Acid-Alkaline Balance
The chemical factory that is the body requires a precise equilibrium of 16 basic chemicals, and correct acid-alkaline balance plays a vital role this process. Foods, after digestion and absorption, leave either an acid or alkaline ash in the body depending on their composition. Normal body chemistry should be approximately 20 per cent acid and 80 per cent alkaline, thus the food intake should reflect this balance.
Glass or Plastic? A questionable chemical BPA (Bisphenol A) has been found in most plastic baby bottles. Parents are switching back to glass which now comes in sheath models which prevent the glass breaking and keep the contents at an even temperature. (more…)
Bad Is What We Want So Bad.
It is amazing how often people want what is bad for them. This extends from the baby wanting candy to the old man wanting to live more than anything else. Of course babies want to be Conceived and Born, and to Grow up, and such, and old men, and women, want to do what is right, but their “gimme” nature gets in the way. They are tempted by everything imaginable, to overturn their sense of duty and good sense and, in consequence, do themselves, and others, in. And don’t think there are not plenty of “pimps” to make money off of serving their baser instincts. The merchants begging for the privilege of helping you do yourself in, are legion, and outnumber by far any of those who are trying to safeguard you. Christ was trying to tell us that “all that glitters is not gold,” but who would listen, and who listens today?
Now comes the hard part, when I have to name names, and step on toes, and break some icons. This is where people begin to hate what I say, but if I just dealt in generalities, no one would learn a thing from what I write. I have the knack of driving right to the heart of the matter and it drives people up the wall.
In the matter of “pimping” people, and enabling their wrongness, it helps to be able to “make the worser case appear the better.” A couple of such charlatans jump to mind, darling rogues, if I must say so. On of them is Victor Hugo, and the other is Charles Dickens. No more lovable and popular figures could be found to play the role of evil doers. But, the facts fit the case. Hugo’s most popular work, Les Miserables, is an enormously long novel that has a very simple idea to express, and it is an evil idea, indeed. In this idea, Hugo attempts to prove that stealing is OK, if, and I say IF, it can be should that it is justified. He believes he succeeded, and they world largely agrees with him. The central idea is that there is this perfectly sympathetic father who has this starving daughter and he steals a loaf of bread to feed her. He is caught and they want to hang him. Mind you this is a totally fictional, made up yarn, sculpted in exquisite detail to milk the last ounce of pity from the reader, and force him, in the end, to intellectually agree that theft is justified in some situations. Fact is, it is never justified, but Hugo is a sort of communist who believes in forcible redistribution of wealth, at any cost. And thus he will spare not effort to make his case believable.
The other “pimp” and enabler of wrong doing is Dickens. He wrote any number of books and stories that glorified and justified wrong behavior. Dicken’s Christmas Carol, is case in point. Here we have a businessman who is creating jobs other people, paying taxes, and in general supporting the world on his tired shoulders. Along comes Dickens and turns this admirable man into a villain, and his sloppy, lazy employee Bob Crachet into a victim and a hero. Talk about turning the values of the world upside down, no one is better and making “the worser case appear the better” than Hugo and Dickens.
These kinds of writers and thousands like them make good livings pandering to the basest instincts and ignoble lusts of the population. In the long run they do a lot of harm and very little good. Entertaining? Yes! But at what price is our entertainment provided? That is the question.
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Bad Is What We Want So Bad
It is amazing how often people want what is bad for them. This extends from the baby wanting candy to the old man wanting to live more than anything else. Of course babies want to be Conceived and Born, and to Grow up, and such, and old men, and women, want to do what is right, but their “gimme” nature gets in the way. They are tempted by everything imaginable, to overturn their sense of duty and good sense and, in consequence, do themselves, and others, in. And don’t think there are not plenty of “pimps” to make money off of serving their baser instincts. The merchants begging for the privilege of helping you do yourself in, are legion, and outnumber by far any of those who are trying to safeguard you. Christ was trying to tell us that “all that glitters is not gold,” but who would listen, and who listens today?
