“We’re calling it. Netanyahu, Barnea, Ben-Gvir and several other members of Israel’s security leadership are dead. That’s the Prime Minister, Head of Mossad and Minister of National Security. Iran hit a high-level meeting of minds the same way Israel did. The question is who had the drop on them and dimed them out to Iran. If Trump’s smart he pretends like he double-crossed Netanyahu, takes credit for it all and leaves the war.”
19. Moo corner
18. Another dead Bishop on the landing, Vicar-Sergeant
17. See recent Yes Minister clip
16. Wonder if the Yahoo is actually dead … or in hiding?
After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.
I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this… pic.twitter.com/prtu86DpEr
Had to decide between four versions … two colourised, two b&w. The tone of the movie seems to require b&w … one had zero comments, quite strange … this was the other. Next politpost 1445.
“Thorne Smith is just now beginning to be taken seriously as a writer. Often brushed off as just another pulp fiction fabricator, Smith’s works are filled with satirical, humorous jibes at American culture concealed in well-written stories of fantasy. Though all three Hollywood versions of one of his best character creations leave out much of the satire they are each highly entertaining romantic comedies with many sexual innuendos considered bawdy when released in the late 30’s and early 40’s. This third film adds an element of mystery, suspense and chills to the comedy. Even the humor comes faster than in the first two Topper’s. Billie Burke as Mrs. Cosmo Topper is given more clever lines this go around. Being one of the best actresses around, she knows exactly how to use the lines for ultimate comedic effect.
Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson was one of the funniest men around at the time. Mainly a radio comedian and sidekick to the inimitable Jack Benny, he stands out in every movie role he was given. He was one of the few African-Americans of his day who was able through sheer talent to rise above the racist Hollywood stereotyping rampant in the media at the time. Later during the civil rights movement Jack Benny told Rochester to do an errand for him. He replied, “Mr. Benny, we don’t do that anymore.” There’s one scene in “Topper Returns” involving Rochester that’s a gem when the raven flies to his shoulder and he gives a double take. Don’t miss it. I don’t know whose idea it was to have him wear a fur coat but that one prop adds tremendously to the fun.
So much has already been said by IMDb reviewers about the sensational Joan Blondell who deservedly got top billing in this film. She was a multi-talented actress who could play any role given her better than anyone else. She was also a topnotch comedienne as she shows in this outing when she somewhat assumes the role played by Constance Bennett in the first two outings. Donald MacBride as the police sergeant in charge of investigating the murders plays the part of a dumb policeman (typical for Hollywood in those days) in such a lofty comic manner than his stupidity is actually believable and this time funny. Adding to the creepiness of this truly scary comedy is the performance of Rafaela Ottiano as the housekeeper. She would frighten the pants off Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. The rest of the cast made in heaven is just as effective.
Special note should be given to the special effects which were nominated for an Oscar. The man behind them, Roy Seawright, had also been in charge of the special effects for the first two Topper’s. I’ve read that he had a hand in doing the special effects for the 1933 horror classic “The Invisible Man,” although he is not credited with that in his profile.
Roland Young is for many viewers the definitive Topper but the later TV Topper, Leo G. Carroll, did a fine job too. Plus the later TV series added a ghost St. Bernard named Neil who just happened to be an alcoholic. Except for this the three movie versions are superior. The made for TV “Topper Returns” actually deals with Cosmo Topper Jr. and though OK is nowhere near the caliber of this “Topper Returns.””
(1119) Eight hours and thirty-six minutes for that first post of the day … must be some sort of record, that. Total cloud cover out there but sun shining behind it. Morning, all. (1136)
10. Moo corner
9. NHS overseas recruitment
8. Whence meningitis? Whoever could have brought it in?
Govts used to have, long ago, quarantine facilities, procedures.
7. TDS today (Lord Toby’s newsletter)
“Lies, disinformation and fictional accounting are the order of the day as a desperate hard-Left UK government, aided by its pet Climate Change Committee, tries to keep its impossible Net Zero controlling agenda intact. The bedrock unproven science claims surround the suggestion that recent limited global warming presents an existential threat to the planet.
Statistics are routinely tortured to produce claims of up to 1.7°C warming from the pre-industrial age, notable as reported in a recent silly ‘Trump’s brave new world’ article by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph.
