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Factoid | Thought 4 the Day
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1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good
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Important Covid "vaccine" update "A study out of the United Kingdom has
shown that health care workers who received multiple COVID-19 vaccine boosters
after initially being infected with the original virus strain from Wuhan are
more prone to chronic reinfection from the Omicron variant. This may help
explain why the people who have received several COVID-19 vaccine boosters
are increasingly the ones who end up in the hospital with severe COVID-19
symptoms, sometimes resulting in death," said scientist and physician Dr.
Robert Malone. Read the full story here:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/covid-19-vaccines-hinder-the-immune-system-lead-to-more-severe-illness-dr-robert-malone_4627115.html
Remember, none of the formulations hawked as a Covid vaccine or booster is
actually a vaccine. Not legally, and not medically. People have become
accustomed to the language abuse (right out of Orwell's "Department of Truth",
reread the novel 1984 if you need to review this topic), thereby rendering the
word "vaccine" meaningless. It can now include heroin or anything else you can
inject into your body.
Do you want to be immune from Covid? Then eliminate sugar, corn, wheat, seed oils,
and vegetable oil from your diet. It really is that simple. If you look at the
top 10 causes of death in the USA, 8 of them are caused by diet decisions
(namely, the ingestion of the toxins I just mentioned). And that is from the
science, unlike the absurdities spewed by Fauci and other ignorant morons.
Other News and Intel
- Let's start off with something uplifting. The International Union for
Conservation of Nature reports that the global wild tiger population is
between 3,700 and 5,500. That may not sound like much, but it's a 40%
increase from the previous assessment in 2015.
- What disease is destroying America? The Donkey Pox! (the donkey is the
mascot of the American Socialist Party).
- As of this writing, neither "President" Biden nor Speaker Nancy Pelosi
has publicly condemned the assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh. Nor
has either of them expressed any disagreement with Representative Maxine
Waters' many calls to violence (several of which have been heeded, thus
making her an accessory to a long list of felonies). This behavior is beyond
despicable, but not unusual for the so-called Democrats.
- You've no doubt heard about the death of Ivana Trump (age 73), something
that occurred before our last issue came out. Her cause of death is believed
to be a fall down stairs. I read somewhere that falling is the most common
cause of death for those over 65; whether it is the most or not, it is
certainly a major cause. To avoid being a statistic, do a "leg day" training
session weekly (I do mine every Monday). Falls occur due to atrophy of the "mobility muscles",
something that is totally preventable. If you've got "pancake butt" or "bird
legs), or are headed in that direction, get cracking on that fitness
program.
- Starbucks is closing 16 shops, due to safety concerns. (Can you say,
"Thank you Maxine Waters"?). Nearly all of
these closures are occurring in "gun free" cities run by socialist regimes
(e.g., Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Washington, District of Corruption). Logic dictates
that when violent criminals have nothing to fear, they become bolder and
more aggressive. You would think that, in any sane society, gun bans would
be forbidden. And you'd be thinking correctly. Cities run by socialists are
not sane societies. Nor are they safe. Please refer to News Item Number 2, above.
- In their July Hiring Report, Alignable reported that nearly 45% of small
business owners in the USA are freezing the hiring of new workers due to
higher labor costs and inflation (thanks, Democrats!). This has huge
implications, and not only because most new jobs are (were) created by small
businesses. Please refer to News Item Number 2, above.
- An open letter to Alan Dershowitz, from Rabbi Michael Barclay:
https://pjmedia.com/columns/rabbi-michael-barclay/2022/07/18/an-open-letter-to-alan-dershowitz-n1613687.
Clearly not written by Maxine Waters or Nancy Pelosi....
- With the country headed ever deeper in its downward spiral since the
coup, the need to correctly call the 2020 election is increasingly less a
matter of law and more a matter of survival. Though of course, it's clearly
a matter of law; it's just that the destruction being wrought through our
illegitimate and mentally retarded president is making many more people take
the law much more seriously. In Wisconsin, support to un-disenfranchise the
voters of that state in the 2020 election is growing substantially. Once the
first state moves, others will follow. Read more about what's happening on
behalf of Wisconsin voters here:
https://www.blabber.buzz/conservative-news/1040775-decertify-2020-wisconsin-lawmaker-still-pushing-for-overuling-election-results.
