My employer's wellness program sent an "assume the best" encouragement, and it brought this bit of cinematic glory to mind:
This case in my area, where apparently protesters attempted to disrupt the arrest of a man wanted in Iowa on charges of child sexual assault, is a brilliant example of the kind of case that President Trump ought to be making. Let's start arresting the protesters and make clear;
You were interfering with the arrest of a person indicted for child sexual assault. Are you guys seriously telling me that you think we need more child rapists on the streets in Rochester?
And really, a few large fines and convictions for interfering with law enforcement are exactly what is needed in this situation. I don't condone everything ICE has done--at times they have been too confrontational IMO--but there need to be some limitations on what the progressive left is allowed to do. At a very minimum, have a few extra copies of the warrant and state loudly
We are working to apprehend individuals with a record of rape/murder/aggravated battery/whatever. Do you need more of this kind of person in your neighborhood? We'll be willing to let your neighbors know that you think they need to live with more criminals in your neighborhood.
Back in October 2024, I observed the "investigation" by the New Zealand Navy that found that the sinking of one of their ships was "not the captain's fault" was rather hasty, and that their statement was pretty much a statement that it was the captain's fault, and likely having something to do with her being a diversity hire.
Fast forward to today, and we find that the captain had the ship on autopilot while sailing near reefs. It's a lesson I remember learning when learning to sail as a kid in the Florida Keys. Autopilot is supposed to be used only when you don't have likely obstructions, and in the world's premier Navy, ours, crashing a ship into an obstacle generally leads to the commander being replaced.
Back in the 1990s, one fun joke was that the "Welcome to Hot Springs, Arkansas" signs had another sign below them noting that it was the home of President Bill Clinton, and yet another sign saying "Per Megan's Law, the above is a known sex offender.".
While sadly that was not the case, with Matt Weiss, Sherrone Moore, and LaTroy Lewis all being currently prosecuted for the consequences of their sexual behavior, maybe it's time to put that sort of sign outside Schembechler Hall (the home of Michigan Football). For that matter, as there are witnesses suggesting that Schembechler himself used "Dr. Drop your Drawers" (Robert Anderson) as a way of obtaining compliance from players, there is a clear pattern that maybe ought to be noted.
Just Michigan? Of course not--Spartans like myself cringed when it came out that Mel Tucker had decided that it was a great idea to start "sexting" Brenda Tracy, a consultant trying to help college athletes restrain their sexual behavior to reduce sexual assaults by players. All over the country, there are clear examples of college football programs where basic moral accountability appears to be an afterthought. Maybe....just maybe....it's long past time to rein this in.
Limit NIL payments, require players to show up for class, institute Prop 48 with teeth.
Pro-Hamas (Pro-Palestinian?) protesters in London have defaced a statue of Winston Churchill, claiming that he was some sort of "Zionist war criminal", and interestingly, some of the graffiti appears to be in Dutch or Flemish. Most importantly, however, Churchill's influence in the region was relatively minor, and he wasn't even Prime Minister in 1948, when Israel declared independence.
But I guess they won't let reality interfere with what they're doing.
.....the more they stay the same, at least according to Mrs. Bubba. (what do you mean by that, honey?)
Hilliary Clinton uses her testimony about the Epstein files to suggest the DOJ is covering for President Trump, at the same time saying that she doesn't know anything about this. Since only one of these can be true.....
....OK, to be serious, not a chance that she'd ever be convicted of perjury in either Chappaqua or DC, but still...
My take on the files; it's long past time for an independent prosecutor to go through with a fine toothed comb, and let lawyers for the victims take part, too. It's pretty obvious that there is either nothing there, or the investigation is deliberately being slow walked.
Minnesota trans legislator Leigh Finke argues that access to internet porn should not be banned because he feels that it is "educational" for queer youth. Now call me weird, but it strikes me that for almost all of recorded history, people have figured out how to have sex without the "help" of porn, and hence it suggests that Mr. Finke has something in mind other than education.
This is especially the case when one considers the "ick" factor of typical sexual situations in porn--things that normal people won't do, more or less. If someone tells one to "make love like a porn star", the response ought to be "on drugs, humiliated, and basically raped? No thank you!".
So in that light, what Mr. Finke is asking for is for kids to be exposed to the kind of acts that require porn producers to have their own, in-house drug treatment and mental health centers. It is, in a word, recruitment--not to mention horrific abuse.
Having seen how Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg got himself into some trouble by bad-mouthing Purdue (Go Boilers, of course), I got curious about who this person is, and found some very interesting things:
Having gotten into trouble for selling T-shirts honoring the 1936 Olympics, complete with Nazi imagery (though thankfully no swastikas), it strikes me that the IOC ought to be consistent and stop selling shirts and swag from:
Apparently a number of prostitutes OnlyFans "creators" have applied for, and received, O-1 visas for "extraordinary ability". So not only do we have a situation where HR in government needs to be scratching their heads trying to figure out their "acceptable use of the Internet" policy, but also one where apparently, bureaucrats are going to be the judges of what constitutes good pornography. I'm sure they'll do just as good a job as they do for the National Endowment for the Arts.
(on the light side, if they do as good a job as they do with the NEA, maybe they'll end up killing off OnlyFans!)
Never mind the reality that OnlyFans is an online forum, and theoretically "content creators" can "do their job" just about anywhere in the world. So why they would need a U.S. visa to "ply their trade" is beyond me.
