(1502) Afternoon all, almost evening.

 

20. Past my bedtime but quickly

… DJT is in thrall to some very bad players … Wiles and Graham two of the worst. Graham keeps playing this exceptionalism card to DJT, which is in reality continuing the trough and trafficking, the drugs, the biolabs.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russia-attacks-us-owned-factory-ukraine-while-insisting-it-has-veto-power-over-any

The Donald seems to have zero understanding that the US has no cards in this. As for Venezuela and Maduro? Just what is the hold Graham has over DJT? This will have to be continued tomorrow.

Now, the hat tip is to Redacted whom I’m about to fish out of spam … don’t try to understand his words, also please lay off as Redacted is right about this … longer post from me tomorrow. Would be nice if all held off overnight. Night night all.

19. Why did it take so long?

18. Moosh corner

17. Deryl Corner

16. Annunziata corner

15. When intereference ruins things

14. Steve at 1136 with War Room

• Sen. Mike Lee (R): Mail-In Ballots Are A Chain-Of-Custody Nightmare. Once Millions Of Ballots Get Tossed Into The Postal Service, Manipulation Risk Multiplies
• August Takala On The H-1B Visa Scam: “If They’re Not Taking American Jobs Why Can’t We Have Transparency?”
• ‘Deport All Of Them Now’: Natalie Winters Blasts H1B Visa Scam
• Jenny Holland Reports On Britain’s Incredible Christian Revival Amongst Young People

13. Allo allo allo, wot’s all this then?

12. Steve

My heart bleeds – her record as German defense minister (2014-2019) speaks for itself:

“The Bundeswehr’s condition is catastrophic,” Rupert Scholz, who served as defense minister under Helmut Kohl, wrote last week before von der Leyen was nominated to the EU’s top post. “The entire defense capability of the Federal Republic is suffering, which is totally irresponsible.”

Trump has no time for unelected bureaucrats..

Brussels’ Bureaucratic Monster: Von der Leyen and the EU’s Unaccountable Power | https://english.daneriksson.com/p/brussels-bureaucratic-monster-von

11. IYE returns

Apropos of nothing at all.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170409022353/http://trumpmodels.com

 

A pre-coder:

Review:

“Honestly, for a film from 1931 this is as perfectly made as possible. The story is totally absorbing which will appeal to everyone whatever your tastes. The production and acting is superb – faultless and thoroughly enjoyable.

Claudette Colbert is perfect as ‘the rich girl who lives on the hill.’ She’s adorably lovely, naively unaware of her own privilege and innocently unaware of the consequences of her entitled lifestyle. Everyone who knows Lydia loves her and that’s all down to Colbert’s natural acting. You thoroughly believe that Lydia is a real person you’re watching, a real person whom you could fall in love with.

Fredric March is always one of the most naturally likeable guys of the pre-code era and that’s no exception in this. His character is a little too good to be true at times but that’s needed to offset some of the stuffy over-privileged attitudes of the ‘old money’ patriarchs of the town. His character is the voice of the common man. He’s the one who asks the question, the theme of this picture: should justice be the same for the rich and the poor. That it’s actually debated whether rich people have to go to jail seems weird and antiquated at first but then again, have things really changed?

The injustice theme would have been handled very differently, much more vociferously were this made by Warner Brothers. Were it a WB film, her time in jail would probably have made Lydia a much more remorseful like some sort of sexy Scrooge on Christmas Day. In this, her character isn’t really changed that much which makes you feel a little annoyed with her but that’s actually more realistic and adds to the authenticity.”

(1114) Lucy Connolly Day. (1230)

 

10. Hmmmmm, time to examine this rig

This sail plan has things going for it … and against it … the binding of the two yards is good for strength, poor for upwind efficiency, good for lowering the CofEff, therefore better righting moment, can’t be reefed well, though can be furled and dropped. Triangles are the least good for overall sail area. Quite a strong rig though. It lacks twist at the top of the yard, useful for gusts. I’d still go for the standing lug.

9. My heart bleeds

8. Quiz … any idea what the product is?

7. Never mind in n6 … here’s a boy

6. No sign of a boy you notice

It’s all about the children. pic.twitter.com/fBZHl5QUy7

— The Yorkshire Lass (@real_shirelass) August 21, 2025

 

(0336) Another middle of the night job, re-run of last night, meaning probable 0730 re-start later, ok? (0741)

 

5. To my mind, she’s getting better and better

4. Cancers and heart attacks … why?

3. Steve at 1135

• Look to Lincoln and Act: Arrests, Tribunals, and War Powers
• Kiev Has Suffered 1.7 Million Casualties
• AfD Candidate Excluded from German Mayoral Election
• Sanctuary City Mayors Still Defying ICE Detainers and “Now They Face Potential Criminal Charges for Harboring and Smuggling”
• Illegal Alien Truck Driver Who Killed Three People on Florida Highway Failed English
• DHS Paints Southern Border Wall Black, Making it Too Hot to Climb
• Trump floats No Fly Zone. Europe boots in [The] Ukraine.
• Moscow: No Concessions, Kiev Forfeits All Rights Unless Disarms Goes Neutral
• Vaccine Cartel Strikes Back
• Greenland’s glaciers are feeding life, not causing doom
• Much more.

2. Restart at 0726 … DAD at 1136

a) France: recent new law: Smoke-free areas: restaurateurs and cafés demand “the initiation of immediate consultations”

b) A newly released series of worldwide human rights reports by the US strongly criticised the United Kingdom over what it said was a troubling decline in free speech protections there.

c) Scottish grandmother’s case dropped after arrest for holding sign in abortion buffer zone.

1. Over at UHC

The Wall

I’m really seeing UHC as the site for longer pieces now, or collected reflections by our readers … with HQ as the first-port-of-call sort of site, plus NOWP as usual. I’m thinking that that division of sites is useful … let’s roll with that idea for awhile.