If You Keep Eating These, You'll Suffer Unimaginable Horrors

If You Keep Eating These, You'll Suffer Unimaginable Horrors
Way back in the Old West, there were salesmen that would travel in their covered wagons from town to town trying to sell their "magic" concoctions by making all kinds of health promises and duping people that didn't know any better. "Snake Oil Salesman" was the common expression used to described them. But now that we're in the "modern times" of 2012, snake oil salesmen don't exist anymore, right? Wrong. There are even more of them now. And their boasts are even bigger. They might not travel around in covered wagons hawking their worthless products that are supposed to appear healthy, but they're very much alive and well. They're called processed food manufacturers. Today's snake oil Food processors are the modern-day snake oil salesmen. Who else in the world could generate TRILLIONS of dollars selling boxed, canned and bagged non-food "stuff" that not only does NOT nourish you but actually HARMS your health? I mean, the horrific diseases and the numbers of people coming down with them is just staggering. At no time have people ever been sicker with major illnesses at young ages than they are now. Let's take a closer look at what's in those packages on the store shelves -- today's snake oil: 1- Thousands of chemicals produced in laboratories The food industry routinely uses 2,000 different food additives in their processed creations. These include some obligatory vitamins and minerals, plus emulsifiers, buffers, artificial flavorings and colorings, and enormous amounts of the two biggies--salt and sugar. The average American eats nearly 150 pounds of these chemicals and additives each YEAR! This is broken down as follows: * 130 pounds of sugar * 10-15 pounds of salt * 5-10 pounds of synthetic vitamins, flavors, preservatives and colored dyes Many people in the world don't even consume 150 pounds of FOOD in a YEAR -- and yet the average American gulps down that much in chemicals alone! Read that sentence again, and you won't wonder why so many of us are sick, tired and die premature, ugly, painful, expensive deaths. The thing is, your body wasn't designed to deal with all these chemicals.  It wasn't designed for that -- it cannot metabolize them. So they end up as acid wastes, taxing your liver, accumulating in your blood, organs and tissues and making you toxic, sick and diseased. Plus, the acid wastes from these non-foods wreak havoc on your intestinal flora, greatly hampering your immune system.   2- Deadly fats Processed foods are a great source of trans-fats (also known as hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils). Trans-fats are deadly--so deadly that they should be labeled with a skull and crossbones. These poisons cling to your arteries and tissues, increase blood cholesterol, lead to atherosclerosis and inflammation and practically guarantee that you'll have heart disease. They also multiply like rabbits inside your body and reproduce themselves by the billions. This spurs the development of free radicals, which accelerate atherosclerosis and inflammation, contribute to countless chronic diseases and lead to premature aging.   Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies The big question here is: HOW? How in the world can companies sell products that do nothing but harm health and cause unbelievable suffering? That's easy, my friend. It's called marketing. (And greasing the palms of every politician within arm's reach makes it all run like clockwork.) Just like the snake oil salesmen of the old west, food companies use creative wording to make their products appear healthy. And we gobble it down, believing that we'll be healthier if we do. Here are some examples: 1) "All natural" "All natural" implies something is from Nature and must be good for you, right? Nope. Believe it or not, the phrase "all natural" means whatever a food companies want it to mean. It's not defined by FDA, and generally speaking, food makers won't get in trouble as long as foods with this label don't contain added colors, artificial flavors or synthetic ingredients. But that still means that an "all natural" food CAN contain things like sodium and high fructose corn syrup.   2) "Sugar free" This is a biggie. Dieters LOVE to guzzle sugar-free products because they incorrectly believe that they're lo-cal. Not so... Sugar free does NOT mean calorie free or low calorie. As a matter of fact, sugar free products may contain just as many or MORE calories than the original version, and be loaded with fat to boot. These products can also contain sugar alcohols like mannitol, xylitol or sorbitol which can cause diarrhea if taken in large doses... ...so don't eat that whole box of sugar free cookies in one sitting or you'll be sitting on the throne for a while.   