tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68604499477352812432024-03-13T06:10:31.979-06:00\____________________________________________________________________________jedikitty__jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-41851839867760073922012-01-05T19:22:00.001-07:002012-01-05T19:23:50.799-07:00Ant and Grasshopper, then and nowThis one is a little different. Two different versions, tow different morals. Let us begin...<br />
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<strong>Old version:</strong> </div><div style="text-align: left;"> The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house, and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. </div><div style="text-align: left;">Come winter, <br />
<a name='more'></a>the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Moral of the story:</strong></div><div style="text-align: left;"> Be responsible for yourself!</div><br />
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<strong>Modern version:</strong> <br />
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter. The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away. <br />
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving. <br />
CBC, CTV, Global and City TV show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. <br />
Canada is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so? <br />
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Kermit the Frog appears on CBC News with Peter Mansbridge along with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'<br />
People Against Poverty stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We Shall Overcome.<br />
Then Olivia Chow has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper's sake. <br />
Dalton McGuinty condemns the ant and blames Prime Minister Harper, former Premier Mike Harris, Bill Davis, Joe Clarke, Harold Ballard, and Conrad Black for the grasshopper's plight. <br />
Ed Broadbent and John Sewell explain in an interview with Wendy Mesley that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share. <br />
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Finally, the Provincial Liberal/NDP coalition drafts the Economic Equity and Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer. <br />
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the government Green Czar David Miller, and given to the grasshopper.<br />
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The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.. <br />
The ant has disappeared in the snow never to be seen again. The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle the once prosperous and peaceful neighbourhood. <br />
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it. <br />
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<strong>Moral of the story:</strong> <br />
<span style="color: red;"><strong>Be careful how you vote in the next election!</strong></span>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-5867203470613909132011-12-25T15:20:00.004-07:002012-01-05T19:25:42.286-07:00So this is Christmas... and what have you done?Merry Ho Ho!<br />
Whether you believe in any kind of god, or not, is not relevant. What matters is how you treat other beings - human and otherwise - on a daily basis. It also matters <u>how you treat yourself</u>. Indeed, what you eat, what you drink, what you bathe in, etc., is not only important but pretty much crucial to your health and well-being, to you whole concept of survival.<br />
<a name='more'></a>Speaking of survival... The people who are scared shitless of the "2012 doomsday" that is supposedly coming in December of next year, are scared of the wrong thing. It's not going to end this easy!<br />
If anything, and I want to stress this is just a speculation, what might happen is the economies of many countries will collapse, and there will be severe shortage of essentials like food, drinking water, perhaps electricity, you know, the stuff that keeps us happy and warm in a dead of winter, stuff that we hugely take for granted, until we, the consumers, can no longer just go out and buy it.<br />
Well, there are things we cannot control (unless we force our elected officials to work for the people, not against them), and there are things we can. Like, what we eat and what we drink. And how we treat one another.<br />
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If we have a back yard, or even a balcony, we can grow something edible and delicious, and GMO-free. Personally, I have dedicated a nice chunk of our yard to a veggie garden and also, 3 years ago, planted an apple tree. This 3-year old tree has given my family a full 5 gallon bucket of small but delicious apples this summer! And they were totally organic; the tree was fed with the soil I produced by composting organics in the container in the corner of the yard. <br />
<strong><span style="color: red;">Yes, we can!</span></strong><br />
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We can start getting louder, much louder, when we <u>demand our government stop contaminating our drinking water with fluoridation</u>. There are numerous petitions, and Facebook groups, demanding the officials to stop poisoning us with fluoride; sign/join one today. The "officials" blatantly ignore the current research of the effects of fluoride on humans (and don't forget our animal companions, too!), and, with their blinders firmly on, keep telling us it is good for our teeth and bones. Well, just look up <em>dental fluorosis</em>, and you can draw your own conclusion if this is something you want to be ingesting in any way, shape, or form. Then do something to stop this. <br />
<strong><span style="color: red;">Yes, we can!</span></strong><br />
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We should demand the commercial food producers <u>label all GMO foods</u>. The effects of eating genetically modified anything are not known; there are no studies to prove with all certainty that GMOs are harmless. However, there are studies clearly showing the GMOs cause unwanted effects on our health, and irreparable damage to our environment. Demand no GMO. <br />
<strong><span style="color: red;">Yes, we can!</span></strong><br />
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There are many ways we can all make this coming year, and our lives, better. We can boycott Monsanto. We can end the wars. We can say No to NDAA. We can elect Ron Paul for President. We can watch what we eat and drink. We can practice "don't drink and drive". We can smile at each other more often. So many things we CAN, if we get off our fat asses and try... <br />
<span style="color: red;"><u><strong>Y</strong><strong>ES, WE CAN!</strong></u></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=lu2qKI2Ju9s&feature=endscreen"><strong><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=lu2qKI2Ju9s&feature=endscreen</span></strong></a>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-37770610159659717842011-12-18T19:39:00.002-07:002011-12-19T00:29:44.746-07:00S.1867 aka NDAA 2012First came The Patriot Act.<br />
