My Favourite Healthy Food Swaps

My Favourite Healthy Food Swaps
It has been 7 years now since I have been using nutrition as a method of healing. For those of you who don't know my history, when I was a teenager I developed horrendous digestive issues, from frequent diarrhoea, bloating, gas, intense stomach pain and chronic fatigue. When doctors told me I simply had "IBS", or an "irritable" bowel, I knew this couldn't be the answer. I wanted to know WHY. What was I doing or eating that was irritating my bowel? I began my own research and found a strong link between gluten and digestive issues. Despite my love for traditional whole wheat bread and cereal, I knew this was something I had to try. Literally within 2 weeks after eliminating gluten, I felt like a completely different person. I hadn't known what it felt like to not be gassy or in pain for almost 4 years. This was the only motivation I needed to continue with eliminating gluten from my diet.
Fast forward 2 years when I graduated with my Bachelor's Degree in Kinesiology, my love for nutrition continued to grow and I definitely knew I wanted to learn more about the healing properties of food. It is safe to say that my studies at the Institute of Holistic Nutrition were life-changing. I learned everything from Ayurvedic food principles to herbal medicine, to the psychology behind the disease, and various diet types for various populations. A common trend was that so many of us eating the Standard American Diet are overfed and undernourished. Yes, it is totally possible to be obese and malnourished. People are choosing empty calories over nutrient dense ones and put themselves on a blood sugar rollercoaster with frequent cravings, low energy and heightened risks of disease.
One of the best things I think we can do for our health is simply swapping poor food choices for healthier alternatives. Removing foods with empty calories, inflammatory promoting foods, and foods that worsen digestive health, and replacing them for nutrient-dense foods that are easy to digest, are health protective, and balance our blood sugar to promote a healthy body composition and a healthy mind.
I wanted to share some of my favourite healthy food swaps with you guys. My hope is that you can increase the nutrient density of each meal for improved weight management, better digestive health, improved hormonal balance, and overall improved vitality.
1) DON'T EAT: REFINED WHOLE WHEAT OR CORN TORTILLA/WRAP.
EAT: GRAIN FREE PALEO WRAP.
This swap is especially great for those suffering from diabetes, obesity and women with PCOS as this swap is super blood sugar balancing. Grain-free paleo wraps are SUPER high in fiber, low in carbs, and high in healthy fats. Fiber helps to bind excess hormones and remove them from the bowels. Healthy fats help to reduce inflammation and promote glowing skin and hormonal balance. Lowered carbohydrates, higher fiber, and higher healthy fats help to balance our blood sugar, keep us feeling full longer and reduce cravings.
 2) DON'T EAT: DAIRY ICE CREAM.
EAT: DAIRY FREE ICE CREAM.
This swap is especially great for those who suffer from acne, hormonal imbalances,  irritable bowel and obesity. Milk and dairy products (this includes butter) promote insulin production and induces acne. Acne is triggered by an insulin-disrupting diet, and milk and dairy products contain insulin-like growth factor 1, which then stimulates acne formation. Milk proteins also increase the male sex hormone testosterone which clogs pores and increases oil production in the subcutaneous skin glands. Dairy is also high inflammatory: The sugar and the proteins in dairy are what give it these inflammatory properties in the body. Especially susceptible individuals are those who are lactose intolerant as they do not produce the lactase enzyme, which is required to break down lactose, the sugar found in milk. This worsens the accompanied digestive issues whenever they consume dairy products.
I also swap my regular milk for almond milk and my dairy-based yogurt for coconut, cashew or almond yogurt.
 3) DON'T EAT: POTATO CHIPS.
EAT: KALE CHIPS.
This swap is great for anyone who is as extra as I am (LOL). If you know me, you know how much I love kale chips, so I felt obligated to put this one in here. With all jokes aside, if you are a snacker you really need to try this swap. Kale chips are the perfect amount of crunch and come in both sweet and savoury flavours. Other chip alternatives include sweet potato chips, banana chips, cassava chips and plantain chips. Making them yourself will eliminate a lot of the pro-inflammatory oils (such as sunflower and canola) that a lot of cheap, store-bought brands use.
4) DON'T EAT: WHOLE WHEAT PASTA/WHITE PASTA.
EAT: BLACK BEAN PASTA.
This swap is important for anyone looking to lose weight, improve energy and balance their blood sugar. A serving size of pasta is typically 1/2 to 1 cup but let's be real when people eat pasta they go beyond this and end up eating 2-3 cups. Who needs 200+g of carbohydrates before they go lay on the couch and watch Netflix? Unless you are a professional athlete or an extremely active individual, you probably do NOT need carbohydrates to this extent in one sitting. The insulin surge caused by eating this amount of carbohydrates in one meal will have you feeling exhausted within minutes, and then craving something sweet shortly after. It is a vicious cycle. Bean pasta, on the other hand, is LOADED with fiber and protein. This will help to keep you feeling full, longer, balance your blood sugar, and improve hormonal balance
5) DON'T EAT: WHOLE WHEAT/REFINED BREAD
EAT: GRAIN FREE FLAX BREAD.
This swap is again great for people looking to balance their blood sugar, manage their hormones, improve body composition, fight candida and improve digestive health. The number of healthy fats and fibre in this bread alternative will help to bind excess hormones such as estrogen and remove them in the bowels. Elevated estrogen levels are associated with weight gain (the more estrogen you have, the more fat you produce). Flax also contains natural phytoestrogens which help to block harmful xenoestrogens, associated with estrogen dominant cancers, from binding to our hormone receptor sites. Lastly, this recipe is grain free, gluten free, and dairy free so it is perfect for anyone with food sensitivities that can worsen digestive issues. Get the recipe https://www.marissaliana.com/single-post/2018/03/21/Paleo-Flax-Loaf

Traitor or Patriot? By Joe Ingino

Traitor or Patriot?
   Former  F.B.I. Director, James Comey. 
Traitor or Patriot?
Mr. Comey, was quoted on national television claiming that his  former boss and commander in chief is not morally fit to be President.
What qualifications does he have to make such judgement call?  As FBI Director... his morality is constantly compromised.  From the many illegal tap wires to the many un authorized surveillance not to mention the millions the FBI launders from confiscated drugs and goods used to pay off snitches and informants.
Comey went on that Trump runs his administration much like the mob.  He went as far as making comparisons to ‘LA COSA NOSTRA’, the notorious New York mob family headed by John Gotti.
Here is a guy that was the F.B.I Director... the head of what many deem legalized crime, calling the commander in chief a mob boss.
Talk about irony.   Not to ad insult to stupidity.  James Comey as head of the FBI has compromised his own integrity as a professional law enforcer by making such claims.    Then again.  One has to wonder his own moral constitution.
Here is a guy that is clearly a republican sympathizer.   He is clearly anti Trump.   Now that he has been fired decides to go public and breach the honor of the position he held.  Does he not have duty to nation to respect the chain of command?
Is his outburst for self profit of the sale of his book not anti-patriotic?   Is his behavior not treason against the state, he swore to protect?
Democracy is not about rebellion but instead about respecting the integrity of the process.  This means that if he/she leads, it is up to all of us to uphold the principles of which democracy has prescribed.
To me James Comey should be facing treason charges.   At the least libel and slander against the President of the United States.   Let me explain.  On the high side.  Comey has gone public and openly denouncing  the leader of America.   Something that he as a personal opinion should had been kept to himself.   Out of respect for the nation and the integrity of his profession.  He has or had no business making the statements he made against Trump.
Sure he has the right to express his opinion and thoughts.  After all he is protected by freedoms and right found in the constitution.  The question is...  Does this make it right?  Does this not surpass the responsibility as a patriot to uphold the integrity of the union by keeping personal opinions and dislikes just that ‘personal’.
As for him come out and openly ridicule the President....  that just goes to show you the level of professionalism and the reason why he is out of a job.   Imagine calling down to his office and he has such bias and prejudice towards his boss and or chain of command.
Trump if anything has a good libel and slander case against  him...then again Trump is a public figure and open to personal opinion. Trump was right to get rid of him.  He was not an asset to the FBI.  He was clearly a liability. I watched Comey on one of those talk shows making statements like... “now that I am an author, I have to write to my audience.”  What a load of crap.
The real question is how did this guy become director of the FBI.    Any ideas.   The FBI is a dog eat dog environment.  And entity truly above the law in many aspects.
The funny thing about all this is his comparison of Trump to a mob boss. 
Sad that we live in a society that if you don’t like the hand you been dealt.  You just turn around and do what is best for you first without care for the betterment of society at large.  Sad.

