Don’t know if Donald Trump is to blame for this, but the U.S. is the fattest place, anywhere. And don’t blame global warming, with its oceans rising and our lands sinking for this, either - because these submerging grounds are due to 711 million of us...being obese.

We, the fat, crevice continents by the very act of standing up.

Ok, the massive mortal, mashing our earth into water, is hyperbole - but the 711 million figure and the asserted USA-being-the-fattest fact, are real. The Washington Examiner calls it a life threatening problem, this obesity onslaught, with The States leading the way. The Examiner refers to a study done by the New England Journal of Medicine.

Actually, if we want to blame a US President for obesity - at least as it exists in Mexico, blame President Clinton. Under his rule the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was passed - as legislation, not as a laxative - and since then, some experts contend, Mexicans have been gulping down sodas, and other soft drinks, from their northern neighbor, like there's no tomorrow and now today, Mexico is a heavyweight so far as ranking countries for "globesity" goes.

So what? Should we care if the obese leave us prematurely? Sure, the fat will die first, there will be less of the porkers present, but look at the bright side: the shapelier will be alive – and Charles Darwin can have another long, cool one, knowing his evolutionary theory - AKA “The Survival of the Fittest” - will continue to survive and thrive...

(But let’s not look too hard into the fact that fat people seem to be winning the evolutionary battle because A) it defeats the paragraph above - and B) there is still more fun to be had here...)

Speaking of survive, perhaps peace will reign what with east meeting west in this pickle of the porcine. The above-mentioned study says China and America are the most rotund so far as adults go. Commonality there. A chance for a sharing of ideas...

But, to underscore how much this problem of obesity worldwide is a serious subject, with serious criteria, serious characteristics, and even more serious conclusions, it was befitting the NEJM had its pointy heads reveal:

“We used spatiotemporal Gaussian process regression to estimate the mean prevalence of obesity and overweight.”

Got that? Me neither. But we realize that, yes, obesity is a weighty matter, needing our long-term concern. But on a short term basis, shouldn't we care much more that the intellectuals who wrote the above quoted didn't get: A) It can make no sense to anyone who isn't an academic, rendering it gobbledygook, thus creating B) It, the public, will not be galvanized to support this cause? 

Because if that public literally can't understand the underlying rationale that explains the "facts" - the Poindexters' attempt to scare the wits out of everybody will fall flat. If the masses can't understand the underlying foundation, they won't rise up and shake a real or metaphorical leg... What were these supposedly smart researchers and prognosticators thinking? So, definitely, shouldn't we care more, in the short term, that our intellectuals are unfathomably dumb - to come out with such non-soul-stirring language?

Anyway, for decades now, worry warts on the issue of gargantuans on our globe have been hectoring. They've warned us of facts, trends, and reasons behind us growing so huge. And how we, the BIG, have failed their - and governmental expectations. And for decades now people – if our sight of these sights is bang on, have - pun intended - largely - ignored the treatises of  plights and pleas - - - - - - - widely. 

Basically the corpulent haven’t cared a hoot, munching on fast foods and ordering those foods into bigger portions than ever. 

So if we the ordinary folks don’t care, where’s the problem?

Perhaps we don’t mind if we are flabby. And perhaps the main reason we buy those fat loss and fitness books is because, well, it's the least we can do. We can virtue signal to fitter friends and family  that we are on the case, and that we mean business. We can also vicariously signal to same that we, HOPE these purchases will buy us some silence from our disapprovers and denigrators...

Getting back to the blame game vis a vis politics and our too-big people, perhaps, in reflection, Barack and Michelle Obama are blaming themselves for failing to get their citizenry to shape up. Remember Michelle's "Let's Move" project? Among other things it wanted stricter regulations on what kids could eat at lunch.

The kids voted with their taste buds, and their feet - tossing the mandated healthy meals into the trash before they, at best, scrammed out of the school caf to find some fast food, or, at worst - went to alleviate noon-time hunger by smoking outside.

Lots of federal funds and White House fiats went down the drain. Furthermore, according to another study, the kids who got - and ate - their meals from schools, adhering to Michelle's best ordered-intentions, grew fatter. 

So let's remember, too, that Trump has only been running and ruining the world for some 8-9 months now. The fatsos have been hulking about for a long time....

Therefore, let's say the choice to be a whole hog is a personal, not a political-partisan one. And perhaps health experts should stop shaming us tubbies – for it does no good. Undoubtedly carrying excess poundage is not good, physically for the person, but if that person doesn't intrinsically care, why should we? 

So, what is the key to losing fat? Walking, Water, Weight training, Watching what you eat, and Writing of your progress; the FIVE W's! 
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As for what to eat, whether you are a vegan, vegetarian, or an unreformed carnivore - it still comes down to the amount of food you eat, not the type of food. There are far too many value judgements about what is right or wrong to eat. Eat what you will, where you wish, when you want. If you find yourself loathing the fact that your mirror ain't wide enough to handle the load, you'll figure it out, you'll do something. Leave the protestations about what you are eating, aside. Enjoy your food. Remember to chew it though, and not swallow it down the hole, whole.  Perhaps you might ponder about eating just a bit less of whatever you're chowing down on, for if you can't see the plate upon which your comestibles temporarily rest - it might explain your weight... 

