Viva Gelato means Viva Sorbet: Better Living Through Ice Cream!

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Santos5

300px Sorbet Viva Gelato means Viva Sorbet: Better Living Through Ice Cream!Image via WikipediaAs some of my gentle readers know from previous posts, I have  a dairy intolerance that interfere with eating ice cream.  What’s a summer without ice cream?  A pretty poor one, I say.  Given the creative person that I am, I am bound to search for a compensation. 

I found it in Pennington, NJ — yes, New Jersey does have some nice things.  On my return from my CSA (Community Supported Agriculture — I will be blogging on this later on), I pass through historic Pennington and I found Viva Gelato.

Unfortunately, the Italians can’t come to my rescue and gelato, even the wonderful gelato at Viva Gelato, messes up my tummy.  But Viva Gelato has sorbet and not just any sorbet. Sorbet does not contain milkfat so I can eat it.  They have my absolute favortite, sour apple sorbet.  They also have other nice sorbets such as pomegranate, mango, and lemon.  But the apple sorbet is paradise.  It is sour but not too sour and wonderfully apple flavored.  

I show restraint and get the small, child size which is a tiny cup but loaded with ice cream and I am in heaven.  With Free Wifi, who could ask for more.

I am including a link to a book on gelato, “Making Artisanal Gelato”, not to torment the fellow lactose intolerant, but because it has some interesting pairings which may be transferable into sorbet recipes.  Things such as pink peppercorn, roasted peanut and marshmellow,  lemon poppy seed, lime in the coconut, chocolate cinamon basil.  However, Blue cheese with poached pear might not make it on my list.  Altohough it does sound yummy.

We have wonderful fruits from our CSA and neighboring farms which could go into a cantalope sorbet, or blueberry lavender, pear sorbet with honey and candied walnuts, or strawberry sorbet with balsamic drizzle. 

With a diminished sense of smell, I am sure I am not tasting things as well.  It will be interesting to see what happens later this fall after nose surgery when my sinuses are opened up. 

An interesting side effect of having a diminshed sense of smell, is that I tend to cook by rote.  I follow instructions and I taste a little bit.  Really good chefs go by sense of smell and taste.   I wonder if I will end up being a better chef after my nose gets fixed.  Could be good things in store for me!

But more than becoming a better chef, I am wondering about how a general sense of well being and creativity is being impacted by having “low registration” on the SIP test.  For my gentle readers who are new to my blog, my senses– vision, hearing, body (proprioceptive– motor skills), taste and smell– just do not pick up the same amount of input as everyone elses.    In order to compensate for this, many times I tend to make up a bunch of rules and do things by rote — in other words, not do things automatically.   Because my parents were handicapped, I never learned to do a lot of things in terms of grooming or taking care of a house when I was a child.  It was only after having roomates and  being an adult  and realizing that how proper performance of “activities of daily living” impacted my ability to spend more time on stuff that I really wanted to do,  less time on stuff that I really didn’t want to be bothered with (but still had to get done anyhow), and helped me get along better with people that I put the time and effort into having better habits.   Unfortunately for me, this is not an automatic process but a process into which  I have to put a certain amount of conscious effort.   For example, when I am cleaning, I mentally divide an area into rows, take a sponge and go back and forth and area several times and then move on to the next row in order to make sure that I cleaned thoroughly.  Even with this, I still couldn’t count on not missing a spot.  Vision therapy has helped a lot and I see things when I am cleaning much better than I have in the past.

But, more than just doing my work in a better sense, I am wondering if I will be feeling more free in a new world where my senses are receiving input and my body responds more automatically and if this freedom will translate into creativity.  I will be seeing a neuropsychologist to discuss the next steps in therapy in September.   I will be crawling up the cortex to focus on more executive function along with the body (more on this later).  Dr. Berman works with a medical doctor who specializes in brain trauma.   Although I don’t have any trauma to the brain, it is good that someone on the medical side things is helping out.   One of the things he is going to focus on will be hemisphericity and lateralization (left brained vs right brained — this  controversial topic is being revived in neuroscience).  Dr Berman works systemically so it won’t be as simple a matter of left-brainedness vs right brainedness but how different systems within the brain and body interact.  

But, it is going to be interesting to see how all this impacts creativity.  Smell and taste are your most primitive systems and are closely related to memory and emotion.  Smell is interesting because, unlike the other senses,  the neural pathways from the nose go directly to the amygdala (the emotional seat of the brain).  I am not sure if I am making greater jumps in logic than what scientific evidence merits but it will be an interesting question to ask the good doctor.  

