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Diets...
Let's face it, they are almost all nonsense, when really subjected to rigorous study, as hard as such is to do in free living human populations. Not talking here about diets for folks with various disorders. With some types of Syndromes, diabetes, celiac disease, gout, porphyria, etc., of course it makes sense to listen to a nutritionist (who, just by the way, are mostly all hot). And diets won't help our poor CS liberal friends from the struggles with severe TD-HD Syndrome. But I digress. However, those diets for loosing weight are mostly only of benefit for some scummy physician and his diet book. Or that dumb blonde anorexic TV celebrity, to expand her audience, and also promote the vapid paperback. Yet, just got back from "we beat the Indians day dinner", dinner with some family, and our twins did the cooking. All the ladies in the house are on the ketogenic diet, which for all I know, might just cause mild acidosis in some folks. But they are all looking pretty svelte, and ALL of the dishes, normally great at these get togethers anyway, were especially tasty. Sure, the extra fats advised by these plans will add some taste. But the spices were more tasty as well. Always bring a little back with me for Mr. Bravo, and he woofed it down in no time at all. I still think, if you want to loose weight, eat less and exercise more, each gradually. But maybe some diet news make sense.
Vastley Enormous & Ultra Skinny
Obese:
Why do people become addicted to food and sweets?
Anything I want I do, who cares what others think...
Special bed, wheelchair, chair...
Can't fit in a normal car..
Why misuse your body, to that extend?
It must be painfull…
Anorexia:
Is a sickness, but on the direct opposite,
here you do anything in your power not to eat,
or with bulimia eat like a glutton, and just puke it out right after...
Mostly all people had gone through some form of this disease...
Most people want to be thin...
Ultra thin models to look up to...
The world is sick, many times...
Why do people become addicted to food and sweets?
Anything I want I do, who cares what others think...
Special bed, wheelchair, chair...
Can't fit in a normal car..
Why misuse your body, to that extend?
It must be painfull…
Anorexia:
Is a sickness, but on the direct opposite,
here you do anything in your power not to eat,
or with bulimia eat like a glutton, and just puke it out right after...
Mostly all people had gone through some form of this disease...
Most people want to be thin...
Ultra thin models to look up to...
The world is sick, many times...
Not everyone is smart enough or has the vision to see the handwriting on the wall
from Vanity Fair;
(continued in my first comment below}
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Trump’s Toadies Should Take Note: Watergate Says Everyone Goes Down
The lesson Nixon imparts to today’s POTUS loyalists is that courts of law and of public opinion will judge them harshly.
By Kevin M. Kruse November 27, 2019
As the campaign to impeach and remove President Trump has intensified, so have the defenses from his most devoted underlings. Naturally, these have included individuals closest to him—his adult children, his attorneys, and White House officials.
More die-hard demagogues have taken fortified positions on Capitol Hill. As the impeachment inquiry kicks into gear, they are doing whatever they can to downplay the charges and delegitimize the process. In hearings, they demand evidence or dismiss it; in interviews, they dodge the problems and gum up the process. Throughout, they hope that the volume of their voices might overwhelm the volumes of evidence. These Trump loyalists have now lashed themselves to the presidential mast. And if Watergate is an American parable, most of them will go down too.
Richard Nixon avoided prison time thanks to a pardon, but all the president’s men weren’t so lucky. Four dozen were convicted of criminal charges, and about half did time—including Nixon’s chief of staff, White House counsel, top advisers, and attorney general. Some of Trump’s inner circle, including his lawyer and his campaign manager, are already locked up. Odds are, they won’t be the last.
Nixon’s congressional toadies avoided courts of law, but they couldn’t escape the court of public opinion. Republicans fared so badly in the 1974 elections that prominent conservatives pronounced the GOP DOA. The party’s name was “poisoned with negatives,” said strategist Richard Viguerie. It’d be easier to sell “Typhoid Mary, the Edsel, or tickets on the Titanic.” William Rusher, publisher of National Review, wanted to scrap it all and start fresh with a “Conservative Party,” led by Ronald Reagan or George Wallace.
