Why anyone would continue to cultivate a dangerous plant like that is untenable.

Carol

Pick a fight with a liberal on:
ELITISM.

Liberals believe in egalitarianism. They don’t often get called on it, though, because no one bothers to defend elitism—but you should.

Ask a liberal, “So you really disapprove of competition and hierarchy and achievement and want everything to be equal do you?

Well, answer me this, if you were president and you needed a handful of troops to do a delicate, dangerous job, who would you turn to—a unit of racially and sexually and disability diverse troops or the elite: Special Forces, Navy Seals, Delta Force?

When you watch football, assuming you’re willing to watch something so violent and competitive, do you want to watch the elite, the best of the best, the professionals who made it to the NFL on the basis of their talent and training, or a United Nations coordinated rainbow coalition of teams drawn from men and women from around the world to make it a truly global unisex game?

Or suppose you needed serious surgery, would you prefer the operation to be done by a surgeon with years of practice behind him, drawn from the elite of the medical profession, or by a deserving recent immigrant, selected for the task as a result of the new Obamafair™ social justice program designed to boost the self-esteem of low-skill workers while simultaneously combating society’s sexist, racist, elitist hegemony?”
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Who but a racist wannabe better than somebody else because of the color of his skin would be against equality?

To disguise the real debate with this silly analogy is the kind of hypocrisy that allows the second one third of whites who look the other way when the racist one-third of their race acts on their racial psychosis.

How idiotic is it to compare treating someone different because of the color of their skin with picking a military or sports team?

From this analogy is the listener supposed to go away thinking that white men were picked to hold all the government jobs and have white only everything because they were the elite of the races?

No, but they get to feel good saying to your face yes, I think I’m better than you because of my race with this bullshit.

My advice is when one of those gutless wonders brings up the military stop him before he continues and ask him if he or one of his immediate family has served, if he says no, then tell him you don’t want to hear him tell you about his policies forcing someone else to give up their life and limbs for them.

When he brings up a sports analogy stop him before he continues. Then ask him what sport he played.

If he says none or it is the sport that he is using, tell to tell someone who has played that sport to call you because you want the person best qualified to give you the analogy. Not an egalitarian.

Smile to his face and be as facetious as he is being.

When he brings up the medical example stop him. Then ask when was the last time he operated on someone.

When he says he isn’t a doctor, then say well have one call me with that analogy. I want the best qualified not some bullshit from someone who thinks he is equal to a doctor, an egalitarian.

Two can play the hypocrisy game. Being facetious is not the exclusive right of republicians.

Robert

We all eat too much at one time or another… having seconds because the meal tastes so good… eating when we are no longer hungry… or believing that we are hungry when we really are just nervous or bored.

You probably already have heard about the benefits of mindful eating, which involves putting aside all other tasks while you eat and fully concentrating on the sensation of eating.

I have good news—by approaching the way you think about eating in a new way, you can finally stop overeating.

To learn more, our editors called Jean Kristeller, PhD, professor of psychology at Indiana State University and the creator of Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT), which promotes easy-to-use tools for self-awareness that help people make healthful changes to their eating habits.

Taking charge of overeating involves paying attention to your hunger and your emotions… and remaining curious about what’s behind your eating patterns.

If you are in the habit of overeating, you may be surprised to find that increasing self-awareness can help you curb that habit.

Ask yourself these questions…

1. What does full feel like?

Many people are on automatic pilot when they eat. They have forgotten how to pay attention to the cues our bodies give us about how much we eat.

What to do: To regain a grip on fullness, assign a numerical value from one to 10 to your level of fullness as you eat your next meal—

with 10 being a meal in which you have overeaten to the point of discomfort… and one being not full at all.

At a typical meal, it is most healthful to eat to a four, five or six, which means that you are satisfied and not overly full.

When you think of your hunger/fullness in terms of numbers, it is easier to consume the amount of food that leaves you feeling totally comfortable—that is your goal.

There is no exact amount of food that matches a given level. Instead, each person has his/her own levels of comfort or fullness.

When you become familiar with your own level of comfort, you can plan how full you want to be before eating.

If you are planning to exercise after lunch, it makes sense to have a lighter meal—for example, eating to a level of two or three.

If you’re dining at a great restaurant with friends, you might allow yourself to eat to a seven or eight.

2. Where did the flavor go?

We all are subject to the phenomenon known as sensory- or taste-specific satiety. It means that the flavor sensation of any food actually starts to wear off after the first few bites.

As we continue to eat, we try, unsuccessfully, to recapture the pleasurable experience of those first bites. To change that response, visualize a taste meter that goes up with the initial burst of flavor.

After those first bites, the taste meter may go down. When you recognize that the taste appeal is vanishing, it’s easier to stop eating.

3. Am I hungry or bored/stressed?

Are you eating because you’re really hungry, or is the impulse coming from boredom, loneliness or stress? Before you head to the kitchen, ask yourself these questions—did I eat enough at the last meal?

What am I doing right now that makes me feel hungry? Is it time for a meal? If you are in the middle of a stressful or boring project and you are reaching for a snack, you might not be really hungry.

You might be trying to avoid working. For some people, becoming aware of the circumstance surrounding their eating patterns helps them to make changes.

Other people are helped by replacement behaviors, such as taking a walk… lighting a scented candle… or having a cup of tea when they realize that they are headed for the kitchen, even though they aren’t hungry.

Observe your own patterns, and try to determine which alternatives to eating work best for you.

Natural Healing interviewed Mark A. Stengler, NMD, a naturopathic medical doctor and leading authority on the practice of alternative and integrated medicine.

Dr. Stengler is author of the Bottom Line Natural Healing newsletter, author of The Natural Physician’s Healing Therapies (Bottom Line Books), founder and medical director of the Stengler Center for Integrative Medicine in Encinitas, California, and adjunct associate clinical professor at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon. http://www.DrStengler.com

What an incredibly selfish asshole that guy was. That is one of the reasons the world is so fucked up.