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December 12, 2008 Newsletter
Black Cohosh, and Who Says Rural Living Limits Ones Aspirations? Plus: The next thing you know, we'll need a license to barter! On the SWAT raid of an Ohio private co-op, and more.
In the last newsletter, I wrote about how a horse ride helped my back problems. It turns out, however, that it was the pain associated with "female" problems that was radiating around my back that was actually causing much of the pain. Some of them were back problems and sitting in an awkward position at this computer--propping my legs up, which was screwing my lower back. Since then I have been sitting at the computer in a more normal position. (Note: it helped that I finally realized I wasn't 20 something anymore! How many 50-plus year olds do you know who prop their legs up on the computer desk?) However when in bed at night I finally realized that something else was making my back hurt and that something was pain from female reporductive organs that are no longer functioning the way they used to. Post menopause, you know. I had, many years ago before having children, cysts on my right ovary, and I was thinking now I might have cysts on my left ovary, which is where the pain was radiating from. Well, not knowing if this was true or not, I started doing what I had done all those years ago--when the doctor, after doing the scan and determining I had ovarian cysts, set me up for an operation (surgery) to remove that ovary. We just happened to know from our local food co-op an elderly Mexican-American couple who were known to use strictly homeopathic remedies. So we went to them and the wife recommended the herb black cohosh. Black Cohosh is well known by homeopathic remedy enthusiasts (refer to any herbal remedy book) to be a remedy for "female complaints" from hot flashes to ovarian/uterine cysts to menstruation and menopause symptoms. I was told to follow the instructions on the bottle (which we immediately purchased from the co-op). After having to postpone the surgery I started taking the black cohosh as directed and a few weeks later we went up for the surgery in Odessa, Texas. The night before the surgery I had a tremendous pain in that ovary, so that the following morning I went in and the nurse scanned me again for the cyst...IT WAS GONE! That tremendous pain the night before had "burst" the cyst! So I didn't need surgery after all! (Note: the surgery would have removed that ovary before I had a chance to have any children.) Was it the black cohosh that did it? Maybe, and maybe not. Still, I am using it now and it is definitely helping to ease any pain in that area. (WARNING: I AM NOT GIVING MEDICAL ADVICE! CONSULT A PHYSICIAN!) I really have not had much of any back pain since beginning to use it every day. Exercise also helps.
I get e-mails sometimes from people who say they'd like to move into the rural remote but can't...I understand that. I also understand if folks are reluctant to move with their chuildren because they don't want to limit their children's aspirations. There are many examples of activities that are harder to do in rural areas: hanging out with lots of friends; sports activities; jobs; music/art/intellectual and gifted and talented classes in high schools (few rural-small town schools have gifted/talented classes, or art or music or math-gifted or what have you type school activities...there simply isn't money in the budgets for, say, art classes in high school); guitar lessons; piano lessons; art studios; museums; skating; bowling; soccer; karate...and so many more that interest kids and drive them toward future college study and careers. The thing is YOU NEVER KNOW! It turns out that there are folks out here willing to teach piano or guitar. It turns out that many artists and musicians and sport-game coaches actually do live out here and if you do a little digging you will find them and they are willing to earn a little extra money teaching these things. If you want to homeschool but can't do it yourself because you must work, who knows, you might find some 50 or 60 or so year old woman willing to do it for a fraction of what local private or Christian schools would charge (we have a Christian School in Alpine, 50 miles away, that offers art and music and Latin and Spanish classes for home schoolers, but their fees are out of this world!). YOU NEVER KNOW! I have come to believe that against all odds, if God wants you or your child to learn something or do something that, being out in the country, you think you would never get a chance to learn or do, then God will find a way! YOU NEVER KNOW!
Really folks, this is really the way it works, but of course, it has to work into God's plan for you (naturally, whatever happens to you IS God's plan for you, including if you are atheist! Free choice is involved, but still...). Now I've said it before that our daughter, who is really into Japanese culture, anime, martial arts, history and what have you, is learning to speak Japanese. First we used the (TM) (R) "Rosetta Stone" software and she says she completed the 11 or so lessons (took about a semester). But after that she said that not having a textbook to learn from was hindering her mastering the language. So we spent about $30 on a popular college-level Japanese textbook put out by Yale University, which included tapes. So for the first few lessons we did the book lessons and the tapes, but then she got way ahead in the book and did not want to use the tapes. So far so good, but the problem was WHO IS SHE GOING TO PRACTICE JAPANESE WITH? I could barely get past "koniti wa" and "genki desu ka" and the like ("good day" and "how are you?", respectively). Well, in God's infinite wisdom, around that same time among new folks moving in out here was a couple in their early 60s; the husband was an ordained minister. It just so happened our old pastor had moved to Corpus Christi, and we needed a new pastor. He applied for the job (with two others) and he got the job. Further, it turned out that in a course of conversation he was flabberghasted that our daughter was trying to learn Japanese. He was floored! Then he began to speak simple Japanese to her and all she could say to this was "Hai" (Yes). Turned out he was not only fluent in speaking but had worked in Japan for 12 years! So that now, for FREE (though we did offer to pay him), he is teaching her and reinforcing her speaking Japanese, reviewing the lessons from the beginning of the book, expecting her to speak Japanese, answering questions in Japanese...and I am learning it with her! Now I ask you: what are the odds that out here in the mountains of far west Texas a man would show up with Japanese fluency willing to teach my daughter Japanese? Further, he has an older copy of the textbook that she is using!
Nor has living out here in the mountains limited our son's aspirations with his studies and future career with fish management. Out here in DRY edge-of-desert west Texas there are almost no fish ecosystems. We do have a "duck pond" nearby in the subdivision that is sometimes stocked with catfish and smaller fish, but it is hardly what one would call an ecosystem that would encourage one to become interested in fish management. We do, however, have a "swimming pool" (it really is a pool) built during the Great Depression (by the Civilain Conservation Corps--supposedly Obama is planning something similar after he takes office) that encompasses several cold springs (at Balmorhea State Park in Toyahvale, Texas) and is loaded with minnows, guppies, various pup fish varieties (one of which is found only at this pool and is endangered), snapping turtles, catfish, and even the occasional snake. It was at this pool as a young boy that our son began to develop his love for fish. He would spend literally hours playing with and studying them, as well as the tiny snails along the sides of the pool and on the rocks in the shallow areas. To heck with swimming, he was too busy studying fish! And then of course are the fishing-camping trips we took. When he started catching his first catfish in 1998 at Angelina National Forest in far east Texas he not only wanted to eat them but study their insides and habits as well. Then he started keeping fish in aquariums at home, from tropical fish to small bass he caught at the duck pond! From there he began to research fish keeping on the internet and did homeschool projects on his fish subjects. He is now a junior at Texas A & M Galveston in the Marine Fisheries program (temporarily moved to College Station thanks to Hurricane Ike...he'll be back in Galveston this spring). Now word is all over the Internet about Barack Obama wanting to institute some kind of "universal service" program especially for younger people once he takes office, seeing as how what with all the money going to "bailout" big business and the banks, little will be left to rebuild crumbling infrastructure, among which are our national fisheries. Maybe Obama will "draft" our son and others to work on this problem, instead of sending him off to war. And maybe once our daughter is done with college, maybe our Japanese-speaking daughter will be "drafted" into the foreign service instead of sending her off to war. Of course, I'd rather they get to decide what they are going to do (with God's guidance, of course). but if the US is heading the way some think we are, I'd also rather have children that actually want to learn skills and knowledge they can apply instead of having children how think ignorance is a badge of honor, refuse to do their schoolwork, just want to hang out with friends or play video games. THESE are the kids who will be drafted for war and dying in them!
The Next Thing You Know, We'll Need a License to Barter, and other tid-bits
In case you missed this peice of news posted on several alternative sites, a family in northern Ohio was raided by a SWAT team recently--having thousands of dollars worth of food and other goods confiscated and threatened with violece--because they were operating a private food co-op WITHOUT A LICENSE! Now does this tear it or what??? For many years our local country store PRIVATE food co-op (part of the Tuscon ShopMyCoop/Tuscon Cooperative Warehouse family of co-ops based across the Southwest USA) operated with no government anything; all we had to do was pay the state taxes on non-food items, and be in good standing with the co-op officials. We got our food and goods by truck and paid a nominal truck shipping fee based on percentage. Before that we went to the same co-op set up in Alpine. Perhaps this large co-op had a license...I have no idea. The thing is this Ohio private co-op was very small, limited to a small community and only sold food, which is not taxable anyway. Since when do small private co-ops need the government's permission to operate? Is this some kind of "Health Department" BS imbroglio? Many years ago when my husband worked bees and we sold honey at arts and crafts fairs, and we had been doing this for years, one day a Health Inspector came along and shut us down because we didn't have a "Health Department Permit" to sell honey! He also shut down several women who sold their kitchen-made baked goods, jellies, etc. There was no warning or any kind of info from the arts and crafts fair committee that this guy was going to show up and shut down people who had sold their food stuffs there for years--this guy just shows up like some kinda bully bureaucrat and shuts downs and/or fines people if they don't "cease and desist" immediately!
That happened during the Clinton Era. Now, in the Bush Era which is about to become the Obama Era, the bureaucrats are sending SWAT Teams! I ask you again: do we live in a police state or what? You don't have to answer that. No wonder our daughter wants to move to Japan! On the other hand, by now you are aware that recently fired Republic Doors and Windows employees have occupied that factory for about a week. The nature of the state being what it is--corporately owned, that is--one would think they'd send in SWAT Teams to either shoot all the workers, arrest them, or ship them off to some gulag somewhere. Don't think it couldn't happen here and now because General Eisenhower and others ordered a National Guard to fire on all the veterans in 1930-something who marched on DC to protest not getting WW1 severance pays. (Read about that in John Ross' "Unintended Consequences"). If THEY can order shooting heroic vets and their families, THEY can order shooting mere proles. It is interesting because that hasn't been done yet.
