Health & Fitness

Scribe: Lucy Osbourne

Email: lucy@thethinkering.com

On Thursday night, no one wants to cook and my usual go to is Walmart for the rotisserie chicken. A recent article dumped my beloved garlic butter rotisserie chicken into the processed foods category. I was forced to investigate and here I will share with your my findings. 

In describing the chicken I will begin with the price is right for two boys and two adults. Seductively succulent and savory are my go to words for my late week chicken fix. However the chicken is pre-seasoned in factories and shipped to supermarkets where an employee can put it in the oven for about 30 minutes and out comes a perfect chicken. 

While it is processed, it is an anomaly being one of the healthiest processed meals. And, is even better when the skin is removed. 

Scribe: Lucy Osbourne

Email: lucy@thethinkering.com

Most Americans see a long run as the ultimate form of exercise and a long life. But according to a new study, strength training is just as important as aerobic exercise. 

The new study also suggest gym equipment is optional, citing body weight exercises offer the same benefit. Push ups utilize nearly every muscle in the body, making it the ultimate exercise. Just as important as pushing up your body weight is the stretch provided to the biceps and back muscles as you preform push ups. 

Push-ups provide protection to one of the most vulnerable injuries for the human body, the rotator cuff injury. Safeguards are offered to protect the shoulder joint especially in older adults by enforcing and stabilizing muscles that surround the vulnerable joint. 

Scribe:  Lady In The bag

Email:  lady@thethinkering.com

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Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  samuel@thethinkering.com

Tru Robinson is a little girl seven years old who lives in a group home based in Dracut, MA.  Her mother accuses the staff of cutting Tru’s hair and telling her it would grow back straight. 

Tru is o mixed heritage and had curly locks and her distraught mother Denise says she was “assaulted and Violated.”  Her hair flowed down to the middle of her back and she now sports a crew cut.  Denise Robinson said, “Tru was assaulted yesterday at school and anyone who knows me know that I never claim racism — But why was my daughter’s head shaved?”  She then continued in a social media post, “There are three other girls in her class, two white girls, one black, none of these girls got scaled. Why Tru??”

Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  samuel@thethinkering.com

Senator Jeff Flake, garnered the world’s attention when he defied the sitting president by saying delaying opposition to the White House is complicit in wrong doing.

In a brave speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Sen. Jeff Flack said, “We must never adjust to the present coarseness of our national dialogue with the tone set up at the top.” He attacked Trump’s unusual behavior over the past nine months.  The Arizona Republican blasted the president for his untruthful behavior and lack of decency saying, “We must never regard as normal the regular and casual undermining of our democratic norms and ideals, we must never meekly accept the daily sundering of our country. The personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms and institution, the flagrant disregard for truth and decency.” 

Scribe: Lucy Osbourne

Email: lucy@thethinkering.com

According to a Sunday Morning Television News show, Women theres a problem. “Men will always beat their wifes and you cant stop em,” says Senator, Heidi Heitkamp. She explained in her early days as North Dakota's attorney general a law enforcement official said the aforementioned.

With sexual harassment being in the front of our minds on the heels of a Hollywood executive who has made a career of it.

This morning program spoke with four of the 21 Female Senators and all of them admits to having sexual harassment incidents at some point in their professional lives.

Harvey Weinstein has brought to the attention of the American public the wanton arrogance of men in the work place. According to the EEOC more than $52.3m dollars in damages were received from claims of sexual harassment in 2011.

Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  samuel@thethinkering.com

The White House stopped federal payments, called cost sharing reductions as part of the Obama administrations Affordable Healthcare.  According to some insurance providers, the decision has destabilized the insurance industry with one company saying increases for 2018 is slated to go up from a projected 8 percent to 41 percent. 

The extreme increases will hurt consumers on both sides.  However, some states are making changes to mitigate the hikes the unpaid amount will ultimately be covered by taxpayers. 

For those people who do not qualify for state aid, would be required to pay the full increase amount.  For a guy worth $3.8 billion, no big deal, but for most Americans its bad. 

Scribe:  N. Tru Bass

Email: ntb@thethinkering.com

Roy, Utah, is the latest location in which a racist, who says he is not a racist has posted something stupid.  Kade Rogers a former Marine is exercising his first amendment rights by posting a divisive sign on his garage door. 

His neighbors don’t like it and are saying that it is offensive despite the complaints he insists on keeping the sign up.  Of course he is a Trump supporter, and has written on the sign “Make America great Again, Purge and Purify.” 

Rogers is cowardly playing the sign off by saying its Halloween and it has nothing to do with race.  But, wait, that’s not all!  How many times have you heard this one, "I kind of knew it was going to happen (controversy) but it's my right, it's not racist. I'm not meaning to be racist, in no way, in fact, I have a black friend. His name is Isaac." 

Cliché?   

Scribe:  Samuel Otis

Email:  samuel@thethinkering.com

A shooting at Texas Tech on Monday left one police officer dead. 

Hollis Daniels, 19, was subject to a wellness check on Monday when officers found drugs in his room, he was then taken to the campus police office where he pulled a gun and shot the officer in the head. 

The man is originally from Seguin, Texas was studying Communications and was classified as a freshman.   For a short time after the shooting the campus was on lockdown while an investigation into Daniels whereabouts was locked down.   He was apprehended near the Lubbock Municipal Coliseum around 9:30 p.m.

The officer has not yet been identified pending familial notification.  It’s unknown who owned the gun.  

Scribe:  Lucy Osbourne

Email: lucy@thethinkering.com

Columbus is said to have discovered America, a boast that has led to controversy and rightly so.  Europeans have traditionally celebrated this man’s voyage to the Americas, when in fact he was completely lost and served to single handedly kill millions of Native Americans in the process. 

We talk about genocide of Jewish people which was wrong and of others which was wrong, but this voyage caused the end for 50 million indigenous people in this hemisphere.   Europeans introduced small pox a disease ravaged the natives and cleared the land for others to move in and take over.  It’s a process that has been successful worldwide.