Fat Issues · 3 July 2008, 23:21 by trickykid
The United States has to be the largest country that probably has the biggest ratio of gyms per number of people. Yet we are also the fattest country in the world. There’s a serious problem growing and people need a wake up call.
I bet I could name about 10 or so gyms within probably a 5 mile radius just near my own home. They’re like Starbucks, you can spit randomly outside and hit one most likely. I think they out number churches and liquor stores now. But why are Americans so fat?
I think one problem is what people feed themselves and their own kids. There’s easy accessible foot joints like fast food that is probably one of the main causes. Another cause I think is carbonated soft drinks. I’ve also read the links between kids who drink juices compared to milk and water.
Personally, my wife and I have sworn off fast food joints. They’re just dirty, unhealthy and down right gross when you think about it. We also limit what we drink. I’ll drink a soft drink every so often but 95% of the time it’s water, other than the coffee I’ll drink in the mornings. People often give me a weird look when I say I won’t eat fast food. It’s also the same stare when I tell them I don’t eat red meat or pork. And I’ve drastically cut back on turkey and chicken as well. I don’t think I could ever be a full vegetarian but I do think I could easily get rid of chicken and turkey, only eating seafood and fish as a real meat source.
This could be a very long post but it’s just something that usually crosses my mind when I see an obese person parking in the handicap spaces probably because they’re just overweight, what I see people buy while grocery shopping and all the junk they buy, etc. There’s a lot of things that involve why people are obese but for the most part, in my opinion, people can only blame themselves if they are overweight. I think fat people without a true genetic disorder should have to park as far away as possible at shopping centers or stores so they get that extra exercise they desperately need. Sounds mean but hell, they’re apparently not helping themselves so someones got to do it for them.
I guess I just don’t understand how a country could be equipped with so many work out centers and gyms but yet we are the biggest, laziest, worst eating food nation in the world. They keep saying our life expectancy keeps going up but I have a feeling soon it’s going to get shorter and shorter.
Hopefully none of my readers are heavily obese, if I offended you, tough shit. Put the Twinkie down and think before you eat. It is possible to stay in shape without actually doing anything. I’m not in the best of shape myself but I’ve actually been losing weight with a combination of what I eat and the exercise by doing yard work, etc. But don’t worry, the super skinny people that look unhealthy as well disgust me as well, they should eat more.
It’s funny though, when we take out oldest kid to the doctor for his checkups, they always say he’s not at average weight. They always tell us he should be 5-10 lbs heavier. We tell them no, those kids are just fat, our kid is healthy, eats well without candy and sugar all the time along with only drinking milk twice a day and water the remaining.
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Are You Smarter Than A Pre-Schooler? · 12 June 2008, 16:51 by trickykid
So do you consider yourself smart? Do you think you’re smarter than the average pre-schooler?
Well, here’s your chance to answer a question and give the reason why you chose such answer. It’s rather quite easy and you only have several options to such answer. It’s almost like a 50/50 type question, a yes or no.
In the following picture, it represents a bus that was presented to pre-schoolers supposedly. They were asked this: Which direction is the school bus traveling and why? 90% got it correct with the reason why those chose such direction. Can you? Post your answers as comments and I’ll let you know if you are correct with your answer.
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New Arrival · 29 May 2008, 21:41 by trickykid
So this past Tuesday, May 27th at 13:50 CST, Chloe Ellen Agnes was born, giving us our second and more than likely last child as my wife and I strongly feel we are done reproducing. We have one of each, everything went very well during delivery and we are now back home after a 24 hour hospital stay.
I’ll post a picture soon once I get around to it and dump the hundreds taken so far. Now, to try and get sleep.
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Bush Quits Playing Golf · 15 May 2008, 16:02 by trickykid
So once again Keith Olbermann says it direct and right to Mr. Bush. I don’t even think we should even call him Mr, he certainly doesn’t deserve any type of respect from any American.
Anyways, there’s a new commentary by Keith Olbermann from MSNBC linked from Truthout.org about how President Bush claims he quit playing golf out of respect to the men and women who have died in the Iraq War.
I have the same feelings as Keith does. I was appalled someone in his position would say something like this. Golf, you quit playing golf cause the War you started is killing Americans?
“Mr. President,” he was asked, “you haven’t been golfing in recent years. Is that related to Iraq?
“It really is. I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died, to see the Commander-in-Chief playing golf. I feel I owe it to the families to be as – to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”
I don’t even know what to think about this but it gets worse as Bush is nothing but a phoney liar.
“Mr. President, was there a particular moment or incident that brought you to that decision, or how did you come to that?”
“I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life. And I was playing golf – I think I was in central Texas – and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, it’s just not worth it any more to do.”
So he gave up golf. That’s his answer to people dying in a War he started. Instead of taking any other type of action, Bush gives up golf out of respect to soldiers getting wounded and dying.
But here’s the truth of his statement from the truthout.org article quoting Keith Olbermann:
Apart from your medical files, which dutifully record your torn calf muscle and the knee pain which forced you to give up running at the same time – coincidence, no doubt – the bombing in Baghdad which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello of the U-N… and interrupted your round of golf, was on August 19th, 2003.
Yet there is an Associated Press account of you playing golf as late as Columbus Day of that year – October 13th – nearly two months later.
I seriously doubt Mr. Bush has not played golf since 2003. This is a President who’s displayed by his own actions and words that he doesn’t care about anyone but himself and his buddies. His statements that claim that if a Democrat gets into office after his term is up will lead to more attacks. Let me remind you Mr. President that September 11, 2001 was during your term as President, after you set the record for the most days on vacation by any President in the first half year after getting elected. Perhaps we got attacked cause you were off playing golf instead of doing your job to protect us.
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Einstein Letter Up For Sale · 15 May 2008, 10:58 by trickykid
The Guardian.co.uk is reporting that a letter that Einstein wrote to Eric Gutkind mostly about his views on religion is up on the auction block.
It’s quite interesting to see the view of one of the best known scientist in the 20th century when it comes to science and religion.
I really like how Einstein portrays religion(s), “incarnation of the most childish superstitions.” Here is the full English translation of the letter since he wrote it in his native language.
“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this. These subtilised interpretations are highly manifold according to their nature and have almost nothing to do with the original text. For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.
In general I find it painful that you claim a privileged position and try to defend it by two walls of pride, an external one as a man and an internal one as a Jew. As a man you claim, so to speak, a dispensation from causality otherwise accepted, as a Jew the privilege of monotheism. But a limited causality is no longer a causality at all, as our wonderful Spinoza recognized with all incision, probably as the first one. And the animistic interpretations of the religions of nature are in principle not annulled by monopolization. With such walls we can only attain a certain self-deception, but our moral efforts are not furthered by them. On the contrary.
Now that I have quite openly stated our differences in intellectual convictions it is still clear to me that we are quite close to each other in essential things, ie in our evaluations of human behavior. What separates us are only intellectual ‘props’ and `rationalization’ in Freud’s language. Therefore I think that we would understand each other quite well if we talked about concrete things.
With friendly thanks and best wishes
Yours, A. Einstein.”