They Would Not Do That! ... Or would they not?

Thank heaven there are lines even Snidely Whiplash will not cross.

You just said you doubt me? When will you ever learn to not do that!?

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I’ll give you a good example of which I speak...N95 Masks!

No one would make Fake N95 Masks! No one would want to expose his fellow man to spreading the Deadly COVID-19 Virus simply for profit!...Or would one?

Even Snidely would not want Health Care Professionals operating on patients wearing masks that were dripping the Deadly COVID-19 Virus into an open body cavity during an operation that is supposed to be saving the life of the cavity owner!

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This Just In!...News reports are coming in telling us that there are evil people out and about that are even more evil than evil Snidely Whiplash!

This shocks me! For someone who keeps calling himself Smart, I sure am not too smart when it comes to Evilness!

Here is a February 18, 2021 News Headline...

Federal Agents Seize About 11 Million Counterfeit N95 Masks

This is short excerpt from this news article...

“Federal agents have seized about 11 million fake N95masks as part of ongoing investigations and efforts to prevent counterfeit masks from being sold to hospitals and first responders.

The seizures took place over the course of a few weeks in operations across five states, with hundreds of thousands of masks seized from an east coast warehouse in the agency’s most recent enforcement action.” 

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Did you just say, “Oh well, 11 is not a lot. It is not even 12 and it is hardly more than 10.”

Why do I have to keep reminding you about these Millions and Billions and Trillions we keep throwing around?

11 Million Is 11 Thousand Thousands

That’s a lot more than...Don’t Worry About It. That’s Nothing!

Thank heaven they put us to sleep during operations. If it not for Anesthesia we would be laying there watching all those germs dripping into our unsuspecting open cavities.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Is It Possible To Talk About Black & White Without Being Called A Racist?

 

I’m not sure, during these trying times, the answer to the Subject Question can be a “Yes” but, in this Blog Posting, I’m going to try to say, Yes, It Is Possible.

What color are Human Teeth? Certainly we can all agree that Human Teeth are White.

So far...So good?

What color is Charcoal? Certainly we can all agree that Charcoal is Black.

Am I still good? 

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Here is where it gets confusing.

I just bought 4 tubes of Toothpaste from Costco and the packaging reads as follows...

Crest

3D White

Fluoride Anticavity Toothpaste

Whitening Therapy

Charcoal

Deep Clean

On the other side of the box Crest gives the buyer more information and they explained themselves rather well...Or did they?

This 3DWhite Whitening Therapy formula contains an Active Mineral Complex and Charcoal.

This formula gives you a deep clean that brightens teeth, strengthens enamel and freshens breath.

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There it is. There is Procter & Gamble’s explanation as to why something that is Black can make your teeth, which are White, Whiter.

At some time in our lives we all have picked up and handled Charcoal Briquettes. Once we have done the handling, if we look at our hands, we see that our hands are Blacker, not Whiter, than they were before we did the handling.

Have you ever said to yourself, “Self, I’m thinking that I need my teeth to be Whiter than they are. I going to take a piece of this Charcoal Briquette and rub it all over my teeth, and when I am done rubbing, my teeth will be a lot Whiter.”

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There I have done it. I have talked about Black & White and I have not said anything that could possibly be considered Racist.

I’m glad you agree with me and I thank you for taking time to read my Confusing Foolishness.

Have a nice day.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Wait a minute. I have yet to publish this Blog Posting and as I look outside my Computer Cave’s Window I see an angry mob holding signs that say I am a Racist and shaking their fists at me in angry anger.

 

Maybe I ought to not publish this Blog Posting after all.

 

Wait a minute. This is really strange. The angry mob seems to know that I am thinking about not publishing my Non-Racist Foolishness and they are shouting, “If you do not publish you Non-Racist Racist Blog Posting, it will prove that you are a Racist!”

 

I am certainly Betwixt and Between (whatever that is).

Can’t We All Just Get Along?

