DEMOCRATIC DEBATE

Wow... what a debate on Tuesday night.
I am a Conservative Republican therefore I thoroughly enjoyed watching the Democratic Mental Midgets yelling at each other and accusing each of other of various wild crimes and indiscretions.
If you are a Democrat - my guess is that the debate may not have been very enjoyable.


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DEMOCRATIC DEBATE WEDNESDAY LAS VEGAS - WHO IS FRONTRUNNER NOW?

I am 'publishing' this page before I sit down to watch the debate...
I cannot fathom that Bloomberg will increase his poll numbers.
The guy may be a billionaire - but it does not make him a genius.
I know that this an unpopular opinion.
The guy has zero charisma.
Charisma is important.
Bernie may be nuts, but at least he is interesting.
Bloomberg is also nuts, and he is not interesting....
Ok, that's enough for now...



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STAR TREK PICARD

No time to write much tonight... gotta get up early tomorrow to watch Season 1 Episode 4 of Star Trek Picard which should be available the moment I wake up tomorrow!

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STAR TREK DISCOVERY

For much of 2016 and virtually all of 2017 I was casually looking forward to watching the newly announced Star Trek series being produced by CBS. The series premiere aired on CBS last September. It was OK, but it was not enough to inspire me to sign up for cbs all-access to watch additional episodes.  I am currently enjoying a five week free trial of cbs all-access and I caught up on the series and have been watching it week by week for the past three weeks. The series is beginning to grow on me. It uses a much more modern storytelling technique than the original Star Trek from the 1960's, Star Trek Next Generation or Star Trek Voyager.  Star Trek Discovery has a 15 episode story that it has been unfolding and it is compelling. As different as this Star Trek is form its earlier incarnations, it is still Star Trek.

Your Food Diary For:

Saturday, January 27, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Apples and Cinnamon	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
Met Rx Chocolate Cookie Dough	400	58	6	31	167	28
	1,180	220	15	49	1,187	100
L U N C H
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich	700	55	31	17	286	31
Libby's - Sweet Peas	245	42	2	14	1,050	21
	945	97	33	31	1,336	52
D I N N E R
Panda Express Brown Steamed Rice	440	75	11	10	420	2
Panda Express Honey Walnut Shrimp	400	30	26	16	520	10
Panda Express  Broccoli Beef	300	26	14	18	1,040	14
	1,140	131	51	44	1,980	26
Totals	3,265	448	99	124	4,503	178
Your Daily Goal	2,038	255	68	102	2,300	76
Remaining	-1,227	-193	-31	-22	-2,203	-102
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 108 extra calories from exercise today

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STAR TREK BOLDLY GOES INTO THE CLASSROOM

I was not the best student in grammar school, although I skated through with a some timely help from my parents as well as on the strength of my innate intelligence. This plan kept me going into high school, although it sputtered  quite a bit once I hit biology, chemistry, physics and calculus.  My college career was not an overwhelming success as I had not developed the proper study habits required.  Obviously, I was taking the wrong courses.  I am sure I could have easily 'aced' a class on Star Trek, like the one currently offered at UC Davis in California. Now that's something I could have easily sank my teeth into.
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from theaggie.org (The California Aggie)
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Star Trek as a Social Theory: To Boldly Go Into the Classroom

DAVID MADEY — SCIENCE@THEAGGIE.ORG

January 25, 201818

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  UC Davis students learn how fictional universe mirrors our own

For over 50 years, the science fiction franchise “Star Trek” has captivated millions of fans worldwide. And at UC Davis, you don’t have to travel across the universe to take a ride aboard the USS Enterprise. There’s a class for that.

Anthropology professor James Smith, a “Star Trek” fan himself, is the Captain of the ANT 191: Topics in Anthropology starship crew. The course title is “Star Trek as a Social Theory.”

“This course uses ‘Star Trek’ as a vehicle for understanding critical themes in social theory and anthropology, while also teaching students how to think about ‘popular culture,’ television, and daily life anthropologically,” Smith said.

Each week, students watch a single, 42-minute “Star Trek” episode in addition to assigned readings and in-class discussions analyzing social and anthropological theory. The series acts as a cultural map, mirroring the social constructions of one universe and comparing it to our own.    

“It reflects the optimism of the Kennedy era in the U.S., and also presents an opportunity for us to question some of the assumptions informing that optimism,” Smith said.

Students examine questions like: Should there be a universal standard for making ethical decisions? Does technology make us “more human” or does it enslave us? 

“I want students to think seriously and critically about what these imaginings of future entail so they can learn to understand some of the cultural assumptions that are packed into them,” Smith said.

Currently, the class is watching episodes from “Star Trek: The Original Series” and “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” but Smith says he may explore more of the franchise in the future.  

On Dec. 4, the UC Davis Human Rights Lecture Series explored how “Star Trek” can be used as a tool for students to examine human rights-related topics. And now, for the first time at UC Davis, “Star Trek” has become the framework for an academic course.

Human Rights Studies Director Keith David Watenpaugh and Chancellor Gary May co-hosted the event at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. The title of the series was “Star Trek/Human Rights: To Boldly Go to Human Rights for All.”

“Certainly in the 50 years since ‘Star Trek’ appeared, talking about, contesting, fighting, and dying for human rights has been a definitive element to being human,” Watenpaugh said.

The “Star Trek” franchise inspired May to pursue the sciences at a young age. With a background in electrical engineering and computer science, May did just that.  

“I’m thrilled to hear about the new ‘Star Trek’ class and I hope to visit it, along with another class called the Science of Superheroes,” May said. “As many people know, I’m a ‘Star Trek’ fan — the original series — and one of the reasons I like it so much is because it deals with broader issues of the human condition: rights, race and ethics.”

As such, May jump-started a 10-year campus-wide initiative entitled, “To Boldly Go.”  The plan seeks to increase UC Davis’ national ranking by strengthening the university’s research expertise and growing a diverse community that represents the demographics of California. A final plan is scheduled to completed this July.  

May is also an aficionado of other superhero franchises like the “Avengers,” “X-Men” and “Justice League” because of their pursuits for good.  

“I want students to feel empowered to be like superheroes — agents of their own success, their careers and their destinies — to do some good in the world,” May said.  

The class will also explore the more specific themes of “Star Trek” such as politics, freedom, translation, empire, capitalism and more. 

“The numerous episodes that responded to human right issues in the 1960s still resonate with us today, and also give us a sense of how people in that era were thinking about rights and also the timeless nature of human rights questions,” Watenpaugh said.

The end of the course entails a creative writing assignment in which students imagine that they are a part of a Klingon or Vulcan High Council. As a member of the council, the students must go revisit the year 2018 and write an ethnographic report on some aspect of the community from the lens of either a Klingon or Vulcan standpoint. The assignment gears students to explore the issues inherently constructed in our society.

“In the Star Trek world, this utopian future emerges after apocalyptic events in our current near future, so there is a message about the end of the world not in fact being the actual end, but rather the beginning of something else,” Smith said.

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Your Food Diary For:

Friday, January 26, 2018

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Instant oatmeal - Apples and Cinnamon	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
L U N C H
Subway - Seafood Sensation	820	100	38	26	1,480	16
Chips - Chips	375	38	23	5	425	3
	1,195	138	61	31	1,905	19
D I N N E R
California Sushi Sampler	600	92	18	12	1,800	16
	600	92	18	12	1,800	16
S N A C K S
Klondike - Klondike Bar, 1 bar	250	29	14	3	70	23
	250	29	14	3	70	23
Totals	2,825	421	102	64	4,795	130
Your Daily Goal	1,972	246	65	99	2,300	74
Remaining	-853	-175	-37	35	-2,495	-56
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 42 extra calories from exercise today

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Saturday Weight 251.3 lbs

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THAT'S A SHAME

Esteemed journalist extraordinaire, Charlie Rose joins the list of upstanding, dignified, misunderstood powerful men who have recently admitted making some missteps. (Actually misstep was the term used by John Lasseter of Disney Pixar for his newly revealed indiscretions) Lefty Liberal Icon, Charlie Rose has been fired from PBS, CBS and Bloomberg. With the same customary enthusiasm uttered by Jerry Seinfeld on his popular TV show, I say the same thing: That's a shame.

