62 Replies to “July 17, 2022: Reader Tips”

    1. That’s incredible. What an evil world we are living in. How can Biden be President? Americans have been duped.

      1. Biden is president because Democrats and their minions stole the 2020 US federal election. And they’ll try it again this November. Democrats are a mob organization.

    1. At about the same time that Waterloo was in theatres, an 8-hour (or thereabouts) long Soviet production of War and Peace was getting attention in North America.

      I gathered that it was made a few years earlier, but it wasn’t until the late 1960s that it was released over here. I recall it was broadcast on CBC, complete with dubbed dialogue, but it was quite elaborate. It looks like it’s on YouTube and I might have a look at it some time.

        1. Love Sean Bean in the Sharpe’s War tv series.
          Although this version doesn’t feature him.
          The running gag in most of his movies and tv shows is he gets bumped off.
          As Sharpe he gets to live, same as his Dr. Frankenstein reluctant Monster character, although he did have to die before being brought back to life at the hands the Doctor.

      1. The late Georgette Heyer, in her novel “An Infamous Army”, gave such a lucid account of the Battle of Waterloo that her book was required reading at Sandurst for quite some years. May still be.

  1. Loved Waterloo. No computer affects just practical stunts. Gets the history pretty close to right.

  2. This weekend’s movie on TCM’s Noir Alley is Scarlet Street. In the cast is Dan Duryea, an actor who frequently played lowlifes and scoundrels.

    There were, however, some movies in which he departed from that. One was The Flight of the Phoenix, which I referred to last night and which was featured here on SDA a few weeks ago. In it, he was the religious oil company accountant.

    He was James Stewart’s sidekick and business partner in Thunder Bay (also starring Joanne Dru and Gilbert Roland), which doesn’t appear to be on YouTube.

    In Battle Hymn (starring Rock Hudson and Martha Hyer), Duryea plays a USAF airman:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqT1OK1jmQ0

    It’s set during the Korean War and is based on the story of USAF Col. Dean Hess, focusing on his involvement with a group of orphans, helping evacuate them ahead of a Chinese advance.

    The movie itself is OK but it features a number of excellent flying scenes with late-model P-51 Mustangs, which saw service in that war.

      1. There were persistent rumours about Hudson’s inclinations but they weren’t officially confirmed until shortly before he died.

        I’m sure that many people in Hollywood (e. g., Doris Day, with whom he made a number of movies) knew but kept quiet about it.

        1. Once they thought he might have cancer, but all the colonoscopy could find was Pierre Trudeau’s missing wristwatch.
          ;-(

        2. I don’t care what your sexuality is as long as it is between consenting adults. So no child or elder abuse, no mentally challenged people abuse and no bestiality (that is just “so wrong”!)
          As well, if you are competent or excellent at your job (and his was acting) then again “Who cares?”

  3. California went big on rooftop solar. Now that’s a problem for landfills

    Roof Top Solar Panels are clogging California Landfills according to the solar panel experts.
    This story also includes multiple paragraphs of corrections by the LA Times.

    https://tinyurl.com/2pnrd4vp

    Ironic QOTD: “The industry is supposed to be green,” Vanderhoof said. “But in reality, it’s all about the money.”

    Every environmental issue starts as a noble cause, becomes a business, and ends up as a racket. Usually in about a dozen years. — Me 7/16/2022

  4. BC Court of Appeal Rejects Private Health Care, Says Charter Violation Can Be Overruled

    And here you have it. We were trolled. Imagine a document in which the very first section says, “Yeah, but we can dismiss everything that follows for any reason”.

    The court recognizes that the provincial law is “upheld at the cost of real hardship and suffering to many for whom the public system is failing to provide timely and necessary care,” wrote Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon, who ruled separately that provisions in the act do breach charter rights, but it’s justified under Section 1.

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/bc-court-of-appeal-rejects-private-health-care-says-charter-breach-ok_4600597.html

    1. Anyone who ever read the fake constitution was aware that it contained zero rights for the citizens of Canada. I pointed that out to people the day it was first released to the public.

