HILLARY LOSES (AGAIN)

One might wonder to what useful benefit to society an organization would organize a poll pitting Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump nearly 100 days into the Trump Administration. One can guess that the Washington Post was hopeful that the result would show that Hillary would now finally clobber Trump 'if the election were held today.' Woe to the pollsters, who surely are reveling in the somewhat low approval ratings for Donald Trump, still Princess Hillary would still lose. That's gotta sting!

Maybe it's time for the lefties of the land to heed this excellent advice.

Lefty loons are never satisfied losing an election. They, apparently, like to lose the same election over and over again. My example was the 2000 election between Al Gore and George Bush. That election was won by George Bush by a sliver of votes in Florida. Naturally the left contested the results in Florida, something to do with 'hanging chads' and spent countless hours and millions of dollars counting and re-counting the votes. They were successful in proving one thing. In every recount, Al Gore lost (again and again)

Wash Post poll hides: Trump still beats Clinton, 43%-40%
by Paul Bedard | Apr 23, 2017, 12:05 PM 

As reported by the Washington Examiner, a new Washington Post poll that declares President Trump as "the least popular president in modern times," waits until the second to last paragraph to reveal another tidbit: He'd still beat Hillary Rodham Clinton if the election were held today and in the popular vote, not just Electoral College.

The poll found that Trump's polls continue to be upside down, with a 42 percent approval and 53 percent disapproval.

Also unchanged: His base still likes him.

It's not until the second to last paragraph of the long story that it's shown Clinton would still lose to the president, despite the high disapproval ratings and problems with his first 100 days detailed by the paper. It reads:

The new survey finds 46 percent saying they voted for Clinton and 43 percent for Trump, similar to her two-point national vote margin. Asked how they would vote if the election were held today, 43 say they would support Trump and 40 percent say Clinton.

ABC's Jonathan Karl tweeted, "According to the ABC/WP poll, among 2016 voters, @realDonaldTrump would beat Hillary Clinton in a rematch — in the popular vote, no less."

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Your Food Diary For:

Sunday, April 23, 2017

BREAKFAST	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
Quaker - Instant Oatmeal	500	95	10	20	375	0
	500	95	10	20	375	0
L U N C H
Chef Salad	750	16	11	27	682	0
	750	16	11	27	682	0
D I N N E R
Shrimp, cooked	200	4	3	40	1,420	0
Dole - sesame asian salad kit	600	52	44	12	1,520	24
	800	56	47	52	2,940	24
S N A C K S
Read - 3 Bean Salad	300	65	0	5	1,500	40
	300	65	0	5	1,500	40
Totals	2,350	232	68	104	5,497	64
Your Daily Goal	2,545	318	85	128	2,300	95
Remaining	195	86	17	24	-3,197	31
	Calories kcal	Carbs g	Fat g	Protein g	Sodium mg	Sugar g
	*You've earned 615 extra calories from exercise today

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our Exercise Diary for:

Sunday, April 23, 2017

Cardiovascular	Minutes	Calories Burned
Bicycling, road cycle	68	615
Add Exercise Quick Tools
Daily Total / Goal	68 / 30	615 / 590
Weekly Total / Goal	643 / 210	6,437 / 4,130

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PLEASE BIG GOVERNMENT - STOP HELPING US

Two different articles that I found on the internet just yesterday provide further proof that BIG GOVERNMENT is a monster threatening the well-being of Americans everywhere.  The first article that I read earlier in the day was how federal policies were 'forcing' OREO COOKIES to abandon Chicago and head south to Mexico.   Does anyone else see the irony here?  We import uneducated, low-skilled workers FROM MEXICO and we export HIGH PAYING JOBS TO MEXICO.   Does this make any sense?  Is it any wonder that this signature issue from Mr. Donald Trump has him riding high in the polls for the Republican nomination for President?

After reading how Chicago, my home city, is now slated to lose 600 jobs - the 'good news' kept on coming. My wife sent me an article detailing how a Chicago Alderman is proposing a tax on sugary drinks in Chicago.  This tax would generate money for some kind of 'Chicago Wellness Fund.'   This is ridiculous.   BIG GOVERNMENT cannot legislate health.  BIG GOVERNMENT cannot legislate WEIGHT LOSS.  BIG GOVERNMENT does one thing extremely well - BIG GOVERNMENT REDUCES FREEDOM.

