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:
(0553) Morning all, though still dark out there. (0701)
10. Moo corner
9. Coming back to that strength training question
I it recommended for the ageing? In principle, yes … but ONLY in a certain context:
Am I saying don’t train? Train but ditch ego and fear, yet start lightly, incrementally increase, be ready to stop. Do less overall in a session than you were planning. Increase gradually next time. Try to be regular, yet ready to drop the riutine instantly. Mix in aerobic (walks for example).
8. Steve at 1482
7. Again from downunder
6. DAD at 1482
a) Spanish police fire tear gas at Ceuta protesters outside Congress. Riot units cleared the streets around parliament on Ceuta Day, five weeks after no such equipment was used as tens of thousands of illegals walked into the enclave.
b) Hundreds of thousands rallied across Spain on Ceuta Day demanding stronger border controls, expulsion of illegal migrants and Pedro Sánchez’s resignation, while solidarity protests also reached the European Parliament in Brussels.
c) Germany. Nine people were injured after a man poured an unknown liquid onto an AfD information stand in Bad Kreuznach on Wednesday, with two taken to hospital. The attack comes amid escalating efforts by mainstream politicians to ban parts of the party….
d) Winter Is coming– but Europe’s Energy Crisis may hit in the Autumn. For the EU to overcome the energy challenges ahead, it cannot afford to abandon pragmatic solutions for the sake of dogmatic and rigid expectations.
e) Funding audit … I have now expanded the audit across Muslim, Islam, Islamic, mosque, masjid, Pakistan, Pakistani, Urdu, Kashmir, Eid, Ramadan, Quran and madrasa related terminology. Here are the Lottery Grants…….
5. Social relations
Nothing new in this … it’s from Quora, which I see as a bit like the old Readers Digest … mainly populated by “normies” in a non-sardonic way, more like Everyman, Everywoman, Americocentric … how the “average” westerner is seeing things … often sleb-o-centric too, as in who was the rudest sleb. Middling.
Guy is Richard, a grandfather:
“I can only speak about what and how I see this. The reason is women. I have 4 grandsons 19–26 years old. They are all good young men. I asked why aren’t any of you dating. The oldest spoke up right away. He said women our age don’t want a man to share their lives. They only want a place holder until something else comes along. Sorry Grandpa but I just don’t see there ever being any of us getting into a long term relationship. That isn’t what girls our age want. These aren’t lazy bums one is a video game designer one a chef one a rancher and the youngest is a junior in college.”
Further caveat … who’s to say this is not AI, that it’s not one of those essay writers inventing a fictional grandfather to serve an end? The end being that this is what normies look for in a site like Quora. I’ve no snswer, it might be … yet it might be for real.
Jedediah Bila on youtube does similar … girls seeing the world as their oyster from birth now, parents being late Gen Z, early Millennial, Lord save them. Seeing no danger in them doing what they want, screwing whom they want, playing the same game they see boys as playing, no pushback whatever.
Hence the broken social contract, with the invaders, housed, fed and poised for the slaughter, whilst the real young men (unfeminised) are over dying in the Ukraine or in Iran.
(2344) The Late Late Post. Most unusual for me to awaken so soon after dropping off and I’ll go into a reflective item late in this post. Night night again, all. (0053)
4. Cunning plan is, ladies and gentlemen
… to keep posting until the ole bod tires again … head for bed. “Everywoman” Jen is at it again:
And to add the usual addenda:
So when we’re told we’re being too “puritanical”, too “religious” over certain principles, e.g. Britain for Brits, America for Americans, I tend to be blunt:
3. Maria Bartiromo
… by Breck Worsham (no Trump lover but otherwise patriotic):
2. Sama Hoole on Turmeric
Turmeric is sold as the anti-inflammatory spice, and the yellow in a lot of it is lead paint.
In the 1980s a flood in Bangladesh dulled the colour of the crop, and the processors who polish the roots found a fix: dust them with lead chromate, an industrial pigment made for colouring toys and furniture. The roots came up bright, the buyers paid for bright, and the practice never stopped.
A Stanford team went through the turmeric districts and found spice carrying lead at up to 500 times the legal limit. Then they matched the lead isotopes in the powder to the lead in people’s blood, which is as close to a confession as chemistry gets.
Lead has no safe dose. It settles in bone and in a child’s brain, and the powder that carries it is stirred into rice for toddlers and into golden milk for women with sore knees.
Then the supplement, which is worse.
Curcumin is about 3 per cent of turmeric by weight and the gut barely absorbs it, so the capsule makers add black pepper extract to force it through, and sell that as the innovation.
The American liver injury network has been logging the results. Ten cases of turmeric hepatitis in its registry, every one after 2011, patients hospitalised with jaundice a few months after starting the capsules, most of them carrying the same gene variant.
A spice people had cooked with for 3,000 years without a single liver case started putting them in hospital the year it became a pill.
And the chemistry never earned any of it. Curcumin is what chemists call a pan-assay interference compound, which means it lights up every test tube it is put in and does nothing in a person. It is the textbook example of the category. Thousands of papers, and the shelf built on them is 8 feet long.
The root was painted, the pill is a hepatotoxin for the wrong genotype, and the molecule was disqualified by the people who checked it.
A rib of beef contains no lead chromate and has never needed a clinical trial.
1. The Clancy Trial
This was on X:
After six days of deliberations, the Lindsay Clancy murder trial appears to have come down to one holdout juror and the dispute erupted into a heated courtroom confrontation Thursday.
The jury has already told the judge twice that it cannot reach a unanimous verdict in the deaths of Clancy’s three young children, Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, just 8 months old.
But Thursday brought a new problem.
The jury sent a note concerning one juror who, according to defense attorney Kevin Reddington, “refuses to listen to the law” the judge gave them on reasonable doubt.
Judge William Sullivan questioned the jurors individually and then repeated his reasonable-doubt instructions. Reddington angrily objected and asked Sullivan to remove the juror and replace that person with an alternate. The judge refused.
Clancy admits killing her children, but her defense argues she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and was not criminally responsible. Prosecutors contend she planned the killings and understood that what she was doing was wrong.
After more than 35 hours of deliberations, the jury still couldn’t reach a verdict Thursday and was sent home until Friday morning.
At this point, one juror could be standing between this case and either a unanimous verdict or a mistrial.
Seems a fair summary … everyone has a view and mine is firmly that she did the murders, no question, the only remaining issue is insanity or malice aforethought and on that … I’ll say no more because of possible subjudice.
(1545) Evening still a fair way off.
26. Leah
25. Oops
24. Lipid nanoparticles
23. More of the same there as here
22. Serco
21. Kobie downunder
… in Sydney to be precise, same message there as here:
Apparently, there were two competing films that year and this producer rushed his into a couple of weeks in order to head the other off at the summer fayre pass. Yet it stands up.
“Because production issues had delayed the release of George Pal‘s Destination Moon, Rocketship X-M was quickly shot in just 18 days on a $94,000 budget. It was then rushed into theaters 25 days before the Pal film, while taking full advantage of Destination Moon‘s high-profile national publicity.[3] “
(1231) Afternoon all … been a busy morn. (1320)
20. Ceuta
19. Moo corner
18. Was going to run this Saturday or even item 1 tomorrow
… but think it’s best now:
Maria Bowtell is a Restore councillor (formerly Reform) in Hull:
17. The McCarran-Walter Act
There was an X up with pics of jihadis, unflatteringly, and the blurb said America needed the McC-W Act back. Uh huh … I looked it up…
If you look closely at the wording and provisions, it in fact allows for restrictions on mass entry removed. Do you think that that’s what a) it says or b) can be interpreted as?
16. Many strange things happening right now
Just a quick one, not too hard …
(0941) Almost brunch time. (1000)
15. Errrr….
14. The Modern Politician
13. There are those who pledge
… then those who will try to deliver.
12. Russia is a bit both ways just now imho
11. Classic double-speak
