Filed under: Politics
Moving further and further away from the Constitution…
Republicans… I’ll address this first. Republican candidates are, for the most part, loved by blue collar middle and low class white citizens. What they don’t realize is that the republican politicians think they are stupid assholes and dupe them into voting against their own economic and social interests by appealing to their predominately conservative Christian beliefs. I like to consider myself a conservative liberal, with enough intelligence to see through the utter bullshit fed to us by the republicans.
Republicans are against abortion, against gay marriage, support gun freedom, don’t pay much attention to the environment, and claim always to help the lower class citizens by lowering taxes. To me and most people like me the majority of this sounds great. Too bad they also support getting rich by stepping on other people and having no respect or concern for anyone below their economic status.
The democrats are just as bad, albeit opposite. Wanting to model the entire country after the Communist Republic of California, the dems want religious freedom, tree shrines, legal gay marriage, abortion as birth control, strict gun control, and higher taxes. Most of America sees this as some more ACLU non-moral hedonistic hippie crap. For the most part I do too.
In general, neither party has any respect for the constitution or the ideals that built and made this country. Rather than continue wasting my breath (or rather finger strength) i’m just going to list what’s important to all of us but no politicians seem to think matters
- Gas prices
- Income Tax
- Freedom
I have more to say but don’t have time at the moment… more later.
Filed under: Life
How I lost 36 pounds in 3 months, and how it will work for everyone…
In January of 2008 I weighed 220 pounds. First week of April I weighed in at 184. I didn’t take any pills or use any kind of crazy exercise machine. I didn’t use the south beach or atkins diet. I did it the only way guaranteed to work, and it was easy, and it can be easy for anyone else too, so here’s my tips.
First of all, weigh yourself every single day. Do this at the same time each day, naked, in the morning, after you pee, before you eat. You will see fluctuations day to day up to 5 lbs and sometimes more if you really grub down. Things that will cause you to weigh more than your daily average are having to take a dump, being sore from working out, retaining water from food you ate the day before, still being full from the day before. The only thing that will make you weigh less than your daily average is being dehydrated… waking up with a headache from not consuming enough fluids the day before or from consuming too much alcohol, caffeine, or other diuretic (substance that makes you get dehydrated… that’s why you pee a lot when you drink alcohol, it’s sucking the water out of you.. and that’s why you get hungover). Anyhow, expect to see variations of up to 5 lbs, and weekly you should see the entire range drop by whatever weight you lose. For example, one week you may weigh in at 195 at your lightest day and 202 on your heaviest. The next week if you loose a pound you’ll weigh 194-201.
It’s important to be on the scale every day, but it’s important to understand the variations because otherwise you will get confused and depressed and probably eat more out of being depressed that you gained 5 lbs yesterday, when really your muscles are holding water cause your sore from working out so hard.
Now that you understand how to monitor your weight daily, here’s how to lose it. It’s really simple, basic, and the way that everybody knows how to do it but always wants to try something easier. There’s nothing easier. Just eat less calories than your body needs every day. I don’t know what your body uses every day, you probably don’t either. A safe bet is 2000. You can eat good and be under 2000 calories a day. If you do that, even without working out, you will lose weight. It’s physically impossible not to. Just be aware of how many calories are in what your eating, and don’t go over 2000. If you want to work out, any type of working out can only help. I recommend the speed bag only because it’s challenging to learn and fun to hit and it distracts you from the fact that you are working out. Also riding a bike is excellent… especially if you are off the path. You burn twice as many calories on dirt as you do on asphalt, and three times as many on grass. Same for jogging. Instead of jogging on the sidewalk, try it in the grass. Good luck.
Some things to keep in mind. Aussie Cheese Fries at outback have 3000 calories in them. If you take the 1000 calorie per day approach that i did (you don’t have to, 1999 per day would work, just slower), that means that one deliciously phenomenal appetizer at outback is 3 days worth of eating. A number 4 at McDonald’s is over 2000 when you add a large soda. Just be aware of what your eating.
Meat wise, I always assumed a handful size piece of any meat was 200 calories. It worked. This isn’t an exact science. Other tips, every 20 oz drink of anything from the gas station probably has over 300 calories in it, and that’s a waste, when you could be saving them for dinner. Just drink water, get used to it, people were fine with it for millions of years. 1 billion dogs can’t be wrong. Water. The best thing you can put in your body is eggs. Eat lots of eggs, they will fill you up and supply you with good joo joo for all kinds of stuff. They are truly a miracle food. The worst thing you could possibly put in your body is mountain dew. Shame it tastes so good.
Always keep in mind that there is no way easier than this and everything you see on tv ads or in commercials is pure bullshit. Seriously. As long as you understand that you’ll be alright. Take diet soda for example… you know it doesn’t work, because the only people you see drinking it are fat. There’s no substitute for eating less and working out.
That’s all i got for now… any questions, just ask. I could write a lot about this, but those are the basics.
A conservative liberal’s conservative rant…
The funny thing about guns is that they are a great and very efficient way to put holes in things from very far away. The shame is, we (as people) use them to kill each other. In an ideal world, guns wouldn’t exist. But they do. Our sick and twisted species invented them, manufactures them, and uses them on each other, and will continue to until the end of time. Before guns it was bows, before bows swords, and before swords it was sticks and stones. From the beginning of time we’ve been cutting each other down.
The second amendment exists to protect our right to bear arms. Does this make any real sense? Compared to all the other basic human rights outlined in the constitution this seems really out of place. And it’s the second thing they thought of to put in there. By THEY, I mean the men who wrote the constitution. I submit that this does make sense, and this right remains important. It’s easy to say “Well if confronted by a man with a gun I would try to appeal to his rational side and talk him out of doing something stupid and unnecessary.” It’s a lot harder with the muzzle in your face.
Bottom line, it’s unfortunate that this situation exists in the world, but it does. The only way to protect yourself is to come over or at least equally as prepared as the person trying to hurt you. There’s three ways any confrontation with any person on any day could go:
- Guns were ridiculously unnecessary and out of line.
- You’re glad you had a gun.
- You wish you had a gun.
Having a gun covers two of those outcomes. We can wish, hope, and pray that we will only ever encounter the first situation, and most of the time (hopefully always), we will. Assuming that situations 2 and 3 will never occur is just naive. How many good, sane people are left bloodied and dying after ending up in situation number 3 every day in this country. It can happen, and it might. That’s enough for me. Call me paranoid. Even if you never need a gun your whole life, you should have the right to have one, just in case.
Yes, hippies, it would be nice if guns didn’t exist. They do. I’m not saying everybody should be given one when they are squeezed (more pushed i guess) out of the womb, and I support background checks and training classes, but responsible mature and well trained individual should be able to carry a gun if they so choose.
For example, if the Virginia Tech students were armed during the day of the massacre, that asshole probably wouldn’t have had the balls to even try and if he did he wouldn’t have gotten off one shot. Consider the same any time any other un-armed person was every shot anytime in the history of the world.
I don’t want everybody to see my junk, so I wear pants. Think about it.
