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Mindconnection eNL, 2025-09-07

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1. Good News: Where the Intel is Good

Celebrating Freedom

  • The Centers for Disinformation and Censorship (CDC) has been sued for illegally pushing its 72+ vaccine schedule onto school children without testing the cumulative effect. This hypervaccination program is, on its face, ridiculous. I am amazed the CDC has gotten away with it this long. This could be a game-changer for health in America, and very much for the good. It was not that long ago that anyone seeking to challenge such insanity would be professionally ruined and personally destroyed.
     
  • You've no doubt heard the the New York Court of Appeals erased the >$500 million fine that was lawfared against Citizen Trump as he ran for POTUS. During the Communist Occupation, judges were routinely threatened, intimidated, and abused if they upheld the law instead of upholding whatever scam the communists were running. What was done to certain Supreme Court Justices was horrible, and the perps got away with it. Now that the Trump administration is tough on crime and supportive of law enforcement personnel, judges show less fear about rendering correct decisions. The ripple effects of this new freedom to uphold the law will be immense.
     
  • In any tort, the plaintiff seeks remedy. And to determine the amount of remedy, the amount of harm must be established. Since the loans were all repaid in full, there was no harm. Yet Trump was fined over half a billion dollars. The case should have been dismissed, not adjudicated. Not only that, the excessive amount clearly violated the 8th Amendment. So when conservatives talk about "the Rule of Law", this case is a poster child for its absence. This was a legal lynching. Restoring the Rule of Law prevents these kinds of sordid attacks on individuals.
     
  • Home values and income are rising faster than debt. This is what the communists call a "disastrous" economy. People are making more and owing less, which is the opposite of the situation during the Communist Occupation. What's great about this is people know about their own money, so when the commies lie about the economy they are raising huge "we cannot be trusted" signs. And people are reading that message quite clearly.
     
  • Freedom from Woke is making our military strong again. Check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uxSUrraWrM
     
  • Trump will rescue Chicago. The city's illegal denial of Second Amendment rights has predictably made it a killing zone. "In 2024, Chicago had 573 homicides, more than in any other U.S. city, according to Wirepoints, an independent Illinois research organization." [Epoch Times].
     

The Communists Cry Wolf About Tariffs

"Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said that despite the tariffs, the e-commerce giant has not seen diminishing demand or meaningful price appreciation in the first half of the year." [Cruxfinder]

Woke Reporters Get Owned

In this PolitiBrawl video, Stephen Miller whups woke reporters who ask stupid questions. It's worth watching and sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD4e67W9BfQ

Solving the violent crime problem, #1

Nearly all of the violent crime is being committed in communist-run cities in communist-run states. The ultimate solution to all the violence is to restore civil liberties in states that have de facto seceded from the Union. The People's Republic of Illinois is among the worst of them, thus Chicago. Why should these states get federal funding, Senate seats, and House seats when they refuse to do their part and follow our Constitution as if they are not part of the union? They are having their cake and eating it, too.

Solving the violent crime problem, #2

Believing that you can change your DNA via surgery, drugs, cross-dressing, and lying about it is irrational. People who take a deep dive into this irrationality are mentally ill. We call them "trans". It is usually the case that after seeing how they have been duped and manipulated by the genital mutilation predator industry they are despondent. They almost always lash out at others, passive-aggressively, aggressively, or violently. Lots of violence, sometimes, as in mass shootings. President Trump has floated the idea of denying these individuals their Second Amendment rights, since we have had a wave of violent assaults by people with this particular mental illness. We already have precedent for this, so is it a bad idea?

Before answering that, I will note here that this puts the lefties in the position of defending the Second Amendment. Well-done, President Trump. Now the lefties must choose between making work safe for violent criminals via their usual gun ban insanity or tossing trans under the bus. No matter which choice they make, they lose.

Now setting aside the political chess game and focusing on the trans violence problem, is this a bad idea? On the one hand, it could be considered a slippery slope. People who, for example, opt out of the vaccine religion might be deemed "mentally ill" despite being the sane ones. On the other hand, do we really think that people who lack enough basic judgment and are so reality-impaired that they buy into this obviously fake narrative about their own bodies can be trusted to make judgments about when to fire a weapon? But we also must consider what is happening in the UK, where criminals simply opt for a different weapon (knives and cars are popular). Do we start banning trans people from driving automobiles? If so, what about ADD people? Where does it stop?

The solution here is to go after the predators who rob these individuals of their sanity. There is no medical or ethical basis for what they do, it is all about taking out their aggression fantasies on other people. You like to mutilate children? Off to prison you go. You get off on mind-f**ing a preteen into becoming yet another medical experiment? You get removed from society.

When you think about it, these predators are no different from the proverbial creeps who drive around in vans and offer candy to children. They need to be handled the same way. Don't blame the kids who later become violent adults, they are victims. Blame the ones who did this to them. And take them out of circulation.

Separating church and state--finally!

Governor Ron DeSantis is taking the highly unusual step of respecting the First Amendment and no longer establishing a state religion. He "will end all mandates not written into state law, and called on the state’s Republican-led legislature to eliminate the others." [1440 Digest].

Requiring repeats is a tacit admission that vaccines don’t confer immunity. Natural immunity never wears off, but vax immunity does? I call BS on that one.

Polio is often cited as “proof” they do, but polio’s rise and fall correspond with the rise and fall of DDT and there have been no outbreaks among the Amish (unvaxxed). So that particular defense of this religion as somehow being "science based" fails the smell test.

Also:

  • Vaccine “side” effects are well-proven, which is why Big Pharma got the 1986 law exempting them from liability for their dangerous and useless products.

  • Ten studies published in peer-reviewed journals show unvax’d kids are healthier than vax’d kids.

  • Outbreaks of diseases like measles and pertussis have occurred in highly vax’d populations, with a significant proportion among the vax’d; ergo, vaccines do not work.

  • Vaccine particles are encapsulated in polyethelyne glycol. When that polymer unravels, as it will, you have antifreeze.

There is a science-based alternative to these dangerous drugs. It’s called bolstering your immune system. It works for pets and humans. It has zero side effects. Keep reading my Health and Fitness column if you want to abandon the vaccine religion but have been afraid to.

Insider Trading Bill Not the Solution

Legendary inside trader Nancy "Nutcase" Pelosi has managed to avoid prison so far. But she has not managed to avoid embarrassment and increasing scrutiny over her crime spree. It has gotten so bad with her, that a bill is now pending in Congress: The PELOSI Act (Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments. I've seen some Senate debates on the issue, and I disagree with the bill's sponsor, the legendary patriot and Champion of the People Josh Hawley. Also disagreeing with him is Rand Paul.

I think this bill provides the wrong solution. Senator Paul has described some alternatives. One of the dangers he noted is this bill would prevent highly successful people from joining Congress. Or running for POTUS. And we'd wind up with low-IQ people like Nutcase Nancy and even dumber people like Cackling Kamala becoming the norm. The communists already have a low-IQ problem to begin with, could you imagine if it got significantly worse? Then again, there aren't that many highly successful people in politics; most of those who go into politics simply cannot make it in the real world. This is not an easy problem to wrap one's head around.

Hawley says this is the same kind of hand-wringing that has stopped Congress from doing anything so far. Paul likes the idea in general, but the specifics need to be hashed out better.

Suicide Shots, Slow Progress

The Suicide Shot, aka, the Covid mRNA experimental gene therapy, offers zero benefits and produces immense harms. Only those with a death wish would get one of these injections, so to call this a suicide shot is not being hyperbolic.

Every single person who got an active (not inert) dose of this gene therapy drug now has compromised health. Those who kept getting the "boosters" have measurably diminished health, and all of those people have spike proteins (the dangerous part of the virus) being replicated by their own cells. The premature death rate among the "vaxxed" is huge compared to that of the "unvaxxed", for obvious reasons.

