Saturday, September 14, 2013

Pink Panther and Mr Magoo Classic Cartoons for You.








Pink Panther and Mr Magoo classic cartoons.  Nearly two hours of classic cartoons all in one post.  Nothing like a good cartoon on a Saturday.  Enjoy.
The Pink Panther cartoon character
The Pink Panther cartoon character (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Mr. Magoo and McBarker from What's New Mr. Magoo?.
Mr. Magoo and McBarker from What's New Mr. Magoo?. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Nature Is the Source of Healing: Whole Plant Medicine

Animation of the structure of a section of DNA...
Animation of the structure of a section of DNA. The bases lie horizontally between the two spiraling strands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
By Dr. Mercola
Numen is the animated force in all things living, and this is strongly demonstrated, although often taken for granted, in plants. Our relationship with plants dates back to the beginnings of humanity, and even before, as plants may have existed far longer than humans.
Even our DNA contains much of the same material found in the plant world, which gives new meaning to the idea of healing plants.
It’s a scientific fact that is explored, fascinatingly, in the documentary Numen: The Nature of Plants. As Bill Mitchell, ND, naturopath and co-founder of Bastyr University stated in the film:
“You’re as much carrot as you are a kangaroo, as you are a bird. A lot of that DNA, that memory comes from the very origins of life.”

Herbalism Is the Oldest System of Healing on the Planet

The use of plants as medicine is one of the only forms of healing that’s embraced by every culture and ethnicity, and that has endured since ancient times and is still in use today in most areas of the world.
What makes this all the more intriguing is that how and why plants work is still largely a mystery. Modern science can uncover cells, molecules and atoms, but science cannot fully explain the healing nature of plants, or the intricacy and complexity of life.
One only needs to view the amazing time-lapsed photos of sprouting seeds and flowers blooming in the video below to appreciate this



Herbs, Like Foods, Are Complementary to Human Health

In the past I have regarded herbs, in many cases, as an alternative to drugs, useful for treating various symptoms but not to treat the underlying cause. I have since revised my opinion on this quite significantly, and now realize that herbs can help support your health from a very basic level, just as foods do.
When I interviewed Donnie Yance, who is a clinical master herbalist, he explained that foods and herbs share quite a few similarities, including being pleiotropic -- which means they produce more than one effect.
This is expanded on in Numen, which explains that the complex mix of chemicals in plants work synergistically to address underlying imbalances in your body that may lead to disease.
As herbalist Matthew Wood said:
“It is very seldom that herbs are strong enough to kill germs. A few of them can, but then they become drugs. Killing germs isn't how traditional medicine works.
It works instead by changing the environment, working to address imbalances in organ systems and tissue states, not targeting a specific bacteria with a single chemical extracted from a plant or synthesized in a lab.”
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, you could walk into a drug store and find hundreds of herbal extracts for sale. Upwards of 90 percent of the population at that time knew how to use the medicinal plants growing in their backyards to treat common illnesses and injuries; they had too, as this was virtually the only ‘medicine’ available.
With the rise of what is now known as conventional allopathic medicine shortly before World War One, herbalism slowly fell out of favor and became to be thought of as folk medicine. Rather than viewing nature as the source of healing, as had been done for centuries, people began to view drugs and other ‘modern’ healing methods as superior.

We’re Now Separated from Our Natural Roots

When you shop for food in a grocery store, you’re completely removed from the natural process used to grow your food. And in many cases, that ‘natural process,’ too, has been transformed into an industrial process that is at the heart of mass food production.
This is but one example of our increased separation from nature, a state that often leads people to feel significantly unbalanced. Said Ken Ausubel, CEO and founder of Bioneers:
“If there’s been a single disconnect in Western civilization, it’s this idea that somehow we’re separate or distinct from nature, when in fact the opposite is true… we’re connected to the ecosystems around us and we can really only be healthy when the land and the air and the water around us are also healthy. And if they’re not, it’s going to show up in our physical well-being.”
Now, with the US spending more on health care than any other industrialized nation, while at the same time experiencing soaring rates of chronic disease, it has perhaps never been more evident that our disconnectedness from nature is backfiring.

Environmental Pollution Is Poisoning Humans, Too

Infertility, immune system disorders, obesity, and other chronic illness are on the rise, and it’s becoming very clear that environmental chemicals are at least partly to blame. Yet, there is still a reluctance to acknowledge that when you poison nature, it is akin to poisoning yourself. The average American has 148 chemicals in his or her body, and this chemical exposure begins in your mother’s womb.
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, like phthalates and bisphenol-A, are interfering with hormones and linked to the rise in male birth defects and testicular cancer in young men. You’re exposed not only when you use products containing them, but plastics containing these chemicals are dumped into the environment, where the chemicals enter waterways, with unknown effects.
“At the molecular level we’re wreaking havoc, and then that cascades up to the cellular and organism and ecosystem level,” said Martha Herbert, MD, PhD, assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School.