Reductio ad absurdum, let’s reduce it to the absurd:  Better Living through Ice Cream!  Can’t beat that!  

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Proof folic acid boosts brain power

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Martinez6

Folic acid and iron means smarter babies.

That’s the conclusion of researchers in the December issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Scientists examined whether folic acid (a B-vitamin), iron, and zinc supplementation during gestation affected children’s nervous systems and brain functioning age they grew.

The first rudiments of the nervous system appear in the third week of gestation; in week four main divisions of the central nervous system are established: forebrain, midbrain, hindbrain and spinal cord. There is more rapid growth of the central nervous system around the 24th week of pregnancy.

Researchers gave women in rural Nepal, India daily iron/folic acid, iron/folic acid/zinc, or multiple micronutrients containing these plus 11 other micronutrients – all with vitamin A.  The control group received vitamin A alone from early pregnancy through 3 months postpartum, and then biannually. The study was a double-blind, randomized controlled trial done between 1999 and 2001.

In all, 676 children were then later evaluated at ages 7-9 back in June of 2007 through April 2009.  Children’s functioning was assessed using the Universal Nonverbal Intelligence Test (UNIT), go/no-go tests, the Stroop test, backward digit span test, the Movement Assessment Battery for Children test (MABC) and finger-tapping test.

The differences were significant. Across the board function test scores were better in the group who received iron/folic acid supplements. Aspects of intellectual functioning including working memory, inhibitory control, and fine motor functioning were all associated with prenatal iron/folic acid supplements.

In the US, the Centers for Disease Control say all women of childbearing age who are capable of becoming pregnant should consume 0.4 mg (400micrograms) of folic acid per day to reduce the risk of spina bifida or other neural tube defects (NTD) in their children. 

Anencephaly is a very severe NTD in which the brain and the skull fail to develop properly. It results in either stillbirth or death shortly after birth, according to Women and Infants Hospital in Providence. In the unscreened population, about 1 baby in every 1,000 is born with a neural tube defect.

Rhode Island Hospital says myelomeningocele, a birth defect in which the backbone and spinal canal do not close before birth, is one type of spina bifida and one of the most common birth defects of the central nervous system. Myelomeningocele accounts for about 75 percent of all cases of spina bifida and may affect as many as 1 out of every 800 infants.

The American Academy of Pediatrics  agrees with the US Public Health Service recommending all women capable of becoming pregnant consume 400 micrograms per day of folic acid. They say although some foods are fortified with folic acid, it is not possible for women to meet the goal through a typical diet. The Academy recommends a daily multivitamin tablet that contains folic acid in the recommended dose. Studies show that if all women of childbearing age met these dietary requirements, 50 percent or more of NTDs could be prevented.

Additional Resources:
Spina Bifida Association – RI
BirthDefects.org
Prenatal Screening for Neural Tube Defects – Women and Infants

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Danger for teens in tanning beds

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Martinez6

With prom season fast approaching, and spring break on the way, the American Academy of Pediatrics is warning about sun exposure and teens using tanning salons.

The AAP has issued the warning on ultraviolet radiation (UVR)  in the March issue of Pediatrics, an AAP technical report (Pediatrics. 2011;127:e785-e811) and policy statement (Pediatrics. 2011;127:588-597) .

Experts say  increases in skin cancer may be due in part to increasing use of tanning salons.

The American Academy of Pediatrics wants teenagers banned from tanning salons, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. 
More than 30 states now regulate indoor tanning by minors, with some banning children younger than 14 or requiring parental permission. Illinois and New York are among states considering bills barring anyone under 18 from indoor tanning. Rhode Island has considered it. Currently parental permission is needed for a RI minor to be allowed to use a tanning salon.


Each day, more than 1 million people, including many teenage girls,  visit the estimated 50,000 tanning salons in the US, according to the statement.

Powerful lamps emit high levels of UVR, primarily ultraviolet A (UVA) radiation, but also some ultraviolet B (UVB).

Having a tan means DNA damage has occurred in skin. The International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded that UVR from artificial sources is a human carcinogen.

There is no evidence to suggest a protective effect of tanning, getting a “base”, against the damaging effects of subsequent sun exposure, according to the AAP.

The AAP says children and teens who experience one or more severe, blistering sunburns have a higher risk of developing melanoma later in life.

