Are You “Morbidly Obese?”

That clinical term seems quite demeaning, but by definition, there’s a good chance you are!

According to a 2020 Harvard study, “1 out of every 3 U.S. adults is obese.”

And this number has since increased to over 40% of adults being considered “obese,” and over 70% considered to be “overweight.”

Wow! That seems like we’re talking about a real general health problem.

But, first, let’s define what we’re talking about here.

Let’s start with the word “morbidly.”

The Oxford Languages Dictionary defines “morbidly” as, “Characterized by or appealing to an abnormal and unhealthy interest in disturbing and unpleasant subjects, especially death and disease.”

Hmmm…, does this seem like an appropriate adjective to attach to someone’s weight classification?

Who came up with this troubling label? Someone who was “morbidly skinny?”

Synonyms of “morbidly” are listed as, “Ghoulish, unhealthy, gruesome, grotesque, and horrible.”

Isn’t this taking the description of a weight classification a bit far?

You should be nodding your head.

According to WebMD.com:

“Obesity is determined by your body mass index (BMI). This score is calculated by finding your height and weight on the BMI chart. Morbid obesity is defined by a BMI of 40 or greater.”

So, the key to this whole thing is the BMI chart.

But, where did this BMI chart come from?

It must have been a result of a collection of verifiable and scientific studies, performed by certified medical professionals, right?

Actually, no. BMI was invented in the 1830s by a Belgian statistician, sociologist, astronomer and mathematician by the name of Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet. It was known then as the Quetelet Index and was informed by Quetelet’s interest in finding what would be the definition of the “average man.”

Hmmm.

First off, so, women are just out of luck? Whoever extrapolated these very unscientific numbers for men into equally unscientific numbers for women the first place is anyone’s guess.

Anyway, let’s proceed.

Sooo, this concept was arrived at close to 200 years ago, and I noticed that healthcare, medicine, or nutrition were not listed as any of Quetelet’s areas of expertise.

But this antiquated and unscientific chart has been adopted and used by our modern healthcare system as “The Bible” for weight health anyway?

Interesting.

Stupid, but interesting.

Here is the (BMI) Body Mass Index chart.

When you use a BMI chart to determine how healthy your weight is, you’ll find a corresponding number to your height and weight:

If you have a BMI of less than 18.5, you are considered to be in the underweight range.

If you have a BMI of 18.5 to less than 25, you are considered to be in the healthy weight range.

If you have a BMI of 25.0 to less than 30, you are considered to be in the overweight range.‌

If you have a BMI of 30.0 or higher, you are considered to be in the obesity range.

Additionally, health experts divide obesity into three separate categories of severity:

Obesity class 1: BMI between 30 and less than 35

Obesity class 2: BMI between 35 and less than 40‌

Obesity class 3: BMI of 40 or higher‌

Class 3 obesity is also categorized as “severe” obesity, or as being “morbidly obese,” if you are 100 pounds heavier than your recommended weight. You may also be considered “morbidly obese” if you have a BMI of 35 or more and have obesity-related health conditions like high blood pressure or diabetes.

But, like I said earlier, “The key to this whole thing is the BMI chart, which is based on height and weight (At least from 200 years ago!).”

The average height for a male in the United States these days is 5 feet 9 inches, which, according to the BMI chart, means the average healthy male in the United States should weigh between 128-162 pounds.

I’m not a healthcare expert (but neither was the creator of the BMI chart), but doesn’t that weight range seem a bit light?

I, personally, am 6 feet tall. Which means I should weigh between 140-177 pounds.

Hmmm, really?

The last time I weighed 177 pounds was probably in my early high school days, and the last time I weighed 140 pounds was probably in 5^th or 6^th grade!

Even at the healthiest, and most fit, time of my life, when I served in the U.S. Marine Corps, based on the chart, I would have been considered “overweight.”

I currently weigh around 260 pounds, which is off the BMI chart for my height, so I am considered “morbidly obese.”

I realize I weigh more than I probably should at this point, but I don’t consider myself obese, and certainly not “morbidly obese.”

And I’m certainly not going to judge myself by the size of men from 200 years ago in Belgium, or by someone’s idea from that time period of what a “healthy” weight was!

And I’m admittedly confused and concerned as to why healthcare professionals would choose to judge me by that criteria.

Healthcare recommendations are made based on this BMI chart.

Medications are prescribed based on this BMI chart.

Some Healthcare Insurance coverage is based on this BMI chart.

And all of this ill-advised behavior is taking place based on an antiquated, unscientific, and out of date information, in addition to people feeling it is appropriate to call someone “morbidly obese.”

Why do healthcare “professionals” feel it is okay to disparage individuals who have an issue with their weight? What other group of people is it okay to insult and negatively label?