- Since September of last year, the Biden administration has sold nearly
six million barrels of oil to China--from our rapidly diminishing Strategic
Oil Reserve. Read more about that, here:
https://www.theepochtimes.com/communist-chinese-firm-got-nearly-6-million-barrels-of-us-oil-reserves-through-auction-sale-records-show_4621191.html
Is this lunacy prima facie evidence that justifies removing the retard from
office or even undoing the coup that put him there in the first place?
Perhaps. But let's not be like the libtards and jump to conclusions. Perhaps
this was done in exchange for the Chinese promise not to invade Taiwan until
next year, since our woke military would not be able to stop them (this
would give China a few weeks before the new Congress replaces Biden and
Harris with Republicans). Or perhaps the Chinese had video of Biden drooling
or dropping a turd from a trouser leg and agreed not to release it in
exchange for the oil, or maybe they were going to unleash a "make fun of the
retard" campaign and agreed to delay that in exchange for this oil. We just
don't really know.
- It's very sad when a Supreme Court Justice makes statements that show a
complete ignorance of civics. Justice Kagan recently spewed this nonsense:
“I’m not talking about any particular decision or even any particular series
of decisions, but if over time the court loses all connection with the
public and with public sentiment, that’s a dangerous thing for a democracy.”
This was at a judicial conference.
If you understand even the basics of American civics (we are not a
democracy) and jurisprudence (the SCOTUS and every other court rules on the
legal merits, not on public opinion), you would understand why her making
such a statement proves she is mentally unqualified to sit on the Supreme
Court. We don't currently have a way to remove Justices who are addled,
grossly ignorant about law, or just plain stupid. But thanks to Kagan, the
need for such a way is now abundantly clear.
Kagan has apparently never heard of Dred Scott, a publicly favored decision at
the time it was written--but one so out of synch with our Constitution it
was later soundly overturned. She is also apparently unaware that the SCOTUS
must rule on the Constitutionality of a law or previous ruling, not on its
popularity. She is correct that following the Rule of Law is dangerous for a
democracy, and we can be thankful that we have a republic instead. A
democracy is when 10 people gather to lynch 1 black man and everyone gets to
vote. A republic is when 10 people gather to lynch 1 black man, and the law
prevents them from lynching him.
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2. Product Highlight
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The Rocket Pen is a life-changer for students and adults with reading
difficulties. Scan a word or line, and it not only reads to you but provides
word definitions, word breakdown, and more to teach you to read (by "you" we
mean the person you buy this for). The Rocket Pen
Reader gives the reading-challenged their independence, whether reading from
paper or screen (e.g., tablet, smart phone, computer).
Buy yours now, or buy as a gift
Main features and benefits:
- Allows students or adults with reading difficulties to gain independence
and reading fluency without stigma.
- You scan, it reads to you.
- Hear individual words and lines of text read aloud in natural voice.
- Scans lines of text or individual words from almost any surface, not
just paper. It can read the text on a computer, tablet, or phone.
- Completely self-contained, no computer or Wi-Fi required to use the
reading functions.
- Comes ready to use, no setup process (but customization can easily be
done).
- Full 1.9 inch color touch screen, and simple physical buttons for
screenless scan and read.
- Multiple built-in dictionaries to search definitions including the New
Oxford American Dictionary with Oxford Thesaurus of English (Americanized),
Oxford American Children’s Dictionary with Oxford American Children’s
Thesaurus, and English to Spanish dictionary.
- Uses colors for the different fields, to improve the understanding of
the dictionary definition.
- Reading tutor functions include spelling, syllabication (how the word is
"built"), and one word displayed in big font.
- Syllables break for each word.
- Direct lookup of phrasal verbs and idiomatic expressions (for example,
get ahead, get along, keep on, keep off, look forward to).
- Built-in speaker automatically mutes when earbuds are used,
automatically unmutes when they aren't.
- Meets FCC, ROHS, and CE standards.
- Package includes ReaderPen, USB charging cable, Quick Start Guide, and
earphones.
