Butter vs. Margarine

Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback so they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back.

It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring's and sold it to people to use in place of butter. They have since come out with some clever new flavorings....

DO YOU KNOW… the difference between margarine and butter?

*Both have the same amount of calories.

*Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams; compared to 5 grams for margarine.

*Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% than eating the same amount of butter according to a recent Harvard Medical Study.

*Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods.

*Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few and only because they are added!

*Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods.

*Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years.

And now, for Margarine…

*Very High in Trans fatty acids.

*Triples risk of coronary heart disease...

*Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol)

*Increases the risk of cancers up to five times..

*Lowers quality of breast milk

*Decreases immune response.

*Decreases insulin response.

And here's the most disturbing fact...

Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC... and shares 27 ingredients with PAINT.

These facts alone were enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance).

Open a tub of margarine and leave it open in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will notice a couple of things:

* No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something)

* It does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow.

Why? Because it's nearly plastic. 

Would you melt your Tupperware and spread it on your toast?

Double Parking X2 (ZSW-2776)

While taking a break while working I saw this guy parked his car this way at a Target 

department store parking area and walked to a nearby restaurant with his date for night.

 

Getting Suspended and Loving It

This story will warm you better than a coffee in a cold winter day!

We enter a little coffeehouse with a friend of mine and give our order. While we're approaching our table two people come in and they go to the counter: 'Five coffees, please. Two of them for us and three suspended', they pay for their order, take the two and leave.

I ask my friend: "What are those 'suspended' coffees?"

My friend: "Wait for it and you will see."

Some more people enter. Two girls ask for one coffee each, pay and go. The next order was for seven coffees and it was made by three lawyers - three for them and four 'suspended'. While I still wonder what's the deal with those 'suspended' coffees I enjoy the sunny weather and the beautiful view towards the square in front of the café. 

Suddenly a man dressed in shabby clothes who looks like a beggar comes in through the door and kindly asks 'Do you have a suspended coffee?’

It's simple - people pay in advance for a coffee meant for someone who cannot afford a warm beverage. The tradition with the suspended coffees started in Naples, but it has spread all over the world and in some places you can order not only a suspended coffee, but also a sandwich or a whole meal.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have such cafés or even grocery stores in every town where the less fortunate will find hope and support? If you own a business why don't you offer it to your clients... I am sure many of them will like it.

Crying For All the Wrong Reasons

So UNC is out of the 2013 NCAA tournament 

and is under Federal Investigation; again.

I want my mommy

• Rapes and sexual assaults not being reported to local law enforcement
• UNC Honor Court attacking rape victims
• Improperly accepting gifts from sports agents
• Lying to federal investigators about receiving travel accommodations and jewelry
• Teachers giving passing grades to nonexistent classes
• Unauthorized grade changes
• Fraudulent classes
• Academic fraud
• Tutor writing term papers for players
• Players and tutor taking money from sports agent not authorized to do business in the state
• Assistant coach working as a middle man between sports agents and players
• For showing the world that sports comes before academics and student safety.

Just remember to look on the bright side of life

As in the past few years, there's always hope for next year

Double Parking

If you're going to double park, enjoy the publicity.
NC plate# XVZ-2042 at Target in Knightdale, NC

Find the Hidden Soda

Find the 12 pack Diet Mountain Dew.

Life Before "Being Green"

Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

The woman apologized and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The young clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right – the older generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, they returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were truly recycled.

But they didn't have the green thing back in those days.

Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags that were reused for numerous things, most memorable besides household garbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for schoolbooks. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for use by the school) was not defaced by scribbling’s. Then they were able to personalize our books on the brown paper bags.

But too bad they didn't do the green thing back then.

They walked up stairs, because they didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time they had to go two blocks.

But she was right. The older generations didn't have the green thing in those days.

Back then, they washed the baby's diapers because they didn't have the throwaway kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry their clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing.

But that young lady is right; the older generation didn't have the green thing back in those days.

Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended and stirred by hand because they didn't have electric machines to do everything for them.

When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, they didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They exercised by working so they didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity.

But she's right; the older generation didn't have the green thing back then.

They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull.

But the older generation didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 23,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint.

But isn't it sad, the current generation laments how wasteful old folks were just because they didn't have the green thing back then?

Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger - opening and closing w/ extras

This is the new Super Sentai show now showing in Japan. My two boys are such fans of the series that they know the order of each show as well as the songs that is connected to each of the shows. My youngest one was able to get the first 5 dinosaurs of the show. Many more on sale soon.

The video below is a collection of the opening, closing, roll call as well as the formations of Kyoryuzin and Kyoryuzin Western. All scenes contain English translations.

Irena Sendler vs Al Gore

Irena Sendler
Died: May 12, 2008 (aged 98)

Warsaw, Poland

http://www.irenasendler.org/

During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive.

