(1648) Evening all.

 

18. The French cornflower

… via DAD:

In France the way that we remember 11/11/xxxx is different. I found this article in the Deux-Sevres Free English Magazine [thedsm.com).

I am unable to transfer the two pages to NOWP, perhaps you can do it; or put it in UHC, whatever is easier.

17. Moosh corner

16. We do need to look at the MAGA split

… over Epstein, MTG, Massie, Paul, Graham et al.

Part of the split is over this:

Bondi has done nothing, seems unlikely to, nor does DJT … lately, he “ordered” her to. Uh huh … by what authority can she ignore this order? It just doesn’t read right. Then his apoplectic attack on MTG, whom I agree is iffy … but why now and why so vehement?

And it’s split MAGA pundits in the same way in which Farage split the anti Uniparty, the anti Wokerati into different camps. I can see a scenario here where someone Uniparty becomes strong, attractive, saying all the right things and Reform/Advance/TR are in disarray, immediately before the sudden GE.

15. Do you trust the whole medical racket?

14. Even more

13. More taking the p***

12. Taking the p***

11. Steve at 1205 and War Room

• Peter Mcilvenna: Is Texas About To Fall To Islam? Lessons From Londonistan For The Lone Star State
• Steve Cortes On The $20 Billion Dollar Bailout Of Argentina: This Is Not Charity. It’s A Smart, Strategic Bet On A Rising Ally In Our Own Backyard
• Dr Bradley Thayer: What The Forward Group Is Doing Is Signaling To Venezuela That This Could Escalate In A Way That’s Not Favorable To Maduro’s Interests
• Hemispheric Dominance: Brandon Weichert On America Controlling The Major Arteries Of The Entire Western Hemisphere

 

Early Tuba Skinny … before they lost their mojo perhaps? The covid scam had much to answer for.

Correct me if wrong but methinks we’ve not had these before.

And in a different part of town … a bit.

They just seemed to have more sheer … bounce perhaps … at that time.

(1256) Afternoon all. (1315)

 

10. Mexico

9. Maureen corner

8. The beef is cloned

 

Coming up to elevenses and about to prepare lunch, bit of a quandary which of these two to run. Pocket Full of Rye would be a Miss Marple double episode (1:43 run time), rated 7.9 by IMDb, a repeat, perfect for a Sunday postprandial feature. (1985, Joan Hickson). I also have The Night of the Party (1934), rated 6 on IMDb but quite a clear copy in vision and sound (1:01 run time), we’ve not had it yet.

Cunning plan is to run the shorter one now, then some politics, then jazz, finally early evening politics (much of it today).

“As a mystery fan I was a little disappointed by this whodunit. I was getting the upper crust characters confused with each other and there is little running time to get them and their situations sorted. But there are two distinctive characters who save the film from becoming too stuffy. They are Chidiatt the flowery writer and the slightly dotty Princess Amelia.

Princess Amelia of Corsova is played by Muriel Aked. She’s the one who proposes the game of murder in the dark. She has brought a toy gun along for the occasion. In the past she reveals that she’s been told that she “can see better in the dark than any other woman I’ve known” by a man who has had enough experience to tell I expect. She has the best lines in the film especially when she’s talking to the General.

Chidiatt is played by Ernest Thesiger. He takes charge of Princess Amelia’s toy gun as he enthusiastically joins the game of murder. At one point he says he prefers guns to flowers but I notice he carries a posy in the court scene. He gets away with murder the way he talks to the Judge. Thesiger is so thorny and witty as usual and his impishness brightens up the film.”

JH: Ernest Thesiger was, of course, the father of Jimmy Thesiger, of Seven Dials infamy.

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Maybe don’t specialise too early, all else being equal

I’m in an interesting position vis-a-vis this. My father was a near master of all trades, could build, fit, wire, landscape homes, my mother was a nurse. My state school was an enlightened one … we were taught all sorts … even the boys were taught knitting, crochet, cooking, as well as woodworking and in our spare time, we learnt the 3 Rs and played football and cricket. Plus hand to hand fighting, natch.

I was a classic case in secondary, given an in, via my mother’s contacts, into a “public school” I’ll not name, which then opened doors into tertiary institutions and employment. The education, if anything, broadened until Form 5 (Year 10), at which point we had to specialise … my error being taking the wrong subjects in the next three years, inc. university but it sure broadened my horizons.

Classwise, I’m multiclass in some ways, feeling just as much at home in a drones club or in a pub with lads and lasses. The downside of course is that one can’t get away with it for long … no demographics you run with ever fully accept you.

Once, after I’d built a fence and shed, my father went over it with a keen eye for fault finding and was silent … being a Yorkshireman, any form of praise would stick in his craw of course, plus he wasn’t outlaying that money in school fees for me to become a builder.

