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  1. 2 hours ago, HenryJames said:

    A doctor never told me I shouldn’t eat fast food* so I had to vote for the guy who only eats McDonald’s.
     

    *every fucking doctor tells you not to eat fast food 

    The medical community has flatly ignored the power of diet on your immune system function when it comes to patient care for most of my lifetime.
     

    Yeah if you are over weight and don’t exercise you’ll get a mild lecture to go with your statin script. That’s true. That’s hardly the preferred way here.

    Heck 20 years ago the brain gut connection was considered fringe science and only for the granola kooks. Oops. 

    medical establishment including medical schools  are to blame for much of the backlash. 

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  2. 14 hours ago, MagicSoccerSpray said:

     

    This is 50+ years ago. The US is the biggest oil producer in the world now, and has good relations with the #2,4,5 producing countries. So the argument is that the US is still trying to take over Iranian oil production? To what end? I think if anything we'd encourage regime change because theocratic Iran has been the number one exporter of worldwide terrorism for fifty years. But hey, wE OvErThRoUgH MoSaDDeGh!!! 

    whether it is or isn't the current motivation it has been the genesis of the conflict that has remain unresolved for 50+ years. the conflict can migrate to take on a life of its own apart from the original motivations making it just that much more difficult to untangle. no doubt today its about radicalism, proxy wars through terrorism and nuclear capability, but hey if the West could solve those three, I suspect the West would do so AND strong arm their way into a deal for natural resources, say some oil and gas and some rare earths as well.

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  3. 17 minutes ago, royiv said:

    This can’t be stressed enough. I have a list of people (neighbors, friends) that I know are like minded politically, but aren’t as engaged as I am and might not even know there’s an election going on because there are a ton of elections. I text these folks to remind them about the election and send them the voter guide that I put together. I’ve had exceptional feedback from doing this. In one particular low turnout election, the state senator in my district was elected by a differential of 50ish votes. After the election I was talking to a buddy, who also happens to be the precinct chair where I live, and we were able to account for the entire differential from our personal texting efforts based on the feedback that we each received. Whenever I get down about national and statewide elections, I think back to this example of how we can still impact outcomes in our own communities.

    this is absolutely the way. maybe the only sure way.

  4. 7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:


    Bottom line: a sane approach to health is “both and,” not “either or.”
    Eat well. Breathe clean air. Sleep. All that. Because that puts you body/machine in the best condition…which helps it do many things, including - importantly - resisting and fighting off INFECTION. Avoid and kill germs. Among the ways to do that is making your body a healthier fortress.
    The dismissive discussion of things we’ve done in response to learning that germs are a catalyst for many illnesses (eg, vaccines and antibiotics) is fucking insanity. I mean, I stood in a hospital room over a week and watched antibiotics save my child’s life. Millions are alive today because of vaccines. And these fucking assholes would chuck all of that for eating organic granola and drinking water poured over crystals.

    100% but don't dismiss where some of this is coming from. medicine has done amazing things, and the medical community and the political side of public health (for decades and decades) has been and is also failing us big time. 

  5. 1 hour ago, HenryJames said:

    Not sure why “germ theory” is in quotes.

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    This idea that, in essence, bad air caused illness was later championed by many others, including Florence Nightingale. It also led to some things that did help fight diseases, like cleaning up sewage.

    But then came the germ theory — one of humanity's big eureka moments. Scientists like Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch discovered it wasn't some mysterious stench in the air from rotting garbage that spread diseases. Instead, it was living microscopic entities.

    "They discovered what we know as germs – microbes," says Melanie Kiechle, a historian at Virginia Tech. "Bacteria and viruses and other microscopic materials were actually what caused illness and also explained the spread of illness from one person to another. So miasma theory is debunked, essentially."

    The discovery of germs led to breakthroughs like antibiotics and vaccines.

    This is probably for a discussion with academics as the nuance here is probably quite subtle in part because how erroneous the theory is,  but I am fascinated by the chasm between the pharmaceutical approach to medicine and the natural approach to disease and illness. On the one hand, you have an approach that at best pays lip service to baseline health and its impact on the immune system - almost like to avoid getting sick is just pure luck. This faction ignores the importance of eating a very nutritious diet full of vegetables and fruits, whole grains and avoiding added sugar and animal saturated fats, environmental toxins, and yes even toxic air.  Example just this morning a well respected publisher had an article in my feed that titanium dioxide is in 11,000 foods in the US and is a known cellular oxidizer and is banned in Europe as a food additive. that’s insane. Food quality is so effing important. This camp wouldn’t even consider weight training and racket sports as foundational to immune system wellness or cognitive health. They wouldn’t for a minute tell you the quality of your marriage or the enjoyment of your hobbies- especially the outdoors ones - will be as effective of a defense to illness as anything else. They will admit sheepishly these things matter, but will in the same breath ignore a mass population deficiency in vitamin D while saying if you eat a balance diet (who does that?) then you don’t need supplements. Have you ever tried to plan a diet to hit just the USDA recommended on all your vitamins and minerals on a daily basis? It’s absolutely impossible. And so without a serious focus on your foundational health it’s a simple fact your immune system is functioning less than optimally which then allows the germs to win. But then this faction just ignores all of it.  
     

    On the other hand the natural approach faction would tell you diet will cure cancer and that antibiotics impact on the gut biome is far worse than sepsis. And obviously the pin prick from a MMR vaccine is beyond dangerous and that the immune system is perfect and beyond need of assistance if we simply feed it oat straw and milk thistle or whatever the fuck.  That gap is really interesting to me, and the return to this magical thinking is so devastatingly wrong but it’s not without causation and just like thinking the air had some toxic quality that caused illness that led to cleaning up raw sewage my hope is that we can at least use this wild ass dark ages thinking - and the aversion to pharmaceutical interventions to start turning to the foundational aspects of wellness as the first and primary and if your body responds yes the only line of defense needed for the luckiest. but the responsibility to do this right will be on the scientists - the adults in this conversation and the primary communicators of this will be the doctors and the schools that train them.
     

    The fact is well before pharmaceuticals, the human body needs optimal (1) nutrition (including supplements), (2) weight training and hand eye coordination athletic type activity (like hunting for our ancestors and racket sports for modern humans), (3) sleep, (5) distressing activities and moments, and (6) quality relationships.  I’d bet less than 3%-5% of the population focuses on these 6 things like their lives depend on it. And make no mistake, our lives DO in fact depend on these six factors more than anything else. And doctors I’ve talked too barely pay lip service to the foundation. 

    I guess I’m saying the MAHA movement is kooky as the freak show at the county carnival but it’s not borne from nothing it’s borne from a failure of medicine to pay attention to the most foundational aspects of health. The germ theory is obviously correct but not all immune systems are operating equally. As a society we need to focus on both medical intervention and improving foundational health that has nothing to do with pharmaceutical solutions. 

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  6. 9 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    And I learned from Wood’s mistake…cropped this pic of the missus I til as we were leaving, and looking back at the crowd.

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    Married a gal who walks the walk. She always has.

    Yeah you way out kicked your coverage there brisket. Not sure what else to say, she mighta been your best accomplishment. It’s ok. I’ve done that twice, caused two high quality women to fall for me so don’t take that as a critique that isn’t also levied against myself. Kudos.

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  7. 21 minutes ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

    lol…

    https://www.threads.com/@barbaraj.sobel/post/DK6yadIO6Rb?xmt=AQF0MVGy8cnfZ92QG4BoZ5kcf8k7XbgTgiYK9cNI-_e2hA
     

    this ended up projecting the exact opposite image to the world they were hoping for…instead of strength, we projected weakness; instead of solidarity, we exposed division; instead of organization, we showed chaos and disorder; instead of shared interest and mission, there was apathy in abundance; and on and on, ad infinitum.  
     

    we just exposed to the entire world…if they didn’t already know…the utter incompetence of our leadership and we used what is considered to be strongest military force known to mankind as the vehicle to convey that message.  
     

    Trump and his goons truly believe that fear of us and concern for consequences are what motivates other nations to deal with us…they are the very core of their ontology. in real life at that level that is rarely the case.  but if they were a factor, they are no longer.  
     

    Trump flipped over a 3 of clubs after he acted like he was holding an ace of spades.  and he didn’t even need to play that card…he did it on his own  

    we now may as well lay back, relax and enjoy the inevitable sodomy that is sure to come our way because there’s not a goddamn thing we can do about it.  

     

    This parade - as it was handled by the military - did way more good than harm. 

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  8. On 6/11/2025 at 5:45 PM, Celery Man said:

    Wife is on a bao thing and this shit slams 

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    I’d be better off with that but “we” made fried chimichangas for a Saturday night. Rotisserie chicken, green onion, salsa verde, Monterey Jack, refried beans and topped with homemade cilantro jalapeño ranch dressing and homemade guac and pico.

    HEB fresh made burrito tortillas are a godsend. 

     

     

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  9. 42 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    I don't wanna hear one more fucking word about the "silent majority" or "50% of Americans blah blah blah" from any one of you mother fuckers.

    Are you talking about the small crowds? Or are you talking about the “lack” of protesters …?

  10. 5 hours ago, Party_Taco said:

    Stolpman is now our longest standing club. We’ve swapped several over the years but that one is a fixture, and it’s awesome to see them progressively featuring Ruben’s wines.

    Our wine person we go too when we load up recommended it, fantastic wine. Dollar sale from last August probably picked it up for 30% off. 

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  11. One of my favorite things to do is eat good but regular food with an exquisite bottle of wine…. Here’s an example. BLT and a Santa Barbara Syrah that just blew my socks off.  Now there’s nothing spectacular about the sandwich, I mean it’s pecan smoked bacon so that’s pretty spectacular, but the whole concept is actually rather poor (I even grew up on BLTs) but adding - how should I say it - an upper echelon wine that by most standards is wasted on such a pedestrian meal is hardly a waste. The BLT doesn’t drag the wine down, the wine elevates the common approachable meal and turns the dinner into something to remember. It might be my absolute favorite way to enjoy our best wines from our collection.  We do it with our best Bordeaux wines too often matching them with simple homemade pizzas. 

     

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  12. I’d hardly call myself a GC lover but he struck a chord in the way Bernie and AOC have. Most other Dems suck donkey ass, wait elephant ass, and are corporatists through and through. Give us any politician that truly runs on a people first platform and I’m in. 

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