Today would have to be the day that practically everything happened, wouldn’t it… As you can probably tell from the rather late hour of posting, it’s been a very busy weekend for me, what with recovering from my trip, getting on track with some major work assignments, and planning out another trip that I have to take in the coming weeks. Nonetheless, Monday waits for no man, no matter what the occasion or excuse, so here we are with the Great Mondaydact Browser Slayer to make things a little bit less horrid for everyone involved.
This week’s theme was actually supposed to be used LAST week, but the opportunity to mock the idiocies taking place in Glasgow at the time were just too good to pass up. So, with apologies to our good friend, Dawn Pine, who suggested this one, here we are instead.
Over to The Male Brain:
Robert Vaughn was an American actor best known for his role of ‘Napoleon Solo’, the suave spy, in the 1960s spy fiction TV series ‘The Man from U.N.C.L.E.’. An astonishingly-prolific actor, he also gained widespread popularity for his characterization of Harry Rule in ‘The Protectors’, the popular 1970s series; Morgan Wendell in ‘Centennial’, a TV mini-series; and ‘Albert Stroller’, a card sharp in the British television drama series ‘Hustle’. In 1977, he was awarded an ‘Emmy’ for ‘Washington Behind Closed Doors’. He also appeared in a number of films that did well at the box office, some of the more prominent being ‘The Magnificent Seven’, ‘The Bridge at Remagen’, ‘Bullitt’, ‘Superman III’, ‘The Delta Force’, ‘The Towering Inferno’, and ‘The Young Philadelphians’ for which, he received an ‘Oscar’ nomination for the ‘Best Supporting Actor’. Maintaining an active interest in politics; he campaigned tirelessly against the Vietnam War from the late 1960s to the withdrawal of America from the conflict in 1973.
Robert Vaughn was born on November 22, 1932 in New York City, to Gerald Walter Vaughn, a radio actor, and his wife, Marcella Frances (Gaudel), a stage actress. His parents divorced when he was a baby, and Vaughn lived with his grandparents in Minneapolis while his mother traveled and performed. The guy studied journalism (dropped out), theater (M.A.) and communications (P.Hd.). His dissertation was published as a book called ” Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting”. The book describes the importance of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution and citing the dangers of what happens when its cherished tradition is jeopardized. In the name of combating Communism liberties were jettisoned, while the art of stool pigeon information dissemination reached a feverish pitch during Hollywood’s blacklist period beginning shortly after World War Two with the advent of the Cold War. We do believe that it is pretty funny how today it is ok to jeopardize the tradition in the name of “woke”.
Vaughn made his television debut on the November 21, 1955, “Black Friday” episode of the American TV series Medic, the first of more than two hundred episodic roles through mid-2000! . His first film appearance was as an uncredited extra in The Ten Commandments playing a golden calf idolater also visible in a scene in a chariot behind that of Yul Brynner (which have portrayed before).
At the start of his career he was drafted by US army. Guess what position? Drill Sergeant. This will come in handy later in some of his films and roles.
Vaughn’s first notable appearance was in The Young Philadelphians (1959), receiving a nomination for both the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture. He next appeared as gunman Lee in The Magnificent Seven (1960), a role he essentially reprised 20 years later in Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), both films adapted from filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 Japanese samurai epic, Seven Samurai. 18 years afterwards, he played a different role, Judge Oren Travis, on the 1998-2000 syndicated TV series The Magnificent Seven.
In the 1963-64 season, Vaughn appeared in The Lieutenant as Captain Raymond Rambridge alongside Gary Lockwood, the Marine second lieutenant at Camp Pendleton. His dissatisfaction with the somewhat diminished aspect of the character led him to request an expanded role. He ended up being offered a series of his own — as Napoleon Solo, title character in a series originally to be called Solo, but which became The Man from U.N.C.L.E. after the pilot was reshot with Leo G. Carroll in the role of Solo’s boss. This was the role which would make Vaughn a household name even behind the Iron Curtain.
From 1964 to 1968, Vaughn played Solo with Scottish co-star David McCallum playing his fellow agent Illya Kuryakin. This production spawned a spinoff show, large amounts of merchandising, overseas theatrical movies of re-edited episodes, and a sequel The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. – The Fifteen-Year-Later Affair. In the year the series ended, Vaughn landed a large role-playing Chalmers, an ambitious California politician in the film Bullitt starring Steve McQueen; he was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role.
