Schiff...

The Dems at their best.

Breathing...

Taking just a few moments each day to practice some 

deep breathing can  decrease stress, relax your mind, body and can help you sleep better.

Breathing correctly is important for your overall well being. While its benefits are uncountable, here are some important ones that will motivate you to deep breathe.

When you deep breathe, the body releases endorphins, which are the feel good hormones and a natural pain killer created by the body itself.

When we take deep breaths, the upward and downward movement of the diaphragm helps remove the toxins from the body promoting better blood flow.

Due to increased blood flow, we get more

oxygen 

into our blood. Increased oxygen results in increased energy levels.

When you are angry, tensed or scared, your muscles are tightened and your breathing becomes shallow. Your breathing constricts. At this time your body is not getting the amount of oxygen it requires. Long deep breathing reverses this process, allowing your body (and mind) to become calmer.

So it is free, try it.   Just a thought.

Conscious...

 Hillary Clinton was the Secretary of State,2009-2013

The anti-Syrian sanctions have been mandated by the EU since 2011 but they lack United Nations authority, so the boarding of a tanker in Gibraltar waters raises further legal questions. Iran is not a member of the European Union and is perfectly entitled to trade with Syria. 

Whatever the legality of the British action, the incident will have had some value if it helps to highlight the bankruptcy of British, EU and US policy on Syria.

Eight years after Western governments called for Bashar al-Assad’s departure and started funding and arming opposition forces, Syria lies in ruins, Hndreds of thousands are dead and millions of people have been forced to flee their homes.

In 2018, the UN estimated that as many as 250,000 Syrians could go back home to try to rebuild their lives, but the EU continues to refuse aid and investment for reconstruction. More than five million have fled the country.  

The people who suffer from the Western insistence on making reconstruction aid conditional on Syrian government concessions are Syria’s desperate people and the world bankrupt conscious. [Jonathan Steele]

Dropped...

According to the latest survey by CNN, conducted August 15 to 18, Biden has rebounded to 29%, while Kamala Harris has dropped down to 5 %.

First Harris indicated at a CNN town hall that she supported abolishing private insurance, as Medicare for All proposes. Then said she didn’t support abolishing private insurance.

Then there were Joe Biden’s and Representative Tulsi Gabbard’s devastating attacks on Harris’s record as a prosecutor at the second Democratic debate. “Biden alluded to a crime lab scandal that involved her office and resulted in more than 1,000 drug cases being dismissed. Gabbard claimed Harris ‘blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until she was forced to do so.’ Both of these statements are accurate,” the Sacramento Beereported after the debate.

Harris has serious weaknesses on matters of substance. And the hits keep coming on Medicare for All. She was savaged by Bernie Sanders after Harris told wealthy donors in the Hamptons that she was not “comfortable” with Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All bill, which she co-sponsored and supported until a few weeks ago.

Ranked...

If you’re looking to see some friendly faces, you apparently shouldn’t head to The Empire State.

In a survey conducted by travel website Big 7 Travel, 1.5 million people weighed in on the “friendliest states in America” — and New York ranked dead last.

According to the survey, the North Star State is “hard to match, with a homey feel and locals who go the extra mile to welcome tourists.”

Wyoming ranked fifth with voters pleased with its “sense of community” and “safe” feeling. Texas took the fourth spot, bested by South Carolina in third. Tennessee continued the trend of Southern hospitality and took the second spot.

But, in what may come as a surprise to the South, a Midwest state was crowned with the top spot: Minnesota was ranked No. 1 as the friendliest state in America.

Sleepy...

* The National Sleep Foundation (NSF) says that 7- to 9-hours of sleep each night provides adequate time to attain REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. It’s during REM sleep that the brain comes into play, immobilizing the limbs for energy replenishment, and activating the brain regions responsible for learning and memory consolidation.

* Continue stress triggered long-term alternations within brain structure, triggering excess production of myelin-producing cells (or fatty matter) in place of neurons (information transmitters). The researchers explain that this is why many young individuals exposed to long-term stress have a higher risk of developing anxiety and mood disorders, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) later in life.

* Despite of emphysema, and stroke associated with smoking, lighting up has also been linked to brain damage. With roughly 7,000 toxic chemicals in every drag of that cigarette, it’s really no surprise that a certain compound in tobacco causes white blood cells in the central nervous system to attack healthy cells.

Surgeon...

Matthew Bonanno, a plastic surgeon from Great Neck, Long Island,  was arrested on gun charges. He faces multiple counts of criminal weapons possession after he was found with a large cache of weapons.

He had allegedly driven his car to his estranged wife's house in Tuckahoe and had a friend pick him up to take him to a bar.  Bonanno told his friend about the threat, and his friend called the police.  

After he was arrested, police searched Bonanno's car that was parked at his wife's house and found five assault-style rifles fully loaded with high-capacity magazines, three handguns, 29 high-capacity magazines, 1,600 rounds of ammunition, a stun gun, body armor, ballistic helmet, handcuffs, face masks, knives, brass knuckles, pepper spray fogger, scopes and binoculars.

NYC Man...

A city man faces numerous charges after an arsenal of guns and ammunition are discovered in his Brooklyn apartment.

Mario Rosales was arrested after police raided the apartment at 95 Linden Boulevard in Flatbush on Saturday. 

When officers knocked his mother answered the door and told them Rosales was not at home. 

Investigators say he was actually attempting to get away using the building's fire escape. 

Police were already positioned in the back of the building and were able to arrest him.

Once inside the apartment, officers found 12 handguns, 18 assault rifles and three shot guns, along with large quantities of ammunition. 

Rosales faces numerous counts of criminal weapons possession as well as assault and menacing charges.

A wish...

Remorse...

Japanese public broadcaster NHK has obtained documents showing that former Emperor Hirohito repeatedly felt sorry about World War II and tried, unsuccessfully, to express his feelings by using the word "remorse" in a 1952 speech.

World War II, which ended with Japan's 1945 surrender following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, was fought in the name of the emperor, who was considered divine.

After the war, the U.S. occupation allowed the emperor to stay on, although without any political powers but as a symbol of the state.

The documents show that Hirohito felt that, instead of surrender, he wished he had been able to end the war earlier. He also privately expressed horror at the atrocities committed by the Japanese military, according to the documents. But he also told Tajima that the military was so powerful that he couldn't influence it.

Hirohito died of cancer in 1989 at age 87. He was succeeded by his son Akihito, who recently abdicated, passing the Chrysanthemum Throne to his son Naruhito. Both Akihito and Naruhito have publicly expressed remorse for the war.

Would anybody feel remorse about starting a war in the Middle East?