Skin cancer is the most common cancer in the US. Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) are diagnosed more than 1 million times annually.  About 2,000 people die each year according to the American Cancer Society (ACS)

Melanoma is the third most common skin cancer, and is on the rise according to the AAP. Melanoma accounts for only 5 percent of skin cancer cases but causes more than three-quarters of skin cancer deaths.

The ACS estimates there were 68,130 new cases and about 8,700 people died of melanoma in 2010.

To help protect yourself, limit your sun exposure, wear protective clothing and sunglasses, and apply sunscreen with at least an SPF of 15, hourly.



Resources:
Ultraviolet Radiation: A Hazard to Children and Adolescents, updated from 1999, is issued by the AAP Council on Environmental Health and Section on Dermatology.

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Dick Morris Says Obamacare Will Replace Medicare

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Cox10

morrishealthcarefinal Dick Morris Says Obamacare Will Replace Medicare

Dick Morris is worried that complacency among citizens could result in a disastrous healthcare overhaul costing Americans for generations to come.

In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV, Morris was asked if he thinks Democrats will do what Senator Chuck Schumer has alluded to: ram health reform through without any Republican support using a process called “reconciliation.” That requires only a simple majority instead of 60 votes.

“Yeah, I think they’re going to try it. I think there’s no chance that they’ll get 60 votes, there’s no chance of any real Republican support,” Morris said. “They’re going try and jam this thing through, and of course, it will pass the House because they march in lockstep.”

See Video: Dick Morris warns that complacency could destroy America’s healthcare system – Click Here Now

“So it is absolutely crucial for us to be aggressive and active in taking the steps to fight it,” he said.

The key is spreading information about the mammoth healthcare bills, Morris said, and mobilizing the conservative grassroots.

“Newsmax.com has a lot of the information; my website DickMorris.com does as well. We need to run ads in all of the states that swing-state senators live in, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Arkansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, Indiana, Connecticut, whole bunch of those states, and really force those senators to vote as their constituents want.”

“The fact that public opinion is moving against this legislation does not guarantee its defeat, because he (Obama) can still ram this thing through.”

Morris notes that senior citizens will pay the biggest price under the overhaul.

“This healthcare reform proposal really is the repeal of Medicare,” Morris said. “That’s really what it comes down to, because they’re going to provide medical care to 50 million new people without expanding the number of doctors or nurses,” he says.

“You can’t do that; you can’t just write a check for more healthcare, got to have more doctors or more nurses to administer it,” he added. “That means there’s going to be less health care for each person and that will force rationing.”

What will endanger the elderly most, Morris said, is the rationing of heart and hip operations – which comprise the bulk of elder care.

“Rationing involves a decision that is supposedly rational as to who should get care and who doesn’t get it,” Morris explained. “And inevitably that’s going to mean saying no to the elderly, no to people that want hip transplants, no to people that need new knee surgery, or no even to people who have bypass surgery.”

Morris cites the medical care system in Canada as an example of why socialized medicine doesn’t work.

“In Canada, where they have a system like this . . . there is an eight-week wait for cancer radiation: you have cancer, you have to wait eight weeks. There’s an eight month wait for colonoscopies and as a result the incidences of colon cancer in Canada is 25 percent higher than in the United States,” he said. “The top drug we use to treat colon cancer, Avastin, is not permitted in Canada and the result is 41 percent of Canadians who get colon cancer die of it as against only 32 percent in the United States. Sounds horrific, but those are the stakes,” Morris said.

And remember the Dems are set on covering the illegal aliens, meaning a younger illegal will get the treatment before a senior who has paid into the system all their life, if rationing goes into affect.

Since Democrats have enough votes to pass the overhaul without any Republican support, why are they trying to win some GOP votes?

“They’re worried about needing Republican support because they know how unpopular this thing is going to be when it’s adopted and after it’s taken effect, and we’re not just talking about the medical portion, we’re talking about the tax hikes, too,” Morris said. (Probably big tax hikes).

“So they want to be able to say this was a bipartisan bill, don’t blame the Democrats, Republicans put it over the top, too, just like they do with the stimulus package now where they got three Republicans to come on board. But I don’t think the Republicans are going to bite on this one.”

See Video: Dick Morris warns that complacency could destroy America’s healthcare system – Click Here Now

FOUR STEPS TO SAVE HEALTH CARE

SEE THE NEW TV AD DICK SAYS CAN DEFEAT OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE TAKEOVER — CLICK HERE!