  5. Good production values but Steiger overacted from start to finish. I give him a C-.

    The best Bonaparte ever was in The Time Bandits. Hilarious.

    Steiger was over rated. But He was very good in “ no way to treat a lady”.

    1. Ian Holm played Bonaparte again later on in the movie “The Emperor’s New Cloths”, 2001. Check it out when you get the chance.
      For me, Steiger’s best performances were “The Pawnbroker”, and “In The Heat Of The Night”.

      1. Sir Ian played him even earlier in the British mini-series Napoleon and Love.

      2. If you want to go way back to the silent era, Albert Dieudonne played Napoleon in Abel Gance’s “Napoleon” in 1927. But he also played him again, 15 years later, in the comedy ‘Madame Sans-Gene’, and I think he was even better. He was playing Napoleon the Emperor of 1812, and there was something very authentic about him. I felt that Napoleon might have really been like that, and when you think about it, at that time Napoleon was only about 100 years in the past. It was possible for adults to have met someone in their youth who’d been alive in those days, or at least had direct experience of a parent who could tell about them.

  6. Stanley Kubrick was also making a movie on Waterloo around the time this movie came out. So as a result he cancelled to whole project. Kubrick had done a fair bit of research into it when he was forced to cancel.

  7. Recent trip… recent trip… Yeah! Went out to the backyard and watered the lettuce. Yep. That’s it,

    1. Oh, dear, how’d you manage that without having your–ahem!–passport? Don’t you realize that you could spread the “virus” to other people through the lettuce?

      1. No, no, no! Haven’t you heard? Gardening increases risk of cardiac arrest!!!

        We must all stop planting vegetables! Our government will make sure we are all well-fed!
        (stratospheric sarcasm.)

    2. And now you outed yourself as an agricultural enterprise. Run! I’ll throw myself under the bullshit procedural paperwork. Save yourself and your loved ones!!

      The squeak of the treads of Agcan in the distance.

      Broken bullhorm squall — ” …submit your … nitro… and …tassium usage, source, chemic… compostiin and purity within the following limits…[severe bullhorn feedback].. urban … rural local water permits must be clearly stipulated by … funding bike lanes…[unintelligible]…carbon di…armed resp…bank accounts seiz..as refun…racialized garden iniatitive…fires wok rks ban…violation of Ottawa horn decibel ordinance b95876…no parole…replace with TruFreeland brand high protein dietary crickets…ice flows…[hisssssss]”

    1. What if … he gets a pile of money from Uganda? Then technically he IS right. Acting like a nut. Crazy like a fox.

    2. On the other hand, this guy will be ideally positioned to profit from the upcoming high demand for non-Euroxentric physics and technology, without which diverse non-racist scienxe-based engineering would be difficult, if not impossible (not to mention exclusionary to illiterates and/or innumerates unable to find suitable employment opportunities in more rigourously-demanding technical fields such as interpretive dance etc).

      The man is truly a visionary…

  8. Please address your “boo-hoo” shout-out of the day to this man. He went to university to get a law degree and emerged $350,000 in debt. He can’t get a job, still lives on government assistance and feels that Joe Biden has left him behind.

    https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/careersandeducation/meet-a-first-generation-attorney-with-347-000-in-student-debt-who-can-t-land-a-job-and-says-there-are-a-substantial-number-of-people-like-me-that-are-being-forgotten/ar-AAZFrQk?ocid=entnewsntp&pc=U531&cvid=f3503cc1b1c94799ba9bcb1f0de7e524

    “According to the Education Department, about 70% of law students leave school with debt, with the average amount totaling about $138,500. And a survey by the American Bar Association in 2020 found that debt from law school had caused some graduates to “lie awake at night worried,” leaving them in “constant anxiety and stress” that forced many of them to push off buying houses or getting married.”

    “Pederzani can attest to that — he said he had put off buying a house and adopting a child because of the debt. While he hopes he can pay it off eventually, it’s out of the question right now.”

