Comments on today first hearings. I just watched a few minutes. Pete is holding his own. Looked up Senator Reed. West Point grad, but sorry to say sounded like he learned nothing in the Army. Don’t know what he did, but sounded like a JAG.
Self and Guardian Angel
Wonder how many children ‘See’ a Guardian Angel? Some certainly do. Early cave paintings may reflect the concept of a Guardian Angel to a caveman.
Today was Blood Work day for me. Drove 20 miles to SIMEDHealth in Chiefland and their blood work computers were down. Geez…didn’t eat anything because I had planned to get the blood work done before seeing my primary care Doctor. Drove about 60 more miles to SIMEDHealth in High Springs – cursing the Chiefland office out the whole way. Had never been to the High Springs office and had wanted to see it anyway.
Normally I plan these ‘Thangs before hand with Google maps, and then I can have the smart phone giving me directions as I drive—something I only recently figured out how to do with a phone. No wonder they are called smart phones! 🙂 High Springs is small with all kinds of roads converging in that small area. Drove around for about 15 minutes trying to see addresses on buildings w/o getting run over or cause an accident. Finally saw an address, and I was going the wrong way.
Turned around and repeated the looking for addresses—another 10 minutes with few if any addresses to be seen whilst traffic blew past me…on a 4-lane highway this time. Had drove outta High Springs downtown area and turned around again – then saw 27 which is a road I thought I was on – then turned onto the REAL 27. Drove thru center of town again…addresses all missed or they were hidden.
Pulled over and got out of truck to walk around to find an address—which were difficult to see whilst driving, I guess it’s old age. Walked about 20’ and looked across the street and saw a SIMEDHealth sign. Hallelujah!!!!!!!
Self had stepped in—the way Self often does for humble me…
(Oh, great, SHIREHOME has an update on how Pete Hegseth is doing…)
Blog Anomaly? Noticed yesterday and today that dashes may have an anomaly. Naturally, the old dash (-) isn’t the only dash in town any more…there’s:
— and ? and the old –
Yeah, that middle sized dash is showing up as a ? now…
I want to thank you, Neo, for this post from Sept. 20, 2024:
I have been eating two modest servings a day of cooked, cooled brown rice or cooked, cooled potatoes, since that date. I have lost an astonishing thirteen pounds! The regimen is clearly changing my insulin sensitivity; the blob of fat on my tummy is almost gone. I haven’t changed my exercise routine significantly. I use my rowing machine for cardio work and I lift hand weights.
The counsel I get from my just eleven years older–but an entire different era–girl friend (79):
“If you’re going to fight, fight pretty.”
Kate:
So I’ll try cooled brown rice with green chille salsa and a hard boiler egg for lunch. You aren’t supposed to reheat the resistant (-ified) starch?
om, yes, you can re-heat. I’ve been enjoying sliced cooked potatoes sautéed in butter. Yum! Warmed-up rice with butter or leftovers is good too. The microwave makes this really easy.
I must add, resistant starch includes beans.
Good pinto beans are a New Mexico glory. Yum.
“16 oz. beans, hot, to go” is something I say at least once a week at the Frontier, a legendary Abq restaurant just a block beyond my café.
I lost 60# in 18 months eating beans with every meal plus protein and veggies and cutting back on the usual suspects.
huxley, the regimen sounds a lot like your “slow carb” diet (if I remember that correctly). My problem with that is I can’t digest beans. I have to take an enzyme with them, which sort of defeats the “resistant starch” plan of having the starches go through the upper GI system to be digested in the large intestine. So I’m using cooled brown rice and potatoes, which don’t cause me digestive distress. But for om, and others, who can eat beans, that’s another good option.
Thanks, huxley! I wish beans were an option for me. And for other people who, like me, have been only somewhat overweight but have struggled to lose pounds, these various resistant starches are all good options.
Move over Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – Trump’s bringing a new Money Collector to town…
Donald Trump announced the creation of a powerful new government agency that will collect billions of dollars in taxes and tariffs from foreign countries.
***
‘I am today announcing that I will create the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources,’ Trump wrote on social media.
Trump argued that the United States government has relied too much on taxing Americans for revenue, specifically pointing to the much-loathed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) efforts to collect more taxes.
