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Op Ed of Sorts

Time for a break from all the awful out there. Yes, as for the usual fayre, we’ll be back to the hardhitting after I can get a second sleep in, crashed early, had to check a friend’s news.

It was Andy I was thinking about but at least it’s repairs and he has an interim roof and sustenance … nice to see blogmother Toods comment and the boys drop in too. My friend’s daughter just had good medical news, another daughter is about to have a baby, also IYE health, watching Steve, nice to see MD and others drop by … the tavern motif is a nice one.

On X, a fellow styling himself Vic (Meldrew) also has a local tavern for real, gives the pub perspective, plus quite a few ladies drop in to excoriate Them but at the same time have some banter … last evening, a gal from Cronulla beach in Sydney and so it goes on.

Does anything online mean anything? Tell that to Iranians being slaughtered. Certainly the devils’ business. The Minnesota biz … seems Trump or offsider gave the hard word to demon Walz. And so it goes on.

Yes, I believe it does mean something. And in turn, staying up with the news on this and that does help, imho. When you drop a few lines or even more, others do read you. MMutR yesterday … I said he probably didn’t see Wogan, Trump etc., being off on a mission. He’d seen it (ha ha). Nice. Plus there’s a little thing going at the other sites, each in its own way. Plus the blogrounds each of us make.

Yes … nice. It does mean something. It’s necessary that if you weren’t specifically mentioned, you’re still part of it, DM and DAD. Saw DM at, of all places, C@W yesterday. I need to write to Isilme, a few more. You have your rounds to do. All have your own aches and issues. As Roob said to me … care to share? I did … tales of penguins (I’ve had a weird life, 50/50, the good 50 was excellent).

Downunder, there’s been flash flooding near to Geelong:

Yes, it’s the end of the summer hols down there, at least they had some hols at least. Meanwhile, rain lashing down on panes here, neighbour next door home from work, I need to crash again, washing taken away from heaters.

Have a good one, get through the early morn, prayers for those needing them. Health good here. Cheers, chaps and chapesses.

.o0o.

(1556) Getting on for evening, folks.

 

34. A point of view

33. Them’s number

32. Det A

31. Steve Hearts of Oak

Vicky Richter 1275.

30. Is she right? Wrong?

29. Moosh corner

28. Redpill posts

27. From pete at 1275

I had a Stan and Ollie binge yesterday… Stan (almost) tells us what he thinks of technocracy (the one where they do a puzzle)

https://theinfounderground.com/tiunew/index.php?topic=32320.0

An entertaining read – substack from Bob Moran charting the absurdity of the alleged ‘freedom movement’

https://bobmoran.substack.com/p/cheese-dreams-and-backwards-jigsaws

Andrew Bridgen on a Dutch channel – LIGHTHOUSETV – not heard him quite like this before.. ‘ Andrew Bridgen on Satanism, Child Trafficking, Corruption and Abuse’

HERE

26. See comments under Mon 16-20

This is from the GB News report via Steve:

 

“Laura Hunt has been murdered in a most grisly way, a shotgun blast to the face as she answered her apartment door. Dana Andrews as Detective Mark McPherson is assigned to the case and he’s got a good list of suspects to work from in this up close and personal murder.

Laura Hunt hung out with some real characters. Dana Andrews has a good group to choose from. There’s Vincent Price who was to marry Laura, a worthless playboy who spends his life as a permanent party guest. There’s Clifton Webb as the epicene critic and noted wit who was a kind of sponsor for Laura into society. There’s Judith Anderson as Laura’s sophisticated aunt who has a yen for Price. There’s even Dorothy Adams as Bessie, Laura’s lesbian maid who is carrying a titanic torch for her ex-employer.

Andrews very patiently and methodically goes through the suspects. In his way he’s as officious and annoying as Lieutenant Columbo on television. But he does get to the truth. Of course there’s one very big surprise for him during the course of the investigation.

Gene Tierney is Laura and she was a beauty in her day. Man or woman, who wouldn’t be crushing out on her. This film was the first one that got Dana Andrews any real notice from the critics. And of course Clifton Webb made a screen debut in this after a long career on Broadway. Webb got an Oscar nomination for his role of Waldo Lydecker as a Best Supporting Actor, but lost to Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way.

David Raksin’s musical theme for this film is one of the great ones ever done for the cinema. So popular did it prove that Johnny Mercer wrote a lyric for it after the film came out. At the time people like Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes and a host of others rushed to record it. 

I guess you could classify Laura as a kind of sophisticated noir police drama. It’s dialog will leave you begging for more. It’s not much in the way of mystery because about a third of the way through you will realize at the same time Andrews does who the murderer is, maybe even before Andrews does. That doesn’t matter though because Laura is entertaining every step of the way.”

The story of the making of the film was high drama itself … plus the story of Gene Tierney.

 

(1144) Elevenses almost over and my delivery is here. Again I must say this blog is only as good as our incoming here on any particular day … today seems a bumper day. (1256)

 

25. Ethics? Dross?

24. Mr. Ethics

23. It’s just a thought

22. Penseivat is not forgotten

Mortified 😳🥺😔 How many hundred times, how many ways, can I say, prostrated before ye … sorry, sorry, sorry, Penseivat!

21. IYE corner

There’s one item I’ve not signposted, hoping the regular reader would know where.

Then MM on Pretti of course.

Amelia AI link in comments.

 

Intriguing mix … Wogan, Dame Edna, the Donald. How each handled it. Sade did quite well I thought, except not one of her good songs.

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20. Miliband’s grasp of ethics

19. Moosh corner

18. And that’s another reason I’m honoured she’s my blog-partner

17. Maybe I just needed a daughter

… maybe Australia did too … one of the daughters of the restoration.

16. Obama as if he’s still President, rather than “former”

(0757) Morning all, light’s up and it’s a wonderful horizon to horizon poisoned cloud. (0819)

 

15. Playing for the other side

14. Organ harvesting in hospitals

13. Getting it right

12. Signal

11. DAD at 1274

a) Just as one thought that French politics could not get more [Insert your own word here. Mine is ‘stupider’ – if such a word exists.] M. Flanby chips in…. Midway through the conversation, François Hollande’s eyes lit up at the mention of the upcoming presidential election….

b) He may wish to reconsider now that yesterday’s election result is declared. In the Haute-Savoie by-election, UDR-RN candidate [right wing] Antoine Valentin came out on top (45.06%)….

c) Ireland’s Leaders grandstand overseas while reality crumbles at home. The country that lectures Europe on compassion can’t keep its own children safe, and the consequences are finally breaking through….

d) President Trump posted a video about vaccines captioned “They’re ALL poison. Every Single One!”

e) Russian FM, Lavrov, Names the “War Six”: European Leaders Plotting Direct Conflict with Russia. (JH: 9 minutes but the bit you need is around 6 mins.)

 

If Toodles had realised how vital this was to be to British English speakers, she’d have sent the entire back catalogue.

(0131) I feel the heading is justified for Brit/US readers of our political leaning as they have the same issues down there and this very Australia Day has been the subject of much strife down there. (0149)

 

10. Moosh corner

9. Treason … no other word for it

8. The (expletives) in Minnesota

7. A sorry situation

6. The Australian “leader” greets her country

She is the equivalent, though over a much longer time period, of Rupert Lowe as British “leader”.