Friday [20 till close of play]

(1730). Evening all.

28.  If the visuals are blurry

… it’s not that you’ve imbibed too much … they’re just blurry, unlike the sound. It’s the only version on YT with the band there beside the manic keyboard:

27.  FLOTUS Melania's birthday today

The indecency of globo-psycho plus the Wokerati, karens, SJWs etc. was on display today ... ggl images were a disgrace ... her most sour look, bad angles, bad lighting ... nothing whatever done to enhance her. 

With a man ... well it matters little but for a lady to be portrayed that way simply stinks. The left has no decency.

I had to go to a fan site to get this picture ... may the lady have many long years left of elegance and beauty.

26.  You remember last evening 

... when I waxed lyrical (almost) about the late evening light about now and how apocalyptic it all was?

Well here we are again but it lacks the intensity so far ... it's certainly lighting up again and again it's a special time of day but it lacks the fierceness, the sky's too blue, the sun weakish, only one bird flew by, glistening white.

Still time, mind, and those white boards are fiercely white all right ... oh hold on, a bright white cloud is floating past as I write. Last evening though was something very special.

25.  When normies are just plain wrong

It's a really unfortunate thing, sad really. There's a pub quiz site which does grand things, asks all the usual pub quiz things but then I saw, "Gas which causes global warming."

Whaaaa? No it does NOT, for all the reasons we've gone over and over and over. So that is perpetuating a falsehood, a received stoopidity.

Then there's Jago, harmless train junky, nice manner ... talks about trains. Until just now. His latest, which I shall NOT be running tomorrow, is, "What does the Mayor of London Actually Do?"

Were this going to be a takedown of Khan, it would be all right ... but it's not.  Actually, it would still not be all right, for the same reason doing one on HS2 and how could it was was incredibly insensitive.

One does wonder with both these normies how they could be SO unaware of how those are very sore points and hardly good topics for vlogs or quizzes if attempting to pass them off as agreed facts or figures.

Another one who did that a bit was Tom Scott. Pity.

24.  That wildcard question 

... I mentioned under the quiz:

"Two towns or cities with the same name ... one close to Lake Ontario, on the NY side, and the other near Mt. Etna near Catania?"

23.  Steve

a.  N17. One of Julia’s

Saw this one at RNAS Yeovilton (HMS Heron) back in the day (there for embus/debus training with Commando Helicopter Force):

Westland Lynx - World Record

The official FAI speed record for helicopters is 400.87 km/h (249.09 mph) and was set by John Trevor Eggington with co-pilot Derek J Clews, over Glastonbury, Somerset, England on 11 August 1986 in a Westland Lynx demonstrator.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/fastest-speed-in-a-helicopter

b.  War Room snippets...

[i] Julie Kelly And Mike Davis Discuss President Trump's Supreme Court Immunity Case | https://rumble.com/v4rlhy8-julie-kelly-and-mike-davis-discuss-president-trumps-supreme-court-immunity-.html

[ii] Stinchfield: NIH Leader Exposed For Recruiting Faith Leaders To Push Dangerous C**id Shot | https://rumble.com/v4rlmb2-stinchfield-nih-leader-exposed-for-recruiting-faith-leaders-to-push-dangero.html

[iii] Sam Faddis: Are The Chinese Preparing To Start A War? Yes, They Call It "Volt Typhoon" | https://rumble.com/v4rk2xc-sam-faddis-are-the-chinese-preparing-to-start-a-war-yes-they-call-it-volt-t.html

[iv] Thomas D. Klingenstein: "He Looked Like The First One Who Knew We Were In A War And Would Fight" | https://rumble.com/v4rk96q-thomas-d.-klingenstein-he-looked-like-the-first-one-who-knew-we-were-in-a-w.html

22.  More

21.  More of the same

20.  Is Andy having a laugh here?

“microbe-made food”

“My personal preference would be to stick to traditional foods where available and affordable. If there are alternatives which pass muster, safe and nutritional, they could be considered.”

https://newatlas.com/environment/solein-protein-sustainable/

JH: I’m sure he’s just pulling our leg.

Try these

1. Norwegian reaching the South Pole in 1911?
2. Where exactly is Mt. Etna?
3. These women’s breeches hang like a skirt but have separate legs.
4. College town Athens is not far from which major city?
5. What’s Saturn made of?
6. Which art form came from rocaille (meaning rock or pebble)?
7. An easier way to describe the colour Viridian?

