(1615) Almost evening all … twas a lovely Sunday at this end. You?
21. Persian restaurant time
20. Steve at 1309:2
Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . Richard Taylor (from Welsh Wales).
19. Moo corner
18. The real people of Britain?
17. Declaring war
16. Analysis of that strike
Just happen to have eight nice tracks in the queue … at three per Sunday, I could add maybe an older Tuba Skinny in the third week … so three weeks of good jazz. For some time, first track up has been “look at this one, see if you like”, second has been a nice set piece, third has been the rip-roarer finale.
In a slight bind … two wunnerful films but which Sunday and which Monday? The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Thirty-Nine Steps (1935 version). 🤔 Former now and t’other tomorrow. Jazz is at 1430 today.
“After seeing the horrendous remake of this film, it made me go back to the original. This is a movie with a great message, and while it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, it has a human message. What makes it differ is that perhaps the response to power as significant as this first wave force may be tempered by a hesitation to destroy. Also, the aliens are benevolent and confident. Klatu is there to save the Earth and its people, not to make it a new central park for his future generations. Gort is an enforcer, but never acts unless provoked. It isn’t that there is no cynicism in this film. Obviously, when threatened, the military types want to respond with carnage. Once it is established that this is of no use in a huge demonstration of power (done in the most “humanitarian” way. Michael Rennie has some personality, despite his bewilderment as a stranger in a strange land.. Patricia Neal is really caught in unfamiliar territory, but does a very good job in her role. This is an early treasure of the sci fi genre.”
(1111) Elevenses with a vengeance, if the time is owt to go by. (1142)
15. Enjoy Sunday lunch, readers
14. It all seems a bit Bath and Wellsish to me
13. Now and Next
“Who voted for the slaughter to begin? Nobody. The electorate comprised 5.2 million men (some 60% of all adult males, and no women at all), but they were not consulted. Instead, the order was given by King George V at a Privy Council meeting in Buckingham Palace attended by only two court officials and Lord Beauchamp.”
I’m in two minds on war. For an enemy within or nearly at our gates, you’d see me at the local recruiting office, doctor permitting. For some faroff war, it again depends how it affects us. I quite agree with Donny doing the deed in Persia … in this chess game, if only for the masses of humans beings slaughtered as well, plus for the promise he made, plus for Christian eschatological reasons (endtimes scenario) … there’s certainly a case, zionist ashkenazi or no zionist ashkenazi.
The red line is boots on the ground … firstly for the US, then as ally … us. The problem with it in our case is that the mussy cells are primed to slaughter in every village, right now. For this reason, I’m far more in Rupert’s camp. No way, esp. no coercive callup for overseas duty. It comes back with my first comment … if intel put it beyond doubt, for an enemy within or nearly at our gates, you’d see me at the local recruiting office, doctor permitting.
12. Wars and rumours of war
11. IYE has posted a “semi-revealer”
There is, in general, copy that does not make it to square one, some which of course reaches the inbox but I have to bury and vaguely signpost it, copy which is “semi-revealed”, copy which is just signposted and lastly, copy I blog on. The criterion is simply political sensitivity … copy that will see us hit more than the average.
For the uninitiated, Telemann was the television repairman of his era but he dabbled in music, with such hits as Telemann banana and others. Wiki has the details.
(A bit worried about the cameraman concentrating on the lads instead of focussing on the lasses. Not normal.)
(0839) Late brekky time. (0857)
10. Moo corner
9. US drones
8. Russia-Finland
7. A Col double on ageing
6. Steve from last evening
Plus: General Mohammad Pakpour, commander of IRGC, was eliminated. He directed the massacre of tens of thousands of Iranians in January.
Quick question … is it still legal to shoot any Welshmen you see in your fields after 6 p.m.? Juss wunderring.
(0716) Tempus fugit. (0736)
5. Donald’s statement
You might have noticed there are two themes I’m going on about … one is ladies such as Kobie in Sydney and Sarah in Alberta, Irina in Russia, plus us … luv the idea of reporting Donny’s statement as noted by Kobie in Sydney, Oz, to deliver to a Brit and US readership. The other is fixating on trams. Just happen to have some nice tram, trolleybus and streetcar pics, so why not obsess about it a bit, ha ha?
4. Steve at 1308
3. The first notice I saw up at X today … yawn
2. DAD at 1308
a) Ramadammydingdong at Bristol Cathedral !!! What is The Church doing allowing this to take place INSIDE one our historic religious buildings?
b) Facebook removes Hungarian Pro-Government Newspaper pages weeks before Election.
c) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem has revealed that tech mogul Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team helped uncover spyware installed on devices used by herself and her team.
d) Whilst the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) is celebrating a major legal victory, its political opponents have not given up their efforts to get the party banned.
(0641) Morning all … a vague, full cover cloud first light out there. (0709)
Over at Orphans, I’ve just posted:
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-danger-in-depersonalising-your.html
… and this the Tom part:
Ggl Blgr’s refusal to upload was amusing as I could not help but think it was related to the trigger word Amelia, plus anything the AI character had inserted … plus “her” following me and then me following back (my usual modus operandi with ladies), involving an exchange of messages … had I myself become half human, half dalek? Had the guy(s) behind Amelia? I can just imagine DAD’s reaction to my getting fresh with an AI character.
Have a lovely Sunday, good readers.
(1706) Evening all. Unusual strategy here as there really is a dearth of new, substantiated reports … plenty of opinion and speculation. I’m just thinking we need to wait to gather … looking more at a 1900 restart time. Plenty on the MSM … not worth looking at. (1937) Back again. (2138) Probably pegging out now, readers. Have a good Saturday night.
24. Kurdistan account
“Iran bombed all neighboring countries that have U.S. bases, except Turkey. What does this indicate?”
23. The Yorkshire Lass
Usually a landscape pic Xer:
“The Crown and the City of London Corporation are heavily financially connected to Iran. It’s all making sense why the King and Starmer are silent. Trump is ending the Islamic rule.”
22. Report from an unreliable source
Man we know of, calls himself Health Ranger, from Austin, TX, quoting IRGC, that AN/FPS-132 radar in Qatar is taken out. They say crippling US DEW but a counter comment says the Boeing E-3 Sentry is a key radar plane used by the Air Force, providing airborne early warning and control capabilities through its advanced radar systems … it can track multiple over the horizon targets that no land based radar can do.
21. Jozsef Krieger from Hungary
“China can’t buy oil because Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz and so they will buy it from the Russians. Russia will make a lot of money from this war. If Zelensky doesn’t reopen the Friendship Pipeline, we Hungarians will have enough oil. But where does Europe get oil from?”
20. Visegrad 24
“U.S. soldiers filming an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the ground very close to their position. The Patriot air defense system at the Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar failed to intercept the Iranian missile.”
19. Latest tram report from Moo
18. Patricia Marins in Brazil
“Israeli defense systems fired at least 9 times trying to intercept, without success, 2 Iranian missiles that reached their targets in Tel Aviv. Up to this moment on the first day of the war, Iran has fired fewer than 20 missiles and a few dozen drones toward Israel, but with a high success rate for the missiles, hitting various locations, some of them civilian areas.”
17. From Germany
16. Football news
15. Steve posted two Xs, one from AP, one from Fox
… which naturally showed the Iranian viewpoint on Khomeini not being dead. Israel announced it had seen the body.
14. Starting to open up now
13. Message for future historians
12. Two reports
11. Well, Israel were first with usable footage