No labor day for this gal….
Posted by michellemoquin on September 1st, 2008
…the only work I am going to be doing is working on my tan!…..we are off to the beach…Hey, I hope everyone has a beautiful day!
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September 1st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
HOW TO SOLVE YOUR EARWAX PROBLEMS
Wax build-up in your ears is usually harmless in and of itself — but it can actually trigger a number of problems, including dulled hearing, ringing in the ears, earache and sometimes even infection. The wax itself is not inherently dangerous, but the tactics many people use to remove it from the ear may cause problems.
WHY WE HAVE EARWAX
There’s a reason we have wax in our ears, so it doesn’t have to be removed unless it’s causing a particular problem, I was told by Richard Rosenfeld, MD, ear, nose and throat specialist and chairman of the department of otolaryngology at Long Island College Hospital in New York. “Earwax is produced by the body — sometimes in excess — as a normal secretion in response to a non-bacterial infection. It protects the skin in the ear canal from bacterial overgrowth, prevents secondary infection and also helps maintain a healthy balance of ‘good’ bacteria,” he said.
“The ear has a natural cleaning mechanism,” Dr. Rosenfeld told me. Wax and dead skin migrate out of the ear canal automatically, helped by jaw movement during chewing. Small hairs growing from the skin in the ear canal carry excess wax out of the ear. It is best to leave the system alone and let it work. Dr. Rosenfeld told me that many people injure their ears when using cotton swaps to clean them out. “This just pushes the wax in deeper, creating more of a problem,” he said. “There’s a reason why the label says to not put Q-tips in your ear canal! There’s no benefit to doing this and it can, in fact, trigger infection.”
SAFE WAYS TO KEEP YOUR EARS CLEAN
Dr. Rosenfeld has lots of easy, helpful suggestions on how you can safely keep earwax from building up, if this is a problem for you…
Commercially available products include “earwax removal kits” and non-prescription drops, both sold at your local supermarket or drugstore.
For natural cleaning options, you can use mineral oil or hydrogen peroxide. Tilt your head to the side. Using a dropper, slowly drip a few drops of mineral oil into the ear. This softens the wax, helping it to come out easily. Massage the oil into the ear and then tilt your head the opposite way so it drips out. Or you could put a few drops in the ear before bed, for three or four days, which will also help it ease its way out. Over-the-counter hydrogen peroxide is another alternative which softens wax. Dr. Rosenfeld suggests using it at half-strength, mixed with an equal amount of water. Make sure that anything you put in your ear canal is body temperature, he adds — liquids that are too hot or too cold may cause dizziness. Dr. Rosenfeld also suggests using a nasal aspirator, the small bulb-syringes commonly used to clean out the noses of babies, as these can help flush out excess wax.
Note: These techniques should not be used by people with a perforated eardrum or a hole in the eardrum caused by frequent ear infections. (Here’s how to tell: If, when you put drops or water in your ears, you can taste the solution dripping down the back of your throat, you have a perforation.) Also, people who have diabetes should never self-treat as they are prone to certain kinds of infections that can be very serious, notes Dr. Rosenfeld.
EAR CANDLING IS NOT A GOOD IDEA
A few readers have asked me for information about a popular “alternative” technique for earwax removal, called ear candling. Ear candling is a practice in which the patient lies on his side while a practitioner places a hollow candle in the ear. The heat and suction created by the candle is believed to draw wax and impurities from the ear, but this has never been proven scientifically. Dr. Rosenfeld said ear candling can be unsafe and is in fact “explicitly discouraged by the FDA.” “People have suffered serious problems including burns and perforation of the eardrum. It’s a questionable treatment of no known benefit,” says Dr. Rosenfeld.
If you find that excess earwax is an ongoing issue, it may be a sign of an underlying problem such as Candida albicans (yeast overgrowth). A naturopathic physician can help diagnose and treat this condition. If earwax accumulates to the point that it becomes impacted and causes hearing loss, Dr. Rosenfeld suggests that it be removed by an ear, nose and throat specialist.
Source(s): ??Richard Rosenfeld, MD, an ear, nose and throat specialist who is chairman of the department of otolaryngology at Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:04 pm
The selection of Sarah Palin
Isn’t this just as crazy as the “family values” party promoting Guliani with his multiple marriages and McCain with his sorbid tale of dumping his first wife with 3 children for a younger women?
They are the party of hypocrisy, torture, and malfeasance.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:08 pm
The selection of Sarah Palin
yet another compassionate and loving bible thumper.
Kind of like the bunch that prayed that Obama would have his acceptance speech rained on in biblical proportions.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:21 pm
The selection of Sarah Palin
Like the rest of us, Senator McCain has only two arms. So here is the question. Which of McCains elbow warts will Palin replace, Joe Liberman or Lindsey Graham?
Another question: How long has it been since John McCain stated he would rather lose an election than lose a war? Hey John! How about winning an election at the risk of losing a nation?
September 1st, 2008 at 9:23 pm
The selection of Sarah Palin
The fact that Gov Palin chose to go on this radio show IN THE FIRST PLACE shows horrible judgment, as she must have known how juvenile and crass its interviewers would be. The fact that when they derided her rival by making a grotesque reference to her battle with cancer, Palin laughed shows what I’ve seen in my own extended family — the people who harp the most about being Christians are the most likely to hate other people and to spread that kind of hate.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:24 pm
You have to give the republicans credit. I have found republicans to be ready willing and able when it comes to personal attacks.
Always ready to spread false information.
Always ready to let someone else make the sacrifice, or force someone else to make the sacrifice.
Always ready to claim credit for anything good that happens.
Always ready to blame someone else for anything they do wrong.
Always in favor of small government unless they can find a way to profit from it personally.
Always ready to lie or accept the lie if they think they can profit from it.
lieberman is the perfect republican!
September 1st, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Hope this story gets some play.
Sarah reminds me of that pretty but really, really nasty popular girl in high school.
See the movie “Mean Girls” to see what I mean.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:29 pm
It’s not fear. It’s vetting, and Palin is not showing up to be ethical, dignified, or ready to be a heartbeat away from the POTUS. In fact, this information reflects very very negatively on McCain’s own judgment for the position himself.
Keep the information coming the Democrats operate out of the following scripture:
2Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:30 pm
this is unrelated, but: why is it a heartbeat away from presidency? Isn’t it more like a FLAT LINE away from presidency? In McCain’s case, very valid concern.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:30 pm
I predict
McCain 52%
Barack 48%
September 1st, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Actually McCain is his own man and Bush won’t be in office
That’s like saying Palin will be as bad as Cheney
It could never happen
September 1st, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Just a day ago there were people on here saying her 6 month old was her daughters–good, now they know that was total BS, and so what!! So her daughter is pregant, it happens to people when the parents don’t both work. How is that her mother’s fault? Are you people Gods judges? She sounds like she gets things done to me, she’s awsome. She’s only human just like the rest of us, only she works harder than most!
September 1st, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Why is it that no woman can make any critical remark about another woman without generating stupid remarks about catiness and bra-burning? Men say utterly vicious things about each other, and nobody feels moved to concentrate on the fact of the remark rather than its content. Indeed, during Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, men said horrible things about her, and no one cried out Meow. Women will not attain true equality until they can criticize each other without this kind of nastiness.
September 1st, 2008 at 9:41 pm
As an Alaskan of 26 years, I can tell you that many residents of the state are still in shock that Palin was chosen for VP candidate. This story is just one example of her “entitled” attitude and lack of being a team player.
Another story waiting to show up in the national press — why did the Commissioner of Health and Social Services quit with one day notice in spring 2008? The answer relates to Palin’s policies (and lack of experience) as Governor.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Democrats need to understand what has happened here with the Gov. Palin pick.
The McCain campaign has just handed the corporate controlled media a plausible script to explain away a dem loss this November.