3) "Zero trans-fat" This is a sick joke... First of all, products that say zero trans-fat can actually contain up to 0.5 grams of trans-fats per serving...so zero doesn't mean zero. Plus, even if products are not made with known trans-fats like hydrogenated oils and shortening, what most people don't know is that trans-fats are also CREATED when polyunsaturated fats are heated. So that means you can be buying supposedly "heart healthy" polyunsaturated oils like canola or safflower oil, but the second you heat them in your frying pan, you've got trans-fats. And trans-fats are also created during food processing. Margarine manufacturers are notorious for this--they make their products with polyunsaturated oils and market them as "Trans-fat free!" However, during the process of creating margarine, the oils are always heated...so that means it's loaded with trans-fats, regardless of what the package label says.   4) "Fat free" This is a classic duping statement playing on people's fears of fat, high cholesterol and heart disease. Now, when fat is taken out of processed foods, in order for them to taste better than shredded cardboard, food companies have to make them tasty. So they replace the fat with SUGAR. That means you're merely swapping one poison for another.   5) "Gluten free" Gluten can wreak havoc on people with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity, so this labeling truly is vital for them. However, gluten free products are now being seen as the latest way to lose weight and that's simply not the case across the board. If someone has a gluten problem then eating gluten can impair their digestion and nutrient absorption which can cause weight gain. So if gluten is eliminated, then they can "potentially" take off pounds. But if you don't have a gluten problem to begin with, eating gluten free is not likely going to result in weight loss.   6) "Serving size" This is the downfall of many a dieter or health conscious person. To make a product appear low in fat or calories, food companies often list nutrition information based on a serving size that wouldn't even fill up a mouse. Cereal is a great example here. The serving size listed on many cereal boxes is between 1/2 cup and 3/4 cup. (4 to 6 oz) Tell me, when was the last time you ate just 3/4 cup of cereal for breakfast? Measure it out. There's nothing there! Ice cream is another. That pint of Ben & Jerry's is supposed to hold 4 servings--not one. So before you think a food is low in fat or calories, look at how much you eat and do the math.   Stay out of the snake oil trap Regardless of what sneaky statements food companies use to sell their products while jeopardizing your health, one fact remains: If you want to maintain a normal body weight and live a long, happy disease-free life, you MUST eat REAL (not processed) foods. They are what your body is designed to take in. Real foods were put on the earth for us to eat. And your body knows the difference! Here are 3 effective measures you can take to minimize the devastating effects processed food can have on your health: 1) Find alternatives Read labels and find alternatives for any processed foods you feel the need to buy. 100% Organic products don't contain harmful ingredients. Yes, they typically cost more than the traditional alternatives, but I bet they cost FAR less than your medical bills would be when you get heart disease or cancer.   2) Eat fewer processed foods overall When you minimize processed foods and instead eat REAL foods in easy to digest combinations, you will not only encourage efficient digestion and avoid common GI problems, but your body will be able to eliminate built-up, disease-causing acid wastes and shed excess pounds. The Great Taste No Pain health system shows you exactly how to do this.  Or if you're gluten sensitive, Great Taste No Gluten is for you. It's so easy to learn... Both the GTNP and GTNG manuals will show you the few simple principles you'll need to know to make ALL of your meals easy to digest, and give you meal planning guides incorporating delicious REAL foods including meats, poultry, fish, pastas, vegetables and more. And the recipe book with each system is filled with many scrumptious creations that will soon become your favorites. You'll be amazed at how delicious real foods can be. And believe it or not, you'll likely lose your taste for the processed stuff.   3) Help your intestinal flora recover If you've eaten a fair amount of packaged foods, chances are excellent that your intestinal flora balance is all messed up, the "bad guys" outweighing the "good guys" by a wide margin. Eating real foods can help restore a healthy balance, but many times that isn't enough...especially if your only recent vegetables and fruits have been ketchup, French fries and jelly. 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Nullification is Superior and the Majority Knows it

