Shocker..

 

Convenience..

 

We discovered a new word   " Democracy.."  We use it for our own convenience.

Secretary..

 

Gun..

 

Hunter Biden will have an active January in court as the Department of Justice's two criminal cases against him begin to take shape.

President Joe Biden 's son is scheduled to appear Jan. 11 at a federal courthouse in Los Angeles for an arraignment on nine tax charges, including three felonies. He is expected to enter a plea and agree to the terms of his pretrial release during the appearance.

The arraignment relates to an indictment brought against Hunter Biden in December by special counsel David Weiss . In the indictment, Weiss alleged the first son failed to pay his taxes on more than $7 million of income during a four-year period beginning in 2017.

Weiss also brought charges against Hunter Biden over an unrelated incident from 2018. The first son lied on a federal gun form about his drug use so that he could purchase a gun. The special counsel also said Hunter Biden went on to retain possession of the gun illegally once he purchased it.

Comment:

Not to worry. No one is above the law in this country unless, of course, you're associated with political party machines then the clemency is just may be around the corner.  Just a thought.

Protect..

 

Stand..

 

Israel's devastating air-and-ground assault on Gaza has now killed more than 20,000 people in the 10 weeks since the conflict began, according to Gaza's Ministry of Health — a figure that is fast approaching 1% of the Palestinian territory's pre-war population.

سِرْ إن اسطعت في الهواءٍ.

 

غيرُ مجدٍ في ملّتي واعتقادي

     نوح باكٍ ولا ترنم شاد

 وشبيهٌ صوت النعيّ إذا قِيـ س بصوت البشير في كلّ ناد 

أبَكَت تلكم الحمامة أم غـ نّت على فِرْعِ غُصنٍها الميّاد 

صاحِ هذي قُبورُنا تملأ الرُحبَ

   فأين القبور من عهد عاد 

خفّف الوَطْءَ ما أظنّ أَدِيْمَ الـ أرض إلا من هذه الأجساد 

وقبيحٌ بنا وإِنْ قَدُم العهدُ .........هوانُ الآباء والأجداد 

سِرْ إن اسطعت في الهواءٍ...... رُوَيداً لا اختيالاً على رُفات العباد

 رُب لحدٍ قد صار لحداً مراراً ضاحكٍ من تزاحم الأضداد

 ودفينٍ على بقايا دفين في طويل الأزمان والآباد

 

Obliterate..

 

Linebacker II was different, was intended to destroy high-value targets such as vital military installations, railway lines, energy plants, factories, etc., to shake the Vietnamese “to their core,” in the words of the then US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger.

“They’re going to be so god damned surprised,” US President Richard Nixon said to Kissinger on December 17, and the next day, 129 B-52s took off from Guam and Thailand to obliterate the Hanoi and Haiphong areas in North Vietnam.
An estimated 1600 Vietnamese lost their lives in the bombings, of which 287 people were killed in one night alone in Kham Thien, an area in Hanoi, the majority of which were women, children, and elderly, according to the Vietnamese newspaper VN Express International.

An Agence France Presse journalist, who visited Kham Thien shortly after the US bombing, described a scene of “mass ruins … desolation and mourning.”

Mirror of Gaza?

Feet..

 

But about 80 percent of all strokes are preventable, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the lifestyle steps you take can be especially powerful in fending off stroke. Here’s what you can do to reduce your risk.

Keeping certain conditions at bay or managing them properly can cut the likelihood of a stroke. Take high blood pressure, which some research suggests is responsible for almost half of strokes. A heart-healthy eating plan may help control it. 

Also, try to limit sodium to less than 1,500 milligrams a day, maintain a healthy weight and exercise regularly, says Sahil Khera, an interventional cardiologist at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.

Exercise can help you maintain a healthy weight, and being overweight or obese is itself a stroke risk — especially for those who carry a lot of fat around their midsection. (Even normal-weight women with abdominal fat may have a higher stroke risk, the American Stroke Association says.)

The CDC recommends at least 150 minutes of moderate activity, including walking, each week. Small bursts of movement, such as vacuuming, count, Goldberg says. 

And stay on your feet as much as you can. A study in the JAMA Network Open in 2022 found that people who sat for 13 hours a day or more had a 44 percent higher risk of stroke.

Isometric..

 

Exercises that engage muscles without movement — such as wall squats and planks — may be best for lowering blood pressure, according to a large study published Tuesday in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

This type of training is known as isometric, or static, exercise, according to the Mayo Clinic. Isometric muscle action happens when muscles contract but do not visibly change length, and the joints involved don’t move, facilitating stability of the body.
Isometric exercises can be done with weights or without, just relying on the body’s own weight.

“Overall, isometric exercise training is the most effective mode in reducing both systolic and diastolic blood pressure,” said study coauthor Dr. Jamie O’Driscoll in a news release. He is a reader in cardiovascular physiology at Canterbury Christ Church University’s School of Psychology and Life Sciences in England.