The people who opposed Trump thought this was just a campaign slogan.
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.
Impeachment Ridicule
Impeachment nonsense is going to bury the Democratic Party in ridicule. They weren’t satisfied with being embarrassed the first time.
Turmeric
If I were a scientist in a pharmaceutical company, I would study the chemical composition of turmeric, and identify what each chemical in turmeric does in the human body. Then conduct experiments with test groups to see how regular infusion of each chemical could benefit the health of humans.
Intractable Problem
The problem with climate change is that it is not such an easy fix. Fossil fuels now and for the foreseeable future are the basis of our economy and way of life. Even with overwhelming support and development of alternative energy sources, these alternatives collectively will never make more than a small percentage of the total need. And the public won’t accept further development of nuclear. So even if you had the entire country on the same page relative to the urgency of the climate change issue, there still is no real viable solution in sight. An emotional speech by a teenage at the UN doesn’t change that predicament one iota.
But on a positive note, I’d like to see the federal government jack up the tax credit for installing solar panels. Ridiculous how low a percentage of houses have solar panels. All these discussions about climate change, one thing that is never mentioned are trees. Guess what? Trees take in carbon. So plant a tree. Something everyone could do. But it’s never mentioned.
Now they have developed technology for extracting carbon (and methane?) out of the atmosphere — will they figure out a way to do this on a large enough scale so that it would matter? That’s a very important question.
And would a carbon tax make companies look into technologies for trapping all those greenhouse gases instead of releasing them into the air? Perhaps.
As for the methane released by all those factory-farmed cows for beef — I don’t see anyone willing to give up their Big Mac. If anything, the developing parts of the world are just now demanding the same kind of meat-oriented diet the West has been gorging on for years. So that particular source for the release of methane is likely to get worse, not better.
Do you think they are going to put a stop to burning down the forests in Indonesia or the Amazon any time soon? Sorry, but that’s probably another dead end. Too much profit in what they are doing.
So, in a 100 years from now, maybe sooner, when the planet gets significantly warmer, there will be zones which are uninhabitable because of their heat, and the coastlines will have be moved.
I wouldn’t be a big buyer of beach-front properties, like what you see all along the Florida coastlines.
Cancer and Food
Watched the documentary Be Here Now on Netflix of an actor who was struck down by lymphoma. Very powerful blow by blow description of his struggle with the disease. But I was shocked that the one thing he didn’t try was to design his diet to fight the tumors. That never came up as an option.
Anyone who has read at all extensively about food and cancer knows that sugar feeds tumors, the foods with high ORAC values negate free radicals, and that certain types of mushrooms restrain blood vessel growth in tumors and therefore starve them, but none of this came up during his battle with the disease. Like food and cancer were completely unrelated. Not true, in my opinion.
Amino Acids
Interesting fact: there are exactly 20 amino acids involved in making proteins in the body, 9 of which must be acquired through food — the so-called “essential” amino acids, but there are hundreds of other amino acids as well.
They now have refined the daily requirements for amino acids down to the individual 9 essential amino acids and how much of each one should take in — and which foods have the greatest amount for each.
OMAD
My more elaborate OMAD meal: bottom layer is barley/lentils soaked in tomato sauce with garlic powder, then mixed vegetables and broccoli and tomato/beans all mixed together, then chopped onion on top of that, then a layer of finely diced organic leafy greens, and top level mushrooms cooked in red wine. Predominate taste is that onion/garlic/tomato paste combination. The barley/lentils make it very hearty. The cooked mushrooms in wine are a kind of meat substitute.
I’m only missing the BS in GBOMBS. But then I have a handful of pecans or almonds, and various berries for dessert. Always blueberries. I always finish with eating a lot of different fruits. Meal takes from 1 hour to 2 hours, then 22/23 hour fast.
Watershed Year — Yes or No?
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened in 1989, but so did the massacre in Tiananmen Square.
Joshua Wong is a true freedom fighter.
Pine Needles
Across the street from my house on Seapit Road was a path that led to a clearing, and in the back of the clearing was the entrance to a footpath that went through all the trees to the street where a buddy of mine lived. About half way through this footpath, in the middle of the woods, was a pine tree with a thick carpet of brown pine needles. The scent was always very appealing, and if you were bare foot, Tom Sawyerish, the thick pine needles felt very comfortable. I’d climb that tree, which was very tall, all the way to the top, and suddenly, at the very top, you poked your head out above all the surrounding trees and could see for miles — above it all.
Once I lost my grip on a branch while climbing up the tree and fell all the way to the ground, snapping branches on the way down. I landed squarely on my back on the thickest part of those wonderful pine needles, which saved me, along with those snapping branches which broke the fall.
The scent of pine is still one of my favorites.
Cancer
The C Word documentary on Netflix was interesting.
Among other things, makes the claim that everyone has cancer cells.
Emphasis on a holistic approach to dealing with the disease or preventing its occurrence in the first place. Key factors are diet, stress, exercise, and toxins in our environment.
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