Exciting things happening around Durham By John Mutton

By John Mutton      
  Some pretty exciting things happening around Durham this past week, highlighted by job growth and the economy.
Pickering having already had the announcement of Durham Live and the thousands of jobs and economic multiplier to ensue has announced the new Kubota heavy equipment production facility.

In Ajax, Regional Councillor Shaun Collier has announced his intentions to run for Mayor and I could personally think of a better choice. He has the finance background, the business acumen and the toughness to be Mayor. I believe he is also the man to broker a deal to save Ajax Downs with the new provincial government as well.

In Clarington we learned that the new super outlet mall was cancelled from lack of infrastructure investment around the 401 interchange. While the Western part of Durham seems to find solutions, "no" seems to be the dominant word in Clarington.
It was great to see the GO extension and the sign unveiling, however I would rather see the unveiling of the budget that will deliver GO to Clarington, that will be done by the new Premier. Sign posting in election year is just fodder.
One thing that I know, with the commuters and new residents being promised a GO Train, we need assurance that this can be delivered no matter who the provincial government. One of the biggest issues in Durham is the gridlock on the 401.
Till next week

John MuttonPresident and CEO
Municipal Solutions - Energy and Infrastructure

IS RETALIATION THE ANSWER? By Joe Ingino

IS RETALIATION THE ANSWER?
  You have to wonder on the logic used by world powers.  A nation commits a crime.  This allows other nations to reciprocate in the name of sending a message?
  Is this logical thinking to you?  In criminal law.  Someone breaks the law and there is retribution not reciprication.... or wait.  Are they not one of the same, just labeled differently?
Interesting questions. 
In my world if we send in troops and over take a government.  We did not liberate.  We conquered... and as such.  Why is it we in the West keep wasting billions to liberate with no reciprocation.
It would make sense that if we go to war we should be compensated.   We should be able to plant our national flag on their soil and reap the benefits of their natural resources to say the least.
With the recent global developments.  Syria is punishes militarily.... to what real gain?   So we bombed a few buildings...  What is the value of hitting a building that is worth 100,000 with a 20 million dollar missile. 
Does it make sense to you?
On the other side of the coin if we do nothing.   This leaves Syria to continue developing weapons that incorporate chemical agents.   I know it is a humanitary issue...  but why should we care in the west that Syria is using these weapons on it’s own people?   I guess the fear that those weapons can find their way to our shores.
This is not logical but strategically rational.  
Politically it is a way to flex world muscle and assure that some sort of global humanity is maintained.
The real question is.  Why are we so barbaric and who gave the west the God given right to police the world?
Question, and more questions...

Downtown of Oshawa By John Mutton

 I am really enjoying my firms new office in the Downtown of Oshawa. I am so impressed with the trendy coffee shops in the city likely driven by the UOIT presence.

I was also looking at the great presence of the creative class in the City and for example you can see this at the Cork and Been at almost any day on the west side of Simcoe st, just south of King St.

The City will never reach its potential without the removal of the methadone clinic however. If successful in October, I plan to use all tools that we have in the Municipal Act to relocate the methadone clinic, mark my words on this.

Once the drug anchor is removed out of the downtown, an increase in police walking a beat and an increase in bike patrols will in fact take our city core back. The old rule of thumb is that good can always drive out bad.

Durham Regional Police must also be targeting the prostitution and human trafficking, I absolutely witnessed a huge influx of prostitution last week in the City. This does not sit well with the public or me. The eradication of crime must be THE priority in Oshawa downtown.

Crime across Durham is an issue period. Councillor Shaun Collier, the next Mayor of Ajax has spoke to me about the need for a Police Station in Ajax and I am fully supporting him on this initiative. Land acquisition, Engineering and construction will happen under his watch and mine.

Crime must be met with the Broken Windows philosophy that Rudy Giuliano advocated. Only then will we be legitimately proactive on crime.Till next week
John MuttonPresident and CEO
Municipal Solutions - Energy and Infrastructure
Downtown of Oshawa

Living In The Past from Wayne & Tamara

Living In The Past
So I’m getting a haircut on Saturday morning. My barber is in his mid-70s. He starts talking about how horrible it is that they are making a movie about the Charles Manson murders. It’s due for release next year on the 50th anniversary of the killings.
My barber was a young newlywed at the time, in California, and working for hair stylist Jay Sebring. He showed me a picture on the wall of the two of them. He joked that Jay gave the worst haircut he had ever seen, but in 1969 he was getting $55 a haircut. He described Sebring as a great friend and boss.I just listened. On the day of the murders, my barber was being trained how to close the shop. He was probably one of the last people, besides the other victims, to see his friend alive. He told me he was a young hothead and wanted to go out and kill whoever killed his boss.
My barber sort of blames fellow victim, Sharon Tate, for Sebring's death. If he hadn’t been romantically involved with her, he wouldn’t have become one of the seven people murdered.
My point is not to gossip about the dead. My point is that my barber blames his friend's death on Tate and said the guy could have lived a long life if he could have gotten "that woman" out of his life.
Is that typical mourning almost 50 years later? Seven people died in two nights, but he blames one of the victims for one of the other deaths.
Robert

Robert, the murders are a traumatic memory for your barber, and traumatic memories differ from ordinary memories. Ordinary memories fade quickly, but traumatic memories remain intense even after many years.
That’s one explanation. Then there’s the celebrity aspect. Contacts with celebrities are so out of the ordinary for most of us we don’t forget them. Meeting Russell Crowe makes a bigger impact than what we had for lunch a week ago Tuesday.
We remember things bigger than ourselves: an army on the march, a Bruce Springsteen concert, a great football game. They are a big deal. The Manson murders may not have been The Crime of the Century, but they were one of them. The helter-skelter craziness of the Manson clan is infamous.
Perhaps your barber constructed a fantasy future and saw himself managing a Jay Sebring salon in Hollywood or London, though Jay may never have had that level of success. Perhaps he wants to ignore his friend’s role in his own death by resorting to a time-honored male strategy: blame the woman.r it could simply be he grieves over a friend’s death. But repeating the story and keeping the photo wear deeper and deeper grooves into his memory and nervous system. At this point the memory would be almost impossible to escape.
The story and the photograph are like your barber’s trademark. They make him memorable compared to all the other barbers in the world. They are like the white suits and white fedora worn by writer Tom Wolfe, or the odd speech pattern of actor Christopher Walken.
People raised in abuse cannot get past what happened. They think: what was, is. Some people throw themselves into a tizzy over what if. What if I had gotten on that plane that crashed? But life is not about what if or what was. Life is about what is. We can’t live in an imagined future or the remembered past. We should only live from what is, today.
Wayne & Tamara
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Should you eat gluten?

Should you eat gluten?
There is a lot of buzz around gluten intolerance and celiac disease these days, so I figured it would be informative and fun to dive a little deeper into the real issues surrounding gluten.
As well, as a nutritional practitioner, it is important to always be aware and able to recognize a client’s symptoms and understand how they may relate to different food allergies or sensitivities.
This blog will cover the definition of gluten, the difference between gluten sensitivity and a gluten allergy, explanations why these problems may be on the rise, and healthy alternatives to this grain!

What is Gluten?

Gluten is the lectin protein found in grains such as wheat, barley, spelt and rye, which is incredibly hard for the body to digest.
The digestibility of gluten may be a bigger problem for some individuals than others, and blood type plays a large role in determining our body’s ability to digest gluten.
In sensitive individuals, especially blood type O individuals, gluten has an agglutinating effect, literally meaning “glue-like” effect on the cells of the body, specifically the villi in the small intestine. This causes substantial pain, inflammation and irritation of the lining of the digestive tract.
Many individuals will respond differently to gluten, and this often determines the severity of the sensitivity or intolerance.
The symptoms/effects of eating gluten can include gas, bloating, headaches, constipation, diarrhea, fatigue, irritability, and increased cravings for more sugar and carbs.