Reports of the Republicans’ demise were greatly exaggerated, of course, as Reagan’s career made clear. No one waged a prouder defense of Tricky d*ck. Everything had been “blown out of proportion,” the California governor said in 1973; the burglars “were not criminals at heart.” Even as evidence mounted over 1974, Reagan maintained the inquiry was nothing but “blatant” partisanship. Only in Nixon’s final days did he grudgingly back impeachment.
Reagan’s fealty didn’t harm his long-term prospects, but only because his prospects were long-term. He didn’t face voters in 1974. When he challenged Gerald Ford for the nomination in 1976, the man who’d given excuses for Nixon looked fine compared with the man who’d given him a pardon. By 1980, his water-carrying over Watergate was a non-issue. But in 1974, congressional Republicans didn’t have the luxury of Reagan’s long game. Over 200 GOP members of the House and Senate were on the ballot that fall and needed to convince voters that their action—or inaction—over the president’s conduct was correct.
No one felt the pressure more than Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee. They were the first GOP officials who had to take an official vote on Nixon’s conduct. And, because he resigned before the full House and Senate weighed in, they would be the only ones to do so. In May 1974, when their closed-door hearings began, Time reported that 53 percent of Americans wanted Nixon removed. But that same poll stressed that a “hard-core” of 38 percent was “solidifying into a loyalist bastion that is supporting him with growing determination.”
Trump’s Toadies Should Take Note: Watergate Says Everyone Goes Down
The lesson Nixon imparts to today’s POTUS loyalists is that courts of law and of public opinion will judge them harshly.
By Kevin M. Kruse November 27, 2019
As the campaign to impeach and remove President Trump has intensified, so have the defenses from his most devoted underlings. Naturally, these have included individuals closest to him—his adult children, his attorneys, and White House officials.
More die-hard demagogues have taken fortified positions on Capitol Hill. As the impeachment inquiry kicks into gear, they are doing whatever they can to downplay the charges and delegitimize the process. In hearings, they demand evidence or dismiss it; in interviews, they dodge the problems and gum up the process. Throughout, they hope that the volume of their voices might overwhelm the volumes of evidence. These Trump loyalists have now lashed themselves to the presidential mast. And if Watergate is an American parable, most of them will go down too.
Richard Nixon avoided prison time thanks to a pardon, but all the president’s men weren’t so lucky. Four dozen were convicted of criminal charges, and about half did time—including Nixon’s chief of staff, White House counsel, top advisers, and attorney general. Some of Trump’s inner circle, including his lawyer and his campaign manager, are already locked up. Odds are, they won’t be the last.
Nixon’s congressional toadies avoided courts of law, but they couldn’t escape the court of public opinion. Republicans fared so badly in the 1974 elections that prominent conservatives pronounced the GOP DOA. The party’s name was “poisoned with negatives,” said strategist Richard Viguerie. It’d be easier to sell “Typhoid Mary, the Edsel, or tickets on the Titanic.” William Rusher, publisher of National Review, wanted to scrap it all and start fresh with a “Conservative Party,” led by Ronald Reagan or George Wallace.
Reports of the Republicans’ demise were greatly exaggerated, of course, as Reagan’s career made clear. No one waged a prouder defense of Tricky d*ck. Everything had been “blown out of proportion,” the California governor said in 1973; the burglars “were not criminals at heart.” Even as evidence mounted over 1974, Reagan maintained the inquiry was nothing but “blatant” partisanship. Only in Nixon’s final days did he grudgingly back impeachment.
