Recommended Men’s Long Pants.

Recommended Men’s Long Pants.

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For years I have been shopping trying to find a near perfect men’s long leg pants. I have been so disappointed over past years not finding a good solution.  I finally found one. It is a Stylus “5 pocket pant”, slim fit at JC Penney.  I was very careful at first, just buying one and trying it out for months.  I just could not find anything wrong.  Then I purchased more.
Here is why I really like these pants:

  • The fit to my body is perfect.  I buy “slim fit”.   These pants fit perfectly.  Make sure you try out the correct fit for your body.
  • The fabric is excellent:
    • Fabric is tight.
    • Fabric is smooth.  I can wear a single pair of these pants for a week and it does not show any indication that they should be laundered!
    • Fabric is light weight.  I never feel these pants tugging any part of my body.
    • I love black color because it is neutral.  Almost all my pants are black.  These pants are a terrific black!
  • I demand at lease 4 pockets.  These pants have 5 pockets!  The 5th pocket is a rather small pocket on the front right side just in front of the main large right pocket.  This “small” pocket is large.  I use is to slide in my car and house keys.   For me, this was just one more positive point.
  • A very common problem with almost every other men’s pants is the top of the pants belt type lock, typically a slit hole on the left top at belt level followed by a large pin on the right side.  Another option is to see the two sides of the pants top snap together.  I refuse to buy the snap fastener because I have seen too many fail.

 

CAUTION:  I have the impression that JC Penney has no idea that they have a winner, near perfect product.  I can not find this pant in my size in the local stores.  I have to order it to be delivered to a local JC Penney store.

NOTE:  JC Penney has a good return policy.

Stylus 5 Pocket Mens Slim Fit Flat Front Pant

 

Posted: 6-12-2024
Posted by:  Score Card

 

Found US quarter coin revealed it’s secret.

Found US quarter coin revealed it’s secret.

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While walking along a city sidewalk, very close to the street, I looked down into the street gutter and spotted what looked like a quarter.  I picked it up and was shocked to see one side of the quarter lost part of it’s covering.  I could not believe what I was holding.  I assumed that our US coins are solid, not coated.  My research shows the following:

“US quarters are “clad,” which means they are coated with multiple layers of different metals. The inner core of a quarter is pure copper, and the outer layer is a 75% copper, 25% nickel alloy that has a silver color. The layers of metal help the coin last longer.”

Bottom image is the front picture of the coin.

June 10, 2024
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SCORE CARD’S RESPONSE, May 30, 2024, FROM HEARING THE TRUMP TRIAL VERDICT.

SCORE CARD’S RESPONSE, May 30, 2024, FROM HEARING THE TRUMP TRIAL VERDICT.

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Following is a list of how I felt hearing Thursday May 30, 2024 that Donald trump was convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the New York hush money trial:

  • I totally did not expect the outcome!  I was incredibly surprised!
  • I was really surprised that all 34 counts were voted against Trump.
  • I expected at least one juror to find him not guilty.  I was truly respectful for each juror for coming up with this terrific surprise outcome!
  • I had expected Trump to win acquittal, in total.
  • I was really impressed with the New York trial process.  It is really comforting to see a legal system someplace working in the United States!  In contrast, in my mind, the  U.S. “Supreme” Court is a disaster and it’s participants should be removed!
  • After viewing news reports of his many goose stepping followers using Trump techniques such as listed below that the United States just might be on the road of becoming a diminished Democracy.  Here is my list of scenes that Trump uses to gain some support for himself and also used by his followers, that now proved to not work (thank God):
    • Lies.
    • Fabrications.
    • Embellishments of his accomplishments.
    • Attacking opponents to build a wall to protect himself.
    • Blame others to deflect self incrimination.
    • Promoting fear against minorities which is a typically used tool by terrible politicians to split society apart.
    • Using black or white outcomes (lies) to describe current social situations (some times works in favor of the dictator).  A lot of our life situations lie in the gray area or the in-between.  It is up to each of us to discern the importance of where the truth and facts reside.
    • Trump tried to build a cult like following and to some degree it worked with the stupid.
    • Trump is a real life entertainer who writes his own scripts to enhance himself.
TAURINE VITAMIN

TAURINE VITAMIN

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I have not remember how I heard about Taurine vitamin but it seemed to have some attributes that I wanted to try out.

Taurine has a long list of beneficial aspects for the humane body; way more than listed here.  My personal experience was that the listed body changes found in the Internet websites were mostly unnoticeable to me except one – my dreams during night sleep were off the charts!  I have participated in my dreams of major movie like experiences!  Not all my past dreams were good, just most.  Taking Taurine now, for me, is to enjoy some exciting dreams while sleeping at night!    A friend of mine told me that Melatonin is reported to possibly provide vivid dreams.  I had been taking Melatonin for years with no such episodes of vivid dreams until I started taking Taurine.  It just might be the case that taking both Melatonin and Taurine together really makes a change in some people for providing exiting dreams.

NOTE:  This dream enhancement of Taurine is not supported in any other web site that I can find!  

  • Taurine might lower blood pressure but be careful and monitor your pressure!
  • Taking taurine by mouth seems to improve heart function.
  • Helps with sleep.  I did not find this helped me.
  • MOST SURPRISING AND NOT ADVERTISED:  The most shocking result for me taking Taurine is that I have vivid and some times epic and near fantastic dreams.
  • The list of Taurine benefits is way longer than I can list here!  Do be careful that taking it does not diminish our current level of health.

SOME CAUTIONS: 

 

MORE INFORMATION: Taurine: What Is It?

 

POSTED:  5/25/2024
Updated:  6/1/2024
POSTED BY: SCORE CARD

Search For President Biden’s Score Card

Search For President Biden’s Score Card

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Right after I wrote and posted Donald Trump Score Card I wanted to post a score card for President Biden.  My immediate research was a bit shocking because the web sites that I visited seemed to diminish the importance of Biden.  How could this be?   I got to think that because Biden was president for a longer time than Trump and done way more than Trump that there might be more instances of failed effort.  I had no solution until I went to my local Barnes & Noble Book Store and just by luck spotted a magazine that I had never seen before, Washington Monthly (Special Spring Books Issue) April/May 2024.  This magazine title showed “Who Got More Done? The Monthly’s presidential accomplishment index”.   That title sold me instantly!  I purchased the magazine without opening it up and when I got home I immediately used my computer to look up the reputation of Washington Monthly.  I was impressed.

I then open the magazine and turn to the page “Introduction:  Who Got The More Done?,  page 8.  and was immediately pleased to see a graphic showing how Biden ranked against Trump.

TRUMP +3

BIDEN. +14

 

I am really impressed with this magazine publication.

 

POSTED: 5/20/2024
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Donald Trump Score Card

Donald Trump Score Card

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DONALD TRUMP SCORE CARD

Following is a list of positive, negative, and questionable actions that Donald Trump reportedly and allegedly did.  This effort is to help us all better decide the value of this man to this country and if we should vote for him again.

PAST HISTORY

President Donald Trump was impeached twice during his single term in office. In each case, he was acquitted on all counts by the Senate.

The first impeachment of President Donald Trump occurred on December 18, 2019.

Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States, was impeached for the second time on January 13, 2021, one week before his term expired.

“In each case, he was acquitted on all counts by the Senate.”

Source: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S4-4-9/ALDE_00000035/

Score:  THIS IS AN EMPIRICAL INDICATOR OF A POSSIBLE PROBLEM.

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“On January 6, 2021, many Trump supporters gathered near the White House to hear the president speak at an event known as the “Stop the Steal” rally. Trump continued to push the false claims that the election was “rigged” and that he won it. He stated that he would “never concede.” He also suggested that Vice President Pence could halt the certification of the Electoral College vote, a procedural formality that was scheduled to take place in the US Capitol building on that day.

For several hours that afternoon, a mob of Trump supporters violently invaded the US Capitol building, threatening to kill members of Congress and their staff, who hid inside. More than a hundred police officers were injured, and several rioters died—one shot by police and several from natural causes.”

Thus, Donald Trump refused to concede defeat and instead instigated an insurrection, stirring a mob that stormed the Capitol January 6 2021.

Source:  https://millercenter.org/president/trump/life-after-the-presidency
Score:  -1

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Trump openly appealed to Russia to steal his opponent’s emails.
Score:  -1

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Trump’s serial subservience to foreign strongmen such as Recep Tayyip Erdo?an of Turkey, Kim Jong Un of North Korea, and, of course, Russia’s Vladimir Putin—none of whom act out of a sense of shared interests with the United States.
Score: -1

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Trump’s dereliction of duty during the COVID-19 pandemic, which will have killed at least 400,000 Americans by the time he leaves office.
Score:  -1

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Trump had sex with women not his wife.
Score: -1

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“Trump administration’s National Defense Strategy stands out as one of the most important defense policy shifts of the last generation, reorienting the American military to confront rising and increasingly aggressive powers Russia and China.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impac t-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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Trump’s Interior Department stonewalled Congressional oversight and got away with it.
Score:  -1

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Trump dismantled Obama-era policies that were designed to curb abuses by for-profit colleges.
Score:  -1

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“The Trump administration played a major but little-noticed role in pushing Congress to enact the most sweeping overhaul of financial crimes safeguards in decades, measures intended to stop money flowing to terrorists, drug traffickers and other wrongdoers.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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“Under Trump, the Agriculture Department scaled back the $60 billion Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the food support program for low-income Americans formerly known as food stamps.” 
“The impact: 755,000 Americans have lost their access to food aid.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
Score:  -1

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Trump’’s  “Labor Department finalized an overtime rule notably weaker than that issued under Obama, leaving millions of workers ineligible.”
“At least 8 million workers who would have been eligible for overtime pay under the 2016 version and now are ineligible; some estimates place the amount of wages lost at around $1 billion annually.”

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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“The Trump administration loosened the standards oil and gas companies had to meet for how much methane — the largest chemical component of natural gas and a major heat-trapping substance — they could allow to leak out of pipelines, storage tanks and other oil field infrastructure.”

Source:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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“In 2018, the Trump administration for the first time attempted a Defense Department-wide audit.”

Source:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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“The Trump, 2017 tax bill slashed individual and corporate tax rates and made dozens of other major changes to the tax code that affected virtually every facet of the economy, from small businesses to university endowments.” 

Source:   https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  0

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“At the end of 2019, Trump signed into law carefully crafted bipartisan legislation designed to ensure phone companies would install technology to verify that calls were authentic and bolster federal enforcement powers.”

Source:    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  +1

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Trump’s “Agriculture Department went to great lengths to quietly quash scientific research conducted by its employees or funded by government dollars, in particular research about how the agriculture industry could play a critical role in combating climate change.”

Source:    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
Score:  -1

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“Early in 2020 the Trump administration released a big ball of rules meant to sweep aside barriers to sharing health information.”

Source:    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479
Score:  +1

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“Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress repealed transparency safeguards designed to protect hundreds of thousands of people working for companies bidding for federal contracts from sexual harassment.”

This would “required businesses to publicly disclose any sexual harassment or labor law violations over the previous three years whenever they bid on large federal contracts.”

“The impact: Federal contractors with a history of sexual harassment or other labor violations can win bids without having to reveal their problematic history.” 

Source:     https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  0

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“The Obama administration’s plan would have required automakers to improve fuel efficiency by 5 percent per year, but the Trump administration rolled those targets back to just 1.5 percent improvement each year.”

Source:     https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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 “Trump wanted to crack down on illegal immigration at the southern border, his administration also imposed tighter restrictions on legal immigration.” 

Source:  https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  0

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Trump’s administration’s approach paved the way for less stringent regulation of toxic chemicals.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/18/trump-presidency-administration-biggest-impact-policy-analysis-451479

Score:  -1

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LEGAL & CRIMINAL CASES AGAINST DONALD TRUMP

 

In August, Georgia Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, brought a sprawling RICO case against Trump and 18 codefendants, accusing them of forming an enterprise to illegally try to keep him in power despite losing the 2020 election.

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:  Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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“Justice Department Special Counsel Jack Smith brought an indictment against Trump in Washington, DC, federal court. The case is being overseen by US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, who has overseen numerous criminal trials of January 6 rioters.”

“The indictment alleges Trump and a group of yet-unindicted co-conspirators conspired to stop Congress from doing its duty to certify now-President Joe Biden’s electoral victory in the 2020 election and rob Americans of their lawful votes.”

 “The Supreme Court is weighing whether Trump is immune from prosecution in the case, a legal battle that has effectively frozen proceedings. The high court is set to hear arguments on Thursday, April 25.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:   Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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“Early in 2022, Trump turned over 15 boxes of documents — including some marked as classified and “top secret” — to the National Archives. But federal investigators scrutinizing the former president’s handling of records reportedly grew suspicious that Trump or people close to him still retained some key records. The FBI seized about a dozen boxes of additional documents during a raid of Mar-a-Lago last summer.”

Source:   https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:   Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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New York’s, ManhattanDistrict Attorney Alvin L. Bragg’s office investigated whether Trump violated campaign finance laws in connection to hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. A grand jury voted to bring criminal charges against Trump in the case.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:  Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

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The Trump Organization was found guilty of 17 tax fraud counts on December 6, 2022 in a speedy, slam-dunk conviction in New York state court.

Score:  -5

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“New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization.  James said she uncovered a decade-long pattern of financial wrongdoing at Trump’s multibillion-dollar real-estate and golf resort empire.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

Score:  Implies Trump May Be A Flawed Individual

 

The Disqualification Lawsuits

“Voters and advocacy groups in several states have filed lawsuits seeking to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in 2024. A case in Colorado brought by the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) has been litigated most extensively so far.”

“Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution, passed shortly after the Civil War, forbids “an officer of the United States” (Donald Trump) from being “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” against the country.”

Source:    https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

 

SUMMARY

The Above list Shows That Trump Is A Possible Political Threat To Democracy.

 

FINAL SCORE TOTALS:

-18

+5

POSSIBLY A FLAWED INDIVIDUAL:  +6

 

 

The above listed items came from:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/trump-worst-president-history/617730/

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-key-cases-civil-criminal-investigations-lawsuits-updates-2022-7

 

 

Posted May 15, 2024
Updated:  May 16,2024
By Score Card