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Wednesday [1 to 5]

(0621) Still dark out there. (0722)

 

5. There’s a battle in the House


Feisty femmes can be bad, pains in the neck (the woke-left and karens) but others can be good, pains in the neck. The crucial thing is that their politics are right. In this case, miracles might happen to overturn Johnson.

4. Steve at 1221

  • Tensions Escalate Within NATO as Pentagon Abruptly Halts Ukraine-Related Communications with Germany
  • Germany’s Industrial Backbone Collapsing Under Globalist Ideological Energy Policy, Industry Leaders Warn
  • Milan’s Police Chief Reports Foreign Nationals Linked to 80% of Predatory Crimes as Winter Olympics Loom
  • GOP Senator Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Dual Citizenship
  • National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe is Now Responding to Nurses — Gives Thumbs Up
  • Criminal Indian Illegal Alien Semi-Truck Driver Who Obtained CDL in California Kills Two People After Jack-knifing Trailer in Oregon
  • [The] Ukraine Inches Closer To Defeat (JH: along the front line)
  • Gates Funds ‘Geoengineering’ to Dim the Sun – After Saying Climate Change Is Not a Threat to Humanity
  • Crowborough Braces for the Arrival of 600 Illegal Migrants
  • Much more.

3. Somalia


2. DAD at 1221

a) Capitulation. For security reasons, there will be no New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées this year.

b) It’s POLITICO, but I read of a rumour a few days ago. The European Union has approved a proposal to curb trade benefits for developing countries that refuse to take back migrants whose stay in the bloc has been denied. (JH: Leftwing source, proceed accordingly … probably already out in the alt-news)

c) NANTES – again. Preserving the Peace. At the Prairie-de-Mauves waste disposal center in Nantes, an unusual scene unfolds every evening.

d) Two 16-year-old ISIS supporters, one a Chechen migrant who arrived four years ago, were arrested by the DGSI (General Directorate for Internal Security) in the Bas-Rhin and Paris regions on suspicion of planning an antisemitic attack.

e) Ile-de-France: The slow disappearance of kebabs… replaced by tacos. The Avenue du 6-Juin-1944 in Goussainville recently boasted several kebab shops.

1. Toodles on Bashir and other players

Part one … part two

Tuesday [16 till close of play]

(1603) Almost evening all. The carols will start here on Sat 13th … 12 days of Advent, then 12 days of Christmas. Christmas pictures will appear from here onwards, probably tomorrow evening for the first in the sidebar.

 

19. The self-propelled cup

18. The age old dilemma


Wrong attitude imho … if you start to enjoy shopping with her (takes getting used to and involves sitting on benches a lot) … then you enjoy the payback later in the process. It’s a nice experience, your lady rewarding you. But never simping and never right into the shopping … that’s a bit iffy.

17. In one


16. So why is Donny not arresting?

As MmutR says … coz it’s Pammy’s job. And why is Pammy not?

Tue Mat

 

One of the middle series episodes.

“Judging by some comments here, “The Case Of The Missing Will” appears to be an underrated “Poirot” episode. Though apparently loosely based on an Agatha Christie story, it is a quintessentially Christie-ian tale about a old tycoon, a possible murder, a missing will, the search for a heir, deep buried family secrets; the ending is a surprise, but a logical one (the biggest clue can be found in the method of the murder). Gender politics of the 1930s are nicely incorporated into the story, and it is a clever Miss Lemon observation that enables Poirot to solve the mystery. The production is elegant, and the ensemble acting is typically fine, with Beth Goddard a spirited Violet. The only questionable plot point for me was the lawyer’s remark that an oath could be sufficient for a person to claim that he (or she) is someone’s heir; even in the pre-DNA era, I doubt it would be that simple.”

Tuesday [11 to 15]

(1333) Afternoon all … time getting away again … two loads of washing and gym coming up here. (1405)

 

15. Absolutely must be so

14. The N word

To say I was wide-eyed in shock at this below is the understatement of the week so far:


The only way I could pick the jaw up off the floor was after MMutR explained … he’s useful that way for us normies … he says that that’s not a despicable word to them (check her profile pic and text and you’ll understand). Were we to use the N word ourselves, it would have racist overtones but when those of that demographic use it … the educated, higher members … they use the word as we might use chav or even hayseed … the lower end of the social scale.

In that sense, it makes sense. I do have two tales about it … but in a different post later sometime.

13. Get thee over, please, good people, to AK Haart

HERE … on the topic of our gallant leadership … and the nature of chaos.