Now, NDAA has just passed the Senate. <br />
It is now up to President Obama to veto it, but will he?<br />
Is this the end of American Constitution and the Bill of Rights?<br />
Some already call it USSA. Others, UPSA... Just google it.<br />
And, as you're at it, google NDAA and S.1867, and pay particular attention to the "Subtitle D - Detainee Matters".<br />
On that note, I will leave you with a couple of links...<br />
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<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:2:./temp/~c112q4VSKK"><span style="color: blue;">http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:2:./temp/~c112q4VSKK</span></a><span style="color: blue;">::</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.thecanadiancharger.com/page.php?id=5&a=1132"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.thecanadiancharger.com/page.php?id=5&a=1132</span></a><br />
<em>- the government can interpret just about anything as engaging “in a deliberate and substantial act that</em> <em>directly supports their efforts against us in the war on terror”. -</em><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q50h7u2L5Y"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q50h7u2L5Y</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeCpLcjxOq4&feature=related"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeCpLcjxOq4&feature=related</span></a>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-66808378523408693962011-11-21T00:40:00.001-07:002011-11-21T00:43:28.740-07:00Idiocy at its finestYou know, just when I thought nothing can surprise me anymore, I was, again, proven wrong. Apparently, what you and I, and the rest of the world, knew about water as means of hydration, was just declared wrong and, to make things totally and absolutely ridiculous, it was written up into the EU law.<br />
How? Easy. All it took is a bunch of EFSA (European Food Standards Authority) dimwits to waste three years and, no doubt, an undisclosed amount of taxpayers' money, to come up with this gem of a brain fart that, basically, water is not a solution for thirst. <br />
<a name='more'></a>Ukip MEP Paul Nuttall said: <br />
<em><strong>"I had to read this four or five times before I believed it. It is a perfect example of what Brussels does best. Spend three years, with 20 separate pieces of correspondence before summoning 21 professors to Parma where they decide with great solemnity that drinking water cannot be sold as a way to combat dehydration. Then they make this judgment law and make it clear that if anybody dares sell water claiming that it is effective against dehydration they could get into serious legal bother."</strong></em><br />
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Do you know that one of the many symptoms of dehydration is confusion? And that severe dehydration, if not treated right away, can cause permanent brain damage? <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000982.htm"><span style="color: #0b5394;">http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000982.htm</span></a><br />
Well, seem these putzes at EFSA have been dehydrated for too long, and they are beyond help.<br />
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Full story<strong><span style="color: #cc0000;"> </span></strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/8897662/EU-bans-claim-that-water-can-prevent-dehydration.html"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">here</span></strong></a> and, for those who'd like a more colorful version (believe me, it is worth reading), go <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/034204_water_dehydration.html"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">here</span></strong></a>.jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-69802595175738752982011-11-18T01:37:00.000-07:002011-11-18T01:37:07.139-07:00Elixir des Merveilles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MAo30TaYAxc/TsYYM8C2zII/AAAAAAAAAGI/yoCeHv-JQ2o/s1600/Elixir+des+Merveilles_sized.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MAo30TaYAxc/TsYYM8C2zII/AAAAAAAAAGI/yoCeHv-JQ2o/s320/Elixir+des+Merveilles_sized.jpg" width="229" /></a></div>Elixir des Merveilles by house of Hermès <br />
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To be honest, this one is a bit of a challenge to describe, so I did the next best thing and read Fragrantica members' reviews before typing in mine.<br />
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Cold Coke with a slice of orange... Smoky orange with a touch of dirt from under pine needles... Not so great smelling praline... Somewhat gourmand, not quite fougère... this composition is as complex as it is quite hard to explain.<br />
I agree that it could easily be considered unisex.<br />
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As for why I got a big bottle of this juice? Well, mainly because I am a curious cat, and also because there seems to be a dire lack of minis of this fragrance.<br />
I am sure, if I asked around, someone on Fragrantica would spare me a tester vial but, you know what? Sometimes you just have to give into temptation, and treat yourself.<br />
<a name='more'></a> So I did. Blindly. Based solely on reviews.<br />
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Am I sorry I spent a small fortune on a nicely sized bottle of Elixir des Merveilles? Not at all. It suits my 50+ Capricorn personality rather well.<br />
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I do agree this scent is not for everyone and, frankly, it was not exactly a love from first sniff for me, either. But I gave it time... and the romance just developed on its own.<br />
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I believe, Elixir des Merveilles is a cold(er) weather scent, spicy-sweet but not sugary, a bit smoky, a bit like a nice sniffer of orange brandy on a cold wintry evening, and a bit... sweaty? At least that is what I get at drydown and I am not crazy about that bit, but, thankfully, it is just a scintilla really, something that is somewhat familiar, yet not repulsive. Maybe that is the bitter note some of you mentioned. Maybe this is what patchouli and caramel mix smells like... Or maybe the oak... See? Not easily described. Perhaps that is why I am so strangely attracted to this scent, because it is so very different from the flowery compositions that fill fragrance counters this time of the year. Mind you, my other all-time favorites are Dior "Miss Dior" and Trussardi "Skin". So, there you have it, an impulse buy turned another hit, and that is all one can really hope for when purchasing a big bottle of an unknown fragrance, purely on instinct.<br />
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One thing for sure, it is not a "girly" fragrance, and not a typical feminine one, either. But I have always been a bit of a tomboy with penchant for power tools and home repairs... <br />
