Daily Archives: August 5, 2025

Tuesday [15 till close of play]

(1638) Nearly evening all.

 

22. Puzzle


21. Moosh corner


20. Well, they don’t want to be knifed or raped


19. More of Britain’s n1 issue in 2025


18. Nuclear codes


17. Digital ID


16. Steve at 1124

  • Alex Degrasse: “The Party Sees An Opportunity To Jam 12 Seats, Move Our Margin Up To 15 Seats”
  • John Solomon: “Hillary Admitted To Approving A Plan” Solomon On US Intel Intercepting Clinton Russia Hoax Evidence
  • Gov. Abbott Orders Arrest Of Texas House Democrats For Abandoning Redistricting Vote, Rep. Harrison Reacts
  • “This Is A Big Day For Freedom” Defiant Author Christina Bobb Reacts To Grand Jury Russiagate Investigation

Tue Mat too

 

“This final picture in the Saint series is connected to the early 1940s RKO entries only by the presence of Louis Hayward, the original Simon Templar in 1938’s The Saint in New York.

This time around, the Saint seeks information about a girlfriend who cabled him for help—and then crashed her car into the river before his arrival on the scene. The police call it an accident, but Hayward (seems to be a section missing here) is a smooth-talking Saint whose smirk is alternately insolent and charming; caught red-handed snooping through an apartment, he merely removes the cigar from his mouth and asks politely, “Pardon me, do you have a match?”

He can play rough, however, as well—he does not hesitate to slap around a crook who has sneaked into his own room and doesn’t want to tell who sent him.

The Saint is assisted by right-hand man Hoppy (Thomas Gallagher), a reformed pickpocket (of course) who doubles as valet and bodyguard. The “girl Friday” of the title is a woman named Carol (Naomi Chance), whose help Templar enlists in tracking the mob that killed his girlfriend and is threatening and manipulating Carol over gambling debts.

The plot is okay but nothing extraordinary, although the identity of the secret mob “chief” did surprise me at the end. The mood is rather darker than that of the fairly breezy comedy-mysteries of a decade earlier; however, Louis Hayward’s confident performance, a fair amount of droll humor, and some atmospheric London underworld settings combine for an entertaining and still essentially light-hearted adventure.”

Tuesday [11 to 15]

(1156) Not quite afternoon yet but health better here. As my dear mama dun told me … we’re only as good as our health. Yeah. (1239)

 

15. Sammy again


14. Really do hope you’re having a wonderful day

A really super day, one in which all good things happen. You saw this, before we move on?

13. Old news for us

… but possibly not to newcomers to socmed.


12. Did you see the new Chas3 £20 note?


The issue here is that though it’s a two year period to swap notes, there are two whammies against us. One is digital ID and the coming crash but there’s another too … banks are saying yes, you can deposit your old notes with us, we’re bound to take them by law but that’s a separate thing from withdrawing cash.

There are new rules whereby the cashier has a list of acceptable reasons to have the new cash, otherwise she can’t give it to you, even with the £800 per day limit. Plus one more thing … if you’ve been saving against the coming crash, and you’ve maybe made small deposits a dozen times in a year, the bank now asks … where exactly did that money come from?

11. It’s possible some of you chaps and chapesses

… aren’t completely up with this one as yet. You might be up with Thune’s dirty trix with Johnson against Trump. Right … Texas is redistricting, which should see five seats flip GOP. So what do three Dem crims do? Fly interstate, right, so that the chamber has no quorum and can’t ratify it.


Right, so back to Thune … some MAGAs are saying make sure JDV is in there calling no quorum. No response from Donny.

Tuesday [6 to 10]

(0921) A few films in the pipelne, plus just a few Persuaders episodes … had to watch to see if I’d keep. Today feels as if it might be marginally better, touch skull. (0957)

 

10. Moosh corner

Moosh has been on the US. east coast, sampling the available liquid, plus the sights.