Buy the Rocket Pen on
Amazon |
eBay |
Walmart |
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The Rocket Pen Reader is an affordable, powerful reading assistant and reading
tutor that erases the barriers created by dyslexia and other reading problems.
It can be used privately in the classroom, avoiding stigma, thanks to the
earbuds included in the kit (it can alternatively be used without earbuds).
How it teaches reading
Before the early 1980s, public schools relied on phonics to teach reading.
This allowed any student to "sound out" a new, unfamiliar word and also
recognize its root and thereby often grasp its meaning even without a
dictionary. Then schools switched to the "Look See" method, which treated words
as individual pictograms to memorize. The results were dismal, plummeting the
USA from the top of the literacy ranks to the bottom among industrialized
countries.
The Rocket Pen puts phonics back in.
It also adds a context-driven dictionary and a context-driven thesaurus, both
powerful tools for improving reading skills. See the reading tutor functions in
the chart below.
It is the answer
The Rocket Pen Reader is the answer for helping the reading-challenged in the
classroom, special needs classes, home-schooling, and adult education. Because
of its mobile-friendly design, you can carry it with you and use it anywhere.
Not only does it read to you, it helps you learn to read (for example, by
showing you the syllable breakdown and the definition). It is super easy to use,
no need to watch a dozen videos to figure out what to do.
Based on the highly
successful ReadingPen 2 and vastly superior to the cPen Reader Pen, the
RocketPen is the latest generation in a reading tutor scanning pen. It is a
quantum leap or two beyond anything else on the market. This amazing device
retails for $499, sells for $399 on Amazon and Walmart.com, but is on sale
now for a limited time only via our eBay store at only $379!
It beats the competition
Compare the Rocket Pen to the competition. The winner here is obvious:
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Rocket Pen |
cPen Reader |
Orcam Read |
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Amazon Price |
399 |
285 |
1990 |
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Color touchscreen |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Words appear in large font |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Scans phones, tablets, etc. |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
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Scans blocks of text |
No |
No |
Yes |
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Color-coded dictionary |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Simple physical buttons |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Ergonomic for kids |
Yes |
No |
No |
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English and Spanish |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Verbal commands |
No |
No |
Yes |
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Auto trigger upon contact |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Easy menu navigation |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Manufacturer experience, yrs |
>25 |
6 |
<5 |
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Product age |
Latest generation! |
6 |
3 |
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Reading Tutor Functions |
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Dictionary 1 |
New Oxford American |
Oxford Primary |
n/a |
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Dictionary 2 |
Oxford American Children’s |
n/a |
n/a |
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Thesaurus 1 |
New Oxford American |
Oxford Primary |
n/a |
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Thesaurus 2 |
Oxford American Children’s |
n/a |
n/a |
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Syllablication / word breakdown |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Hear word spelled out |
Yes |
No |
No |
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See word spelled out |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Part of speech |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Headword |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
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Pronunciation guide |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Idioms |
Yes |
No |
No |
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Quick Define feature |
Yes |
No |
No |
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3. Brainpower tip
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Two observations about "libtard intelligence":
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In the 7 areas of intelligence tested by standard IQ
tests, they fail miserably. In some cases, it's because they have the brains
and are ideologically blocked from using them. In most cases, they are just
that stupid.
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They treat other people as mere targets of their
ideology. Rather than treat people with respect, they try to bully and abuse
others into acquiescence. This behavior demonstrates a low EQ.
Thus we see that while libtards lack general intelligence,
they also lack emotional intelligence. There is a common cause to both failings.
It's a combination of insensitivity to new information (usually due to a lack of
intellectual curiosity) and an inability to process what little information
actually gets in (due to lack of practice using reasoning powers).
If we look at the cause of their low IQ and low EQ, we can
draw lessons about how to raise our own or at least keep them from dropping.
Here are some IQ tips:
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Sometimes when you come across something that you
haven't seen or considered before, look into it. Why would this be true? Why
would it not? How does it work? What are the downsides? What are the
upsides? How could it be improved? This is intellectual curiosity at work.
Whether a new corporate policy or some gizmo for your car, you can benefit
by fully exploring it.
