Cunning plan is … old tele episode today from a good series, tomorrow an A film, Sunday a feature length episode, Monday an A film for the time, maybe SciFi for Tuesday.

This is a screenshot with embedded url, it takes you to the film.

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12. Anyone remember this blockbuster film?

11. The value of understatement

IYE tends to do this too … the closer to what we feel might be the clincher, the more enigmatic we get. Same with that biz about Airmiles and family … very low key we kept it … so lowkey it’s obvious it went straight by various patrons, from subsequent comments. It’s still there, should you be interested.

As for IYE, I made 48 mins before the first break (had to get back to the blog). Yep, I’m thinking that that alters the entire picture. Whether EK was in on it … well that’s something I’m still not sure about.

 

… is a twofer, two of old British yuletide with Christian elements blended in.

Going to run 21 carols/songs overall (just spent an hour saving them and about five films) up to and including Boxing Day (two today, three on Christmas Day) … leaving three I’ll have to drop out this year.

One other which will need to be dropped is Away in a Manger in a nativity scene, a carol which should be sung by children but the UK gummint censor and YT have deemed it can’t be shown (twas fine last year) … think they fear some infanticidal mania on our part.

I’m also blending in some other “hardly carols” but they still fit the season and occasion, e.g. Fairport’s Poor Ditching Boy.

“Yuletide (or Yule) refers to an ancient Germanic winter solstice festival, a time of feasting, light, and renewal around the shortest day of the year, which later merged with Christmas, becoming a traditional name for the entire Christmas season (Christmastide) in many cultures, celebrated with traditions like the Yule log and caroling, and still observed by modern Pagans. It marks the rebirth of the sun and the cyclical nature of life, with roots in Norse celebrations like jól and connections to winter gods like Odin and the Wild Hunt.”

(0811) Probably the day … I went back to bed. Morning! (0827)

 

10. Moosh corner

9. Think I ran this … oh well, here tis again

8. Obama and the Logan Act

“The Logan Act is a U.S. federal law from 1799 (18 U.S.C. § 953) that forbids unauthorized U.S. citizens from negotiating with foreign governments on behalf of the U.S. or attempting to influence their relations with the U.S. during disputes, to prevent undermining official government policy; it’s named after George Logan, who informally negotiated with France, leading to its passage, but despite being cited in numerous political controversies (like with Trump or Flynn), it has rarely been successfully prosecuted, acting more as a political tool.”

7. Lord Toby’s TDS

6. TR versus Farage

🍿🍿🍿🍿

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5. Who calls the shots?

4. Steve at 1229

• Marjorie Taylor Greene Stands With Code Pink Traitors: “I have enjoyed a friendship with Medea for a few years now”
• Rep. Bennie Thompson (D) Calls Terrorist Attack that Killed National Guardsman in DC an “Unfortunate Accident”
• France: Illegal Military-Aged Moroccan Migrant Convicted of Sexually Assaulting 4 Children, Aged 10-14; Receives 9 Month Jail Sentence
• Massive Ukrainian Drone Raid Targets Moscow. Russian Strikes Crush Ukraine’s Power Grid
• Pakistan offers to ‘take grooming gang leaders’ if UK hands over dissidents
• US Visit Strengthens Trump-AfD Ties
• Much more.

3. Tina Peters

2. DAD at 1229

a) What was our President thinking when he posted such a ludicrous tweet on the official Élysée Palace account this Monday, December 1st? In a video edited like a commercial, he explains the urgent need to establish a label to distinguish trustworthy media outlets from those spreading disinformation.

b) Are we in Peak Post-Truth? We are consistently told that we must believe lies, and we must celebrate what we know to be both untrue and harmful, and if we do not do so, we will be punished.

c) ‘Diary of a Prisoner’: Why is Nicolas Sarkozy’s prison memoir already a big hit?

[DAD’s comment. “Since he was in prison for only a few weeks, it must be a very thin book”.]

d) London and Copenhagen: This is the strong message we are sending to our European friends: if responsible governments fail to address the concerns of their citizens, populists will prevail. When trust in government to meet today’s challenges erodes, our sense of shared belonging can begin to crumble. 

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With the sorting of the Saturday rallies thing

… attention turns back to:

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17. There it is

16. Moosh corner

15. Just a last comment for now on Sat rallies

I’m not sure I was diplomatic in my original message to TR and Emma (see OoL). There were two early responses:

About four dozen have piled in through the day and by midday, my position had changed to the point that I agreed the two might get away with running on the same day, with mutual understanding. Thing was, there were many who wanted no understanding to occur and Fred refers to that at OoL. This conversation, by the way, is on X on the whole, not at OoL.

At the same time, IYE and Toodles have both supplied more on EK and CO. There are some very crazy things going down with both imho … er, I mean with EK and CO, not … never mind.

14. Where will you sit?

13. Removing the roadblocks

12. Pink ladies

11. Steve at 1229

• Chris McGuire: America’s AI Dominance Relied On One Edge: We Make The Best Chips And Deny China Access. This New Policy Abandons That Lead, And We Now Sell China Our Second-Best Chips
• Wade Miller-Policy Brief: The Threat Of Radical Islam And Sharia Law
• Charles Cornish-Dale: President Trump Is Clear. The US Rejects The Great Replacement, Which Forces Demographic Erasure Of European Peoples Against Their Will By The Elite
• US evangelicals drive rise of the “religious right” in UK politics

 

Once again, thx IYE:

 

(1114) Elevenses are upon us already. Warning, readers, surfeit of femmes coming up, plus the first part of the next post. (1129) (just storing THIS here for later.)

 

10. Works for me too

9. This does not sound too good

… esp. given Stasi’s track record.

8. A threefer

Hmmmmm … as for Australians, they can be pretty dangerous at times … sometimes they even win the Ashes.

7. She’s very lucky, is NS, that APL got behind her

6. Another Congressional shutdown?