16. Now, this Chas 3 thing

My hope was sacking the govt, calling a GE. Someone thought it was abdicating due to cancer. Another though it was Ginge, Whinge and family, inc. Airmiles. 🍿🍿🍿.

15. Sorority mania going viral across the US

… in the wake of Sydney fever:

This is now getting way out of hand:

Dang these sorority dance offs just keep getting better and better. Some look like professional dancers.

Great job Alpha Phi pic.twitter.com/1fC8019w8Z

— MAGA Resource (@MAGAResource) August 10, 2025

14. Coming up to 811, here’s 911

[RG911Team] There’s a reason why this 9/11 clip is never shown on TV.

The NBC reporter says some things that blow a hole through the middle of the official story.

What do you think? pic.twitter.com/pQNCNkAF79

— Richard Gage, AIA, Architect (@RichardGage_911) August 10, 2025

13. Steve part two

War Room at 1129:

• Cleo Paskal: “It Might Be Beneficial To Start Thinking About An Indo-Pacific Charter”
• Dave Brat: “The Deal For Zelensky Is Kyiv Or No Kyiv, It’s Not A Peace Deal, It’s The Survival Of Ukraine”
• Tom Dans On Upcoming Meeting Between Putin And President Trump In Alaska: “This Is Where Russia And America Come Together In Our History”
• Dr Bhattacharya: “As Far As Public Health Goes For Vaccines, The mRNA Platform Is No Longer Viable”

12. Steve part one

11. West to Alaska

Now, the obvious thing is to get the ingredients in before Friday’s summit in Alaska … you’ll need to drink a toast of course on the feast of Mary:

https://www.liquor.com/recipes/classic-bloody-mary

Krovavaya Meri or Bloody Mary

Ingredients: Seven in all: vodka, tomato juice, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, celery salt, Tabasco and lemon juice. You’ll also need to prepare nibbles ahead of time.

Method: Combine all bar the vodka, pour the mix into the glasses … now comes the important part. You need a hunting knife or other large bladed knife, point at the top of the mix, blade at an angle. Very careful drip the vodka in along the blade so that it sits on top of the mix, so that it does not sink in and become part of the mix. After the toast, sink the vodka, feel the burn, followed by the mellow mix. Nibble.

За здоровье, friends!

 

When pushed for time, which jazz group would you revert to for three quick tracks? For me, either Tuba Skinny or some manifestation of the Ramblers … especially approaching the Russian summit in Alaska.

 

Time is the issue now … not enough left this afternoon for a film but I did find a Poirot plus an original Maigret. There are politics but best get this episode up, then find some jazz, then do a final polit-post, including Steve’s Alaskan summit sshot.

 

What all who visit here, plus I, am looking for is some sort of authentic information on the topics we look at. Rather than boasting that we have it yet, better to say that if we find something still up which was factually wrong, as distinct from interpretation and opinion … it doesn’t stay up. That can take years.

A second point is that clearly and openly biased people are often of more use to readers … look at what he or she puts, then look at what the detractor puts. Then evaluate against other things you know. Laura Loomer is one of those … a known-known. This Chinese guy below … might be originally Hong Kong, might be mainland, might be nationalist … clearly anti-CCP … fine, we know where we stand. Better to post than not to post. For the CCP eulogy, go to South China Press or similar.

(0911) Putting together the collected things for Sunday, none are classical or baroque music … that would involve going searching … fine, but later. On the other hand, there’s much in the way of politics, plus some interesting feature youtubes, one coming up after this. (0929)

 

10. If I’ve no immediate music to run

… then maybe this might suffice for now:

9. It cannot inexorably continue

… a reckoning of some kind or other must come.

8. On Chas 3 and The Beloved Sausage

7. Speaking of Alaska

6. Strawberries

 

(0753). Morning all … thought it was Monday, was going through the jobs in my mind … then awoke from the dream (nightmare?)… (0819)

 

5. The problem inside the White House is largely Wiles

…in my humble:

4. Alaska

Naturally we have to look at it … Roob already has.

My deeply thought through treatise on the summit is … 🍿🍿🍿.

3. Steve at 1128

• Trump Admin Orders Agencies to Delete All Records of Federal Employee Vaccination Status After Reaching Settlement with a Conservative Nonprofit
• Christian Group Demands Investigation, Alleges Woke Energy Corp Funneled $3 Billion to Radical ‘Diversity’ Projects Instead of Fixing Power Grid
• Jeffrey Epstein’s Longtime Butler Says There is ‘No Way’ He Killed Himself
• Trump Pulls the Plug on Massive Idaho Wind Farm Project
• Zelensky Excluded Trump Putin Talks, US Floats Donbass Surrender
• The fake science of the Plandemic included social distancing
• AIPAC Attacks Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for Calling [out] Israel (JH: natch)
• [The] Ukraine Not Invited (JH: Also natch, who wants a murderous clown there?)
• Much more.

2. Elon

1. DAD at 1128

Sorry, DAD, crashed and awoke after 0600, had things which had to be sorted right then in RL.

a) Corruption: France and the EU complicite with Algeria. According to ‘Libération’, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, adopts a double discourse: moderate and republican in France, but aligned with the official positions of Algiers when he speaks in Algeria.

b) Critical minerals needed to build ‘green energy’ technology such as solar panels, nuclear power stations, electric cars and wind turbines could run out within 10 years, researchers have warned. The Times has the story.

c) This is the second of two articles on the dawning of an uncomfortable new strategic reality for the West, which is that the primary threat to its security and well-being today is not external but internal—specifically, civil war.

d) A foreign Royal Family own more of London than King Charles as worrying trend laid bare…

e) Opinion from ‘Kent-on-line’: Call for Kent independence by Spectator’s Toby Young may be tongue in cheek – but that it’s being floated at all is telling.

(1728) Evening all.

14. An Alberta Sarah double

13. What’s the first thing you think

… after you look past the girl at the sign?

12. Steve at 1128 with war room

• Alex Degrasse: “If We Get Things Right On The Redistricting, The ‘MAGAfication’ Of The Republican Party Will Be Cemented”
• Oubai Shahbandar: A New Corridor Linking Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Asia Will Be Called “The Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity.”
• Mike Benz: “USAID Has Been The Norm Eisen Playground, The Norm Eisen Slush Fund”
• Appellate Court Quashes Judge Boasberg’s Contempt Proceedings Over Alien Enemies Act Deportations, Julie Kelly Reports

 

Review:

“Patterns finds Van Heflin, newly arrived from Mansfield, Ohio where Everett Sloane’s corporation has just bought out the factory where he was the plant manager. Sloane was impressed enough with Heflin to take him along to New York and make him a member of his company’s board of directors. Vice President Ed Begley was impressed with Heflin’s abilities as well and befriends him.

What Heflin doesn’t realize is that he’s the object of a corporate power play. Sloane is hard driving, ruthless executive usually in the kind of role Ed Begley plays. For once Ed Begley is a nice guy in a film. He’s a decent soul unlike Sloane, but he’s past his best years. Sloane doesn’t want to fire him, just demean him enough so he’ll quit. Begley’s loyalties to the company stem from when Sloane’s father ran the business and he can’t see life beyond it.

All this comes out at the first board meeting that Heflin attends and later at a party that he and wife Beatrice Straight throw for the board members. Heflin is a confused man, caught between liking and admiring Begley and sadly knowing his future lies with Sloane.

A number of films were made in these years about corporate connivings at the top. Patterns can hold its own with any of them and that list would include Executive Suite, The Power And The Prize, Cash McCall, and B.F.’s Daughter in which Van Heflin co-starred with Barbara Stanwyck. 

Patterns was originally a television drama and one of the best early scripts done by Rod Serling. Begley and Sloane repeated their roles, movie name Heflin was substituted for Richard Kiley. The filming still betrays its photographed teleplay origins, but the players more than compensate for the deficiencies there.

For a good look at how we saw corporate America in the Eisenhower years you can’t do much better than Patterns or any of the other films I mentioned.”

(1437) We had a house meeting, sorry to be back late. Afternoon all.

 

11. Country’s in great shape

10. Food shortage approaching?

9. There are two sides to this

These kids really are pressured, between school, parents and peers, that the only chance in life is a degree.