Not no, but Hell no. You got a nasty authoritarian streak brewing there, you might want to get that looked at.
We get to vote on recreational pot
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I think that you are probably right. However, I think that letting our countrymen self destruct in the name of liberty is pretty nasty also. Liberty is for a disciplined and moral people. It is totally unacceptable for weak, undicipined people to be allowed to keep destroying themselves. If this was 5-10% of the population, I wouldnt feel this way. But we are talking 50% + of the public are fat, lazy, unhealthy losers. They need to be saved from themselves. When the barbarians come for us, I dont want to be left with a couple dozen other middle aged men to defend the whole shooting match.
Yep, diversity is our achilles heel. Some cultures are substandard. The culture of unchecked gluttony is a problem ...
Yeah. I am at a loss for how to turn this around outside of authoritarian impulses. I am open and honest about this. Our substandard culture is turning me toward more of a strong man, authortarian or nanny state type deal. I hate it, but I dont see options.
It all boils down to values. Some cultures value things like the nuclear family and education and personal responsibility and academic / career achievement and other cultures don't. It really is that simple. Change what people value and change the culture. Libs value anarchy and victimhood and safe spaces among other useless things ...
I think this is deeper than the libs. Plenty of traditional conservatives that cant pass a McDonalds without getting the super sized meal. Cant afford a decent place for their children to live, but always has a cancer stick hanging out of the mouth. Hooked on screens and soda. Big fat fatties conservatives and libs alike.
Again, comes down to values. Those you mentioned don't value health / wellness. And yes, these values transcend political parties. My comment about libs and core values was far from all-encompassing ...
This might be the post of the year.
If the right wants to see a massive uptick in young person support, back recreational marijuana laws and use exactly this rationale: especially in black and brown communities.
By the way, I don’t use pot and never will, but know plenty who do and have their reasons for it.
To 76s point, enforce the border, not dumb marijuana laws.
To 76s point, enforce the border, not dumb marijuana laws.
100%. I have been and will for the rest of my life be AGAINST more gubment control. I DO NOT TRUST THEM AT ALL....and it only is getting worse
This upcoming surgery will be my 31st surgery in my life- unfortunately I have allergic reactions to almost all pain medications so I have endured 2 knee replacements and numerous other surgeries(including 2 previous surgeries on the affected shoulder) with aleve and extra strength tylenol . I have never smoked actual weed but the THC gummies have been a Godsend. I also have a good friend who's Mother has Parkenson's and vaping THC has helped her(totaslly unscientific), but I have seen her calm the shakes with some puffs of the THC Vape.
Liberty is for everyone. Let the idiots hang themselves.
There are other ways to fix the obesity problem without being a dictator. I don’t support these actions, I’m a free market capitalist, but if one wanted to change the obesity epidemic this is a start:
1) End Monsanto. Their control over seeds and the food supply are making Americans sick. How it’s not a monopoly I can’t understand. GMO’s are why we have so many digestive diseases and weird allergies that never existed before.
2) Incentivize behavior with taxes. You set nutritional guidelines for fast food and impose tax penalties for not meeting them. It worked with gas mileage and the EPA.
3) Stop burning subsidized corn in our gas tanks. Ethanol creates a ton of corn growth which is the leading supply of crap sugar.
4) Put more emphasis on PE and nutrition education in public schools. Increased organized athletics at lower levels. Make playing sports a graded class. Fat kids almost always turn into fat adults. Schools have these kids 3/4th of their lives. Make exercise mandatory.
5) Subsidize healthier foods, foods that are a part of the Mediterranean diet. Conversely, tax processed foods like cigarettes. Honestly processed food is probably a bigger health issue than cigarettes today. Europeans are healthier because they walk more and eat fewer foods in packages.
6) Make health goals - weight, BP, etc. - a strong financial incentive for private and public health care plans.
Etc, etc…
None of this requires Communism and the additive effect will be measurable. But you’re never going to fix everyone. Some people want to be fat and are happy about it.
So this is a tough one.
You do drive bys where you throw in such obviously incendiary remarks like this and wait for the predictable responses - or you believe what you wrote.
Amazing.
In Oregon if I read this correctly you can still posses and use recreational mary jane-
What's Legal Oregon - In Oregon, it's legal for adults 21 and older to purchase, possess and use recreational marijuana…but there are limits.*
In Oregon, it's legal for adults 21 and older to possess and use recreational marijuana… with limits.
whatslegaloregon.com
Jesus. That’s how brother. And yes, I realize you know this. I equate it to what you do about a family member with an addiction. No matter how hard you try, you cannot “fix” it for them. But we can pray, and seek Jesus.
