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14. Occasionally, Quora justifies its existence

… and today, there are two. First one below is:

Why do the old tire so easily (by Mark Sillitto MD retired)

”So many but not all elderly people tire easily. There is a lot of confusion among the public about the cause(s). However, I worked for 40 years as a medical doctor and much is related to a person’s cellular mitochondria levels.

What is that you might say. Inside all human living cells these tiny organelles called mitochondria convert our energy sources like blood glucose into electricel and chemical energy to ‘power up’ each and every living cell in our body.

Now, Why do elderly folks have fewer of these than children, adolescents or young adults? The answer is genetically our bodies are ‘programmed’ to behave ‘economically’.

What is that you may ask? Once the human body has finished puberty and we reach our early adult years genetic switching swings into action automatically and reduces the number of mitochondria to match the lower level of ‘energy’ all cells need for growing.

The DNA coding kind of says, by some logic; ‘hey let’s not waste the effort to produce and refresh mitochondria the body maybe able to get by with fewer’, so it reabsorbs and replaces some of them in each and every cell across time.

So, how do some older folks trick the body to register that each cell needs to keep up the number of mitochodria?

The answer is cardiovascular level activity. That’s why older folks who regularly do activities that increase their heart rate have much more energy: going to a gym, join a dance class 3 nights a week, go for runs three times a week, use a stationary exercise bike while using a heart rate watch measuring their heart rate three time per week, work at a part time job that is vigorous enough to raise their heart rate enough more than twice a week. (Remember those accounts you heard of very active people in their 90’s).

Why three times a week and how much to raise your heart rate you might say? Well, Google “age adjusted” ‘heart rate zone training’ to find out it is much less difficult than you think for most everyone.

Why three times per week? Sufficient regular activity is needed to ‘trigger’ your metabolism to recognise it needs to make more mitochondiria inside the cells. (There is a huge amount of research/ university published peer reviewed journal articles still relevant. Much of the research from the studies of ‘what is fitness” from the 1960’s.

Plus, our bodies haven’t changed: after all elderly people have been feeling tired since the dawn of time; with examples of those elderly who kept active).”

JH: He then advises you to consult your MD (GP). I’d dispute just the last sentence … globopsycho have indeed changed people’s bodies … whether permanently or as long as the evil muvvers do their thing … well I for one don’t know.

13. And here it is again and again …

… over and over … this hobbyhorse about strong, good men plus women, not separately … each playing to their strengths … men building and defending:

… while gals defend the national conscience, keep things in order that way:

… across the world too … interlinked, not unlike a doing-right church in a way, but without burning and mutilating our subscribers.

12. Not sure that on All Saints Day …

… I should be running Ladies at Lunchtime on the blog … am holding it over till Monday.

However, this insulting of the ladies of the right (in the right too, by the way) by this Mark Cuban eejit has had a beneficial effect for the boys … the ladies have come out of the woodwork en masse on X and X is now flooded with self-posted photos of “strong, intelligent” women … well I for one am in seventh heaven:

The gals of the right have it all … strength, intelligence, drop-dead gorgeousness, fab to hold close and then we get to the crucial bit … I just like how they operate. Not leftist demi-wimmin like Rayner, Clinton, Griseold … with ordure for brains … but formerly standard “real women” who have good and bad traits, just as our species does. We just take the iffy with the good.

And that comes out in this exchange below:

Yep … we as men on this side, don’t feel we have to follow each and every request there and then but by the same token, the gals never miss a trick on our side … in my book, it’s a happy mix of both … naturally, normally, as it should be. I enjoy the company of my mates … and luv our gals … and what?

 

(0645) Morning all … looking fairly gloomy out there, low, billowing, dark grey. (0743)

 

11. News on The Steal

RT: Kentucky voting machine shifted Donald Trump’s votes to Kamala Harris

A viral video showing Kentucky voters experiencing a voting machine glitch that seemingly shifted votes from Donald Trump to Kamala Harris has been confirmed by Laurel County Clerk Tony Brown. After initially denying the issue, Brown has since acknowledged the malfunction and confirmed that the machine was taken out of service pending an investigation by the Attorney General’s Office.

Why aren’t these glitches ever in Trump’s favor?”

10. Natural CO2 converters

HERE

Marcus Brown: “The title is a bit deceptive, they aren’t talking about “plants”, they are talking about the combined total CO2 absorption of every plant on earth. In plain English, our planet is 31% greener today than it was 40 years ago, thanks to CO2. This is in spite of losing around 6% of our trees to deforestation over the same period. Plants seem to be growing significantly faster, using up more CO2, than they did years ago.”

