Blue states versus red states. Obvious which is doing better.
Author: Henry Barnard
I am a voracious reader and also enjoy writing. I often have a very different point of view than the popular one. I do see value in debate, and thought it might add to the public debate on controversial issues if I were to express my contrarian opinions. I also started keeping my poems recently (I've written little pieces my whole adult life but never kept any); and I've been a photographer now for over 25 years. So I will be adding an occasional poem and hopefully interesting photograph to the blog along the way, just to spice things up.
Democratic Party
How politics may become self-destructive. Witness how the Democratic Party, in opposition everything Trump, has been forced into really lunatic positions. This is textbook on how pure politics can induce total disfunction.
This happens when a political party takes up positions merely out of pure opposition no matter how insane as opposed to taking up positions that are actually rational and beneficial whether or not those positions agree or disagree with the opposing party’s platform.
A type of insanity unique to politics.
Venezuela
Venezuela…just part of Trump’s war on drugs from the south. Mexico in the crosshairs. Trump as president is going to really put to a stop to drug smuggling into the US.
Processed Foods
Best thing you can do for your diet and health is stop eating processed foods, which is about 85% of what you find in a typical supermarket.
Food companies are not interested in your health; they are interested in making money off of you with highly palatable but unhealthy processed foods.
Instead, learn how to cook with whole foods — real food, not crazy chemicals.
AI
They think AI will be particularly devastating on knowledge-worker, white-collar jobs. Why pay an expert when you can find out for yourself from the web?
May be even get better answers from the AI expertise on the web than from a human with more limited knowledge.
Finland
Finland, another victim of the proxy war in Ukraine. They estimate there are 4000 pending bankruptcies in Finland. Why? The country’s economy, it turns out, was highly dependent on trade with Russia. All of that came to an end with the proxy war and the push to include Finland into NATO. All those Finish industries tied to that trade in any way are broke and going under. The general mood in Finland is now desperation.
Get Healthy
My Healthy Chocolate Cake
The challenge I put to myself was to make a chocolate cake that was actually health-promoting. I use organic rolled oats instead of wheat four. I don’t add any sugar but sweeten with stevia, which has zero calories. The chocolate is from 100 percent pure cacao powder.
I’ve discovered that the chocolate taste is enhanced with blueberries. But what makes this chocolate cake really health promoting is the dandelion powder, which is full of minerals and vitamins but neutral in taste. Dandelion like kale is one of the most nutritious foods on the planet.
Another version of this is to replace the blueberries with cinnamon. Cinnamon and chocolate also enhance each other. I can also add crushed walnuts and/or add almond powder.
So these are chocolate cakes that have virtually no sugar but are very sweet, and are packed with vitamins, minerals, and good fats. One version is chocolate/blueberry, the other is chocolate/cinnamon.
Silence
Silence is an exploration.
Muscle Loss
People should really think about muscle loss as early as age 30 when serious muscle loss begins. You prevent it then by doing resistance training with weights, and eating adequate amounts of both protein and collagen. But most people are unaware that aerobic exercise isn’t enough to prevent muscle loss, so they don’t start the resistance training, if at all, until they are older and have already sustained serious sarcopenia. Don’t be that person.
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