Month: September 2007

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the Secret of Dieting is BUTTER

How I make my diet really work!

Almost every person who diets will tell you the same old lie: don’t make food your reward. Well, that is sort of true. You can’t live to eat, but let’s remind ourselves that one of the REAL reasons we got as big as we did in the first place is because we do enjoy great food.

So what can anyone do faced with two opposing realities: the joy of wonderful food and the need to lose weight. I call it ‘event planning.’ Choose a few spots during the year on which your plan to escape from the rigors of your diet. Maybe this is your birthday, thanksgiving and a few others spread out over the months. On these occasions plan for something delightful on your special days. Maybe a  Seafood Gumbo,  Bobotie ( Lamb Casserole) ,  Hoender Pastei (chicken pot pie) , add a great wine followed by a special dessert and you have the beginnings of a memorable event.

Having a few events along the way helps support the rigors of your diet.

Good Luck,

Roger Freberg

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When Local Kids go bad THEN join the ARMY

To say I was amused would be to sound a bit heartless, intolerant and unsympathetic. I am really not. However, I am constantly bombarded by — excuse the expression — leftists and liberals who moan the fact that their little not-so-immature son or daughter has run off and joined the army. In their minds, Greenpeace has just lost another foot soldier.

What did they expect? (link)

Part of the problem is that many parents — particularly mothers — do not realize that they can’t change who their children are inside just by the strength of a mother’s will. Biologically & from an evolutionary point of view, children are the product of their genetic history. They are descended from survivors, people of achievement — and yes — warriors. Now-a-days we can discover our genetic heritage… the little boy sitting next to you singing ‘kumbaya’ may be a direct descendant of Attila the hun!

Can you guess which of my daughters fought in Iraq

Now why is it that some mothers think they can change all of that by forcing their munchkins to play mindless soccer, admonish them with ‘use your words and not your fists’ and drug up their boys if they attend school NOT acting like little girls?

Clearly these women are not thinking honestly…. but their children now are.

Dad’s Take:

We live in an increasingly competitive world and our children must be supported if they are going to have a chance at thriving in it. Every child has many talents and we must help them find, recognize then develop their unique and very individual skills. If you succeed, any occupation — they desire and train toward — can be wonderful… whether it be a scientist, artist, musician, athlete, scholar, linguist, academic, business or even a warrior. They key is to find something your child enjoys… and then back them up with time, energy and resources.

Many Heroes

Mom, the goal is to help your child be happy… not make YOUR life less stressful.

Roger Freberg

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Trojans SHUCK the Cornhuskers

Trojans IMPRESS

The game was far different that the score indicated. If it was close it was only in the beginning.

If the Trojan coaches looked at all frustrated … it was the failure of some of the second and third stringers sent in for experience letting them and the team down. Fortunately, they’ll get time to redeem themselves down the road.

Here’s what others are saying:

Maualuga’s Motor is always running
Staying in Omaha
Smash Mouth
Trojan Update
Stafon Johnson & student body right
Yahoo News
Irish-Trojan in Tennessee

Another great week.

Fight On!

Roger Freberg

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Who can and can NOT recruit on College Campuses

 

“This message has been sent to the email address provided by your
 organization.”

Non Comrads need not apply

This was the operational sentence from an email sent by  Greenpeace. What makes this fascinating is the degree of difficulty any outside organization has in distributing material via email or any other method on the campus of American Universities, in this case, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.  Here is a copy of one recent email.

What makes “Greenpeace” so special? Why do emails from this organization and other left-of-center groups apparently have free reign in our public educational systems? So much for the free exchange of ideas.

What is troubling is not so much that Greenpeace has the ability to use our public institutions for their own purposes… but others — by their absence — apparently do not.

Roger Freberg

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What, No Trojan Pasta?

Hey... I like their Spirit!

Today, I received in the mail a little present from one of my daughters…. she’s at the University of Tennessee.  I opened it up and this is what I found! It appears that this little pasta company —  Pasta Shoppe  in Nashville — cooks up some spirited pasta for the Volunteers, Gators, Tar heals, Tigers, Seminoles, Bulldogs, Yellow Jackets, Hoosiers (whatzers?), Hurricanes, Wolverines ( you know, the poor guys we beat last year that are still having severe trouble in the third quarter with the monastery of St. Give-it-up), Gamecocks, Badgers… but … alas… no SC Trojans.

On Game day, I’ll cook these up and pretend the “T” is for Trojan!

Fight On!

Roger Freberg