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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FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE

OK, lefties... enough. There is not a shred of evidence that Russia tried to install Donald Trump to the Presidency. It is far more likely, that if they actually were behind the wikileaking that diminished Hillary Clinton - it was too weaken her as President. That is what adversaries do. Russia is an adversary that does not share our values. In fact, most of the countries on Earth are adversaries that do not share our values. What DEMOCRAT in America, would have heard anything shameful or horrible about Hillary Clinton that was not already known about her fragile relationship with honesty and integrity and said to himself or herself.... "Yup, I don't like what I am hearing about Hillary. I better change my focus 180° and vote REPUBLICAN and vote for Donald Trump."  This is so preposterous, that whoever invented this myth must be amazed at the level of stupidity of Americans that eat this up, hook, line and sinker. Enough. 

Russian Spies, Boris and Natasha exiting Trump Tower

Your Food Diary For:

Monday, March 27, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Apples & Cinnamon Instant Oatmeal	390	81	5	9	510	36
Met-rx - Big100 Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough	720	104	10	56	320	50
	1,110	185	15	65	830	86
L U N C H
Sushi - California Roll	900	164	16	25	1,309	16
	900	164	16	25	1,309	16
D I N N E R
Aldi - Asian Cruch Sesame Dressing Chopped Salad	600	52	44	12	1,520	24
365 - dark chocolate chip granola bar	300	0	3	5	0	0
	900	52	47	17	1,520	24
S N A C K S
Zico - Pure Coconut Water, 16 fl oz	140	26	0	0	320	24
	140	26	0	0	320	24
Totals	3,050	427	78	107	3,979	150
Your Daily Goal	2,132	266	71	107	2,300	80
Remaining	-918	-161	-7	0	-1,679	-70
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g

KRYPTONITE AND LEAD

There is a lie that is reported over and over again that Vladimir Putin and the Russians tried to help get Donald Trump elected. It is certainly possible that Putin and the Russians were responsible for the  files and emails released by wikileaks. I have no way of knowing for sure one way or the other.  I know one thing, I do not recall hearing any worries about Russian election intervention during the actual campaign season. It seems that this became Priority 1 when Hillary come in second place in the presidential election. What seems impossible is that Putin is smarter than nearly everyone in America who was convinced that Donald Trump would not and could not possibly be elected right up to and including around 6PM on election day. What seems more likely, is that the Russian government, who Mitt Romney, correctly identified as an adversary in a debate four years ago (before practically being laughed off the stage and ridiculed by Barack Obama and The New York Times and all the other geniuses in America) was trying to weaken future President-Elect Hillary Clinton.  Clearly, those leaks were embarrassing to Hillary Clinton. Poor Hillary, she got all the embarrassment without securing the big prize. Now it might be time to get serious.

Let's imagine for a moment that you are a voter in America. You are a Democrat or Independent and/or simply a supporter of Hillary Clinton. Wikileaks releases documents proving with a shadow of a doubt that the elections were rigged. That is, the democratic primaries, which actually did rig the state primaries in favor of Clinton over Bernie Sanders. And if you think that that is not true, please remind me why Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned as head of the DNC on the eve of their convention.  And if you think that it is not true that nearly the entire media colluded with Hillary Clinton in order to promote her candidacy, please explain to me why Donna Brazile was sending Hillary questions in advance of debates. All these leaks did show that the election was rigged in Clinton's favor. Donald Trump meanwhile found himself fighting the Democrats, and the Republicans and the media. He had very few endorsers and supporters. I was not an early supporter, I was very skeptical of the man. I remain skeptical although I am clinging to hopefullness..

This thought experiment is not over. Can someone please explain to me how these leaks would make someone who would have voted for Hillary, do a 180° turn and instead vote for Donald Trump. It is simply preposterous.  The media know the value of repeating a lie as often as possible. That is why lies are endlessly repeated. And if my supposition is incorrect, can someone please explain to me why folks on the two coasts who overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton were immune to the effectiveness of these leaks. 

Were the voters in California, Washington, Oregon, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, etc some kind of supermen (and superwomen) who had natural shielding from these (wiki)leaks much as lead protects SUPERMAN from the harmful effects of Kryptonite? They sure seemed impervious to the Russian intervention. What makes them so special? Or is it possible, and I would say likely, that the leaks had a minimal effect on the electorate?

As a voter for Trump, I was concerned about some of his more seemingly irrational and outrageous statements and behaviour. Nevertheless, I was voting for future conservative Supreme Court nominees and whole litany of policies that I actually support. There was no amount of wikileaks against Donald Trump that could have swayed me to vote for Hillary Clinton. To do so, I would have to do a 180° turn and vote for everything that I am against. That is, of course, preposterous.

