Since I lost 10 pounds this year through daily walking and LESS FOOD, I've been watching YouTube videos about what foods to eat and what foods to avoid. There are easily 20 different contributors who claim to be doctors with all sorts of advice on the subject of improving health.
Most of them talk about Keto or Ketosis and avoiding sugar and carbohydrates. Okay, I get it. But... Up until I started watching these videos, I was always told by the medical professionals in real life, that breakfast should be the most important meal of the day.
Now, I'm hearing as crazy as one meal around 5pm.
I get the short term fasting and the avoidance of sugar and carbohydrates, but a routine of planned starvation with only one meal a day doesn't 'sound like' sound advice.
I'm debating if I should post some of those videos that I think fall off the edge of the earth.
Clean your liver by eating these foods, toxins in these foods, the best way to speed up your metabolism...
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Said many times and places, if you tell a lie enough times, people will believe it to be the truth. That often spawns conspiracy theories. Sometimes the facts don't align with the stories.
There will always be a mystery about the death of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and his sister-in-law Lauren Bessette. They died in a plane crash off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in July 1999.
I've seen a handful of videos and some airplane animation of the flight path. Okay, that looks viable. A few things that tipped me off of something suspicious that wasn't right.
Senator Edward Kennedy who was the uncle to JFK Jr. identified the body. The autopsy was rushed and the body cremated and the ashes scattered at sea.
This is the best one:
While I heard it was the Identifications to the 3, I later read it was the registration papers to the airplane piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr. washed up, soggy but intact, on the very beachfront property he owned.
The plane went down and was found at a depth of 116 feet about 8 miles off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. I cannot 'fathom' how the registration magically washed up on his property.
I'm thinking, tell a lie enough times...
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I first heard the term 'swatting' when Marjorie Taylor Greene complained about people calling the police to say she was in a middle of a domestic violence dispute. Cops rushed to her house thinking there was trouble. False alert having them show up at your door, especially if it's in the early morning hours!
A similar term SWATing is when the report is more serious and the SWAT team shows up. This time it was when Steve Bannon was doing a live podcast from a studio in Washington, DC when someone called to say there was a shooting.
Police raided Steve's home (and podcast studio) responding to calls of a shooting at the location. since it was live, his podcast audience heard a scuffle in the background before the host switched to an ad break.
Later in the show, Bannon explained the noise. "We got 'swatted' in the middle of the show."
Apparently, this has happened more than once.
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Now that Fox News has settled with Dominion and agreed to pay $787.5 million in their defamation case, does this mean the election wasn't rigged?
Is this the end to the belief that Trump won and as he says should be installed as the president?
Does this mean that Fox News makes it to the top of the reporters of fake news?
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More than a year ago I was having some pain to a molar that previously had a root canal and crowned. The dentist took an x-ray and found nothing. The recommendation was maintenance, so the hygienist did a deep clean and applied a thick paste into the gum line that I wasn't to brush out for 48 hours. I'm not sure of the name of the product, but it has some antiseptic properties and the pain subsided.
The problem appears to have returned as I'm getting sensitivity to pressure (I cannot chew gum or it aggravates the condition) and slight pain from cold, so I no longer put ice cubes in my mouth.
I'm with a different dentist now and explained my dental history. She took x-rays and couldn't find any infection or cause for the pain. The recommendation was (another) deep cleaning. Unlike the previous maintenance that only required the area to be desensitized, this one required full Novocaine injections.
As long as I'm in the chair, shouldn't we do both sides?
Okay, she replied.
It's amazing how they describe getting a needle as a 'little pinch' when they are going all the way to the back... the area that shuts off all sensation to the front of the jaw.
I said "Why do you call it pinch when it's much more than that?"
She said "Should I call it harpoon?"
I replied, "Yeah, that's more appropriate."
4 injections, 30 minute wait, 30 minutes of digging, scraping and cavatron followed by an antiseptic rinse, I was done.
