Yes, well it was going to be Blonde for a Day but it seems below par, so a rerun of an old fave:
“A precursor to the Thin Man series, starring William Powell as a detective (but without the very supplementary Myrna Loy). And this is directed by none other than Michael Curtiz (“Casablanca” and “Mildred Pierce”), and you can often tell, scenes characteristically complex with lots of people and foreground/background. As a whole the movie races along, to the point that the huge cast (all introduced with visual vignettes at the start) is confusing. But hang in there. because a third of the way through Powell kicks in full time.
There are few actors like William Powell in the history of American film. He is peculiar in charming ways, and makes no bones about it. He lacks any sense of what we might think of as cool or hardness–there’s no Bogart in him, no Cary Grant of course, nothing but what a character actor might have. And he made it a virtue, visible even here. The rest of the cast is good or very good, with a few other recognizable faces, and it gels increasingly as you go until a series of dramatic whodunnit style conclusions wraps it all up.
Powell’s detective, Philo Vance, was a snobby socialite, and the plots have a quality of private detective vs. police (which gets used in a lot of these kinds of series, of course). There are four movies with Powell playing the part (and many others with other actors in the role. This is the fourth, and best of them, the first going back to the dawn of sound, 1929. It’s not as slick or warm (or sophisticated) as “The Thin Man” series, which is a high water mark of the effete detective, but it’s terrific in its own way, and really well constructed. I’d not miss it.”
(1205) Afternoon all, just finished a nice brunch, coffee at the ready, here we go. (1237)
Personal defence
Defence is only partly this scenario:
It’s also the home invasion, due to come soon enough when Them decide it’s time to send out the sleeper cells armed from the cache in religious buildings.
Aside from both those scenarios, there is also your decision whether to venture out or not. These are decisions of life and limb. Now … it’s all very well us going on here about how it should be out there … it’s simply not, is it … thus personal safety is the primary thing to take care of. Much easier at home, as you can arrange the “welcome”, plus the fewer the entrances to the abode, the narrower the entry … the more easily defended.
Govt is your next consideration. If you do any more than shield, e.g. with old style rubbish bin lid, then you are the “aggressor” in corrupt and/or Woke Plod’s eyes … minimum “process is the punishment” nine hours at the station, through to being banged up with the very elements you’ve been attacked by.
I’d suggest that that’s the worst scenario, that last one, whilst the second worst is the one in the picture above … and the third is the home invasion. Any which way, expect zero mercy.
In certain ways, the outside encounter gives you a better chance, providing you can be back to a wall or able to scarper (preferable). So build your route into your plan. It would need to be some compulsory call from outside to force you out, e.g. a medical appointment.
If I say use your stout walking stick as a blocker, that’s legal to say. What I can’t say is how to attach something you’re carrying concealed onto the end of that stick, I can’t suggest you think “thrust”. I certainly can’t suggest where to thrust to.
What I can say is that if you get jumped, as that man did … why did you? I’m suggesting that that is way too late. Also, how can I put this … three to five assailants are too many, esp. if older and/or out of condition.
I also must not suggest, legally, that you pre-empt. I can suggest though “learned calm demeanour”. Panic is death, odds on. I’d suggest a metre and a half as your Rubicon and the word Stop delivered calmly. Anything after that is fair game.
I’d further suggest that anything after the Rubicon is you behind bars in this society, either way. So you do have decisions to make before you even think of going out, locking your front door. Plus the “resolve” to go with your pre-decisions, no backtracking.
See, we’re not talking bravado here, being a hard man, any of that. We’re talking survival … simply that … unmaimed.
(0828) Grey poison out there but brightening up all the same. Have a good hump day. (0855)
10. Moo corner
9. Rachel from accounts
8. A different type of fraud
… but one now all too common:
X had a community note on it … that the trolls use and reuse pictures of innocent victims to engage sympathy … clickbait to draw you in and then have the average onliner at their mercy.
c. “Update: US Embassy in Jerusalem to Americans: We can’t help evacuate you.
