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Election Season entering the 2nd turn

Countdown to Iowa caucuses: 18 days


Countdown to New Hampshire primary: 25 days

Countdown to South Carolina primary: 36 days

Countdown to Florida primary: 46 days

Countdown to Nevada caucuses: 50 days

Countdown to Super Tuesday: 81 days

Countdown to Election Day: 328 days



http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/16/9493331-first-thoughts-its-a-bird-its-a-plane-its-romneys-super-pac

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Ganoderma

Ganoderma according to Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganoderma

Medicine

Ganoderma lucidum

Several species of Ganoderma have been used in traditional Asian medicines for thousands of years. Collectively, the Ganoderma are being investigated for a variety of potential therapeutic benefits:

• anticancer effects ^[15][16]
• immunoregulatory effects^[17][18]
• antioxidant activities^[19][20]
• liver-protecting effects^[21][22]
• hypoglycemic effects^[23][24]
• antibacterial effects^[25]
• antiviral effects^[26][27]
• antifungal effects^[28]
• reducing blood cholesterol^[29]
• inhibiting blood vessel regeneration (angiogenesis)^[30]
• antifibrotic effects^[31]
• protection against radiation-induced damage ^[32]
• reducing lower urinary tract symptoms ^[33]
• increasing endurance for vigorous exercise ^[34]

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corporate welfare costs ontario 3 billion per year

corporate welfare costs Ontario 3 billion per year

Ontario’s massive “corporate welfare” spending is unfair, inefficient and costs more than $3-billion per year, according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.


http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/08/corporate-welfare-costs-ontario-3-billion-a-year-report/

200 Trillion Dollar Question

This was interesting

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/200-trillion-world-owns-wealth-184822710.html;_ylt=Avx7wtBhnYb4CRskNESHBzOiuYdG;_ylu=X3oDMTRiZmNqcDdrBG1pdANGUCBDb21tZW50YXJ5IGFuZCBBbmFseXNpcwRwa2cDMzlkNzEwMjctYTEwNC0zZmZlLWE5N2UtNjFmODA1MWI4OTRkBHBvcwMyBHNlYwNNZWRpYVNlY3Rpb25MaXN0BHZlcgMxMGVhNjRjMC0yNjYzLTExZTEtYjVjMi1kMzU5NTNiNjM2NTE-;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3




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10 Buzzwords to Avoid on Your Resume

 http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/power-your-future/10-buzzwords-avoid-resume-182951302.html

I'm going to add all 10 to my LinkedIn profile :)

Creative. Effective. Motivated. While you may think that you're using words on your resume that will appeal to hiring managers, some words can actually turn them off. On Tuesday, LinkedIn released the top 10 words that job seekers overuse in resumes and job applications. Here's the list:


-- Creative

-- Organizational

-- Effective

-- Extensive experience

-- Track record

-- Motivated

-- Innovative

-- Problem solving

-- Communication skills

-- Dynamic

Natural Health by Sue Anne Hickey

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http://www.health-and-natural-healing.com/

" My personal nutritional approach is simple. If it grows, eat it. If it doesn't grow, don't eat it." Louise Hay - You Can Heal Your Life

"Despite the efforts of the Obama administration against childhood obesity, the US congress passes a law to keep pizza and french fries as the mainstay for school lunches. Bowing under the pressure of the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) whose members include... McCain Foods and JR Simplot, (the supplier to McDonald's) H.J. Heinz Co, General Mills and Kraft Foods."

‎"One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine." - William Osler

"Healthy glowing skin happens with a healthy diet and exercise. Also, ensure enough essential fatty acids from things like flax seeds, walnuts, salmon, extra virgin olive oil. Most do not get enough from diet alone and a high quality omega 3 supplement is necessary."

‎"Always take supplements with a full glass of water. Water enhances the absorption and is needed to aid in carrying the nutrients to the cells." Phyllis Balch, - Prescription for Nutritional Healing.

"Get enough sleep to lose weight. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. article reported a study in which men who were sleep deprived ate 22% more calories and felt more hungry before breakfast and dinner."

"Xylitol is a natural sweetener that looks and tastes similar to sugar, replaces sugar one to one, and has a negligible effect on glycmic levels."

‎"As we grow older, our digestive system tends to get weaker. Hydrochloric acid and enzyme production diminishes with age and is usually quite deficient by the time a person is 50, although it may start becoming deficient in many people much earlier than that. This deficiency of digestive secretions is a major part of protein and mineral deficiencies in the elderly. It is also why Digestive Enzymes is practically a “must-have” product for those over 50." - Steven Horne

"Nutrition isn't a bunch of "do's" and "don'ts" - it's about nurturing and nourishing yourself."

‎"What is rarely acknowledged or understood is that as these hormone driven changes (menopause) affect the brain, they give a woman a sharper eye for inequity and injustice, and a voice that insists on speaking up about them." Christiane Northrup, - The Wisdom of Menopause.

"To avoid calcium deposits (that also accumulate in the arteries, cause kidney stones etc) ensure you get enough organic sodium. Good sources include celery, carrots, sprouts, strawberries, oats, safflower oil and sun dried sea salt. A dandelion supplement will dissolve calcium deposits over time."

‎"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs." - 
Joan Welsh

Rather than getting a flu shot, boost your immune system with these healthy foods: Fresh fruits and vegetables, beans, fish, poultry, eggs, raw organic seeds and nuts,first cold-pressed oils, whole grains, sprouts. http://www.health-and-natural-healing.com/strengthen-immune-system.html

The Top Strengthen Immune System Tips

www.health-and-natural-healing.com

The best ways to strengthen immune system, what weakens the immune system, natural immune system boosters, all can be found here.

Have you had your snack today? Often, it's better to have a healthy snack when you need one than to deprive yourself and then overindulge at meal time. For great, healthy snack ideas...http://www.health-and-natural-healing.com/healthy-snack-recipes.html

Healthy Snack Recipes and Healthy Snacks and For You and Your Family

www.health-and-natural-healing.com

Delicious, Healthy Snack Recipes, including a healthy food list to always have on hand, healthy snack recipes and the best high protein snacks to take care of your sugar cravings.

Take my quick "Liver Quiz" to see if your liver needs some help.

Liver Cleanse Recipe - Lemon Detox Diet Recipe

www.health-and-natural-healing.com

The best natural liver cleanse recipe. How to follow a natural liver detox program. Find out how easy it is to lose weight with detox. Liver gall bladder cleanse as well.

Amiri Baraka "Wailers"

Amiri "Somebody Blew Up America"

Revolution!

In the interest of self preservation the structure must first brutalize the people before the structure can change. 


ENDURE!

Hypocrisy

I'm curious how people who think that 'if you don't have a job, it's your fault' can now turn around and perpetrate this kind of hypocrisy?!

Someday

Someday I'm going to stop writing poetry and start living it!

it's poetry to me. Haille Selassie:

it's poetry to me. Haille Selassie:
"That until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned: That until there are no longer first-class and second class citizens of any nation; 

That until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes; That until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race;

That until that day, the dream of lasting peace and world citizenship and the rule of international morality will remain but a fleeting illusion, to be pursued but never attained;

And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes that hold our brothers in Angola, in Mozambique and in South Africa in subhuman bondage have been toppled and destroyed;

Until bigotry and prejudice and malicious and inhuman self-interest have been replaced by understanding and tolerance and good-will; Until all Africans stand and speak as free beings, equal in the eyes of all men, as they are in the eyes of Heaven;

Until that day, the African continent will not know peace. We Africans will fight, if necessary, and we know that we shall win, as we are confident in the victory of good over evil."

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Sue-Anne Hickey - Natural Health

Natural-Health

Those over the age of 50 don't absorb and assimilate vitamins as well, supplements are essential. Case in point; if a 35-year-old women and a 65-year-old women walk in the sun for ten minutes the 35-year-old will manufacture 3 times as much vitamin D.

Sue-Anne Hickey

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http://www.illuminartyoga.com/

Left Right and Left again

Poor Obama.  He plays the part of referee and statesman to the "T" and cannot get any love.  The right hates him for being a liberal democrat, the left hates him for not being a liberal democrat...poor bastard!  He better start pissing people on the right off a lot more since they will not vote for him no matter what :)

Barack Obama

The rhetoric grows stronger that Barack Obama is not up to the task of being President of The United States (POTUS); I am of the belief that the rhetoric is way off the mark, he has been an excellent POTUS.  He is in the process of transforming and strengthening the office of POTUS.  He has been reasonable to a fault and now it is time for him to be somewhat unreasonable.

One thing I keep in mind when making this judgement is remembering what he has faced up until now, namely a hostile opposition which has made it a mission to deligitimize Obama at every opportunity, with every conceivable weapon at their disposal.  "NO" has been their favorite weapon, blocking every iniative, refusing every compromise, going so far as to question whether he was really born...in the USA.  If memory serves me right, that argument over his right to claim American citizenship went on for 2.5 years; some people still doubt it.  All of this has culminated with their refusal to sensibly compromise on the deficit reduction and the debt ceiling increase effectively holding the US economy hostage with the threat of a default.

They were given 98% of what they asked for and it was not enough.  They are entirely gleeful about the S&P ratings reduction to AA+.  They say they have all the answers and refuse any other point of view and are entirely willing to destroy the country in order to rebuild the country in their sacred image.

What's puzzling, what's troubling is that this philosophy, this ideology is the same espoused in right-wing, conservative, Republican musings such as Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" and that William Luther Pierce piece of crap "The Turner Diaries", coupled with the destructive extreme evangelical thinking that the world must end and it is their duty to do God's Will and bring about that end.

These people are dangerous yet it is Barack Obama whose measured even tone which gets attacked.  I believe he needs to do more and move to left of the spectrum to counter this growing menace to America.  He needs to end those wars, resolve the Guantanamo situation, and give the other party NOTHING.  He needs to create jobs in America, balance the budget, educate America, and prepare America for a new age in science, transportation, medicine, technology, etc. 

Do all this Mr. President and let the American people decide, some of them are reasonable, moderate, conservative Republicans and they will always ask for more, but they will appreciate progress, hold their nose, and vote for you.

Sue-Anne Hickey

Natural-Health

Did you know... that in order to absorb the beta carotene from raw carrots (good for vision and also boosts the immune system) you need to eat some healthy fats or oils with your carrots, as beta carotene is fat soluble.

Sue-Anne Hickey

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http://www.facebook.com/natural.health.with.sue.anne?sk=app_112078882147346

Natural Health 2011/08/03

"For optimal health or if you want to lose weight, Never skip a meal. When you skip a meal your body will try to protect itself because it does not know when the next meal is going to be. Your metabolism slows right down and the next meal is stored as fat."


Sue-Anne Hickey


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Conservative Republicans

The game is simple, if you don't play it our way, we are going to take the game ball, which isn't ours by the way, and let the whole thing crumble.

Chinese Billionaires die every 40 days?!!!

"A Chinese billionaire dies every 40 days

So here's something you don't want to be: a billionaire in China. In a bizarre report, China Daily released numbers on Friday that showed 72 billionaires in that country have died in the last eight years. So what about the current 115, including Chen Guangbiao, at left? They should be a little nervous. But Daily's report revealed more alarming

truths: of those 72 dead billionaires, 15 were murdered, 17 committed suicide, seven died from accidents and 19 from illness. The remaining 14? They were executed. Guess it's smart to keep that bank balance at $999 million, boys and girls!"

http://powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/dailyinsider#!wallState=0__%2Fpolitics%2Fjuly-26-zuckerberg-digs-jay-z-and-ivanka-trump-and-wendi-murdoch-team-up-10510.gallery%3FphotoId%3D43284

Tales of Survival

This was a great story of survival.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43638590/ns/today-today_people/

By Scott Stump

TODAY.com contributor TODAY.com contributor

updated 7/5/2011 8:50:40 AM ET2011-07-05T12:50:40

Floating in the Sea of Cortez alone in shark-infested waters, his body nearing exhaustion and his mind starting to replay his entire life, Charles Gibson was in the midst of a 16-hour ordeal that concluded when he washed ashore on a nearby island.     