 

You may want to Not Read This Blog Posting if you are...

Ø A Progressive who is averse to reading anything that makes you think that everything Progressives do is anything but the Correct Course of Action and you refuse to even consider any Course of Action that is not Progressive.

Ø A Conservative who is averse to reading anything that makes you think that everything Conservatives do is anything but the Correct Course of Action and you refuse to even consider any Course of Action that is not Conservative.

No matter what political leanings you have I would hope anyone could read this Common Sense (remember Common Sense?) Argument about what’s happening to our System of Government.

What’s happening is not good for any of us. It could very well be one of the biggest nails of the many nails we are hammering into the Coffin of the Good Ole USofA.

I’ll give it a name. Let’s call it...Chaos in Governance.

Many of you just said to collective yourselves...“Huh?”

We may not know what I am talking about but we better figure it out before it is too late and it’s getting too late very fast.

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Allow me to try and make bullet-point sense of what I pecked out above...

Ø Imagine you have an idea for your Dream Venture that you have wanted to make a reality your whole life.

Ø You finally have enough money to make it happen but you don’t have unlimited funds and you know for a fact that, if you fail, you will be bankrupt.

Ø You are encouraged because the Current President of the Good Ole USofA after many years of political infighting has just signed an Executive Order clearing the way for your business venture to become reality.

Ø You are excited because you know your Dream Venture will employ thousands of families and your own family will be provided for for the rest of your life and beyond.

Ø However, because you have always been one to see reality, you are thinking about not going forward with your Dream Venture because there is a campaign for president in process and you hear the opposition candidate pledging to Cancel Out the Executive Order of the Current President that made your Dream Venture possible.

Ø You know that Executive Orders are not Laws Passed by Congress and they can be cancelled by future presidents.

What would you do? I know what Fella would do because he is Gutless...Or is he a Realist? He would go back to the Yogurt Shop, put on his apron and start thinking of how to tell his children why they are not going to be able to go to College and try and come up with a few good reasons as to why a career as a Yogurt Fella is not all that bad.

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What is that you just said? You just said you don’t like Fella’s Silly Bullets. OK, I’ll see if I can bullet out a more recent example that will sound very familiar to you...

Ø You are the owner of a Pipeline Construction Business.

Ø Your company has just been offered the opportunity to be the Major Construction Contractor to build a new Pipeline.

Ø The Prior President had used Executive Orders to prevent construction of the Pipeline.

Ø The Current President has just signed an Executive Order to go ahead with construction on the Pipeline.

Ø You know our Legislative Process was designed to be slow.

Ø You know that, after Laws are passed by Congress, they are The Laws of the Land and it is again an agonizing slow process to repeal Actual Laws.

Ø You recognize this as Stability.

Ø You know Stability means businesses can make plans into the future.

Ø You know that Executive Order Governance is Chaos.

Ø You know, if the rules that a country lives by can be changed every 4 years, this is a Recipe for Failure.

Ø You know the many good paying jobs that the Pipeline will create can be eliminated by another Executive Order.

Ø You know that the proponents of stopping the Pipeline will say, “Go build Windmills”.

Ø You know that the Windmill Jobs are in other states and your unemployed workers will have to relocate to those states.

Ø You know that those Windmill Jobs pay half of what the Pipeline jobs paid.

Ø You know that when the Cancellation Executive Order is signed you will be stuck with 48,000 Tons of Steel Piping that you will have to try and sell for pennies on the dollar of what you paid for them.

A couple more “You Knows”...

Ø You know you are not going to sign up your Construction Company to build the Pipeline.

Ø You know you are going to find a Physiatrist Couch to lie on and start having your head examined about why your head ever got it into itself to go into the Pipeline Construction Business.

Ø You know you will not be surprised when your new Physiatrist says to you, “Have you ever thought about being a Yogurt Fella?”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: Today the Windmills in Texas are frozen in place. What do you think about an Executive Order to unfreeze them? Fella thinks that might not be such a good idea. Two bad consequences could result...