What is the difference between a person with gluten sensitivity compared to a gluten intolerance (or Celiac Disease)

What is gluten intolerance (allergy)?

Gluten intolerance signifies an actual immune-mediated response, triggered when dietary gluten enters the body of susceptible individuals.  A food allergy is an immediate reaction to food that is triggered by IgA antibodies. In the case of gluten as the allergen, this is termed celiac disease.
The auto-immune reaction triggers the process of agglutination, where antibodies in the blood view gluten as a foreign invader. This essentially glues the gluten together to be removed by the body but causes inflammation and destruction of local cells, especially the villi in the small intestine which are responsible for nutrient absorption.
Gluten also stimulates ZONULIN, a protein that increases gut permeability which opens up the tight junctions that normally protect the small intestine of bacteria and undigested food. This also causes a heightened immune response to the gluten.
If left untreated, celiac disease significantly increases the risk for certain cancers, osteoporosis, malnutrition and neurological conditions such as depression

What is gluten sensitivity?

A gluten sensitive person will still have an increased immune response to gluten but is not as elevated as it would be in a person with an auto-immune mediated reaction to gluten. In other words, food sensitivities are delayed reactions to specific foods that are triggered by IgG antibodies (compared to a true allergy which is mediated by IgA antibodies). Ensuring you receive the right test is crucial to determining whether you have a true allergy to gluten, or if your immune system is overly sensitive to gluten.

 Why have gluten sensitivities and intolerances increased so much over the last several years?

There are a few different reasons why gluten sensitivities and intolerances are on the rise.

GMOs: Firstly, since the 1950’s, all wheat, even organic wheat (According to the book Wheat-Belly), has been genetically modified. Instead of containing its 14 original chromosomes, it now has a whopping 42! This makes the GMO grain hard for the body to digest.
In other words, the gluten content of the stains of genetically modified wheat contains five times more gluten than their non-hybridized ancestors.

UNSPROUTED GRAINS: Secondly, un-sprouted grains such as wheat have anti-nutrients present in them, inhibiting their digestibility, and also the body’s ability to absorb calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc.

WESTERNIZED DIETS: Thirdly, the frequency of celiac disease is increasing in many developing countries as their diets are becoming more westernized and consuming more GMO wheat products

What are the Alternatives to Gluten Containing Foods and are they any Healthier?

The food industry has made millions of dollars capitalizing on the advertisement of “Gluten-free foods”, but this does not necessarily mean they are healthy. Many of these alternatives contain ingredients such as potato starch, cornstarch and rice starch, which have high glycemic indexes and can even lead to weight gain.

Better alternatives would, therefore, be, quinoa, an amazing grain and complete source of protein, as well as coconut flour, high in fiber and incredibly low on the glycemic index scale.
So what’s the take-home message?

You must now be asking yourself, so what do I do?! Do I eat gluten, or do not eat gluten?

If it were up to me, the answer would always be no! Simply because nearly ALL wheat crops are GMO and extremely hard for the body to digest.
However, if you ARE going to eat gluten, safety tips include:

    Sprout your grains or buy sprouted grains to make them more easily digestible
    Limit their overall consumption

    Take an L-Glutamine and zinc supplement to rebuild the cells on the small intestine so they replicate and decrease the likelihood of excessive permeability due to digestive damage

    Taking a probiotic can also be extremely beneficial as they help to control inflammation in the body, which is definitely happening in someone with a gluten allergy or sensitivity. A probiotic can also strengthen the lining and function of the colon which helps protect the mucosal barrier from the invasion of harmful invaders/organisms from getting into the bloodstream.
Until next week, Stay well.  Marissa.   www.marissaliana.com

Exercise Can Kill You

Exercise Can Kill You
   The Earl of Darby once remarked that “Those who don’t take time for wellness, will eventually have to make time for sickness.” Like many doctors, I too have advised patients and readers to exercise as part of a healthy lifestyle. Now, Dr. Maureen Brogan, Associate Professor of Medicine at New York Medical College, reports that intense, repetitive, motion exercise can cause rhabdomyolysis. And in rare cases it can kill.
Brogan explains that when muscle is damaged, it dumps myoglobin, an iron and oxygen-binding muscle protein, into blood circulation.  Excessive amounts of myoglobin can obstruct the kidney’s filtration system and cause serious damage.
 I have mentioned in previous columns that, in rare cases, prolonged use of high doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs can cause rhabdomyolysis. I have also stressed that excessive exercise has been associated with fibrosis of cardiac muscle. But I was never aware it could cause rhabdomyolysis. According to Dr. Brogan, over-exercising triggers the problem. This can occur when you push yourself too far in cycling, running, or lifting weights.
For instance, Brogan cites the case of professional snowboarder, Amy Purdy, who in 2016 was hospitalized after participating in a CrossFit class for the first time. So why was hospitalization needed when she was well-conditioned?
The problem was she had not done pullups for several months. So the high intensity pullups during class caused her medical Waterloo.
She remarked, “It wasn’t until 72 hours later that my arms would not straighten out all the way. I also had swelling of my elbows on both arms. Tests showed I had rhabdomyolysis. It shows if you push your body to failure, and keep going, you’re at risk. Listen to your body as it knows best.”
Other possible symptoms of rhabdomyolysis are nausea, vomiting, fever, intense shivering, confusion and fainting. And urine can be scant and dark.
When I read this report I thought about friends who routinely run several miles every week. And others who participate in long distance cycling races. Some who exercise regularly are quite surprised when told of this diagnosis. So I wondered if any might be suffering from mild forms of rhabdomyolysis without realizing it. 
We also know this condition can result from accidents that injure muscles, prolonged immobilization, drug side effects and genetic disorders.
Brogan claims that high intensity cycling has produced dozens of cases of   rhabdomyolysis, particularly among “newbies”, just beginning the sport, and pushing their bodies beyond capacity. One New York City hospital reports 29 cases of rhabdomyolysis during a four year period.  She adds that no one is immune to rhabdomyolysis, as there is a fine line between exercising to capacity and overexerting yourself.
So what’s the message? Like many medical problems, prevention is better than cure, particularly when there’s a small chance of dying. Cycling seems to be   one of the major hazards. Brogan says that when she started to research this matter, 42 of the 46 cases of rhabdomyolysis involved patients attending cycling classes for the first time.
These patients are at big risk as they are often not conditioned and using untested muscles at an intense rate. But if you’re a runner and decide it’s time to switch to cycling, remember, you will be using a different set of muscles for the first time, which could result in rhabdomyolysis unless you gradually increase the intensity overtime.
Insufficient physical training, along with severe dehydration and/or extreme body temperatures, also increase the risk of rhabdomyolysis regardless of the type of exercise.
Always start slow. Take frequent breaks, keep well hydrated, and listen hard to what your body is telling you, as no one is immune to rhabdomyolysis. Brogan reports that 7 to 8 out of 100,000 military recruits are affected every year. Even professional athletes suffer its consequences. The mortality rate is five percent, but can be higher if kidney function fails.
Of course it’s not the intention of this column to worry people about exercising, have them become couch potatoes, nor to make time for illness. Rather, the best advice is to keep moving, but stress that moderation in most aspects of life usually wins the day.

