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Alzheimer’s is seriously one of the most frightening diseases to me. If I ever got Alzheimer’s in my old age — OR MIDDLE AGE, APPARENTLY — I am going to feed myself a bullet. It’s that serious.

Here is the article:

“Alzheimer’s Disease Now Striking Americans in Their 40’s

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, November 14, 2008
Key concepts: Alzheimer’s disease, Cognitive function and Health trends

Alzheimer’s used to be primary diagnosed in people over 65, but now it’s suddenly appearing in hundreds of thousands of people who are merely in their 40’s. Why is this happening?

Though the conventional medical industry won’t admit this, the real reason why Alzheimer’s is striking people in their 30’s and 40’s is because of lifelong exposure to toxic chemicals that affect brain function. Those chemicals include the very pharmaceuticals that doctors are prescribing patients to treat the symptoms of Alzheimer’s, by the way. They also include the toxic chemicals in foods, household cleaners and personal care products.

If we don’t stop the widespread exposure to these chemicals, we can expect to see yet more loss of cognitive function in middle-aged adults.

Click to read
The Wall Street Journal - Health - When Alzheimer’s Hits at 40

From Online.wsj.com: While most people who get Alzheimer’s are over 65, Mr. Kammerer is one of about 500,000 Americans living with Alzheimer’s or other dementias at an atypically young age. Alzheimer’s takes a long time to develop — usually, it isn’t diagnosed until 10 years after the first symptoms appear…. More”

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This is absolutely frightening. I’ve read some studies that SOME Alzheimer’s could really be Mad Cow Disease that was dormant in a person for years. Did you know we could all have the Mad Cow Disease in us right now that can lay silent in us for many many years, and then spring up on us at any time?

Aluminum might also cause Alzheimer’s. The talc inside of MOST deodorants and MOST baby powder is definitely something to stay away from.

Also, I was reading a forum about this earlier, and I want to show you all some comments on what few people said about Alzheimer’s that I wholeheartedly agree with.

Here are peoples comments (and my commentary at the bottom of this post):

Here is the most important comment I’ve seen:

“reply posted on 16-11-2008 @ 11:40 PM by nikiano

I’m a pharmacist, and I can also tell you that there has been some more evidence over the last few years that shows that the brains in many Alzheimer’s patients seem to not utilize glucose properly. A few researchers have suggested that because of this, Alzheimer’s may be a type of “diabetes of the brain.”

Aluminum may also be a culprit, too. There are molecules of aluminum that show up in the “tangles” in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, but nobody knows why, yet. My grandmother and both of her sisters have it/had Alzheimer’s. They all grew up near a river in the Ohio Valley where there was a large aluminum plant on the river, and I’ve heard that there is a large incidence of Alzheimer’s and cancer in that city.

Personally, I’m convinced that we’re poisoning ourselves, through food and medicine. We probably are causing Alzheimer’s. Remember, the FDA approves new medicines and food additives based on short-term toxicity studies only. They don’t require long term safety studies from manufacturers. That’s why so many medicines get yanked off the market years later. I have no more faith in the FDA anymore. They’ve become so corrupt over the last 10 years or so, it’s insane. I even know a fellow pharmacist who used to work for them, and even he says they’re corrupt as hell.

I for one, have started to avoid all pharmaceuticals in recent years, unless it’s a life or death situation. I now recommend herbal and homeopathic medicine to my patients whenever possible, instead, too, because I know it’s safer. Also, I’m trying my best to eat a diet of organic and raw foods. Although our cooked/processed food is addictive, so I’m finding it hard to let it go all at once.

Interestingly, in homeopathy, there are many remedies that you can use to treat Alzheimer’s, if you catch it early enough. (I went to homeopathy school for a year, and my teacher was also an M.D.) In homeopathy, you use the principle “like cures like” to cure disease. Interestingly, the remedy “alumina” (aluminum) is used to cure dementia. They were using alumina for dementia long before they ever discovered that there was aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients. It sounds counter-intuitive, yes…but then when you study and understand the “like cures like” principle behind homeopathy, it makes sense why it works.”

What my friend, and also a medical student, had to say about the pharmacist I just quoted:

SN IS PROTECTED (11:52:05 PM): The pharmacist has it on the dot, mainly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:52:08 PM): He knows what he’s talking about.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:52:24 PM): I don’t even have to do research on it.

Here’s another:

“reply posted on 16-11-2008 @ 11:44 PM by adrenochrome

This has to be from the aluminum found in many products we consume and use…

I’ve heard that 40%-60% of Alzheimer’s patients have some sort of aluminum coating on the surface of the brain. The aluminum found in underarm antiperspirant seems to be a major culprit…

EDIT: When did they start putting aluminum in antiperspirants?? it seems like it would have been around 40-50 years ago…”

And another comment:

“reply posted on 16-11-2008 @ 10:46 PM by Memysabu

Sounds like high maintenance individuals get Alzheimer’s quick. Just my two cents. My great grandma was not that way, she lived to be 102 and she did not suffer from Alzheimer’s. She had a stroke at 90 and FINALLY retired. She was a nurse up until her stroke.

I believe this breaks down to lifestyle. She never took any medications that I knew of either. She didn’t believe in wasting electricity so she was in the dark most of the time. She cooked everything from scratch. Made all of her own blankets etc and grew a lot of her own food.

I dunno maybe we should examine the lives of those that didnt get it and learn from them.”

Here is one more:

“reply posted on 16-11-2008 @ 11:55 PM by asmeone2

Whoa, really scary right there.

What the articles don’t go into is how this relates to artificial sweeteners, which I think is the real culprit.

Both my parents are in their late 40’s and drink diet sodas. I have tried my darnedest to tell them all that’s wrong with them and it’s in one ear and out the other.

I certainly hope they are not effected but I think this increase will only continue.”

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BASICALLY… Alzheimer’s is not some random thing that random people get. Nor is it a gene. Alzheimer’s is accumulated over time.

EDIT:

Here are some more thoughts from my friend, medical student, that I quoted above.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:09:38 PM): I read your latest post on Alzheimers.

Concetta (11:09:44 PM): what do you think of that

SN IS PROTECTED (11:09:51 PM): I can provide you with some info concerning that, as I’m doing research in Neurology.

Concetta (11:10:00 PM): okay

SN IS PROTECTED (11:10:06 PM): They just found out that the tests they’ve been conducting for it for the past few years are wrong.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:10:18 PM): Like, they’ve proved absolutely nothing. There’s no cure/remedy in sight.

Concetta (11:10:30 PM): that’s frightening

SN IS PROTECTED (11:10:35 PM): Their basis was an amyloid plaque formation, which is formed within the brain.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:05 PM): Amyloids are essentially Beta-pleated protein sheets which are gone awry.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:22 PM): Anyway, the theory was that those amyloid plaques are causing it.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:26 PM): Turns out, a NEW theory is coming out.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:44 PM): The brain is probably CREATING these amyloid plaques to -stop- Alzheimer’s from progressing completely.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:11:57 PM): So, for the past few years, they’ve been looking at the cure as the killer.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:12:02 PM): And the killer as the cure.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:13:39 PM): I got it from a magazine. I read a magazine called ‘nature’ magazine.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:13:55 PM): Here, I’ll link it to you.

Neuroscience: The plaque plan

Concetta (11:19:47 PM): so

Concetta (11:19:47 PM): wait

Concetta (11:19:51 PM): you don’t think its talc then

Concetta (11:19:54 PM): or aluminum

Concetta (11:19:56 PM): or mad cow disease

Concetta (11:19:59 PM): or anything like that?

SN IS PROTECTED (11:20:59 PM): Could be. Science is stupid like that.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:03 PM): Especially Biology.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:08 PM): Mad Cow is a prion disease, though.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:18 PM): Whoever is correlating those two=stupid.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:19 PM): Truly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:22 PM): Mad Cow=CJD.

Concetta (11:21:30 PM): <–CORRELATED THOSE TWO

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:36 PM): Cruefedlt Jakob’s disease. SP on Creufedltz

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:38 PM): LOL, sorry!!!

SN IS PROTECTED (11:21:48 PM): But, CJD is a PRION disease. People suspect it’s actually a virion/viroid.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:22:06 PM): Alzheimers isn’t. It’s mostly amyloid based.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:22:14 PM): Then again, prions create amyloid fibrils which kill the brain.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:24:35 PM): It’s like this, okay?

SN IS PROTECTED (11:24:56 PM): There’s a popular hypothesis that prions are virus-generated. It’s not really popular, but a few professors/scholars believe it.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:25:03 PM): But, prions CANNOT be destroyed under any circumstances.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:25:51 PM): A specific protein, dealing with copper oxidation of the cell, becomes defective and begins develop amyloid fibrils.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:06 PM): These fibrils cause apoptosis, which is cellular destruction.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:16 PM): Prion diseases affect neurons mainly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:23 PM): Not mainly, actually. Only neurons.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:28 PM): So, the neurons die off eventually.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:26:57 PM): Prion diseases work relatively fast. Like, within days, the person loses cognitive function, develops speech impediments, etc.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:27:04 PM): They literally become brain dead

SN IS PROTECTED (11:27:07 PM): They finally just die out.

