Elon Musk has reason to worry about the judge set to rule on Twitter lawsuit
Musk draws judge who refused to let reluctant buyer out of a merger deal in 2021.

most men looked first at the woman’s face

Indeed – and beauty is all about symmetry of the face, apparently.

Yes Rabz apparently there’s a science to it — not THE science but a science

Found this tidbit about Shania Twain.

flyingduksays:
July 17, 2022 at 7:22 pm
Whole blood exchange could offer disease-modifying therapy for Alzheimer’s disease, study finds

Old news, babies blood if I recall

But question remain. The study I had in mind wasn’t about whole blood replacement it was about stripping amyloid from the blood and had a similar result. Whole blood replacement may not even be necessary and is unrealistic. That’s the problem with this recent research because they should have advanced the research. For myself that is very important because given the presence of various peripheral immune cells in the CNS I wanted to know how important that and if the removal of amyloid from the blood is significant in that regard because phagocytosis(consuming) of amyloid by microglia at least and probably other immune cells shifts the mode towards a more inflammatory type(ie. M1-M2 balance)

Of course the other issue is that controversy regarding amyloid as the primary driver when Tau often appears to be the critical issue.

Of course the other issue is that controversy regarding amyloid as the primary driver …

So Dr Mengles, do they drug test you before work every day or can you just run experiments after a breakfast bong if you feel like it?

‘A national scandal’ | Paul Embery on inquiry finding more than 1,000 children groomed in Telford

Labor MPs under face forced resignationtransitioning to meet gender quota
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you know it makes sense

Top Endersays:
July 17, 2022 at 7:00 pm
A list of the top 100 most beautiful women of all time can be found here. The top 10 are:

1 Audrey Hepburn
2 Grace Kelly
3 Cindy Crawford
4 Sophia Loren
5 Marilyn Monroe
6 Angelina Jolie
7 Catherine Zeta Jones
8 Diana, Princess of Wales
9 Halle Berry
10 Scarlett Johansson

What about Brigitte Bardot?

These girls aren’t very bright.

A direct quote:

Abortions don’t, like, kill people.

Nine out of 10 of the most beautiful women in the world are white. RACISTS!

MatrixTransformsays:
July 17, 2022 at 8:50 pm
Of course the other issue is that controversy regarding amyloid as the primary driver …

So Dr Mengles, do they drug test you before work every day or can you just run experiments after a breakfast bong if you feel like it?

The difference between you and me is you’ve followed the crowd and believe what you have been told. My condolences on your inability to think for yourself.

Well, regarding the primary driver of neurodegeneration being protein aggregation you might consider …

Mol. Pharm., ASAP Article 10.1021/mp060066m S1543-8384(06)00066-9
Web Release Date: August 9, 2006
Copyright © 2006 American Chemical Society
A Molecular Link between the Active Component of Marijuana and Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology
Lisa M. Eubanks, Claude J. Rogers, Albert E. Beuscher IV, George F. Koob, Arthur J. Olson, Tobin J. Dickerson, and Kim D. Janda*
Departments of Chemistry, Immunology, and Molecular Biology, Molecular and Integrated Neurosciences Department, The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, and Worm Institute for Research and Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, California 92037
Received June 11, 2006
Abstract:
Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia among the elderly, and with the ever-increasing size of this population, cases of Alzheimer’s disease are expected to triple over the next 50 years. Consequently, the development of treatments that slow or halt the disease progression have become imperative to both improve the quality of life for patients and reduce the health care costs attributable to Alzheimer’s disease. Here, we demonstrate that the active component of marijuana, 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), competitively inhibits the enzyme acetylcholinesterase (AChE) as well as prevents AChE-induced amyloid -peptide (A) aggregation, the key pathological marker of Alzheimer’s disease. Computational modeling of the THC-AChE interaction revealed that THC binds in the peripheral anionic site of AChE, the critical region involved in amyloidgenesis. Compared to currently approved drugs prescribed for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, THC is a considerably superior inhibitor of A aggregation, and this study provides a previously unrecognized molecular mechanism through which cannabinoid molecules may directly impact the progression of this debilitating disease.