This is the effect of a 2 cent per ounce tax proposed in Philadelphia.
What am I complaining about - In Chicago, the proposal is 'only' for one cent per ounce!
And if the one cent tax became law, how long before it was increased to two cents? 

If someone wants to lose weight, I would heartily suggest that they cut back or completely delete sugary drinks from their diet.   No one will successfully lose weight because BIG GOVERNMENT increases the tax on a can of Coca Cola.   It will never happen.

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 Thursday MENU

breakfast Brad's Raw Crunchy Kale, center cut bacon                                 330 calories
lunch       Sirloin Burger Vegetable Soup, cucumber salad, oyster crackers 396 calories
dinner      Huge Spinach Salad, mango, dark chocolate coconut chews      750 calories
SNACKS medjool dates, granola, wasabi peas, mango slices                      600 calories

total calories consumed 2194 calories

calories burned

home elliptical machine 92 minutes, level 20              2067 calories

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Wednesday net calories 127 calories

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this article is reproduced from illinoispolicyinstitute.org

CHICAGO EMPLOYERS SAY ‘FAT TAX’ WOULD PUNCH THEM IN THE GUT

by Austin Berg

The Illinois Restaurant Association and the Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce have taken aim at a proposed penny-an-ounce sales tax on soft drinks sold in Chicago, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. 

“Chicago restaurants and small businesses, like consumers, are once again starting to thrive after experiencing one of the worst economic downturns in our nation’s history,” Illinois Restaurant Association CEO Sam Toia was quoted as saying in a press release.

“The last thing we need is to implement discriminatory policies that will slow growth, drive business out of the city and force businesses to raise prices where it hurts the most: in Chicago families’ wallets.” 

The new soda tax, proposed by 12^th Ward Alderman George Cardenas, would be the third city-level tax imposed on the sale of soft drinks, and would hike the cost of a $4 12-pack of Coca-Cola to $5.44 – a $1.44, 36-percent increase. Chicago already levies a 9-percent tax on fountain drinks and a 3-percent soft-drink tax on cans and bottles. Revenue from the proposed tax wouldn’t go to the city’s general operating fund – it would flow to a newly established “Chicago Wellness Fund,” the primary purpose of which is to “support the prevention of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, as well as oral health improvement.” 

Cardenas’ tax would apply to syrups, powders, and canned and bottled soft drinks. He estimates it would generate $134 million a year. “The money spent fighting obesity is just ungodly,” Cardenas told the Sun-Times in July. “We could save billions of dollars if we bring down these numbers. 

That may be true, but one of the many problems with Cardenas’ proposed sugary-drink tax is that such a tax has never been proven to cause a decrease in obesity. Sugary-drink taxes have proved, however, to disproportionately affect the poor and less educated. 

Minority business owners can also expect to take a hit, according to Illinois Hispanic Chamber of Commerce CEO Omer Duque. 

“The regressive beverage tax being proposed by the Chicago City Council will hit many of these minority-owned businesses and their hard-working employees right where it hurts: their bottom lines,” said Duque in a press release. 

“My members already face enough headwinds while striving to build and maintain successful businesses and meet payroll for their employees. The last thing they need is the government piling on with another job-killing tax.” 

Tone-deaf tax increases like the soda tax are one of the reasons why Cook County is facing a serious taxpayer-exodus problem. If Chicago is to avoid bankruptcy, city leaders need to spend less time pushing tax schemes aimed at fighting obesity and more time thinking of ways to trim bloated city spending.

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and this is from dailysignal.com

How US Sugar Policies Just Helped America Lose 600 Jobs 

by Bryan Riley 

The manufacturer of Oreo cookies recently announced plans to move production of Oreos from Chicago to Mexico, resulting in a loss of 600 U.S. jobs.

This should be a wake-up call to defenders of the U.S. sugar program and other job-destroying trade barriers. 

The leading ingredient in Oreos is sugar, and U.S. trade barriers currently require Americans to pay twice the average world prices for sugar. 