Looking at things today in the light of the article above, I still maintain a kid should have the broadest education possible. If his skills set then makes him a builder or in my case for awhile a screenprinter, then so be it. If a savvy business brain, so be it. If a teacher, so be it. An accountant? Well, I’ll pass on that one.

Only thing I’d say again is don’t specialise too early.

 

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Official lies about Australia

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5. Vat-pocrisy

4. Watch out for cousins

3. Steve at 1204

• Former Democrat Jillian Michaels: ‘Biggest Political Problem in America Isn’t Extremism. It’s Cowardice.”
• Psychotherapist Confirms TDS is Real and Exploding — Patients Can’t Sleep, Travel, or Function Normal
• In Stunning Development, President Trump Withdraws His Support and Endorsement of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Announces Bill to Completely Eliminate H-1B Program
• Over Hundred Russian Drones And Hypersonic Missiles Hit [The] Ukraine Overnight
• RFK Jr. orders CDC to investigate potential health risks of offshore wind farms
• IEA report admits commitment to climate change is melting away
• Much more.

2. TDS today … you know where the url is

1. DAD at 1204

a) On November 5 I reported on a ramming jihad incident on the Île d’Oléron, an island just off the west coast of France. The suspect in the attack is Jean Guillot, a recent convert to Islam….

b) Shamelessness of the Maire of Paris. Anne Hidalgo benefits from an exemption and bypasses the Paris Council’s control to travel in business class: since the beginning of 2020, 79 trips at a cost of nearly 220,000 euros….

c) US billionaire Elon Musk exposed the core of the European Union’s democratic-deficit debate with a single comment under Ursula von der Leyen’s X post, delivering an embarrassing jab at the Commission president.

d) Just as at the BBC, France Inter lost nearly half a million listeners in one year.

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17. Mike Benz on Rogan

“Mike Benz just dropped a wild bombshell on Joe Rogan’s podcast. During the Obama years, USAID pushed $1.2 BILLION through Cayman Island accounts, pretending it was “aid for Pakistan”… …but the cash actually funded ZunZuneo — a Cuban Twitter-clone built to spark rent-a-riots and topple governments around the world.”

16. Heroine

15. Don’t forget China and Swalwell

14. Yes Sophie

13. Steve and war room

• Christina Bobb: What They’re Trying To Do Is Throw Sand In The Gears Of The Trump Administration To Make Sure It Doesn’t Actually Fulfill Its Mandates
• Christina Bobb On Her New Book ‘Defiant: Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Left’s Ongoing Lawfare’
• Jack Posobiec And Benny Johnson To Pass Out 3,000 Charlie Kirk ‘Freedom’ T-Shirts Ahead Of UFC 322 Tomorrow In NYC
• Spanish nationalist Gonzalo Martìn warns “legal migration is the most dangerous form of migration”

12. In the light of the Fri/Sat storm

… this was posted yesterday morning:

11. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/11/who-exactly-caused-these-two-things-to.html

 

Now there’s a reason for this episode, apart from taking us up to the evening posts which I hope to be up to. January 26th, 1969:

Review:

“The suave Simon Templar has encounters with two gorgeous blonde sisters, who make idealistic statements about death.

The Saint tracks down the ladies to a large remote country house, which is owned by a rich entrepreneur named Keith Longman (Clifford Evans). The ladies, Vanessa (Veronica Carlson) and Stella (Jayne Sofiano) are Longman’s daughters.

After he infiltrates Longman’s home, the Saint finds out from the man himself that he is experimenting with cryogenics. Longman has a bad heart, and he is determined to freeze himself into suspended animation until years later, when he assumes that heart transplants operations will improve. Longman’s freezing process has never been tested on humans–and he believes that the Saint will be the perfect subject.

When I first saw this episode I thought I was watching the Avengers, as it’s the kind of story Steed and Co would be involved in, but I guess it was an experiment, or even an ode to the Avengers; whichever it is, it’s an intriguing episode that borders heavily on horror/sci-fi.

The director is Freddie Francis who, of course, done countless hammer films, and here he keeps things watchable, but it is Joyce Sofiano as the eccentric daughter of the equally eccentric Longman who steals the scene.”

From Wiki:

“The Avengers is a British espionage television series that aired from 7 January 1961 to 21 April 1969. It initially focused on David Keel (Ian Hendry), aided by John Steed (Patrick Macnee). Ian Hendry left after the first series; Steed then became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish, and assertive women: Cathy Gale (Honor Blackman), Emma Peel (Diana Rigg), and Tara King (Linda Thorson). Dresses and suits for the series were made by Pierre Cardin.”

From me:

“I wonder if Hendry of The Avengers was cry-oed by Macnee. Also, I quite liked the insanity of the two females in this … in keeping with most of the girls I’ve known, though the ones I knew had better dress sense. Thank goodness all the ladies I know today are sane … the insane forming the wokerati, no?”