The League of Women voter’s candidate forum will take place tomorrow evening in San Marcos.
Monday, October 15, at 6:30 p.m. at the San Marcos Activity Center, 501 E. Hopkins
Please come out and support your Libertarian candidates. For more information and a list of all of the candidates who will be present, please click here.
Why do people vote Democrat? Neal Boortz boiled it down to one reason: to access other people’s money. It might not be for themselves, but for the poor, or for cancer research, or to save the environment, or fill in the blank. Brilliant. I can find nothing incorrect about his statement. Find me one person who votes Democrat who doesn’t want to access other people’s money. Making people work and not paying them for it, by any other name is slavery.
Social conservatives want moral slavery. There, there’s the bone.
Let people be. Reduce government like a good sauce. Be charitable with your own money. Big government always comes to one thing: oppression.
Let’s end slavery. Vote Libertarian, like a good classical liberal.
I posted my latest article on my natural living website because it has a bigger audience. The collapse of our economy is no joke.
Here is the link: http://betsydewey.com/if-you-love-animals-you-will-not-vote-for-obama/
Vegans, vegetarians, birders, PETA members, veterinarians, pet adoption champions, listen.
My chickens get to free range. I’ve thought about it. If I were a chicken, I’d rather live 18 months completely free than 7 years in a cage. So I free-range my chickens. But I can only do this because I can still afford to buy more chicks. We have rogue foxes and raccoons. So when the economy collapses, I’ll coop up the chickens. I won’t be able to afford losing a hen.
My hummingbirds take about half a cup of sugar every week. That’s okay. I can afford it and we’re not in a crisis situation where sugar is legal tender.
If you vote democrat, you are blatantly ignoring the fact that borrowing .43 cents for every dollar we dole out is mathematically impossible. Do I think republicans have a much better track record? Heavens, no. At least they claim to be fiscally conservative, but the irony there is that if they truly were fiscally conservative, they’d consider the undeniable fact that foreign wars are out of our budget.
Chickens, hummingbirds, humans. If you love animals, you will find the candidates in your area who stand for Liberty, the Constitution, and Capitalism. Capitalism benevolently renders an elevated standard of living for all, superior products, and an extremely healthy economy from which every citizen benefits. When you are rich, your animals have it good. Kind of like, when the rich are rich, we have it good. Capitalism is like a lake. When the lake rises, all of the boats rise, not just the big ones. When the rich ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
If you love animals you will not vote for Obama. If we don’t heal this economy, it will collapse, and the animals will suffer in ways you can not even imagine.
Plus, Obama signs unconstitutional executive orders. Even if you like the orders, the fact is, he is acting like a dictator, not a president of the United States who has sworn to uphold and protect our Constitution. Laws are made by Congress. The President has no authority to decide which ones he likes and doesn’t like. He has veto power, but if the Congress then comes up with a 2/3 vote, it’s a law, buddy. You can’t make your own laws or disregard the law just because you think you’re somehow king.
Oh, and he compromises your Constitutional rights too. Like Amendments 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, and 10 of the Bill of Rights. You should read them. They are your rights, not given to you by any man, but by your Creator, whomever you believe that to be.
I love animals. Do you?
10 golden stars to New Moon Pads. They are easy, comfy, and even cute. Here is how to use them: you just put the fleece side down which naturally grabs on to your undies, and you snap it underneath. There are no cloth holders or inserts to worry about. If you can wash them mid-cycle you should only need 6 day time ones and 3 night time ones. You can start with the pad a little forward and inch it back a little from time to time until you need a new one. You can also double up on heavy days.
For information on how to wash cloth pads, see my first post on the subject. Click here.
I feel a little sad for women who haven’t rediscovered cloth pads.They’re not only comfortable, they’re easy, healthy, cheap, and environmentally conservative.
If you don’t know it, tampons are bad for you and can cause toxic shock syndrome (TSS).
