Eat Me!

I’m banking the title will make you curious enough to read this through. It serves your well being that you do. In fact, if everyone on Earth were to truly heed this article, everything that enslaves mankind would simple vanish (Poof), like a puff of smoke! How many times have you heard the phrase coined: “You are what you eat” without paying any never mind? What you eat means a great deal to your mood, your perception, your stamina, quality of life and yes, even how long you’ll live!

Yet all across the globe we fumble and fret day and night in hopes of a vaccine or pill to solve our virus problem, when in fact being nutritionally starved is what lies at the base of it all! I’ll go further and suggest that what we’ve all been eating has a lot to do with what’s been feeding hatred, the self-centered, neurological, emotional and spiritual lack, with so profound an addiction, as to greatly surpass even opiates; one in which over 90% of the earth’s entire populace must plead guilty to! Poor immune systems can’t fight off a simple flu bug, let alone Covid 19! 95% of all hospitalizations due to Covid 19 can be prevented by simply consuming 2000 I.U. of vitamin D per day, and that’s a fact they’re not telling you! Half the world is deficient in vitamin D, especially Latinos and Blacks; their darker pigment prevents absorption from sunlight.

We get a disease and then ask for a pill to cure us when we are acting after the fact. The only cure for any disease lies in prevention! Doctors and Pharmaceutical companies need to keep you sick if they hope to continue to be paid. The system is set up that way. Grass fed cows are no better for you than grain fed ones! Hard end points like death and cancer are linked to IGF 1 (Insulin Growth Factor) found in red meat and dairy products concerning control groups of more than 50,000 people over twenty year long studies time and again, yet you still refuse to listen!

The WHO (World Health Organization) will tell you 66% of all Americans are over-weight (pre-diabetic), when in fact they use a BMI (Body Mass Index) of 25 when all those in blue zones around the world enjoy perfect health for over a century of life with a BMI of 23 or below, giving a figure of more like 86% of Americans being truly over weight. And those that are thin are generally sick as well from excessive smoking or alcohol.

Some Vegans (no these are not people from the planet Vegus) consider Oreo cookies safe to consume. Wrong! That will send your insulin through the roof, contributing to insulin resistance and ultimately (if you’re dedicated to Oreo’s enough) diabetes. Yet concerning those who end up with Altziemers (Old Timers Disease), Dementia, Diabetes, Cancer and the like are those toting a Keto, carnivorous diet packed with fat! Where do you think fat clogging your arteries comes from? Lettuce? It’s not a question of if you will get these diseases from a meat based diet, but when! And sooner than most people think.

“A plant based diet is boring” you say. Wrong! Meat gives you maybe 10 choices. Where-as vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts supply hundreds of choices; many varieties of beans alone. Beans fart protein! Fruits provide carbs absorbed much more slowly than table sugar, soft drinks and beverages, protecting you from huge insulin spikes. Nuts, seeds and avocados provide healthy fats, unlike olive oil. You may as well drink motor oil. It goes right to your waste line! So there’s your three macros right there (Protein, carbs and fats) at reasonable levels, without health destroying results.

70% Vegetables, 20% fruits, 10% seeds and nuts. That’s what a healthy diet consists of. Do you want a 20 year long debilitating illness, ending in agony, in a wheel chair at age 60 or 70? Or would you prefer to go quickly after 90 healthy years or more? Oh you can save the planet, evert climate change, feed the world, save the animals etc… Screw that! What about your health? I plead with you! More! I implore you! Change your ways, before your ways change you…

Somewhere in Time

Since everyone is perplexed about what to do with their time lately, I’ll clue you in on what I’m doing with mine, and you can take it from there. Not everyone’s situation is the same. I live in a small town, so if I walk along the lake shore for an hour, I can step outside of town. Walk for an hour more along an access road, and I find a beautiful grove of trees where I can kick off my shoes and socks, and feel the grass between my toes, whist reading a good book. It’s a great way to commune with nature and get some exercise. It’s a great way to relieve stress and forget about your troubles.

