This ‘n That Chitchat
Posted by Michelle Moquin on May 16th, 2012
Good morning!
Kathy: Except for the Brown snake epidemic, I really enjoyed your chronicles of Guam. Lucky you for getting to send so much time there and the chance to visit the Trench. Knowing how I love island living/weather, Guam sounds like home to me.
Social Butterfly, Zen Lill: Thank you. She was a great woman, and will be missed by all. We are celebrating her life on Saturday and I expect it to be wonderful. PS ZL: I like what you said.
Anna, Peter: Hafa Adai. So nice to hear from both of you! I realized after seeing both of your comments that it has been awhile. How is everything?
Cn: I like what you wrote. I say, “People don’t police themselves”. I think I stole that thought from Anonz. But it is so true.
SS-1: Hmm…like that quote. Unfortunately it really matters what people read, and watch on TV, and in this modern age, what they read and watch on the internet. It is amazing to me how many people watch FOX, and stupidly believe without really doing their homework. It is destructive and irresponsible at worst and lazy at best.
Ída: Following Whisper’s lead, in one word, “Yes”.
Roger, Roger, Roger…Does it not occur to you? Perhaps your wife is doing and thinking the same same thing. You know the song don’t you? Got to love it. Sometimes it makes a woman a better partner, especially when she’s getting it good and the pussy is primed.
This one’s for you:
Love the song – Diggin’ the dancing and the green suit!
Grace: Payback is a bitch isn’t it?
Brenda: I agree with the “was my best friend”. What is wrong with women who don’t share this vital information with their girlfriends? Women need to know when their so-called “man” is doing “indiscretions” behind their backs.
A note to all Girls: Be a true girlfriend and Tell TELL TELL about the LSOS!
Helen: Exactly right. Women make the biggest mistake thinking that their relationship is going to be different…that they’re going to be the one to “change him”. He wouldn’t dare cheat on me. Yeah right. You will surely be disappointed and most likely hurt.
Morgan: Well you got one thing right, I do love Obama. The only idiot in your little comment is Hasselbeck.
Trish: This topic was on my mind this morning. So this one’s for you.
Lawrence O’Donnell Rips Newsweek’s Obama Gay Marriage Cover: America Is ‘Wicked Stupid’ (VIDEO)
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Lawrence O’Donnell ripped Newsweek on his MSNBC show Monday night for itsprovocative cover celebrating President Barack Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage.
After showing an image of Newsweek’s cover featuring Obama with a rainbow-covered halo above his head (or as one HuffPost editor fondly dubbed it—a gaylo), O’Donnell called the magazine “wicked desperate.”
“Newsweek had two headlines they were thinking of going with,” O’Donnell told his panel. “‘Please Buy This Magazine’ was one…and the other was ‘The First Gay President.’”
O’Donnell seemed to take issue with the fact that some Americans may believe Newsweek’s headline as factual statement about the president.
“We live in a wicked stupid country, okay,” O’Donnell said. “This is a country that believes, in a very substantial proportion, that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Huge number, millions and millions of people…like 30 percent, think he wasn’t born American. They think he’s Kenyan. Crazy, crazy beliefs. And Newsweek, it seems to me, has to consider the responsibility of sending out into such a collectively stupid country and stupid electorate this thing, which is the only sentence in Newsweek that most people are going to read this week – the sentence on the cover.”
O’Donnell added that the cover and headline could perpetuate more misinformation about the president. “The ‘Obama is gay’ number is now going to go up to 35 [percent],” O’Donnell said, referring to the portion of the population that could mistake Newsweek’s headline for fact.
Watch the discussion in the video above. The exchange comes at about 3 minutes into the segment.
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NW: You may feel like you have stepped into an insane asylum, but when I read the lies, rhetoric, all-about-me, bigoted comments of “Anyone but Obama”, I know I have.
Alycedale: Coattails. Obama needs “coattails”.
This is a good place to end. The forum is open. Blog me.
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.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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May 16th, 2012 at 6:11 pm
Hi Mischa, glad that you liked what I said (about your lineage of good females or ‘cheating’? Not sure)
I’m in meetings for next 4 days, fun ones, I’ll probably read but probably won’t have time to comment (much : ) have fun here in the MM blogosphere!
Luv, Zen Lill
PS Brenda, there is the ‘don’t shoot the messenger’ factor with women, trust me, I’ve been on the receiving end it isn’t fun, you tell and suddenly your the bitch bc the friend may just rather believe her LSOS (in that case, you run and just wait for the fallout, you’ll be the first call they make when they’re ready to snap out of it) I learned that one in freaking high school! Caught me completely off guard, I thought she’d thank me…hmm…
May 17th, 2012 at 7:41 am
Michelle, I swear you have the best blog in the world. I cannot count the times I have said about a love poem posted on your blog, this is the most romantically; tender, anguished, passionate, erotic, etc group of words ever put together.
In my humble opinion many rival some of the most famous poets and romanticists ever published.
And then another is posted. Who are these people? How blessed must their desired be?
Anonymous Says: May 16th, 2012 at 11:41 pm
Your words brought tears to my eyes. I laid awake imaging what the woman must have been like to inspire such words. I dreamt of romance novels read in my youth and the hundreds of classical love poems I have assigned to my students.
This year I shall ask my class to do their term paper on yours. Perhaps one of them will reward me with answers to questions that haunt me after reading your words of anguish.
Connie
May 17th, 2012 at 7:45 am
Hafa Adai Michelle. Life could be better. I invested a lot expecting the marines to show. But having read Mike’s note on yesterday’s blog, I see that it is the criminals in the Senate that are behind the delay.
This election I hope we get a clean sweep of the thieves. But, alas, we on Guam have no vote, so all I can do is hope.
Still it is nice to be remembered from the States. Thanks for the touch of class that is you.
Peter
May 17th, 2012 at 8:00 am
Hormone Helper
Dear Reader,
Looking for a simple way to improve your health? Balance your hormones! Every single day, I see patients of all ages and both sexes with health problems related to hormones.
One of the most misunderstood topics in the health arena, hormones can be your best friends or your worst enemies. The determining factor is balance. But these days, that’s no small feat.
Currently, a potentially disastrous development known as estrogen dominance threatens to undermine all our efforts to stay healthy. I’m not exaggerating when I say we all need to make some simple changes to protect ourselves.
How Hormones Work
Simply put, hormones are chemical signals relayed from organs to specific points in the body, where they can turn cells on or off. The endocrine system, which consists of various glands and organs, is responsible for hormone production.
What to Know About Glands and Their Hormones
Adrenal glands: Produce more than 100 different hormones, including epinephrine, norepinephrine, DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), aldosterone, and cortisol. These play various roles in blood pressure, heart rate, metabolism, and inflammation.
Hypothalamus: Produces five different hormones, including one that monitors the kidneys and several others that activate the pituitary gland.
Ovaries: Release the hormones estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, which relate primarily to female sex characteristics, reproduction, and other bodily functions.
Pancreas: Produces two hormones, insulin and glucagon. Insulin directs glucose to its destination and assists with fat storage. Glucagon elevates blood sugar levels to provide the body with energy.
Parathyroid: Produces parathyroid hormone (PTH), which controls calcium and phosphate distribution.
Pituitary: Produces six different hormones, including growth hormone and others that work in conjunction with the thyroid, adrenals, ovaries, and testicles.
Testicles: Release two hormones, testosterone and the less well-known inhibin. As with ovaries, these hormones primarily relate to the development of male sex characteristics and reproduction.
Thyroid: Produces three hormones. Two of these regulate cellular metabolism, while the third monitors calcium levels in the blood and bones.
Here’s a good example of how hormones work in real life. Let’s say, for example, that you’ve just eaten lunch.
The digestive process breaks the food down into various elements (such as glucose), which are then transferred to cells throughout the body to be used as fuel.
The hormone insulin, produced in the pancreas, makes this happen. So in a sense, hormones act as traffic cops, directing specific substances to the right places.
Fortunately, hormones function automatically without any input from us. Of course, that’s true only when the endocrine system is working properly.
For instance, we could consider diabetes a deficiency of the hormone insulin. This is because either the pancreas can’t produce sufficient quantities of insulin or the body no longer recognizes it,
so we must relieve the symptoms with insulin or other medications from outside the body. Similarly, we could describe menopause as a deficiency of estrogen.
Clearly, hormones are essential to life as we know it.
During the past few decades, scientists have unlocked quite a few hormone-related secrets, making it possible for us to take advantage of synthetically produced hormones.
For individuals with serious hormone deficiencies, like thyroid disturbances, these developments are giant steps forward.
When Hormones Go Wrong
But there’s another hormone-related issue you should be aware of. It’s called estrogen dominance, and it is affecting all of us — men, women, and children alike.
And as my patient Nick discovered, there are ways to remedy estrogen dominance. But first, let’s look at what’s happening and why.
Whether you’re a man or a woman, you have estrogen in your body, although women have considerably more. Estrogen encourages growth, which is fine as long as there’s progesterone available to balance it.
Trouble begins when our hormones get out of balance. This can happen for several reasons, including adolescence, pregnancy, and aging.
But you may not have considered some other factors that play a role in hormone levels. Stress, for example, ramps up the body’s production of the stress hormone cortisol, which requires progesterone.
That means there’s a good chance that estrogen levels will rise without progesterone to rein them in. Insulin resistance has a similar effect, as does the typical American couch-potato/poor-nutrition lifestyle. Clearly, the stage is set for elevated estrogen levels.
Why Extra Estrogen Hurts Our Health
To make matters worse, we have the relatively recent phenomenon of estrogenic chemicals in food, water, and the environment.
Just one of these — a synthetic estrogen known as bisphenol A (BPA) — has attracted considerable attention, so much so that nearly 7,000 studies focus on BPA in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) database.
I won’t mislead you — not all the research is damning, and many questions about BPA have not been answered.
But there is certainly enough proof to convince me of two things: One, just about everyone has BPA in his or her body; and two, it is definitely an endocrine-disrupting substance.
Research shows that BPA may be linked to hormonal irregularities and health concerns such as obesity, heart disease, cancer, attention deficit disorder (ADD), genital abnormalities, and diabetes.
Signs and Symptoms of Plastic Toxicity
• Brain fog, inability to concentrate
• Stomach discomfort or irritation
• Headaches
• Rapid heart rate
• Fatigue
• Tremors
• Inflammation
When Plastic Isn’t So Fantastic
By now, you may be wondering where BPA comes from. BPA is used in plastics of all kinds, as well as in the lining of cans used for food and beverages.
Unfortunately, BPA leaches into the contents of the can or bottle, so we end up ingesting it.
An article published last year in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that subjects who ate canned vegetable soup once a day for five days had BPA levels that were a whopping 1,200 percent higher than subjects who ate homemade vegetable soup.
You could probably live without canned soup, but that wouldn’t protect you from BPA. Think about the endless stream of plastic and cans in our lives.
We put our vegetables in plastic bags at the supermarket, we grab a bottle of water when we’re rushing out the door, we buy medication and personal-care products packaged in plastic of some sort.
And who doesn’t have at least a few cans of fruit or vegetables in the pantry?
Even though urine removes BPA from the body, our exposure is nonstop, 24/7, so whatever we excrete is soon replaced.
Not surprisingly, one recent survey found that 95 percent of Americans had BPA in their bloodstreams.
How to Put Plastic in Its Place
So what can you do to protect yourself and your family from this toxin and others like it? Here are a few suggestions I have found helpful:
• Swap plastic food-storage containers for glass or another plastic alternative.
• Do not microwave food in plastic because heat breaks down BPA, allowing it to migrate into the food.
• Replace a plastic shower curtain with one that is BPA-free.
•Buy a BPA-free water container, such as stainless steel or glass, to use instead of plastic bottles.
• Never reuse plastic water bottles and never drink from those left sitting in a hot car, since BPA levels could be even higher than normal.
• Try to avoid canned foods.
• Install a water filter to eliminate toxic substances from your cooking, drinking, and bath water.
• If you’re a fan of soy, eat only fermented soy foods, like tempeh, natto, and miso. Unfermented soy contains disruptive, estrogen-like compounds.
• Increase your intake of organic fruits and vegetables to reduce your body’s toxic load and to add substances that minimize the effects of toxins.
• Look into supportive supplements like beta-glucan (100 mg once daily), derived from grain and mushrooms; diindolylmethane (DIM), from cruciferous vegetables (100 to 200 mg twice daily);
or a green food supplement containing assorted vegetable compounds (follow dosage instructions on the product).
We may not be able to avoid as many hormone-disrupting chemicals as we’d like; but with a little effort, we can eliminate many of these toxins from our lives.
When it comes to changing lifelong habits, my favorite method is to take it one step at a time. Before long, you’ll begin to see how well-balanced hormones can make a difference in your health.
Leigh Erin Connealy, M.D.
May 17th, 2012 at 8:09 am
Michelle, thanks for answering me. I and my friends are so excited. I giggled all the way to work.
Oh, and as usual you are so there with the right answers. I agree with “Whispers”, so many of my friends are discovering that their men swing both ways.
I am also very happy that you suggested that we use some form of identifier when using initials. You are the thoughts in my head sometimes.
Some of my friends refuse to believe that I thought the same thing but I am a mechanic engineer who like you thinks outside the box.
I never miss your blog. Though I sometimes can’t post to it.
love
SS-1