Now comes the hard part, when I have to name names, and step on toes, and break some icons. This is where people begin to hate what I say, but if I just dealt in generalities, no one would learn a thing from what I write. I have the knack of driving right to the heart of the matter and it drives people up the wall. (more…)
Islamic terrorist and other threats to the West cannot be understood separate from a study of comparative birthrates, and their resulting demographics. Birth rates of the Best and Brightest in the West and worldwide are so dismal (half of replacement) that even banning contraception would not accomplish much. The problem goes far deeper. We must comprehend that every sovereign nation has the right and ability to regulate its birthrates in its informed and well considered self-interest. (more…)
The more I researched the matter the more alarmed I became. Not only was the italicization all wrong from the viewpoint of grammar, but it was also an artistic disaster. The natural iambic pentameter poetry of the beautiful KJV was being ruined by the interjection of the italicized words not really intended to be there. (more…)
Birth Defects and Ethical Considerations
Definition of a birth defect: Abnormal development of the fetus resulting in death, malformation, growth retardation, and varied functional disorders.
NOTE: All statistics used in this subject area are very suspect. For one thing there is a complete shortage of reliable data on this subject. No one, including the state and federal governments seem to be very interested in gathering a reliable body of facts, much less using them to prevent this expensive carnage from running out of control.
There is clearly much more interest in making money from “treating” these problems than in analyzing or preventing them in the first place. Another source now states that we have 7.5 million mentally impaired persons in the US today, out of which 200,000 are institutionalized. So these different figures are thrown around such that all of them must be taken with a grain of salt. One thing is for sure, we have a gigantic horrifyingly expensive problem that is growing by leaps and bounds that no one is seemingly taking a hard accurate look at, or proposing any long terms solutions for. But regardless of the world of shaky statistics, here goes with some more:
150,000 babies are born yearly in the US with birth defects, which is 3% of all births, but this jumps to 7% 350,000 by 1 year, and 14% 700,000 by school age. Carried out, this is 7,000,000 birth defect children in just 10 years, and 35,000,000 (35 million) in just 50 years. This mean that within the normal lifespan of an average individual about 50 million birth defect children will be born in the US alone.
10% of problems seen at birth can be traced to a specific agent (environmental agent, drug, biologic, or nutritional factor).
20% are inherited or associated with chromosomal changes.
70% are of unknown etiology.
25%, according to the General Accounting Office, are induced by environmental pollution.
1.4 billion is the annual cost of care for children with disabilities resulting from birth defects. This is a very low estimate.
A few types of birth defects have decreased, mainly through preventive methods, but many more have increased. According to CDC, of 38 types of birth defects 1979-89, 27 had increased, including several cardiac defects, chromosomal defects such as trisomy 18, and fetal alcohol syndrome; 9 remained the same; and only 2 had decreased.
Birth defects, including low birth weight babies, are the leading cause of infant mortality and is associated with significant risks of crebral palsy, mental retardation, retinopathy or prematurity, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, cerebral hemorrhage, deafness, autism, and epilepsy.
Causes and consequences of LBW and birth defects are varied and many are overlapping. Among them are poor nutrition, teenage pregnancy, premature birth, drug and alcohol use, smoking, and STDs. But statistics on this subject are very poor and very unreliable, and mistakes are common in interpreting the few statistics we have. For example, just because some number of teen age mothers bear birth defect and LBW children does not necessarily mean the cause is their status as teens, but may well be because of other risk factors in their life styles and make-ups. There may be nothing unhealthful at all about teen age pregnancies, absent other factors. Thus teen pregnancy itself, as such, may be getting unfair blame. We know the rooster crows at sunrise, but that doesn’t mean the rooster causes the sun to rise. Hospital-related costs for LBW infants in 1990 totaled over $2 billion, at an average of $21,000 per infant. This made up 57% of the total cost for all newborns. These are conservative figures and we know they are climbing at an exponential rate.