Ø Such an Executive Order might result in Windmills themselves becoming confused.

Ø Mother Nature might File Suit.

Which One Ain’t Thinking?

 

 

I do not agree with everything President Johnson said and I am certain that he would not agree with everything I have said but here is something he said that I do agree with...

“Don't Spit in the Soup, We All Gotta Eat”

Now that I have that off my chest, I will move on to trying to explain why I chose the above Title of this Blog Posting to be the Title of this Blog Posting.

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Actually today’s 2^nd quote of LBJ’s that I wanted to discuss did not come from LBJ. Now I know I have you confused about what I am saying (again) but stick with me as I try to wriggle out of this one.

The 2^nd quote is...

“Whenever two people always agree, one of them is unnecessary.”

For decades I have attributed a form of this quote (“If you have 2 people who always think alike, you have one person who ain’t thinking”) to LBJ. In getting ready for this bit of Foolishness I researched the attribution of this quote and found that it definitely came from Ezra Pound and it definitely came from Henry Ford and it definitely came from William Wrigley, Jr. (The Internet strikes again).

Oh well, as Fella has said before, if the horse is dead, get off the horse.  It makes no difference who actually said it, I’m going to talk today about what was said by someone.

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Have you noticed what I’ve noticed about Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska?... They always agree.

This fact really hit me in the face yesterday when I was jogging down the hills in my local park (I’m too old to jog up the hills in my local park). 

I was listening to the Senate Impeachment Trial Number Next of President Trump. The Senators who were still awake were submitting written questions to the lawyers prosecuting and defending President Trump.

The strange thing was a question had come from both Senators Collins and Murkowski. Not a question from Senator Collins and a separate question from Senator Murkowski but a single question from the both of them. This leads me to the Fella Question...

Which One Ain’t Thinking?

 

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

 

The President Lied! ... Or did he?

Below are 4 excerpts from the first 2 questions on the CDC Web Site in a section entitled “Frequently Asked Questions about COVID-19 Vaccination”... 

Ø Because this virus is new, we don’t know how long...

Ø We won’t know how long...until we have more data...

Ø Experts are working to learn more about...

Ø Experts do not yet know...

Why is it, if the President of the Good Ole USofA stands up at a News Conference and gives us information about COVID-19 that he obtained from the Experts at the CDC that later is found not to be true, he is attacked for Lying to the American People?!

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

A Fellastone (Milestone for Fella) Has Been Passed And, As It Went By, He Paid It No Never Mind

I must have been too busy to notice a Significant Milestone as it went by or I am getting so old I simply did not look up in time to take note.

Let me start again...

I have been so busy I did not notice a Significant Milestone as it went by...

Foolishness...Or Is It the Blog Has Passed The 200,000 Views Milestone.

At The Time Of The Publication Of This Blog Posting The Exact Number Is 200,461 And Counting

My thanks goes out to each of my Dear Clickers for each and every one of your Clicks.

Keep on clicking and I will do my best to continue pecking out Silly Things about Foolishness (Or is it...Foolish Things about Silliness?).

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: I’m must be feeling my oats. I’m thinking seriously about overtaking Justin Bieber’s 87,228,979 Facebook Followers. Right now I am at 11 And Counting.

We Are Not Slipping Down the Slippery Slope We Are Hurling Ourselves to the Bottom

 

There once was a time when it was considered improper fashion to display a Woman’s Ankles.

A hundred years or so later there is no Flap about displaying the contents of The Flap...

The Silly People from the Old Days may not have been as silly as once thought when they raised the alarm about Women’s Fashion showing the female ankle because, here in the New Days, a lot more than the ankle is on display.

At least the Bottom of the Slippery Slope is in sight...Or is it?

Did you just start wondering about what is keeping us from Complete Nudity? The only thing I can see that might stop this rush to the bottom of the Slope is the Frigid Temperatures that come with Winter Weather.