I’m not a big fan of people being offended by everything, but I feel referring to someone as “morbidly obese” is offensive.

I would respectfully like these healthcare system individuals to consider their weight classifications as outdated, discriminatory, derogatory, inconsiderate, and unthoughtful.

If you feel comfortable referring to me as “ghoulish, gruesome, grotesque, and horrible,” because I weigh a little more than I probably should, I’ve got a few adjectives of my own I’d like to throw back at you, like “unprofessional, irresponsible, and insensitive.”

Can we all agree, at this point, that this archaic BMI chart should be ditched, or at least updated?

Can we all agree that this centuries old chart, created by someone with no medical or health credentials, should be delegitimized and retired?

Can we all agree that it should never be okay to label someone as “ghoulish, gruesome, grotesque, and horrible,” unless their behavior justifies it?

We should all be able to agree that the healthcare system needs to drag itself out of the 19^th century and into the 21^st century.

Just sayin’.

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November 30, 2022 0

Who is Responsible for the Pandemic?

You be the judge.

After all, in a free society, we are all allowed to have our own opinions, right?

We are allowed to question our own government, since they work for us, right?

Although we must admit, it is getting harder and harder to tell who our government is actually working for.

If I was an irresponsible mainstream propagandist journalist, I would take a page from their proclivity for using anonymous sources to back-up their tripe about President Trump…, but I’m not. They would claim that according to anonymous sources and anonymous whistleblowers who are close other anonymous sources who are close to movers and shakers at various government agencies and other high level political entities, as well as anonymous sources who are close other anonymous sources who are also close to various international power brokers who promote a one world order and despise the United States of America, this would seem to be the case.

But again, you be the judge.

Conceivably, once the attempt at removing President Trump failed, via the impeachment route, they were forced to go with Plan B…, or actually Plan C (for COVID).

You have to admit that the virus rearing its ugly head precisely when it did was quite the perfect storm for those opposed to President Trump.

Some of these anonymous sources would have indicated that the COVID-19 virus, which had been developed with US taxpayer dollars, in China, was deliberately released on the world in an attempt to derail President Trump’s economic successes, and his run for re-election.

China, of course, would be more than happy to participate in this operation, since it had the most to gain from the destruction of the US economy and the taking down of President Trump.

Other of these various anonymous sources would have revealed that political entities in our own country and the Chinese government were aware that this strategy would cost millions and millions of lives worldwide, but that this loss of life was acceptable collateral damage.

We also have to recognize here, that it is well known, that many global elites believe the global population needs to be reduced anyway, so, in their eyes this was a net positive effect.

Please recall that upon recognizing the COVID outbreak in China, the Chinese government shutdown internal commercial airline flights, while allowing international flights out of China to continue.

The evil of these “people” is almost unfathomable, but in the years that would follow, the pandemic years, and the last two Biden years, I think we all have a clearer picture of what these “people” are capable of lowering themselves to.

The anti-America crowd and the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), with its newly minted “Emperor” Xi, are more than happy to burn the whole world down, as long as they are the ones ruling over the ashes.

Once the virus was unleashed on the world, the rest of their actions were just political “damage control,” promoting the death totals to gain emergency government power, and scientific disinformation and misinformation.

Blue state governors participated by intentionally turning nursing homes into “death camps” by ordering COVID patients be inserted into these extremely vulnerable populations of our moms and dads, and our grandmas and grandpas.

Insidious.

These governors then continued to take their marching orders from the corrupt CDC, regarding masking, physical separation rules, vaccination mandates, school closures, selective business closures, and other freedom inhibiting mandates. The virus also gave them the emergency authority to undermine the 2020 presidential election, by skirting election laws in the name of “public safety,” allowing them to indiscriminately distribute millions and millions of generic ballots to misuse. Remember, that President Trump really only lost the election by about 75,000 “votes,” spread over six swing states. I’d refer to the documentary “2,000 Mules.”

Big Pharma (Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson, for starters) were eventually let into the great charade and allowed to take their cut of hundreds of billions of dollars, for peddling their “snake oil” vaccinations. Again, paid for by the US taxpayer.

That’s a pretty sweet deal for the architects and the beneficiaries of this global disaster. These demonic entities reaped all of the benefits while the US taxpayers funded their own demise all the way around. It was a win-win, or a lose-lose, depending on your point of view.

We were lectured to about how this was “a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” all while Pfizer has since admitted they knew the vaccines and boosters did not stop the spread, nor did they really stop the virus either. Currently, about 60% of new COVID cases are people who have been vaccinated.