12. IYE

Fun and games trying to police it.
http://web.archive.org/web/20251202112637/https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/australias-groundbreaking-social-media-ban-means-tech-akpobome-fncs-omumf

11. Get thee over, please, good people, to RoobeeDoo

HERE … I’m green with envy I am.

Ragtime … before and after

 

This first one … 1895 … it set the tone for Ragtime, Joplin etc. …

Going to jump now to when jazz merged with and eventually took over Ragtime, copyright 1899 … obviously with long overlap …

And so to jazz itself … 1914 (1948 March, Glen Miller) … late treatment here of course by Hugh Laurie …

Tuesday [6 to 10]

(1014) Better day out there today, mood around the corners of the sphere from resigned to more buoyant, slow blogging all the same as much gathering, communicating in other places going on, plus chores. For example, the Bookmarks in the navbar are now in three, to make more manageable, hopefully. (1055)

 

10. Moosh corner

… (was getting withdrawal symptoms) …


9. It might be Barron

… maybe just a fan, maybe DJT staff … still valid news:


8. Good work, Andrew

… I’d love to see Midazolam Matt finally nailed.


7. Is she still worthwhile as a source?

To answer the opening question … yes, methinks still a great source, whatever the reason for exposing hidden nasties. Possibly Benny Johnson too. But not Charlie Ward nor Health Ranger nor Bow Tie Martin, nor Campbell. But yes Lara Logan, despite her recent trip.

6. On a mission

… whether from God remains to be seen. When I made contact recently with my first ex 57 years ago, she was asking if I was trying to resolve something? Could not answer that weeks ago but think I can now … yes, a mission perhaps to “put things in historical context”.

I’m supposing that most of us reaching a certain age do start reflecting, if time, and finding some sort of closure if possible. For some, it’s a nostalgic kick, esp. through music, e.g. this coming up on Quora from one Bruce Johnson:

“Townshend started off his point of view by stating, “You know, I could sit down and have a conversation with Paul about rock ‘n’ roll, and we’d be talking about two different things. To me, rock was The Rolling Stones, and before that, Chuck Berry, and before that, maybe a few people who lived in fields in Louisiana, but I can’t really include the Beatles in that. The Beatles were over with Herman’s Hermits. That’s not rock ‘n’ roll.”

Townshend viewed The Beatles as “a big pop phenomenon” who created “light music with occasional masterpieces thrown in.” This quote in particular is a hot, hot take, to say the least. Still, when viewed through Townshend’s lens (and when one compares The Beatles’ music to that of The Who, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones), they aren’t black-and-white rock ‘n’ roll in the slightest.

-Rolling Stone, 1982.”

Well yes, I’ve also been exploring music and in fact have a music post coming up which I’ve no idea who here will like. It’s ragtime and in other exploration, I’ve got back to grandmothers’ birthdates in the mid 1880s onwards, which puts all the rest of it, inc. my parents, plus lil ole me, in context, in perspective.

Thus the first full on ex-gf 57 years ago at a tender age really can be seen in perspective (the one I refound weeks ago) … plus the perceptions at that time, that the good times were just going to keep on rolling, not a care in the world, apart from school and exams.

Oh what a rude awakening we were all to have. They grew up, I maybe did not, eternal Peter Pan … until I was forced by life to grow up. The seven years following that summer idyll we had were rough. Good moments along the way but overall … rough.

And today, as a result of all this exploration? Attitude? Mood? Well not unlike with the blog exploration we’re doing, the finding out. For what for us to know? Because we bring sadness upon ourselves … chances lost etc., poor decisions, good ones … but the reason to know is those words used above … perspective, and maybe context. Seeing something which happened in context does help.

For an inquisitive mind.

Tuesday [1 to 5]

(0635) Slept in. Hope you did too. Yesterday was a stinker, today looks better. (0854)

 

5. Sillier things have happened


4. Do men deserve the right of reply?

A chap calling himself “Stunner” … uh huh …

  • Men have lowered their standards for decades just to please women, and it still has not been enough.
  • Men went from marrying virgins to marrying non-virgins, single mothers, only fans strippers, and prostitutes.
  • Men went from writing love letters to now paying for vacations and eating at expensive restaurants before she even considers giving you a chance.
  • Men went from marrying women who could cook and clean to marrying lazy women. Men went from buying flowers occasionally to now sponsoring women through school, buying them houses, cars, and expensive things just to prove romance.
  • Men went from traditional marriages to now having expensive weddings because it will make her happy even though its a waste of money.
  • Men went from standing to propose to now kneeling to propose to someone who will become your lifelong responsibility and a liability and take his money, kids and properties.
  • Men went from marrying fit women to now marrying fat and lazy women

3. Steve at 1220

  • US Agency for Global Media CEO Kari Lake Discusses Pro-CCP Corruption at Radio Free Asia and Pro-EU Radio Free Europe’s Attempted Regime Change in Hungary (JH: Global?)
  • Disgraced Oxford Union President Who Celebrated Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Says He Just Wanted to Make People Laugh
  • Trump Backs Hegseth Amid Allegations of “War Crimes” and Calls for Prosecution From Leftists
  • Trump Reportedly Gave Venezuela’s Maduro an Ultimatum: Resign and Leave, or Face the Consequences
  • A Buffer By Design: Why Ukraine’s Partition Is Becoming Inevitable
  • Pfizer buries data showing mRNA flu vaccine bombed in trial with elderly
  • The Jab That Keeps on Giving…
  • Much more.

2. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/12/stating-obvious-and-building-empire.html

Imho, one of the more vital posts I’ve uttered, should any of them have any value at all.

1. DAD at 1220

a) In addition to being “The Science”, Macron now wants to be “The Truth”. French President Emmanuel Macron…. (JH: Ardern fixation)

b) France also has its Epstein ‘friends’. [Fiends.] The friendship between Jeffrey Epstein and Jack Lang is surprising….

c) Merz “Stabs Attacked Police Officers in the Back”. He fails to condemn weekend Leftist violence….

d) Spain boils over: giant crowds rise up against the Socialists.

Monday [16 till close of play]

(1641) Evening all. I’ve had to backtrack three times today (so far). First was in describing here that altercation mid-morning outside … given the second backtracking, it was perhaps wiser so to do. The second was an altercation with X, possibly also not wise to leave up. The third is at the end of the Mon Mat post. Ho hum … we have such days.

 

20. Happened in Scotland


19. Something I too have been noting

18. More on this


17. Dimmock Inquest


16. Crypto terrorism

Mon Mat

 

I do have this of course … hope it suffices:

“I  feel I’ve seen several adaptations of “Dead Man’s Folly,” but in reality, the only other one that exists, I think, is the 1986 film starring Peter Ustinov.

This happens to be one of Christie’s strongest and cleverest stories and lends itself well to the screen.

A wealthy man, George Stubbs, has purchased the beautiful Nasse House and is having something akin to a carnival. He has asked the noted mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver to design a murder hunt. Uncomfortable, Mrs. Oliver persuades Poirot to come to Nasse House, as she’s convinced there are problems afoot.

One problem is Stubbs’ temperamental wife, Hattie, who seems immature. The guests include politicians, a secretary, an architect, and the house’s former owner, who lives in a guest cottage. And there are students who traipse through the grounds as a shortcut to their transportation.

A sullen youngster, Marlene Tucker, has been chosen as the murder victim. She then becomes the murder victim for real, the reason unknown. Then Hattie Stubbs disappears, and the ferryman is found dead.

Questions arise: Did Marlene see something that made her a murder victim? Was Hattie kidnapped? And then there’s the “folly,” a misplaced building of no use.

This is a complicated case for Poirot, but he’s up to the task.

Excellent story with high production values and some good acting, most notably from Suchet. Zoe Wanamaker kind of misses it as Ariadne Oliver, going for a low, gravelly voice that doesn’t quite make it. Sinead Cusack does a grand job as Mrs. Folliat, and Sean Pertwee is excellent as George Stubbs.”

……

Hmmmmm. Apart from my innate dislike of any Poirot post Hastings/Miss Lemon and any Miss Marple post Joan Hickson, there’s this Zoe person, as mentioned above, all crotchety … plus the overall level of acting … just did not seem natural to me, as if they were playacting for all they were worth … Suchet was still good.

(1635) Backtracking here for the third time today … a review I read in Wiki, on the book, not the film, said:

“The anonymous review in The Times of 15 November 1956, was also somewhat damning; “Dead Man’s Folly is not Miss Agatha Christie at her best. The murder and the solution of it are ingenious, but then, with Miss Christie, they always are, and it is pleasant to watch M. Hercule Poirot at work again. The character drawing is flat and facile, however, and the dialogue, always Miss Christie’s weak point, disastrous.”[5]“

Which diminish my comments just before that … apart from the DEI sailboat skipper, plus Stephanie Leonidas, plus Rebecca Front, others weren’t overly bad, given the available material.

Monday [11 to 15]

(1248) Short on films, have some short feature YTs, let’s see how it goes. (1310)

 

15. The OBR


14. Were not dealing with the sane with these people


13. Corruption plus


12. This was from Lord Toby’s site, TDS


11. Hearts of Oak