Secret Ingredients, my *#@$!!

Well I've decided that the reason home grown vegetables are soooooooo much tastier than store bought is the specially added secret ingredient. Yes, this mysterious little something that will never be added by the agribusinesses and megafarms, can only be found in home gardens and small market gardens.

What is it??? It's SWEAT.

I gardened today before high noon and still deposited at least 1 pint of sweat into the soil as I pruned, weeded, and thinned my darlings. I figure a pint every day or two, is quite a sizable amount, and should obviously by considered when figuring what you used to fertilize your home garden. Interesting enough, there are tons of electrolytes as well as anti microbial found in human sweat. PLUS, the addition of sweat to my garden makes me one helluva recycler, huh. Watch, now none of my friends will want my tomatoes....

I Apologize.

I want to personally apologize to Myanmar and the Junta for our King, I mean President and First Lady. They are the only 2 people left in this country that believe the US Government handled Hurricane Katrina appropriately. The rest of us know, and we are horrified at what has happened to your country, and will be waiting (check books in hand, and MOUTHS SHUT) to help. Of course you should try to keep the generals out of the supply rooms, and you should perhaps think about letting in the Red Cross as well. Just an idea, but a helluva lot better than any advice FEMA will give you....

Why can't Ron Paul win?

I don't get it. Everytime I hear the man speak, whether it is under friendly terms or Fox attack, he sounds brilliant. The things he says, and the demeaner he uses to say it, it's inspiring. He never outright insults anyone, and he never stutters and backpeddles away from the BIG statements he makes. He made Guiliano lose the campaign momentum, by making him look as stupid as he really is, on national television. Ron Paul never gives up either. He's an effing Eveready Bunny! He's the most conservative man in politics, and he actually reads the reports that he's paid to read as a senator. WAIT A MINUTE, a Senator ACTUALLY doing his job? Maybe that's why nobody up there wants him in.....

Wright wrong!

Well, up until the press conference Rev Wright gave yesterday, I was willing to give him point. We are still a racially focused, classist elite society. But I think when he turned on Obama (who he claimed as one of his own,) he lost me. Stating that Obama says what he says to be electable, not because he is sincere, was a HUGE slap in the face.

Shame on you Reverend.

You should NEVER release tidbits like that, it was a violation of trust between a parishner and his pastor. The Reverend looked like he was playing up to the cameras and the attention.

His new title in my book shall be THE DISASTER BASTARD.

No beef pork or chicken about it

In light of the recent slaughter house expose out of california, the one where they were jabbing and powerspraying and otherwise torturing aged dairy cows, too weak to walk to their own execution, I have decided to stop eating tortured animals until we fix the problem. Now, I may actually enjoy a vegetarian life, but I'm not really thinking I'll love it. But I'm not paying a single dime for meat that may be contaminated. Wait, they did recall 60 million tons of it, but oops the kiddos in the lunch programs across the country had already scarfed it down. That is just effed up. I've already emailed the USDA and their 3 Inspectors to complain. I am urging all my friends and all those who don't like salmonella, ecoli, or madcow disease to stop eating it!! Someone tell me again how they tainted the spinach? Is this that tough a job? Shit, I don't want it. Nope, to take the lead of the USDA or the FDA you gotta sleep with some pretty icky agribusiness johns, YUCKO! I guess we just need to start growing local beef and local processors that we can watch ourselves. Hey, wait a second, that sounds like Ron Paul!!! Shhhh.

Shooting

First let me offer my deep sadness, and sympathy to all the families of these kids. It is horrible.

Listening to the posters elaborate on the "why" of this terrible shooting. I am constantly amazed at the lack of insight, and connection. It is almost as if the posters personify the college dynamic. THIS IS the problem. This inability to connect to the undercurrents, and in some cases undertows, of society. These students are no more miserable than most 17-24 year olds. It is difficult to embrace adulthood, especially if you are unimpressed with the ones you've grown up with! Add to this the seductive allure of the media and the instant press, and it screams out 15 MINUTES OF FAME, BABY!!! This is my answer for "why the shootings". But the madness that drives them, that is different.