​Adam Silver’s got balls. The commissioner of the NBA wants NBA players to hector President Donald Trump for his incorrect views. Has Trump complained about the lack of diversity within the NBA – a league where 75% of players are black? Has he wanted to put blacks at the back of the bus, behind illegal aliens? What the heck is Adam Silver dribbling about?

We’ll get to the NBA dunk of Trump momentarily.

Up until now, Adam has handled race-based, concerning African-Americans, political issues with aplomb.

Actually Silver demolishes, not dribbles, when it comes to racism against blacks. When NBA owner, come on down, Donald Sterling - spoke racially and odiously off the cuff privately to V. Stiviano about black people, well, Adam, in only his 88th day as commissioner, atomized Donald with a jolly good ban of him from the NBA - for LIFE - and tacked on a 2.5 million dollar fine for good measure – based on this one incident only.

Wow.

The power.

Power, however, that was lauded by NBA icons Charles Barclay, Kenny “The Jet” Smith, and Shaquille O’Neal, in hearing of Silver’s slam dunk of Sterling.

Power. Put to proper use.

Perhaps, however, instead of targeting President Trump, Silver, who looks EXACTLY like the farmer carrying the pitchfork in the American Gothic House painting, should use that power, as a white guy, to resign and let a female black take his job. Or let Mark Tatum, a black deputy commissioner vie for his spot. Apparently blacks in NBA management are almost as low numerically as are Asians playing in the NBA, although blacks, Shaquille O’Neal and David Robinson, do hold team-ownership positions in the league, albeit in piddly amounts. Robinson has 1.88% in the San Antonio Spurs while O’Neal has 2-4% with the Sacramento Kings.

Or Silver, do a double. Step down, but before you do, arbitrarily set quotas for Asians to start on NBA squads.

No? 

Oh.

So you plead for blacks in a league replete with them against The Donald whose Trumpian Empire in his casinos and hotels had diverse staffs. Yet your understanding of presidential player development is nil. Think basketball player’s development. A performer, new to the job, doesn’t hit his, or her, stride for many months, maybe a couple of years – at least. Yet you want your brood to carp and castigate against The Donald in, what, his three-some months of tenure?

And hasn’t Silver seen what Colin Kaepernick’s politics has done to NFL fan attendance? Does he want the NBA to go all political? With the country evenly split between left wing lunatics and right wing wackos, no matter what stance on the issue of the day the NBA takes, will piss off half the populace. (One fortunate fact is that the NBA mandates players to stand for the anthem.)

Oops, a bit late. The NBA has gone over-the-top-and-below-the-belt political, deciding it didn’t like North Carolina’s law(s) on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, believing them discriminatory – so Charlotte won’t get the All-Star game in February. North Carolina Governor, Pat McCrory, said that the people of North Carolina should use washrooms based on their genetic sex. If perception is reality, the NBA looks like it supports boys using girls’ washrooms.

The NBA is fouling out here...

And even if the NBA isn’t going all partisan, its performers of arms-length have. Remember Denasia Lawrence, the singer who did the anthem in a pre-season game? She knelt and opened her jacket to show off a T-shirt extolling Black Lives Matter.

This is a controversial group.

While BLM can’t control its members and can’t be responsible for their biases and thuggery, it has followers that praised the killing of three Baton Rouge police officers. So the NBA, like it or not, is tainted by association to a collective that many, like the Dallas Police Department’s Demetrick Pennie, who is President of the Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation, and who is suing BLM for inciting race riots - feels is racist and anarchist. Pennie is black so it would be hard to construe his motives as skin based...

Now, for sake of argument, let us say the players are right to debate with The Donald and, moreover, that their arguments are completely correct too.

This can play out in a few ways.
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First, they make their arguments and Donald listens without reaction. Second, they make their arguments and Donald disagrees with them completely. (This scenario isn’t likely.) Third, he agrees with some of their points, says others need study, and disagrees with the rest.
(((Third-point-A, Donald Trump does whatever Donald Trump does to confound us all once again.)))
Forget Third-point-A for now. For our sanity and safekeeping.
There’s a fourth option. Let’s call this the nuclear option. As we all know by now Trump has broken every conventional political rule in getting himself elected. He just might decide to cancel the tradition of NBA champions visiting the White House because, given his busy schedule - - -  although Saturday Night Live has VP Pence handling all the tough stuff - - - why would he want to preside over an event in which he is harangued and lectured? Didn’t he just face such treatment from the mainstream media while electioneering? Why go through it again? What’s in it for him?

But there’s a fifth possibility that might send the NBA-complaining stars back to the bench. Suppose they tout reforms to policing and more community involvement in nurturing wayward kids in gangs to go straight. Now suppose it is the Cleveland Cavaliers that win again in 2017 and Trump listens to the arguments and agrees with the players and volunteers and asks them to go out into the troubled communities to help try to fix things up. For sure LeBron James, with his history of giving back on Akron, will rise to the challenge but will others? And will some doing the caterwauling be shown by Donald’s response to be nothing more than virtue signalers?

