Snow..

“Age is just a number” mindset is fantastic. 

But one place it does not apply is when it comes to shoveling snow, which so many of us do every winter: The incidence of sudden heart attack spikes some 16% in men of a certain age when it snows, particularly if it’s a big storm, leading to a 34% rise in deaths, a large, two-decade Canadian study found.  

Let’s start with the fact that wet snow is heavy. In one study on men, the average shovelful of snow weighed 16 pounds. “That’s 16 pounds per shovel, 12 lifts a minute for 10 minutes,” says Barry Franklin, Ph.D., a spokesperson for the American Heart Association and director of Preventive Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Beaumont Health in Royal Oak, MI. That adds up to almost 2000 pounds, the weight of a subcompact SUV.

 A different study conducted by Franklin and his team years ago found that a shoveler’s heart rate increases up to 97% of his max heart rate, more than when the same person does a treadmill test at maximum exertion.

Secondly, snowstorms happen when it’s, well, cold. When you huff and puff in that cold air, your blood vessels constrict, making it harder for blood to circulate around your body. This raises your blood pressure, making it even harder for your heart to get enough blood, he says.

Defund..

 

Former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s son was among the rowdy anti-ICE protesters taken into custody after a raucous demonstration at a Manhattan Hilton hotel Tuesday, The Post has learned.

Dante de Blasio, 29, was cited for trespassing and disorderly conduct after police moved in on the mob, which mistakenly believed federal immigration agents were holed up at the Hilton Garden Inn in Tribeca, sources said.

In all, 66 protesters were taken into custody, with only two being issued desk appearance tickets while the rest received summonses, according to police.

De Blasio, a Yale grad who was paid $650 a week to help out on his dad’s botched presidential bid in 2019, was issued a summons and released, according to sources

De Blasio, a Yale grad who was paid $650 a week to help out on his dad’s botched presidential bid in 2019, was issued a summons and released, according to sources.

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When the police enter a location, you know it is organized and for a purpose. When a mob enter a place, or location, you don't know anything.

The mob or the police. You make your comfort zone who to defund. The Democratic party want to defund the police, and Abolish ICE.  Just a thought..

Values..

 

Former CNN host Don Lemon has been arrested after he entered a Minnesota church and filmed anti-immigration enforcement protesters as they disrupted a service.

Lemon was taken into custody by federal agents on Thursday night while in Los Angeles covering the Grammy Awards, according to a statement from his lawyer Abbe Lowell.

In his own defence, Lemon said in a recent video: "Once the protest started in the church, we did an act of journalism, which was report on it."

President Donald Trump's administration initially sought to charge eight people involved in the Minnesota church protest, citing a law that protects people in places of worship.

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Is this what the American values stand right now?   Just a thought.

NAPS..

New work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) are set to go into effect on Feb. 1 and it could mean that millions of Americans lose their benefits.

Nearly 42 million Americans, including low-income families and vulnerable households, rely on the federal program to help pay for groceries or other household essentials.

According to August 2025 estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, about 1.1 million people will lose SNAP benefits between 2025 and 2034, including 800,000 able-bodied adults through age 64 who don't live with dependents and 300,000 parents or caregivers up to age 64 with children aged 14 and older.

Additionally, exemptions were changed for parents or other family members with responsibility for a dependent under 18 years old, lowering the age of exemptions to those caring for children under 14 years old.

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Some are taking advantage of the system for years in the mean time creating dependable of millions on the minimum given.   This program holds people back, destroy their ambition and keep them in a suspended state of poverty, Yesterday, today and tomorrow. 

Future..

 

New projections of the 2030 U.S. Census indicating a major shift of electoral votes from traditionally blue states to red states could be a "game changer" in the quadrennial battle between Democrats and Republicans for the presidency.

Left-leaning California, New York, and Illinois could lose a total of eight congressional seats due to sweeping population shifts this decade, with right-tilting Texas and Florida gaining eight seats, according to an analysis by the non-partisan Redistrict Network

The findings, which are based on 2025 Census Bureau population estimates and data from previous years, were compiled by Carnegie Mellon University redistricting expert Dr. Jonathan Cervas and released on Tuesday.

Another projection, from the Republican-aligned American Redistricting Project, indicates Texas gaining four seats and Florida gaining two.

The projections spell trouble for Democrats when it comes to the battle for the House majority next decade, after reapportionment based on the 2030 Census. But it would also be a major setback for them starting in the 2032 presidential election, because states' electoral votes are based in part on the number of their congressional seats.    Just a thought.

Nooooooo

 

Call..

 

Cronkite..

 

Scary ..

 

Go for it.

Legendary Democratic strategist David Axelrod warned Democrats against pushing for ICE to be abolished in their campaigns on Thursday.

Axelrod joined CNN’s Boris Sanchez and Brianna Keilar on air amid calls from some Democrats to abolish ICE following the deaths of 37-year-old protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti during altercations with federal agents in Minneapolis this month.

Axelrod warned that campaigning to abolish ICE will not be a winning campaign message for Democrats, arguing most Americans believe in some sort of “immigration enforcement in the country.” 

He argued a movement to abolish ICE could end up like defund the police calls in 2020, with the public not supporting the “implication” of such an extreme move.

I think that people believe you should come to the country legally, and if you don’t, you know, there should some penalty for that. They do believe that. But I don’t think they want to abolish ICE. Well, you know the problem that we’ve seen before when people said abolish the police.

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What is the Democratic Party standing on for now?  Just a thought.