WHY DO WE HAVE A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT By Joe Ingino

WHY DO WE HAVE A MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT
  How many of you know the name of your local councillor?  How many of you know the name of your regional councillor?  Hell, how many of you know the name of our beloved Mayor. 
What has the municipality done for you?  Besides, taking your property taxes and waste them on consultants and wastefully spending it...
I say this because the City of Oshawa spends millions on consultants, advisors and studies that in most cases are common sense.  
This brings to question why do we need municipal government?
As it stand we are without choice bound to the region.   The City has given up it’s Police force, ambulance, fire, water services.    Would it no make more sense to surrender to the region and let them govern us?
Would we not financially as a city benefit.   Personally, I say ‘NO’.   Personally, I say we take back our police services, ambulance and water.   Oshawa has always been the jewel of Durham.   But due to bad leadership, arrogance and ignorance.   The Oshawa elect have slipped.  Thinking we are saving millions by having the region do our dirty work... such as running water purification and sewer.  Or managing the police services, ambulance and fire.  Not to mention our hospitals.
I say it is a sham and an out of control system.   The police operate as a separate political entity as does the hospital, fire and ambulance.    We as a City need to take control back of these critical systems and stream line them.
No more waste, no more pockets of self interest and agenda driven organizations.   We must control and manage to better the people of Oshawa.  To bring back that luster that the jewel of the region once had.
Sadly, the voter pool is not what it use to be.   It is not made up of people that care about their community.   Today’s voters pools is made of ‘ME FIRST’ types that only care about getting through the day.  This is evident in the result election after election.
It appears if you sit on City council and you do nothing.  That is an assurity that you will be re-elected.
How can this be?  How can people not care?   I am baffled at the new prejudice and bias in society.   Envy and ignorance prevail over common sense and the integrity of doing what is best for the population at large.
You look down South and see a leader like Trump.   A self made man that in the most miraculous fashion has managed to conquer the beast.   He has turned the American landscape upside down and has assured himself a place in world history like no other American president.
The question still remains... Do we need municipal government?
In my personal opinion.  Yes, we do if we are to move forward as a society.
No, if we are to maintain the status quo.   I say this because the status quo, has proven to bring us to a halt.  
There is no regards for spending and there is no place for the general public as all we are water droplets in a sea that these local politicians must stay afloat on.
Tax increases, no jobs and self preservation are the norm.   We are at the eve of another municipal election.  Can you afford to make the same mistake?  Will you make the same mistakes?
Probably so.  Otherwise how do you explain councillor sitting in office for 20 years and the deteriorating state of the City.
Now I ask again.  Do we need a municipal government?

SAVE THE CAT HOUSE!!! by H. J. Rogers

  SAVE THE CAT HOUSE!!!
    The Right Honorable J. Thomas Madden, lawyer extraordinaire in Moundsville and bon vivant in Wheeling (or is he--it's slipped my mind--a bon vivant in Moundsville and lawyer extraordinaire in Wheeling) said it couldn't be done.  "I know that you've done some wild stuff, Herbie Furbee,"
he said, "like you're almost the definition of 'off-the-wall'--nothing personal, of course, you know
what I mean, but there is no way not even you can get THE FABLED EARL OF ELKVIEW, a/k/a
GEORGE DAUGHERTY, ESQUIRE to drive from Charleston to Belington, Barbour County, West Virginia to put on his famed STAND UP FOR WEST VIRGINIA show to SAVE THE CAT HOUSE !!!
Never !!!  No way !!!  And I'll even bet the Madden family farm on it !!!"
"O! ye of little faith . . . "  It is a very simple project if one realizes that "what we have here . . ."
[Quick: In which one of Paul Newman's movies was this a tag line?] is a WEST VIRGINIA SYZYGY of three--an earthly trinity, as it were, of course--big hearted human beings, people who in their own way would make Mother Theresa look heartless.

    The first of this SYZYGY of secular saints is DEENA COBURN of Belington, Barbour County,
West Virginia.  (If you don't know where Belington is, don't ask because you can't get there from here.)

If there ever was a Sabat Mater in West Virginia it would be this woman.  Once whenI was at a certain Protestant theology school, I gave a sermon that took me to the Dean's office as an
accused heretic: "Sometimes, I think, we may make too much of the suffering of Jesus.

 Cast a glance at Mary, His Mother, look at her suffering.  She stood there for three hours watching her Baby Boy being tortured to death . . . . Now ask yourself what is worse: To suffer pain or watch someone you love with all your heart suffer pain.  You tell me, you preachers in embryo.  Q.E.D."
    Deena's Baby Boy, whom she birthed in Fairmont some 30 plus years ago, is currently under sentence of death in another state, a "far country" as it were from which the odds are great that he will only return to his sabat mater in a pine box or cheap urn.  Moreover, her Baby Boy is in solitary confinement and in a wheelchair.  [He needs a hip replacement which his captors refuse to provide for the very good and pragmatic reason that they intend to kill him."]   And he's been in this "far country" for five years now. 

    Now, dear reader, don't confuse things by asking what he did, what heinous crime does he stand convicted?  The first time I spoke with Deena on the telephone, the first words out her mouth were "And he's INNOCENT!"  Professor J. Livingston Hall of Harvard Law School and the former federal prosecutor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts said "The trouble with being a prosecutor is that every defendant has a Mother."  Baby Boy may or may not "deserve" what he got but what does his weeping Mother deserve?  

 I don't know the whole story but Deena and her Baby Boy traveled around a lot together; South Carolina being one of their stops.  And they would collect stray cats, scads of them over the years that they were together.  But Deena doesn't pretend to be the Father Flanagan of the cat world.  "I need my cats more than they need me," she told me recently.

        When I first talked with her a month or so ago, she had 11 cats (some cats' lineage is is traced back to the days of her  vagabondage with her Baby Boy.)  A couple weeks back one of her cats dies and Deena left this message on my recorder: "The death of my cat has multiplied all the horrors of my life."   By the way, like her son, Deena too is in a wheelchair.

        Ever since she's lived in Belington, Dr. Ilene Lannie of Elkins has served as the Angel of Mercy for Deena's menagerie.

However, when the unpaid bill went over $1000, Deena was told by one of the staff that they
could no longer extend credit to her (probably because they had a human family to feed.) Deena rejected out of hand my advice which was to "stiff" the vet and go somewhere else.
Her morals are obviously higher that those of the Furbee Gang.

        It was when I was relating this sad tale of woe to THE EARL OF ELKVIEW, passing on the fact that one dead cat was pregnant (Deena told me that even after the body went stiff that she could feel the little kittens wiggling inside the stomach) and that Deena was going to take the body back to Fairmont for burial that Daughery broke in:

        "HERBIE FURBEE, DON'T YOU SEE THAT THERE ARE TWO SAINTS HERE; THE
WOMAN WHO COLLECTED THE STRAY CATS AND THE WOMAN WHO PROVIDED MED-
ICAL CARE FOR THESE CATS FOR SO LONG AND FOR A MERE PITTANCE !!!."

        In addition to being a great entertainer, George Daugherty was a great trial lawyer with
political connections and friends all over the State.  Since the death of A. James Manchin, in addition to continuing on  as THE EARL OF ELKVIEW, George Daugherty has served as the
avatar of the THE LOST SHEEP OF THE 35TH STATE.

        He put me on hold for a few minutes and then boomed into his speakerphone:  HERBIE
FURBEE ON THE 22 OF APRIL, WHICH IF MEMORY SERVES ME IS THE 78 ANNIVERSARY OF THE DATE OF YOUR NATIVITY, I SHALL DO A BENEFIT FOR DEENA COBURN AT THE BELINGTON CIVIC CENTER @ 3p.m. TO SAVE THE CAT HOUSE AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF.

       As I suggested at the beginning, I think that there are three good people who will be hon- ored on April 22 and you should COME ON DOWN; but if you can't make it, do a check to Ilene Lannie, DVM, and send it to Deena Coburn, 25 S. Crim Avenue, Apt. B, Belington, West Virginia 26250.

  That money will be waiting on you in Heaven.  If you don't believe me, ask your priest, rabbi, preacher, imam, snake charmer, whatever.  Or Wheeling's Bill Hogan.  He told me once "You have to give it away to keep it" and Bill was a stock broker.  He knows $$$.

