and BTW -- for more news and reporting about what actually happened in Kenya, NLP actually has reporting
"Tiffany brings us news from Kenya, where the self-described Gen Z’ers have stormed Kenya’s parliament in protest of a highly unpopular tax bill. President Ruto has since conceded to the protestors’ demands and vetoed the bill. Tiffany finds parallels between the young people protesting in Kenya and our own youth-led protests here in the states, while Andrew hears echoes of another set of protestors. "
I hate it when folks on this blog hyperfocus on what's going wrong in Black-led spaces or with Black people because it feels so much like an attempt to dodge / not deal with the extensive harm being done by White people globally at this very moment (not to mention the fact that BOTH Kenya and Haiti are in dire straits right now because White-led countries spent CENTURIES stealing from both those places and never offered reparations (France went so far as to make Haiti pay THEM ... much like the U.S. paid "reparations" to White slaveowners after the (first) U.S. Civil War but never recompensed the families of Black enslaved people who had their land and labor stolen) as well as historically.
But I will admit that when I saw the pictures of the forces on the ground in Haiti I thought
"Are you all sure you want to send people there before you're sure you have everything on the ground under control in your own house, Kenyan government? Are you really sure?"
Mad Magazine was full of shit, of course. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid was set in 1899-1901. Bolivia was not landlocked then, they possessed a strip of land that gave them access to the Pacific. Much like the Danzig corridor in Poland between the two World Wars, Bolivia's access to the sea came at the expense of cutting off Chile's land access to part of its own territory, and they conquered the Department in 1904.
Landlocked of not, Bolivia still has a Navy. Their border with Chile (still a historical enemy, Bolivia has a lot of them) includes Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world. The Bolivian Navy patrols that, plus a number of rivers, in considerable strength: 20,000 men, a couple of dozen patrol boats of various sizes, and even an amphibious force. Yep, Bolivia not only has a Navy, they've also got Marines.
They need them. Bolivia has been at an uneasy peace for eighty years or so, but they have a history of wars with all of their neighbors. Losing wars, for the most part. Coincidentally, President Acre shares his name with a rich, rubber-growing province lost to Brazil during one of them, one of a long string of military and political humiliations Bolivia has suffered. It's as if Obama's last name was O'Vietnam. I dunno how significant that is to Bolivia's political situation, but it can't help.
No one? Besides every media outlet that covers international events (admittedly superficially) not based in the US? Telesur English had very good coverage.
Dude, Bolivia has fought wars with EVERYBODY, and has lost a third of its original territory to foreign conquest. Every time they find some sort of valuable resource, one of their neighbors takes it from them.
Uh, most of the "ancestors of the Conquistadors" long ago were assimilated. Most of the "lighter skinned" people you find in Bolivia and elsewhere in Latin America will have English or German or other European roots (including Iberian) going back maybe to the mid 19th century. That's not to say there aren't dark skinned oligarchs as well.
Uh, it was the police in Bolivia that responded very quickly to the President's call to quash the coo-coo-coup. He openly thanked them during his speech.
Bolivia does have a Navy. They have never really reconciled themselves to the fact that Chili won that part of the country on the coast. They even have a national holiday remembering when they had access to the sea.
That's funny. That's also where I learned how to tell the difference between goats and sheep. I really love that show. I hope it continues to V, W, Y, X, and Zed.
A little carb is great. Especially if you're about to do a big workout. I made myself scarf down some eggs and an apple before my PT session this morning, which turned out to be the right call, because my trainer immediately said "we're going for a squat PR today." Nailed it... 165 lb classic bar squat. although I did a series of ascending weight and descending reps to work up to it. I don't think I'm going to be able to walk easily tomorrow, but hey, I can squat the equivalent of my husband now!
I'm reversing the T2 diabetes, so I keep to a minimum of carbs, they've all been in my low-glycemic vegetables til recent lectures; virtually NO grains or potato. But you're right. And that breakfast sounds perfect. I try to combine the usual 1/2 c of black raspberries + couple tsp non-fat Greek yogurt with a boiled egg, for breakfast, but keep failing. I need more protein for sure. SO I'm going to make some turkey breast patties and premium-ass salmon patties to have one as a sausage to add to the berries. Maybe........... add some cooked real wild rice to the sausage mix???
Just.... just add a second egg? A lot of news has come out in the last decade about the saturated fat -> cholesterol -> heart disease hypothesis. Turns out Ancel Keys just kind of buried about 75% of the data that didn't support his hypothesis, and we didn't find out until 2017.
