(0420) Still dark out there. Not as many topics this morning but each is long. (0502)
5. Second of the “crims” examined … Pence
I’m now relying on your own archives of what was posted at N.O., via Polly on Bitchute, on Pence. There was, for example, a chart in the YT posted which showed Pence in relation to PEPFAR and that involved other names which have come up, e.g. Brock, Gates … it’s quite murky.
It also needs to be said that unless you took the advice long ago and bookmark away from your main device, e.g. on stick or hard drive, or you wrote the main points on paper … then when the spoonfeeding does end, when the data is no longer readily available, your own files now kick in. I have some of it on Pence but not at this abode, not on stick or drive here.
4. First of the “crims” examined … Omar
3. Steve at 1198
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2. The Senate sweetheart deal of Thune and Demons
It’s perfectly obvious what’s going on here … Thune is assuming executive powers for himself … i.e. he alone approves the way it will be, what the Demons get of their demands. It then lands on Trump’s desk to refuse. The moment he refuses, due to Demonic things slipped in, then the entire Demon media blames Trump for people not being paid.
The Fox link is below but be careful about clicking within the article … it’s a Fox hard sell of its own wares.
a) Tim Davie resigns as BBC’s director-general – with CEO of BBC News also stepping down. The resignations come as the BBC is expected to apologise on Monday….
b) Belgium, home to Euroclear — an international central securities depository that holds most of the frozen Russian assets — is demanding firm guarantees before allowing that money to be used [by the EU for (the) Ukraine].
c) Spain. Last month, the Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested five people in Mollerussa for buying a 14-year-old girl for €5,000 and forcing her to marry an adult.
d) It’s a mad, mad world. “For your information, in Hungary, the number of illegal immigrants is zero. Because we have a crystal-clear system for entries and exits. If someone wants to enter Hungary, they must first apply.
(1632) Remembrance or Armistice Day is on Tuesday, November 11th, at 11 a.m. Almost evening now, all.
18. This is why
17. UK, France and Germany constantly backing the wrong side
16. Prescient
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15. Avoid Bovaer like the plague if possible
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14. TDS today
13. The Italian Job
12. Steve on that issue
‘Mounting evidence of bias!’
Ben Leo reacts to the White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, who has called the BBC ‘100 per cent fake news’, as she criticised how British people are ‘forced to fund a Leftist propaganda machine’.
It’s around lunchtime and contacting certain friends time, so this is a good time to post this 1968 version. The best rated is 1987, rated 7.9), so obviously unavailable, ditto with 1983, only in animated form. 1932, 1923 are not highly rated. This is a short, made for TV version, with Peter Cushing … it will need to do … best of what is available.
A review:
“Repeating what they did with “A Study In Scarlet”, the BBC series with Peter Cushing & Nigel Stock decided to adapt Doyle’s 2nd-ever Holmes story– and the 2nd novel– as a single episode, rather than a 2-parter. This seems insane, except on watching the result, I’m stunned that so little that seems important was left out. In fact, there are several sequences in this version I have not seen in ANY of the multiple other ones I’ve seen, and several scenes that are allowed to play out at a rather relaxed, leisurely pace. Of course, to make up for this, huge chunks are cut out entirely, and what’s left races by at a frightening pace, the likes of which I’ve only seen in the 2nd half of the Tom Baker version of “HOUND”.
Ann Bell presents a very sweet, attractive version of Mary Morstan, and more time is spent focused on the budding romance between her & Watson than any other version I’ve seen outside of the 1932 Arthur Wontner-Ian Hunter film. Paul Daneman’s Thaddeus Sholto is reasonably eccentric (including his “Elmer Fudd” lisp), much younger than Miles Malleson’s from the ’32 film, not as handsome as the one from the Ian Richardson film, but nowhere near as annoying-as-hell as when Ronald Lacey played him in the Jeremy Brett version. It’s amusing and a bit awkward when, near the end, both Mary & then Watson mistake his actions as those of a romantic rival, when he’s just someone out to do the right thing.