There are many studies pointing to benefits.

The Memory Benefit to Aged APP/PS1 Mice from Long-Term Intranasal Treatment of Low-Dose THC
Keywords: Cannabinoids; Alzheimer’s disease; acetylcholinesterase

Destabilization of the Alzheimer’s amyloid-? protofibrils by THC: A molecular dynamics simulation study

The destabilization of the protofibrils by the THC molecules leads to the conclusion that THC molecules may be considered for the therapy in treating Alzheimer’s disease.

What about Brigitte Bardot?

I remember well in the late 50’s the Savoy theatre in Sydney would bring back each year “And God Created Woman (1956 film)”.
And packed them in it did, ever year.

Gina Lollobrigida – Mambo Italiano

Gez at 12.10, and apropos of the Ukraine:

Never before have we seen less or known less about the hot zones. Opinion and posture from safe areas have replaced the head down war correspondent.

Headed up by Gonzo, live from Madrid. Or Toronto.

I was just 15yr or age when I attended my first camp at Bolton Point which was a Christian camp of youth from the Churches of Christ NSW. This song
‘Mambo Italiano’ was all the rage and in 1955 I remember how we all sang this song and danced in the mud, almost knee height that Easter, singing it.

OOps – Uptown Downstairs Abbey Part Two | Red Nose Day – BBC – 8 min 31 secs

Gene Kelly was an excellent dancer and charismatic personality. He doesn’t hold a candle to Fred Astaire.

hen
I saw ‘Brigadoon’ several times in the 1950’s hence my declaration of Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse as the most excellent of my lifetime.

Ginger Rogers did everything Fred did, backwards (I know, old joke).

For a bit of light humuor and pisstake as only the POMs can do

Edina made me laugh. Prefer to the original. If I can work the link.

Was in a Westfield shopping centre today.

Despite the Premiers advice no staff wearing masks and no more than 10% of shoppers wearing them.

Courier Mail article about mask wearing and comments modtly against them. People have switched off listening to the medical experts as the rules of the game have changed too many times and they have lost credibility.

Grace Jones not in the top 100 ?

Indolentsays:
July 17, 2022 at 10:56 pm
The infantilization of America is going full tilt now

she got one thing wrong..

Goudsmit describes the ways Americans have been infantilized since the ’60s.

It began way before that- Richard Weaver spoke of a similar malaise immediately post WWII.

I’m surprised Lizzo didn’t make the list.

Advertising anecdote.
I stepped out of the graphic design world, but a good friend stayed on, basically computer formatting and website design. But, she was asymmetrically gorgeous and drank beer freely with a chat-to-anyone heart which endeared her to the whole building, so she soon got to tag along to pitches, meeting new clients, basically learned to talk the talk that goes with sales and marketing, ie marketing the firm which then did the worky stuff to market other people’s firms. Perth was a small pond then, old timers can probably guess which of the three or four firms it was.
Anyhoo, along came a client who the management thought was a bit infra dig- warehouse haberdashery or something. Not the lotteries commission/sports stuff where the awards were harvested, b ut bread and butter money for the firm, print, catalogues, tv, radio, website. Hotcakes was sent in to meet and greet the daggy dude, boss said “I’ll sit in, don’t put your foot in it, but the floor is yours, show me that you can do what a rolled gold creative genius and slick pitcher like I can do”.
And do her stuff she did, over a few meetings through the week. Left out the certified heritage of the design firm, talked delivery to the haberdasher, got straight to the nuts and bolts, volumes and timelines.
But, brilliantly, left out the design wank poseury.
You want Dockers colour scheme? Sure why the hell not, purple and green would be slow death to a fishmonger, but why the hell not, the field is wide open.
Reckon your toothy kids can talk to camera for the TV slots? Of course they can. Saves big bucks on voice actors or eye candy, plus your target shoppers- wimmin- inherently trust kids.
Your multisyllable family name in lights? Of course. It’s unique. Memorable. Plus it’ll stick it up your father-in-law.
Righto, well, I’m the sole screen operator, so I’ll mock it all up, and send through some layouts first thing tomorrow.
The boss was appalled, and stunned at the same time, but she’d signed up an ambitious startup flanellette czar, for life, across multiple platforms, and no-one at the awards nights ever needed to know about it.
She told the top floor martini lounge to put the champagne buckets away, signed the contracts and went down the road on friday night, her and the fam clinked glasses over carbonara. Turned up Monday and asked the boss if it was too presumptive to pencil them in for the stocktake sale cycle.