There are many wondrous sights along the way if you care to look. Some sights are symmetrical; like Manson gates, trimmed hedges etc. Others provide perspective, like a long row of similar trees, fresh with new leaves and a highway that stretches on forever. Flowers, birds, squirrels, rabbits, frogs, boulders as big as your fist! LOL! It’s all out there! And it’s all screaming: “TAKE A PICTURE OF ME!” And that’s exactly what I intend to do, while the air is so clear and fresh; being, there is far less pollution, and therefore, clearer pictures! Outside and alone is about as free as life’s gonna get for me right now. Better for pictures and more peaceful if you go early in the morning.

Covid 19: Crime Against Humanity

It never fails to amaze me how just people in general can take something (anything) and build it all up out of proportion. The Covid 19 event is just that way. In fact, things have become so isolating and restrictive, that depression has gone up. Suicides have gone up. People dying from other things that aren’t Covid 19 related, have all gone up! It’s becoming more and more apparent every day that more people are going to die from imposed laws around Covid 19, than by the disease itself; because of lack of attention or improper attention to backed up surgeries involving truly life threatening conditions! You could have something as simple to fix as an impacted wisdom tooth, and because there are no Dental Clinics open, they will just give you opiates instead. Not a great alternative. How is this helping? I’m now quite certain this will go down as one of the blackest days in history!

Every time you put too much power in the hands of good people, something disastrous happens! Let’s just look at the facts. We aren’t getting a death rate any larger than that of a seasonal flue. And, they’re trying to doctor the numbers to make more deaths look Covid 19 related than there actually are. Wear a home-made, mask all day in 97 degree heat and you are probably spewing forth more viruses than those who aren’t wearing one, if indeed you are infected at the time. Yet in the U.S. they’re making it law to wear a mask in stores or they won’t serve you. And it’s only a matter of time before that nonsense hits Canada as well!

There are other things not right. We (the customer) have to social distance in restaurants. But the people who prepare the food or serve it, don’t. Eggs Benedict over Covid 19 anyone? I mean, aren’t they literally serving up the disease to you then? Who can enjoy dining out being treated like a rabid dog anyway? That luxury has been totally decimated and will now only be available for those who can afford it. So don’t hand me down that: “We’re all in this together” CRAP when the majority of the working folks are suffering from a lot more than what video game to play with their two sons today. And it’s the poor who suffer the most! They were isolated long before Covid 19 came along. And they still will be, long after it’s gone!

We’re not being asked to lock ourselves away now. Now, we’re being told how to behave or suffer starvation, jail or a heavy fine, being forced into quarantine etc. Something is totally amiss here; something diabolical that’s taking control away from the people, and putting it in the hands of tyrants! If the bug primarily invades elderly people at home care facilities, then it’s their health care workers that should be under quarantine, as well as people morbidly obese, over 65 or have underlying heart or repertory or an auto-immune condition that adversely effects the immune system. So why everyone then; even children who are least susceptible? Perhaps what we’re really being told is that we’re all sick! If that were the case, how did we prosper so greatly as we did? It’s their “stay inside” rule that’s going to make everyone even more susceptible by further stressing and weakening our immune systems! This will make their exaggerations look more credible.

What’s your opinion on this thing? Bill Gates wants to tattoo people on their wrists to show they’ve been vaccinated or be denied goods or services because all mighty Bill knows what’s best for the world? I’d be interested to learn if you do or you don’t think there’s more going on here than meets the eye! You may take this with grains of salt if you wish, but one is given to wonder… Why is it I give them (Covid 19 lock-down advocates) their right to free speech, and all they want to do is take away mine? Am I stupid? Or are we all in for a lot of doo doo unless something is done to return us our rights in a hurry? More may see their ending than we think right now. This could go on for decades…