Smoking Moms constitute 25% of all pregnant women in the US. If smoking during pregnancy were eliminated, infant mortality could be reduced by 10%, and LBW babies by 25%. Women who smoke double the risk of having a LBW baby. The health care costs during the first year of life for infants born with LBW attributable to maternal smoking totals more than $1 billion. Smoking during pregnancy also is closely associated with premature birth, increased respiratory problems in infants, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is characterized by growth retardation, cerebral involvement, and facial abnormalities, and is the leading preventable cause of birth defects and mental retardation. It occurs in 3 infants per 1000 births, and for every child born with FAS, 10 more suffer from further alcohol-related problems. Minor or major abnormalities can be seen in about one-third of the infants born to women who drank heavily during pregnancy compared to 9% for nondrinkers. (Heavy drinking is defined as an average of 1 oz. or more of alcohol per day.) One thing we need is a complete reexamination of the human and economic costs our Social Drinking Culture, a killing culture that is sanctioned by law and society.
Teenage Pregnancies in 1989, accounted for approximately 500,000 births or about 13% of all births. Another half-million teenage pregnancies resulted in abortions, miscarriages, or stillbirths. Teenage mothers are also more likely to get inadequate prenatal care, be poor, have LBW babies, and suffer from alcohol or drug use, and a nutritionally inadequate diet. All of these factors are associated with infant mortality and LBW. Again, the problem is these other factors not the simple fact of a teen having a baby. If the teen doesn’t have these other factors her baby is more, not less, likely to be a normal baby than her older sisters. Again, poor statistics and record keeping as well as commonly poor analysis of the available data produce terribly inaccurate conclusions.
Drug Abuse by 1 in 5 pregnant women, costs the nation a half billion dollars a year for Cocaine users alone. There are about 9,000 births per year to narcotic-addicted women.
AIDS infects 1.5 per 1000 women giving birth in 1989. One-third of babies born to HIV-positive mothers will develop AIDS by 18 months of age, and AIDS is the ninth leading cause of death for children 1-4 years old, and it is increasing.
Current Birth Defect Monitoring Systems are completely inadequate, yet hold the most promise of reducing this economic and human cost. Unfortunately, few states have birth defect monitoring systems. Those states that do have programs include California, Iowa, New York, Texas, and Georgia, but even they are inadequate. They suffer from delays in ascertainment, investigation, data entry, and analysis. On a national scale, the Birth Defect Monitoring Program, in operation since 1974, currently accesses only hospital discharge summary data, and only on about 20-30% of U.S. births each year. So, the Federal Government is not much help here either.
Conclusion: Like so much of the rest of our health care system, there is very little interest in gathering good statistics or in prevention generally. Every focus seems to be on the money to be made in “treating” problems after they occur, rather than the lesser amount of money to be made in gathering good data and using it to prevent these human and economic costs.
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High Blood Pressure is a life long problem for every person. Sooner or later most everyone develops these symptoms. The idea is to care for our bodies and minds in such a way that they don’t weaken and finally breakdown. Proper diet, and proper exercise are the main ways to practice health maintenance.
Fortunately, in the realm of exercise there is a simple exercise that does wonders for your blood pressure and your whole body. It is a simple Isometric exercise where you regularly squeeze something with your hands. It can be a rubber ball, or better still, and more focused, you can buy a couple of these spring loaded hand grips available in most health equipment stores. (more…)
Mob Rule in Bolivia: Thanks to support and encouragement from Liberals Leftists all over the world. Communal Justice and the New Constitution.
LA PAZ, Bolivia: Lashing, crucifixion and other forms of corporal punishment would be legal under a new constitution proposed by the government of Bolivian Under the Leftist dictatorship of President Evo Morales, (who is natural darling of the Left who can do no wrong.” Bolivia under his tender mercies is well on the way to creating hell on earth. His hand sculpted constitution provides for no due process, against lashings, and crucifixions as a regular civil justice arrangement.