Outside of that, we can engage in politics as much as possible. Keep pressing, keep calling, keep talking, keep discussing, keep voting, get involved, because giving up is not an option.
Hopelessness is the best friend of the enemy. I still believe my friend. I still have Jesus, and I still have hope.
Have a blessed day brother.
I believe they reversed their hardcore stuff but not weed.
I was about to bring this up, and its relation it to restrictive gun laws. Yes, there are idiots out there, but protecting the morons mantra stops where my rights are affected. People has zero problem getting weed if they want it. It's a waste of time, and law enforcement doesn't even bother going after users unless they want to tie a bigger crime to it, like hard drugs, thieving, or violence. It's kind of like that busted taillight probable cause stop.
I personally don’t use drugs and never have.
But the regular use of weed at it’s current strength is not good. I know of someone who was doing that and it caused serious problems both mental and physical. They knew it and finally went cold Turkey. After 8 months they’re finally getting to where they feel okay.
It seems to me it’s like being an alcoholic in a different way.
I also know of someone in my larger family circle who suffers from anxiety and does CBD gummies and has benefited from them. Of course there’s no THC in them. But it’s really been a help in their daily life.
But the regular use of weed at it’s current strength is not good. I know of someone who was doing that and it caused serious problems both mental and physical. They knew it and finally went cold Turkey. After 8 months they’re finally getting to where they feel okay.
It seems to me it’s like being an alcoholic in a different way.
I also know of someone in my larger family circle who suffers from anxiety and does CBD gummies and has benefited from them. Of course there’s no THC in them. But it’s really been a help in their daily life.
Gmos are not why we have the health problems we do. antibiotics in the meat and highly processed food is.
I will agree that Monsanto has an unhealthy grip on the seed bank, but they sponsor a hell of a lot of good research for farmers of all kinds.
The rest is on point, per usual.
Not sure if we'd have affordable food without GMO. I've grown gardens in the past, the insect problem is insane. I quit and gave up. It seemed to get worse every growing season.
I disagree. I think GMO's are messing with our endocrine and immune systems in ways we don't understand.
How many psoriasis commercials do you hear today vs 10 years ago? Anyone have a peanut allergy that could kill them when you were a kid?
Monsanto makes "round-up ready" corn variants so farmers can crop dust your food with Glyphosate. That ends up in you. It's not healthy. It's messing with our immune systems and causing auto-immune issues like eczema, psoriasis, allergic reactions to benign substances and cancer.
Monsanto needs to be disbanded and farmers need to go back to developing their own produce. What we lose in yield we will gain in health.
If there is going to be a boss it’s going to be me, so settle down..
It wasn’t legal for pharma or liquor to advertise 10-15 years ago, I forget the exact time. But don’t let facts kick you in the ass. Eat Whole Foods, stay away from factory farmed meats and dairy. That gets you 85% of the way home, from there is is simply a fine tuning exercise that most cannot handle.
The commercials are irrelevant. there wasn't anything that could be done about common ailments then, you just suffered. you're confusing pharmaceutical breakthroughs with a rise in the conditions. And there were plenty of kids with deadly allergies. Most of them died from it. ever realize how anti bacterial agents in every damn thing affect immunity???
I don't think you understand how much difference there is in yield between so-called organic and gmo crops. I worked on the uf dairy research unit for two years and saw first hand any number of Monsanto experiments on bovine and plant subjects.
Nah, as a diabetic in remission who has lost 40 lbs I can tell you that Keto and its subset carnivore work.
Carbs are a recent, as in 10k year old, dietary development that is at odds with our bodies.
Processed foods are the worst.
Exercise can not outcompete the mouth.
I do Tai Chi and walk ~3 miles a day but its what I eat that has made the most difference.
I am the healthiest I have been in 30 years. I gave up most carbs and 99.9% of sugar ( I will have a taste of something from time to time like 1/4th a normal sized cookie.)
I get carbs from the occasional keto bread, zero sugar dessert and low carb vegetables. I try to stay below 20g per meal.
