Boos...

Bill and Hillary Clinton got a taste of New York's state of mind on Thursday night.

After singer Billy Joel dedicated a song to the former first couple and flashed them up on the screen at Madison Square Garden, initial cheers turned to boos from the audience.

The former first lady has been under scrutiny for years as she criticized President Trump and attempted to lay out the reasons she thought were behind her loss to him in the 2016 election. 

Hillary Clinton encountered speculation over her relationship with Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, who allegedly sexually assaulted multiple women over years. 

In June, the Clinton couple caught attention for the underwhelming ticket sales a Broadway depiction of them received leading to an early end long before its initially-scheduled end date of July 24.

Hillary's role in Libya and Syria's civil war that still burning today with far reaching outcome of destruction to lives and property and creating the largest recent millions of refugees in neighboring countries.

Swedes...

Sweden may be known for its popular music, IKEA and a generous welfare state. It is also increasingly associated with a rising number of Islamic State recruits, bombings and hand grenade attacks.

In a period of two weeks earlier this year, five explosions took place in the country. It’s not unusual these days Swedes have grown accustomed to headlines of violent crime, witness intimidation and gangland executions. In a country long renowned for its safety, voters cite “law and order” as the most important issue ahead of the general election in September.

Gang-related gun murders, now mainly a phenomenon among men with immigrant backgrounds in the country’s parallel societies, increased from 4 per year in the early 1990s to around 40 last year. Because of this, Sweden has gone from being a low-crime country to having homicide rates significantly above the Western European average. Social unrest, with car torchings, attacks on first responders and even riots, is a recurring phenomenon.

Shootings in the country have become so common that they don’t make top headlines anymore, unless they are spectacular or lead to fatalities. News of attacks are quickly replaced with headlines about sports events and celebrities, as readers have become desensitized to the violence. A generation ago, bombings against the police and riots were extremely rare events. Today, reading about such incidents is considered part of daily life.

The rising levels of violence have not gone unnoticed by Sweden’s Scandinavian neighbors. Norwegians commonly use the phrase “Swedish conditions” to describe crime and social unrest. The view from Denmark was made clear when former President of NATO and Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview on Swedish TV: “I often use Sweden as a deterring example.”  Just a thought.

Rich...

Sleep...

Ways that you can support your brain health.

*Exercise not only benefits your brain health and cognition, it can also improve your memory. In the long run, it can even protect your brain against degeneration.

*Getting too little sunlight is not good for your brain. Higher levels of vitamin D in your system allow you to perform better, and can even slow down the aging of your brain.

Too much sunlight can be bad for your skin, but if you aren't getting enough, your brain functions may suffer. You can always take vitamin D supplements, in moderation, if you find that you aren't able to get outside as much as you would like to.

*Know how to communicate and build connections. The key thing is to build a strong support system around you, as that will enable you to stay healthy mentally and psychologically over the long term.

*Sleep is required to consolidate memory and learning. If you don't get enough sleep, your gray-matter volume in your frontal lobe may begin to decrease. Your frontal lobe supports and controls your working memory as well as executive function, making it particularly important.

Lasting...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill fear members of President Trump’s inner circle are pushing the commander-in-chief into starting a war with Iran and they’re taking steps to stop it.

A small group of lawmakers is arguing that President Donald Trump does not have the power to launch a new war against Iran without first getting permission from Congress.

Seth Moulton said at a news conference. "We will fight Iran again if we have to. But war right now is not necessary. None of us underestimate the threat that Iran poses. None of us would hesitate to use force if it led to a lasting peace.

We know war would be bloody and young Americans in the community we represent would pay the highest price.  

Veterans groups have long called for Congress to re-examine the authorizations for military force passed nearly 20 years ago before the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, which have been used to justify other military actions in Syria, Libya, and elsewhere.

Where were these politicians when Obama/Clinton went on a war spree in Syria and Libya? And which war that lead to a lasting peace?  Just a thought.

Well said...

Try...

Tail...

When the Democratic party shifts to socialism, and the Liberal Media cheering on some of them up, then who is the winner here?

Rat-Race...

"It was the worst day of my life! It took 20 minutes to board! We had to sit on the runway for 40 minutes!"

We hear complaints like these all the time. As if we've forgotten how incredible it is that humans can fly at all.

Not everything in life goes exactly how we plan. Stuff happens. Over-obsessing and basing happiness on specific outcomes leads to misery.  

No two human beings are the same. Why should we have one standard of success?
Society standard of success is an endless rat-race. There will always be someone better than you. You'll never have the time to do everything.

 When you choose one thing, you simultaneously don't choose several others. it's beautiful thing  we get to choose our ultimate ideal. 

We must define success, wealth, and happiness in our own terms because if we don't, society will do it for us -- and we will always fall short.

"Be everything to everybody and you'll be nothing for yourself." -- John Rushton

Hoping...

A study, carefully tracked how much people ate and moved after starting to exercise, found that many of them failed to lose or even gained weight while exercising. 

Physical activity consumes calories, and if we burn calories without replacing them or reducing our overall energy expenditure, we enter negative energy balance. 

But human metabolisms are not always just and cogent, and multiple past studies have shown that most men and women who begin new exercise routines drop only about 30 percent or 40 percent as much weight as would be expected, given how many additional calories they are expending with exercise.

 Scientists studying the issue agree that most of us compensate for the calories lost to exercise by eating more, moving less, or both. Our resting metabolic rates may also decline if we start to lose pounds. All of this shifts us back toward positive energy balance, otherwise known as weight gain.

So, people hoping to lose weight with exercise should pay close attention to what they eat and skip those last four bites, no matter how tempting