(1651) Evening all. Two days until the Ides of March, moon waxing, still slightly gibbous.

 

21. By the light … of the gibbous-y moon

IYE straight onto it: Loony eclipse:

https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-march-2025-total-lunar-eclipse/

Looks to be 2226 start by my reckoning. Spooky!

20. DAD at 994

BREAKING — PUTIN AGREES TO 30 DAY CEASEFIRE IN UKRAINE.

Putin’s Ceasefire Terms

19. Moosh corner

18. Tolerance is not a Christian virtue either

17. Two more

16. Emerald

15. Just thought I’d mention this

That was at around 0800 and was 33 by 0830 this morning. Also, my overseas friend said our site was “dangerous”. Uh huh. Dangerous payers of our dues and law abiders … my worst substance is coffee.

14. Steve at 994

a. From Assad to Al-Qaeda: How Syria Fell into chaos – Neil Oliver & Kevork Almassian

b. War room:

• Julie Kelly On Russiagate Judge Presiding Over Lawsuit Against President Trump |

• Julie Kelly: Citibank Document Reveals Biden EPA Sheltered $20 Billion For Climate Projects Days Before Election

• Rebecca Bextel: “Thank God Liz Cheney Is Out.” Rebecca Bextel On Race For Wyoming Republican Chair

• Bannon: “We’re Certainly Not Prepared To Underwrite The Death Of 1.8 Million People”

 

There’s nordic skiing, without fixed heels, which allows the experienced to go off-piste, cross-country, but you need to either be ultrafit or have grown up in ski country … for most, it’s going to be Alpine … going up on a ski lift or poma on learner slopes and skiing back down, mainly traversing across the hill, turning, repeating.

For most, it’s going to essentially mean a ski resort and that ain’t cheap … not for the gear, nor for the day or week passes, nor for the food and drink … it’s also for a younger age group (in the middle). The first video is worthwhile imho for two core reasons … though he bangs on, repeating himself in order to pad it out:

• The footage behind the words is stunning
• There’s no horribly distracting “music”

Guess what! Build em up and they let you down!

(It’s embedded, the link.) It goes into the obstacles placed in the way of new resorts, most of them leftist bureaucratic Wokery and greed.

The second video is not good, being overdubbed with awful, distracting music, plus a gauche front picture … so naturally I’d expect it to load perfectly. Just a warning … you only need see the first few minutes and you’ll get the idea … the crowds are horrific. There are some panels with things like day pass prices if you can stick it out with the sound muted.

If you take both vids together, you get first the stranglehold on not allowing any new resorts and then what that does to people’s ability to be able to ski without waiting for hours for lifts or at bars or restaurants, at exorbitant cost … for me, apart from age, knees and ankles, plus money, plus vaxx mandates etc. etc. … skiing, which I loved from the 70s till the early noughties, is alas no more.

Some of the resorts included Valmorel in France, Falls and Buller downunder, plus my last two:

If you look at the top map, you’ll see a red ggl pointer … it’s pointing at The Hahnenkamm, down which I skiied some metres only, but did ski down the mountain via another route later. This is the actual course below by one of the best Brit skiiers ever, although obviously he’s taking it fairly easy by his standards.

Do I miss the skiing? Yes, very much but I’m resigned to it … one needs to adjust to one’s age and circumstances. Every time I go downstairs to the yard, I gaze at the track from wall to bins and that single morning in winter when I turned a chair upside down and tobogganned those few yards.

(1118) Elevenses, folks. (1319) Afternoon, folks. (1357)

 

13. Nil desperandum carburundum illegitami

Obviously I’ll not say who but it was one of our polit-warriors (I’m the one in blue):

No, not just you … these bstds, globopsycho, the Wokerati, the SJWs, other countries … all are combining to break us down, depress us, run us down, kill us off by slow torture, not unlike TR in solitary or Tina Peters.

People unused to it, who really did not grow up fighting as boys of my gen did growing up … well they’re easy victims, as are the vulnerable elderly, ill and ultra-poor. Not to mention the real enemy in a physical way sitting in posh accommodation at taxpayer expense, violent killers and rapists.

So one must practise organisation and discipline … John 3-16 is a foolproof start but it carries with it the tag of pariah … if you don’t mind people avoiding you, quietly passing you by, passing you over, ignoring you … then are huge benefits, not least being courage … far better than from a bottle or from substances.