Yes, I heard this!! But I do need the good fats from the salmon, it's high-grade Copper River, king/sockeye. Tons of Omega-3 whatevers, plus I need more B vit and I can't eat eggs every day, anyway. But they're so easy :-( I just need to get busy making and cooking some turkey/salmon patties and freezing them. Then thaw one overnight and zap it in the morning for a few seconds. Do you think that badly damages the nutritional benefits?? I don't know.
SUPER congrats on your PT victories; what are you repairing, if you don't mind saying?
You might like the recipe for my dinner for tonight. It's taco pie! You can emit the pie shell or swap it for a low carb version like cauliflower, for that matter, but I'm using a standard pie crust.
- 20 oz cooked ground chicken OR what I'm using, chicken tenders (unbreaded) pan seared in bacon fat and fajita seasoning, then chopped and shredded
- 1 cup fire roasted corn
- 1 cup chopped spinach
- taco seasoning package
- 1 cup shredded taco cheese
- 2 eggs for binding
- 2 tablespoons corn meal for binding
- 1/4 cup mild salsa
Mix it all up and cook it in a pie crust. All the taco flavor in easy to eat pie form. Makes 4-8 servings depending on how hungry you are. (8 kid size slices, 4 adult size quarters.)
WOW. The other people in my house would scarf the hell outta this. I make not-bad-at-all enchiladas roja but the scratch-sauce is a lot of work! I may make some of this for them!
LOL on bacon fat & cheese!! I'm on about 700 cals a day!! Negligible fat, very low glycemic/carbs, mostly vegetables! But yes, adding a little carbs on sufferance, and cranking up the protein. And just about to look into how to be sure my electrolytes are stable, too. I hate being in the ER's custody like last week🤬
Shouldn't harm the nutritional benefits at all. Microwaves are grossly misunderstood and professional chefs use them as hacks all the time. (Blew my mind the first time I learned they use them to quick fry things like capers in olive oil. What!) The only thing that completely destroys the nutrition in proteins is direct carbonization, i.e. charring. And even then a little bit of that makes them delicious so we do it anyway. Nom.
I say "PT" but really it's personal training; the trainer in question just happens to specialize in working around injuries since he's a retired S&C coach. I've got a bad knee and a bad hip and a knotty shoulder and hEDS so any given joint could get wobbly or angry at a moment's notice. His plan is just "get all the muscles that support the joints as strong as possible" and lo, the plan is working. Took my daily pain levels down from a 5-6 to around 0-2 depending on whether I made something angry.
Thank you for the info, that's good news; and yes, I do like that Maillard reaction! Fricasee, fricasee! Reverse-sear!
I've got long term injury issues, as well; plan on hiring a trainer next week. Just now doing boot camp class with modifications for low BP & vertigo, horrible knees and back, plus home ballet exercises. Adding home toning work from a great video instructor when I'm stabilized from the low BP & BG.
Lay down some cheese slices or spread on a tortilla, put a light layer of tuna salad over the cheese, add lettuce. Roll it all up into a log and stick toothpicks in it. Slice the log and eat.
Both delicious and nutritious, Morgan. A wonderful combination.
Don't fear those carbs; respect them. They are what's necessary for your body to convert into glucose, the fuel that empowers the magnificent machine that is Morgan.
I have to power up for boot camp class which is at 5, so I had the carbs. It's 2:40 here. I'll have something else in a while like squash soup, maybe a big scallop. And have to check BG and BP a half hour before I go, to make sure I'm not going into crash. Any other ideas?
When will these third world countries grow up and act like real countries. Everyone knows if you are going to have a coup, you first need to get a bunch of crooked lawyers to plot on how to overcome silly things like the Constitution. You then need to invite your most rabbid followers to a "wild time" where they will "fight like hell" to overcome democracy. Then need to make sure that the coup leader's vice president is threaten with a hanging. Finally, if everything fails, after allowing the violence to go on for hours, you must finally call off your insurgency. But make sure that you let your violent insurgents know that you "love them."
It is times like this I'm so happy that I live in a first world country.
"People tend to notice that sort of thing anywhere, even in backwards countries where a wealthy political kingmaker gives away a quarter-million-dollar motorhome to a leading judicial official."
That sounds like a simple gratuity for a job well done. Nothing to see here. I mean, if you can't give someone a plaque or a million dollar vacation, how do you expect anything to get done???
Ta, Dok. Coup Coup Ka Choo.
Countries high on my wish list presently for coups:
Hungary
Russia
Belarus
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Qatar
North Korea
Alberta (technically not a country)
Saskatchewan (technically not a country)
"Mr. Ruto said his government would engage with the young people and a broad range of groups in the next two weeks to chart a new economic course."
What's up with these assholes and "two weeks"?
He killed 23 protestors, this is more than a finance bill protest now.
They know they'd sound silly if they said, "a fortnight."
Not just silly, but very British which is a no no.
I wonder if Kenya will have to recall, for duty in their own country, the troops they recently sent to pacify Haiti as part of a UN force.
and BTW -- for more news and reporting about what actually happened in Kenya, NLP actually has reporting
"Tiffany brings us news from Kenya, where the self-described Gen Z’ers have stormed Kenya’s parliament in protest of a highly unpopular tax bill. President Ruto has since conceded to the protestors’ demands and vetoed the bill. Tiffany finds parallels between the young people protesting in Kenya and our own youth-led protests here in the states, while Andrew hears echoes of another set of protestors. "
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRMrriI-prM
I hate it when folks on this blog hyperfocus on what's going wrong in Black-led spaces or with Black people because it feels so much like an attempt to dodge / not deal with the extensive harm being done by White people globally at this very moment (not to mention the fact that BOTH Kenya and Haiti are in dire straits right now because White-led countries spent CENTURIES stealing from both those places and never offered reparations (France went so far as to make Haiti pay THEM ... much like the U.S. paid "reparations" to White slaveowners after the (first) U.S. Civil War but never recompensed the families of Black enslaved people who had their land and labor stolen) as well as historically.
But I will admit that when I saw the pictures of the forces on the ground in Haiti I thought
"Are you all sure you want to send people there before you're sure you have everything on the ground under control in your own house, Kenyan government? Are you really sure?"
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-5LUD7rSTgY
Mad Magazine was full of shit, of course. Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid was set in 1899-1901. Bolivia was not landlocked then, they possessed a strip of land that gave them access to the Pacific. Much like the Danzig corridor in Poland between the two World Wars, Bolivia's access to the sea came at the expense of cutting off Chile's land access to part of its own territory, and they conquered the Department in 1904.
Landlocked of not, Bolivia still has a Navy. Their border with Chile (still a historical enemy, Bolivia has a lot of them) includes Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable lake in the world. The Bolivian Navy patrols that, plus a number of rivers, in considerable strength: 20,000 men, a couple of dozen patrol boats of various sizes, and even an amphibious force. Yep, Bolivia not only has a Navy, they've also got Marines.
They need them. Bolivia has been at an uneasy peace for eighty years or so, but they have a history of wars with all of their neighbors. Losing wars, for the most part. Coincidentally, President Acre shares his name with a rich, rubber-growing province lost to Brazil during one of them, one of a long string of military and political humiliations Bolivia has suffered. It's as if Obama's last name was O'Vietnam. I dunno how significant that is to Bolivia's political situation, but it can't help.
It's amazing that no one is covering these stories. I've had trouble trying to get news about them from the BBC.
At least they provide a sentence or two. In the US, crickets.
National Lampoon did that perfectly:
'Japan destroyed. Dacron women missing!'
The Beeb's on it: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/topics/c0823e52dd0t
No one? Besides every media outlet that covers international events (admittedly superficially) not based in the US? Telesur English had very good coverage.
MSM: Covering foreign brown people? There’s no money in that.
Larger questions:
Why does Bolivia even have an army?
Do they fear invasion by Paraguay?
Dude, Bolivia has fought wars with EVERYBODY, and has lost a third of its original territory to foreign conquest. Every time they find some sort of valuable resource, one of their neighbors takes it from them.
Peru wants all the marching powder!
Plus, gotta keep the Native Bolivians under the boots of the lighter skinned Spanish ancestors of the Conquistadors.
Uh, most of the "ancestors of the Conquistadors" long ago were assimilated. Most of the "lighter skinned" people you find in Bolivia and elsewhere in Latin America will have English or German or other European roots (including Iberian) going back maybe to the mid 19th century. That's not to say there aren't dark skinned oligarchs as well.
I understand the racism. But, why not use the police?
Uh, it was the police in Bolivia that responded very quickly to the President's call to quash the coo-coo-coup. He openly thanked them during his speech.
You can employ more people to intimidate the population, I guess.
Bolivia does have a Navy. They have never really reconciled themselves to the fact that Chili won that part of the country on the coast. They even have a national holiday remembering when they had access to the sea.