My Covid 19 Questions

• If I wipe the sleepers from my eyes in the morning, can I get the bug?
• Is it possible to go to Mars now? Can’t germs find their way there too?
• If I’m wearing dirty underwear, is the virus more attracted to me?
• Say I should suddenly get the urge to scratch my nuts in public? Will my sigh of relief infect me?
• Suppose I show no symptoms but suddenly have to clear my throat? Should I then be sprayed down with bleach, locked in a clean room and consult with a speech therapist?
• Do viruses hang out in gangs?
• Am I more likely to die from Covid if I can also starve to death from lack of finances?
• If I go swimming, should I wear a surgical grade face mask?
• Are some groups of viruses just party goers who really intend no harm?
• How can I get to know these viruses and become friends with them?
• I heard Corn Flakes help. Is that true?
• Is it possible to trick the virus by only shopping at Walmart and guarding your toilet paper?
• If someone sneezes in my face, should I cough on them, just to get even?
• Who’s gonna scratch my back now and play with my toes?
• If I should decide to go to a restaurant, could I possible throw up from fear and waste my money?
• Can I spread the virus by thinking evil thoughts?
• If I live through this thing, do I at least get brownie points?

Covid 19 Party Goers

What I’m about to suggest might sound odd to those of you who don’t normally access The Internet on a regular basis. It’s a prediction I’m making that you will see the advent of a lot more On-Line party celebration as we all adjust to: “The New Normal”. In fact, as I’m sure many have already figured out, many things will now gain more popularity On-Line. This may sound odd because this means a lot more exposure to the problems social interaction can ignite on far more vast a scale than many of you may be prepared to deal with. After all, when you’re humiliated here, the repercussions can feel somewhat devastating; so much so to some, that they’ve even chosen suicide as a way out. It now becomes especially important that you can accurately gauge your conduct and how others are reacting to it! I only count 23 rules! Oh well… Should have just given you the URL.

The 29 most common social media rules

After digging into a bunch of research from thought leaders and influencers, I found there seemed to be a set of social media rules that most could agree on. Here’s the list of 29 social media rules most commonly mentioned by the pros.

(Thanks to HubSpot, TollFreeForwarding and Gryffin, Rebekah Radice [1] [2], Chris Brogan, and Outbound Engine for their great resources and inspiration on these social media rules.)

For all social networks

1. Share several times a day, but space out your posts every few hours.
2. Respond to all comments as quickly as you can.
3. Know the art of the hashtag. 1 hashtag is fine. 10 hashtags are not.
4. Always keep the 80/20 rule! Entertain and inform your audience first, sell to them second.
5. Use first person plural when talking about your company brand (We, Us).

For Twitter

1. Don’t automatically direct message people that follow you.
2. Provide more context in your tweets with Twitter’s latest update.
3. Don’t hijack another company’s hashtag.
4. Don’t buy followers.
5. Don’t stuff your tweets with keywords.

For Facebook

1. Don’t Like your own post.
2. Don’t post or tag photos of fans, customers, or employees without permission.
3. Don’t tag people or pages that aren’t relevant to your post.
4. Don’t ask for Likes, Comments, or Shares.

LinkedIn

1. Personalize your connection requests. Tell them WHY you’re connecting.
2. Once connected, send a “welcome” message.
3. Don’t join groups and immediately start selling yourself.
4. Don’t ignore the more professional tone of the network.

Google+

1. Always +mention users when commenting on their posts.
2. When sharing a post, always add your own commentary to it first.
3. Share to Circles to target your content.
4. Use Google+ formatting for your text—bold, italics, and strikethrough.

Pinterest

1. Don’t neglect to provide good descriptions for your pins.
2. Always link back to the original source and give credit.
3. Don’t use images that have nothing to do with your clickthrough content to get more pins or clicks.
4. Don’t pin just your own material.

Instagram

1. Don’t ask people to follow you or use hashtags like #tagsforlikes – it’s unprofessional.
2. Don’t over-gram. No one likes their feed filled up with one user.
3. Use hashtags for your brand appropriately. The golden number of hashtags is 11.

See, I just snipped this “29 rule” segment above from a website I found via a google search, which is in itself, another rule; if someone has explained it well elsewhere On-Line, that can save you a lot of fumbling around so you can get around to mentioning way more cool stuff. I think what I’m especially trying to convey here is how important it is to always choose your words carefully!

Always be slow to anger. Someone may be just testing you, or even trying to anger you simply because “they think” they don’t like you and so, want to embarrass you in front of others. It’s far easier to insult someone when you can’t just grab their neck and use their head for a punching bag! Don’t fall for that one! On Line and personal contact are not the same thing! Most social media programs have functions available for blocking those you find annoying from being able to speak to you. Or, The Internet is a big place. You can always concern yourself with something else, and come back later… If you can, avoid trouble at all costs!