    “We don’t even have enough money for rent next month,” Pederzani said. “Paying off student loans is the last thing on my mind right now.”

    May I suggest sending in a resume to Home Depot or Walmart. You don’t have to start at the top. The guy is 37 years old – the new “infant”.

    1. “After graduating from college and working as a social worker” This guy doesn’t understand personal responsibility or facts, I think.

      Looking at the Seattle Lawschool website it boasts that the 2021 first-year student body is 35% BIPOC, 30% First Generation, and 21% LGBTQ+. So I’m guessing a very leftist mindset.

    2. The poor Poor thing…

      Thought he had his ticket to financial Bliss….moron should taken up Pipe-Fitting instead.

      By the time he’s,repaid that loan, the Pipefitter will have bought HIS house with cash, gone on 3 week vacations every, year, drives a 2022 GMC 2500 HD Denali, pulling his 23′ ski boat.

      Meanwhile Mr 37 year old poopy pants is at an auto wrecker looking for an innertube to go floating.

      Lawyers: the Filthiest, most arrogant sub species of Parasites on the planet.

      1. He will never repay the loan. The gist of the article is people like him (massive borrowers for education) are getting left behind because Biden may only forgive the first $10,000. I had an interesting chat with an AME who was recently certified to work on helicopters. His training cost him about $80,000 over 2 years and now he is earning a decent pay check and paying back the loan. Just a young guy in his 20s living with his parents until he pays off his loan. Why not forgive his debt?

  9. I watched Waterloo a few years ago. Yes, Steiger over acts which is probably the director’s fault but it’s a great film. It’s on my “DVDs to buy” list.

  10. Kars4Kids Jingle

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=5&v=F94DBBJjzko

    Kars4Kids is a nonprofit car donation organization based in Lakewood, New Jersey. Kars4Kids is a United States-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that states that its mission is “to fund educational, developmental and recreational programs for low-income youth”[4] through programs largely facilitated by its sister charity Oorah, which focuses on Jewish children and families.[5] It was founded in 1994 and is currently headed by Eliyohu Mintz.[6]

  11. A Uke plane full of explosives destined for Bangladesh crashed in great fireball in Greece.

    1. Part of that 400 Million Sent there (Ukraine), …or was it 40 Billion…? can’t keep up with Pres Shitferbrains giveaways.

      Your US tax dollars at work…

      1. Its over 50 billion now, from the US alone, God knows how much from Europe and the rest of the world.
        The Ukraine is basically a money-laundering outfit for the WEF.

        1. If I was an arms dealer Ukraine would be the place to profit mightily from.
          Of course 10% for The Big Guy.

  12. Jill Biden said Joe wanted to get so many things done during his Presidency but reality got in the way.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11022021/Jill-Biden-voices-frustration-Joes-lack-progress-White-House.html

    I found this line interesting.

    “During his presidency, Biden has faced Russia’s war in Ukraine, the pullout of troops from Afghanistan, rising inflation and the overturning of Roe v Wade.”

    How much of this just happened and how much has been the result of Biden’s awful Presidency? Couldn’t Joe negotiate peace between Ukraine and Russia, leave HIS troops in Afghanistan, not print so much money and draft legislation protecting abortion rights? It’s like Jill sees her husband just sitting at his desk in the Oval Office and all this bad stuff is happening around him. As in, why can’t it just stop so we can do the good things we were planning for?

    1. That’s no good. There’ll be polar bears all over the place now.

  13. Now Canada meets its Waterloo
    The Fascist Party of Canada releases its plan to shut down the oil (conservative voters) industry. Following its planned shutdown of the automotive industry (NDP voters) through banning vehicles with proven capability to work, the farming industry (conservative) through nitrogen restrictions and anything else that moves (outside the cities) through its ever escalating carbon tax, the our caring government moves quickly in their last three years of existence.
    Thank you Jagmeet
    https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2022/07/17/feds-propose-to-cap-oil-gas-emissions-using-industry-specific-carbon-pricing-system/#.YtRxQb3MKUm

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