Author Archives: James Higham

Mon Mat too

 

Cunning plan is, after the Peter Gunn … Fido’s Alleyn radio play, coz it’s YT … plus there’s another Paul Temple up already on that page … then Fido’s Christie radio play (multiple titles archive) tomorrow … Sittaford to be exact … but you can decide to go for whichever radio play you like on that menu. And thus to today:

Now I do understand that I’m in the doghouse with certain readers at the moment but as I’ve never learnt when to shut it … I’ll say this anyway …

… I was never really enamoured of Patrick Malahide’s Alleyn in the visual play … just thought the whispering voice a tad annoying … but there we are. I suspect I have this new condition called Asparagus Syndrome, in which the victim suffers from a total inability to shut the gob, especially if something’s simply crying out to be said. 😎

Monday [11]

 

Sudden, late degeneration

By what looks like a lady on Quora, no particular claim to medical expertise:

“When a 70-year-old marathoner suddenly “falls off a cliff” at 82, it seems their healthy habits failed them. In reality, this rapid decline is the direct result of those habits.

In gerontology, this is known as the compression of morbidity. Unhealthy people often experience a slow, agonizing decline starting in their 50s or 60s, spending decades managing chronic diseases. People with excellent habits delay serious illness for so long that they eventually hit a hard biological wall, compressing all their physical decline into a brief, dramatic window at the very end of their lifespan.

This sudden crash is driven by homeostenosis, which is the age-related loss of physiological reserve. In youth, human organ systems have massive redundant capacity. If a 30-year-old gets a severe flu, their body has the shock absorbers to bounce back. By age 85, even in a perfectly healthy person, the heart, kidneys, and immune system operate near their maximum capacity just to maintain normal resting homeostasis. Because there is zero reserve left, a minor stressor—like a urinary tract infection, a change in medication, or a minor fall—can trigger a catastrophic cascading failure across multiple organ systems.

Beneath this system-wide fragility is a hard cellular limit. No amount of exercise or nutrition can stop cellular senescence.

Human cells can only divide a finite number of times, a boundary known as the Hayflick limit. Every time a cell replicates, the protective caps at the ends of its chromosomes, called telomeres, get slightly shorter. Once those telomeres degrade, the cell enters senescence, refusing to divide and instead secreting inflammatory markers that damage surrounding tissue. Over decades, this microscopic damage accumulates until entire organs lose the ability to repair themselves.

Evolutionary biology offers the final piece of the puzzle through antagonistic pleiotropy. The human genetic blueprint prioritizes traits that guarantee survival and reproduction up to about age 50. After humans pass their child-rearing usefulness, natural selection stops optimizing for tissue repair. The genetic instructions simply run out. A lifetime of healthy habits maximizes a person’s potential within that biological blueprint, allowing them to coast smoothly to the very edge of the map, but it cannot redraw the map itself.”

Monday [6 to 10]

(0815) Sun’s out, cloud dissipating and the remainder fluffing up. (0849)

 

10. Moo corner


9. The NHS

… forcing their idea of good health onto you.


8. Folic acid for those with meds, stents etc.


7. There’s one at NOWP by Steve


And my initial attitude is that, not knowing occident observer at all, this could be anything … it could be a Tory, Labour, Libdem, Green, Reform or Restore view. Its value comes down to your own tribal predilection of that fabulous beast “the Independent observer” (so many centrists fully believe they are truly “Independent”).

In some ways, this makes a clearly biased source, e.g. South Front as Russian govt friendly, far easier to assess. It’s the trumpeting “Independence” claimant who is the problem, as he/she often accompanies it with vehemence on this sacred cow or that.

To specifics and OO opens with this:


That’s NOT opaque to the ferreter … it’s all upfront … unlike Leah … but that still needs qualifying:


Mark Collett, as far as I can remember, is not down on Malsi as such but rather on specific ethnicities and nations, e.g. Sikap, Silamos et al. He was, I think, EDL, maybe BNP before that but don’t quote me on it, married, I think, to Laura Towler, Yorks lass (not her real surname so she said).

Which brings me to the need for that extra knowledge from long dealings with something. MC and crew seem down on TR, seeing him as Jewish lobby. Therefore no surprise to see this:


There’s obviously cross-Pond communication here. Now, before even reading the Reform/Restore piece, whilst I think we’ll get an anti Znist angle, does that actually mean proMalsi? We’d need to read it. Also, don’t forget the England v Britain debate either. Methinks we’ve got around that by running the four home country flags alongside the Union Flag … each with its adherents.