American diplomatic mission in Israel says it’s currently unable to organize departures, urging citizens to make their own safety and travel arrangements.
Stay safe my fellow Americans!”
🚨Update: US Embassy in Jerusalem to Americans: We can’t help evacuate you.
American diplomatic mission in Israel says it’s currently unable to organize departures, urging citizens to make their own safety and travel arrangements.
— US Homeland Security News (@defense_civil25) March 3, 2026
[In other words, you’re on your own folks]
d. “ ….Trump surrounded himself with Jewish elites. Stakeholders. Bessent came directly from Soros. No one raised an eyebrow. The play is NOT Project 2025. It is the World Economic Forum Protocols 2030. Pahlavi would de-nationalize Iran’s oil and allow it to become part of Israel’s shopping cart. Assuming – Russia and China sanction this reversal. China buys 70% of Iran’s oil…..”
(0618) morning all … light appearing out there, wall to wall poisoned cloud cover.
ddddd
5. Not a definitive statement by UHC yet
… more putting various incoming reports and thoughts together on people, nation, state.
I’m starting with that lady last night in the Tue 24 clip … she said the Demrats reduced politics to “the oppressor and the oppressed”, adding new meaning to “victimhood” and “entitlement”, twisting those definitions, and creating the crime of “giving offence”.
In the case of Iran, millions were oppressed, tortured, slaughtered, a true humanitarian crisis, as with the Christians in Nigeria and anywhere else near to Moose Limbs. The lady in the clip pointed out that the Persian people were a classic case of oppressed, abused victims, if you needed one, while the Mullahs and IRGC were a classic case of oppressors.
Yes they both were, respectively. Leaving to one side for now the geopolitical reasons for Donny intervening, as he did in Venezuela, Nigeria, which annoys Britain greatly … America as world policeman … there are two things to immediately say.
First is that if he succeeds and neighbouring countries send in the boots on the ground, then that at least satisfies Rupert’s stance that we have our own oppressed people here … all of us, esp. the raped girls (and boys).
Second is my observation that if you remove a central monster, you usually end up with warlords and minor fiefdoms, oppressing just as much as before. Whither the poor people then?
There’s one factor here which has not yet been mentioned … actually, there are far more … see Steve’s long paragraph in Wed 3 … but one I keep returning to … which moral, social codes rule the people’s hearts and minds?
There is one above all others which works to contain sheer human excess, the descent to evil, to a moral vacuum … biblical Christianity, both testaments, old and new.
In the west, we all once knew those precepts and the common man and woman had to abide by them … not so globo-psycho-paedo above, Them, who used those cherry-picked precepts, politically, against the common man and woman.
If you go through all the key texts which make up Christianity, there’s constant reference to people, communities “falling away” from the Word … we read about the Laodecean church for example in Revelation. Israel, plus later Christians, both turned away from their God for baal, moloch, hedonism, preying on the vulnerable etc., there was the flood sweeping it away but not completely, as the heart of Man is exactly as we know it is, even on that ark, also later parachuted in.
One of the worst aspects of so-called Christians is cherrypicking the bits we personally want and putting on the blinkers for the bits we find inconvenient. Thus I heard about a lady (not Toodles in this case) who went to a southern bible study/coffee morning yesterday … she has been given the silent treatment for pointing out certain things … I’ll see if I can find it. Here tis.
“This group was pretty nice to her at first. She went last week and returned home dubious, but came back this week. Again, very nice at first, but once the study started and things were shared, the ladies nearly turned their backs on her.
According to these women, Moose Limbs believe that Jesus is coming to save them. They all ‘dream about Him’….so said those ladies. Very pro Moose Limb in such a respectable, sanitised way.
Our lady (let’s call her “our lady” in this post) was wondering … how do they know what Moose Limbs dream about anyway? God does love everyone but at some point, their reprobate minds “disqualify them”. Those women said they had read the Bible through several times. They disagreed with our lady! Whaaa?