My veins in my arms and legs are visible as if I was a weight lifter. I have not lifted weights in well over 3 months and my definition has only improved. I intermittently fast and some days I only do carnivore. My legs had become hairless but the hair has returned. I went from heart failure to a normal EF
Grains are bad for you. ALL of them. Some are less bad than others but still bad.
People who push low/no meat diets have in my opinion agendas because they buy into climate crisis nonsense or are animal rights nuts.
People on carnivore diets are showing perfect blood work with the exception of cholesterol. Everything your body needs can be found in meat, dairy, eggs and animal products.
The same can NOT be said of a vegan or vegetarian diet.
But that too is a boogeyman promoted by big pharma. Its not a problem unless you have inflammation in your arteries. Cholesterol tries to fix the damage and over time clogs your arteries.
I am a little over a year into my journey and I can tell you in my case keto has made a world of difference in my health.
The proper human diet:
Carbs are a recent, as in 10k year old, dietary development that is at odds with our bodies.
Processed foods are the worst.
Exercise can not outcompete the mouth.
I do Tai Chi and walk ~3 miles a day but its what I eat that has made the most difference.
I am the healthiest I have been in 30 years. I gave up most carbs and 99.9% of sugar ( I will have a taste of something from time to time like 1/4th a normal sized cookie.)
I get carbs from the occasional keto bread, zero sugar dessert and low carb vegetables. I try to stay below 20g per meal.
My veins in my arms and legs are visible as if I was a weight lifter. I have not lifted weights in well over 3 months and my definition has only improved. I intermittently fast and some days I only do carnivore. My legs had become hairless but the hair has returned. I went from heart failure to a normal EF
Grains are bad for you. ALL of them. Some are less bad than others but still bad.
People who push low/no meat diets have in my opinion agendas because they buy into climate crisis nonsense or are animal rights nuts.
People on carnivore diets are showing perfect blood work with the exception of cholesterol. Everything your body needs can be found in meat, dairy, eggs and animal products.
The same can NOT be said of a vegan or vegetarian diet.
But that too is a boogeyman promoted by big pharma. Its not a problem unless you have inflammation in your arteries. Cholesterol tries to fix the damage and over time clogs your arteries.
I am a little over a year into my journey and I can tell you in my case keto has made a world of difference in my health.
The proper human diet:
Oh I have no doubts the increase in yields is insane, and that’s a good thing because it helps drive profits for farmers (making more farmers is good) and it drives down food costs because supply goes up.
But you can’t convince me eating round-up coated food is good.
And my first 5 seconds of searching led me to this gem…
- The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reports that the prevalence of food allergy in children increased by 50 percent between 1997 and 2011.
- Between 1997 and 2008, the prevalence of peanut or tree nut allergy appears to have more than tripled in U.S. children.
Facts and Statistics
Key information to help better understand food allergies and anaphylaxis.
And what year did round up ready corn and soy start? 3 more seconds of research says…
1998
History. In 1996, genetically modified Roundup Ready soybeans resistant to Roundup became commercially available, followed by Roundup Ready corn in 1998. Current Roundup Ready crops include soy, corn (maize), canola, sugar beets, cotton, and alfalfa, with wheat still under development.
Roundup Ready - Wikipedia
I’m sorry - the coincidence is too much for me to ignore, and I don’t mean to dismiss your experience. It just feels obvious.
OK I missed the salient point. Ingesting pesticide.Oh I have no doubts the increase in yields is insane, and that’s a good thing because it helps drive profits for farmers (making more farmers is good) and it drives down food costs because supply goes up.
But you can’t convince me eating round-up coated food is good.
And my first 5 seconds of searching led me to this gem…
- The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention reports that the prevalence of food allergy in children increased by 50 percent between 1997 and 2011.
- Between 1997 and 2008, the prevalence of peanut or tree nut allergy appears to have more than tripled in U.S. children.
Facts and Statistics
Key information to help better understand food allergies and anaphylaxis.www.foodallergy.org
And what year did round up ready corn and soy start? 3 more seconds of research says…
1998
History. In 1996, genetically modified Roundup Ready soybeans resistant to Roundup became commercially available, followed by Roundup Ready corn in 1998. Current Roundup Ready crops include soy, corn (maize), canola, sugar beets, cotton, and alfalfa, with wheat still under development.
Roundup Ready - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
I’m sorry - the coincidence is too much for me to ignore, and I don’t mean to dismiss your experience. It just feels obvious.
Yeah their claim that once absorbed by the plants it's inert, that's a load of shit.