Domesticating Issue By Joe Ingino

Domesticating Issue
  There is no excuse for violence.  But there sure is reason. I ask this question in that an unrelated topic I happen to visit the Northern Regional Jail web page.   Out of interest I began to look at the inmates charges.  Much to my shock.  80% of those in there are due to domestic related issues.  From domestic battery to malicious assault.
You got to wonder what is going wrong in our society that there is such a large number of people committing these type of crimes.
Is this becoming our new social cancer?  Has our society failed to such a degree that we are committing these heinous crimes against member of family?
I started looking at case law.  I also talked to local police on the issue.   Much to my surprise the victims in many cases are the instigators.  The end result poor or no communication and violence erupts.
Violence in most cases stemming from substance abuse.  Others from rooted psychological imbalances.    A crime is a crime.  Yet, we can’t persecute without understanding circumstances.
Family law has been criticized for it’s harsh penalties towards perpetrators of domestic abuse and or violence.   But failed to take into consideration that in many cases there is a catalyst that causes the eruption of violence.
I think education is the key to combating this very serious social issue.  We must look at ways to teach our population on coping mechanism and family dynamics.  
In this modern age everyone has a right.  But fail to acknowledge that rights come with responsibilities and commitment.   This means that just because it is your right it does not necessarily mean that you must exercise it.
What does all this mean.  We need to invest in educating people on family dynamics.  On the importance of each members role and the responsibilities associated with each.   We must also teach appreciation and respect.  As without either violence is only a whisper away.
A police officer explained that in many cases they press charges and within a few hours the victim and perpetrator are back together as if nothing had happened.   This in my opinion is the reason behind the violence.  Even there is no excuse.  I think it merits reason.

Stormy Bullshit By Joe Ingino

Stormy Bullshit

By Joe Ingino
 You have to wonder what would happen to CNN if there was no Trump?  What would they go making up?  Who would they go after?  Or have they become such a Republican bias news media that all they know to do is bash cops and the president.
In the latest saga.  It appears that Trumps sexual past should be something that in the eyes of CNN calls for impeachment of the President.   Like really?  So he banged a porn star... Like really in these days when a person like Bruce Jenner is deemed a fucking hero for cutting off his penis and deeming himself a woman....   We are going to go after the President for banging a cock cushion like Daniels.... and no my language is not harsh nor sexist.
No more sexist then when a man like Tiger Woods admits to having affairs... He is all of a sudden deemed a pervert and sex addict.... I guess that would make 99% of the population a sex addict.
Like really.  What are we becoming as a society that a man is deemed the weakest link.   If he exercises control over his family.  It is deemed abuse.  If he has an affair.  He is a sex addict.
In this most recent Presidential saga... Porn Star Stormy Daniels went public claiming that  she didn't go to cops after being threatened because she didn't want to "embarrass" her family.
She was a porn star.
What could possibly embarrass her family more than that??!
Then again... How often do women like that get work and or see a lump sum of $150,000?
She knew what she was into when she had sex with him... It is not like she was forced and I am sure she did it with the intent to put Trump’s name on her ‘sex trophy’ case.
If I had to bet. I would say that this has been Porn Star is back in the lime light only to exploit her affair and possibly make money and or be brought back into the porn scene.
What other reason could there be for Stormy to come out against the President?   The real question is would she had come out if Trump was not the President?
An even bigger question.   Could CNN be behind all this?  How is it that no one is investigating the motive behind Stormy coming out?  Investigations in the U.S. have become some what of a joke.  The FBI is spending more time chasing it’s tail attempting to make some sort of a case against Trump for allegations of associations during the election as if that is some sort of big breach of security.    In the same breath the FBI failed to investigate the 30,000 plus missing from the former Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton.
Talk about a leak. Talk about a real threat to national security.   Hilary the person entrusted to keep us safe could not tell the difference between a government secured server and a personal one that just about any kid with a computer could hack into it.   I am sure the Russians and the Chinese had a field day with constant flow of sensitive information. 
Think about it for a moment....  Hilary actually admitted to 30,000 plus...  When anyone in government admits to something it is usually the tip of the iceberg.   God, knows how much sensitive and classified data was released.   I  bet my bottom dollar again that in part this is where WikiLeaks, Brian Chomsky got most of his classified leads from... then it is just a matter to keep hacking into others named in those documents to paint the pictures WikiLeaks has painted for the world to see.   You got to remember the intelligence community is not that intelligent as it is highly dependent on the population being stupid.   If the population becomes as intelligent as they are... then they no longer are deemed an intelligence community... and most of their techniques obsolete.   This is why most government oppress intellectuals.  The Trump, Stormy bullshit lingers as the CNN of the world keep misinforming the masses to keep us stupid.

HOW EATING COOKED FOODS AND WARM DRINKS CAN IMPROVE DIGESTION:

HOW EATING COOKED FOODS AND WARM DRINKS CAN IMPROVE DIGESTION:
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Wrongly Accused

Wrongly Accused
I am in a difficult situation with my ex.
We broke up nine months ago but remained in touch, talking or texting, hanging out now and then, and becoming intimate a few times. I ended things to focus on myself and my health. After two years I realized I was still closed off from him. I was curious about others as he was only my second real relationship in my mid-20s.
It was a tough breakup because he considered me his first real love. We built a good friendship, so it was difficult to cut all contact. I also think I selfishly tried to keep the door open while potentially wanting something else.

My ex was reliable and kind. I simply had doubts I couldn’t move past. I thought ending it was the most fair option for both of us in an unfair situation.

Nine months after the breakup a friend of four years asked me out. I agreed. He told me of his feelings while I was still with my ex, but I chose to stay, so my friend never acted on his feelings. I will be honest and say it did affect me because I wondered what it would be like to be with him.
However I did love my ex and did not want to leave him under those circumstances, so I never pursued this other person and we remained platonic. Now my ex is upset, hurt and angry because he suspects something was going on with this other man when he and I were together.

My ex doesn't believe I ever loved or cared about him. Our relationship is basically invalidated in his eyes. I know I shouldn't care, but I can't help but feel guilty. I understand why my ex feels as he does. It feels like I am always the one hurting him, which is hard for me to face.

The idea of dating someone else, especially a longtime friend, is scary but I want to try. How can I let go of the guilt I feel for hurting someone else?
Margot

Margot, Voltaire said, “History is the lie commonly agreed upon.” Your ex is rewriting the history of your relationship, and he wants you to agree to the lie. His revisionist history proves your decision to end it was right.
You moved him from boyfriend to boy friend. You two were together in an attempt to find love. On your end, it failed. Your only mistake was having casual sex with him instead of making a clean break. That sent you into an iffy zone that has no future.

Now he is using that to rewrite the kind of person you are and to suggest you were doing what you were not. He’s telling you what he thinks of you: you are a cheat.

Someone who still loved you would not believe that of you. They may be sad, they may wonder where they went wrong, or they may wonder if it was just not to be. But they wouldn’t go to, “I’m going to tear her down.”
He’s trying to turn the tables on you, and he will succeed only if you feel guilty for breaking up with him. Leave him with his hate and vitriol and false history. When we are with the wrong one, of course we think of others. That’s the true history of your relationship.

Wrong is worse than none. Wrong isn’t wrong just because it is wrong. It is wrong because it also robs us of right.
Wayne & Tamara
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Tips to Enjoy Healthy Knitting

Tips to Enjoy Healthy Knitting
Many of us turn to knitting to pass the time and can be a great exercise for those with hand pain. However, knitting is a repetitive motion and can lead to a variety of injuries, much like typing, sewing and other repetitive tasks. Knitting can cause strain not only on the hands and wrists, but also on the neck and upper back due to the extended length of time knitters are looking down at their work in a sitting position. Knitting can also lead to carpal tunnel syndrome related to improper wrist positioning and grip technique in serious cases.
The Ontario Chiropractic Association has compiled a few tips and techniques to help knitters enjoy their hobby free of pain and discomfort:
    The single most important thing a knitter can do to prevent injury is take frequent, regular breaks. Change the position of your body and look up often from your work and into the distance.
    Sit in a chair with your feet on the floor and try not to hunch. Try to engage your abdomen when adjusting your posture.
    Stretch your fingers by clenching your hands and then spreading your fingers as far as you can. Stretch and strengthen your wrists with simple curls. Lay your forearm on a flat surface with your wrist at the edge. While holding a small hand weight, let your wrist fall over the edge and then lift the weight up towards you only bending your wrist. The rest of your arm should remain flat on the table.
    Switch it up! Learning to switch easily between English and Continental knitting styles will allow you to keep on stitching while reducing the risk of repetitive strain.
    Sit in a comfortable but supportive chair and consider placing a small cushion, rolled up towel or sweater between your chair and the curve in the small of your low back.
    The tools you use matter. Consider smooth, lightweight needles. Circular needles are best for large projects. When crocheting, use ergonomic hooks.
    Make small, efficient movements. Practice how small you can make your movements. Keep the working yarn close to the tip of the needles.
    Grasp your yarn gently. A consistently relaxed grip will help you keep a constant gauge while reducing unnecessary strain on your neck, shoulders and forearms.
    Hold your projects away from you. This will help you relax and avoid muscle and eye strain.
    Plan your knitting projects in advance and try to space them out over time.
Any pain or stiffness resulting from knitting should not be ignored. Knitting should be a fun, relaxing hobby. Make sure that knitting is contributing to your well-being and health, not more injuries. Visit a chiropractor near you if pain and discomfort continues.
For more information on health and safety please visit the Ontario Chiropractic Association web site at www.chiropractic.on.ca or call 1877-327-2273. Dr. George I. Traitses of Infinite Health practices traditional chiropractic, advanced nutrition and anti aging therapy and has been serving the Toronto and Markham communities since 1981. You can reach him at 416-499-5656 or www.infinite-health.com
Dr. George Traitses, 416-499-5656  www.infinite-health.com

The Philippines Finance Oral Insulin Pill

The Philippines Finance Oral Insulin Pill
          A Spanish proverb states, “He loses all who loses the right moment.” I had a similar thought a few weeks ago when I wrote that, “a brain that’s full of knowledge has no room left to dream.”
Why these philosophical mutterings?  Because I was annoyed that Canada had lost a major medical opportunity. Now, the insulin mouth rinse that should have been a “Canadian First”, is a Philippine economic coup. It’s a loss for Canada. But the Philippines had the vision to see that an oral insulin product offers immense medical and financial benefits.
          I’ve told readers that Eastgate Biotech Corp, using nanotechnology, had developed an oral insulin pill to treat Type 2 diabetes. This is a monumental finding since it does away with needle injections. Moreover, it’s a discovery that had eluded researchers for years. Since I believed its immense value to mankind, I wanted to follow the progress of Eastgate and its product. I even bought shares in the company. 
          But Eastgate required about 10 million dollars to complete clinical trials demanded by Health Canada. Initially, I believed this would not be a major problem. After all, it was Sir Frederick Banting at the University of Toronto who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923 for his discovery of insulin.
          So I assumed these funds would become quickly available. But it soon became apparent that, neither the University of Toronto, nor a pharmaceutical company, a wealthy entrepreneur, nor the Canadian government, was interested in supporting this historical and humanitarian finding. I believe this will prove to be an unfortunate error.

          Recently Eastgate announced it had opened an office in the Philippines. It had also formed an association with Bukidnon Pharmaceutical to finance, manufacture, and distribute an insulin mouth rinse in that country where there is an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes.
          What makes this particularly exciting is that Philippine government officials have been involved in these negotiations. It’s apparent they’re aware of the personal and societal cost of diabetes to their health care system. By managing blood sugar levels they can help to decrease the devastating and expensive complications of diabetes.
          I also suspect that the Philippines is just the starting point for distribution of the insulin mouth rinse to other Asian countries. And that eventually the oral product will be available in Canada and the U.S.

          It still boggles my mind that the Canadian government can spend hundreds of millions of dollars combating the opioid epidemic, but has zero funds for an oral insulin product. Canadians should take note that recently a Texas company bought Canada’s largest chain of methadone addiction clinics as they’ve become very profitable. Last year 44,432 people in Ontario, just one Canadian province, received methadone treatment paid for by you. I repeat 44,432!!!!!!

          But there is also an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes in North America. It’s alarming that one in 14 people have Type 2 diabetes, and for those over age 65 one in four have this disease. This means a new case of diabetes is diagnosed every 45 seconds. It also means that diabetes patients face greater risk of blindness, kidney failure and amputation of legs.

          Philippine authorities realize that these costly personal and societal disasters are less likely to happen when blood sugar levels are better controlled. And that patients will be more willing to monitor blood sugar using an oral product rather than needle injections. It’s a huge step in the right direction.
          History will show how unfortunate it was that no one in Canada could dream hard enough to ensure that clinical trials could be done in this country. The seizure of opportunity brings success.
          But the results of what is happening in the Philippines will soon spread to this part of the world as the treatment of Type 2 diabetes has become a worldwide problem. In fact, this epidemic should be labelled a “lifestyle disease” since 90 percent of those with Type 2 diabetes are obese.

          Type 2 diabetes is the classic example of The Gifford-Jones Law that says one medical problem leads to another and another.

And remember, I am not your doctor or financial adviser.
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Life After Life By Joe Ingino

Life After Life
    Is there Life after Life?  Some may argue that their is.  Some may give you a very romantic interpretation of eternity in either some hot place or an eternal abliss.
When you think about it.  Either way.  It be Hell.  The key here is to define ‘HELL’ by dictionary definition: ‘a place regarded in various religions as a spiritual realm of evil and suffering, often traditionally depicted as a place of perpetual fire beneath the earth where the wicked are punished after death.’ by second definition: ‘used to express annoyance or surprise or for emphasis.’
In the first. One could say that living is being in hell as we live on a planet that is perpetuated by fire deep in it’s core where the wicked roam and most live life in constant struggle.  Some may go as far as life bumps and grinds are a direct cause of some sort of punishment redirected from life choices.   Our heavens are those things that make us happy.  The good times and the breaks we enjoy on the occasion.
In the latter definition one could say that hell could be all around us..and if so... then life is heaven and life is hell.
With this said.  Then is there life after life?  Some have argued that life is a continuum that becomes entangled and or trapped in time and space.  I guess this is what we deem to be reality.  Life in it’s dictionary meaning refers to: the condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.’  Well if this stands true, then life is more of biological entity then it is spiritual and or transient of time and place.
Interesting as if this stands true then there can’t be life after life.... yet all the indicators state differently.  Take for example the fact that we can clearly define our inner world from our outer.  They both can be altered and or compromised by drugs, disease and or mental state.
Then if so.  This is a distortion of our ability to work within the confines of time and place.
What if we were to look at this paradigm from the perspective that our inner being and our outer being are two separate vehicles entrapped in time and place by the rules of biology.
Hum... if so then this gives creditability to the argument that once the biological part of the being becomes compromised and or deteriorates that the inner part either become part of the whole or is some how re-invested into another receptive biological entity.
Ok. Now we are stretching the limits of imagination.   As if the argument stand to be remotely true.  One would think then why would the energy come back into another receptive host?  More so. Why does the energy form keep repleading itself and how.   Now this for some could be an easy problem to solve as one could argue that once the energy leaves the biological source of nourishment.  It enters the main stream of celestial energy... an energy form that is constant and self generating.
Ha. I can hear you thinking... Energy you say... where or how was this energy ever started.  Great question.  One has to think of energy not as that of which lights up bulbs.  One has to think of energy as every around us.  We are not a source.  We do not have a point of origin as we are constantly generating.  Let me explain.  Look around you.  Your reality is heavily dependent on constant speed, temperature and perception.  If the world was to slow down 100miles per hour.  Our reality would be shifted.  If the earth shifted in it’s axel.  Our realities would become very distorted.  Now does this mean that everything in the cosmics would also change?  Is it that what we know about the cosmics is nothing more then the parameters our realities entraps in?
What if Mars was not million of miles away... but in reality in very close proximity.  Or for example... the chair you are now sitting on.  What if all of a sudden it vaporized and you slowly began to see things blend one into another?  Would that still be reality?  Would that still be life?
Well, biologically it would until the changes compromised the structural make up of your being.
Then life as a biological entity would stop and you would become part of the new parameters that would present themselves before you. 
So the question stands.  Is there life after life?
The answer is as obvious as your intellect will allow you to live life.

Geranium Homes

This week saw a very interesting Ontario Municipal Board pre hearing in the City of Pickering regarding Geranium Homes wanting to put a development in Claremont within the Greenbelt and in the Oak Ridges Moaraine.
Geranium Homes figure as they were tossing the idea of 26 homes around in around 1990 that they should get a "minor rounding" of in excess of 70 homes......not going to happen.

