Political hostilities will resume around 1530 with Badlands.

 

Always pays to read the reviews … this is far better than at first supposed, the history of the actor and actresses was most interesting and the review below is full of spoilers … in fact, the first spoiler is coming up right now … the lovely Lupino kills her benefactor … the whole cast seem insane. Review:

‘From “vanilla blonde” starlet of the early thirties to startling character actress of the late thirties, Ida Lupino should have been a bigger star but she was at the wrong studio. Warners already had Bette Davis who was always given first choice of the plum roles, in fact Ida was only signed by Warners as a threat to Davis, as Davis was being particularly difficult at that time.

Even though Ida claimed she was never allowed to pick her own roles, over the coming years she made the movies that she is best remembered for – but not all were for Warners. “Ladies in Retirement” was made for Columbia and not only gave Ida her favourite part but also a chance to work with her husband at the time – Louis Hayward. It had been a successful Broadway play of the previous year and Flora Robson had made the role of Ellen Creed, the determined middle aged housekeeper who resorts to murder to keep her two “pixilated” sisters together, her own.

Ida was only 23 but somehow she managed to put together the talent and skill to portray sinister maturity. To get herself in part she wore her hair severely pulled back with as little make up as possible and almost willed herself into the iron willed woman who had to dominate this macabre Victorian melodrama.

Set in England in the late nineteenth century, frivolous, elderly Miss Leonora Fiske (Isobel Elsom recreating her stage role) reluctantly agrees to let Ellen (Lupino) her house keeper companion, have her two “pixilated” sisters (Elsa Lancaster and Edith Barrett) come to stay for a short visit. But the visit turns to permanence and when their behaviour becomes intolerable, Miss Fiske demands they leave.

Ellen’s thieving “nephew” Albert (Hayward) arrives while she is in London collecting her sisters and he puts Miss Fiske wise about what she is letting herself in for – he describes the sisters as “batty” and “crazy”. It doesn’t take long for them to disrupt the household and even though Ellen begs and pleads for them to be allowed to stay, Miss Fiske’s mind is made up.

Ellen’s is made up as well and after sending her sisters away for the day she calmly and methodically strangles the older woman while she is at the piano, then hides her body in an old wall oven which doubles as a safe.

Like a bad penny, the charming Albert returns and soon has the pixilated sisters eating out of his hand. Emily confesses to him that Ellen told them that she has bought the house from Miss Fiske but that they have been sworn to secrecy. Between Albert and Lucy (Evelyn Keyes), a parlour maid he has been stringing along, Ellen’s icy demeanour finally cracks and realising that her sisters will be looked after she walks out to meet the police.

I do not see how Ida Lupino could have been better in the part, from stubborn patience to almost maniacal determination in her quest to look after her sisters. She was given strong support from Louis Hayward as the sinister, calculating Albert and Elsa Lancaster as the far more dangerous sister, Emily – “the sea has got to be cleaned”. The New York Times thought Ida deserved the most praise for her “thin ribbon of intensity that makes the film hair raising”.’

(1015) You can always tell when I run out of news … I try to write poems:

“Met my lover on the Belgrano, unencumbered by the past, middle class, we spent our time toolmaking and torpedoing sausages and word salad … “

… and generally posting silly things. Morning all. (1028)

(1104) Posts up at UHC and Jstack, both on the same topic. That film posted soon. (1105)

 

10. Why do I feel a CS&N song coming on?

9. TDS today

8. These racists all need rounding up and buying a pint

7. Well I’d certainly give them a try

 

(0724) Break for brek, chaps and chapesses. (0818)

 

6. Quick look through the sources before brek

… and the most substantial was a couple of hours ago when reports started coming through that the eye of the hurricane collapsed as it hit land or soon after … down to Category 2 storm. What then of fearmongering?

Also, there just happened to be mass Christian praying the day before that that would be exactly the outcome … naturally, non-Christians will not credit this in the least. Again … 🍿🍿🍿.

Also just through … Dan Wooton:

Nigel Farage won’t talk about it now, but if Robert Jenrick wins the Conservative leadership, as I believe he should and will, the door is open to a Reform/Tory deal. Ultra wet James Cleverly and Michael Gove stooge Kemi Badenoch would have marched Thatcher’s party to oblivion.

One view, yes. I also saw someone write that Reform will not get more than 25%, Tories no more than around 22%. That’s as maybe … traditionally, it’s been in coalition in many countries … trouble with the Woke v antiWoke is that the gap is now unbridgable. I for one want nothing to do with brainwashed, lying Woke karens until they wake up.

