One of the medium antiWoke has commented on the large pundit issue:
8. Two or three of much interest at TDS today
7. Infiltration
6. DAD at 1222
[What! No Steve today?]
a) EU Fraud Probe: A growing accountability crisis….
b) Three top EU figures formally charged for alleged corruption….
c) Macron’s, “Ministry of Truth”. Panic in the face of a country slipping out of his grasp? Macron intends to tighten his grip on public opinion and the press….
d) Honour Killings. The brutal murder of an 18-year-old girl in the Netherlands, allegedly at the hands of her own family members, must force an uncomfortable conversation about migration and integration….
e) BP abandon Teesside Hydrogen Plant. BP is preparing to shelve plans to build a major hydrogen project in Teesside in a fresh blow to Ed Miliband’s net zero plans.
(0048) Dropping off around 2200, it was not good to awaken before midnight … and yet rested. Just hoping you out there are ok. (0204)
5. Moosh corner
4. At some point, I’m going to have to address CK and related matters
Frankly, I’m up in the air about it, way too much is unsatisfactory … I watched that youtube, read MM, read other things on it. The only things I can nail down, esp. through those pro CK himself, were that he was shifting in his opinion, he was becoming far more proChristian, whereas till that point, with Ben Shapiro, it had been a vague Judaeo-Christian Conservatism … in other words, antiWoke. Bob Montgomery is a factor in this too, CK’s “co-founder”.
There are reports CK was calling for an audit of the whole organisation, which I’m thinking was more to the point, plus the letter agency factor. Even the makeup of the crowd in that enclosed area was interesting … hardly just college kids.
Another factor is that it follows the pattern of various shows, e.g. Perry Mason and the Notorious Nun, or The Killer Kiss. In both cases, a star performer or investigator was hit.
Then we get to Candace. I was looking at her latest … actually, I was reading comments, rather than watching as she drones on. Comments were alternating in tone, quite polarised … either she was despicable, dragging CK’s family into the mire … or she was right on. There were no inbetween comments … they were one or the other.
What seems spurious as a factor, but I do think it might be relevant, were those black leather trousers, skintight, which she was wearing. I’m just wondering, not being a woman, whether it may have been related to that time of the month. Looking at any possibility whatever here.
And then, to come back to the religious question … as far as I know, there is not just the one Talmud … the one which parallelled the deathcult exhortation to kill and maim any not “of the faith” was called the Babylonian Talmud of the ultraorthodox Stsinoiz. Add to that Revelation 3:9, add the Khazars and Ashkenazis … that brings in the mid European Black Nobility. It starts to get messy … the actual, real Jewish person is otherwise again.
Can I myself sort all that? Not in my mind, no. Then we get onto the different “Christian” denominations, equally mutually exclusive, even deadly towards one another. Then we get to Masonry. The Illumined. It gets even messier. Back to the wider “Jewish” field again, what of the Hoffs and Gateway Pundit? Which type of “Jewish” are they? Judaean?
Myself? Yes, I was infant baptised CofE, I grew up as a suburban kid, outer village, riding my bike, grazing my knee, then was “elevated” to a different kind of school in secondary and did not start mentioning verses as such until a decade ago now on the blog, after copious reading. If I say the St George’s cross is mine … well it was truer to say the white rose of Yorkshire or downunder … the state of Victoria.
3. Penseivat commented at Orphans on Dec 1st
… on the demand for a degree for something you’d done for donkey’s years, as if that would add more than inside courses on the job:
“Friends of my granddaughter, some whose parents were nurses, are reluctant to follow in their footsteps because of the necessity to have a nursing degree. My late wife was a nurse, spending 3 years in a teaching hospital for her ARM qualification, attended several course during her career, and eventually specialising in Cardiology. Then one day she was told she had to have a nursing degree to continue doing the job she had done for 15 years. The study was done in her own time, between hospital shifts, and family life, and when she was awarded her degree, was not given a pay rise or increment for this paper qualification, but the hospital management was gracious enough to allow her to continue doing what she had been doing. She never understood why this requirement was made, and it was never really explained.”
