Saturday 20th of April 2024

in the series of president hopefuls: jeb bush caveman diet makes him loose political weight...

drastic jeb diet makes him loose political weight...

... friends confirm the likely GOP presidential candidate has lost 30 pounds since December, reports Michael Barbaro in The New York Times.

So what's his secret? The so-called caveman diet requires you to eat as early humans did during the Paleolithic era, which means no grains, legumes, dairy, or anything processed, leaving Bush with a light menu of meats, seafood, fresh fruits and vegetables, eggs, nuts, and some oils. Really, the diet wouldn't be so difficult if the former governor weren't on the not-quite-but-almost campaign trail, where politicians are expected to roll up their sleeves, grab a seat in the local eatery, and dig into a hearty meal prepared by the people.

Indeed, Bush may look more presidential than ever, but a candidate who doesn't indulge in life's little fatty pleasures isn't exactly celebrated.

read more: http://theweek.com/speedreads/551482/jeb-bush-paleo-diet-hes-starving

 

 

first you need to kill the beast...

In the caveman diet, one needs to kill the beast first or catch a running berry... 

 

The paleolithic diet, also known as the paleo diet or caveman diet, is a diet based on the food humans' ancient ancestors might likely have eaten, such as meat, nuts and berries, and excludes food they likely wouldn't have had access to, like dairy.

The diet is based on several premises. Proponents of the diet posit that during the Paleolithic era — a period lasting around 2.5 million years that ended about 10,000 years ago with the advent of agriculture and domestication of animals — humans evolved nutritional needs specific to the foods available at that time, and that the nutritional needs of modern humans remain best adapted to the diet of their Paleolithic ancestors. Proponents claim that human metabolism has been unable to adapt fast enough to handle many of the foods that have become available since the advent of agriculture. Thus, modern humans are said to be maladapted to eating foods such as grainlegumes, and dairy, and in particular the high-calorie processed foods that are a staple of most modern diets. Proponents claim that modern humans' inability to properly metabolize these comparatively new types of food has led to modern-day problems such as obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. They claim that followers of the Paleolithic diet may enjoy a longer, healthier, more active life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet

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Interesting, that a Christian such as Jeb Bush (there is no more powerful or liberating influence on this earth than the Christian conscience in action) follows a cave's person diet (let's not forget the women) that would have been started way before Adam and Eve came on this planet's best garden on earth possibly slightly west of Babylon...

The cavesperson diet of course started when our apish ancestors fell of the trees and roamed the plains. It is likely that our cousins, the Neanderthals and the Denisovans, since disappeared in strange devolutive circumstances, had similar eating habits and hair growing everywhere... 

And Jeb is very happy to follow on his brother's political idiotic exact footsteps...

testing the water on a li-lo mattress of cash...

WASHINGTON — Jeb Bush is under growing pressure to acknowledge what to some voters and a number of campaign finance lawyers seems obvious: He is running for president.

The lawyers say Mr. Bush, a former Florida governor, is stretching the limits of election law by crisscrossing the country, hiring a political team and raising tens of millions of dollars at fund-raisers, all without declaring — except once, by mistake — that he is a candidate.

Some election experts say Mr. Bush passed the legal threshold to be considered a candidate months ago, even if he has not formally acknowledged it. Federal law makes anyone who raises or spends $5,000 in an effort to become president a candidate and thus subject to the spending and disclosure restrictions. Some limited activities are allowed for candidates who are merely “testing the waters” for a run.

read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/politics/jeb-bush-taking-his-time-tests-the-legal-definition-of-candidate.html?_r=0

candidates — bloodied like greyhounds...

 

The death penalty in the USA is a hot topic. It is often used by political opponents as a oneupmanship as to whom signs the most death warrant. Ugly. For US president hopefuls, the death penalty is like live rabbits used to bloody greyhounds...

