(0700) Morning all … low Gates poisoned cloud across the sky, damp. (0946)

 

15. I’m suggesting getting thee across, dear reader

… to UHC-WP, click Redacted in the sidebar, go from there.

14. Sidelights on the vaxx and lockdown years

… in which we were the guinea pigs.

Grinning Hancock, Fauci and Birx, Gates and Brock, Pence and Pepfar, DJT’s stupid Warp Speed, the heads of the FDA and their other interests, nightingale tent hospitals, dancing tiktok nurses, empty wards and clinics, single point of truth Ahern, Northern Territory, Oz concentration camps, thug plod, armed, accosting women and children in parks and on beaches, standing on spots in the supermarket after queuing 6 feet away from anyone, never 5’10”, masks while eating out.

Care home deaths, Fredo’s brother in NYC … the most horrible people at large … Whitty, Ferguson … it goes on and on … and then the Karens. Oh yes … the Karens, inc. Andrew Neil and others here, Kimmel across the pond. The dark side of human nature.

13. Tsunami?

12. Some Brit news

11. Eyes open

I’d not generally dwell on tales of someone who was taking an acceptable line but then who started asking difficult questions or quoting Revelation 3:9, nor would I bury a link somewhere in the complex, maybe in the least likely place, of someone asking such questions … so I shan’t.

 

(0444) Still dark out there. (0502)

 

10. On Scarborough beach

9. Shorts

8. Druze in southern Syria

7. Washington

6. DAD at 1155

a) According to a study conducted by the CSA Institute for the JDD, Europe 1, and CNews, 72% of French people want a referendum on immigration policy in France. (…) That’s three points more than in April 2024.

b) For months, Anne Hidalgo, the socialist mayor of Paris, has refused to disclose her expense reports to the public, as required by law. Forced to do so by the courts—thanks to the tenacity of a journalist…..

c) More trouble for Macron in Africa. France has decided to expel two Malian State Security agents stationed at the Malian embassy in Paris.

d) Evil. Is Lord Brooke, sitting one seat along from the sponsor of the Bill, advocating for assisted dying as a tool of population control?

(0129) This one might go on a few hours as still in sleep mode here. (0429)

 

5. Whither UK education?

4. The left close ranks on Kimmel

3. Steve at 1155

• Charlie Kirk’s Funeral Will Have Super Bowl Level Security
• MTG Smacks Down Jasmine Crockett After the Disgraced Congresswoman Echoes Kimmel
• Russian Army Pushes Forward Between Donetsk And Zaporozhye, Captures Two Towns
• Zelensky Rushes To Pokrovsk As Defences Crumble
• Study reveals mRNA in COVID vaccines does change your DNA and can catapult turbo cancer
• New paper detailing evidence of DNA contamination in COVID vaccines is under threat of being retracted
• Much more.

2. Zultana demonstrating her value to society

1. The Castle Principle

“Meet Patricia Kirkman-Scroope, a Queensland magistrate. Earlier this year, Aldwin Serrano, a family man in Queensland faced a terrifying home invasion. A gang of thugs smashed a window and attempted to break into his home, threatening his wife and children. In a desperate bid to protect his family, Aldwin used pepper spray to defend them and stop the attack. But instead of being commended, Aldwin was charged with unlawful possession of a category R weapon. At his court appearance, this judge didn’t just rule against him, but ATTACKED him. She called his act “a misconceived attempt to protect your property” and lectured him: “You should know the law and know that these things are prohibited.” Translation: he should have stood there, letting his family be terrorised, because in her worldview, your family’s safety is less important than the rights of hardcore criminals. Despite a clean criminal record, he was placed on a six-month $250 good behavior bond. (Yes, really). There is no justice in this country. The Department of Justice and the judiciary exist to protect criminals from you. You’re not allowed to protect your family.”

(1657) Almost evening, folks.

 

23. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/09/saturday-post-on-friday-evening.html

22. Redacted has some interesting links up

… this is where his longs are found:

Redacted

21. Steve’s second

20. Devastating the earth, the Woke way

19. I’d suggest Parris volunteer to start the ball rolling

… were it not a one way trip to hell.

18. Gravy train

17. 🍿🍿🍿

16. Steve at 1155

Hearts of Oak: Bob of Speakers Corner – Reclaiming Christian Identity: Nationalism, Persecution & the Call for Revival

Complete the quote please:

1. Kenneth Grahame: There is nothing, absolutely nothing, half so much worth doing as …..
2. T.S. Eliot: A cold coming we had of it, just the worst time of year for a journey … and such a long journey …..
3. Thomas Beecham: Good music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and …..
4. John Arbuthnot Fisher: The essence of war is violence. Moderation …..
5. 2nd Earl of Pembroke: Parliament can do anything except make a man a woman and …..

Perfectly acceptable to look it up.

This is a most unusual way to do it … to review something before it’s even posted, mid-afternoon Sunday … but it was intriguing to me in ways mentioned below … sorry to be a bit mysterious and cryptic ahead of time.

Essentially, a Louisiana city’s famous busking band visits a city in France, they find the square where it seems buskers hang out and they play a nice number (track one) but even so, just to my ears and eyes, they’re slightly off the boil these days. Look I could be completely wrong on this and please set me straight but there’s just something with the boss girl cornetist and sidekick trombonist which is ok, no complaints … hmmmm.