I would worry about anyone who saw a Welsh and a Union flag, in Wales, and was down on that. Yes, I was Witanagemot around 2006/7 but I do feel the five flag solution works.

All right, I’ve read it and it’s very nationalist or ethnat. My own alignment is a bit more centrist than Zoomer ethnat … the example I give is the Estonian coming here the right way, jumping through hoops fifty years ago, quite assimilated, working for Britain. My view is … well, he’s western or European … and there are two questions.

Firstly, is he British/English/whatever? Answer … no. Is he a bona fide citizen after this long, a thinking Brit? In short, does he belong here? I’d say why not? As long as he’s not a crim.

But of course, there are those who would vehemently disagree.

6. Justin

Mansion tax police ‘to target houses with scenic views, conservatories and big garages’ for new punitive levy
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16091039/Mansion-tax-police-target-houses-scenic-views.html

Yes, it’s the DM, so of course they’re obsessed with house prices and other middle class status indicators, but even so it would seem the politics of envy is rolling up its sleeves and donning latex gloves in search of more pennies and the enthusiastic applause of it’s phocine sycophants.

Bank Holiday Monday [1 to 5]

(0415) Not a bad sleep at this end. (0529)

 

5. DAD at 1478

a) Marseille: Fighting Crime With Couscous and Karaoke. Marseille’s Socialist mayor prioritises karaoke and festivals while crack consumption surges and residents fear open-air drug use near homes and businesses.

b) This is what the streets of Ceuta look like at night. Would you go out? Would you let your wife, your mother, your sister, or your daughter go out alone? Would you let your children go to school? Well, it’s been like this for 30 days, and the government is doing absolutely nothing.

c) Historic Australian victory: One Nation Party takes WA “safe” state seat from Labour with thumping win and 39% primary vote.

d) DAD’s pet hates.


4. Subrosa retweets someone called TobeHonest

Wonder what Professor Charles Kelly, Lady Thirlwall’s husband thinks about his wife being tasked with justifying witchcraft and ignoring things like antibiotic resistant pathogens found in Countess of Chester (pseudonomas) when it’s his specialism? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11060770/

No idea what that one’s about but you might have.

3. Some sort of op ed

John D wrote, at OoL: “Oi! As someone who is almost 89 and still driving, don’t write off everyone who has reached a certain birthday.”

That’s similar to item 17 yesterday about Boomers and the young bucks snapping at their heels. It also shows that it’s possible for an admin at a site to point out anomalies without “sky is falling” overreaction. Something either IS so or it’s an a-priori interpretation based on tribal loyalty … “tribe” here meaning on any grounds, e.g. sex.

Last evening, the Paul Temple I was listening to, trying to create some downtime to relax, had PT say to Steve (interesting feminist name) that women were extraordinary (or some such name), to which Steve took exception and Sir Graham walked in at that point, Steve tried to co-opt Sir G, to which he replied that he was not entering into this argument (between hubby and wife).

One can make the division about anything at all if wanting to prise a fissure into a chasm and certain groups with influence globally do just that. It’s possible to quote someone “we’re” quite against as “enemy”, should that person say something we agree with (the clock right twice a day argument) …for example:


Which brings in the issue of consistency as well as the nature of the division itself. It’s a minefield. And yet another aspect is allowing personal leanings to descend into emotion, esp. anger, when on an investigation depending on dispassionate heads to able to pick up on anomalies, esp. on one’s own side.

Which brings us to that point made by Fido on looking for “common ground”. Which in itself comes back to the ole “80-20” point … that at best, two people, two sides, are going to, at best, agree on 80% and the remaining 20% are ranked, prioritised, in order of decreasing compatibility … we’re speaking here of “deal-breaking” red lines.

The person sending me the Chere Denise series had reservations over some things CD was saying, putting it down to age again. At what point would it become a deal-breaker? Similarly or the opposite with Erika Frantzve Kirk … despite CO’s and TC’s interesting behaviour and strange (to us) positions … that does not, by definition, exonerate EFK herself on many points, inc. Romania, inc. all the anomalies, aling with Shapiro.