Irena smuggled Jewish infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried. She also carried a burlap sack in the back of her truck, for larger kids.

Irena kept a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto.

The soldiers, of course, wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.

During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

Ultimately, she was caught, however, and the Nazi's broke both of her legs and arms and beat her severely.

Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she had smuggled out, in a glass jar that she buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and tried to reunite the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

In 2007 Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize.

She was not selected.

Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

Please share this to honor the sacrifice and courage of this fine human being who gave so much and saved so many.

An Eight Cow Wife

An Eight Cow Wife

By Janel Breitenstein

An old story told from the island of Kiniwata relates the account of a man known as Johnny Lingo. The youngest and strongest man from the island, Johnny shocked the islanders by paying the father of his bride not the traditional two to three cows for his wife, or even the four to five cows for an exceptional wife. For Sarita, he paid eight.

No one could understand: "It would be kindness to call her plain. She was skinny. She walked with her shoulders hunched and her head ducked. She was scared of her own shadow." Eight cows!? The entire island laughed at the audacity.

Curious about the story, writer Patricia McGerr visited Johnny's home. She was fascinated by what she describes as the most beautiful woman she'd ever seen. She wrote about this in a Woman's Day article, "Johnny Lingo and the Eight Cow Wife": "The lift of her shoulders, the tilt of her chin, the sparkle of her eyes all spelled a pride to which no one could deny her the right."

When McGerr later pressed Johnny Lingo for his reasoning, he explains, "Many things can change a woman. Things that happen inside, things that happen outside. But the thing that matters most is what she thinks about herself. In Kiniwata, Sarita believed she was worth nothing. Now she knows she is worth more than any other woman in the islands ... I wanted an eight-cow wife."

Now, for obvious reasons, please do not immediately tell your beloved, "Hon, you're an eight-cow wife." But remember that, at least in part, a man's impact may be measured in the joy and character of the people closest to him.

The way that a man sees his wife, the way he cherishes her, has a lasting effect on her beauty within and without.

How does your wife feel about you and your relationship to her? How do you want your children to remember your acts of love for their mother?

Semen Has Benefits For Women

A friend of mine told me about this article which I want to share.

This is the story of  Dr. Lazar Greenfield - a renowned surgeon who devised a filter used in surgery to reduce the likelihood of blood clots; who went on to become chief of surgery at the University of Michigan, lead editor of Surgery News, and president-elect of the American College of Surgeons (ACS). He got into hot water with the "thought police" for publishing a light-hearted editorial regarding St. Valentine's Day in the February, 2011, issue of the journal he edited.

But what he wrote was some wonderful scientific information for understanding God's creation of men and women.

Semen Has Benefits For Women

By Jim Stephens

Here is the section of the article that Dr. Greenfield wrote which was so offensive and got him kicked out.

"As far as humans are concerned, you may think you know all about sexual signals, but you'd be surprised by new findings. It's been known since the 1990s that heterosexual women living together synchronize their menstrual cycles because of pheromones, but when a study of lesbians showed that they do not synchronize, the researchers suspected that semen played a role.

In fact, they found ingredients in semen that include mood enhancers like estrone, cortisol, prolactin, oxytocin, and serotonin; a sleep enhancer, melatonin; and of course, sperm, which makes up only 1%-5%.

Delivering these compounds into the richly vascularized (i.e. many blood vessels) vagina also turns out to have major salutary (i.e. beneficial) effects for the recipient.

Female college students having unprotected sex were significantly less depressed than were those whose partners used condoms. Their better moods were not just a feature of promiscuity, because women using condoms were just as depressed as those practicing total abstinence. The benefits of semen contact also were seen in fewer suicide attempts and better performance on cognition tests."

See the footnotes for one of the Abstracts of the research.

But think about it my friends. A man's semen contains many mood enhancers and sleep enhancers, besides the sperm. God has created our bodies to share chemicals with our spouses in beneficial ways physically. Just like a loving relationship is good for us emotionally and spiritually, it turns out it is good for our health as well.

Scientists have known this for a long time, but maybe it was kept from you. Now you know and will hopefully spread the word.

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Abstract at US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. Does semen have antidepressant properties? by Gallup GG Jr, Burch RL, Platek SM. Department of Psychology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, USA

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12049024

Abstract

In a sample of sexually active college females, condom use, as an indirect measure of the presence of semen in the reproductive tract, was related to scores on the Beck Depression Inventory. Not only were females who were having sex without condoms less depressed, but depressive symptoms and suicide attempts among females who used condoms were proportional to the consistency of condom use. For females who did not use condoms, depression scores went up as the amount of time since their last sexual encounter increased. These data are consistent with the possibility that semen may antagonize depressive symptoms and evidence which shows that the vagina absorbs a number of components of semen that can be detected in the bloodstream within a few hours of administration.

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