Saturday, November 22, 2003

South Beach Diet Day 4 There are actually some pretty tasty recipes in the SB Diet book. I tried one today and had a great result. For breakfast I had a 2 pieces of Canadian bacon and a  2-egg scramble with shrimp and vegetables and low-fat mozzarella cheese. For lunch I made a recipe from the book, Chicken-Pistachio Salad, which was tasty! I basically coated chicken breasts with crushed pistachios, pan-fried them quickly in olive oil and then baked them for 15 minutes. They were served with spinach (the book calls for romaine but I like spinach), frizzled onions and a dressing made from lime juice, avocado and olive oil. Very, very nice and worth the effort of shelling those pistachios. Dinner consisted of steamed brocolli and cauliflower with a broiled steak. Energy is good, all else is well. As with any diet I would recommend doing this only if you're going to start an exercise program, in my case I'm doing bikram yoga everyday as well as lifting weights three times a week. 8:47:34 PM    Gimme your feedback! []

Clark Climbing The latest poll in New Hampshire shows that Clark has climbed three points to 7%, which places him third behind Kerry and Dean. Bad news for Kerry as he has dropped 7%. With Clark beginning a new ad campaign in New Hampshire this week I bet we'll see him climb further. A third-place finish would be great for someone who has entered the race so late and would place him well for the South Carolina primary, where he is first in the most recent polls. 11:38:10 AM    Gimme your feedback! []

Georgia's Revolution                    The democratic revolution that started in Poland in 1981 and swept across Eastern Europe in the 1990's is now breaking on the cold, stone mountains of the Caucasus and washing into the Republic of Georgia, and this is an amazing and exciting development. Georgians demanding an end to the corrupt regime of President Eduard Shevardnadze stormed the Georgian parliment today while Shevardnadze was speaking. He fled out the back door and was whisked away in a convoy of armored cars. The head of parliment has declared herself acting head-of-state and new elections are expected to be called in 45 days. Civil society and the positive developments that brings is in bloom in the Caucasus and this development is a sign that further changes are in store for this troubled but beautiful region. Perhaps Azerbaijan's corrupt oligarchy will be next, which would be even more exciting because Azerbaijan, unlike Georgia, is a Muslim country. The United States has backed Shevardnadze for too long, preferring the known to the unknown. The State Department should see this as a positive development and back the new government of Georgia while helping to arrange some sort of exile for Shevardnadze, either here or in a third country. The revolution in Georgia is a great thing, a wonderful development for that nation and a positive for US policy as well. 11:13:51 AM    Gimme your feedback! []

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