Fri-mat

Compared to yesterday’s the opening music even announces it will be far lighter … more below the film.

As I was not an adult back then, not even a child … it was a child’s eye view I had … you had … of movies/films.  Hollywood was not a dirty word, there were things going on in the world, for adults mainly, which made the movies a blessed relief.

The things I like now about US films of the time was the Code, the absence of rainbow issues which infected Brit films, the way it turned out for the best at the end, the lack of gloom. Similar was happening with Soviet cinema … staroye kino or old film they called it, which focussed on everyday life and the issues which arose.

It took awhile for British cinema to get to its feet again … Alastair Sim, John Mills etc., then Michael Caine and so on, while the US had gone down the sci fi path, then grittier themes.  Naturally, there’ll be those saying that’s all rubbish but look at the films we’ve had here.

Review

“"A Stranger in Town" holds up very well after sixty-three years. The only part that seems curious and quaint today is the closing with Joe Grant (The Wizard of Oz, aka Frank Morgan) giving a rousing patriotic speech (remember this was made during the height of World War II). The court packing scheme of President Roosevelt was still fresh on the movie goer's mind, having been all over the news a short six years earlier. So having a Supreme Court justice go incognito was apropos in 1943. Today, few would recognize a Supreme Court justice if they tripped over one. So no need for a disguise. Changing times.

Associate Justice Josephus Grant attempting to get away from it all goes on a duck-hunting vacation to the small town of Crown Port. He no sooner arrives than he is arrested and tried for not having a local hunting license but in reality because he wouldn't pay off the local police official who caught him. It becomes obvious to Grant that he has chosen a corrupt town for his vacation. Enter a reform candidate for mayor, Bill Adams (Richard Carlson), who has virtually given up any hope of winning. Grant rallies Adams onward and upward by teaching him tricks of the trade in the court room. 

Fighting city hall becomes more fun when Grant's business-like, yet attractive and smart, secretary, Lucy Gilbert (Jean Rogers), comes to town to bring Grant important papers concerning a case the Court is hearing. Yes, it is love at first sight between Adams and Lucy. Much of the fun centers on Adams' clumsiness and shyness in trying to court Lucy. The election heats up with all sorts of humorous skulduggery until the showdown involving a free-for-all brawl on the street in front of Adams' campaign headquarters.

This film is so fast-paced, with fine acting by all involved, including a gallery of character actors such as Chill Wills, Olin Howland, Donald MacBride, Porter Hall, and even Eddy Waller in a bit part, that it proves extremely entertaining with many a wry comment on the politics of the day, which are not unlike the politics of today.”

Friday [16 to 19]

(1328) Light at the end of the Friday tunnel. (1455)

19.  Dan Wooton, as emailed

18.  Laura … as emailed, have not explored yet

17.  One of Julia’s

No url for that, shall explore the copter.

16.  Let’s get some of these memes up

Ladies at lunchtime

Friday [12 to 15]

(1131) Ladies at lunchtime at 1230 or thereabouts. Evets is up across the way. (1159)

15.  Andy at NOWP

JH: Can be found over there.  Just found another from Andy:

This is the sort of thing I’m banging on about, similar to a video I linked here last year from a beef and dairy farmer in England. He had relatively small herds grazing large fields which is in total contrast to the concentrated industrial beef farms. These industrial farms pen thousands of animals, feeding them soy protein so that they reach market weight faster. This soy is grown on what could have been grazing land but makes sense only to the number crunchers. | https://www.farminglife.com/news/environment/how-banishing-artificial-inputs-and-following-nature-has-transformed-soil-health-on-a-northern-irish-farm-4598104

14.  Just a couple of mine

13.  A few more

12. DAD (reposted from NOWP)

A social media post from a famous French fashion designer showed a pair of twins obtained from a surrogate mother. Questioning the fate of the mother of the two babies, Marion Maréchal found herself targeted by members of the government accusing her of homophobia, all while promoting a practice that is prohibited by French law.In the face of this politically correct explosion of happiness, dissonant voices were heard.

And one in particular, that of Marion Maréchal—who leads the list of the right-wing national-conservative Reconquête party at the forthcoming European parliamentary (EP) elections. On X, the young woman, herself mother of two little girls, posted soberly: “Where’s mum?” (Où est la maman ?) 

Read on for more.  

You mess with a Tigress at your peril.

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/wheres-mom-the-forbidden-question/

Friday [7 to 11]

(1002) When you get this sort of backlog, before going to NOWP again or doing the blog rounds:

… then it’s going to be a long day … have to just take them one by one. (1103)

11.  This 👇🏻

10.  Drinking

9.  Sam Vega at AKH

There is a serious problem with younger voters, which is that they can't remember a time when things were different from now. Explain the Seventies and the 3-day week to them, and they would think it sounds great compared to more rule by the Tory scum they have been taught to despise. Lots of middle-aged remainers were like that: deeply conservative due to fear of what they don't personally know.

Have you noticed how Labour are keen on enfranchising 16 year olds and recent immigrants?

8.  AKH

https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2024/04/lets-repeat-hs2-success-story.html

Labour knows it isn't going to work, GBR cannot compete successfully with the budgetary demands of the NHS, education and other loud voices on the political stage. It isn't going to work and Labour knows it. We may as well assume that there is an internal calculation suggesting that enough voters don't know it, particularly younger voters.

Incidentally, hope AKH understands I had to distance myself from any talk of dentistry … not a pleasant topic. :)

7.  The three letter sites

Now this thing Toby’s getting his knickers into a knot over … call me obtuse but is there something … er … wrong about oil and gas? Nuclear? Fracking? 

Our Steve:

Chris Packham is a complete tool - the BBC will never push back on him because he's a valued member of their 'settled science' groupthink that includes David Attenborough. Some years ago I was doing a spot of fly fishing in the Itchen with my nephew when he passed behind us with a camera crew in tow. He's local so I wasn't that surprised to see him. If I saw him again today I'd ask him how a trace gas that is 0.04% of the atmosphere is overheating the planet - bearing in mind that this same gas is at historically low levels when compared to the past. It's no good looking at a few hundred years with climate: a few tens of thousands of years will tell you that the Earth has been warming since the end of the last Ice Age. That is all.

Sunbury … arbiter of style

Friday [4 to 6]

(0749)(0920)

6.  Mindy

A voice crying out in the Gab wilderness:

https://rumble.com/v2enph6-conspiracy-truths-what-really-happened-on-j6.html

Imho, the ones causing all the mayhem, down to the stoopid little twerps avidly supporting the malaise (leftist hivemind) are all candidates for hell, though of course that’s up to the Lord hisself.

5.  DAD again from NOWP

Some better news. 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith appointed a “contrarian” doctor who expressed concerns about officials exaggerating the damage COVID-19 had on hospitals to lead a review of data collected from the pandemic.

Smith selected Dr. Gary Davidson because she wanted to hear from a wide variety of viewpoints, including those who had previously been “shouted down in the public sphere.” 

4.  MftWC too

a.  US secretly shipped 100 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles to [The] Ukraine | https://southfront.press/u-s-secretly-shipped-100-atacms-tactical-ballistic-missiles-to-ukraine/

b.  ATACMS secret. China, no red carpet for Blinken. Poland help Ukraine find men. Albanese, ban memes - Alex Christoforou | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV9NLnA2WrQ

c.  NATO pays to prolong Ukraine's agony | https://southfront.press/nato-pays-to-prolong-ukraine-agony/

d.  Mass deportation of Ukrainian refugees from the EU is being worked out, World financial system - Levan Gudadze | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7PiCANqQ8w

e.  Russian army captures US-made assault breacher vehicle near Avdeevka (Video, Photos) | https://southfront.press/russian-army-captures-u-s-made-assault-breacher-vehicle-near-avdeevka-video-photos/

f.  US Ukraine Package Falls Short; Russia Advance Accelerates, Ukraine Admits Retreats; China Tough On Blinken - Alexander Mercouris | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmvKlkZmaoI

g.  Ukrainian drone strikes in Russian rear regions on April 24, 2024 (Map Update) | https://southfront.press/ukrainian-drone-strikes-in-russian-rear-regions-on-april-24-2024-map-update/

h.  From Moscow - Levan Gudadze | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P77htnwm728

Friday [1 to 3]

(0655) Morning all, bright sunshine out there, ok here but two long sleeps in a row have me surfacing, shakily, now.  Trusting you’re surviving too.  If not, come back, spook us and tell us what happened. (0747)

3.  DAD at NOWP

a) “Incomprehensible”, “very surprised”, “bizarre”… In the streets of the small town of Marignier (Haute-Savoie), the residents are dismayed: how could a teenager from this uneventful locality plan an attack terrorist during the Paris Olympic Games, in the name of the Islamic Caliphate?

