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The Last Time I was Robbed

Dateline: Warren, OH; suburb of Youngstown, OH; Autumn 2008

So me and the boy are living with the ex and her daughter and it's Saturday night which means I'm home - I always tried to finish up and get my ass home by Friday night. Saturday and Sunday was work around the house and grill the shit out of some steaks, snow or shine. Sunday night I'd be booking reservations at hotels for the next week.

Anyway ...

Out of the blue (snort) their periods hit and there's not a tampon in the house. What? The ex says she's going to run out and get some. I'm like. No. You're not. It;s Saturday. Night. Think about it, we can't even order pizza or chinese because they won't deliver to this neighborhood once night falls. I'll get your fucking tampons. You guys are NOT going outside after dark.

The Walgreens was 9 blocks away. Walking it was taking your life in your hands because of Thrill-Killas. When we were bad boys and drunk we'd like drive around and try to knock mailboxes over with a baseball bat. In the city, they drive around and take pot-shots at pedestrians with handguns.

Think about that ... Niggers drive up and down city streets and randomly shoot people because it amuses them.

So I jump in the company van (it's free gas, yo) and head to the walgreens. After parking I'm walking down the little sidewalk to the store entrance and there's a little skinny black dude sitting there smoking a cigarette. He stands up and says, "Hey main, yew gotta a light?"

Fuck

That shit's been pulled on me 3 previous times, Landover and Baltimore, MD and Pittsburgh, PA. Now here it is in Youngstown, OH.

"Naw, dude, ain't got a light."

And just like every other fucking time, another black guy shows up out of no where. Just like every other time it's a big linebacker looking mother fucker that looks like he could rip your head off, with arms as big as my legs. Fuck, not again. I left the pistol in the van. I'm un-fucking-armed. And I'm about to be robbed. Again. Fight or flight, you bastards aren't taking my tampon money.

Right at that moment, a city cop pulls into the parking lot. Both of those fucking niggers back off and wander the opposite way down the sidewalk heading to the back of the drug store. I catch the cop's eye and nod at him and continue into the store.

When I come out, he's still sitting there. I reach in the bag and pull out the multi-pak of tampons I just bought and show him as I'm walking back to the van and can see him laughing his ass off. I give him a thumbs-up and jump in the van and head home.

I've never told that story to anyone.

Black people are like schizophrenics. You never know what they're thinking or what they're going to do. I am afraid of and don't trust black people or the mentally ill. I've been victimized too many times by both of them to arbitrarily make excuses for their behavior.

PTSD and Why My Marriage Failed

There is some ugly personal stuff in here.

CNN has a mediocre article addressing murder, murder/suicides by returning war veterans.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/17/us/veterans-violence/index.html

The gist is that they're "switched on" for combat situations and when their time is up, there's no "switch" to turn them off. They come home with finely tuned reflexes ready to fight or flight at a moments notice. They are aware in any situation where a possible attack may come and sudden moves, even from their spouses, elicit a violent response.

I read this article with interest because ...

I "came home" after 6 years and dozens of tours of duty in cities where the military sends new doctors to get experience in treating combat trauma patients. Trauma Center Level I. The Air Force, for instance, trains their doctors at City Hospital in Baltimore because "When you look at some of the weaponry on the streets of the U.S., it's not so different from military weapons," said Dr. Thomas Scalea, physician in chief of Shock Trauma.

My homecoming was in the Fall of 2008 when I was laid off, the 2nd ex left me, and I lost the house. I remember her screaming at me on the front porch "I don't even know who you are any more. You scare me!"

Losing that job was the best thing that ever happened to me. It was already too late for the marriage. The damage was done. I was twitchy. The potential for violence was just below the surface, at all times. The house creaking in the wind would wake me up and "fight or flight" was On, instantly. If this happened at the house, where my wife and kids were sleeping, I was ready to pull the trigger, take them down, and was armed with a Hi-Point .380 ACP at all times.

"That was the wind? Bullshit, you gotta come through me first bitch. Bring it mother fucker. BRING IT!"

Towards the end, we lived in a black neighborhood (it was a beautiful 3 story house, huge and cheap) with hookers and drug dealers on every corner, and I do mean every corner. It took from Nov 2007 to June 2008 to clear out that neighborhood. Me and that dog would stand under the streetlight for hours when I was home, night after night, weekend after weekend. There was a dog in my left hand and a pistol in my right, wide open and plain to see. Police dispatch was on speed dial. The police only fucked with me once when it turned out the mayor drove down my street and saw me. An officer came by and said, "I know what you're doing Mr. Baker, but can't be so obvious." "Yes sir," I replied. That was it. They knew me. I'd wave at them at 10/11 o'clock at night when they'd drive by or 1 or 2 am on Friday and Saturday nights. Me and that dog under the streetlight. Fuck you assholes. Take your criminal shit somewhere else.

I'd go for weeks at a time and not see or speak to white people other than my family while traveling city to city in the NE and upper MidWest. I grew up in Round Hill. There's not a racist bone in my body, but I learned when you're the only white face in the inner city, you're prey. Now I'm biased. And prejudiced. I learned the hard way that if an unknown black male walks up to you, you'd better pull your pistol first. I've been robbed 9 nines, shot at, and shot.

I've seen rolling gun battles with niggas hanging out of windows shooting at each other with assault weapons. A dead black man on the side of the road looks like someone's trash bag fell out on the way to the dump until you see a hand sticking up. Someone who's been gut shot and lying on the sidewalk pumps out what looks like gallons of black and red kool-aid, it runs down the gutter. Brains are grey. WTF is that raspberry cottage cheese looking shit all over the storefronts and sidewalk? Oh. Nigga had the back of his head blown out with a well-aimed head shot. There's very little blood but that fucking cherry cottage cheese shit has to go. Fresh death smells like a bad fart.

I came to NC with literally the clothes on mine and my kid's back, living in my cousin's basement. I hooked up with someone a year after I'd moved here. Dec/09. I think it was in the Spring of oh-10 when we were at a buffet, Fire Mountain, me, her, and Lil Joe, and then the surrounding tables started filling up with black people. Shit got serious. I'd given away my weapons before I moved to NC because I will use them, and was assured there's no need by my cousin, and I had nothing on-hand but a butter knife and attitude. I scootched out until I was half-sitting on the bench and half out in the aisle ready to move. She thought I was some asshole trying trip a little black kid running up and down between the tables. Instead I moved my body halfway out, ready, defend and protect. I was like, who's first. Who wants to start this shit. Every one of those bastards around us I met eye-to-eye. Fuck you. I know what you people are capable of and it will not happen here.

And she accused me of wanting to trip a little black kid.

Are you that fucking naive.

On the first day of school, if half a dozen black kids had beat the shit out of your Little Precious on the bus, you'd have a different attitude. Especially when the school system's response is, meh. Truth.

It's been 3 years now and I'm slowly learning not to react to innocent actions. I'm hyper-sensitive to aggressive black behavior because I've lived it.

Our inner cities are war zones.

Medical Bills

I'm thousands of dollars in debt trying to keep my kid alive.

The lawyers are coming after me for unpaid bills because my medical insurance declared he has a Pre-Existing Condition and therefore doesn't warrant coverage. The doctors want their money. The lawyers want their cut of the money. I just want my kid to get his medicine and see a doctor every couple months like he's supposed to ... 

I'm displeased concerning the promises of obamacare - It's being challenged in the Supreme Court due to it's provision every person must purchase healthcare; the mandate is being challanged, not the spirit. The spirit is that our Federal Government insures every person has affordable healthcare which in and of itself is absolutely impossible. The medical field is a For-Profit enterprise just as any other purchased service. 

Every month I pay my medical insurance premiums but my insurance company refuses to cover my child's expenses. Which leads to me to doctor shopping and presenting my insurance and then ignoring their invoices when the insurance company refuses to reimburse them. 

I'm sorry. Really, I am. 

It's a veneer of acceptability that's produced thousands in unpaid medical bills. 

When I watch the news and see snippets of the Occupy ... whatever, Wall Street or even here in North Carolina with the Occupy Raleigh protests this past weekend.  http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10213182/ 

Rep Brad Mill, D, Raleigh, stated, "The people who caused the financial crisis (and) the painful recession that we've been through seem to have gotten off scot-free," Miller said. "The people who did suffer were really without blame, and that offends people."

I'd love to smack Representative Miller in the back of the head. Mr. Miller, what is happening today is a direct response to your party's social engineering efforts almost a generation ago with changes in the Community Reinvestment Act of 1933. The legislative changes signed by Bill Clinton laid the groundwork for the 2006 economic collapse. Every bail-out of any company should have been denied if it was financed with public money. Every bank, every financial institution, every firm, every auto company, every company should have been allowed to collapse or succeed on their own. 

The people to blame, Representative Miller, are the legislative people in power who refused to let the free market take its course. Government, under your party's stewardship, exaceberated our country's financial collapse.

Wanna fix it?

Increase the Federal Poverty Level by 175%. 

No public financed bailouts or Federal subsidies

 

2012

I've been kinda sketchy about the Republicans since around 2006 when George the 43's bailouts of financial companies took place. I do not trust the Democrats to be fiscally responsible based on the actions of LBJ, Carter, and Clinton - Bill's changes to the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 laid the groundwork for the failures of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and are directly responsible for our current real estate crisis. And the world-wide downturn in GDP.

I blogged and hammered my representatives to defeat Bush's bail-out initiatives. It was for naught. The bills passed and public sector money, our money, was used to save companies from their bad decisions.

George Bush, the 43rd, and his Neo-Conservative doctrine will go down in American history as a failed experiment in social transformation, albeit corporations as opposed to individuals, along the lines of Johnson. Our current president extends these same ideals of top-down government control of internal State's social issues.

Another TBC

It's Racial

It looks like Blacks stepped over the line. The Line? Unprovoked Black on White violence. Most people will look away, ignore, make excuses for Black on Black violence but no one in authority actually does anything about it. Why should they? It's a NIMBY reaction (Not In My Backyard). The highest violent crime rates are in states with the highest per centage of Blacks. It is virtually impossible to police the Black community using Western European legal theory and English Common Law as African descendants recognize Strongman/dictatorship style governement.

South Africa is an excellent economic example:
1980 - 9% unemployment and per capita income 22.56
2010 - 25% unemployment and per capita income of 15.06

Apartheid worked to keep the nation an economically viable 1st world country. Now it's on its way to irrelevance and on its as the poster child for Majority-Minority rule (I know it's a misnomer but I'm writing from a United States-centric perspective).

Here's a list of countries with airlines banned from the European Union; understand that Europe dresses Left and is more "culturally sensitive" than the U.S. Xenophobia and societal homogeny is a crime but air flight is a science that requires an intelligent technical force backed by competent engineers pdf here.

Afghanistan
Angola
Benin
Cambodia
Congo
Democratic Repulic of Congo
Djibouti
Equatorial Guinea
Gabon
Georgia
Ghana
Indonesia (43 different airlines named)
Israel
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyrstan
Liberia
Madagascar
Mauritania
Mozambique
Philippines (46 named airlines)
Sao Tome and Principe
Sierra Leone
Sudan
Swaziland (1 airline)
Rwanda
Suriname
Ukraine
Zambia

Additional countries that are only allowed to operate specifically listed aircraft in European airspace:
Aruba
Comoros
Iran
North Korea
South Africa

There was a reason for Jim Crow laws. There was a reason for Apartheid. Are there exceptions? Absolutely. You cannot blanket an entire homo sapiens "breed" as incapable of "rocket science" but stereotypes exist for a reason - they're based in anecdotal truths and and economic production, consider The Wealth of Nations, hard scientific reporting; there is no absolute refutation of the authors' findings other than knee-jerk egalitarianism. The reality is we are Dawinistic apex predators who command our environment through artificial means including drilling wells to provide water, building structures to keep off the rain, and concentrating energy sources to provide heat.

Some "breeds" of humans are incapable of foresight and mathematics. There is no Cause/Effect in their abilities to reason group economic behavior or need. Instead they're left with short-sighted "Where's my dinner today" mentality. It's a real-world example of Aesop's The Ant and the Grasshopper.

There was a reason for Jim Crow laws.

Believe it or not, but the Black mayor of Philadelphia, the Reverend Mayor Mr. Nutter, is enacting 21st Century Jim Crow laws designed to limit Blacks' access to downtown areas. His statement, "You have damaged your own race." delivered from his church's pulpit regarding that city's Wilding is nothing that people, outside the Black community, haven't known since the 18th Century. Blacks, Africans, generally, are incapable of participating in Western-style representative governments.

Which brings us to Flash Mobs.

They orginally started as a bunch of White college kids performing choreographed dance routines in public arenas. In 2010 it degenerated and became worse in 2011 when Black kids realized they could do the same thing. While White kids entertained onlookers, Black kids decimated their local communities through beatings, robbery, theft, and even murder.

Flash Mobs, which were a huge source of entertainment and surprise, are quickly becoming illegal specifically because of Blacks youths.

Most media outlets deny the existence of Black on White violence via flash mobs. Here in North Carolina, the Blacks gathering at Center City Park in Greensboro and attacking any perceived White person are categorized as "Gatherings". In Charlotte it's called a "trouble". Blacks  have stepped over The Line and as the Philly mayor stated, "You've damaged your own race."

TB Continued

 

Almost ...

Posted a rant to my Facebook and came to my senses before I hit Send.

Email etiquette - I learned at my client, the NSF, on Wilson across from
Ballston Commons right after they split off MILNET from ARPANET to form the DDN.
Emails are instructions, disseminations, actionable items, and RFPs, not rcvd
acknowledgments consisting of 1 or 2 words; that's the purpose of a RR.

Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

I thought better of it since it was a knee-jerk reaction to receiving one too
many emails today that said OK or Thank You. Really? That's all you had to offer
in advancing the conversation? Do you take the time to send Thank You notes at
Christmas to everyone who sends a gift? No? Because ....

Oh, some of those gifts are from your parents or kids or, and there's no reason to send THEM a thank you card? Right? That's too formal.

You want formal?

The draft letter is written on linen paper and after your manual spellchecker and grammar check is complete, you complete your correspondence on vellum with a self-inking fountain pen. I learned how to do this old-skool style where the first lower case "s" is shaped as an "f" without the horizontal line and the second "s" is shaped as we know it now, additionally, the capital S or first S is written as an f and also if it was the first letter of a noun -

The fun's energy pofsefses approximately 75 BTUs per fquare foot of energy averaged over a twenty-four period.

There were always problems with the counter-clockwise swirls and I just couldn't master it. Mainly because by the time I was learning how to write, I was in Public School and we were no longer Landed Gentry with a need for formal correspondence. Actually, by the time the '50s rolled around we were tenant farmers; after 300 years in Virginia, we were renters. To continue -

Once your letter is complete and either dusted or allowed to dry naturally, it was time to fold it in preparation for carriage. I was taught the Fern Fold.

It's just like making a paper airplane except you fold the "nose" over to the bottom of the page and fold the "wings" up.

The "red" sealing wax was applied at the folds, let it set for a moment, then press the family crest into the wax. If you made a bulge with the small, wooden crest then you've applied too much wax. The stamp is dipped in tallow or fat or any type of animal grease and then applied to the cooling wax to make the imprint.

At one time, I was told, the letter was rolled up and wrapped with a lanyard. Wax was dribbled over the string's "knot" and imprinted with the crest. By breaking the wax over the string, you also broke the seal over the rolled up vellum.

As an aside - if you couldn't hold up the paper, the vellum, to a window and see through it then it wasn't fit for usage in "proper" letters.

The boffins at the National Science Foundation didn't respond to every email they received with "OK", or "Thank you". A response was needed if you were asked a question or were invited to respond. If there was an opinion you espoused that furthered the dialogue then please share it with everyone so the idea could be expounded upon and moved forward.

25 years later, disseminational emails with no actionable requests receive multiple email responses of "Alright" or "Ok" or "Thank you". Sending out a 30 recipient email advising notification of changes in procedures elicits two dozen inane responses from people who have nothing to add other than, "Uh, OK George."

 

Page Views

I don't understand why this blog is being watched - it should be almost, virtually invisible across the innertubes. Then again, I thought that as well while lambasting President Bush and his bailout of the financial sector back in late 2008 and had hits from India, Australia, and South America, so go figure.

Since we're on the subject of "Blame Bush", let's take a moment to recognize that the current downturn is laid at the feet of President Clinton and the Community Reinvestment Act changes made in 1999. It took less than 10 years for these changes to wreak havoc across the global financial spectrum with the bundling of sub-prime mortgages sold worldwide.

After watching the changes made in lending practices, I walked into Washington Mutual on Montrose Road in Rockville, MD in 2002, for shits and giggles, and was granted a No-Doc loan of 250k. No documentation, no confirmation, no proof of income, just sign on the dotted line and here's your quarter  million. Really? I said "Thank you," and went home to my 12th story high rise apartment and threw the paperwork in the trash ... "Something's wrong with these people."

I was right - something was indeed wrong with these new lending practices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae#1990s

Wikipedia chronicles it well - the primary mortgage market pressed Fannie Mae to ease credit requirements on the mortgages it was willing to purchase

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bundled those easy credit home ownership loans and sold them worldwide; when those new homeowners found out they couldn't repay those loans, there was a cascading failure because suddenly there was no money from those "low income" debtors.

There is no forgiveness for the Neo-Conservatives and their Hawkish foreign policy and their Socialist domestic policy. George the 43rd will go down as one of the worst presidents in American History - his only redemption is the Patriot Act that's saved domestic American lives but still a dictatorial bit of legislation.

 

Dear Diary

Another Stream of Consciousness post for you

 

It's been 9 days since the Norwegians were assaulted by one of their own and I still haven't come to grips with it; I still do not understand.

 

In post World War II 20^th Century, the Muslims initiated a war that's expanded across 4 continents and last month, June 2011, saw attacks in 18 different nations against 5 different religions. Their philosophy is the antithesis of Western ideals for can you imagine an Islamic Boudicca? Can you imagine individual rights in a Muslim nation? No. They're still a tribal society ruled by pubescent males with no desire other than to shake their dicks at each other. Unfortunately for them, in a post-modern world, shaking your dick gets it blown off. It's my firm belief that the social life in Islamic countries is so horrible that their people will do anything to escape the despotic theocracy of their ruling elite. When their “refugees” emigrate to Western countries they're ill-equipped to compete in our society. Their perception of who we are, our freedoms, our right to individuality strikes hard against their societal upbringing's violent oppression of personal responsibility and independent thought.

 

Their religion is about 1400 years old. Consider the Catholic Church in 1400. The leaders of the Protestant Revolution weren't even born yet. Europe's Age of Reason was still 250 years away. The Italian Renaissance, emanating in the late 1300's, began in isolated regions of Northern Italy and was mostly ignored in the southern Naples Empire and north of the Alps. The late 14^th Century brought global trade between southern Europe and northern Europe's Hanseatic League that laid the groundwork for continued western expansion and exploration. At this time, Islam was 800 years old. Where was Christianity in 800 AD? The Vikings expanded their empire due to the Medieval Warm Period and by 900 AD were decimating Christian monasteries as well as moving southeastward as far as Constantinople in Turkey.

 

A Norwegian, decrying the Islamization of Western Europe, attacks his own people. It's like an Irish Catholic killing his own people because they're colluding with “The Enemy”. There's 400 years of Protestant/Catholic sectarian violence to back up his beliefs, but, there's nothing to support his murderous rampage in the 21^st Century, outside of Africa and the Middle East. Europe is a group of nation-states, not tribal-states. Every Western European country is representative democracy based on England's Magna Carta regardless of their status as a Constitutional Monarchy. I'd even go so far as to say that the United Nations Charter for Human Rights is based on this 13^th Century document.

 

What we're witnessing, what we're seeing on our televisions, is an invasion of the merger of the Left wing communists and the Right wing fascists. This invasion isn't obvious, it's not a Hot War, it's not even a simmering Cold War of technology, it's instead a rebuttal of Third World refugees' inability to integrate into advanced, technological societies.

 

In other words, when you emigrate to a new country, you acclimate and internalize that nation's, that state's belief systems and system of government – When in Rome, do as the Romans do – in other words, keep a low profile and blend in to your host society otherwise go home. The immigrants from western Africa who were force-fed into North and South American societies built on Western ideology of individual freedom had no concept of Laisse Faire economics. Their tribal identity was stripped by their own tribes and the losers were sold off. There is absolutely no difference between slavery in the 18^th Century and slavery in Africa/Arabia in the 21^st Century other than transportation costs. Africans still rape, murder, and pillage, and sell off the losers as slaves to Arabic Muslims.

 

This is the difference between sub-Mediterranean cultures and north-western European culture. 1619, Virginia’s Red Letter Year, where the first black Africans were traded from a Dutch ship low on supplies. The approximately 20 Africans held by the Danish (don't even start on asking me why the descendents of the Vikings were holding African prisoners) were given full English indentured servants rights in that they serve their representatives, their sponsors, for 7 years, faithfully, and then they're free to go as they see fit. Anthony Johnson, an indentured African is considered the first slave owner in the United States – he was brought up on charges of refusing indentured servants release after seven years servitude. In ~1637.

 

The entirety of Western culture is built on personal freedom. The Norway Massacre was carried out by a member of the New Left or the Old Right who viewed a Leftist Labour Party children's camp as a gathering of Hitler Youth. He wasn't that far off in his assessment because Western society's indoctrination into multiculturalism is indeed a death knell for indigenous Europeans. In the past three generations there's been a shift in what we consider the Left and the Right. They've started to merge. The Left wants to control your money/productivity; the Right wants to control your body/personal attributes. The more you legislate a person into submissiveness, the more they will break free to express their personal opinions.

 

Anders Breivik is an excellent example of the political merger between the Left and the Right; both philosophies will kill you if you disagree with them.

 

This man killed children.

 

No.

 

He's a typical Leftist who's decided he knows better than anyone else how you're supposed to live your life. He cloaked his justifications in Rightist speak and his xenophobic ideals speak of Nationalism, the next step up from tribalism, there is no denying he is a tribalist. He's a vile, viscous dictator who obviously doesn't hesitate to murder his opposition in the Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, fashion.

 

Here is where the proverbial line is drawn: in the 21^st Century both the Left and the Right wish to control your personal decisions for the Greater Good. From Abortion to Food Deserts to the War on Drugs to the War on Poverty to the War on Fascism to the War on Communism, these people want to control how and why you think and how you perform your day-to-day actions.

 

There is an unexplored New Right that refuses to be dominated by either the Democrats or the Republicans. There is something new occurring that puts forth personal freedom and responsibility as opposed to top-down governmental control.

 

 

 

 

Chocolate Milk Wars

Who knew?

Dana Woldow, writing in Education News on May 14th, and the founder (pdf) of Parents, Educators, and Advocates Connection for Healthy School Food, PEACHSF, states that

A conflict over whether schools should offer flavored milk has been raging for years, pitting advocates for better school food against each other.

Apparently there are two camps: 1. Chocolate milk is Bad therefore it must be banned. 2. Any milk is good, let it go.

Chocolate milk is banned in Los Angeles, DC, Berkley, Fairfax, and Louisville, Colorado where it's called "Soda in drag." As a matter of fact, "flavored milk" as it's called, counts for 70% of milk purchases and when it's removed from the school menu, milk sales drop 37%. It's also liquid candy with 5 added teaspoons of sugar.

In a sound bit of advice, Ms. Woldow advises, regarding added sugar that

Let’s start using our power as consumers to dial it back – waaay back – not just in our schools, but in our entire food supply.

This is exactly how Free-Markets work. If you don't like or want something, don't buy it. Don't like gay marriage? Don't marry a fag,  don't go to one unless you're playing real-life Wedding Crashers then your ass'd better be FABULOUS. Don't like the crudity and fart jokes on the Comedy Central cartoon South Park? Don't watch it. Think it's inappropriate for your kids? Spend time with them instead. If you don't like something, don't participate in it and at the same time, do not attempt to make another's choices for them. Abortion - if you consider it infanticide, don't have one. See? It's easy.

You cannot impose your will on another because you're taking away their free choice which is anathema to the natural human condition.

Being overweight has reached unacceptable levels in this country. If you choose to be fat and overeat, do not expect someone else to pay your medical bills because you choose greater than a 1500 calorie a day meal plan. Keep in mind, the older you get, the less calories you need because you're slowing down and not as active anymore. I maintained 155 pounds for years because I was out in the field. Having an office job ballooned me up to 175 pounds and it's slowly coming off because of a strict 1,200 calorie a day diet.

Height/weight calculations, BMI, is a major consideration in prescriptions and Medicare/Medicaid. At 5' 11" and 7/8ths and 175 pounds, I was within .5% of being considered overweight, and I was; my belly fat sat on top of my belt and used it for a kickstand. Yes BMI can be misconstrued and there are arguments out there for discontinuing the scale but the opponents of BMI use muscle-mass athletes as their baseline, not normal You and Me type people. The Body/Mass Index is an excellent firstline gauge of who's fat and who isn't and who has potential health problems. Once you hit 30 on the BMI scale, you're officially on notice your lifestyle needs to change. ASAP. Everybody gets old and everybody dies but it's that quality of life during those end days that'll define us.

A healthy, normal, active person, up to 6 feet tall, should never weigh more than 175 pounds. Ask your government.

Michelle Obama, who wishes to dictate the course of national debate regarding school lunches is quite adamant about limiting caloric intact in our schools. This raised the Chocolate Milk/White Milk controversy to a new level and placed it firmly in the sphere of top-down government regulation versus individual choice.

Michelle Obama is a pear-shaped fat-ass who's taken her weight obsession and imposed it upon the national consciousness. I think she forgets that it's every person's right to choose what they can afford to eat and when. And then we come to government run schools ...

In 1918, under Woodrow Wilson, it became compulsory for every child to attend elementary school. Prior to 1918 it was kinda like going to church as in you'd go every Sunday and contribute what you could for the upkeep of the parish. Students who wanted to learn, who wanted to better themselves walked to school, barefoot, in snow, uphill both ways, and their parents would give what they could including what little cash they had or a side of pig or canned goods or coming together to build a schoolhouse and attempting to attract a viable teacher. If you didn't want your kids to attend school, they went right to work as soon as they were old enough to understand how to. Technically, if you pay your kids a dollar to go out and weed your garden, then sell those veggies on the open market, you're in violation of Federal law.

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. This is when Americans lost control of their families. It literally became illegal for your children to work. They HAD to attend school whether there was an aptitude for it or not. No longer were you allowed to teach your kids how to raise crops or make clothes or how to sight where a tree would fall. The Government stated your children are no longer your own and We will dictate what they learn regardless what you as parents think.

Fast forward to the 21st Century.

TBC

 Since the Government mandates that all children attend school, they also mandate what they eat. It's a hoot listening to the pundits expound on government mandated healthcare and how the government can't make you buy something ... like health insurance. Um, the government makes you buy auto insurance. Where's the big leap from auto to health? There isn't, it's just a small stepping stone.

That little 8 ounce container of chocolate milk does not matter a whit in the scope of meal planning.

There are 4 calories per gram of sugar which means there's 128 calories of sugar, added sugar, in this typical 8 ounce milk carton. Does it matter? No, it doesn't because a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down:

Here's the rest of what's in that carton of milk

Water	214.9 g
Energy	226 kcal
Energy	947 kj
Protein	8.59 g
Total lipid (fat)	8.62 g
Ash	2.07 g
Carbohydrate, by difference	31.68 g
Fiber, total dietary	1.1 g
Calcium, Ca	253 mg
Iron, Fe	0.8 mg
Magnesium, Mg	48 mg
Phosphorus, P	234 mg
Potassium, K	458 mg
Sodium, Na	154 mg
Zinc, Zn	1.28 mg
Copper, Cu	0.218 mg
Manganese, Mn	0.17 mg
Selenium, Se	9.6 mcg
Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid	0.3 mg
Thiamin	0.114 mg
Riboflavin	0.479 mg
Niacin	0.378 mg
Pantothenic acid	0.894 mg
Vitamin B-6	0.09 mg
Folate, total	13 mcg
Folic acid	~ mcg
Folate, food	13 mcg
Folate, DFE	13 mcg_DFE
Vitamin B-12	1.06 mcg
Vitamin A, IU	250 IU
Vitamin A, RAE	69 mcg_RAE
Retinol	69 mcg
Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol)	0.16 mg
Vitamin K (phylloquinone)	0.8 mcg
Fatty acids, total saturated	4.948 g
4:0	0.181 g
6:0	0.181 g
8:0	0.181 g
10:0	0.181 g
12:0	0.186 g
13:0	~ g
14:0	0.724 g
15:0	~ g
16:0	2.195 g
17:0	~ g
18:0	1.12 g
20:0	~ g
22:0	~ g
24:0	~ g
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated	2.205 g
14:1	~ g
16:1 undifferentiated	0.003 g
18:1 undifferentiated	2.205 g
20:1	~ g
22:1 undifferentiated	~ g
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated	0.495 g
18:2 undifferentiated	0.311 g
18:3 undifferentiated	0.181 g
18:4	~ g
20:4 undifferentiated	~ g
20:5 n-3	~ g
22:5 n-3	~ g
22:6 n-3	~ g
Cholesterol	24 mg
Tryptophan	0.192 g
Threonine	0.372 g
Isoleucine	0.426 g
Leucine	0.684 g
Lysine	0.372 g
Methionine	0.189 g
Cystine	0.048 g
Phenylalanine	0.388 g
Tyrosine	0.394 g
Valine	0.505 g
Arginine	0.218 g
Histidine	0.194 g
Alanine	0.279 g
Aspartic acid	0.641 g
Glutamic acid	1.67 g
Glycine	0.21 g
Proline	0.857 g
Serine	0.285 g
Alcohol, ethyl	~ g
Caffeine	8 mg
Theobromine	277 mg
Carotene, beta	13 mcg
Carotene, alpha	~ mcg
Cryptoxanthin, beta	~ mcg
Lycopene	~ mcg
Lutein + zeaxanthin	~ mcg

Back off.

No federal mandate on school lunch menus. This is a local issue.