If you are curious, a bit adventurous, and an oddball like me, you will find Elixir des Merveilles to your liking.<br />
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Lasting power - excellent.<br />
Sillage - rather close to the skin, but it seems to come and go in gentle waves.jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-10960878181146378952011-10-29T14:39:00.009-06:002011-12-26T13:03:23.654-07:00*refunded!* no Clarity in Adya...<em><strong><span style="color: red;">- refund status updates at bottom of post!</span></strong></em><br />
Trying to get away from fluoride in the drinking water is very, very difficult. It is especially difficult because your elected government officials still have this false ADA claim in their heads, and, contrary to many reports backed with scientific data, insist on fluoride being good for you.<br />
Needless to say, after getting nowhere with petitions to the gov., and not being able to fork over thousands of dollars for a whole-house fluoride filter (link at bottom of post), I searched for more affordable ways to deal with this fluoride problem.<br />
I came across something called "Adya Clarity". It sounded weird and cool, and <br />
<a name='more'></a>like something that might do the trick of getting the drinking water back to the clean state before it gets deliberately polluted with fluoride. So, always being open to new ideas in health improvement, I bought a bottle of Adya Clarity online.<br />
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The shipping was excessively slow but, finally, I received the package with one large, 32 oz bottle, and two small, 2 oz dropper-equipped bottles. There was nothing on the label that would make me nervous about the product, but the claims of (many and serious) health benefits did seem a bit "excessive". Oh, well, same went for colloidal silver and, I can tell you first hand, the colloidal silver worked for me. So why not Adya Clarity?<br />
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Since we already, and exclusively, use natural spring water for drinking and cooking, my worry was mainly for our three dogs and one cat. But, since they tend to be sensitive to drastic changes in their foodstuff, I went easy, and added three droppers of Adya Clarity to their next 5 gallon "drinking station" refill. All seemed well for about two days, and then, out of the blue, our 11 year old cat started peeing all over the carpeted basement floor. Despite his box being clean and just meters away, he just "went", repeatedly, on the carpet in two opposite ends of the basement.<br />
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If you know anything about cats, you will know that urinating all over the place is not in their nature. Cats a very clean, and will not leave their mark on purpose - unless they mark their turf to attract potential mates, which is not the case with our cat, who is fixed, and an indoor-only. <br />
This natural cleanliness comes from their behaviour in the wild, where they always cover their "evidence" so other predators will not easily track them. This is a genetic memory, and house cats are no different. But, unexpected, unrelated peeing in their own home is their common way of alerting you that they have a health problem, usually with kidneys.<br />
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So, since the only thing that changed in our pets' food/water was addition of Adya Clarity to their drinking water, I discontinued adding it... and the cat stopped 'peeing outside the box'. What does that tell you? Something IN the Adya Clarity caused a dramatic change in our cat's behaviour. There was no apparent change in our dogs' habits but I stopped adding Adya Clarity to their common drinking water dispenser anyway, and have not added it into anything else since.<br />
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Mike Adams (Health Ranger) of NaturalNews, just posted a very in-depth article on Adya Clarity (link below), and I will be keeping an eye on any and all developments on this as well.<br />
In a meantime, my bottle(s) of Adya Clarity sit in the cupboard, where they will stay until I know if I can get a refund, join a class action suit, or just take them to hazmat depot.<br />
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<em><strong><span style="color: black;">Mike's article on Adya Clarity</span></strong></em> can be read <a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/034005_Adya_Clarity_consumer_alert.html"><strong><span style="color: red;">here</span></strong></a>, and <em><strong><span style="color: black;">whole-house fluoride filtration system</span></strong></em> can be found <a href="http://www.equinox-products.com/FluorideMaster.htm"><span style="color: red;"><strong>here</strong></span></a>. <br />
Also, a good list of links about Adya Clarity can be found here: <a href="http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2011/11/01/adya-clarity-consumer-alert/">http://renegadehealth.com/blog/2011/11/01/adya-clarity-consumer-alert/</a><br />
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<strong><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><u>UPDATE, as of November 1st, 2011:</u></span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Matthew Monarch of The Raw Food World, has pulled Adya Clarity webinar and product off his website/store, and is offering refund to the buyers of Adya Clarity:</em></span></strong><br />
<a href="http://www.therawfoodworld.com/blog/?p=2446"><strong><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">http://www.therawfoodworld.com/blog/?p=2446</span></strong></a><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Just minutes ago, I have dug up my invoice in my email archive, and forwarded it to Matthew for refund. I look forward to Matthew's response and will keep you posted on the progress.</span><br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana;">UPDATE, November 17, 2011:</span></u></strong><br />
Rec'd response via email on Nov.07, with an attached document to fill out for a refund.<br />
It required me to send the (rest of the) product back to the The Raw Food World.<br />
I did not want to bother with that, so I emailed back with a proposition of a modified refund (total amount minus shipping), and they agreed.<br />
I received another refund form, modified for the "minus shipping" clause.<br />
So far, Matthew and The Raw Food World have been understanding, civil, easy to talk to, and cooperative in the matter, so I have absolutely no complaints in that regard. I'm sure, this has been quite an experience to all involved...<br />
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It took me a while to complete this but, today (Nov.17) I finally got the form filled out, scanned, and emailed to <a href="mailto:adyareturns@gmail.com"><strong>adyareturns@gmail.com</strong></a> .<br />
Hopefully, the refund will not take long. I'll post the updates as they happen.<br />
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<strong><u><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UPDATE, December 26,201:</span></u></strong><br />
- I wanted to post this because<strong><span style="color: red;"> I just received my refund</span></strong> from The Raw World, Inc.<br />
It took a while, and a couple of emails, but it was resolved as they have promised. I paid with a credit card but the transaction was too old to get a refund back into the credit card, so they sent me the money to my PayPal account.<br />
So, to any and all of you who are still waiting for the AC refund - check your PayPal balance; you might have the money sitting in there :)<br />
Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays!jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-67500107982911353872011-09-30T12:54:00.003-06:002011-09-30T12:58:09.159-06:00YouTube - No No No Cat (funny)Here it is: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKI-tD0L18A"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKI-tD0L18A</span></a>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-50486824006336651122011-09-28T23:40:00.001-06:002011-09-29T00:04:58.025-06:00Well.ca - business with a big heart!<strong>I <3 Well.ca!</strong><br />
What is Well.ca?<br />
Quoting from their website:<br />
<strong><em>"Well.ca is Canada's largest online health and beauty store. At Well.ca, we aim to be a friendly, compassionate, and responsible company that makes every effort to best serve our customers' health and beauty needs."</em></strong><br />
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I found Well.ca a way back, during my search for an affordable source of Aubrey Organics' personal care products. <br />
<a name='more'></a>Having spent a small fortune getting the soaps and shampoos via eBay, over from UK, I went to the Aubrey Organics' US website only to find out that the shipping from US to Canada costs more that from UK to Canada. Why? Because they only ship via UPS, and that is always a crap shoot - you might be charged extra (aka. brokerage fee) upon delivery. <br />
Yes, it is faster than the postal service but, if you time your purchases right, so you don't run out of product before you get a new shipment, the postal service will do just fine, thank you.<br />
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So, here I am, out of AO's shampoo and conditioner, and getting itchy all over my head from the grocery store-bought shampoo, so I am getting desperate to find the right stuff, and fast. Turns out, my rescue is one Google search away... Hooray! I found the Well!<br />
You have no idea how relieved I was to find that, not only do they have the brands I like, they even offer free shipping of my goods. That's on top of fast order processing, and VERY careful packaging.<br />
And superior customer service!<br />
Once or twice, I contacted the friendly folks at Well.ca about the products, my orders, or my product reviews, and they always got back to me promptly and personally - I could tell they "smiled back" at me when they replied to my emails. You know how refreshing, rare, and precious that is? No stupid "canned" responses, or form letters. Ever. Just a nice, courteous, and professional response. Every time!<br />
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Let me tell you, at Well.ca, these people really, really care. They will answer all your questions, address any concerns you might have (but, with them, you won't have any to begin with), and help you out any way they can. They work hard to make sure you, their customer, are happy.<br />
I am so very pleased with their service, I plan to stick with them for a very long time.<br />
Check them out at <a href="http://well.ca/"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><strong>http://well.ca/</strong></span></a>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-73678146504711345522011-09-27T19:42:00.001-06:002011-09-27T19:43:41.638-06:00Cause of ALS found!I forgot to post this earlier so, my bad. Here is the link to the article about a very important medical discovery - "<span style="color: black;"><strong>Cause of ALS is found, Northwestern team says breakthrough in Lou Gehrig's disease could lead to treatment</strong></span>", published in Chicago Tribune on <span class="pubdate">August 22, 2011, by</span> William Mullen, Tribune reporter.<br />
<strong><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;">http://tinyurl.com/3egujk5</span></strong><br />
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"<em>When Ubiquilin2 is unable to remove or repair damaged proteins, the damaged proteins begin to pile up in the cells, eventually blocking normal transmission of brain signals in the spinal cord and brain, leading to paralysis.</em>"<br />
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<a name='more'></a>I would love to find out <strong>why</strong> the Ubiquilin2 is unable to deal with removal / repair of these damaged proteins, not just when but why. I would not be surprised if the answer was as simple as something we did to ourselves - chemicals in junk food, or vaccines, or other typically Western-med "creations" that our bodies were never "designed" to handle.<br />
<u>Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food</u>, remember? What happens if you keep literally poisoning yourself for years, flooding your body with artificial crap like Splenda, or Fluoride? At some point, it will let you know enough is enough, and you will come down with something nasty. Or outright deadly. Your body is a temple, so don't put trash in the temple.<br />
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At any rate, I believe, Dr. Siddique is onto something huge.jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-65817339524857416712011-09-15T23:52:00.001-06:002011-09-16T00:21:20.854-06:00DEXTER, season 6 starts October 2nd!<img height="352" id="il_fi" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cWpKTElcN9o/TR4cCW81iwI/AAAAAAAAA5o/Qcfojebx1II/s1600/dexter008.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="640" /><br />
My favorite serial killer, Dexter, will be back for another (hopefully bone chilling) season, starting October 2nd. <br />
In case you don't know who Dexter is, well, you can google it. Suffice it to say, Dexter has had five very successful, award laden seasons, and I am so looking forward to season six. It will be a challenging one, as daddy Dexter recently became a single father of three, incl. baby Harrison. How does he find the time to keep a full time job, raise three kids, and still hone his nighttime craft of dispatching baddies to their final destination in the currents of deep blue ocean...<br />
I can just about hear all the "catlicks" condemning us both right about now... Oh well, can't please everyone.<br />