Nullification is Superior and the Majority Knows it

Posted By: Basil [Send E-Mail]
Date: Sunday, 2-Jun-2013 10:42:07

http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/05/29/nullification-is-superior-majority-knows/#.UaptRtj3aXs Nullification is Superior and the Majority Knows it A recent Rasmussen poll indicates that “38% Favor Their State Blocking Federal Anti-Gun Laws” and a whopping “52 percent of mainstream voters think states should have the right to block any federal laws they disagree with on legal grounds.” And this week, a nullification-friendly Washington Times article from the paper’s editorial board was published stating: “nullification is a growing movement with support on both sides of the political aisle.” ... ... Recently, attacks on our Constitution and Bill of Rights have become more obvious. Even fundamental American guarantees such as gun rights, due process rights, and freedom of speech rights have been challenged. Concerned citizens looking for solutions to protect themselves from the federal government’s intrusions find nullification, once discovered, quite attractive. They also find themselves in good company, as historically state resistance to the general government’s oversteps is a key component of our check on federal power. From a practical perspective, nullification provides results that other options cannot: Nullification demands rights without violence Nullification fosters regional harmony through decentralization Nullification is lawful, historic and Constitutional In other words, only nullification provides a roadmap to a local, legitimate base of political power necessary to counter aggressive actions out of Washington DC. NULLIFICATION: PEACEFUL PATH TO LIBERTY As further evidence of the growing frustration with federal policies, a recent poll published by Fox News suggests that “nearly a third of registered voters — 29 percent — believe an ‘armed revolution’ might be necessary in the next few years in order to protect liberties.” That’s a significant number of registered voters that feel disenfranchised. As a Constitutional Republic consisting of several sovereign states, each state is equipped to protect liberty peacefully. The Bill of Rights strictly rejects federal liberty encroachment, and state sovereignty provides a way for differing ideas and laws to be implemented locally. Unfortunately, we have spent decades denying our own foundational principles of decentralized states and reeducating our citizens to a federal supremacist mindset. This mindset is the core problem because it hides from plain view the primary tool necessary to resolve federal infringements on liberty peacefully: state-level nullification. When states use nullification and say “no”, the People are using a mechanism that will corner the federal government into recognizing the limitations placed on it by the Constitution. This is a demand, not a petition, not a future threat that the bums will be voted out, not a plea to a court to present an opinion that might be in line with the Constitution. They are placing their state between them and federal abuses of liberty. ...... http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=278549

Marbut: Republican Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Marbut: Republican Chickens Coming Home to Roost

