Tuesday, January 31, 2017

SUPREMELY BAD CHOICE

Today is Tuesday, January 31st and President Trump is expected to make an announcement regarding his choice for the vacancy on the Supreme Court at 8PM Eastern Time. I am very hopeful that his choice will be a jurist who understands and respects the United States Constitution. I am very hopeful that his choice will be politically conservative. I am even hopeful that his choice will be a young man or woman, so that they can serve for many years. One thing is certain. If the choice is good, the left in this country will go absolutely bonkers. They will claim what they always claim. This candidate is outside the 'mainstream.' Mainstream is apparently defined as leftist. The candidate is likely to be called a far-right winger or perhaps a member of the 'alt-right' (whatever the heck that is).  It is certainly likely that the candidate will be called anti-union, anti-black or anti-gay,  It usually does not matter what the facts are. It is important that the left paint the nominee as the worst person ever.  Another thing is certain. The louder the lefties scream about this candidate, the more likely I am to approve of the candidate. Tonight when this nominee is announced, I hope the left is enraged. If they are not enraged, I likely will be. 

If the nominee is a supremely bad choice from the perspective of the leftists, it will be true that Donald Trump will have saved the Supreme Court which was hanging together by a lone fraying thread prior to election day last November.


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Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
Essential Everyday - Butter Flavored Grits 400 84 4 8 1,360 4

400 84 4 8 1,360 4
L U N C H
Subway - Turkey Sub Sandwich 560 92 7 36 1,620 14
Sun Chips - Veggie Harvest - Tomato, Basil & Cheese 200 28 9 4 190 4

760 120 16 40 1,810 18
D I N N E R
Garden Salad 300 18 0 11 1,200 11
Pot Roast, Beef 500 0 32 50 79 0

800 18 32 61 1,279 11
S N A C K S
Lou Malnatis - Pepperoni Pizza, 1 slice 540 38 32 25 670 2

540 38 32 25 670 2
Totals 2,500 260 84 134 5,119 35
Your Daily Goal 1,991 249 66 100 2,300 74
Remaining -509 -11 -18 -34 -2,819 39
Calories
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Carbs
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Fat
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Protein
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Sodium
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Sugar
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Monday, January 30, 2017

AMERICA'S SECOND CIVIL WAR

One of my favorite radio personalities and authors, is Dennis Prager. Last week he published a column indicating that our country is in a (non-violent) civil war. This does certainly seem to be the case. I found the column to be grim and truthful. 




Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
Essential Everyday - Butter Flavored Grits 400 84 4 8 1,360 4

400 84 4 8 1,360 4
L U N C H
Omelette - 3-egg Omelette With Cheese, 3 eggs 425 0 21 28 650 2
Johnsonville 170 - Polish Kielbasa Sausage                     340 4 30 14 1,140 2

765 4 51 42 1,790 4
D I N N E R
Pot Roast, Beef 700 0 44 69 111 0

700 0 44 69 111 0
S N A C K S
Jack Link's - Original Beef Stick 330 6 24 15 1,230 3

330 6 24 15 1,230 3
   
Totals 2,195 94 123 134 4,491 11
Your Daily Goal 2,384 298 79 120 2,300 89
Remaining 189 204 -44 -14 -2,191 78
Calories
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Carbs
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Fat
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Protein
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Sodium
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Sugar
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Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular Minutes Calories Burned
36 517
Add Exercise
   
Daily Total / Goal 36 / 30 517 / 590  
Weekly Total / Goal 336 / 210 4,232 / 4,130             






America's Second Civil War

Dennis Prager
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Posted: Jan 24, 2017 12:01 AM

It is time for our society to acknowledge a sad truth: America is currently fighting its second Civil War.
In fact, with the obvious and enormous exception of attitudes toward slavery, Americans are more divided morally, ideologically and politically today than they were during the Civil War. For that reason, just as the Great War came to be known as World War I once there was World War II, the Civil War will become known as the First Civil War when more Americans come to regard the current battle as the Second Civil War.
This Second Civil War, fortunately, differs in another critically important way: It has thus far been largely nonviolent. But given increasing left-wing violence, such as riots, the taking over of college presidents’ offices and the illegal occupation of state capitols, nonviolence is not guaranteed to be a permanent characteristic of the Second Civil War.
There are those on both the left and right who call for American unity. But these calls are either naive or disingenuous. Unity was possible between the right and liberals, but not between the right and the left.
Liberalism — which was anti-left, pro-American and deeply committed to the Judeo-Christian foundations of America; and which regarded the melting pot as the American ideal, fought for free speech for its opponents, regarded Western civilization as the greatest moral and artistic human achievement and viewed the celebration of racial identity as racism — is now affirmed almost exclusively on the right and among a handful of people who don’t call themselves conservative.
The left, however, is opposed to every one of those core principles of liberalism.
Like the left in every other country, the left in America essentially sees America as a racist, xenophobic, colonialist, imperialist, warmongering, money-worshipping, moronically religious nation.
Just as in Western Europe, the left in America seeks to erase America’s Judeo-Christian foundations. The melting pot is regarded as nothing more than an anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic meme. The left suppresses free speech wherever possible for those who oppose it, labeling all non-left speech “hate speech.” To cite only one example, if you think Shakespeare is the greatest playwright or Bach is the greatest composer, you are a proponent of dead white European males and therefore racist.
Without any important value held in common, how can there be unity between left and non-left? Obviously, there cannot.
There will be unity only when the left vanquishes the right or the right vanquishes the left. Using the First Civil War analogy, American unity was achieved only after the South was vanquished and slavery was abolished.
How are those of us who oppose left-wing nihilism — there is no other word for an ideology that holds Western civilization and America’s core values in contempt — supposed to unite with “educators” who instruct elementary school teachers to cease calling their students “boys” and “girls” because that implies gender identity? With English departments that don’t require reading Shakespeare in order to receive a degree in English? With those who regard virtually every war America has fought as imperialist and immoral? With those who regard the free market as a form of oppression? With those who want the state to control as much of American life as possible? With those who repeatedly tell America and its black minority that the greatest problems afflicting black Americans are caused by white racism, “white privilege” and “systemic racism”? With those who think that the nuclear family ideal is inherently misogynistic and homophobic? With those who hold that Israel is the villain in the Middle East? With those who claim that the term “Islamic terrorist” is an expression of religious bigotry?
The third significant difference between the First and Second Civil Wars is that in the Second Civil war, one side has been doing nearly all the fighting. That is how it has been able to take over schools — from elementary schools, to high schools, to universities — and indoctrinate America’s young people; how it has taken over nearly all the news media; and how it has taken over entertainment media.
The conservative side has lost on every one of these fronts because it has rarely fought back with anything near the ferocity with which the left fights. Name a Republican politician who has run against the left as opposed to running solely against his or her Democratic opponent. And nearly all American conservatives, people who are proud of America and affirm its basic tenets, readily send their children to schools that indoctrinate their children against everything the parents hold precious. A mere handful protest when their child’s teacher ceases calling their son a boy or their daughter a girl, or makes “slave owner” the defining characteristic of the Founding Fathers.
With the defeat of the left in the last presidential election, the defeat of the left in two-thirds of the gubernatorial elections and the defeat of the left in a majority of House and Senate elections, this is likely the last chance liberals, conservatives and the right have to defeat the American left. But it will not happen until these groups understand that we are fighting for the survival of America no less than the Union troops were in the First Civil War.
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Sunday, January 29, 2017

CALEXIT

and in the latest news from the wackos that live in California...

