This ‘n That Chitchat
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 26th, 2011
Good morning!
I HOPE everyone had a wonderful day, with the celebrations continuing throughout the new year and beyond. I certainly did and plan to as well.
Zen Lill: It sounds like the new year has some wonderful and exciting changes for you. I am happy for you and HOPE that it’s a smooth transition. Looking forward to hearing all about it.
Jackie: Thanks for commenting again and sharing more of your life. Whenever I open my mouth here I never know the whole story which makes me pause when I make suggestions, especially when my advice is unsolicited. But that’s what I do when I am told of a situation that involves unfairness, racism, abuse, etc. Your situation is obviously not easy, nor is my advice when you have to consider your children and their best interest.
I find that women are in so many different situations; some like yours and some vastly different. The common thread is, women do the best that they can in their current situation. I wish the best for you and your daughters.
Jackie: You are one of the other women that I was mentioning above. With respect to me and Doug, we certainly have our challenges like all married couples but it flows pretty well between us, and for that I am grateful.
From the desk of Nancy Pelosi: Always good to see you here. I am a big fan – Thanks for all you do.
Lea: I enjoyed your story. Sometimes, the grass looks greener on the other side, but when we get to lounge on it for awhile, we discover we really miss he comforts of the familiar. The lesson here for me is to appreciate what you have when you have it.
Thank You Obama: Loved reading your post. And to answer your question: We really don’t want to know.
Robert, RT: Thank you. I HOPE Yours was just as wonderful. And thank you for blogging the extension of the payroll tax cut. Not sure if many people know this was only for two months. I agree, the extension to 12 months is critical. It may mean for some, the difference between people having enough money to feed their families or not.
Peter: Thank you for informing us. Hafa Adai.
Howie: Nicely said. I HOPE you are still enjoying your Hanukkah celebration. Best to you and Al - Hi Al!
Will: Thanks for commenting (for the first time ?). I too really enjoy the Health Info and General Info, but they don’t always get it right or perhaps I should say sometimes it is skewed. Non the less, it has inspired a little “just noticing” on your part. Thanks for bringing it to light.
Lois: I won’t even ask what you said after your daughter’s comment, but Im dying to know.
Konduz: I wish they weren’t and the men were different. The disillusion is hard and sad, but it is better to be illuminated and learn the truth, than left in the dark under pretense. The knowledge the women have, is power against the men. And as you and Bost have discovered, the more the women are in the know, the more powerful you are together. I wish I could be standing with all of you. This is only the beginning. It is time the sick men stopped getting away with it. I applaud you and all the women, for your courage and collaborative efforts – Peace and love to you.
Okay, I just refreshed my blog and saw all of the added comments this morning. And actually got to peruse some of them, albeit very quickly, but let me say, it wasn’t hard to get the gist of them. - I would love to comment but I am running late and ready to post. The forum is open. I’m sure you’ll have something to say – blog me.
Oh, and make the last week of this year a good one. Peace out.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
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michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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December 26th, 2011 at 11:12 am
I hate to agree with the racists. But this is a blog that should remain open to all to express themselves freely. I have left too many blogs that censor.
My feeling is if you can’t take the read don’t read it. Go some place where the material is to your liking.
Grace
December 26th, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Control of a child depends on what the child will do when an adult or compelling entity is not present. If the right moral example has been set, the child will in most cases follow that example.
Zen Lill I believe the white man’s ability to set a moral example for the behavior of his kids to emulate was lost when the hypocrisy of his claim to a high moral plain caught up with him.
Forced segregation permitted the white man to claim a god given right; to the privileges of power, to be the unquestioned head of the household and to control the lives of all the non whites.
The white man could tell his children that they were inherently better because they were white. Without a means of comparison the LIE was undetectable.
But with desegregation came exposure to OTWs. Sure it was not true desegregation. But enough to expose the the edges of the LIE.
White children discovered that they were NOT inherently better than OTWs. The asians who had their own country began to separate themselves from the white man’s intellectual dominance once they got the same books.
