http://www.maryjanesfarm.org/recipe-project/tip-20111024.asp
Thought all of you would enjoy the above link. This week it is a home made cleaner. There is a side bar on this page that lists all of the tips of the week. Enjoy!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Scrapbooking Freebie Friday
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http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_2
Every Friday I'll be posting a free scrapbooking kit you can use. Just click the above link and download it to your computer. Play around with it and come back here and show and tell...Cant wait to see what you have created!
All my readers/friends get $10 off if you decide to purchase My Memories Suite V2 (http://www.mymemories.com/digital_scrapbooking_software) and $10 coupon for any purchases from My Memories store.
Cut and paste this code at checkout to get your discount STMMMS94069
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Blog you need to check out!
http://www.radicallynatural.com/2011/10/salatin-on-value-of-real-food.html
I have to agree with her on this. It just irritates me when I see people say that they have to stop at fast food restaurants because they cant afford to buy real food in the supermarket... It is really easy to fix meals at home and it's not cheaper to buy fast food. Food tastes better when you make it yourself and if you think that the produce is more expensive in the supermarket then grow your own veggies. It's not hard. Anyone can do it. You dont have a backyard just grow some veggies in a pot on your back porch or front porch. You would be surprised how it tastes. Supermarket veggies taste like cardboard. I guarantee if you taste a real tomato that you've raised yourself or bought from a local farmer you will be amazed at how it tastes. As for the ones who say they have no time to cook, I really dont think you have time to be in the doctor's office either. You get more vitamins from food you cook yourself. That fast food that you love guess what, it doesnt spoil. Take a burger and let it hang out a while. You'll see. It doesnt mold. You're putting that in your body. Gross! The cheese isnt real cheese. And if you grow your own food you wont have to worry about salmonella. It just makes sense to grow your own.
This is just my opinion, any one else have anything to say about this? Just leave a comment - glad to hear from all of you out there! ;)
I have to agree with her on this. It just irritates me when I see people say that they have to stop at fast food restaurants because they cant afford to buy real food in the supermarket... It is really easy to fix meals at home and it's not cheaper to buy fast food. Food tastes better when you make it yourself and if you think that the produce is more expensive in the supermarket then grow your own veggies. It's not hard. Anyone can do it. You dont have a backyard just grow some veggies in a pot on your back porch or front porch. You would be surprised how it tastes. Supermarket veggies taste like cardboard. I guarantee if you taste a real tomato that you've raised yourself or bought from a local farmer you will be amazed at how it tastes. As for the ones who say they have no time to cook, I really dont think you have time to be in the doctor's office either. You get more vitamins from food you cook yourself. That fast food that you love guess what, it doesnt spoil. Take a burger and let it hang out a while. You'll see. It doesnt mold. You're putting that in your body. Gross! The cheese isnt real cheese. And if you grow your own food you wont have to worry about salmonella. It just makes sense to grow your own.
This is just my opinion, any one else have anything to say about this? Just leave a comment - glad to hear from all of you out there! ;)
Natural Home and Garden GMO info...
10/13/2011 2:36:46 PM
October is National Non-GMO Month. Last October marked the first Non-GMO Month, celebrated by almost 600 natural food retailers across the United States. This year, to help spread awareness about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and to help promote Non-GMO month, Nature’s Path, maker of organic cereals, bars and waffles, created an infographic to help explain the basics of GMOs.
What are GMOs?
Genetically Modified Organisms are experimental plants or animals that have been genetically engineered in a laboratory with DNA from other plants, animals, bacteria and viruses.
Why GMOs?
There are two main reasons:
1. Seed producers modify their seed to make it resistant to their brand of herbicide.
2. Seed producers modify plants to contain built-in pesticides.
GMO ingredients are found in 80 percent of packaged foods in the U.S. GMO crops are also added to processed foods such as oils, sweeteners and soy proteins, and in things like amino acids, aspartame, vitamin C, flavorings (natural and artificial), maltodextrins and more.
Genetically Modified Crops Grown in the U.S.
Percentage of each crop that is GMO (2010):
Soy: 93 percent
Cotton: 93 percent
Corn: 86 percent
Canola: 90 percent
Labeling and Bans
NO: The United States and Canada do not require labeling of genetically engineered foods.
YES: In 40 countries, including Australia, Japan and all European Union nations there are significant restrictions or outright bans on the production of GMOs because they are not considered proven safe.
