Monday and Advent Day Two [1 to 5]

(0554) Still dark. Advent has started, the Christmas season is upon us. Think I’ll start the carols on the 12th.

 

5. Had planned to run a post on dogs and cats yesterday

… methought over at OoL … but as I tried to write it, I realised there was some sort of psychological barrier in there, preventing it. Puzzled as to why. Perhaps it was past experiences with pets.

What triggered this train of thought was footage on X of some cad having left a dog leashed to a middle barrier on a motorway. In these matters, I’m like the weepiest of females … it’s almost as bad as hurting kids and the elderly.

The expression “a dog is not just for Christmas” kept running through the mind, plus no animal can do forlorn and pathos quite like a dog. The whole notion of neglecting, not looking after etc. is just too much for me … it would be cruelty for me to take on that responsibility. Taking on a woman is different … I can and have done what it took but even then, I realised that that was my limit. Class of children? Easy … each one is your own son or daughter … that goes without saying. One’s own? Ditto. Also anyone vulnerable under attack out there … most people would do similar I’d hope. I detest neglect and cruelty … unless we’re taking out an enemy of course … not the slightest compunction there.

What about cats? Different beast, they still need attention and their scratching is a pain, the damage around the abode. Best I don’t have cats. Nor too many artifacts, as the ladies love to collect. Other species? Best not. That’s just me.

Do they like me, dogs and cats? I think so, the dogs tend to sidle over for a pat, cats take their time but usually end up on the lap, upside down. So yes, I like em a lot … I just can’t look after one. Is that callous?

4. Cash is king


3. Steve at 1219

  • 25,000 Violent Antifa Attack AfD Youth Group Convention in Giessen, Germany – Punching Journalists, Smashing Car Windows and Injuring a Horse!
  • Sweden: $375 Million in Fraudulent State Welfare Funds Siphoned Off by Foreign Criminal Gangs Ravaging the Nation
  • Canadian Muslims Take to Streets in Anger After Quebec Pushes Forward With Ban on Public Prayer
  • DHS Sec Kristi Noem Stuns Leftist NBC Host Kristen Welker – Says Biden Allowed 100,000 Afghans to Infiltrate Our Country and Confirms the US will Deport Aliens with Pending Asylum Claims
  • Liberals are Raging After Idaho Bar Offers Free Beer for a Month to Anyone Who Helps ICE Identify and Deport Illegal Aliens
  • Moscow Demands Trials Kiev Leaders; Kiev Envoys Meet US Officials Russia Storms Grishino
  • UK Police were ordered not to act on evidence of COVID-19 crimes
  • Chemical pollution linked to plummeting male fertility and rising cancers
  • Fort Bragg Psychological Warfare Group Posts Chilling Video. ‘We Are Everywhere’
  • Washington secures strategic Caribbean foothold as Dominican Republic allows U.S. forces limited access
  • Much more.

2. Energy


1. DAD at 1219

a) The Left are evil….The retired man who attacked Jordan Bardella during a book signing in Moissac (82) is not unknown…..

b) Twenty or thirty years ago Nantes airport was deemed too small and expansion was not possible. It was decided to build a new airfield to the north of Nantes at Notre Dame Des Landes. A rag-bag of environmental groups….

c) The priest of Avrechy (Oise, population 1,150) has decided to cancel the nativity scene and Christmas Mass to avoid any controversy during the municipal elections [2026]…..

d) Meanwhile, back in the UK…..The Labour government’s Home Secretary has now ordered a probe into use of ‘false evidence’ to exclude Israeli football supporters from a West Midlands cup tie.

Sunday [11 till close of play]

(1639) Evening all … lovely 5/8 moon in the sky outside of my kitchen window, hope y’all had a good weekend.

 

22. Germany at Christmastide


21. Er … um … still working this one out


20. Crypto crime


19. Moosh corner


18. In the Liverpool Echo


Interesting how different towns and cities have different bad delivery firms. I’ve heard DPD are bad in some places … around this area, Evri’s probably the worst, so much so that the lady from head office was making the deliveries. Their recruiting policy is obviously the pits.