Posted By: Basil [Send E-Mail]
Date: Sunday, 2-Jun-2013 10:43:48

Chickens Coming Home to Roost How Republicans Never Blow an Opportunity to Blow an Opportunity People have asked me how, after more than 40 years of following and working with the Montana Legislature, I would characterize the 2013 legislative session. My answer is quick and short. RINOs. 2013 was clearly a three-party session, made up of Democrats, Republicans, and RINOs. Our Montana “citizen legislature” is a great institution, because people from all walks of life come to Helena every two years for 90 days to do the people's business. They bring a lot of diverse experience to the Legislature. Montana avoids the “permanent political class” that so badly infects many other states. Against this background, it's not surprising that people of all different political persuasions are elected to the Legislature, including soft Republicans who get elected in centrist districts, candidates who appeal to those districts because they are middle-of-the-road philosophically. Many prospective candidates think that because they have 100% of all the experience they’ve had, they are wise enough to set public policy in Helena, but many, too many, have no philosophical foundation from which to assess the issues presented to them in Helena. As a result, they tend to blow in the wind, and tend to believe the last good argument made, too often by the swarms of public employee lobbyists who haunt the Legislature throughout the session angling for more money, mission, turf and power. Among Republicans, these legislators are spoken of as RINOs, Republicans In Name Only. These legislators do not have any strong attachment to the Montana or federal constitutions. They probably have not read either constitution recently. They have no special fondness or respect for individual liberty. They care nothing about the Republican Party platform. They want to make government “work,” not understanding that government is supposed primarily to protect individual liberty, but is also the greatest threat to individual liberty. When Republicans control the Legislature, a small subset of RINOs control public policy in Montana, because the RINOs repeatedly side with Democrats both to block liberty-enhancing bills, and to pass bills that give more mission, turf, money and power to governmental entities. This is not new. It is actually a situation deliberately fostered by the Montana Republican good-old-boy establishment, those GOP “leaders” and would-be power brokers who plan and massage GOP direction behind the scenes in the legendary “smoke-filled rooms.” A lot of bills brought by conservative Republican legislators never made it to the Governor's desk because of blockage by RINOs. Most of the ones that did have been vetoed by Governor Bullock, who can count on having enough supporting Democrat and RINO votes to prevent any veto override. Further, the good-old-boy Republican establishment worked hard and deliberately to set up this arrangement. They actually pulled out the stops to usher Bullock into the Governor's office. It all began at the state Republican convention in 2012. Liberty-minded Republicans (real conservatives) had rallied behind presidential candidate Ron Paul, and sought to elect Ron Paul-aligned delegates to the national GOP convention in Florida. The Montana GOP good-old-boys went into lock-step in support of Mitt Romney. They played dirty, told lies, broke all reasonable rules of fairness, and leaned heavily on the scales to absolutely shut out the 47% of convention delegates who supported Ron Paul. They grabbed all the marbles for themselves. Some might claim that was clever politicking. I name it sheer stupidity applying juvenile, schoolyard tactics to supposedly adult activities. Any person with a grain of sense could have predicted (as I did then) that giving a bloody nose to 47% of the Republican Party, and by far the most energized 47% of the Republican Party, would not end well for Republican candidates in Montana. It most assuredly did NOT end well. It ended with Democrat Steve Bullock occupying the governor’s office, and then vetoing scads of Republican bills. I predicted immediately after witnessing the debacle of the convention that the result of so overtly rejecting a significant and energized segment of the Republican Party would be a narrow loss by several Republican contenders for statewide office. That's exactly what happened in the governor's race. Democrat Bullock won with a lead of 7,571 votes over Republican Hill. The Libertarian, Vandevender pulled 18,160 votes. It's a cinch bet that the deciding 3,790 or more votes went from Hill to Vandevender because of the brazen and deliberate abuse of liberty-minded Republicans by the GOP establishment at the state convention. Actions have consequences. The ripples spreading throughout Montana from the 2012 GOP state convention, from the juvenile antics of the good-old-boy Republicans who snatched all the marbles for themselves, cost Hill and the GOP the governor’s office. Not surprisingly, the same RINOs who messed up the 2013 legislative session with their lack of philosophical foundation and last-good-argument policy positions stampeded to go along with the good-old-boy Republican establishment at the state Republican convention. They were happy to tolerate and support the GOP insiders who leaned heavily on the scales and pulled dirty tricks in what turned out to be a strategically disastrous rout of the liberty-minded Republicans. In this exercise, the Montana Republican Party surely rose to the challenge of never blowing an opportunity to blow an opportunity, a pattern for which Republicans have become famous. Many good Republican bills were vetoed by a governor who was effectively installed by the foolish machinations of a few Republican “leaders,” but which direction was heavily supported in the state GOP convention by the same legislators who's bills Bullock has now vetoed, especially by the RINOs. Talk about chickens coming home to roost. There is a lesson in this recent history. Those Republican “leaders” who are so afraid of liberty-minded Republicans should themselves be rejected by the GOP as a whole. They are the best allies the government-loving Democrats could hope to have. Unless the GOP unloads these short-sighted dealmakers, it might as well just surrender the field to the Democrats and let them run Montana. Gary Marbut, Delegate 2012 Republican State Convention Active observer of the Montana Legislature since 1971 http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=278551

May 31 2013

Beware of Kokesh and the CIA

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There is something EVERYONE is missing with regard to Kokesh. It may be completely impossible to shut it down, because:

The stats have been expunged from the web, but many of you may remember that the CIA, which already had a HUGE number of people, recently hired a million more. This means the CIA, which had at least 500,000 employees before they recently hired a million could fake the entire march, with 30,000 demonstrators in EVERY SINGLE STATE, and have all of them be CIA employees.

Ever wonder what it is like to live in a tyranny? YOU GOT IT FOLKS, the monster is so huge now that it can stage massive movements, which are fake in their entirety. And having looked at the backlash to Kokesh in the blogs, it seems he has absolutely ZERO true support, yet he keeps getting stronger.
There is only one way this could be happening - and that is if that support is coming directly from the CIA. We could be walking into a situation here where at each demonstration in every state there are tens of thousands of agent provocateurs with a minority of innocent dupes mixed in. GUESS WHO GOES TO JAIL. Guess who gets shot. And afterward, guess what will happen.
That is the reality we live in. And when living in such a reality, we have to then confront the CIA directly, and tell them in advance we know what they are up to. We need this topic spread in the blogs, and not whether or not Kokesh is going to fool a few idiots into doing his bidding. We need to state with assertion that this situation with Kokesh is impossible, that the real support is not there, and that we know the CIA is doing this. Letting the CIA know that we realize beyond a doubt that this is 100 percent them and that few, if any true demonstrators will show up is the only approach that will shut this thing down.
I suggest people find a way to send the following message to the CIA. Ha - just use the CIA tip line (while using Tor or at least Hidemyass.com)

Dear CIA

We understand that you have the job, the hard job, of maintaining tyranny. But we also understand that you all have clearances and operate in secret. And in the case of the Adam Kokesh armed march on Washington and all state capitols, there IS NO SECRET. So we strongly suggest you abandon this psy op and try something else, WE ARE WATCHING.

Monsanto freak out

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A Mexican friend of mine recently bought a tomato with a number on the sticker that started with a 3 (which means genetically modified). When she cut it open, there were no seeds and instead where the seeds were supposed to be it looked like a brain. I am going to try to get ahold of one of these tomatoes and document this. If I am able to, this article will be expanded.
One advantage Mexicans have is that they have the right to know when their food has been tweaked, it is (usually) clearly labeled as such. And the fact that we don't have this advantage in America only goes to show that our American government loves us more. After all, what is Mexico other than a banana republic? I think Americans need a wake up call regarding the topic of government, Mexico's is obviously more decent across the board.
Ahh yes, read the next article - it's a hoot.
May 30 2013

FED GETS THE MESSAGE: Mexico "Just said no" to Drugs

For the first of the resurrected "lost" articles I hunted down my favorite

This topic has been extensively whitewashed on all media outlets. What is here is the entire truth, with updates to address the lies used to cover this up

Fast and furious? The CIA was BUSTED using a U.S. embassy vehicle to run guns into Mexico, and the not so corrupt Mexican Federal Police caught them and did not agree.
Here is the original, full, and unadulterated truth -

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CGI's Cmanynames: This Article is one to be digested ....

I guess we know what will happen to these folks since the same thing happened here with HARRP HURRICANE SANDY !!!!

CGI's Cmanynames: This Article is one to be digested ....

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Date: Sunday, 2-Jun-2013 10:35:26

Hello, hello .... it's a little over the top and then you can see how and who everyone is ...... Canadian relief for Moore tornado victims denied at border http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2013/05/31/wdr-moore-tornado-relief-us-border.html what to do what to think (snip) American officials will not allow the 20,000 kilograms of food, blankets and diapers into the country until every item on board is itemized in alphabetical order and has the country of origin of every product noted. well, I guess we will have to see Cath http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=278547

Sunday morning surprise: This is so beautiful it will make you weep

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Sunday morning surprise: This is so beautiful it will make you weep

Posted By: LilliHart
Date: Sunday, 2-Jun-2013 12:01:01

This is so beautiful it will break your heart. It made me weep. For all the horrors created by tiny-minded humans, all the gods and goddesses and the Queen of Goddesses, our very own Mother Earth are still calling for "The show must go on" and doing their utmost to create joy and hope for us all...just waiting for the day that we can say we've finally come back to where it is we have sought and called home. Full moon over Wellington, NZ... It is a 3 minute video clip of the full moon rising over Wellington. It was shot 2 nights ago, on a calm summer evening, as people gathered on the Mt. Victoria Lookout point to watch the moon rise. This stunning video is one single real-time shot, with no manipulation whatsoever. The camera was placed on a hillside over 2 kilometres from the Lookout point, and was shot with the equivalent of a 1300mm lens. The amount of planning, trial and error, and luck that went into this are mind blowing. He has been trying to capture this for over a year with many failed attempts. But 2 nights ago it seems everything was on his side, and it all came together in a way even he couldn't have hoped. I honestly can't say enough good things about this video - from the magnitude of the visuals, to the intimate stories playing out with the people, to the sheer humbling nature of seeing the awe-inspiring reality of this giant rock in the sky that we so often don't stop to appreciate. One thing I encourage you to do is watch this on the biggest screen you have - don't waste it on an iphone screen. http://vimeo.com/58385453

The Truth Comes Out: Former IRS Director Admits Taxes Are Voluntary

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The Truth Comes Out: Former IRS Director Admits Taxes Are Voluntary

Wed, May 29, 2013

Posted on May 29, 2013by Jean

Susanne Posel
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May 23, 2013

Steve Miller, former Director of the Internal Revenue Service (

), admitted at a Congressional hearing that the taxes collected by the IRS are not mandatory – but voluntary.

When questioned at the House Ways and Means Committee (WMC) hearing last week, Miller told House Representative Devin Nunes that “America’s tax system is ‘voluntary’”. When Nunes remarked for clarification that the US tax code is a “voluntary system”, Miller said, “Agreed.”

House Representative Xavier Becerra commented that the ruse of the IRS is kept as a public confidence in the system scheme to keep Americans paying money to the IRS.

Miller confirmed this is so.

The shuffle at the IRS has landed Danny Werfel as the new acting director.

As his first message to those employed at the IRS, Werfel said that amid the mistrust of the public brewing against the organization, it is the mission of all employees to “help America’s taxpayers understand and meet their tax responsibilities.”

Werfel invoked the tragedy at Oklahoma to coerce his underlings into believing that they are doing a great work. He said: “. . . as the nation comes together to support the victims of the devastating tornados in Oklahoma, we should all feel a sense of pride that IRS is actively supporting the recovery effort and doing our part to help.”

President Obama anointed Werfel as a replacement for Miller who was asked to resign just a month before his term as acting director of the IRS was complete.

Werfel has a history working for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and an analyst for the Department of Justice (DoJ). Obama describes Werfel as having “proven an effective leader who serves with professionalism, integrity and skill.”

Senator Orin Hatch commented on Obama’s choice of putting a businessman in place at the IRS: “If I was the president I would find the very best businessman I possibly could who’d be willing to take it over and have the authority to be able to straighten the mess out. I don’t know whether Werfel has that kind of dimension or not, but I hope he does.”

Lois Lerner, director of the Tax-Exempt division at the IRS during the targeting of Patriot groupsrefused to speak to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, claiming her right of the 5th Amendment.

William Taylor III, attorney for Lerner, requested in a letter that preceded her arrival, asking the OGRC that she be allowed to refrain from appearing before the committee. Taylor claimed that be forcing Lerner, it “would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her.”

The OGRC wanted Lerner to comment as to why she provided incomplete data to the DoJ during their investigation of the discriminatory targeting of Patriot groups; asserting that she was either fully or partially to blame for the unlawful activity.

This week, when Lerner did show up at the hearing before the OGRC, she emphatically claimed: “I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken any laws. I have not violated any IRS rules or regulations. And I have not provided false information to this or any other congressional committee.”

House Representative Trey Gowdy told the committee that since Lerner made a statement at the hearing, “she just waived her Fifth Amendment right to privilege. You don’t get to tell your side of the story and then not be subjected to cross examination. That’s not the way it works. She waived her Fifth Amendment privilege by issuing an open statement. She ought to stand here and answer our questions.”

According to sources , the employees that were directed to target Patriot groups had different upper management to answer to; therefore muddying up the chain of command and further convoluting how to calculate who is actually responsible for disseminating the directive.

With these new assertions, the original story of rouge employees targeting Patriot groups without being told to do so is making less and less sense.

Since it is policy that if a tax-exempt application is not processed within 270 days it causes an internal “red flag” that draws attention and explanation, these applications should have been dealt with within that time frame automatically.

In Cincinnati, Ohio, the directive to target Patriot groups has been linked back to Cindy Thomas, program manager of the Tax Exempt division of the Cincinnati IRS.

Further refusals of cooperation have manifest with the IRS refusing to produce documents requested by MWC chairman Dave Camp and Sander Levin. Earlier this month Camp and Levinwrote to the IRS requesting records of all communications between the IRS and the US Treasury so assist in understanding the discrimination of Patriot groups.

The scandal is unraveling onto itself which is why there is talk that a special prosecutor will be employed to independently review the evidence and piece together the actual timeline of what happened and identify who was involved and at what level.

The Art Of Rock Balancing

The Art Of Rock Balancing

Michael Grab is an artist that has been 'rock balancing' since 2008. Much of his recent work has been done around the Boulder, Colorado area. Grab---yes, that's his real name---finds the process both spiritual and therapeutic.

Grab explains:

"The most fundamental element of balancing in a physical sense is finding some kind of 'tripod' for the rock to stand on.

Every rock is covered in a variety of tiny to large indentations that can act as a tripod for the rock to stand upright, or in most orientations you can think of with other rocks. By paying close attention to the feeling of the rocks, you will start to feel even the smallest clicks as the notches of the rocks in contact are moving over one another.

Parallel to the physical element of finding tripods, the most fundamental non-physical element is harder to explain through words.

In a nutshell, I am referring to meditation, or finding a zero point or silence within yourself. Some balances can apply significant pressure on your mind and your patience. The challenge is overcoming any doubt that may arise."

I was skeptical when first viewing these. But, I've seen the work of other 'balancing' artists, including outdoor installations by Andy Goldsworthy, subject of the 2001 documentary film, "Rivers and Tides".

As hard as it is to believe. the balanced rocks are configured without support other than themselves (example photographs attached), this is the case.

The drawdown diet: Marines steamed by loss of hot meal at Afghanistan base

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A U.S. Marine MRE (Meals Ready to Eat) ration package is seen in a transport vehicle in March 2010 near Khan Neshin, southern Helmand province, Afghanistan.

By Bill Briggs, NBC News contributor

Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.
The midnight ration service — known there as “midrats" — supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are ending noon-to-midnight work periods. It's described as one of the few times the Marines at Leatherneck can be together in one place.
The base, which is located in Afghanistan’s southwestern Helmand Province, flanked by Iran and Pakistan, also will remove its 24-hour sandwich bar. It plans to replace the dishes long offered at midnight with pre-packaged MREs, said Marine Corps Lt. Col. Cliff Gilmore, who has been deployed in Afghanistan since February.
The moves, though unpopular with many Marines on the ground and their families back home, are emblematic of the massive drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan and the dismantling of U.S. military facilities. More than 30,000 U.S. service members will leave Afghanistan in coming months as the U.S. prepares to hand responsibility for security to Afghan forces in 2014.
While no Marine at Camp Leatherneck agreed to speak on the record, many are privately angry about the hit on base morale.
"This boils my skin. One of my entire shifts will go 6.5 hours without a meal. If we need to cut back on money I could come up with 100 other places,” one Leatherneck-based Marine wrote in an email this week to his wife and shared with NBC News. (The Marine declined to speak on the record.) “Instead, we will target the biggest contributor to morale. I must be losing my mind. What is our senior leadership thinking? I just got back from flying my ass off and in a few days, I will not have a meal to replenish me after being away for over 9 hours.”