They just want to be nice and love everybody and so on, at respectable coffee mornings, all clean and tidy. One woman went on about Trump and how terrible he was to “wipe out those people in Iran”. Does that woman even know who those leaders really are and the atrocities they have committed upon their own people?”
The Woke mind virus, controlled by Them (globo-psycho-paedo) hand down, define those whom Them consider oppressed and whom oppressor … quite a theocracy in itself, no? Determining what the entire tainted left will believe … and what they won’t. Christian it sure ain’t.
Nuff for now.
4. Do you remember that servicewoman two days ago
… who was badmouthing the CinC plus America? Patriots and service personnel were incensed.
3. Steve at 1311
IDF Forces Strike Iranian Supreme Council as Group Gathers to Choose Successor to Late Ayatollah
Trump Cuts Off All Trade With Spain After Far-Left Spanish Government Refuses to Let America Use Bases in their Country
Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi Admits That the Civilian Government of Iran Is No Longer in Control of the Military (as I predicted
No more from the two Alex’s for now. Neither mention the atrocities committed by the Iranian regime against their own people. Mostly the young. Tens of thousands murdered in the streets in January; those wounded murdered in hospitals, where they’d gone for treatment. I already said they were both pro-China and it looks like they’re also on the side of the world’s greatest sponsor of terrorism: Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis – plus hundreds, if not thousands of terror cells all over the West. How could you remain uncritical of the Iranian secret police, Alex? Do you think it’s right that young women are raped before they’re murdered, in order to prevent them from ascending to heaven, Alexander?
The BBC is bent and dangerous, and so is YouTube and Wikipedia
Canada hands control of Vancouver to Musqueam Indian Band
Independent Rape Gang Inquiry exposes the depravity of perpetrators and involvement of staff in various UK public institutions
2. This was yesterday’s news
1. DAD at 1311
a) TOULOUSE is now well-known, like RENNES and NANTES, as a breeding ground for numerous far-left groups specializing in both sabotage and violence. This violence isn’t limited to nationalist movements, as an antique shop was targeted at the beginning of February.…
b) Beware everyone who rents their accommodation; don’t argue with the owner. A man was arrested in Saint-Denis on Monday night after the gruesome discovery of his tenant’s dismembered body.
c) Angers (49): the new concrete portal of the cathedral is not universally popular. [Vandalism is my word for it.]
d) If one is to use the term “First Nations” or “Indigenous Peoples” or “Native Americans” in the Americas and Antipodes, then, in fairness, it should also apply to English, French, Spanish and other such peoples in Europe— Elon Musk.
What it does not address is the Restore type, like many of us who have the same goal within the British Isles as this lady has for the ordinary Persian suffering even worse than we are from this enemy. I agree no boots on the ground over there, except for locals, and over here … just those from these isles.
But to care nothing for those humans … not sure I can agree with that. I was at one time a Little Englander, meaning England for England but then to say I care nothing for the raped and menaced girls in Scotland … to me, that’s a wrong position, for example those girls Lola etc.
There’s a big difference between the clowns above in these isles conscripting and sending boots on the ground … between that and supporting the elimination of the baddies, e.g. the way the US currently is. Whatever agenda Israel has … that’s one thing and IYE makes good points … the US has a broader plan, e.g. with Greenland in it.
23. Was this the dance the chaps were writing of?
Just checking. 😎
I got to speak with Mooné, the "Iranian baddie" whose YMCA dance took over the internet!😍 @hiitsmemooneh
While getting ready for a night out to celebrate with her friends the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran, she posted a Trump dance video and made the internet fall… pic.twitter.com/cd658RlkGE
This neat little thriller from 1950 is all the more interesting since Ann Sheridan is the woman in the title. Miss Sheridan is most convincing as she searches for her husband who witnessed a gangland murder and must find him before the underworld does. There are many tense moments along the way especially when she ends up riding on a roller coaster. Good support from Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith and Ross Elliott plus a good screenplay help this film rise above B status.