My entire lips and jaw area was numb for more than 2-1/2 hours.
I didn't follow instructions about not eating until the numbness wears off and the bite on the inside of my cheek should be gone in a few days!
While I was uncomfortably numb, I went home to play comfortably numb.
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I'm in a pondering mood today thinking about decisions I made along the way in life and what would have happened if I chose a different path.
I have a few different model helicopters. They vary in size and power. While I like to fly the smaller ones, the larger ones are more precise and easier to fly. One of my favorites is a middle size, so it's got the good power without sacrificing performance.
I told one of my friends I wanted to buy another helicopter but unsure of what to get next. Holding back, I decided to wait a while. This model has been in production for a number of years and I recently saw a YouTube video where one guy has over 200 flights with all the original parts. Nothing failed or had to be replaced.
I wanted to get one as a backup and missed a sale where the manufacturer dropped the price and they sold out. I was able to get one from a retailer who only had one in stock. Now, I've got a spare... just in case I crash and need a backup. The model is discontinued now, but tech support said they will keep parts for a few years.
My friend, has bought and sold at least 20 in the last 2 years. If he gets a new model and doesn't like it, he lists at the helicopter classified site and it's quickly sold. Right now his favorites are all larger, high performance models that have been in production less than a year. All new stuff.
For now, I'm sticking with what I have as it's 1/3 the cost of the larger models. If I had to do it again, I suppose I could sell what I have and choose something from a different manufacturer.
I bought a new car this year. It's more substantial than the previous car. While I liked the liked the one I traded, the seat was small and and the interior road nose while on the highway was excessive. If I had to do it again, would I have chosen the model I currently have? Probably, knowing what I know now, the model below my selection with front wheel drive (and not all wheel drive) would have been fine and I wouldn't have selected it in a metallic grey. White requires more washing, but in 103 degree weather it would have been cooler sitting in the hot sun.
What else?
Probably the most significant if I had to do it again situation was a love relationship, gone wrong that happened about 14 years ago. We dated casually and although she had her own house, she moved in with me for convenience. After I realized her personality wasn't right for me, I called it off and asked her to move back to her place. She started dating another guy that only lasted a few weeks and wanted me back in her life. Foolishly, I let her in. She was flying around the room on her broomstick one night and I couldn't take any more and I had to call off the relationship a second time.
She came to my door a few times, but I wouldn't unlock the security gate.
If I had to do that again, I shouldn't have allowed her to move in and certainly not tried a second time with her.
More?
There will be more, I'm sure.
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At 4:45 this morning, several phones in my house sounded an alarm. I got up to read the message:
Imminent extreme alert
TEST - This is a TEST of the Emergency Alert System.
No action is required.
Little do they know, some action is required. That message could have gone to a few hundred thousand cellphone users and someone should be responsible for their actions.
I equate that to yelling FIRE! in a movie theater and then saying "Only kidding."
As a kid, we had Civil Defense sirens located around the city, usually on top of schools or government buildings, designed to be used in the event of extreme emergency... like Russia sending off some nuclear missiles from Cuba that's only 90 miles away!
You could set your clocks by it as they sounded on the first and third Saturday exactly at 1pm and run for about 3 minutes. Yes, testing at 1pm.
I'd certainly like to know what genius scheduled emergency tests at 4am.
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Every day the numbers are getting smaller and smaller.
A few blocks east of me is a hospital. I can hear ambulances on their way to the Emergency Room. I can also hear them blowing their horns when someone is blocking their path to the hospital.
Less than a mile west of me is a fire station. If my windows are open, I can hear paramedics and fire trucks leaving the station. I can also hear when they blow their horns to alert cars to GET OUT OF THE WAY!
Last week, I was passing the fire station when the large ladder truck started pulling out. It's a 6-lane divided highway with a cement/grass center median. The traffic signal changes to red. I stopped and cars around me continued to run the red light ignoring the siren, lights and horn of the fire truck.
