Barb Obert

@DaveDiCello Anyone know the occasion for three helicopters? Dave, this pic is one of my favs so far!

Sure woulda been nice to get credit on this post 😂

@SamaHoole Can’t trust US pork with all the mRNA vaccines they have used for years. “ Don’t worry it’s safe” they say. Where have we heard that before? For that reason, pork is off the table.

Pork gets a lot of grief in carnivore circles. It's not beef, which counts against it. It has PUFAs, which sounds damning. And it carries two thousand years of religious taboo, from Leviticus to the Quran, which has a way of embedding itself in cultural intuition long after the theology has left the room. So let's be fair about what pork actually is. Pork is a superfood. Not in the way that word has been debased by bags of goji berries in health food shops. A genuine, nutrient-dense animal food that has sustained entire civilisations. Thiamine: pork is the richest common dietary source of vitamin B1. More than beef. More than lamb. Thiamine is critical for glucose metabolism, nerve function, and cardiac health: and its deficiency, beriberi, was historically catastrophic in populations eating refined rice. The traditional populations eating whole pork alongside their rice didn't get beriberi. The ones eating polished white rice without the pork did. The pork was doing work. Selenium. Zinc. Complete protein. Choline for liver function and brain development. Carnosine. B vitamins across the board. It is an animal food. It does what animal foods do. Now the PUFA question, because it deserves a direct answer rather than a dismissal. Yes, pork fat contains more linoleic acid than ruminant fat. This is real. The pig, unlike the cow, has a simple stomach and cannot biohydrogenate polyunsaturated fat, cannot take the problematic seed fat and convert it into saturated fat the way a rumen can. What goes in largely comes out. Pigs raised on grain and soybean meal will have fattier, more linoleic acid-rich tissue than pigs raised on a more natural diet. Here's the context that changes everything. If you have already removed seed oils, you have already removed the industrial cooking oils. If you have removed legumes, you have removed soybean-derived everything. If you have removed nuts, you have removed the other major linoleic acid sources. You have, in the process of cleaning up the obvious problems, already addressed the bulk of your PUFA load. In that context, pork's linoleic acid content is not the marginal straw that breaks the metabolic camel's back. It is a manageable contribution from a whole food that was never the issue. The issue was always the bottle on the kitchen counter. The bottle is gone. And then consider: pork is the staple meat of Asia. The cooking traditions of China, Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Thailand: cuisines built on pork belly, slow-braised shoulder, trotters, ears, offal, these are not the cuisines of populations historically defined by metabolic disease. The metabolic disease arrived with the industrial food, the refined carbohydrates, the vegetable oils. Not with the pig. The religious prohibition on pork is ancient, contextual, and pre-refrigeration. The carnivore prohibition on pork is aesthetic, recent, and optional. Eat the belly. Render the lard. Use the lard to cook the rest of the pig. Beef is exceptional. Pork is not beneath it. They're different tools. Both animal. Both complete. Both doing what no bag of seeds ever managed.

@ScottforFlorida Get 5 together to ditch Thune and get something done. If you don’t do that it’s empty words.

Democrats have proven they don’t care about securing our elections or funding DHS. I’m sick and tired of their games. Let’s blow up the filibuster so we can fully fund our government and pass the SAVE America Act.

Pios love their fans! @DU_WLAX

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@HollyBell8 Old left thumb injury rendered me unable to open jars. My battery-operated jar opener just died. Any suggestions for that?

I’m getting arthritis in my right thumb and manual can openers have become painful. Keep eyeing my counter trying to figure out where I can put one of these. I know someone who refurbishes them.