Every time a dem surrogate mentions Palin’s lack of experience, the response will be a reminder of Obama’s lack of executive experience, rightly or wrongly. If experience is so important, why did Biden come in 5th in Iowa? If experience is so important, why didn’t Obama choose Clinton?
I don’t think Gov. Palin would make a good president, but I do think she was a good choice for the republicans because the democrats left the door open by nominating a novice who chose a Washington insider as his running mate. Dumb move, democrats.
Now the mainstream media has an abundance of plausible reasons for why the dems lost in a year that they should have been able to win by simply showing up.
As long as democrats try to play the game according to MSM rules, they will lose. I was hoping for a real change this year.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:10 pm
he difference here is clear. Obama spent 19 months getting known by the American public, and WE elected him as our nominee. WE found him worthy.
McCain made that judgment all on his own, after one meeting, from ‘his gut’… and then imposted that decision on the rest of the nation.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:11 pm
McCain spent too much time trying to get Lieberman on the ticket. When his Republican Overlord, Kar Rove, vetoed that idea, he just grabbed Palin. He has little more idea how she would be as president than we do.
For such a short time in office, just over one year as governor, she certainly has made a lot of enemies. Even Alaska Republicans seem to despise her, and the Alaskan press is stunned that such a political lightweight could be considered presidential timber.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:18 pm
She takes no prisoners. We should worry about that and the fact that she upended what might be the most closed bastion of conservative, republican male domination in the country by getting elected Governor of Alaska with a 90% approval rating. Underestimating this woman and dismissing what she might do to a close race in Colorado or Nevada, on which the election might hinge, would be a very big mistake.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:24 pm
I’d like to know if any of the major newspapers, CNN, MSMBC will pick up on any of these “items” floating around Palin. In just 48 hours, there’s troopergate, the “baby”, the juvenile radio show, the bridge to nowhere flip, her mother-in-law, ignorance of what the VP does……not to mention her woeful inadequacies for being VP, and the ever present Obama observation, “we don’t know who she is”.
Curiously, everyone just seemed to “KNOW” who she is. McCain said she’s OK, She said she’s OK and that was it. 18 months later, people are still saying Obama needs to define and introduce himself. Equally speaking, she couldn’t possibly run before 2010.
I want her to get equal treatment by the press. Let’s play the radio clip over and over and over, all day for 2 weeks, interview her x-brother-in-law and her mother-in-law and then make ads out of it (the networks will just run them for free like they do McCains); and of course during the debates, ask her to name 3 things the VP does (GOTCHA!) and who’s the baby’s mama?? When all this has happened, then we’ll see how her approval rating is doing.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:37 pm
The problem is, no one is going to do that job. If you want to see “O-B” in office you’ll have to do the vettng yourself. I watched This Week and Cockie Roberts was enamored with her. She’s upset Obama won or at the very least that he didn’t pick Hillary. OK bad choice but he didn’t throw her under the bus, he just didn’t pick her. But most of the female anchors (especially) are willing to give her a pass. O-B will have to go on the attack themselves, not a wise choice but there’s only two months left and they can’t leave the “non-existent” vetting to the media. And as for all that “waiting to find out more about Obama” that was just code for “waiting for something else to come along”…Unfortunately now they have it and before you compare experiences, their response will be: “well he”s running for president, she”s not, so her lack of experience is not an issue”. Despite the fact that she’ll be one head cold away from being the next commander-in-chief.
September 1st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I clicked on a link earlier to take me to the Bailey phone conversation and it was bunk so after several searches I found this.
http://community.adn.com/node/128967?page=1
September 1st, 2008 at 10:42 pm
Sarah’s husband is a united steelworker and she has been working class – do you obama people think this will play in Ohio, Penn, WV and mich! lol – hillary 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 1st, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Here’s what her hometown newspaper had to say about the incident
http://www.adn.com/opinion/comment/story/295464.html
September 1st, 2008 at 11:50 pm
The Religious Right isn’t too happy about this story.
http://baptistsforbrown2008.wordpress.com/2008/08/30/sin-spotting-sarah-palins-latest-child-is-not-hers/
September 1st, 2008 at 11:52 pm
What a hypocrite! I believed in Senator Obama! My six voting members of my democratic party family believed in Obama. Four of my family members are females and devoted supporters of Senator Clinton. We all thought that he was going to be the change that this country needed. I was so pysched up for my democratic convention this week, but Obama picked Biden, who is not a change but one of the big problems. Now look at Senator McCain who picked an outsider, and most of all a woman ,who believes in America. I may not agree with everything that Senator McCain stands for, but he’s a better choice that wishy-washy, back-sliding, bend at every blow of the wind, change your stance, and big time HYPOCRITE OBAMA! HE REALLY LET US DOWN! WHAT OTHER LIES IS HE GOING TO SPREAD NOW?
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 am
Kudos, –you republican shills pretending to be disaffected Democrats are so entertaining, I must say. Not original, not believable, not respectable…but entertaining, absolutely. Are you in any way influencing thinking people with your transparent attempts to influence others’ political judgement? BWAHH-HAA-HAAA-HAAAA!!
By the way, you’d do well just to come out as the republican die-hard, desperate loyalist you really are. The rest of us know it, and you’d be less embarrassing, to say the least.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:55 am
BENEFITS OF BLUE TORTILLAS
I yield to no one in my love for Mexican food, but I also know it’s not exactly the healthiest fare. So I was skeptical when I read recently about some nutritional claims for blue tortillas. Supposedly, new research showed that blue tortillas are good for you — and I’d love to have been convinced it’s so. It didn’t happen, but you’d never have guessed that from reading the headlines in the supermarket magazines.
SINGING THE PRAISE OF BLUE CORN TORTILLAS
At first, it made sense. As a general rule in the food kingdom, foods that are naturally deep-colored are healthier. The pigments that make blueberries blue and raspberries red come from plant compounds called anthocyanins, which are powerful antioxidants, protecting the plant — and the people who eat it — from the cellular damage caused by rogue oxygen-containing molecules called free radicals. Therefore it stands to reason that tortillas made from blue corn might indeed be better for you than white ones… but little research has actually been done on pigmented corns and the colorful tortillas made from them.
In the study making so-called news, Juscelino Tovar, PhD, professor of biochemistry and nutrition at Universidad Central de Venezuela, and his research associates in Yautepec (Mexico), analyzed the chemical composition of blue and white corn tortillas, noting the blue ones start with a presumed edge given their color and their possible anthocyanin content. They specifically looked for differences in variables — including protein and starch content and glycemic index. His conclusion: “An important benefit of the blue tortilla is its potential role in preventing or controlling metabolic syndrome.”
CHEMISTRY LESSON
The researchers put identical amounts of the two tortillas in test tubes and, by observing the breakdown of the starch by enzymes, were able to predict the glycemic index of both varieties. “The blue tortillas had a glycemic index of 86,” Dr. Tovar told me. “The white tortilla was 98.” Also, the researchers discovered that tortillas made from blue corn contain 20% more protein than their white counterparts. The calories of the two tortillas were the same and of course, the blue ones do have some antioxidants, relative to the paler ones.
So let’s review. Twenty percent more protein sounds substantial, till you look at the actual numbers. One white corn tortilla has 1.5 grams of protein, a tiny amount. A 20% increase brings it up to a still meaningless 1.8 grams. Further, though the glycemic index of the blue tortillas was 12% lower than the white ones, it’s a distinction that makes no difference. On the glycemic index scale used, white bread is 100 and, by any standard, 86 ranks as a high glycemic food.
So are blue tortillas “better” than the white kind? Slightly — but only that. If you’re going to eat them, pile on the salsa and beans. Hands down, that’ll be the healthiest part of the snack or meal.
Source(s): ??Juscelino Tovar, PhD, a researcher on the above-mentioned study and a professor of biochemistry and nutrition at Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas.