(1403) Afternoon all. Just going to pretend everything was as usual and I didn’t have another three hour sleep … I’d hardly say fully refreshed but at least more refreshed than many Saturday nighters out there. 🙂 (1503)

 

10. This one does require some input from the former CCCP

I was not there during CCCP days, it was closer to the end of the decade … and yet old CCCP (USSR) practices still abounded … old habits died hard … and one of those was that in each “yard” there was an open space between four eight storey high apartment blocks in which you’d find a grassed area, benches, frames for rug beating, children’s play equipment, plus nice low wrought iron fences bordering gardens.

Were you to wander outside, say towards a local school’s waisthigh wire fence, there might be a hut where you could go under cover of darkness to denounce your neighbour you suspected of untoward thinking or behaviour. It was a formal matter, Denunciation, just as any bureaucratic form-filling was seen as sacrosanct, even holy. Once I was hauled over the coals for being less than calligraphic in my filling in of my class roll?

In awestruck voice, the lady whispered: “Etot DOKUMENT, J,” before taking it away and issuing a new one to fill in.

That’s the situation we’re heading towards now in the west … question is … will Oz get there first … or will the UK?

9. This is Christian?

Asking for a friend.

8. Elon corner again

7. Steve B’s chart quiz … usual ask

Please repost so others can play !
Top songs chart
A nice chart .what year is it from
Try to do it without using google or Grok . Some great tracks here . #music #popchart #sunday pic.twitter.com/Yo1xDCyewC

— steve (@bagshaw2112) October 5, 2025

 

As in I’m going back to bed.

“Richard Greene, David Niven, George Sanders and William Henry are the four men part of “Four Men and a Prayer,” a 1938 John Ford film also starring Loretta Young.

Frankly I felt as if I came in at the middle of this film, though I saw the whole thing – but I never actually did figure out the plot. The boys’ father (C. Aubrey Smith) has been dishonorably discharged from the army and telegraphs each son that he wants to meet them at the family manse.

The discharge was unfair – he was set up – now, I’m guessing here but it had something to do with illegal arms. His sons want to help him, but moments later, he is murdered in his study and his papers stolen.

Taking what info they have, they split up and travel to India, South America and Egypt to find the people their father mentioned who can help clear his name. Loretta Young, who plays Greene’s madcap girlfriend, chases him shamelessly in a variety of outfits.

I still can’t decide if there was too little or too much fooling around by the brothers. For me the comic stuff never does come off, Niven being the exception.

The acting, however, is good. Richard Greene might have been Tyrone Power’s only rival at 20th Century Fox, except that he returned to England in 1940 to enter the service. This was his first film under contract to Fox. He was very handsome with a nice screen persona; baby boomers may remember him as television’s “Robin Hood.”

Loretta Young is dazzlingly beautiful – I actually didn’t find her annoying as she seemed to fit right into the frenetic energy of the film. Sanders and Niven turned in their usual fine performances.

There’s a nice turn by Lina Basquette, too, as a foreign woman with information. For those who don’t know Lina, well, she was a silent screen star and half-sister of dancer Marge Champion.

Lina was married to Sam Warner; after his death, the Warners took her child from her and made sure she never worked again. She eventually went to the dogs – literally – by becoming a breeder and judge at the Westminster Dog Show.

In a New Yorker Profile done in the 1990s, she claimed to have been propositioned by Hitler and said she had done work as a spy during World War II. She also declared Eric Braeden of “The Young and the Restless” her favorite actor and ended up meeting him.

Lina appeared at Cinecom when she was in her late 80s, and the audience, used to seeing elderly actresses in wheelchairs, was shocked at the end of “The Younger Generation,” one of her early films, when she didn’t walk – but ran onto the stage, looking incredible, to answer questions.

For me, Lina’s appearance as Ahnee is actually the high point of “Four Men and a Prayer,” featuring some very attractive people in a half-comedy/half-drama and a confusing plot. Thankfully, Ford didn’t stick with this genre.”

(1003) Sky is lighter but still total cloud cover.

