(1658) Almost evening, all, hope you have a good weekend.
26. What a foolish man Trump has become
After breaking his word to Iranians (mass slaughter resulting), he attacks patriotic Brits plus soldiers etc. instead of Starmer and the left who deserve it. Then we get to Bondi. Why is he trying to lose his base?
25. There might just be mobile phones soon if we’re lucky
24. Kill switches
23. Crowborough
22. Steve at 1272
John Case: Tina Peters Has Filed An Assault Complaint Against Her Assailant With The Colorado Department Of Corrections
Aaron Reitz: What We See More Broadly In The Islamic World Is Anti-Civilizational Forces At Play. Anywhere You See A Muslim Majority Country, You See Chaos, Crime, Oppression, Disease, Economic Stagnation
Rep. John Gillette: Jihadists Have A Plan, A 100 Year Plan To Take Over The Country By Infiltrating All Of Our Systems. We’ve Got To Put A Stop To It
Lynn Davenport: The Parallel System We Set Up To Flee The Government Schools Is The Charter School Model And That Has Lined The Pockets Of The Islamic Schools As Well As Possible CCP Ties With Other Charter Schools
(1259) Afternoon all … just behave yourselves, all right? (1321)
20. Diet and exercise
19. Moosh corner
(Yes, can quite see the point of shipping Little Johnny off to Ceylon if he’s been a bit naughty. I know there was only a certain length of time I could be tolerated for in one go.)
18. Today’s Daily Sceptic (blogrolls for link)
17. Attack of the Krazed Killer Karens
Now, you saw that item via Steve at UHC-WP about the Karen who wanted Karoline L’s baby to die … she’s head of a home healthcare company. Right, here’s another one.
Trouble is, one can’t initially tell, from a photo, just how criminally insane they are, though these days, the type of occupation they’re head honchos of should be a bit of a giveaway.
Sane? I’d suggest that there are actually warning signs:
“This film, based on a stage play by Edgar Wallace, is one of those traditional British murder mysteries set in an enormous aristocratic mansion with all kinds of supercilious people, suspicious servants, stupid detectives, and maidens in distress.
But it is by no means as corny as it sounds. The film is dominated by the powerful presence of Helen Haye, an actress with the cutting edge of a diamond blade, who lashes everyone in sight with her reproving tongue. She is Lady Lebanon, the matriarch of the establishment, and don’t you forget it!
Her friend is Dr. Amersham, played by Felix Aylmer, and he even outdoes her in supercilious arrogance. What a pair! Between them, they so dominate the screen that there is barely space for the other players to make their presences known much of the time.
The maiden in distress (the one who is ‘frightened’) is played by Penelope Dudley-Ward (1914-1982, sometimes credited only as Penelope Ward), who only appeared in 12 films between 1935 and 1944, retiring after that.
From 1948 to 1976, she was married to Sir Carol Reed, and during the time that I knew him towards the end of his life, I met her, though I only ever exchanged a few polite words with her, as she never joined me and Carol for our chats over gin and tonic in their vast living room with the enormously high ceiling in their splendid house in Kings Road. (They had removed the floor above that room so that the room was two storeys high rather than one.)
Alas, I retain little impression of her, so must make do with what I see in these old movies instead. Now they are all gone, even Tracy Reed, Lady Reed’s daughter, who died in 2012. Sic transit gloria mundi, I suppose.
Helen Haye is so outstanding in this film. However, the truly inspired performance in this film is by Marius Goring as the young Lord Lebanon, Helen Haye’s son. He really outdoes himself in this one. (He had already appeared with Helen Haye the year before – The Spy in Black (1939).
The reason why the Lebanon family are called Lebanon in this story is that they ‘go back a thousand years’ and were active in the Middle East at that time as crusaders. Helen Haye is determined to ‘continue the line’ and keeps urging her bachelor son, who is obsessed with composing music, to marry Penelope Dudley-Ward, which he, unlike Carol Reed in real life, is strangely loathe to do.
George King does an excellent job of directing this tale, which could easily have been creaky, but does not creak. King never rose to be one of the famous British directors, despite directing 54 titles, retiring in 1949. Many or most of his films are unavailable and no one alive has seen them, which makes it rather difficult to evaluate his contribution to the cinema.
Certainly this film has countless twists and turns and surprises and never drags. Considering that it started out framed by a proscenium (as a stage play), King got it moving and avoided the claustrophobic feeling we often get from stage plays adapted for the screen. When watching this, be careful not to become ‘a frightened lady’!”
This is from 18 hours ago, at posting and seems at first glance to have preceded the Lords’ vote, approving Digital ID late Thursday. I’ve just seen the opening minutes.
Now, “the young Scot” might be remembered here for his non-denominational Christian perspective … he once went into Nimrod, Semiramus, Jezebel etc., even the deathcult. You might disagree with this aspect or that, call something myth or legend … but he does put a fairly straight, biblical perspective … and thus his take on Digital ID is interesting.
The actual current status of DID in the UK may have now overtaken this video but it’s still a useful overview. It’s also not the usual feature for this timeslot but hey-ho, it’s been an unusual morning so far.
a) France, a sudden outbreak of sense in Parliament – 1. Muslim Brotherhood: The National Assembly votes in favor of a proposed resolution to add the movement to the European list of terrorist organizations.
b) France, a sudden outbreak of sense in Parliament – 2. “Active Assistance in Dying”: The Senate Defeats the Law….Article 4 of the euthanasia bill, which was a condition for legalizing the act of dying, was rejected last night….
c) Senator Annick Girardin of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon has written to President Emmanuel Macron to denounce a proposed transfer of control of part of the archipelago’s airspace to Canada….
d) A NEGLECTED anniversary: 2026, by my reckoning, is 40 years since the birth of the global warming scare.
In 1984, Yuri Bezmenov (cover name), former KGB, gave an interview on subversion of another nation. There were stages, the interview can be found at Bigthink. The part which I focus on is:
“They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still cannot change the basic perception and the logic of behavior. Demoralization is a process that is “irreversible.””
Yes and no. Yes, short of a rude shock, there is no possibility of reasoning with such a person. Should there be a collapse, a rude shock, the ideologically subverted reverts to set “explanations” of the ideological failure, e.g. it wasn’t true socialism, it was diverted, blah blah blah. So in that sense … yes, it was irreversible in that lost person.
It requires maybe two generations to come out of it … the grandchildren might be able to start questioning it, the hardwired insanity, and slowly, then building to a crescendo, calls come to ditch the destructiveness.
21. Big Tech + Big Govt + WEF
20. It’s not just the NHS here you know
… there’s a westwide collective insanity going on.
19. Moosh corner
18. Wind dies, sun sets … renewables disappear
17. Steve corner
a. Under the cover of darkness:
The Home Office moved the first batch of illegals into Crowborough Training Camp this morning – a full police escort woke local community. This historic camp has been involved in the training of our troops since before the Great War. Thanks to this socialist regime it’s reputation has now been flushed down the toilet. As for the illegals we know what to expect – that applies to the women and girls of Crowborough the most. Do Not Vote For People That Hate You.
Dr Bradley Thayer: Davos Is Dead. Fink Is Recognizing That It’s Over. It’s Time To Get Out Of Town Whether It’s Dublin, Or Detroit, Or Jakarta. They’re Gonna Try To Keep The Circus Going
Jenny Holland: more Protestant churches closed than opened in 2024 due to “brutality of secularism”
Frank Walker: TDS Episcopalian bishop tells clergy to fight ICE — and embrace “new era of martyrdom”
Former atheist Leah Sargeant now recognizes the two biological genders are ordered for salvation