9. Georgia and Tbilisi

HERE

“The State Department and the European Union are demanding Tbilisi repeal “anti-democratic” legislation and investigate election “irregularities” respectively after the Georgian Dream Party won this weekend’s parliamentary elections. Georgian leaders including Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze and President Salome Zourabichvili are at odds, with Zourabichvili accusing Kobakhidze’s party of winning a “total fraud” election.

Per the official tally, Georgian Dream won 54% of the vote, with multiple opposition parties earning between 3-11%.”

JH: Not sure which way to think on this one EU and current US govt agin … seems good to be “for” then.

8. Nuclear

7. TDS (blogrolls)

6. Australian football

At the elite level, clubs downunder have a long history of “raiding” the Irish game for star recruits and Zach Tuohy is one such … he’s just retired:

I can understand that, truly I can … to lose to an equal or better opposition … wwweeellllllll, that’s just the way the cookie crumbles … but to fail to do the things you know you must … that’s almost unforgivable and for a stickler, as Tuohy was … one can lose all interest.

Tuohy came in at the end of Geelong’s golden era, 2011, schooled in discipline, a core member of the back six “unit”, the last line of defence … complete understanding between those boys was required … knowing ahead of time where each would be, knowing how to respond … that’s why I vastly prefer team sports … where a plan comes off … over and over.

And when someone doesn’t do his job, fulfil his part, he need not be shouted at … he knows it full well. Zach Tuohy I’d say was being let down in crucial stages in a game … he has a backman’s or bass player’s mind … straight down the line.

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5. Heartfelt thanks to all our droppers, occasional commenters and readers

… patrons and stop-bys all. There’s a message at 862 for y’all. A few people have asked about IYE and the simple answer is that I don’t know … obviously, his incisive excursions were cutting edge and are sorely missed. Also adding Ivan to that.

4. Steve at 861 … a selection

MftWC 4: FEMA Whistleblower Reveals Agency’s Focus on “DEI Initiatives” Over Disaster Response: “There Are Higher Priorities Given to Different Racial Groups”

MftWC 3: Maine’s Student Mock Election Sees Over 20,000 Young Voters from Over 140 Schools Back Trump Over Kamala 52-41 in Deep Blue State

MftWC 2: Zelensky furious, Scolds US Tomahawks, Kursk NPP Bizarre Claims; Moscow: No Talks Energy Truce – Alexander Mercouris

MftWC 1: Catastrophic Flooding, Tornado Hits Valencia and South-eastern Spain

3. Andy at 862

Looks like Neil is catching up with us fast. At this rate he will overtake us, if that’s at all possible.

2. DAD at 862

a) France’s National Rally (RN) president Jordan Bardella has claimed he is the target of “censorship” after adverts for his new book,’Ce que je cherche’ (What I’m looking for’), were barred from display in French train stations and subways.

b) Brussels will refuse to move forward with Keir Starmer’s programme for a Brexit “reset” unless the Labour prime minister backs down on his formal opposition to free movement, a new document has revealed.

(JH: Vive the impasse.)

c) Bizarre story from Africa. For months, rumors of disappearance of male organs have been circulating in the Central African Republic, causing serious concern.

d) Range-challenged electric vehicles could face further sales disincentives with a proposal from Britain’s top engineers that battery sizes be reduced by one third.

1. All Hallows

It could be spelt(spelled) All Hallows or with apostrophe, it could be called All Saints and saintly people to be sure (the genuine ones) are to be revered. Revered does not mean to be worshipped in some pantheistic way. Nor is some sun god to be woven into it.

Anyway, there have been most saintly people who’ve put their safety on the line for their faith to the Trinity. One thing I was taught long ago was not to mess with the spirit world, such as it is but have nowt to do with it … the message is crystal clear, played out in films as diverse as The Mummy, the Exorcist, all sorts of horror films, even Terminator 3 and Skynet.

Interestingly (to me), the warnings I personally had were not just from scripture but from the other side, inc. satanists, wiccans etc. They were the ones who said don’t mess with what you don’t understand, don’t invoke, don’t be a damned fool … which is precisely what that side in the war wants children, the simple-minded and similarly vulnerable to do. The child trafficking, rape, murder … do you think it would increase or decrease on this set of “high days” right now? Get that ole logic working in the brain.

If you care about the innocent, how about putting in a prayer for them at this time?

Then you have this Lord Protector thing, meaning an Oliver Cromwell type … talk to the Irish about him. When you elevate humans to the role of your Protector, I’d say you’re on a sticky wicket … you are substituting. Nor do I think we leave ourselves utterly defenceless in the physical world … that’s imbecility as well … mainly because you’re relying on your own cherry-picking interpretation of scripture and doing nowt to help thyself. Silly.

Atheism? Three wise monkey strategy, eh? River in Egypt, ostriches’ heads in sand? Crocodile eat you last, eh? Good luck … look at what demrats, rinos and labour have done to us so far, trying to protect ourselves.