It's a Beautiful Day - White Bird!

Long ago song, but the lyrics still apply to this day!

Middle Class taking it on the chin!

As we approach the end of 2014, I hope that the millions of Americans who dwell in the working middle class realize what's been happening to them under the Obama form of Socialist government. Wages are stagnant with millions underemployed, the cost of goods and services has been increasing while the buying power of the money they do receive decreases. Meanwhile, most of the poor are being taken care of in fine style with generous Federal entitlement programs, while the rich only keep on getting richer.

Even with the Republicans taking over of the Senate in January 2015, I've been assured that the status quo will remain in place! Obama, after all, has two more long and tedious years in which to continue wrecking the Republic while the men and women now sitting in Congress are ill suited to get anything done. It will be business as usual and the Congressional party will go on, even as the Republic continues to sink into a horrific quagmire of National Debt currently will exceed 18 trillion! Obama did not drive a bus over the fiscal cliff, he used an F16!

The Nylon Beat! Where ever you go. Suomi!

A great performance, by a Finnish group, of some years past who were bilingual, sexy and very talented! Rock on! Sept 23, 2019 - So, I'll state, for the record, that this Finnish video has been altered! It's not what I originally put out..... bullshit media control!

A Japanese Classic - Tearful!

This beautiful song is for anyone who has lost a close loved one!

この曲は近い1を失った人のためです！

I flip through an old photo album And whisper, “Thank you” To the person in my heart Who is always there to comfort me On clear days, on rainy days That smile enters my thoughts Even though my memories fade into the distance I’ll look for the traces you left behind And remember you on a tearful day I pray to the first star in the night It’s become a habit of mine Looking up at the evening sky And searching for you with all my heart In sadness, in happiness That smile enters my thoughts If you can see me from where you are Then I’ll live my life Believing that we’ll meet again someday On clear days, on rainy days That smile enters my thoughts Even though my memories fade into the distance It’s lonely without you My emotions for you are tearful I miss you, I miss you My emotions for you are tearful

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I flip through an old photo album

And whisper, “Thank you”

To the person in my heart Who is always there to comfort me

On clear days, on rainy days

That smile enters my thoughts

Even though my memories fade into the distance

I’ll look for the traces you left behind

And remember you on a tearful day

I pray to the first star in the night

It’s become a habit of mine

Looking up at the evening sky

And searching for you with all my heart

In sadness, in happiness

That smile enters my thoughts

If you can see me from where you are

Then I’ll live my life

Believing that we’ll meet again someday

On clear days, on rainy days

That smile enters my thoughts

Even though my memories fade into the distance

It’s lonely without you

My emotions for you are tearful I miss you, I miss you

My emotions for you are tearful

I flip through an old photo album And whisper, “Thank you” To the person in my heart Who is always there to comfort me On clear days, on rainy days That smile enters my thoughts Even though my memories fade into the distance I’ll look for the traces you left behind And remember you on a tearful day I pray to the first star in the night It’s become a habit of mine Looking up at the evening sky And searching for you with all my heart In sadness, in happiness That smile enters my thoughts If you can see me from where you are Then I’ll live my life Believing that we’ll meet again someday On clear days, on rainy days That smile enters my thoughts Even though my memories fade into the distance It’s lonely without you My emotions for you are tearful I miss you, I miss you My emotions for you are tearful

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I flip through an old photo album And whisper, “Thank you” To the person in my heart Who is always there to comfort me On clear days, on rainy days That smile enters my thoughts Even though my memories fade into the distance I’ll look for the traces you left behind And remember you on a tearful day I pray to the first star in the night It’s become a habit of mine Looking up at the evening sky And searching for you with all my heart In sadness, in happiness That smile enters my thoughts If you can see me from where you are Then I’ll live my life Believing that we’ll meet again someday On clear days, on rainy days That smile enters my thoughts Even though my memories fade into the distance It’s lonely without you My emotions for you are tearful I miss you, I miss you My emotions for you are tearful

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It's time for a Chicago Dog!

While I've never made Sonics a regular on my list of places to eat, I do like to make a trip to the one located in Forsyth, Missouri about once a month to get myself a genuine Chicago Hotdog! At 690 calories for a hotdog and an order of small fries, this type of fast food is on my list of no-no's from a diet standpoint! That said, a meal of this type every once in a while can't hurt. And, the taste is soooo good!

The hotdog itself is 236 grams while the French fries come in at about 88 grams. And true you are getting hit will a load of saturated fats, especially when you tack a small order of fries onto the meal! The villain, so we've long been told, has long been saturated fat. Conventional wisdom, which dates to the 1950s, is that saturated fat, which is present in meat, dairy, and some plant products, increases our total cholesterol and chance for heart disease and stroke. Trans fat, a relative newcomer that dominated packaged goods and fast food, is another bad guy: It not only ups our LDL cholesterol but also lowers our HDL cholesterol (the kind that helps sweep bad cholesterol out of the body). The American Heart Association recommends limiting your intake of saturated fat to less than 7 percent of your total calories (if you eat 2,000 calories a day, that's 16 grams, roughly the amount in a chocolate milk shake) and of trans fats to no more than two grams a day.

After decades of bashing saturated fat, the medical community was stunned by a 2010 study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. In a research analysis, scientists discovered that there wasn't enough proof to link saturated fat to either heart disease or stroke. It wasn't the first time this fat had been vindicated: Four years earlier the Women's Health Initiative study found that eating less saturated fat didn't result in lower rates of heart disease or stroke. The 2010 analysis, however, was so big and so thorough — involving 21 studies and nearly 350,000 people — that it grabbed experts' attention. "Everyone had just assumed that the evidence against saturated fat was strong," says study author Ronald Krauss, MD, a professor of nutritional sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, who was surprised by the finding and the controversy it created. "We had to work hard to get our study published. There was an intrinsic mistrust of this kind of result."

Researchers say there were even earlier clues that saturated fat didn't deserve its reputation as top dietary villain. The decades-old "diet-heart hypothesis" — the idea that saturated fat is bad for the heart — was mostly based on animal studies and short-term trials that looked only at people's cholesterol levels, not at whether they actually had heart attacks. "Those studies are great for making hypotheses but not for making widespread recommendations," says Dariush Mozaffarian, MD, an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and a researcher of diet and heart health. "When we started getting evidence from longer trials and observations, we realized that the truth is more nuanced than we thought." The bottom line, for me, is to keep all foods I eat in moderation with an emphasis on vegetables and whole fruits!

Mollyann A - a great talent brought down by the petty jerks among us!

This video circa 2009 or thereabouts.

I was going to do a diatribe on the sad individuals that fester among us. You know the types -  they always are finding fault and leave comments intended to hurt others efforts on social sites. (I've had occasion to run across these same types myself, time and time again). These individuals are part of the hidden cancer that lies just below the surface of our Republic.. and, I'm afraid, their ranks are growing every day... But, no - I won't continue on such a sad vein...at this time anyway!

This post is just a thought and a personal opinion - nothing to do with the video - however, I feel that there is a reckoning yet to come in the near future...

Roy Orbison with Love Hurts!