Now I don’t mean in an obnoxious form of crazed evangelism which has even me crossing the road to avoid or hiding in a back room if I hear the tap on the door … I mean you can be perfectly near-sane and just living … by disciplne I mean developing the ability to shut something out … readers here know that I do shut out images, nasty things, atrocity … I mean that which cannot be unseen.

The most vulnerable are the overthinkers and those without an off switch. These are the ones who need our assistance. The opposite end of the spectrum … not giving a damn at all … well, that’s another thing … not good.

12. The destructive MSM

11. Euro supertrawlers hoovering up Brit fish

10. 💐

9. Vox on the US but looks back at old Britain

HERE

A brief perusal of the relevant economic statistics betrays a clear and sustained erosion of British supremacy. In 1880, Britain still accounted for nearly a quarter of global manufacturing output and was by far the leading industrial nation of the world. By 1913, it had fallen in absolute terms well behind Germany and especially the United States, which now boasted nearly 2.5 times Britain’s output. Already by 1910, Britain (formerly the world’s premiere steelmaking nation) produced only half as much steel as Germany and barely a quarter of American steel output.

(1033) Just this one, chaps and chapesses, in this post. (1035)

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/03/this-is-straight-out-hit-job-with-agenda.html

 

(0641) Morning all … chilly out there. (0902)

 

7. Scumbag corner

6. And so to TDS today

… and I couldna quite make out this sub-item:

“GB News Presenter Michelle Dewberry Cancels her Virgin(end of line blurred … -ity?) after “Encountering a Man in the Female Changing Rooms”

Hmmmm, I’ve clearly misread that sub-item … anyway, this is TDS today:

5. Well all right, best I explain Gab, X, OoL and Unherdables

Every engine needs fuelling and while the chaps are racing to this topic, then this, then that, those sites (or our section of those sites) are fuelled by certain ladies … at OoL, the dangerous dame below:

I get as close as I dare to those fangs and claws and the rewards are great … also over at her site (careful you’re not ambushed), plus on Gab and on X where she ranges, eating random Wokerati.

Meanwhile, you see various images at HQ of Toodles’s habitat including the beach, the river and, a bit as with DJT, she likes a game of golf, where she can be spotted in her “exercise lookingish navy blue slacks with mottled grey and white thin sweater” not “getting under the ball” too much … uh huh … the comparison with the beep beep roadrunner has been made before.

But forget not the artistic horticultural Isilme either … you’ve seen posts on the crafts and on the produce to bottle and eat. Do not forget Dearieme’s fair lady either with their bottling and eating produce.

4. Lainey at Gab and Autopen-gate

From Gab, I don’t repost or read a lot … everyday Julia, then Lainey most days, then Denileriverafter, various other chaps. One of Lainey’s, arranged in that Gab way:

3. DAD at 993

a) The end of EVs in the USA? What does Elon think? Trump EPA begins rolling back Biden EV ‘mandate’…..

b) This ban did not last long. “Banned since January 1, 2025, reusable plastic cutlery and tableware could make a comeback in French school cafeterias…..

c) “All bad ideas are French”.

d) German car-sharing service Miles shuts down in Belgium over theft and misuse, and what it says about diversity, the EU, and green initiatives.

(0140)(0229)

 

2. Some items at 993 with Steve

• Trump Judge Rebuffs Catholic Bishops – Refuses to Order White House to Continue Flow of Money to Catholic Groups for Their Open Borders Work with Illegal Aliens
• Greenland’s Center-Right “Demokraatit Party” Wins Election, Favoring Independence from Denmark
• Up to 17,000 Slaughtered in Syria as World Remains Silent
• FBI Director Kash Patel Turns Over First Batch of Explosive Jan. 6 Pipe Bomb Docs to House Republicans
• GOP Rep. Thomas Massie Explains Why He Was the Only GOP Holdout on Trump-Backed Continuing Resolution
• Kursk victory. US-Ukraine want 30-day ceasefire. Ball in Russia’s court. Georgescu appeal rejected – Alex Christoforou
• Trump Opts For More War With Russia … Russia Will Reject Western Trap With “Ceasefire”
• Behind the Scenes of EU Propaganda Funding
• New sentencing guidelines embed bias against white males in UK’s legal system
• Massive destruction of protected Amazon Rainforest for COP26
• EV battery manufacturer Northvolt files for bankruptcy in Sweden
• (Much more of course over there.)

