John Kasich has nothing to offer Ohio as governor. The tired GOP talking points have been rebutted and proven they don’t work. Kasich and the RGA has to put out attack ads that don’t tell the truth. Here is a rebuttal, I made, to their recent coffee shop ad.
New video – “Oily Swiss”
Swiss Cheese is back for another episode of his award winning cartoon show. “Oily Swiss” has Swiss getting a job filming a PSA for BP Oil to explain to kids about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_a_QaAXFPg
Episode 5 of the Podcast is up
FYI, the fifth episode of the Doug’s Views Podcast is up and ready for listening.
The Ultimate Guide to the Political Talk Shows
I am sick and tired. I have tried to watch them but I can’t stand it any more. They are hurting the political discourse in this country and outside the wonks who live and breathe politics, they have no relationship with average people. I’m talking about political talk shows. Here is the ultimate guide so you never have to watch them again.
I should clarify one point. The shows and the news in general on the broadcast networks have an effect on average people more than those on cable but all of them still are pretty much worthless unless you obsess about politics.
Ultimate Political Talk Show Guide
1. The shows covered under this guide is as follows:
ABC This Week
CBS Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer
Fox Fox News Sunday w/ Chris Wallace
NBC Meet the Press with David Gregory
PBS The McLaughlin Group
Cable
CNN State of the Union with Candy Crowley
CNN Reliable Sources
MSNBC The Ed Show
MSNBC Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann
MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show
FOXNEWS Any show at any hour
2. Formats are pretty much the same in that they allow for unquestioning press release spin
3 Except for the MSNBC shows, the spin is at least misleading and in most cases lies.
4. Again except for the MSNBC shows, the hosts never really ask follow up questions.
5. The shows all have the same guests and those guests lean toward the GOP with a token Democrat in some cases. Again MSNBC is the opposite – having mostly Democratic or left leaning guests but the GOP rarely appears on MSNBC shows even as tokens.
6. MSNBC shows are better because they at least stick with facts and the truth even when it looks bad for Democrats and liberals in general. The other shows “concern troll” for the Democrats on all topics and accept the GOP talking points as true on their face.
7. The hosts and/or guests on any FOX “News” shows are either stupid, racists, or both at the same time.
8. All shows tend to have stories and topics that are important only to those who live inside the Washington DC beltway. Occasionally, most likely the MSNBC shows will actually have a topic of importance to all Americans.
9. Most of these shows favor “drama” over substance where yelling and arguing is seen as “good”, except for Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann, and The Rachel Maddow Show. Or they obsess on the political process which is like watching sausage being made.
10. You don’t have to watch any of the shows live or on your DVR. You can go to the network websites and watch clips, watch the Daily Show and Colbert Report to get a funny take on what the shows have on, or visit these websites:
and for special handling of FOX “News” crap:
11. Although it seems some shows might be better than the others, at the end of the day you don’t need to watch them to keep yourself informed. They take up time better spent with friends and family and laughing and having fun.
Eat better with fresh food
On Friday, March 26th, ABC broadcast “Jamie Oliver Food Revolution”. It is a show where British chef Jamie Oliver tries to change the eating habits and ideas of the people of Huntington WV which had been labeled the most unhealthy city in the US. The primary villain in this drama is processed food.
Processed food, also known as “convenience foods” are those items that are either frozen, canned, or boxed and require little to no preparation time. If you didn’t have to do much to cook the food then it is a processed food.
What is wrong with processed food? Except for the time saving – everything.
Not all convenience foods are created equal. Most convenience foods on the market today are laden with saturated fats, sodium and sugar and provide little to no nutritional value. Even foods touted as fat free or low fat are usually poor alternatives to an already low-nutritional value food such as fat free ice cream and olestra-laden potato chips.
Convenience Foods: A quick and healthy guide for those on the go
Due to some personal health issues I wanted to eat better so I decided to cut down on fat. I also wanted something easy to fix so I naturally looked at processed food.
The one thing I noticed is the sodium content of those foods were off the chart. A well known “healthy” version of a TV dinner had more salt in it than a Big Mac although the fat content was lower.
It is much harder to avoid the huge amounts of salt than it is the fat in processed food.
The hard truth is if you really want to eat healthy it must be freshly made by you in the kitchen where the fat, sugar, and salt can be strictly controlled. There is no short cut right now.
A side benefit is that the cost of the ingredients of freshly made food combined can be cheaper than the processed food one is replacing.