The 1970s are less worth mentioning. So I’ll skip them (he did continue to work, and hard).
Vaughn portrayed Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, in addition to Woodrow Wilson (in the 1979 television mini-series Backstairs at the White House). He additionally played Roosevelt in the 1982 HBO telefilm FDR: That Man in the White House. In 1983, he starred as villainous multi millionaire Ross Webster in Superman III. In 1983–1984, he appeared as industrialist Harlan Adams in the short-lived CBS series Emerald Point N.A.S., replacing Patrick O’Neal. In the mid-1990s, he made several cameo appearances on Late Night With Conan O’Brien as an audience member who berates the host and his guests beginning with “you people make me sick.”
During the 1980s he starred with friend George Peppard in the final season of The A-Team. That season was the worst season of the TV series, but Vaughn did a good job there, as much as possible.
The guy kept on working till 2016 doing film, TV and theater. On November 11 he passed away after a year of leukemia. He was almost 84.
Vaughn married actress Linda Staab in 1974. They appeared together in a 1973 episode of The Protectors, called “It Could Be Practically Anywhere on the Island”. They adopted two children, Cassidy (born 1976) and Caitlin (born 1981). They resided in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
For many years, it was believed Vaughn was the biological father of English film director and producer Matthew Vaughn, born when the actor was in a relationship with early 1970s socialite Kathy Ceaton. However, a paternity investigation identified the father as George de Vere Drummond, an English aristocrat and godson of King George VI. Early in Matthew’s life Vaughn had asked for the child’s surname to be Vaughn, which Matthew continues to use professionally.
On the flip side, he was a democrat. His family was also Democratic and was involved in politics in Minneapolis. and early in his career, he was described as a “liberal Democrat”. Vaughn campaigned for John F. Kennedy in the Presidential election of 1960 for U.S. President. He was the chair of the California Democratic State Central Committee speakers bureau and actively campaigned for candidates in the 1960s. Vaughn was the first popular American actor to take a public stand against the Vietnam War, but in a conversation with historian Jack Sanders, he stated that after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, “I lost heart for the battle”.
As Dawn Pine himself commented – great actor, even if he was a Daemoncrat.
Let’s have some videos about him – you have almost surely seen him in any number of movies:
And some pictures of the man himself:
Can we all agree that Henry Cavill is literally the only man alive that should be allowed to participate in remakes of movies involving badass secret agents?
#BasedTucker is based:
The Male Brain sent over plenty of good stuff last week. Let’s start with some really stupid comments by the Fake President that, like him, aged disgracefully – thanks to our friends over at Smooth Media:
The rather amusing leftoids over at thejuicemedia are no more impressed by the net-zero promises than we are, but for different reasons:
Ryan Long shows just how insufferable Netherflix employees would be if they worked pretty much anywhere else:
Larry the Stormtrooper‘s take on Karens is pretty damned accurate:
Doff your caps, gentlemen, for a living legend has taken it upon himself to explain how an ancient fable really works:
Mark Dice notes that there is only one possible verdict in the Rittenhouse farce:
Bill Whittle and his friends break down the FBI raid of James O’Keefe‘s house in search of whatsername’s diary:
The lovely and charming Dr. Sam Bailey takes an in-depth look at the infamous case of Dr. Stephen Lanka and his attempts to classify measles as a non-viral disease of the mind:
It is worth noting that Dr. Lanka didn’t actually “win” his case. The court ruling in his favour simply stated that he had the right to determine his own standard of proof. He wasn’t vindicated and he didn’t win.
It’s a bit like saying to someone, “prove to me that you’re actually a good and honest guy” – and then, when he goes out of his way to prove what a Boy Scout he really is, you tell him, “well, those proofs don’t meet my expectations, so I’m going to call you a rapist and a wife-beater”.
Given the sheer amount of medical misinformation out there today, propagated mostly by doctors themselves, it is worth being deeply sceptical of both sides of the issue, until clear proof and evidence can be found supporting one side or another.