 

It was Jeb Bush's first campaign. In 1994, the 41-year-old son of the former president was the Republican nominee challenging Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles. The race was close, with several political handicappers predicting Bush would dethrone Chiles. Then in the final days, Bush released what his campaign considered to be a game-changing ad. The TV spot featured a Florida woman named Wendy Nelson, who happened to be a Bush campaign volunteer. Fourteen years earlier, her 10-year-old daughter had been kidnapped on her way to school and then murdered. Her murderer was apprehended and in 1981 sentenced to die. Yet all these years later, he remained on death row. In the Bush ad, Nelson said, "Her killer is still on death row, and we're still waiting for justice. We won't get it from Lawton Chiles because he's too liberal on crime."

The ad ignited a firestorm.

The ad was the hot topic when Chiles and Bush faced off for a televised debate on November 1, 1994. Tossing out the first question, moderator Tim Russert noted that Bush had conceded that Chiles could not have accelerated the execution process for this criminal and asked Bush, "Why do you continue to air the commercial, which is, by your own admission, misleading?" Bush responded by saying the commercial was no longer being aired "because it completed." But, Bush added, "I would have kept it on for longer."

Bush did not explain why he would have stuck with an ad that his own press aide later called an untruth or a lie. Instead, he went on the attack and slammed Chiles for somehow not speeding up the execution process. He said the ad was "appropriate" because "a symbol of crime needs to have a human face on it…I do believe [Chiles] has been a liberal on crime and soft on crime."

Chiles replied that he had long supported capital punishment and had overseen eight executions. He then turned toward his foe and said: "You put on this ad, Jeb. You knew it was false. You even admitted it was false… I'm ashamed that you would use the agony of a mother and the loss of her daughter in an ad like this. It's demagoguery, pure and simple.

Bush held fast and would not admit the ad was an error.

On Election Day, Bush went from once holding a 10-point lead over Chiles to losing by 2 points, even as Republicans nationwide were sweeping other contests and gaining control of the US House of Representatives for the first time in decades. Years later, Marks would cite the commercial that Bush refused to disavow as a "critical mistake" and the "nail in Bush's coffin." Perhaps if Bush had eschewed this attack ad or renounced it, he might have won and entered the governor's mansion four years earlier than he eventually did. Which could have positioned him for a presidential run in 2000. Instead, the Bush who entered that contest was George W., who in 1994 had won his governor's race in Texas. That year, W. also pummeled the Democratic incumbent—Ann Richards—for being soft on capital punishment, though she had presided over 45 executions as governor. But George, unlike Jeb, managed to do so without sparking a backlash. What a difference that made.


  • Delevie 
  • BTW, the killer wasn't executed until 2013 - 5 years after Jeb Bush's 8 years as Gov. ended.

 

 

 

pumping bribes...

 

IN MARCH 1989, Jeb Bush arrived in Nigeria to a royal welcome. More than 100,000 American-flag waving Nigerians lined the streets of Gombe to watch as the US president's son was honored with a 1,300-horse "durbar," a festival typically reserved for heads of state and religious holidays. Bush later met with Nigerian dictator Ibrahim Babangida, who had come to power in a 1985 military coup. They chatted about Cuban human rights and the failed nomination of John Tower, Bush's father's pick for defense secretary.

But the president's then-36-year-old son was not visiting Nigeria on a diplomatic mission. He had come to promote an industrial water pump company. The visit—and the $82 million deal tied to it—would form one of the more controversial episodes of Bush's business career and dog him for years after he jumped into politics. The deal became notorious because of allegations, outlined in thousands of pages of court documents, that the transaction had been greased through massive bribes to Nigerian officials paid for by American taxpayer money loaned through the US Export-Import Bank. The deal triggered a federal criminal investigation, as well as nearly two decades of civil litigation by the US Department of Justice that in 2013 resulted in a federal jury finding that the water pump company, MWI Corp., had defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars.

read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/jeb-bush-david-eller-mwi-bush-el-nigeria