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Open thread 7/18/2026 — 10 Comments

  1. This is so Bitter Sweet. As we get older, losing our memories are among the greatest fears. In the end, that is all we have.

  2. Beautiful.
    I’ve heard so often that with dementia, many people retain the essence of who they are.

  3. Memory is a curous thing. When memory fails, it is recent memory that fails first (“where’d I put my coffee cup?”), long term fails later (“I love you so much!”). But dementia is perhaps sometimes as much a blessing as a curse, since one is usually unable to recognize one’s own somatic decline.

  4. Simplest things to prevent (or postpone) Alzheimer’s?

    Take daily vitamin D supplements (in fact, for four major diseases of aging — Instapundit did a link to a medical outline of benefits of Vit-D). 1-2,000 IUs, I believe.

    Second, get a vaccination for shingles. Backward looking studies don’t establish causation. But do suggest a relationship of some kind. Current (2020? 2021?) vax suggests over 40% reduction in odds of developing Alzheimer’s.

    THOUGHT OF THE DAY, Aristotle quote:
    https://x.com/Okiesmokee1994/status/2077795101862949322/photo/1?

    IOWs, Why do tyrants prefer aliens? Because citizens are enemies, but aliens present no opposition.

  5. UFO/NHI Disclosure—

    Currently, Disclosure looks like it is being done—drip by drip, and these drips of information are accelerating.

    Disclosure of one species of NHIs being present, here on Earth and in our skies, in our seas, in orbit around Earth and in our Solar system would be one thing, but what if it’s a lot more than just one species of NHIs, and what if they don’t agree with one another?

    Since WWII, over the last 80 years, at least, there have cumulatively been, oh, I don’t know, say, a million or so world-wide sightings, but it could be 10 million, or even more.

    And all sorts of different craft and objects have been sighted–different shapes, different sizes, different colors, different speeds, different maneuvers, different behaviors, many apparently solid objects, and some globes which look like plasma.

    (And while some say there have been no overt instances of hostility toward humans, what about the many reports of Abductions?

    Then, there is what happened between August and November of 1977 on the remote Brazilian island of Colares where, over the course of these months, UFOs reportedly chased and shot beams of some sort at the local residents–fishermen, causing reported burns, puncture wounds, temporary paralysis, symptoms resembling radiation sickness, and reportedly a couple of deaths.

    Things got so bad that the Brazilian Air Force was called in, and they conducted a ”thorough and documented investigation”—reportedly the most investigated UFO incident in history—they took thousands of witness testimonies, hundreds of photographs, footage from over 3,000 individuals, interviewed the local doctor who treated and documented many of these cases but, they ultimately reached no conclusions.)

    So, what if this variety means that we are not dealing with just one species of NHIs, but with the reported four, or ten or fifteen different species, or even more, and we are the equivalent of the Grand Central Station of our area of the Galaxy?

    Maybe these various different NHIs are members of the fabled “Galactic Federation,” and have all agreed on a common agenda.

    But, what if there is no such overarching organization and an agreed on common agenda, and each one of these species not only has it’s own characteristic craft, but also its own particular viewpoint, values, behaviors, agenda, it’s own particular objectives, and, perhaps, its own evaluation of us Humans, and how to deal with us, our planet, and the resources on Earth, and in our Solar System?

    Moreover, what if some species are the enemies of some other species, with competing viewpoints, ways of thinking, values, imperatives, behaviors, and agendas, and their conflict plays out here on Earth, in our Solar System, and among us Humans?

    Could we humans, perhaps, be the pieces in a cosmic game of Chess?

  6. RE: Colares–

    The Brazilian Air Force’s conclusion was apparently that there was “nothing unusual going on” and that–despite all of the physical evidence of their injuries and the reports by the local doctor who treated them–in reality, the uneducated fishermen were just confused and misidentify things i.e. the old “swamp gas,” and “misidentifying the moon and planets” routine.

  7. Conventional interventions and ID hacking by foreign powers, especially China, are what most of the President’s recent election integrity speech was about.

    What about remote vote stealing? Patrick Byrne says that Trump, while not going deeper (GOP stalwarts resist as does Intel Community) , gave a satisfying address, replete with docs supporting the electronic and digital theft claims.

    After the speech, co-author of the book “Stolen Elections,” Gary Berntsen — ex-CIA Ops officer after 23 years (including counter-intel in Afghanistan, see his earlier book “Jaw Breaker”) — in 30 minutes gives us the most concise overview of digital vote manipulation, HERE:

    “Former CIA Agent Just BLEW The Doors Off How U.S. Elections Are Stolen, This is INSANE…” Benny Johnson at YT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ1C8efXUE8
    When Berntsen says “engineer” he means “software engineer.”

  8. GOP midterm strategy: Make it a “hate election”

    Republicans admit the GOP’s midterm forecast is bleak. But they’re clinging to two hopes: voters’ fear and loathing of Democrats.

    • “It’s going to be a hate election,” a Republican tied to President Trump’s political operation told Axios. “Voters have to hate the Dems more than they hate us. And we have material to work with.”

    Not sure if it’s “hate” (???) – tho Democratic party is built on Hate and would collapse w/o it (IMHO) … and right now I ‘feel’ GOP will do OK in mids if Trump doesn’t blow it.

    • Trump’s prime-time speech Thursday night about China’s alleged influence campaign targeting U.S. voters six years ago did little to assuage those concerns.
    • “I have yet to understand how we win the midterms by talking about what happened in 2020,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) told Axios.

    “Beating a dead horse” comes to mind on that…

  9. @ Karmi – Axios is a left-wing Democrat media outlet. Their reports are just as slanted as the NYT and WaPo. Don’t believe everything you read.

    However, it increasingly looks like you have this correct: “Democratic party is built on Hate and would collapse w/o it (IMHO)”

    Socialism is the politics of envy, and the sin of covetousness is the root of a lot of evil.

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