(0927) Morning all … Gates cloud clearing, proper sky out there. (1105) Elevenses is upon us! (1107)
15. Not all countryside is the same
14. More vital news … is there ever a break?
13. STOP PRESS! Important international. Breaking!
12. Just came back for elevenses
… and what did I see?
Also from Steve. Nothing gets past us, nor Kobie, nor the cat below!
11. As one does
… my contention is that producer and writers also presaged what’s been happening in western society in general for the past few decades, only really coming to a head now, in 2025/6. Life reflects art … art reflects life.
The episode itself was not their greatest, nor their worst … it was the usual fayre of baddies and goodies, entertaining … except that this one had an edge, seen from 2026 … it introduced an orphan into the mix. Until this point, a noir series about nightclubs, singers, gumshoes … usual 40s/50s thing … it did the job well but a point had to come where they jumped the shark.
The trouble with this particular jumping of the shark was the introduction of the child, as mentioned, in the form of the daughter of a character who was secretary to an utter villain and he (the secretary/general factotum) agreed, for money, to rub out the wife of the villain, now surpkus to requirements. Problem was as a widower, he had his innocent child in tow, and a sweet one at that (audience heartstrings).
Bear with me here. Compounding the issue, the sec had maybe weeks to live, wanting to provide for the soon to be orphan and in those days, that meant “fostering out”.
Now … Pete and Edie. Judge ages for yourself, they seemed ideally suited in the context of the plot, they loved one another … but he made his living taking dangerous cases on (insta-orphaning of any child, any issue from them both, within marriage in the 50s) … and she was a good nightclub singer, she had many talents, including loyalty to him, plus the tick tock, tick tock a woman eventually gets to.
Thus we got to the pictured scene above where he has saved the child after the father died, put her that evening with his Edie and the question of fostering arose … or else a state institution (anathema to both of them). Edie knew of a lady etc. etc. or else, Pete? He saw it all there and then, the whole human procreative nest biz. No prizes for what a 50s TV audience wanted … the producers were well aware.
And therein lay the tragedy, no better than today’s feminazism blighted situation for now unpleasant career women (unpleasant for today’s increasingly emasculated men). For me, the tragedy was series three, of three. Judging by the episodes in series three, they had not ended the series with the wedding … there was no wedding … the child, I assume, had been fostered out … they went back to the same old same old … with one exception.
Edie opened her own nightclub, where she still sang (her forte) … unmarried, childless, now grappling with the IRS and tax returns, both personal and business. And him? Still footloose and fancy free, though he still loved her, supposedly. And one added embellishment … a new maitre d at Edie’s … a charismatic youngish male.
The show ended with series three, reviews say public tastes had changed by 1961 … yes they had. The new, aspiring middle class of clipped lawns and certainty had overtaken the West Side story violence of the working class, also the Brit mods v rockers seaside clashes, foitball hooliganism … plus one more evil, inserted by Them …
… the “sexual revolution” for “the young”, in film, song, general parlance, in the media … here’s the song Kids! from Bye Bye Birdie … all designed to create a problem where that had not been one … plus add the drugs racket. I’m sure you’re getting the drift.
Add into the mix … the new, lured woman, promised “empowerment” in her single spinsterhood … welcome to your future, darling. Edie eternally in that nightclub … what a fulfilling existence, eh?
And him, sharp Pete … what for him? One woman after another forever? The viewing public still seemed to want the TV dream.
(0752)(0808)
10. Moosh corner
9. Brouhaha downunder?
Or more of the same carry-on by imports?