Sugar-using industries now have a big incentive to relocate from the United States to countries where access to their primary ingredient is not restricted.

If the government wants people making Oreo cookies and similar products to keep their jobs, a logical starting point would be to eliminate the U.S. sugar program, including barriers to imported sugar. 

This obvious connection between the lost jobs and sugar quotas was missed by many observers. According to one online commenter: “This is why tariff[s] on products coming to U.S must be raised.” 

That’s backwards. When protectionist policies like the U.S. sugar program lead to offshoring, the response shouldn’t be to pass new laws to discourage such offshoring or to raise tariffs even higher. The response should be to eliminate government policies that encourage offshoring in the first place.

The loss of Oreo cookie jobs should reinforce a lesson on the job-destroying aspect of protectionist trade policies. 

According to a 2006 report from the government’s International Trade Administration: “Chicago, one of the largest U.S. cities for confectionery manufacturing, has lost nearly one-third of its SCP (supply chain planning) manufacturing jobs over the last 13 years. These losses are attributed, in part, to high U.S. sugar prices.” That lesson appears to be lost on unions that are supposed to represent the workers losing their jobs in Chicago. 

For example, The Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union consistently has opposed free trade agreements with sugar-producing countries like Australia, Brazil, and Mexico—the kind of trade deals that just might protect their members’ jobs. 

So that’s how the cookie crumbles.

BODY TRUMPS MIND

~BODY TRUMPS MIND

DONALD TRUMP, 2016 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
~NO, NOT THIS TRUMP

trump

trəmp/

VERB: to supersede

In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.

~THIS TRUMP the one that means to supersede, to outdo

Each time I spend time on any cardio equipment, I never consciously try conclude with a specific final result.  I am always hopeful that I will improve  my performance over time.  I simply exert myself at a level that is vigorous and at a level that I think that I can maintain for the length of time that I have chosen. I am well aware that the calories that various workout machines display at the conclusion of the session are approximations at best, and often overstated. (perhaps wildly overstated) Nevertheless, the indicated results can be very useful for comparing workouts.  One can easily discover if one is improving strength and conditioning or going in the wrong direction.   I completed two workouts on Friday as my thinking was that there would not be time for a workout on Saturday. I did return early enough on Saturday night after spending all day at Starved Rock State Park and headed back to the elliptical machine. This resulted in an anemic performance, my legs really were tired.  My recovery from 'tired legs' was not completed on Sunday as I failed to hurdle over 2000 calories.  Finally on Monday, my normal strength returned and my workot resulted in a more normal result - significantly north of 2000 calories.  Whether or not this number is accurate or not is not the issue.   It is clear that my body needed time to 'recover.'  Although my mind commanded my legs to move, My mind could not trump the exhaustion in my legs.  After a double workout on Friday and an extremely active day on Saturday followed by a late-night  Saturday workout - my body was not in the condition to perform in ways that I was more accustomed to. The body will always trump the mind in this area.

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Aug 14 @ 6:00AM elliptical machine 92 minutes, manual, level 20               2071 calories
Aug 14 @ 9:00PM  elliptical machine 92 minutes, manual, level 20              2125 calories

On August 14th, I completed two workout sessions thinking that I might not have the chance to squeeze in a workout on Saturday which was spent at Starved Rock State Park.   After spending all day outdoors on Saturday, August 15th I did arrive home and worked out again.  My caloric output declined to 1812 calories.

Aug 15 @ 9:30PM elliptical machine 92 minutes, manual, level 20              1812 calories
Aug 16 @ 11:00AM elliptical machine 92 minutes, manual, level 20            1912 calories

On Monday morning...the caloric burn of my workout session returned to normal. My result was high normal, although not quite a personal record.

Aug 17 @ 9:00AM elliptical machine 92 minutes, manual, level 20             2264

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 Tuesday MENU

breakfast   steel cut oatmeal, raisins                                                     420 calories
lunch         Manhattan Clam Chowder, soybeans roasted                     330 calories
dinner       Mariano's salad, red delicious apple, pears, granola bar    1355 calories

total calories consumed 2105 calories

calories burned

elliptical machine 92 minutes, level 20                      2264 calories

CALORIES BURNED 2268 CALORIES

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Tuesday net calories negative 159 calories

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IT'S ELECTION SEASON - LET'S HAVE A POLL

Here in the United States our 2016 Presidential election is already underway.  There are candidates from the Republican and Democratic sides vying for support to be the nominee of their respective political party.  Every week, there are scores of new polls being released to show that this or that candidate's support is rising or falling.

