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10. Being quite “inconsistent” now

… as a result of new things turning up all the time which I attempt to incorporate, plus adjusting one’s view in the light of that … here’s Leah’s summary of the situation:

She’s down specifically on Lutnik right now.

9. Moo corner

8. Marcia Willcox

“When I was 20 years old, I married a 35 year-old man. The first 10 years were wonderful. Eventually, though, I suppose the novelty of my being a young woman wore off. Also, we had kids, and that drew some of the attention away from him. As far as I know, we were faithful to each other, but he just sort of lost interest, and I started chafing because he was acting like an old man at the age of 45. The marriage lasted total of 15 years, then we got divorced. The age difference, which hadn’t mattered much at all in the first 10 years, gradually became significant.

He had married someone who looked like a teenager and was beautiful. But, like all human beings, I aged. I did not get fat or anything and I was still pretty, I just wasn’t as young as I used to be.

As for him, he was sort of always an old man in a young man’s body. He looked older, but most importantly, he acted old. I’ve never been one to care about looks. In fact, I’ve only had one partner in my life that was actually good looking according to western standards. But this guy was only 45 and was acting geriatric. He was a fuddy duddy, didn’t like to go out or have any fun, was grumpy, he acted like a rest home candidate.

So in the end, the age difference did become significant. I don’t know if this will happen in every romance with a significant age gap, but I would urge caution. If you’re asking this question, it could be that you already have doubts. I would carefully consider your next move if I were you.”

Having been in the position of older plus younger at various times (my parents, at 8 years difference were perhaps the limit but there’s was also ethnic … Yorkshire as against Irish) … I’m no stranger to “hetero-ethnic” nor “hetero-age” but only twice “non-western”.

I’ve seen a photo of Marcia, who was on Quora and I’m wondering at hubby’s going off with a young filly (too many men’s folly, as is the cougar and toyboy syndrome). She was fairly straight afa I can see, maybe just as domestically conventional as he was but as she wished more and more for “fun”, excitement, maybe constant travel … well it’s a conjecture.

I do know, right now, a young lady ten years my junior who is into constant travel, almost maniacally so … oh, did I say “a”? I meant two … the first I’ve known since she was zero years old, the other was one year younger in our first summer teenage romance … and we’re still corresponding.

The first broke up with decades long hubby, precisely because he wanted rest, repose, near the end of a working life, which was diametrically opposite to what she wants.

Hmmmmm.

(0945) Morning all … overcast out there, looks poisonous. Years back, we might have called it foreboding or forbidding. (0945)

 

7. Steve at 1482

• Judge Declares Mistrial After He Gets Into Argument with Clancy Defense Attorney Over One ‘Holdout’
• Nevada Axes Nearly 400,000 Voter Records from Active Rolls — Democrats’ 87,000-Voter Lead Collapses to Just 672
• Maria Bartiromo’s Lawyer Blasts “False” Reports She Was Fired by Fox News — Veteran Anchor Allegedly Remains Under Contract and Will Be Paid Through 2029
• Incredible! Foreign-Born Population Plunges by Nearly 3 Million in First 18 Months of President Trump’s Second Term – Illegal Immigrant Population Drops by Estimated 2.3 Million
• Denmark, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Greece To Start Sending Illegal Migrants to ‘Return Hubs’ Outside the EU by Late 2027
• Russian Drone Hits Office of Ukraine’s Intelligence Chief
• Governments sold their nations into debt slavery during COVID
• Unpublished Amish Autism Study Cited by Trump Raises Questions Over Missing Vaccination Data
• UK government claims people who do not want to ingest folic acid through their food can avoid it if they choose to, really?
• The German Blueprint for Wealth Redistribution
• Much more.

6. More on “Nige” and gang, plus some devotees

 

By my reckoning, we’ve had the first three Holmeses of this series. Today, below, we have my fave episode for Lucille Vines reasons … and tomorrow we have the other with her as a secretary … The Jolly Hangman. Here she does her Texas impersonation, though she’s a Connecticut gal.

