The thing which got me right from the start was that every “man about town”, apart from the police, servants, Chinaman and niece, looked roughly the same, was dressed the same, had the same moustache and wore a hat the same way.

I realise it was central to the plot but was confusing in the darker black and white colouring of 1933. Interesting year, 1933, the start proper of the Depression.

A review:

”In the 1920s and 1930s Philo Vance became a household name with publication of the wildly popular S.S. Van Dine (alias for Willard Huntington Wright) novels featuring the patrician amateur detective.

Though Kennel is one of the better Philo Vance novels, this adaptation of the eponymous book represents the rare case where a film is better than the original story (which would not film well if precisely represented on screen because of (1) the psychological issues which would be hard to depict, and (2) the novel’s culminating violent scene, which the film modifies).

The genius in taking one of the lesser of the canonical Philo Vance novels and making it into a classic is, of course, Michael Curtiz’s direction; Curtiz being an exceptionally talented director who has, perhaps, the misfortune of being eclipsed by the fame of his films (e.g., Casablanca, Mildred Pierce, and The Adventures of Robin Hood) because of lack of a distinctive style.

This film is also a successful example of an early talkie: the sound is fairly good except in some scenes where the boom is obviously too far away, and in one shot (between Robert Barrat and Helen Vinson) we actually see the microphone! Some of the actors are clearly still making the silent-to-sound transition, but the performances are uniformly good.

The key scene stealer is Etienne Giradot, who plays the Coroner, Dr. Doremus. Indeed, his performance is so endearing he reprised the role in other Philo Vance films.

While it becomes fairly easy to guess the culprit, the film doesn’t suffer for this because of the excellent direction, good sets and wardrobe (check out Mary Astor’s chic outfits!), and fine performances. (Though primarily loved for his work as Nick Charles in the Thin Man films, William Powell gives one of the best (and most subtle) performances of his career in Kennel.)

Besides its status as a Hollywood classic, Kennel is an outstanding example of successful story adaptation and early sound film-making. (One can also see some noir hints later fulfilled in Curtiz’s Mildred Pierce.) Highly recommended.”

a. At the Biden Starmer summit, which of the two was for and against Storm?

b. What did Tucker suggest Peta do, following the cat/duck thang?

c. What sort of aid was the £11bn?

d. Nation next door to Haiti?

e. Who wore trainers with suit next to man with red case?

f. Only reporter to turn up for Rotherham groomer animal sentencing?

g. Which possibly childless wife made a pest of herself yesterday?

(1257) Afternoon all.

16. Moosh corner

15. Afternoon roundup

14. Combining Ian J and Penseivat at 805

13. Harris and the brainwashed left

12. IYE, at 805:2, addresses a major point

… which I, as a supposedly serious but prolific blogger, need to take into account. I’ve just put up intros about it at both UHC and Jstack, with a topic after that. There are only so many minutes in the day we can devote to this online stuff, let alone the MSM.

But it’s more than that:

“This is an incredibly important read to understand the psychological games, how the brain works, and more importantly – how brainwashing works. Once people have reached a point of exhaustion, which most have at this point, the mind becomes far more suggesti(ble) and it’s easy to fall into clickbait traps….”

Corey adds:

There are countless psychological campaigns rolling out simultaneously, most of which are done to induce fear and cognitive dissonance while other goals are achieved. Alongside those are hyped up clickbait posts on social media that are meant to create a false sense of hope, fear, anger, confusion, or generate ad revenue.

The problem is, a lot of people tend to react from emotion and share the information without even taking a closer look or doing a little bit of research. Some of the most annoying clickbait has been circulating the internet for years, even decades, and this article is intended to end those misconceptions once and for all.

The irony here, in this post item, is that it’s going to take you a certain time to click into NOWP, follow the links, read the articles and perhaps even return here for item 13 on Roseanne Barr. Also today, there is so much material compared to yesterday … there’s a backlog I need to get through just to “catch up”.

The Roseanne item has a comment attached which is quite to the point as well, based on the Yuri Bezmenov “demoralisation” idea … that people go past the point of capacity to reason, to think clearly.

(0930) Warming up outside here. Still haven’t breakfasted, am heading off to do that now. (1042)

11. Red red wine

10. IYE corner

a. Peter Santilli:

“Since Chief Executive Human Trafficker of Ohio @GovMikeDeWine announced he was deploying his armed Troopers to “protect Haitians in Springfield Ohio, @debthecohost and I started taking a closer look……”

Although Dewine — in typical RINO fashion — recently took to the podium to state that the “federal government needs to help provide solutions” to solve the problem of dumping 20,000 Haitians into Springfield. Dewine’s family has been in Haiti packaging up his human/sex traffic-slaves (and dumping them in Springfield).

The Republican governor has an extensive connection to Haiti. In 1998, DeWine and his wife, Fran, began their support of the Becky DeWine School, named after the DeWines’ daughter who was killed in a 1993 car accident at 22 years old.

JH: That’s as far as NUHQ is prepared to go on that on this page. If on X, Telegram, Threadreader, the rest is up to you. Suffice it to say that the Donald and JD, once they saw what was happening, immediately took more interest than a busy schedule allows. For mine, something like this … weeelll … explore.

b. Corey with WND’s 1998 report (related to “a”):

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In this land where witch doctors carry more clout than conventional PhDs or professional campaign advisers, the average citizen has been provided a mind-boggling explanation for why Bill Clinton so handily beat President George H. W. Bush in 1992, triumphed to re-election easily in 1996 and is now facing impeachment.