Lord Razor of the Fist Clan has a simple and succinct message for the asshats who tried to boot him out of his favourite desktop game:
The Dizzle is finally back on TEH YOOTOOBZ – he got out of the naughty box for a while – and has been on an absolute tear making videos of late. It’s hard to choose which one is best, but his latest one unpacking the Trinity, and showing Izzlamists what a bunch of fools they are in the process, is a doozy:
Dr. Jay Smith from PfanderFilms and the dapper pipe-smoking Frenchman, Odon Lafontaine, continue to attack the Standard Izzlamic Narrative through the lens of historical criticism:
Al-Fadi from CIRA International and Dr. Jay Smith summarise their arguments against the SIN in a simple short form:
Dr. Frank Turek from Cross Examined demolishes the notion that abortion in the West has anything whatsoever to do with “reproductive health” – it’s all about convenience, not health:
China Uncensored examines the CCP’s continued use of unrestricted warfare and its attempts to practice sinking US carriers:
America Uncovered has an excellent video about the way in which the Road to Hell genuinely is paved with good intentions:
Terrence Popp looks at how gold-diggers are upping their requirements:
Midnight’s Edge can barely contain their glee at how hard the Devil Mouse’s The Eternals belly-flopped at the box office:
Overlord Dicktor Van Doomcock believes that Queen Karen Kennedy’s reign of terror and stupidity at Lucasfilm is now coming to a rapid end:
Gary from Nerdrotic hated The Eternals even more than he hated the latest Doctor Who special:
The Drinker takes on a special kind of challenge:
And he, too, hated The Eternals:
Your “Science is F***ING WEIRD” moment of the week concerns the issue of whether dark matter and energy have ever actually been detected – and the evidence increasingly says “NO”:
The drama of the world’s most controversial dark matter claim may have reached its last act, if not its final scene. For 2 decades, physicists with an experiment called DAMA have claimed that particles of dark matter—the unseen stuff whose gravity appears to bind our galaxy—are bumping into atomic nuclei in their subterranean particle detector, even as other dark matter hunts come up empty. Now, physicists with a detector called COSINE-100, designed to mimic DAMA, present the most direct refutation yet of the findings. And in 2020, theorists identified a way in which the DAMA signal could have arisen inadvertently in the team’s analysis.
The DAMA team rejects both claims. Rita Bernabei, a physicist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and DAMA’s leader, declined to be interviewed. But she dismissed the new explanation in an email: “We have already demonstrated that the assumptions there reported are untenable and the conclusions are worthless.”
The Milky Way is thought to whirl within a vast cloud of dark matter, which could consist of hypothetical weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs). As the Solar System orbits the galactic center at 225 kilometers per second, Earth presumably plows into a wind of WIMPs. Because our planet also orbits the Sun at 30 kilometers per second, the wind should strengthen slightly when Earth is moving in the same direction as the Sun, in June, and abate when it’s moving the opposite way, in December.
DAMA physicists have long claimed to see this yearly cycle in their detector, which now contains 25 10-kilogram crystals of thallium-doped sodium iodide. Each crystal produces a flash of light when a particle pings a nucleus. The DAMA team says that, in a low-energy range that corresponds to WIMPs, the number of collisions has gone up and down each year since observations began in 1995.
Other detectors see no such thing. But those experiments use different target materials. So groups have built sodium iodide detectors that can test the DAMA result in an apples-to-apples comparison. One is COSINE , which comprises eight crystals totaling 100 kilograms and has been taking data since 2016 in South Korea’s subterranean Yangyang Laboratory. Since 2018, COSINE has improved its sensitivity 100-fold, says Hyun Su Lee, the team’s co-spokesperson and a particle physicist at South Korea’s Institute for Basic Science. But in 1.7 years of data, they see no sign of WIMPs, the researchers report today in Science Advances.
Your long read of the week is a piece by Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, in which he methodically lays out a case for the claim that the Kung Flu Scamdemic was, indeed, a giant swindle:
Introduction
There is much confusion and disinformation regarding the nature of the so-called Covid-19 “pandemic”.
The definition of a pandemic is rarely mentioned by the governments and the corporate media.
What confirms the existence of a pandemic is not only the number of people affected by Covid-19, but also reliable evidence of a disease outbreak which is spreading over a wide geographic area “including multiple countries or continents”
“A pandemic is an epidemic that becomes very widespread and affects a whole region, a continent, or the world” (Nature)
The above definition does not in any way describe the alleged spread of SARS-CoV-2.
There Never Was a Pandemic
I have investigated this matter extensively since January 2020 and have come to the conclusion based on relevant definitions, the history of the corona crisis as well as the official WHO “estimates” of “Covid positive cases” that there never was a pandemic.
At the outset of the corona crisis, the number of so-called confirmed positive cases was abysmally low, starting with 83 positive cases outside China (6.4 billion people). These ridiculously low numbers were nonetheless used to justify the launching on January 30th 2020 of a Worldwide Public Health Emergency leading up six weeks later to the official declaration of a Worldwide Pandemic on March 11, 2021 (44,279 covid positive cases outside of China).
Linkage is good for you:
- Chris Sweeney over at RT notes that the LGBTQWTFISTHISSHIT crowd is eating itself alive, due to lesbians being forced to have sex with mentally-ill men self-mutilating men for fear of being called TERFs;
- The laws of supply and demand are catching up with liberal farts campuses, where women greatly outnumber men – inevitably, the top 10% of those men are absolutely DROWNING in poon, and they are developing serious “golden penis syndrome”;
- The old adage about how “men age like wine and women age like milk” is true about 99% of the time – but there are some extremely rare and unusual exceptions to that rule, and
- Cryptocurrencies are edging ever closer to becoming acceptable and usable as a medium of exchange, which would be a huge step forward to sound money and the destruction of fiat currency;
- Yet more evidence, this time from Japan, that lockdowns are idiotic beyond measure – the evidence from the Land of the Rising Sun tells us that their school lockdowns did nothing useful to prevent the spread of the Coof;
- Speaking of the falsehoods behind the Coof, it turns out a widely-used antigen test kit delivers rather more than expected false positives – it’s Australian, too, which just makes the irony even more deliciously funny;
- Sen. Tom Hawley from Missouri had the temerity, the gall, the BARE-FACED CHEEK, merely to suggest that society should support men rather than vilify us, and of course the Left completely melted down over his rather sensible statements;
- Lockheed continues to hammer away at that hoary old chestnut, the viable hypersonic airplane, and they reckon they’ve finally cracked it – given what happened to Project Aurora, this should be amusing;
- Not all doctors in the modren age are useless corrupt hacks – some have the decency and self-awareness to recognise that they are rapidly destroying what little trust the public still has in what used to be a noble and honourable profession;
- I’m not generally one to indulge in those “In Soviet Russia…” moments, but this story about a mentally-ill self-mutilating man who has become the head of a Russian political party – and advocates AGAINST homosexual propaganda – is a must-read;
- Paul Nuttall points out, quite correctly, that the West has absolutely no right to lecture Poland, Belarus, Russia, or anyone else about the best way to handle illegal invaders, given the West’s own piss-poor record on the subject;
And some more from Dawn Pine:
- We can all generally agree that the Swedes are a rational, if cucked-out, bunch, so when they tell us that building electrical ecomentalist feel-good shitboxes will generate MORE emissions than regular petrol cars, maybe we ought to listen;
- The supply chain crisis has forced the Suez Canal Authority to jack up transit prices – so much for “transitory” inflation, it’s about as temporary as Alzheimer’s, which incidentally might explain Sleepy Creepy Slow Old Fake Joe’s behaviour;
- Not everyone is suffering from the supply chain crisis, though – 3D printing has come a long way over the past few years, and firms specialising in that stuff are doing VERY well indeed;
- This story about how police found the body of a girl in the bathroom of her parents’ house, 5 years after her death, gives literal and creepy new meaning to the phrase, “skeletons in the closet” – key word here being “Kuwait”;
- It takes a special kind of stupidity to be a man of the Left, because you literally have to deny facts and reality in order to draw your conclusions, as former Odubmass adviser Ben Rhodes continues to prove every day;
- The Babylon Bee continues to do a stellar job of reporting all the news that’s fit to fake, but this pastiche about the Fall has a serious problem with it – there is NO WAY that a woman EVER told her husband “not to hearken” to her words;
- Tattoos are generally a really dumb thing to get, no matter what design you choose to use to mar your body, but if you’re a girl and you get your man’s name tattooed in giant letters on your back just before you break up, you’re a COMPLETE DUMBASS;
- In case you weren’t aware, the Middle East is a complete fustercluck, and now the Iranians are supplying weapons to the Somalis via Yemen, which just makes an already hopelessly tangled snarled-up ball of stupid even worse;
- On the other hand, the Iranians are getting a strong dose of their own medicine now, because some 4-5K Afghan refugees are crossing into their country every day – even Izzlamists don’t want to live under hardcore Izzlam!;
- Right, lads, say this one more time with both of us – “the Bible is a true historical document”, as this latest find about the fall of Lachish to Sennacherib, king of Assyria, proves yet again (see Isaiah 5 and 2 Kings 19 for reference);
- If you are seriously interested in cryptocurrency, you probably mainline Dramamine and Mylanta due to the extreme price volatility – and Elon Musk’s meme wars with respect to that silly shiba inu coin certainly aren’t helping matters;
- Look, word to the wise here: if you lock up a nutcase for trying to stab people to death, and then just sort of assume he’s fine and let him out a year later, and then HE DOES IT AGAIN AND KILLS PEOPLE, at some level, YOU’RE at fault;
- Right, lads, who had “asteroid the size of the Eiffel Tower heading straight for Earth” in the Doomsday Apocalypse Bingo pool for December 2021?;
- Most of us know the Japanese to be very polite and respectful, but they are also seriously anal-retentive – to the point where a train driver who got docked about 50 cents’ pay for being one minute late is now suing his employers over the issue;
- A woman who provided a “public service” by demonstrating to girls the kinds of dance moves that keep the fellas away proved three things – 1) don’t go to clubs; 2) if you see a drunk chick doing this shit, just say “no thanks”; and 3) bitches be BATSHIT crazy;
The Neo-Tsar points out what should already be quite obvious:
History lessons of the week:
Your Great Man of the Week is the Mexican general Santa Anna:
That, incidentally, is the same Santa Anna whose forces massacred the defenders of the Alamo, and who ended up losing half of Mexico’s territory, including Texas. So, y’know, judge as you see fit.
The HALO Infinite lore is definitely ramping up, and I for one am very excited:
And now let’s watch Mint Blitz do his thing:
Wazzocks gonna wazzock:
Kitchen Nightmares with the Angry Scot:
Comedy hour:
Pics, guns, girls, starting with some terrific memes about “fact-checkers” from Dawn Pine:
Headlines of the week indicate that being a redshirt is, in fact, hazardous to your health:
Your “Ecomentalism is a Disease” moment of the week:
Your “NO SHIT, SHERLOCK!” moment of the week:
Your “Taco Bell Burn” moment of the week:
Your “No Jab, No Jabbing” moment of the week:
Your “Snowflake Melting” moment of the week:
Your aminules are adorkable moment of the week:
And also your animals are absolute DICKS moment of the week, to balance things out:
Gym beast time:
Wise Uncle Chael the American Gangster offers up his thoughts about the latest developments in the ongoing car-crash saga that is the story of Jon Jones:
Jesus loves knockouts:
#SharpAsSteel
OK, gents, drum-roll please, because we’re down to the last of it – the Instathot to get the week off to a proper start. Her name is Anya Dorozhkina (Аня Дорожкина), age 28 from Ukraine (supposedly, though I can’t confirm either of those things). She calls herself a “professional sportswoman” and nutritionist, though quite how she finds the time to be an athlete, given how much time she spends posing and preening in beautiful places, is rather beyond me. I suspect that figuring out proper applications of quantum superpositioning would be easier.
Also, if you scan down to her earliest photos – there aren’t that many of them – you’ll quickly realise that she is… how does one put it politely… ENHANCED. There’s nothing particularly wrong with this, as long as you’re honest about it – and if you read (or translate) the Russian, you’ll find that she isn’t.
She has also insisted on damaging her looks with a bunch of stupid tattoos – I have no idea why, she’s naturally very attractive. This is why girls like her generally DO NOT make it into the coveted Friday T&A category around here.
Note to the ladies: tattoos don’t make you more attractive. They make you uglier. End of.
Right, back to work, you lazy buggers, show’s over, and your Fake President needs YOU to slave away so that your hard-earned tax dollars can go toward paying illegal invaders of your country for breaking your laws.
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By the way, if you watched the offloading of the Blue Origin team, Glen De Vries literally knocked William Shatner out of the way, almost made him fall off the ramp, so he could go press the flesh with Bezos.
Karma, she is a bitch. It is only a shame that he took his poor trainer with him.
Didact,
Given many of the recurring topics here in the Monday celebrations, you will find this 9 minutes to be interesting. You may even come up with a stronger/based/alpha analysis, although this is not a weak one: https://youtu.be/DCmhQucsH-s “From P*rn, to Pastor, to….worse?”
The Critical Drinker reviews so well, even a microwave snack review is entertaining. Did not see that coming!