@SenRickScott Get to work. Stop participating in the Pro-forma sessions that are enabling your vacation and blocking work from getting done. Your words are empty @SenRickScott

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents overwhelmingly support the SAVE America Act! The Senate needs to PASS this commonsense bill NOW to SECURE our elections and SAVE our country 🇺🇸

@SenRickScott Have you said No to the Pro-Forma sessions that are letting the Senate skate by on vacation? Nope. Put your actions where your empty words are @SenRickScott

The Senate needs to do two things IMMEDIATELY ⬇️ 1) Fully fund Homeland Security 2) Pass the SAVE America Act This can’t happen if we’re on recess AND have a filibuster standing in the way. BRING THE SENATE BACK and BLOW UP the filibuster!

@BasedMikeLee It shouldn’t be hard for you to say no to Pro-forma “sessions” that enable the Senate to block real work. @SenMikeLee @BasedMikeLee

It shouldn’t be hard to pass a bill as popular as the SAVE America Act Lobbyists aren’t calling for it because the bill doesn’t make them money The press isn’t calling for it doesn’t advance their preferred narrative But the American people want it So the Senate must pass it

@BasedMikeLee Then don’t participate in the Pro-forma sessions that are making vacation possible. You’re contradicting yourself. @SenMikeLee

Americans want us to pass the SAVE America Act We must deliver That can’t happen soon enough

@SenRickScott Don’t participate in the Pro-Forma sessions then. You’re contradicting yourself @SenRickScott and making recess possible. Empty words.

The only way out of this DHS funding mess is for the Senate to COME BACK TO DC and ELIMINATE the filibuster NOW! We already know where the Democrats stand, and it’s NOT with the American people. It’s time to FULLY FUND DHS.

@SenRickScott What are you participating in the Pro-forma sessions that are blocking recess appointments? @SenRickScott Why are you one of five Senators willing to start the process to replace Senator Thune? Your words are empty.

Bring the Senate back. ELIMINATE the filibuster. FUND DHS and pass the SAVE AMERICA ACT!

@SenMikeLee Are you participating in the Pro-forma sessions that are blocking recess appointments? You are throwing your other good work out the window @SenMikeLee

The only place in America where voter ID and proof of citizenship does not enjoy supermajority support is the U.S. Senate. Why do you think that might be?

@BasedMikeLee The only purpose of a pro forma session is to block recess appointments. Your @gop colleagues are joining @LeaderJohnThune in being willfully obstructionist.

The Senate just completed a pro forma session No attempt was made to pass DHS funding by unanimous consent The Senate must convene now

@DuendeATL @mattvanswol Like 20 years ago.

@mattvanswol Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg, Illinois

I think I know why everything sucks... ...and it's because everything is fake We are getting fake college degrees that cost 4 years and six figures that teach you fake education and get you fake jobs. We are eating fake food, with fake ingredients, funded by fake research. We are scrolling through fake lives, with fake relationships, who take fake, curated vacations to promote brands that make fake products. We are voting for fake candidates, who run on fake promises, inside a fake system that was never designed to fix anything. We are raising kids in fake schools that teach fake history, fake science, which quietly produce fake adults who can't think for themselves. We are watching fake news, about fake crises, produced by fake journalists, for fake outrage. We are borrowing fake money that was printed from nothing, to fund a fake economy that would collapse in an afternoon if people stopped pretending it was real. We are buying fake organic food that's just a paid label, and drinking fake juice with two percent juice in it, and putting fake cheese on cheeseburgers that's just "cheese product" on fake burger meat. We are donating to fake nonprofits where the moeny never makes it to the people and then funding fake foreign aid that buys real weapons to prop up fake governments. We are going to fake therapy that teaches fake coping skills instead of telling you hard truths. We are buying fake furniture made of fake wood that's actually compressed sawdust and glue that looks like wood, ships in fourteen boxes with instructions written in a fake language that isn't quite any language, requires tools it doesn't include, takes 4 hours to build, wobbles on day 1, and is totally destroyed in 6 months. We are downloading fake "free" apps that charge a subscription after three days for AI features that don't work, hidden behind a paywall we didn't see, protected by a privacy policy we didn't read, buried inside Terms of Service written by lawyers specifically so we wouldn't read them, that we agreed to by tapping a button the size of a thumbnail, that gave a company we've never heard of the right to sell our data to companies we'll never hear of, to build a profile on us we'll never see, to influence decisions we'll never know were made. IT. IS. ALL. FAKE. And we all yearn for what was once real. Don't you remember? Did you forget? There was a time with a simple handshake between men was a contract. When bread went stale because... well, that's what real bread does! When kids played outside all day until it was dark, and nobody tracked them. When a family could live off a single income. When music was made by people who LIVED something real and you could feel it. When schools was HARD... and that was the point! When doctors knew your name and your family, they even came to your house, When you bought something once... and it was yours forever. When the chair your grandmother bought once lasted 70 years and she passed it onto your dad. And now nothing is real, and that's why everything sucks.