Cloth menstrual pads are one of those things I’ve discovered, like home birth and home school, which make me so happy and almost no one else seems to know about, yet they were a part of everyone’s experience for most of history. You won’t be sorry if you order some New Moon Pads. My experience with cloth pads is that they will last for a decade or more. It certainly wouldn’t hurt to try them. If you know of other brands that rock, please let us all know!
Thank you, Elizabeth, for submitting this informative guest post which seeks to educate women about pelvic disorders, treatments, and the dangers of vaginal mesh. Remember ladies – kegels and a healthy lifestyle...
Pelvic disorders have become a common diagnosis, especially in women who have reached menopause. Two of the most common pelvic disorders are stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP). While severe cases of these conditions can require surgical intervention, a woman can often mitigate her symptoms — or even reverse the condition altogether — with careful attention to her pelvic health. This can involve dietary or lifestyle changes, as well as specialized exercises and physical therapies. By taking control of her pelvic disorder, a woman has a lower chance of needing surgical intervention, including risky procedures that use transvaginal mesh.
The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends that non-invasive measures be considered first, before surgical intervention is suggested. There are several non-invasive treatment options available to women who suffer from mild to moderate POP and/or SUI.
SUI occurs when muscles and tissues in the urethra and bladder are weakened. This can happen as the result of the natural aging process, excessive weight gain, or after pregnancy and childbirth. When a woman with SUI participates in any activity that puts stress on the bladder or urethra, she can experience incontinence. This can happen from running, jumping or lifting heavy objects, or as the result of less active events like laughing, coughing or sneezing.
Non-invasive methods that can reverse the symptoms include:
Women should discuss these options, or ask their doctor for other suggestions, to see if they are candidates for non-invasive SUI treatment.
Surgery can be used to treat severe cases of SUI. Some procedures use a bladder sling, a narrow piece of mesh that is inserted to provide support for the bladder and/or urethra. Unfortunately, high numbers of health complications have occurred when bladder slings are inserted transvaginally, or through the vagina. In severe cases of SUI, where surgery is the only alternative, women should ask their doctors about options that do not involve a transvaginal procedure.
POP shares the same risk factors as SUI: aging/menopause, pregnancy and childbirth, or excessive weight gain. However, while urinary incontinence can be a symptom of POP, POP occurs when the connective tissues in the pelvis weaken, allowing organs to drop lower in the pelvic cavity. In severe cases, pelvic organs can begin prolapsing into the vagina. In addition to the non-invasive methods listed for treating SUI, pelvic massage has also been shown to help women with POP, as it realigns organs and tissues and promotes healing.
When surgery is needed for POP, doctors often use vaginal mesh to support compromised organs and tissues with a hammock-like structure. Unfortunately, vaginal mesh can erode into pelvic tissues and organs, causing irreversible damage. Vaginal mesh has also been linked to several other severe side effects like organ perforation, vaginal wall shrinkage, and painful sexual intercourse. The FDA still has yet to mandate a recall, but in 2011, they finally acknowledged that vaginal mesh complications were not rare. If surgery is required, women should discuss alternative procedures with their doctor. Many women who have had vaginal mesh surgery and suffered the dangerous complications have decided to file vaginal mesh lawsuits.
No woman should be unknowingly exposed to a risky surgical procedure. The more educated women become about pelvic disorders and their treatments, the more they can take control of their pelvic disorder and their overall health.
Elizabeth Carrollton writes about defective medical devices and dangerous drugs for Drugwatch.com.
I believe this.
I have been different things because of it too. I’ve been a bluegrass fiddler, a healer, a martial artist, a francophile, an existential philosopher, a Christian, a pagan, a mother, and most recently, a politically immersed Libertarian candidate for the US House of Representatives.
I’ve been consciously filling my mind with issues, laws, governments, our Constitution, our rights, our current political theatre, history, economics, the pulse of what’s going on with our leaders, etc.
I hope that it truly is all an illusion, that I’ve created this reality with my mind, and that I am responsible for my life, as my tango with New Age philosophy would have me believe. I realize there is a collective consciousness in which we all take part, but it is possible that everything is just a figment of my imagination, a great movie I am writing, directing, and staring in. That way, I can just change it. I can stop filling my mind with politics and government, and go back to filling it with positive vibrational energy.