The opposite of the above is also true. You can become obsessed with being On-Line to the point of night sweats! It can take over your life in this way as well. So, as a rule, never make your time On-Line exceed your time off. Yes we will all be searching for social interaction but should never interfere with you if you’re single or your family life if you’re not.

I know this may sound a little invasive to you, but please don’t spend nine hours describing your cat… This goes for most chit-chat. Just use Chat programs specifically made for that purpose. Rather, never be afraid to express your ideas in blogging programs such as these.

Myself? I generally use Facebook just to make one, grand, statement and get out, because I hate to loiter… Sometimes I’ll just surf The Internet looking for interesting sites to bookmark. I can build a music disk from free songs, or even download tons of E-Books I know I can access On-Line anyway. My goal is to eventually sell them and go to jail…

So there you have it; just a heads up during these changing times. Oh! Almost forgot! If you’re running Windows 10, in your search bar, type in: snipping tool. Then save the program on your task bar so you always have it on hand. With it, you can snip sections from any web-page as a file you can insert here in any post. Please try to keep your spirits up! This most certainly is a change! Sometimes that can be a good thing. This Pandemic has shaken us all in some pretty significant ways! Some good will come out of that as well. Mark my words!

Covid for The Concerned

Taking the favorable attitude during a time when outbreaks like covid 19 come along is imperative to your survival! One way I have of looking at it, is that by doing my part and staying at home, I, for the first time in my life, have a choice to make that will ultimately effect the entire world! Now that’s power on an almost unimaginable scale, entrusted to me! By doing the right thing, I’m directly effecting the world in a positive way. And that makes me feel very good about myself.

A lot of people don’t get that social distancing also applies to distancing from other occupants within your home. I see people going for walks in groups of fours and fives when they should only go for a walk alone and avoid others they pass on the street. I see them crowding into cars and walking their dogs in closed parks because their dogs have to doo-doo somewhere; Heaven forbid you might just bring a bag, turn it inside out and pick up your crap.

Canadian and American governments send mixed messages which just makes it all seem to be just that much more of a joke. In Canada, we’re now being told we have to wear a mask or we can’t get into the stores, yet you can’t buy them anywhere. The positive solution to paying an old, man in Bermuda shorts to shop for you, is to make your own reusable mask from the proper material. There’s your first project: Search the internet for mask making instructions so you might protect others on a more regular basis and get to eat real food as an added bonus!

In America, people are protesting in large unprotected groups. Various states are reopening too soon. Tests are inconclusive. It’s all wrong! Trading money for more deaths is, I’m sorry to say, too high a price to pay! Do you really want something like that on your conscience for the rest of your life, however short? Do you have a conscience? Going back to work now is bound to make you right paranoid of all you come in contact with! Do the wise thing; the positive thing. Stay home until it’s safe regardless of what governments say. Health Officials know better. Listen to them.

It’s a wonderful side benefit that the air and water are so much cleaner now! Look straight up on a clear day and see how deep blue the sky looks Cool Huh?. It could also give our oceans a fighting chance to recover. You need a fighting chance too! Perhaps this break is positive for getting into a more efficient world, if we can ever get used to schooling and working from home. After all, we already have the technology, and this would be an eventuality anyway, as automation and robotics unite to further reduce human interaction. Machines don’t get sick, don’t take holidays, make fewer mistakes, can work tirelessly round the clock and don’t require a pay-check. So this outbreak which will continue this fall, may be the catalyst that revamps society in a more favorable way, for us as a species in general. It’s called “adaptation” and humans happen to be very good at it!

So in contusion, we all have to put in a concerted effort to pull off this prison term without an escape plan, minimize your rations, wash your hands, sterilize your knobs, and don’t pick your nose! Stay safe! Stay strong! Stay loved! But above all, stay healthy…

When I was a boy

Some of this might sound silly, I suppose, as comes natural with childhood. Lately, I’ve had recollections regarding my childhood. Seeing as how I’m 68 now, this is monumental to me. There’s something involving innocence when we are allowed to pear backward in time and further analyse our perception of the world at that time.

