Fight Heart Disease
A major study with Seven Day Adventists, researchers found that when they snacked on nuts at least four times a week, they cut their risk of fatal heart attack almost in half. Nuts are a great natural way to help your body fight heart disease.
When you or your children find the need for a snack grab a hand full of nuts. Fiber is great for lowing cholesterol and preventing it from sticking to artery walls.
Does Obama plan on disarming America?
Is this as disturbing to you as it is to me? Please do, correct me if I’m hearing this wrong!
It sounds like his plan would make us even more vulnerable.
Lower Blood Pressure
Celery has been used in Asia for centuries as a remedy for high blood pressure.
The University of Chicago Medical Center put this remedy to a scientific test. Within a week some blood pressures were lowered significantly.
Celery has been found to relax the muscles of the arteries that regulate blood pressure, allowing your blood vessels to dilate.Celery also reduces stress hormones in the blood.
Chelsea Clinton - None of Your Business
Chelsea Clinton was quick on her toes Tuesday when asked whether her mother’s credibility had been hurt during the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
"Wow, you’re the first person actually that’s ever asked me that question in the, I don’t know maybe, 70 college campuses I’ve now been to, and I do not think that is any of your business," Clinton said during a campaign visit for her mother, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Watch for yourself…
Was Chelsea out of line? Should she have answered the question more directly?
Personally, I LOVED the way she took the person asking the question, knocked them down a few notches letting them know they were the ONLY one with gumption enough to ask such a horrible question and then let them know the obvious - It’s None of Your Business!
And it’s not! What went on during that time has nothing to do with Chelsea - it has nothing to do with the campaign of Hillary - and if anything, I think the fact that Hillary weathered such a challenging time with the class she did, should speak volumes.
Aren’t there far more important issues at hand?
I’m really ashamed that this had to happen in Indiana. I can only hope the person who asked was visiting from out of state.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt - A Political Connection
According to the Associated Press, they do: Barack Obama is the ninth cousin to Brad Pitt, and Hillary Clinton is Angelina Jolie’s ninth cousin twice removed.
Other surprising links made by researchers at the New England Historic Genealogical Society were that Hillary is a distant cousin of Madonna, Celine Dion and Alanis Morissette, while Obama can call George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Republican rival John McCain cousin too.
Find out who else who seems to share the same family tree.
And if you’re in the mood for a chuckle - check out the photos over at I’m Not Obsessed that commemorate the recent discovery.
A Call Out for Home Remedies
Hello All
It has been a while since I have posted. I had to have Laser work to my eyes. I don’t know what everyone has heard, but I am here to tell you that “The Golden Years” are not so golden. At this point if you have any gold it is in the teeth, and you best not smile in public you will lose that also.
I am going to look for home remedies that might just help cut the budget this year. I grew up in the hills of Kentucky with a grandmother that never went to the Doctor therefore she had a remedy for just about everything. If you have some remedies that have been passed down please send them along to me.
Did you know that for minor cuts you could apply black pepper to stop bleeding? This will not sting nor burn; it will actually reduce the pain. There are antibacterial and antiseptic properties in the black pepper. There won’t be any scaring due to the pepper.
Grammy
The politics of Happy Feet
I know, I’m a little later to the party - but it’s free movie channel week on Directv and I’ve finally seen the movie that so many mom’s-to-tot’s have complained about.
Over the holidays, I had a relative that pissed and moaned for a flippin’ hour over this adorable movie about penguins.
Lately I’ve been reading a book called "Handling Difficult People - An Operator’s Manual" that I picked up at Border’s Books recently. I can’t be certain, but it seems as though the book were written about some members of my family.
The "Constant Complainer" is the type of person that can take an adorable movie that attempts to teach kids valuable messages on the topics of animal rights, environmental issues, religion, discrimination. What’s wrong with that? What’s wrong with teaching kids, by getting down to their level, the importance of these issues? Perhaps if more people wouldn’t bitch about the politics of Happy Feet and share it with their children in a manner that’s educational and purposeful - we could put a big dent in many of the issues that are spinning out of control with the next generation or two.
I’d much rather sit down and watch Happy Feet with my kids then Fantastic Four or Jackass.
What a winning team looks like
We can only hope!
Hillary delivers hope to Anderson
The following is an editorial that appeared in the local newspaper following the Clinton rally on Thursday.
The Wigwam was electric with hope.
The 6,000 or so in attendance at Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech at the fabled Anderson gymnasium Thursday afternoon hoped, maybe believed, that Clinton was the leader to pull the nation out of its malaise.
The faces in the crowd, especially high up and toward the back, were worn with signs of the hardships they had suffered. If one watched them cheering for Clinton on Thursday, it was easy to notice the strain in their eyes. Those eyes also shined with the hope that Clinton — locked in a pitched battle with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination for president — would be the answer. The answer to high unemployment, gas prices over $3 a gallon, $10,000 medical bills, 60-percent graduation rates, and a five-year war in Iraq.
Judging from the questions the people in the crowd asked, the slogans they shouted and even the buttons and T-shirts some of them wore, Hillary personified their hope as much as anything because of her connection to the presidential administration of her husband. And on Thursday, Hillary sought to validate the belief in that connection.
She noted that some people scoff at her potential presidency as a return to the Wild Bill years of the 1990s. “I always wonder what part of the ’90s they (critics) don’t like — the peace or the prosperity,” she mused into the microphone.
The Wigwam thundered with cheers. It was quite the spectacle. During the 2 1/2-hour wait inside the venerable arena, “Hillary!” chants rose to the rafters, and the human wave swept around the arena.
It was indeed electric.
People had waited in line for hours, some since early in the morning, to get into the Wigwam. The line at times snaked two blocks long. The first day of spring brought sunshine and a welcome respite from the dreary rain of the days before. But it was cold out there waiting for hours. But they waited, and for the most part they waited cheerfully.
The crowd was giddy with anticipation for the appearance of Clinton and for that of U.S. Sen. Evan Bayh, the former Indiana governor who is positioned as a possible running mate for Clinton.
She brought Bayh to the throng Thursday, and she brought promises of jobs, affordable health care, better education and, yes, peace and prosperity. And if you’re wondering whether she can really deliver any of the above, you’re missing the primary thrust of Clinton’s Thursday stop in Anderson.
What she did deliver, for at least one sun-blessed afternoon at the edifice most closely identified with Anderson’s glorious past, was hope. And hope is something Anderson can build on.
How informed is your vote?
Isn’t exercising the right to vote important enough to invest time into making sure you’re making the absolute best and most informed decision you can?
I’ve not been a fan of McCain since 1998 - that’s another story for another day. I’d never waste my vote on McCain nor would I waste it on Obama. Those two men are frightening. At least with Hillary, we have a sense of familiarity with her and her ways. And for Hoosiers especially, if she were to tap Bayh as her running mate. Doesn’t it make sense in a time of such crisis that we’d opt on the side of caution rather then the side of the unknown?
It seems like my own county is and has been 99% conservative for so long that they forget there are actually choices that can be made. It’s almost as if the conservative vote is automatic - I believe that’s strongly supported by the fact that very few brave the risk and run on the democratic ticket. I have to wonder how many on the conservative ticket are closet liberals or moderates. It’s so bad that, in many cases, Democrats have no choice but to vote for the Republican candidate or not vote at all. If I don’t know the candidate, am not familiar with their position and work, I choose not to vote rather than take what’s there.
I’m relatively new to the whole political arena, having only voted in one election. In this short of time, I do however, believe strongly in doing my homework before voicing my opinion - regardless of what the topic might be. I don’t vote what my buddies vote - I don’t vote a straight ticket - and won’t ever cast a quick easy vote just to say I voted and snag my right to bitch. I vote in a well thought out, well informed manner and believe everyone should.
Shouldn’t they?
Are you an informed voter? What are some of your favorite resources for checking on candidates prior to voting? Or do you opt for the easy voters way out and vote a straight ticket based on the fact that you are and have always been a liberal or conservative?
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