Fit or Fat

Go into Barnes and Noble or do a search on Amazon and you are presented with hundreds of choices on healthy cooking, dieting or fitness. They all promise miracles with very little on your part.

I read an article over 50 years ago, probably in Readers Digest that the cure for a healthy body was to either to eat less or get more exercise. Nothing has changed in the intervening years.

I have never forgotten that article but it wasn’t until I had a stroke that the full impact finally hit me. I’ve had spurts where I would jog or exercise then fall back to drinking beer. It’s only beer, right?

Same goes for eating. Pizza, fried chicken, chicken fried steak, tacos, hamburgers, shakes, French fries. And, of course, beer.

I see pictures of myself from just a few short years back and man; I was fat; not obese but an unhealthy fat. I haven’t fully recovered from my stroke and I don’t know if I ever will. I sold my guns because I know I cannot get out into the woods like I would like. I don’t blame anyone but myself thinking I was bullet proof.

I motivate myself to go walking or to the gym. I walk around my neighborhood because if I walk a mile I know I have to walk back. It’s not as easy as just getting off the tread mill.

I have to remind myself that the extra weight didn't magically appear. I put on that weight by having certain habits, not exercising, eating an unhealthy diet, or not getting rid of stress.

Take this as gospel and act accordingly

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Buzz Words

“Ronald Reagan conservative”, “secure borders”, “fair share”

All these and many more have special meaning to particular people.

“Ronald Reagan conservative” is spouted by some conservative, but what does it mean? I heard Michael Reagan a while back that the term “conservative” has a different connotation different than it did 30 years ago and that Ronald Reagan probably could not get the nomination today. So apparently the term “Ronald Reagan conservative” only means something to a select few.

Likewise secure borders mean we have too many Mexicans so let’s stop the flow. And yet people shop at Wal-Mart.

People that pay no taxes are up in arms when it comes to taxing other people. Idiots; half the people in America pay no Federal Income Tax so what are they bitching about. They ride on highways paid for by other people or ride on public transportation paid for by other people. If they don’t own a car, their groceries get to the store on trucks driven over the highways paid for by other people.

Don’t even get me started on food stamps. Every time my wife and I go to the store, we see healthy people driving better vehicles than ours and paying with a Lone Star debit card (that’s the Texas replacement of food stamps).

Call me jaded but I’ll be glad when the dog and pony show called the elections is over.

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You will know the truth

and the truth will make you mad.-John 8:32

^{John 18:38} Pilate saith unto him, What is truth?

Now a days everyone seems to know the truth. Not I; I believe the only people to know the truth are mad- like nuts or insane. The truth can be a powerful thing. That is why most people would rather give their thinking over to someone else. Jack Nicholson was right in the movie A Few Good Men when he told Tom Cruise, “You can’t handle the truth”. If I remember correctly he was taken out of the court room babbling.

Maybe it’s a good thing not knowing the truth. Maybe delinquents turn to violence because they see no future. No home, no education, no one to love.

Far be it from me to make excuses for anyone. We have always had an underclass. However now more than any at other time we have do gooders telling people they should expect more and not settle. So, if they can’t have, they take and anyone that gets in the way be damned.

Truth can make people mad and not in a good way. During the Crusades, good Christians killed in the name of god. In Iraq and Afghanistan fanatics kill themselves and other innocents in the name of Allah.

Don’t tell me these are sane people.

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Reality TV

I don’t much care about reality TV. Mostly it’s about greedy people trying to get over on other people or people acting like idiots. However, I happened on “Shark Tank” a few weeks ago and have been looking forward to Friday nights since then.

Four lucky individuals get a chance to go before four really rich guys and one rich woman and pitch their need for capital. One of the rich dudes is Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks. Some people choke up and leave empty handed but a few get their opportunity to make their dreams a reality.

I really get into the drama that sometimes I yell “Take it, take it” at the TV to some deal the sharks are proposing. Other times I tell my wife, “He’s not going to get it”.

America is still the greatest place to live. Dreams can become a reality if one puts forth the effort. Be sure and catch the “Shark Tank”.

Another reality show I’ve liked is “The Colony”. This one deals with an apocalyptic event in which a group of people are thrown together and must learn to work together after a catastrophe.

It’s a ten week experiment in which they must start from scratch to rebuild a community. It is interesting to see American ingenuity go to work to solve all kinds of problems. It makes me proud of being an American.

Since this program was originally on cable, I saw it on Netflix

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