9. Is Pammy actually moving?


8. Psy-ops, yes

Why on earth would some bint even post something like that below? Easy enough to track the details. Having said all that, the so-called anti-Wokerati (us) are highly disorganised, where this mass-produced banner lot in masks are anything but disorganised.

Plus we consistently fail to think criminally, though we think we’re clever enough … moral compasses are effective restrictors of untoward action. Hence Them’s total crackdown on any form of dissent, massed or otherwise. Plus digital ID.


7. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/08/do-you-by-any-chance-have-allotment.html

6. Steve at 1123

  • Far-left CNN Shocks the World by Declaring President Trump as “the Most Influential President of this Century… and the Last Century”
  • New York Times Admits Trump’s Tariffs Are Generating ‘Significant’ Federal Income
  • American Eagle Stock Spikes After President Trump Weighs in on Sydney Sweeney ‘Good Jeans’ Ad Campaign (JH: good)
  • Gov. JB Pritzker Brokers Deal to Host Roughly 30 Texas Democrats in Chicago for Week-Long Plot Against GOP Redistricting Plan
  • Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Confirms AWOL Democrats Could Face 2nd-Degree Felony Bribery Charges After Fleeing Redistricting Vote
  • Ukraine Military Crisis Deepens; Russian Advances, Pokrovsk
  • Biotechnology and AI have become a religion
  • Much more.

Tuesday [2 to 5]

(0820) Morning all, just awoke, no idea of the weather, seems bright. A good sleep is a wondrous thing … Toodles wrote that I seemed peeved … I’m thinking “terse” might be the word, which one is with a splitting headache, which fortunately is not around now. Ok, into the fray! (0908)

 

5. Shoolie

She’s a good lass, doing the female equivalent of a Dad joke a day, plus she has a regular chap who follows her, a fellow wit, so all is well in this Wodehouse world. However, I just had to blight it:


Thinking maybe I’d gone too far, a reply appeared, which is sad that it must be so now in Britain … but even those who lighten our lives do see:


4. Tommy Robinson is bailed

At least, according to Sammy Woodhouse, who’s a bit like Donny’s Laura.

3. DAD at 1124

a) France. Crime in Lyon: “60% of perpetrators of violent robberies are illegally in the country”, the Prefect warns…

b) UK. Under Labour’s Fraud, Error and Debt Bill, the DWP would be able to compel banks and building societies to share information about social security claimants…

c) EU. Over the past decade, while millions of Europeans endured inflation, economic stagnation, migration pressure, and cuts in essential services, the European Union has allocated nearly one billion euros to fund ideological organizations in Latin America…

d) EU. EU revives plan to ban Private Messaging…

2. Allison Pearson

Tuesday [1]

 

Open letter to Unherdables’ regular and occasional readers

We have, chaps and chapesses, at Unherdable Cats, a most intriguing and potentially damaging conundrum, a crisis if you like, especially for a site relying, as it does, on a disparate lot across the oceans, each with his/her own strong views, plus tribalism which is now exacerbated, as IYE pointed out thus:

“Societal breakdown is ugly..” Indeed. It creates extremism which is what Them want.

The very intolerance of the others’ way of presenting, the sources, the angles, the turn of phrase, colloquialism, jargon, style, command of the English language, grates on the others and truly we have here “unherdable cats” in one “tavern” by the sea. Can you imagine what taverns in far flung ports, e.g. in the Caribbean, must have been like in days of yore.

That’s the first divisive point on the list. The second is technical. MMutR must be creasing himself laughing because he’d know instantly what the core issue with Redacted’s output here is … I know too but how to describe it to non-techies? I myself am “advanced user” so I’m told, meaning a pain in the backside to “real techies” … the advanced user has a certain amount of added tech knowledge, just enough to get in the way and really bgr things up.