Concetta (11:27:18 PM): and that’s what i heard mad cow disease does to you

Concetta (11:27:58 PM): that’s scary especially that it can’t be destroyed at all

Concetta (11:28:01 PM): you’re pretty much going to die

Concetta (11:28:10 PM): bam eat a bad piece of meat and you have a death sentence

SN IS PROTECTED (11:28:14 PM): Pretty much.

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More about Amyloid

SN IS PROTECTED (11:35:07 PM): It’s probably the brain’s way of containing the toxic properties.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:35:16 PM): Really..really hard to explain.  But, it’s like ..

SN IS PROTECTED (11:35:30 PM): B-pleated sheets are going renegade, creating plaques.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:38:04 PM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloid

SN IS PROTECTED (11:38:37 PM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyloidosis

SN IS PROTECTED (11:39:19 PM): Proteins have four main structures.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:39:26 PM): First, secondary, tietierary and quartenary.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:40:06 PM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_structure

SN IS PROTECTED (11:40:27 PM): Something goes awry with the b-sheets, which are integral to protein structures.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:40:39 PM): It becomes b-pleated. Think of various..sheets, bent randomly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:40:44 PM): That’s b-pleated, mainly.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:41:19 PM): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Protein-structure.png

SN IS PROTECTED (11:42:03 PM): Then again, b-pleated sheets could be natural; it’s just the drowning of them that is unnatural.

SN IS PROTECTED (11:42:09 PM): Sorry, just a lot of information to remember.

My medical-student-friends main advice?

DO MORE RESEARCH AND READ MORE

SN IS PROTECTED (11:50:31 PM): Just read, read and read more.

SN IS PROTECTED (12:01:01 AM): Do so much research, your eyes are bleeding.

SN IS PROTECTED (12:01:05 AM): Not just you, but everyone.

SN IS PROTECTED (12:01:21 AM): People hop on bandwagon’s too quick. And if you don’t know, find someone who does.

So I read a horrible story over at Matt Oxleys blog. The post I read this about was called “A friend in need”. Check it out for yourself. I typically trust Matt Oxley because I’ve known him for a few years, so if he’s vouching for the guy in the story I’m about to tell you all then, to me, it’s at least worth looking into rather than just dismissing.

So look into it I did, and on Matt Oxley’s request, I’m making a post about it on my blog.

Anyone who wants to make a post about it on THEIR blog, feel free to.

Now onto the story.

It involves a guy named Dan Silverman (that’s his blog) who was a devout Christian with his wife and kids for quite some time. Then he lost his faith in Christianity, as is his right to do.

The next day after Dan Silverman’s de-conversion, what did his wife do? She didn’t do what a supposedly good Christian person should do and be understanding, while gently trying to nudge their spouse back into it or pray for them. No. What she did was take their children into the basement for a “Bible study”.

When Dan Silverman asked one of his children what they were studying in the basement, the child replied, AND I QUOTE, “Mom was teaching that you are an anti-Christ and under a delusion.”

“Daddy is now an anti-Christ, sweetie.” Can you imagine? That’s traumatizing for children to hear. Who KNOWS what’s going on in the heads of those children now. Fear of their father or worse.

But the story gets WORSE. Dan Silverman’s wife and THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH THAT DAN SILVERMAN USED TO GO TO AND THAT HIS WIFE GOES TO are both ruining his life.

Dan Silverman was accused of doing something horrible to one of his daughters, and the pastor of the church is backing his crazy wife.

Good job to Dan Silverman’s wife and his ex-pastor for FURTHER pushing him away from the faith they both want him to stay in. If their God exists, he would be so proud, am I right?

Please note that that’s sarcasm.

Here is a link to the church website by the way, also known as Heritage Baptist Church in Vinton, Virginia.

Does anyone else see this mans wife and the pastor as cult-like? Does anyone else see this as small minded?

For those that say “we don’t know this guy and we don’t know if he did anything to his daughter or not” - you make a point. We don’t know this man. HOWEVER.. isn’t it crazy and ONE BIG COINCIDENCE that AFTER he decided he wasn’t Christian anymore his wife claims that he did something to their daughter?

Anyway, I left him a comment on his blog post “Can’t Divorce? Brainwash the Kids!”. It’s labeled that because HIS WIFE won’t divorce HIM because it’s against her religion. So instead she’s going to do everything in her power to keep him away from her and the kids, without an actual divorce.

Here is the comment, along with Dan Silverman’s response:

“Cetta said…

Wow I am so sorry to hear about this. I saw this on Matts Post “A Friend In Need” http://ragingrev.com/2008/11/18/a-friend-in-need/.

