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Time-Savers to Nix

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:47:39 GMT

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Brushing alone leaves as much as 40% of your tooth surfaces untouched. Flossing between teeth allows you to get into the nooks and crannies that a toothbrush can't reach, and doing it daily--preferably at night, when plaque-causing bacteria really build up--is your frontline defense against gum disease, tooth decay, and bad breath.

If the benefits of good oral health don't convince you to pick up the floss, perhaps an increased risk of heart disease will: Recent research at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health revealed a connection between severe gum disease and an increased risk of atherosclerosis, a condition in which arteries become blocked.

Wearing foundation to bed can clog your pores, which can lead to blackheads and breakouts. A more serious consequence is that mascara fragments will dislodge in your eyes while you're sleeping and cause painful corneal abrasions.

Next Time Keep premoistened makeup removal pads on hand. Some that also remove eye makeup

At the DNC Convention, Sixties Radicals Are Going to "Save the World", Again!

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:18:59 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: for America will be best achieved through policies of generosity and caring toward the rest of the world.” All America has to do is dedicate “1%-2% of the GDP each year for the next 20 years toward once and for all eliminating domestic and global poverty, homelessness, hunger, inadequate education, inadequate health care, and repairing the environment of the planet.”

Once and for all? And to think no one had figured out sooner that we could merely legislate the human condition out of existence. Of course, collecting the money is only half the battle. Once we confiscate the necessary funds, according to the NSP’s helpful 32-page booklet on the Global Marshall Plan, all we have to do is “create an international, unbiased, nongovernmental agency for receiving the funds . . . and distributing them in a way that is environmentally sensitive, respectful of native cultures, safeguarded against corruption [...]

Clip Source: article.nationalreview.com

True to form, the event began with bad folk music followed by a prayer. Not just any prayer, but a prayer by John Dear. According to his official bio, the Roman Catholic priest has been arrested 75 times “because he so fervently believes in peace.”

“Take a deep breath and breathe in that holy spirit of peace . . .

Help us end poverty and starvation and relieveable [sic] disease and end the war in Iraq and Afghanistan and Palestine and all of our wars and abolish the death penalty and torture and all our nuclear weapons. And help us enact a Global Marshall Plan to feed the world’s poor and justice and peace to all our sisters and brothers.”

While the “spiritual progressives” gathered here in Denver for DNC convention are every bit as spacey their name suggests, their “Global Marshall Plan” is for real. The Global Marshall Plan — a.k.a. House Resolution 1078 — has 20 Democratic co-sponsors in Congress.

According to Rep. Keith Ellison, “House Resolution 1078 recognizes that lasting security

Tags: dnc, global poverty, global marshall plan, h.r.1078, 1%-2% of the u.s. gdp, 20 years, rep. keith ellison, 20 democratic co-sponsors in congress

Joe Biden: Bad Choice for Vice President

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:20:57 GMT

clipped by: ChicagoLynn
clipper's remarks: Excellent review and analysis of Barack Obama's choice for VP by an independent voice. If we really want change, is this what we want?

Clip Source: obamacan.wordpress.com

Joe Biden: A Disaster for Democrats

Clip Source: obamacan.wordpress.com

American Presidential Politics

Clip Source: obamacan.wordpress.com

Many longtime Republicans want change - just like Democrats and Independents. The length and lack of progress in the war (actually wars), the worst real estate market in memory, and a unified sense that America has lost its way - have all converged to cause even the most loyal Republican stop and ask, “Can’t we do better than this?”

Along came Barack Obama - a breath of fresh air, a young energetic, articulate, multi-ethnic candidate with a true belief that taking a war inside of Iraq was a mistake, and had been a failure. Granted his voting record demonstrates his strongly, left-wing leanings, but many were willing to give him a chance because he brings a fresh perspective and sense of hopefulness, other liberal candidates lacked.

Even the combination of his personal traits alone do not foretell the disaster awaits the Democratic ticket – it is his sheer unelectability. Why?

Tags: joe biden, barack obama, choice, vice president, experience, foreign policy

Bob Barr: Master Of A Curious Universe

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:53:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.cbsnews.com

The rules of Bob Barr's universe are many and fascinating. Several have to do with his libertarian principles, like "No matter how much power government has, it never has enough." Others are more holistic, like "The world is full of idiots." There are deeply personal ones: "The most difficult thing about politics is dealing with people with really bad breath."

Really?

"You wouldn't believe," Barr explains in his deathly serious way. "Some people -- just awful halitosis."

Is there any human being on the planet more committed to his seriousness than Bob Barr?

Bob Barr's law: "Never run a 100-yard dash in a 90-yard room."

What does that mean?

"It doesn't mean anything," he says, and then adds, sternly, "It's a joke."

And yet, every once in a while, the strangest thing happens. He does something surprising, like announces he really likes Bob Marley. Or says he kind of liked that Borat movie,

Tags: bob barr, libertarian, politics

A Painkiller With Big Risks

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:02:37 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: In my line of work, I see many people addicted to methadone and I must confess that it is simply shocking to me that doctors addict these people so lightly. I don't mean to make light of the personal responsibility of the patient, but it just boggles my mind and it is so sad; sad beyond belief. I see 40 year olds that I know won't live another 10 years.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Suffering from excruciating spinal deterioration, Robby Garvin, 24, of South Carolina, tried many painkillers before his doctor prescribed methadone in June 2006, just before Mr. Garvin and his friend Joey Sutton set off for a weekend at an amusement park.

On Saturday night Mr. Garvin called his mother to say, “Mama, this is the first time I have been pain free, this medicine just might really help me.” The next day, though, he felt bad. As directed, he took two more tablets and then he lay down for a nap. It was after 2 p.m. that Joey said he heard a strange sound that must have been Robby’s last breath.

Methadone, once used mainly in addiction treatment centers to replace heroin, is today being given out by family doctors, osteopaths and nurse practitioners for throbbing backs, joint injuries and a host of other severe pains.

“This is a wonderful medicine used appropriately, but an unforgiving medicine used inappropriately,”

2008 worst writting winner

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:53:38 GMT

clipped by: Brimstone
clipper's remarks: Like a mechanic who forgets to wipe his hands on a shop rag and then goes home, hugs his wife, and gets a grease stain on her favorite sweater -- love touches you, and marks you forever

Clip Source: edition.cnn.com

"Theirs was a New York love, a checkered taxi ride burning rubber, and like the city their passion was open 24/7, steam rising from their bodies like slick streets exhaling warm, moist, white breath through manhole covers stamped 'Forged by DeLaney Bros., Piscataway, N.J."'

won a Washington man this year's grand prize in an annual contest of bad writing.

Garrison Spik, a 41-year-old communications director and writer, took top honors in San Jose State University's 26th annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

The contest is named after Victorian novelist Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton, whose 1830 novel "Paul Clifford" famously begins "It was a dark and stormy night."

Entrants are asked to submit bad opening sentences to imaginary novels.

Other noteworthy submissions:

"'Toads of glory, slugs of joy,' sang Groin the dwarf as he trotted jovially down the path before a great dragon ate him because the author knew that this story was a train wreck after he typed the first few words.

Tags: writing, fun

personal use of white vinegar

Thu, 31 Jul 2008 06:03:55 GMT

clipped by: zz2aa82

Clip Source: www.vinegartips.com

For cuts and scrapes, use white distilled vinegar as an antiseptic.

Clean a hairbrush by soaking in a white distilled vinegar solution.

Tone facial skin with a solution of equal parts white distilled vinegar and water.

Eliminate bad breath and whiten your teeth by brushing them once or twice a week with white distilled vinegar.

Make nail polish last longer. Wipe fingernails with cotton balls dipped in white distilled vinegar before putting on nail polish.

Tags: white vinegar, nails, breath, teeth, skin

Unhappy America - The Economist print edition

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:22:51 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Well-said: "The faster China and India grow, the more American goods they buy. And they are booming largely because they have adopted America’s ideas. America should regard their success as a tribute, not a threat, and celebrate in it."

Clip Source: www.economist.com

Unhappy America

Jul 24th 2008
From The Economist print edition

If America can learn from its problems, instead of blaming others, it will come back stronger

NATIONS, like people, occasionally get the blues; and right now the United States, normally the world’s most self-confident place, is glum.

petrol is more expensive than in the 1970s, banks are collapsing

euro is kicking sand in the dollar’s face

The dragon’s breath on your shoulder

America has spent vast amounts of blood and treasure, to little purpose. In Iraq, finding an acceptable exit will look like success; Afghanistan is slipping.

The Asian scapegoat

Lax monetary policy allowed Americans to build up debts and fuelled a housing bubble that had to burst eventually.

economic gap between America and a rising Asia has certainly narrowed; but worrying about it is wrong for two reasons.

Everybody goes through bad times

America has had the wisdom to take the first course many times before. Let’s hope it does so again.

Tags: economy, us, housing, china, india, america, asia, trade, fareed zakaria, obama

Give your loved one a disease

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:32:39 GMT

clipped by: shandora
clipper's remarks: The professional series include HIV, Hepatitis & TB

Clip Source: www.giantmicrobes.com

Welcome to GIANTmicrobes!

We make stuffed animals that look like tiny microbes—only a million times actual size! Now available: The Common Cold, The Flu, Sore Throat, Stomach Ache, Cough, Ear Ache, Bad Breath, Kissing Disease, Athlete's Foot, Ulcer, Martian Life, Beer & Bread, Black Death, Ebola, Flesh Eating, Sleeping Sickness, Dust Mite, Bed Bug, Bookworm, and many more!

Each 5-to-7 inch doll is accompanied by an image of the real microbe it represents, as well as information about the microbe.

They make great learning tools for parents and educators, as well as amusing gifts for anyone with a sense of humor!

GIANTmicrobes® PROFESSIONAL

H.I.V., Hepatitis, TB, Polio

Clip Source: www.giantmicrobes.com

GIANTmicrobes(R) Original Set (6 Calamity dolls) $39.95

Tags: health, humor

CO2, A Breath Of Fresh Air

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:40:13 GMT

clipped by: merrie
clipper's remarks: CO2 is being labelled a pollutant but is it?

Climate alarmism depends on catastrophe. In itself CO2 is a life giver. As a combination of Oxygen and Carbon it represents life itself. We are built from carbon as is every other life form and again like every other life form Oxygen is the fuel we must have to survive. How can the very elements that build us and fuel us and every other life form be a pollutant?

The main case being made against our fossil fuel habit is that we are releasing carbon stored over millennia into the atmosphere in a relatively short period of time.

Is that necessarily a bad thing in itself? We certainly need to conserve natural resources but the fact is that after several billion years of life on Earth the Earth’s crust is simply awash with carbon in one form or another.

However, the demonisation of fossil fuels and CO2 before the globe has removed poverty and allowed less developed nations to share in worldwide prosperity is an obscenity.

Clip Source: www.rightsidenews.com

I’ve set out elsewhere the reasons for my reservations about CO2 being the cause but let’s put that aside for a while and consider whether our production of CO2 is blameworthy in any moral sense.

We are told that everything we do to make life worth living is an aggressive, nay obscene, act of aggression against Nature, Gaia or whatever.

Our entire societies are built on energy use. If we change the pattern of such use every part of our society will be upturned into chaos.

So let as look at the truth

Every aspect of what we call progress over the past 500 years has been due to activities that inevitably produce CO2 emissions. Thus average age for humans has increased in the developed world from 40 or so to 75 plus. Additionally we have been able to cope with a total global population that would have been deemed impossible only 100 years ago. We are now being told that all that must stop

Tags: climate alarmism, gaia, co2, pollutant, fossil fuels

Words of Wisdom from Kids

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:15:25 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: funmeme.biz

1. Never trust a dog to watch your food. Patrick 10

2. When your dad is mad and asks you "Do I look stupid?", don't answer him.
Micheal 14

3. Never tell your mom her diet isn't working. John 13

4. Stay away from prunes. Randy 9

5. Never pee on an electric fence. Robert 13

6. Don't pull dad's finger when he tells you to. Emily 10

7. Don't squat with your spurs on. Billy 9

8. When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. Melissa 11

9. Never allow your 3-year-old brother in the same room as your assignment. Ann 14

10. Don't sneeze in front of mom when you're eating crackers. Mitchell 12

11. Puppies still have bad breath even after eating a Tic-Tac.
Andrew 9

12. Never hold a dust buster and a cat at the same time.
Ramona 9

13. You can't hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
Joey 10

15. If you want a kitten, start out by asking for a horse.
Jill 14

19. Never try to baptize a cat. Eileen 8

20. I know God knows when you are bad, but it's your parents you have to watch out for.Sam 9

The UK's Cushy Prisons

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:39:54 GMT

clipped by: abailart
clipper's remarks: Interesting article. The challenging of cartoon stereotypes of prisons as hotels, criminals as monsters and the right function of prison being to punish and degrade as much as possible: the slow, bit by bit intervention of the rehabilitation element of a civilized judiciary.

Clip Source: women.timesonline.co.uk

It's the smell that gets to you first in prison. It leaks from the walls. It's the scent of a man cooped up for 15 hours a day in a 9ft by 7ft cell. Don't buy into the idea that prison is cushy until your nostrils have hurt from the pong of piss, tobacco, boiled vegetables, bad breath, old trainers and disinfectant. It's the smell of despair - and on Sunday, from which date government guidelines dictate that some prisoners will be locked up for half a day longer each week - that stink can only get worse.

Tags: prison

Good Ol' Baking Soda!

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:30:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.naturalnews.com

Baking soda can clean your teeth, clear your complexion and act as a natural antacid

almost everything except vegetables, millet, most fruits and, as we have just seen, apple cider vinegar) – contribute to one's body becoming too acidic. This in turn can open the door to a variety of problems

This can result in heartburn, digestive distress, stomach upset, fatigue and a multitude of other symptoms. Simple, inexpensive kitchen baking soda can fix this.

Very useful in keeping the body healthily alkalized is half to one teaspoon a day of baking soda in water. Don't take it with or within an hour of meals, though

even store-bought spring water) is surprisingly acidic;

When baking soda is added to bath water, sunburn sufferers often experience a notable reduction in pain

Simple baking soda may also weaken the desire for a cigarette as well as reduce the desire for sugar

Baking soda is also effective for polishing teeth (without scratching the tooth surface) and fighting bad breath

a balanced pH

29 Food Side Effects You May Not Know

Sat, 17 May 2008 19:19:46 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: A very analytical approach...

Clip Source: www.healthassist.net

29 Food Side Effects You May Not Know

Interesting facts. Did you know?..

Individuals with a history of suicide attempt have low intakes of polyunsaturated fat and fiber[8]
Children often develop tolerance to cow's milk, egg, wheat by school age, whereas allergies to nuts, fish and seafood are generally not outgrown no matter at what age they develop[14]

1 Allergies

2 Bad Breath

3 Body Odor

4 Diarrhea

5 Constipation

6 Gas, Flatulence, Abdominal Bloating

7 Frequent Urination

8 Edema, Swelling, Water Retention

9 Heartburn & Acid Reflux

10 Stress

11 Insomnia

12 Sleepiness ("Sleepy Foods")

13 Gastritis, Peptic Ulcers

14 High Blood Pressure

15 High Cholesterol (hyperlipidemia)

16 Kidney Stones

17 Migraine & Headache

18 Arthritis, Gout, Pain

19 Acne

20 Yeast Infection (Candidiasis)

21 Memory & Cognition Impairment

22 Tooth Decay (Dental Caries)

23 Tooth Staining

24 Nausea

25 Photosensitivity

26 Tears

27 Thirst

28 Weight Gain

29 Yellow Skin Pigmentation (Carotenemia)

Tags: health, nutrition, allergies, sickness, side effects, clinical, doctor, hospital

Think

Sat, 03 May 2008 10:46:16 GMT

clipped by: MetisCougar
clipper's remarks: I grow increasingly worried about man and his thoughts! When reading or watching the world as it is today, we can see what man has on his mind and unfortunately it is not the good, but the evil in mans mind that is winning.

We see the continual search for the better weapons in which to kill each other, the growing hunger and killing of our children, the continuing raping of Mother Earth, with no respite in the future. We must look to our Grandfathers for guidance, however for the People of the Earth and I speak of the Indigenous Peoples who at one time lived and breathed the life of Mother Earth, it will be easier, not so for the others who live for greed with every waking breath. The destruction of man will come from within, so pray to the Great Spirit that the others will come to respect and seek the guidance of our Earth Mother and that of the People of the Earth, before it is to late.
Cougar

Clip Source: webmail.canada.com

"Think only about what is holy. Empty your mind."

--Archie Fire Lame Deer, LAKOTA

If we let our minds wander, we will come up with a lot of junk: maybe bad thoughts about a brother or sister, maybe angry thoughts, maybe self-pity thoughts. Our minds are not the boss. We can instruct our mind to think about whatever we want to think about. We cannot stop thinking, be we can choose what to think about. The Elders say we move towards what we think about. That's why they say, "Think about what is holy, think about the Grandfathers, think about culture, think about values, think about ceremonies, and think about good."

Great Spirit, today, empty my mind and let me experience what it would be like to think about what is holy.

Tags: wisdom, mother earth, grandfathers, culture, great spirit, creator, ceremonies, good.