<a href="http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.sho#fbid=e-uGaJhuCg5"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://www.sho.com/site/dexter/home.sho#fbid=e-uGaJhuCg5</span></strong></a>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-39107336073657601562011-09-07T14:42:00.001-06:002011-09-07T14:43:27.930-06:00TELUS your problemA while back, and possibly with some misguided help from Jack Daniel's, my beloved husband signed his soul away in the phone/Internet contract to the evil entity called TELUS.<br />
But, having constant Internet connection issues, and getting nowhere with the obviously outsourced, Engrish speaking tech support wannabes, he finally gave in to my voice of reason, and cancelled said account.<br />
As he was at it, when asked why was he cancelling, he politely explained that he was tired of the connection issues, lack of (properly trained) tech support, as well as the impossibility of utilizing his Gigabit connection hardware because of the phone line data transfer rate limitations.<br />
You would think that would do it, and they would leave us alone, right?<br />
Wrong.<br />
<br />
A couple of days ago, they (403-310-2255) started...<br />
<a name='more'></a>calling, at inconvenient times, to find out what are "our plans with our phone number".<br />
As if what, exactly? Do we want to crawl back to TELUS? Are you serial?!? Fuck off.<br />
And, frankly, I don't think "our plans" are any of their business, literally.<br />
<br />
When we were still with TELUS for our land line service, at some point, they started to call us pretty much daily, in an utterly aggravating attempt to upsell more services. Yes, we have heard of *60 but, guess what? TELUS does not allow you to block TELUS telemarketing calls! When you try, you will get a polite, yet insistent, recording telling you that this number cannot be blocked.<br />
Oh, yeah?!?<br />
<br />
Before killing off the TELUS account, we called Shaw, and they took care of everything, incl. taking our existing phone number away from TELUS, and setting us up with Shaw digital phone service, which works great, by the way. And you know what is the absolute best feature of it? We can now block these TELUS telemarketer fuckwits with a simple sequence of buttons on our phone set. Problem solved.<br />
Yes, the 403-310-2255 is now on that list. There will be no more raid interruptions.jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-80694375920395269042011-09-06T21:35:00.001-06:002011-09-06T21:38:51.932-06:00CNet's Download.com? Stay away!<div>CNet's Download.com is now officially the super-sucky.</div><div>They are now loaded with home page hijacking, search engine changing, etc., bloatware.</div><div></div><div><a href="http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2011/08/29/download_com_adds_bloatware_turns_evil"><strong><span style="color: blue;">http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2011/08/29/download_com_adds_bloatware_turns_evil</span></strong></a><br />
</div><div></div><div>"One of the world largest software download sites, <b>Download.com</b>, has been <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/computing/93504-download-com-wraps-downloads-in-bloatware-lies-about-motivations"><span style="color: blue;">found to add bloatware</span></a> to their downloads. </div><div>The files come with a proprietary Download.com installer that tries to push you with toolbars, as well as change home pages and default search engines in addition to installing the software itself."</div><div></div><div>The funniest (not) part is they have the audacity to claim this is for the users' good... </div><div><rolls eyes></div><div>Bye bye, CNet.</div><div>Hello Filehippo! <a href="http://www.filehippo.com/"><strong><span style="color: #990000;">http://www.filehippo.com/</span></strong></a></div>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-13774955536126194272011-07-11T14:32:00.004-06:002011-09-07T15:00:04.465-06:00411.ca - a pile of spam and junk!Someone, whose number I do not recognize, called our landline but did not leave a message. Naturally, being curious who that might be, I set out to run the reverse number lookup on my ol' trusty Canadian 411. <br />
Much to my surprise, the site is not only unrecognizable (read: fugly); it also does not seem to do what one of its primary functions - the reverse lookup - used to be. <br />
And, believe me, I tried, and tried, and then tried some more. And even checked out the absolutely useless "Help" section. No dice. <br />
I should also mention that, the moment I clicked on my fave link to 411.ca, and before I even ran any searches, the IE's security function asked me if I want to allow / disallow the site to<strong> track my location</strong>. Seeing that tracking should not be required for a reverse lookup I want to run, I disallowed. But, <span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong>despite me expressly disallowing it, 411.ca still tracks...</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc0000;"><strong><a name='more'></a> my location</strong></span><span style="color: black;"> <strong>- the fruitless searches were eager to notify me that there were no matches to my search within 5 km of my very correctly pinpointed geolocation.</strong></span> <br />
So, very frustrated, I wrote them an email, as follows:<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Dear Canadian 411,</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #073763;">I loved your uncluttered, easy to navigate AND functional old website.<br />
Today, I got the first taste of the new, cluttered with useless to me junk information (top restaurants, top real estate agents and, most useless of all, most active users near me), impossible to navigate new one...</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Maybe it is just me, although I have spent many active years in IT business, but I cannot help but wonder why is it that there is always someone who takes a good, clean website and "improves" it to the point of hardly being usable? And ugly looking, to boot.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Today, I was trying to reverse-lookup a fairly local (in my area code but different city) number.<br />
The result said it did not find any matches within 5 km of my city.<br />
Curiously enough, as I have not allowed the site to track my location; how is it then the site knew which city I am in? And why, in the first place, is this even switched on? <br />
A lookup is a lookup; I don't need the site to tell me that the caller and I live in same / different location. Blatant violation of user privacy, which I intend to follow up on.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #073763;">As for the failed search because of the different location, I presumed that's what the right hand side map was for, to select another city, but was unable to; the map zoomed in and out, but the cities were not selectable. What's the use for a gadget that does not work?!?</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;"><br />
I even checked the Help section, in hopes of finding some shred of useful information as to why a simple reverse lookup (yes, I have used it before, many times) does not work.<br />