Health
GMOs have not been proven safe. The long-term consequences of GMOs on our health and environment have not been adequately investigated.
Avoiding GE Ingredients
Organic Food: The USDA Certification states that “the use of genetically engineered organisms and their products are prohibited at any stage in organic production, processing or handling.”
Non-GMO Project Verified Products
Products bearing this seal have undergone independent testing to ensure they have been made according to best practices for GE avoidance.
What are GMOs?
Genetically Modified Organisms are experimental plants or animals that have been genetically engineered in a laboratory with DNA from other plants, animals, bacteria and viruses.
Why GMOs?
There are two main reasons:
1. Seed producers modify their seed to make it resistant to their brand of herbicide.
2. Seed producers modify plants to contain built-in pesticides.
GMO ingredients are found in 80 percent of packaged foods in the U.S. GMO crops are also added to processed foods such as oils, sweeteners and soy proteins, and in things like amino acids, aspartame, vitamin C, flavorings (natural and artificial), maltodextrins and more.
Genetically Modified Crops Grown in the U.S.
Percentage of each crop that is GMO (2010):
Soy: 93 percent
Cotton: 93 percent
Corn: 86 percent
Canola: 90 percent
Labeling and Bans
NO: The United States and Canada do not require labeling of genetically engineered foods.
YES: In 40 countries, including Australia, Japan and all European Union nations there are significant restrictions or outright bans on the production of GMOs because they are not considered proven safe.
Health
GMOs have not been proven safe. The long-term consequences of GMOs on our health and environment have not been adequately investigated.
Avoiding GE Ingredients
Organic Food: The USDA Certification states that “the use of genetically engineered organisms and their products are prohibited at any stage in organic production, processing or handling.”
Non-GMO Project Verified Products
Products bearing this seal have undergone independent testing to ensure they have been made according to best practices for GE avoidance.
Read more: http://www.naturalhomeandgarden.com/food-matters/genetically-modified-organisms-gmos.aspx#ixzz1bVLHnwNW
Saturday, October 22, 2011
NIA New Email - 10/20/11
NIA Exposes Occupy Wall Street Truth
The Occupy Wall Street movement is gaining tons of momentum and is likely to continue picking up steam in the weeks and months ahead. Americans are angry but they aren't exactly sure what they are angry about and they don't know for sure who they should be angry with. It is easy for them to point their fingers at Wall Street, but Wall Street is in no way responsible for the financial crisis our country has today.
NIA believes that Occupy Wall Street protesters need to be educated to the facts and truth about the U.S. economy and what is truly causing our economic problems. NIA is getting ready to release 'Occupy Wall Street the Documentary', which NIA has produced so that Occupy Wall Street protesters can understand exactly what changes need to be made in America if our country is going to survive the Hyperinflationary Great Depression that will soon hit America and steal all remaining purchasing power that the U.S. dollar still has left.
NIA first saw signs of the protests taking place today back in November of 2009 when we were in Beverly Hills filming our documentary 'The Dollar Bubble'. We were alerted by NIA members to a major protest that was breaking out at the University of California. We went to see it and witnessed a very violent protest of students upset about a 32% increase in college tuition for the next semester.
The UCLA protest showed us just how angry Americans can become about inflation. Because we were forecasting massive food inflation to start breaking out in 2010, we made the prediction that we would see large "End the Fed" protests beginning in 2010. We did see massive food inflation in late 2010, accelerating greatly throughout 2011. However, we overestimated the ability for average Americans to quickly point the finger at the Federal Reserve. We also didn't expect many citizens of foreign countries, especially Arab nations, to begin protesting before Americans did.
About one year after the violent UCLA tuition inflation protest that we witnessed, a larger even more violent tuition inflation protest broke out in London. When Prince Charles' security detail made the mistake of driving him and the Duchess of Cornwall past the area where the protest was taking place, in a vehicle that cost more than what each protester will earn in the next ten years combined, about 50 of the protesters broke through the motorcycle police protecting the Prince chanting "Off with their heads!", beating on the side of their Rolls-Royce with sticks and bottles. Luckily, the car was armored and only suffered minor damages, keeping Prince Charles and the Duchess safe. A Jaguar behind it containing police officers was destroyed to the extent that the officers ended up using car doors from the Jaguar as shields, which still couldn't prevent six of them from being seriously injured.
