How many good cops have quit because of the backlash against police? Our loss.
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.
Losing Weight
Have lost 30 lbs. in about 12 months with 19:5 intermittent fasting and the GBOMBS diet. The weight loss also has targeted fat, that is, ketones, so my waistline has gone down noticeably.
Cronometer has been a valuable tool because it helps me not go over a calorie limit each day, and I can manage each day’s intake so that I come in a little under the number of calories it says I should be eating for my age and activity level — I never before knew what that number was. Cronometer also has given me a much better sense of how caloric each food actually is.
Don’t even think about 19:5 intermittent fasting anymore because it is just the way I eat. Losing the weight slowly over that 1 year period has been easy to do. I haven’t felt like I’ve been missing out on food at all, but the focus has been on nutritionally dense food. No processed food at all, 98% plant based, a very small amount of meat (white meat/turkey, which is very lean meat and low in saturated fat) each day. Lots of leafy greens, cruciferous vegetables, and beans.
One thing that has become very obvious to me with Cronometer is that everyone should be taking a general vitamin pill, as it is so common to be deficiency in many of the micronutrients when one doesn’t take such a pill. So it’s just a kind of insurance policy to avoid those several likely deficiencies, which you won’t even know you have without using such a tool.
Vitamin Pills and Fat
When you take a vitamin pill, you should do it with some food and particularly with food that has some fat, as this will improve digestion and absorption of the vitamins.
White Lives Don’t Matter
I don’t remember a single instance when there was a demonstration against unjustified police brutality when a white man was killed — not one, even though there have been, no doubt, many such cases. I guess it means that white lives don’t matter. Or does it mean that such a case doesn’t help the Left play the racist card so it has little value?
Real Police Reforms
There are internal units in police departments that review all cases of fatalities and any incidents involving inappropriate use of force by a policeman. I think this is where you could have real reforms that make a difference.
If it is a three-panel review committee, have two of the three people doing the review as ordinary citizens, not policemen. This would ensure there is no conflict of interest and the judgments were rational and fair, as opposed to the current system where the internal units with nothing but police personnel have in inbred tendency for the police to protect themselves — an obvious conflict of interest. Having two out of three members of that review committee being non-police would eliminate this obvious conflict of interest.
Also, the findings and final judgments of these internal committees have to be made public so there is transparency in their proceedings and adjudications. Right now, much of this is considered protected information and shielded from the public. That has to change. Otherwise, the public will continue to have no faith in these secretive internal reviews so subject to obvious conflict of interest.
Who Needs ’em?
The irony is that inner-city blacks need the police more than whites do.
Current Bubble
The bubble that’s going to bring down the whole house of cards isn’t the stock market but government debt. At what point do government debt levels reach a tipping point? No one knows. But the massive fiscal response of governments around the world to the coronavirus pandemic have accelerating this process toward that tipping point and precipice.
“Alone”
Netflix has another edition of “Alone” out. 10 survivalists competing in nature to see who can stay out the longest. Winner gets half a million. Have to admit I have an admiration for their grit and skill…and courage — there are predatory animals where the contestants are left to fend for themselves…bears, wolves, etc. Starvation is the key factor.
Kent State Again?
Hopefully, Seattle won’t turn into another Kent State. But this time, I would be on the side of the authorities and the police. Antifa and anarchists are domestic terrorists, in my opinion. Yet if they go in with real force and many die, it would shock the country, just like Kent State did. Nevertheless, the standard needs to be protest yes, riot no, and you don’t get to take over through mob rule — that’s not democracy.
Filthy
Can’t wait for this pandemic to be over so we can have filthy hands again.
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