Under the sun which lit up the sky of Haute-Savoie this Thursday, other neighbours came out of their homes to express their astonishment. “Z., a terrorist? But he is very small and skinny, he doesn’t even look 16,” said another neighbour who also noted that the teenager was often sick. Despite his visibly fragile health, he finished college last year and was now following professional training. 

b) It's shameful, that women can think like this. 

Family Planning - France

Victory !

Thanks to the mobilization of associations, the decree allowing midwives to practice instrumental #abortions has been completely rewritten in a version without these infantilizing constraints contrary to the spirit of the law. 

DAD - Sorry, I'm so sickened by this triumphalism that I must take a break.

2.  Man from the West Country one

a.  Three jabs and you’re done for: Operation Warp Speed, cancer and genocide | https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-04-24-three-jabs-operation-warp-speed-cancer-genocide.html

b.  Are the unsafe jabs killing our kids? Government figures suggest youths dying in “unprecedented numbers” | https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/are-the-unsafe-jabs-killing-our-kids-government-figures-suggest-youths-dying-in-unprecedented-numbers/

c.  Cancer risk from C**id vaccines; medicine regulators failed the public catastrophically | https://expose-news.com/2024/04/25/cancer-risk-from-covid-vaccines/

d.  ChatGPT pushes propaganda about C**id vaccines | https://expose-news.com/2024/04/25/chatgpt-pushes-propaganda-about-covid-vaccines/

e.  WHO is not backing down on its pandemic plans; there is no “major victory for freedom” | https://expose-news.com/2024/04/25/who-is-not-backing-down-on-its-pandemic-plans/

f.  Australia’s eSafety commissioner and the Global Internet Censorship Network | https://expose-news.com/2024/04/25/australias-esafety-commissioner-and/

g.  British police investigating a Christian man for his opinions following widely publicized attack on Sydney bishop | https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-04-24-uk-police-investigating-christian-opinions-bishop-stabbing.html

h.  Alvin Bragg has his Trump trial, All he Needs Now is a Crime | https://nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com/2024/04/thursday-17-till-close-of-play.html

1.  Another early morn waffle

If I make light of death, chaps and chapesses, it’s because I both see it approaching on the horizon m’sel’, plus I’ve now entered the death zone commemmoration of my pa and ma.  My later stepdad was further down the track in midsummer.  Yep, both father and mother decided this half month was a good time to join the choir invisible.

You saw that chap Andrew Wade, the RN man, who departed last Saturday night and his was a tale that my mate up the road and I discussed.  See, there are two ways to go about this.

Many folks, for good reasons, decide to go the medical way about now … have all the exploratories from both ends, let themselves be drawn into the whole NHS thang (over here) … these are not recluses, they have family, that family wants a fair shot at grandpa being around (grandma too). All power to those folk and if something should appear internally shall we say, according to the NHS for example … then onto the chemo and lots of fun for those final years, months or weeks.

Andrew was like me and decided to go the other route. Not sure how clearly he was thinking because that pain was not fun, was going to be near impossible, despite the morphia. In that case, the nursing staff perhaps easing him out … who knows, who can say … well there might be a silver lining there.

See, there are all sorts of assumptions, aren’t there, with both lots of people (chemos and non-chemos so to speak).  Firstly, that it’s even the Big C in the first place which is doing for ya … could be many killing factors, not just that. Secondly, once the quality of life is gone, inc. mobility … that’s a big one … wwweeellllll … I for one think it’s probably time.

But there are two other crucial factors (crucial comes from crux or Cross). One is that for a believer, suicide in any form is a one way ticket to hell. Ain’t no heaven for those. And yet they’d say I have no understanding of real pain. Tell that to my knees, shoulder, elbow, to being eaten inside now and then.

My father was in real pain but he’d been through the war and had seen it up close. Granted, we cushy mid-boomers have not, on the whole, seen quite that thing … so sue me, as the Americans say. Is it my fault I’m a boomer? I’m not a bleedin’ heart boomer at least.

Where’s all this going? Well we make decisions, don’t we?  And I do NOT mean topping myself as that’s RIGHT out, d’y’hear. Right out. Given that, you can join the multitude and go the NHS route, let’s say, harassed till your dying day … or you can have a shorter bout of quality life … imho, mind you, all right?

How exactly is my health? Trained yesterday … gym … shall train tomorrow. Eating well, being a good boy with diet to a point. I’m ok for my years, nothing untoward inside, thank the Lord … maybe He has a purpose for the ole sinner yet.