What would President Trump, in agreeing to the NBA player pleas be doing? He’d be calling their bluff.
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Tip off.

Democrats despise him, the Republican establishment loathes him, the mainstream media abhors him - which is why Trump wins.

Many Americans love him - more than they condemn Democrats, cuss Republicans, and chastise the mainstream media - which means a “Trump President” is a go.

Contrast The Donald’s prompt presence to Louisiana’s flood(s) to the mail-it-in-no-shows-of-the-don’t-wanna-go(es), you know, the Dems and dumber: Obama and Clinton.

The orange-haired guy visited Louisiana soon after the August 19, 2016 floods, a disaster the likes of Hurricane Katrina that, folks will recall, decimated not only New Orleans’s people and property - but denigrated George W. Bush’s political persona and personal profile as well.

Obama castigated Bush then - but now, with his golf ball in the bush, or certainly in the rough, at Farm Neck Golf Club in Martha’s Vineyard, he seemingly could care less than less about 60,000 homes being damaged due to 6,900,000,000 gallons of rain pelting that land.

His administration defended his nothingness response, nattering of his phoning Governor Edwards, extolling his declaring Louisiana a disaster, applauded his airmailing underlings Craig Fugate, FEMA Administrator, and Jeh Johnson, Homeland Security secretary, to check his lie – whether it be of the golf or gulf variety nobody can say...

Now in Obama’s defense – people insisting he come down there and (paraphrasing) “do something” should realize that B.O physically, isn't too manly; he could toss what, one sandbag tops? And without a teleprompter he’s pretty useless verbally too.

So give the guy a break. Let him relax, lounge around – for when he’s actually off the course and in the course of presidential duties, well, his latest good works was paying a $400 million ransom to Iran for four Americans’ freedom.

Moreover, everywhere the blowhard goes he creates a typhoon of problems – for his hosts. Back in 2014, Barack bopped into Belgium. For a night. The country still has nightmares about all of this. They were on the hook for some 10.4 million in security costs, then had to figure out where to house his gang of 900 and then had to ponder which bumper-car playground park could host, and garage his oh-so-necessary army of 45 armored vehicles.  

So perhaps Louisiana should feel blessed the great one passed on popping in. Coulda bankrupted the State...

Oops, the man visited for a around three hours on Tuesday August 23. All is well with the earth!
Oops, not exactly. Obama’s government loves to hector and pester Americans. So while Louisiana is mired in dismay, depression, and death various organizations sent out a “Guidance” saying they had better not be racists in the aftermath!

As for Hillary she phoned the governor and said to us she “stands with Louisiana” (up to the point of not getting her feet wet – which is why she called instead of came, and went to a fundraiser with Cher - instead of giving a hoot.)

Now, The Donald toured Louisiana shortly after the flooding. Folks there really appreciated it. And Trump has Clint Eastwood lending a somewhat sympathetic ear to his general mien – but CLEARLY - as, a recent Minnesota Trump rally shows, he does have boorish, thuggish detractors. And most of his detractors don’t want merely to detract him, via wiser thoughts and better theories; they want to redact him, via shutting Donald down, completely.

Sorry. No can do.

Figuratively flog him if you must, if you will, but to mute and silence him because you find his views repugnant isn’t on.

Cleveland’s the site where these Trump naysayers, including the Workers World Party, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Resurrected Students for a Democratic Society, and the (Obama approved and lionized) Black Live Matters boosters, galvanized, to go about and shout why Donald should be silenced through and throughout.

America’s divided between the ruling elites and the common citizenry.

Trump believes in Americans, which upsets globalists in both the American Democrat and Republican parties. He’s uncontrollable, which drives the mainstream media crazy – because he “gets away with it.”

CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, even Fox – don’t think American blacks will vote for him. Why? Because their narrative insists blacks are a blob-Democrat-Party-voting bloc. (And blacks have, pretty much lately, voted for Democrat presidential candidates.) But because Trump will curb illegal aliens scooting their way into America via Mexico, blacks and Hispanics, who legally live in the USA, will vote for Donald because he respects their citizenry - and will protect their legal right to search for work, or keep their jobs, without having to compete with illegals.

And, if his speech in Dimondale, Michigan August 19th is any indication of the more insightful, more analytical, yet blunt and forceful Trump – which is total catnip to legal Americans – he will take a greater percentage of the puny 5% black vote that Romney had in 2012 against Obama. Currently Trump has 14.6% support amongst blacks.

And those same Blacks and Latinos will vote for Donald because he wants to restore law and order unlike some anti-Trump, totally wacky protestors who are pushing to abolish “... Police.” The latter would work out swell, huh?

Now some folks, because their heads were screwed on right, right from the get go: when they attended college and didn’t take Gender, or Marxist, or Diversity courses – all emphasizing how much the USA is the root of all evil – are smart enough to know, like The Donald does, that a country that can’t control its borders, and can’t stop its willy-nilly-treasonously-willingly acceptance of predominantly Muslim refugees and illegal aliens from countries south of the Rio Grande - - - is doomed.
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Thus, a flood of reasons why Trump wins.