This was the case with Colin Ross’s taking down of the global “psychiatric community”. So what does Wiki do? Spends the first part taking down Colin Ross on his own general whackjobbery. Which still does not negate Sid Gottlieb, Jolyon West nor Ewen Cameron, Selwyn Leeks.

In fact, an “independent” (often self-styled) might look at all this and say “they’re both as bad as each other”. They might not be though. One might be far worse in terms of ongoing damage done, as distinct from mere eccentricity.

Think you get the overall idea of this post item.

2. Steve at 1478

  • US Signs Historic Venezuela Oil Deal Giving America Majority Control of 65 Billion Barrels
  • Democrats Advance Bill Recognizing Two Moose Limb Holidays and Authorizing Eid Lessons in Public Schools — No Matching Provision for Christmas, Easter or Good Friday
  • Moose Limb Migrants Threaten To Go on Strike in Venice After Local Mayor Blocks Construction of Large Mosk
  • Fauci Told Aide to Permanently Delete Emails About Gain-of-Function Research
  • Russia Prepares Massive Strikes On Ukrainian Power Grid, Calling It Retaliation For Kyiv’s Attacks On Civilian Targets
  • Summertime and Antifa was Uneasy
  • Much more.

1. Grand Canyon flooding

This is from CBS News, August 30:

Sunday [12 till close of play]

(1739) Evening all.

 

18. Trial by jury


17. Curious

It appears to be Take Umbrage Sunday today

… I put it down to this weather and situation affecting us. For example, in response to young bucks in Restore whining about anyone Boomer or Gen X:


16. Moo corner


15. It’s about the Met


14. Sticking to our guns


13. Saw it in passing


12. Statins and dementia

Sunday [11]

(1236) Afternoon all. (1543)

 

11. Pesky anomalies

Many times I’ve mentioned the Holcombe Syndrome, whereby, in the solving of mysteries, getting it right, even one overlooked scrap can skew the whole conclusion:

“Perry Mason (Purloined Parrot) put it to Sgt Holcombe on the stand … what do you do, Sergeant, when you find anomalous facts which more or less do not agree with the general thrust of evidence?

“You ignore em,” shot back Holcombe.

And obviously, Mason was going to retort … how many have you ignored in this current investigation, Sergeant?”

There’s another analogy, from Sherlock Holmes, I think describing Colonel Moran … as having had an honourable career up to a point but like a straight-trunked tree, started developing eccentricities like wayward branches at strange angles.

There are two people I immediately regard as unreliable … there are hundreds more but two today. One is Leah who has no surname, no backstory beyong DoD … she seems Democrat, and the vast majority of her commenters seem Bluesky types. It’s one thing calling Trump out and we’ve done that here, esp. on Pammy, but these commenters have total TDS before even seeing Leah’s presentation.

Not saying she’s wrong on this point or that, Leah, plus a couple of supposed patriots on X with US flags but an anti admin stance … it’s near impossible to know who owns them, what their bkgd is.

Another very iffy person is Konstantin Kissin. He’s positioned himself with three people, clearly Brit … but he’s not in the least … he’s Russian. Says he’s antiwoke and yet many of his positions over the journey have been questionable, plus being on MSM shows.

Then DAD had something up at NOWP:


The iffy bit is Sky … MSM. Glad Iceland said no but still … Sky?

Then Dolly Parton. I think Toodles was the first to question DPn’s bona fides and she sent receipts. Then she sent me that youtube I’ve linked to twice now in the last few days and it goes into Nashville and Greenville SC being the “Babylonian” hub now, no longer Hollywood/Laurel Canyon.

One thing it goes into is how military men or sons of become entertainers, which gives them reason to be in hotspots, places where things happen. Many readers here know of Bob Hope’s entertaining of the troops and one performer was Joey Heatherington, a teenager who was one of many along the way, a sort of Amanda Bynes, Hayden Panittiere, a Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus. Don’t forget Zappa.

Not only was that going on but Hope himself was linked to letter agencies. Monster according to the accounts of girls. Also Cheney, Kissinger, Rumsfeld, let alone country music stars I’ll not name at this point.

Did you know Bob Hope was British by the way? And then there’s James Blunt, Super-Soldier. Plus certain professed Christians doing weird things in Romania. And if we talk EK, then we also talk TC and CO.

The point of this post item is firstly … not to ignore pesky anomalies, explore them … secondly to not only do your homework but the crucial point is … where? Where are you looking? And thirdly, we are putting question marks next to names and saying why.