17. This was our sky earlier

… rare not to have the Gates horizon to horizon poison.


16. How about that, eh?


15. Senate crims


14. Club of Rome


13. Message from Tina Peters


12. DAD with Eyes Wide Open


11. Steve corner

  • Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec: The Twisted World of Tyler Robinson and Lance Twiggs
  • Human Events with Jack Posobiec: The toxic psychology of Tyler Robinson

Hearts of Oak: The Week According To . . . Lewis Brackpool – the beginning of the conversation aligns with Eva’s X post over at HQ yesterday, to wit 22. Despicable Morgan and his curry.

Sun Mat

 

“Slick little programmer:

Master forger of rare books (Sanders) gets mixed up with Nazis (Blackmer), a detective (Denning) and a double-crossing dame (Patrick).

The convoluted script may take a Rosetta Stone to solve, still it’s a slickly done TCF programmer. Those two smoothies Sanders and Patrick are well cast as a couple of A-team masochists, engaged in a game of one-upmanship and about as trustworthy as rattlesnakes. In fact, Patrick’s character qualifies for the Devious Dame Hall of Fame, with her warm personality and stone cold heart. Still, I’m a bit surprised that some of that pain-loving dialog Sanders relishes made it past the censors. Usually old Hollywood just hinted at such things instead of belaboring them.

Denning and Roberts are clearly America’s team, though Denning may wobble at times. One thing for sure—set design and art direction come cheap since most of the action takes place in a single setting, a library. Still, director Larkin keeps things moving. And get a load of baldy Kurt Katch’s mute Nazi. He’s about as inviting as the polar ice cap and just as chilling. But, I’m still wondering which thug belongs to which gang, which does get confusing.

Oh well, things do sort out, I think. Then too, it’s 1942 and the war is still in doubt. Byron Foulger’s officious little air warden may be on the silly side, but the blackouts weren’t. These old movies do show us things the history books can’t. Anyhow, the movie may be nothing to write home about. But it’s still impressive how Hollywood could turn out such slick little programmers in the middle of a big war.”

St Andrews Day [6 to 10]

(1154) Almost afternoon all. (1222)

 

10. Moosh corner


9. Second nasty thing out of Canada today


She’s looking very much like the Canadian version of a RINO more and more.

8. There’s a subset I’m increasingly not into

… for example, Benny Johnson.


You can always spot them, as they run a “show”, usually in their name, they’re obsessed by stats and SEO, lists … and especially for bunnies among us to pay them … as if they have anything more rivetting to say than that which we do as a whole. Give me a more modest blogger or vlogger any time. Extract ego from the mix.

7. On THAT topic



6. St Andrews Day today


Start of Advent as well.

Sunday [1 to 5]

(0845) Morning all … very late start … the day looks mild, cumulus cloud, some nimbus … I’m sure the planes will be out there soon, ruining it.

 

5. Andy corner

At 1218

Users of VPN can dodge pesky ads on utub if they set it to Albania. Not for long as they’re working on stopping the workaround.

JH: Don’t forget Andy’s dayjob back in the day.

Just now

Some very was breaking new from California. | https://news.sky.com/story/children-killed-in-mass-shooting-at-birthday-party-in-stockton-california-13477351

4. Steve at 1218

  • Oregon’s Democrat Attorney General Threatens to Arrest Federal Agents for Enforcing Immigration Law and Protecting Portland ICE Facility (JH: think about this one … Fed v state … trying to arrest each other … the “system” turned to insanity)
  • Northwestern University Folds to Trump to End Funding Freeze, Will Pay $75 Million Fine and End DEI Discrimination
  • ‘We Are Being Forced to Fund Our Own Destruction’: The Massive Amount of Taxpayer Dollars Behind Afghan Resettlement Program That Brought National Guard Shooter to US
  • British Covert War On Russia: Actions At Sea Pointing Towards Total Naval War (JH: Crimean War all over again … post item coming up later)
  • Yermak Goes Zelensky Regime Unravels; Belgium Blocks EU’s Russian Asset Plan US Cuts EU Out of Talks
  • Why is Britain’s official inquiry into COVID handling blaming a ‘toxic culture’ for a late lockdown?
  • UK’s open border policy is not normal; nor is it acceptable
  • AI isn’t just taking over jobs; it’s now taking over creation itself (JH: They wish, the old old story)
  • Much much more.

