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Democracy at the Crossroads     I want to be candid about this, increasingly large segments of the so-called  Republican party are no longer supporters of democracy. Stridently anti-democratic factions hold sway from the WH on down into the ranks and base of the party today. They are supported by a deeply anti-democratic segment of the right-wing media. A form of right-wing Populism - Nationalism has married itself to the Corp. wing of the party, add the these folks the right-wing religious factions and white supremacists and what you end up with is a deeply reactionary and fiercely anti-democratic movement looking to replace our present Constitutional order with something that looks more like today's Russian kleptocracy/autocracy  with a supreme leader or quasi-Dictator like Putin and a weak fig democracy ( the DUMA.) Sadly, I don't see this getting any better in the years ahead. The party is now reaching for Authoritarian leaders like Trump and ...

   If we are to ever slow down the accelerating negative effects of climate change / global warming most scientists of good faith believe Carbon Capture technologies are going to have to be developed and deployed to reabsorb and reprocess much of the present CO2 overhang. The average amounts of CO2 in the atmosphere are known to have been between 190 ppm to 280 ppm ( approx.) over at least the last 4-6 mil. years. The low pts. being in the middle of Ice Ages and the high levels of concentrations in inter-glacial warm periods like the one we're in now ( the Holocene epoch.) The problem now of course is we've added over 135 ppm above the 280 high average and considering that the Atmosphere and Climate system is known to be extraordinarily sensitive to these limits we are now on track for radical change to these systems.                          A REVOLUTIONARY NEW METHOD OF CARBON CAPTURE I've linked here to a ...

A great article in Salon detailing what's going on with Trump's AJ Mr. Barr. Click on the link and take a look for yourself.  https://www.salon.com/2019/10/25/bill-barrs-alternate-universe-investigation-has-a-goal-right-wing-authoritarian-rule/

   I'm suffering from almost three straight years of Daily Donald? I have to admit I've stopped watching the Donald J. Trumpf shitshow on TV and can hardly bear to read anymore OP-eds and articles about him and his gang. In short, I'm suffering from emotional and mental fatigue as regards him. Are you?

Click on the link below for the story about how Climate Change is disrupting thousands of years old farming cultures world-wide. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/10/climate-change-killing-thousands-of-years-indigenous-wisdom/#close

   The past 8 months I've turned my attention to making sure I do at least 4 to 5 or more walks a week. My average walk is now 4 miles and sometimes I'll walk as much as 7 miles. I jog as well for part of these walks. This activity level plus a limited calorie regimen has helped me lose 15 lbs. and I hope to keep it off in this way. What I'll do when winter arrives is another thing. It's not as simple though as it looks. As I've lost the weight it's taken more activity to get the same results and I've also had to gradually lower my caloric intake as well. I'm almost at my ideal BMI weight now and have been trying to get my weight to level off. So far this has had mixed results and I've been trying to figure out a formula for doing this. If anyone has suggestions please send them on.