Also of note is that I had the misfortune of looking up some of Bad Bunny's lyrics--suffice it to say that a good portion of those words are not among the words you're supposed to learn from Duolingo or high school/college Spanish class--and it strikes me that the NFL is soon going to be broadcast on OnlyFans as well, if you catch my drift. The only thing I can say in favor of that show is that most Americans don't know enough Spanish to understand what he was saying. It hasn't been family friendly for a while, but the Super Bowl is increasingly needing mature content warnings.
Apparently Cracker Barrel has a travel policy which requires employees to, when possible, eat at their restaurants. While it makes superficial sense--it helps fill tables, and gets key employees actually looking at how the restaurant works in real life--it also prevents employees from doing informal "market research" to see how competitors stack up against them. We might also joke that it will raise the cardiology bills for the company's insurance policies.
Really, it's a tough, tough market out there in restaurants, and it probably doesn't help to isolate employees from the broader markets. But cardiologists might approve.
This article suggests that the recent changes in dietary recommendations do not really amount to an end to the "war on protein", and cites historic consumption patterns (which are generous in the portion of protein as a portion of daily calories) as a reason to claim that no such thing ever existed.
Well, though I'm not a registered dietician, I have been a reader of some of the literature since childhood, and the reality is a bit more nuanced. The first thing I remember is that from childhood, I always thought that the "four food groups" recommendation of two small servings of meat/protein per day was a little bit on the lean side--that the recommendation should have had sliding scales for the reality of bigger, more active, people.
To be fair to the FDA and USDA, part of the reality is that they were trying to do a "one size fits most" recommendation, and to do a true sliding scale probably requires more math than they felt most Americans would do--and they were probably right.
But that noted, a consistent theme in nutritional literature since at least the 1930s (e.g. Boy's Book of Strength, C. Ward Crampton, 1936) has been that popular diets advocating huge portions of meat, as in boxer Luis Firpo's mostly carnivore diet, were neither necessary nor helpful for health. You'll see the same warnings in advertisements taken out by life insurance companies during the 1950s and 1960s in National Geographic. Yes, it was the actuaries at life insurance companies as much as cardiologists who started warning us about this--and I say "well done".
So the reality is that while there has never really been a war on protein, dieticians have been warning the public for the past century or more not to overdo it on protein. And in the hands of our current Secretary of Health and Human Services, who claims to have recently lost 20 lbs on a carnivore diet, perhaps that qualifies in RFK Jr.'s mind as a "war on protein".
And what's our reality? Well, I think that, Biblically speaking, humans are omnivores, and hence we ought to expect that most of us will do best on an omnivorous diet, starting with the fruits and leaves of Eden, continuing with the grains and legumes after the Fall, and concluding with the meats and such allowed after the Flood. Along the same lines, we're learning more and more that there are big benefits to the flavenoids found in many plants, especially whole ones.
And meats and dairy? B12 is found only in animal products, and it's essential for brain function, so there is that. Meats and dairy are also naturally complete proteins (all 10 essential amino acids), and fats are necessary to digest and process proteins. So far, so good.
Where we get offtrack, in my view, is the biochemical reality that the liver converts saturated fats to low density lipoproteins, a.k.a. "bad cholesterol". To be sure, the correlation is not perfect, and that's because the liver can get saturated fats from steak, bacon, olive oil (about 5-10% saturated fat), or even our guts or tucheses. But that said, what the actuaries of the 1950s found still holds; excess saturated fat intake is correlated with high LDL levels and heart disease.
Side note: regarding Kennedy's diet, my take is that any diet that gets one out of the "standard American diet" high in sugars and fats and low in fiber will tend to help someone eating "SAD". In the "carnivore" case, it also leads to explosive diarrhoea, which can cause one to lose 5 lbs or more alone. Keep the current research about "fecal microbiome" in mind when you consider risking that! Turns out your poop is important for your overall health.
Regarding my state's demands that ICE stop working here, and actions that more or less make it impossible for ICE to do their work, it strikes me that if this sets a precedent, any state can shut down the EPA, IRS, DOJ....and then the question comes up "isn't this textbook obstruction of justice, and doesn't Tampon Tim belong in the graybar hotel?".
I think the answer is yes. I'm actually not a huge fan of how Trump is doing his immigration sweeps; I'd be much lower key by requesting that jails and prisons notify ICE before releasing illegal immigrants so they can be picked up, and then if they don't comply, make it public exactly which officials want their communities to have more criminals among them. But that said, we do happen to have millions of illegals here using government services, and forcing lower income Americans to use welfare services, and we've got to do something to mitigate this problem.
Prohibiting ICE from working altogether should not be on anyone's dance card here, and those public officials who think it ought to be should be in jail. Let Walz be the "dancing queen" there.
Sadly for the cause of office mirth, the old "Darwin Awards", where people would be "honored" for removing themselves from the gene pool in amazingly stupid ways, seem to have disappeared. However, if by chance they do still exist, anti-ICE demonstrators may have narrowly evaded getting their names enshrined in this hall of honor.
How so? They blocked the stairs in a church that led to the Sunday School wing, and if there are by any chance any anti-ICE demonstrators reading this blog, take heed; the safety & security teams at many evangelical churches are armed. So are many of the members, and if they believe you're likely to hurt their children, you just might find out who's carrying in exactly the wrong way.
Here's another example; a crowd approaches a number of software engineers wearing engineer-style clothing (often "boring") and accuses them of being ICE. Pro tip for those anti-ICE demonstrators; do you think that ICE is going to "work sites" without vehicles to carry those apprehended, and quite frankly to protect their own officers these days in Minneapolis?
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