The first of the big "cure alls" is Garlic. Apparently Egyptians fed garlic to their slaves because it kept insects away. Garlic is said to be a cure for scabies, which, thankfully, I have never had. Of course we know garlic keeps away vampires. But also garlic gets rid of the bad bacteria in your small intestine, that can be the source of problems. Finally, garlic lowers blood pressure and as such is good for your heart. It's something to think about, anyhow.
They speak of certain drugs having an illegal "off label" use. I found that an anti fungal product I took in pill form for my toenails actually cured two other problems. It cured my arthritus I'd been suffering from since late 2001. I was developing severe restrictions of movement of my arms not to mention shooting pain if I got in certain positions. This was cured in the fall of 2004 when I took that toe nail stuff, don't ask me how. Also cured was this Vitalaigo condition I had on my arms, like Michael Jackson. I had these white blotches on my arms that would not go away and they were photosensitive to sunlight, and would turn pink and sunburned if I spent a lot of time in the sun. This condition was cured in the fall of 2004.
Raise your hands if you saw Sixty Minutes last night. Most of the program was about sleep deprivation and the ill effects it can have. First of all your body produces "leptin", which has nothing to do about the number of leptons in your body, but rather how full you feel. If you don't get enough sleep your leptin levels are low and you eat more and as such gain weight. Also people sleep deprived for as little as five or six days can have pre-diabetic symptums. Of course these two conditions often go together- - being fat and having diabetus. You could go so far as to say sleep is a cure for old age. Because after sleep deprivation your thought process are way slowed down, but you don't realize it. You find it much harder to make simple decisions and answer simple questions. Also if you lack deep sleep, for instance if you're woken up with these horrible buzzing or beeping sounds, you will suffer ill effects. And also I wouldn't want to be that male fruit fly that hadn't gotten enough sleep because lack of sleep definitely infringes upon your sexual performance. Of course many people think it's macho not to get enough sleep and they have these 30 hour shifts of residents in hospitals as sort of an "initiation". May I suggest that this is a bad idea because we know from that heprin drug thing they showed first, that hospitals make medication mistakes all the time. Often it's necessary for three consecutive people to make the same mistake. Sleep deprived people often get giddy and have exagurated or inappropiate emotion. The emotion centers of the brain disconnect from the frontal lobe, the seat of reason and judgement. There could be an epidemic of sleeplessness. We are such a hyped up culture we want to be "stimulated" all the time. Leo Le Port said that man is by nature a "new information" junky. Normally this proclivity gets little "stimulation" because new information was hard to come by but now teenagers today are on a sugar overload. Their brains need this constant buzz to feel normal as dopamine is fed by the brain into their systems.
I watched “Meet the Press” and later “This Week” on station 7.2. Both stations understandably talked about this Obama mess. Once a candidate steps into something like Obama stepped into last week with the release of those Pastoral statements, a candidate is pretty much toast. It kind of goes down with other epic events such as Mondale saying he’s going to raise taxes, or Mc Govern saying he’s going to give every American a thousand dollars, or Dukakis’s “What if your wife was raped and murdered?” question. The latter stopped me from voting for Dukakis that year. I stayed home.
Jesus Christ was still on. He was saying that what you need to do is grab a hold of some faith and pursue it and “Make it real” for you in your life. He also said “You’ll never find out the answers to all the questions you are looking for”. I guess that’s another way of saying “Jesus is the Answer” is just another evangelist’s lie. Also if you explore the “operative” verb in that one sentence- - You become the “First Cause” in “Making it Real for you”. It doesn’t depend on any objective outside force; it all depends on you. Apparently he was getting calls from lonely women or something looking for men, and he said “First you have to build yourself and your life up, and then others will be attracted to you”. The trouble is the churches I’ve been to, the laity is portrayed as a supplicant, who asks God for things “He knows he doesn’t deserve because he knows in the light of God’s glory he looks like a piece of crap”. It’s hard to come on to women when inwardly you’re made to feel like a piece of crap. Sometimes I think, “Well I need to pray more for Obama and people” but then I ask myself “Who am I praying TO?”
Now Hillary Clinton is mad at Nancy Palosi for siding with Obama against
I had Leo Le Port on at eleven and for some time after lunch. Today he talked a lot about “the past” and went down memory row as far as the internet is concerned. If you were an internet freak in those days, your nerdiness became fashionable with the passing of time. If you were, however a kook for Jesus, you’re still just a Freak. [added] You know on that superman episode last Thursday it was the Black man who wanted to be a super hero but he didn't have "real" super powers. He had to chew his kryptomite chewing gum. It's the black guy who wants superman to "come out of the closet" and reveal himself to the world. Sometimes I look at the Calvary Christians and think they're from another planet and they have this "code of secrecy" they keep. But if Blacks had their way there's be a lot fewer secrets in the world.
I have a simple solution for the use of the penny. I’d issue a five for one issue of the dollar under the belief that American currency ought to be worth at least several times European currency is worth. I’d strive for a four to one parody with the Euro meaning four Euros to one Dollar. As such things would be multiples of fives. Pennies would now be worth nickels, and so forth. Ones would be worth fives. Of course I’d have to issue all new currency and make it as different as possible from the old currency, and the best way to do that would be to print it in red, white and blue. I have other ideas. I’d raise the minimum wage to $1.85 an hour or $9.25 in old dollars. If Huckibee wants a national sales tax, I’d say there’d be no sales tax on cash, but if you paid by credit card there would be a 25% surtax, to discourage use. I would exempt food items. However, I’d also institute a 100% surtax on all alcoholic beverages of 50 proof or higher. (25% alcohol) I’d have the tax also for debit cards since these encourage spending, too. I’d eliminate the tax deduction or exemption of churches from paying taxes, and in exchange, there would be no political restraint or pressure on what was said from the pulpit. I’d also institute a 45% minimum tax for anybody earning over $100,000 [$500,000 old] and this tax would kick in all at once; it would not be graduated. (Some may such a sudden tax is not “fair” but it’s just as “fair” as the three strikes law. We passed the three strikes law to show we were “serious” about wanting to prevent violent crime. Capish?) But this would be in new dollars. I would also issue steep tariffs calculated by half of the ratio of minimum wage in the country produced verse our minimum wage here. This could amount to over a thousand percent. I would do this as a very steep incentive for other countries to pay their workers. Problems are solvable if you just want to take the necessary steps. In exchange I’d reduce the income tax for everybody else based on the amount we were saving that year.
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