(1305) Post up at UHC. (1441)

 

11. Criminal

10. Five years to get a party running

9. The three letter sites (blogrolls)

MAGA daughter, politico, Lucie the recorder player, film star:

(1006) Tempus is truly fugiting sommit awful just now, getting away from me a bit.

 

8. Tom Paine

An old friend who started blogging when I did, was also in Russia, libertarian left, now part of this mass for humanity which we like to think we are … still very much for the freedom to speak out (Tom’s in blogrolls, right column):

7. James Melville

Formerly left in the Andy mould, good chap overall, has turned into quite a headkicker for us:

James is exactly the sort that, in 2010 say, we might not have met up, crossed paths, ditto with Sophie … now we’re part of this antiWokerati worldwide and much bonhomie there is too … new friends etc.

6. Sophie

One of two gals on the river that I know, this is the younger, was a nurse, was told jab or no job, started spilling the beans on the whole crooked medical system, lost her home, kicked off X many times, shadowbanned … a real Bernie but not a fighter … vulnerable, abused from above, genuinely so, as I explored. Her word means a lot, though one must ustd she’s not all there at the same time:

5. Kate Hoey

It became perfectly obvious long ago that Kate, despite being Labour, was essentially a good ’un … she and Nigel were in cahoots over the fisheries you might recall.

(0829) Best get this one written now before the day’s interruptions start.

Heartland

It struck me some time back … a long time ago actually … that we’re getting the “truth” about events, motivations, vile behaviour hidden away, only in an altered, overview form at best, out-and-out lies being probably closer to it.

It also struck me, partly age related, that we can be oh so narrow in focus … just on the day’s doings and that came through when my neighbour and I talked … he already knew of my prolific punditry and said he wasn’t interested in that sort of thing, no one in his circle really was (aged 29). Which is interesting to me … someone with the vote not being remotely interested in what he can, collectively, condemn that society to, in numbers.

This comes through in this YT thumbnail screenshot:

And just look at the preoccupation of these … yes, it’s a short film for a festival, so it’s contrived, granted:

Romantic? With that body language? But it’s not just the young, is it? The older normies oblivious, believing such guff through the Woke brainwashing portals … the karens … and then the Cheatles, Reeveses, Harrises, the fillies coopted to run censorship agencies, the Victoria Nulands wreaking havoc … godless and utterly into themselves … Rayner and Phillips.

And the so-called men of today … from HnH’s Lowles to Owen Whatsit … they’re not men … they’re some sort of emasculated mutants. And vicious little bstds too, like their bicycle chain wielding “professors” … at least these four from Massachusetts have learnt the first principle of men and women looking to work with each other, though Massachusetts is very much a blue state:

Very much so but still it lacks Southernness in some ways … music’s lovely though, very coastal, beach:

I particularly like the way the ladies are plonked up front in their virginal white, the men perfectly happy to take a back seat in western society but too many women have taken that to this feminazism extreme, unable to see that it’s not all about them, themselves as ones and ownlies. Same applies to vacuous, arrogant, narcissistic males, adonises whom 90% of women think are the ones to offer them a good life. Talk about recipe for disaster.

By the way, it’s the rhythm section of that band I like best, nice though the lead panner is.

At this point, I stop and consider that this is largely being read by the British and expat diaspora, with some Americans gazing on … just who is the type of patron of this tavern?

Well, it became apparent that it was NOT the Wokerati, the navel gazers … I have not the slightest desire to sit here arguing with the Wokerati. If someone says “climate” and they praise Net Zero, then I say bye bye … ditto for the feminazis and any form of socialist, giving rise to Thomas Sowell’s observation:

You’re going to see much of this alt-radical mindset in the screenshots to follow later today … and yet these people are mostly respectable … family, country, in many cases … God … and yet radical, dissident, not accepting the guff fed to us.

The problematic person in this mix is what I call the “true” Christian, as in our commenter JDC:

What commonality is there then linking the disparate stoppers-by at the tavern and chapel? Well, it’s an unwillingness to accept at face value that which special interests wish us to believe, accept, comply with, destroy ourselves by.

In that quote just now was a reference to Elmer Gantry:

Why would any Brit or expat or former colonist be interested in the Deep South? Well why would any Minnesota lady be interested in Kate Hoey, coming up next? Answer is … because the themes are universal, aren’t they?

