| stomach trouble |
[Aug. 27th, 2008|12:49 pm] |
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| | aggitated | ] |
| [ | Reading |
| | Win the Battle but Lose the War | ] |
I really ought to stop watching the convention and listening to the coverage of the convention because it's giving me a stomachache. The coverage today, on NPR anyway, and probably the regular stations even more, are focusing on PUMAs and die-hard Hillaryists, interviewing them and letting them go on and on about how they are still not going to vote for Obama in November. Some of them say they'll vote for that other guy, some of them say they don't know what they'll do. I can't believe this, really. I would have been excited about Hillary if Obama hadn't been running. He just happens to be more compelling. But more than a cheerleader for any individual candidate, I'm a Democrat. (I'd be a Socialist, but we don't have a Socialist party. And besides, I want to vote for someone who has a chance of winning.) Especially now, for fuck sake! Are these people really willing to toss the election to a Republican to spite the process? Who are they? Are they Republican operatives? Even Hillary herself used some language that seemed like anti-Obama code talk to me. But I'm paranoid, maybe. We're finding out that not all Democrats are Democrats. Like I said, I shouldn't be listening. Meanwhile, we have a couple of young Obama staffers arriving from Chicago in early September. They'll be living in our guest house through to the election. |
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| higglety pigglety breakfast |
[Aug. 24th, 2008|12:24 pm] |
| [ | Feeling |
| | delicious | ] |
| [ | Reading |
| | Old McElmurry Had A Farm | ] |
Click here to read all about what I ate for breakfast. |
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| Friday Fluff |
[Aug. 22nd, 2008|11:47 am] |
| [ | Feeling |
| | I see out of my face nipples | ] |
| [ | Reading |
| | Safe Inside the Day | ] |
Baby Dee and House Bunny
Today I've bent everyone's ears about Baby Dee. I love this one song, which I've been playing over and over again. And I love her "wacky and strange, but true" character. She has pathos, that Baby Dee. I'd like to see her in concert. I'd also like to see House Bunny. Not enough to pay the $30 for tickets and popcorn, but I'll watch it on dvd in a few months. Favorite quote:"The eyes are the nipples of the face." How true! |
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| God Seen Messing with Kidney Beans |
[Aug. 21st, 2008|07:05 am] |
| [ | Feeling |
| | grumpy | ] |
| [ | Reading |
| | The Musical Fruit | ] |
Yesterday, in a monthly newsletter from the studio where I take Pilates classes,
my ever helpful and health conscious instructor copied and pasted the following announcement about food.
I read it and thought, "Wow! That's amazing.
And so helpful for shopping, too."
Then I thought, "On the other hand, it all seems too convenient.
What a bunch of baloney (and what is baloney shaped like, huh?).
I'm not buying it.
Or maybe I am.
I don't know.
And also, I'm not sure I care.
Or maybe I do."
Here it is -
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red. All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopene and are indeed pure heart and blood food.
Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
Avocados, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.
Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes. A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
Being the skeptical scientific type, I decided to google "kidney beans help heal kidneys". This is what I found:
"Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys. God knows what he is doing, and all we have to do is stop talking and listen to his small still voice that he gave us through his holy spirit. He is everywhere, and in everything. We just need to look closer. It was enough for me to see his miracles through the creation, gestation and birth of my children. He even had me before that: with the vastness of the universe. This has just floored me, to know that he also speaks to our health through the design of the food he has placed on this earth for us to consume."
It just ruined the whole thing for me, thinking about God sitting up there making kidney beans with his magic Play Doh, and this perky righteous lady sitting in her lovely Christian home writing so cheerfully about the lord's miraculous bean shaping. I may never eat them again. OK, maybe I don't mind about God and his Play Doh but I do mind about the Explainer and her Theory of Intelligent Design stepping in to lay it all for me, about the miracles and the holy spirit and everything. Damn her. I wish these Explainers would just butt out and let the beans speak for themselves. So to speak. |
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| "his old bête noire" |
[Aug. 20th, 2008|08:59 am] |
| [ | Feeling |
| | "willing to be wrong" | ] |
| [ | Reading |
| | Locusts - The Frames | ] |
It makes me laugh that the New York Times called Hillary Clinton, "...his old bête noire." In any case, Obama may pick the old bête noire as his running mate. She may or may not be a wise choice, but for some reason I get excited to think that he might. I'm not a fan of hers but my body says, "Yeah, baby!" and my body is always right (not). So I'll go along with it. I hope he picks her.
Speaking of bête noire - I'm completely addicted to the tv series Damages. Glenn Close is the ultimate bête noire. She's so good in this. Those tv people are evil geniuses, they have perfected ways to keep addicts hooked, dropping a little bomb here, and a little bomb there, usually right at the end of each episode.
In other news, this morning I was working at my desk when I heard what sounded like a fire-breathing bête noire. I recognized the sound and when I looked outside I saw an eight stories tall hot-air balloon landing almost in my back yard. The balloon said REMAX on the side and it seemed to be having a spot of trouble. It landed, hopefully in an open space, about 3 houses West of ours.
That is all. |
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| reruns |
[Aug. 14th, 2008|09:25 am] |
| [ | Feeling |
| | pressured | ] |
| [ | Reading |
| | Casimir Pulaski Day | ] |
While the editor is busy doing other things,
let's revisit Bill
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