The true history of the Democratic Party…

Did you know that the Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, founded the KKK, and fought against every major civil rights act in U.S. history?

Since its founding in 1829, the Democratic Party has fought against every major civil rights initiative, and has a long history of discrimination. The Democratic Party defended slavery, started the Civil War, opposed Reconstruction, founded the Ku Klux Klan, imposed segregation, perpetrated lynching’s, and fought against the civil rights acts of the 1950s and 1960s.

The Republican Party, however, was founded in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Its mission was to stop the spread of slavery into the new western territories with the aim of abolishing it entirely. This effort was dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court, though. In the 1857 case of Dred Scott v Sanford, the court ruled that slaves aren’t citizens, they’re property. The seven justices who voted in favor of slavery? All Democrats. The two justices who dissented? Both Republicans.

The slavery question was, therefore, ultimately resolved by a bloody civil war. The commander-in-chief during that war, the man who freed the slaves, was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln.

Six days after the confederate army surrendered, John Wilkes Booth, a Democrat, assassinated President Lincoln. Lincoln’s vice president, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, assumed the presidency, but Johnson adamantly opposed Lincoln’s plan to integrate the newly freed slaves into the South’s economic and social order.

Johnson and the Democratic Party were opposed to the 13^th Amendment, which abolished slavery, the 14^th Amendment, which gave blacks citizenship, and the 15^th Amendment, which gave blacks the vote. They only passed because of universal Republican support.

 As historian Eric Foner, himself a Democrat wrote, “In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party”

 Later, President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, shared many views with the Klan. He re-segregated many federal agencies, and even screened the first movie ever played at the White House, the racist film “The Birth of a Nation”, originally entitled “The Clansman”.

A few decades later, the only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, came from Democrats.

When their efforts to enslave blacks, keep them enslaved, and then keep them from voting had failed, the Democrats came up with a new strategy: If black people are going to vote, they may as well vote for Democrats. As President Lyndon Johnson was reported to have said “I’ll have those n*****s voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

Democrats, is this the history that you want to teach your grandchildren? Is this what you want to tell them you are?

Well this is the true history. Like it or not, if you’re Democrat, this is your history. I personally wouldn’t want to have to tell my grandchildren that my party supported things like slavery, lynching’s, segregation, and worse. I would rather my grandchildren know that throughout history, my party, the Republican Party was against such civil rights atrocities, but that’s just me, maybe you Democrats are proud of your history. I wouldn’t be, but again, that’s just me.

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The MIND Diet…

The mind diet is a little different from other diets, because it doesn’t make promises like, losing 15 pounds in two weeks, and, clean the toxins from your body. Instead what it does claim is that it will dramatically lower your chances for getting Alzheimer’s Disease.

In a study from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago Illinois, researchers found that the MIND diet, a hybrid of the Mediterranean and DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diets cut people’s risk by approximately 53%.

The Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay Mediterranean diet emphasizes ten brain healthy foods included in both the Mediterranean and DASH diets.

The diet consists of leafy greens, vegetables, berries, nuts, beans, whole grains, fish, poultry, olive oil and wine. At the same time, limiting things like red meats, butter and margarine, cheese, pastry and sweets, and fried or fast foods.

According to Kate Patton R.D. a registered dietitian with The Cleveland Clinic, it’s all about moderation. Even if you break the rules now and again it’s not the end of the world. The diet’s guidelines are extremely loose, and even people who didn’t strictly follow the diet, still reduced their risk of Alzheimer’s by 35%. Not bad huh?

I’m not sure what kind of success you will achieve in the weight loss department, but if you’ve had Alzheimer’s disease in your family history, maybe, this diet is for you.

At any rate, I believe, it’s worth a try.

Diet of the week II…

The South Beach Diet…The purpose of the South Beach Diet is to change the overall balance of the foods to encourage weight loss and a healthy lifestyle. The South Beach Diet says that it’s a healthy way of eating whether you want to lose weight or not.

That may or may not be true, I’m not a doctor and never claimed to be. The problem I have with this diet, is the fact that it eliminates an entire food group. Anybody who has eaten carbs as children will know what I’m talking about.

You eliminate carbs from your diet, and your body will crave them. You will have far less energy, and will end up fairly inactive.

That inactivity will never help your cause, at least if your cause is to lose weight. In theory, weight loss is simple…Just take in fewer calories than you burn, and you lose weight. In practice however, not so simple.