Sadly, I had an abusive childhood, so, given that I’m inventive, I more or less, had my own, private world, re-pleat with various scenarios that involved my leaving this situation. Because I was so perverted, I had recurring dreams in which I envisioned myself as homeless, and having to sneak across the American boarder to get to more southerly latitudes in an effort to survive the winter. Note that I just published a post where later on in life I had to deal with Officials at the American boarder. Is that weird or what?

One way I extended duration away from home was to go to a theater every Friday night that featured six horror films until dawn. I wasn’t totally square. I always went with a friend. And I had some athletic prowess so entering events also afforded me time away from home where there was always an argumentative atmosphere. Plus I had an affinity toward Astronomy, so half the time, I was lost in space anyway. I needed to find a way to escape the life I was in!

Remember I’m poor, so some of the crew I hung out with was, lets say, not your most savory type of individuals. Mind you, I don’t capitalize upon being poor, I just point out that limitations always apply.

Sometimes I visualize the various geographic visualizations as I transposed myself from one neighborhood into another, until I transposed a Toronto position in Canada and visited someone quite a walk from my own local. What’s the point of all this?

Memories matter! We’re always told to never look back. Always foresee the future as our ultimate goal. I however, pose to you, that looking back can sometimes be instructive. With that, I bid you all a fond ado. Please be safe. Don’t take chances you don’t have to!

I almost made it!

Well… Because I’m poor, I can’t pay for a WordPress site where I can upload my CD. I payed $2500.00 for a one hour recording of 16 original songs, 8 of which I made up the night before, and did each one to perfection in one take. Of corpse this is so. I’m paying $2500.00 per hour to do this! Pretty good memory for 8 songs I barely knew!

Add to this, I just bought a special edition Martin guitar (only 24 ever made) for $3,500.00 American dollars. The action was too high on the neck, so I was in pain throughout the whole recording. Hard to sound natural that way, but natural I was, just the same.

Not to brag, but Sony wanted me. and Mercury records as well. My problem was, that I couldn’t get over the boarder from Canada to U.S.A. My Ex phoned ahead of me, said a scandalous lie, that I was incest with my American cousin who has a record company and was sponsoring me, and that was the real reason I wanted into the U.S.

Curses! Foiled again! So don’t forget that some talented people are unfortunately, victims of circumstance. When you boil it down, aren’t we all…

You can still hear the CD if you have an FTP protocol program that can transfer information from computer to computer. If you have an iota of an idea how to do this, we can work it out. I’d like my stuff out there. You can reach me at: edarrell61@gmail.com

Don’t stand so close to me!

You know how they have that song out there: “MMMMy Corona?” Well I’d like to put that song by The Police: “Don’t stand so close to me!” out, included at the end of this blog. Just listen to the lyrics and you’ll see it actually fits. Some people are making lite of the Covid 19 issue. Consider then that it will spark a change in lifestyle. There will be more home-schooled children, more people working through their homes via video conferencing etc. as these pandemics become the seasonal norm. The Spanish Flue had three spikes, so be prepared to be in this for the long-haul!

I’ll be 68 the end of June, and have bronchitis so I take this out-break very seriously indeed! I practice social distancing to the point of night sweats! LOL! If I pass someone on the street, I’ll step off the curb and walk along side of the road and avoid being too close down-wind. I stay 7 feet behind people in supermarkets and if anyone is standing close behind me, I give them: “The Eye!” Have you ever given someone: “The Eye?”; that commanding up and down penetrating look that says: “Step back! Retreat behind the dotted line! Do not pass go! Do not collect $200!

Age is a key factor concerning the elderly, though, so is any flu or pneumonia type virus. The media seems to emphasise this point upon all too frequent occasion. And that annoying death total daily tally screen that only produces stress and anxiety, which weakens your immune system and hastens the probability of you contracting this bug! One way I heard you can greatly boost your immunity is to go to a back cracker and have a spinal alignment done…

Anyway, hope this helps! Here is the song I promised. Spread it around! Who knows? Maybe it too will be catching :O) Go to this URL: https://www.mp3juices.cc/

In the field provided, type in: The Police. The very first song is: Don’t stand so close to me. Choose to download it. Choose the arrow on the save box, choose “save as”, put it in the music folder on your drive. Of corpse you can do this to get any song from any band for free. Don’t worry. You won’t have to kiss my ring until I really need you.