Healing Is About Wholeness, Not Parts

Modern medicine excels at treating emergencies and certain serious illnesses, like bacterial infections, yet often misses the mark when it comes to healing other more subtle, yet no less devastating, conditions.
Physicians often rely on lab tests and blood work over the patient’s own words, and may use this information as proof that nothing is wrong, when in fact the person still feels tired, foggy or depressed. Part of the problem is the breaking down of a whole person to a set of parts and evaluating each organ in isolation from the rest of the body. Another part is ignoring the bigger picture, which is that lab tests do not give the whole story of a patient. As Tieraona Low Dog, MD, said:
“I think the truth is many people have a kind of soul sickness, they have a soul pain, a spirit pain. And you can’t find it in laboratory values, you can’t find it in a scan, but in no way does that make it less real.”
Unfortunately, conventional medicine is not well equipped to deal with these types of emotional pain or other underlying conditions that modern medical tests miss. This is also evidenced by many physicians’ complete lack of attention to lifestyle factors that could be influencing their patients’ health, like sleep, stress, and diet… they don’t tell you that a trip to the farmer’s market for healthy food and perhaps some herbal preparations may hold the cures you’ve been searching for.

Nature Is the Source of Healing: Whole Plant Medicine

Most synthetic medications are based on compounds in plants. Scientists cannot create these substances but must, rather, try to make copies, But in their synthetic models they often end up with compounds that your body doesn’t recognize and doesn’t know how to handle. As Herbert explained:
“You target a particular chemical and you hit it really hard, and the system is expected to just have the response that you want it to have, but actually you have all these other effects… we call these side effects. They’re not side effects, they’re effects, they’re just not the ones you wanted.”
A plant, however, is a complex of thousands of biomolecules, many of which are countervailing, so if there’s one effective compound that may have a toxic effect, it usually contains a countervailing compound so that it doesn’t harm your liver, for example. It’s the interplay of chemicals that make the plant work, which is why you can’t study herbal medicine by isolating a certain element; you’ve got to study the whole plant. This is what conventional medicine is largely missing.
Of course, the ultimate ‘herbalism’ is the food that you eat on a daily basis. Dark green leafy vegetables, herbs and spices are excellent sources of antioxidants, anti-inflammatories and anti-cancer substances that can dramatically influence your health. Christopher Hobbs, clinical herbalist, put it well: “The real medicine is hiding in the produce department.”

You Can Feel the Power of Plants Every Time You Walk in the Garden

There’s a deep connection with plants that many people feel intrinsically when they walk into their garden. This connection continues when you use plants for healing, including when you prepare tinctures or teas from herbs, which you can do in your own kitchen. According to many herbal experts, this relationship with plants and nature is nearly as important as the herbal medicine itself.
As herbalist Rosemary Gladstar said:
I think one of the most unique places about herbalism and modern herbal healers is that we still maintain that deep connection with the plants. We're not looking at just single components as being the magic bullets in our bodies. There's still a deep prayerful relationship, whether you go to the plants and consciously pray or you have awareness with them, or just the way you are with them when you're harvesting them or making your medicine or even giving the medicine. There's a deep connection with the spirit of the plants. It's not just that there is a chemical constituent that will cure your condition; it is the relationship that the plant has to us and how those plants have served as our healers for literally thousands of years.
For anyone who works with the plants, whether you're gardening, or just being with them, backpacking with them a lot, that experience of having a plant communicate with you in some way happens. It takes you by surprise at first, but the plants want a talk to us, they want to help us.
They work on so many different levels in our bodies. Yes, they can work just as chemical constituents, but that's the least potency that they have… when you develop a relationship with plants, that kind of sacred plant medicine will happen. Just by working with them, they begin to speak to you and you begin to hear them. It happens when you garden. You know, when people go into the garden, they transform. That's why so many people garden. They go into that garden and they begin to feel things and be different, and in a way that's plant spirit medicine at its finest.”