The food inflation protests that NIA had been expecting for over a year, started to break out in late January of this year in Algeria, with citizens chanting "Bring Us Sugar!" Eight citizens were killed during the protests in Algeria. This quickly spread to a massive outbreak of civil unrest in neighboring Tunisia, where thousands protested food inflation and high unemployment. The Tunisian revolution led to the ousting of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, but came at the expense of 79 protesters being killed.
This rapidly spread to the riots in Egypt. Before the Egyptian protests even began, six Egyptian citizens committed suicide in front of government buildings by dousing themselves with fuel and lighting themselves on fire. All together, 846 protesters were killed across different parts of Egypt and over 6,000 more were injured. The Egyptian protesters were eventually successful at getting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign from office.
NIA saw the resignation of Mubarak as a farce from the beginning. We couldn't understand how thousands of angry Egyptians who were calling for Mubarak's head would within seconds of his resignation announcement erupt into cheers like Egypt had just won the World Cup. The resignation of one man would not eliminate the corruption in Egypt's government and fix their inflation and jobs crisis. Most of Mubarak's cronies are still in power. Mubarak agreed to just take one for the team. For the protesters to declare victory and go home after one man announced his resignation shows that most of the protesters were sheep who were just copying their friends without having a real grasp on the issues affecting the economy in Egypt. What if Mubarak came back on television and said "I was just kidding" or "I just changed my mind and decided not to resign", would the protesters have come back?
After Egypt, the protests spread to Jordan and Yemen. Once again, food inflation was the main root cause of the protests, something that the mainstream media in the U.S. largely ignored when reporting on the protests. The American mainstream media was not allowed to discuss inflation when corresponding about the global inflation protests, because it didn't want the world to connect the dots and realize that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is more responsible for the global food inflation crisis and protests than the leader of any foreign country.
Because of the U.S. dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, the majority of the world's most important agricultural and energy commodities are traded in U.S. dollars. When Bernanke prints trillions of dollars out of thin air in an attempt to reinflate the Real Estate bubble and lower unemployment in the U.S., it has a direct affect on what foreigners pay for all goods and services around the world. With China printing massive amounts of Yuan to keep it pegged to the U.S. dollar and the Bank of Japan intervening to keep the Yen from appreciating too rapidly against the U.S. dollar, countries like Australia are now quick to blame any short-term dip in manufacturing, agriculture production, or energy commodity exports on their currency being too strong against not just the U.S. dollar but the Yen, Yuan, and most other fiat currencies.
In just the last two weeks, the Australian dollar has risen 9.5% against the Yen, 8.5% against the U.S. dollar, and 8.6% against the Yuan. It should be no surprise to NIA members that attempts to copy "Occupy Wall Street" in Australia have been dismal. After 1,000 protesters initially showed up in Sydney on Saturday for their own "Occupy Wall Street" protest that was supposed to continue "indefinitely", less than 50 protesters remained on Monday as most people returned to work. Australia doesn't have an inflation or unemployment crisis because their central bank did the right thing and raised interest rates to 4.75% at a time when everybody else was lowering them. This is why since the inception of NIA we have always suggested Australia as our top choice for Americans to move to if they want to get out of harms way before hyperinflation hits the U.S. We hope that the Reserve Bank of Australia will continue to do the right thing and ignore calls from all around the world for them to lower rates.
The mainstream media is currently once again focused on the financial crisis in Europe, which is temporarily distracting from the debt crisis that really matters in the U.S. On Halloween, the official U.S. national debt for the first time ever will surpass U.S. GDP. At any time now without any warning or any new catalyst, we could see a huge onslaught of dollar dumping that causes the economic equivalent of 9/11.
There is no hope of preventing hyperinflation in America when President Obama is unwilling to consider any measure that would cut government spending in a meaningful way. In August when the Budget Control Act of 2011 was enacted by Congress, the mainstream media was widely reporting that the "supercommittee" formed by the act would be in charge of finding $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by Thanksgiving. In reality, this "supercommittee" that Obama was so heavily relying on to pay for his proposals in his "jobs bill", is not responsible for finding $1.5 trillion in spending cuts but only a $1.5 trillion reduction in the budget deficit over 10 years.
Obama promises to veto any proposals that make large spending cuts, especially to entitlement programs. Many Democrats are calling for a new 5% "surcharge" on Americans earning over $1 million per year. Within a few years, an annual income of $1 million will only have the purchasing power of what a $100,000 salary has today. This proposed new tax would discourage small business owners from expanding and hiring new employees. It would destroy any remaining hope that is left for a real economic recovery and encourage most American entrepreneurs to leave the country permanently.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) yesterday released their consumer price index (CPI) data for the month of September. The BLS reported year-over-year CPI growth of 3.87%, the highest rate of U.S. price inflation in three years. The official government reported year-over-year U.S. price inflation rate of 3.87% for September was up from 3.77% in August, 3.63% in July, 3.56% in June, 3.57% in May, 3.16% in April, 2.68% in March, 2.11% in February, 1.63% in January, 1.5% in December, and 1.1% in November. Year-over-year increases in the CPI have risen by 252% over the last ten months.
Even year-over-year core-CPI growth rose for the 11th straight month to 1.97% in September, an increase of 223% from year-over-year growth of 0.61% in November. NIA estimates the real rate of U.S. price inflation to currently be 8.5% on a year-over-year basis. It was just announced that American retirees receiving Social Security will receive a 3.6% COLA increase, the first increase since 2009. Social Security is the main reason the U.S. government reports artificially low CPI numbers. By giving retired Americans only a 3.6% Social Security payment increase when real price inflation is now 8.5%, Congress gets to spend the difference in the ways they see fit.
With inflation spiraling out of control, the government knows that they soon won't be able to afford even the artificially low COLA increases they are making today. Congress is now exploring ways to keep future COLA increases as low as possible. Many clueless Keynesian economists in Washington are now arguing that the inflation measure the government uses to calculate COLA increases, the CPI-W, is overestimating true increases in the cost of living. These economists claim that Americans can shift between items and if veal prices are rising too much, they can eat chicken or if lobster prices are rising too much, they can eat shrimp. They propose that the government switches to a version of CPI that accounts for these changes, called "chain weighted" CPI.
All Americans know that their cost to maintain the same standard of living has increased by a lot more than 3.6% over the past year. The CPI-W being used today already artificially understates inflation so much that current Social Security recipients deserve to be receiving triple their current payments. If "chain weighted" CPI was being used today, American seniors would only receive a 3% COLA increase next year.
If the U.S. government did the right thing and invested all FICA tax receipts into gold, it would be able to give Social Security recipients an increase next year of around 8.5% like they should be entitled to. American seniors are being hurt most by inflation because health care has consistently had the highest rate of inflation out of all goods and services. A COLA increase of 3.6% is nothing when NIA estimates the real rate of health care inflation to currently be 15% or 76.5% higher than the overall real rate of price inflation. To artificially lower COLA increases even more would mean utter devastation to the U.S. economy as seniors would need to reenter the workforce and Americans with jobs would need to stop spending money on goods and services in order to help their parents. This would mean even less jobs for the youth in America and less support for them from their parents.
The Occupy Wall Street movement is gaining tons of momentum and is likely to continue picking up steam in the weeks and months ahead. Americans are angry but they aren't exactly sure what they are angry about and they don't know for sure who they should be angry with. It is easy for them to point their fingers at Wall Street, but Wall Street is in no way responsible for the financial crisis our country has today.
NIA believes that Occupy Wall Street protesters need to be educated to the facts and truth about the U.S. economy and what is truly causing our economic problems. NIA is getting ready to release 'Occupy Wall Street the Documentary', which NIA has produced so that Occupy Wall Street protesters can understand exactly what changes need to be made in America if our country is going to survive the Hyperinflationary Great Depression that will soon hit America and steal all remaining purchasing power that the U.S. dollar still has left.
NIA first saw signs of the protests taking place today back in November of 2009 when we were in Beverly Hills filming our documentary 'The Dollar Bubble'. We were alerted by NIA members to a major protest that was breaking out at the University of California. We went to see it and witnessed a very violent protest of students upset about a 32% increase in college tuition for the next semester.
The UCLA protest showed us just how angry Americans can become about inflation. Because we were forecasting massive food inflation to start breaking out in 2010, we made the prediction that we would see large "End the Fed" protests beginning in 2010. We did see massive food inflation in late 2010, accelerating greatly throughout 2011. However, we overestimated the ability for average Americans to quickly point the finger at the Federal Reserve. We also didn't expect many citizens of foreign countries, especially Arab nations, to begin protesting before Americans did.
