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Mar21

A Cure For Cancer

by foovay on March 21st, 2012 at 6:47 pm
Posted In: Ranting and Raving

I firmly believe we have a cure for cancer. We know how to prevent cancer, and we know how to cure it. Rich, upper class cancer patients survive cancer – how? They go to other countries to expensive clinics that have the cure. It is all kept very hush hush.

Why is that? The cure is natural. The cure is homeopathic, alternative medicine that any human being can afford on the lowest income. The AMA and Big Pharm here in the U.S. can’t possibly let that information leak out. There is a huge industry built around researching and treating cancer – all those doctors, medical technicians, medical institutions, and pharmaceutical companies make billions from cancer patients.

Most cancer patients are not the rich – the rich are not exposed to the chemicals, radiation, and other cancer causing agents that lower classes are exposed to in their work and daily life due to their jobs or where they live. Many cancer patients are constrained in their choices of treatment by their insurance company or Medicaid. Thus they have no choice other than the torture condoned and paid for by insurance and Medicaid – even though the medical profession knows that very few people are cured by poisoning them with chemo, radiating them, or mutilating them through surgery. But every body makes some money and goes home happy – except the patient.

(You may have the nicest doctor and nurses in the world – in fact, they are usually only doing what they have been taught is right, or what they are required to do by the insurance companies and medical institutions they work for. This still doesn’t mean they are doing what is truly BEST for the patient)

If you or someone you love has cancer – educate yourself. Seek out alternative treatments, practice good nutrition, read and research on the Internet – where international and social class boundaries are easily crossed.

I am not saying these people have the ultimate cure for cancer, but they are a good place to start:
cure for cancer

Mar20

Merry Ostara To All!

by foovay on March 20th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
Posted In: Musing, Pagan, Update

A Merry Ostara to all! I hope you are having a great first day of Spring – first day of the Astrological New Year. I will be decorating a few eggs later for fun and in the next few days they will become one of my favorite treats – deviled eggs. If that makes me a devil worshipper, so be it. *just kidding*

I’ve been getting a lot of work done – must be the spring in the air. It has been cold and windy here, though. That isn’t altogether bad. I tend to stay inside and work at the computer, rather than run off to play in the sun riding the bike and walking the dog.

This is a very good time to do a tarot reading, or other divination, to see what is coming in the next few months. Mine says I’m going to be working my ass off and improving my business model – and income. How about you?

Blessedbe

Summer Foovay

Mar19

Defund Big Oil

by foovay on March 19th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
Posted In: Ranting and Raving

The politicians, from the local level up to the federal government, are looking for programs to defund to save money.

Mostly, they are using it as an excuse to defund Planned Parenthood and programs that provide help to the working poor, from food stamps to health care and housing subsidies. They don’t have to worry about the poorest of all – the homeless – because once you no longer have a physical address, you are ineligible for any assistance.

All those programs to help poor people barely scrape by – most of them run by people who are trained to degrade their clients and lie to discourage them from trying to get help no matter what their situation – don’t use one tenth of the government funding that goes to subsidize the largest, most profitable industry of all time. The Oil Companies.

Some of those billions the government gives to the Oil Companies, they give right back in all sorts of ways to various elected representatives, who go to Congress and make sure the Oil companies continue to get their subsidies, tax breaks, and so on.

I grew up in Oklahoma. Oklahoma sold the entire state to the Oil Companies before I was born a half century ago. The Oil companies rule Oklahoma as if it were a fiefdom. They do whatever they damn well please to the environment, the little people, and their own employees while handing huge amounts of money and stock over to the state elected officials to look the other way.

Big Oil is responsible for more broken people, broken homes, broken families, poverty, pollution, and destruction in Oklahoma than any drug or addiction or illness. In one year Big Oil broke seventy seven banks. Little people lost their entire savings. Big Oil moved on. Big Oil decided to stop drilling in Oklahoma and go to Saudi Arabia. The employees were told they could leave their families and go to Saudi, or quit. If they quit they were considered to have left voluntarily – no severance or unemployment. And no prospect of another job remotely similar in pay or duties. Small businesses who serviced the oil companies lost all of their business overnight – and the bank came by the next day to pick up all their equipment and kick them out of their homes.