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U.S. Marines enter the chow hall for dinner, left, after taking turns clearing ammo from the chambers of their weapons into a barrel, right, at Camp Leatherneck, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, in September 2009.
Until Saturday, Leatherneck’s dining facility will offer its customary four meals per day. After June 1, the menu drops to three daily meals and, eventually, there will be only two hot meals served, Gilmore revealed in an email to the impacted Marines, adding: “Any time a dining hall meal is eliminated it will be replaced from a plentiful stock of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat — or any one of several creative acronyms our Marines have come up with.)”
“The fact is our force in Afghanistan is shrinking fast and all the creature comforts and services deployed military-members have grown accustomed to over the past decade are going to be reduced," Gilmore wrote in an email to NBC News. “When serving we are challenged to endure different things — to face different challenges — over time. But we're an odd bunch, we Marines — probably no surprise that we'll complain more about losing the sandwich bar on the way out than we did about getting shot at on the way in.”
The tactical reason for the cooking scale-down is that the people who are assigned to “support services” — such as food workers — “need to go home before the people who provide the security which enables those services,” Gilmore wrote. “This is a natural outcome of the drawdown process unrelated to sequestration or the ongoing budget issues back in the States.”
Back home, spouses and friends of the troops in Afghanistan are criticizing the loss of hot meals as a poor logistical choice that will impact the service members' overall nutrition, energy and spirits.
“MREs are an alternative for when you can’t get to healthy food. They're supposed to be for desperation,” said Babette Maxwell, founder and executive director of Military Spouse Magazine, the wife of a Navy pilot and an advocate for service members and their families. “These guys have six to nine months left on their deployment. These are highly athletic and highly physical people, toting guns, not working any less now than before — and not working out any less either. Now, they’re short a meal and they don’t have any healthy alternatives.”
According to the Marine Corps, a typical MRE may contain chili with beans, cornbread, cheese spread, crackers, a toaster pastry, a “dairyshake,” red pepper, a spoon, a flameless heater and a “hot beverage bag.”
To fill the hot food gap in Afghanistan, a group of U.S.-based military advocates and military-family members recently launched a Facebook page — called “Breakfast for Bagram" — to spur food donations that will be mailed to troops all around Afghanistan. The page states: “We are here to help collect and send non-perishable breakfast type foods to the deployed troops on the 17 bases in Afghanistan that are not currently serving breakfast 'hot chow' and Midnight chow due to the budget cuts.”
Gilmore described cooked-meal reduction as part of a larger effort to “become increasingly austere” as the force shrinks, but he said the base members will not face an unhealthy calorie shortage.
“The Marines here at Leatherneck may have to endure the monotony of a limited menu and sometimes an MRE — but they will not suffer from malnutrition unless they choose not to eat,” Gilmore said.
At home, some military family members nonetheless called the change a mistake.
“Psychologically, midrats is probably the most important of all the meals because that’s the big social time — where first (shift) crew is coming off and second (shift) crew is coming on,” Maxwell said."That's where you get the esprit de corps, the camaraderie. It's not just the food you're taking away, it's their social sustenance.” 

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/31/18592339-the-drawdown-diet-marines-steamed-by-loss-of-hot-meal-at-afghanistan-base

salt flats 462 mph ride along

A 462 MPH 'ride along' with George Poteet in the Poteet & Main Speed Demon.  Very cool….

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Click on the address, go to full screen and turn up the volume!
You’re going to ride along up to 462 MPH!

http://www.hotrodhotline.com/speeddemon-breaks-world-land-speed-record