Rupert Lowe said it was better to go into a trade today but of course, there’s less chance of political indoctrination that way, plus the bureaucrats do not control you to the same extent.
From the url, you’ll gather there was some development with the first and then I quote Rupert on the NHS.
1. On Steve plus others of our long time peeps
Just noticed that our Steve, if I might call him that, last posted at NOWP at 2203 on Dec 2nd and at HQ at 1058 on Dec 1st. Though there’s no obligation whatever on any of our chaps and chapesses, the suddenness of it does make me think something might have happened … maybe an accident or illness, maybe an arrangement that could not be mentioned on the blog …
… or maybe a tech or censorship question. There’s a fourth possible reason and that is being displeased with something written by someone and/or my response. I do stress that it’s Christmastide and such things are likely to occur from here on in. We can only wait and hope for word.
Something shifted today. The Budget row stopped being a story about dishonesty and became something darker: a government moving to remove the one man who could expose it.
Rachel Reeves hasn’t simply misrepresented the public finances. She hasn’t simply engineered a false fiscal crisis. She is now clinging to office because the one man who could contradict her – the chairman of the OBR – has been shoved aside hours before he was due to give evidence.
That is not politics. That is the state reaching for the dimmer switch to keep the truth out of sight. Richard Hughes’s resignation was dressed up as noble self-sacrifice, but the timing gives the game away. He falls on the morning Reeves faces her fiercest scrutiny. He disappears from the witness table where he was meant to confirm, under oath and in public, that the Chancellor had the upgraded forecasts before she warned the country of a black hole that did not exist.
And he falls after days of pressure from ministers who suddenly lost their patience with the one body they had spent months claiming proved their credibility. A watchdog that tells the truth is useful to them. A watchdog that contradicts the script is disposable. This is the true scandal. Not the lie, but the purge.
A government that cooks its own numbers is untrustworthy. A government that removes the referee to protect a minister is dangerous. Reeves has not merely broken faith with the public – she has broken the independence of Britain’s fiscal institutions. The OBR was created to keep politicians honest. Today it has been reminded, in brutal terms, that honesty carries a price.
Starmer cannot wash his hands of this. His fingerprints are all over the weapon. He attacked the OBR for its timing. His ministers briefed against Hughes. His MPs questioned his position. Reeves withdrew her confidence just as the narrative turned against her. And then, as the walls closed in, the man at the centre of the row quietly exited the stage. Starmer held a press conference insisting there was “no misleading,” a line delivered with the weary certainty of a man who hopes repetition can replace truth.
It cannot. The public is not blind. They can see the choreography. A Prime Minister who stays silent while his Chancellor misleads the country is weak. A Prime Minister who allows the watchdog to be trampled to spare his Chancellor is complicit. This government now faces a crisis of legitimacy of its own making. It asked the country to trust it. Then it undermined the very institution designed to earn that trust.
This is not the behaviour of grown-ups. It is the behaviour of a government that fears scrutiny because it knows scrutiny will expose the lie.
We should be clear about what happened today. The head of the OBR resigned in the middle of the biggest fiscal scandal in years. He resigned on the eve of giving testimony that could have ended Reeves’s career. And he resigned under a cloud of ministerial pressure, pointed criticism, and barely disguised frustration from Number 10.
This government has not only misled the public – it has interfered with the mechanisms designed to correct that misconduct. A country can survive a dishonest Budget. It cannot survive a government that silences the people who catch it.
And that is where Britain now stands. If the ethics system fails to act, if Parliament shrugs, if the OBR is cowed into submission, then the lie becomes law and the truth becomes optional. Reeves may cling on. Starmer may brazen it out.
But a government that protects itself by toppling the watchdog is not a government with a future. It is a government already rotting from the inside.
“Richard Hughes’s resignation was dressed up as noble self-sacrifice, but the timing gives the game away. He falls on the morning Reeves faces her fiercest scrutiny.”
22. Deryl corner
21. Do you ever find yourself having a strange conversation?
Suggest you read bottom to top on this one … to a point.