8. Respectable daycares?
7. Ggl downunder
6. Collectivism anyone?
(0508) Morning all. (0604)
5. Been in touch with Old and Peculier
4. Steve at 1251
3. Soros
2. DAD at 1251
a) Macron’s Grim Wishes for a Year of Misery. The only future the president offers the French people is death—both literally and figuratively.
b) World ‘Leaders’ in lockstep – again. France Plans 2026 Ban on Social Media for Under-15s, Advancing EU-Wide Digital ID Approach.
c) “What am I supposed to do?” asks Daniel Vaillant, former Socialist minister and now without a private driver paid for by the taxpayer. Since January 1, 2026, like several former prime ministers and interior ministers, Daniel Vaillant has been deprived of his “lifetime benefits.”….
d) The problems of Marseille {Like London) are a what the whole of France (the UK too) will look like in the near future. Yet the ahthorities deny the ‘Grand Replacement’, or are they just impotent?
e) Marseille: A body found in the trunk of a burned-out car, likely the first narcicide of 2026.
1. Over at OoL
https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-covid-and-lockdown-debacle.html
(1554) Nearing evening. Ninth Day of Christmas, folks … already. Nine ladies dancing. It’s gone so quickly. Frightening.
20. Brain deficient again
19. Moosh corner
18. Crooks in charge of crooks?
17. The demoralisation of Gen Z
16. Steve corner at 1251
a. Hearts of Oak:
Frank Gaffney – Ban the Moose Limb Brotherhood or face Civilization ErasurE
JH: Going to post on that topic.
b. War Room:
There’s something deeply annoying going on. Well of course there is out there … a govt in each western nation turning on its people, dreaming up ways to ruin us, plus 5G, plus AI, plus anything which does give some pleasure is interfered with to make it unlistenable or unwatchable.
WP was once a prime platform, then they went for this block rubbish and ruined it, as did ggl who have now started demanding personal and financial details downunder … and so it goes on. YT certainly has an obligation to ensure copyright is observed, no argument, but this business of having to stop a song or clip several times to break it up … loading in ads at any moment … that’s simply meanspirited.
And this Peter Gunn series. About two thirds of the episodes are ok, watchable to pretty watchable, nonetheless with excellent sound and vision. By chance, I stumbled on one of the best episodes of them all, as drama, with a good plot, cast and a bevy of beauties … what happens? Poor sound … crackly, part dulled, ditto vision in places.
Yes, it was series one, in the 50s … that’s not the point. Point is that plenty of those lesser episodes had fine picture and sound. This one below, being a great episode by its lights … is dulled or left dulled, not restored. Why? Were I to say deliberately, then you’d call me a conspiracy theorist, no?
Just looked through that Peter Gunn episode I was going to put under the Toodles post at UHC-WP but it does not really relate to the topic. Let’s have this instead:
(1108) It’s elevenses, yay! (1126)
15. Remember, good taverners all
… it’s WET JANUARY, yay! Get into the spirit of January, whatever your tipple … even scrumpy.
14. There it is
13. Go woke, go …
12. Bulgarian cabal’s wrongdoing
11. Gaza report
(0725) Morning all … outside here, no Gates poisoned cloud but normal clouds crossing the sky. (0923)
10. Moosh corner
9. The implications are daunting
8. Toodles
Toods made clear she was not asking me to run this … this is my doing. I’m thinking it needs to be posted.
7. Steve and Somalis under NYD [6 to 10]
Steve has thrown me what in American terms is called a curve ball … three X links … and the idea I think is that I sshoot text and post (see below). That’s fine but my own feeling about what’s going on means there’s no way I’m running the actual photo of the leftist clown chick wearing bin bag liner, posing beside an actual Somali binbagger looking down her nose at the white chick.
That’s the context of the first comments thread below:
6. Rolf at Now and Next
“The days of the higher education scam are numbered.
A recent survey by Microsoft identified 40 knowledge-based jobs at risk of replacement by Artificial Intelligence. So much for borrowing many thousands to go to “uni.”
Instead young people should consider skilled manual work and personal services. This will be the age of the toolbelt-wearing “husky” and the massage therapist.”
For a start, it’s ML (machine learning), not AI (artificial intelligence) …the resource heavy “artificial” bit is the correct word in there.