Having thrown out a few films which were not up to scratch, I’m needing a short for elevenses and guess what comes along … about five interesting films (to save up for over the next few days, starting this afternoon, later).
Here’s a short in the style of Twilight Zone, though it might precede The TZ.
(0945)(0955)
10. Fresh fruit
9. Moo corner
… I know it well … but from a later time.
8. IYE corner
a. Short video from TheLeahFiles
”Todd Blanche is Worse Than Pam Bondi”
https://substack.com/@theleahfiles/note/c-242718672
b. ”Donald Trump – Spooky Connections”
|https://spookyconnections.com/2024/10/19/donald-trump/
(He sails close to the wind)
c. A tidbit I came across. Features Island man and Nutty.
| https://substack.com/@epsteinclass/note/c-242711414
d. Video
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWsuNcTkoKc
7. What rock band has played for the largest crowd?
“My first thought was that it had to be the bands that played at Woodstock, where an estimated 300,000 to 400,000 people came to hear the music. I was wrong, and Woodstock barely makes the Top 10. By most estimates, the biggest audience for a rock concert was on December 31, 1994, when Rod Stewart played an outdoor concert at Copacabana Beach in Brazil for an estimated 3.5 million people.” (from Quora)
6. Steve corner
(0729) Er … morning all (cough, splutter) … slept in, dinn I? (0744)
5. Which side of the divide are you?
If living in Britland I mean.
4. Steve at 1352
3. Finbar Sullivan a Brit?
Sounds Irish to me.
2. DAD at 1352
a) Evreux (27): France’s largest ethnic hypermarket, opened on the site of an Intermarché looted during the riots, has also just closed. The store sold only halal products and no alcohol….
b) A group identifying as radical “anti-speciesist” activists has claimed responsibility for setting fire to 17 vehicles at the Paris Terroirs pig slaughterhouse in Houdan, Yvelines, on the night of April 4….
c) “I’m not going back to all those filthy infidels”: Lolita C., expelled from Turkey to France, lives under ISIS after returning from jihad in Syria…
d) A double bombing struck the city of Blida, located about 50 kilometers south of Algiers, on Monday morning, April 13, while Pope Leo XIV was on an official visit to Algeria. This is the first attack on Algerian soil since 2012, according to reports….
1. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/04/gold-silver-metals-and-stones.html
(1633) Almost evening, all … been a busy day.
17. Elon quotes Donny
16. Phillipson
15. In comments
The Melania biz is under post Mon 6-10.
The Donny Christ biz is also under that post … a thread in itself.
14. Moo corner
13. Steve’s mystery post
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The traditional dating in the Douay-Rheims-Challoner version, in its introductions to the Gospels, has Matthew about 36; Mark about 40; Luke about 54; John about 93. That’s safe for Roman Catholics.
“The Orthodox Church views the Bible as the divinely inspired Word of God and a foundational record of divine revelation, yet it is not the sole authority, acting as part of a larger Holy Tradition. It must be read with the “mind of the Church,” avoiding private interpretation in favor of the consensus of Church Fathers and Councils.”
Protestant denominations, the traditional ones, not cults, tend more to solo scriptura but dates are debated. In August, 2009, on a website later stolen by blgr ggl in July, 2024, quite a few theologians were coming around to there being no choice but to date far earlier than modernists.
John A. T. Robinson has all four gospels before 60, with various books/treatises devoted to why those dates. I archived these dates, minus explanations, here:
|https://unherdablecats.com/early-dating/
It shows an emerging Christology around 20 or so years after death/resurrection, placing it before AD70. One thing fairly clear is that interpretations of scripture need to be seen in the light of scholars, councils, creeds over the first centuries, incorporating the above.
Have you a spare two hours?
Unusual English used in this review … wonder if it was written by an Indian or Latin?
“This splendid film is an accurate picture of post-Civil War Texas life , much as John Ford had earlier done with Alan LeMay’s “The Searchers”.
The neighbors of a frontier family named Zachary (Burt Lancaster , Audie Murphy , Doug McClure and their mother excellently played by Lillian Gish) turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiawa tribe . The Kiowas go on the warpath . Problems emerge when a secret about a mestizo is discovered .
The Kiowa tribe claims that the daughter (it was Audrey Hepburn’s only Western) is one of their own, stolen in a raid and she will be excluded for both races .
Offbeat Western about racial intolerance focuses on an enjoyable family and the dramatic deeds happen when a dark secret surfaces. It’s an interesting western with exceptional interpretation from protagonist duo Burt Lancaster and Audrey Hepburn.
However , Audrey Hepburn was seriously injured when she was thrown by a horse between scenes, spent six weeks in the hospital healing from a broken back, and when she returned to the set was (only) able to complete her role wearing a back brace. John Huston blamed himself for the mishap and hated this movie, (but) Hepburn bore no ill will towards the director. While Audrey was in hospital, Huston filmed scenes using a double.
