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October 5, 2022

Sunrise — 7:04, 7:06.

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Lurker21 said...: So there's the story about the Times saying on Monday that a tiny Michigan election firm was being persecuted by conspiracy theorists, and saying on Tuesday that one of the executives had been arrested. There's also the story about a Boston company that developed a vote by phone app, and discovering that an engineering class at U Michigan had already hacked it. And there's the story about a German judge deliberating whether last year's Berlin elections have to have a do-over. But election fraud isn't a thing.

A lot of gays didn't like "Bros" either. Billy rubs a lot of people the wrong way.

Some people will find FreedomToons funny. Here's the Corn Pop Speech. And here in tribute to the guy who died this week is "Biden's Paradise".; 10/5/22, 7:28 PM
Saint Croix said...: Tonight I'm revisiting the classic Sherlock Holmes movies, with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. My absolute favorite?

The Spider Woman (1944)

Your can have Professor Moriarty. Here is my favorite Holmes baddie, a woman. A bad, bad woman.

A bunch of men are killing themselves in their pajamas. Or are they?

Holmes: “I suspect a woman.”

Watson: “You amaze me, Holmes. Why a woman?”

Holmes: “Because the method, whatever it is, is particularly subtle and cruel. Feline, not canine.”

That kills me. I just picture all these dumb canines going around killing people in Victorian England, and Sherlock is all depressed because they're so damn obvious. "Great. Somebody died in a bar fight. I suspect a man." And now he's so happy that some catty and nefarious woman is using her feminine wiles to kill.; 10/5/22, 7:40 PM
Original Mike said...: Very blue.; 10/5/22, 8:34 PM
tim in vermont said...: Remember when Elon Musk tweeted that the people in Ukraine should decide their own fates in referendums? Boy that was evil.; 10/5/22, 8:37 PM
Creola Soul said...: Two interesting pieces of news today.
1. NYC is setting up temporary housing for 500 illegal immigrants in AOCs district and, surprise, surprise, she’s upset. Called it!
2. OPEC+ cuts oil production 2M barrels, driving fuel price up, again. Biden taps the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, again. The SPR was never intended as a price moderator, it’s was intended to be backup in case of an embargo, war or some other catastrophic disruption. It was never intended to chase prices. Biden has bled the SPR to its lowest level in four decades. The fact that Biden taps SPR is clear evidence that production matters. This administration has put OPECs boot on our throats by ending the Keystone pipeline, stopping development in ANWR and closing federal lands for production.
Obama used to say “We can’t drill our way out of energy shortages.” Bullshit! Under Trump, we did and began exporting oil again. This energy policy could end in a huge catastrophe.
Senator Manchin said “We must get back to producing more energy!” But he squandered the power he had by caving to the liberal agenda. It’s all very predictable, but very scary.; 10/5/22, 8:38 PM
Saint Croix said...: Other great classic Holmes movies include The Scarlet Claw and (of course) The Hound of the Baskervilles.

Hound was directed by Sidney Lanfield. I've never heard of the guy. But I know of at least one other awesome movie he directed (My Favorite Blonde with Bob Hope). So he was clearly talented.

But probably an even bigger talent was Roy William Neill, who took over the franchise and kept churning out amazing movies, most of them during World War II in the middle of all that bombing. Pretty amazing stuff overall.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) B+
Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943) A-
The Spider Woman (1943) A+
The Scarlet Claw (1944) A+
The Pearl of Death (1944) B+
The House of Fear (1945) A
The Woman in Green (1945) C
Pursuit to Algiers (1945) B+
Terror by Night (1946) C
Dressed to Kill (1946) C

That's an impressive body of work. A couple of his films I haven't seen yet.

I don't know why, but they gave one of the classic Holmes movies to another director (John Rawlins), and he made an unbelievably bad movie called Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942). That stinker got an F in my book, right next to Captain Ron and that horrible talking penis movie, Me and Him. Anyway, there's a classic Sherlock Holmes stink bomb that you want to avoid watching.

Overall, the classic Holmes canon matches up pretty well with modern adaptations.

My all-time Sherlock Holmes cinema top 10...