Acting on the advice of a “houngan” or sorcerer, supplied by then-exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Clinton did not change his underwear the last week of the 1992 campaign, voodoo practitioners say.

9. Ian J drop at 805

Before getting to Ian’s drops at 805, a word about links. Certain links, e.g. TGW, Rum*** and so on, are actively not smiled upon by the PTB, high and low, so they’re best kept lowkey in NOWP comments. Also, if the chaps in question put them there as part of drops, it’s not NUHQ’s place to undermine that, if you see what I mean.

Plus one other thing … WP compose, even in the indy version of NUHQ (this page), still has rules and procedures of composition which I signed up to … they’ll run some as “self-expandable”, some though only as hyperlinks, some only as plain text. I don’t even question this … it is as it is … but I do think expandables are better at NOWP, they just fit better.

Ian’s today:

a. “Net Zero and workers’ jobs are mutually exclusive.” (from David Craigs latest article)

b. Two articles on bathing water quality in the UK:

(i) I swam in the sea in Exmouth virtually every day – until this year’

(ii) Water sport governing bodies warn that Great Britain will not be able to replicate their Olympic success unless action is taken to improve the cleanliness of Britain’s waters.

8. Rolf Norfolk does the job for us

… so we ourselves don’t have to hold our noses and look at parliament, ta Rolf:

https://rolfnorfolk.substack.com/p/pmqs-in-a-nutshell-11-september-2024

Best of British wading through that lot.

7. AK Haart has an interesting piece up on the NHS

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2024/09/akh-cap-x-pharos-nhs.html

Worth exploring, though I do say so m’sel.

(0724) Looks bright enough out there for now … bleah Gates cloud cover … 18C forecast, no rain, 9 mph breeze, medium UV, low pollution, whatever that’s meant to mean. (0813)

6. Further bits and pieces

HERE

Denileriverafter (JH not too sure where this is going):

5. Earlyish roundup

(0619) Had a longish sleep … not yet light enough out there to give a reading but it’s changing every minute. (0723)

4. TDS (blogroll link)

3. All right, here’s that Shepherdess girl

Quick bio on her … Texan, family maybe in ranching, she wanted her own, I suspect with much help but well done anyway, found cattle was rigged, tied up, subject to the Demonrats, switched to sheep but all ranching and ag is under the hammer there now … not a good time for them just now.

She’s the gal who brought the Amish trial but IYE told me and I told her about the quisling who’d snuck in. I still say all respect due this gal.

2. DAD at 803 (804 just about to start)

A quicky to start the day. Mr. Pires (breeder): “In 12 years, I have had more than 700 animals stolen by organized gangs in trucks for Easter, Christmas or Eid. The way the sheep are held is not insignificant, it looks like a shepherd who has come to get food for his family.”

1. The swamping of UK analysis by US

Let me say first up that I’m criticising the UK, not the US in this. Look at their numbers over there, then at ours. The US pundits are organised, voluble, they suffer not in silence, as do Brits … the Irish are more voluble.

Nourishing Unherdables, as I’ve taken to calling us, tries to bridge the US and UK but being “downstream” of North America, it gets the wash. Last evening, that whistleblower and those presenting her were organised, they had the blog ready, plus the graphics, plus the whole tech thing about bringing it. Whom do we have? Neil Oliver? Reform in Parliament?

Kudos to those boys. Where are the gals here? Katie Hopkins? Coarse and not quite organised. Isabel Oakeshott? Yes. Paula London? Yes. But not many. However, the Starmer stasi have had much alt-press, which is a good thing, even though threatened with incarceration or just having doors kicked in early morn. It’s a more fascistic society here, ripe for brutality. Sneakily.

This early morning … already following last night’s post (in which I’m altering those mooshes in a few moments), there is this below from Americans for Limited Government and a second by that Shepherdess girl on The Chevron Deference … both very good pieces but still American.

Americans for Limited Govt screed in this morning’s mailing:

The U.S. Census on Sept. 10 released its annual reading of real household median income, finding that after adjusting for inflation, income is still below that of 2019 levels prior to the Covid pandemic, with 2019 being at $81,210 while 2023 came in still at $80,610 after all the inflation is considered.

In other words, under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, American households are no better off than they were four years ago before Covid. The reason is that when you look at nominal household income, since 2019, it has only increased 17.3 percent. Whereas, consumer prices are up 19.2 percent during that same time. The news comes as 49 percent of Americans say the economy is getting worse in the latest Economist-YouGov poll taken Sept. 8 to Sept. 10, including 54 percent of women and 55 percent of independents.

They’re right, with unemployment now up 1.4 million since Dec. 2022 after peak inflation. This is a rare historic situation — with prices outpacing incomes — it happened during parts of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush’s administrations, all one-term presidents. But with just four months left in the calendar year, Biden and Harris might be the first administration where it persisted throughout the entire presidency, that is, over the entire four-year period.

Whom do we have? The TPA? TCW? TDS? Yes to all three but firstly, we cannot expect Toby Y to do anything outside his M25 bubble view, the TPA does a newsletter once a week, very cursory and Kathy is just Kathy. Starmer has certainly brought us more together.