. Moo corner
9. A doc whose bona fides stand scrutiny
… and he comes out of it looking pretty good.
8. At 4 a.m., we’re essentially getting two sources
… last night’s North America and today’s Antipodes. This is of the latter:
Etcetera.
7. Sydney Sweeney
Obviously, this below, at Lord Toby’s, was written by a male, just as item 6 was also posted by a male … neither of those males is averse to the female of the species, providing she’s not Woke left, globo nor psycho.
In my case though, I vastly prefer the lass below to SS, the slapper (imho) and thus, in this case, I’m with the feminists:
Camaraderie? Wot, like in the WNBA? That sort of camaraderie? Moving on … even that lass below … why the plunging neckline? Shirley there are other males like myself who would ask, about Sweeney: “Would you like to see your wife attired as, acting like Sweeney?”
And this daughter type below … why must she rely on a plunging neckline when it’s a quite different attraction with her? What I don’t like about SS is she’s playing to a faux argument. The opposite of a Woke left, globo or psycho is not a slapper by any means … it is an elegant, feminine lady of yesteryear’s fashions … and there’s an added element … aesthetics … and is not the presenter of the Ella piece in n7 precisely that … seeing things from an aesthetic perspective.
Viewed from that stance, I don’t even think SS is aethetically a beautiful woman. For that size and shape, her boulders are just too OTT … out of proportion. Personally, I’m not into “perfect” in a woman, vastly preferring more normal, maybe carrying a few extra lbs or not … just … normal, real, human. Loving?
Aesthetica, by the way … he was the one breaking the Lola story in Scotland and he was in contact with L’s mother. What were the aesthetics there? I’m thinking the family unit, sisterly concern, all of that?
We really must address, I’m thinking, tha notorious male double standard. I find it useful to pigeonhole an Ella below as a “daughter type”, which then makes it much easier to relate to such lasses, e.g. the rape victims, hence Restore. Our own daughters.
SS is in the Only Fans category to me. That would be, if not ok, then understandable … but SS is not being marketed that way … she’s being sold as a summum bonum for men. Men would not marry that, nor Sophie Cunningham … lost it at 12, goes off with a black? It’s shirley obvious what we (should) admire in a woman.
Or is it so obvious today? Maybe the tsunami of worldwide porn, coordinated by Sabbateans, has hooked all men worldwide? Couple that with the feminazi family law courts allowing divorcees to take their hubbies to the cleaners? What man wants that sort of hypergamy? That sort of body count in his lifelong partner?
That’s before the coordinated assault on testosterone for decades now. Sweeney plays to that whole fabian destructive agenda. A normal man, normal woman, happy to marry and procreate with their own kind … that does not advance The Agenda.
6. This is to precede the post item on Sydney Sweeney
(0506) Morning all … dark out there. (0554)
5. DAD at 1494
a) UK. The RNLI has temporarily closed its Portsmouth station following anti-migrant protests in the city.
Volunteers for the service were branded “traitors” after bringing 120 migrants, who had been rescued from a single dinghy, ashore near Portsmouth Lifeboat Station.
[Actions have consequences.]
b) EU. Pedro Sánchez and the European left have suffered repeated humiliating defeats in the European Parliament over Ceuta, with MEPs endorsing the terms ‘invasion’ and ‘hybrid warfare’ for July’s mass border breach. The outcome also underlined an increasingly reliable EPP–ECR–PfE–ESN voting alignment on migration, already visible in June’s tougher EU Return Regulation.
c) France. More than six months after the municipal election, on Thursday, the public rapporteur recommended to the Orléans Administrative Court that the municipal election result in Montargis—a town in the Loiret department won by the National Rally in March—be annulled due to irregularities. Following the vote, RN candidate Côme Dunis had won by a margin of 59 votes in this town of 15,000 inhabitants, which had been governed by the political right since 2001.
Administrative courts generally follow the recommendations of public rapporteurs. The court will issue its ruling in the coming days.
[Lawfare, again.]
d) Italy. Meloni scraps road tax for one year due to high fuel prices
The exemption covers petrol, diesel and hybrid cars of up to 80 kW (109hp) and all motorbikes and mopeds.
e) UK. Tommy Robinson exposes a Jihadi spy working inside parliament.
4. Greenwald
I’ve seen this guy as a conservative till now, but criticising all sides when necessary.
Then I noticed the profile pic and so checked it out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Greenwald
3. Steve at 1493 and 1494
2. “Lawyering up”?