CVS and Walgreens are now putting restrictions on administering this therapy, which is good. But if they had any moral fiber at all, they would have refused to deal in this illicit trade completely. Still, it's progress. Just too little and just too late for millions of victims.

Self-Inflicted Gut Punches

President Trump is so brilliant. He cut federal funding in ways that "seemed to have targeted" Blue states and cities. In response, those idiots are passing massive tax increases on "the rich". Which means they will have an exodus of the very people who could support their communist political campaigns.

He didn't exactly target those places. They are run badly, and they have long sucked on the federal teat to try to make up for that. They have abused the system, wasted funds on stupid things, and engaged in extensive fraud to misappropriate federal funds to themselves. Now that the DOGE effort has put a serious crimp in waste, fraud, and abuse they no longer can drink at the pig trough. They have opposed DOGE from the start, for precisely this reason. It was a threat to "their" so-called "democracy" (kleptocracy).

Flippin' Red

Every American city that is under communist (aka, "Democrat") control has major crime problems, and the residents do not feel safe. The "solution" the communists have is to defund the police and tax the rich. Yeah, it's low IQ stuff but that's their time-tested formula. It works for them, because it keeps their victim supporters in a constant state of fear. And they can more easily manipulate fearful people, because fear suppresses rational thought.

Now Trump is rescuing those cities. For example, he's sent in federales to stop the violence in Los Angeles. He's now cleaning up Washington, DC (District of Corruption). And he's contemplating a rescue of the citizens of Baltimore. Now, why do you think the commies are so adamantly opposed to this? Because they know the grateful citizens will largely vote Republican next year. The commies rely on lies and histrionics, Trump's team produces results. And results are far more persuasive.

Nutcase Update

Nutcase Nancy keeps repeating the lie that the OBBB (which she refers to as the "Ugly" bill) has cut half a billion from Medicare and "denied health care" to millions of people. On the one hand, this blatant lie angers me. On the other hand, only the willfully ignorant will believe this lie and it insults the intelligence of everyone else. Which means the more she tells this lie, the more she helps alienate the Communist Party from voters. This kind of despicable dishonesty played a major role in the sagging fortunes of the Communist Party and their propaganda arms (Communist News Nutwork, MSNBC, New York Times, etc.).

Nutcase has such an OCD for lying, she just cannot help herself. What's really a problem for the Communist Party is this mental illness appears to be a requirement for membership. Every one of the "leaders" of the Communist Party is a pathological liar. It's not that they told a white lie here or there or exaggerated a tad. It's when they speak or write, the lies are blatant and copious. People can take only so much of this before they feel deeply disrespected. And so there's been a massive drop in Registered "Democrats" with a correspondingly larger increase in the number of Republicans.

Instead of stepping down or seeking help, Nutcase and her fellow crazies double down and contribute heavily to turning one voting precinct after another from blue to red. And this is good for the country. They are just too far gone mentally to see it.

Note: It is well-documented that no eligible person has been kicked off Medicare. The communists know this. And since Medicare is about paying for a medical doctor (MD after the name), not a health doctor, nobody is being denied health care either. The people who have been kicked off are one of the following: dead, double-dipping (getting it in two or more different states at the same time), or claiming it fraudulently by submitting false documentation to the government (which is actually a felony). By ending the waste, fraud, and abuse, we keep Medicare solvent a lot longer. The Communists should be applauding this, but they are soul-less creatures whose only goal in life is to make the world a worse place for everyone else to live in (as we empirically know from our own four year Communist Occupation).

Gun Control Reality Alert

The UK has long been supportive of violent criminals, helping to ensure their safety by not allowing even the police to carry firearms. The unarmed populace there is undergoing a tidal wave of knife attacks. The rich now leave their expensive watches at home and hire personal security teams (who are unarmed, of course). They never could connect the dots, same as the anti-gunners in the USA. They like to quote our murder rates, which are quite high, as evidence that guns should be banned. They forget that criminals, by definition, break laws and won't be stopped by gun laws.

They also ignore the fact that if you remove just FIVE of our gun-ban cities from the stats, we have the lowest murder rate in the world. Which pretty much obliterates any gun ban "logic".

Common Sense Alert

So-called "green" or "renewable" energy is neither green nor renewable. It's not carbon-free, either. Wind turbine farms have a lifetime CO2 output per kW just barely less than that of coal-powered plants. To build them, you must of course kill and remove CO2 sequestering trees and other vegetation. In Iowa, millions of acres of formerly productive farmland that sits on some of the most fertile soil in the world is wasted by erecting these bird-killing machines.

The Trump administration is putting the brakes on this insanity, but will surely face challenges from the ignorant communists who would prefer more dead birds and less food for humans. Since Liberation Day, however, we have seen one win for common sense after another. Perhaps this win for common sense will be a stepping stone toward recovering that farmland and toward making the skies safer for birds.

Liar Alert

Someone signed me up for the Democrat Party e-mail list. Every single message has been devoid of any truth and the blatant lying assumes an astonishing degree of stupidity on the part of the reader. So I wrote to them about their latest one, where they said President Trump said he wanted to steal 100 more seats in Congress. He never said any such thing.

"No, he did NOT say that. Would you please stop the compulsive lying? It is very insulting when you treat your readers like little children rather than like adults."

 Their response was to send me an unsub link. In other words, if they can't lie they don't want to say anything at all. Wow!

Idiot Alert

Texas Congressional districts have been way out of whack for a long time, favoring the communists. We're all aware that the commies are incensed the the Republicans want to redraw these, as they are authorized to do, for better balance. This redrawing would give certain minorities a representative boost, and would likely also give the Republicans five seats. The commies have engaged in all kinds of antics to stop this, some of them blatantly illegal. You probably also know that Gruesome Newsome is retaliating by redistricting in the People's Republic of California, which does not even operate under our laws, as if that is some kind of problem for the Republicans. Since the PROC is a lost cause already, this is a "how dead is he" proposition. It's also known as the 32 bullets threat. "I'll shoot you in the head with 32 bullets instead of 6".

The solution is to ignore this threat and fix Texas. Then go after the election fraud problem in the PROC. The situation there is dire, people are unhappy, and the place is ripe for a Republican revolution no matter how the districts are drawn. The only thing stopping freedom from emerging in the PROC is the people there are not allowed to vote in free and fair elections. The fraud is so rampant, it should be easy to identify and prosecute a few dozen perpetrators. The federal government has the Constitutional authority to do this. Once the inmates of the PROC have the ability to vote, the commies will be out no matter how the districts are drawn.

The commies believe they can invoke the 32 bullets threat in one state to protect their corruption in another. This foolishness is the best the commies can come up with. What idiots.

Commie Court Alert

"A Washington state restaurant that resumed indoor dining in violation of a 2020 state COVID-19 pandemic order must pay a fine of more than $900,000, an appeals court has ruled." [Epoch Times]. That appeals court is at the state level, and Washington is a communist state. So this should go to the 9th Circuit Court, where it will surely be reversed. Among other reasons, none of the Covid bans made any sense. For another thing, the idiocy was applied inconsistently. And, of course, the whole Covid scam was a scam.

Free Speech Double Standard

The commies believe in censorship of people they disagree with, but maintain that they can say anything they want, no matter how hateful, damaging, or wrong. This video with Congressman Russell Fry gives an overview of the double standard on college campuses: https://youtu.be/rdDDemNbRto (6:29).

 

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3. Brainpower tip

You may have noticed that in the current "political discourse" environment, the communists rely 100% on falsehoods and innuendos. That is because they are low-information people. They don't care to know anything about anything, they just want to push their toxic ideology and oppose anything that is good. Being grossly ignorant is a virtue to them, and they put a lot of effort into it. But this "virtue" comes at a heavy cost. Far from being bliss, ignorance is a heavy burden. It makes you less able, less independent, and more malleable.

