Poetry

Perhaps Not To Be...
by Pablo Neruda












Perhaps not to be is to be without your being,
without your going,
that cuts noon light like a blue flower,
without your passing later through fog and stones,
without the torch you lift in your hand
that others may not see as golden,
that perhaps no one believed blossomed
the glowing origin of the rose,
without, in the end, your being, your coming
suddenly, inspiringly, to know my life,
blaze of the rose-tree, wheat of the breeze:
and it follows that I am, because you are:
it follows from ‘you are’, that I am, and we:
and, because of love,
you will, I will, We will, come to be.

Oh My....

Jennifer Lopez, aka JLo, is filming a new action movie (Parker) with scenes that require a stunt double, and her stunt double is a man

I'm not judging, a job is a job in this recession. get it girl, uhm guy!

Health Views - Sodas

Every day we are all trying to live healthy lives.  One of the major issues in doing so is eating healthily.  Ever so often though, we decide to 'give ourselves a break' and eat or drink something that is not the best choice for our bodies.  Consuming sodas is a very unhealthy thing.  I must admit that I fall prey to the seduction of popcorn and soda when I go to the movies, or a slice of pizza and a pop for $5.99 from a favorite restaurant.

Since we do sometimes 'fall of the wagon', let's at least know what the scrapes and bruises are that we get when we do fall; here's a look at what happens when we drink sodas 

 * In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid (rust remover!) cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down.

*20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar in its way into fat.

* 40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate, your blood pressure rises, as a response your livers dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked preventing drowsiness.

* 45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain (the same effects as heroin *blank stare*)

* 60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.

*still at 60 minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you will evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.

*still at 60 minutes: As the rave inside of you dies down you will start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, peed away all the water that was in the Coke. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used, for example, the ability to hydrate your system.

Scary, right? All we need is the information and then we can begin to make the right choices for ourselves and the people we love :)

Birds and Fish dying mysteriously...

Several months ago, it was reported that thousands of birds and fish died mysteriously in Arkansas, here's a follow up...

A shocking report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) states that one of the United States top experts in biological and chemical weapons, John Wheeler,  was brutally murdered after he threatened to expose a US Military test of poison gas that killed hundreds of thousands of birds and fish in Arkansas.

Wheeler was allegedly murdered after his report disclosed that the transport of Iraqi Phosgene poisonous gas aboard a US Air Force KC-767 tanker aircraft, from Little Rock Air Force Base enroute to Afghanistan, had shortly after takeoff had a ‘critical malfunction’ of its aerial spraying computer direct command and control system over central Arkansas, causing the deaths of thousands of red-wing blackbirds.

According to US reports an estimated 4,000 of these birds were killed outright and were quickly removed by US Environmental Services workers wearing hazmat suits and gas masks. Another US report states that cause of death to these thousands of birds was “trauma in the breast tissue, with blood clots in the body cavity and a lot of internal bleeding” which this GRU report states is consistent with Phosgene exposure. The GRU report also states that it was the second “accidental” release of Phosgene poisonous gas in as many days, as the day before, this same US Air Force KC-767 tanker aircraft also had a “critical malfunction” causing a release over the Arkansas River that killed over 100,000 fish.

Upon Wheeler discovering what was happening with Iraq’s Phosgene poisonous gas stockpiles, this report continues, he traveled from his home in Delaware to Washington D.C. where he openly confronted and threatened to expose the Pentagon and White House Officials responsible. A few weeks later, Wheeler was found dead in a Delaware landfill.