(0444) DAD’s coming up after a second snooze in a few mins. (0445) Second sleep. (0759) Steve’s will be item 7 (in the next polit post, ok, at 0945). (0821)

 

5. I know of at least one other in MA who is against it

4. DAD at 1482

a) France. ‘A frenzy of violence beyond comprehension’ – couple charged with torturing man to death on Snapchat livestream. (JH: There’ll be a post item later on what can be put at Unherdables)

b) Austria’s government is beginning work on a proposal to constitutionally ban “political malsi,”….

c) As Morocco has once again laid claim to the Spanish enclave, and Sánchez is trying to contain tensions with Rabat, the U.S. president lashed out at the Madrid government in an interview.

d) Meta disables Albanian protest accounts as MEPs demand answers. Opposition figures, activists and journalists covering the anti-government “Flamingo Revolution” lost access to Instagram as Albania negotiates European Union membership. (JH: Albania … EU? Sheesh!)

e) The European Union’s Economic Model has officially come to an end. ‘On 27 August in Paris, at the annual conference of the French business federation (La REF 2026), the President of the European Commission delivered a somewhat surprising speech….

3. Gingrich

Erick Erickson makes an important point. Some of the Trump administration’s biggest victories are happening quietly. Marco Rubio is using economic pressure to weaken Cuba’s ability to export revolution. Tom Homan and ICE are producing record results. Competence matters. Results matter. And the quiet men are winning. | https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-quiet-men-are-winning

(0254)(0359)

 

2. More following the Clancy trial

I (JH) have been puzzled about the depth of feeling on both sides of the Clancy trial … what, to me, seemed an open and shut case of murder (and there appears no doubt she did the murders, with malice aforethought) … I wonder if the case against the drugs administered to her counts.

First look at Alec Zeck’s analysis below, on X:

“These drugs don’t just fail to fix people. They mask symptoms, manufacture new ones, and in some cases push people toward harming themselves or someone else—and the industry that profits from them has spent decades making sure the general public doesn’t fully grasp how often that happens. They rip people apart psychologically and physically. They rip families apart, too.

I’m not on “team Lindsay” or “team Patrick,” and I don’t know what happened in that house. But the medication piece keeps getting drowned out by true crime theorizing.

In the 4 months before the killings, Clancy was pumped through 13 different psychiatric medications, with over 30 total prescriptions as doses got yanked up, down, and swapped, by multiple providers who never once compared notes with each other.

The publicly available data backs this up, and they’re not “fringe” in any sense:

The FDA’s own 2006 review of 372 antidepressant trials (nearly 100,000 people) found a 2.3x jump in suicidality risk for patients under 25. That’s why every antidepressant in America now carries a black box warning.

A 2015 Swedish national study found SSRI users aged 15-24 were convicted of violent crimes at more than 5x the rate of non users (3.3% vs 0.6%). Sertraline in particular stood out among the top-prescribed SSRIs.

Roughly 1 in 4 American women is currently on some form of psychiatric medication, per the CDC’s own newest data, nearly double the rate for men. This isn’t a fringe issue at all. It’s mainstream medicine, quietly, on a massive scale.

And the problems with rapid switching or cold stopping these drugs, exactly what happened to Clancy, isn’t a fringe theory:

Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome is very real and can, at a minimum, trigger brain zaps, insomnia, anxiety, and suicidal ideation within days of stopping.

Benzodiazepine withdrawal is one of the most dangerous withdrawal syndromes in all of medicine, capable of triggering, at a minimum, rebound psychosis, seizures, and severe agitation. I watched that happen to my own mother.

Cross tapering (stopping one drug abruptly while starting another) can stack withdrawal from the first on top of side effects from the second, leaving a person destabilized from both directions at once.

According to the medical system’s own ideas, psychiatric medications typically take 4-6 weeks just to reach full effect, and many require slow, deliberate tapering over weeks specifically to avoid destabilizing the nervous system.

Going through 13 drugs in that same window means many of them never had time to even show whether they were “working” (which is a loaded, problematic idea, in and of itself…) before being swapped again.

13 different medications in 4 months is not normal, cautious psychiatric care, or at least it shouldn’t be. But it probably is relatively normal. And that’s the problem: it’s pure pharmacological, psychological chaos, and nobody bats an eye because this is just how the system runs…”

And then look at who he is:

That’s ggl search, which portrays him in the way you see. What we, the officially unqualified public, see is two seemingly opposed and evidence backed cases and yet I’d suggest they’re two separate issues, each to campaign for. This Alec Zeck does not deny she killed the children … his field is “holistic” medicine. Ours so far has been to support the holdout juror and examine woke left women, their reliability, esp. if medical establishment medicated over a long period.

There’s a side issue for Unherdables

Regulars know that “our” Fido took umbrage at my questioning of Leah’s transparency or opacity, without actually negating what she said. I have subsequently run her and shall again. Was I wrong to delve, to look at who she is, also Data Republican?

Difficult to remove the emotion on clearly emotional issues and yet we do need to explore, I’d suggest, if only to clear the person. Zeck may well be fine, he may be a kook … there’s a long history of “unusual” people exposing things.

Take Dr. Colin Ross who exposed the psychiatric “establishment” … Syd Gottlieb, Jolyon West, the whole DID, dissociation techniques, GH Estabrooks, Ewen Cameron, Selwyn Leeks story, even Manchurians. That alone puts us who have looked at it out on the fringe of those “out there”, “out to lunch, mentally” according to powerful forces. For the crime of exploring and trying to examine both sides.

Could I both agree with Alec Zeck and with the “holdout” juror? Why not? But where does that leave that trial? In what state of play?

1. Folic acid … 2005 study in Norway

https://www.uib.no/nye-doktorgrader/170370/bruk-av-høydose-folsyre-i-svangerskapet-og-risiko-kreft

Dr. Clare Craig has a petition over this:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/769589

(1727) Evening all.

 

22. Would you give today’s NHS a try?

21. Teachers not arrested for it?

20. As long as it’s a woman saying it

19. Moo corner

18. Tenerife too, not just Ceuta

Someone behind the scenes is making all these horrors happen:

17. Maria B

16. Let’s open with a maths question

 

(1320) Afternoon all. Short hiatus (snooze) … with film. (1336)

 

15. Someone tried to post

… that FDR and wife were good people.

14. Stranded on an island

13. Propaganda rags

12. Did your mom ever say these things to you?

11. Dugin is the father of the girl whose car was blown up

… by Ukrainians in Moscow. Kassabdra is a Dutch lady in Athens, both Orthodox Christians.

 

The cunning plan is this, chaps and chapesses … episode 3 now but 4 tomorrow introduces Lucille Vines, an interesting person to me, so much so that her other Holmes appearance, 28, will be on Sunday, with some biographical notes.

One thing a bit iffy for me is when they ham it up … there are serious episodes, yes, but also these self-conscious ones.

 

The mid 70s had a great pub rock scene and I was lucky enough to meet it in two places … London and Melbourne, both hubs for this sort of thing. Here, there were all sorts of bands from Graham Parker, Dr. Feelgood, Ducks Deluxe to relative unknowners … and downunder, not only Melbourne bands but Sydney, Perth and so on.

True there was pop but I was never much into it, unless indie, like this band below. Glam was anathema to me, though Slade were well regarded … not my thang. I met this band’s keyboardist … my mate and I walked down to a pub from his place in North Melb and there they were.

During a break, the keyboardist, a truly zany guy, known as “Greedy” Smith, had a plate piled high, we were facing each other, talking, and as he became animated on some topic, the plate angled, the food started sliding off the edge, over him. They were a band who really were fun, not just putting it on, such as Split Enz.

Anyway, this was a … er … fun tune by them but the reactors are as straight as a die, almost no humour, plus American … so how were they going to handle a Sydney pub rock band in their milieu?

They were a much loved band … can you imagine nipping down for a pint, paying the cover and the Mentals entertain you for a couple of hours? Those were good days. We’ve played this one before on the site: