The New Yorker's New Cover

http://resistancereport.com/politics/new-yorker-cover-trump/

                                                                                People's Climate March on Denver

A good reminder....

This is a good reminder to eat less salt.  I don't eat many processed foods, the worst offenders, but I probably do eat too much salt.  Anything that helps decrease inflammation is a great thing!

Sodium and autoimmune disease....
http://nutritionfacts.org/video/sodium-and-autoimmune-disease-rubbing-salt-in-the-wound?utm_content=buffer15c65&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Amerithon Virtual Run/Walk

3-29-17  Land Between the Lakes arrival.  Next stop, Nashville.

Look what I got to see on my walk today.....so very cool!

New Zealand study on Whole Food Plant Based Diets

     What are you waiting for?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11825853

     This might be the time to improve your health yourself since 45 is cutting $1.2 billion from medical research to build a border wall.  Remember ebola, zika, cancer?  You're on your own.
     Mexico isn't paying for 45s border wall....cancer patients are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PHdoqU7g74

See, it isn't just me noticing that the 21st century GOP is hateful! The world is noticing and commenting, too.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/america-party-less-caring-21-century-republicans-gop

Here is what Comcast paid Congress to sell your browser history

in case you didn't realize your Congressperson's votes were bought and paid for by industry! This is just Comcast's bribes to the GOP.

http://resistancereport.com/class-war/comcast-congress-browser-history/

And here is a brilliant response....a crowdfunding plan to raise a million dollars to purchase the internet history of leading Republicans and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) members. The first histories the site aims to buy are those of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai.
http://resistancereport.com/resistance/crowdfunding-lawmakers-internet/

Had to share this post seen today. 45 is killing us all.

Historians in the near future (because that may be the only future we have) will mark today, March 28, 2017, as the day the extinction of human life on earth began. President Trump has signed executive orders ending all efforts to stop and reverse climate change. He is rescinding President Obama's six climate change orders. He is instructing the Environmental Protection Agency to cease its climate change efforts and do no environmental regulations that get in the way of profits or "jobs." The EPA is to only concern itself with "clean air and clean water" - while Trump orders a massive increase in the use of coal.

This is a defining moment in the history of mankind. By signing these executive orders today, Trump is declaring an act of war on the planet and its inhabitants. The one silver lining here is that Trump can't kill the planet; the planet wants to live and has a long history of wiping out any real or perceived threats. With the actions Trump is taking today, the planet is paying attention -- and the planet will make sure it dispenses with a species hell-bent on destroying Earth.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/39415631

                                                              Michael Moore

     A sequel to Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" is coming to theaters soon.  It is called, "An Inconvenient Sequel."  You can watch the trailer here:

http://deadline.com/2017/03/an-inconvenient-sequel-trailer-al-gore-climate-change-donald-trump-1202054336/

An editorial from the NY Times, President Trump risks the planet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/28/opinion/president-trump-risks-the-planet.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

     It truly is time to double down on your efforts to save the planet.  Combine your errands to drive less.  Eat less meat (animal agriculture is the number one cause of greenhouse gas production worse than transportation).  Turn your thermostat down in winter, up in summer.  At least do those things.

     45 is a businessman, a poor one, who has shown over and over again in the past 2 months that he doesn't care at all about human beings, unless they are white American billionaires. 

Good info for all

How type 2 diabetes develops...
http://nutritionfacts.org/2017/03/09/how-exactly-does-type-2-diabetes-develop/

Climate change is making us sick

     Here is a report released yesterday by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, which represents over half of US doctors.
     It is worth a read. The WHO estimates 240,000 deaths per year will be attributable to climate change by the year 2030....less than 13 years from now.

https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/medical_alert.pdf

Ya gotta love this response to Pence's pic of all white male conservative group planning health care

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/03/24/pence-tweeted-all-male-photo-health-care-talks-and-didn-unnoticed/Iqwz518IM8oxoCLiPk0UKO/story.html

Trump outrage fatigue is a real thing. America, do not normalize 45, ever.

 Outrage fatigue
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/trump-outrage-fatigue/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/21/record-breaking-climate-change-world-uncharted-territory
It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.
                                             Ansel Adams

     Tourism "Trumpageddon"
     TheToronto school board will no longer allow school trips to America due to our racist border policies. https://boingboing.net/2017/03/23/allies.html
     1 million fewer British visitors to the US are predicted.
     European interest in touring America plummets 12%.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandratalty/2017/02/22/european-tourism-interest-in-america-plummets-12-percent-following-travel-ban/#e23bd9b62f82
     The "Trump Slump" has cost the American travel industry $185million so far. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/feb/28/us-tourism-experiences-a-trump-slump
   
 

Best quotes from children's books all adults should recognize

http://encurious.com/post/90982259223/quotes-from-childrens-books?utm_content=buffer7eeb3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." - Thoreau

Equal rights for others does not mean fewer rights for you. It's not pie!

(seen on a t-shirt)


 "Sometimes it would be great if people could run out all the mean. By the end of the 2017 miles, there wouldn't be anymore mean."
     (posted by a child on the Run 2017 in 2017 FB page).  
     Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone just ran off all their meanness?

"Change before you have to."----Jack Welch

"And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally."
                                   Friedrich Nietzsche

FYI Amerithon run/walk across America update

WooHoo.  I reached the Mighty Mississippi today and earned my River Boat Badge.  I have less than 1000 miles remaining!

"The GOP has become the party of white nationalism"

     This is so evident and so alarming!  Republican=white supremacist.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/03/17/the-gop-has-become-party-white-nationalism/xS2Qo19N2ReKAyzf3QSirO/story.html

He who laughs last, didn't get it!

Too funny to not share!

                                                                  U.S. Democratic Socialists

"Dear World From America"

    I love this post.
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2017/01/28/dear-world-from-america/

    I have been thinking of sending written apologies to Britain and to Angela Merkel on the behalf of Americans.  This embarrassment-in-chief is just too much.
    I should add the Canadian Church members who were denied entry to the US to voluntarily help rebuild after hurricane Sandy, the Canadian nurses who can no longer cross the border to work in Michigan despite the nursing shortage,  the 4 international bands denied entry to the US to play at the SXSW festival in Austin, and the beloved 70 year old children's author from Australia who was detained and hassled for hours before being allowed in.


    I finally watched the movie, "Selma," about the civil rights era.  It was such an important historical film, although it was difficult to watch all the violence.  The vicious attacks on the peaceful marchers by state troopers in Alabama remind me of the North Dakota vicious attacks on peaceful water protectors this past year, and I think will go down in history the same way.
    I also want to watch the movie, "Suffragette,"  but there is just so much bigotry and resentment and real-life violence I can take in a week.  This administration has taken our country backwards by decades, if not centuries.  

Today we are all Irish.

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”

― W.B. Yeats


Irish proverbs:

     The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune.

     When I count my blessings, I count you twice.

     If you don't know the way, walk slowly.

   

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.......Victor Borge

Amerithon virtual walk/run.....update

     March 8, 17 I reached the Mark Twain National Forest in southern Missouri.  Only 1, 066 miles to go to cross the country.

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt

Happy International Women's Day.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/women-s-strike-day-without-woman-events-take-place-worldwide-n730021?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma

“Do not wait for someone else to come and speak for you. It’s you who can change the world.” – Malala Yousafzai

Every one who normalizes Mr. Trump now, or has in the past, will have to answer to future generations for their acquiescence, silence or sophistry—if, indeed, not outright cowardice. Dan Rather

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/03/06/dan-rather-just-wrote-urgent-trump-post-will-answer-future-generations/

The following bills HAVE been introduced:
1. HR 861 Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency
2. HR 610 Vouchers for Public Education
3. HR 899 Terminate the Department of Education
4. HJR 69 Repeal Rule Protecting Wildlife
5. HR 370 Repeal Affordable Care Act
6. HR 354 Defund Planned Parenthood
7. HR 785 National Right to Work (this one ends unions)
8. HR 83 Mobilizing Against Sanctuary Cities Bill
9. HR 147 Criminalizing Abortion (“Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act”)
10. HR 808 Sanctions against Iran
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Call your House Representative and ask them to not only vote "NO"...but to speak up for our rights, health & safety, and our beautiful country.

Fierce

My friend Ellen and I are the Fierce Fliers in our Make 2K17 Epic!! Life with Gusto group.  Here we are with our "Fierce and Fabulous" shirts.

Run group this morning, a smallish group on a nice day.

     I attempted to enter the NYC marathon.  There is a lottery just to enter.....98,247 applied, only 16,211 got in.  I was not one of them.....again.  I guess I will just keep trying every year.  It is a bucket list event.  50,000 people will run this year including 9000 charity runners, the 16000 lottery runners, and the rest are speed-demon guaranteed entry people (I will never be speedy).
     BTW entry costs $295....times 50,000 people is $14,750,000!  That's a lot of money going to NYC not counting hotel, food, and entertainment monies.

     I ran into a friend today and she took our picture.  I'm still out there trying every single day and so is Charleigh-dog.  Yay for nice weather.

Flint, Michigan has declared a state of emergency because there is so much lead in the blood of their children.

http://thepredicted.com/flint-mich-theres-much-lead-childrens-blood-state-emergency-declared/

and 45 is getting rid of the EPA, getting rid of the clean water act, and allowing more coal mining waste to be dumped into streams.  He is looking out for big business only, not people.

I watched Michael Moore's documentary from 2015, "Where to attack next."  It was excellent.  He traveled to other countries and compared them with America.  Very informative!