Sadly, no useful information there, either.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #073763;">How do I, in clear, understandable steps, please, simply just locate a number on your site these days? And when will the site stop tracking users' location, despite of being disallowed to do so?</span><br />
<br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Regards,<br />
<yours truly></span><br />
<br />
<br />
<div>Nobody bothered to reply to me. But, then again, I was not holding my breath.</div>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-56039226350295692062011-06-30T01:16:00.001-06:002011-06-30T01:20:54.102-06:00Empress's new Reetones<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vX0slM2tW_c/TgwhIsbq6JI/AAAAAAAAAE4/9No8k_vOu9I/s1600/Traintone+Slimm.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vX0slM2tW_c/TgwhIsbq6JI/AAAAAAAAAE4/9No8k_vOu9I/s320/Traintone+Slimm.jpg" width="294" /></a></div>Ever since my daughter got this awesome pair of Reebok EasyTones, I wanted a pair. Just could not get myself to spend so much on "walking" shoes.<br />
I do like to walk (when not busy with other things) but, occasionally, I also like to do some Callanetics or treadmill (when I feel motivated and/or my back is not hurtin'), so I needed a multi-purpose footwear.<br />
<br />
Yesterday, I got a promo code from Shoes.com in my email, so off I went, to just look. Seriously. I was not planning to buy more shoes, although my hubby's recent shoe, shirt and shorts spree could really push me to get just one more pair. Or five. :)<br />
<br />
So... looking around, looking around, and what do I find? EasyTones! Holy shit, and they are 50 percent off! But, wait, now they also have TrainTones and RunTones, and also at a very generous discount. And in my size. Sweet! How can I not get a pair when I so desperately need a pair of workout shoes?<br />
But, which ones - EasyTones, TrainTones, or RunTones?<br />
<br />
<a name='more'></a>RunTones were eliminated first; I cannot run anymore (back pain). But what is the diff between the other two kinds? No explanation on Shoes.com, except for several happy customer reviews praising the goodness of both styles. I googled for the difference, and found this:<br />
<a href="http://blog.lovethoseshoes.com/2010/08/reebok-reetone-war-easytone-vs-runtone/"><span style="color: blue;">http://blog.lovethoseshoes.com/2010/08/reebok-reetone-war-easytone-vs-runtone/</span></a> and this <br />
<a href="http://blog.lovethoseshoes.com/2010/08/reebok-reetone-war-part-2-reebok-easytone-vs-reebok-traintone/"><span style="color: blue;">http://blog.lovethoseshoes.com/2010/08/reebok-reetone-war-part-2-reebok-easytone-vs-reebok-traintone/</span></a><br />
Good, easy to follow explanation which resulted in my purchase of TrainTones. Now, crossing my fingers for fast delivery but we just got that stupid postal strike over with, and they are pretty backlogged. Well, these puppies are worth the wait!jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-91833696092869137412011-06-22T13:50:00.000-06:002011-06-22T13:50:13.212-06:00Just say No to "Lawful Access"!So the Canadian Big Brother now wants to watch your every internet move. I say, fuck this, enough of this blatant invasion of privacy! What the hell are we, Americans? My "spies" tell me that even they have had enough of this warrantless spying. Time for the gov to back off.<br />
Sign the petition:<br />
<br />
<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">http://stopspying.ca/</span></b>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-50211838910087964352011-06-20T15:28:00.001-06:002011-06-22T13:50:57.136-06:00Falling into depressionis how it feels to have lived in Alberta (Canada) for the past two and a half weeks. Rain, rain, more rain, and nothing but rain the whole time. Fuck... when will it end?<br />
I keeep checking the 10-day forecast, uhm, daily (yeah, I hear ya), in hope some weather miracle will happen but, so far, this has proven fruitless, if not outright hopeless. It's predicted to stay the way it is til at least the end of June, meaning - the whole month of June is just one constant, day and night rainfall, although varying in intensity from a drizzle to a downpour.<br />
Whomever has decided to take their 2011 annual vacation in June, is so SOL (unless they like this crappy weather) I feel their pain as I am literally experiencing it myself on a very real, somatic way. Not to even mention what that's gonna do to our food prices in the months to come... Everything is so totally saturated, I can't imagine the farmers being able to get any machinery out into their fields... It would probably all sink knee-deep in the mud.<br />
You'd think, will all the "advanced" technology, HAARP included, someone would come up with the way of fixing such weather anomalies.jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-15032769811591470392011-06-20T15:13:00.000-06:002011-06-20T15:13:17.525-06:00What if...<i>OMG, I love this one. But, it's kind of sad, actually...</i><br />
<br />
<strong>If the Titanic sank today, here's how the President, the media and Wall Street would spin it (satire):</strong><br />
<br />
<strong>The White House Press Secretary</strong>: The iceberg was placed in the Atlantic ocean by Osama Bin Laden.<br />
<strong>The chemist</strong>: That's not an iceberg. It's merely solid-state di-hydrogen oxide.<br />
<strong>Al Gore</strong>: That iceberg wouldn't have even been there if the polar caps weren't melting.<br />
<strong>The Congressman</strong>: Quick, let's pass a new law that says ships shall not sink.<br />
<strong>President Obama</strong>: The Titanic isn't sinking. It's merely engaged in "aquatic action."<br />
<strong>Former President Bush</strong>: Icebergs are weapons of mass destruction planted in the ocean by terrorists. We must avenge the iceberg terrorists!<br />
<strong>The Pentagon</strong>: We will equalize the hole in one side of the ship by blowing a matching hole in the other side.<br />
<strong>The TSA inspector</strong>: You're not allowed onto a lifeboat until we check your anus for explosives.<br />
<strong>The Cancer Doctor</strong>: We can't fix the hole in the ship, but through the miracle of chemotherapy, we can make you suffer so much that you won't care.<br />
<strong>The Wall Street investment banker</strong>: Don't worry, the Fed will bail out all the water we're taking on. The Titanic is too big to fail.<br />
<strong>The teenage girl</strong>: Can I still text on my iPhone under water?<br />
<strong>Congressman Weiner</strong>: Yes you can, and by the way, here's a very special "going away" message for you to remember me by.<br />
<strong>Average Joe</strong>: Is the ship's buffet still open?<br />
<strong>The FDA</strong>: We believe the ship is sinking because of an e.coli infection that spread from the galley.<br />
<strong>The CDC</strong>: Everybody should get vaccinated before the ship sinks, just in case there's a shark-flu virus in the water.<br />