Cushing’s Holmes is genuinely hyper-active in this, as he’s racing to get thru as much of the dialogue and the story as possible in the absurdly-limited time allotted. He doesn’t even have a chance to go undercover in disguise as Wontner, Richardson or Brett did. But I did enjoy his amusment at the expense of his Scotland Yard counterpart.
The highlight of this version, for me, was John Stratton as Inspector Athelney Jones, a man who’s so arrogant, egotistical and conceited, he makes Lestrade look like a real sweetheart by comparison. More than any other version of Jones I’ve seen, Stratton is hilarious when he first dismisses Holmes as “the theorist”, then, only seconds later, begins spewing out his own half-baked theories, which Holmes takes almost too much delight in picking apart. “And the dead man gets up to lock the door from the inside?” “…There’s a flaw there… Somewhere… “
In recent years, the locked-door murder has become to me a blatent tribute to the one in Poe’s “The Murders In The Rue Morgue”, with a sailor and an organgutan replaced by a one-legged man and a pygmy. Despite this episode being near the end of the 2nd BBC series, so much of it displays Holmes explaining his methods and philosophy toward life that it screams to be watched before all the others (except for “A Study In Scarlet”, which should be watched first). I especially enjoyed his meeting up with the butler, McMurdo, who he once went several rounds of boxing with years earlier.
In a bit of continuity I missed on earlier viewings, Wiggins (Tony McLaren) makes his 2nd appearance, coming to see Holmes by himself after he was instructed to leave the rest of his underaged detectives in the street in “Scarlet”.
So much of the back-story, mood and character were left out of this adaptation, yet the parts that are here make me enjoy this as a very enjoyable alternative to the others. My favorite is still the Ian Richardson film, while my least-favorite, sadly, is the one with Jeremy Brett. (Now I’m just waiting for the British Film Institute to do their massive restoration project on the Eille Norwood series, so I can see the 1923 version cleaned up properly. The video currently on Youtube is a real chore to plow through until then.)”
There’s so much I don’t actually like below, none of it to do with the tune or the player … I’m more for the orchestral version. Plus I’m more harpsichord in ensemble … but one can still smile at this:
“Legend has it that Scarlatti had a pet cat called Pulcinella, who was described by the composer as prone to walking across the keyboard.”
I find the piano too harsh in isolation, except for boogie-woogie, where it is, of course, de rigeur. However, this lady does marvellously, plus we have some dyed-in-the-wool pianophiles and a few asked for more piano.
The flowers of Remembrance. Hour after hour an unceasing pilgrimage of bereaved mothers, wives, daughters, and sweethearts lay floral offerings on the Cenotaph. Armistice Day, 1920. pic.twitter.com/W0dsACxp8b
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2. American bread (on this Sunday morning)
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1. DAD at 1197
a) As George Orwell wrote, “It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy.”
b) Just over three years ago, a 12-year-old girl named Lola Daviet was brutally murdered in Paris. Her body was found wrapped (JH: Readers proceed with caution….)
c) A large academic study of attitudes among those living in the United Kingdom found the vast majority believe the country is “divided”….
d) The government of Italy’s Giorgia Meloni is now the third-longest in the history of the post-war Italian republic.
Raja Miah – Betrayed by the System: Labour’s Role in Silencing Grooming Gang Victims
b. War Room: Children’s Health Defence:
Episode 4911: Live From The CHD Conference Day 1
EP 887: Live From The CHD Conference Day 1 Cont.
15. The crooked Senate
14. Crooks Anonymous
13. More on Lily Whitehouse … same old same old
12. So nice to see Sydney dressing like a lady for once
11. The adventure of the lost delivery lady
It was always odds on … where we live, it’s like maze, plus satnav or whatever you call it always gets our position wrong. At least it sometimes gets it right and stays right for months, then somebody has to come in and “adjust” it, i.e. wreck it.