Thoughts on Learning

I think I should start with poverty

I come from a school of hard knocks myself. Perhaps 3 billion or more people know what that means. I find poverty inspires a whole host of things from within; most forwardly: Hope, though inventiveness and imagination are often expressed through necessity, given the extent to which the poor inevitably suffer. The added strife financial ruin most certainly brings on enough stress to trigger a heart attack, unless one, through cunning of their own making, should decide it isn’t worth becoming aggravated about!

Learning, as it turns out, is at the convenience of any free library, The Internet, colleagues and friends, family, Priest, racoon, you name it, everyone has free access to it all. This is but one way the poor can truly be free! Another to take vengeance out on the rich, lol, is to lead a productive, healthy and resourceful, content, though often cautious life-style. Mind you, learning is necessary to finding your way around many obstacles in life, rich or poor. Also, these are things no one will take from you because to them, they’re just metaphors for other things on the way to financial freedom. And that’s OK, if that’s your thing. Though others would attest to wisdom (applied knowledge through experience) as being the more valuable of the two pursuits, seeing as how wisdom already starts out without boundaries to certain freedoms; like just throwing your feet up and relaxing or curling up with a good book.

“Knowledge isn’t the most important thing in the world. Imagination is!”

: Albert Einstein.

Growing old isn’t for Wimps!

As we age, we may mellow and progress through life in a less incumbered way because we begin to realize what once seemed important pales beside waking up not being able to breathe! Or, the simple act of swallowing may become an adventure. Some days, you’re ready to take on the world again, and others, you’d just as soon the world continued without you. Even so, you know you must develop a crusty interior, or be swallowed up by the very world you once sought to support.

The rewards of aging gracefully, have truly served a deeper learning for me. Funny how you can observe solutions to your problems as wisdom adds a view of “What’s in it for me?” as a hindrance rather than an asset. At least for me, and I’m 67, this is the best time in my life for learning new things! Why? When you’ve lived longer than most people already (world-wide), you pretty much figure you’ve got nothing to loose. Or, everything you physically possessed is gone now, so learning comes in handy if not just to fight boredom because TV sucks more than ever before!.

All is not as it seems…

Even to a bug, things can look much different to the way we see things. What’s the most dangerous creature on earth? The mosquito. There’s another kind of blood sucker that takes on human form; those who profit from the weaknesses of others. Advertisers know something about how the majority of people will react to their product. They count on certain factors, such as colours that are pleasing to the human eye, most especially in certain combinations, to effect sales. Certain words: “Fantastic, Incredible, Thrifty, FREE, 30% MORE, just to name a few. They’re also counting on you not looking further into what you buy, mainly because you’re always rushed for time. You want a for instance… OK…

How many people take supplements? About 52% of us in the free world. And how many of those take Co-Q10? It’s a popular supplement to help sustain healthy mitochondria, so I’m going to hazard a guess at 20% That’s still a lot of people! Well did you know that your body will only take in 15% of this particular supplement pill you ingest? The instructions say take two 150 mgs. capsules daily. What you would actually need, is 14 capsules! So there you have it, one thing among trillions, that is NOT what it seems to be.

The old saying: “Never judge a book by its cover” is aptly applied here. If learning through our entire lives gives us nothing else, it’s an ability to uncover the truth! What you do with this truth, is entirely speculative, as one’s view of truth, often differs from person to person. I only know that the discipline of successful application achieved through learning is invaluable to my survival; both as a compassionate, responsible person and as a living, breathing individual, with substance, character, imagination, and an insatiable apatite for learning. This is impossible without experience! Make it your business to try just 5 new things a day, and you’ll be surprised how scathingly clever you become at harvesting information in so many beneficial ways! Not that you aren’t brutally intelligent anyway. Most would agree, the learned among us are sexy ;0)