Biden’s economy is in peril, don’t worry – we’ve got tips – in hilarious hashtag format

Brisbane’s Cameron Smith (-20) has won the British Open with an astonishing final-round 64.

Mark Knight.

Warren Brown.

David Rowe.

Peter Brookes.

A.F. Branco.

Lisa Benson.

Dilbert

Much of the media these days are so complicit in the leftist worldview that they just lie about things we know are the opposite of what they are saying.
The Beeb’s John Simpson has a show called Unspun World, whose title is meant to assure the audience that he’s an honest broker, a truth teller.
This week, in his final show before a WEB, he said that some in the UK advocate for a written constitution. Maybe they do, but wait for this:
“The USA has a written constitution, but Trump very nearly subverted it.”
As most of us would be only too aware, the rabid left Democrats have been trying to trash the constitution in so many ways that one is in danger of losing count. But very few MSM people are going to tell you the truth about that, or the 2020 election.
And if you’re waiting to see the GOP landslide in November, don’t get your hopes up too far too soon. Universal mail-in ballots will once again be called for, with no proof of identity. Why? Because covid is still on the march and the same old same old mandates will be started up again.

It’s not because they’re lesbians. It’s not because because they’re squealy heavily-subsidised pretend-sport attention seekers.

This offensive pair of nobodies should be publicly drowned in a swimming pool full of derro vomit because they’re approaching the business of having a child as one would pick out curtains. The Hun:

AFLW superstar Erin Phillips has spoken of the IVF and donor selection process she and her wife Tracy Gahan went through to have their three children.

1. There are no AFLW superstars, unless you count incompetence and entitlement as categories of achievement; and
2. See No. 1. This is what Phillips said on a podcast:

“It is a massive decision. It is so detailed. It is like car shopping online, but on steroids, because literally you can pick hair colour, eye colour, height (and) weight,” she told the podcast.

Like. Car. Shopping. Online. She. Said.

“They supply a baby photo and an adult photo. The donors have options whether they want to supply these photos. You can hear them talk in interviews.”

Working on voice. Brilliant. ‘Ooooh, this one, he sounds like Denis Walter’. Hopefully the sperm companies got the donors to recite ‘Mummy Erin, you have to get rid of some of your cats’ to replicate what the child will actually be saying in 30 years.

“Then we opted to look at the photos just to get a feel of who we might naturally gravitate towards and then you have to go on a waiting list”

Who you might gravitate towards? You’re talking about a child – your potential child, you shallow, vacuous bitches.

“If you are taller it is more expensive, it is like the pedigree. If you have got a very good education, if you are tall, you might be worth more.”

Fuckin’ WHAT? Worth more? The only upside to this is that David Warner will know he’s worth about a buck fifty.

Accessorising children, you monstrous harpies. Fuck off.

Zipster:

they left out whole of government approach. what utter bs
how about enforcing the law

Wadeye is a good example of the bureaucracy failing and then refusing to admit their mistake.
They were told it would never work when they mixed 21 different clans into the one township, and when the inevitable happened, they just doubled down.
How many generations have grown up in a violent town just so the bureaucrats didn’t lose face?

Brisbane’s Cameron Smith (-20) has won the British Open with an astonishing final-round 64.

Played the last eighteen as well as Norman played it badly in 96.
Stuck in my mind like an ABBA song.

How appropriate that an Australian (from QLD) wins The Open just days after Greg Norman was shunned from competing in the traditional 4 hole exhibition game played by former winners because of his involvement in LIV golf.

Haha, he’s a total Aussie.

Victorious Aussie Smith declared: “It’s just unreal. This place is so cool. To have the 150th Open here and walk away with the win is just something that I’ve dreamt of. I didn’t even know I was going to get this far and it’s just awesome. It’s unreal to look at these names on this trophy and to add mine. I’m lost for words. I’m definitely going to find out how many beers fit in this thing that’s for sure!”

