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"If" he becomes a victim of sexual assault? Oh honey, he's already there. Maybe he believes that if he declares his ass sovereign, he can charge the other guys more to park there.

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I grew up in Orange County...I know all about republican California. Though not as much the rural aspect, besides a bad decision to live in the Antelope Valley for a while.

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Hey groovy cats, in case anyone's interested, I've been successfully losing weight recently, and frighteningly easily. Been doing this for two weeks, and so far so good.

Basically I'm doing what they're doing on "My 600 Pound Life", where they make a person go on a seriously reduced-calorie diet for a month. On the show sometimes they go down to 1000 calories a day, which is pretty extreme. I've been doing 1500 calories. The trick is how to go down that low without feeling starved or exhausted, and the solution is: high protein, low fat, low carb. (Salad too, as you see fit.) You'll still maybe want to eat, but it won't be hunger pangs, so much as a taste for burgers when you see that accursed Red Robin commercial.

I think of my meals in 250 calorie chunks, six of them a day. 250 calories translates to any of the following:

- 1/3 lb lean chicken, turkey, or pork (~30g protein)

- 2 single-serving tubs of yogurt (26g protein)

- 1 cup cooked lentils (20g protein)

- 3/4 cup dry textured vegetable protein (36g protein)

- 1/2 cup dry wheat gluten (46g protein)

I get more satiety out of meat than lentils, so to a large extent, my diet is meat, yogurt, and salads. When I start feeling peckish, a zero-calorie beverage often takes care of it.

At a certain point, I'll switch back to a non-diet eating mode, but I'll continue to do the arithmetic. Doing the math is a good habit.

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He's still eating a "foot-long" a day.....he's just not paying $5 for the deal.

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Some of my best friends are WingNuts. I've known them for many years and their actions are fine, but some of their beliefs are bat-shit crazy. I suspect they voted for Trump. Oddly, though, at our last lunch they were griping about Trump's fake infrastructure plan and didn't mention Obamacare once.

Fortunately California Repubs mostly manage to infest the House. Our state government and Senators are nicely blue.

Though we do have a nasty habit of electing Repub celebrities as Governor. What's that about?

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It is a thing here.

Tides go in, tides go out, you can't explain it! ;)

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I live in central Indiana. Judge Pratt is bad ass on a consistent basis, and I mean that in a good way.

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As we note, the judge in this case appears to have gotten this at least partly wrong, and Jared Fogle was not claiming to be a SovCit after all. Read all about it in our Dear ShitFerBrains update!

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An ex Hoosier once remarked to me how often one runs into people who left Indiana. I stayed, myself, hoping everyone else would leave.

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New Slogan: A Sovereign Pie does not have to taste like pizza

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fringe on flag!fringe on flag!

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Kang and/or Kodos?

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Indiana shocks me. Lord I can't go back there!

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I didn't think there was any group dumber or more willfully ignorant than libertarians.Seems I was mistook.

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Ayup, it's where Kentucky got lost on the way to Chicago.

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