<strong>The New Ager</strong>: There is no hole in the ship unless you believe there is a hole in the ship.<br />
<strong>The Academic</strong>: I have published a paper that proves this ship is unsinkable. Would anyone like to read it? Please?<br />
<strong>The Catholic priest</strong>: I think we should save all the children first. Which lifeboat are they on again?<br />
<strong>The Journalist</strong>: The Titanic has a hole in its side, but official sources tell us it's only "aquatic action" and there's no cause for alarm. And we believe them.<br />
<strong>The Federal Reserve</strong>: We have decided to dump more water onto the ship in the hope of making it float.<br />
<strong>The Federal Government</strong>: Hey, these deck chairs look pretty nice. Let's rearrange them!<br />
<strong>The Doctor</strong>: We need to order a couple dozen CT scans of the ship's null and bill them to Medicare before we have any idea at all what to do.<br />
<strong>The Denialist</strong>: Stop talking about negative things. Stay focused on the positive and you won't need a life vest.<br />
<strong>The Realist</strong>: This ship is going down, folks. You might want to think about taking action to keep yourself alive.<br />
<strong>The Gullible Masses (aka. sheeple)</strong>: Don't worry, this ship is unsinkable.<br />
Even if it did sink, there are plenty of lifeboats.<br />
Even if there aren't enough lifeboats, we all have life jackets.<br />
Even if we don't have enough life jackets, the government will come save us.<br />
<br />
Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032753_Titanic_spin.html#ixzz1PquBNmz5jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-74207570176319121902011-05-08T01:40:00.000-06:002011-05-08T01:40:45.429-06:00oh, me likey...<div><div style="position:relative;width:500px;height:500px;"><a href="http://www.polyvore.com/my_real_outfit_today/set?.mid=embed&id=30256507"><img width="500" alt="my real outfit today .." src="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-set/BQcDAAAAAwoDanBnAAAABC5vdXQKFkptTzBXcHBqNEJHU0p2VUpQV1VlM2cAAAACaWQKAXgAAAAEc2l6ZQ.jpg" title="my real outfit today .." height="500" border="0" force="1" /></a></div><br/><small><a href="http://www.polyvore.com/my_real_outfit_today/set?.mid=embed&id=30256507">my real outfit today ..</a> by <a href="http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/profile?.mid=embed&id=575819">popbarb</a> featuring <a href="http://www.polyvore.com/leather_handbags/shop?query=leather+handbags">leather handbags</a></small></div><br />
http://www.polyvore.com/my_real_outfit_today/set?id=30256507jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-8838582688932101812011-05-08T01:38:00.004-06:002011-05-08T01:57:26.487-06:00Happy Mother's Day!<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="background-color: white; color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><em><u>Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there!</u></em></span></strong></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bJOnYaDlFi8/TcZL9maWxQI/AAAAAAAAAEw/14AgfF7kxf0/s1600/mothersday3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bJOnYaDlFi8/TcZL9maWxQI/AAAAAAAAAEw/14AgfF7kxf0/s320/mothersday3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-7006506565978444802011-04-07T04:42:00.000-06:002011-04-07T04:42:30.114-06:00Confucius Did NOT Say..........<div>Confucius Did NOT Say..........<br />
<br />
Man who wants pretty nurse, must be patient.</div><div>Passionate kiss, like spider web, leads to undoing of fly.</div><div>Better to be pissed off than pissed on.</div><div>Lady who goes camping must beware of evil intent.</div><div>Squirrel who runs up woman’s leg will not find nuts.</div><div>Man who leaps off cliff jumps to conclusion.</div><div>Man who runs in front of car gets tired, man who runs behind car gets <br />
exhausted.</div><div>Man who eats many prunes get good run for money.</div><div>War does not determine who is right, it determines who is left.</div><div>Man who fight with wife all day get no piece at night.</div><div>It takes many nails to build a crib, but one screw to fill it.</div><div>Man who drives like hell is bound to get there.</div><div>Man who stands on toilet is high on pot.</div><div>Man who live in glass house should change clothes in basement.</div><div>Man who fish in other man's well often catch crabs.<br />
Finally Confucius Did NOT Say</div><div>"A lion will not cheat on his wife, but a Tiger Wood!"</div>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-75937915184409307722011-03-31T02:41:00.003-06:002011-03-31T02:54:04.868-06:00Yukigassen in Fort Edmonton!If you never even heard of Yukigassen, don't feel bad, neither have I... until today.<br />
Yukigassen is Japanese for “snow battle”, a sport that started in Japan more than 20 years ago.<br />
So, we now have the first Canadian Yukigassen Championships! I think that's totally cool, and if I were 30 years younger...<br />
<br />
The sport itself is a combination of dodge ball, paintball, and "capture the flag".<br />
Each team consists of seven people wearing helmets and eye protection (at least... Why? Read on). <br />
<a name='more'></a>Two teams line up on the opposite sides of the court which measures 10 metres by 40 metres.<br />
The game is 9 minutes long, and split into three 3-minute periods, kind of like hockey, but much shorter.<br />
The game consists of the teams throwing hard snowballs at high speeds (reaching 75 km/h... ouch!) at their opponents, and diving for the flag.<br />
Each team has 90 snowballs per period, available for throwing, for a total of 540 snowballs for both teams to throw during the 9-minute game. <br />
The team that captures the flag at any time during any period, wins, but they can also win by "taking out" the opposing team's players with the snowball ammo. You need two out of three periods' advantage to win that way. Or just capture the flag and be done with it.<br />
<br />
The winner of the Canadian tournament in Edmonton will be eligible to compete representing Canada in the world championships in Japan next year. Hopefully, they won't have to play with glow-in-the-dark snow...<br />
For full article, <a href="http://www.canada.com/news/oddities/Splat+Edmonton+hosts+Canada+first+snowball+fight+tournament/4390968/story.html"><strong><span style="color: blue;">go here</span></strong></a>. For some awesome pics, <a href="http://www.yukigassencanada.com/gallery/"><strong><span style="color: red;">go here</span></strong></a>.jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-58508078969761273282011-03-30T17:29:00.005-06:002011-03-31T02:52:38.621-06:00Wow, it's been a while...... since my last confession, uhm, post. For the record, I do do "confessions" for several reasons, the main one being I am no longer considering any religious affiliation.<br />
<br />