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Trust the experts, but make sure they are experts. For
example, Quacktor Fauci clearly showed he was no expert in epidemiology
early on in the Scamdemic. The CDC, same thing. So they can't be trusted
because they are not experts. They merely have opinions, and those opinions
are usually wrong. Those of us who are intellectually curious saw this
first.
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Read. This is the number one way to build a repository
of information. If you focus on a particular topic or area of interest, you
can gain expertise in it. For example, obtain ten books on economics
including at least two college texts and a For Dummies version.
Here are some EQ tips:
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Celebrate differences instead of attacking people for
being different. Libtards hate diversity, and thus are hateful toward people
who don't share their narrow-minded, irrational ideology. Value other people
and their beliefs. Value them because they are not carbon copies of you,
rather than hating them for that reason.
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Think of other people as people. Wow, what a concept!
Libtards think of other people as viruses on planet earth, and thus are
hateful toward other people. By respecting individuals as your default
behavior toward them, you make them feel valued.
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Look for the good in others, even if you have to look
really hard. Libtards make up things about non-believers and then are even
more hateful toward non-believers due to those fictions (Exhibit A, Donald
Trump). many times, that obstinate coworker can become a real contributor
because someone takes the time to see the good in that person.
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4. Finance tip
The transition of the Democrat Party into the American Socialist Party began
with Woodrow Wilson, who boldly stated the USA would not enter a European war if
one got started. Of course, that statement tilted the perceived balance of power
such that "a war that never would be" became World War I. Not content with that
carnage, Comrade Wilson "negotiated" a peace treaty that guaranteed a second
act in the blood-soaked drama. We call that World War II. Following a market downturn that was beginning
to turn around, the Marxist known as FDR became POTUS. He took the Democrat
Party, and the nation, deep into socialism. Both Congress and the SCOTUS let him
do it. The consequences have been ugly.
But those consequences got far uglier during Hillary's sleazy campaign to remove
President Trump from office. In the summer of 2020, Black Lives Manipulated
engaged in an all-out insurrection that included fire-bombing occupied
buildings, shooting police officers sitting in their patrol cars, looting
stores, setting people's cars on fire, and brutally beating people at random. This, according to the socialists,
was "peaceful protesting".
Following the coup that involved blatant and obvious election fraud, unarmed
people who peacefully protested and accepted invitations from the capitol police
to enter the capitol building have been slandered and libeled by the socialists
as "insurrectionists". They have been denied due process and have been badly
abused.
Ever since a mentally retarded pedophile illegally took the office of our duly
elected president via obvious election fraud on a scale never before seen in
this country, the nation has been subjected to one crisis after another.
Our economic health has done a 180.
The upshot here is many people who formerly voted Democrat out of some dislike
for Republicans are now registering as Republicans because there is no Democratic
Party. There is only the American Socialist Party that calls itself the Democratic
Party. And any real Democrats had better sit down and shut up, or they will be
viciously attacked (Senator Sinema, a principled liberal, can attest to this).In places like southern Florida, where entire counties saw a massive
shift in party registrations all on the same day and in places like Kentucky
where there are now more registered Republicans than registered Democrats for
the first time in a very long time.
This trend is happening across the country, because Joe Biden has taken the
socialist lunacy to extremes. Other leading socialists such as Nancy Pelosi
continue to make outrageous and insulting comments, alienating people every time
they speak or write something.
The 100+ year reign of socialists in the USA has had only brief respites since
it began. But now it is looking like this poverty-creating, hatred-based system
is coming to an end. They have just gone too far, too fast. The Great
Depression, two World Wars, and all the other sh** they pulled didn't get enough
people mad enough at them. I believe it's because they were in serial crisis
mode, creating and completing one crisis before going on to the next. Now they
are in parallel mode, inflicting multiple crisis at once. And that changes
everything.
You can help us, as a nation, stop the poverty-creating,
hatred-based socialists. Here are some ways:
- Mention inflation. Often.
- Mention the price of fuel. Often.
- Mention a shortage of this or that whenever you can inject that into a
conversation.
- Donate a few bucks to an election integrity effort. If you don't know of
one, go here:
https://www.judicialwatch.org/
- If you receive a video (or link to one) of something outrageous (such as
Brainless Biden saying anything), help it go viral.
- Go on YouTube and find videos that pillory Biden and help them go viral.
Same thing for other topics, such as election fraud, fuel prices, and
anything else you don't like about what the socialist regime is doing.
- Find an honorable retired person in your neighborhood who can spend all
of Election Day watching the polls for election fraud. Help that person get
the process started.
- Don't feel you need "common ground" to get along with socialists. There
is no getting along with them.
Let me explain that last statement. Socialists engage in a form of emotional
prostitution. They will be nice to you if you agree with them and validate their
ideology. If you don't agree with them and validate their ideology, they start
in with the name-calling and other forms of abuse. The approval of these people
is not worth having. Their whole perception of life on earth is based in their
toxic, delusional ideology. To them, it's not that they have one view and you
have another. It's that unless you have their view, you are subhuman.
Most people are fairly ambivalent about politics. They see a mixed picture,
not a pure ideology. In regards to D versus R, they see both sides but lean
toward one or the other. If their friend leans the other way, they might debate
things a bit but they won't let the disagreement become a wedge between them.
They may even switch sides due to a particular candidate or issue; this is why a
given Congressional district might have a Democrat for a few terms and then a
Republican and then a Democrat again.
Socialists, by contrast, are fully immersed in their ideology. Instead of
leading productive lives and valuing others, they lead lives where everything
and everyone is filtered through the lens of their ideology. They are obsessed
with it. Little, if anything, else matters to them. Especially not the
consequences to others of socialist policies and certainly not the consequences
of their own toxic behavior. You can't reason with them, because for them
existence is
totally ideological with no rationality in the mix. Instead of wasting your
energy as if they care what you think or as if they care about reality in the
slightest, ignore them and invest your (spare) energy into organized activities that can
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5. Security tip
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The average self-identified Democrat believes that 57% of violent crimes
involve firearms, while the average self-identified Republican believes that
37% of violent crimes involve firearms. What do you think the actual
number is?
According to the Department of Justice, where these statistics are
collected, the actual number is less than 8%. That's right, over 92% of
violent crimes do not involve a firearm. Despite this reality, the
socialists have drummed up yet another firearm restriction bill. It's not
just a stupid, pointless (from a crime prevention view) idea, it's a
dangerous one. Every member of Congress knows it's dangerous, because not a
single one of them has raised any objection whatsoever to the protection
afforded them by the armed Capitol Police. Brainless Biden, who has been
advocating this stupid legislation, has similarly not raised any objection
to the fact his Secret Service detail is armed.
Why, then, is the average voter off by such a huge amount? The number
that Democrats believe is nearly 7.5 times the real number. Even
Republicans, who routinely exhibit far more sense (for example, they don't
vote Democrat) believe a number that is about 5 times the real number.
When people are this badly misinformed, they are easily manipulated and
controlled. And that is exactly why the lamestream media badly misinforms
people who are trusting enough to listen to them, read their propaganda, or
believe others who do one or both of the two. I had originally said
"foolish" instead of "trusting", and am not sure the change is correct. What
do you think?
Consider the "carnage at our schools". Since 1999, an average of 7 people
per year have been killed in mass shootings in schools. This is about half
the number of people killed each year in school buses (and other school
transportation vehicles). We can arm teachers to drop the 7 people figure to
perhaps 1 (the mass shooter), but libtards are totally against that. They
are also eerily silent about the schools bus death toll, as if those things
just happen when in fact vehicular deaths have known, preventable causes.
But you can't take away self-protection tools if you spend your energy on
addressing the larger of the two problems.
Let's consider something else. Between 1990 and 2020, the number of
firearms in circulation more than doubled and many states made their gun
laws less strict. By how much do you think murders and assaults involving
firearms increased? Per libtard logic, it should have quadrupled. In
reality, it decreased 50%. So we have the data, more guns = less "gun
violence".
The libtard response is they just want to ban "assault weapons" by which
they usually mean a .223 caliber rifle with a fancy stock (the AR-15), a
weapon that is almost never used in crimes. They also like to
mischaracterize it as a semi-automatic or fully automatic weapon due to a
feature wherein if you hold the trigger down you get a 3 round burst. They
say it can cut you in half or one shot will blow a lung out your back, even
though this is basically just a .22 caliber firearm. In short, they have no
clue what they are talking about. They are just talking. And they repeat
absurdities without even subjecting them to the "smell test", something that
would make any intelligent person's nose curl in response to these whopper
lies.
- Job One for us sane people is to totally ignore the lamestream
media.
- Job Two for us sane people is to gently "brain clean" other people
whose minds have been filled with lamestream BS. Wear gloves!
- Job Three for us sane people is to tell our misrepresentatives in
Congress that less than 8% of violent crimes involve firearms and the
only people made safer by leftwing gun laws are the violent criminals.
Let's get all three jobs done. Our safety and that of friends and family
depend on this. |
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6. Health tip/Fitness tips
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The photos tell you something important about my credibility. Statistics
on 60th birthday, when these photos were taken:
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Height: 6'0"
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Wingspan: 6'1"
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Weight: 148lbs
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Bodyfat: Unknown, but well below what the Tanita scale says
is 5%.
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Waist: 29
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Chest: 48
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Arms: 15
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Quads: 20
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Max bench press: Unknown, but I do three sets of 12 reps with 150 lbs
to warm up on chest day
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Cholesterol: In normal range, on low side
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Last illness: 1971
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Last workout missed: Spring of 1977
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Training days per week: 6
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Type of training: Split routine, heavy on supersets
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Meals per day: 7 on training days, 6 on rest day
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Percent of diet that is processed food: 0
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Amount of meat, wheat, corn, or soy eaten annually: 0
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Number of eggs eaten per day: Between 8 and 10
See
my climbing videos here:
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It's common advice to "do each set to the point of failure." That is not
always good advice. I start two of my training sessions with large
compound movements. I treat these like athletic performances rather than
training.
- Legs: I do 4 sets of 8 reps of front squats, with 95lbs on the bar.
This is a high weight considering what I weigh, but not as much as I
"could" load on the bar. Taking this exercise to failure is very
dangerous.
- Chest: I do 4 sets of 8 reps of flat bench press, with slightly more
than my body weight on the bar. This is another exercise where going to
failure can mean going to the hospital.
Note that I can do that many reps at that weight because of decades of
consistent training. I am not advising anyone to start at this level. Use a
weight that will allow you to perform 4 sets of 8 in good form and without
going to failure.
When you consider how many muscles are involved in each of these
exercises, you realize the huge amount of metabolic stress is huge.
Metabolic stress stimulates the production of testosterone. Front squats
work just about every muscle below the sternum and the bench press works a
significant portion of the muscles above the sternum. Can you see the logic
of what I am doing, here? Later in my leg
workout, I take isolation exercises such as hamstring curls and leg
extensions to failure. Those are safe to take to failure. Doing this adds muscle damage to the metabolic stress,
completing two legs of the three-legged stool of stimulating the adaptive
response. The third leg, time under tension, I get just by the sheer number
of sets and exercises performed; hitting my quads with multiple types of squats
(and doing r4 sets), for
example. In my chest and triceps workout, I follow those bench presses
with flat dumbbell presses then inclined dumbbell presses. Do you see the
pattern, here? There's more to this workout, of course. What I do is follow
the creation of metabolic stress with muscle damage. I move enough weight
enough times to get serious time under tension. Yep, I've got some triceps
isolation exercises in there also. With my shoulders, I take a different
approach. I base everything on training the rear delts. So I start with
upright rows using my lat pulldown machine (standing and pulling straight
back) to really hit those rear delts. Four sets of this, however many reps I
can do, and I've gotten metabolic stress, muscle damage, and time under
tension in the first exercise. I follow that with standing lateral raises,
again 4 sets. Then, finally, I do a compound exercise. Which you probably
guessed needs to be something that hits the head not yet hit. I do 4 sets of
overhead presses. Following that, another rear delt exercise. Then front
raises mixed with lateral raises. Then another rear delt exercise, then
lateral raises mixed with overhead presses. Then another rear delt exercise.