In fact, temperatures have only risen by around 1.1°C over the last 100 years. Moving away from the tortured stats measured over a few cherry-picked months, it has recently been discovered from ice core records that rises of 1.1°C in the current interglacial, which started about 20,000 years ago, occurred in about one in six centuries.
Moreover, similar, although less frequent, temperature rises appear in earlier periods going back 150,000 years.”
6. Possibly sums up our dilemma better than any words
No, not God or the devil … in this case, the Time Lord Doctor Who. I saw early doctors but Jon Pertwee was my first sentient period watching, then Tom Baker whom most of us loved watching … I dropped off watching after that but came back for Christopher Ecclestone and the gorgeous Billy Piper … my last viewing was a preview of Capaldi and a Clara now full of herself, plus lesbo. No thanks.
It’s true that Wokery was already insinuating itself early, which methinks was why Ecclestone was disgruntled … yet I quite liked Matt Smith as the Doc, not so much a wisecracking Clara … it does not suit women. Bells of St John was the last episode I liked.
MMutR has spoken a few times about being able to separate actor/actress/musician and person in real life but in some cases … I can’t. Can’t abide De Niro, Springsteen, various others but Rose or Billie? Tolerable at times as a human … adorable as a character.
In this clip, I quite liked all except the one in the car with that scowl we see so much of today … he can just eff off with his attitude, all of em can. And the “nutter” Dad? Well he was an early version of us, no? Strangely, for some reading this and forming opinions, I was in a minority in quite liking Martha as companion … not so much the lefty Donna … so go figure, as they say across the pond.
(0221) Oh dear, another middle of the night awakening. Never mind. (0818 resumed)(Resumed again at 0911 … no porkies, that’s exactly when I resumed. (1057)
5. Housekeeping for DAD, plus IYE and Steve, plus any other “dropper”
Referring here to our boys, plus our girls … Steve and IYE probably know these already.
Let’s open with the humble “|” symbol. It’s not capital i, nor lower case L … it’s often found in the second bank of screentop keyboards. It’s more than useful as, placed in front of a url, it prevents the url from expanding. If I as admin wish to change an expanded url back to embedded text (see any of Steve’s at NOWP) WP now do not allow that if it’s flagged by their algorithm.
What is the platform liable to hit us over? Obviously anything Malsi … even our term M**se L***s, which I think IYE brought in do not seem to cut it now. There is most certainly fear among the techies and Woke management boards.
There is one way around it … up to a point … screenshots. However, there’s a thing called OCR and no forgetto that there’s a thing called ML (machine learning), which techies pretend to call (and normies obediently follow) … AI.
……
Sidelight on that very OCR thang, plus AI:
Now, what’s interesting to me about the stats I had on the post? Last week was 7.8K “impressions” on the account. Uh huh. After 36 minutes today, that post just now had received 0 looks, 0 likes, 0 retweets. Equally irrelevant posts generally get up to 20 looks, relevant ones, e.g. Mothers Day … that got 145 views. Even then, it bears no relation to actual stats. In short, it’s almost certainly rendered partially invisible … in fact, X said it in a note. Having been naughty in the past, e.g. like Julia, has seen us both handicapped.
And yet Elon says he’s about free speech and visibility? Now, having said that, it’s probably better that way, in order not to draw heat. Various medium accounts are getting slammed, suspended etc. Been awhile since that happened, lost half the “followers” etc.
4. Steve at 1324
British PM Starmer Refuses To Send Ships To Help Keep Open the Strait of Hormuz – Trump Warns NATO Allies: ‘We Will Remember’
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Calls for Primary Challenges Against RINO Senators Blocking SAVE America Act — Urges “Convention of States” to Bypass the Corrupt D.C. Uniparty
Irish Actress Jessie Buckley Surprises Woke Hollywood — Defies Anti-Family Agenda with Heartfelt Tribute to Motherhood During Oscar Win
The Two Keys: How Russia Plans To Trap Ukraine’s Forces In A Historic Cauldron
Eastern Overlord: Why Air Power Failed and Ground Invasion Looms in Iran (JH: Don’t forget this is pro Russ govt, editorially.)
For the First Time Ever, the COVID Jabs Are Called “Bioweapons” in Court!
Local elections in Hesse: CDU strongest force, AfD gains significantly, Greens and SPD lose (JH: Post item coming up at OoL on Thursday, opening with this. The post opening with Liz Truss which I had earmarked for then and there will appear here today instead.)