So, I thought, maybe the Marc Jacobs Weight Loss Journal should have it's own poll.

I am planing on letting this poll run through the end of the year.

On the right of this blog entry you will see a poll where you can select your favorite blog entry from a list of twelve that I have selected.  These blog entries are among my favorites.   If you have not seen some  of these posts - I fervently recommend them.

I have not voted in my own poll - but if I did - I am sure that my favorite blog post was the one from Sunday July 5th, 2015 where  I discussed where weight 'goes' when one is dropping pounds.  (LOST WEIGHT? WHERE DID IT GO?) I am most proud of that post - as it is informative and (mildly) amusing.

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Two days ago I was wondering if I still had the ability to limit myself to 1000 calories in a day.  I did precisely that successfully on Wednesday.   Yesterday, I was back at it with a relatively high calorie day.  This time, I balanced my eating with a wildly rigorous workout schedule.

I spent 90 minutes on the treadmill at 12:30AM Thursday morning.

and then I was back at it at 3:30PM completing another 90 minutes.

For the day, I burned 4000+ calories.

As we have discussed in prior posts, the calories burned that various exercise equipment report is some approximation of what is actually burned.   However, I am certain that if one spends a total of 3 hours within a 24 hour period on an elliptical machine set to maximum resistance - that there is little question that the calories burned = MANY.  (Whether it really is 4000, or 3000.... who knows, but it surely is a lot!)

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 Thursday MENU

breakfast  two apples                                                                                190 calories
lunch        spinach, tomato, hearts palm, lentil soup, corn thins                322 calories
dinner      Mariano's salad, codfish, mango, granola, trail mix                 1949 calories
SNACK    chewy ginger, zing granola, red delicious apple, wasabi           822 calories

total calories consumed 3284 calories

calories burned

Thursday Morning 12:30AM Star Trac elliptical machine 92 minutes 2189 calories
Thursday Afternoon 3:00PM Star Trac elliptical machine 92 minutes 2198 calories

TOTAL CALORIES BURNED 4387 CALORIES

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Wednesday net calories NEGATIVE 1103 calories

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These two recent polls show support for various candidates in Nevada as of July 2015. As of today, July 30, 2015 Americans have not seen the first televised debate, most of these candidates are unknown to most Americans, and most Americans are too busy enjoying their summer to be bothered with a minor detail like presidential politics 16 months before the actual election in November 2016!

 It will be interesting to see how this particular election cycle develops.  At this time, inexplicably Donald Trump is atop the candidates in the Republican Party and Hillary Clinton is the Queen of the Democratic Party.  America will likely not survive another 'flaming socialist liberal.'   Let me amend that.   America will survive.   It will simply be completely unrecognizable - as it is starting to become already.   

As you know, I have tried to be apolitical with my blog.  That will become increasingly difficult as this election cycle unfolds.  I will try to be as apolitical as possible.  Or as Bart Simpson says: "I will try to try"

"I'll try to try."  - Bart Simpson

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At the very bottom of the pack of the Republican candidates is former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.  He is a good man with good values. Apparently he will not be the President of the United States.   Nevertheless, It was an honor for me to meet him four years ago when he was campaigning in Iowa.

Back then, in 2011, I likely had not reached 309 lbs yet, but  I was well on my way....

This photo, also from 2011 shows my daughter with a 'cardboard cutout' of President Ronald Reagan.  Dixon, Illinois is a town that young Ronald Reagan lived in as a young boy.  His Dixon, Illinois home is now a museum and open to the public, I thought I would post this picture as a public service. That way people from around the world could see what a genuine American Leader looked like in the past. President Ronald Reagan was admired by his friends and respected by his enemies.  For the past 35 years, American Conservatives have been wondering where a leader like this might be found once again.   If you ask me, and I know you didn't - I nominate Ted Cruz or Scott Walker.