Some interesting articles have come "across my desk" in the past couple of weeks. For one thing, a chief head of THEM, Lord Evelyn de Rothschild, husband to Lynn Forrester and a head of the Rothschild banking cartel, is providing more grist for conspiracy mills with his editorial on the BBC. This is a must read, if only to understand where the Illuminati is going with these crises THEY created. If I wasn't a forgiving Christian I'd be laughing sarcastically, then calling for his head. Hegelianism transformed into farce! Create the problem, "analyze" it, then come up with the solution that will create the next problem. Maybe Lynn Forester is putting a psychotropic drug in his Evian water, making him sane at last! Then there is this piece circulating all over the alternative news sites from some Brit "Financial Times" editorial about "plans" to institute a "world government", if only us "little people" would get over our opposition to it! Folks, I have known close to 20 years about these "plans" and I'd like to think most subscribers have known for a while as well. Okay, okay, since Ruby Ridge, anyway (1993). Or at least since George HW Bush's "new world order" speech (1989). But it is always interesting to see THEM telling me what I have known for years. Folks, when the mainstream media starts telling us a one world government is coming and that it will be dictatorial (because most people oppose it), then you know that everybody who ever called you a "conspiracy theorist" can be considered simply in denial, same as an alcoholic, a drug user, a wife beater...or any other person who refuses to see reality. These people in denial are NOT the enemy (so far, that is) and we must love them and try to continue to educate them. But now we know that we can finally stop listening to them and giving them credibility! And maybe now the rifts that folks like us--(the remnant)-- have had with that misguided segment of the Christian Right who lives in fear of an "anti-christ" they really can't define (whether implanted chips as "Mark of the Beast" or some UN-like body as "the anti-Christ sitting in the temple in Jerusalem as God, making peace with Israel for three-and-a-half years", but considers us 'the enemy' because we don't go along with their desire for death and destruction as a prelude to the [BS] "rapture," or think we are the 'enemy' because we don't support Israel right or wrong)--maybe the two groups of Christians, with others, can start to create some form of temporary alliance against all anti-Christ systems. Of course that doesn't mean giving in to their un-Biblical doctrines.
Finally, Christopher Story, the "Wantagate" whistleblower, tells us on his December 3 World Reports article that Barack Obama is demanding payments of the Settlements BushCo are refusing to release, some many trillions of dollars that are supposed to be part of the so-called NESARA settlements. But let's consider all the other stuff Obama has done, such as put the Clintonistas back in power. While it could be a case of (as even Story admits) "keep your friends close and your enemies closer," I do not want readers to think I am being optimistic about Obama. I am NOT optimistic about Obama; for one thing, I didn't vote for him because I KNOW HE'S A TOOL of the oligarchs/Illuminati/new world order crowd. Any leader who will do the will of THEM (and Obama will do the will of THEM) is not a focus of optimism. The thing is we need to see what he will do. It can be expected however that he will not uphold the Constitution, but he will not uphold the Constitution differently than when Bush did not uphold the Constitution. That is why gun sales are through the roof. That is why the radical right is already trying to get him impeached (but is it the racist right or the "Obama is a Muslim" right or the "Obama hates Israel" right...in other words, is it the paranoid "worldnetdaily.com" right or the really paranoid "rense.com" right?). And speaking of rense.com...I do read this site a few times a week but there is a reason I don't recommend this site. One of them is the ridiculous stuff they post about Obama: he's a Muslim; he's a British subject; he's MI6; he's Mossad; he's a Rothschild; he can't have been born in Hawaii because Hawaii won't release his birth certificate so therefore he MUST have NOT been born in Hawaii; he's a Jew; he's a Zionist; he eats unborn fetuses for breakfast...and the rest of it. That, and the credence Rense gives to Benjamin "future Finance Minister of Japan" Fulford and his 300,000 ninjas who will destroy the Rothschilds unless they stop bleeding the world dry. Gimme a break, Ben! You said two years ago that the Illuminati would cave in, and they still haven't, so cut the crap already! Besides which, if Rense wants to expose Obama, he should stick to reality and not get mixed up in the machinations of World Net Daily's Zionist Arab, Joseph Farah, who only supports the Constitution when it suits him, Israel, and his neo-con and fascist radical right CNP buddies, who is on Richard Mellon Scaife's (through Western Journalism Center, which publishes WND) payroll!
Sorry this is so late. But in case you are wondering about our "greenhouse-in-a-bag" garden, it has snowed recently and temps at night have been in the low 20s--and our garden plants are still doing fine! I will try to post one more time before Christmas, but my son the Aggie is coming home next week, soooo...
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