In America the white males could continue to keep the best books, schools and teachers for their children. So the discovery took a bit longer.
But the physical abilities became apparent immediately. No white male could compete in any sport integrated if the sport didn’t require money to train for the sport.
Hence in the athletic fields where one only needed a ball to practice, OTWs ran over white males as if they were children playing in a man’s game.
This was not lost on the psyche of the white child. They had discovered the first LIE from their fathers. The feet of clay were not far from discovery.
The Civil Rights Movement brought other venues for discovering the LIE, that they were better because the were white. And the white male was better that the white woman. Father Knows Best was about to lose all its credibility.
Civil Rights did not just free the OTWs, it freed the white woman. She began to get out and compete with the white male, albeit with many road blocks and impediments designed to keep the white male in his lofty place at the top of the food chain and economic table.
But now she had a voice and she used it to complain about the injustice. It was obvious that their mother could compete with their fathers. White children looked around and discovered their fathers had been liars about males having better god given talents than their mothers.
Why should they believe that they were inherently smarter than the OTWs. Why should they even believe in the god their father was attempting to force upon them?
Morality became a word more than a practice. One could look around their places of worship and see the LIE. Their churches were segregated. As soon as they left them they were as racists, bigoted, greedy, etc as they were on the way to the church.
And now the elephant in the room was the LIE that god had given the white race all these inherent skills and if that wasn’t true then they should be treating the OTWs as well as they treated themselves.
It was all a LIE! Maybe there was no god, at least not the one that gave white people inherent superiority over everyone else.
How do people react when they are abruptly relieved of a moral guide?
The white parents panicked and looked around for advice or substitutes to act as moral guides for their children.
They chose athletes. The athletes did not choose to be moral guides for white people’s children. They were not prepared for it.
In fact the white coaches coached them to destroy their opponents, show no mercy. They were forced to not be themselves. Whites insisted they had to carry themselves in a manner the parents didn’t or be prosecuted or driven out of their sport.
So the athletes lied they claimed to live one way when in public, but acted another when in private. The media exposed their private lives. The children chose to emulate the private behavior of their new heros rather than the fake claims being made in public.
While white boys were busy setting up athletes as the new role models for white children. White women looked to the outside for guidance. They picked a white man, Dr. Spock, who told them not to spank their bad ass kids. A “time-out” would better.
This was a man that had no children of his own and didn’t want any. Evidently for good reason because he was having so much fun f**king up the minds of silly white women, and getting paid handsomely for it.
As it has often been proven to be true, No One Has Ever Gone Broke Underestimating the Ignorance of the American White Woman. So it was for Dr. Spock.
Obviously as soon as the child discovered there was no real punishment for misbehaving the parent lost all respect from the child and any ability to control the child’s behavior.
The white boy looked around and discovered his error. But rather than correct it and return to a measure of corporal punishment. He legislated the end of corporal punishment for everyone to force the OTW families to suffer the fate his had.
Now the entire country was full of minors with an 800 number to call if their children felt they were being asked to obey their parents in a manner that was not to their liking.
That is how you got where you are Zen Lill.
To compound the mess, the white boy began insisting that the schools take over the role of parenting with the same guidelines. A time out. Imagine a room full of bad ass kids and all you have to offer in the form of punishment is – A time out?
Between the white boy’s hypocrisy and the white woman who has to be told what is Good, bad, or ugly, the children of america are doomed to not learn the limits of their behavior until they reach them and get killed, arrested or ostracized for their lack of social skills, common sense, or moral principles.
The white boy’s newest solution is to force religion into the schools. How will that work when the children see the hypocrisy of their parents claiming the moral high ground while being racists, bigots, thieves, liars, and or money grubbing opportunists?
Most of America’s children grow up in a moral vacuum. What fills it is anyone’s guess. It depends on the luck of the child more than anything else.
They are admonish to not be violent when every toy, movie, or news item they receive in their youth is advocating violence as a means of solving problems.