(0408)(0458)
Always explore who’s really saying it
Certainly for any pundit worth his salt but also for self-respecting readers, it’s not enough to just state something or to quote someone from our own confirmation bias unless we have back-material or links to it which establish who we are, what we are about.
One aspect of that is to create a “watch list” of “iffy sources” … ours here are both under Other in the Navbar and at NOWP in various places, also at UHC-WP. One not on that yet is Bannon and yet in the last few months his connection with Epstein has corroboration to it, if not final proof.
Why it matters
I should have thought it self-evident … not only does the admin/pundit stand or fall by “the receipts” but regulars are also “tarred” by his/her modus operandi. The admin needs to have at least “checked out” the source and if he/she misses something, always a chance if editing an extensive blog on news of the day, he needs to feel other contributors will point something out.
An example in my scrolling through X this morning was looking at, say, Diane Kruger, seemingly a typical MAGA/AF but there were questions … firstly, which one?
Having decided that, go to the profile:
Real Estate? Chicago? Uh huh. The profile itself tells much, inc how many of our own followers follow her. So I went to another one:
Manhattan? Numbers followed vs following? Email up front is interesting. FP? Free Press. Uh huh … checking that out, guess who is a major contributor there, from West Seattle? Amanda Knox … remember her? Would Lucy, being so young, be aware of all that? And her own story? A bit like Lara Logan’s to my mind. Lucy explains and will take out this post now …
“In three parts, I explain how I was brainwashed into becoming a biased climate reporter.
Step 1: Deconstruct your identity.
When I entered a newsroom at 25, this was the pervasive ideology: The world is divided into two groups—the oppressed and the oppressors.
If you are white, straight, privileged, or American, you are inherently an oppressor. Everything you grew up believing is wrong or evil. You cannot be trusted to see the world as it really is because you are inherently racist, biased, and part of the oppressor class.
I was young, excited to be there, and surrounded by people I thought were smarter and cooler than I was. So I absorbed their worldview and ceded my judgment to the group.
Once you are demoralized, feel guilty for being an oppressor, can no longer trust your own intuition, or your own interpretation of the facts, you will believe whatever the group tells you to believe.
Step 2: Atone for your sins.
Because you are an oppressor all you can do is atone for the sins of your birth. You can do that by repeating and advancing the group’s ideology. You never question it, because questioning the ideology is treated as proof that you are racist, selfish, or an oppressor.
(1648) Been a busy one today, got a few things done. A few films in the vault again, so that’s nice.
19. Moo corner
18. Ready for your fun powercuts this winter?
17. Vaxx, cancers, current medical systems
16. Going to explore Real Robert
… see if he’s MAGA, straight GOP, whatever.
Rated 2.9/10 … sounds exactly our kind of Thursday movie.
“When astronauts land on Venus, they meet an unexpected surprise when they encounter dangerous and interesting creatures.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_to_the_Planet_of_Prehistoric_Women
(1229) Cunning plan is this post, then film. Afternoon all. Lots of food and washing at this end. (1252)
15. Housekeeping in a cyber way
I’ve been thinking it’s Nikita Biers and the new scriptkiddies more than Elon hisself (sic). Whoever, whatever … instead of an X avatar now, I have a thin smiley. Hmmmm. Not bluecheck you see. Reach restricted, limits to posting.
Am watching. This week, being watchful in many fields.
14. Not too sure how au fait Rupert is with modern political procedure
13. ALG piece yesterday
12. Greece and Turkey
I have been down that way, even made it to Egypt with m’best gal, the mood towards Turks on Cyprus was not, shall we say, friendly. It’s not just the Mussies who insist on ladies covering up. My gal was not overly given to covering up, we went to go into Makarios’s chapel … no uncertain terms no to her. They found her some clothes.
Kissinger was Sabbatean controlled … nasty piece of work.
ddddd
There are chaps, guys … gals too but more usually guys … and they have a certain skills set and interesting backstory … they’ve done a lot. They’re experienced.
But they’re also irascible, do not like doing what they’re told … they’re fairly self-contained … and so one is careful to a point but not too far, otherwise it is simping and none of these are simps. As I mentioned to MMutR … only an idiot fights such people, rather one provides a pleasant haven afap and if each one is “his own man” or “her own woman”, I’m fine with it … it’s the readers who benefit, which is the prime directive, innit.
