Eat Real Food

Eat Real Food

New federal guidelines insist that we should “Eat real food.”  I could not agree more.

A couple of months ago, I stopped at a beverage store to pick up some beer for a social event.  I was in a hurry, and picked up non-alcoholic beer by mistake.  Fortunately, there was a recovering alcoholic in the group, so it didn’t go to waste, but that stuff should come with an obvious warning label.

I am a recent convert to the coffee club.  I keep it simple, but understand why the more sophisticated might grind their own beans or use a more exotic brewing method.  I don’t understand the point of decaffeinated coffee.  That’s like having chocolate without cocoa.

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Operation Absolute Resolve is serious business.

Advice to Democrats Regarding Maduro Arrest: Resist Reflexive Opposition

Knee-jerk opposition to anything Trump does, puts Progressives in awkward positions.  In this case, they sound like they support a dictator or prefer a prolonged war.  Many Progressives have made statements encouraging action against Maduro, and now sound like hypocrites.

Advanced notification to Congress would have been leaked, and gotten Americans killed.

The “Donroe Doctrine”, a play on the Monroe Doctrine, sounds stupid. This is serious business.

Bombing the Iranian nuclear facility and this operation, were bold and complex.  Conservatives have to be prepared for one of these swift and decisive operations to fail catastrophically. 

Planet Fitness needs to get serious.

NYT:  More People Are Lifting Weights. It’s Changing Gym Culture.

It’s the first week of the year, so corporate media assumes that the holiday season has left everyone fat and ashamed.  The New York Times and Planet Fitness both think they are doing something important.

Planet Fitness has a ‘no judgement’ theme, like they are Frankie Avalon pushing back against the muscle-bound bully who kicks sand in the face of a wimp in Beach Blanket Bingo. They have a chip on their shoulder, like somebody at work who is gay or a Christian.  Nobody cares.

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Sparky gets what he wants.

While in the camper today, I was reminded that the wood stove is a campfire in a box.  I grabbed the pie iron, but waited until Sparky had eaten dinner to make a pie with apple pie filling and a chunk of dark chocolate.

Sparky doesn’t beg or whimper for food, or try to snatch it. His polite and courteous manner makes him unbearably sympathetic.

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Roofman is a movie that most people haven’t heard of or have already forgotten. 7 out of 10.

This has been a bad year for big budget movies, so movie reviewers are recommending movies that were overlooked.  That’s how I ended up with Roofman.

It’s based on a true story about a guy who couldn’t get on track after leaving the Army.   He started robbing fast food restaurants by cutting a holes through the roofs.  When the cops were after him, he spent several months living inside a Toys ‘R’ Us store.

Early on in the movie, one aspect of the story was too incredible to suspend disbelief.

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