I believe that any diet that eliminates food groups is bound to fail, because if you don’t allow yourself carbs, your body will crave them, and then the first time you eat a sandwich, YOU’LL GAIN WEIGHT!

Try something else, anything else, like moderation. If you eat all things in moderation, your body will not crave certain foods, and you won’t gain weight the first time you eat those foods. Again, simple in theory, but also not too difficult in practice.

Read next week when I discuss the pros and cons of Jenny Craig and NutriSystem.

Hillary Clinton in the news

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the news, she’s back and blaming her loss to President Trump on everybody and everything, but herself.

First on her list is FBI Director, James Comey. According to Hillary, Director Comey caused her to lose the election by releasing a letter ten days before the election, reopening a second investigation into her email server.

Call me nutty, but isn’t that what we do in this country? When a crime is committed, isn’t it law enforcement’s job to investigate? Did she really think that the investigation would be dropped because of who she is?

Number two on the list? The Russians, accusing them of hacking the Democratic National Convention, and her campaign chairman, John Podesta, so they could release damaging emails to the public.

Again, maybe it’s just me, but if there were no damaging emails in the first place, there wouldn’t have been anything that the Russians could release.

Also, WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, who had no connection to Russia or Russian hackers, was blamed for their publishing thousand of emails from her personal accounts, as well as John Podesta’s.

Again, if there were no damaging emails to begin with, there wouldn’t have been anything to publish.

Here’s an oldie but a goodie. Misogyny. I think women stopped using misogyny for their lot in life about fifty years ago.

She and Bill also blamed her campaign members (her senior campaign officials), for failing to push her message, not preparing her for debates, and not developing a viable campaign strategy in key swing states.

As far as I can see, there is only one person, who didn’t have a role in her loss. Hillary Clinton. In her eyes, she was the only innocent person through all of this.

In reality, she was the only one to blame, because if you lose, you’re the one who lost, you’re the one to blame.

If she can’t take responsibility for losing the election, what wouldn’t she take responsibility for, for the next four years if she had won. Even when Bill was president, the only thing she was worried about was the win. He cheated on her, and she didn’t even seem to know. If she didn’t know what was going on with her own family, why should we believe that she would be any more observant when it would’ve been her job to know what was going on around the world.

In my opinion, we dodged a bullet. If Bill could get away with cheating on her, lying under oath, and everything else he did, why should we believe that things would be different with her as president.

Diet of the week…

This week, it’s the DASH diet.

The dash diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension), is a diet created for people with high blood pressure. It is supposed to be a way to change your eating habits to bring down blood pressure.

According to the creators, the typical American diet is high in fat, sugar, and salt, but low in fiber and minerals, which causes high blood pressure. That is said to be the reason why many people don’t get enough potassium, magnesium, and calcium in their diets.

The dash diet, is said to be easy to follow, it is designed to about 2,000 calories a day, with serving numbers varying according to age, gender, weight, and activity level.

Common serving sizes are: ½ cup cooked whole-grains, 1 slice of whole-wheat bread, or 1 ounce of dry cereal, ½ cup of chopped fruits or vegetables, 1 medium fruit, 1 cup leafy greens, ¾ cup of 100% fruit juice, or ¼ cup dried fruit, 1 cup low-fat milk or non-fat Greek yogurt, 2-3 ounces of lean meat, 4 egg whites, ½ cup dried beans, or 2 tablespoons nut butter (either almond or peanut).

They also have a list of best foods that are linked to a lower blood pressure. The list contains:

Wild blueberries

Potatoes

Sweet potatoes

Purple potatoes

Dark chocolate

Hibiscus tea

Cinnamon

Kiwi fruit

Nectarines, and

Pomegranates, to name a few. They also call for a reduction of salt.

This may be a good diet for somebody who has high blood pressure, but if you’re trying to lose weight, not so much. First, I don’t believe in counting calories, or cutting foods that you love out of your diet. These kinds of things only lead to one thing…failure.

If you’re spending time counting calories, or staying away from certain foods, then you’re not enjoying your food. This is very basic, if you’re not enjoying your food, you’re miserable. That is no way to stay on a diet.

 In the following weeks, I will be researching several diets, that claim to work. I will put them to the test, and let you know my findings.

I don’t believe that people were ever supposed to be on a diet, per se, and will prove it by trying these diets myself.

Every week, I will post about a single diet that I have tried, I will let you know what it was like, and the problems that I found with it.

I hope that you will join me weekly for information on the diets I’m trying, and maybe let me know what diets you’re trying.