5. Meanwhile, back in Blighty

4. New factor … bible belt US South

There’s much online talk about Christians, esp. evangelicals not supporting Trump over his abortion stance, not helped by Melania’s stance in her book. As you know, I’m a Christian apologist (meaning pundit in the trad sense, not “apologising for” in any way) but my background and adult life has been political, not religious.

This was on Gab just now:

In the traditional (rural White) South, there are a proliferation of Protestant sects, to be sure. Just about every Southern town with more than 100 people has the First Baptist Church and at least one other Baptist church that came about because of a church split about something, sometimes something that would appear trivial to an outsider. My own home church has been around since the 1840s and splits have produced at least two other churches that I know of.

But do you know what? They aren’t fighting each other. They aren’t badmouthing each other. Friends go to different churches and it doesn’t make them any less of friends. When there is a community need, they work together. They have church league softball. They joke with each other. (What’s the difference between a Baptist and an Episcopalian? The Baptists don’t acknowledge each other in the liquor store, etc.) They have their youth groups get together for different events. 

There are distinctives in theology and modes of worship, but the love of Christ Jesus is for all. This does not address megachurches and that sort of thing, which appear from the outside to be much more commercial, and to be sure, not a Southern thing at all.

And lastly, blacks and Whites rarely worship together in the traditional South , and their tastes in worship are almost entirely different. Being a black preacher is a shuck to get female attention in the colored world. though I am sure that there are some good ones, too. And I will give the older black ladies some credit for wearing nice hats on Sundays.

Possibly the most divisive undermining of the bible belt south and in fact Christendom worldwide is Wokery, product of Them, trying to undermine and destroy faith by confusing it with extra-scriptural guff of the current day … the current antiPope is the worst, with Welby an example of protestant apostates.

Which does not resolve the political fallout from full term abortion … in fact post-heartbeat. I’m wondering though how much of the old bible belt still exists as truly Christian … how much has already been white-anted by Wokery? That is … it’s already either voting Heels Up or not voting at all?

(0536) Dark out there. There’s a reason for putting DAD at 2 … it places him higher on the page than my rambling opener, so he is not swamped by pictures and text. Also, there’s no obligation for anyone to comment and they are at NOWP but none at HQ since yesterday morning does have me watching. 🍿🍿🍿… which is also my attitude to Milton and Wyoming just now.

 

3. Election notes

Why should it need hotshot lawyers to ensure veracity and no funny biz? What of the official regulators?

And what of this situation?

And what of SCOTUS and the state courts? Well, there was supposed footage of Roberts at Ep Isle, was there not? Obummer.

2. DAD at 838

a) Gates of Vienna is 20 years old – let’s hope that it is not shut-down as was NO. A reflection by the Baron.

b) In Cavaillon, several police cars were set on fire and the police station was evacuated last night. This incident comes after several “Place Nette” operations aimed at combating local drug trafficking.

c) The Columbia Broadcasting Systems CBS, one of the U.S. ‘Big Three’ networks, appears to have edited an interview with Democratic presidential candidate and current VP Kamala Harris …

1. Of Wyoming, Florida and rampant lying

One of Them’s tasks is to shut down the supply of data to alt-pundits or to give us another name … the real reporters and journos, amateurs. The MSM is highly regulated by owners and donors to give a universally Woke, lying “reality” and yet they also have access by flying reporters to hot spots … where they then lie from.

The amateur uses today’s tech but needs an end place, often to diffused sites, displaced from the epicentre where most people go … primarily they go to the box or radio but more now do go to soc-med … the controlled narrative sites, often asking for money. Trouble for soc-med is trolling and false flags, e.g. false images, false prophets. For example, in Wed 18, there’s an image of fire in a different place to Wyoming. So where is the mass of Wyoming footage and commentary?

Why such mixed messaging? Deregulated amateurs? And does my writing this very point not give fuel to the censors, to “regulate for veracity”? Except that those censorship appointees are the last ones who should ever be doing it … often it’s some freshfaced girl out of college, the censor, already well under the control of the Machine. Plus the “elderly”, source of true radicalism, are being DNR-ed.

As you might be able to see, it is stamped Tampa, St P, Jenny Medina, no timestamp. That’s all we know. That’s my still of the footage by the way … in that footage, that ring is not a gap in the cloud, it rises lower left and goes upwards to where you see it.

All right, this one:

Yes, his timestamp was there … I can tell you it was on X last evening … but that was before it hit … plus do you trust what I wrote? We’re relying, are we not, on a chain of passed on messages … send us three and fourpence, we’re going to a dance (some will understand that reference).

3.7 million views … and who is he? He cropped up as some renegade determined to ride it out … and here:

He was interviewed, someone wrote and said he’d had trouble with the boat banging against the wall. Banging? In that bay? With that twister footage going across Tampa (not saved here)? Maybe he’s away from the epicentre.

And what of Wyoming? Nothing … zilch … nada.

(1541). Soon to be evening all.

 

18. While the photo might be San Bernardino CA last month

… Wyoming is still current, very real … some bad things over there just now.

17. Interesting how word association football works

… or how ideas can reach what passes for a brain from different directions at the same time. I was looking at John Lennon’s behaviour towards Cynthia, triggered by a Quora news thingy to the email, which had me thinking how it really soured my liking of the Beatles.

Then I thought well … I don’t like any Beatles songs now … used to. Same with the Stones. Then I realised that that was not quite true with the Beatles … The End (carry that weight) still stands up, though the style is twee to my ears today. Then I was thinking of our weather here and that in Florida before it hits and I realised which song really does still stand up, despite Lennon.

In fact, it was probably Ringo’s best drumming of all time and the bass was superb … it was a very bass and droning driven, jangly song, which is my fave style … should have been the A side. Then I saw, on the YT page for the song, looking for the best version … the one below … er … like wow. Is she actially playing the song or is she shadow playing?

Coz she’s really good.

16. One more

16. As night follows day

Don’t forget the Cleverly – Badenoch deal … agreeing to drop out, redirect to her, in order to stay in the ECHR. She’s a Gove protege.

(1841) Just saw something else … Cleverly was never going to be the one, being of the old guard.

17. Steve at 837

a. With Geiger Capital:

b. War Room

• Natalie Winters Blasts Leftist Elites For Clinging On To “Russian Collusion”
• Steve Friend: “They Want To Drive Narratives, They’re Interested In Outcomes Not The Process”
• Kane Highlights How Trump Is Leading In State Polls Across The Country
• Alex DeGrasse Lays Out The Keys To A Trump Landslide On Nov 5

JH: Chickens … hatched.

14. Why do WE have to do the bleedin’ reporting?

a. Guido, via Bob M:

b. She’s not happy … good reason or not?

c. Amen:

d. Lainey:

e. Nice:

13. Dare not say the name

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

 

Taking a real risk here with so many curmudgeonly chaps around … this is really one for the ladies … it’s not the Ida Lupino mentioned … that’s gruesome, where a coldblooded murder is involved. Might run that one tomorrow but this one now suits the mood of the weather today.

(1258) Afternoon all. (1315)

 

12. Wyoming fire

11. Vaxx risk for children

10. Patrick Byrne is still an enigma to me

He says he knows two people close to Trump who are plants. Plus:

The third would be whoever told him in December 2020 to hire Frank Holder to investigate the election fraud. Frank is a Cuban-Venezuelan asset, and SmartMatics has been his client since 2006.

I’m inclined to think they do slip people past DJT … look at those wrecking his first presidency. I also know the theory that he has it all sussed, he’s just giving them enough rope. I also know the theory that he himself is the biggest sleeper asset himself. 🍿🍿🍿

 

HERE

In the year 2274, the remnants of human civilization live in a sealed domed city, a utopia run by a computer that takes care of all aspects of their life, including reproduction. The citizens live a hedonistic life but, to maintain the city, everyone must undergo the ritual of “Carrousel” when they reach the age of 30. There, they are vaporized and ostensibly “renewed”.

To track this, they are implanted at birth with a “life-clock” crystal in the palm of their hand that changes color as they approach their “Last Day.” Most residents accept this promise of rebirth, but those who do not are known as “Runners” and “Sandmen” are assigned to pursue and terminate them.

Logan 5 and Francis 7 are partner Sandmen; after terminating a Runner, Logan finds an ankh among his possessions. Later, he meets Jessica 6, a girl also wearing an ankh pendant. Logan takes the ankh to the computer, where he is told it is a symbol for a secret group who helps the Runners find “Sanctuary”.

The computer instructs Logan to find Sanctuary and destroy it. It then changes the color of his life-clock to flashing red, four years early.

In order to escape Carrousel, Logan is now forced to become a Runner. Logan meets Jessica and explains his situation. They meet with the underground group that leads them to the periphery of the city. Logan finds the ankh symbol unlocks an exit from the city. They come out into a frozen cave, with Francis following closely behind.

In the cave, they meet Box, a robot designed to capture food for the city from the outside. Box also captures escaped Runners and freezes them like artwork. Before he can freeze them, Logan and Jessica escape from the robot, causing the cave to collapse on Box.

Once outside, Logan and Jessica notice that their life-clocks are dead. They discover that the wilderness has overrun the remains of human civilization. They explore a city, which was once Washington D.C.. In the ruins of the United States Senate chamber, they discover an elderly man. His appearance is a shock to them since neither has seen anyone over the age of 30.

The old man explains what happened to humanity outside of the city and the fugitives realize Sanctuary is a myth. Francis has followed them and he and Logan fight. Logan fatally wounds Francis and as he dies, he sees that Logan’s life-clock is now clear and assumes that Logan has renewed. Logan and Jessica convince the old man to return to the city with them.

Leaving the man outside, the two enter and try to convince everyone that Carrousel is a lie and not necessary. The two are captured by other Sandmen and taken to the computer. The computer interrogates Logan and asks if he completed his mission but Logan insists “there is no Sanctuary”.

This answer is not accepted by the computer, even after scanning Logan’s mind, and the computer overloads, causing the city’s systems to fail and release the exterior seals. Logan and Jessica return to the old man as the citizens flee the ruined city.

When the citizens are outside they see the old man, who is the first human they see far older than 30, proving that they can live their lives much longer, bringing them freedom.

(0723) Morning all … bleah out there … and how. (1159)

 

9. The three letter sites today (blogrolls)

8. Dividing time which fugits sommit awful

Health issues here, vascular or muscular, with fatigue … nothing terminal one hopes but it does mean the waking day needs apportioning, plus all the chores need knocking over as well.

There’s usually no plan first thing in the morning … I check, you check, according to our/your regular rounds and often that lends itself to a theme, e.g. for me today “blogging obstacles” … and one is that there’s the little matter of reading it all first … fast run through to start with, slower second pass through, more closely studied.

There’s one here with Blonde Rebecca with some girl I’d not heard of who’s been deep diving into the Whitmer “kidnapping” attempt.

All that is good but remember it’s an hour long, plus girls do tend to ramble around points and as much as a pretty girl is a fine vision for us chaps as a rule, I’d just posted 1 to 6 today, was aching and tired, headed back to bed, put Rebecca and pal on the shelf behind (ipad) and went audio.

Trouble is, girls tend to put me to sleep in audio-only mode and that duly happened but I did catch some of it.

Two main points were, firstly, that we’re in spiritual warfare just now (Elon and Tucker touched on that too) but most of the west is unaware of it … even many of our own people who stop in here at unherdables … these good folk tolerate Jimbo’s and others’ religious references, survive those and wait for “the politics” to start up again … we’re in a quite different world now where the metaphysical is a closed book to most, even though there are countless signs it exists … and is running things.

Elon made the point that when such a broader worldview (pre-60s perhaps) falls away … deliberately so (it’s the communists’ first task in fact to make that happen), then nature abhors a vacuum and in rush Wokery, Pride for kiddies in school, paederasty, trafficking, no respect, human life cheap, zero ethics, Taylor Swift satanism for kiddies … and they become the new lawless religion, no defences any more for humans, esp. western humans, due to our own falling away.

In the early stages, it had been the secular pseudo-god Science (Royal Society, Smithsonian, NPCC, all the letter agencies, “internet is the whole of life” to so many). The golden Sientifik rule is that “if I can’t perceive it, it don’t exist”. Yeah right … and these people call themselves “rational”.

In the latter (current) stages, people start getting raped, murdered, jabbed and poisoned and the “rationalists” and normies look about, bewildered asking: “Oh no, however could this be? Why is no one doing anything?”

Coz it’s spiritual warfare, my friends. No human defences. Donny will save us all?

The second point of the gals in the vlogcast was about Whitmer, evil cow, and how the FBI recruited a gang from across America as “far-rightists” trained to do kidnappings of “good” people such as Whitmer”. I mean, Harris is just dumb but Whitmer actually looks evil, looks the part, worse even than Nuland and Cheatle.

7. DAD droppeth from France at 837

a) France’s Interior Minister announced Omar bin Laden was deported over accusations of glorifying terrorism on social media … the post did not detail when exactly Omar bin Laden had been deported nor reveal where he was sent to.

b) The National Directorate of Territorial Intelligence (DNRT) of the French Interior Ministry revealed this week that 887 “antisemitic acts” were committed in the first six months of the year …

c) A criminal investigation in France has revealed a sophisticated car theft ring operating out of the Stellantis factories in Sochaux and Mulhouse, with stolen vehicles allegedly ending up on the African black market, particularly in Algeria.

d) New book details all of Kamala’s achievements …..