“MANSLAUGHTER is a highly engrossing early talkie melodrama with very early film performances of two of the great players from Hollywood’s golden era, Claudette Colbert and Fredric March. Claudette Colbert stars as a spoiled heiress who believes there are two sets of laws, one for the rich and one for the poor. Young district attorney Fredric March believes quite the opposite – equal justice and punishment for everyone. They meet at a dinner party and romantic sparks fly and both are infatuated.
But trouble is around the corner. March learns Claudette has attempted to bribe a young cop after being caught speeding by dropping her diamond bracelet on the ground and driving away which leads to a scene between them and any romantic possibilities crushed. And then Colbert’s faithful maid Hilda Vaughn steals some of her jewels in a weak moment for her boyfriend and confesses.
Self-centered Claudette however can’t be bothered to remember the date of Vaughn’s trial which results in her receiving a sentence of up to 15 years. Horrified to learn of the results, Claudette zooms off to see what she can do belatedly but her speeding this time results in a fatality and her being charged for manslaughter – and with the prosecuting attorney set to be March!
This type of melodrama was extremely popular in the early days of talkies – Norma Shearer won much acclaim for THE TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN and a Academy Award nomination for A FREE SOUL, Mary Pickford won an Oscar for COQUETTE. Although I’ve never seen DUGAN, I can’t help but feel Claudette Colbert’s sterling performance even at this very early stage in her career topped them all.
Her pampered socialite is a fully three dimensional character – selfish yes, but not an obnoxious, unfeeling person even when she is successful at getting things her way. She is matched by the dashing young March as the young man with ideals who cannot compromise his integrity even if it means prosecuting a woman he knows he is in love with, even as it tears at his heart.
Emma Dunn is fine in a rare moneyed role as Colbert’s loving and supportive aunt, Natalie Moorhead, generally cast as a menace in films, does well with her small part as one of Claudette’s best friends but the standout in the supporting cast is the wonderful Hilda Vaughn who latter-day audiences surely know best as Jean Harlow’s maid in DINNER AT EIGHT (1933).
Ms. Vaughn has a startlingly similar situation here as the put-upon maid on a spoiled socialite (with a diamond bracelet playing a key role in the proceedings again!!) but this role even gives her more to work with than DINNER and she has two wonderful little scenes in the prison when she and her former boss are finally on equal ground.
(There’s also a brief bit of unintentional humor for movie buffs with Louise Beavers’ bit part as one of the inmates, seeing the two stars of the later IMITATION OF LIFE (1934) in jail side by side makes one wonder if that pancake corporation was on the up and up LOL.)
Claudette Colbert and Fredric March were the perfect co-stars for each other, it’s regrettable their only work together was so early in their careers and of their four films only DeMille’s SIGN OF THE CROSS is easily seen. It’s clear from MANSLAUGHTER that these were two stars who were wonderful from day one.”
Think it was Wired, the leftwing tech rag, which had the Tennessee result going to the Demonrat. The only interesting two things were how the Wokeleft Politico spun it and … er … what the actual result was.
GOP took it, Politico wrote: “GOP frets ‘dangerous’ result in Tennessee. Republicans are worried the slim margin of victory in Tuesday’s special election may spell doom in 2026.” What a horse’s backside Politico is.
All the same, Elise’s victory over Johnson last night was nice … so maybe it will stir the Donald enough to put a bomb under the GOP.
18. Money’s just confetti after all
17. Ladies again
This is a far bigger topic than one might initially think. When I made contact with a gf from my yoof awhile back, the issue was not so much how each would react upon meeting again … that was positive, there were clues … but how each would feel as our views and perceptions of events now differed … in fact just how different our mindsets might be now.
Neither opted to find out, possibly knowing, deep down.
16. Do you remember a few days back
… when, after a bad sleep, I lost balance and had an accident? This was at NOWP:
9. At what point do the silent majority in the west start calling this out?
Ditto with Notre Dame, much priceless architecture for a start, mass murder, not just of African blacks? With the middle-east, Africa, known deathcult-overrun areas … well there’s not much which can be done, given the terrorists control western politicians … either that or the Askenazis or the Chinese.