1. The Spider Woman (1944)
2. Sherlock Holmes (2009)
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
4. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
5. any random episode of Sherlock (2010-2017)
6. The House of Fear (1945)
7. Murder by Decree (1979)
8. 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
9. Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
10. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)

(Elementary is good but not good enough!); 10/5/22, 8:56 PM
Saint Croix said...: that Corn Pop animation is too funny

scary

but funny; 10/5/22, 9:02 PM
Narr said...: Experts say that a good sunrise photo is a great way to end an evening online, so I'll just thank the Prof and begin the bedward slide. See you in the morning.; 10/5/22, 9:15 PM
donald said...: Caught a 16” and 19” flounder today.; 10/5/22, 9:48 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: Maybe is because there is a lot more video of the police going on out there. But I get the feeling the police are eager to arrest people these days.

Link to r/publicfreakout video

Is it a Jan6 viral infection? Police mass formation? - See Darkhorse Podcast with Mattias Desmet.; 10/5/22, 9:54 PM
Jamie said...: Huge fan of Holmes, but not the Basil Rathbone version - he's too clean. The scruffy, disorganized Robert Downey, Jr., version is much closer to the stories. And I dearly love the Laurie King Holmesiana novels, though the romance verges on the creepy - in age difference only, I hasten to add.; 10/5/22, 10:12 PM
narciso said...: Well holmes did have an odd thing about women see the many incarnations of irene adler vs mary morstan theres a whole host of other women antagonists in the rathbone oevre; 10/5/22, 10:14 PM
gpm said...: >>Tonight I'm revisiting the classic Sherlock Holmes movies, with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce.

We saw them all multiple times in college back in the early 70's, when one of the Boston stations IChannel 5? Channel 38?) showed them repeatedly. A few lines that pop up off the top of my head: "You've left your man unguarded!" and "Give me that musical box!" And maybe Nigel Bruce singing Loch Lomond: "You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll get to Scotland afore ye, etc."?

From the 70s into the 80s, Channel 5 did classic movies on Saturday nights under the title "The Great Entertainment," hosted by the tuxedoed Frank Avruch (followed, as I recall, by movies hosted by Elvira). On Channel 38, the magnificently voiced Dana Hersey did the "Movie Loft" during the week during the same time period.

--gpm; 10/5/22, 10:36 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: AP Report: Mom of Walker's child says he paid for her abortion.

That headline saying what I think it says?

That a fetus was a child? 🤯; 10/5/22, 10:38 PM
Nate Holt said...: 31 trillion national debt has no meaning. But no one seems brave enough to report it as calculated dollars per US man/woman/child. Reporting it this way would give it some perspective. Nathan Holt, Toledo, OH n8holt@gmail.com; 10/5/22, 10:40 PM
Readering said...: I hope the Santa Clara prosecutors go after the protestors at the 49ers game and do nothing with their filed police report against the Rams. You disrupt a game by running on the field and you know you will be tackled by men in uniform.; 10/6/22, 12:39 AM
Humperdink said...: General Wesley Clark. Remember him? He wrote an op-ed in the NY Post. Closing paragraph:

"But in the face of Putin’s threats it is also time for the United States to call publicly for Putin to withdraw from all Ukraine and offer to broker the talks designed to secure this promptly and peacefully. Russia must account for the dead, abducted and missing, pay reparations and cooperate in war-crimes investigations. Ukraine’s future security can then be arranged, and economic recovery begun. This is the right way forward."

Broker talks? Better late than never I suppose. The balance of this paragraph is wishful thinking.; 10/6/22, 5:17 AM
tim in vermont said...: I guess we are opening up a new front in Syria, I am sure this has nothing to do with their oil fields. Syria probably ripped some babies from incubators or something.

Or maybe our presence in Syria has always been about this long-standing war with Russia, and Joe unleashed the dogs when OPEC cut production and put his project of winning the mid terms by manipulating gas prices at risk.