Conservatives win a majority in Canada

Some are happy...me...NOPE!

great, more battles about gun freedoms, abortion, more corporate welfare through tax cuts, bigger deficits, less healthcare, less education, more people on the streets, more grief and strife for the incredibly shrinking middle-class, higher gas prices, higher energy prices, more wars, a more polluted environment, and a camera in every bedroom so the government can monitor our every move- naturally they will call it fighting terrorism. We asked for it, we got it, we will own the results until level-headed people can get back into power.

Osama Bin Laden Death

Great, he's dead.

The Nature of Being Free

Freedom is not in being able to choose your leaders but being free from having to choose between those who desire to lead you.

Are they Mad?!

Conservative Republicans are MAD

They are mad they lost the civil war
They are mad that people received civil rights
They are mad women vote
They are mad that women have choice

They are mad that corporations need to pull their weight
They are mad that gays exist
They are mad that people seek the American Dream
They are mad that there’s more than one religion

They are mad about guns
They are mad that time marches by
Mad that technology advances
Mad about people NOT dying on the streets for free vs receiving universal care

Mad that people can band together to fight for safer work places, a safer environment, a safer world
Mad that they have to wear helmets
Mad that they have to wear a seat belt
Mad that they can’t beat their wives
Mad that they cannot drink and drive

Mad that freedom for others contravenes their world views
Mad if diplomacy is not at the end of a barrel
Mad about the Presidency
Mad about the President
Mad if it is not their GUY…
Mad that they are losing THEIR country
Mad! Mad! Mad!

Farrakhan on Libya

Words worth listening to from a man I never listen to

Come Live With Me And Be My Love - Christopher Marlowe

Come Live With Me and Be My Love
by Christopher Marlowe

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,
Woods or steepy mountain yields.

And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;

A gown made of the finest wool
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair lined slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;

A belt of straw and ivy buds,
With coral clasps and amber studs:
And if these pleasures may thee move,
Come live with me and be my love.

The shepherds' swains shall dance and sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.

Tragedy in Japan

Insane!  Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Fires, Nuclear Radiation...just when it all seems hopeless, it gets worse!

John Donne - The Good-Morrow

THE GOOD-MORROW.


by John Donne

I WONDER by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved ? were we not wean'd till then ?
But suck'd on country pleasures, childishly ?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers' den ?
'Twas so ; but this, all pleasures fancies be ;
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee.

And now good-morrow to our waking souls,
Which watch not one another out of fear ;
For love all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an everywhere.
Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone ;
Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown ;
Let us possess one world ; each hath one, and is one.

My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears,
And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;
Where can we find two better hemispheres
Without sharp north, without declining west ?
Whatever dies, was not mix'd equally ;
If our two loves be one, or thou and I
Love so alike that none can slacken, none can die.

Charlie Sheen is too much...and way too funny!

Charlie Sheen's WINNING recipes

8.9 Magnitude Quake hits Northern Japan

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42023385/ns/world_news-asiapacific/

Good thing this was not Tokyo.

Sympathies to the dead, dying, and those who must face their survivor's guilt.

Sampsonism

I think the world is ready for a new religion, Sampsonism.

http://sampsonism.blogspot.com/

a simple prgmatic, versatile way of life which does not include pulling the wool over your eyes to make you feel better...or do it if it does.

Passion

Your answer is a questionable "No" due to the ethics and moral obligations you feel must bely a wise and thoughtful position.  I say it should be "Yes" not based on obligation, but yes based on passion.  Unquestionably what is being offered is what you seek, passion at the highest levels it can be offered.  Passion which combined is more explosive spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, intellectually than your highest expectations.

What is being offered is a love so intense, so divine, so powerful as to make time speed up as it slows down.  The perfect paradox.

Follow it and two energies will exist that feed and care for each other long after earthly death has claimed our bodies, and two souls stream together across the universe.

I Say Phoque!

I say Phoque!

You wanna know the truth?

I say Phoque to a system that blames poverty on the poor...how did everyone on wall street avoid jail time?  

I say Phoque to a system straining to shield the wealthy
I say Phoque to a system actively trying to make the wealthy even wealthier...even if I should be counted among them.

I say Phoque to governments whose only goal is their own existence

I say Phoque to people whose interests are purely self-interest

Phoque to the uncaring

Phoque to the unwise

Phoque to rising energy costs! I mean really $1.32/liter ($5/Gallon)...REALLY!!! C'MON!!!  

Phoque to no one denouncing it as profiteering

Which leads to Phoque the MIDDLE EAST while hoping freedom reigns throughout

Phoque to anyone willing to behead a woman for adultery
Phoque to anyone who does not believe in the right to self-determination

Ya...those last two thoughts may clash, but we should have all evolved past the point where cutting heads off is the COOL thing to do...waterboarding, stress positions, GUANTANAMO too.

And Phoque anyone who would want to pay less for gas if the price was freedom

I say Phoque to anyone who does not see giving the bottom 80% choices between food, clothing OR shelter as an immoral Phoque'd up choice!
Phoque to anyone that judges OUR actions as somehow morally superior to others when not faced with the same circumstance.

I say Phoque to those interested in making sure that FAKE people (CORPORATIONS) are better fed (Profits) than the people who work for them.

Phoque you to companies that believe their R&D should not be taxed to drive INNOVATION, while the profits from the products derived from their R&D should not be taxed to drive JOB CREATION!
Phoque those who believe that no matter how much they pay in taxes it is too much.

Phoque those on the flip side who believe we can never pay too much in taxes.

Phoque abortionists, but Phoque to the people that would kill them even harder.  

NH says it best, LIVE FREE or DIE!
Phoque those who believe they know how you should be free.

Phoque capital punishment, and the people who deserve it.

Phoque religious freedom and the people who pervert it...not to mention those who say it but refuse to believe it...War on Christmas?...what a joke!

Phoque Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama...can you really tell the difference when it comes to the substance...oh wait, at least one of those should be brought up on some very serious charges...

Phoque Socialism, Communism, Capitalism, and every other "ISM" that gives but one choice

I say Phoque YOU to anyone that believes it is ok for anyone to die on the street for lack of a medicare card, or insurance.

Phoque, to anyone that believe it is ok to die for an immoral cause...

Democrat, Liberal, Conservative, Republican, NDP, Green, Socialist, Libertarian, Tea Party, Grass Roots, Marxist, Rebel, Freedom Fighter...all are part of the same coin who when in power allow ideology, geography, religion, gingoism, and the root of all evil to manifest itself and control....pervert their vision of a perfect world...

Compromise is the killer of rational ideas, and also the fertilizer for good deeds...

Phoque it all!  Phoque the world!!!...again...like the 60's and 70's all over...again

and Phoque?...Yeah, it's the Canadian SEAL of approval to anyone who cares

The Grio's 100 History Makers in the making

http://www.thegrio.com/black-history/

Cool!

Thunder and Lightning Snowstorm

Thunder and Lightning during a SNOWSTORM???!!!  I don't even want to think about how violent that storm has got to be for that to happen.

UC Baby 3D

Too COOL!

http://www.uc-baby.com/en/image-video-gallery/videos.php

Movies to watch

Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do

"The King's Speech" gained momentum against the Facebook drama "The Social Network," which dominated early Hollywood awards. Along with those two films, other best-picture nominees Tuesday for the Feb. 27 Oscars were the psychosexual thriller "Black Swan"; the boxing drama "The Fighter"; the sci-fi blockbuster "Inception"; the lesbian-family tale "The Kids Are All Right"; the survival story "127 Hours"; the animated smash "Toy Story 3"; the Western "True Grit"; and the Ozarks crime thriller "Winter's Bone."

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/41248994/ns/today-entertainment/

Milk vs Crack

If I were inclined to poetry

I would write this story

One is good as mother's milk is sane

The other crack cocaine

Which is not to say one lacks delight

Or is not one to excite

Rather best to gauge the stimuli

Measured against one's life

And put to rest the constant craving

Envy misbehaving

Insulated from all detriment

Living a life content