I'm not looking forward to work tomorrow. Everyone knows that I left the office early to attend a class on the dangers of vaccinations to babies and children. I fully expect someone to try goading me into a short summary so that they may laugh their clueless and scornful laughs.

Sadly, I can speak plain, logical English and still get the same blank, prehistoric stares. The look that says "you must hate doctors, society, and America" is borne on the faces of the masses when anyone challenges traditional views of medicine, diet, energy, and possibility. People with absolutely no clue as to why they disagree except for the fact that they trust the masses who believe the same.

I have nothing to offer these people. I can't cure stupid. You either practice critical thinking, or you don't. You either blindly accept tradition, or you don't. If you're fine with tradition and feel no need to question or challenge status quo, go right ahead. Ignorance is bliss... except when it's not.

This isn't to slam anyone at work so much as it is to point out the critical need nationwide for some good old fashioned logic 101. You don't have to live a perfect life. I don't live anything remotely resembling a perfect life. I know when I'm being stupid (or I have a strong suspicion). I still choose stupid in some areas. But I give myself the room to choose stupid because I recognize my path of progress and the truth that I can't fix everything that's wrong with myself all at once. I give myself some slack to work on one thing at a time.

Hear my request. Please fight against stupid. Don't accept it. When you put anything artificially made into your body, don't act like it's not completely logical that on some level it will cause you harm. Yes, prescription meds are harmful. Yes, fast food is harmful. Yes, sodas are harmful. Yes, vaccinations are harmful. Yes, your favorite store brand cheese dip is harmful. Yes, your body naturally fights off disease (and succeeds WHEN YOU TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY!). Yes, your body is designed to process natural foods (vegetables, grains, fruits, legumes). Yes, your retirement diseases depend on your current lifestyle. You control your destiny. You have the power. You might not want it, but it's yours.
Get over it. Continue to live as you choose, but don't accept stupid. Know what you are doing with your life. Take responsibility. Be an adult. Fight stupid everywhere you can.

That's my soap box. 'Nuff said.

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I've been thinking that this would make a good topic. Heather's just now starting to get beyond the initial morning sickness phase. It was intense for three weeks. So here's a list of the Top 10 foods Heather has craved during her pregnancy:

1. Green Olives - as disturbing as this may sound to you, Heather not only craved green olives, she literally ate nearly two bottles of green olives in one day. Yes, she ate them by themselves, and, wait for it..... she drank the juice. Major ick-factor.

2. Chocolate Chip Cookies - one of the more enjoyable trips to the grocery store thus far consisted of extra chocolate stuffed chocolate chip cookie dough which we baked in the oven and ate with milk....mmmmm. Sadly, this was a short lived craving.

3. Potato Chips - the days of greasy food begin! On with the show!

4. French Fries - suddenly, the uber-healthy wife transformed into the uber-junk food wife. French fries were a popular culprit.

5. Vanilla Shakes - along the same vein as #3, Heather developed a sudden need for vanilla shakes twice a day.

6. Mango & Pineapple - though this one was short lived, it was good to see her craving something that represented an actual food group

7. Limes - yes, limes. Whole limes. She ate at least two limes with salt in one sitting. She just peeled them out of the rind, added salt, and down the hatch! Yeah, I couldn't do it either.

8. Orange Juice - we're starting to see a theme here. What is it about citrusy / tropical fruits that her body needs so desperately? Who knows, but I'm enjoying it too. Apparently, she's not the only one in need of a few vitamins.

9. Popcorn - what is it about salty foods? Salt is apparently more important than we realize. She's always liked popcorn, though. Maybe she has a sodium deficiency (shrug).

There you have it! The list is complete.

Strange how many things pregnancy affects that you don't expect. Not only has Heather had wicked morning sickness, our eating habits are worse than when I was a bachelor (is that even possible?). This is due to the fact that for three weeks, Heather couldn't prepare a meal without getting sick at the sight of it and then being unable to take a single bite. Hence, no more food prep... hence, fast food for Daniel..... hence, slightly rounder Daniel.

One can only hope that this extra roundness will not last. To quote Scripture (with a slight twist), "She must increase, and I must decrease." So be it, God willing.

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Amidst the uproar over Texas Governor Rick Perry's HPV vaccine mandate, there are rumors over the causes of the virus. While news stations including WFAA Channel 8 (Dallas/Fort Worth ABC affiliate) continue to describe the human papillomavirus as a "sexually transmitted disease" (STD), there are rumors surfacing about the true origins of HPV.

Some sources claim that a form of HPV is actually transmitted via widespread chemtrails and/or pesticide sprayings. Toxins in the air both weaken the immune system and carry poisons which the human body will react to in various defensive ways. These sources believe that Merck & Co. is responsible for the STD revisionist history, with hopes to capture the state's and eventually the nation's approval for production and implementation of HPV vaccinations.

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Texas Governor Rick Perry is serious about mandating that every public school girl receive a vaccine for the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). This is the time to start worrying. Why? Every major vaccine people receive causes undesirable and even dangerous side effects. Think of several million girls in Texas all passing along some birth defect or mild retardation to their future children because they all received this experimental HPV vaccine.

First and foremost, always be concerned when government demands that the people receive a certain type of medical treatment when said treatment can only be provided by one company. This is dangerous! Merck is the giant pharmaceutical company awarded the contract of providing all of these vaccine shots. Doesn't that make you nervous? The question each and every one of us should be asking is: What is the government getting in return from Merck?

Is it payday for Rick Perry? Are they going to fund his next political campaign? What money and/or power has been promised in return for this multi-million dollar business deal?

These are questions that need to be asked because the motivations of a government and a pharmaceutical drive them to make the decisions they make. Is Rick Perry on the take? Why are thousands upon thousands of adolescent females now the guinea pigs of a "tested" vaccine which has not been tested long enough to determine long-term side effects, especially in relation to childbirth?

Someone needs to demand answers. Don't let Rick Perry and Merck stick a needle in your arm because they're bigger than you.

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Unless you belong to the 1% of Americans labeled "freakishly strange" or " for your health conscious diet, you've been taken for a ride by just about everyone involved in the sales and production of food. What's the deal? How could so many companies possibly be so bad as the conspiracy theories say?

Food product manufacturers build their companies and their profits upon a few accurate suppositions:

1. You are most concerned with how products immediately make you feel
2. You are not a chemist
3. You do not know what most of the chemical ingredients are
4. You do not know how those chemicals affect the human body
5. You do not care, because it's inconvenient to pay attention
6. You do not believe that corporations could be so evil as to hurt their customers in order to make a profit
7. You disassociate yourself from the affects of the food they eat because you don't want to accept responsibility of finding and preparing healthy food

Some things we know are dangerous. It's illegal in New York to sell foods made with transfat. Most people have heard by now about the dangers of red food dye. But what about high fructose corn syrup? Or a hundred times worse, what about titanium? Did you know that some of the products you eat contain titanium? Did you know that it's toxic to your health?

The list goes on and on. Everything the average American eats is deadly. The ancient Greeks displayed amazing insight when they claimed, "Death begins in the colon."

Think about it. And ask yourself whether all those companies should make a profit off of your unwillingness to get involved.

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I’ve had 1.5 hours of sleep in the past 37 hours. Luckily, my body hasn’t hit that point of hell on earth that sometimes comes with lack of sleep. But I’ve not made much sense in the past few hours.

I went up to Home Depot again today. Got the right part this time. Unfortunately, I cause a leak by fixing one. Figures. I’m no plumber. Now I have to call a guy to come out first thing tomorrow and probably shut the water off to the house before I go to sleep.

Once upon a time, in dreamy land, the milk said to the caboose that it’s legs were tired… My honey is dripping from the tree, it cried. I could not sit by and watch as the children were taken off into slavery… so i stood. I stood and I watched and I waited and I listened and I cried and I yelled and I hollered and I wondered what I was doing making so much noise. Then I realized that this must be delirium because I’m never this relaxed. The dog smoked a pipe while my house shrank, and the shirt was too shiny for the opera. I need another shirt, I cried to no one in particular… and heard no one respond as expected. The shoes were a different story entirely. One which cannot be uttered for fear of how hard it would be to respond to the questions of the innocents.

It’s never over ’til it’s over, I think she said. Then again, she was half-dead and crying in her bowl of cheerios as I bowled a strike. Ever notice how bowling shoes are never stylish? That must mean something to someone.

Where was I? Oh yes, the syrup. It flowed like honey from the dead willow tree. Why a willow tree? Mostly because the maple was busy. Or was it the oak? Who can remember, really? It’s all about nothing in the end. Just people and zombies. Zombies and people. Pod people and split peas. Peas in a pod and pods in a people. People in a pea and peas in a person.

Split pod-people soup is not very appetizing after Lent. It’s never a good idea to wear feathers after Kwanza. Lucia is the name of the gardener I don’t have. He keeps everthing in order, even during the winter. Of course, I don’t have to pay him since he’s not my gardener, but he does good work. Why does his name end in an “a”? Isn’t that reserved for females and she-camels? I couldn’t really say, to be honest, since my license was revoked for smoking too close to the mirror. I never knew it was a mirror, I told him, but he said it didn’t matter so long as I inhaled. I, of course, always inhaled.

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So I just added Google Adsense to one of my blogs last night. Guess what the first ads contained! You guessed it! All of them were ads for human and pet parasites. How disturbingly cool is that? Yes, that was rhetorical.

I actually visited one of the sites advertised on my own blog, just to see what it would show. I got more than I bargained for. Somebody started doing a colon cleanse and took their digital camera into the bathroom every time they had a bowl movement. They took pictures of some of the nastiest stuff I have ever seen. It looks like foot-long stringy rubber.

Sorry, I know that I’m being unusually graphic and improper, but it was a powerful testimonial. You get to see pictures and read journal entries, following this timeline of the entire cleanse.

Why do I even bring this up? Because from what I’ve been reading, as much as 1 out of every 2 people have parasites of some sort. These parasites are ingested through food and water, and they cause all kinds of problems including constipation, chronic fatigue, bleeding, irritable bowel syndrome, severe gas and bloating, weight gain, acid reflux, stomach pain, diverticulitis, as well as skin and hair problems.

To learn more about parasites, common ailments, and treatment options, visit DrNatura on the web at www.drnatura.com. Intensely grotesque pictures of parasites and parasite removal journal entries can be found here as well.

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