August is THE crucial month! While the Senators and Congressmen are home in their districts, let’s give them a barrage of attacks on Obama’s proposals to deform our health system! Even as public opinion has turned against the plan, he still has sixty votes in the Senate and an ample margin in the House to pass it. Unless we unleash a FIRESTORM of public outrage, the bill will pass! And your own personal health care will never be the same.

Here’s how to fight it:

1. Arm yourself with the facts: Read Chapter 4 in Catastrophe, "Obama’s Health Care Catastrophe", which details how Obamacare will destroy American health care and explains what has happened in Canada!

2. Donate Money: The League of American Voters is running an advertisement Dick wrote in the swing states with key Senators. Give them as much as you can to run these ads.

Click here to see the ad and donate online!

To send checks by mail:

The League of American Voters
4152 West Blue Heron Blvd, Suite 1114
Riviera Beach, FL 33404
FedEx if possible! Time is of the essence.
We need to run these ads this month!

3. Email your friends, family and associates: We need a massive outpouring of public opinion. Email your Christmas card list, your colleagues from the office, your friends, and your family. Bring them the facts about health care and Obama’s dangerous proposals. Think particularly of anyone you know in the following states

(where the key Senators live):

a. Maine (Senators Susan Collins and Olympia Snow)
b. New York (Senator Kirsten Gillibrand)
c. Virginia (Senator Mark Warner and Jim Webb)
d. Indiana (Senator Evan Bayh)
e. Ohio (Senator John Voinovich)
f. North Carolina (Senator Kay Hagan)
g. Florida (Senator Mel Martinez)
h. Louisiana (Senator Mary Landrieu)
i. Arkansas (Senators Mark Pryor and Blanche Lincoln)
j. Nebraska (Senator Ben Nelson)
k. South Dakota (Senator Tim Johnson)
l. Iowa (Senator Chuck Grassley)
m. North Dakota (Senators Kent Conrad and Byron Dorgan)
n. Montana (Senators Max Baucus and Jon Tester)
o. Wyoming (Senator Michael Enzi)

4. Write or call your Senators and Congressman: Then sit down and write (by hand if possible) a letter to each of your Senators and your member of Congress. If you are not sure who your Congressman or Senators are, go to these links to find out:

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm

Simply address the letter to:

Your Senator or Congressman:
US Senate or US House of Representatives, Washington DC 20510 (Senate) or 20515 (House)

Sending a letter by snail mail is much more effective than by email.

They haven’t really caught up with the 21st Century in Washington. So buy a real live postage stamp and mail your letters directly. Use the info from Catastrophe in your letter. Explain how your personal health care and that of our family will be adversely affected.

Even if your Senator or Congressman is a liberal Democrat or a Republican, write then anyway. It can influence the atmosphere in Washington. Senators and Congressmen talk and the more mail they get, the more public opinion weighs on them all. Even the ultra-liberals.

You can call Congress at (202) 224-3121.

Believe us. It works. Write today!

Stand-up… Speak-up, America!!

(Gibbs says Obama Will Not Read HC Bill)

After President Obama promised last week that he would sit down with any and all Republicans and any other Congresspeople and Senators that wanted to and review the Healthcare Bill line by line, Robert Gibbs said today that President Obama would not read the Healthcare Bill.

Let us hope that he will have to read it multiple times as congressional leaders to to the White House and hold Obama to his word that her would review any of the present bills and final bills with them!!

It is a disgrace and an insult to the American People that anyone would pass sign bills like Cap and Tax, Healthcare Reform and multi billion and trillion dollar Stimulus and Budget Bills without reading them!!!!

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Coconut Carrot Juice

Posted on February 16, 2012 by Scott10

Ingredients:
8 Large Fresh Cleaned Carrots
1 Fresh Coconut
1 Large Fresh Mint Sprig (Optional Garnish)
1 Fresh Cut Lemon Wedge (Optional Garnish)

Information:
Serving Size 1
133 Calories Per Serving
2 Grams Of Fat

Preparation Instructions:

This coconut carrot juice recipe is one of my favorites, and it certainly has a unique and wonderful taste. To begin take out your juice machine and plug it in. Next wash and rinse your carrots under cool running tap water. Moving forward you will next want to wash and rinse your coconut. Using a small screwdriver, poke a hole in the coconut and filter the juice into a tall glass. It’s important to filter it in order to avoid consuming the rough coconut shell or hair. Once the coconut is completely drained, carefully crack it open, and then cut as much of the white inner coconut meat away from the shell as you can. You are now ready to begin juicing, so place a tall glass under the juice spout, and begin feeding in your carrots and coconut. Once you have run all of your produce through the juice machine, combine your newly made juice contents with the coconut juice that you drained out earlier. Using a swizzle stick or teaspoon rapidly stir the ingredients together until you have an even taste and consistency. As an optional garnish, place a lemon slice or mint sprig into your glass. We hope you have enjoyed this recipe, please check out our many other carrot juice based concoctions.

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I’m So Depressed

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Scott10

r174979 663932 Im So DepressedWe use the word depression to refer to a wide range of states of mind, from severe “clinical depression” to just feeling a bit miserable. A “depressing movie” is not one which is going to make you clinically depressed if you watch it.

But the words “mania” and “psychosis” are not like this. People don’t often talk about being manic when they’re happy – I’ve heard people describe themselves as “a bit manic”, but the bit makes all of the difference. People do use these words wrongly, e.g. some people seem to use “psychotic” when they mean “psychopathic”. But even so, these words are always associated with abnormality and pathology. Depression is talked about as “normal” in a way in which mania and psychosis aren’t.

This is misleading. True, depression can be hard to distinguish from sadness, stress, ennui, angst and other emotions. But it is a mistake to think that clinical depression is nothing more than a kind of inappropriate or excessive sadness. Being manic is not just being very happy, even if feeling very happy is one of the aspects of mania in some people (but not in all). Depression is not just feeling very sad. In fact, depression can be much more like mania and psychosis than most people tend to think.

In my experience of depression, it’s little like sadness. Most people that I’ve spoken to who have suffered from depression agree; the distinctive thing about depression in most cases seems to be a feeling of lack, or a lack of feeling, in which things lose their value and worth. Textbooks call this anhedonia, a lack of pleasure, which is as good a description as any. Whereas, if you’re sad about something, at least you value it.

It’s interesting to imagine what things would be like if depression were today a word like mania, as it was 50 years ago.

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Planned Parenthood: We Performed 134 Abortions for Every Adoption Referral

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Santos5

Earlier this month Planned Parenthood released their 2008 annual report. Yes, they are a year behind in reporting their information. Not so professional of them, I know. That aside, the numbers they put out reveal a shocking reality about their nationwide operation.

For every adoption referral from Planned Parenthood, they committed 134 human abortions.

The full numbers for 2008 were:

  • 324,008 Abortions of Preborn Humans
  • 2,405 Adoption Referrals (Planned Parenthood does not do adoptions themselves)

planned parenthood abortions adoptions Planned Parenthood: We Performed 134 Abortions for Every Adoption Referral

Does this statistic bother you?

Consider getting involved with Live Action in the fight for human life.

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Does your brain sleep while you’re awake?

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Alvarez15
A new study in the journal Nature may be a wake-up call for millions who think they are just as alert with minimal sleep, as they are with a full night’s rest.
Scientists studied the electrical activity in the brains of  rats forced to stay up and now say parts of your brain may doze, even if you appear totally awake.

Specifically, researchers say the problem-solving brain regions fell into a kind of ‘local sleep’ even though overall brain activity, and outward behaviors, suggested the animals were fully awake. However, they did have trouble completing challenging tasks.

This condition is also likely to occur in sleep-deprived people.

According to the National Sleep Foundation (NSF), adults generally need seven to nine hours of sleep a day.
Teens need about 9 1/4 hours of sleep each night to function best according to the NSF.

In 2008, about 29 percent of U.S. adults reported sleeping fewer than seven hours per night, and 50 to 70 million had chronic sleep and wakefulness disorders, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
 
Being sleep deprived can be especially dangerous behind the wheel, according to AAA of Southern New England here in Rhode Island.

They estimate as many as 250–thousand people doze off at the wheel every day. Approximately one in every six fatal crashes (16.5 percent) in the USA involves a drowsy driver. Forty-one percent of drivers say they have fallen asleep while driving at some time in their lives

Teenagers are especially sleep-deprived. Sleep-related crashes are most common in young people, especially those who tend to stay up late, sleep too little, and drive at night.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) conservatively estimates 100,000 police-reported crashes are the direct result of driver fatigue each year, resulting in 1,500 deaths, 71,000 injuries, and $12.5 billion in losses.

 
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Weight Loss Diets That Do Not Work

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Scott10
Have you tried several types of diet to shed weight and found they just did not work for you? You are not alone, in fact far from it. Most of us try different diets from time to time and generally find ourselves back where we started over and over again.

Most diets simply don’t work for the majority of us and its just not fair! We want to strip the fat from our bodies to look and feel healthier and enjoy life to the max. We know that having excess fat is bad for us and we desperately want our health back! We want it so bad we try some or all the usual diet systems that are simply not good for us like:
Low Carb Diets
These don’t work because they are strict and not sustainable, they can cause cravings, headaches and irritability. They can even lead to weight gain after the initial weight loss.
Low Fat Diets
See all those low fat food at the supermarket? Most are high in sugar and can actually cause weight gain and other health problems.
Starvation Diets
Apart from the physical difficulty of sticking to these strict diets they actually have the effect of slowing our metabolism right down, the opposite of what we should be doing to get to a healthy equilibrium!
Sugar Substitution Diets
Sugars are not bad for us in fact they are essential in the right amounts and forms. Sugar substitution diets can backfire badly and lead to the wrong kind of weight loss and other health issues.
Pre-Packaged Diet Programs
These can be very expensive for what you get, much more so than the cost of buying the food yourself so eventually many find they simply cannot afford the hundreds of dollars a month to maintain these.
Celebrity Diets
Cabbage soups, wrist band appetite suppressants, special syrup potions? Oh please lets get real here.
The fact is you do not need any fad diet systems, nor do you need to sacrifice so much that you become miserable. Many find they don’t even need to exercise more they just need a little re-adjusting of old habits. A sensible balanced diet and a little knowledge of nutrition and some guidance is really all you need to lose weight without suffering the cravings or needing to exercise heavily (or needing to spend heaps).
The Strip The Fat guide is a life saving guide that can be used by anyone. It’s a common sense approach to weight loss that works because it puts you in control of how much to loose and how quick to loose it. It shows you how eating fat can be good for you, how to lose weigh while dining out, how to teach your body to burn more calories even why you should not eat salad. Get the Strip The Fat guide here and start losing the weight you want when you want.
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Healthcare is an Act of Treason

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Diaz17

Milky Way Wikipedia Healthcare is an Act of TreasonToday, the Senate began the Reid Healthcare Plan debate for which we have Louisiana Senator Landrieu to thank.

Instead of considering what is best for the nation, Landrieu, blatantly announced that she accepted a three hundred million dollar bribe (not the one hundred million previously reported) and she was not going to feel ashamed for doing so. Considering the rapid decent of the dollar, unemployment in the double digits and Obama’s ‘unprecedented’ aggressiveness to transform America under the dictates of a Global Government, anyone who votes to move the Healthcare Bill forward through the Senate needs to be removed from office and charged with treason.

Notwithstanding the unconstitutional ‘forced coverage’ espoused by a bill that still leaves 25 million uncovered, the threat of being dumped into a government plan by 89.5 million of currently insured Americans, death panels, medical care rationing and the uniform, historical failure of anything under government control, the costs to the American Taxpayer for the government healthcare takeover are exorbitant.

The terms billion and trillion are being bandied about as if they were fifty and hundred dollar bills. Spending is surpassing the amount of money collected and Obama’s administration is printing money like mad, yet still spending more. Consider the sheer magnitude of the numbers:

There are 100 billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.

If $1.00 equals one star, the current deficit of the United States is 120 times the size of the Milky Way.

The projected cost of the House Healthcare plan that was passed November 7th, equals 10.2 times the size of the Milky Way.

If the Senate Healthcare plan goes through, the bill’s cost will equal 10.3 times the size of the Milky Way once the most expensive portion of the bill takes effect in July 2013.

Obama was quoted as saying that uncontrollable spending and increases to the deficit are not sustainable, yet at the time of his quote (May 2009), he, alone, was responsible for increasing the deficit equaling to 18.4 times the size of the Milky Way.

So why are the Democrats pursuing such an unsustainable expenditure at the dictates of the Obama White House, despite the extremely loud voice of ‘The People’ against it and after confirming such acts are unsustainable? One thing that is known for sure, it is not for the benefit of ‘The People’.

TREASON is defined as “the betrayal of a trust” or “the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government…to which the offender owes allegiance….” Therefore, anyone who pursues the destruction of America and betrays the trust of the American People by continuing the approval of and passing of legislation that will increase an unsustainable debt, knowingly and without regard to the economic damage to the country, can only be considered to be treasonous and the individual(s) should be dealt with accordingly.

Examiner – Galveston

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