Reagan’s fealty didn’t harm his long-term prospects, but only because his prospects were long-term. He didn’t face voters in 1974. When he challenged Gerald Ford for the nomination in 1976, the man who’d given excuses for Nixon looked fine compared with the man who’d given him a pardon. By 1980, his water-carrying over Watergate was a non-issue. But in 1974, congressional Republicans didn’t have the luxury of Reagan’s long game. Over 200 GOP members of the House and Senate were on the ballot that fall and needed to convince voters that their action—or inaction—over the president’s conduct was correct.
No one felt the pressure more than Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee. They were the first GOP officials who had to take an official vote on Nixon’s conduct. And, because he resigned before the full House and Senate weighed in, they would be the only ones to do so. In May 1974, when their closed-door hearings began, Time reported that 53 percent of Americans wanted Nixon removed. But that same poll stressed that a “hard-core” of 38 percent was “solidifying into a loyalist bastion that is supporting him with growing determination.”
(continued in my first comment below}
Good news stoners
As if Thanksgiving isn't already an excuse to stuff......yourself with food,
why not ensure you get the munchies, while you are already feasting.
That's right. If the tryptophan in your turkey wasn't enough to mellow you out,
one manufacturer has come out with cannabis infused gravy.
Wow man ! Have another hit......from the gravy boat.
The good news, is that both you and your closed-minded uncle
will totally forget about what you two were arguing about.
Bon appetit man.
why not ensure you get the munchies, while you are already feasting.
That's right. If the tryptophan in your turkey wasn't enough to mellow you out,
one manufacturer has come out with cannabis infused gravy.
Wow man ! Have another hit......from the gravy boat.
The good news, is that both you and your closed-minded uncle
will totally forget about what you two were arguing about.
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Forget about those turkey-tryptophan myths, your mellow mood this Thanksgiving could come from a packet of powdered gravy. Just add water, heat, stir, eat and let all those awkward family conversations float away on a cloud of cannabis.
California cannabis company Kiva Confections created a Thanksgiving turkey gravy loaded with THC, the chemical compound that gives marijuana its oomph. Kiva said its sauce "is made with cutting-edge technology that bypasses edibles' normally lengthy trip through the liver, instead absorbing into the soft tissue and stomach."
Forget about those turkey-tryptophan myths, your mellow mood this Thanksgiving could come from a packet of powdered gravy. Just add water, heat, stir, eat and let all those awkward family conversations float away on a cloud of cannabis.
California cannabis company Kiva Confections created a Thanksgiving turkey gravy loaded with THC, the chemical compound that gives marijuana its oomph. Kiva said its sauce "is made with cutting-edge technology that bypasses edibles' normally lengthy trip through the liver, instead absorbing into the soft tissue and stomach."
Bon appetit man.
Oh, what a tangled web Republicans have weaved.
It turns out, that Devin Nunes, who is supposed to be investigating Trump for his trying to influence Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, himself went to the Ukraine in an effort to try to get 'dirt' on Biden. 
From CNN;
From CNN;
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Exclusive: Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden
CNN NY Vicky Ward
A lawyer for an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani told CNN that his client is willing to tell Congress about meetings the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee had in Vienna last year with a former Ukrainian prosecutor to discuss digging up dirt on Joe Biden.
The attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, represents Lev Parnas, the recently indicted Soviet-born American who worked with Giuliani to push claims of Democratic corruption in Ukraine. Bondy said that Parnas was told directly by the former Ukrainian official that he met last year in Vienna with Rep. Devin Nunes.
"Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December," said Bondy.
Shokin was ousted from his position in 2016 after pressure from Western leaders, including then-vice president Biden, over concerns that Shokin was not pursuing corruption cases.
Republican senators echoed Biden in urging Ukrainian president to reform prosecutor general's office
Nunes is one of President Donald Trump's key allies in Congress and has emerged as a staunch defender of the President during the impeachment inquiry, which he has frequently labeled as a "circus." Nunes declined repeated requests for comment.
After the story published, Nunes disputed CNN's report, telling far-right website Breitbart that it was "demonstrably false."