So once again, I ask, how did the Russians help Donald Trump? I think it was their intention to weaken the person they thought would be president. Our President at the time, Barack Obama, said he spoke to Putin personally in the late summer of 2016 and told him to cut it out. On that day that Obama spoke to Putin the problem was solved. Kinda like we solved the problem on the Iran nuclear program. We made an agreement with the honorable Iranians so that problem is completely solved. Hallelujah! Really? If you believe that, I can recommend a bridge that you might be interested in purchasing...

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THIS ENDS THE POLITICAL PONTIFICATIONS FOR THE DAY... Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.  My 'streak' of not eating moronically has now spiked to two consecutive days. Once again, I have stayed away from wildly stupid decisions. It has been weeks since I have stepped on the scale on a Saturday morning, while anticipating a good result. I am expecting to change that this week.

Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, January 22, 2017

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
Whole Foods - Smoked Whitefish Chunks	300	0	23	25	850	0
Generic - Green Bean Almondine	100	6	8	3	505	1
Broccoli - Sauted	75	15	1	6	90	1
	475	21	32	34	1,445	2
D I N N E R
Marie Callender - Chicken Pot Pie 10 oz, 1 Pie	610	57	34	17	990	5
	610	57	34	17	990	5
Totals	1,670	78	99	91	3,785	9
Your Daily Goal	3,462	433	115	174	2,300	129
Remaining	1,792	355	16	83	-1,485	120
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g

       Your Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
9 MILE URBAN HIKE	135	1,552
Daily Total / Goal	135 / 30	1,552 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	373 / 210	4,350 / 4,130

My daughter and I walked 9 miles yesterday. Our first stop was Whitney Young High School where we watched the varsity cheerleaders in the Chicago City competition. We passed a few interesting photo ops along the route...

We passed this cool mural during our 9 mile urban hike.

This globe sits on the plaza of the Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) That 's my daughter sitting on Antarctica.

Our trip home included a stop to take a photo in front of Cloudscape, more commonly known as 'The Bean.'

You will likely need to be a supporter of President Donald J. Trump in order to find this cartoon even remotely humorous. I am a supporter of our 45th President, therefore I find this cartoon Hillaryious. (uh, excuse me, I meant hilarious)

России железная дорога

России железная дорога is the translation for RUSSIAN RAILWAY if 'google translate' can be trusted. This was the fitbit badge that I earned on Wednesday.

One year ago, on Thanksgiving day, I decided that I was starting a new tradition. It is fairly easy to start a tradition, it is much more difficult to keep a tradition. The tradition that I started last year was a 20 mile urban hike on Thanksgiving Day. This year, I made the decision to keep this tradition, and I took an urban hike in the morning (and early afternoon) which was 21 miles.

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As soon as I returned home from my 21 mile urban hike, my wife and daughter were preparing to take a modest short walk to snag a Thanksgiving Day snack. Naturally, I joined them. This added an additional two miles to my day. And finally, after delicious dinner to Beef Brisket we set out once time more into the cold dark night to get into the Retail Holiday spirit by looking for some stores in downtown Chicago which were opening for some late-night Thanksgiving Day pre-Black Friday commerce. While at Macy's I conducted my annual check of the MARC JACOBS department.

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Your Food Diary For:

Thursday, November 24, 2016

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Essential Everyday - Butter Flavored Grits	500	105	5	10	1,700	5
Capn Crunch - Peanut Butter Crunch	200	38	5	4	364	16
	700	143	10	14	2,064	21
L U N C H
Spaghetti & Meat Sauce	500	45	24	24	2,296	25
Klondike - Klondike Bar, 2 bar	500	58	28	6	140	46
	1,000	103	52	30	2,436	71
D I N N E R
Broccoli	100	10	1	9	81	0
Spinach Salad	100	7	7	4	175	4
Beef - Brisket	500	0	38	36	326	0
Mashed Potatoes	300	43	13	5	680	0
	1,000	60	59	54	1,262	4
S N A C K S
M&M's White Candy Corn	220	29	11	2	40	28
White Chocolate Non-Pareils	300	36	16	3	72	36
	520	65	27	5	112	64
Totals	3,220	371	148	103	5,874	160
Your Daily Goal	6,611	826	220	331	2,300	248
Remaining	3,391	455	72	228	-3,574	88
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 4,681 extra calories from exercise today

If every day were like today...   You'd weigh 180.2 lbs in 5 weeks.

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       Your Exercise Diary for:

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
FIVE HOUR, 21 MILE URBAN HIKE	294	3,866
TWO MILE SHORT JAUNT	32	323
EVENING WALK DOWNTOWN	48	492
Daily Total / Goal	374 / 30	4,681 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	1152 / 210	13,919 / 4,130