Their new role models are super heros who take the law into their own hands and get justice.
So don’t be surprised when your child takes a gun and kills everyone he/she has issues with and then takes a time out by killing themselves.
Robert, Rt
December 26th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Thank you for remembering the suffering we are experiencing here in the Philippines.
December 26th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
The Republicans are simply self destructing before our eyes.
They have Romney, the Wall St flip flopper who has no ethical or moral underpinnings.
They have Newt, the psycho self deluded egomaniac who has no ethical or moral underpinnings.
They have Paul, the racist nutcake who has no ethical or moral underpinnings.
They have Bachmann and Perry, the dimwits who couldn’t pass sixth grade today who have no ethical or moral underpinnings.
And they have Huntsman, the only vaguely reasonable candidate whom they despise. None of them can go up against Barack Obama and remain standing.
December 26th, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Charlie Rangel – 11 Ethics Violations
Fox News: “He Belongs In Jail
Newt Gingrich – 84 Ethics Violations
Fox News: “He Belongs In The White House”
Fair & Balanced
December 26th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
THE BEST TIME TO TAKE BLOOD PRESSURE MEDS
When do you take your blood pressure medication? If you’re like the vast majority of people, you take it early in the morning as part of your morning routine — that’s a good way to keep from forgetting.
But it’s a bad way to stay healthy.
In fact, a new study shows that taking blood pressure medication at bedtime is the smartest thing to do for two big reasons.
Not only will it control your blood pressure better — but for the first time ever, researchers have shown that it may also reduce your risk for a cardiac event such as a heart attack, stroke or heart failure.
Knowing how common high blood pressure is (one out of every three Americans suffer from it, and more than two-thirds of them take medication to control it),
I was impressed by how this one simple switch might lower your cardiovascular risk.
To get the details, I called Ramon C. Hermida, PhD, director of the bioengineering and chronobiology labs at the University of Vigo in Spain.
His research was published in the October 24, 2011 issue of Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
A BEDTIME BONUS
Dr. Hermida and his colleagues studied 661 men and women, with an average age of 55, who had high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease (a risk factor for high blood pressure).
Most of the patients took two blood pressure medications, and many took more than three.
The researchers asked half the participants to take all their blood pressure medications first thing in the morning upon awakening and half to take at least one of their blood pressure medications at bedtime.
At the beginning of the study, researchers used an automatic device to measure participants’ blood pressure at 20-minute intervals during the day and 30-minute intervals at night for 48 hours.
Then, throughout the 5.4-year study, blood pressure was measured at least annually and three months after any change in treatment, Dr. Hermida told me.
What the study found: After 5.4 years, compared with those who took their blood pressure medication(s) upon awakening, patients who took at least one medication at bedtime not only were more likely to have better overall control of their blood pressure…
they were also more likely to have, more specifically, a lower “sleep-time” blood pressure measurement (more on that in a minute)… and they were two-thirds less likely to have suffered a cardiovascular event.
Now, I wondered, why would taking these medications at the end of the day have such a great effect?
Dr. Hermida explained that healthy people’s blood pressure tends to dip to low levels naturally during sleep (since the body doesn’t have to work as hard when it’s not active).
But some people with high blood pressure are what are called “non-dippers” — meaning that their blood pressure doesn’t get lower while they sleep.
Dr. Hermida’s studies and prior studies have found that non-dipping during sleep is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular events.
Therefore, he said, blood pressure-lowering medications may work better if they’re taken at nighttime, because they appear to have a stronger effect on lowering “sleep-time” blood pressure, in particular.
One additional advantage to bedtime dosing is that although the usual potential side effects of blood pressure medication, such as drowsiness, dizziness, nausea and edema (swelling caused by fluid in bodily tissues) still apply,
they may be less bothersome because you may sleep through them.
Dr. Hermida added that the fact that the study participants had chronic kidney disease likely had little to do with the findings, and that this advice will likely help anyone who takes medication(s) for high blood pressure.
CHANGING YOUR ROUTINE
Given the obvious benefit of nighttime blood pressure meds, how come more doctors and pharmacists don’t recommend taking them at night?
According to Dr. Hermida, “Change takes time — there’s always a delay between what research finds and what the recommendation is.”
Bottom line: I urge you to mention this research to your doctor… and talk about the best time of day for you to take your blood pressure medication(s).
Source(s):
Ramon C. Hermida, PhD, director, bioengineering and chronobiology laboratories, E.T.S.I. Telecomunicacion, University of Vigo, Spain.
December 26th, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Michelle:
Assad is a mad man. He has ordered his soldiers to shoot to kill and protestors. We are being chased from our homes and machined gunned by tanks.
Cantara
December 26th, 2011 at 1:35 pm
I am russian. Women in my country are being used as sex toys for men. I hope you will send Madaline to help us here too Michelle.
There is a revolution coming because the women here are becoming done with Putin.
December 26th, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Michelle, I live in Fukushima. My entire family has tested positive for radiation. My two brothers and sister 6, 9 and 12 have all tested positive for thyroid exposure to radiation.
I am the only one who has not tested positive. I was on Guam when the tsunami hit. I stayed their until about a month ago.
I wanted to be a Girlz when I was on Guam but I wanted to see that my family was okay first. The 4 that were picked up on Guam said that they would come back for me but they never did. Can I still be a Girlz?
Akira
December 26th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Happy Kwanzaa!!!
I’m sorry I’m late with the Christmas and Hanukkah wishes for everyone else. So let me just say Happy New Year, Peace on Earth to all!
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Michelle, thanks for reposting about canola. I hope some took it seriously enough to think about it. After I learned about canola oil, I went through my kitchen and refrigerator.
I thought I was pretty good about knowing what I was eating. I like to prepare my own food. I have a local organic farm I belong to where I can pick my own vegetables. When I eat out, I make conscious decisions to support chefs and restaurants that practice sustainable, local, farm-to-table principles.
I shop too at a lot of “healthier” markets. Sometimes I do want to buy a prepared food, so I read labels. I personally try to stay away from wheat and sugar so I’m always looking at the ingredients. I suppose because canola seemed so innocuous, I hadn’t considered it to be a bad thing. It wasn’t a word my brain stumbled over when looking for bad and taboo ingredients on a label.
Well let me tell you I was crushed to have to throw out several items this weekend that I paid good money for! (And, between us, holiday food gifts from others.) All were marked organic. Quality(?) products from places like Whole Foods. Tossing the Trader Joe’s organic tortilla chips was personally the hardest thing to say to myself that I would not eat again. (My go to lunch several times a week is sardines, salsa, avocado and chips.) And let’s be honest, there are a billion people on the globe starving and here I am throwing away food.
I’m pissed! Yes, I take responsibility and admonish myself over my lack of knowledge about canola and that I thought I was more aware about my food choices, but I saw no disclosure on any of the half-dozen “organic, natural” products I had to throw away that informed me that I was eating an industrial solvent. Gross!
And I “supported” these companies when I went to the register and gave my dollars. Grosser still!
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For all our African friends here, again, Happy Kwanzaa to you.
/SB
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If you want to know about the what and why of Kwanzaa, here’s the FAQ page from founder Dr. Maulana Karenga’s website. http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/faq.shtml#1
December 26th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
Happy Kwanzaa!!!
I’m sorry I’m late with the Christmas and Hanukkah wishes for everyone else. So let me just say Happy New Year, Peace on Earth to all!
—–
Michelle, thanks for reposting about canola. I hope some took it seriously enough to think about it. After I learned about canola oil, I went through my kitchen and refrigerator.
I thought I was pretty good about knowing what I was eating. I like to prepare my own food. I have a local organic farm I belong to where I can pick my own vegetables. When I eat out, I make conscious decisions to support chefs and restaurants that practice sustainable, local, farm-to-table principles.