You can learn a lot by watching QI. LOL
I learned that from QI too haha
That's funny. That's also where I learned how to tell the difference between goats and sheep. I really love that show. I hope it continues to V, W, Y, X, and Zed.
Me too!
Chile. Bolivia has never really participated in the Chili Wars.
Oops! I didn't even realize I did that!
Blame autocorrect, that's my go-to.
I will, in the future. Right now, sometimes my fingers type automatically, and I don't proof read myself!
I recall a scene from the Woody Allen movie, "Bananas."
https://youtu.be/2q-NL3R8wm0?si=RfDopdWXwxIzSNq2
Made a salad wrap with some tuna; lotta protein, if not the most delicious thing ever.
That was good, right? Ingesting some carb, as ordered, even if it scares me.
Good, right? Agree with me, somebody.
A little carb is great. Especially if you're about to do a big workout. I made myself scarf down some eggs and an apple before my PT session this morning, which turned out to be the right call, because my trainer immediately said "we're going for a squat PR today." Nailed it... 165 lb classic bar squat. although I did a series of ascending weight and descending reps to work up to it. I don't think I'm going to be able to walk easily tomorrow, but hey, I can squat the equivalent of my husband now!
Eat the carbs. Nom nom,
Whoa, that was wonderful!!!
I'm reversing the T2 diabetes, so I keep to a minimum of carbs, they've all been in my low-glycemic vegetables til recent lectures; virtually NO grains or potato. But you're right. And that breakfast sounds perfect. I try to combine the usual 1/2 c of black raspberries + couple tsp non-fat Greek yogurt with a boiled egg, for breakfast, but keep failing. I need more protein for sure. SO I'm going to make some turkey breast patties and premium-ass salmon patties to have one as a sausage to add to the berries. Maybe........... add some cooked real wild rice to the sausage mix???
Beans are your slow carb friend and they have proteins.
Just.... just add a second egg? A lot of news has come out in the last decade about the saturated fat -> cholesterol -> heart disease hypothesis. Turns out Ancel Keys just kind of buried about 75% of the data that didn't support his hypothesis, and we didn't find out until 2017.
Eggs are not the enemy.
Yes, I heard this!! But I do need the good fats from the salmon, it's high-grade Copper River, king/sockeye. Tons of Omega-3 whatevers, plus I need more B vit and I can't eat eggs every day, anyway. But they're so easy :-( I just need to get busy making and cooking some turkey/salmon patties and freezing them. Then thaw one overnight and zap it in the morning for a few seconds. Do you think that badly damages the nutritional benefits?? I don't know.
SUPER congrats on your PT victories; what are you repairing, if you don't mind saying?
You might like the recipe for my dinner for tonight. It's taco pie! You can emit the pie shell or swap it for a low carb version like cauliflower, for that matter, but I'm using a standard pie crust.
- 20 oz cooked ground chicken OR what I'm using, chicken tenders (unbreaded) pan seared in bacon fat and fajita seasoning, then chopped and shredded
- 1 cup fire roasted corn
- 1 cup chopped spinach
- taco seasoning package
- 1 cup shredded taco cheese
- 2 eggs for binding
- 2 tablespoons corn meal for binding
- 1/4 cup mild salsa
Mix it all up and cook it in a pie crust. All the taco flavor in easy to eat pie form. Makes 4-8 servings depending on how hungry you are. (8 kid size slices, 4 adult size quarters.)
WOW. The other people in my house would scarf the hell outta this. I make not-bad-at-all enchiladas roja but the scratch-sauce is a lot of work! I may make some of this for them!
LOL on bacon fat & cheese!! I'm on about 700 cals a day!! Negligible fat, very low glycemic/carbs, mostly vegetables! But yes, adding a little carbs on sufferance, and cranking up the protein. And just about to look into how to be sure my electrolytes are stable, too. I hate being in the ER's custody like last week🤬
Shouldn't harm the nutritional benefits at all. Microwaves are grossly misunderstood and professional chefs use them as hacks all the time. (Blew my mind the first time I learned they use them to quick fry things like capers in olive oil. What!) The only thing that completely destroys the nutrition in proteins is direct carbonization, i.e. charring. And even then a little bit of that makes them delicious so we do it anyway. Nom.
I say "PT" but really it's personal training; the trainer in question just happens to specialize in working around injuries since he's a retired S&C coach. I've got a bad knee and a bad hip and a knotty shoulder and hEDS so any given joint could get wobbly or angry at a moment's notice. His plan is just "get all the muscles that support the joints as strong as possible" and lo, the plan is working. Took my daily pain levels down from a 5-6 to around 0-2 depending on whether I made something angry.
