Song Interpretation - Bonnie Raitt from the 1970s Versus Patty Loveless from the 1990s and Early 2000s - Quick Addendum

  This was not in any manner meant to demean the fine work (I actually posses most of it) that Bonnie Raitt continued to make after the '70s. It's simply that I prefer the earlier music due its rawness, non-comerciality, and emotional depth. That's all.

On Joan Leslie Circa 1947

 

Her reputation was one of being wholesome. Apparently she took a break from that at times. 

Song Interpretation - Bonnie Raitt from the 1970s Versus Patty Loveless from the 1990s and Early 2000s

 Wow, that's a vexing one. Probably Bonnie Raitt, but it's a scrum, no doubt.

  https://youtu.be/_kEvDWmElXc?si=BHiBa_slCSnlOUWq

  https://youtu.be/0V9W6LNf8IE?si=BQsOi5zP2JmY9wE-

   Good luck.

On Rex Harrison Playing the Role of King Mongkut In the 1946 Movie, "Anna and the King of Siam"

Well, I guess that if John Wayne can portray Genghis Kahn on the silver screen, a stuffy British actor can take a whack at this role (plus there weren't exactly a plethora of thespians in old Tinseltown, particularly after WW 2). It only makes sense, right?

On Aethelred the Unready (Circa, November of 1002), Anglo-Saxon King of England, Ordering the Massacre of Scores of Danish Settlers, Believing that it Would Deter the Vikings from Any Future Attacks

  Needless to say, it didn't work in that the raids actually increased in both ferocity and frequency (apparently irking some of the most ruthless fighters in the known world wasn't the best of strategies). 

   Yes, a few historians have given the King some slack, arguing that some of the Danish settlers were up to no-good and that they had to be dealt with but indiscriminate slaughter has always had a creepy ring to it. Wouldn't you say?

On One of the Troglodytes from October 7th Phoning His Parents and Informing Them that He Had Just Killed a Bunch of Israelis (Not All of Whom Were Jewish, BTW) and the Peeps Responding Back with Encouragement and Pride

  We also have crazed leftists in our country who've not just countenanced this barbarism but championed it, too. If only they knew that their time on the chopping-block will eventually come.

On this Picture of a 20-Something Geraldine Fitzgerald

 

  I know what it reminds me of, but being that I'm trying to clean my act up a bit, let's just say that I enjoy it and close up shop with that.

On AI Recently Putting Forth Ilhan Omar's Denial of Having Broken Immigration Laws as Evidence that She Never Engaged In Such Malfeasance

Trump's denials apparently having been left on the cutting-room floor. So much for an unbiased analysis from these stupid things.

My Most Terrifying Reality for Hell?

  Probably a situation akin to this. I'm in a room with only a television and the only thing that I can watch is "The View" (with Joy and Sunny doing most of the talking, of course). And to make matters worse, it's loud and I cannot turn the sound down (never mind, turn it off). There's also a neverending supply of episodes as the devil's pretty darn good at AI, it seems. And it's for all eternity, this crap. Pretty bad, huh?

On the Fact that Even Though There Hasn't Been a Verified Case of Lynching In this Country for Decades, You Still Have Those Revolting Squad Morons Furthering this Narrative du Jour that Black People Are Hanging from Trees All Over Kingdom Come and that it Must Be White People (and White People Only) Performing the Dastardly Deeds

   

   The narrative did take another hit recently when the main suspect in the Tasia Fortune LYNCHING happens to be this cretinous nimrod. And what a shock, the higher octane grievance-mongering crazies like D.L. Hughley are pushing that classic, "he's just a fall guy" conspiracy crap with the predominantly black police force apparently being involved in it. Granted, it doesn't remotely make sense but, then again, does it ever?

On Young Students Feeling Virtuous While Incurring No Expense and Not Having to Display at Least a Modicum of Courage (You Know, as Opposed to Chanting Inanities and Destroying Stuff that Doesn't Belong to You)

So, virtue on the cheap, in other words (not very virtuous, is it?).

On the Fact that U S. Education Spending per Pupil Rose by 154% Between the Years 1970 and 2022 (Stats Adjusted for Inflation)

  And in spite of this tripling of expenditures test scores in math and reading have continued to flatline. You'd think that at least some people in the education industry would notice the lack of a correlation here and want to modify the approach somewhat.......Then again, we are talking money here.

On the Pathetic Image of Influential and Affluent White People Bending a Knee In Honor of BLM (an Anti-American, Anti-Capitalism, and Anti-Family Rump Organization) and Doing this Crap While Simultaneously Wearing a Ludicrous and Ineffectual Face-Mask Just Because Some Dolts In the Permanent Government Have Incentivized Them to Do so

 

  George Floyd didn't deserve to die (though, yes, wolfing enough fentanyl to kill a small herd of elephants likely wasn't the smoothest move available). But neither does he deserve to be canonized. The fellow was a career criminal and drug abuser who exhibited one of the most insane occurrences of resisting arrest in recent memory. Clearly, no one to look up to. Of course when you're dealing with hardcores who see everything through a black and white prism, such glorifying from the cheap-seats will undoubtedly persist. 

On a Six Year-Old Little Punk In Virginia Shooting Two Bullets Into His Teacher, One of the Other Staff Members Asking the Youngster if He Injured HIMSELF When He Shot the Gun, the Kid Chiming In by Asking One of the Cops if He "Wanted a Piece of Him", and the Kid's Mom Ultimately Throwing the Teacher Under the Bus for Not Catering to the Little Moppet's Every Need (AKA, it Was Her Own Fault for Getting Plugged)

  And what's next, I wonder, five year-old car-jackers,? Four year-old armed robbers? Three year-old arsonists? I'm sort of kidding here, but at this point can we really take anything off the table? I'm not so sure.

On the Fact that I've Known a Whole Hell of a Lot of Liars Over the Decades and, Guess What, More than a Couple of Them Have Been Females

Shocked? Shouldn't be.

On Faye Dunaway During the 1960s

 

An unbelievable actress. If only she was better looking, huh?

On How the Media Will Respond if the South African Government Stops Playing Footsy with White Genocide and Instead Opts to Take the Gloves Off and Finish the Thing

  Their standard response to any sort of evil at the hands of "marginalized" groups is to first deny the transgressions and then if that doesn't work attempt to justify them (arguing that white people deserve it in that they're the truer evil). Whether they proceed on this track when it comes to the wholesale slaughter of Afrikaners, I don't know, I'd probably put it at 50-50, give or take a percentage point or two.

On Barbara Stanwyck's Performance In the 1932 Pre-Code Gem, "Forbidden"

.  There are many words to describe any Barbara Stanwyck film, but if I had to select just one to characterize this performance it would probably be, meticulous. I chose that word because I was lured into her unique mannerisms and facial expressions and blown away with both the precision and subtlety of them. A lot of people consider Ms. Stanwyck to be the finest American actress ever and after witnessing this film (along of course with her other stellar performances) I'm kind of moving in that direction myself.

On the Fact that 1947 Israel Was Largely Formed of Desert, Swampland, and Rocky Areas (the Regions Endowed to the Arabs Being Much More Productive) and Would Probably Still Be that Way Had the Arabs Inherited it

 And everyone with even a molecule of honesty, lucidity, and discernment (anti hardcore leftists, in other words) knows it.

On the Fact that Those Third-World Migrants Arriving In Boats On the English Shore Are NOT Asylum-Seekers, They're Economic Migrants Who've Figured Out that England Hands Out More Free Shit than Those Miserly Frenchies and so Anchors-Away, I Guess

  And even if they were actual asylum-seekers, they've already found asylum IN FRANCE. This whole shopping around for the best offer is ridiculous at best and if it isn't illegal it damn well aught to be, those ungrateful pricks.

On Lindsay Clancy Copycats Now on the Prowl, it seems - https://nypost.com/2026/09/10/us-news/lindsay-clancys-lawyer-insists-killer-moms-defense-wont-inspire-copycats-amid-eerily-similar-recent-cases/

 Clancy's disgusting lawyer is of course attempting to put the kibosh on it but, I gotta' tell ya', if this trend of murdered babies continues in this way............and at least some of the media covers it, ole Mr. Reddington just might have some problems.

On "Believe All Women"

Sure, whatever. But can we at least amend to, "believe all women............except for the one who keyed Will's Nissan and left threatening comments on his answering machine at 2 AM". Too much to ask?

On Looking at Photos of the "Cornell 7" and Noticing that Three of Them Appear to Be Minorities

  Should be interesting to see how they navigate this one. I suspect that they'll ignore it as long as possible and when they can't dust off the good old pretzel logic strategy. It's moronic but frequently the only thing that they possess.

On the Dumb-as-a-Stump Partisan Ramrod On the Left Making the Dumb-as-a-Stump Partisan Ramrod On the Right Special Prosecutor In the Cornell Rape Case with Both of Them Having Already Made Disgusting Comments Suggesting that Their Minds Are Made Up that These Seven Young Men Are Guilty as Sin and that the Tenet of "Presumed Innocent" Is Simply too Provincial at this Point, so to Hell with it

Imagine your freedom being held in the balance by these two miscreant hacks. Scary thought, huh?

On Callously Mediocre College Professors from Increasingly Mediocre Institutions Currently Teaching Women to Hate Men and Men to Hate Themselves

  Said it before and I'll say it again. Keep your kids out of these civilizational destroying entities. Yeah, maybe if their goal is to be an engineer, nurse, physical therapist, computer programmer, nuclear chemist, etc., I could see it. But even there, most colleges mandate at least a few humanities courses and so parents need to be prepared for some deprogramming with those students, too.

On the Fact Lindsey Clancy Is a Highly Educated Registered Nurse and so the Odds of Her Truly Believing that Those Small Cuts On Her Wrists and Neck, Nowhere Near the Carotid and Radial Arteries, Would Have Been a Fruitful Strategy to Commit Suicide, Are About as Close to Zero as One Could Figure but Here We Are, Giving Stock to Foolishness, Yet Again

It's the same thing with her jumping out of a one story building knowing fully well that THIS wouldn't kill her, either. Of course she didn't factor in the possibility of paralysis which shows that she still may have had a few chinks in that educational armour. So sorry, not.

On the Fact that Memories Inexorably Fade Over Time (it's Why Witness Testimony Is Often Unreliable) and so this Asinine Assertion that Women Can Say One Thing Immediately After an Event and a Different Thing Two Effing Years After it (Frequently in a One-Eighty Manner) Is Retarded Beyond All Comprehension

  Yes, I'm taking about the Cornell sexual assault story in which some opportunistic bim has decided that the sex acts in question were not consensual in the least bit and that a lot of money could be waiting for her if she just keeps on trucking. Of course the radical left is buying every friggin' sentence coming out of her mouth while at the same time acting as if the words, "presumed innocent", are little more than just another right-wing conspiracy onslaught and/or a passage poached directly from Mein Kampf.