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not trying to tell you how to live your life. Okay,
that's not me. I'm a lowercase O libertarian. I'm a
live and let live kind of a guy. But apparently,
if you take your cell phone your smartphone into the
restroom and you're using it on the toilet there, you're
increasing the risk of hemorrhoids by like fifty percent. Look,
don't blame me, it's science. Okay, they did a study
a I don't know what her title is here, but
she is Oh, she's a gastro enterrologist. So that sounds
like she should know. Or she could be an influencer too,
like a TikToker or YouTuber somebody who uses their phone
a lot. But anyway, her name is Tricia Pastricia Pastrica,
Tricia past Richa. She is at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center in Boston, Massachusetts. She says, us gastro enterrologists, Okay,
well that should say we gastro and terrologists. We always
tell our patients don't spend too much time on the toilet. Now,
I have never been to a gastro entrologist, so I've
never heard this advice to not spend too much time
sitting down. But apparently this is a bad thing, right,
So if you're using the restroom as your respite in
order to get away from the family, and you can
lock yourself in there for forty five minutes until your
legs fall asleep, this is probably not great for the hemorrhoids. Okay.
They asked one hundred and twenty five people who were
scheduled to have colonoscopies to fill out questionnaires about their
toilet habits, their general health, and their physical activities, and
then they took the images from the colonoscopies and reviewed
them to determine if they had the hemorrhoids also known
as piles, which is what Karl Marx had, by the way,
so I guess he was doing a lot of doom
scrolling on the throne as well. Two thirds of the participants,
who were all aged over forty five years old, said
they used their smartphone on the toilet, so two thirds
only two thirds. The other third is probably lying and
the phone users the two thirds were about five times
as likely to spend more than five minutes on the throne. However,
the participants did not seem to recognize this, so they
did not realize that they were spending so much time
on their phones on the throne, which is not a
surprise either. So after they adjusted for factors like age
and activity levels and such, the research team concluded smartphone
use on the toilet is associated with a forty six
percent greater risk of hemorrhoids. Quote. Obviously, our study did
not prove causation, says Pestricha. To address this, they're going
to do another study and that's going to be an
intervention one where some participants will be asked not to
use phone while on the porcelain chair there, which they
think should be able to help gauge whether it really
is a problem or not. The team also found no
association between straining and the risk of the roids. No association,
which was like, that's surprising to me because I had
heard that before. I'd heard that like if you like,
if you're straining like with a colander or something, that
increases your risk too. The team speculates that this is
because the pelvic floor muscles have less support whilst seated
in that position than when you sit on a flat surface. Hmm.
So if this conclusion is correct, if these two things
are in fact connected, right, then wouldn't we see like
this occurring all over the world. I suspected would right,
Surely Americans are not the only ones doing this kind
of behavior. And look, as I said, this is a
this is a study. This is science speaking of which
eating more meat could be beneficial for your body. Okay, wait, well,
wait a minute, hang on, more meat is beneficial, Eating
meat not linked to higher risk of death. That is
not what I have been told. Okay, this is new information.
In fact, it is like the exact opposite information than
we have been told like literally my entire life, right,
I have been told that oh, cooked meat, you cook
it on a grill, and that's what gives you the
cancer because like the cooking and the whatever, the charcoal
and all of that. Recent research, though, from Canada's McMaster University,
revealed that animals sourced foods are not linked to a
higher risk of death, which, by the way, death occurs
in one hundred percent of humans. The study discovered that
animal proteins could also offer protective benefits against cancer related mortality.
So not only does the animal meat not give you cancer,
it also might help ward it off. Right, you guys
in science, you guys really got to get your stuff
together here. I'm telling you, like, this is all like,
this is like the egg thing all over again. I
remember we were told that eggs are you know, bed
they're giving you the cholesterol and all of this. And
then they were like, oh, but there's good cholesterol and
bad cholesterol. And they're like, okay, eggs are good again.
Oh my goodness. But maybe big beef has gotten to
the researchers. That's possible too, right, Maybe they got their
thumb on the skin like the butcher scalia. That's possible.