Your Food Diary For:

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Grits	400	88	6	8	1,240	4
	400	88	6	8	1,240	4
L U N C H
Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich, 2	700	55	31	17	286	31
	700	55	31	17	286	31
D I N N E R
Rice A Roni - Mexican Style Rice	250	41	8	6	720	3
Homemade - Ground Beef Tacos	700	36	40	27	1,229	3
	950	77	48	33	1,949	6
S N A C K S
Klondike - Klondike Bar, 2 bar	500	58	28	6	140	46
	500	58	28	6	140	46
Totals	2,550	278	113	64	3,615	87
Your Daily Goal	3,748	468	125	188	2,300	140
Remaining	1,198	190	12	124	-1,315	53
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 1,818 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 213.8 lbs in 5 weeks.

CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS

Well I bet Stephen Colbert learned his lesson on Tuesday night. Don't make a political joke about something before the Democrat lemmings have been properly brainwashed and told how to think and how to 'properly' react to a news bulletin. FBI Director Comey was a universally unpopular government servant. He was distrusted by conservatives and lefties alike. Colbert's show, which airs at 11:30PM Eastern Time is taped in the late afternoon. On Tuesday afternoon, during the taping in front of a live studio audience when Colbert announced the late-breaking news that Comey had been fired, less than 10 minutes ago, the pre-brainwashed Americans in the audience cheered, just like normal Americans. You know why? An incompetent public servant was properly fired. Those people in the audience didn't know that the storyline being crafted the Democratic leadership and media, that was that a Constitutional crisis of epic proportions was underway. One needed about 24 hours of wall-to-wall news coverage from the lefty loons on TV, radio and print media to create that story. Well-done moron media, another fake news story. How can a Constitutional crisis exist when the President acts within the powers granted by the Constitution? From the perspective of the lefty lunatics who still can't accept President Donald Trump, there is a constitutional crisis - it was the  election that they lost in November. The election was run in accordance with the United States Constitution. Hillary Clinton lost the election. Apparently that is the crisis. 

from the Washington Times

Colbert's Audience Cheers Comey Firing, Changes Tune After Host's Correction

Published May 10, 2017

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By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Comedian Stephen Colbert had an awkward moment Tuesday night when his audience cheered the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey.

President Trump stunned the political world this week by dismissing Mr. Comey and citing a Department of Justice recommendation that he was unable “to effectively lead the bureau.” The CBS “Late Show” audience — no doubt familiar with Mr. Comey’s handling the agency’s investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s secret email server — cheered, but then quickly changed their tune with a scolding by Mr Colbert.

“Oh. Wow. Huge, huge Donald Trump fans here tonight!” Mr. Colbert said. “That shows no gratitude at all. I mean, did Trump forget about the Hillary emails that Comey talked about? I mean, ‘Thanks for the presidency, Jimmy. Now don’t let the door hit you where the electoral college split ya.’”

The audience picked up on the comedian’s desired response and then booed at the first opportunity.

“I’m shocked. My heart is thumping. My pulse is racing,” Mr. Colbert said. “He fired the FBI director, who has said under oath that he’s investigating the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia. No rationale has been given yet as to why, but it came on the recommendation of Attorney General Jeff Sessions.”

The sudden attitude shift was noticed by websites like the Blaze and users on social media platforms like Twitter.

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Your Food Diary For:

Wednesday, May 10, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Apples & Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal, 6 packet	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
	780	162	9	18	1,020	72
L U N C H
Hissho Sushi - Sushicado Tuna Roll	500	89	6	18	836	0
Fresh Market Cafe - California Sushi Roll	500	89	8	16	2,420	13
	1,000	178	14	34	3,256	13
D I N N E R
Subway - Turkey Sub Sandwich, 12 inch	560	92	7	36	1,620	14
Subway - Sun Chips- Harvest Cheddar	210	27	9	4	320	3
	770	119	16	40	1,940	17
Totals	2,550	459	39	92	6,216	102
Your Daily Goal	1,942	243	64	98	2,300	72
Remaining	-608	-216	25	6	-3,916	-30
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g