Sunday, June 24, 2018

The Incompetent and Uncaring UI

The UI (Useless Idiot) is incompetent and soulless. He does not understand policy and refuses to learn because he simply does not care. He does campaign rallies to promote hate and division and ignores human rights issues. Over 4000 deaths in Puerto Rico and orphaned children who have a living relative will be his legacy along with pollution and loss of international allies. He has ended most deals, made no new deals and lies and lies and lies. Eventually his decisions will backfire and ruin our thriving economy. Putin's UI has damaged democracies better than Putin could have ever imagined.

About the restaurant thing ... early in the campaign, I was at a restaurant near a table with two men who were loudly attacking Hillary Clinton. 
I did not enjoy my meal and have not returned. 
I believe restaurants have the right to not serve a racist party and to protect their other customers and employees, just as other businesses have asked loud racist customers to leave. 
Our society is divided because of the Liar-in-Chief and I would prefer to spend my time and money in places where I feel comfortable. I do not want to be around these liars and dividers, just as they, perhaps, should choose businesses that support their lies and propaganda where they would feel comfortable. 
If you want to treat immigrants as criminals, best learn to eat at home. Most restaurants in my area employ and serve lots of immigrants.



I did some research and if people bother to vote, we can reverse the tRUMP cult direction in spite of gerrymandering and Russian propaganda. In 2016, there were 55 million GOP registered voters, 72 million Dem and 42 million other. Since then, the GOP has seen party affiliation decrease.


It will take years, even decades to undo the damage the Russian Useless Idiot has done to our country.
he went from being Russia's Useless Idiot to Russia's Dangerous Idiot in less than 2 years.
Our credibility has been damaged internationally. The economic effect has not taken effect yet and sadly, the next administration will inherit an economic mess. Hopefully, the hate driven minority will be silenced, especially as they feel the economic results of their folly.

So some people prefer preventing Choice in a few states to keeping other Democracies as allies and trading partners or keeping families together who are seeking asylum or stopping crazy people from getting guns, even assault rifles?

Saturday, June 23, 2018

The Effects of Exercise in your Brain

This video explains the effects of exercise on your brain


Freemake Video Converter

I believe if you want to burn video files into a dvd movie,
Freemake Video Converter may do the job.

Here is where you can find it along with simple directions:
http://www.freemake.com/how_to/how_to_burn_dvd_video

Note: this software will work only with Windows

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

SMILE

SMILE is low impact exercise for everyone.

The SMILE youtube channel has some nice walking videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3wm6Rex4kcvOVpqxNHeAqg


Recently Gina  started a nice weekly series
Session 1 from the first week is just 5 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qz94HJYjdk

Each biweekly session adds another 5 minutes

The moves are easy to follow and she uses decent music.
The routines even work well when sitting on a chair or bouncing on a rebounder with just alittle tweaking,

DVDS can be purchased on http://www.spreadthesmile.com.au
(She also has a few dvds on Amazon)

Monday, June 18, 2018

Lauren Boggi

During a free VOD offer on FIOS of the Gaia TV channel, I discovered Lauren Boggi.
There are 5 episodes of Express Walking routines which seem darn good.

She also has what seems to be a new youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6crNWn25bVEZtjMlEBg8HA

Here is one of her youtube vids:


I hope to see more youtube vids  like the episodes on GaiaTV eventually.

ETA:
She does have a streaming subscription which seems a bit expensive after a 7 day free trial
https://laurenboggiactive.com/streaming

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Nepotism

I know political nepotism is everywhere.

When a teenager in collage, I lost my town summer playground job when my parents had the wrong political party sign on our lawn.  It did not matter how well I did the job in the previous summers.
Even before that, a change in our township committee ended our summer pool swim team which was very popular.   Ironically, the daughter of the man responsible for ending the swim team won our summer playground camp swim races the next summer and would have been a star if the swim team had continued.

Dictators, being more powerful, will be even worse than local politicians when it comes to their special interests.   To see our checks and balances failing so much and enabling the Useless Idiot (UI) to become so powerful in our democracy is still impossible to imagine, even though it is happening.

I, truly, believe the majority of the USA are good people with a moral compass but it is getting harder and harder to remember that as this administration without a moral compass can do whatever, whenever with no restrictions.    I doubt our country will fully recover in my lifetime which makes not having any grandchildren a silver lining. 
Sad that the UI's grandchildren will have to live with his legacy.  

Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Barre3

For Barre3 fans, there is a new vimeo channel

https://vimeo.com/user2465157

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Stamina Ovals?

The Stamina Oval Fitness Trampoline is a band rebounder which is much cheaper than bungee rebounders.
$50 on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Stamina-35-1691-Oval-Fitness-Trampoline/dp/B07143GK11
https://vimeo.com/220353905


Stamina Oval Intone Jogger
$75 on Amazon with a handlebar
https://www.amazon.com/Stamina-35-1699-InTone-Oval-Jogger/dp/B008S8XMYC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDow12pXmI0

My b bOUNDER is a band rebounder and works fine for me since I am more of a healthbouncer.  Previously, I preferred my larger band yogflex rebounder to a spring ReboundAIR. The Yogflex bands wore out after several years and it was no longer sold.  There was a similar band BodyBurner but it was much stiffer.
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To make this even more confusing I found a more expensive bungee model with arched legs LOL
https://www.amazon.com/Stamina-Intone-Fitness-Trampoline-Workout/dp/B01JH4BLCK
https://vimeo.com/171468545
(one review claimed the cord broke way too soon and another said the center was too soft so I would go with the large Leaps and Rebounds before this model)