Fantastic!
Thank you for the info, that's good news; and yes, I do like that Maillard reaction! Fricasee, fricasee! Reverse-sear!
I've got long term injury issues, as well; plan on hiring a trainer next week. Just now doing boot camp class with modifications for low BP & vertigo, horrible knees and back, plus home ballet exercises. Adding home toning work from a great video instructor when I'm stabilized from the low BP & BG.
Carbs are good. You are gonna need an energy reserve for the vicious mockery on deck for the evening.
LOL, cannot bear the sound or vision of the Shitgibbon but hopefully I'll be here!
If you make the most delicious thing ever, how would you ever top that?
make it again, but .... slowly?
Lay down some cheese slices or spread on a tortilla, put a light layer of tuna salad over the cheese, add lettuce. Roll it all up into a log and stick toothpicks in it. Slice the log and eat.
Cheese??? Are you insane?! lol.
17 gms protein from the tuna is enough for now, I'll get in more, later.
Both delicious and nutritious, Morgan. A wonderful combination.
Don't fear those carbs; respect them. They are what's necessary for your body to convert into glucose, the fuel that empowers the magnificent machine that is Morgan.
I have to power up for boot camp class which is at 5, so I had the carbs. It's 2:40 here. I'll have something else in a while like squash soup, maybe a big scallop. And have to check BG and BP a half hour before I go, to make sure I'm not going into crash. Any other ideas?
I love scallops, eat an extra one for me.
Did you make a tuna salad and put it in the wrap, or just tuna with some lettuce?
2 c. baby greens mix, 2/3 c. cucumber, 1/2 c. light tuna, 1 tsp mayo on flour tortilla.
I hadn't thought of the cucumber. Nice, adds more crunch.
Edit: add a bit of salt and try using spicy mayo.
that does sound kinda good.
Hmmm, I should go find something to 'et as well.
Tell Wyatt I think he's cool, someday!
When will these third world countries grow up and act like real countries. Everyone knows if you are going to have a coup, you first need to get a bunch of crooked lawyers to plot on how to overcome silly things like the Constitution. You then need to invite your most rabbid followers to a "wild time" where they will "fight like hell" to overcome democracy. Then need to make sure that the coup leader's vice president is threaten with a hanging. Finally, if everything fails, after allowing the violence to go on for hours, you must finally call off your insurgency. But make sure that you let your violent insurgents know that you "love them."
It is times like this I'm so happy that I live in a first world country.
So, not American then?
... I'll show myself out.
Wake up, darling, they're knocking,
The Colonel's standing in the sun
With his stupid face the glasses and the gun
I know what happens
I've read the book
I believe I just got the goodbye look
1982 was a good year, musically.
Another clue for you all: the walrus was Paul!
I just have one word: Plastics.
Coo, coo, ca-choo, Mrs. Robinson
Jesus loves you more than you will know
Wo, wo, wo
I am the egg man, they are the egg men
I am the walrus, goo goo g'joob
I'm sensitive as shit! I throw up before I go onstage! I can
make a guitar SPEAK! If I could be a fisherman I would, but I can't,
because I'm a FUCKING GENIUS! I was the Walrus! PAUL wasn't the Walrus!
I was just saying that to be nice, but I was actually the Walrus! Him
and that RUBBISH he's been singing! Eastman was an ANIMAL!! A FUCKING
STUPID MIDDLE-CLASS PIG!! I won't let fucking animals like that near
me!!
— Magical Misery Tour
Ringo libelz!
#Paulrus
The #Paulrus was Wall!
No one can argue with that.
Glad we can agree on that, at least.
"People tend to notice that sort of thing anywhere, even in backwards countries where a wealthy political kingmaker gives away a quarter-million-dollar motorhome to a leading judicial official."
That sounds like a simple gratuity for a job well done. Nothing to see here. I mean, if you can't give someone a plaque or a million dollar vacation, how do you expect anything to get done???
A coup in Bolivia? Kenya believe it?!
Polish those puns.
I've been China tell you.
You Greeced the skids for them.
Yuk yuk yuk.
OT: the ONLY silver lining, Sarah Cooper is back!
https://x.com/joncoopertweets/status/1806308644780232884
She is a national treasure.
Most palatable way to digest some Cheeto
Hurrah!!
She is good.