 

Over at Jstack

https://jameshigham.substack.com/p/the-day-society-died/comments

(0947) That took far longer than expected. Back now, have a good Sunday, chaps and chapesses. (1001)

 

5. An Elonism

4. Ms Shah

3. DAD at 1168

a) Macron deflects. During a trip to Saarbrücken, Germany, Emmanuel Macron delivered a blistering speech on Friday, October 3, on the responsibility of social media in the weakening of Western democracies.

b) How Slovak conservatives amended the country’s constitution by banning surrogacy, upholding parental rights, and establishing two biological sexes: male and female.

c) The rape of Europe: When civilisation surrenders to barbarism.

d) This Friday, the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (Entso-E) published the long-awaited technical report on the blackout that left millions of citizens in Spain and Portugal without power on April 28.

2. Steve at 1168

• Treasury Announces Plans to Mint Special ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’ Trump Coin for America’s 250th Anniversary
• Assaults on Officers in Illinois Follow Democrat Governor’s Anti-ICE Rhetoric
• Apple and Google Remove ICE Agent Tracking Apps That Help Illegal Aliens Evade Arrest
• Church of England Appoints Pro-Abortion Feminist as Archbishop of Canterbury
• Japan Welcomes First Female Prime Minister — a Former Heavy Metal Drummer
• Russian Troops Strangle Kiev Forces In Kupyansk
• Anyone who tells you vaccines are safe and effective is lying
• Soros-Backed Tides Foundation Funding Wikipedia
• Much more.

(0902) Morning all. My main post of the day this morning is currently proliferating at OoL, UHC-WP, Jstack and on X.

Incidentally, there are also some quotable comments at Jstack which I’ll be quoting. The worthy Steve and DAD start to the day is coming up once I get this seven parter up on X.

Have a good one. (0907)

(1741) Out of it for some hours … lurgy, head, ears, seem to be coming out of it now.

 

21. Not new but always new to someone

Horrible thought but is Two Tier actually doing Britain a favour? Maybe by mistake?

20. Toodles

19. Viva Frei

Turkey farm:

“They have had 10 months and endless resources to test the birds. Not only have they not tested them, they prohibited the farm from testing them under threat of massive financial penalties and/or jail time. You are asking a reasonable question. The government has endless resources to have done it already. They don’t want to test the birds. They want to kill them.”

18. Kristi Noem is not good as dept head

She does not seem on top of her job:

“Today in Chicago, members of our brave law enforcement were attacked—rammed and boxed in by ten vehicles, including an attacker with a semi-automatic weapon. I am deploying more special operations to control the scene.”

Why was she not aware of the situation there, sending in sufficient forces?

17. Oldham

16. Steve and war room

• Marc Caputo: Donald Trump Declared War On The Cartels From Day One. Executive Orders, Military Action, And Now An Unprecedented US Armada Off Venezuela
• Jack Posobiec: The Navy Returns To One Standard. After Years Of Obama-Biden Era Decay, Live-Fire Drills In Virginia Capes Mark The Reset: No DEI, No Excuses
• Marjorie Taylor Greene (R): ANTIFA Isn’t New. We’ve Tracked The Same Organizers Since Obama & Occupy Wall Street. It’s Organized Anarchy, Designed To Tear Down Our Government
• Naomi Wolf: Big Pharma Doesn’t Just Fund The Democrats, Big Pharma Funds Everyone
• US Catholic bishops approve first bible translation to deliberately mistranslate homosexual practice
• Germany has its own “Iryna Zarutska” as a Ukrainian girl is pushed under a train by illegal invader

 

Right, before we can get into the evening politics, we need to look at the TV and film situation. This one from IYE works with fair picture resolution, sound is all right.

HERE

Issue with pete’s was multifold. It put me through hoops, wanted me signed up, tried to trick us, then when it did appear, the picture and sound were not the best … don’t take my word for it … try it.

The luvverly bit of Emney piano worked well though.

RIP Hyacinth, yet again:

Episode 2:

HERE

(1133) Doing the weekend cooking, various chores. Cunning plan is to run Hyacinth again, then leave the url somewhere accessible. Shall check out filums later, see what gives today. There’s also pete around 1400 possibly, with William.

There’ll be two youtubes by a new lady who was pretty impressive on today’s young malaise, had an interesting, more middling take. That will be over at UHC-WP, as I suspect it might be longish. (1150)

 

15. One from downunder

Geelong Advertiser, behind paywall … this is front page:

That actually leads into the post at UHC-WP which is not yet written at 1149.

14. One you may or may not have caught

I would not have written “at least”, I’d have written, “Wot, only?”

13. I suppose our system seems just as weird to them

12. Two different topics, one screenshot

11. I really like this lady too