The Greenbelt and Oak Ridges Moraine cannot be changed by the Ontario Municipal Board and come October 30th when the next hearing is, I am sure the OMB will dismiss this case.
What has absolutely blown me away is that residents of Claremont that oppose the development  have been legally threatened, this is an absolute affront to democracy. No resident can have his/her rights taken away from them from a cease and desist letter.

The next Greenbelt review is in 9 years, Geranium can come back then, but many other developers that have good cases to come out of the Greenbelt that are not on the Oak Ridges Moraine are in a pecking order and waiting in line.

The developer is professing that the new homes will take care of drainage issues in Claremont. Let me be very clear....land use planning is not to be used to correct current engineering deficiencies, that's not how it works.
The residents of Claremont have my commitment that I will ask Regional Planning to oppose the Geranium Homes development if all goes well in October.

Till next week
John MuttonPresident and CEO
Municipal Solutions - Energy and Infrastructure

''IT'S LIKE WE WON AT GETTYSBURG." H. J. Rogers Harvard Law School '66

 H. J. Rogers
Harvard Law School '66  

       
        This is what a school bus driver told me on Tuesday night at the old BAT AND PISTOL CLUB on the west end of Foundry Street in New Martinsville, near the place where Fishing Creek empties into the Ohio River.  I had gone there that evening to sort out my thoughts about what had happened that afternoon.  That morning when JESSE DALE KING, MR. LABOR FROM THE OLD SCHOOL, and I were heading out for our second tour of the picket lines I told him "Those bastards in Charleston are out to bust what is left of organized labor in the state.  I don't see a good end to this.  I think they'll still be out when the summer vacation starts."
        By the time we got out to Valley High School in Pine Grove it was early in the afternoon.  Jesse Dale made his usual offer to sell some "slightly used" ax handles, relics I presume of the labor battles of yesteryear.  Most of the pickets were chattering away but three or four men were glued to their cell phones.  One of them said to me with a slight smile "It's passed the House and on it's on the way to the Conference Committee."
        "What?", I said incredulously.  Those LITTLE BIG MOUTH REPUBLICANS HAD CAVED UNDER THE PRESSURE!!!  I couldn't believe it.  They didn't have the courage of their own convictions.  When the going got tough, they tucked their tales between their legs and run.  My feeling of elation at ''BEING IN THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED'' [one of the songs in the mega-hit rap musical HAMILTON about the deal cut to move the CAPITAL south of the Mason-Dixon line] was undercut by disgust at all those smug northern panhandle Republicans tossing in the towel.  All those MINIATURE-TRUMPSTERS didn't have the courage of their own convictions.
        Let's start in the State Senate with MR. DRUNK DRIVER RYAN ''RATFACE'' FERNS.  As a matter transparency, I was charged with DUI in St. Clairsville in 1981.  However, I didn't cry-baby it in the press.  I didn't resign my office in panic [it took those overpaid and under worked zaftig daughters of Lesbos with the W.Va. State Bar 45 years to corner me] and then back out of this public pledge.  Ask Donald Speedy, former Curator of Antiquities at the Mound Museum what a "stand-up" guy RATFACE is.  "I was in the drunk tank with him until his Mother bailed him out.  He bawled like a baby all the time he was there.  He kept saying 'Now I'll never be Governor.  I've disappointed my father again.  I don't deserve to live.'  I've seen some punks," Speedy told me from the Pittsburgh monastery where he now resides, ''but Ferns was the whiniest, most sniveling punk in my lifetime."   Our hermaphroditic Governer called RATFACE a "poodle" during that brief period in his life when Justice was a registered Democrat and Ferns shut up for the rest of the session.
        Of course RATFACE FERNS is a "Profile in Courage" compared to THE BLIVIT FROM BROOKE COUNTY.  [For those readers unfamiliar with the Yiddishkeit of New York, the usual definition of "blivit" given to the goyim is "ten pounds of shit in a five pound bag".  But when I look at Delegate Ryan Weld, I see him through the eyes of my sainted Mother: "Ah, if only I could buy him for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth, I'd be a millionaire many times over."  If I could do a sequel to Dante's "Purgatorio" for THE BLIVIT FROM BROOKE COUNTY, I would put him in an echo chamber and have Tate Blanchard read that limp-dick op-ed he did for The Intelligencer explaining in laborious detail why it was impossible to "find" the money to fund a pay raise for teachers.  "Besides", THE BLIVIT FROM BROOKE COUNTY said "if we give the teachers more than a 1% raise we'll have to give the other State employees a raise and that's a logical impossibility.  There's not enough money in the whole State to give all the our employees a raise."             
    As disgusting as Sen. Ferns and Delegate Weld are, the absolute nadir of REPUBLICAN, LEGISLATIVE MENDACITY is Wheeling's own Isle Koch Delegate Erikka Storch.  [For those of you whose memories do not stretch back to THE GOOD WAR, Ms. Koch was know as "the bitch of Buchenwald" and has hanged by the Allied Tribunal at Nuremberg.  However, hanging would be too good of the predations "that woman" [for extra credit, what recent President used this phrase?] that foisted upon the working men and women of West Virginia from her perch with the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.  Holy Writ says "No one can serve two masters" and Erikka obeys this admonition by doing the bidding of the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE and ignoring the needs of the working men and women of Ohio County, her constitutents.  Hanging is too good for her.
            First of all, Ms. Storch meets Dr. Samuel Johnson's definition of a hypocrite: ''No one is more base than hypocrites because when they are most false they take pains to appear most true."  This NEO-NAZI appeared before a gathering of teachers at John Marshall High School, seized the microphone and cooed O! so sweetly: "I WANT TO GET MORE MONEY FOR YOU . . . . UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS MONEY IS COMING FROM."  O, the pure unadulterated hypocrisy of this statement.  It is obvious in retrospect that THIS UNHOLY TRINITY knew where the money could come from; they just didn't want to spring for it.
            Like all of their Republican peers in the Legislature, or nearly all, this UNHOLY TRINITY---''RATFACE'' FERNS; WELD, THE BLIVIT; und ERIKKA, THE NEO-NAZI ran on the Republican gospel of "no new taxes", right?  Yet when they got into head-to-head with a bunch of teachers and service people THEY PROVED THEMSELVES TO BE GUTLESS WONDERS UNABLE TO STICK BY THEIR OWN PRINCIPLES.
They should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on a rail.  And then strung up on the Suspension Bridge.
            The Republican giants of yesteryear---Chester Hubbard, George Seibert, Stuart Bloch, John Stirewalt, Robin Capehart, et al. were men of integrity who held to their principles.  They staked out a position and stuck by it come hell or high water.  I call upon THE REMNANT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IN OHIO COUNTY, PATTY LEVENSON, PETER HOLLOWAY, AND WORTHY PAUL TO GROW SOME BALLS (metaphorically speaking, of course) AND PURGE THESE HYPOCRITES FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.  I will volunteer to cast the first stone at each ONE of these gutless wonders.
            The upside of all this is the West Virginia stands a cubit higher in the outside world because of the verve, skill, and determination with which the teachers and support personnel drew a line in the sand and signaled a determination that wrought fear in the hearts of the phony-baloney Republicans who people the State Senate and House of Delegates.  I heard the story on the BBC "World Service" and the fact that our teachers, et al. "dreamed the impossible dream" and pulled it off with consummate political skill in two short weeks made me PROUD TO BE A WEST VIRGINIAN.
Remember the great slogans of the Industrial Workers of the World: "AN INJURY TO ONE IS AN INJURY TO ALL"  and
 "ONE BIG UNION".
NEWS FLASH:  J. THOMAS MADDEN, THE PRIDE OF MOUNDSVILLE (with offices now in Wheeling) HAS LEFT FOR LAS VEGAS TO SEEK A PAID LIAISON WITH STORMY DANIELS.  "If successful," he told Dave Jividen, Esq., of Wheeling and his college roommate, "I will then have one thing in common with the President."  But I wonder if our Senatorial Super Stud might beat Tommy to the prize.  Stay tuned.  
''IT'S LIKE WE WON AT GETTYSBURG."

