Beat me tuit!

Who’s George Tierney, Jr.?

Oh, and yes, it’s called Food and Drug Administration.

Rright! The fix is in!

Well, McCain, if people eat right, they don’t need to take poison drugs. Disease can be traced in many cases to a lack of certain nutrients. In other cases, it’s bad eating in general, things like high fructose corn syrup. I fail to see how for instance, CV disease, is caused by a lack of statins.

The best defense against high poison drug prices is to look to your diet. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see the poison drug companies fail due to lack of sales?

I’ve been thinking about you, and particularly when references to Austin show up.

My thoughts are with you.

Oh, Lordy, GW!

I ran across this little tidbit:

In 1776, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, foretold a grim scenario that has now taken shape right before our eyes. He said:
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.”
Now, in 2012, we are very much facing this reality, as we live in an era where our medical freedom is increasingly under attack, and “healing” has been replaced with “treating” disease, most often with toxic chemicals and surgery. This drug-driven medical paradigm not only depends on the sacrifice and, some might say, torture, of animals in medical research, but also in many ways uses humans as sacrificial lambs.

“The “medicines” themselves are often devoid of intrinsic value, being nothing more than rebranded and re-purposed chemicals, intended (though all too often failing) to be administered in sub-lethal concentrations. Indeed, many of these chemicals are too toxic to be legally released into the environment, and should never be administered intentionally to a human who is already sick. You need look no farther than a typical drug package insert to find proof that the side effects of most drugs far outnumber their purported beneficial effects.

These chemicals, in fact, are so highly leveraged against their true value (or lack thereof), that they can sell for as much as 500,000% percent from cost! Only medical/pharmaceutical and financial institutions (e.g. Federal Reserve) are legally empowered to generate the illusion that they are creating something of value out of nothing of value, on this scale.”

They may be, which then puts the problem back in your system.

I’ve been around the block (pun intended!) many times over these kinds of issues. The missing element is the dearth of error logs which are the source of information leading to root causes. Those that provide this kind of service become stellar at fixing things.

Computers are crazy that way. The umpteen reasons why “it’s gotta be you not me” that occurs in the Photoshop Forums is almost uncountable.

So far as precious metals, I would expect silver to be right up there with gold as useful. One complements the other. Silver: light sensitive, reactive, conductive. Gold: non-reactive and not a particularly good conductor. Enduring.

But so far as light sensitivity, silicon has replaced silver, by being semi-conductive.

I’m sure the metallurgists among us could amplify on all this in spades!

It’s ok here. Generally I expect problems like refreshing to be local rather than global. Local mean my installation.

So my vial of AgCl is worth maybe $14. I think I may keep it for the expected return of analog printing. (Not!)

Also one of the best materials for exquisite sepia prints, in the old analog days. I still have a vial of AgCl. About 1Gr worth.

Boxturtle (Not a gold bug, but gold has it’s uses)

Right. Plating for electronics for one.

Thanks to all for the feedback to my comments.

Rev Bev, it’s exactly that, about staying in the moment, and that in turn requires conviction about the moment, and that’ in turn, requires that we see the ego’s attempt at usurping that effort.

It comes down to witness without judging.

For moi, any way.

There is another frame we can employ to counter, if only so briefly, the melodramatic frames highlighted here. And that is the frame that pops up upon first awakening, before the other frames take over. I had that this morning, ans suddenly realized that that frame is the most consistent. It is the frame about the present moment, and is devoid of all the intellectual, emotional and other suggestive information which is, even at the moment of realization, crowding in to take control.

How do we maintain that frame, for at least a reference all day?

I believe that process is exactly what Buddhism and similar want us to enable, taking it finally to the point of being the basis of living. It is probably the most powerful realization yet, at least to me.

Writing about it dilutes the message, so I’ll stop here and simply ask the reader to pay attention to the frame of mind at the immediate transition from sleep to wakefulness.

It is very rich and powerful.

Well, I’ll take my chances with a bottle of 70% alcohol vs a jet of propane emitting from a canister with the valve needle depressed. /s

Maybe the stove but not the canisters.