Before even getting to Redacted’s “word salads”, there is a simple tech issue … American platforms, OSes etc. of a certain vintage, plus European and often Oz and NZ, even South African, use a highly regulated length of line … Miles Mathis does too … you do know his text cannot be selected and copied, except with certain moves on my part to select, which I’ll not explain here for the tavern.

In short, someone offering a Word package to readers has already been in there, curtailing line length to a set number of characters per line, after which it auto-returns, i.e. goes to the next line. However when, by its own rules, it reaches the end of its own line, it auto-returns again … hence the chip-chop non-paragraphing. The paragraphs, you see, do not partially add space, say 0.3 of a line. Andy might understand this.

Result, unbeknowns to most … is apparent “word salad”. My eyes therefore read Redacted, (and haiku before him, remember him?) as unformatted text, not as the English language was taught in schools … in sentences with rules, with paragraphs, with formatting. When we add the non-professional writer status of most contributors … vastly preferable, imho, to slick journos, MSM, politicians … then we just have an added yoke for our necks.

Now add the variety of antediluvian devices … even Dell for goodness sake, which catch on fire from time to time and lose their hinges … or this ipad which has now added “lag” to letters such that typing “s” at speed comes out as “a” or “i” as “u” … then you see yet more basis for frustration and anger.

Now add age to that and natural intolerance as we get older … then add a variety of medical complaints, especially in 2025 with the poisoned skies, beef, fish, foodstuffs … and you do start to see why Them are also creasing themselves laughing.

Now add the traditional WW2 type Monty v Ike misunderstanding between Brits and Americans, then add the split between south and north in both countries … just the temperaments themselves are widely divergent and clashing … and let’s not even start between Canadians and Americans or indeed Albertans versus Quebec and Ontario … you do see where I’m headed here. Or rural v cityslicker.

All of which pressures me into waking in the middle of the night and having to move Redacted’s outpouring plus Steve’s rejoinder, plus checking that DAD’s output is still outputting … IYE is largely staying out of it … plus my metabolism has for two days been packing up on me, such that I’ve had the phone and flat buzzer off, splitting headache … then you can see a sitcom here not unlike in Fawlty Towers.

Oh … and no one’s being paid a brass razoo for their work. Them must be quite hopeful, gleeful in fact, that the levee will finally break and that’s another pesky site washed away, a bit like Camp Mystic Christian girls camp (see Redacted at UHC:WP, item 8). MMutR will quickly add: “No one cares what you write, James, they have bigger fish to fry.” Which we can only pray continues if true … let’s pretend we’ve not lost four sites already and counting and that everything’s roses in Unherdables land.

Therefore, at 0341 Tuesday, I really did have to step in, do some editing and write this first post item. Frustrating? Yes and no … yes because it’s a pain having to shift someone’s flooding text when I’ve warned over and over that Redacted’s longs go to UHC:WP and he pays not the slightest attention to the way Unherdables works. Which then gets Steve sniping and he’s not one of the more regular snipers.

But also a no on that. It does raise the question … is Redacted’s non-English worth the time? And the answer is … yes it is. His pieces on Camp Mystic, plus Eli Crane … do actually point out some real anomalies. For example, the highly unusual conditions behind the flooding and that nice military account Redacted quoted … there’s much in there to start stroking the chin. 🤔. And I’m speaking fundamental stuff too … which does relate to Eli Crane and that is where Steve and IYE themselves, bless their hearts, have reason to fall out. Steve keeps quoting Gateway while IYE keeps showing how a certain non-Jewish Jewry is behind much of the strife behind the scenes. It’s so.

This is an ancient war which any bible scholar knows full well … plus it’s approaching a denouement on earth. How can Redacted and I explain that to Steve and IYE? You do see the dilemma.

Now, at 0354, I’m totally cream-crackered, with headache again … so I’m going to bed. Have we found a way through? Yes, but it will take much concentration on my part keeping disparate elements from clashing and yet follow all those leads just the same … after all, that’s why we exist at HQ … to gather leads in one place, that’s our raison d’etre. …/END.