I have been a Catholic, then I identified with Buddhism and Wicca; I say "identified" because I like what they proclaim (notice I did not say "preach"?), but I was never actually into their deities. No, I do not mind Vishnu, or Gaia, I just never had the drive to "worship" them.<br />
Yep, what started out as a "good, Catholic girl", turned out to be a religion-free woman who's got a lot of brains and is never afraid to use them, and that would be the main reason I am religion-free. You see, if you just "believe", they got you by the proverbial short and curlies right there, and you are in the cult. But, the moment you start to "disbelieve" and question the system, a whole new world of possibilities, truth, and just plain common sense opens up to you.<br />
<a name='more'></a><br />
It took me years of reading up and trying it out for fit but... none of it actually fit. The Catholicism, as much as I would agree with some of the precepts (commonly known as "commandments" but I don't like that word), the general idea of a whole belief system based on fear, the whole fear, and nothing but the fear? Nah. Sorry. You present me with facts proven by science, and I will believe you. But, if you merely quote a scripture that is not even an original "word" of someone's but, rather, an interpretation of someone's words, and you insist that this is the only "truth" and nothing else matters, I'd say you need your head examined. Or be locked up in a looney bin with all the other assirted religious nuts...<br />
<br />
My local paper (St. Albert Gazette) must have ran out of a newsworthy facts to report because, as of lately, there seems to be an ongoing debate between a Darwinist and a Creationist. The Darwinist has a plethora of facts and evidence to dismantle the theory of creation to bits, yet the Creationist has the main and undisputed, the one and only thing they just love to base their whole theory on - the Bible.<br />
As previously stated, it is not even an original text but a collage of "he said, she said", written down about two thousand years ago (Earth is now roughly 4.5 billion years old), translated and further interpreted by the re-writers, and tailored by the church as to what they want, or don't want, us to "know". How is that for truth and transparency, or rather a complete lack thereof? Epic Fail.<br />
<br />
Let us recap:<br />
- <strong>age of Bible: about 2 thousand years</strong> (for the written parts) but there is NO consensus, even between the believers; You don't believe me? Google it. Or check the links below...<br />
- <strong>age of Earth, according to Bible: about 6 thousand years</strong>; a guesstimate derived from when Adam was allegedly "created" so, as the alleged "first man" plopped into the world that has just been allegedly created in the 6 days prior...<br />
- <strong>age of Earth, according to scientific proof</strong> (fossils, amber, skeletal remains of dinosaurs, mammoths, saber-toothed cats, Neanderthals, etc.)<strong>: about 5.4 billion years</strong>.<br />
<br />
Well, since I have personally touched, handled, and owned things that are about 60 million years old (Baltic amber), guess which theory I'll believe. <br />
<br />
LINKS:<br />
<a href="http://www.icr.org/article/how-old-earth-according-bible/">http://www.icr.org/article/how-old-earth-according-bible/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.creationtips.com/earthsage.html">http://www.creationtips.com/earthsage.html</a><br />
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<a href="http://archaeology.about.com/od/baterms/qt/baltic_amber.htm">http://archaeology.about.com/od/baterms/qt/baltic_amber.htm</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber-toothed_cat">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber-toothed_cat</a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal</a>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-23973393992292342332011-03-06T11:35:00.003-07:002011-03-06T12:03:18.817-07:00House Bill 628-FN, New HampshireIf you, like me, often wonder if there are any courageous politicians left out there, the answer is yes, and they can be found in New Hampshire!<br />
<div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Rep. Andrew Manuse (D-Derry) and Rep. George Lambert (R-Litchfield) have their fingers on the pulse of the nation.</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">They have cosponsored <strong>House Bill 628-FN (HB628-FN)</strong> which states:<br />
"<strong>This bill makes the touching or viewing with a technological device of a person’s breasts or genitals by a government security agent without probable cause a sexual assault. This bill classifies persons convicted of the offense as tier III offenders under the criminal offenders registry</strong>".</div><div style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;">Way to go, guys. The people have had enough and this Bill reflects their sentiments.</div><a href="http://www.wmur.com/politics/27035604/detail.html"><span style="color: blue;"><strong>http://www.wmur.com/politics/27035604/detail.html</strong></span></a><br />
TSA are yet to respond.jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-67360367477849432062011-03-03T01:19:00.000-07:002011-03-03T01:19:39.418-07:00Vitamin D - proper dosage revealed!I will not bore you with any speaches today, my lovelies! Instead, I will share this link:<br />
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<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/031577_vitamin_D_scientific_research.html"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">http://www.NaturalNews.com/031577_vitamin_D_scientific_research.html</span></strong></a><br />
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Read up, take your vitamin D, and stay warm :)<br />
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With love,<br />
<em>jedikitty</em>jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6860449947735281243.post-25722205843901345142011-02-27T16:25:00.006-07:002011-03-06T11:37:34.410-07:00Vaccines and Moron genesHere is a satirical take (but oh so true, if you think of it) on vaccines from Mike Adams, the Health Ranger:<br />
<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/031517_moron_vaccines.html"><strong><span style="color: blue;">http://www.NaturalNews.com/031517_moron_vaccines.html</span></strong></a><br />
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I have been reading Mike's articles with great interest for months. He does not sugarcoat anything, and he is not afraid of presenting the "other" side of the medical story, the side "they" don't want "us" to see and know about. Well, shit, Health Ranger makes sure we find out.<br />
Thanks to Mike Adams, Dr. Mercola, Dr. Tenpenny and, of course, Congressman Ron Paul - just to name my favorite few - we get to know the inconvenient truth.<br />
I am very grateful to these people for having the cojones to stand up and tell all about government sanctioned medical malpractice.jedikittyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07235741940426976333noreply@blogger.com