French Municipal Elections Provide Early Test For Le Pen’s National Rally Ahead Of 2027 Presidential Race (JH: This will also be part of Thurs at OoL.)
Nigerian military contracts private company backed by US investors to develop weaponised AI-guided drones
Plus more.
3. A Mila double
2. DAD appears to have been censored
… must check why … and er … post him. Hmmmm … quick glance down and item “e” at NOWP 1324 appears to be the problem. There’s a video at the end.
(0857) Well, DAD certainly set a cat among the pigeons today, which in turn skewed the blog over there, with functionality relating to deleting part posts removed. Thus I had to do it the way it now is over there, plus here. It cost an hour but instructive all the same.
(1608) Evening all. Been a busy day. Going to leave the Kate Spade comments in situ below the post, opening this evening with subsequent IYEs and the other items.
20. Open govt
A clip from the very first episode of the wonderful
a. From bathhouse to White House, you can see what Barry was up to as Biden’s handler..
KAYLEIGH MCENANY: “A $400 million cash transfer was FLOWN out to Iran…400 million was just the tip of the iceberg. One month later, the Wall Street Journal reported the Obama White House sent three different payments to Iran, totaling $1.3 billion, with a B!” “A day later, Obama’s deputy secretary of state, Antony Blinken, ran to CNN to defend his boss’s nuclear deal and the cash transfer.” “Fast forward to 2023. The Biden White House cleared the way for the release of $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds.” “In the years since, Iran continued to build up their nuclear program until President Trump called in the military to obliterate it. Today, where we are seeing absolute strength of the U.S. military on full display.”
b. NOWP 1324:
Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . Josh Ferme.
“According to the narration and prologue, this was based on a true story. The film depicts the 1932 murder of a police officer in a speakeasy in Chicago. In 1933, two men were given life sentences for the murder. The action of Call Northside 777 starts out eleven years later, in 1944. Lee J. Cobb, editor of the Chicago Times, comes across a small ad in the classifieds offering $5,000 to whomever can offer information regarding the murderer of the police officer in 1932. Anyone with information is urged to call Northside 777. Cobb is intrigued that someone would be offering so much money for an eleven year old, solved murder, and why it is in such an inconspicuous ad? He has a hunch that there is a story in there and he assigns lead reporter, James Stewart, to the case.
Stewart is at first uninterested but as he thinks out loud and asks questions, Cobb urges him to investigate and see what he can come up with. Stewart starts with meeting the owner of the classifieds ad, who turns out to be the mother of one of the men put in prison for the murder. She is adamant that her son is innocent, and has scrubbed floors since his imprisonment to save up the reward money and pay for the ad.
As Stewart interviews more people investigated in the case, and reviews more news stories and documents related to the case, he realizes that the man in jail for this crime may really be innocent. Noir mainstay Richard Conte stars as the (allegedly) wrong-fully convicted man. Helen Walker has a small but effective role as Stewart’s devoted wife whom he confides in when he’s trying to figure out the case. They also work on a jigsaw puzzle together throughout the film, which very skillfully acts as a metaphor for what Stewart is trying to do in his work life.
Betty Garde plays the eyewitness whose inconsistent ability to pick out the murderer in the lineup comes into question by Stewart. She is very bitter and uncooperative towards Stewart, and obviously afraid of something or someone unnamed, so he’s forced to undermine her credibility and go without her assistance in clearing the man whom he feels was wrongfully convicted.
I thought Stewart was excellent in his role as the everyday man whose work could affect the lives of many people associated with the case. Lee J. Cobb was authentic in the role of Stewart’s boss who urges him to keep going in his investigation. I do get the sense though that Cobb is just trying to increase readership in the newspaper, and that he couldn’t care less about Conte’s character. But Stewart is the one with a little more humanity who is more about solving the crime than increasing readership of his newspaper.
One thing I thought was interesting about this film was that the man who administers the lie detector test to Conte is the actual inventor of the lie detector test.”
(0951) Monday, meaning chores galore, hope you’re upandattem too. Was going to do the replies to the chaps and chapesses in Mon 6 but embeds are better without code below them as a rule. So the reply post is to be Mon 7. (1116)
10. Moo corner
9. Norway
8. Hungary
🇭🇺 Freedom grows from love and unity. We build. They divide. We will never allow Hungary to be governed by hate. #FIDESZ 🟠 pic.twitter.com/cmaS6zrJIy
In chronological order of posting at HQ this morning.