Some of us put a lot of effort into learning, but most of us are simply curious about the world and aware, learning almost by osmosis.  Most of us also have the ability to use logic to accurately deduce facts from facts we already know and we make a habit of doing so.

By contrast, libtards and communists actively work at being stupid, irrational, and ignorant. Here are some of the things they do:

  • Treat conversations as virtue-signaling events rather than opportunities to connect emotionally and intellectually with other people.
  • Limit their intellectual intake to propaganda sources that basically get everything wrong or totally backwards (e.g., CNN, NYT, the CDC).
  • Treat differences of viewpoint as declarations of war rather than something that may enlighten them.
  • Speak and listen in a language abuse dialect where words don't mean what they mean, instead of choosing the correct words based on what those words actually mean.

You can take the opposite of those "practices" to increase your effective IQ and level of knowledge without making a big effort. But if you want to really shine, you can put in more effort. Here are some things you can do (and many of my readers already do most or all of these things, what an amazing group!):

  • Listen to audiobooks, especially non-fiction university lectures in STEM subjects.
  • Pick a topic and watch every YouTube video you can find on it. I don't mean binge-watching, I mean just mix these into your normal viewing habits.
  • Pick an area of interest and subscribe to a magazine that covers it. For example, maybe you'd like to improve your handyman skills? Great, there's a magazine for that (called "Handyman", naturally).
  • Do something stimulating you have not done for a long time. Or ever. For example, visit a local museum. Take your time to drink in the exhibits, rather than rushing through them to "cover the most ground". If you spend an hour in one particular section becoming very familiar with what's there, this is much more intellectually beneficial than taking a shallow view of everything you can run to.
  • Join a social group. Most people have no idea how to do this. Here is one way I do it. When I'm climbing and meet someone new, I arrange to meet them again at that gym or another one on X date. We might do this only 2 or 3 times, and that social group just kind of dissolves. But I might run into them a year later and it's like we saw each other last week. In a couple of cases, the gap has been many years. There's a lot of benefit to doing this, as opposed to the libtard method of hanging only with people as obnoxious and clueless as every other libtard.
  • Volunteer to teach a class or tutor someone. Or offer to do so for a fee.


4. Finance tip

I was thinking of buying an outdoor shed. Instead of spending that money to store things, I simply got rid of them. This included scrap wood and scrap drywall, which I had been saving "just in case" I needed it. Granted, I did need a bit of scrap drywall a few years ago. But it is cheaper to buy several sheets of it than to buy a shed to store scraps of it in.

Similarly, my garage cabinets were getting a bit jammed. Solution? Go through two of the shelves in one cabinet and toss out anything I don't actually need. One of those was a coffee can full of springs and linkages for a race care I sold almost thirty years ago. This gave me the idea of going through select drawers in one of my toolboxes; I tossed out a bunch of chipped and damaged screwdrivers. I never used these because they were chipped and damaged, so no point in keeping them.

Whenever you start thinking about spending money on storage, think first about having less to store. Then once you've culled out the things you don't need, you can organize what's left to make it easier to find it when you need it.

 

5. Security tip

None of the pilots in the USA can pass the cardio part of the fitness exam due to the clot shot they were mandated to undergo, and Boeing build defective planes due to wokeness. Question: Is it safe to fly? That's a rhetorical question, with an obvious answer.

From Dr. Peter McCullough's Substack, we have these shocking statistics:

  • 40% increase in early pilot deaths (before retirement age) since 2021.
  • Pilot long-term disabilities tripled starting in 2021.
  • Near-miss aviation events exploded — from just 1 per year pre-2021 to 28 per year at Washington National Airport alone.
  • The FAA’s Incapacitation Data Registry was discontinued in 2022, leaving no centralized tracking of pilot health.

Some people will try to defend the experimental medication ideology by nitpicking at the numbers. But let's remember how the mRNA shot was intended to work. You can easily verify this, if the truth matters to you over the ideology, because even the pro-jab people say this. It stimulates the body to produce the toxic part of the virus, which is the spike protein.

But the modified RNA doesn't just stay local or expire quickly. It keeps replicating and spreading to cells all over the body, causing them to also produce the spike protein. This means, for one thing, the body's immune system will start attacking those formerly healthy cells. It means, for another thing, there's a whole lot of spike protein goin' on. Those form many fibrous masses, which clog up the circulatory system. This is why the afflicted (with the jab) pilots fail the cardio stress test. It's also why so many pilots black out, die, get brain fog, etc.

Remember, we're not just talking theory or opinion. We are looking at empirical evidence. Until the pilots are replaced and the planes are repaired, we are going to see more "near hits" (what people mean by "near miss") and actual hits.

Not that our highways are safe, the stats are terrible there also. The roads are full of brain-damaged (due to those clots, the inflammation, the weakened heart pumping less oxygen for the brain, etc.). Defense here is to follow defensive driving techniques (if you have not had the class, take it). If you were subjected to this experimental medication and got one that worked (many people got a placebo due to a variety of reasons), there are some treatment protocols that show early signs of success. If I were researching those, I would start with Dr. Peter McCullough because I have heard him provide expert testimony many times and the guy is rock-solid.

 

6. Health tip/Fitness tips

See all of my climbing videos here: https://tinyurl.com/ClimbingSigChannel. Some cool climbing  videos:

My hardest climb ever, a 5.11d on lead: https://youtu.be/UT5h0heUUBc . I made a dumb mistake initially, letting the rope wrap over my shoulder. Watch what happens.

The scale:

  • Beginner: 5.6. 5.7. 5.8, 5.9  (roped) / VV, V0, V1, V2 (boulder)
  • Intermediate: 5.10a, b, c, d ;5.11a, b, c, d  / V3, V4, V5, V6
  • Advanced: 5.12a, b, c, d; 5.13a, b, c, d. / V7, V8, V9, V10.
  • Elite and Pro: Even harder. Almost nobody climbs at either level at any of the 6 local climbing gyms.
 
Over the past few years, I've replaced many tools that I've used for decades. They just wore out. While writing this, I took a look at my keyboard. The lettering is worn off several keys (I'm a touch typist, so this doesn't particularly bother me).

I've also replaced shoes, shirts, sheets, and so forth. Our stuff just wears out. But there are ways to keep it from wearing out prematurely. For example, to keep sheets from premature wear, wash them after one week of use, use a front loader, add only 1/3 of the recommended detergent, don't use fabric "softener", don't use bleach, let them air dry after a brief (15 minutes) toss in the dryer on low heat or tumble dry.

This brings me to the subject of body wear. I'm muscular, but not huge like a football player or a steroid-jacked bodybuilder. On the outside, this appears to be an unfortunate genetic limitation for me. But the reality is different. Those huge guys experience overloading in their joints, which are made of the same material as my joints. Something like 80% of us have this limitation. We can train as effectively as possible, with no fear of getting too much muscle for our joints to handle.

But many people in our cohort train in a way that damages their joints, experiencing worse outcomes than some of the mass monsters do. With the right training techniques, your joints should actually become stronger instead of wearing down. Too bad the same is not true for my tools. I've got sockets my dad bought me when I was in grade school, and I have used them so much the lettering is worn off. I've even worn out tape rules. These items cannot self-regenerate they way our joint faces and other structures can. The trick is to reduce the damage down to a point where the body's minimal regeneration abilities can accommodate it.

Eighteen training tips:

  • Avoid the "look at how much I can lift" mindset.
  • Use mechanical disadvantage and isolation to put tension into the targeted muscles, rather than more weight. More weight simply means your body will compensate by drawing on other muscles. It becomes performance rather than training and thus becomes a complete waste of time.
  • Watch those angles. Poor form is normal and often driven subconsciously. Always check if you're cheating, then make a correction.
  • Don't bounce the weights. Squeeze them, instead. Controlled motion challenges the muscles and stimulates growth. Momentum weight training damages the joints offers zero benefits.
     
  • Deliberately train at the extreme extension; this is where you develop joint-protecting strength. Just don't neglect the mid-range and full-contraction.
  • The bodybuilding formula of four sets is good for joints, partly because it pumps the blood that is needed for joint health. So do four sets.
  • As form deteriorates in a given set, cut back on the weight, the reps, or both.
  • Train to failure" doesn't mean train until you can't lift that weight. It means train until you can't quite do a rep in good form.
     
  • Don't try to crank out X reps, focus instead on that feeling you get when the target muscle is under high tension (when this goes away, you're done with the set because you have triggered compensation).
  • Always do a split routine. Never do a "full body" weight workout. The former gets you the adaptive response, the latter just burns calories and pumps some blood.
  • Do not skip workouts. Ever. Consistency is the key. If you have something come up, just move your workout to an earlier or later time.
  • Training in the mornings allows you to flush waste via your normal daily movements. And if something comes up later, that day's workout is already done.
     
  • Don't try to "work through the pain" if something hurts or a joint is particularly stiff. Work around it.
  • Don't stretch before a training session, unless you feel especially stiff. In which case, stretch lightly and only enough to get rid of the kink.
  • Stretch after a workout.
  • Avoid tight hamstrings by working your hamstrings. A tight hamstring is a weak hamstring and vice-versa.
     
  • Stretch your quads more than you stretch your hamstrings. People who touch their toes and do other hamstring stretches but fail to stretch their quads are forcing the hamstrings to fight tight quads. Recipe for pain and dysfunction!
  • Always remember that it takes less time to eat right and train right than it does to take go to doctors for the joint pains and other issues that arise from doing otherwise. Plus, you can easily add two decades of mobility, and that's a huge return on the time investment.

Five tips on diet:

  • Don't consume inflammatory foods such as wheat, corn, soy, or seed oils. Or anything processed.
  • Don't consume endocrine disrupters such as fruit juice, large protein shakes (these will cost you muscle mass, not add it), or "energy" drinks.
  • Don't consume multi-vitamins. These have overloads of many nutrients, putting a strain on your kidneys and other organs.
  • Do consume mostly fruits and vegetables.
  • Spread your nutrition across six meals, rather than trying to cram it into three. You can make three of those meals "large snacks" and the other three correspondingly smaller if that works better for you than six equal meals.

But it costs too much!

What if you can't afford a gym membership? Then spring for $25 for a nice set of bands. You can use those anywhere. If you can set aside a bedroom or nook in your basement or other place, set it up with at least a rack of dumbbells; this does not cost much. For many suburbanites, it's cost-effective to have a 10 x 10 shed in your back yard. That's plenty of space for an Olympic weight set, and it will cost you about four years of gym membership to get it set up.

What if you can't afford organic foods? Well, I didn't say organic. You do get an edge that way, and if you can grow some of your own (in pots, if you live in an apartment). But the important thing is to get most of your food from the produce department and generally avoid things that come in cans, bottles, and boxes. If you "don't have time" to meal prep fresh food, do what I did in my last few years of corporate life: buy frozen. It takes maybe five minutes to dump some frozen food from a few bags into a wok (or any fry pan), toss in a handful of nuts or seeds, break a couple of eggs, and stir-fry it. While that's going, put a sweet potato in the microwave for seven minutes at power level seven.

 

At 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.

7. Factoid

Thanks to the One Big Beautiful Bill, taxpayers 65 and older get an additional $6,000 added to their Standard Deduction. Also thanks to the OBBB, Medicare will be around a lot longer for those who are entitled to it. And yet, the commies claim the OBBB is "devastating" to retirees.

 

8. Thought for the Day

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw

 

 

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Authorship

The purpose of this publication is to inform and empower its readers (and save you money!). 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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