With 13 International Telescopes Currently Atop Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, Adding Another Is A “Desecration?”

Telescopes atop Hawaii Island's Mauna Kea and Maui Island's Haleakala are tasked with early detection of asteroids with earth-crossing trajectories.

To claim that Mauna Kea belongs to a small group of imperious Pacific Islanders, some of whom are interlopers not from Hawaii, is preposterous, not just because they don’t get to decide such things for other Hawaiians or kama`aina, but they don’t get to decide anything for anyone. 

I live on Hawaii Island and I pay taxes, and those hard-earned taxes paid the cost of building and maintaining the roads on Mauna Kea and those that lead to it, and yet the eunuchs that compose our island government are allowing a group of primitive tribalists to commandeer and block the roads—and delegate who gets to drive on them and who do not.

It doesn’t help that entitled millionaire movie star assholes like Duane Johnson and Jason Mamoa claiming to be concerned about the environment whilst flying across the Pacific Ocean on their luxury private jet planes profess to be in solidarity with this tribe of primitive renegades for their own selfish Hollywood PR photo-op purposes. What phonies these two have shown themselves to be.

Everyone has a culture—you and me and everyone else on this earth. We all have beliefs. No one else’s culture trumps yours, or mine, or theirs. We are all equal—or so we’re told, that is, until a band of primeval misfits shows up and suddenly decides they’re in charge.

Shame on cowardly local TV stations KITV, KGMB, KHNL and KHON for providing virtually no publicity whatsoever to those lettered native Hawaiians who support science and the telescope and the benefits it brings to Hawaii and to the world, which includes early detection of earth-bound asteroids. It’s as simple an equation as formally educated Hawaiians vs. the uneducated.

Many of us have to make the 3-hour drive across the island to receive medical care, and the protesters have virtually shut down that main highway, only adding to the stress and fatigue and additional time it requires to make the arduous trip.

Try having skin cancer surgery sometime, then having to drive an exhausting 3+ hours to get back home without pain pills—and then coming upon a roadblock.

 

                                                       

Which Is Better—Leg Press or Squats?

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Which Is Better—Leg Press or Squats?

People who argue questions like this do so because they prefer talking to doing. These kinds of pointless debating points are nothing but distractions from the fact that those engaging in such conversation aren’t at the gym working out—and most likely haven’t been in quite a while.

Whenever I run across such nonsense in forums, or in online articles by the “experts,” three things jump out at me:

First of all, the bozos heatedly arguing the topic aren’t at the gym working their quads, but rather sitting on their ass, eyes glued to a screen.

Secondly, the bozos heatedly arguing the topic aren’t at the gym working their quads, but rather sitting on their ass, eyes glued to a screen.

And Third, the bozos heatedly arguing the topic aren’t at the gym working their quads, but rather sitting on their ass, eyes glued to a screen.

To sum up, Thumb presses don’t count as a workout. And there’s no way to scientifically qualify or quantify which exercise is “better,” especially when those debating the question in most cases aren’t often doing either one.

By the way, that’s me and my quads in the photo on the leg press machine. I rarely do squats. I asked my quads for their opinion, and all four agreed that neither exercise is any better than the other.

To quote Quad #2, "It's not what exercise you do, it's how you do it."

What Does A 16-year-old Girl Have That I Don't Have?

Why Is It A 16-year-old GIRL Gets Testosterone, But A 60-year-old MAN Is Denied?

I’ve written before about the absurd prejudice against Hormone Replacement Therapy for both genders, but much more so against biological males.

Doctors who don’t—or won’t—keep up with the science of medicine still quote long-discredited, debunked and erased “studies” claiming all sorts of bogus ill effects of prescription testosterone. Some jerk-off physicians even quote old wives’ tales, such as the claim of shrunken testes, which has never happened to anyone on earth adhering to prescribed dosing.

Kaiser Permanente is an HMO that eagerly and aggressively promotes its hormone services to transgender people. Any 16 year old biological female with a psychiatrist’s evaluation can go to Kaiser and receive testosterone injections, no problem. But try being an older biological male whose low testosterone levels are causing absolute havoc—depression, loss of libido and the increased social isolation that accompanies that, loss of lean muscle mass essential to maintaining a robust immune system and metabolism, loss of physical strength which in turn diminishes one’s mobility, feminization as presented by sagging man-breasts and softened facial features, skin maladies, and more. He can forget about it.

Doctors have freely admitted that they prescribe unneeded pharmaceuticals to patients only to shut them up or keep them as patients; the wholesale prescribing of antibiotics to “treat” viral infections such as the common cold is an excellent example. Antibiotics have no effect whatsoever on viruses, yet doctors continue to dole them out like candy, much to the detriment of humanity as a whole by breeding resistance.

Which tells us we need to be just as vocal and insistent upon receiving testosterone replacement.

Czech This Bodybuilder Out!

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ESQUIRE Magazine Thinks We Landed On The Moon In 1964.

...obviously, because 4 days after this went up on their website they still haven't corrected it.

Is ESQUIRE's Justin Kirkland An Idiot, Or Just a Loser?

To support both his sad lack of self control and self-esteem, Kirkland adopts the line that the majority of losers in the quest for fitness do: claim that building and maintaining a fit body is "not-at-all-sustainable" "exceedingly difficult" and "not realistic." Of course, thousands of men online, and Lord knows how many IRL, manage to do exactly that quite nicely without Kirkland's theatrical crybaby wailing.

