Q1. If 4 = 4; 5 = 5 and 6 = 6. What does 7 equal? And 8 equal?
Q2. A cryptic question. “Small fish Ida swallowed once a week, (6)”. You may have to think about that for some time, but the answer will come to you one day.
Q3. Three Gulfs recently in the news.
Q4. Who is the current Postmaster General?
Q5. This is a slightly more difficult cryptic question. “ Alternative to LSD causes a medical mix-up”, (7).
Answers:
A1. 3 and 7. As in a 7 segment digital display.
A2 Small fish = fry, ‘swallows ‘ida’ becomes Friday.
A3. Gulf of Mexico. Gulf of America. The Gulf Stream is not collapsing.
A4. Trick question, we do not have one. The office was abolished in 1969.
A5. LSD in this case = £sd. The anagram of ‘medical’ is ‘decimal’
“Before his company will pay out, an insurance investigator (Dennis O’Keefe) arrives in a small town to look into an apparent suicide. But he immediately begins to suspect something’s not quite right. No gun, no powder marks, no bullet, no coroner’s report, and no sheriff’s report seem to lead to no suicide. Was it suicide … or was it something more sinister?”
Drumroll …
Barbara Britton (1920 till 80): one hubby only, Republican.
… plus the strength and clearheadedness to stick to them.
Around 8 a.m., it being 0803 just now, I like to be into the first feature post, usually Ruairidh or Jago, so’s I can get some brekky in. However … last night, I quickly made nine screenshots and this morning, post-HQ disaster, was redacting them for this post … phew, it’s a long one, people … both the video plus various comments on it … but so profound … truly I think it’s the most interesting take I’ve seen.
Plus, in the light of Thurs 1 and 2 already today … uncannily relevant … uncannily. Let’s get down to it by putting cart before horse. Now, good people … videos are time out of your day, yes, understood, but this one I believe will reward your time. Comments first though:
So to the video itself:
My thoughts:
First off, I’m not pooh-poohing those reports of her remains or plane bits on remote islands … possible … this video only analysing up to the final recorded communication with her.
The whole story does, though, bear an uncanny resemblance to subsequent events with female daredevils, inc. Amy, up to Hultgreen, including that lady airline pilot who safely put the airliner down after losing an engine (well done) to the famous racing driver who finally went too far, crashed and died, to the Fitzgerald, to the Florida bridge … to Danica Patrick who did win races but stayed this side of the careful/reckless line, plus some British ladies who did well and did not die … not from that anyway … yes, all that is so but the same motifs do keep appearing though … uncannily. Always.
Look at Pam Bondi, look at Karoline Leavitt … the latter is showing the signs of being as pleased as punch with herself … not good … inexperience … hoping she’ll settle down and continue to do her due diligence, because they’re going to do for her otherwise, as we are currently with Bondi.
A silly girl is Paula London who’s taken the bait and instead of sticking to her journalism, has started the swimsuit and “lady parts” guff on X, just as Anna Kournikova did, just as Danica Patrick herself did. But not Tulsi nor Kristi … those two are far more canny.
Why should I care? Because men do care for our women … nature of the beast.
There are other red flags with Amelia E, apart from her privileged, yet weirdly inadequate upbringing … one red flag being the satanic Eleanor R, UN pusher of the day. That woman was the worst, apart from the suffragettes, who twisted all advances for women already achieved with men onboard … that lot then turned it into the Helen Reddy look at me, I am superwoman, nothing I cannot do, better even than men, what fish needs a bicycle.
Ladies and gentlemen … that is sick … it plays on the very susceptibility and latent resentment of most females if it gets out of hand … as against the brutalism and “uncaringness” of the male, the natural arrogance we have, whether justified or not, the propensity we have for being right bstds or curmudgeons, the manspreading, the mansplaining.
You know my hobbyhorse … anything coming between men and women I am against. End of. Both males and females need to be ultra-cautious about people, forces, exploiting the natural fissures between them.
And in Earhart’s case, in her natural inexperience in tech, plus the feminist arrogance … weeeellll … accident waiting to happen … not forst time either by the way. The officer on that ship who did know tech and who has been criticised for not setting Earhart straight … why did he not? Not his job to? She was the star? Or was he up against a global political thing, just as with those first three girls sailing solo around the world (girls, not women who have of course done it).
The Oz girl was a great sailor, plus she had a complete support service. In the case of Dutch NZ Laura … she was a natural sailor, I can tell you that, plus father advising her. The American girl? Disaster … on her own completely, needed rescuing.
Would I have been much better? Nope … without a support team … not at all … in fact it happened when I was 23, it was in the press at the time … but my crew and I called it off before it got to the really dangerous part … no regrets even today … poor support preparation on my part, too young too, plus I had a crewman’s life to consider … just as Amelia E had Noonan … and did not consider him imho. END.
Chaps and chapesses … if you’d been following the past hour here, you’d have seen items 1 to 4 slowly go up … 2 was DAD, 3 was Steve and 4 was IYE. It’s the most work-intensive part of the day, requiring jumping from HQ to NOWP and back, then highlighting Four Three Two etc., greening it using hex code and in DAD’s case, also reading and summarising. Item 4 was a note to IYE after his comment in the sidebar.
There’s over an hour’s work at a critical time of the day pour moi. Saved it, checked it was fine, went off to do a domestic chore involving next door. Came back, opened this post again … guess what? Items 2, 3, 4 completely gone. On both ipads.
No matter, thought I, the thing which always kicks in is the WP notice in a cross screen panel at the top, which says there’s an older autosave, would I like to see it? Yes please. Then … restore this autosave? Yes of course … all back to normal. Most useful, that WP function.
To gather how much work is involved in the opening hour each day, go to any previous day’s opening items at HQ and look. Also, to answer the obvious question that maybe I forgot to save … I always save once the [1 to 4] in the heading goes in … meaning I always type that and instantly click save, wait for the lit “save” to go faded … that means saved. But it hardly matters, as the WP notice appears anyway if there’s a glitch.
Yes, you guessed it … WP this one time singularly failed to show the panel today, I can say first time ever it’s failed … meaning there was no way to get back to the previous revision. In short, the summaries of DAD, Steve, IYE were gone, matey, into the ether. The sole proof they were ever here is in the heading as it is now … [1 to 4] … that only ever goes up as the last thing before save.
P’d off? Mightily. Why oh why did WP choose now, of all times, to fail to display its regular service?
Well, the most charitable answer I can come to is that yesterday’s HQ troubles wiped this facility away … that is, WP no longer offer this failsafe at HQ. That’s the most charitable thing I can say. Less charitable is that some gremlin has got inside HQ but unless it evaded my techie’s eyes as well, I can’t see that being the reason.
All right … am I going to do that hour’s work over again? Am I hell as like … esp. as readers can simply go to NOWP itself or in the sidebar here and see the originals for themselves. Me? I’m having a coffee instead, ready to start the second post of the day. Sorry me. Plus Toodles has just written. The day has started, the sun is out.
1. Manouevering the public
TDS has an article on some European poll saying young females are far more likely to vote Woke leftwing than males … I’d say based largely on the German result and rather than join in with this thing, even with Pam Bondi’s refusal to do as she promised and DJT saying nothing, but with my own hobbyhorse of not being drawn into men attacking women in argument, as my argument is that the two sexes MUST work together, marry and start producing babies …
… well, you can see where all this is going. This poll came out of Scandinavia (natch) and the Woke, globo-communist trend is all for splitting male – female and wedging the gap even wider. Whoever commissioned the bollox poll (see TDS) clearly had an agenda, an agenda which my own post yesterday, including that Orwell quote in black, did nothing to dissipate. Manipulation plus.
Even my own neighbours are split that way. He is well aware of the imported army of fighting age males waiting to be given the word, she though actually said to me that it’s not just them … there are plenty of men from here threatening girls … yes, that’s so and I asked why so, then said because they have no respect for the female these days, easy meat … she agreed before realising what that meant.
And so it goes … we hardly need to spell it out, no? Meanwhile, why did Bondi say she had the list on her desk? My current surmise is that she was doing her boss’s bidding, so she gets the heat, not him, from MAGA … in other words, carrying a big stick so that the baddies do as Donny says or else. The moment it’s announced, the power is gone. Nuff for now.
Sometimes, it’s certainly attack, as it was this morning at HQ, the Chinese and Russky spam off the scale, then some toerag half-inched the security certificate at HQ at midday.
It certainly could be any of a few reasons … often a glitch … my techie advises, good reader, and I do suggest he be heeded … that there’s nowt major here … the backenders do change policy now and then.
His advice is to bide your time … go do a chore or errand, visit others, come back later, say mid-afternoon. The time to be concerned is if it’s still down or under the hammer by next morning.
In the meantime, as I’d need to put a notice up somewhere for you, think it best to change the priority order of Unherdable blog notifications to this order:
HQ
Jstack
NOWP
UHC
X
Gab
One of my fellow blogger’s sites
OoL
One of my oft-visited vlogs
Via phone to a friend who’d post what we’d discuss.
Right, I’m advised it’s now fixed so 🍿🍿🍿… and sorry for the inconvenience as they say. Anyway, you didn’t miss much. ☺️
Exploring the Bs is quite a task … quite a few duds from back then too, plus some themes are a bit outdated in some ways, though the paranoia is quite up to date in 2025.
What makes a good film? You tell me … but in my case, the atmosphere of the time is big … the dress, manners, what they did, how they did it … and the characters.
Which does bring me to names … call me wrong but there are some actors … if I see the name, I click away … actors like Barbara Stanwyck, a real hoe, Lucille Ball, Borgnine, Cagney, the dirty rat, never Bob Hope … it goes on. One I do (sort of) like is Sterling Hayden, William Powell … there are a few… Ruth Roman in this is fine.
I have another theory you know, I call it my Theory N2 and it’s all mine only … that Trump-Bondi were waiting to see who broke cover after her warning about the desk … and no one experienced in corruption did … not the big players.
12. The young female can be unreadable
On the surface, looks good … tatt free, no nosebones, no ring on thumb, no multicoloured hair etc. but then the words come out, the wrongheadedness … and it’s such a pity, such a waste:
11. The three letter sites
10. Sometimes a pundit, esp. on Gab
… can tirn out to be iffy in some of his hobbyhorses, and yet he’s worth a look all the same:
It just reinforces that we’re probably all politicked out just now, needing to take a break, do some chores, plus I did want to return sometime to the Unherdables motif, the fictional backstory of:
The Lighthouse Tavern
There are four main pictures after the initial one of the cat below the No Dogs sign
… which was not looking to get too far as the site motif. This appeared next:
… the notion of the Beacon having been used by many a pundit … seemed it needed some way to get a tavern into the picture, as Amfortas had. So why not add to the tale by having a shallow bay around to our left of the rocky promontory:
We need to suspend disbelief or noticing how the pics don’t quite reconcile but this might have been a view from the carpark at night:
This one seemed to me to have to be in the mix somehow:
… as a lounge connected to the tavern but maybe at the back of the property where the rivermouth moves into the river proper.
So we have the landlord’s quarters somewhere near the lighthouse, then the taproom, the lounge bar, this other lounge by the river, stables somewhere on the site, all sorts of outhouses and plenty of sheds … a chapel somewhere there for those of the faith, those needing solace, maybe a bike shed … then possibly a short way up the river … this:
Maybe the landlord hands the near-lighthouse digs over to son or daughter dear and grandchn, while he/they retire to the houseboat. Whatever, whichever … it’s a most attractive spot on the coastline and as such … prime property desired by unsavoury moneybags stationed on the Isle of Man.
Best not to over-specify, best to leave most of the backstory to your own imagination but it does allow this landlord-patron thing, plus drop-bys, support staff etc. … needs a bowls green too, maybe a croquet lawn.
Also, it’s necessary to have the place pretty remote from the mainstream, not too accessible … those visiting having to get through some fairly poor roads in … in other words, not a natural resort for most … and the lighthouse tavern, which by some eccentricity is called Unherdables, is known of by quite a few but the landlord and patrons are an acquired taste, not really a hub of bonhomie for outsiders, not explaining how to get around to the different parts …
… thus the numbers visiting are down around a manageable level, just as the Unherdables like it … plus they are doing a job there … the light each night and each dark early morn.
Why bother with any sort of backstory? Well … er … it’s nice I suppose. And we’ll drop that Morrisons idea, thank you very much. Supplies come in by boat. (1122)