I may have unwittingly lied earlier when I said I could run. Slow hobble describes it more closely. But the heck, lefties lie all the time and at least I could run once very well.

Most of your cost was capitalised, which most most people can’t afford to do.

That’s exactly how I viewed battery installation.

They are not worth putting in unless you’re using someone else’s money – they cannot pay for themselves in energy savings.

That is, unless the cost of electricity triples. Which it may well do given the dumb now steering us.

Zipster:

‘A national scandal’ | Paul Embery on inquiry finding more than 1,000 children groomed in Telford

This “National Scandal” has been going on for nearly 40 years.
It will only be dealt with when people turn up at Parliament and police stations with violent intent.

We cannot yet declare exactly who the burden of rooftop solar and battery care is falling to – more research is needed on this.

But our recent study

Yes. Right. A study.

A snapshot of home – the Beloved organised and vetted all installers, plus did all the research. He checks the system for problems.

Maintenance (ie. cleaning) is done by other Y chromosome types.

Perhaps it’s different on ConversationMars.

China’s debt trap: Bankrupt Sri Lanka falls into crisis and 9 nations are on the brink of bankruptcy
China Insights

After emerging from a civil war in 2009, Sri Lanka, a Southeast Asian country, grew to become a middle- to a high-income country in less than a decade. But all this changed when Sri Lanka joined the “One Belt, One Road” project initiated by Beijing. On July 5th, 2022, the Sri Lankan government declared state bankruptcy, followed by massive public protests and a direct storming of the presidential palace. On the 14th, after fleeing to Singapore, the President emailed his resignation letter to the Speaker of Parliament.
Have decision-makers in Sri Lanka ever done a risk assessment of the projects in question? Sri Lankan leaders aren’t “too simple and sometimes naïve” people, in the words of former CCP leader Jiang Zemin. But it isn’t hard for the CCP to handle them. In fact, the CCP has rich theoretical guidance and practical experience in this regard.

Winston

They were told it would never work when they mixed 21 different clans into the one township, and when the inevitable happened, they just doubled down.

Places like Wadeye make the whole “on country” meme obvious as the farce it is. If they were going to live “on country”, they would return to the “country” of their tribe or clan.

What they really want at places like Wadeye is continued access to all the white man’s “stuff”.

I doubt that many would be able to locate their group’s “country”. The phrase is simply something that they have learned can be relied on to turn soft-headed white leftists even softer in the head. Even if they could find it, their ability to live there in the old way is long since lost.

Western authorities have determined that Tik Tok is a giant data gathering venture, with the ability to scan users’ hard drives and send the data to China.

Unlike everything else on your phone, amirite?

Just popped over to DashCat where Cardimona has posted his daughter’s latest column.

It’s about Foot and Mouth and the government’s shambolic response to the danger compared to the Covid brutality (which this bunch were silently egging on).

Worth a look.

From the link at rosie’s link at 0827

“Solar plus battery-and-grid connection is now a seriously attractive proposition for most customers,” Mr Mountain said.

Go off-grid while staying linked to the grid. Brave, even courageous.

No mention of the capital costs, but unlikely to be possible until well above the median income.

Was in a QBD book shop yesterday and after not seeing them on the shelf asked about :

Laptop from Hell by Miranda Divine
Fauci by Kennedy Jr
Rigged by Mollie Hemingway

Only had Laptop which was actually on the shelf but hard to notice as a slim paperback placed side on.

The most prominently displayed book in politics section was the autobiography of former FBI boss Comey. That however was not on my list to buy.

Article from Daily Mail. Well done Texas and Arizona. Let DC experience what Biden is doing to the rest of the country.

‘”D.C.’s homeless shelters are filling up because Texas and Arizona’s governors are sending busloads of migrants from to the nation’s capital, Mayor Muriel Bowser claimed Sunday morning”.

Roger,
The Oz article article also had head of AMA mentioning Governments might have to prepare for possible loss of freedoms.

Comments again not reacting well to Crabb and AMA guy’s thoughts.