 

 

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 11.00000 cup (8 fl oz) (266.0 g)

Amount Per Serving

Calories 226226 Calories from Fat 7878

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 8.6g8.6 13%13

Saturated Fat 4.9g4.9 25%25

Polyunsaturated Fat 0.5g0.5

Monounsaturated Fat 2.2g2.2

Cholesterol 24mg24 8%8

Sodium 154mg154 6%6

Total Carbohydrates 31.7g31.7 11%11

Dietary Fiber 1.1g1.1 4%4

Sugars 32.2g32.2

Protein 8.6g8.6

Vitamin A 5%5 • Vitamin C 0%0 Calcium 25%25 • Iron 4%4

* Based on a 2000 calorie diet

65 Percent of Crack Users are White

 

The Black Men in America blog jumped all over ESPN sports journalist Stephan White and his commencement address at Winston-Salem State.

That's not the story.

The story is about halfway down the article when Harold Bell, the article's author brings up an Essence Magazine article from Nov/10:

... the moderator, Bob Evans (Deputy Editor of Essence) asked the question to know one in particular “Does the heighten racism surprise you or disappoint you?

The first comment came from Ben Jealous, current president and CEO of the NAACP. Mr. Jealous is an intelligent man; he's a Rhodes Scholar with a Masters from Oxford. Mr. Jealous states:

It was disappointing but not surprising.  Racism so infects our national discourse that we still think the majority of crack users in this country are Black.  White people are 65% of crack users.

Black Men in America's attack on Stephan White, in their post, just came to a screeching halt with that bit of insight. Stephan White is no longer the focus because now it's on Ben Jealous and his use of statistics to bolster (B)lack self-esteem using Louis Farrakhan's adage of

The white man is our mortal enemy, and we cannot accept him. I will fight to see that vicious beast go down into the lake of fire prepared for him from the beginning...

Race relations in America is a Cold War filled with words that rarely breaks across the national consciousness. White on black attacks are published nationally with the usual connotation of "See what them White Devils do?" Conversely you see no such media attention of Black on White crime. Consider the current murders in Baltimore City - 98 to date. 96 are Black on Black. 2 are Black on White. One was a White hooker and the other was an old man run down by a Black felon in a speeding car eluding police on the Southside outside the Beltway.

What Mr. Jealous is attempting to do is deflect American Black's marked social and economic failures in Western European style free-market societies by presenting denigrating statistics emphasizing 1. They (White people) are worse than us; and 2. Everybody's "In" on trying to Keep the Black Man Down. The NAACP, Al Sharpton's National Action Network, and Jesse Jackson's Rainbow/PUSH are examples of Black organizations looking for Oppressors to blame for their own peoples' self-failings.

Ben Jealous' statement:

White people are 65% of crack users.

It's an exellent example of this need to find another reason, another devil; it's another amorphorous non-consideration of personal responsibility. This is the essence of Black Ameria in the 21st Century in the United States: It's Not Our Fault and Never Was.

After this lengthy preample, let's look at real cocaine usage statistics.

From the Office of Applied Studies from the US Dept of Health and Human Services:

The Latest Compiled Figures from 2002 to 2003:

Cocaine Usage (including Crack cocaine)

• American Indians/Alaskan natives: 3.8%.

• Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders: 3.1%

• Hispanics: 2.8%

• African Americans, 2.6%

• Caucasians: 2.5%

• Asians: 0.7%

Really?

Perhaps Mr. Jealous is getting a bit esoteric in his statistics and confusing per capita ethnic to national averages. Let's see ...

I can't pull specific census data for 2002/2003 so we'll we'll use the American Factfinder's populatin information for 2009.

• White alone   224,469,780

• Black or African American alone   37,264,679

• American Indian and Alaska Native alone   2,423,294

• Asian alone   13,201,056

• Hispanic or Latino:   45,476,938

Cocaine use numbers:

• White   5,611,745

• Black   968,882

• American Indian   63,006

• Asian   92,407

• Hispanic   1,273,354

Total - 8,009,394

Based on this information, Whites actually make up 70% of total cocaine usesrs. Whites also make up 75% of the population. Let's take it a bit further shall we?

        Percentage Cocaine Users            Percentage of Total Population

• Black   12.1%                                 Black   12.4%

• American Indian   .08%           American Indian   .08%

• Asian   .01%                                   Asian   4.4%

• Hispanic   16%                              Hispanic   15.1%

There it is. About 3% of the population uses coke. Mr. Jealous is twisting statistics to push his racist agenda. Cocaine usage is a non-racist occurence that equally afflicts all segments of our population similarily.