Giuliani made an appearance on Fox News on Saturday and, when asked about the CNN report, said he had no reason to doubt Nunes.
Bondy told CNN that his client and Nunes began communicating around the time of the Vienna trip. Parnas says he worked to put Nunes in touch with Ukrainians who could help Nunes dig up dirt on Biden and Democrats in Ukraine, according to Bondy.
That information would likely be of great interest to House Democrats given its overlap with the current impeachment inquiry into President Trump, and could put Nunes in a difficult spot.
Bondy told CNN his client is willing to comply with a Congressional subpoena for documents and testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry in a manner that would allow him to protect his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
Bondy suggested in a tweet on Friday that he was already speaking to House Intel though the committee declined to comment.
Giuliani has told CNN previously about his conversations with Shokin and ?Parnas, saying that this was part of his legal work for his client, President Trump. Parnas' claims about Nunes' alleged involvement offers a new wrinkle and for the first time suggests the efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens involved a member of Congress.
Parnas' claim that Nunes met with Shokin, which had not been previously reported, adds further context to a Daily Beast report that Parnas?helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Nunes last year, citing another Parnas' lawyer, Ed MacMahon.
Those revelations came to a head on Thursday when Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell raised the Daily Beast story publicly during the impeachment hearing......
Exclusive: Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden
CNN NY Vicky Ward
A lawyer for an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani told CNN that his client is willing to tell Congress about meetings the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee had in Vienna last year with a former Ukrainian prosecutor to discuss digging up dirt on Joe Biden.
The attorney, Joseph A. Bondy, represents Lev Parnas, the recently indicted Soviet-born American who worked with Giuliani to push claims of Democratic corruption in Ukraine. Bondy said that Parnas was told directly by the former Ukrainian official that he met last year in Vienna with Rep. Devin Nunes.
"Mr. Parnas learned from former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin that Nunes had met with Shokin in Vienna last December," said Bondy.
Shokin was ousted from his position in 2016 after pressure from Western leaders, including then-vice president Biden, over concerns that Shokin was not pursuing corruption cases.
Republican senators echoed Biden in urging Ukrainian president to reform prosecutor general's office
Nunes is one of President Donald Trump's key allies in Congress and has emerged as a staunch defender of the President during the impeachment inquiry, which he has frequently labeled as a "circus." Nunes declined repeated requests for comment.
After the story published, Nunes disputed CNN's report, telling far-right website Breitbart that it was "demonstrably false."
Giuliani made an appearance on Fox News on Saturday and, when asked about the CNN report, said he had no reason to doubt Nunes.
Bondy told CNN that his client and Nunes began communicating around the time of the Vienna trip. Parnas says he worked to put Nunes in touch with Ukrainians who could help Nunes dig up dirt on Biden and Democrats in Ukraine, according to Bondy.
That information would likely be of great interest to House Democrats given its overlap with the current impeachment inquiry into President Trump, and could put Nunes in a difficult spot.
Bondy told CNN his client is willing to comply with a Congressional subpoena for documents and testimony as part of the impeachment inquiry in a manner that would allow him to protect his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
Bondy suggested in a tweet on Friday that he was already speaking to House Intel though the committee declined to comment.
Giuliani has told CNN previously about his conversations with Shokin and ?Parnas, saying that this was part of his legal work for his client, President Trump. Parnas' claims about Nunes' alleged involvement offers a new wrinkle and for the first time suggests the efforts to dig up dirt on the Bidens involved a member of Congress.
Parnas' claim that Nunes met with Shokin, which had not been previously reported, adds further context to a Daily Beast report that Parnas?helped arrange meetings and calls in Europe for Nunes last year, citing another Parnas' lawyer, Ed MacMahon.
Those revelations came to a head on Thursday when Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell raised the Daily Beast story publicly during the impeachment hearing......