Since the Indian revolts of 2005, Bolivia has seen a dramatic increase in such disturbing practices, including lynchings and torture, meted out under an informal system known as “communal justice.” Cases include death sentences for women accused of adultery and the beating, stoning, hanging, and burning of an elected official accused of corruption. “Communal justice entirely disregards due process. In theory, it enables indigenous communities to address their needs in a fair and disinterested manner. In practice, it is judicial terror. It is breathtaking that the Morales government wishes to enshrine such arbitrary and barbaric practices and make them legally unappealable. “Communal justice” is an Inca practice derived from ancient custom law that currently allows local leaders to impart justice directly for crimes perpetrated by members of their indigenous communities, bypassing the Bolivian legal system.The practice sometimes involves communal leaders engaging in rituals such as consulting coca leaves. It came to the attention of the international press in June of 2004, when a group of people in La Paz kidnapped Benjamin Altamirano, former mayor of Ayo Ayo. Altamirano was brutally killed by a mob after the Bolivian court system found no evidence of wrongdoing or misconduct in accusations of corruption leveled against him.The Morales government proposes to make communal justice the only system of law available to indigenous communities—with no right to appeal and no due process guarantees for the accused.Leftists are so charming once they seize power. Who would have thought Stalin would be alive and well, and in power in Bolivia?
“This system would allow the government to subjugate Bolivia’s population under the threat of an instant trial with deadly consequences,” said Halvorssen. President Morales and representatives of his government have stated that they support lashings as a “symbolic” way of promoting communal justice.
Twenty-eight (28) reported cases include instances of women buried alive for adultery and additional episodes of angry mobs raiding town halls and police headquarters to take justice into their own hands. Because the authorities fear confronting those who carry out such barbaric practices, the perpetrators of communal justice are neither prosecuted under ordinary law, nor made accountable for their crimes.
The government’s deputies have introduced communal justice into the proposed new constitution, which will effectively grant the practice constitutional status should the new constitution be approved in referendum. Notably, these provisions for communal justice violate the human rights guarantees contained in the new constitution itself; they also violate multiple international treaties to which Bolivia is signatory.
This book list is barely begun and is not representative of what a complete book list would look like. Clearly things like the KJV Bible would be on it and Shakespeare and Chaucer, and all kinds of books, were it an attempt at some sort of completeness.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand a gripping novel castigating the Welfare State
Birth Dearth by Ben J. Wattenberg details the decline of America’s birth rate
Cantos by Ezra Pound an epic poem of the good and bad in the world
Dispossessed Majority by Wilmot Robertson story of the end of the White race www.occidentalpress.com/dispossessed.html
Jefferson Conspiracy is a good attempt to document the negative and dark side of Thomas Jefferson who is a false hero of our Revolution, a veritable Judas of the American Revolution. It is no coincidence that he is also credited with founding the Democrat Party.
Law of Civilization and Decay by Brooks Adams grandson of John Adams
Waste Land by T. S. Eliot an epic poem positing the end of Western Civilization
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Boycotts are clearly in the eye of the beholder and are as old as history. Remember the incident in ancient Greece where the women went on a sex strike to stop their men from constant warfare? We they won, and if the history of such actions teach us anything it is that they almost always succeed, at least to some extent. They are the original “power of the people” and the last refuge of the powerless “put-upon.” (more…)
Bureaucrats Hate Goodness Truth & Beauty (Art & People)
Visited the Botanical Gardens which I love, both inside and outside. It is a national and world treasure beyond measure or description. Deficiencies, however, are everywhere evident due to omnipresent sloppy management.
Isn’t it always so where the essentially evil nature of man exerts itself? Yes, as Lincoln the politician said, “There is good in every man.” But he knew full well, what he didn’t state, that there is a whole lot of evil in every person as well, and a real whole lot in some.
For example, the labels in front of the plants are often carelessly placed so you are often unsure to which plant they apply, what carelessness. And the silly frog croak that comes from the speakers is so phony it degrades and disgraces the whole place. How about some fine classical music if anything at all. Or even if it was a variegated melange of forest sounds if might make some sense, but just that lone frog making the same sound over and over doesn’t do justice to the multi-multi-million dollar layout of the place. Now these are small complaints and if that was all, I might not be writing this at all. Though even a small thing that impact millions of people has a cumulative effect that adds up considerably.