I’m not Christian but I was at one point, and I’ll be honest I’ve never heard of this happening except inside tight nit cults and stuff like that. Like Mormonism (not just the FLDS but the main stream church) and Scientology…

This is really scary. Is it true that the pastor of the church is also involved in this?

This is really the sickest thing I’ve ever heard and totally going against the Christian code of ethics. These so called Christians should be ashamed of themselves.”

Dan Silverman’s response was…:

“Freedom_of_Mind said…

Hello Cetta and thanks for leaving your comment. Yes, the pastor of this church was involved in this. You can read the other posts on this BLOG (particularly the link to My Story on the left) to find out more (if you have not already).”

This story goes a lot deeper than what was said here, apparently. Check out his blog and his story for more details.

Also, this mans story made the local news: News7 Exclusive: Former Vinton church leader says he’s not a child molester (I ask an important question at the bottom of this article).

“November 20, 2008
News7 Exclusive: Former Vinton church leader says he’s not a child molester

News7 was the first to break the story of the arrests of two Heritage Baptist Church leaders.

Former Deacon Dean Stone is charged with 24 counts of crimes involving children. A former associate pastor of the same church, Dan Silverman, is charged with aggravated sexual battery of a child.

Investigators say none of the crimes occurred at the church. After our story aired, Silverman contacted News7. He agreed to talk, speaking exclusively with News7’s Susan Bahorich.

Dan Silverman is charged with touching a 12-year-old. It’s an accusation he says is ruining his life and family.

“I’m am innocent of the crime I’m accused of,” said Silverman.

For the last 17 years, Silverman devoted his life to God. He worked as a church elder, missionary and most recently as associate pastor at Heritage Baptist Church in Vinton.

While at Heritage Baptist, Silverman says he started questioning his faith. He says after he confided in his wife, the trouble began.

“Wednesday night I spoke to my wife. Monday at about 12:30, detectives were at my door,” said Silverman.

The 42-year-old was eventually jailed, accused of molesting a 12-year-old. He says while behind bars, the pastor of Heritage Baptist Church, Bob Barton, came to see him and told him to confess.

“If I confessed things would go more smoothly for me. I was so broken, I would have jumped off a bridge if he told me,” said Silverman.

Silverman says it was part of Pastor Barton’s pattern of manipulation. He thinks Barton’s ultimate goal was to separate him from the congregation and his family.

News7 sat down with Pastor Barton last week. Barton denied being involved in the Silverman investigation. He refutes accusations he asked church members to change their stories.

“Have you tinkered with the investigation in anyway, shape or form?”, asked News7’s Susan Bahorich.

“No Susan, really have to admit I was taken back when you asked. I don’t know of anyone who has been asked to recant anything,” said Barton.

Since our first story, many viewers have emailed or called us with a variety of concerns about the church.

Pastor Barton admits in recent months, church membership has dropped from almost 200 members to less than a hundred. Barton blames the news of the two arrests to drop.

PREVIOUS STORY:

November 12, 2008
Two members of a Vinton church charged with molesting children”

The link at the end of that article is another news article made previously this month about Dan Silverman’s story.

Now for my question…

What does someone supposedly molesting their daughter have to do with half the congregation leaving a church? Unless those people saw something else going on that they didn’t like…

Ron Paul questions Bernanke about world currency

Ron Paul is definitely my president.

Anyone else in shock about how Paul Bernanke blatantly lied? Of course they’re talking about a world currency. It was in the news not long ago that the UK was pushing an idea for a one world currency to the US.

For more information go here.

Nothing ever comes free or cheap with the government, as we can see here with the UK.

According to the Times Online article about this, the UK government is pretty much blackmailing Manchester in pay-as-you-drive scheme.

According to the article: “The Government is threatening to withhold £1.5 billion of public funding for public transport in Manchester unless the city agrees to become a guinea pig for pay-as-you-drive road pricing.

Geoff Hoon, the Transport Secretary, said funding for new tram lines, extra buses and trains would be canceled unless a majority of Greater Manchester’s 1.8 million population voted “yes” in next month’s road pricing referendum. … ”

If they can do that in the UK, what makes you think they haven’t been doing it here? Or will not do it here?

It’s just what I talked about in my “ADHD and other problems - Could there be a natural cause?” post. Schools getting funded by the federal government for putting kids on pills.

And I quote:

“ … When a kid is on drugs in a school, the school gets the same amount of money they would for a child in Special Education - so if that school needs ten extra computers, what do they do? Put your son or daughter on a drug … ”

One may not be able to connect the dots here, but it’s easy to see what is going on. The government is running our lives with money. We don’t play by their rules, we don’t do what they want, then we don’t get their services. Sometimes those services aren’t even all that good, like a national health care system, but sadly the only solution for some people — because the government won’t put the money that they’re using ANYWAY in the pockets of the people to do what they want with, but instead telling them where to go, what to do, and controlling their lives.

