Friday [1 to 5]

(0823) Morning all, late start today, needed the sleep, going to touch on the compulsory ID not immediately, I’ve a nice pic from Bobbie to run on it … also greatly appreciated the Steve, Toods and Penseivat drops, they really add to understanding. So, let’s get started for #tgif … (0946)

 

5. We may have had it … let’s have it again


4. Bobbie has a pic and commentary on the ID excrescence


3. Steve at 1161

  • Nearly 8 in 10 Voters Say the United States is in Political Crisis After the Assassination of Charlie Kirk
  • Texas Youth Baseball Coach Shot by Three [Moose Limb] Men While Praying with His Players on the Field
  • Wayne Root: What Explains the Severe Mental Illness of Democrat Women? They Cheered the Death of Charlie Kirk. Pregnant Women Gobble etc. …..
  • VP JD Vance Goes Nuclear on Dems’ Dangerous Anti-ICE Rhetoric….
  • Germany Expects 1,000 Casualties Per Day In Possible War With Russia
  • EU Attempting To Provoke ‘Georgian Maidan’ – Prime Minister
  • Aluminium removal from vaccines underway (JH: As if that’s the sole issue)
  • Much much more.

2. Another take on that apparent Trump volte face on the Ukraine

First up, I saw an interesting piece on X by a westerner in which he translated u krayinya as “in or on the borderlands” … that is a true translation na russkom. Further, Kiev is the centre of the entire Slavic race. It is NOT part of a separate country … at best, in their eyes, it’s an autonomous republic like the others.

Naturally, the issue from the Uke side is the dialect, certain characters in the alphabet, plus the murderous fascist groups … those knowing history know of the Uke fascists’ pogroms, esp. on the Polish. And as you go further and further outwards or downwards, the less hold Russia has. It’s not cut and dried … it’s gradual and messy. Finland is a whole story, Sweden.

Any Moose Limb presence is sheer intrusion, though those in the Tatar republic would say it was Ee van Groznee (Ivan the Great to the Russkies), in 1552 or 56, can’t remember, who intruded and brought down the Khanate. Phew. Next time … about Suyembika and the leaning tower. And I’ve been countless times right at the scene of it all.


1. DAD at 1161

a) Ex-French-President Nicolas Sarkozy won’t be sleeping in prison tonight. The former President of the Republic has been sentenced to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy….

b) Former Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, Pierre de Villiers, ousted in July 2017 by Emmanuel Macron, has emerged from the media silence he has imposed for the past two years. Hope is needed when you listen to Pierre de Villiers.

c) 2024, the year abortion is enshrined in the French Constitution, is marked by an increase. There were 251,270 abortions, or about 7,000 more than in 2023, according to a study by the Directorate for Research, (DREES) published Thursday morning.

d) Meanwhile, in the UK, there are Staff Departing 10 Downing Street’s Sinking Ship. Gone from the top of Starmer’s operation in Phase 2 are….

Thursday [16 till close of play]

(1902) Evening all … a bit late, time got away.

 

22. Starmer can go to hell


21. More on the ostriches


20. Awaiting more on this


19. Medical malaise in the UK


18. Steve and war room

  • Navy SEAL Sniper Tej Gill: From Grade School To College, An Ideology Pipeline Is Turning Kids Into Radicals (incudes comment on the Charlie Kirk murder)
  • Frank Walker: POTUS at the UN: tells worlds’ leaders — to their faces — that their countries “are going to hell”
  • Elizabeth Yore: POTUS speaks for Christians — Pope Leo speaks for liberal progressive atheists
  • Ben Harnwell: the Holy Spirit is guiding Evangelicals towards traditional Catholic devotionals

(JH: Last one … what guff.)

17. Tylenol via Steve


16. Russian moves

Thur Mat

 

“This was William Warren’s 2nd outing as Michael Lanyard the Lone Wolf with the eternal butler Eric Blore in for his 1st of many. It’s another pleasant mystery-adventure, with fairly high Columbia production values and a generally light-hearted approach.

Girls father is murdered and has valuable pearl necklace stolen, girl enrols Lanyard to help and they both seem keener to find the pearls than the murderers. At first anyway, when their close mutual friend is also murdered it suddenly gets serious. With many wonderful gurnings by Blore, laconic wit from William and decoration from inquisitive Joan Perry it races along to the satisfactory climax.

Favourite bit: Lanyard’s fond encounter with his old friend (?) Emil Gorlic (played by Montagu Love) in his hotel room. Lanyard’s passion for his extensive aquarium in his living room was I’m glad to relate, short-lived, and by the way the disputed elaborate balcony from Spy Hunt is here too, again on the 1st floor this time at the house of one of the baddies.

If you like the genre as I do – nice work by all concerned, if you don’t – shame you wasted your time.”

Thursday [12 to 15]

(1308) Cunning plan is to post these, look around for another Falcon episode or similar … go from there. Was waylaid a bit by Elon this morning. (1324)

 

15. Plus the rest of it


14. Is Tulsi substantial enough proof for you?


13. Ostrich update and it doesn’t look too good

Last report, the Indians had taken over, it being on their tribal land, supposedly … but now the Empire of the East Strikes Back:


12. Over at OoL

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/09/ive-no-devices-of-any-kind.html

Thursday [11]

(1108)(1115)

 

Lola and Ruby Moir

Redacted is quite right that they should not be forgotten. Logical place to start was X Search, then maybe ggl search, with little hope of success.

The last report I saw was by Aesthetica who had spoken to the mother. It seems she’s put up the shutters on the daughters, the two perps having been charged … no further info. I’ve run the above on X minutes ago, hoping someone will respond.