(0637) Slightly later start in the dark as I’ve been reviewing the material banked up for this morning … pretty powerful stuff, methinks and it immediately gives the day’s theme … “heartland thought”. More on’t in the numbered items as they appear. (0718)

Procedural note for non-regulars … 839 or whatever refers to the current NOWP post (see navbar above). The whole aim is “heartland thought” (people on the ground who live there … how they’re thinking) and to that end, while HQ welcomes comments on those items, longer reader pieces are maybe better at NOWP. You’re always welcome to drop comment at UHC or Jstack, sparingly posted on (see navbar).

Please note, reader … anything of interest to you below (1, 2, 3) is only a signpost, a skeleton look … the real meat, plus links, are at NOWP … the two venues of this site are, imho, inseparable … there’s much signposting going on … often for security reasons.

 

3. Steve at 838 (NOWP … see navbar above) … a JH selection

Evets 4: Epic Orbán: Hungarian PM Confronts Commissioner von der Leyen and Her Gang of Globalists, Denounces the Abject Failure of Their Policies in Fiery EU Speech in Strasbourg

Evets 3: West Virginia Lawmakers Propose Legislation to Prevent State from Recognizing Winner in US Election If GOP Candidate is Assassinated, Seriously Injured in Assassination Attempt, Jailed, or Barred from the Ballot

Evets 2: Victory Plan fails. Decisive Action Plan launched. EU fast track. NATO Bank. Stoltenberg new job – Alex Christoforou

Evets 1: US DoD issued contract for C-19 Research to a company in [The] Ukraine, 3 months before C-19 was known to exist

2. Andy over at 839 (reverse chronological)

Some time ago the BBBC became joined at hip with Al Jazeera. Do they regret that, have they severed that connection? |  Just asking like. The BBBC insist that there are no Nazis in The Ukraine and would get their pearls in a twist if they knew that bullets were smeared with pig fat. Somewhere I’ve got the 2009(ish) BBBC video about the Ukrainian Nazis. I’ll dig it out for your delectation and natural outrage. There wouldn’t be so many of them if Washington had supplied enough paperclips to Nuremberg.

1. DAD over at 839

a) After Yahya Sinwar, the man responsible for launching the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel, took full control of Hamas over the summer, Arab intelligence officials say he sent a directive to a senior operative: Now is the time to revive suicide bombings.

b) A ‘Manifesto’ by British activist Tommy Robinson became a top-seller on UK Amazon and sold out, leading to questions by an activist of the sometimes-Soros funded Hope Not Hate research group.

c) Auditors scold EU spiralling error rate in spending and EU debt of €458.5 billion …

d) France’s new centre-right government, led by Prime Minister Michel Barnier, has introduced an austerity budget aimed at addressing the high national debt …

(1530) Soon enough it will be evening, chaps and chapesses … good evening.

 

16 IYE at 838

15. Steve at 838 on War Room

a. Natalie Winters Shreds Deep State Elitists For Their Hypocritical Lies On Government Weaponization

b. Mike Davis: “Sheldon Whitehouse Forgot To Take His Medicine Again, The Guy Is Deranged”

c. Liz Harrington Discusses The Latest Developments In The Dirty Politics Of Fulton County

d. Sam Faddis On Tim Walz: “His Connections To The Chinese Communist Party Are Terrifying”

14. More on the Harris ethnicity thing

Now looky here, good reader … I can’t even remember yesterday’s details, let alone days ago, but one of us, male or female, clearly covered this topic of Harris and posted a Candace vlog or two on it … all right, this one’s from Rogue Nation … not sure it’s anything new.

13. Just now on Quora … lady called Kelly

Have you ever walked into your home and known something wasn’t right? What happened?

I was 15 and came home early from school as it was last day of term before Christmas. My mum was at work.

I walked in and the house felt weird. It wasn’t right. Then I looked around, there were jumpers and sweaters all over the kitchen floor, the wall unit drawers were open. I still didn’t quite understand why my mum left such a mess. I went to the living room and all her porcelain ornaments were missing. It was then I turned around and noticed the dining room window had been forced open. That was when I realised it was a burglary.

According to the police they suspect I disturbed them and whilst I was unlocking the back door, going in and trying to understand what was going on, the perpetrators actually scarpered through the front as there were some items in half full bags left near the door.