About one year after the violent UCLA tuition inflation protest that we witnessed, a larger even more violent tuition inflation protest broke out in London. When Prince Charles' security detail made the mistake of driving him and the Duchess of Cornwall past the area where the protest was taking place, in a vehicle that cost more than what each protester will earn in the next ten years combined, about 50 of the protesters broke through the motorcycle police protecting the Prince chanting "Off with their heads!", beating on the side of their Rolls-Royce with sticks and bottles. Luckily, the car was armored and only suffered minor damages, keeping Prince Charles and the Duchess safe. A Jaguar behind it containing police officers was destroyed to the extent that the officers ended up using car doors from the Jaguar as shields, which still couldn't prevent six of them from being seriously injured.
The food inflation protests that NIA had been expecting for over a year, started to break out in late January of this year in Algeria, with citizens chanting "Bring Us Sugar!" Eight citizens were killed during the protests in Algeria. This quickly spread to a massive outbreak of civil unrest in neighboring Tunisia, where thousands protested food inflation and high unemployment. The Tunisian revolution led to the ousting of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, but came at the expense of 79 protesters being killed.
This rapidly spread to the riots in Egypt. Before the Egyptian protests even began, six Egyptian citizens committed suicide in front of government buildings by dousing themselves with fuel and lighting themselves on fire. All together, 846 protesters were killed across different parts of Egypt and over 6,000 more were injured. The Egyptian protesters were eventually successful at getting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to resign from office.
NIA saw the resignation of Mubarak as a farce from the beginning. We couldn't understand how thousands of angry Egyptians who were calling for Mubarak's head would within seconds of his resignation announcement erupt into cheers like Egypt had just won the World Cup. The resignation of one man would not eliminate the corruption in Egypt's government and fix their inflation and jobs crisis. Most of Mubarak's cronies are still in power. Mubarak agreed to just take one for the team. For the protesters to declare victory and go home after one man announced his resignation shows that most of the protesters were sheep who were just copying their friends without having a real grasp on the issues affecting the economy in Egypt. What if Mubarak came back on television and said "I was just kidding" or "I just changed my mind and decided not to resign", would the protesters have come back?
After Egypt, the protests spread to Jordan and Yemen. Once again, food inflation was the main root cause of the protests, something that the mainstream media in the U.S. largely ignored when reporting on the protests. The American mainstream media was not allowed to discuss inflation when corresponding about the global inflation protests, because it didn't want the world to connect the dots and realize that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is more responsible for the global food inflation crisis and protests than the leader of any foreign country.
Because of the U.S. dollar's status as the world's reserve currency, the majority of the world's most important agricultural and energy commodities are traded in U.S. dollars. When Bernanke prints trillions of dollars out of thin air in an attempt to reinflate the Real Estate bubble and lower unemployment in the U.S., it has a direct affect on what foreigners pay for all goods and services around the world. With China printing massive amounts of Yuan to keep it pegged to the U.S. dollar and the Bank of Japan intervening to keep the Yen from appreciating too rapidly against the U.S. dollar, countries like Australia are now quick to blame any short-term dip in manufacturing, agriculture production, or energy commodity exports on their currency being too strong against not just the U.S. dollar but the Yen, Yuan, and most other fiat currencies.
In just the last two weeks, the Australian dollar has risen 9.5% against the Yen, 8.5% against the U.S. dollar, and 8.6% against the Yuan. It should be no surprise to NIA members that attempts to copy "Occupy Wall Street" in Australia have been dismal. After 1,000 protesters initially showed up in Sydney on Saturday for their own "Occupy Wall Street" protest that was supposed to continue "indefinitely", less than 50 protesters remained on Monday as most people returned to work. Australia doesn't have an inflation or unemployment crisis because their central bank did the right thing and raised interest rates to 4.75% at a time when everybody else was lowering them. This is why since the inception of NIA we have always suggested Australia as our top choice for Americans to move to if they want to get out of harms way before hyperinflation hits the U.S. We hope that the Reserve Bank of Australia will continue to do the right thing and ignore calls from all around the world for them to lower rates.
The mainstream media is currently once again focused on the financial crisis in Europe, which is temporarily distracting from the debt crisis that really matters in the U.S. On Halloween, the official U.S. national debt for the first time ever will surpass U.S. GDP. At any time now without any warning or any new catalyst, we could see a huge onslaught of dollar dumping that causes the economic equivalent of 9/11.
There is no hope of preventing hyperinflation in America when President Obama is unwilling to consider any measure that would cut government spending in a meaningful way. In August when the Budget Control Act of 2011 was enacted by Congress, the mainstream media was widely reporting that the "supercommittee" formed by the act would be in charge of finding $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by Thanksgiving. In reality, this "supercommittee" that Obama was so heavily relying on to pay for his proposals in his "jobs bill", is not responsible for finding $1.5 trillion in spending cuts but only a $1.5 trillion reduction in the budget deficit over 10 years.
Obama promises to veto any proposals that make large spending cuts, especially to entitlement programs. Many Democrats are calling for a new 5% "surcharge" on Americans earning over $1 million per year. Within a few years, an annual income of $1 million will only have the purchasing power of what a $100,000 salary has today. This proposed new tax would discourage small business owners from expanding and hiring new employees. It would destroy any remaining hope that is left for a real economic recovery and encourage most American entrepreneurs to leave the country permanently.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) yesterday released their consumer price index (CPI) data for the month of September. The BLS reported year-over-year CPI growth of 3.87%, the highest rate of U.S. price inflation in three years. The official government reported year-over-year U.S. price inflation rate of 3.87% for September was up from 3.77% in August, 3.63% in July, 3.56% in June, 3.57% in May, 3.16% in April, 2.68% in March, 2.11% in February, 1.63% in January, 1.5% in December, and 1.1% in November. Year-over-year increases in the CPI have risen by 252% over the last ten months.
Even year-over-year core-CPI growth rose for the 11th straight month to 1.97% in September, an increase of 223% from year-over-year growth of 0.61% in November. NIA estimates the real rate of U.S. price inflation to currently be 8.5% on a year-over-year basis. It was just announced that American retirees receiving Social Security will receive a 3.6% COLA increase, the first increase since 2009. Social Security is the main reason the U.S. government reports artificially low CPI numbers. By giving retired Americans only a 3.6% Social Security payment increase when real price inflation is now 8.5%, Congress gets to spend the difference in the ways they see fit.
With inflation spiraling out of control, the government knows that they soon won't be able to afford even the artificially low COLA increases they are making today. Congress is now exploring ways to keep future COLA increases as low as possible. Many clueless Keynesian economists in Washington are now arguing that the inflation measure the government uses to calculate COLA increases, the CPI-W, is overestimating true increases in the cost of living. These economists claim that Americans can shift between items and if veal prices are rising too much, they can eat chicken or if lobster prices are rising too much, they can eat shrimp. They propose that the government switches to a version of CPI that accounts for these changes, called "chain weighted" CPI.
All Americans know that their cost to maintain the same standard of living has increased by a lot more than 3.6% over the past year. The CPI-W being used today already artificially understates inflation so much that current Social Security recipients deserve to be receiving triple their current payments. If "chain weighted" CPI was being used today, American seniors would only receive a 3% COLA increase next year.
If the U.S. government did the right thing and invested all FICA tax receipts into gold, it would be able to give Social Security recipients an increase next year of around 8.5% like they should be entitled to. American seniors are being hurt most by inflation because health care has consistently had the highest rate of inflation out of all goods and services. A COLA increase of 3.6% is nothing when NIA estimates the real rate of health care inflation to currently be 15% or 76.5% higher than the overall real rate of price inflation. To artificially lower COLA increases even more would mean utter devastation to the U.S. economy as seniors would need to reenter the workforce and Americans with jobs would need to stop spending money on goods and services in order to help their parents. This would mean even less jobs for the youth in America and less support for them from their parents.
If you would like your friends and family members to be the first to see 'Occupy Wall Street the Documentary' coming soon, simply tell them to become a member of NIA for free today at: http://inflation.us
Friday, October 21, 2011
Scrapbooking Freebie Friday
Freebie 2 Page:
http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_2
Every Friday I'll be posting a free scrapbooking kit you can use. Just click the above link and download it to your computer. Play around with it and come back here and show and tell...Cant wait to see what you have created!
All my readers/friends get $10 off if you decide to purchase My Memories Suite V2 (http://www.mymemories.com/digital_scrapbooking_software) and $10 coupon for any purchases from My Memories store.
