a. Erika Kirk had never worked at TPUSA. Not as an employee, a consultant, or a contractor. Her background: Miss Arizona USA, a real estate license, a small faith-based clothing line, and a bible study program. She came with no executive experience or political operations background.
The board said Charlie told people verbally that he wanted this, conveniently there was no documentation of any kind. When Candace Owens demanded they produce a video of Charlie saying it, they didn’t produce evidence. They produced a cease-and-desist letter.
b. Then: Boris Epshteyn. Trump’s personal attorney. And here’s the connective tissue: it was Epshteyn and Manafort who referred Trump to Blanche when he needed a criminal lawyer for the New York indictment.
April 2023, one day before Trump’s arraignment, Blanche joins the team. His law firm’s ethics committee said no so he quit the firm and started Blanche Law. A firm that, for all practical purposes, existed to service one client, Trump.
1. Poitier’s character was meant to be from which country and who was the wife of someone here during Cameron’s time who was dead anti-Brexit and was from the same country? (2 points)
2. Who played the girl infatuated with Poitier and which other, in turn, sang the title song? (2 points)
3. Who played the English girl in OHMSS (neither Scoular nor Schell) and name one of her action TV series. (2 points)
4. Who also, in OHMSS, played female protagonist in a similarly named series to the one the “English girl” above, played in? (2 points)
5. The girl who sang the title song mentioned above also sang a Eurovision winner in 1969. Which song? (2 points)
There’s a bit in this for most Brits of a certain age, maybe Americans too, later on. Downunder too.
My interest in this short YT is twofold … first is to place it on the timeline and at the same time, give away my own age to a point … the other is that I missed Susan altogether, really only coming in during Zoe but even then, not really, certainly I became Who-sentient during Jon Pertwee’s time and my most sentient Who moment was Tom Baker in Pyramids of Mars.
I’ve always felt I missed the two best girls, with me being way too young, possibly them too … while Sarah-Jane and Lalla/Romana 2 didn’t quite cut it for me … did not like Leila, Jo was good. With Tegan, Romana 1 or Ace … er, sorry … feminists leave me cold. I also read that Susan became difficult off the set, thought she was much more important. Which leaves it as Zoe for mine.
Dateline, year … I was quite surprised that Pyramids of Mars was so late … 1975 … hardly in my childhood … suppose during my full-on education, I just had no time for TV watching … or else my parents hogged the set, though post-1974, I was off on my travels again. Anyway, here’s that YT:
The meat can be whatever … salmon goes in a stew thingy, cod is as it is, crumbed, steak either sliced thin or diced for a soup. Whatever.
I’m far more prescriptive for veg … it is always, for me, a green such as cabbage, broccoli, cauli … together with onion, mushrooms, carrot, red pepper, green pepper, apple … all fine chopped, first precooked in water to wash, then water replaced with boiled from kettle, with turmeric, garam, garlic, ginger … till just under al dente.
The tatties … either roasties, requiring my mini-oven just for them, set on gorilla inside, with olive oil only, plus rosemary … turn halfway … comes out crisp … or else go straight to pan, lighly oiled, rosemary, tatties diced for an even roast/fry.
Very difficult explaining to some of our chaps when to openly use deathcult terminology and when to euphemise. I can’t expect our chaps to know every single thing going down, plus if they write it yesterday, who’s to say it has not changed today?
For example … Wills coming out and stating that Malsi is the religion of peace. Yeah?
Yes yes, I know … the sshot had the word in plain and yet I went to DAD’s item and changed it for Malsi … why? Because Wills had said what he had, the net had taken it up, it had gone viral, therefore the Home Office and Censorship Czar were now involved. It’s a day by day thing. /END.
7. Compromised SCOTUS and birthright citizenship tourism
6. Fact v theatre, denomination v denomination
Had a look at two churches last evening … one called Riverside in NYC, with its heavily LG etc., therefore unbiblical … plus Riverway, in Minnesota. Both blue states/districts, so I expected both biblically deviant …
… but actually, I was wrong on Riverway … they certainly ummed and ahhed on their site, going on about how friendly and inclusive they were … their beliefs though were in a clickable pulldown section and even there, they rabbited on. Finally they got to it … those LG etc. were probably not going to find their views aligned with Riverway’s.
In short … Riverway is trad, which I also felt may have been so in this hymn, despite it’s fairly modern arrangement:
They list themselves as non-denominational, which I quite like … over the Easter period, I saw, on X, the Orthodox really badmouthing the Protestant and Catholic, the Catholic badmouthing the others, both calling themselves the One True Church, while the Protestants were off either tradding quietly or LG etcetering loudly, neither much use in bringing the Word, which I sort of thought was the idea of the Easter/Resurrection period.