@JenniferSey @SundgrenLori @xx_xyathletics New Balance are it, especially for women with wide feet.

@SundgrenLori @xx_xyathletics What do you put on your feet? I just started to wear Brooks and I’m liking so far.

Nike stock is at an 8.5 year low. The stock is down 70% since their high in 2021. They abandoned their core customer. They abandoned core wholesale distribution. They neglected the running category and the competition swooped in. And they sold women out. Not to mention their China business took a nosedive. Go woke go broke is far too simplistic to sum up their mistakes. But they did that too. Now you’ve got better options.

@EricLDaugh Nope. @LeaderJohnThune has intentionally delayed important bills from the Save Act to the DHS bill all year. Nuke the filibuster.

🚨 JUST IN: Speaker Johnson says Chuck Schumer FORCED Leader John Thune and Republicans to cave on the DHS bill "I wouldn't call John Thune the engineer of this. Chuck Schumer and the Democrats in the Senate have FORCED this upon the Senate. I have to protect the House."

@SenMikeLee As hard as you worked @SenMikeLee , there is no sugarcoating it—Republican leadership stood in the way, and MOST of the Senate followed.

Here’s where we stand. The Good: President Trump is paying TSA agents, and the current bill the Senate just sent over to the House re-opens DHS. ICE and Border Patrol will continue arrests and deportations, being primarily funded through the OBBB. Democrats did not succeed in sabotaging border and immigration enforcement in any substantive way. The Bad: the Senate goes on a two week recess without passing the SAVE America Act, stand-alone voter ID, or funding all of DHS through the normal process. Democrats threw a wrench into our efforts to deliver on issues which enjoy broad support among the American people. The Ugly: Congress, especially the Senate, cannot skate by relying on President Trump to solve all our problems. Republicans have to justify their majorities by fighting for permanent policy victories, not can-kicking with unrealistic reconciliation promises. If we do not stand and fight today, we will not inspire Americans in November.

@mattvanswol @DataRepublican @ScottPresler @LeaderJohnThune @RepAndyHarrisMD Money still going to the Taliban. Call out the Congressional traitors by name and fulfill your promises for conservative spending.

@ScottPresler @LeaderJohnThune I AM SO SICK OF THE ARROGANCE AND INCOMPETENCE OF THE GOP!!!!!! ONLY 1 DOGE CUT MONEY STILL GOING TO THE TALIBAN NO SAVE ACT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE GOP???!!!! GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!!!!!!!!!

It appears Senate Majority Leader Thune is getting a private escort leaving Ronald Reagan Airport for Easter vacation without passing the SAVE America Act. By the way, FISA Section 702 expires on April 20th. CC: @LeaderJohnThune

@RepFine @DataRepublican @RepAndyHarrisMD You promised to shut down any Senate legislation that came to the House side if they didn’t fulfill their obligations. Call them out and fulfill your promises.

Looks like Leader John Thune is on his way out of town with his private escort, as the SAVE America Act gets left behind. This is very disappointing. I am willing to stay in Washington as long as it takes to get the job done.