And government control gets tighter.

This is why big government is the problem.

MY FAVORITE BOOK SERIES OF ALL TIME IS NOW, FINALLY, GOING TO BE ON HBO!!!!

According to GRRM’s Livejournal here: Not A Blog: Huge, Huge News

“HBO has given the production order.

They will be filming the pilot episode of A GAME OF THRONES.

It’s just the pilot so far. They’ll need to see that before they decide whether to proceed with a full season’s episodes. So let’s all hope the pilot will kick serious ass.

It should. David Benioff and Dan Weiss did a terrific job with the script. And yes, all of you can relax, it’s very faithful. Dan and David will be the executive producers for the pilot and (we hope) the eventual series.

More details when I have ‘em. The news is very fresh. HBO just issued their own press release, which should be up on their website soon, if it’s not there already.

Winter is coming to HBO. Hot damn.”

I AM SO SO SO HAPPY. I WROTE ABOUT A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE BEING ON HBO MONTHS AGO AND HOW IT’S NOT A SURE THING HERE: WINTER IS COMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BUT NOW IT IS A SURE THING. GEORGE R. R. MARTIN SAID SO.

AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!

Smart move HBO. Smart. Move.

AHHHH!!!

THE VIDEO WITH RAHM EMANUEL WITH THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS IS BELOW.

I am all for people volunteering their time and helping out if they choose to. I am NOT all for people being FORCED to do so. WHO is the government to tell us, to FORCE us, to do MANDATORY work? Especially force our CHILDREN. Who is the government to tell us what to do with our children? Where our children have to be? What our children have to do with their time?

For all the parents who will put up the defense that this will be good for their kids, a learning experience, etc, whatever, then I’m SORRY for your KIDS that you are too irresponsible or not a good enough parent and NEED THE GOVERNMENT to tell you how to make your kids responsible, hard working adults.

Is anyone else reminded of The Hitler Youth organization? This is probably going to be worse.

I KNEW all that nonsense Obama spouted about “we need to make the kids put down the video game controllers” was bad news. I agreed with Obama, parents need to make their kids stop playing so many video games.

But what I DO NOT AGREE WITH is that parents need a GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL telling them what is good to do in their home or with their kids.

Also, as you’ll see below in an article I posted, it isn’t just volunteering your time or your children’s time. It’s about creating a civil army. Actually, according to Obama, his “civilian national security force” would be just as powerful and well-funded as the U.S. military.

You’ll read more of that in the article below.

To take a point I read on a forum:

Can someone tell me how is this not…
A. A re-education camp AND/OR BRAINWASHING
B. A draft
C. Unconstitutional
D. All of the above.

This is very reminiscent of 1984, where the children were brainwashed by Big Brother to spy on their parents.

Anyone else reminded of the KGB and the Secret Police?

I’m also guessing that this is how Obama is going to try to save money and cut back, America. Going to save money on your backs.

We need the Militia now more than ever. Don’t be fooled. The Civilian Force Obama and Rahm Emanuel have in mind is going to be state controlled. Those guns we’ll hold under Obama’s rule won’t be for protecting the people against the government, it’ll be for protecting the government against people.

THAT’S WHY THEY GOT TO GET YOUR KIDS. GOTTA GET THEM YOUNG AND IMPRESSIONABLE.

There is a reason why gun prices went up since Obama got elected.

Now here is the video interview with Rahm Emanuel, who is now the Chief of Staff for Obama, talking about his plan for forced labor on Americans.

Also, here is a partial quote from someone on a forum:

“What exactly does Rahm Emanuel mean by “Whether you’ll be getting a train ride or a barrack”? He knows exactly what we are concerned about and tells us not to be since it’ll be a common experience?

I suppose the Jews in the concentration camps shouldn’t have been so worried, since it was a common Jewish experience of the time.”

^^^Good point.

Here is some of the article I mentioned above when I mentioned Obama’s civilian national security force:

WND: Emanuel volunteers Americans to do ‘a lot’

“ … WND reported last weekend when the official website for Obama, Change.gov, announced he would “require” all middle school through college students to participate in community service programs.

However, after a flurry of blogs protested children being drafted into Obama’s proposed youth corps, officials softened the website’s wording.

Originally, under the tab “America Serves,” Change.gov read, “President-Elect Obama will expand national service programs like AmeriCorps and Peace Corps and will create a new Classroom Corps to help teachers in under served schools, as well as a new Health Corps, Clean Energy Corps, and Veterans Corps.