10 Steps You Can Take to Harness the Healing Power of Plants

After watching Numen: The Nature of Plants, you may find yourself driven to deepen your relationship with the natural world. If so, here are 10 tips to do so:1
  1. Learn to identify three medicinal plants you don't already know that grow in your region and learn their uses.
  2. Add at least one of these herbs to your garden or to pots on your windowsill.
  3. Make a tincture, tea, syrup, or salve. Or make one of each!
  4. Harvest and dry mint, lemon balm, calendula, nettles, or any other plant growing in your region.
  5. Find a plant to sit with quietly each morning for a week; draw the plant.
  6. Identify one healing skill you would like to have but don't, and find a way to learn it—perhaps by taking an herb class, or re-certifying in basic first aid or CPR.
  7. Make an herbal first aid kit.
  8. Organize local healers for emergency response in your community.
  9. With medicinal plants grown in your region, learn how to treat one condition that you and/or someone in your family struggles with.
  10. Join United Plant Savers, which aims to protect native medicinal plants of the US and Canada.

 http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/09/14/numen-documentary.aspx  Link back to Mercola.com where the article originated.
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Assisting The Virginia Governors Race - McAuliffe and Cuccinelli




One thing we know, the two candidates for governor want a very nasty contest.  They are smearing each other to no end.  I say we all help them out and make it as nasty as it can ever get.  Let's say we smear them both so bad that they never want to show their faces in Virginia again.  However, the one left standing gets to be governor if they can take the heat.






Former Global Crossing employees say they weren't told their comments would be used in the Virginia Republican's latest hit on Dem Terry McAuliffe. Read the full story here: Mother Jones put up this information. A spin palace concern.




How much garbage did they want to bring out on each other? Are either of these candidate gay? Did they have a secret relationship that ended badly and now they are hen pecking each other to death? If we are forced to watch and listen to all this crap, the least we can all do is give it back to them to see how it all feels for us to have to put up with it. So now we are dedicating a post each day to help them smear each other until they can no longer stand.  Tell both Ken Cuccineli and Terry McAuliffe to stop the smear campaigns.  We Virginians expect and demand better than this.
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Continuing Look Into The Masonic Order



Moral Design of Freemasonry from Chuck Thompson

The book is available for free download from our Slideshare site.  We have a one hour video below that goes more in depth about the Masonic order.  You may be shocked at what you learn.  Then again, you may already know all of this and more.  We will keep posting these continuing looks into the masonic order as it affects all of us.



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Liberty's kids 12, Common Sense - Battle of the Hook Pre Show




Liberty's Kids episode number 12, Common Sense.  We are once again hosting the entire Liberty's Kids series as a pre show to the upcoming Battle of the Hook reenactment coming to Gloucester, Virginia in October, 2013.  Details are below.  If you have the slightest interest in history, this is an event you will not want to miss.  You Will Believe.  An event like no other in the Nation this year.



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Anti Federalist Papers No 13 - The Expense of the New Government

 . . . . Great complaint has been made, that Congress [under the Articles] has been too liberal in their grants of salaries to individuals, and I think not without just cause. For if I am rightly informed, there have been men whose salaries have been fifteen hundred dollars per year, and some of them did not do business at any rate, that the sum they negotiated would amount to their yearly salary. And some men [are] now in office, at twenty five hundred dollars per year, who I think would have been glad to have set down at one hundred pounds a year before the war, and would have done as much or more business. The truth is, when you carry a man’s salary beyond what decency requires, he immediately becomes a man of consequence, and does little or no business at all. Let us cast our eyes around us, in the other departments-the judges of the superior court have but about one hundred pounds salary a year. The judges of the courts of common pleas, on an average, not more than sixty dollars per year. The ministers of the gospel-a very valuable set of men, who have done honor to themselves, and rendered great service to their country, in completing the revolution-have salaries but from sixty to an hundred pounds a year in general. The contrast is striking. I heartily wish that all ranks of men among us, ministers of the gospel as well as others, would turn their attention toward the Constitution they may be more concerned in the event than they at present think of.

Read the rest below.  




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Gloucester, VA School Board Ready To Contract Construction Without Funds

According to the Gloucester, Mathews Gazette Journal, The Gloucester School Board is ready to sign a contract with Oyster Point Construction of Newport News.  Problem is, the School board does not have the money in any account to do this.

  From what we have seen of the State law, the county is ready to move forward in violation of the laws and they could care less in our view.

Let's once again look at those laws.


§ 15.2-1238. Certification of sufficient funds.
Except in emergency, no order for delivery on a contract or open market order for supplies or contractual services for any county department or agency shall be awarded until the chief financial officer has certified that the unencumbered balance in the appropriation concerned, in excess of all unpaid obligations, is sufficient to defray the cost of such order.
 

15.2-1239. Orders and contracts in violation of article.
If any department or agency of the county government purchases or contracts for any supplies or contractual services contrary to the provisions of this article or the rules and regulations made thereunder, such order or contract shall be void and the head of such department or agency shall be personally liable for the costs of such order or contract.

§ 22.1-175.5. Capital School Projects Fund.
A. The governing body of any locality which is awarded a grant pursuant to this chapter may authorize the local treasurer or fiscal officer, by ordinance or resolution, to create a separate escrow account upon the books of the locality, as described in this section. Upon the adoption of such ordinance or resolution, the treasurer of the locality shall place such grant awards into this account.

B. The escrow account shall be known as the "County/City/Town of ____________ Capital School Projects Fund." All principal deposited to such fund, together with all income from or attributable to the fund, shall be used solely for (i) construction, additions, renovations, including retrofitting and enlarging public school buildings, infrastructure, including technology infrastructure, and site acquisition for public school buildings and facilities or (ii) debt service payments, or a portion thereof, for any such projects completed in the previous ten years if so designated. No disbursement from the fund may be made except upon specific appropriation by the governing body in accordance with applicable law. If a locality establishes such a fund and designates any portion of the funds deposited therein to pay debt service for (i) any general obligation of the locality held by the Virginia Public School Authority or (ii) any Literary Fund loan, the locality shall obtain an opinion of bond counsel that designation of funds to pay debt service on obligations described in clauses (i) and (ii) hereof does not adversely impact the tax-exempt status of such obligations.

C. All grant awards deposited in the fund, including all income from or attributable to such fund, shall be deemed public funds of the locality and shall be subject to all limitations upon deposit and investment provided by general law, including, but not limited to, the Virginia Security for Public Deposits Act (§ 2.2-4400 et seq.). Income, dividends, distributions, and grants accruing to the fund shall be retained in such fund and shall be expended only in accordance with the terms of this section.

D. Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to authorize a school board or school division to receive, hold or invest funds in its own name, nor to expend funds in the absence of a specific appropriation by the governing body of the locality in accordance with applicable law.

Now here is what we know, the county has not yet sold bonds to raise the money needed for the school construction for the new swamp school.  We all know this.  How can the School board, without having the proper funds move forward with committing to a contract when they do not have the money to do so?  Do you think they really care?  

Let's dig further into the local enquirer news story, the school board has a shortage of expected funding for hardening an area of the new swamp school.  What is hardening?  They are going to take a section of the school and ensure it is built to a code where that section of the school will withstand a category 2 hurricane.  But wait.  Why isn't the entire school being built to that standard?  A category 2 storm is what comes through here pretty much every year.  Isabel was a category 3.  Schools and homes withstood that for the most part.  But the school, according to the paper, will only be hardened in one area to withstand a 2.  That means we go back to the first step to rebuild another new school after the next big storm?

  Are these people serious?  They are already wasting your tax dollars on a new school that is not needed except by a local attorney who wants to make money off of his property across the street from what we see.  (That is only our opinion at this time).   Over 1,000 acres owned by local attorney Breckenridge Ingles.  

  They played a shell game on everyone telling us they need 5 million dollars for school repairs.  Money they had but spent it instead clearing out and refinishing another school they closed and are going to reopen as office space for themselves.  How is that about the children?  Are we all being held at gunpoint by these people?  Don't look to the local paper to figure this out for you, they know about it and won't cover it for any reason.  Instead they will just feed you the official spin.

The School Board is holding a ground breaking ceremony open to the public, September, 24th, 2013 at 4:00 PM.  Board of Supervisors expected to attend.  We recommend everyone show up with all the cash you have and just give all of it to them and plan on giving plenty more.  There is no reason for you to expect to keep any of it anymore.  If you do not have cash, bring your credit cards and allow them to max them out.  Do you have any investments?  Bring those too and be prepared to hand them over.  Title on your car free and clear?  Bring it to them and let them take out a title loan in your name.  Maybe they will have representatives from the payday loan places and you can sign for a loan letting the county take the cash while you get the payback note.  Bring your gold and silver or any other valuables you have and let County Officials pawn it in your name.  

  Sorry, they are not accepting your children though, they cost money to maintain.  Just send them to the swamp school for fun and games with all the frogs and snakes.  You might even get them back at the end of the day if the school does not play SS Titanic first and sink back into the swamp groundwater.


Don't take your eye off your loved ones if you attend.  No one want's another occurrence like the one above to happen again.

Our own recommendation to Gloucester Officials is do not delay in signing, sign the contract as fast as possible.  Then read the law afterward.  No one is watching.  Really. Take our word for it.

We are not lawyers and none of this is to be considered legal advice.  Only a COMPETENT attorney can advice you on legal matters.  Finding a competent attorney is another issue however.  Maybe we can all look to the Governor's race?  Yes that was a joke.

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