12. Polio

While looking at Ida Lupino’s biography, I saw that she had had polio in 1930. I have a recollection of a boy who had it (think he eventually got over it or came to terms with it) during a pandemic, missed that horror myself … I hope … anyway, I looked it up.

Fecal matter in water or food I read … always comes in via the mouth. Poor sanitation. I also saw this:

By 2015, polio was believed to remain naturally spreading in only two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan,although it continued to cause outbreaks in other nearby countries due to hidden or re-established transmission.

Good thing we have no one from those places then, innit … not in our polio-free Britain … no one iffy gets to handle food in this country, do they?

11. Badlands, via IYE at 838

The threat posed by Canada.

The recent positioning of former Bank of England chair Mark Carney as the replacement of the beleaguered tool Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister of Canada (via his appointment as chairman of Canada’s new Taskforce for Economic Growth’) should serve as a reminder of the nefarious role which British Canada has played as an anti-republican hub in world affairs for generations.

Political hostilities will resume around 1530 with Badlands.

 

Always pays to read the reviews … this is far better than at first supposed, the history of the actor and actresses was most interesting and the review below is full of spoilers … in fact, the first spoiler is coming up right now … the lovely Lupino kills her benefactor … the whole cast seem insane. Review:

‘From “vanilla blonde” starlet of the early thirties to startling character actress of the late thirties, Ida Lupino should have been a bigger star but she was at the wrong studio. Warners already had Bette Davis who was always given first choice of the plum roles, in fact Ida was only signed by Warners as a threat to Davis, as Davis was being particularly difficult at that time.

Even though Ida claimed she was never allowed to pick her own roles, over the coming years she made the movies that she is best remembered for – but not all were for Warners. “Ladies in Retirement” was made for Columbia and not only gave Ida her favourite part but also a chance to work with her husband at the time – Louis Hayward. It had been a successful Broadway play of the previous year and Flora Robson had made the role of Ellen Creed, the determined middle aged housekeeper who resorts to murder to keep her two “pixilated” sisters together, her own.

Ida was only 23 but somehow she managed to put together the talent and skill to portray sinister maturity. To get herself in part she wore her hair severely pulled back with as little make up as possible and almost willed herself into the iron willed woman who had to dominate this macabre Victorian melodrama.

Set in England in the late nineteenth century, frivolous, elderly Miss Leonora Fiske (Isobel Elsom recreating her stage role) reluctantly agrees to let Ellen (Lupino) her house keeper companion, have her two “pixilated” sisters (Elsa Lancaster and Edith Barrett) come to stay for a short visit. But the visit turns to permanence and when their behaviour becomes intolerable, Miss Fiske demands they leave.

Ellen’s thieving “nephew” Albert (Hayward) arrives while she is in London collecting her sisters and he puts Miss Fiske wise about what she is letting herself in for – he describes the sisters as “batty” and “crazy”. It doesn’t take long for them to disrupt the household and even though Ellen begs and pleads for them to be allowed to stay, Miss Fiske’s mind is made up.

Ellen’s is made up as well and after sending her sisters away for the day she calmly and methodically strangles the older woman while she is at the piano, then hides her body in an old wall oven which doubles as a safe.

Like a bad penny, the charming Albert returns and soon has the pixilated sisters eating out of his hand. Emily confesses to him that Ellen told them that she has bought the house from Miss Fiske but that they have been sworn to secrecy. Between Albert and Lucy (Evelyn Keyes), a parlour maid he has been stringing along, Ellen’s icy demeanour finally cracks and realising that her sisters will be looked after she walks out to meet the police.

I do not see how Ida Lupino could have been better in the part, from stubborn patience to almost maniacal determination in her quest to look after her sisters. She was given strong support from Louis Hayward as the sinister, calculating Albert and Elsa Lancaster as the far more dangerous sister, Emily – “the sea has got to be cleaned”. The New York Times thought Ida deserved the most praise for her “thin ribbon of intensity that makes the film hair raising”.’

(1015) You can always tell when I run out of news … I try to write poems:

“Met my lover on the Belgrano, unencumbered by the past, middle class, we spent our time toolmaking and torpedoing sausages and word salad … “

… and generally posting silly things. Morning all. (1028)

(1104) Posts up at UHC and Jstack, both on the same topic. That film posted soon. (1105)

 

10. Why do I feel a CS&N song coming on?

9. TDS today

8. These racists all need rounding up and buying a pint

7. Well I’d certainly give them a try