Researchers analyzed data from nearly sixteen thousand adults age nineteen
and older, considering how much animal and plant protein they
typically consume. They also examined whether these diet patterns were
associated with the risk of dying from causes such as
heart disease and cancer. The results revealed no increased risk
of death in association with eating more animal protein. The
data also showed a modest but significant reduction in cancer
related mortalities. No association were found. Associations were found between
total protein whether it was animal or plant based, no
association between total protein and the risk of death from
any cause. But when plant and animal protein were analyzed,
the results remain consistent, which suggests that plant protein has
a minimal impact on cancer mortality, while animal protein may
offer a small protective effect. So plant based protein not
as good as the animal which anybody who has tasted
this stuff could tell you. Lead researcher Yanni Papa nuc
Luca I think is how he pronounces that, President of
Nutritional Strategies, also commented that when both observational data and
clinical research are considered, quote, it's clear that both animal
and plant protein foods promote health and longevity. I'm telling
you people, it's science. Like now science, we can eat
meat again. I've been eating meat for a while but
like that's yeah, it's all about the portion control really,
that's I think what this comes down to. You know,
you want to do like just two to three ounces
of protein per meal and then you know one meal
of like six ounce of lean protein. That's really the key.
I learned that from PhD weight loss. So it's portion
control people, and then like cutting out all the sugars
and carbs. That stuff's crap. All right, you hear me
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better returns. And I did get a text or two
regarding some of this vital information that I provided. Question
from the text line, reading a newspaper or magazine whilst
on the toilet is not an issue. That is a
good question, and it is I believe, actually addressed in here. Yeah,
here it is. This is, by the way, from New
Scientist dot com. The team found no association. Oh, I
already read that part about the straining. This may be
surprising giving how often the claim is bay blah blah blah.
In fact, some studies have found right, that's not it
hang on time spent to pelvic floor muscles. Prolonged time
can be like pregnancy. Mm hmm, I thought they mentioned
it here. Oh, here it is. The studies authors think
it is best to leave smartphones outside the bathroom, but
printed reading material might be okay. They say, read something
that's not designed to be addictive and makes you lose
track of time. So that's the key, right. So the
key is that people on their smartphones don't realize how
long they're on their phones because they just keep scrolling.
It never ends. But when you're if you were to
take out the newspaper or take in the newspaper, then
you would read the newspaper, you would read the article,
and then you would be done and you'd be like, Okay,
time to go. I read the r I finished the article, right,
So I think it's a time issue and not a
not sort of a platform issue. Steven Charlotte says protein
is essential, but in red meat and egg yolk have
hydronic acid, not to be confused with hydraulic acid, which
ups your homo cysteine levels, which is a booster of cancer. Well,
but that's what I'm saying. Like they they found they
just tested animal protein. I mean, look me personally, I
mainly eat chicken. I eat chicken most days of the
week for my protein. That's usually what I'm eating. I
just ate some chicken as a snack. As a matter
of fact, I take a boneless, skinless chicken breast. I
throw them in the oven, I cook them all and
then I shred them down. I throw it all in
a tupperware. I stick it in the fridge, and then
I just take little portions out of that and I
eat that for my meals. That's how I do it.
And then every now and again I eat some I'll
eat a steak. I'll eat fish more roughen than I
eat steaks nowadays, So Joe says, next they will say
bacon is good for us. Well, I'm down with that.
I mean, from then, you know what the documentary The
Simpsons where Homer reported to following doctors' orders to drink
eight cups of gravy a day. So why not bacon
being good for us? Becky says, this story validates my threats.
My kids take their tablets into the bathroom all the time,
and they take forever. I started telling them what hemorrhoids
are to get them out, and now science has confirmed,
maybe loosely, my threats. I love it. Thanks for sharing.
You're welcome, Becky. Anything to scare children, that's my motto.
And then Glenn points out that printed material comes in
handy if you run out of the toilet paper. That's true.
Not that I advise that, but when in a pinch,
let me be one of the many people to welcome
KBJ to town. Just this KBJ, Katanji Brown Jackson. Yeah,
she is in town tonight at the Carolina Theater in Uptown.
It's a they had a sold out appearance, but then
they then they had to make some adjustments because there
were a bunch of like scalpers, bots and illegitimate sources.
According to the Charlotte Observer, that scooped up all of
the tickets that were I don't know what they were going.
I don't know what the price of these things were,
but yeah, she's in town. They they made one hundred
and fifty tickets available again last week. I guess it was.
I don't know if it's sold out. But when the
scalpers and the bots and such got in, they they
they scooped them all up and then were of course
resign them for much higher rates. She's participating in a
conversation with the former mayor of Charlotte, Harvey Gant, and
she will just her memoir called Lovely One. I do
not know if she's going to be doing sort of
an encore abbreviated performance or reprising her role in Hamilton.
But it's going to be seven o'clock at the Carolina
Theater and there is an in person only box office
hours to do people good bye to two tickets, So okay.
So to me, the story there was that the Supreme
Court Justice Katanji Brown Jackson is in town Hawk in
a book, and that a bunch of scalpers bought up
all the tickets. Like I said, I don't know if
it has sold out or not, because that would actually
be pretty embarrassing, right, Like, if the only reason she
could sell out one hundred and fifty seats would be
because bots bottom and scalpers bottom all up, that would
be embarrassing. I don't think that's the case. I think
she'll probably sell the tickets, but I'll be waiting to
see if she does. And speaking of KBJ, Jonathan Turley,
the Georgetown or George Washington University law professor, not a
big fan of some of her recent opinions that she's
been writing, and as a Supreme Court watcher as he is,
has noticed some problems with what appears to be her
relationships with the other members of the Supreme Court. He
had a piece the other day called the Judicial Calvin
Ball of Justice Katanji Brown Jackson. And so for people
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called Calvin and Hobbes, which was actually rooted in philosophy.
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this pretend game. Calvin's a little child and Hobbes is
his stuffed animal tiger who comes to life, but only
in his presence. And so they would play this game.
And the only rule is that there are no rules,
so they make up all the rules as they go
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In a message on Twitter, russ says preparation h was
invented so people could use the restroom as their getaway.
I don't know. It's not true for our generation with margarine, eggs, meat, fat,
coconut oil, wine, coffee, et cetera, et cetera. The dietary
experts have been so wrong. You would have been way
better off doing the opposite of whatever new thing they suggest.
All right, So let me get back to this piece
by Jonathan Turley. It's an op ed at The Hill
dot com, and Turley is a professor of public interest
law at George Washington University. He is also the author
of the indispensable right free speech in the age of
rage and he quote. He starts the piece by quoting
Supreme Court Justice Katanji Brownjackson, who was in Charlotte this evening,
So welcome to the Queen City. Don't take the light reil.
Here's what he starts with, quote, I just feel that
I have a wonderful opportunity. Those words by Justice KBJ
came in a recent interview wherein the justice explained how
she felt liberated after becoming a member of the Supreme
Court to quote, tell people, in my opinions, how I
feel about the issues, and that's what I try to do.
You see the problem here, right, That's not what your
job is. You're not there to tell people how you
feel about an issue. That's not what you should be
trying to do, let alone doing it. Jackson's sense of
liberation has increasingly become the subject of consternation on the
Court itself, as she unloads on her copag in strikingly
strident opinions. Most recently, she went ballistic after her colleagues
reversed another District Court judge who issued a sweeping injunction
barring the Trump administration from canceling roughly seven hundred and
eighty three million dollars in grants in the National Institutes
of Health. Again, writing alone, Jackson unleashed a tongue lashing
on her colleagues, who she suggested were unethical and that
they were unthinking cutouts for Trump. She denounced her fellow justices, stating, quote,
this is Calvin Ball jurisprudence with a twist. Calvin Ball
has only one rule. There are no fixed rules. We
seem to have two that one, and this administration always wins.