I suspect that as a society we have been terrorized by the media, right into our rabbit holes. There exists an undercurrent of fearfullness, that we carry with us throughout our day. Is there danger around the corner, nextdoor, in our home? I don't know, but someone did abandon a newborn in a trashcan last night in San Antonio. Someone did bury 2 of their own kids under their house last month. Someone silently took a beautiful girl right out from under her friends nose in Las Vegas, and she hasn't been found (even after they've interviewed the 100 registered sex offenders within a mile of the crime scene....100!!) Someone murdered and burned a pregnant marine. Some rich couple got caught enslaving a young girl, after 2 years. Someone beat to death the mother of his own child, right infront of that child, and he was a cop. Someone tortured and angry, shot all of those beautiful kids at Virginia Tech. All the faces of children on Jaredstory.com were bullied to death by someone. And the list goes on and on and on. Truth or not, it sounds to me like we're getting terrorized by our own media. Reasonably, a 20 year old that IS NOT staying drunk, stoned, or taking aderall for kicks, might see the world as a veritable killing field.

Hey, even my crazy sweet old mother is afraid to let my kids play in the front yard! (A stalker might see them! Drive by shooter! Pedophile, kidnapper, slaver, whatever! And she called me just now to tell me about the shootings, and to lock my door!!!) These reports of violence, cold hearted, cold blooded, heartless, remorseless, are deafening. You can't hear anything else. You have to seriously manipulate your connection to the world news, to filter out the hatred and visciousness. That is if you expect to hear something better. Our college kids have been listening to nothing but this since reaching sentient adulthood. Wow, that's a helluva way to grow up. I think we owe them better.

Ancient Chinese Secret, huh?

Acupuncture? Well, I did it. I finally went to an acupuncturist, after over a year of pain. And it is insane, I'm sure. It is ALL in my head, I'm certain. It is my mind overruling my body, of course. I'm too suggestible, indeed. And I don't care. I think it is simply, strangely effective. My experience doesn't need to be backed by scientific proof anyway.
Now, Don't believe the bits of hype that say it doesn't hurt at all. It was uncomfortable for me. The needles go in without any pain, but when he twists them into position, for me it was like the dentist shots. But quicker.
I went to this highly recommended Chinese doctor when my regular physicians could not help me through painful hips, low back, and lower abdomen. Doctor Ho place needles from my big to up to my knees, and a couple in my right hand. The first night after treatment I was worse than before. He had put these seeded adhesives in my earlobes and told me to pinch them when the pain was extreme. It didn't seem to work (and my lobes feel bruised now.)
The second treatment I had to DRAG myself to, since I was in increased pain AND I just didn't LIKE those needles. But he put the needles in my stomach this time and, that wasn't too bad. Then he twisted them and asked me if I felt anything. I said, "yeah, I feel a needle poking into my belly? What am I suppose to feel?"
He smiled and nodded and said, "you'll know." And a second later I felt this rush of heat and stimulation from my abs down my left hip, bone deep all the way to my knee.
"WOW," I told him. He smiled, and said enthusiastically, "I told you you would know!" I left there feeling better, though I still had low abdominal ache, it was better. I notice around 7 that evening that I was in a good mood for no apparent reason. That night I fell asleep without any meds, even though I still had some aching.
I am sitting here at my computer today, feeling better than I have in over a year. I have gone to a cardio workout class and a yoga class today, and I'm still in a good mood. I haven't had to squeeze my ears today either. All I can say is "WOW" why didn't I do this a year ago?
If you are struggling with pain, while you are waiting to see a specialist, or a physician of any kind to figure out what is wrong with you, consider acupuncture. I can't guarantee that it will work for anyone, but it worked for me. So far so good.