Fitness is a "lifestyle." Kirkland's defeatist attitude is also a "lifestyle." Everybody chooses their own lifestyle:

—Justin Kirkland

Choose Your Junk Food Wisely

If you don't think hot dogs are junk food, then call up a YouTube video showing how hot dogs are made. North Americans especially love their hot dogs, as do I.

There are scores and scores of different brands of hot dogs in the US and Canada, especially locally-made regional favorites like Nathans in New York City and Redondo in Hawaii that people are partial to. But few of these are in the "more healthful" category.

"Healthful" does not necessarily mean "healthy" but rather in my definition "less junky."

To ease your conscience at this summer's cookouts try Hebrew National not just for taste but for quality: kosher means products have to meet strict guidelines for cleanliness and higher quality ingredients.  Hebrew National makes a number of choices which score very high in most taste tests.  Another choice is Trader Joe's which score lower in taste tests overall than Hebrew National, but score well for incorporating higher quality ingredients.

Spinning Their Deep Denial As "Positive Body Image."

Inner turmoil: opposite problems but the same tactic: denial.

 Celine Dion absurdly claims she's not anorexic while Mindy Kaling celebrates her weight gain. Both are spinning the consequences of their poor fitness decisions as "positive body image."

Neither injecting one's muscles with vegetable oil (or worse), nor getting surgical implants in any way resembles real muscle. It does however cause others to question the user's mental stability. 

For better or worse our bodies in their present state serve as a mirror to what’s been going on inside our heads.

This is the reason that some people are so obsessed with their body image and become so upset about being negatively judged based on the state of their bodies.

We alone are responsible for the condition of our physical self. No one is withholding food or shoving food down our throats. No one has us hogtied motionless to the sofa in front of the TV.

Its all on us. There is no convenient villain or circumstance we can blame for the body we currently inhabit by choice, because good or bad, we do this to ourselves. And deep down we all understand this to be true, which is why looking and feeling like crap is such a polarizing and heavily-defended issue for so many.

We can blame others for failed romance, friendships, careers, investments and everything else, but we alone have to take responsibility the present condition of our bodies.

Music as Motivation At The Gym?

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Searching for workout inspiration online is a big deal, music being one very popular motivational tool. Music might get you going but it doesn’t produce results other than maybe helping burn a few more calories. If burning calories is your top priority, then have at it.

However most people who join a gym are looking to change their body—its shape, firmness, attractiveness, health, flexibility. To change these things, dedication to proper form while executing proven exercises is required. Music has nothing to do with proper form, but rather for most it serves as a distraction just to get them through what they have decided is an unpleasant experience—their workout.

Looking around at my gym the other night I was heartened to see two outstanding physical specimens, something rare at my local gym. What they and I had in common is we were the only people present out of thirty-five or more members who were not glued to our phone. Both of these guys were focused completely on their workout and the results of their focus were self-evident.

"You cannot possibly be bored

with your workout once

you see positive results

from your workout."

Interacting primarily with one’s phone at the gym, of all inappropriate places, is the norm nowadays. Why do people need this distraction? It flies in the face of common sense. They join a gym, pay their money, allot the time, get dressed, show up, then sit immobile on a machine or bench for 5 minutes or more at a stretch between each uninspired set, scrolling, swiping, and adjusting their music playlist. They accomplish little to nothing with regards to the essential purpose and goals of gym-going.

Hearing people complain about being bored with their workout when they have made no effort to learn the basics of exercise itself is as baffling as it is hilarious. You cannot possibly be bored with your workout once you see positive results from your workout. Boredom comes from seeing no results, and that’s entirely one's own fault. The basics of proper form and proven exercises are right there on our phones, but people are doing everything imaginable other than learning how to work out. Not one of the many who I see sitting idle on a Hammer Strength machine is ever watching a video showing them how to properly use that machine. In the hundreds of times I have glanced at what people are doing on their phones at the gym, only once have I seen anyone watching an instructional workout video.

People use their phones as a distraction from the fact they are not achieving results, rather than utilizing it as a ready tool to attain results.

The Perverse Psychology Behind Anti-Shaming

In our Nation's police departments, not only is there no program of psychological testing in place for police academy candidates so as to root out those emotionally unfit for the job, but once training is over, police officers are never again tested for physical fitness or ability.

The way man since the beginning of time has kept errant members of the group in line is by shaming.

It seems the need to be liked/respected is built into human DNA, so historically the majority of people have reacted positively to shaming by other members of the group.

What has changed in recent years is the popular response to shaming, which is anti-shaming. Rather than change their errant ways—whatever these might be perceived to be— people instead demand that others simply stop shaming. Ironically, this is accomplished by their shaming of the shamers.

Body shaming is an important example. The state of our bodies is a literal mirror image of our inner self esteem. If we have high self esteem we care for our body, its health, its appearance, its strength and mobility. To intentionally live inside a vehicle that one is willfully sabotaging day in and day out broadcasts the worst possible negative message about that person's self esteem. Rather than accept the obviousness of this, and change their ways, Deniers go in the opposite direction, continuing self-sabotage while claiming critics are wrong to shame them for it.

Nothing changes the truth that everyone is totally responsible for their own body, despite the upwelling of pushback by those who, having compromised their bodies, refuse to take responsibility for that. And nothing will change the mindset of those whose ability to just get through another day is wholly dependent upon their lying to themselves. 

Pretending to be proud of a wrecked body, or worse, claiming “every body is beautiful in its own unique way,” is perverse. This is a health issue, and willfully compromising one's own health is perverse. No one who has ever shed their obesity or regained their health has ever regretted doing so.

Joe Rogan's guest explains that the shortage of candidates for Special Forces

is due to an increasingly weak and obese population.