Remember she's not the only liberal on the on the court,
she may be the only leftist. She herself is widely
viewed as the very embodiment though of the Calvin bol rule.
In her jurisprudence, it often seems like there are no
fixed rules, there are only fixed outcomes. She then attacks
her colleagues for a lack of integrity or empathy. Jackson
has attacked her colleagues and opinions, shattering traditions of civility
and restraint. Her colleagues have clearly had enough. She now
regularly writes diatribes that neither of her fellow liberals are
willing to sign on to Justices Alana Kagan and Justice
Sonia Sotomagor. Neither one of them sign on to KB
Jay's opinions. She has raged against opinions that her liberal
colleagues have joined. Right, she is the outlier here. In
Trump versus CASA, the Court was trying to reign in
district courts that were issuing sweeping injunctions over the executive branch,
and she went ballistic in her descent, and neither Soto,
Mayor or Kagan would join her. Jackson accused her colleagues
of blindly drifting towards a rule of kings governing system.
She denounced the majority for enabling our collective demise. At
the very least, she said, I lament that the majority
is so caught up in minutia of the government's self
serving finger pointing arguments that it misses the plot end
quote Justice Amy Coney Barrett ACB. She apparently reached a
breaking point, and she unleashed on Jackson in an opinion
that was joined by her colleagues. She noted that Jackson
was describing a quote vision of the judicial role that
would make even the most ardent defender of judicial supremacy blush.
She said, we will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument,
which is at odds with more than two centuries worth
of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself, we observe
only this Justice Jackson decries an imperial executive while embracing
an imperial judiciary. Jackson, according to Turley, has been criticized
for making all sorts of other sensational claims dubious claims,
and he cites her opinions supporting affirmative action in higher education,
and what he goes on to conclude is that her
version of jurisprudence is the very model of a judiciary
that is now detached from the constitutional restraints or institutional
restraints that have long tethered it. He says, quote. Not surprisingly,
she is lionized in law schools for her rejection of
judicial restraint and her pursuit of progressive outcomes. Yet her
approach is becoming increasingly lawless. So I tell you that
to tell you about a bunch of cases that are
on the docket for the Supreme Court, and how we
dodged a bullet with her own. I mean, she is
the one Biden appointee, right, how many others could there
have been like her had Trump not won like it
is astounding to me. And by the way, the criticism
of her as a DEI higher it doesn't have much
to do with her performance, because her hiring wasn't due
to her performance. And I can say that because Joe
Biden said that, he said he went looking for a
black female judge. That's who he went looking for, and
he got her. And so now she's in there and
we're reading this stuff, and we're reading her opinions. And
when she says things like I want to tell people
in my opinions how I feel about the issues, I
will quote an old philosophy professor that I had at
Winthrop University, doctor Craighead. And whenever anybody would start off
with a response to one of his prompts and they
would say, well, I feel like, he would say, stop, No,
you don't feel, you think. And that's the difference here.
She's just telling people how she feels about issues. That's
not the law. So when I was a kid, my
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This is why we walk. I mentioned before the break
there about Supreme Court cases that are on the docket.
These are some of the big ones, as reported by
the Daily Caller, Men and women's sports, race based redistricting,
and campaigns spending. Those are the top three according to
the Daily Caller. Limits on coordinated party campaigns spending could end,
so right now there are caps on the amount of
money that you can coordinate between parties and campaigns, so
that could end. This is a case called National Republican
Senatorial Committee versus the Federal Election Commission. There is the
race based districts, which will also face scrutiny as the
Supreme Court re examines an ongoing dispute over Louisiana's congressional maps.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the matter way
back in March, but then postponed issuing a ruling, and
they asked for an additional briefing on whether the intentional
creation of a second majority minority congressional district is constitutional, right,
So think about that. The Louisiana was trying to make
another district majority minority, right, and the question is are
we allowed to do that? So that's before the Supreme Court.
