nourishing obscurity

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Saturday [1 to 3]

(0601) Morning, cavemen and women. Sky is bright but nondescript today, cloud not formed, just a light sheet across the sky. Evets is up across the way. (0628)

3. Andy

The National Trust aren’t skint, they can afford all sorts of woke nonsense. Now they claim that they can’t afford to light the Dunstable D-Day beacon. Shameful.

2. DAD at NOWP

a) They are coming for your cash. Under the directive, ostensibly aimed at curbing money laundering and the funding of terrorism, anonymous cash payments over €3,000 will be banned in commercial transactions.

b) The mayor of Romans-sur-Isère (26) Marie-Hélène Thoraval deprograms Yassine Belattar, he will finally play in a private room: “I am French, Muslim (…) I am not at your country, you are at my country”.

c) “The majority of the European Parliament is more concerned with protecting Ursula von der Leyen than doing its job, which is to answer to the people whom it represents,” Christine Anderson, MEP for the German anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, told The European Conservative after being stopped from talking about the Pfizergate corruption scandal involving Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

d) Due to the productive overcapacity of China, which aspires to capture a quarter of the European electric vehicle market, Antwerp and Zeebrugge are saturated.

According to certain forecasts from port managers, 600,000 to 1 million vehicles made in China, electric but also thermal, will be unloaded in 2024 in Antwerp-Bruges. Within the lot, Tesla, BMW and Polestar – the Swedish brand is owned by the Chinese Geely – all assembled in the Middle Kingdom.

1. Man from the West Country one

a. Dr Mike Yeadon on Colds, Flu, Viruses, Pandemics and the Theory of Infection | https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/dr-mike-yeadon-on-colds-flu-viruses-pandemics-and-the-theory-of-infection/

b. Outrageous! | https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/outrageous/

c. Doctors do more harm than good | https://expose-news.com/2024/04/26/doctors-do-more-harm-than-good/

d. Caffeine has many health benefits; including reducing the risk of common cancers | https://expose-news.com/2024/04/26/caffeine-has-many-health-benefits-including-reducing-the-risk-of-common-cancers/

e. Democrats Need To Be Held To Account For Denying Trump’s Due Process Rights | https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/democrats-need-to-be-held-to-account-for-denying-trumps-due-process-rights/

f. The Teams Are Set for World War III | https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/the-teams-are-set-for-world-war-iii/

Friday, April 26, 2024

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

Norwegian reaching the South Pole in 1911?
Where exactly is Mt. Etna?
These women’s breeches hang like a skirt but have separate legs.
College town Athens is not far from which major city?
What’s Saturn made of?
Which art form came from rocaille (meaning rock or pebble)?
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.”