“Pam Bondi was Florida’s attorney general 2011-2019. The same time Epstein’s flight logs became public. Victims’ were filing lawsuits, Evidence was pouring in against Epstein…. Pam Bondi never launched a probe or took up the case.”
Now, what were the key features in her resume which attracted the Donald? Prettiness? Asking for a friend.
Did I say “music” to DAD? Er, um … I meant filum. And what a strange one this time round:
Review:
Not that John Ford, surely?
“British film-goers were by 1958 entirely used to police films set in London. They were part of a continuum year by year slowly ratcheting up realism and violence – and dropping the humour in the process.
“The Blue Lamp” (1950) where a much liked elderly copper (the in-fact almost immortal actor Jack Warner who went on to reprise the role on TV for the following 30 years) is shot and killed by a downright bad ‘un (the rather effete Dirk Bogarde), was apparently quite controversial in its day.
The public’s favoured cup of tea – or at least what was regularly served up to them in police films of the day was not too strong and not without a trace of sugar. Bent cops didn’t exist then, neither were detectives rough and insensitive with recently (ie 20 minutes earlier) bereaved widows. Rows and shouting were for the lower orders who were either quickly dispersed or shuffled off into separate cells.
Jack Hawkins, iconic British actor of the time was heroism and gentlemanliness personified whether captaining a ship or being the sensitive father of a deaf and dumb daughter (the guaranteed weepy “Mandy”).
British film-goers knew the rules of what to expect of both story and cast when it came to police films and it was nothing like the gritty US productions of the day. With a comparatively very low murder rate and cops who didn’t carry guns the real life conditions were very different between the two countries. A British policeman’s lot could appear a rather whimsical one by comparison.
Somehow John Ford, THE John Ford, comes to direct some of Britain’s finest at a British studio in a production set in the streets of London, based on a book by an English writer for an audience thoroughly used to a set of confined and unfamiliar conventions. Ford’s favourite actor was John Wayne – the personification of plain talking, straight shooting and unrefined acting – rarely wasting a word when a punch will do.
Here instead he has perhaps cinema’s quintessential portrayer of sensitive masculinity being called on to steam-roller evidence from a widow, confront an underling with evidence confirming he’s been on the take from “dope” dealers, solve a couple of slayings – and not forget the running bit of levity – bringing home the fresh salmon for dinner.
The result, although fast paced and not without its moments – Marjorie Rhodes as a bereaved mother is electrifying – is nevertheless a cultural car-crash. Two very different cinematic cop traditions from either side of the Atlantic – one whimsical, domestic and a little jokey, the other harsh and procedural, each proceeding at a reckless speed towards the other and meeting in the middle of the screen.
The result is something which clearly contains a mixture of both but which thereafter proceeds irregularly and uncertainly in various directions like particle tracks in a bubble chamber following a near light speed atomic collision.”
(0716) We do get these slow news days when suddenly new accounts appear … more in Thur 6. (0753)
10. Djokovic
Apparently, there’s some sort of tennis tornament on at the moment, somewhere down south. But one would shirley concur on his legendary status now, also what he’s had to overcome. Question for me is why were Federer and Nadal feted, almost worshipped, flattered by countless clips …
… and Djokovic was not … he was even booed. Brittle character, easily riled? But so were Nasty, McEnroe and others. What is it with crowds not warming to his achievements?
Given how things are being reinterpreted currently that statement is pretty ambiguous. Did he mean physically or in spirit? Could easily be a Bondi moment – “What I meant was…blah blah..”
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JH: My counterpoint is that it’s NBC, the enemy … obviously edited without the rest of the speech, plus it insta-expands on the blog, facilitated by the tech PTB, whereas others go to url.
Caters for the MAGA “hard” keyboard warriors like us, highly organised, subscription service etc., which immediately makes me suspicious.
6. HustleBitch?
What on earth is that meant to mean? New account to me.
He was on Jimmy Kimmel, which immediately plants him in the leftist camp, plus that moniker is a giveaway, plus the profile pic. And yet he picks up on this:
Chris Christie? Gen McGregor picks ip on it:
That though might have been that he saw this HB … or that he has his own source … LA news channels? HB goes on:
There was a pic of FedEx vans in a row in a clearing in the countryside … who’s to say it’s Tennessee? My own reaction is note, wait and see what corroboration there’ll be. As for HB, X do that … they deliberately feed leftist source material in with the conservative, without actually censoring the conservative, except by downgrading to “padt item” down the list.
A halfway competent pundit deals with that but all the same … Yacca’s kiddies are still at it.
(0624) This sleep biz is robbing Peter to pay Paul. To hold out as late as I can then crash goes well for health but not for the blog … here I am oversleeping again but healthy(ish). (0647)
5. Moosh corner
4. Good point
3. Steve at 1101
FBI Launches Criminal Investigations into John Brennan and James Comey
Abbott Confirms at Least 161 People Still Missing After Devastating Flood
Grok Praises *itler, Blames *ews for *hite Hatred
American-Born Workers Gain 2 Million Jobs Since January *
UK pays solar farms to shut down due to grid overload from sunny days
Stellantis warns of factory closures amid EU’s crippling EV fines
Much more.
2. Of course, they could ask Airmiles
1. DAD at 1101
a) Yesterday Victor Orban posted….Tomorrow will be a turbulent day in the European Parliament. MEPs will vote on whether Ursula von der Leyen should continue to lead the Brusselian bureaucracy.
b) On the same subject…….European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will be left reeling as up to half of the European Parliament fail to back her in an upcoming no-confidence vote….
c) One in seven French people now lives below the poverty line.
d) A “fast-moving” wildfire in France has been raging in parts of Marseille, triggering mass evacuations, lockdown orders and widespread travel disruptions.
e) DAD – Here in southern Deux-Sevres everything is scorched by the sun. The grass on my lawns are the colour of straw and feel ‘crisp’ as one walks on them. The last goodish rainfall was 23 April when we had 14mm.
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JH: Sorry to put words in your mouth there, DAD, by running that as item “e”. 🫢