“Obama will call on citizens of all ages to serve America, by developing a plan to require 50 hours of community service in middle school and high school and 100 hours of community service in college every year,” the site announced.

WND previously reported on a video of a marching squad of Obama youth and Obama’s “civilian national security force,” which he said in July would be just as powerful and well-funded as the U.S. military.

In the interview, Emanuel was questioned whether participants in the proposed force would live in barracks.

“Somewhere between the age of 18 to 25 you will do three months of training. You can do it at some point in your college time,” he said. “There can be nothing wrong with all Americans having a joint, similar experience of what we call civil defense training or civil service.”

Emanuel said the planned requiring service “will give people a sense of what it means to be an American.”

He said, of course, the plan at that point was flexible.

“We propose three months [but] at the end of the day [if] someone says it should be four … I’m not going sit here and hold up [plans],” Emanuel said.

When the reporter questioned the commitment, Emanuel responded, “Guess what. We have a lot more challenges. We are going to need a lot to do it. If you’re worried about are you going to have to do 50 jumping jacks the answer is yes.”

He chuckled at the reporters concerns.

“Rather than figure out if whether you take a train ride or a barrack. … Think of it this way, it will be a common experience.

“There will be a body of citizens who are ready, capable and trained,” he said.

But the plan, especially its demand that Americans participate in a domestic “force,” has been raising questions.

The blogger Gateway Pundit called Obama’s plan the “creation of his Marxist youth corps,” and DBKP commented, “‘Choosing’ to serve should be approved by parents – not required by the government. No amount of good intentions can sugar-coat words like ‘mandatory,’ ‘compulsory’ or ‘required.’”

Emanuel uses his book, “The Plan: Big Ideas for America,” to specify that he would propose, for all Americans ages 18 to 25, that they “serve their country by going through three months of basic training, civil defense preparation and community service.”

Obama, meanwhile, also has yet to clarify what he meant during his July “Call to Service” speech in Colorado Springs in which he insisted the U.S. “cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set” and needs a “civilian national security force.” … ”

FOR MORE OF THE ARTICLE PLEASE CLICK THE LINK

Also, anyone else notice this quote in the article:

“Emanuel said the planned requiring service “will give people a sense of what it means to be an American.””

That’s funny, coming from someone who wants to strip away EVERY SENSE of being an American.

I waited longer than most to finally see “The Dark Knight”, but that’s the price I pay for waiting for it to hit AXXO Torrents, which only happened the other day (because God forbid I actually go to the movie theater to see “The Dark Knight”, right?).

Anyway, onto the review:

That movie was SO impressive. Heather Ledger as the Joker was so spot on. Too bad that role got the better of him though and supposedly robbed his life. Heath Ledger could have been an asset to the future Batman movies, but at least “The Dark Knight” didn’t end in a cliff hanger regarding The Jokers story. It wouldn’t follow the comics, but according to this line of Batman movies we can just pretend that The Joker is in jail for good — unless they find someone to fill Heath Ledgers place… Which, really, how likely is that?

Those are going to be pretty big shoes to fill for the next actor that decides to play The Joker.

By the way, speaking of roles getting switched — Did Katie Holmes really, FOOLISHLY, turn down “The Dark Knight” to play in the flop known as “Mad Money”? What an IDIOT that girl is. I can not stress that enough. First Katie Holmes gets with Tom Cruise and then she turns down “The Dark Knight” for “Mad Money”. What a MORON. Not that I like Katie Holmes - I don’t. I hate her, always have, ever since Dawson’s Creek, but that is besides the point. Turning down “THE DARK KNIGHT” for “MAD MONEY” was a DUMB CAREER MOVIE.

Either way, I’m glad that Rachel Dawes is dead because, for one, that means we don’t have to deal with Maggie Gyllenhaal (another annoying actress) and two… WE HAD THE VILLAIN KNOWN AS TWO-FACE.

Two-Face is actually more evil than The Joker in my opinion. For Two-Face, his evil crusade or whatever it was seemed a lot more PERSONAL. For The Joker, it wasn’t personal at all - therefore making The Joker a lot more intelligent than Two-Face, and a lot less evil. The Joker wasn’t really emotional… Two-Face is. A lot of hatred and hurt pent up inside Two-Face. I also think that Two-Face needs to just get over it - but if he did that then we wouldn’t have another great villain, now would we?

Two-Face is a totally different kind of villain than The Joker, and if he’s still alive then I think the movie they’ll make with him is going to be just as epic as “The Dark Knight”.

By the way, there is a website devoted JUST to Harvey Dent AKA Two-Face: “I Believe In Harvey Dent”. Check it out. I love the “Ha Ha Ha”’s all over the site. Pretty ironic considering The Joker set Two-Face on his crusade..

By the way, was anyone else impressed with the ferry scene in “The Dark Knight”? The inmate who stood up and told the prison warden or whoever he was “you don’t want to die, but you don’t know how to take a life…” and convinced the warden to give him the detonator to the other ferry carrying the innocent people of Gotham — only to then throw the detonator out the window? All I could think was “that is a good man”. Here’s hoping they would let someone like that out of prison if that ever really did happen.

I’m also glad that the man on the other ferry couldn’t set off the explosion with the ferry carrying the inmates - but really, in real life, how realistic would that be? I can see some reformed, rehabilitated, religious-converted inmate throwing the detonator out the window to save all the innocent people, probably wondering if his wife or children were on the other ferry, but not the other way around.

Okay, anyway, I’m over analyzing LOL.

Also, I LOVE the fact that Morgan Freeman’s character disagreed with the super machine that was sort of like “Big Brother” to track down The Joker.

“The Dark Knight” was great. I give it a 10 out of 10 (not that I’m a movie critic, but still).

Oh yeah, one more thing, CHRISTIAN BALE IS HOT. ANYONE ELSE AGREE???

I would hit it with the quickness.

A few nights ago a friend and I were talking — let’s call him “Joe”. Joe has had problems for the past few YEARS with his stomach - since he was a child. Constipation, constantly being hungry, always being energy drained, not thinking clearly, and other really nasty, hairy, disgusting things. Joe also had to worry about bad breath - and after spending over 300 dollars to get his teeth fixed at the dentist, the bad breath was still an issue.

Bad breath can be caused by an unhealthy stomach, which I already said Joe had for years. Things sitting in your intestines over time can cause the smell to rise up and give you bad breath (in layman language - I don’t know the specifics of that). Why didn’t the dentist tell him this? Especially 300 dollars later when the bad breath was still an issue.

Joe also had short memory lapses, short attention span, symptoms of ADHD, etc. I already mentioned that Joe couldn’t think clearly. He complained about just sitting there one minute doing something, and not even a minute later not remember what he was doing. He also claimed that whenever he took Adderall, he would get calm and relaxed, and all of his ADHD symptoms would go away.

The thing with Adderall is, if you don’t have ADHD and you take it, you get energy. If you DO have ADHD and you take Adderall, you calm the hell down. Joe calmed the hell down. Definite symptom of ADHD.

When Joe and I were talking the other night, we both agreed that if were in school (he wasn’t in school when he took Adderall) the teachers and counselors most likely would have given him Ritalin or some other drug — they probably were pretty much going to force it down his throat. Because everything that seems to be wrong with him (minus the stomach problems and bad breath) seemed to lead up to ADHD or something like that.

But what if the bad breath, stomach problems, memory lapses, hyperactivity followed by no energy and short attention span were all connected? You tell a doctor that, or even suggest something like that, and they hardly ever believe it. I know, because I have given this argument to doctors (and other people) many times - it could be the food children or people are eating to give them ADHD, it could be natural problems that can be cured naturally, etc. Doctors remain “skeptical”.

For all the intelligence a doctor has, they forget little things just so that they can push pharmaceutical drugs on you for BIG conditions that you don’t even have that only treat the symptom but NOT cure the problem.

So anyway, back to Joe. He took matters into his own hands and got a colon cleansing symptom. You know, the ones that claim to get rid of colon problems (the same kind he’s been suffering from for years) and parasites. I’ve actually made an argument to a doctor before (a doctor my mother worked for) that colon cleansers work if you have low energy or are tired - it could be from a build up of stool in your system, parasites, etc. The doctor made a rebuttal and said that these colon cleansers and other things are getting rid of nutrition that people need, etc. A bunch of nonsense in my opinion.

And I’m sure Joe will agree with me. Why? Because after only two weeks of taking the colon cleanse, he began to see PARASITES in his stool that were in there for who knows HOW long, he began to eat less, he began to feel better, he began to think straight, his bad breath started to go away (300 dollars wasted on the dentist), etc. Things that were plaguing him for YEARS just began to go away.

I’d also like to say that colon cleansers are made with NATURAL ingredients (no chemicals or anything), so it’s nothing that can hurt you. It’s not like the drugs you ingest that give you a bad side effect that requires MORE DRUGS to get rid of.

But it doesn’t just have to be parasites that cause ADHD like symptoms, or constantly make you feel run down, or other things that MOST people feel during the day. Like I mentioned earlier in this post, it could be the food you’re eating — which can cause bigger problems.

Did you know something called “Candida”, that is a natural yeast in both the male and female body, can get out of control from things that you eat (or other reasons such as parasites in your system) and cause the exact same problems as ADHD — or even BAD BREATH if it spreads to your mouth, or make you smell if it spreads to your skin, or make you have memory lapses if it spreads to your brain — or WORSE?

What if our kids, who are being diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, and a number of other things, really have NATURAL things wrong with them that aren’t getting treated — but CAN be treated naturally? Things like parasites, worms, Candida, or other things?

What if parents KNEW about this and took the proper steps to CURING the problem and not just TREATING the symptom?

• Pharmaceutical Companies would lose a lot of business. Also there will be no kickbacks to doctors either (don’t tell me doctors don’t get kickbacks - I know for one hundred percent fact that they do - my mother worked for some of the best doctors in NY and NJ for YEARS).

• The schools who have all these kids on drugs wouldn’t be getting money from the state (when a kid is on drugs in a school, the school gets the same amount of money they would for a child in Special Education - so if that school needs ten extra computers, what do they do? Put your son or daughter on a drug).

• Children would be function normally. We can’t have that! They may grow up to actually be happy, normal adults that are not just mindless zombies in the system.

Open your eyes people. It’s really not hard to connect the dots with what’s going on here. People are making money off of you, and don’t really care about helping you at ALL. The proof is all right there in your face. Look it up and do research if you don’t believe this is real.

ALSO: Doesn’t it show something that schools actually threaten to charge parents with MEDICAL NEGLECT if they refuse to put their kids on ADHD, ADD, antidepressants and all other kinds of pills? I know that for a fact, because when I was a teenager I hardly went to class and they wanted to put me on a bunch of pills because of it - and even back then I knew about all of this stuff (maybe not as much as I know now, but I was pretty informed for a teenager), and I’d fight it. Their solution? Threaten to charge my mother with medical neglect.

Now THAT is what I call freedom.

Please note that that’s sarcasm.

PS: I just want to say I am not a Scientologist or a hippie or anything like that (as a matter of fact I am 100 percent AGAINST Scientology and I think most hippies are annoying). And if anyone believes I am a Scientologist or a hippie because of this post, then they are MORE than ignorant.

America and society as a whole being dumbed down is a subject that has had countless of books written on it, countless of articles and countless of proof. The video I’m about to show you all (WHICH IS BELOW) is just one out of many, many things I’ve seen and read by many different people about American’s IQ dropping purposely. I couldn’t even find all the information that I’ve read throughout the YEARS if I tried.

This video suggests that chemicals are being used to purposely lower IQ. Chemicals could be anything like fluoride in our water (fluoride was used in Nazi concentration camps to keep prisoners docile and obedient — it also rots the brain and causes illnesses like ADD and lowering of IQ), the food we eat (the saying “you are what you eat” is VERY true — think of fast food, soda, store bought food with all the chemicals in it and pesticides in our produce), the prescription drugs we take (some of them being habit forming, some of them causing another problem meaning we have to take another sort of pill to fix the problem the first pill created, the Mercury in our children’s vaccines — which, by the way, ACCORDING TO THE CDC children are more likely to develop autism with exposure to Mercury containing vaccines - I even made a post about that recently - as well as other things that this video also addresses) and a number of other chemicals and things.

The video also says that the lowering of our IQ leaves us dependent on the Government (remember, people — government is the problem, not the solution), and a society that believes whatever they’re told (FROM CNN TO FOX NEWS - IF IT’S ON TELEVISION, EVEN ON THE NEWS, THEN IT MUST BE TRUE!!! - Please note that’s sarcasm).

AMERICA BEING DUMBED DOWN !!! LOW AND NO IQ !!

If you don’t believe me, if you don’t believe this video, which you shouldn’t right off the bat then I implore you all to do tons and tons of research on your own. There is NO HARM in reading, doing research and learning different information out there then what is being fed to you by news MEDIA networks.

Haha, this is funny. This is from the makers of “If The Other Party Wins” (and many other funny things).

It’s a spoof off “The Matrix.” Totally hilarious, and I just wanted to share it with you all.

The Matrix Runs on Windows

I love the end where he goes “Ubuntu..? I’m going to learn.. Ubuntu?” Haha.

By the way, this is completely random, and I’m probably going to make a post about this sooner or later, but I’m going to get a laptop soon. I want an Alienware but I don’t know now.. Maybe I want to go completely insane and get something different like.. a Linux laptop?

LOL IMAGINE ME ON A LINUX LAPTOP… WOW. Like a friend of mine said “You’ll try to open a folder and wind up reformatting the whole computer” - because, I am, indeed, a total newb. Hahaha.

ANYWAY… SUGGESTIONS FOR A LAPTOP????

Oh yeah, and Matt Oxley, if YOU still build computers and build them well, maybe you and I can talk. ?