Breaking News ! Federal Judge rules than former White House advisor Don McGhan must testify
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Former White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with congressional subpoena, federal judge rules
By Katherine Faulders, Allison Pecorin Nov 25, 2019, 7:05 PM ET
Former White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a congressional subpoena, a federal judge in Washington ruled Monday.
The ruling came in a case brought by the House Judiciary Committee in August in an effort to enforce its subpoena demanding McGahn's congressional testimony about events relating former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation after President Donald Trump directed him not to comply.
"This court holds that individuals who have been subpoenaed for testimony by an authorized committee of Congress must appear for testimony in response to that subpoena -- i.e., they cannot ignore or defy congressional compulsory process, by order of the President or otherwise," Judge Kentanji Brown wrote in her ruling. "Notably, however, in the context of that appearance, such individuals are free to assert any legally applicable privilege in response to the questions asked of them, where appropriate."
In her decision, the judge wrote that her conclusion is "inescapable" because subpoenas are legal constructs and not political ones, and "no one is above the law."
"However busy or essential a presidential aide might be, and whatever their proximity to sensitive domestic and national-security projects, the President does not have the power to excuse him or her from taking an action that the law requires,
" Jackson wrote.
In a statement issued following the release of the judge's decision, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he now expects McGahn to "follow his legal obligations" and appear before the committee.
"Don McGahn is a central witness to allegations that President Trump obstructed Special Counsel Mueller's investigation, and the Administration's claim that officials can claim 'absolute immunity' from Congressional subpoenas has no basis in law, as the court recognized today," Nadler said in the statement.
The judge, sharing Nadler's sentiment, wrote in her finding that Congress has not been able to get to the bottom of some of the findings in the Mueller report partly because McGahn is "the most important fact witness" in the committee's "consideration of whether to recommend articles of impeachment and its related investigation of misconduct" by the president.
White House counsel Pat Cipollone has said, "McGahn is absolutely immune from compelled congressional testimony with respect to matters occurring during his service as a senior adviser to the president," citing previous opinions from the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, along with OLC guidance that said McGahn specifically is "absolutely immune" from providing such testimony.
McGahn's lawyer, William Burck, previously wrote to Nadler that McGahn "remains obligated to maintain the status quo and respect the president's instructions."
Attorneys for the House wrote in their August complaint that the "absolute immunity" claim has "no grounding in the Constitution, any statues or case law," and say the president cited "no legal authority" for McGahn -- who is a private citizen -- to defy a congressional subpoena.
In its August lawsuit, the Judiciary Committee wrote that McGahn is a critical witness to determining whether articles of impeachment are necessary.
"The Judiciary Committee is now determining whether to recommend articles of impeachment against the President based on the obstructive conduct described by the Special Counsel," .....
Former White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with congressional subpoena, federal judge rules
By Katherine Faulders, Allison Pecorin Nov 25, 2019, 7:05 PM ET
Former White House counsel Donald McGahn must comply with a congressional subpoena, a federal judge in Washington ruled Monday.
The ruling came in a case brought by the House Judiciary Committee in August in an effort to enforce its subpoena demanding McGahn's congressional testimony about events relating former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation after President Donald Trump directed him not to comply.
"This court holds that individuals who have been subpoenaed for testimony by an authorized committee of Congress must appear for testimony in response to that subpoena -- i.e., they cannot ignore or defy congressional compulsory process, by order of the President or otherwise," Judge Kentanji Brown wrote in her ruling. "Notably, however, in the context of that appearance, such individuals are free to assert any legally applicable privilege in response to the questions asked of them, where appropriate."
In her decision, the judge wrote that her conclusion is "inescapable" because subpoenas are legal constructs and not political ones, and "no one is above the law."
"However busy or essential a presidential aide might be, and whatever their proximity to sensitive domestic and national-security projects, the President does not have the power to excuse him or her from taking an action that the law requires,
" Jackson wrote.In a statement issued following the release of the judge's decision, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he now expects McGahn to "follow his legal obligations" and appear before the committee.