You can blame farmers for spraying crops with pesticide on top of the roundup that comes with it. I'm not sure anyone has even conducted a double blind study of what happens when you dose crops treated with roundup with more round up.
At the end of the day we washed our hands, sprayed off our boots and threw away our coveralls. Whether we were out with the herds or in the fields, theres more pesticide and anti bacterial solutions on a dairy farm than in a janitors closet at a gym with a pool. Iodine, pyrmethrin, bleach, roundup, the list is endless.
ALL you are asking. Why don't you ask for a few million bucks too? I will vote for the Recreational pot but that's it.
Congrats, you're pretty much doing the Adkins diet.
I actually went on the Adkins diet back in 1995 for about a month and a half (only thing out about the Adkins diet was the really thick book).
I dropped 16 pounds and felt really good. And just like his book said, after about 4 days of zero carbs my body was in ketosis.
The draw back, for me anyways, was that after the 45 days I got bored as hell. I missed the bread and the taters and sugar.
Plus, it was really expensive - even back then. I can't even think how expensive it would be to start it up again in this day and age.
JFC. I'm just going to have to start my own farm now???
What's your food bill look like?
I just looked 1 day of Keto and it's all the most expensive foods...steak, salmon, avocados, etc.
I'm not saying health isn't priceless but holy crap.
Adaptation.
Today I ate a salad with chicken, hotsauce and ranch for lunch. <---cheap For breakfast I had an omelet with bacon bits and cheese. <--cheap even with eggs at $2.05. I drank coffee with real cream and stevia for breakfast (cheap) and drank a blackberry bella vie for lunch. The bella vie is pricy at ~4/ 12pack.
I have bought chuck rolls. I made the last one into 14 steaks, 6 roasts and 5lbs of strew meat.
~$120 @ 5.39/lb. I bought that over 2 weeks ago and still have not gone through all of it.
Last night was spaghetti with palmini noodles ~ 9g of carbs and a low card red sauce. I buy ground beef when marked down or on sale and freeze it. Palmini is pricier than real noodles.
Two nights ago was a marked down pork tenderloin wrapped in bacon. I had a side of cheese and scrambled eggs with it. The scrambled eggs where make with a homemade Crème Fraîche substitute using heavy whipping cream and sour cream.
We regularly take normal recipes and replace ingredients to make the meal keto. You sub out breads and sugars,
For example we make Korean beef on riced cauliflower and replace sugar with monk fruit in the sauce. Riced cauliflower sucks unless you blanche it, fry it and then mix it in the sauce.
Tonight will be buffalo chicken wings. No breading but I will crisp the skin to give it the right texture. The sauce and ranch are low carb.
The bill is close to the same except Bidenflation has jacked everything up.
One thing, your appetite decreases so it takes less to make you full. Carbs are addictive and unsatisfying. Eating less offsets some of the costs. I eat zero sugar desserts. Some are just recipes with monk fruit as the sub. I drink sweet drinks with stevia. Either coffee, tea or a soda that uses stevia. I do bottled water when working outside or exercising.
I am a "foodie."
We constantly try new things or modify old ones if possible.
I decided to adapt keto to my tastes and budget.
I did Atkins in the late 90s. Yep it got old. There is so much more out there today and some substitutes allow you to adapt meals and make them low carb. Stevia and monk fruit are pricy but ubiquitous. They last a long time, however.
I occasionally eat Keto bread.
I went on an outing with the Scouts this past weekend. We camped out on the USS Alabama in Mobile. Its a 6hr drive that takes 8-9
Eating is a little more challenging while traveling but hey "Be Prepared."Thursday we were on a scout reservation and I ate hotdogs with chili and cheese.
Friday breakfast was eggs, sausage, bacon and coffee. I had a sandwich on Friday with keto bread ~6g net for lunch and had tacos on keto tortillas (2 at ~12g ) for supper Friday night.
Saturday was a munk bar and coffee for breakfast and a subway salad for lunch. Dinner was the Buc-ees meat and cheese pack with the hot cheesy sausage slices.
Sunday I was back and took communion at the local sunrise service. Otherwise back to "normal" eating with no breads or sugars.
I eat, drink, and smoke whatever the hell I want. If I drop dead tomorrow, Inshallah. 😂
Feel you, but I need to feel better and drop some lbs.
I’m not fat but it’s getting harder to maintain my weight.