‘Through soft and pathetically weak Trade agreements, the American Economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the World, while taxing ourselves. It is time for that to change,’ he wrote.
NOTE: ‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) collected approximately $111.8 billion in duties, taxes, and fees‘ in 2022. Redundancy? Geez…I don’t think so, i.e., “$111.8 billion” ain’t squat. How many jobs does the CBP do? Yeah, we need a special department—like the IRS—to collect money from foreigners. Ditto on that Geez…and no wonder the Border Patrol can’t to a proper job.
In FY 2024, the IRS collected revenue of $5.1 trillion…
My wife’s hairdresser retired suddenly back in November. She’s been wanting to get her hair cut. So, today she went to a new place and got it done by a new young woman.
She didn’t know what to expect. She was just anxious to get it done.
Well, this new girl had an idea – a slightly shorter cut somewhat like an Audry Hepburn look. Though my wife’s hair is pure silver and looks quite good in most any style, this shorter look was quite a change. It reminded me of the way she used to wear her hair when we were younger. I swear she looks ten years younger. She was quite pleased with the new do, and happy to have found this new hairdresser.
It’s amazing how just a change of hairdo can affect one’s looks and morale.
@ David Foster – FWIW, I had no trouble accessing your post, thanks for the link.
I’m not sure it’s even possible for anyone under the age of 30 to imagine live without the internet.
Also thanks for the link to Matt Taibbi’s post, which I recommend. https://www.racket.news/p/head-of-infamous-information-disorder
“Amid a busy news day Monday, a familiar figure was named Chief Operating Officer of National Public Radio. Ryan Merkley, who directed the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder and also appeared in the Twitter Files as Wikimedia’s liaison to “Industry Meetings” with federal law enforcement, was elevated to the job by NPR president/Titania McGrath clone Katherine Maher.”
Commenter with the best reply: “Attention Elon & Vivek: Here’s your first budget cut.”
And one that is long overdue.
In re “NPR president/Titania McGrath clone Katherine Maher”:
Matt has an earlier post dedicated to showing just how much Maher’s serious (dare I say “authentic”?) tweet history echoes McGrath’s satire, which is hilarious and somewhat frightening. https://www.racket.news/p/new-npr-chief-katherine-mahers-guide-cd7
Kate, try cooking lentils or mung beans (those small guys with the green skins—often sprouted—the typical Chinese bean sprouts).
These might be easier to digest.
Possibly, chickpeas, too. Possibly.
Actually, if you’re into sprouting you can sprout your own mung beans. They’re easy to sprout, as are lentils, but I’m not crazy about the taste of the latter, when sprouted. Still, all very nutritious.
Actually, you can sprout most any kind of bean…
Barry Meislin, thanks. It’s a good idea, but lentils, split green peas, and any beans cause distress requiring me to take enzyme tablets. If I were to cook my own beans, I’d have to use asafoetida, which I learned about in India. Sticking with cooked and cooled rice, potatoes, or whole-wheat pasta seem like the right plan for me.
Kate:
I have lost an astonishing thirteen pounds!
That’s a lot in roughly 4-months…Congrats! That exercise routine certainly helped also, but that resistant starch stuff looks interesting.
Have stayed between 5lbs of 200lbs for years and years…and years. But arm and chest muscle has been dropping down and/or disappearing for about 4-5 years now.
Have been looking for a change in diet to help tighten up with the exercise and fairly new recumbent bike. After a search last night – Canned potatoes are also a source for resistant starch (no, am not going to peel-slice-cook potatoes), and broke out the stored rice cooker last night (only way I can cook rice!?!). Already eat pintos and black eyed peas so will start eating more and add potatoes & rice to them.
JJ: “It’s amazing how just a change of hairdo can affect one’s looks and morale.”
I suspect the same impact happens with men who sport beards and then shave them, or vice versa. Perhaps also with those men with thinning or receding hair who go whole hog and shave most/all of their hair to baldness as well (the Telly Sevales/ Yul Brenner look?). Then sometimes they add the beard as well, to draw the eye away from the bald pate?
Reduces the bother and fuss, or makes them look sort of younger than otherwise? Trump could probably go that way, but has chosen a different path.
I will say that those men who choose to grow their beards really need to see if they have the level of coverage to make it look good. Long enough but not really long? I am finding a lot of sparse beards on the younger males and don’t think they add much in appearance (or the portrayal of being older and more experienced) vs. remaining clean shaven.
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Comments on today first hearings. I just watched a few minutes. Pete is holding his own. Looked up Senator Reed. West Point grad, but sorry to say sounded like he learned nothing in the Army. Don’t know what he did, but sounded like a JAG.
Self and Guardian Angel
Wonder how many children ‘See’ a Guardian Angel? Some certainly do. Early cave paintings may reflect the concept of a Guardian Angel to a caveman.
Today was Blood Work day for me. Drove 20 miles to SIMEDHealth in Chiefland and their blood work computers were down. Geez…didn’t eat anything because I had planned to get the blood work done before seeing my primary care Doctor. Drove about 60 more miles to SIMEDHealth in High Springs – cursing the Chiefland office out the whole way. Had never been to the High Springs office and had wanted to see it anyway.
Normally I plan these ‘Thangs before hand with Google maps, and then I can have the smart phone giving me directions as I drive—something I only recently figured out how to do with a phone. No wonder they are called smart phones! 🙂 High Springs is small with all kinds of roads converging in that small area. Drove around for about 15 minutes trying to see addresses on buildings w/o getting run over or cause an accident. Finally saw an address, and I was going the wrong way.
Turned around and repeated the looking for addresses—another 10 minutes with few if any addresses to be seen whilst traffic blew past me…on a 4-lane highway this time. Had drove outta High Springs downtown area and turned around again – then saw 27 which is a road I thought I was on – then turned onto the REAL 27. Drove thru center of town again…addresses all missed or they were hidden.
Pulled over and got out of truck to walk around to find an address—which were difficult to see whilst driving, I guess it’s old age. Walked about 20’ and looked across the street and saw a SIMEDHealth sign. Hallelujah!!!!!!!
Self had stepped in—the way Self often does for humble me…
(Oh, great, SHIREHOME has an update on how Pete Hegseth is doing…)
Blog Anomaly? Noticed yesterday and today that dashes may have an anomaly. Naturally, the old dash (-) isn’t the only dash in town any more…there’s:
— and ? and the old –
Yeah, that middle sized dash is showing up as a ? now…
I want to thank you, Neo, for this post from Sept. 20, 2024:
https://thenewneo.com/2024/09/20/time-for-some-resistant-starch/
I have been eating two modest servings a day of cooked, cooled brown rice or cooked, cooled potatoes, since that date. I have lost an astonishing thirteen pounds! The regimen is clearly changing my insulin sensitivity; the blob of fat on my tummy is almost gone. I haven’t changed my exercise routine significantly. I use my rowing machine for cardio work and I lift hand weights.
New post: Imagine No Internet
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/72841.html
The counsel I get from my just eleven years older–but an entire different era–girl friend (79):
“If you’re going to fight, fight pretty.”
Kate:
So I’ll try cooled brown rice with green chille salsa and a hard boiler egg for lunch. You aren’t supposed to reheat the resistant (-ified) starch?
om, yes, you can re-heat. I’ve been enjoying sliced cooked potatoes sautéed in butter. Yum! Warmed-up rice with butter or leftovers is good too. The microwave makes this really easy.
I must add, resistant starch includes beans.
Good pinto beans are a New Mexico glory. Yum.
“16 oz. beans, hot, to go” is something I say at least once a week at the Frontier, a legendary Abq restaurant just a block beyond my café.
I lost 60# in 18 months eating beans with every meal plus protein and veggies and cutting back on the usual suspects.
huxley, the regimen sounds a lot like your “slow carb” diet (if I remember that correctly). My problem with that is I can’t digest beans. I have to take an enzyme with them, which sort of defeats the “resistant starch” plan of having the starches go through the upper GI system to be digested in the large intestine. So I’m using cooled brown rice and potatoes, which don’t cause me digestive distress. But for om, and others, who can eat beans, that’s another good option.
What 250,000 Steps In a Week Does To Your Body
My problem with that is I can’t digest beans.
Kate:
That’s OK. It was a general recommendation.
Congratulations on your results!
Thanks, huxley! I wish beans were an option for me. And for other people who, like me, have been only somewhat overweight but have struggled to lose pounds, these various resistant starches are all good options.