I shop too at a lot of “healthier” markets. Sometimes I do want to buy a prepared food, so I read labels. I personally try to stay away from wheat and sugar so I’m always looking at the ingredients. I suppose because canola seemed so innocuous, I hadn’t considered it to be a bad thing. It wasn’t a word my brain stumbled over when looking for bad and taboo ingredients on a label.
Well let me tell you I was crushed to have to throw out several items this weekend that I paid good money for! (And, between us, holiday food gifts from others.) All were marked organic. Quality(?) products from places like Whole Foods. Tossing the Trader Joe’s organic tortilla chips was personally the hardest thing to say to myself that I would not eat again. (My go to lunch several times a week is sardines, salsa, avocado and chips.) And let’s be honest, there are a billion people on the globe starving and here I am throwing away food.
I’m pissed! Yes, I take responsibility and admonish myself over my lack of knowledge about canola and that I thought I was more aware about my food choices, but I saw no disclosure on any of the half-dozen “organic, natural” products I had to throw away that informed me that I was eating an industrial solvent. Gross!
And I “supported” these companies when I went to the register and gave my dollars. Grosser still!
—
And again, for all our African friends here, a very Happy Kwanzaa to you.
/SB
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If you want to know about the what and why of Kwanzaa, here’s the FAQ page from founder Dr. Maulana Karenga’s website. http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/faq.shtml#1
December 26th, 2011 at 3:01 pm
[Im sorry if this gets posted more than once. I thought I've posted twice but it doesn't appear. In case its the link I'm including, I'm going to try to break the message up.]
Happy Kwanzaa!!!
I’m sorry I’m late with the Christmas and Hanukkah wishes for everyone else. So let me just say Happy New Year, Peace on Earth to all!
—–
Michelle, thanks for reposting about canola. I hope some took it seriously enough to think about it. After I learned about canola oil, I went through my kitchen and refrigerator.
I thought I was pretty good about knowing what I was eating. I like to prepare my own food. I have a local organic farm I belong to where I can pick my own vegetables. When I eat out, I make conscious decisions to support chefs and restaurants that practice sustainable, local, farm-to-table principles.
I shop too at a lot of “healthier” markets. Sometimes I do want to buy a prepared food, so I read labels. I personally try to stay away from wheat and sugar so I’m always looking at the ingredients. I suppose because canola seemed so innocuous, I hadn’t considered it to be a bad thing. It wasn’t a word my brain stumbled over when looking for bad and taboo ingredients on a label.
Well let me tell you I was crushed to have to throw out several items this weekend that I paid good money for! (And, between us, holiday food gifts from others.) All were marked organic. Quality(?) products from places like Whole Foods. Tossing the Trader Joe’s organic tortilla chips was personally the hardest thing to say to myself that I would not eat again. (My go to lunch several times a week is sardines, salsa, avocado and chips.) And let’s be honest, there are a billion people on the globe starving and here I am throwing away food.
I’m pissed! Yes, I take responsibility and admonish myself over my lack of knowledge about canola and that I thought I was more aware about my food choices, but I saw no disclosure on any of the half-dozen “organic, natural” products I had to throw away that informed me that I was eating an industrial solvent. Gross!
And I “supported” these companies when I went to the register and gave my dollars. Grosser still!
—
For all our African friends here, again, Happy Kwanzaa to you.
/SB
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December 26th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
If you want to know about the what and why of Kwanzaa, here’s the FAQ page from founder Dr. Maulana Karenga’s website. http://www.officialkwanzaawebsite.org/faq.shtml#1
/SB
December 26th, 2011 at 3:09 pm
It’s the Kwanzaa link I’m trying to include that is giving me posting problems apparently.
If you want to know more about the what and why of Kwanzaa, go to the website called Official Kwanzaa Website dot Org and look at the FAQs link.
/SB
January 4th, 2012 at 4:50 am
What if i created a blog with the same name as other blog accidentally? is that legal?