Cut and paste this code at checkout to get your discount STMMMS94069
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
Can you tell I'm from PA? LOL
Freebie Fridays for Scrapbooking
Freebie 1 Page:
http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_1
Every Friday I'll be posting a free scrapbooking kit you can use. Just click the above link and download it to your computer. Play around with it and come back here and show and tell...Cant wait to see what you have created!
All my readers/friends get $10 off if you decide to purchase My Memories Suite V2 (http://www.mymemories.com/digital_scrapbooking_software) and $10 coupon for any purchases from My Memories store.
Cut and paste this code at checkout to get your discount STMMMS94069
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Fluoride
Here is an article I found very interesting:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/11/dr-bill-osmunson-on-fluoride.aspx?e_cid=20111011_DNL_art_1
Here is an excerpt:
China, in contrast, does NOT allow water fluoridation because it's too toxic and causes damage, according to their studies. Instead, the waste product from their phosphate fertilizer industry is shipped to the United States, where we add it to our water supply!
This is a very important point: the fluoride added to your water is NOT pharmaceutical grade. It's a toxic industrial waste product, which is also contaminated with lead, arsenic, radionucleotides, aluminum and other industrial contaminants.
About 75 percent of Americans get fluoridated water, and just over 65 percent have artificially fluoridated water with hydrofluorosilicic acid; the toxic waste product from phosphate industries. Meanwhile, naturally occurring fluoride is found in many water supplies, especially in volcanic regions and areas with harder water.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not distinguish between these two types of fluoride, but they should.
Naturally occurring fluoride in hard water areas often has a calcium fluoride. Calcium and fluoride bond very well and are not absorbed well by your body. Hydrofluorosilicic acid, on the other hand, dissolves easier and is absorbed by your body at a greater rate.
Natural calcium fluoride is about 1,000 times less toxic than hydrofluorosilicic acid or sodium fluoride, and this is because your body can't absorb nearly as much. (Note: Sodium fluoride is pharmaceutical grade fluoride, which is used in most studies, but NOT the kind added to water supplies.)
My thoughts: We quit using fluoride toothpaste years ago and we now are using a Berkey filter system even to cook our food in. You got to admit the government is mainly for the government not for the people any more. Where we lived when I was growing up we didnt have fluoride in the water but when we moved our water system did have fluoride. Seems funny but my brother and I never did have problems with our teeth until years later. We didnt even go to the dentist until I was 12 years old. Dentist couldnt believe that we went that long without getting our teeth looked at but we didnt have any problems so why go? We brushed our teeth with toothpaste with fluoride in it and drank the water with fluoride in it and after 10 years had cavities...hmmm correlation? Now there are all sorts of chemicals in our drinking water even if you use well water your water is contaminated with all the chemicals people put into their bodies and when it flushes out where to you suppose it goes? Then it not only gets in our ground water but is also showing up in our food supply. Farmers use city water as well. Fluoride is in the water that the animals drink and vegetables get some too. Just something to think about.
Besides the water with floride in it tastes icky and that's my scientific opinion ;)
Talk to ya later!
Denise
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/10/11/dr-bill-osmunson-on-fluoride.aspx?e_cid=20111011_DNL_art_1
Here is an excerpt:
China, in contrast, does NOT allow water fluoridation because it's too toxic and causes damage, according to their studies. Instead, the waste product from their phosphate fertilizer industry is shipped to the United States, where we add it to our water supply!
This is a very important point: the fluoride added to your water is NOT pharmaceutical grade. It's a toxic industrial waste product, which is also contaminated with lead, arsenic, radionucleotides, aluminum and other industrial contaminants.
About 75 percent of Americans get fluoridated water, and just over 65 percent have artificially fluoridated water with hydrofluorosilicic acid; the toxic waste product from phosphate industries. Meanwhile, naturally occurring fluoride is found in many water supplies, especially in volcanic regions and areas with harder water.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not distinguish between these two types of fluoride, but they should.
Naturally occurring fluoride in hard water areas often has a calcium fluoride. Calcium and fluoride bond very well and are not absorbed well by your body. Hydrofluorosilicic acid, on the other hand, dissolves easier and is absorbed by your body at a greater rate.
Natural calcium fluoride is about 1,000 times less toxic than hydrofluorosilicic acid or sodium fluoride, and this is because your body can't absorb nearly as much. (Note: Sodium fluoride is pharmaceutical grade fluoride, which is used in most studies, but NOT the kind added to water supplies.)
My thoughts: We quit using fluoride toothpaste years ago and we now are using a Berkey filter system even to cook our food in. You got to admit the government is mainly for the government not for the people any more. Where we lived when I was growing up we didnt have fluoride in the water but when we moved our water system did have fluoride. Seems funny but my brother and I never did have problems with our teeth until years later. We didnt even go to the dentist until I was 12 years old. Dentist couldnt believe that we went that long without getting our teeth looked at but we didnt have any problems so why go? We brushed our teeth with toothpaste with fluoride in it and drank the water with fluoride in it and after 10 years had cavities...hmmm correlation? Now there are all sorts of chemicals in our drinking water even if you use well water your water is contaminated with all the chemicals people put into their bodies and when it flushes out where to you suppose it goes? Then it not only gets in our ground water but is also showing up in our food supply. Farmers use city water as well. Fluoride is in the water that the animals drink and vegetables get some too. Just something to think about.
Besides the water with floride in it tastes icky and that's my scientific opinion ;)
Talk to ya later!
Denise
Thursday, October 6, 2011
And the winner is...
I 
generated a number from random.org but couldnt figure out how to get the little picture block up here on my blog. Anyway it's #3: Kristina from http://pioneerwomanatheart.blogspot.com/!
Congrats Kristina!
Kristina: just email me and I will get you the code so you can download your My Memories scrapbooking software. If I dont hear from you in a week, I will pick a new winner.
UPDATE: Kristina has gotten her code to download the software. Thanks everyone who entered! That was fun. I'll have to do it again with something different.
Congrats Kristina!
Kristina: just email me and I will get you the code so you can download your My Memories scrapbooking software. If I dont hear from you in a week, I will pick a new winner.
UPDATE: Kristina has gotten her code to download the software. Thanks everyone who entered! That was fun. I'll have to do it again with something different.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Last day for giveaway signup!
I'll be picking the winner early tomorrow so sign up now if you're interested.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Laugh for your Tuesday morning...
Had to share this one from one of my knitting groups on Yahoo...
Adapted from a quilters' newsletter in North Carolina...author unknown.
A recent study has indicated that yarns give off certain pheromones that
hypnotize women and cause them to purchase ungodly amounts of yarn. When
stored in large quantities in enclosed spaces, the pheromones in the yarn
causes memory loss and induce the gathering syndrome, similar to the one
squirrels have before the onset of winter.
Sound tests have also revealed that these yarns emit a very high-pitched
sound heard only by a select few, known as stitchers. When played backward,
the sounds are heard as chants...'Buy me! Knit me!' Furthermore, pheromones
seem to cause a pathological need to secret the yarn purchases away when
one takes them home and blend them into the existing stash. When asked by a
significant other if the yarn is new, the reply is, "oh, I've had it for a
while!"
In order to overcome the so-called feeding frenzy effect that these yarns
cause, one must wear a face mask when entering a storage facility, and use
ear plugs to avoid being pulled into their grip. It is also beneficial to
enter these storage facilities without the presence of cash or credit cards.
Sad to say, the addictive qualities of this compulsive behavior are
cumulative, and are ameliorated only by the purchase of more and more and more
yarns.
No cure is known at this time.
Adapted from a quilters' newsletter in North Carolina...author unknown.
A recent study has indicated that yarns give off certain pheromones that
hypnotize women and cause them to purchase ungodly amounts of yarn. When
stored in large quantities in enclosed spaces, the pheromones in the yarn
causes memory loss and induce the gathering syndrome, similar to the one
squirrels have before the onset of winter.
Sound tests have also revealed that these yarns emit a very high-pitched
sound heard only by a select few, known as stitchers. When played backward,
the sounds are heard as chants...'Buy me! Knit me!' Furthermore, pheromones
seem to cause a pathological need to secret the yarn purchases away when
one takes them home and blend them into the existing stash. When asked by a
significant other if the yarn is new, the reply is, "oh, I've had it for a
while!"
In order to overcome the so-called feeding frenzy effect that these yarns
cause, one must wear a face mask when entering a storage facility, and use
ear plugs to avoid being pulled into their grip. It is also beneficial to
enter these storage facilities without the presence of cash or credit cards.
Sad to say, the addictive qualities of this compulsive behavior are
cumulative, and are ameliorated only by the purchase of more and more and more
yarns.
No cure is known at this time.
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