Plus today, it was a female delivering. Now you know my opinion of the ladies … adorable, great at gymnastics, dance, many other things … but perhaps navigation is not their strongest suit as a rule. So I was watching the tracker and she was going to some weird towns along the way here … checked the pinging of the phone … someone was guiding her by phone. I added twenty minutes to my estimation, awaited the text to me from HQ.
Downstairs, I knew she’d go down the wrong road and if that happens, one of two things usually happens … the lady gets caught in the circular road horror … or she’ll stop, three point turn and hover near the corner. That’s where I come in. Calling to her in the next road, I suggested, using semaphore, that she actually go the third of a mile up our road and all would be well.
It was … bright gal, this one, leaving aside ladies’ nav skills … hell, are we any good at empathy or humility if it comes to it? She was shocked it had worked out, then there was yet another text … her texts with whomever were also coming through to me. Someone wrote “delivery completed”, then a text to me … “delivered”. All good, I had the foodstuffs. Went to the site, gave her 10/10, all good, hope it helped her.
Not sure about running this (not great pic quality) and yet it’s important in the canon … the getting together of Holmes and Watson … but the two parts of the book draw it out. Think I once sat through it. As a film in 1968, they shortened the whole thing.
Review: A Study in Editing
“Though it is the first of the Sherlock Holmes stories, “A Study in Scarlet” is rarely adapted for production due to structural issues that make this difficult. Th BBC took on the challenge during its 1968 series of broadcasts with Peter Cushing as Holmes, and placed the story in between other Holmes mysteries in in the series rather than at the beginning.
As such, the material dealing with the first meeting of Holmes and Watson can be discarded, although, oddly enough and perhaps as a remnant, Watson is still doubtful that Holmes can really make sweeping deductions from small details, and Holmes seems a little surprised that Watson is making notes on the case.
As “A Study in Scarlet” was a novel-length piece of writing with long sections set in Utah without Holmes, and this is a forty-eight minute program, cuts were necessary. The way they were done is workable and clever, with an opening sequence involving the victims that gives away a hint of backstory followed by the Holmes investigation, but it tends to turn the mystery, until the last few minutes arrives, into simple a puzzle without much human interest.
Unusually for a 1968-era BBC production, scenes are very quick — accommodating all the material that must be fit in — and they left me wishing the pace could be more deliberate.
When the end does arrive, though, it is very impressive, with Larry Cross giving an excellent and very sympathetic performance as Jefferson Hope, and a well-conceived and effective final shot.
Unfortunately, the other actors performances tend towards the wooden, and the American accents are quite variable. Nigel Stock is a fine actor but an unnecessarily dim-witted Watson (for instance, hiding his gun behind an awkwardly upheld newspaper), and not even a charmingly and amusingly dim-witted one in the Nigel Bruce mold.
Peter Cushing is competent as an impatient, twitchy Sherlock Holmes, but for some reason doesn’t come off as anything more than adequate and slightly superficial in this role for me. I liked what I have seen of his BBC predecessor Douglas Wilmer better.
In all, a competent and workmanlike adaptation that doesn’t really come alive until after the murderer is discovered.”
Again, from me: Probably a film we needed to have to join it all up, along with The Sign of Four.
All right, I’m at 13m 50s and first thoughts are that I like the presenter, he does make good points. JDV does seem aware of how it looks, she less so. In comments, I quoted one commenter. Hmmmmm … I’d like to back off a little from that now.
EK is at sixes and sevens, she’s just lost the love of her life, the children’s father. Maybe we, the audience, need to cut some slack here. Also, it being so public, I’ve experience of how sometimes the gals don’t always know limits. Far more dangerous is if the man doesn’t. It’s a live dynamic.
That’s as far as I can go at this point without seeing the rest.
18m 00s … absolutely, sir, absolutely. Confirmation bias, as in my comment to IYE (which I’ll leave up) is a huge danger to judgement and as another Holmes this afternoon shows, it’s critical to decision.