But, worst of all is the www.usbg.org website that represents the Botanical Gardens of the US Government, (which is located a stones throw from the Capital building itself,) to the world. It has these very few skimpy pictures that don’t enlarge to full screen the way they should. This is just plain mean.
Bandwidth is cheap and getting cheaper all the time and it is ideally suited to bringing the wonderful things of this world to poor people everywhere. It can change the whole planet and our future, that is how powerful and cheap it is. It can supply the education for the needy children that they desperately need for the survival of the planet.
Yet, despite this obvious simple truth, ALL the websites of ALL the museums, paid for, I might add, entirely with taxpayer funds in one way or another, simply, flatly, and adamantly, refuse to do this low cost thing, which act on their part effectively locks out 99.99% of everyone on earth, including American taxpayers who pay for all of this.
This outrage is perpetrated on folks and children who can never ever in their lifetimes actually afford to take time off from their schools and work, (and paying taxes) to come to and visit these wonderful educational places.
It effectually prevents the people of this nation and the world, (who BTW pay for all these expensive toys as every dime of the funding of these museums and such is taxpayer money in one way or another) especially those in the US from EVER in their lives appreciating and learning from the enormously expensive offerings of these great treasures.
Just this act alone, nakedly visible to all on their websites, shows clearly the hate and contempt of the bureaucracy, generally, for all those 99.99% of humanity who cannot ever personally visit these places, it hits especially the weakest and most vulnerable poor of the entire earth who of all people most need this sort of enrichment that the computer is ideally suited to bring to them in an astoundingly low cost manner.
A crusade on behalf of the poor children of America and the whole world, to force Congress to correct this meanness alone would be worth the expenditure of any one’s whole life.
And the fix is so very very cheap that it hurts even more that they ALL flatly refuse to do it. My suspicion was that they did it to increase the sales of their miserable DVDs, but when I checked the few to none DVDs they produced, even those DVDs were careful to contain only very small pictures that could not be enlarged. Typical was the National Museum that I researched carefully. I found they have consciously blocked the software from being able to enlarge the pictures and prevented all copying. All the others are doing the same thing for pitiable pathetic and false reasons.
The righteous cause of pursuing the FORCING of these malignant hateful bureaucracies to serve the people of this nation and world for once in their miserable hateful lives would be worth all the time left in any of our lives.
How can we be TOO tough on those in power who hate people in such mean ways that they want to deny the world’s children access via computer in a meaningful way to these incredibly beautiful things that they don’t own, but that the taxpayers entirely paid for? This gives the expression, “Dog in the manger” a whole new level of meaning.
We are only talking here about putting all this beauty up on computer and allowing the enlargement of the pictures to full screen size. Instead the favorite new “whine” of the Museum bureaucracy is now to charge high fees for that every visitor must pay every time. This alone is the measure of these types of people.
Yes, I’ve discussed this with management at the Smithsonian and they just say, essentially, “Hell no!” and for no good reason at all. It is like they are saying to people, “if you want to see these great things you must spend thousands and thousands of dollars and leave your home, school, and job, and come here and then, maybe, if you pay a stiff fee, we will let you look at these things.”
Clearly only a tiny number of Americans, let alone the poor of the world can ever do this. To them the bureaucrats say, “Drop dead!”
The cost to fix this would be mere pennies of the multi millions they spend every year, much of it on gigantic salaries and perks such that we have money mismanagement scandals raging around these people constantly.
If we can’t fix this simple no-brainer problem, how can we fix anything else in government or the world?
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Older “traditional” cemeteries are having problems, and creating problems for the earth. Many have few, or no, trees, in others, the grounds have been destroyed through the use of herbicides. Drainage problems can occur and herbicide use leads to water pollution. (more…)
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