1. Dept of Unherdable Efficiency

Maintenance and systems reviews are part of the Unherdable offerings and I’ve just been looking at NOWP and HQ droplists. At the former, I get this to look at in the engine room and scroll down:

That makes it easy to scroll down, thanks to Steve in the eve but also overnight Andy and occasionally others. The big question for me is how to use your and my time better by not doubling up at HQ but at the same time still signposting.

I’m thinking to put up in an HQ post item maybe 10 or so topics, total, which most piqued my own interest, which of course does not mean those which interest you … in your case, just go direct to NOWP and look for yourselves.

One prob at NOWP is the sidebar is now behind paywall … can neither add nor delete any more. Ho hum. Now to HQ sidebar:

Item 2 today will be listing NOWP drops.

(1711) Evening all.

 

27. Moosh corner

26. Well of course they’re going to want

25. It has to be walked back, all this

24. The lies, the lies.

23. Steve at 993

War Room snippets…

a. Todd Bensman: “100% Of Those Caught Are Being Expelled Immediately Back.” Bensman Live From Southern Border Wall.

b. Dave Brat: “Without Education The Mainstream Media Gets Away With Murder.”

c. Natalie Winters On Security Guarantees Being A Forever War Globalist Tactic For Ukraine.

d. Former Facebook Employee Sounds Alarm On Company’s Approach To China.

Miranda Rights

I did see another movie to use … Pendulum, 1966, with George Peppard and it probably stands up as a film for many but I can’t watch it for certain reasons I’ll mention.

The film is here if you want.

A good set of reviews are here.

The Wiki page on the Miranda warning is here.

The film does turn on the Miranda rights, giving both sides as best they can, the performances are good, maybe too good, esp. the miscast mother of the killer and the casting put me off in some places … for example Jean Seburg as a philandering wife … she looks too close to a former philandering femme of mine and thank goodness her character was bumped off early on … but whom by?

Obviously, Peppard the hubby was chief suspect but of course, you probably have it right who did it before even watching. The mother/killer-son thing was not pleasant … none of THAT I think but still uncomfortable … my mother and I thank goodness did not have that.

At one stage, there was smoke from a fire from the MLK killing protest … shows that that demographic rioting back then are still doing it today but worse.

So yes … those things were uncomfortable but the most uncomfortable aspect for me was the 60s filming. There’s something rubs me up the wrong way about that female voice cooing with the Girl from Ipamena type offkey singing … which producers, directors and sound people thought sounded and looked so chic.

Not to me it didn’t … I thought the fashions were awful with those high boots et al … there was something highly contrived, even with Jean Shrimpton, certainly with Zsa Zsa Gabor … while Raquel Welch did nothing for me … way too contrived. Nancy Sinatra? Nah. Faux in my eyes and while I prefer natural, not too drak and unhygienically so, never know who’s been through her. Grace Slick? No thanks.

My own mid 60s dream was way more natural, just normal, thank goodness most girls I knew were normal … we boys were better once into jeans and polo tees, less gormless.

Anyway, back to the movie and it’s just as current today … give the rapists and knifers way too much leeway. On the other hand, plod can land on our doorstep in the UK whenever and there are no Miranda rights. Not in 2025 … there might have been in 2024 or in 2019 and before covid generally.

60s films … just don’t like them … and so-called young people’s dancing was nothing whatever on film as we did it in RL. Feel free to completely disagree. END.

 

Reviews were mixed … this was one of the positive ones:

Actress Marie Roget (Maria Montez) disappears and is suspected of being murdered as a woman is found murdered with her face clawed away, but one day, much to everyone’s surprise, she shows up, and doesn’t give much information about her disappearance…

Then at a party, she disappears again. Dr. Pierre Dupin (Patric Knowles) is determined to get to the truth. Inspector Gobelin (Lloyd Corrigan) acts as Watson to Dupin’s Holmes. Suspects are a plenty, from Camille whose fiancée Marcel has been having an affair with Marie, Marcel himself who had hinted at doing away with Camille as he doesn’t really love her or Mme. Cecile Rogêt who had overheard Marie and Marcel coming up with a plan to get rid of Camille.

An absolutely solid mystery from Universal studios- a mix of Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe, and you get a fast-paced mystery, at times complicated, yet fills its one hour running time like a well-oiled machine and ticks off red herrings with ease. The climax featuring a daring rooftop chase is a nail biter. Maria Montez is beautiful as always, and I loved the chemistry between Dr Dupin and the inspector- entertaining interaction.