Thursday [6 to 10]

(0923)(0943)

 

10. Selby


9. Remind me to avoid that family


8. Not just Killary deleting messages


7. Syria, with collusion by western leaders


6. Steve B’s chart quiz

I wrote this at his place: “I recognise almost none which makes me guess into the 80s … I was out of circulation in the 80s. Early 80s?”

Thursday [1 to 5]

(0802) Morning all … I was up at 0730, just not online. Sun’s up out there, low misty cloud is about though, not blue skies. (0829)

 

5. Wonder which season we’re in

Autumn bucket list by Brooklyn Swenson, via Titania

4. Steve at 1160

  • James Comey to be Indicted in Coming Days
  • Letitia James is Expected to be Indicted “In the Coming Days”
  • DHS Celebrates 2 Million Illegals Leaving the Country Since January
  • CNN Data Analyst Says Republicans Have Midterms Advantage: ‘Whatever Democrats Are Doing, it Ain’t Working’
  • Trump Insults Russia Dumps Kiev
  • Danish PM Visits Greenland To Apologise for Forced Contraception
  • Much, much more.

3. Andy at 1160

On clear nights, the blinking red lights make it look like Logan Airport.

“I don’t like all this mess out on the horizon, all the flashing red lights each night,” says one fisherman, who asked that he not be named.

2. DAD at 1160

a) The reckoning is coming to France, the most spendthrift country in the world. (JH: Aside from Britain, Canada and Australia, per capita)

b) Death Threats Against the Right: Will France See Its Own Charlie Kirk Murder? (JH: Probably best not to imagine such things)

c) You have to read it to believe it. AFP is relaying the call of a dozen economists against the risk of “the collapse of public-interest journalism,” which provides quality information.

d) Read on Yves Daoudal’s blog…..

1. Via downunder

The war on beauty

This opens with a disclaimer … it’s not my intention to mock anyone in this post … that point is genuine … but in order to make the various points, I need to draw attention to some shortcomings … heaven knows there are enough of my own to render me oh so very umble.

One of my contentions, at 0228 Thursday morning, is that cranked up sensitivity to perfection of form (the artistic aim of eye and ear) will then note the slightest discrepancy, the slightest flatness or defect … and reject it outright, almost as an outrage.

An example is my own grasp of language, such that the slightest error immediately stands out like a sore thumb … or in some of the reader critiques below on perfection of form, the English errors in their writing, to my eyes, are excruciating.

I’d ordinarily have not even noticed, the focus being on other things. But as they’re banging on about perfection in music, their imperfection in English also stands out. It will for you too, simply as I’ve now drawn attention to it.

One thing though which half a life in education has taught me is that it is way out of order to show irritability towards a learner if he or she is attempting to perfect form and is obviously falling short. To my mind, that’s a crime against learning.

This sensitivity to form though is behind my not finding Baroque music worthy of DAD … or Sunday jazz not worthy of Dearieme or AKH … and therefore I abandon attempts to, despite the kind disclaimer from the worthy DAD in comments right now. The thrill for the teacher is seeing the aspiration to excel in the learner, the thirst, even though the attempt falls short, over and over. Any good parent understands this.

It started, this train of thought, with Wings of Pegasus banging on about a jazz singer being autotuned, the culprit being YT:


What’s the Disney bit above? It’s a corner of the advert which rudely intruded on the video right in the presenter’s mid-word, not even waiting for a logical natural break. Philistine in the extreme. YT at its most crass.

Yet what can we expect? They’re a tech organisation, they’re not aesthetes, and the very ability to tune into my current focus and supply whatever videos it could find has stood this blog in good stead before … it certainly supplied me with the screenshots below. Kudos to that tech, kudos to machine learning … just for us to be here reading thus is a triumph of today’s tech.

Taste? Well (cough) … er … maybe not YT’s forte. Yet it can bring us videos such as this:

… followed by videos such as this:

That type of “jazz” is just not my thang, any more than big band orchestral swing in the 40s … and yet, if you follow his reasoning, backed by pitch graphics, you can see how grating this is upon him, upon viewers too, especially as in the previous vid of the olden day singer:


And on Chet Baker, the subject of WofP’s horror of YT’s treatment?


Did you notice the English error in the screenshots above … or in my spelling of “this” as “thus”? What you might not have noticed is that in order for this post to format properly, I had to edit the code behind, removing the html of “screenshot” for example. There’s no such thing as just typing and be done any more today.

And so to this daughter:


We had that video once before, going into her mom’s “wrong side of the tracks” start to life and horrendous childhood … her daughter here is doing a “none of that matters to me, mom” eulogy, uncomfortable to a mother who’s seen the rough side of life … and yet here’s her daughter running videos on “the war on b’yoo’dee” … talking aesthetics.

Time for yet another attempt by me at three hours more sleep before a restart aroubd 0730. See you then, hopefully.

Wednesday [22 till close of play]

(1702) Evening all.

 

26. Moosh corner

I asked Moosh: “Layabouts or on a break?”


25. Dicky’s getting biblical


24. Prisons filled with illegals and other foreigners


23. Khan and Bloomberg

22. Steve and war room

  • Eric Teetsel: We Are Focused On Ensuring What Happened To Charlie Never Happens Again. Antifa Is Not A Vacuum; It’s Fueled By NGOs, Donor Funds, And Tax-Exempt Groups Pushing Anti-American Ideology And Violence. We Must Get To The Root
  • Dr. Toby Rogers: President Trump Is Taking On The Most Powerful Industry In The World
  • Bannon: The Left Wasn’t Whining About “Free Speech” When They Silenced Our Voices And Stole The 2020 Election!
  • Bannon: Hillary, The Democratic Political Class, The Corporate Elites, And RINO Republicans Sold Out And Wrecked This Country. Donald Trump, Imperfect As He Is, Saved It. Full. Stop