Mmmm, Coffee!

I usually drink a pint of espresso every morning.  Seeing articles such as this one is always heartening.

"Coffee, it seems, prevents or somehow leads to the repair of damaged DNA, at least according to the findings of some researchers from Bratislava. Their paper, published in The European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, reported that drinking 500 ml of freshly brewed, dark roast coffee every day for 4 weeks resulted in a 23% reduction in DNA "strand breaks" (1).

Their study involved 100 healthy men and women recruited from a general Central European population. The subjects were randomized into a coffee group and a water group. (No double-blind placebo design was necessary because we're all going with the assumption that DNA isn't susceptible to the placebo effect.)

The scientists concluded that "...the regular consumption of a dark roast blend has a beneficial protective effect on human DNA integrity in both men and women.""

Tip: Drink This Much Coffee to Repair DNA

HT: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

Shutdown Silver Lining

Aside from watching President Trump humiliate Nancy Pelosi et al., there are many useless government drones re-evaluating their career choice.  I came across this interesting take on the shutdown from a federal official still on the job, without pay.

"The lapse in appropriations is more than a battle over a wall. It is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.

On an average day, roughly 15 percent of the employees around me are exceptional patriots serving their country. I wish I could give competitive salaries to them and no one else. But 80 percent feel no pressure to produce results. If they don’t feel like doing what they are told, they don’t.

Why would they? We can’t fire them. They avoid attention, plan their weekend, schedule vacation, their second job, their next position — some do this in the same position for more than a decade."

(...)

"The president’s instincts are right. Most Americans will not miss non-essential government functions. A referendum to end government plunder must happen. Wasteful government agencies are fighting for relevance but they will lose. Now is the time to deliver historic change by cutting them down forever."

Read the whole article: I’m A Senior Trump Official, And I Hope A Long Shutdown Smokes Out The Resistance

Hate Speech

"What is again odd about these examples of open progressive racist, cultural, and class contempt for the American interior, is not just how ubiquitously politicians and journalists voiced them, but also how candidly and indeed confidently they repeated notions of smelly, toothless, ape-like, lazy “garbage people.” In that sense, who hated Trump and what he represented also explains precisely why so many went to the polls to elect him, and perhaps also why Trump’s own uncouthness was in its own manner contextualized by his supporters as a long overdue pushback to the elite disdain and indeed hatred shown them.

What does all this hate speech signify?"
Read it all here: A License To Hate

HT: https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/

BMF into ARA

I realize this is a re-post but sometimes I just feel the awesomeness and that is that.  I watched C-5 Galaxies flyover me for months and even rode in on one.  This, however is simply something more bigger.  I recorded this aircraft coming into Acadiana Regional Airport one day.   Oh, turn your sound up.
You can see more here: https://www.youtube.com/user/chipanderson

The Farside of the Moon

You may wonder why the Chinese chose the farside of the moon for their "explorations".  Wonder no more.  They are there in order to counter the planned American presence at L2 in 2021.


Here is a link to the NASA 'site: https://jwst.nasa.gov/index.html

Build that Wall

NBPC Vice President Art Del Cueto on border security: “It has nothing to do with political parties. You all have to ask yourselves this question, ‘If I come to your home, do you want me to knock on your front door or do you want me to climb through that window?’”

Click on image for the video.

AvEx and FedEx

In New Iberia, Louisiana Aviation Exteriors(AvEx) paints aircraft at Acadiana Regional Airport. Here is an example of the work that they do for FedEx. https://about.van.fedex.com/blog/every-plane-bears-a-name/

R.I.P. Daryl Dragon