3. First nasty item out of Canada for Sunday

Old story … saw it on socmed … how much weight to give it?


2. DAD at 1218

a) The left is evil 1. Far-Left mob tries to shut down AfD Youth launch. Tens of thousands of protesters swarmed Giessen….

b) The left is evil 2. The town hall of Fougères (Ille-et-Vilaine) announced in a press release issued on Friday, November 28, 2025, that it will cease providing accommodation for young exiles on December 1st….

c) Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has issued a scathing letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urging her to abandon plans to tap into €140 billion in frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s war efforts. (JH: Evil woman)

d) Listen ! Can you hear the threat of war drums in the background. President Macron wants to reinstate voluntary military service….

e) Confirmation of d). ‘They’ need the Russian bogeyman: Why Europe won’t let the war end.

1. Over at OoL

This states the problem in Britain quite clearly:

https://orphansofliberty.blogspot.com/2025/11/its-not-just-about-incompetent-lying.html

The bigger two issues are firstly how to stop the rot before it goes any further … and secondly how mechanisms can be put in place to institute some sort of recall of a govt and/or judiciary which acts counter to agreed platforms or long precedent.

They’re the thorny questions.

Saturday [16 till close of play]

(1734) Evening all. Thanks for the comments today, have read them, much to post at this moment.

 

22. Quite liking this new commentator

21. Britain


22. America


21. Canada


20. Australia


19. Deryl corner


18. Scandinavia


17. Constantinople


16. Steve at 1218

War Room snippets…

  • The Posobiec Brothers On Migrants Being Treated Better Than American Citizens In Our Own Country
  • Jack Posobiec: Why He Believes the Left Uses Mass Migration to Undercut the Middle Class And Destabilize Western Society
  • General Flynn: I Think The Operational Commander Of The Color Revolution Here In America Is John Brennan
  • Steve Cortes On The Zelenskyy Government: No More Blank Checks For Crooks, It Is A Middle Finger To Every Single American

Sat Mat

 

“If they had beefed up the dialogue, replaced the rather wooden actors, and cut the running time from 70 minutes to 50 minutes. It actually has an ironic ending that is worthy of the master of suspense.

You can see where this film is going from a mile away. Valerie Bancroft is a young heiress who has a fatal heart condition. She and her paid companion, Marsha, decamp from New York and go to California for the sunshine and hope that it will improve her life expectancy – she should live a year at the most. While in California, they meet con man Ricardo De Villa. He claims to be a businessman from South America who is using the lull in business to holiday in California.

Instead he is broke, wants to run off with the female half of a professional dance team, and does not have the money to do so. Marsha told him about Valerie’s heart condition hoping he would cut down on all of the night life with Valerie if he knew. Instead he woos and marries Valerie, hoping that the increase in activity, which she loves, will kill her off early. And even if it doesn’t, a year is not so long to wait to inherit Valerie’s money. Complications ensue.

Nobody in this film is that bad, but one part is done very badly. That would be the part of the cuckolded ballroom dancing husband, Don. He hardly ever says anything. But he is always looking around corners and either following his unfaithful wife or Ricardo. Another role is done rather hilariously. Don’s cheating wife, Fritzie, is always dressed in one of her ballroom dancing gowns no matter what the surroundings. She could be on the beach or in the supermarket and there she would be, conspicuously dressed to the nines.

I would mildly recommend this one.”

Saturday [12 to 15]

(1352) Afternoon all. Brightening up out there just a bit. (1410)

 

15. This is a quiz question … try this

Here’s a statement by a sitting Senator:


Question is … which western, though now fourth world, nation?

14. Is the BofE or CofE worse?


13. The only trustworthy MP at Westminster


12. Monsters

This:


… reminds me of this: