(0802) Morning all! We’re at the tail end of a full blown storm here, window blown out and wet floor but that’s about it, temp near freezing but meant to be 9C (48F) later. Storm is meant to pass by around 0900. Light coming up and looks an angry sky just now, wall to wall. Just wrote to Julia, after Toodles:

“Caught in a storm here, don’t know what the rest of the UK had, window blown out. Why did I not know about it until within it? No MSM here and X was in North American gear.”

Right, without giving too much away, we are in a pocket here, even different climate to a few miles away in town … so when you lot (UK) have a snow or storm, we have an idyll and vice-versa … not so much the snow. You can be under a few inches of the wet fluff, we have nothing but wind.

This has messed up the sleep pattern (storm started about 2200 last evening) but did sleep through most of it. I’ll venture out to check the house damage after it dies away. (0902)

 

5. Lucy Letby

Reader, you may wish to familiarise yourself with some names who repost items or even post …

Christine Easdale was the Reform cllr I think who resigned and is uncompromisingly of the politics of these pages and at OoL … far harder, more populist, inc. our armed forces, largely, short shrift with the lily-livered and preverts but at the same time, split on tactics. More on that in an upcoming post.

In this majority (I believe) are many currently Reform but who see no alternative (middling normies in deep shock are these Reforms-for-now), plus us who do deep dive a bit. Names include Donna Rachel (hardline anti-rape-gang, as a former victim), Jess Gill, Charlotte Gill, Wendy Patterson, Harry Rag, I’ll add more names later.

But I’m also friendly with these middling, mainly southerners, e.g. Sandy Tregent (full blown love Nigel Reform, Suffolk, otherwise sane), Jen, more names later but including the empire building “new journo, pay to subscribe” types like Dan Wootton, Nick Dixon, Father Calvin … don’t know much but they make the right GB type noises, like Fox in the States, Hannity etc. Question mark patriots I call them.

Golden rules for me, red flags, include substack type single column, big important journo types, buy me a coffee types, choose your level of subscription to me. Slick presentations are alarm bells, also opacity as to origins.

One name on the “sound, good people” list imho include Vicky, usually reposting … if I see her name, I almost always read what she’s reposted. She was full-on UKIP in the old days, felt betrayed like most of us, TBP, initially Reform, then Rupert, not so much Ben but respect due. Tommy’s not a dirty word but all the same … careful of the agenda. Israel? I loved September 13th last year, done well by Tommy and backers. The raped girls are usually pretty good, politically.

Donna above is “take no prisoners anti gang rapist bstds” … a good girl but hard. Our Roobee is a good girl, ditto our Julia … some find her a bit “hang em” high, plus of course Leggy, Longrider, similar.

4. Steve at 1275

• Trump Is Right About Europe’s Weak Economy
• Evil Thug Stabs Innocent Man and His Dog After Learning His Victim is Christian
• Christians Beaten, Abducted in Nigeria as Church Service Attacked
• Arizona Police Association Slams Attorney General Kris Mayes for Encouraging Leftists to Shoot and Kill ICE Agents
• Minnesota National Guard Deployed to Federal Facility to Distribute Snacks, Coffee, and Hot Chocolate to Anti-ICE Mob 
• Who Is Funding and Organizing the Minnesota Riots?
• Moscow Says No Progress Abu Dhabi Talks
• Trump: Covid was a military operation
• UK’s Green Crusade is bringing the country to its knees
• Christian Protest Blocked by Police Because It Passes Through “Moose Limb Area” of London
• WEF message: Joos and Moose Limbs must unite against “old Europeans”….
• Much more.

3. National Trust

2. DAD at 1275

a) The reason Iranian protesters are burning mosques, is not blind hatred, we are not Palestinians. It has a concrete, practical reason, and there is a very important lesson in it for you in the West….

b) French Members of Parliament approved Article 1 of the proposed law (PPL) on Monday, January 26, aimed at banning social media access for minors under 15.

c) The right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) is calling for an immediate end to all aid from Austria to Ukraine….

d) Instead of being ‘Off Piste’, these skiers will be ‘Pisted up to the eyebrows’. Three Maltese nationals suspected of trafficking nitrous oxide….

(0010)(0046)

 

Op Ed of Sorts

Time for a break from all the awful out there. Yes, as for the usual fayre, we’ll be back to the hardhitting after I can get a second sleep in, crashed early, had to check a friend’s news.

It was Andy I was thinking about but at least it’s repairs and he has an interim roof and sustenance … nice to see blogmother Toods comment and the boys drop in too. My friend’s daughter just had good medical news, another daughter is about to have a baby, also IYE health, watching Steve, nice to see MD and others drop by … the tavern motif is a nice one.

On X, a fellow styling himself Vic (Meldrew) also has a local tavern for real, gives the pub perspective, plus quite a few ladies drop in to excoriate Them but at the same time have some banter … last evening, a gal from Cronulla beach in Sydney and so it goes on.

Does anything online mean anything? Tell that to Iranians being slaughtered. Certainly the devils’ business. The Minnesota biz … seems Trump or offsider gave the hard word to demon Walz. And so it goes on.

Yes, I believe it does mean something. And in turn, staying up with the news on this and that does help, imho. When you drop a few lines or even more, others do read you. MMutR yesterday … I said he probably didn’t see Wogan, Trump etc., being off on a mission. He’d seen it (ha ha). Nice. Plus there’s a little thing going at the other sites, each in its own way. Plus the blogrounds each of us make.

Yes … nice. It does mean something. It’s necessary that if you weren’t specifically mentioned, you’re still part of it, DM and DAD. Saw DM at, of all places, C@W yesterday. I need to write to Isilme, a few more. You have your rounds to do. All have your own aches and issues. As Roob said to me … care to share? I did … tales of penguins (I’ve had a weird life, 50/50, the good 50 was excellent).

Downunder, there’s been flash flooding near to Geelong:

Yes, it’s the end of the summer hols down there, at least they had some hols at least. Meanwhile, rain lashing down on panes here, neighbour next door home from work, I need to crash again, washing taken away from heaters.

Have a good one, get through the early morn, prayers for those needing them. Health good here. Cheers, chaps and chapesses.

.o0o.

(1556) Getting on for evening, folks.

 

34. A point of view

33. Them’s number

32. Det A

31. Steve Hearts of Oak

Vicky Richter 1275.

30. Is she right? Wrong?

29. Moosh corner

28. Redpill posts

27. From pete at 1275

I had a Stan and Ollie binge yesterday… Stan (almost) tells us what he thinks of technocracy (the one where they do a puzzle)

https://theinfounderground.com/tiunew/index.php?topic=32320.0

An entertaining read – substack from Bob Moran charting the absurdity of the alleged ‘freedom movement’

https://bobmoran.substack.com/p/cheese-dreams-and-backwards-jigsaws

Andrew Bridgen on a Dutch channel – LIGHTHOUSETV – not heard him quite like this before.. ‘ Andrew Bridgen on Satanism, Child Trafficking, Corruption and Abuse’

HERE

26. See comments under Mon 16-20

This is from the GB News report via Steve:

 

“Laura Hunt has been murdered in a most grisly way, a shotgun blast to the face as she answered her apartment door. Dana Andrews as Detective Mark McPherson is assigned to the case and he’s got a good list of suspects to work from in this up close and personal murder.

Laura Hunt hung out with some real characters. Dana Andrews has a good group to choose from. There’s Vincent Price who was to marry Laura, a worthless playboy who spends his life as a permanent party guest. There’s Clifton Webb as the epicene critic and noted wit who was a kind of sponsor for Laura into society. There’s Judith Anderson as Laura’s sophisticated aunt who has a yen for Price. There’s even Dorothy Adams as Bessie, Laura’s lesbian maid who is carrying a titanic torch for her ex-employer.

Andrews very patiently and methodically goes through the suspects. In his way he’s as officious and annoying as Lieutenant Columbo on television. But he does get to the truth. Of course there’s one very big surprise for him during the course of the investigation.

Gene Tierney is Laura and she was a beauty in her day. Man or woman, who wouldn’t be crushing out on her. This film was the first one that got Dana Andrews any real notice from the critics. And of course Clifton Webb made a screen debut in this after a long career on Broadway. Webb got an Oscar nomination for his role of Waldo Lydecker as a Best Supporting Actor, but lost to Barry Fitzgerald for Going My Way.

David Raksin’s musical theme for this film is one of the great ones ever done for the cinema. So popular did it prove that Johnny Mercer wrote a lyric for it after the film came out. At the time people like Frank Sinatra and Dick Haymes and a host of others rushed to record it. 

I guess you could classify Laura as a kind of sophisticated noir police drama. It’s dialog will leave you begging for more. It’s not much in the way of mystery because about a third of the way through you will realize at the same time Andrews does who the murderer is, maybe even before Andrews does. That doesn’t matter though because Laura is entertaining every step of the way.”

The story of the making of the film was high drama itself … plus the story of Gene Tierney.

 

(1144) Elevenses almost over and my delivery is here. Again I must say this blog is only as good as our incoming here on any particular day … today seems a bumper day. (1256)

 

25. Ethics? Dross?

24. Mr. Ethics

23. It’s just a thought

22. Penseivat is not forgotten

Mortified 😳🥺😔 How many hundred times, how many ways, can I say, prostrated before ye … sorry, sorry, sorry, Penseivat!

21. IYE corner

There’s one item I’ve not signposted, hoping the regular reader would know where.

Then MM on Pretti of course.

Amelia AI link in comments.

 

Intriguing mix … Wogan, Dame Edna, the Donald. How each handled it. Sade did quite well I thought, except not one of her good songs.

(0920)(0941)

 

20. Miliband’s grasp of ethics

19. Moosh corner

18. And that’s another reason I’m honoured she’s my blog-partner

17. Maybe I just needed a daughter

… maybe Australia did too … one of the daughters of the restoration.

16. Obama as if he’s still President, rather than “former”

(0757) Morning all, light’s up and it’s a wonderful horizon to horizon poisoned cloud. (0819)

 

15. Playing for the other side

14. Organ harvesting in hospitals

13. Getting it right

12. Signal

11. DAD at 1274

a) Just as one thought that French politics could not get more [Insert your own word here. Mine is ‘stupider’ – if such a word exists.] M. Flanby chips in…. Midway through the conversation, François Hollande’s eyes lit up at the mention of the upcoming presidential election….

b) He may wish to reconsider now that yesterday’s election result is declared. In the Haute-Savoie by-election, UDR-RN candidate [right wing] Antoine Valentin came out on top (45.06%)….

c) Ireland’s Leaders grandstand overseas while reality crumbles at home. The country that lectures Europe on compassion can’t keep its own children safe, and the consequences are finally breaking through….

d) President Trump posted a video about vaccines captioned “They’re ALL poison. Every Single One!”

e) Russian FM, Lavrov, Names the “War Six”: European Leaders Plotting Direct Conflict with Russia. (JH: 9 minutes but the bit you need is around 6 mins.)

 

If Toodles had realised how vital this was to be to British English speakers, she’d have sent the entire back catalogue.