California gives green light for secession signature drive



Los Angeles (AFP) - A campaign for California to secede from the rest of the country over Donald Trump's election is gaining momentum, with supporters allowed to start collecting signatures for the measure to be put to a vote. California's Secretary of State Alex Padilla gave the green light on Thursday for proponents of "California Nationhood" -- also known as Calexit -- to start collecting the nearly 600,000 signatures needed for the measure to qualify on the November 2018 ballot. The 585,407 signatures required by July 25 represent eight percent of registered voters in California -- the most populous state in the country with nearly 40 million residents and the world's sixth-largest economy. Should the initiative make it on the ballot, a "Yes" vote would repeal clauses in the California Constitution "stating California is an inseparable part of the United States and that the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land," a statement by Padilla's office said. Voters would then need to decide in another referendum in 2019 whether California should become a separate country. Padilla said the independence measure -- deemed highly unrealistic -- would have a deep impact on the state and would likely face legal challenges. "Assuming that California actually became an independent nation, the state and its local governments would experience major, but unknown, budgetary impacts," he warned. "This measure also would result in tens of millions of dollars of one-time state and local election costs." Calexit enthusiasts, whose campaign is called Yes California, are pushing for independence on grounds the state is out of step with the rest of the US and could flourish on its own. "In our view, the United States of America represents so many things that conflict with Californian values, and our continued statehood means California will continue subsidizing the other states to our own detriment, and to the detriment of our children," according to their website. The idea of independence became very appealing to many Californians following Trump's shock election. Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton easily beat Trump in the progressive state, winning by more than 4.2 million votes, almost double the number of ballots cast for Trump.

This has to be a first.  I am completely sympathetic to the crazies in California who wish to leave the United States of America. It is true, Californians do not share the values of most Americans. California is existed with one-party rule for many years.  There is not a single Republican serving any statewide office. Many wacky ideas are born in California. It is in California where medical marijuana, which could genuinely be useful to treat some real ailments, became a complete joke. I think it is from California where it first became a 'crime' for stores to use plastic bags for their customers. It was in California where a dishonest crooked politician without an original idea to govern overwhelmingly was supported by the electorate in the recent presidential election. You want to leave, California? Adios. I was originally thinking about the money the United States of America will save by not having to build the wall across the Mexican/California border, but we will probably have to build a different wall along the entire western border of the state as citizens of the Nation of California flee that failed state in the future.  The truth is, the whole idea is completely stupid - no wonder statehood is so popular in that state.
and speaking of stupid...
I was less stupid with my eating decisions on Saturday. 
I ate well. I took a 10.5 mile urban hike with my daughter.
It was a good day.


Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
Polish Kielbasa Sausage 170 2 15 7 570 1
Trader Joes - Hash Brown Patty 260 28 16 2 500 0
Omelette - 3-egg Omelette With Cheese 425 0 21 28 650 2

855 30 52 37 1,720 3
L U N C H
Post Grains Raisins Dates Pecans 600 117 11 11 385 37

600 117 11 11 385 37
D I N N E R
Pot Roast, Beef 400 0 25 40 63 0

400 0 25 40 63 0


     
Totals 1,855 147 88 88 2,168 40
Your Daily Goal 3,225 403 107 162 2,300 121
Remaining 1,370 256 19 74 132 81
Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
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Sodium
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Sugar
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*You've earned 1,295 extra calories from exercise today         

       Your Exercise Diary for:


Cardiovascular Minutes Calories Burned
10.5 Mile Urban Hike
174 1,638

   
Daily Total / Goal 174 / 30 1,638 / 590  
Weekly Total / Goal 301 / 210 3,716 / 4,130






Saturday, January 28, 2017

I SHOULD HAVE FOLLOWED THE LEAD PRESIDENT TRUMP

President Trump spent his first week in office beginning to make good on some of his campaign promises. I should have followed his lead. I wasted the week and did not effectively eat better and I did not lose any weight. There is a part of me that wonders why it is so difficult for me to get back on track. Why can't I harness the willpower that I so effectively used two years ago? My weight this morning, Saturday was 244.5 lbs. I am pretty disgusted with myself. President Trump did not waste his first week in the White House. I should have followed the his lead. I must now remind myself that anyone can change the direction of their life starting today.  One only needs to start.