In the western nations though, it can surely be called out by you … but I see and hear precious little outrage. Why? Bleedin’ obvious, no? I’m thinking the Triune God has a good case: “If you decide to turn away, abandon Me, the one factor which let the West per se reach that level of civility, civic life, ethics, protecting the ordinary person, though it took a thousand years to get there … then why should I bother coming to the aid of someone who doesn’t even believe in Me?”
Interesting that Putin has taken the stance he has … defender of the faith … ditto Orban, Poland and others. And godless Britain? Well just look at its abject state.
8. And more on this Oz “E Safety” thing
7. More on the Elise-Anna Paulina thing
6. More on the inHouse fighting
I’m well aware of the argument against women being in politics, similar to running companies or in key positions such as the “E Safety Commissioner” downunder … and many critics are women themselves:
On the other hand, when women mouth off for good things and combine to do it … there’s immense power in there to eventually stymie the baddies. Now look, I’ve had the rough end of the stick from females throughout my life but so have I had treachery from men. Yet this below seems a good thing:
Again, the argument remains that men could have done that too. Yes, they could have. They didn’t.
There’s the added factor … well let me put it this way … there’s a young guy, Young Bob, another called Charlie Downes … similar fighters but have you heard much about them? Truth is, the girls grab us, the boys are worthy mates. Charlie Kirk was a bit different of course.
Feisty femmes can be bad, pains in the neck (the woke-left and karens) but others can be good, pains in the neck. The crucial thing is that their politics are right. In this case, miracles might happen to overturn Johnson.
4. Steve at 1221
Tensions Escalate Within NATO as Pentagon Abruptly Halts Ukraine-Related Communications with Germany
Germany’s Industrial Backbone Collapsing Under Globalist Ideological Energy Policy, Industry Leaders Warn
Milan’s Police Chief Reports Foreign Nationals Linked to 80% of Predatory Crimes as Winter Olympics Loom
GOP Senator Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Dual Citizenship
National Guardsman Andrew Wolfe is Now Responding to Nurses — Gives Thumbs Up
Criminal Indian Illegal Alien Semi-Truck Driver Who Obtained CDL in California Kills Two People After Jack-knifing Trailer in Oregon
[The] Ukraine Inches Closer To Defeat (JH: along the front line)
Gates Funds ‘Geoengineering’ to Dim the Sun – After Saying Climate Change Is Not a Threat to Humanity
Crowborough Braces for the Arrival of 600 Illegal Migrants
Much more.
3. Somalia
2. DAD at 1221
a) Capitulation. For security reasons, there will be no New Year’s Eve concert on the Champs-Élysées this year.
b) It’s POLITICO, but I read of a rumour a few days ago. The European Union has approved a proposal to curb trade benefits for developing countries that refuse to take back migrants whose stay in the bloc has been denied. (JH: Leftwing source, proceed accordingly … probably already out in the alt-news)
c) NANTES – again. Preserving the Peace. At the Prairie-de-Mauves waste disposal center in Nantes, an unusual scene unfolds every evening.
d) Two 16-year-old ISIS supporters, one a Chechen migrant who arrived four years ago, were arrested by the DGSI (General Directorate for Internal Security) in the Bas-Rhin and Paris regions on suspicion of planning an antisemitic attack.
e) Ile-de-France: The slow disappearance of kebabs… replaced by tacos. The Avenue du 6-Juin-1944 in Goussainville recently boasted several kebab shops.
(1603) Almost evening all. The carols will start here on Sat 13th … 12 days of Advent, then 12 days of Christmas. Christmas pictures will appear from here onwards, probably tomorrow evening for the first in the sidebar.
Wrong attitude imho … if you start to enjoy shopping with her (takes getting used to and involves sitting on benches a lot) … then you enjoy the payback later in the process. It’s a nice experience, your lady rewarding you. But never simping and never right into the shopping … that’s a bit iffy.
17. In one
16. So why is Donny not arresting?
As MmutR says … coz it’s Pammy’s job. And why is Pammy not?