Sessions' IG investigation is worthless

Sessions' IG investigation is worthless
By Larry Klayman
Larry Klayman agrees with Trump on 'disgraceful' action of attorney general
Freedom Watch Has Launched a Petition to Remove Jeff Sessions as Attorney General. Please Sign By Going to www.FreedomWatchUSA.org and Share Everywhere You Can!

After more than a year of doing nothing about the runaway so-called Russian "collusion" investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller and his leftist hack, pro-Obama/Clinton "Deep State" prosecutors, and looking the other way as mountains of evidence surfaced about more Clinton Foundation bribery schemes ranging from Uranium One to a host of others – and after sitting back and allowing the outlaws in the FBI and the intelligence agencies, the NSA and CIA, continue to illegally and unconstitutionally surveil not just Trump, his family and advisers but masses of Americans – Attorney General Jeff Sessions has finally found the "courage" to ask the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Fusion GPS Christopher Steele Dossier caper.

This "bold" act caused President Trump to label his attorney general's actions as "disgraceful," and rightfully so. But more is needed than just words. It is time for Sessions, who has been roundly excoriated by anyone with any "sense of common sense," much less a desire for justice, to be fired. The president must stop listening to his "Three Stooge" lawyers, Ty Cobb, Jay Sekulow and John Dowd, all of whom counsel him to play it safe as the establishment creatures of the dark swamp of Washington, D.C., carry on.

In the words of Thomas Paine, these are the times that try men's souls. Of course, Paine was talking about the days leading up to our first American Revolution. And unless strong action is taken now to rid the nation of the evil creatures like Mueller, James Comey, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Clapper and other despicable and thoroughly lawless individuals who sliver about the streets and gutters of Washington, D.C., subverting our republic, the vision of our Founding Fathers put into practice on July 4, 1776, will be forever trashed. And then we will be in the midst of what is certain to be a second American revolution, as the citizenry is getting smarter and more reactive by the day. Just look at Freedom Watch's website at FreedomWatchusa.org to read the comments posted to the petition to have me appointed special counsel to rid the nation of the vermin that now infests it.

But let's get back to why President Trump reacted to "news" that "Jeffrey boy" had asked his IG to investigate the phony warrant triggered to unconstitutionally wiretap and surveil Trump Tower, catching the now-commander in chief, his family and colleagues, such as Gen. Mike Flynn, in this web of insidious and illegal spying.
The Steele dossier, a pack of lies about Donald Trump if one ever saw one – paid for by the Wicked Witch of the Left (former presidential nominee Hillary Clinton) and her minions at the Democratic National Committee – was used by the corrupt former FBI Director James Comey and his fellow clowns as the pretext to conduct the illegal wiretaps. And who rubber-stamped this illegal spying? Hapless establishment judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, a bunch of "yes men and women," who, like the judges handpicked by King George III of the Court of King James, rubber-stamped everything this tyrant wanted when it came to persecuting the American colonies. The acts of these establishment corrupted judges, by allowing the unconstitutional wiretaps, ultimately contributed to the appointment of Robert Mueller to investigate alleged Russian collusion and the illegal indictments of Gen. Mike Flynn and others around the president.

By now belatedly dumping this scandal into the hen house of the IG – which is an arm of the DOJ, and which oversees misconduct by its own FBI – Sessions is circling the wagons "in house" to ultimately cover-up or downplay the gross prosecutorial abuse of the agencies he leads as attorney general. This is classic and textbook Washington, D.C., swamp reptilian sleight of hand.
In addition to Sessions fearing Mueller and his out-of-control special counsel investigation, by sending only one of the Clinton/Obama scandals to his IG, he is protecting his yellow flanks at the DOJ. That is because the underbelly of the DOJ, comprised of an overwhelming majority of Clinton and Obama supporters, and not just its lawyers but even more so its support staff, are hostile to the president and even Sessions himself.

Thus, if Sessions pushes too hard to hold FBI and DOJ officials, past or present, accountable for their criminal acts, this Clinton/Obama Deep State will retaliate and ultimately drown him into the murky swamp of our totally corrupt so-called justice system. As just one example, swamp poop about his as-yet-untold actions will start to fly out of other dossiers concerning his conduct as attorney general.

This is the way Washington, D.C., works. The bureaucracy protects itself no matter which political party one comes from. In effect, if you don't gore my ox, maybe I will not gore yours. And, so the money changers in the nation's equivalent of the "Temple of Doom" march on, to enrich everyone, no matter what their political persuasion.

This week on my radio show on Radio America (RadioAmerica.com), "Special Prosecutor with Larry Klayman," I teach a lesson about this nonexistent system of justice where the DOJ, my once former alma mater, colludes with dishonest federal judges – most of whom were nominated by former presidents Clinton and Obama – to run interference for the elite criminals who got them their seat on the bench, and who can get them even higher appointments. (It is also no coincidence that the DOJ inspector general is Michael Horowitz, an Obama appointee.) You can hear this sad and frightening analysis at FreedomWatchusa.org. Once you do, it's easy to understand why the nation stands on the precipice of revolution, which I am trying to prevent.

If Attorney General Sessions were serious about getting justice, he would appoint me special counsel. Frankly, there's no one else who has the fortitude to bring the criminals to justice and help to restore our totally corrupt justice system. If you wish to support my appointment, go to FreedomWatchusa.org.

Time is short to save the nation from the tyranny that mounts with each passing day.

Stomping On The World By Joe Ingino

Stomping On The World
  They are calling him a dictator... all because he acts in the best interest of his country.  In the best interest of his people.  For too long nations like China have been raping our work force our economies and our economy.   It is time to turn the table around.
Men like Trump are far from few.  There is guy that is not taking one red tax payers cent for reenumeration.  Is under constant attack by the media.  Yet everything he seems to put his mind to do he gets it done.  Sure he may be arrogant, a little self centered... but think about it... He is human and if  you or I were put in his place would we not have the same qualities in our leadership... People need to stop the bashing and start appreciating change.  
Change has a price and in this modern time it appears that bitching is it.   Ok stop laughing.  You know what I mean...  It appears that we our civic conscious is the more we hate something the more we want it... The more it succeeds the more we look to dethrone it.
People let’s all take a deep breath and appreciate the moment.  A moment that is putting jobs back in America.  A moment that is putting China in it’s place.  Why should we bare the burden of job loss and a trade deficit in the Billions.   Nancy Reagan had it right with her boots... and they are made for walking all over you...  Go Trump Go.  Please liberate Canada from our political unic’s that serve as a servant in the Forbidden foreign cultural agendas.

Pack it light. Wear it right. (Handbags) By Dr. George Traitses

 Pack it light. Wear it right. (Handbags)

By Dr. George Traitses
D.C., B.Sc.(Hon.), M.Sc., C.H.N., C.N.M., A.C.R.B. 3, C.R.A.
Member of the Ontario Chiropractic Association
Some women carry the whole world in their handbag, but a heavy bag or purse can cause pain and injury to your back, neck and shoulders. Overstuffed bags also cause poor posture by encouraging the carrier to lean to one side.

The good news is pain and injury can be easily avoided by following a few simple tips.

Choosing a handbag
    Choose a handbag that is proportionate to your body size and no larger than what is needed. Your handbag should not weigh more than 10 per cent of your body weight.
    Choose a handbag that has several individual pockets, instead of one large compartment. This will help to distribute the weight of the contents more evenly and keep them from shifting.

Packing a handbag
    Change the size and weight of your wallet once in a while. You may also consider one wallet for your work and a different one for when you go out, as you may need different objects for both.
    Ensure the weight is evenly distributed in the purse by using all the pockets.

Carrying a handbag
    Use both hands to check the weight of the handbag.
    Instead of always carrying your handbag on the same shoulder, switch sides often so each shoulder gets a rest.
    Square your shoulders ­ many women have a habit of lifting the shoulder on which the purse is carried to keep the straps from slipping.

More tips
    Try to maintain good posture. When standing, your head, shoulders, hips and ankles should line-up, one comfortably above the other.
    If you can walk to lunch or a meeting, lock your purse in your desk or locker and carry only your cash and/or credit cards in a pocket.

By following these simple strategies, it’s easy to lighten your load.