Today, a block from the hospital, cars in the turn lane refused to stop and allow an ambulance to get through the intersection that was coming from a different direction. Forget the siren and horn... these drivers didn't allow the ambulance legal right-of-way. I could see the ambulance having to wait (again) for cars not giving access to the hospital.
To say this is bad is an understatement. I don't know what it's like in your city. I thought Miami (50 miles south) was bad, Palm Beach appears to have taken the lead of bad drivers.
I'm sure there are laws for blocking emergency vehicles, but you have to have police watching and not busy escorting the ambulance to the ER.
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This deserves a blog of it's own. Back in the 1990's Carroll claims Donald Trump raped her in a famous New York City department store. Trump denied her allegation. He said she's not his type.
I read she kept the garment she was wearing that has his sperm on it and a DNA test would be conclusive. I also read the court isn't allowing the test.
There's a second issue of defamation where he's being sued by Carroll based on disparaging comments he made in response to her accusation.
Trump's lawyers tried and failed to get both cases dismissed.
Over the years, he's been accused of rape several times, but none of them stuck. I recall one woman backed out before the trial due to death threats.
Another woman came forward and the situation was different. Either Trump or one of his lawyers made a clarification or comparison, but that only sounded like he was part of both and the women weren't lying.
So the man who's in court over business fraud, indirectly paying a porn star hush money, a boasting womanizer with a history of affairs while married, had partied with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell is teetering over a rape case that may actually lean in Carroll's favor. He would be found guilty of s*xual assault. Convicted Rapists in Florida are on a list and their movements are often restricted.
Blogs don't ask questions.... what are your thoughts?
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Up until today, I thought congressman George Santos was just a pathological liar, now I see he's been arrested on Federal charges of fraud and money laundering.
"The 13-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury Tuesday includes seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives. If convicted, Santos faces up to 20 years in prison for the most serious charges."Link:
George, does this make you eligible for unemployment?
Fake university, he lost in court. Racking up countless business failures, he declared bankruptcy on 6 hotels and casinos.
Impeached twice.
His organization companies found guilty on multiple charges of criminal tax fraud and falsifying business records.
He is connected with business fraud in the Stormy Daniels case.
Recently found liable in the E. Jean Carroll case, this may open a 'tidal wave' of women coming forward with similar claims.
While claiming' witch hunt' for nearly everything, Teflon Don has squeaked through a lot.
But there is still more to go...
He faces two lawsuits tied to his alleged efforts to interfere with the 2020 election.
I think the big ticket is he will be found guilty in connection with the January 6th insurrection.
Some are talking the possibility of prison, I personally think it would be a few years of house arrest and travel restrictions.
What's next?
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In yesterday's news, a 3rd woman took the stand in the civil trial of Donald J. Trump. Author and journalist, Natasha Stoynoff became the third woman to testify under oath that Trump sexually assaulted her years earlier.
She was more specific and told the jury Trump forcefully kissed her while doing an interview in 2005, for People magazine at his home in Mar-a-Lago.
"She also told her direct superior at work, who was also a close friend, but she didn’t tell anyone else higher up at the magazine for fear that they’d kill her story and Trump would retaliate, she testified."A pattern has formed and it's not looking good for Trump. Already talk of appealing the outcome, like all judgements of Donald. J. Trump, this could be in the court system for many years.
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Let's be direct: Trump's trial attorneys have already given up and the new plan is to get the verdict reversed on appeal.
When the person can’t be bothered to show up for a court case against them, I don’t think it cast them in the best light.
My mother is a T fan. She said she loves his policies and doesn't care what kind of person he is. "That's his business," she says. I think that's the mindset of his followers. Doesn't matter if he has integrity, honor, dignity, courage, none of it.
He didn't call any witnesses for his defense because there is no witnesses for his defense. He has no defense.
In layman's terms trump's lawyers are saying he's guilty and there is nothing we can do to help him.
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