New holiday
National Patriots Day: a new American holiday commemorating truth, justice and the American way!
This will be the date Donald Trump is sent to prison.
What is patriotic about that? Because Trump was Vladimir Putin’s footstool, who knows what intel the Kremlin got while Trump was in office.
Trump invited Kremlin intelligence officers into the Oval Office.
The day Trump goes to prison, is the day the Kremlin, and the world, realizes that patriots are still in charge of America.
No, not the ones who pretend to be patriots, by waving flags and guns. I mean the people who actually protect democracy. On both sides of the isle. The people who put America before any personal ideology.
We do this by arresting and indicting domestic enemiesof America, like the ones who attacked our country on Jan. 6.
Lock them up. Send a message to the other angry, fake patriots out there.
“Weaselburg” will flip on Donny, because who wants to die in prison for comrade Richy Rich?
Dennis Chaquette
Keaau
Exercise is freedom
The exuberance and magnificent display of athletic achievement at the recent Olympic trials gave witness to literally how high the “bar of fitness” can be raised in human sport performance.
A seductive tendency can be to venerate those athletes in their supreme physical development and talent, and stoically conclude that oneself can never accomplish such a state of elevated well-being.
By undeniable observation, America’s current health context is tilting on the brink of a diabetic epidemic. More than 42% of Americans are coping with obesity, and it is projected within four years 50% of America will be obese; — which will make diabetes, particularly type II, even more of a national malaise.
Beyond a $1.7 trillion national health care cost, the hard science of health research indicates and indicts: a shortened life span, stroke danger, cardiac disease, sleep apnea, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and of course, diabetes. Also accompanying social factors can be mental illness.
Americans, given our relative affluence, are particularly under the spotlight for poor eating habits, inadequate exercise and too many sedentary habits. Even in the face of indisputable scientific evidence that obesity and diabetes is seriously deleterious to health, there is little motivation for people to make changes.
However, recent research indicates there is a hopeful possibility for weight management. If one can lose from 5% to 15% of body weight, there are measurable health benefits. A current review of various diets, even highly ideal like the Mediterranean and paleo, have certain benefits. Nonetheless, the common thread for successful weight loss is “consistency.”
A recent study indicated that successful weight loss is actually “25% exercise and 75% what we eat or don’t eat.” As underscored by Dr. George Sheehan, a renowned cardiologist and runner: “Human beings have been designed to run, jump and throw.”
Besides “consistency” as a critical element in weight loss and well-being is some activity of “motion.” This should be enjoyable, accessible and not necessarily expensive..
The contagion of obesity, prediabetes and diabetes in Hawaii is somewhat “heavier” (pun not intended), than the continental states. Of course, this connects to deeply ingrained cultural factors.
A personally observed, rather ironic contrast, is more senior members of Euro heritage who are in an anorexic range.
Reasonable health is a potential for everyone! Don’t we all want to feel better, look better, live longer, have fewer medical costs, have more life developmental opportunities, and be less depressed? This is all predicated on personal discipline, consistency, reasonable and healthy calories, and enjoyable forms of exercise. For those who have achieved a lifestyle of exuberant well-being, it’s difficult to adequately describe to others the exhilaration of that higher level of living.
It’s similar for an islander trying to describe the beauty of a Pacific sunrise to someone who has just arrived from Siberia!
When Rodger Bannister became the first person to break the four-minute mile, his public declaration was: ” I am not so concerned about the record, but the incredible sense of freedom I felt reaching it!”
From the depths of Hawaiian culture, in the spirit and footsteps of the king’s runners, and the sanctity of the body being a physical temple, we all deserve to savor the ambrosia of greater freedom.
Jim Barker
Keaau