"Don McGahn is a central witness to allegations that President Trump obstructed Special Counsel Mueller's investigation, and the Administration's claim that officials can claim 'absolute immunity' from Congressional subpoenas has no basis in law, as the court recognized today," Nadler said in the statement.
The judge, sharing Nadler's sentiment, wrote in her finding that Congress has not been able to get to the bottom of some of the findings in the Mueller report partly because McGahn is "the most important fact witness" in the committee's "consideration of whether to recommend articles of impeachment and its related investigation of misconduct" by the president.
White House counsel Pat Cipollone has said, "McGahn is absolutely immune from compelled congressional testimony with respect to matters occurring during his service as a senior adviser to the president," citing previous opinions from the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, along with OLC guidance that said McGahn specifically is "absolutely immune" from providing such testimony.
McGahn's lawyer, William Burck, previously wrote to Nadler that McGahn "remains obligated to maintain the status quo and respect the president's instructions."
Attorneys for the House wrote in their August complaint that the "absolute immunity" claim has "no grounding in the Constitution, any statues or case law," and say the president cited "no legal authority" for McGahn -- who is a private citizen -- to defy a congressional subpoena.
In its August lawsuit, the Judiciary Committee wrote that McGahn is a critical witness to determining whether articles of impeachment are necessary.
"The Judiciary Committee is now determining whether to recommend articles of impeachment against the President based on the obstructive conduct described by the Special Counsel," .....
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Just what is it about life on the coasts?...
...here in the Great Satan, they don't call it flyover country for nothing. The differences between mean incomes/wealth betwen folks on the coasts, and the vast middle of the country, are vast, along with political tendencies/sentiments. So now we learn that apartheid Israel has the same deal. The wealthy liberals live on the polluted Med,, mostly wanting corrupt, former tewowist Netanahu's hide, while the much poorer folks, "push the Palestinians into the sea", curly side burns, "never saw Palestinian land we don't want to occupy", types, support him. But perhaps this doesn't apply to all countries on the oceans. And what about large lakes? Finally, just what's wrong with someone writing such Blogs, Eh? Another Syndrome?
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upgrade from 1800psi to 2000psi...
A few weeks ago I documented one of my remodeling projects of pressure cleaning the sidewalk. That was the easy stuff. Yesterday, we were up on the roof! Literally, it was planned earlier abut other obligations got in the way.
The pressure washer was a 10 year old electric 'off brand' with 1800psi. I own a 3500psi gasoline engine model but it's got some carburetor trouble that I'm unable to resolve... and it's too large to bring on the roof.
We borrowed a small electric 1700 unit and were 'double teaming' the project but the 1800 was shutting down with a burning smell. I went to Home Depot and picked up a 2000psi unit as my goal was to finish the roof on Saturday. It was nice that my daughter stopped to show me her research on house prices in the neighborhood, but that put us behind schedule. It was dark but we got most of the barrel tile part finished.
The roof was last washed about 4 years ago and the pressure washing with only water (no soap or chemical cleaners) brought it back to it's original color.
Those are my boots she's wearing!
Up on the roof!
The pressure washer was a 10 year old electric 'off brand' with 1800psi. I own a 3500psi gasoline engine model but it's got some carburetor trouble that I'm unable to resolve... and it's too large to bring on the roof.
We borrowed a small electric 1700 unit and were 'double teaming' the project but the 1800 was shutting down with a burning smell. I went to Home Depot and picked up a 2000psi unit as my goal was to finish the roof on Saturday. It was nice that my daughter stopped to show me her research on house prices in the neighborhood, but that put us behind schedule. It was dark but we got most of the barrel tile part finished.
The roof was last washed about 4 years ago and the pressure washing with only water (no soap or chemical cleaners) brought it back to it's original color.
Those are my boots she's wearing!
Up on the roof!
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