Why would the Saudis back a scheme by which the buyers set the price of oil? WW3 is on, here’s hoping that the Russians are good sports about it.; 10/6/22, 5:23 AM
tim in vermont said...: The climate people have decided that the North American oil is to stay in the ground, and we will use our boys to go fight for whatever oil we need. If you accept their priors, that the world will be destroyed by CO2, then it makes sense. Of course that's just a gut feeling they have, the climate models are only partly based on physics, and they don't even predict the end of the world anyway.; 10/6/22, 5:42 AM
tim in vermont said...: Oooh look, criminals that readering doesn't like! Prosecute them!; 10/6/22, 5:43 AM
Humperdink said...: Congresscritter Ro Khanna (D-California) was on Morning Squawk Box this morning talking Saudi production cuts with Joe Kernan. Kerman asked Khanna why Biden is holding back oil US crude production. Khanna responded by saying US crude production is the highest ever. It is absolute lie. Kernan called him on it. CNN and MSNBC would have let it slide.

https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=MCRFPUS2&f=M; 10/6/22, 6:46 AM
tim in vermont said...: FBI are the good guys!

https://nypost.com/2022/10/04/fbi-tracked-aretha-franklin-for-40-years-docs/; 10/6/22, 6:47 AM
john mosby said...: LENFILM (Leningrad Film Studios) made an excellent series of Holmes films in the 70s. A lot of work went into sets and costumes, and the scripts are quite faithful to the books. And they’re in Russian! MHz used to show them, with subtitles of course. Worth a look.

JSM; 10/6/22, 6:48 AM
Kai Akker said...: --- the Times saying on Monday that a tiny Michigan election firm was being persecuted by conspiracy theorists, and saying on Tuesday that one of the executives had been arrested. [Lurker21]

Another NYT scandal of inadequate work and erroneous information. A link to their 'reporting.'
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/10/05/paper-of-record-nyts-embarrassing-emily-litella-flip-flop-on-election-conspiracy-theories-n501198

NYT stock hit its high of 58 the week after Biden's inauguration. It's now 30. They need all the 'conspiracies' they can find, so they will go on claiming some. Why not, what's the penalty? Nada.

What they really need is the return of the Great Conspiratoracist himself. You can read their hunger between the lines.; 10/6/22, 6:54 AM
Humperdink said...: "Miami Dolphins star wide receiver Tyreek Hill said his decision to play in Florida and not sign with the New York Jets wasn’t sports-related but rather one that came down to economics.

Hill was traded from the Kansas City Chiefs to the Miami Dolphins during the off-season but was pursued by the New York Jets.

“It was very close to happening,” Hill told reporters during a media briefing. “Just those state taxes, man.” (Washington Examiner)

Hill signed a 4 year extension worth $120 mil.; 10/6/22, 8:01 AM
tim in vermont said...: Sweden has thoroughly demolished the always bizarrely improbable theory of Russian incompetence or “pig bomb” theories about the Russian pipeline explosions, since the explosions happened near the pipeline, which only increases the probability that it was Ukrainians operating from a boat, rather than a US or UK underwater demolition by Navy Seals, or the like, which presumably would have been more precise and included plausible deniability.

According to German newspapers, the CIA warned Germany that the Ukrainians might try this, a couple of months ago. Take sides if you like, but don’t the lies get tiresome? Or do you just revert to denial?; 10/6/22, 8:05 AM
wendybar said...: "Meanwhile BLM and Antifa terrorists are freely walking around after burning buildings to the ground, causing billions in damage and killing more than 20 people during the 2020 George Floyd riots."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/new-11-pro-lifers-indicted-federal-grand-jury-blocking-access-tennessee-abortion-clinic/; 10/6/22, 8:11 AM
Lurker21 said...: You could still believe in the climate theories and think that Biden's energy policy is useless garbage. Diving in headlong into undeveloped technologies while other countries keep drilling for oil and burning coal doesn't look like a wise policy. And the truly alarmist Greta Thunbergs of the world aren't enthusiastic about Biden either, too much "Blah, blah, blah."

Florida has hurricanes every year and disastrous ones every decade or so. The fact that the absence of hurricanes was attributed to climate change a month ago and now the hurricane is attributed to climate change doesn't inspire belief in the theories, but talk about the once in 500 or once in 2000 years drought in Europe does have people a little rattled now.; 10/6/22, 8:48 AM
TheOne Who Is Not Obeyed said...: "Take sides if you like, but don’t the lies get tiresome? Or do you just revert to denial?"

Tim has problems with believing everything he reads. And reading into what is published in order to backstop his wild, pro-Putin theories. All the while telling everyone else to not do exactly as he does.

Sweden's report is all educated guesses, has no implications that clarify who blew up the pipelines, and the "German newspapers" are quoting anonymous American sources. Which we all know are usually a model of rectitude.

I'm starting to think Tim is in Moscow, not Vermont.; 10/6/22, 3:42 PM