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Deace's Daily Diary: August 7th, 2008
Thursday 08-07-2008 11:05am CT
With the 2008 Iowa State Fair starting today, and with my continuing commitment to a healthy lifestyle, we now present the Iowa Heart Center's top tips for eating healthy at the Iowa State Fair (yes, apparently it is possible).
For more information, go to www.iowaheart.com.
Iowa Heart Center’s Top 10 Healthy Fair Food Tips
1. Forego the cave-man-size turkey leg for a turkey tenderloin – they’re both tasty but at 1,400 calories and 55 to 60 grams of fat, that turkey leg could stay with you for years. At just 350 calories and 30 grams of fat, the turkey tenderloin is the heart-healthy alternative.
2. Go with the Pork-Chop-on-a-Stick instead of sausages or brats – Although it sounds decadent, Iowa’s famously flavorful “Pork Chop on a Stick” wins by a mile when it comes to nutrition and calories versus a large Italian sausage. While the meaty pork chop has about 500 calories and around 10 grams of fat, the Italian sausage will pack on 1,200 calories and between 55 and 60 grams of fat.
3. Sweet tooth nagging you? Have a big, sticky cotton candy rather than a funnel cake. Cotton Candy weighs in at about 150 calories against the funnel cake’s whopping 800 calories.
4. Stagger your beers with water – rather than downing beer after beer at 250 calories for a large regular beer, try following each beer with an ice-cold bottle of water. The water will also keep you hydrated and help you avoid the bad effects of too much alcohol in the heat.
5. Kettle corn over nachos with cheese – Just one helping of nachos with cheese will add 900 calories and 35 fat grams. Sure, Kettle Corn has some fat, sugar and salt, but it’s far fewer calories than a much smaller volume of nachos.
6. Dippin’ Dots over a Wonder Bar – Dippin’ Dots calorie and fat count: 170 and 10 grams in a half-cup serving.
7. Feel like something on a stick? Try roasted corn-on-the-cob rather than a corn dog. At just 250 calories and zero grams of fat (not counting butter), you’ll fend off the corn dog’s 700 calories and 35 to 40 grams of fat.
8. Banana-on-a-Stick or watermelon rather than a deep-fried candy bar: How many calories in a deep-fried candy bar? Really, you don’t want to know – OK, we warned you: the deep fried candy bar will set you back 800 calories and 40 grams of fat.
9. Pork loin sandwich over a fried pork tenderloin – For filling, high-quality protein, the lean pork loin sandwich beats the fried tenderloin hands down.
10. Carmel apple rather than a bloomin’ onion or fried cheese curds. Yes, there’s carmel on the outside, but there’s an apple on the inside. At about 500 calories each and nearly 40 fat grams, the carmel apple is a sweet-and-sour treat on the healthier side.
Deace's Daily Diary: August 6th, 2008
Wednesday 08-06-2008 1:38pm CT
I love stories like this one. :-)
One of my favorite websites, IowaPolitics.com, sent me a news alert today with the following story:
AARP says a new poll it commissioned shows "AARP Eligibles" as the most prevalent swing voters in Iowa and five other battleground states in this year’s presidential campaign.
The research identifies Iowa’s undecided, swing voters as –white, lower-to-middle income, older women in the middle of the political spectrum. They are over age 50 (75%), including 45% over age 65. They are 96% white, 66% female, 50% identify themselves as Independent voters; and 38% are AARP members.
When asked what the most important issue was to swing voters, twice as many picked the economy than picked foreign policy issues, which came in second. Health care came in third.
The survey obtained telephone interviews with a random sample of 400 likely voters who are undecided or not strongly committed to a candidate. The interviews were conducted by Woelfel Research, Inc. from June 27 to July 20 and have a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.
Talk about manufacturing a news story. The AARP commissioned a poll stating that its core demographic, which it markets its various products to, is the crucial vote in the upcoming election. Yeah, that's not self-serving at all, is it? Did you honestly expect them to come up with any other results? Did you expect the American Association of Retired Persons to come out and say recent high school graduates are the crucial swing vote?
I'm wondering if anybody else in the media is going to point this out about this "poll?" Holy Set Up, Batman.
Deace's Daily Diary: August 5th, 2008
Tuesday 08-05-2008 9:05am CT
So Willard and his jock-sniffing groupies in the so-called conservative (emphasis on so-called) media are still running Operation Nero, as in blame the Christians for the fire you started.
See, these folks continue to hammer the point everywhere that those hate-mongering evangelicals are the reason Willard isn't the can't-miss VEEP for John McCain that they think he should be. It's just anti-Mormon bigotry, don't you know. Of course, when 90% of Mormons vote for one of their own and not, say, Mike Huckabee that's not called anti-evangelical bigotry, is it? By why let intellectual honesty get in the way of an emotion-based tantrum. Sure, that's pretty Leftist tactic, but then again the record clearly shows that's what Willard is. But don't just take my word for it. Check out this expose on Willard's record from my good friend Gregg Jackson at the below link:
http://rffm.typepad.com/republicans_for_fair_medi/2008/07/what-you-would-get-in-a-vice-president-romney.html
Also, Townhall.com -- which has essentially become a mouthpiece for Willard and Mormon money -- must've missed this anti-Willard post at the American Spectator recently. I'm surprised, since Willard jock-sniffer supreme Matt "I'm almost as big of a Willard groupie as Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review" Lewis never ceases to post anything remotely anti-Huckabee that he can find. Perhaps he just "forgot" this one in the interest of fair and balanced. I'm sure he wouldn't have an agenda or distort the facts for any reason, right?
As the great prophet Nipsey Russell used to say, "RRiiighhhttt."
While Mitt Romney's set of paid PR minions are busy pushing out Mitt for Vice President spin, McCain campaign insiders say that while it's true they have polled Romney on the bottom of the ticket, the data confirms that such a move would be a political disaster for the party.
"Mitt tanks the ticket," says a McCain insider. "We lose fiscal conservatives. We lose social conservatives. We lose Catholics. We lose evangelicals. All the groups we're spending time and money on bringing into the camp would be lost. He just doesn't help us enough to do something like this, as much as Mitt might think we should. He doesn't even win us Massachusetts."
Two final thoughts on this.
First, evangelicals are the biggest voting block in the GOP base and it's no secret that Willard wants to run for president again someday. So can someone explain to me how having your surrogates insult the biggest support group you need to win the nomination is a successful for the future?
Second, this guy spent almost as much of his own money as did all the other GOP presidential contenders combined, and the only significantly competitive primary he won was in the state in which he was born. That seems like a lot of bloated, inefficient bureacracy for very little profit, doesn't it? So how is this guy an economic conservative, too?
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