Yesterday at a softball town hall meeting in New hampshire, the pResident tries to sell citizens on the healthcare idea that he and his party have been working tirelessly to get approved for the past 8 months or so.  The crowd was unusually calm (pre-screened of course) in that particular town hall and I’m unsure if anyone caught on to the blaring contradiction and irony that spewed from King Hussein’s orafice.

“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine; it’s the post office that’s always having problems.”

As Lance Fairchok over at American Thinker so precisely put it:

 Oh the irony! That the President would, in so simple and clueless a fashion, utter the most crystalline sentence I could imagine to debunk his own absurd policies. Private postal industries, performing in ways a government run enterprise cannot, are doing fine, while the Post Office, the eternal taxpayer money pit, is not. That simple truth should be broadcast far and wide, in the Presidents own words. Even the first Socialist American President, a man who is attempting to transform us into a nanny state identical to our European allies, understands at some level, that private enterprise is the most successful way to prosper as a nation. So why is he working so hard to undermine it?

Undermine it indeed.  He’s trying so hard to undermine the private enterprise system because he’s a socialist plain and simple.  And as we all know, private enterprise has no room in a socialist society.  He just had a Hairplugs Biden moment during that speech.  I wonder if the TOTUS stayed back at the White House during this trip.  A tiny SNAFU it might have been, but sometimes that’s all it takes.  It could quite possibly be that moment that brings some clarity to some of the idiot voters out there.  But looking back this past week at all the Town Hall meetings with congressman and senators, it looks like the voters are already beginning to realize that this hack in the White House and all the other oxygen thiefs that claim they work for us are really all just smoke and mirrors.  And when the smoke clears, the American people could very well be seeing red…..comrade.

Political/Editorial Cartoon by Steve Kelley

Yesterday at a softball town hall meeting in New hampshire, the pResident tries to sell citizens on the healthcare idea that he and his party have been working tirelessly to get approved for the past 8 months or so.  The crowd was unusually calm (pre-screened of course) in that particular town hall and I’m unsure if anyone caught on to the blaring contradiction and irony that spewed from King Hussein’s orafice.

“UPS and FedEx are doing just fine; it’s the post office that’s always having problems.”

As Lance Fairchok over at American Thinker so precisely put it:

 Oh the irony! That the President would, in so simple and clueless a fashion, utter the most crystalline sentence I could imagine to debunk his own absurd policies. Private postal industries, performing in ways a government run enterprise cannot, are doing fine, while the Post Office, the eternal taxpayer money pit, is not. That simple truth should be broadcast far and wide, in the Presidents own words. Even the first Socialist American President, a man who is attempting to transform us into a nanny state identical to our European allies, understands at some level, that private enterprise is the most successful way to prosper as a nation. So why is he working so hard to undermine it?

Undermine it indeed.  He’s trying so hard to undermine the private enterprise system because he’s a socialist plain and simple.  And as we all know, private enterprise has no room in a socialist society.  He just had a Hairplugs Biden moment during that speech.  I wonder if the TOTUS stayed back at the White House during this trip.  A tiny SNAFU it might have been, but sometimes that’s all it takes.  It could quite possibly be that moment that brings some clarity to some of the idiot voters out there.  But looking back this past week at all the Town Hall meetings with congressman and senators, it looks like the voters are already beginning to realize that this hack in the White House and all the other oxygen thiefs that claim they work for us are really all just smoke and mirrors.  And when the smoke clears, the American people could very well be seeing red…..comrade.

Well, I haven’t figured that one out yet.  I used to think it was my job.  But right now, there’s really nothing about my job that I can make a valid complaint about.  Of course there’s little things that irritate me about the people I work with, but all in all, it’s not that big of a deal.

But then there’s my personal life.  Sometimes I don’t know why I put myself into the situations that I do.  It’s amazing how lucky I am to have what I have because there’s only so much that any one person can take. 

Let me break it down to you.  I make mistakes.  Not just little mistakes but the really big ones that count!  And they all seem to come at the wrong times.  Of course, anything bad that happens in our lives usually seems like it doesn’t occur at a “good” time but I have this special talent of thoroughly and efficiently shoving my head up my ass when I’m already down for the count.  So then what happens is that it seems like it makes matters worse.

I’m beginning to think that it’s just who I am.  I’ve always been like this.  And more than likely I’ll continue to be like this even though it’s not exactly your ideal way to lead a life.  Maybe I just need some sort of miracle meditation session to clear shit out of my head and “reboot” my system.  I don’t know what I need but if I don’t figure it out soon, I’ll find myself on the receiving end of a big “fuck you.”

Or has it already happened?

When I first started working out in Iraq I did it for a certain reason.  After a while, when I started to see results, I started to do it for myself.  When I started up again yesterday, my mindset was to be in there for myself once more but now this morning brings up some old conflicts that changes my attitude about everything.  I thought I had gotten over all of that shit.  I guess not.

The problem is I don’t know how to deal with it.  It’s like a festering sore deep inside me that I can’t get rid of and it’s never going away.  I can’t bring it up to the person I need to talk to about it because it won’t get me anywhere.  All I can do is keep it buried deep inside me and use it as fuel to get what I need to get done in the gym.  I just hope it doesn’t spill out over into my work rituals.  Trust me, with this type of problem, I will be “combat in-effective” at my job.  If my head isn’t where it’s supposed to be, my job will suffer because of it.

I’m just so fucking tired of everything.

The Goal

And it feels ooohh, so good!  I’ve been getting so fed up with the way I feel and the way I look lately that I decided it’s time for me to find my way back into the gym.  I hate this stage though.  The soreness, the sweatiness, the way I look in the mirror.  I can’t stand seeing my “muffin top” stick out when I’m lifting.  Most of the time I’m a “instant gratification” type of guy so I want positive results now!  But I also realize that it will take time to see the kind of results that I’m looking for.

My goal is to lose about 30 lbs. and get to about 11 or 12% body fat.  That’s where I was at when I was in Iraq and I loved it.  I only started today so I know it’ll take at least 3 or 4 months to get back to it.  I’m also changing it up a little bit this time around.  Since my schedule and time allocation is so much different than it was when I was in Iraq, I’ve decided to cut a little bit back on the cardio.  I’ve read quite a bit how lifting weights alone can be just as effective if not more effective for burining fat as compared to cardio alone.  Of course I still have to maintain my running since I have a PT test coming up, but as far as me burning fat, it won’t play quite as big a role as it did before.

I blasted my legs today.  That’s another change that I inc0rporated into my workout.  When I was in Iraq, for whatever reason, I didn’t work my legs a whole lot.  But I keep reading that working your lower body is one of the best ways to incorporate new muscle groups and burn fat fastest.  I’ll be paying for it though.  As long as it’s been since I worked my legs and as hard as I worked them today, I’m definitely going to feel it tomorrow……and the next day….and the next day.

Tomorrow I think I do my back.  I’ve always enjoyed working my back so I’m looking forward to it.  I’ll try to keep up to date on how my progress is going.  Let’s see if I can stick with it.

Train Like a Freak.