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This is a good piece on the situtaion. Doesn't look like he would be doing any raids or anything needing any kind of high level experience. I'd bet the 'community outreach' piece will be his biggest role... Dean Cain ICE Officer: Examining His Role, Responsibilities, and Controversy | SimpleAboutThings

Kristi Lee has been on the show as a co-host and news director for 37 years.

There’s a distinction between a wrestler, and someone who wrestled a little bit. Not sure which this guy is, but when you search the only connection you see is one childhood friend saying he wrestled.

Well, this subject sure has triggered some some folks. At this point I say who cares, all kinds of folk get into law enforcement. Educated non educated. He’ll be following orders (or publicity stuff) not setting policy. His degree in history with emphasis in development in motion pictures is pretty much irrelevant. Let him roll, just like anyone else.

Scholarly people with their own agendas…

The list of people subpoenaed by the committee certainly comes with some surprises. Not so much for who was subpoenaed, but for who was not. A lot of people on the list of why weren’t they subpoenaed, but the top two that really stand out to me: Alex Acosta and Maureen Comey. How the heol can you leave those two off the list?

I for one would love to see much more adherence to the Constitution’s original concept, all around.

I understand. I don’t know if going “viral” = popular, and not trying to be argumentative just trying to see how ‘popular’ it is. Just seems like a silly thing for people to get in a tizzy about. But it seems to be one of those loud minority type things more so than being a popular theory. Oh well, to each their own.

Define “popular” in relation to the theory? It appears the piercing is much more popular than the theory. As for me, someone wants a nose ring…..so, who cares?

Pretty much agree with this. Bob and Tom all day.

Person A: I don’t think women should be in office. There are some really good women in office, some really good congresswomen, but I think women should run the home. Person B: I’m looking for people to go out and kill ICE (law enforcement) agents. Both asinine comments, but there are levels to things…why is there any debate whatsoever on the difference in level of asinine between these two comments. No matter how many f***ing tiktokers each of them has? Trying to justify A is worse than B because of tik tok ot tweeter or whatever is just plain stupid.

What about a trans woman who likes women so he traded the real stuff for a strap on???

Yeah unfortunately a lot of people look for reasons to be upset or offended.

A quick search…and I’m guessing people looking to be upset about something. A lot of articles about the ad getting criticism, but not really seeing articles actually criticizing. Don’t have TikTok so I say that without being able to view the link.

Also discussed by me earlier in our discussion. For the sake of not being an enabler, I’m going to have to ask you to take the effort to go back and review.

If you took a minute to go back and look instead of guessing a claim I made, you will see that I was talking specifically about natural raw sugar, not “other added sugars”. As for chemically manufactured vs raw natural, well we will just have to, along with the overall point of this discussion, agree to disagree and go along with our own personal choices. Again, it is a beautiful thing about this country.

Very true. I mean I eat pretty much as close as farm to table as possible. But we all know steak three times a day is not necessarily recommended. But to get back to the beginning point of this discussion, which was chemically manufactured sweetener vs natural raw sweetener, I will take natural raw every single time. (For me, that is where the ‘common sense’ comes into play) But the beauty of the human species is we are all different, and the beauty of this country is we can all make our own choices.

Not at all accurate: 1) I specifically said I am not trying to convince you of anything, but merely talking at this point about doing the research subjectively. I will acknowledge you quoted more from the Mayo article than I originally realized, went back and looked and will correct that. 2) “Common sense”. Artificial, manufactured food vs natural raw whole food. I don’t know what you want me to provide that shows common sense. 3) I have listed more than “common sense” as for the basis of my opinion. I also listed years, decades actually, of taking the subject very very seriously and studying it as such, I don’t think I can go back and find the material I have studied over the last 30 some years to provide for you. I also stated personal experience. I’m not sure what you would like me to provide in that sense. I mean, I have a picture from kayaking last weekend I could post to show what kinds of effects my choices have had, but I don’t think we wanna go there.

Not sure honestly. I am not too astute with all of this AI stuff. Just the first thing that popped up. (I closed out the page)

1. "mixed evidence" from CoPilot 2. from the cleveland clinic, discussing research connecting artificial sweeteners to diabetes, hypertension, metabolic syndrome, mood disorders, mental stress, autism, early menstruation, and other effects 3. From Health.com...not so much a dive into whether or not they are bad for you but rather list the top 10 sweeteners and a little description of each. In each, there is a segment on 'research has triggered concerns' in some form or another 4. From the Mayo Clinic, the same article you posted. You either didn't read all the way through, or you cherry picked the hell out of it. Here are a few other excerpts: Some research on long-term, daily use of artificial sweeteners suggests a link to a higher risk of stroke, heart disease and death overall. If you're living with a rare genetic disease called phenylketonuria. Foods and drinks with aspartame can lead to serious health problems. If you have a bowel disease. Using sugar substitutes might make your symptoms flare up. And then finally, their "bottom line" Artificial sweeteners can be a short-term way to help some people lessen their use of sugar and lose or manage weight. In general, sugar substitutes are safe for healthy adults. But be aware of how sugar substitutes affect your food and drink choices. These ingredients may get your tastebuds used to sweetness. And that can make drinking enough water a challenge. Products made with sugar substitutes also may give you the wrong message about processed foods. A snack labeled low sugar or no sugar may not be the most nutritious choice. Whole foods, such as fruits and vegetables, usually have the best mix of nutrients for the body. 5. The healthline article you posted, and again cherry picked the hell out of. For example, you didn't include the section that talked about links to depression and seizures, or the section that talked about detoriating gut health which leads to weight gain, poor blood sugar control, metabolic syndrome, weakened immune system. So my point of posting all of this, is not to convince you personally that artificial sweeteners are not a good choice, but to....well I will just go back to what I said above..."But in order to get down to the truth of things, one would have to conduct such a search with subjectivity, with the intent to learn, not search with the intent of confirmation bias." (which would include cherry picking information out of articles you look up to only focus on the information that would provide that confirmation bias)

Those are the 'top' responses you get? You said yourself the science is unsettled but those just happen to be the 'top' responses you get? Okay I'll do a little trial, type in the exact same words, and if those are the top responses I get I will be sure to let you know.

But getting back to common sense.....maybe the initiative is to cut out, or drastically reduce, the intake of sodas across the board....diet, regular, sweeteners that are chemicals, sweeteners that are refined, or even sweeteners that are raw and natural, and replace them with.....I don't know.....water?

I don't have any filed away at the click of a button, but there are methods to search if one is interested. But in order to get down to the truth of things, one would have to conduct such a search with subjectivity, with the intent to learn, not search with the intent of confirmation bias. As we all know, it's not difficult to produce a study that yields the results that we want, so one has to go about it with scrutiny of what they are reading.

The people doing this are a tad immature, but probably the funniest story line in the news currently. There are actually betting lines on what color the next dildo is going to be....

Artificial sweetners are not excluded. The ban in Texas will be on artificial sweeteners and/or more than five grams of sugar. Why determine the artificial sweeteners are unhealthy? Well let's break that down, starting with the very first word.......artificial