On the other hand, Global Warming may negate that flickering hope.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: The last picture above did not come out of a Girlie Magazine. It was an ad trying to actually sell this “dress”.

Finding Out About the COVID 19 Vaccination Is Easy...Or is it?

 

I asked the CDC Web Site a simple question...

How long does it take for the Pfizer Vaccine to take Full Effect?

I got back an answer that looked like this...

Ø It contained 4,209 words.

Ø It started off with, “Please Note: This transcript is not edited and may contain errors”.

I did not bother to read the 4,209 words and I decided to continue to Wallow in My Own Ignorance.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

I Believe It Has Been A Long Time Since This Happened In Washington, D.C.

A member of either Political Party said this...

We are all in agreement that, if we published this story about our political opponent we would gain long-lasting political advantage and we would be absolutely certain to win this upcoming election. It is such a shame that we can’t put out this story but we can’t because It Is Not True.

No matter what your Political Persuasion, if you just said to yourself, “The other side would go right ahead with this Untruthful Story but my side Would Never Publish A Lie”, you are wrong.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

I’ve Blogged About This Kind Of Arithmetic Before and Now I’m Gonna Do It Again

In this Internet Age it is easy to make A Lot More Money. Netflix just made A Lot More Money. They raised their Monthly Subscription Rate by $1 a month.

Did I just hear you say to your Computer/Smartphone/Tablet/Whatever, “Fella, $1 ain’t a lot of money. $1 is only a dollar. It’s not even $2. It is hardly more than nothing”.

My Dear Readers, you think I am being Silly because you have not remembered to take into consideration the number of subscribers Netflix flicks to each day/month/year.

As of the 4^th Quarter of 2020 Netflix has 203,670,000 Subscribers. (I am always amazed that when such numbers are reported they always come out to exact figures)...

Ø Netflix just increased gross revenue by $203,670,000 A Month.

Ø Actually I know the increase is going to be $203,669,999 Per Month because 1 guy out in Missouri (where the stubborn people live) is going to say, “That’s it! They have gone too far! I refuse to be bullied like this! I’m not going to pay it! I quit!

Ø Netflix will pay him no never mind because, the day after he quit, they will pick up 1,289 New Subscribers for an increase in revenue of $18,033.11 Per Month.

If I have inspired you to stand your ground with your Netflix Subscription and refuse to be bullied into paying $1 more Per Month, Fuhgedaboutit. Netflix will never know you are gone because they will be too busy counting their money.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

Lagniappe: Yea, I figured it out. $203,669,999 per month is $2,444,039,988 Per Year. Yes that’s 2,444,039,988 Billion with a B.

This is an excerpt from an article in California Globe published on January 30, 2021.

If you want to check me out or want to read the entire article, click here: Tesla's Elon Musk Leaving the Golden State for the No Income Tax State - California Globe

If you want to just read my Excerpt, it is in orange (mostly) below but, before the Excerpt, let us hear from California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales who Tweeted... “F*ck Elon Musk”.

Begin Excerpt:

“The California exodus is real.

California Globe reported in September that the Hoover Institution’s Lee Ohanian  warned about this. “California businesses are leaving the state in droves. In just 2018 and 2019—economic boom years—765 commercial facilities left California. This exodus doesn’t count Charles Schwab’s announcement to leave San Francisco next year. Nor does it include the 13,000 estimated businesses to have left between 2009 and 2016, Ohanian said. “The reason? Economics, plain and simple. California is too expensive, and its taxes and regulations are too high.”

If that isn’t enough, the San Francisco Business Journal interviewed one of California Globe’s business subjects, longtime Sacramento, California developer Paul Petrovich, who “says he is among the 30,400 wealthy Californians who will have to pay California’s wealth tax if it’s approved — so he’s moving to Austin.” Petrovich said “he will move both his residence and company, Petrovich Development Co., over the next two years, or as soon as he’s able to sell his holdings in Northern California and re-establish the company’s headquarters in the Texas capital.”

Musk will have plenty of company from California.

“Getting out of California, with the highest income tax in the country, and into Texas, which has no state income tax, could save Musk billions of dollars based on his compensation package awarded in 2018,” CNBC said.

“To help lure Tesla’s new factory, local officials granted the company tens of millions of dollars in property tax breaks. Musk confirmed on the company’s second-quarter earnings call in July that the plant would occupy about 2,000 acres 15 minutes from downtown, and would be used to build the Cybertruck, its Semi, Model 3 and Model Y. Musk said the factory will start delivering cars next year.”

Real estate is a big motivator for Musk. As the Globe reported, “The once-great state of California has become a minefield for commercial real estate investment and development and things will be getting worse, not better,” Joseph J. Ori, Executive Managing Director of the Paramount Capital Corp., a Commercial Real Estate Advisory firm wrote. “The assault on real estate in California has been occurring for years but has been done under the radar with small anti-real estate changes here and there that overall, had little effect on the industry. However, anti-real estate and business legislation hit overdrive about three years ago and has accelerated with a myriad of new laws and regulations.”

Ori warned that during the last two years, numerous legislative actions have been enacted or were on the 2020 ballot in California “that will negatively affect the CRE industry.”

Ori added, “California is becoming very inhospitable to the CRE industry and business in general and with these and other anti-real estate laws, it may be time for investors to demand substantially higher cap rates or decline to invest in California real estate altogether.”” 

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Pop Quiz: True or False...California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzales is a Savvy Business-Friendly Public Official who is going to generate a lot of Tax Revenue for the State of California every year she is in office.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

If It’s Environmental … It’s OK With America...Part 2

I have added an Addendum to this Blog Posting that was published in my Little Read Book back in 2010. It is a little too complicated to be a Lagniappe, so I came up with an Addendum because it makes me look like I know what I am doing.

If It’s Environmental … It’s OK With America

Congress can save a lot of time and money with this bit of Foolishness.

Congress spends a lot of time trying to name pending legislation so as to ensure that it will obtain final passage. This means many Closed Door Late Night Meetings searching for just the right words to name a new bill. This means spending the taxpayer's money on Focus Groups grinding out the exact right Hot-Button Terminology. Think I am being Foolish? How dare you! Please allow me to prove my Foolishness…

Ø If a bill were proposed to ensure that big time contributors to Congress' political campaigns are properly rewarded for their donations, it would probably be named Senior Citizens Retirement Protection Act.

Ø Do not be too quick to label this as deceptive. These contributors are going to be Senior Citizens someday and they will become feeble and, when they do become feeble, they are going to need to be protected.

Ø It is a very brave politician that is going to take the chance that, in an upcoming re-election campaign, he will be labeled as having voted against Senior Citizen Retirement Protection.

In the current legislative Environmental Environment the sure things that will sail through our Congress are bills that protect the Earth's Precious Environment. Here is how Congress can eliminate all those Closed Door Late Night Meetings and all that tax money spent on those repeated and very expensive Focus Groups.

The next piece of legislation that starts making its way through Congress should simply be named...

Ø  Environmental Protection Act #1.

Ø  Environmental Protection Act #1 can be quickly followed by Environmental Protection Act #2.

Ø  Can you guess what the next one will be named? You guessed it … Environmental Protection Act #3.

Need I go on?

It is a very brave and stupid politician that is going to take the chance that, in an upcoming re-election campaign, he will be labeled as having voted against Environmental Protection!

What a stroke of genius this foolishness is! What a time saver! I'm glad I thought of it.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Addendum:

The Environment is back in the news (did it ever leave?). Maybe better said, The Environment Is Back Flat Dab In The Middle Of the News! Yea, that’s better.

It goes without saying (Why do we always say “It goes without saying” and then say it anyway?) the Environment is Important. Of course, it is! By golly...It is the Environment! What could be more important than the Environment!?

Something else that is important in today’s Politically Charged Landscape is Injustice, and when politicians want to line us up like Lemmings and lead us to the mountain top (or over the cliff), they latch onto Politically Charged Issues and Injustice is today’s Politically Charged Issue!

Don’t think that politicians are stupid just because they do so many stupid things. They are very practiced at being Smart Stupid because we are so practiced at being Lemming Stupid.

Here is what they have decided to dangle in front of us...

Environmental Injustice!

Gone is:

Ø Global Warming

Ø Climate Change

Ø Global Heating

Ø Greenhouse Effect

Ø Atmospheric Warming

Ø Climate Crisis

Ø High Global Warming Potential

Ø Warming of the Planet

Ø Change In Average Weather Conditions

Ø Change In Global Climate Patterns

Ø Climate Crises

Ø Global Temperature Change

Ø Increase In Temperature Of Lower Atmosphere

Ø Increase In The Earth's Atmospheric Temperatures

Ø Increase In The Earth's Oceanic Temperatures

Ø Shift In Worldwide Weather

All of the above (and many more) have been replaced with Environmental Injustice.

How efficient is that!

If our 9% Approval Rated Congress is anything, it is Efficient! ... Or is it?

OK. As I have said many times in the past, “If the horse is dead, get off the horse” and I’m done with this horse.

As Mel Brooks Said in The History of the World-Part 1, It’s Good To Be The King...Or was it?

Château Fontainebleau 

Henry IV was the King of France and he worked hard at being the King of France...

• He was an active ruler.
• He was admired for his repeated victories over his enemies and his conversion to Catholicism.
• He was called, "Good King Henry".
• He was remembered for his geniality (he had a kind and good-natured disposition and manner).
• He was known for his great concern about the welfare of his subjects.
• He worked to regularize France’s Finances (made it fit in with usual and accepted standards or practice).
• He promoted agriculture.
• He eliminated corruption.
• He encouraged education.
• During his reign, the French Colonization of the Americas truly began.
• He was celebrated in the popular song "Vive le roi Henri" (which later became an anthem for the French monarchy during the reigns of his successors).
• He drained swamps.
• He undertook public works projects.
• He protected forests from further devastation.
• He built a system of tree-lined highways.
• He constructed bridges.
• He built canals (He had a 1200-metre canal built in the park at Chateau Fontainebleau which can still be fished today).
• He ordered the planting of pines, elms, and fruit trees.
• He restored Paris as a great city, with the Pont Neuf, which still stands today, constructed over the river Seine to connect the Right and Left Banks of the city.
• He had the Place Royale built.
• He added the Grande Galerie to the Louvre Palace. More than 400 meters long and thirty-five meters wide, this huge addition was built along the bank of the Seine River. At the time it was the longest edifice of its kind in the world.
• He was a promoter of the arts by all classes of people, invited hundreds of artists and craftsmen to live and work on the Grande Galerie’s lower floors. This tradition continued for another two hundred years, until Emperor Napoleon I banned it.
• His vision extended beyond France as evidenced by his financing several expeditions of Pierre Dugua, Pierre de Mons and Samuel de Champlain to North America.
• During his reign France laid claim to New France (now Canada).
• He proved to be a man of vision and courage.
• Instead of waging costly wars to suppress opposing nobles, Henry simply paid them off.
• Henry is said to have originated the oft-repeated phrase "a chicken in every pot" when he said, “If God grants me life, I will make it so that no plowman in my realm will lack the means to have a chicken in his pot on Sunday!”
• This statement epitomizes the peace and relative prosperity which he brought to France after decades of religious war, and demonstrates how well he understood the plight of the French worker and peasant farmer. This real concern for the living conditions of the "lowly" population—who in the final analysis provided the economic basis for the power of the king and the great nobles—was perhaps without parallel among the kings of France.
• His forthright manner, physical courage, and military successes also contrasted dramatically with the sickly, effete languor of the last Valois kings, as evinced by his blunt assertion that he ruled with "weapon in hand and arse in the saddle" 
• Following his death Henry would be remembered fondly by most of the population.
• He adopted policies and undertook projects to improve the lives of all subjects, which made him one of the country's most popular rulers ever.

What a guy!

• In other words, he was loved by all...Or was he?
• He faced much opposition during his reign.
• During his life he became target of at least 12 assassination attempts.
• He was finally killed in Paris on 14 May 1610 by a Catholic fanatic, Francois Ravaillac, who stabbed him while his coach was stopped because of traffic congestion.

Fella Summation...You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can’t please all of the people all of the time. 

Mel Brooks Summation...It’s Good to be the King...Until It Isn’t.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

 

I Like the Old Days

 

Old Days... 

New Days...

I’m not kidding you.

Smartfella

The Evil Egg Ain’t So Evil After All

 

For decades we have been told about how Eggs Are Bad For Us.

Now Nutrisystem (among others) has declared Eggs to be a SuperFood that is very good for us. Be careful what you fall for hook, line and sinker. It seems no matter how intelligent your source you may have been sold a Well Intentioned Bill of Goods (whatever that means).

OK, I looked up “Bill of Goods” and here is what I found...  

“A bill of goods, as a phrase, has two meanings. The less common is a delivery of goods, a consignment. The more common definition is something that is knowingly presented in a false way, usually with the intent to deceive or gain something by the trickery.”

I go back to my use of the words above “well intentioned”. For decades the Smart People were trying to help us but that does not mean they were feeding us good information.

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Here is a synopsis of what Nutrisystem (among others) is now telling us...

Surprised that eggs are considered a Superfood? It wasn’t too long ago that eggs picked up a reputation as an unhealthy food to avoid because they could contribute to serious health problems. Now we know that just the opposite is true: Eggs are a concentrated source of potent nutrients and provide many health benefits. They can play a vital role in our diets, especially when we’re trying to shed excess pounds.

Eggs are...

Ø  A source of High-Quality Protein with only about 80 calories per serving.

Ø  One large egg (one serving) comes with 5 grams of fat, including 1.6 grams of saturated fat.

Ø  The concerns about egg consumption were based on the 187 milligrams of cholesterol in an average egg. 

Ø  High blood cholesterol levels are associated with heart disease, but recent research has determined that eating foods high in cholesterol does not directly increase the levels stored in your body.

Ø  Foods loaded with saturated fats, such as fatty meats, are more likely to lead to high blood cholesterol.

Ø  A typical large egg provides you with about 7 Grams of Complete Protein, contained in both the yolk (yellow) and the albumen (white) parts.

Ø  The yolk is a Rich Source of Vitamin A and D, B Vitamins, Zinc and Iron.

Ø  It also delivers two Important Antioxidants, Lutein and Zeaxanthin.

Ø  These nutrients Protect Your Eyes from aging related conditions, such as macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness in the United States that affects over 10 million people.

Ø  They also support Healthy Brain Functioning.

Ø  Eggs supply you with Choline, a nutrient that is especially important for pregnant women, as it plays a key role in fetal brain development.

Ø  For everybody, Choline helps our bodies maintain and replenish all kinds of cells, transmit nerve impulses and process fat and cholesterol in our diets.

Ø  Only beef liver gives you more Choline than eggs do.

Ø  For all of us on a weight loss journey, eggs may be most valuable because they Help Stave Off Hunger.

Ø  People who ate an egg breakfast felt fuller afterwards and consumed significantly fewer calories at lunch and over the next 24 hours than those who ate a bagel-based breakfast with the same number of calories.

That ought to get you started to inspire you to run out and buy a couple of dozen eggs in order to get you Egg Munching for the next several decades until all of what you have been told above during your Munching Decades is “proven” false.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella