(0638)(0719)

 

10. Reform … wake up, chaps and chapesses

9. The strikes, home defences

… plus personal defences, esp. that of Sassafrass’s last sentence.

8. “Not protecting the star player”

Why the hell not? What possible excuse could the WNBA have in colluding with the black women and other white players? What the hell is going on?

Sophie Cunningham says she had to wreck a chick because the WNBA hadn’t been willing to protect Caitlin Clark for two years. Love this: pic.twitter.com/FfkWMXlRFa

— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 21, 2025

Also, juss sayin’ but she took down another white girl from an opposing team, not one of the instigating blacks … no wonder the latter have zero respect, zero grace.

7. Boundary changes

… changes in stance by Reform, changes in stance by influential voters:

6. Karoline announces

(0551) Morning all … another straight through till morning sleep here. (0629)

 

5. “Baby”

4. Steve at 1083

• Anti-ICE Activists in Colorado Help Criminal Alien and Child Rapist Escape Arrest
• Government of Pakistan Formally Recommends Trump for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize
• New Poll Shows Reform UK on Track To Win Majority in Next British Elections
• US Officials Confirm Bunker Buster-Capable B-2 Stealth Bombers En Route to Guam as President Trump Weighs Iran Strike Decision
• American Christian Leaders Back Israel: “Christians are Imprisoned, Tortured, and Executed in Iran”
• Border Czar Tom Homan Responds to Democrats Making ICE’s Job “Much More Dangerous”
• Russian Geran Drones Strike Ukrainian Targets In Donetsk, Luhansk & Sumy
• Massive American Military Deployment Spotted At Key Saudi Air Base
• Alberta ends free COVID-19 vaccines, angering province’s liberal politicians
• AstraZeneca’s deadly deception: Heart drug Brilinta exposed as ineffective
• Much more.

3. Back in Blighty

2. DAD at 1083

I am sorry for the long comments, but these are translations needed to explain the news from [the] France.

a) A ludicrous affair at Disneyland Paris. A British man was arrested this Saturday after renting the theme park, located in Seine-et-Marne, for a wedding. The bride-to-be turned out to be…

b) The French won’t be the only ones rocking the streets for the Fête de la Musique this year…

c) According to Le Figaro, a report by the Immigration and Demography Observatory, written by Nicolas Pouvreau-Monti, directly contradicts the recent conclusions of the progressive think tank Terra Nova…

d) Following an investigation by the Mornant gendarmerie brigade (Rhône, population 6,300), 59 weapons, including 13 undeclared weapons, were seized…

1. Australia and the US

This might seem an unusual opener for Sunday but there it was on X, first item, and I’d crashed last night with tabs open (good thing we’re all online and grown up about such matters).

So there’s this gal, Alexandra Marshall, downunder, ex-Spectator on TV, was Mark Steyned by the supposed conservative organ for views too hot to handle … in short, our kinda gal, given the majority of “our” views at unherdables. No lightweight, politically, quite perspicacious … this is her latest:

The anti-American movement in Australia must be very, very careful. America is Australia’s defence pact. They are the unspoken wall that keeps our country safe.

America’s involvement in Iran is not just about Iran and Israel – which many people seem to think. It’s not about ‘protecting Jews’ as I see a lot of conservatives claim.

It’s not even about ‘regime change’ for Iran. Iran is a major arms dealer for Russia. Iran is a major supplier of oil for China’s southern operations. Disempowering Iran weakens Russia’s ability to maintain conflict in Europe.

And it suffocates supply lines for China, making it less likely that they move on Taiwan or even other Pacific nations.

War is strategy. But so is maintaining global peace. Disempowering the largest geopolitical entities which seek to flip the world order from a capitalist democracy to a marriage between Communism and Islamic Theocracy is about keeping all of us away from a global war.

I am sure that’s why America pre-emptively bought Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar with trillions of dollars. Containing China and Russia to their established borders, while dismantling the Iranian-funded terror network in the Middle East is something that had to be done – and everyone knew it had to be done.

Not to mention Putin and Xi Jinping now knowing that America negotiates from a position of genuine red lines – something that was not at all obvious before. Let’s just hope it was done early enough.

The Oz perspective was of sufficient interest to LBJ back in the PM Harold Holt days (before he disappeared one morning), for America to maintain bases, just as the British had used it as a nuclear testing zone. There was an infamous White House lawn speech given by Holt in which he acted like a whore: “All the way with LBJ.”

Did not go down well in Oz, on either side of the aisle. From our perspective here in Blighty and from our American readers’ perspectives, that take by Alexandra above might be quite clise to the truth … she’s seeing it from the persoective of a nation which followed LBJ into Vietnam, following Korea earlier of course, Singapore before that.

(1739) Evening all. About to surface again.

 

18. A film series from 1934 to 1947

In a forlorn effort to keep tavern patrons supplied with movies and jazz (the news takes care of itself), I had a glance at the story of the last Thin Man movie from 1947 which, predictably, was not up to scratch by their standards but a reasonable “B” by audience standards.

The years and ages are important in this tale of two stars, the historicity is where the interest is for us. It started in 1934, actually precode. Now, if he’s 55 in RL in 1947 and she 42, a 13 year difference (give or take one year), then he was 42 and she 29. Not real life partners, they certainly grabbed audiences of the era, which spanned the war years.

“The last film for Myrna Loy at MGM, where she had made the majority of her films since the 1930s. In her autobiography she stated this picture was a “lackluster finish to a great series”, and that she “hated” it.”

Well yes … he’d put on lbs around the neck and waist, she was a tad too mature now for the brightspark wife-ette. Word is the chemistry was still there but the years had, sadly, caught up. The studio felt it was all ending with both that and the stifling 50s values creeping in … e.g. horror at a brat child corporally smacked but by the same token, the parents had not brought him up well (in the story arc) … plus the setting was no longer charming but almost 50s beatnik and jive talk, which a man from 1892 could not be expected to be part of.

It was already awkward by 1947 and I’d not even been thought about until quite a few years after that. Interesting glimpse into an era, what people were doing, how it all looked.

17. Chanel

The strongest point I’ve heard against regime change in Iran by Dr. @PeterSlezkine:

A weak, old, KNOWN regime is safer than regime change ushering in a strong, young, UNKNOWN regime.

That said, I’m not convinced Khomeini won’t carry out “Death to America” on US soil.

In which… pic.twitter.com/NhrVehG9KA

— Chanel Rion OAN (@ChanelRion) June 21, 2025

16. DAD

My Dad [b.1896] left school at 12 years and worked in the stables of the Carter Patterson company. They had the contract to collect parcels and deliver them to the local train station. The parcels were sent by rail to the nearest station for delivery by CP. Summer was very busy as most Middle Class people sent their suitcases to the hotel and back home on either end of the holiday.

At age 15 Dad had his horses and cart and worked for CP until 1914, when he was 18, and joined the army for The Great War. After 18 months in the trenches the army discovered that he was a horseman and gave him two horses and an old farm cart. He delivered food, medical things and small ammunition to the front line until the end of the war.

15. The egregious C of E

14. The Milligoon

13. Another lady with firm views … Rachel Wilson

12. Quiet lady with strong opinions

… rarely posts:

11. Steve

5. We can either remain asleep – bit too warm to sleep so I waited outside for the sun to come up on my birthday, then went back to bed. Quick trip to Dorchester for a lunchtime pint with a mate who is not doing so well, sadly. He mentioned the Israel-Iran conflict and the possible attack on the Fordow Enrichment Plant – his Dad worked in Iran for six months before the Mullahs took over, so late-70’s. Anyway Bannon met with Trump to tell him what his base thinks..

Senior White House official confirms Trump and Bannon had lunch today. pic.twitter.com/QyrZ3Q7VAN

— Grace Chong, MBI (@gc22gc) June 19, 2025

also:

Options for Targeting Iran’s Fordow Nuclear Facility | https://www.csis.org/analysis/options-targeting-irans-fordow-nuclear-facility

And at 1083 … war room:

• Democrat Panic: David Drucker Reports On Working-Class Hispanic Men Turning Away From Party
• Jones On Iran: “Regime Change Would Spiral Into A Quagmire Russia And China Are Ready To Exploit.”
• “We’re An Active Combatant In This Conflict” Bannon Calls On Israel To Finish What They Started
• Appeals Court Victory: Trump Can Keep Troops In LA, Mike Davis Reports

Back to politics around 1800, birthday boy Steve.

 

Was watching some Chuck Berry and a few other mega-artists … you know what? The egos killed it … everyone playing so straight, terrified to eclipse The Great Man … nah, not for me. I’m speaking here to those who can appreciate 50s to 70s popular. I find Elvis a bore, Stones, Beatles … I’d much prefer a “B” band, just as with a surprisingly good B film …

In fact, this first one call themselves a “wedding band”, you get the idea … everyone could actually play and were enjoying it:

The next we’ve had before … clearly older musos needing a good singer and they found one … enough variation in the music to be listenable for a few sets:

Wedding band, pub rock, whatever … lack of ego, just a good time, get up and shake the legs a bit.

 

Admittedly, this is up for Toodles and for those liking Myrna Loy … which in those days were quite a few people across America … there’s a definite screen chemistry, maybe in real life as well … they made a few pictures together, the Thin Man series being the most popular, especially the first two.

Sadly … natch … those first two can’t be found on YT as restored whole films. This below was at the second last, her only outing during the war itself and some rate it lower, many quite high … I quite like it. Review below the filum.

“This entry in the “Thin Man” series is enjoyable in itself, and it also works well as a change-of-pace from the rest of the series, in placing the familiar Nick and Nora characters in a new setting, when Nick returns to his old home town. It makes for a much different atmosphere, since Nick is received quite differently at home than he is in the big city where his crime-solving skills are so renowned.

Some things, of course, are still the same. William Powell is as witty and elegant as always, Myrna Loy is as engaging and as charming as ever, and the mystery that crops up is interesting and enjoyable. The screenplay does a nice job of keeping the best elements of the series while placing Nick in some new situations. The Powell/Loy characterizations of Nick and Nora are so good that when you see them in a somewhat new setting like this, you take an interest in them as you would old friends.

Harry Davenport heads up a very good supporting cast, and he gives one of his many fine character performances as Nick’s father. The relationship is quite believable, and it’s easy to empathize with Nick in his inability to please his father.

For all that this is a lesser-known movie in the “Thin Man” collection, it is quite good. The mystery itself is set up cleverly and efficiently, and it has the same combination of the offbeat and the logical that you hope for in these features. It’s well worth seeking out for anyone who enjoys the “Thin Man” films.”

(1239) Afternoon all, after not getting back in time to say morning all.

 

10. Moosh corner

9. Gen Zee

8. In one

7. You might have felt Annunziata was a strange choice for UHC

… but I always felt she’d come good when the chips were down:

6. Pesticides

 

(0841) Ok, time is charging on. Just a quick note about Redacted’s latest. It needs preserving … a good read too … it stays right there. As long as HQ exists, it does. Therefore, you need to bookmark the post it’s under. Now, if HQ disappears (my constant warning), this does not mean it won’t reappear somewhere else down the track … that’s all I’m saying. It’s designed this way. (0945)

 

5. We can either remain asleep

… or we can wake up to what’s about to go down.

4. There’s a post going up at OoL soon

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/06/sarah-pochin-v-reform.html

3. Steve at 1082

• President Calls for Special Prosecutor to Investigate 2020 Election Fraud
• Ohio Republicans Introduce ‘Prenatal Equal Protection Act’
• Karoline Leavitt Confirms US Negotiations with Iran are Still Ongoing
• Senior Iranian Official Says Tehran Open to Talks on Limiting Uranium Enrichment
• Florida Attorney General Proposes Hardcore Detention Center for Criminal Illegals — Surrounded by Alligators and Pythons ☺️
• Dozens Of Iranian Missiles Rain Down On Northern, Central & Southern Israel
• Ground-breaking study … vicious cycle between screen time and childhood emotional struggles
• Much more.

2. DAD at 1082

a) The Aisne prefecture has announced the administrative closure of two butcher shops in Saint-Quentin: eight sick children consumed meat from these shops before contracting food poisoning….

b) Questions…

c) France’s National Assembly voted on Thursday to impose a moratorium on new wind and solar energy project…..

d) French plans to intercept people smugglers guiding small boats at sea – so-called “taxi boats” – could be blocked by legal action.

(0727) Very late start, slept through but then had to attend to pressing matters till now, inc. raw material for this morn at HQ. Sunny window (real window, at home) closed, shady window on another wall open. Ok, item 1 below is long, extended, needs writing though. Next post will have Steve and DAD, after short brek. (0759)

 

Housekeeping

Cunning table of contents:

*On Redacted and other “longs” from readers … the single, simple reason I can’t “invite authors” into the main HQ posts is security … just that, five way … for the author/contributor/commenter, for me, for the site … as there are other things connected, powering the site, which are incog.

Solution? To provide space so that you can write longs if you like, e.g. the Last Refuge repost, in one of four places, plus OoL … the two main ones being NOWP and to a lesser extent … here. Why “to a lesser extent”? Well look at this for example:

Composing longs at HQ is not fun unles one first composes elsewhere, copies, then pastes in the tiny window.

But WP security then kicks in … rightly so, as they have their own limits on comments. Obvious q is … why don’t I change it? Even change site theme? Answer is … do you really think I’d not have already done so? I myself am caught in a “default” straitjacket which can’t be changed.

Why not blgr/ggl? Think back to July 26th last year. Ghost or other platform? Sorry but WP is the most comprehensive and best for serious blogging, despite the strictures. For now. And they know it too.

**Penseivat and ***Steve … the anecdotal reflections I’m capturing for the navbar sections Quotes and Reader recollections. Trouble is … it can become unwieldy, difficult to navigate, so a certain amount of “take this one, leave that one” is involved, on the run. You can always leave a note for me if you’d like it preserved.

****Central registers … this affects both blog and at home … obviously, a well signposted central place helps anyone seeking to find but … big butt … do you actually want bad players finding, e.g. where your cash is kept, where your most explosive posts can be found?

Obviously not, so what’s the solution? One is using dead tree rather than online but that’s not useful online. Online, I’ve suggested that if you see anything to keep, have a multi-gigs usb stick of your own Amz, PC World, whatever) or even hard drive and copy it there. If you do not bother, dearest reader … I can only say bad luck ole chap because the chance of it surviving at HQ is low … HQ is in bad player crosshairs … the spam attacks alone are insane each day.

*****Toodles and other occasional commenting. Clearly, some comments are just “shorts”, not meant to be more … fine. When they become long and preservable, I’ll preserve some. For example, the Last Refuge repost is way too long, so it stays in place where it is. The backup is at the Last Refuge hisself, see blogrolls.

*******My mindset is that NOWP and HQ are equally valid, with UHC and Jstack one rung below that … but still valid. OoL is a different matter, with Julia. In the morning, I use NOWP as my portal actually, before HQ … that’s how I navigate. That navbar is vital to me too. I find NOWP easier to read, while HQ is our central depository. 6th floor? Never mind … poor joke. …/END.