DAD:
a) Municiple Elections in France. As far as I can discover there has been very few changes, certainly no huge surge to the Right that many predicted. Most big towns will have a run-off next Sunday.
JH: Is it not which mendacious “leaders” can bullsh the most to uncritical audiences on MSM controlled tele and radio? The masses refuse to think … they just follow.
d) What did Tony B-liar do with the 50$ million that Epstn gave him?…
JH: Has the MSM even once asked him?
Steve:
Shia Iraqi militia leader: “Beautiful young boys are better than beautiful girls.”
JH: That was from footage where he was actually saying it, you could here it, though it was in his language, so who’s to say the subtitles were right?
Toodles, on Kate Spade:
IYE replies: Haven’t watched the video but I remember her demise. She left a young daughter. Also ex husband started going out in some clown mask or other – very weird behaviour. Anthony Bourdain was the chef who exited via a rope. Girlfriend was Asia Argento . Look her up. Also connections to the Abramovich woman perhaps and Bathhouse Barry.
KS, AB and Queen Maxima’s (Netherlands) sister died in the same way within a few days of each other.
Her alleged last message to her daughter was odd “Bea – I have always loved you. This is not your fault. Ask Daddy”.
6. Downunder situation similar to ours
Pauline is sort of our Restore, Marine Le Pen without the socialism. Downunder, they have a “Teals” thing too, no idea what it is, plus Greens, Uniparty etc., as here. “Our” support is mainly out of the big smoke … small towns, villages, rural.
As such down there, this is trad National Party territory, big farmers etc., esp. in Queensland, which is the most truly conservative state. SA not so sure. Task of all our old UKIP types, new Restore … is we dominate the net but normies with their MSM? Not so much. Yet. WN1 of mine was a Queenslander … quite a trad lady.
Pauline’s doing exactly the right thing by her nation, even many Gen Zee and younger Millennials like her.
Yesterday I visited the small rural town of Maitland, South Australia, to have a chat to some of the locals.
I was heartened by the support from a surprise visit on a Sunday Afternoon in a small town. It was a pleasure to meet you all.
“As I was cleaning up I decided to listen to the tube of U. On came a bio about one Kate Spade. She was an American fashion designer who hit it big time. She died in her 50s in 2018. Was she offed, or did the big unliving thing happen, as it is claimed?
At that time several people were unaliving themselves who were in the winsome world of celebrity. There were strange things stirring. I believe the blog may have mentioned a few of the demises at the time…one in particular…a chef or critic of chefs who had a telly show…Anthony Bsomething.
The reason I bring this up is because Katie Spadie went to the same uni as did Erika Kirk. Different times however.
I have also picked up that several people who are oddly in the news or in our awareness for one odd reason or another — also attended that place of degree getting. I cannot name them atm however.
I do want to make a point that it might, just might not be too far away from that woman who recently disappeared, which is not too far from one Z Ranchero either. Not too far from a certain place that is under suspicion owned and run by my gov. And coincidentally it is not all that far from the once dwelling place for a certain actor and his pianist Asian wife who mysteriously died a year ago(ish) and hardly anyone was satisfied with the reporting.
Also Jesus, The Body Language Guy, had interesting things to say about those reporting it and so on. Suspicious behaviours.
Side note:
There are other things connected to that place of higher degree getting…out that way. That old lady missing thing, the great diversion of the month …her daughter who is married to an interesting cad… is well interesting because of ….. weeeeelllll you probably already know! His bio is something to be sure. The fix-it-man, especially for the Gruesome Twosome.
Oh and the unalived fashion designer. Her husband to whom she was separated at the time of her death is the brother of a comedian/actor…one David Spade. The hubby may have gone to that same uni that these folks attended. I am thinking so.
Oh and she was so fragile and depressed..a life long issue …well for a long time, at least…maybe because of whom she married.
(JH: Having watched this now, bearing in mind it is the normie-suitable version, there is no mention of “offings”. Wiki though does mention that she was found hanged. Now was there not someone else in the Nietspe world whom they claimed had had that fate?)
See ya on the next one, James.
Oh and the people to whom she and hubby sold the biz…sold her soul maybe … same folks … not wheat but chaff as Yayhahoo did, who is the same chaff as (Nietspe).