I finish using light weights to pump out as many reps as I can of front
raises and then as many standing lateral raises as I can do. Except for the
finishing exercises, I get the muscle damage via intense reps in each
exercise and I get the volume (for time under tension) by doing 4 sets of
each of all those exercises. I do all of the exercises to failure on
shoulder day. Back and biceps begin with 4 sets of chin-ups, a compound
exercise using only body weight. Near the end, I do 4 sets of pull-ups.
Everything else is either some form of lat pull-down exercise or dumbbell
curl exercise. I do all of the exercises to failure on back and biceps day,
because those exercises are safe to fail on.
Where control of the weight is essential to safety, I do not go to failure.
I put that dangerous exercise at the front of my routine and use it to rack
up metabolic stress. What is the "point of failure", anyhow? It doesn't
mean you can't do one more rep. It means you can't do one more rep in good
form. You might cheat a bit to get that additional rep, but the cheating is
a failure. Let's also review these terms:
- Metabolic stress. It's what your body feels when you do something
very demanding physically. Isolation exercises don't create much
metabolic stress, but compound movements do.
- Muscle damage. When you put enough demand on a target muscle, you
cause individual cells to explode and die. This stimulates the
replacement of those cells and the building of additional ones. Compound
movements should not be used to incur a high degree of muscle damage,
due to the dangers involved. Use isolation exercises for that.
- Time under tension. Just how many minutes total did you put a load
on those muscles in each exercise and in the session? This doesn't mean
a long session, if you take very short breaks between sets.
You can increase time under tension, for example by doing a lot of
reps with low weight. But this takes you firmly out of the metabolic
stress creation mode, so you won't get much of an adaptive response. You
can maximize muscle damage by lifting only very heavy weights and doing
very few reps. For normal humans, this isn't productive. Mike Mentzer
could do it, but even among Mr. Olympia contenders he was a rarity to
the nth degree. That kind of training also puts extreme wear on joints,
tendons, and ligaments. To ensure safety when you train to failure:
- Tire yourself with compound exercises at the outset of the
session. You will have to reduce the weight, which means less stress
on joints, tendons, and ligaments.
- Take only very short breaks between sets.
- Stack sets. For example, do a set of hamstring curls followed
immediately by a set of leg extensions. Rest maybe 20 seconds, then
do repeat. Do this twice more for a total of 4 sets each.
- Use the pre-exhaustion technique. For example, tire the shoulder
with lateral raises and then do shoulder presses. The presses will
be very difficult even though you have to use less weight to do them
versus not doing the lateral raises first.
Conclusions
- Never go to the point of failure unless you can fail safely.
You can't fail safely while performing a compound exercise.
- Failure means inability to do one more rep in good form.
Doing reps in bad form means compensating with other muscles or
with momentum, neither of which increases any of the three
factors that produce the adaptive response.
- Always remember that the real value in training is keeping
your body strong and healthy. Training injuries do not
contribute to that goal.
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www.supplecity.com, you'll find plenty of informative, authoritative
articles on maintaining a lean, strong physique. It has nothing to
do with long workouts or impossible to maintain diets. In fact:- The best workouts are short and intense.
- A good diet contains far more flavors and satisfaction
than the typical American diet.
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7. Factoid
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Dystopia never progresses to utopia, no matter how ardently "progressives"
assert that it does. The only real progress, socially and economically, has come
from capitalism not socialism. Else, all socialist countries would have long ago
surpassed capitalist countries in the standard of living rather than being the
cesspools of poverty that they are (or, as in the case of the Scandinavian
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8. Thought for the Day
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Is any ideology that massively increases poverty and human
suffering, no matter how many times it has been tried, acceptable? Socialism is
such an ideology. |
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The views expressed in this e-newsletter are generally not shared by socialists or
other brainwashed individuals. That's because those fools live in an alternate reality
and have not bothered to learn the basics of how life works. They cannot do
basic math, cannot apply logic, and cannot be bothered to learn the basic facts
relevant to any topic that they are passionate about.
Except where noted, this e-newsletter is entirely the work of Mark Lamendola. Anything presented as fact can be independently verified.
Where sources are not given, they are readily available to anyone who makes the effort.
Mark provides information from either research or his own areas of established expertise. Sometimes, what appears to be a personal opinion is the only possibility when applying sound logic--reason it out before judging! (That said, some personal opinions do appear on occasion).
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