But even then it does not stop, the division. Look at The Great Schism of1054, at the St Bartholomew’s Day pogrom and so on … Calvin murdering Savanorola, the IRA and Ulstermen. Actually, look at us unherdable cats at Unherdables … differences on everything from the Iran War to the Moon “Landing” … and then extend that to Regorm and Restore, with those on both sides badmouthing each other.
To then simplistically say well just ban all “religion” … really? Is the Dark Nobility’s WEFism, Fabianism, the Illumined call to “abolish religion” … is that not a religion in itself? Scientism? “The Science is settled”? Atheism is just as fanatical as any cult. That’s before even getting onto paganism, wicca, the green shamballa … and so on and so on and so on.
Take this one for example:
In fact, I saw a good case for denominations a few days back. It said we are all unherdable cats, agreeing to varying degrees but differing on a few fundamentals. Why not? It’s more realistic. Politically, it means that party politics with a single platform are just as fascistic and commie as the baddies themselves. Yet unherdable cats can never combine, except under direct threat.
I myself here at UHC, admin or landlord, have all sorts of denominations represented by regulars … therfore what choice do I have but to be “wishy-washy” non-denominational?
There is another way though … steer a middling course and allow shades of views over enough sites, stating where I am on something, whilst categorically rejecting Wokery and Globopsycho narrative … no solution is satisfactory but this latter has at least halfworked until now. That’s before we even get into English v Celt v French v American v Canadian. Phew! /END for now.
(0620) Seems bleah out there, although it was a lively, fiery red and dark cloud dawn earlier … now billowing over into low, poisoned, Gates cloud cover now. Have a wunnerful Monday.
5. Steve at 1344
Navy SEAL Team 6 Rescues Downed US Airman From Deep Behind Enemy Lines in Bold Mission — The Same Unit That Killed Osama bin Laden
President Trump Reveals Details on Negotiations with Iran to Fox News’s Trey Yingst After His Explosive Truth Social Post – Also Says US Sent Guns to Iranian Protesters
Serbian President Vučić Says Explosives Were Found Near a Pipeline Carrying Gas From Russia to Serbia and Hungary
US Special Forces Insane Rescue of the F-15E WSO in Iran
a) Artemis II’s crew sent a heartfelt Easter message to the world as they approached the moon Sunday — a remarkable echo of a Christmas address given by the mission’s closest cousin in space history, Apollo 8. (JH: Wonderful theatre. Do not wish to tread on sacred cows or shibboleths but the re-run of 1969 … well, the time had come, in their eyes, to head off Elon.)
b) USA. Figures reported by the National Catholic Register and several diocesan sources reveal a dramatic increase in the number of adults preparing to join the Catholic Church. (JH: Please see Mon 6.)
c) Rémi Brague: “The Problem of Malsi is that it is a Legislation”. Rémi Brague chooses his words with care, so that his observations about Islam seem understated, and his conclusions mild. But if you pay careful attention, you’ll notice…. (JH: Please see Mon 8.)
… of due diligence? If we can do it, why can’t he?
12. Intellectual property, copyright, AI
… what thinkest thou?
NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos
“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms…… pic.twitter.com/GUf09zRuJi
… at possible explanations … the constant factor has been that “crazy” today seems not so crazy once we’ve lost all faith in people “above”, in positions of power. In social media, we can construct any sort of plausible case, throw in some hard data, and Pammy’s your aunty.
9. Moo corner
8. The Paris Review
… is an old publication of the “left literary establishment”, specialising in literary pieces by “highly regarded authors” from their world … maybe “high-toned” is a better way to put it.
So, if an author is to give creedence to the Kubrik moon landing yarn, he must first give some detail but then question it, thereby being “evenhanded”, which is more than, say, the BBC and other MSM do today.
7. While Steve comments at HQ about the F-15E pilot rescue
… Andy posts at 1344 that he was not rescued. Your choice in this fog of war.
6. IYE has a piece at 1344 on “the energy beast”
He quotes from it … I also have a takeaway from it:
“In 1932, the Fabian-linked organisation Political and Economic Planning published a pamphlet titled Freedom and Planning. It proposed decoupling distribution from production, installing an unelected planning authority between producer and consumer, and setting the standards by which goods would flow. The farmer would retain operational freedom over his fields. The quantities, the pricing, and the market access would be determined by a distribution authority he never voted for.
The pamphlet noted that of all Britain’s institutions, only one would require no structural change to fit the new order: the Bank of England.
Ninety-four years later the architecture is the same, but the scale is now global.
The distribution authority is a physical corridor. The standards are environmental, financial, and regulatory. And the institution that requires no change is the Bank for International Settlements — which published the unified ledger blueprint, calibrates the capital requirements, and built the settlement infrastructure through which the corridor will clear.”
