Saturday, January 7, 2012

Weekend Newsbites: Sat. & Sun., Jan. 7 & 8, 2012


I Am Frigg'n Amazing...

OK. Slept in. Got up a bit before 10:00 a.m.

10:15 a.m. - Raspberry lite (no fat) yogurt with about a two-thirds of a cup of cereal mixed in... 200 calories.

Outstanding workout at the gym! Cycled 13 miles; burned 500 calories!

12:45 p.m. - Five strips of turkey bacon on two slices of toasted whole grain oat bread (going real light on the mayo... real light!) with maybe an ounce of cheese and plenty of lettuce; oh... plus a dill pickle.

3:00 p.m. - Gonna have a grapefruit before heading out for the afternoon!

To be continued...

Call the rest of the day my "cheat" day:

Carl, Antoinette, and the girls came over. One beer. One piece of bread with butter. A little antipasti. Two glasses of red wine. Two slices of pizza (eggplant rollatini pizza with sausage and extra cheese to be precise), a snifter of (fine, fine, fine Spanish) brandy, and a slice of panettoni cakes.

Goodnight...

Woke up with Pink Eye. Luckily I have a personal physician on call 24/7/365.

(*SMILE*)

He called in the script to my nearest Rite-Aide. Ten minutes later they call me up to tell me that neither they nor the other Rite-Aide in town have common anti-biotic neosporin eye-drops in stock, but, their Chester stores does so Mary will hump up there to pick up my prescription.

(Nah... America's not falling apart.. no... why should I be able to get a common medicine easily within an hour of Manhattan...)

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

10:30 a.m. - Half a cup of Special K mixed into a light yogurt (less than 200 calories total).

1:30 p.m. - A cup of 2% cottage cheese.

4:30 - A third of a cup of turkey chili with a half ounce of cheddar cheese and a teaspoon of light sour cream.

7:30 p.m. - One slice of leftover pizza. (Of course I jazzed it up with extra cheese, pepperoni, and peppercini... but bottom line... one slice!)

8:15 p.m. - One all fruit ice pop (110 calories).

9:15 p.m. - One small slice of
panettoni cake and a glass of 1% milk.

10:45 p.m. - One small grapefruit.

Obviously no gym today, what with the Pink Eye and all. In any case, it's probably best that I emulate God and take one day out of the week for rest.

2 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577146652736300984.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories

An Afghan investigative commission accused the American military Saturday of abuse at its main prison in the country, repeating President Hamid Karzai's demand that the U.S. turn over all detainees to Afghan custody...

* OUR GALLANT ALLY!

Mr. Karzai on Thursday abruptly demanded that the U.S. military turn over full control of the prison, officially known as the Parwan Detention Center but generally referred to as the Bagram prison, within a month.

The head of the Afghan investigation said U.S. officials told him many of those militant suspects were taken based on intelligence that can't be used in Afghan courts.

Another investigator, Sayed Noorullah, said the prison must be transferred to Afghan control "as soon as possible," adding that "If there is no evidence ... they have the right to be freed."

* HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS SQUANDERED... THOUSANDS OF AMERICAN LIVES LOST... TENS OF THOUSANDS OF AMERICANS MAINED... AND THIS IS WHERE WE'RE AT.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

* HEY... FOLKS... UNDERSTAND... THIS IS ALL IN THE CONTEXT OF U.S. NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE TALIBAN. WHEN WE FINALLY LEAVE... THE TALIBAN ARE GOING TO ONCE AGAIN BE A FORMAL FORCE IN AFGHANI POLITICS. WHAT KARZAI IS DOING IS LAYING THE GROUNDWORK FOR FUTURE "POWER SHARING."

William R. Barker said...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/07/us-egypt-elections-idUSTRE8060IG20120107

The Muslim Brotherhood said on Saturday it had won at least 41% of the seats in Egypt's lower house of parliament, with Islamists of various stripes occupying almost two thirds of the assembly so far.

* SO, FOLKS... HOW THE "ARAB SPRING" WORKING OUT SO FAR?

The Brotherhood's Democratic Alliance list has won 41 percent of the seats so far, while another list led by the hardline Islamist Nour Party came second with 20 percent of the seats. The Nour Party seeks strict application of Islamic law...

(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

* NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT, FOLKS... I'M "SURE" THAT BETWEEN THEN, OBAMA AND HILLARY HAVE EVERYTHING... er... "UNDER CONTROL."

(*SNORT*)