One of my greatest fears, when the Shrub took office, was that the United States would now be run entirely by the Oil Companies, just as Oklahoma has been run by them for generations. To my joyful amazement, the people of this country finally woke up and began to try and put a stop on corporate run government.

The fight has just begun. Big Oil has billions of dollars – of our money – to fight us with. We only have numbers. So even if you feel like you are just one person with one vote – please do all you can to help. There are over 2 million voters in the U.S. A very small percentage (dare I say, 1%?) are on the receiving end of those oil company profits and gifts – we CAN beat them with numbers if we try. All the money in the world cannot help an elected official, if the voters in his constituency decide against him based on his actions for the Oil companies.

That is all.

Blessedbe

Summer Foovay

Mar13

Sunday Reading List and Pelicans!

by foovay on March 13th, 2012 at 1:15 am
Posted In: Nature, Birding, Nature, Reading, Sunday Reading List

It was warmer outside than it was in the house this morning. Hubby and I sat in the front yard, me sipping my coffee and him with his morning Pepsi, chatting idly about various subjects when he spotted a flock of large white birds swinging in big slow circles far overhead. He went inside for the binoculars, and I stepped in to grab the bird book. After a few minutes consulting with both we concluded these were American White Pelicans, probably on their way to Elephant Butte Lake for a big fish breakfast.

Spring seems to finally be here – in spite of a little snow as recently as this Saturday. I celebrated by taking my new bike to a service station, where hubby helped “slime” and air the tires so I could ride it home. It needs a little work still, but I really got a bargain! I can tell I’m going to love this bicycle!

As you might imagine, what with a little snow storm, I spent some time curled up under the blankets reading this weekend. Besides, I have this big pile of books I have to get through so I can return them Thursday.

I quit on one book this weekend – but only because I discovered it was a case of mistaken identity. cybergrrl! A Woman’s guide to the World Wide Web by Aliza Sherman was originally written in 1998 and is now showing a bit of date. Things move and change so fast on the Internet! The back of the book advertised a number of things inside, including great career and business opportunities online, etc. This is a good book for the absolute rock bottom basics if you have never in your whole life turned on a computer, let alone gotten online. But not very interesting for me.

NetSlaves: True Tales of Working the Web by Bill Lessard had me laughing out loud (really, just ask my long suffering husband) in that sort of bitter humor – so true, so sad, so funny – at the stories of net slaves. He had me at the first minute, when he began by explaining that not every person who works in the computer industry is an instant millionaire, and the fact that you are not one doesn’t mean you are a total loser either. Net slaves is a very down to earth and realistic look at working on the Internet and in the computer industry. And it’s darkly humorous, too. I wish he had spent a little more time looking at the folks he calls “moles”. It seems to me that he basically skipped over that whole great class of us who are really trying to “make a living on the Internet” working from home, self taught, working through sites like HubPages or those other people I try not to mention ;) We could use a dose of cynical humor!

Kitty Goes to Washington (Kitty Norville, Book 2) by Carrie Vaughn did not disappoint! Fast, fun, and altogether a delightful breath of fresh are for this paranormal genre. I love it that Kitty was able to happily get laid without massive heavy emotional involvement, entanglement, guilt, or extremely graphic kinky sex. (If I want graphic kinky sex I’ll write it myself, thanks – LOL). Ms. Vaughn has the guts to avoid all the pot boiler paranormal romance requirements, and writes a great entertaining book. You go girl!

It didn’t take me too long to read Bleach, Vol. 1 (Collector’s Edition) – Sorry, couldn’t resist using a picture to share the manga. I think I appreciate manga more now that I have watched more anime. I chose Bleach because I’ve watched an episode or two of the anime and liked it. The manga is pretty good, too – and I wanted to read the first volume or two to get the back story on what is going on (I just watched the most recent installment on the anime). Now that I have a better idea of what is going on – I want to go back and watch a few more episodes of the anime before I really decide if this is (for me) a keeper. I tend to not care so much for the anime/manga that is all fight, fight, fight. At this point, I have to say…intrigued but not yet hooked.

I am about halfway through The Zuni Man-Woman by Will Roscoe and I suspect that the first half of the book is going to be the best part of it for a lay person. Mr. Roscoe explores the Zuni Berdache; the man who dresses and lives as a woman from an early age. A large part of the first half of the book follows the life of We’wha, a well known berdache who up to 1896 and had considerable contact with white anthropologists – and even shook the President’s hand.

Anyone who has ever felt like a “mannish” woman, or a “feminine” man, people we would now call transsexuals will find this book extremely interesting – as I did. The Zuni seem to consider the berdache (which can be either a woman who lives as a man, or – more commonly – a man who lives as a woman) a third sex. A person who has a special link to the Gods, and who is “complete” in themselves having both man and woman in one person. It is a very healthy, normal and even honored person who becomes a berdache.

The second half of the book seems to be headed into scholarly territory. To me, it seems as if Mr. Roscoe is “over thinking” and trying to justify as well as explore the berdache. But then, I find it perfectly normal that some men live as women, and visa versa. I think it is our societies hang ups and inhibitions that make it a “problem” when in fact it is simply a normal part of life. But I should reserve judgement until I do finish the book. I will say that overall Mr. Roscoe has taken a very non-judgemental stance, which is appreciated.

And now my dinner is getting cold – I hope you enjoyed my Sunday reading list as much as I did!

Blessedbe

Summer Foovay

I wonder if we can look forward to manga on the newest tablet like Kindle? I think I’d really enjoy that.

Mar08

Busy Bloggy Zazzle Day

by foovay on March 8th, 2012 at 2:05 am
Posted In: Art, Pets, Dogs, Nature, Webdesign, New blogs, Pets, Update, Webdesign, Writing - books, novels, short stories, articles, Zazzle

I’ve been working away today. For once I managed to get around to all of my blogs on a Wednesday, even the newest ones Bottom Feeders blog and Purebred Pets blog As often happens, creating the blog entry for Purebred Pets turned into a whole different task, creating new Zazzle products in the Purebred Pets store. Someone mentioned that store probably needed a lot more products, and I’m sure I added a bunch of them today! They all feature this pretty yellow labrador retriever dog:

Yellow Labrador Retriever Dog Mousepad mousepad
Yellow Labrador Retriever Dog Mousepad by purebred_pets
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I’ve also signed up for a few new sponsors through the LinkShare Referral Program. I was really excited about these two sponsors – Gaiam and Time For Me (banners and links below). I learned about both of them through catalogs that were shared with me. I signed up to receive them myself and then was thrilled to see them listed as sponsors through Linkshare.

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Time For Me features products that older women, like myself, will love for pampering ourselves. From comfy apparel and lingerie to products to smooth and comfort our delicate skin, and to help us loose that little extra weight we gained, not to mention vitamins and supplements developed for mature women. If nothing else – get yourself on the catalog mailing list. I keep one on the coffee table to drool over.

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Gaiam started out as yoga products and supplies, then grew into more and more of a lifestyle catalog. Create a beautiful and peaceful life with the home products Gaiam offers – and oh yeah, you can still get all your yoga gear there. In fact, speaking of yoga…

Gaiam has also developed this system to firm and sculpt your body. After what seemed like an endless winter where I couldn’t get outside at all, I could use some of this!

Although it was sunny today, I did not get out and get that new bike fixed and ready to go. I had too much work to do inside, and it was really windy. The Goddess seems to use sandblasting as her preferred method of spring cleaning here in the desert!

My new cell phone came! It has a camera and voice recording, so I have a new toy to play with. You might not be seeing new pictures for a little while – it only came with ten minutes air time and I’m not sure we’ll be able to add any more this month. The offered job is still up in the air. I have a lot of projects still in the “in process” stage and sales are slow on my novels. Finally I seem to be recovering from being sick and getting something more like my old energy levels back, so I hope to have some good stuff to share later this week :)

Don’t forget that Ostara is coming up! I hope to have a new design for Ostara Greeting Cards at the Zazzle store by Friday – but meanwhile, enjoy this list of the best Ostara greeting cards and gifts.

Blessedbe

Summer Foovay

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