And is it any wonder that whenever a journalist, a congressperson, or a senator, has the nerve to question the origin of the virus, they are immediately shut down, ostracized for even raising the topic, and then roundly ignored.

The powers that be want no part of “going there.”

Regarding the pill meme above…, there ae some exceptions, but not many.

Someday the world may learn the whole truth. But not if “they” can help it.

Until then, this whole thing will be dismissed as a wild conspiracy theory…, although lately, many “conspiracy theories” of the last few years have been shown to be a bit more than theories.

Stay thirsty my friends.

Thank you, MrEricksonRules.

November 28, 2022 0

The Raping and Pillaging of America.

That’s right. Our country is being raped and pillaged by the same people that we have supposedly elected to represent us. Mostly, I’m referring to democrats, Satan’s puppets, but republicans are not off the hook here either.

Establishment republicans, led by Mitch “swamp turtle” McConnell and the like, have rubber stamped much of the raping and pillaging as well.

Our inexplicable border policy, and its coddling of human traffickers is literally promoting the raping of America, as well as is the allowance of all of Jeffrey Epstein’s Pedophile friends to continue operating with immunity and anonymity. You can throw the confused gender indoctrination of our children into the mix also.

Shameful.

Disgusting and shameful.

Evil, disgusting and shameful.

The pillaging of America is taking, what seems to be, an innumerable number of offensive and treasonous actions.

It’s hard to know where to begin, but here goes, in no particular order.

Let’s start with the abandoning of our energy independence. This was so important that on day one “President” Biden killed the pipeline, killed thousands of jobs relating to the pipeline, and killed the access to our own oil.

Please note: It is my belief that whenever we refer to “President” Biden, we should surround the word “President” with quotes, or when talking, use air quotes when referring to “President” Biden. This correctly indicates his illegitimacy.

Getting back to the democrats’ oil policies, these in turn, have forced Americans to pay exorbitant prices for gasoline and diesel fuel, witnessed the drawdown of our strategic oil reserve (for political purposes), and resulted in our country literally begging for oil from the tyrants in Iraq, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia. Fuel prices are also at the heart of much of the record inflation across the board that we are experiencing.

Over the last two years, we have witnessed the continued bankrupting of America with trillions of dollars in government spending (money we don’t have) surrounding their failed COVID policies,

billions and billions of dollars (money we don’t have) to fund their mythical “climate change” policies here and around the world, billions and billions of dollars (money we don’t have) to fund their disingenuous and erroneous electric vehicle policies,

billions and billions of dollars (money we don’t have) to fund their unaccountable money laundering operation in Ukraine, billions and billions of dollars (money we don’t have) to fund their “come on in” border policies and migrant policies, billions and billions of dollars (money we don’t have) to fund their mythical “climate change” policies, and billions and billions of dollars (money we don’t have) to fund “infrastructure” improvements and “inflation reduction” policies, which really are neither.

And, again, this is mostly being done with money we don’t have.

Oh…, and let’s not forget our country’s donation of billions and billions of dollars worth of military equipment to the Taliban, as a result of our disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Don’t we all take out second mortgages, or additional personal loans, just so we can give the money away?

Well, our government does!

And American taxpayers are left holding the bag!

We have a national debt of over $30 trillion, and our government is still throwing money around (making it rain) like a drunken drug dealer at a strip club.

It all makes sense when you realize it is their intention to rape and pillage our poor country, and the people who unwillingly support their insanity with their hard-earned money.

Yes, my friends, these Satanic puppets, who are positioned in our government, are doing everything they can to bring down The United States of America. The last home of true freedom in the world, and the only country that can defend the defenseless around the world.

Once The United States of America has been brought to her knees, there will be NO stopping the forces of evil around the world.

We cannot go quietly and allow this to happen. We must continue to fight for a strong America. If not for us, then for the sake of our children and grandchildren.

Thank you, MrEricksonRules.

November 17, 2022 0

Biden says he’ll do “NOTHING” different to help Americans.

Based on “President” Biden’s first two years in office, this really shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone.

In fact, he and his ilk have done just the opposite for two straight years now.

But, it is an odd political declaration to make at this point, seeing that exit polling, during the recent midterms, indicated over 75% of voters felt our country was “moving in the wrong direction.”

Let me repeat that.

“Over 75% of voters feel our country is “moving in the wrong direction!”

That is quite a significant number.

Per the transcript provided on Whitehouse.gov, regarding remarks by President Biden in his Press Conference of November 9, 2022, President Biden said, regarding taking questions from the Press, “And, so let me start off with a list I’ve been given. Zeke Miller, Associated Press.”

Yes…, by all means, stick to the script you’ve been given by your puppet masters, Cognitively Challenged Joe! So pathetic!

“Thank you, Mr. President,” Zeke Miller replied. “I have two questions for you. You mentioned that Americans are frustrated. And, in fact, 75 percent of voters say the country is heading in the wrong direction, despite the results of last night [election night 2022]. What in the next two years do you intend to do differently to change people’s opinion of the direction of the country, particularly as you contemplate a run for President in 2024?”

‘“Nothing,’ President Biden quickly responded.”

‘“… because they’re just finding out what we’re doing,’ he continued. ‘The more they know about what we’re doing, the more support there is.’”

‘“So, I’m not going to change the direction.’”

‘“I said I ran for three reasons. I’m going to continue to stay where I’m — and I know — I fully understand the legitimate concern that what I’m saying is wrong. Okay?’”

Uh…, not really.

What did he say?

I’m not even sure about what he meant to say.

Anyway…, let’s continue.

Creepy Joe then continued, ‘“One is that I said we’re going to restore the soul of the country, begin to treat each other with decency, honor, and integrity. And it’s starting to happen. People are — the conversations are becoming more normal, becoming more — more — how can I say it? — decent.’”

Normal?

Decent?

“Begin to treat each other with decency, honor, and integrity?”

Are you kidding us Illegitimate Joe?

Could I refer you back to your “Gestapo” speech that basically called half of America white supremacists and terrorists, and threats to the country and democracy?

Is that your idea of normal, and treating each other with “decency, honor, and integrity?”

‘“Second thing I said is I want to build a country from the middle out and the bottom up. And that way, everybody does fine. I’m tired of trickle-down. Not a whole lot trickles down when you trickle down to hardworking folks.’”

Excuse me, Sleepy Joe, but your economic plan of driving us into bankruptcy with outlandish gas prices, and 10%-30%+ inflation on everything else isn’t even allowing for a trickle down. It’s a constipated economy where everybody doesn’t do fine…, everybody does the same, and everybody is losing, unless you’re a government handout hero.

‘“And the third thing — I know is still very hard — I’m going to do everything in my power to see through that we unite the country. It’s hard to sustain yourself as a leading democracy in the world if you can’t — can’t generate some unity.’”

‘“So, I’m not going to change anything in any fundamental way.’”

Again, are you kidding us Illegitimate Joe?

Again, let me refer you back to your Hitler wannabe speech that basically called half of America white supremacists and terrorists, and threats to the country and democracy.

Your idea of “unity” is making sure everyone is drinking the democrat totalitarian Kool-aid.

And again, you finished by saying, “So, I’m not going to change anything in any fundamental way.”

And also, again, it is an odd political declaration to make, seeing that exit polling conducted during the recent midterm elections indicated over 75% of voters felt our country was “moving in the wrong direction.”

The only reasons a politician would feel comfortable ignoring the sentiments of tens of millions registered voters are:

A) They don’t plan on running for re-election, or…

B) They’re not worried about being re-elected.

Hmmm…, now why would Illegitimate Joe not be concerned about being re-elected?

Could it be because he knows he was “installed” as the president once, and knows he can be “installed” again, regardless of what the voters think?

I’m going with the latter line of reasoning.

Keep in mind, “Over 75% of voters feel our country is “moving in the wrong direction!”

Democrats have their national election strategy well established.

270 electoral votes are needed to win a presidential election. The democrats can already bank on the substantial electoral votes from California, Washington, Oregon, New York, and Illinois in their back pockets. So, the election basically comes down to the swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, and Nevada, where election laws, election procedures, and election logistics allow for “manipulations” by the democrats, which are really quite manageable.

This is why Illegitimate Joe, and his “handlers,” feel comfortable saying he doesn’t plan on changing anything, or doing anything, to address their concerns about the direction of the country.

This version of a democrat dictatorship will eventually lead to the economic and moral destruction of our country, if we don’t stand up and fight back against the democrats somehow.

Again, “Over 75% of voters feel our country is “moving in the wrong direction!”

Yet, the democrats had a very successful, unusually successful, midterm election result.

Hmmm?

How is this happening again?

Well, it’s almost a week after Election Day now, and “votes” are still being tabulated, and “votes” are still showing up, as needed, from somewhere, and democrat candidates are continuing to pull off tight election wins.

It’s the democrats’ version of democracy in action.

Thank you, MrEricksonRules.

November 14, 2022 1

My Favorite and Funniest memes: 11th edition!

Just to recap:

“Meme” is pronounced [MEEM], and rhymes with “seem,” if you’re not already familiar with the term.

A “meme” is a humorous image, some less humorous these days, that is copied and enhanced (often with the addition of a message, joke, or saying) and spread rapidly by Internet users.

Now, without any further adieu…, let’s bring on the memes!

Enjoy.