Way back, getting on for 60 years, there were some musical artists who were like that … they wanted things done their way. In the case of CCR and Steppenwolf, it eventually broke the bands up, band members would leave, they were almost pariahs … I for one am fine with pariahs. There’s a huge difference between being difficult and being s total a***h***, excuse my French. Imho, these two guys, Fogerty and John Kay … they were the goods.
That does not apply on this blog as there are upwards of a half dozen who could be called the goods, so it requires diplomacy which I’m not particularly good at. In music, I’m not crazy for all John Kay’s output … after the megahits Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride and the Pusher, played constantly, reacted to constantly … I prefer back catalogue gems, in my eyes.
One of those, You’re Wall’s Too High, is below the interview and then I finish up with a CCR I love. So first the John Kay interview. Look at his bio, tough upbringing … so be careful with this man … still not in the R&R hall of fame … offended too many bigwigs.
Now to the song I chose out of the entire back catalogue. Why? Because critics called it repetitive, even dull. Not to me … it has my required elements, i c. raunchy groove, strong bassline etc. etc. It has grit.
You want repetitive? Try this:
(0804) Sunny day out there, mornin’ all. Sorry I could not tailor my sleep pattern to exactly 8 a.m., then I realised I’d changed it to 8.30 a.m. Anyway, the main post is up at Orphans and Jstack. (0917) All right, folks, must fly. Back after this thing is done. Hopefully. Hour and a half, all right? (0918)
11. Another tale with Noah Woods in mind
Was about to run some sicko’s comment under the “no further news on Noah” Sun item, then realised it was a sick attempt to provoke us, just as was intended by the sickos in power. And a quick scroll down X and there does seem no further news.
Now … our Steve mentioned about water claiming them and I left it at that but of course the mind wanders to the state of our streets just now … either our “guests” or homegrown sickos you understand.
Last thought was just let it be, buy in no further.
I do have a memory of my own though. Three memories actually.
First is when I was a child, seeing a photo of myself at what must have been about 6 to 9 months. I’d been put on the driveway, sloping down to no gate but the road at the end of the down-driveway. I was in nappy and top and I had my eyes on that road. Plus I had a way of moving called “the crab”.
The fact that someone had taken the shot was safety enough but all the same … I could motor along quite quickly using “the crab”. It was not a high danger road though.
Second was after I’d learnt to ride a bike without training wheels. I was always allowed out for some reason … maybe they wanted peace and quiet … it must have been holiday time. Anyway, off I pedalled.
Thought struck me that if I was careful, I could go past my usual limits and as long as car drivers would give me a wide berth or I kept my wits about me and would walk the bike through narrow sections, it should be ok-ish. So off I headed towards the big smoke some ten miles away. Sounded reasonable … maybe a twenty mile round trip.
The drivers were quite accommodating (maybe I was 8 at the time) … at least I made it home in one piece, yet mother was perturbed. Er … why?
The third and last for now I’ve told before. Now that make of sailing dinghy I know had to mean about 12 years old, maybe 13. Summer holidays. This time I asked my olds could I do this trip past three rocky points to a yacht club down that way, maybe four miles? Yes? Oh, ok, fine. So I prepared the eight foot dinghy and off I went, nice breeze, tacking into it on the outward journey, a nice run back later.
That one went off well, it was boring at the other end so I launched and headed back again. Turned out my mother had been watching through the binocs most of the way and I suspect m’da had driven down there just in case. It all seemed quite reasonable, that voyage.
It’s only now I’m thinking … what the *&£#£&* were they doing allowing me to do that? Were they … er … hoping against hope …?
Nah, never … I was a lovely little chappy, a bit loud at times, salt of the earth. Yeah.
10. Moo corner
9. The bona fides of med qualifications
After I had the heart attack, a fair time after, I was called in by the med practice and told I needed to see a specialist at the big hospital. The crusty, crotchety GP was typical Brit, everything too much trouble but one of the old school. So I turned up at the hospital and waited. And waited.
Out came an Indian, sat by the far wall, asking maybe three questions, nothing to do with meds, then said I was coming off one of them.
Within three days, I made an appointment to see the GP … yes it was still possible in those pre-covid-scam days … and I could not breathe properly. She was angry, the GP, said all right, you can have it back but it’s not doing anything for you.
Next day, I was fine, breathing fine, all well. Not daring to look at qualifications as a topic, you understand.
8. We may have had this one already, sorry me
7. News from downunder