Furthermore , a likeable Doug McClure as his kind brother, he is very fine as well as Audie Murphy as Cash, the hotheaded brother who reacts violently to learning his sister is a red skin Indian. Special mention to Lillian Gish as their affectionate mummy and Joseph Wiseman as the crazy Kelsey.
The picture was well produced by Harold Hecht/James Hill/ Burt Lancaster ; they wanted to ensure its commerciality and change the film’s direction , they wished to cast Kirk Douglas as Lancaster’s brother, which would throw off the balance in the brothers’ relationship.
The first effort at a rewrite did not work and after fifty pages into the second rewrite, the original writer , J.P. Miller , quit the film and broke off his relationship with the producers and being hired (was) Ben Maddow who wrote the script based on the novel written by Alan LeMay.
Glittering and shimmer cinematography is perfectly reflected on spectacular outdoors and colorful interiors by cameraman Franz Planer , though Oswald Morris says in his memoirs he was offered this film. Emotive as well as thrilling musical score by the classic Dimitri Tiomkin .
The motion picture was compellingly directed by John Huston who saw the film as an opportunity to make a serious comment on race relations, but the company thought anything along those lines should take a back seat to making it a commercial success as action/adventure.
The flick was made in a good time of the 50s and 60s when Huston resurged as a filmmaker of quality films and with the momentum in his favor, as John hung around in Hollywood this time to write and/or direct some of the finest American cinema made including The African Queen , The jungle of asphalt (1950), Red badge of courage (1951) ,Moulin Rouge (1952), Moby Dick (1956), The unforgiven (1960), Misfits (1961), Freud (1962), The night of the iguana (1964).
They were for the most part well-regarded but certainly not close to the level of his earlier revered work . He also experimented behind-the-camera with colour effects and approached topics that most others would not even broach, including thought-provoking themes and psychoanalysis.
He subsequently directed successes such as Fat City, (1972 ), The man who would be king (1975) and Wise blood (1979). He ended his career on a high note with Under volcano (1984), Honor of Prizzi (1985) and Dublineses (1987).
Rating : 7’5 above average , worthwhile watching.”
(1106) Bright out there but the air is poisonous. (1243)
No sense of self-protection
Until last night anyway:
Well why would they want to do that anyway beyond this fanatical feminazi demand to have zero constraints on their behaviour in any way, shape or form? It’s not sane and reeks of naivety, total entitlement … as for myself, I’d never wander around unarmed at such an hour, even in a relatively safe place … unlike this girl:
Why on earth was she at a nightclub alone anyway? Ok, let’s leave that … why was she leaving a nightclub alone in Britain, given the flooding of Britain by pack-rape demographics, with horror cases every other day, including deaths?
Only answer I can see is they’ve bought the narrative lock, stock and barrel, like Iryna. She had zero concept of self-protection, saw the fiend, thought … oh, loveable guest to the land, I must be kind to him … the fabians tell me so. Compare that to Charles Bronson’s defences. At least Lola in Scotland took some protection with her.
And why around churchyards at night? Or in parks? Dressed as come hither as she can? Naturally I’ll be attacked online by girls and limp-left men for even saying it.
Check my own online form so far … consistently for the inquiries, for justice, for restitution, plus keep men out of women’s spaces, keep boys out of girl guides, support girls safety groups and so on … all that is imperative … listen to the ladies too. Plus I believe pepper spray should be legal for ladies.
But at the same time, they need to tell other girls to get wise, to take at least elementary precautions, avoid certain scenarios like the plague.
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10. This might look like just an Oz item
… but it brings in a phenomenon or two worldwide. Kobie had placed both this new one’s head beside that police one’s head and the similarities were striking … the masculinity, the severe lezz haircut, the whole DEIness of the appointment. The whole CressidaDickedness of it … throw in the US ship’s capt, the Florida bridge collapse, Hultgreen herself and so on …
… there is a genuine problem. The problem of course is incompetence, plus the inability we have to criticise it, for fear of attacking a protected group, a useless group in fact for the task or role appointed to. Let’s take women themselves … like any demographic, e.g. western men, they range from the excellent to utter horrors.
Which women are selected? The brightest and best? Of course not. Plus there is the question of even the best men, the strongest, being ill suited to various tasks, e.g. nurturing babies whilst women generally don’t do heavy lifting … just for a start.
And that’s the very best of each. This lot appointed though are anything but the best. Then look at the effeminate men … Castro, this Hungarian, Starmer … useless creatures of low masculinity … there’s a definite pattern to the appointments and the trophy spouses.
9. Moo corner
8. The US
7. Venezuela
6. Britain