Move over Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – Trump’s bringing a new Money Collector to town…
External Revenue Service (ERS)
NOTE: ‘U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) collected approximately $111.8 billion in duties, taxes, and fees‘ in 2022. Redundancy? Geez…I don’t think so, i.e., “$111.8 billion” ain’t squat. How many jobs does the CBP do? Yeah, we need a special department—like the IRS—to collect money from foreigners. Ditto on that Geez…and no wonder the Border Patrol can’t to a proper job.
My wife’s hairdresser retired suddenly back in November. She’s been wanting to get her hair cut. So, today she went to a new place and got it done by a new young woman.
She didn’t know what to expect. She was just anxious to get it done.
Well, this new girl had an idea – a slightly shorter cut somewhat like an Audry Hepburn look. Though my wife’s hair is pure silver and looks quite good in most any style, this shorter look was quite a change. It reminded me of the way she used to wear her hair when we were younger. I swear she looks ten years younger. She was quite pleased with the new do, and happy to have found this new hairdresser.
It’s amazing how just a change of hairdo can affect one’s looks and morale.
@ David Foster – FWIW, I had no trouble accessing your post, thanks for the link.
I’m not sure it’s even possible for anyone under the age of 30 to imagine live without the internet.
Also thanks for the link to Matt Taibbi’s post, which I recommend.
https://www.racket.news/p/head-of-infamous-information-disorder
“Amid a busy news day Monday, a familiar figure was named Chief Operating Officer of National Public Radio. Ryan Merkley, who directed the Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder and also appeared in the Twitter Files as Wikimedia’s liaison to “Industry Meetings” with federal law enforcement, was elevated to the job by NPR president/Titania McGrath clone Katherine Maher.”
Commenter with the best reply: “Attention Elon & Vivek: Here’s your first budget cut.”
And one that is long overdue.
In re “NPR president/Titania McGrath clone Katherine Maher”:
Matt has an earlier post dedicated to showing just how much Maher’s serious (dare I say “authentic”?) tweet history echoes McGrath’s satire, which is hilarious and somewhat frightening.
https://www.racket.news/p/new-npr-chief-katherine-mahers-guide-cd7
Kate, try cooking lentils or mung beans (those small guys with the green skins—often sprouted—the typical Chinese bean sprouts).
These might be easier to digest.
Possibly, chickpeas, too. Possibly.
Actually, if you’re into sprouting you can sprout your own mung beans. They’re easy to sprout, as are lentils, but I’m not crazy about the taste of the latter, when sprouted. Still, all very nutritious.
Actually, you can sprout most any kind of bean…
Barry Meislin, thanks. It’s a good idea, but lentils, split green peas, and any beans cause distress requiring me to take enzyme tablets. If I were to cook my own beans, I’d have to use asafoetida, which I learned about in India. Sticking with cooked and cooled rice, potatoes, or whole-wheat pasta seem like the right plan for me.
Kate:
That’s a lot in roughly 4-months…Congrats! That exercise routine certainly helped also, but that resistant starch stuff looks interesting.
Have stayed between 5lbs of 200lbs for years and years…and years. But arm and chest muscle has been dropping down and/or disappearing for about 4-5 years now.
Have been looking for a change in diet to help tighten up with the exercise and fairly new recumbent bike. After a search last night – Canned potatoes are also a source for resistant starch (no, am not going to peel-slice-cook potatoes), and broke out the stored rice cooker last night (only way I can cook rice!?!). Already eat pintos and black eyed peas so will start eating more and add potatoes & rice to them.
JJ: “It’s amazing how just a change of hairdo can affect one’s looks and morale.”
I suspect the same impact happens with men who sport beards and then shave them, or vice versa. Perhaps also with those men with thinning or receding hair who go whole hog and shave most/all of their hair to baldness as well (the Telly Sevales/ Yul Brenner look?). Then sometimes they add the beard as well, to draw the eye away from the bald pate?
Reduces the bother and fuss, or makes them look sort of younger than otherwise? Trump could probably go that way, but has chosen a different path.
I will say that those men who choose to grow their beards really need to see if they have the level of coverage to make it look good. Long enough but not really long? I am finding a lot of sparse beards on the younger males and don’t think they add much in appearance (or the portrayal of being older and more experienced) vs. remaining clean shaven.