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Your Food Diary For:

BREAKFAST Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
Omelette - 3-egg Omelette With Cheese 425 0 21 28 650 2
Johnsonville 170 - Polish Kielbasa Sausage 170 2 15 7 570 1

595 2 36 35 1,220 3
L U N C H
Lunchables Turkey and Cheddar 260 22 13 12 670 5
Nature Valley Oats 'n Honey 190 29 7 3 180 11

450 51 20 15 850 16
D I N N E R
Lou Malnati's - Deep Dish Pizza Chicago 730 50 44 35 900 2

730 50 44 35 900 2
S N A C K S
Met-Rx - Big 100 Super Cookie Crunch 410 41 14 32 410 26

410 41 14 32 410 26
Totals 2,185 144 114 117 3,380 47
Your Daily Goal 2,863 358 95 144 2,300 107
Remaining 678 214 -19 27 -1,080 60
Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
*You've earned 933 extra calories from exercise today         


Your Exercise Diary for:

Cardiovascular Minutes Calories Burned
4.75 Mile Urban Hike
65 898

   
Daily Total / Goal 65 / 30 898 / 590  
Weekly Total / Goal 127 / 210 2,077 / 4,130






Friday, January 27, 2017

FAKE NEWS

There has been a lot of talk in the media recently about fake news.



Apparently fake news is what propelled Donald Trump to the Presidency. Can there be a more humorous theory? Fake news is not new. Fake News is mostly what is reported by the mainstream media each and every day. This is why people are increasingly turning away from newspapers and broadcast television. The clout of these fake news operations is diminishing. We all know that Hillary Clinton was promoted by the media. Let me give an example from 2008 which will show what an absolutely phone, fake liar Hillary Clinton is and was and how this was underreported. It was fake news to report this as fact and and continued to be fake news to NOT report the lie. Can you imagine if a liar, so confused by reality, that she could not remember if she landed in a foreign country under active sniper fire? Perhaps she was thinking about a trip when she landed in Chicago.  


"I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."




This quote from Hillary Clinton refers to her landing in Bosnia in 1996. This was a complete lie. This was a complete fabrication. It was similar to the paragon of virtue, Brian Williams, the disgraced NBC-TV news anchor who spoke of being in New Orleans French Quarter during Hurricane Katrina and watching a dead body float past him by his hotel. Only problem with this fake news, is that there was no flooding anywhere near his hotel. Brian Williams did lose his job as anchor of NBC - but he is still employed by MSNBC and continues to report fake new for the dozens of morons who still get their news from that outlet. 



FAKE NEWS DID NOT INSTALL DONALD TRUMP INTO THE WHITE HOUSE.
DONALD TRUMP IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE DESPITE FAKE NEWS. 


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Your Food Diary For:


BREAKFAST Calories
kcal
Carbs
g
Fat
g
Protein
g
Sodium
mg
Sugar
g
Omelette - 3-egg Omelette With Cheese, 3 eggs 425 0 21 28 650 2
Kirkland - Pre-Cooked Bacon, 4 slices 160 0 12 12 700 0

585 0 33 40 1,350 2
L U N C H
Pork Chops In Onion Gravy 420 12 20 44 1,056 0
General Tsos Chicken 210 20 12 4 500 5
Cauliflower Grits 150 6 12 10 0 2

780 38 44 58 1,556 7
D I N N E R
Lou Malnati's Deep Dish Pizza Chicago Classic, 2 slice 1,460 100 88 70 1,800 4

1,460 100 88 70 1,800 4


     
Totals 2,825 138 165 168 4,706 13
Your Daily Goal 2,686 336 89 135 2,300 100
Remaining -139 198 -76 -33 -2,406 87
Calories
kcal
Carbs
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Fat
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Protein
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Sodium
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Sugar
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