Track two is a local band, similar setup, usual instruments … it’s pretty clear these two bands need to meet each other. This local band plays a nice number, almost exactly where, in the square, the Louisiana band do. One person I did not like at first was the tall beanpole girl trombonist who seemed to me to be trying to dominate. As I found out in the third track though, I was wrong … she was just a nice gal, anxious that it all went nicely and everyone got along … and she does play well.

The third track is the intriguing one … both bands meet, arrange themselves to play another nice number … there are teething issues, they get it sorted, they start. Ok, one expects it will take them some time and by the end, they’re all on song and they finish well together. If it were only that, I’d enjoy it but oh … it was so much more than that … interpersonal stories.

Look, I might be so, so wrong but it did seem to me that the Lousiana cornetist boss gal was slightly miffed and the sidekick trombonist was not too happy with his “rival”. The bands played two recorded numbers (only one of them on Sunday) and the L boss gal was not joining them in the second. Uh huh.

However, the other band members of both bands were fine … you could see the washboarders chatting, smiling, the rhythm section had it sorted, the local tuba gal was great, the clarinets and cornets were fine. Our beanpole trombonist, right in the middle of the line, could really play.

All up? A most intriguing Sunday jazz afternoon to be sure. Of course, you might see it quite differently, ha ha. Just listened to/watched that combined track again … oh that was so much fun … something going on bretween the two washboardists and that beanpole trombonist is a sweetie.

This is why I vastly prefer ensembles to orchestras, 20s to 30s directed, blended musak … gimme please solo after solo, all coming together at the end. Easy, Jimbo, time for your meds.

 

“Yes, it gets a bit confusing here and there, and even with a small cast, figuring out who is who, what’s going on and the timeline can be perplexing. The fabulous opening shows a young woman being kept chained to a wall, appearing as if she is about to be shot in cold blood. This gives a sense of Gothic horror to the film, but then it switches to the domestic setting of the home of Sonia Dresdel and Colin Gordon, a middle aged couple having a discussion, and interrupted by phone calls and visitors.

Then there’s an apparent violent murder in an oddly shaped country home, involving Karel Stepanek whom we see about to be bludgeoned. News of his murder gets around, and the frequent appearance of a strange old man (Michael Martin-Harvey) creates more questions than answers.

The audience gets to meet other suspects which include Dresdel’s friend (Eleanor Summerfield) and her husband Hubert Gregg, adding a bit more confusion but a lot of suspense. This is worth putting up with 75 minutes of little detail, but within that detail, there are the hidden details which are revealed in the very suspenseful last 15 minutes.

That is when everything comes together so neatly, and you realize how clever this really was in keeping you wondering what type of mystery you were watching and if it would ever go anywhere. Technically excellent, this feature is terrific black and white photography and superb editing, and a musical score that adds to the suspense.

(You) have to go in with a patient mood because otherwise, you could be frustrated quickly and move on to something else.”

(1023) Back again, this is live, not scheduled. Morning all. A bit gloomy outside but not cold. (1044)

 

15. Precisely

14. DID

13. Anticomm

12. Aye

11. Utah

 

We had one of the models once … Goliath.

Curious thing, this, but every subject, every history has some curious details but it’s only when the curious details of one are combined with the curious details of another that a third truth emerges, of curiosity value.

My dad fought in the war … as far as I can gather, with two armies, and so did I years later, but in peacetime. Those two, my parents, were of an era when gollywogs were fine to have, Noddy and Big Ears was the reading and my parents warned me to have nothing to do with credit cards, as it was giving money to the Js. I have no credit card today.

Now that’s interesting, given that my father was in active combat against the Germans and Japs. He never told me his views on the commies but I noticed that when they (parents) went to Australia, he used to watch some man called B.A. Santamaria on the box, part of a party called DLP. Third party of the right in other words. So what he made of my youthful, student Fabianism I have no idea … we did not talk much.

Another thing was he bought a series of German cars, feeling, as many people did, that German engineering was superior. I had this attitude in Russia. As for myself? Always anti-communist … just how I reconciled that with my student leftism I’m not sure. My dad went back to Austins, then onto Hondas … think he was always after workable tech.

There’s one story which must have dashed dad’s confidence in German engineering. When I was 14 and at that time in Oz, we went for a trip Melb to Gold Coast and the car broke down halfway … was it the Goliath or VW? Can’t remember. We took an overnight coach back to Melb and that’s this other tale some know of where I spent the night on the back seat with two nineteen year old lasses, discovering the joys of female proximity, which set my mind forever.

B.A. Santamaria was a curiosity, as he was very pro-Catholic and we were nominally CofE, mother going Methodist as that church was nearer, geographically. Father was a Mason for awhile.

Just been looking up Goliath. Seems likely that my father was looking at VWs and/or smaller Beemas in Britain and Oz and I’d say the dealer, who may have been German, might have persuaded him. Just guessing. Curious parents, my parents. No wonder I’m a curiosity.

Father was at one stage a carpenter, a good one, saw him in operation, old style tools, never a toolmaker though, so my boat some years back was not entirely amateur … I’ve built fences, sheds but not a house yet. I did build a large pyramid once.