There is a case called bost versus Illinois State Board
of Elections. The justices will decide whether a Republican congressman's
bid to challenge state rules that allowed counting ballots after
election day. So we may get a ruling that sets
a precedent to determine whether that's constitutional or not to
take in ballots and count them after the election day.
And this has been a problem in North Carolina when
they would accept absentee ballots for several days after election
day because they were like, well, it's postmart the day
of the election and it came in a week later,
so we have to count. We have to count it,
you know which. The state legislature addressed that by saying
no from now on, and they went back to basically
an older rule that we'd had. I want to say
it was probably like ten or fifteen years ago. It
got changed to we'll accept them after the election day.
They then dialed it back to the law as it
was prior, which was that, no, they've got to be
in the board of Elections by the close of business
when the polls close, I should say, on election day itself.
If they don't have them in there by, then they
don't count. What else They've got a case Idaho and
West Virginia trying to ban men from competing in women's sports.
The case involves challenges to the bands under the Fourteenth
Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and Title nine. More than half
of the states of America have passed similar bands, so
they're gonna take that up. So I wonder if KBJ
is going to have to recuse herself from this case
because she does not know what a woman is because
she's not a biologist, remember, So yeah, I'm guessing she's
gonna well, Okay, maybe she has done some research since
her confirmation hearing, and maybe she has now figured out
what a woman is, So maybe she will be able
to hear this case and talk about her feelings and
what she thinks about a particular case now so she
can express it in writing, you know, how she feels
about men and women's sports. But if she hasn't done
the research, and she still doesn't know what a woman
is because she's not a biologist. Then I don't think
she's going to be able to offer any kind of
guidance on this issue. But we shall see. There's another
case coming called Childs Versus Salazar, or maybe it's Chili's.
I don't know Child's. Probably it centers on a Colorado
law that restricts counselors from dissuading miners from pursuing gender transitions,
but it allows those same counselors to encourage the transitions.
So Colorado passed a law that said, if you are
a counselor and a child comes to you and says
they are not the gender they are, so they are
under this delusion and they have this gender dysphoria, and
they come to you and they're like, I want to
be the opposite sex. You are only allowed to encourage transition.
You are not allowed to say maybe you're not the
opposite sex. You're not allowed to say that in Colorado.
Kaylee Chiles, a Christian counselor, argues that this amounts to
viewpoint based censorship, which it obviously is right. Obviously, So
I saw I was watching an interview. I think it
was Michael Malice who said that a friend of his
is a psychiatrist and he moved or she moved from
California to Texas because California has a similar law that
if a child comes in and says I want to
be the opposite sex, and this counselor or this psychiatrist thinks,
you know what, maybe we should talk about this a
little first, and you know, let's go through some questions.
Let's find out if there's some underlying trauma or mental
illness or something going on here that has prompted this
gender dysphoria. And you're not allowed to do that. And
so the psychiatrist is like, well that I'm out because
now the state is telling me how to counsel somebody,
and I can only counsel one direction towards transition, towards
towards quote unquote affirmation. Right, So we're going to get
a case on that. What else? In the First Choice
Women's Resource Centers Versus Platkin, the Supreme Court is going
to consider New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin's demand for
a pro life pregnancy centers to turn over its donors
in response to a subpoena. The question centers on whether
this pregnancy center, a pro life pregnancy center, can challenge
this subpoena before it gets enforced in state court. So
it's a sort of a limited question there because obviously,
like this is law fare where a Democrat attorney general says,
here's a subpoena, give me your list of donors, and
then that automatically becomes public, and what they're saying is, well, no,
we want to be able to challenge that subpoena before
it gets before we have to comply with it, because
if the whole case is bunked and it all falls apart,
the damage is done because now you've got the list
of donors that the left can now target for harassment, cancelation,
you know, verbal and physical attacks and the like. Birthright
citizenship is likely going to return to the High Court
this time for a ruling on the merits of the case.
They are likely to consider the president's ability to fire
executive officials at independent agencies, and tariffs could also be
added to the dockets, So a very full schedule. Indeed,
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