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Learn-up, people!

This is just too good not to post...thanks to the Daily Kos ...although I admit all the snarky  italicized comments  are mine: Things I Learned From Republicans in September: If you work hard, you won’t have time to get hooked on drugs and that will solve all our drug-problem woes. ( Rand Paul )  (Which might suggest that Rand has never worked a day in his life to come up with this kind of crazy.)   Muslims can't be president. ( Ben Carson )  (And neither should people who have neglected to read the constitution.)    Charles Darwin came up with his theory of evolution at the behest of Satan. ( Carson again )   (I'll give him a pass on this one and just assume he was auditioning to replace Dana Carvey as the new Church Lady and this was part of his comedy routine.) America should get back in the torture business. ( Carly Fiorina )  (Watching your campaign would certainly qualify.) Diversity sucks. ( Rick Santorum )    (Which is why he prefers

Mini-posts

I keep holding off on posting things for a variety of lame reasons, so instead of lengthy wordy posts, I'll throw a few quick hitters down here:  - Forget that post a few weeks back that I called "Handicapping America".  I keep trying to imagine scenarios where any of the current R candidates can win a race that SOMEone has to. Even though he still has a long way to go in the polls, I think it is High School Debate Captain Marco Rubio's race to lose.  Stay tuned next week when I change my mind again completely. - And I still hope it's Kasich, or if not him, Jeb!? Bush. and you can call me all sorts of anti-women names for saying this, but Carly Fiorina annoys me more than all the other candidates combined. I sure hopes she is the R nominee!  - I somehow became subscribed to Louise Hay's emails a number of months back, probably because I ordered one of Cheryl's annual Cmas presents from there, and the only reason I haven't unsubscribed is that

Besides, I like the new title of yesterday's post much better now anyway

So, for the first time in OPSaS history, I have made substantial edits to a post - yesterday's. Cheryl didn't like it one bit - the section about Race...or maybe both parts - she didn't say anything about my perky breasts reference. Wait, maybe I could have worded that better... she didn't say anything about my reference to perky breasts. And even though I stand by my original thought, to just make it a one sentence post doesn't do enough to explain my thinking, and it is an issue that deserves a lot more thought and depth than one sentence can contain. So, thank you, Cheryl, love of my life, for bringing that to my attention for further consideration. At lunch today, I read this article, which I believe represents both some proof of my deleted point yesterday, as well as Cheryl's which is just the opposite: http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/sixers/20150918_NBA_player_Wayne_Ellington_speaking_at_Peace_Day_Philly_event.html It's a very sad article,

You think that's bad, imagine what my brain would have done if they had said that Pert and Turkey Breast was on sale

I wonder what age I was when I became less interested in turkey breast and more interested in perky breasts. Sorry – I could have sworn they were saying that there was a sale at Acme all next week on perky breast, but turns out they might have said something else. I’m sure the radio announcer dude just has bad diction because certainly my mind would never work in a manner that would have come up with that on its own.

Plateaus suck - Boring weight loss update

I'm a little disappointed in that I "only" lost 1.6 pounds this week to get to exactly 200.0, but I had really hoped I'd go under 200. Musta been the damn potato chips I had at a company lunch...or two. Didn't have anything to do with the willpower of the guy eating them...no! Oh well, all the more fun to look forward to next week when I go under 200.

Handicapping America! The 2016 election.

Seems like as good as any to do some fun handicapping of the Presidential race, despite the fact that, as John Oliver pointed out a few weeks back, there will be babies born on Election Day, 2016, to parents who haven’t even met each other yet, so why should we even start discussing it yet. But since there will be babies born 9 months from now to parents who will meet at a bar somewhere around 1am tonight, I won’t wait to be interested in the election…or to needlessly blog about it. Just pontificating (if you live near Philly, you cringe any time you see the word “pontif” in a sentence, or even as part of a word, so I apologize to local readers). So, as of yesterday’s CNN poll, here is the breakdown for the current Republican Presidential Nomination: Trump 27 Carson 19 Bush 9 Cruz 7 Walker 5, Huckabee 5 Rubio 3, Fiorina 3, Paul 3 Kasich 2, Christie 2 Santorum 1, Jindal 1, Graham 1, Perry 0 First, the easy ones to eliminate: Cruz, Huckabee, Christie, Sa

Oh sure, blame it on the dead guy

A bad week, weight-loss-wise. I gained a pound, probably due in part to the funeral of a classy, by-all-accounts-lovable, Irishman, whose awesome family threw a helluva lunch afterwards. Other than that, I probably ate a little too many chicken tenders, french fries and hash browns at the various baseball games and lunches and breakfasts I went to with friends during the week, but if I believed that, I’d have to somehow blame myself, and we can’t have that. I’m back on track this week because I'm good enough. I'm smart enough. And doggone it, people like me!

A simple, complex question

I wonder which is the most complex – our brains or the earth? Both are way over my head in trying to understand them…or in it…or under it…unless I’m in a cave. And of course, there's always the possibility that both are all in our head. But that makes my head hurt.

Call it the Nizz-Nizz diet and we'll try to make a full book out of it...though maybe that Nizz part might look a little too familiar for some

Oh right…my update from the Monday weigh-in. Another good week – 2 more pounds, so 8 in 4 weeks and am now at 200 even. I won’t feel like I’ve made real progress until I’m in the mid 190’s but 8 lbs in one month is certainly commendable. I think what I like best about it though is the discipline I’ve had in keeping to it. I really have been good about sticking to the No Sweets/No Snacks approach. It allows me to eat pretty normal meals, though Cheryl’s generally healthy cooking may be as important as the NS/NS aspect.