21m 36s … nothing malicious, she’s repeating what her mind has been processing. If I had not had my past with females in the workplace and outside, as a matter of day to day, week to week course, I’d interpret this analyst as defending … he’s simply observing, as he says. Erika (notice the change in me too here) is effusive, she’s not a cold calculator in the sense that she can suppress bubbling emotion.
Leave the question of appropriate or inappropriate for now.
28m 25s … we’re onto the two separate faiths of JD and Usha. He’s doing what I see so many “cultural Christians” doing now … moving closer to faith in it being a real thing (just look at world events), while she is orthodox Hindu … there are certainly issues there. Now it gets tricky for me, quite tricky. (Cough)
In my former place, I had both Russian and Bolgar/Hun gfs and there were common traits in all those of one origin, different ones in the other. I can say that each felt quite different in the arms. The Russian was more Erika, let me say, no barriers. The other was very much how it would fit in with the family etc. One could say the Russian was far more western. Ok, I need to press play again.
Done … excellent video. Again I’m going to be on tricky ground here. EK in his arms is quite different to UV … EK is far more natural in the arms. That being said, he chose to marry UV but there are differences. Some differences are “overcomable”, some are not. It’s not my place to comment further on that.
Is CK dead? I’m no stranger to left field but am thinking yes, he’s the other side of the Styx. Can EK run the show as CK did? No. Will UV stick with JD? I’m thinking yes, as both are heading upwards. That’s about it really.
Tight leather trousers? She made an error imho … why did no one warn her?
Your opinion welcome.
8. And straight away, here it is again
… only this time perpetrated on a human, a young, female human:
7. Coming back to the broader meaning of the ostrich slaughter
… a post in five parts at X.
(i) The very first concession on my part is that yes, I eat meat, yes, I’ve fished and put the knife in above its eyes where they say we should in order to stop the throes and yes, these are animals, the ostriches, not little children in the Sudan or in Nigeria, not young girls in western countries at the hands of the savages, not Ukrainian boys at the hands of Zelensky’s thugs.
There’s such a thing as virtue signalling about being more humane in my slaughter than all these savages are in theirs … does that count in any divine, universal way?
Well, there’s an argument which says yes, there are things which stop us roaming the streets with knives, murdering white boys at random, old people, raping, striking out in fury, acting like Alex and the droogs in The Clockwork Orange. There’s also an argument which mocks that and derides … oh such niceties over whether we kill “lovingly” or not.
This argument says we stun, we don’t drain its blood upside down, we hang or shoot rather than hang, draw and quarter. There’s also an argument which says that savagery like that latter does tend to come down from above.
(ii) There’s an argument that the way those ostriches were clumsily dispatched was way beyond humane considerations … that this was “show barbarism” to illustrate to the plebs what’s coming to them too if they inconvenience Ottawa and Carney’s bosses.
(iii) There were multiple reports that she and others were mocking the killing in front of the owners and others who were distraught … that is, they went over and above. There’s also an argument that there are none so cruel as a conscienceless child … and young women given powers they should not have are just that … conscienceless Woke left.
(iv) This had all the hallmarks of tools of the state having suddenly given licence to be as savage and unfeeling as they could make it … to turn it into a corralled bloodbath. Just as in 30s Germany. To that 100 year old veteran two days ago, to us brought up as we were with that moral code more or less, give or take … in which MPs resigned for lying … think you know where this is going.
Now I’ll go “left field”, a stupid term as there’s nothing Woke left about it in the least … into the realm of that link yesterday at Friday 11, which took an esoteric look at just exactly who the deep state is, its core nature, its cruel, paedo consciencelessness … in short, its core barbarity and savagery. Which is why it so easily aligns with, allies with, savage deathcults, adopts their ways.
What sort of minds produce Podestas and Abramoviches? Allow me to introduce another word and its derivations here … “fiend”, ‘fiendish’, “demonic”. Oh what a sick joke that 80% of young women elected that grinning monster in NYC, in reaction to the “barbarity” of us “far righters”. Think on’t awhile.
