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When she was being raised there 35 years ago, Yorktown was a lot more blue-collar than it is today. There were no fashionable shops or restaurants and the only grocery store was closed on Sundays. Large Italian Catholic presence. The house AOC’s father bought is very humble, very working class, and if it’s now valued at $550k that reflects insane escalation in New York real estate prices rather than a posh suburban upbringing. I despise AOC, but she should be attacked on grounds of her bad ideas and probable corruption, not because people are fabricating a fashionable background for her. If she was born in Bedford, near Ralph Lauren and Martha Stewart, that would be different. But Yorktown was the home of cops and blue-collar people when the Cortez family was there. I know what I’m talking about—I lived there.

Put your father on a ketogenic diet. This can be tremendously helpful for disorders of age-related cognitive impairment. It has worked very well for someone in our family. I don’t think she’ll ever be 100% again but after the dietary changes you couldn’t tell there were ever any cognitive deficits. It’s worth a shot.

I think what all of these life-improving diets have in common is: avoid sugar in any form. Avoid foods that don’t look like they have sugar in them (bread and potatoes, for instance) but get metabolized into sugar when you eat them. Avoid food that has mysterious chemicals in it, or an ingredients list with more than three ingredients on it. Avoid junk food, stuff that comes from the inner aisles of the grocery store; shop the periphery of the store (meat, fish, vegetables, a little cheese and maybe some fruit). Don’t eat crap. Don’t eat stuff that’s advertised.

You call it “Mediterranean” and eat more vegetables or call it carnivore and eat nothing but meats and eggs. But just stay away from the crap food. It’s really hard to do this in our society but it’s important.

Sounds like she understands him. Hard to argue with that.

So…he’s a Freeper!

Dog collars? That’s nothing. I see them rolling out carts filled with huge Samsung tvs. The cops are there All. The. Time. A lot of arrests. And this is a pretty upscale area.

I don’t get it. Why buy houses in Virginia? If you’re going to invest in real estate why wouldn’t you choose properties closer to your home, where you can conveniently keep an eye on them? These aren’t attractive houses in beautiful neighborhoods where she would ever live. This is pointless.

Sounds like he’s a complete carb addict. It’s hard to stop any addiction. He needs to eat no-carb for a year or two. Maybe transition to a carnivore diet. My mother lost 100 pounds eating very low carb and kept it off. I started eating low carb 30 years ago, dropped 75 pounds and have kept it off for 30 years. I’m now on carnivore and have abnormal levels of energy and strength for my advanced age. Giving up any addiction has to be cold turkey.

Everything except paving the Rose Garden. Please no. They don’t need a “convivial terrace” there. The Rose garden as is has been the site of historic gatherings and is in itself a beautiful place. We already have plenty of hard scape in DC.

His daughter has some serious chronic illnesses and is living in AZ for her health. The hot dry climate helps.

Do you think single women don’t need to buy large things? Do you think they don’t own houses and need to buy buy building materials to improve their property, plants and other landscaping supplies, 50-lb bags of salt, dog food, bird seed, chicken feed? What about firewood or an antique? Some women drive SUVs because their greater size and weight can offer more protection in an accident while others find that the high ground clearance and 4WD makes them better in snow.

Me, I drive an F-250 Superduty work truck like most of my women friends.

I was bitten by a bat. The trouble is that the little teeth are so fine you may not feel the bite. Mine felt like a little prickle and hardly left a mark, and considering the circumstances it’s incredibly lucky I even knew I’d been bitten. Of course I had to have shots. I’m grateful for them.

This is adorable but I hope my tax dollars weren’t paying for it. (I’m sure they were.)

Why don’t you just do what the rest of us do to stop eating too much?: put your fork down and walk away from the food. Finish what’s on your plate and go.

If you check labels, you’ll see HD is transitioning its own-label manufacturing out of China. They can read the writing on the wall and they’re going to other southeast Asian countries, Mexico, DR, etc., that might be a little safer. Of course they can’t stop the brands that don’t belong to them, like deWalt and other independent brands, manufacturing stuff in China.

There’s a picture showing a small round hole in his suit. I imagine the round hit his rifle plate.

A lot of people have similar experiences at Gettysburg and other mid-Atlantic battlefields. I’d say Gettysburg and Sharpsburg are the worst but Brandy Station and all the nearby Culpeper battlefields will do it. The trick is, you have to be alone, and there not always easy to achieve at Gettysburg.

Don’t be absurd. You could be a holy saint but they’ll put child porn on your laptop and blackmail you for it. If you have children and a spouse you love they’ll threaten them. You may be fearless for yourself but nobody is fearless for his kids.

Don’t be absurd. You could be a holy saint but they’ll put child porn on your laptop and blackmail you for it. If you have children and a spouse you love they’ll threaten them. You may be fearless for yourself but nobody is fearless for his kids.

I’m not surprised. The stores are depressing. I only go in there when I have to—maybe once a year. Michael’s is much more appealing and Hobby Lobby is a delight, a fun afternoon with other women.