But it sure does seem real, especially the broken bodies of our soldiers returning from war. It doesn’t seem like sticking my head in the sands of a philosophical desert is going to change that.
Filling my mind with politics and current events leaves me fighting becoming bitter, hard, afraid, sad, and angry. Ew. Those are all the negative emotions. There was a time, as a healer, that I would have told someone that every time you feel one of the negative emotions, you have to become conscious of it and then replace it with a positive one, and the best way to do that is through gratitude and forgiveness. If you are in the process of being grateful, you can not possibly be sad, angry, or mad. You are filled with peace, love, and joy. And when you’re filled with peace, love and joy, you’re happy, you’re light, and the people around you all benefit from that because moods are contagious.
Mmmm. I feel better already. But wait, the economy is about to collapse, our rights are going to be completely stripped when the dictatorial military law kicks in, life as we know it will come to a grinding halt, and it’s not going to be pretty. Our government, that handful of folks whom we apparently elect, controls the press and has sold us down the river. We’re beyond broke – up a creek without a paddle. We really do live an illusion, especially those who don’t provide for themselves. Our government is spying on us, has the liberty to incarcerate us without a trial, and takes the liberty to kill people by drone strike without a trial. They’ve begun the systematic elimination of our Constitutional rights. Furthermore, nowhere in the Constitution does it say that the government can forcibly take our income from us. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that we should give that money to 47% of the population who doesn’t have any skin in the game. The Constitution unfortunately does say that Congress has the power to tax. I wish one of our founding fathers had been twisted enough to have imagined something as injurious to liberty as the income tax, so that they would have thought to add a clause that said – citizens’ earnings shall never be subject to taxation. I digress.
My ire is raised every single time I think about these issues – like these unconstitutional wars that are destroying families and soldiers’ lives. These pointless wars are on our dime! Dime? Try a trillion dollars per war. Yep, all the tax payers are forced to fund the wars under threat of jail time. It angers me. The first lady spends millions of our dollars on her vacations. Why can’t she spend her own money like other first ladies have done? We are frugal when we spend our own money, you know.
So here I am. All peeved.
You are what you fill your mind with. Do I go on creating this for myself? Or do I stop and meditate, focus on forgiveness and gratitude, and become light and love? Herein lies the problem: I can’t follow my bliss when I don’t have freedom and rights; I can only do this in the free world for which hundreds of thousands of men and women have given their lives that I might enjoy the circuitous pursuit of happiness. I have to fight for that world right now. I want it for my grand kids more than I want it for myself. When I come to that conclusion, it makes me feel like I am one of those brave men and women who have given their lives for the rest of us to enjoy the fruits of liberty. I must conclude that I volunteer. I will fight for our Constitution, our rights, and our precious freedom.
However, for my own sanity, I may need to take a break now and then and read some Tom Brown, Gary Zukav, Neale Donald Walsh, Mary, Rumi, Starhawk, John Donne, or Brian Tracy.
“I realize we can never sleep again without one eye open on the government at all times”. – Mike Najvar
Yes, Mike. That’s exactly how our founders felt.
I first saw this poem by Karen Howland in an old Mothering Magazine while it was in print. It’s been one of my favorites. Karen has graciously given me permission to print this here for you. Take a moment and enjoy.
You dance tangerine slices across my skin and sing I love you mama.
Your cheeks burst with citrus juice and the sun runs down your chin.
Anticipation is too much, you eat cheese right through the wrap.
It’s your first embrace of everything that enamors me so.
Your feet try and leave the certainty of gravity, jubilant
jump, leap, fall into my lap, I quiet you with a kiss, and you’re off
flying, feeling, falling the fruit of you, the tree of me, we spin
telling time by milk rather than clocks, and we smell heaven
in cinnamon and pillows and corners the world forgets.
There is a melon slice in your open palm, an orange smile
that travels from your hand, to your face, to my soul.
By Karen Howland
You can check out Karen’s website here.
