Most people think butter is bad for them but in all reality it is much better for you than oleo. I never cared for the taste of butter except in baked goods which I always used butter for. Several years ago I learned exactly what oleo was. Do you know what it is?
They have the same calories except butter has 8g saturated fat compared to 5g in oleo. Oleo can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of butter. Butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods. Butter has been around for centuries where oleo has been around for less than 100 years and the list goes on.
Oleo is very high in trans fatty acids, triples the risk of coronary heart disease, increases total cholesterol and LDL, increases the risk of cancers up to 5 times, lowers quality of breast milk, decreases immune response, decreases insulin resonse, and is ONE molecule from being plastic.
Put a tub of oleo in your garage. Flies won't even go near it, it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value, nothing will grow on it, not even those teeny weeny microorganisms.
Ask yourself this, would you melt your tupperware container and spread it on your toast?
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Ugh! Oprah Shows Her Arrogance AGAIN!
This morning driving to work I was listening to Chris Stigall on CONSERVATIVE Talk Radio. He was talking about an article in the paper today where O wants people who are homeless for the first time to send in their story and then she will pick some appropriate people to be on her show. You have to be middle class, two parents, you know basically June and Ward Cleaver. One of the homeless shelters here is all upset because one workers says she has many first time homeless but they don't fit the pretty picture O wants. O thinks if she touts a perfect homeless family on her show it will make the rest of us relate to them more. Get real O, you just want to flaunt your riches and make us think you care, which we all know you don't.
So Chris says he wants his listeners to do something completely different, send in your good things that have happened to you in the past year, so here is my list: my niece graduated from High School and I got to attend, I went to Italy, my fav aunt came to visit last year, my racoon home invasion turned into a positive as it fixed some things wrong with my house, my parents are still both alive and healthy, i will retire in less than two years with a pension where I will be comfortable, I like my job, I found a new in person knitting group which I think will turn out to be a good thing, it is almost Spring.
What is on your list?
So Chris says he wants his listeners to do something completely different, send in your good things that have happened to you in the past year, so here is my list: my niece graduated from High School and I got to attend, I went to Italy, my fav aunt came to visit last year, my racoon home invasion turned into a positive as it fixed some things wrong with my house, my parents are still both alive and healthy, i will retire in less than two years with a pension where I will be comfortable, I like my job, I found a new in person knitting group which I think will turn out to be a good thing, it is almost Spring.
What is on your list?
Why Are We So Ugly?
Yesterday I was perusing one of the groups I lurk in on Ravelry. The thread was talking about the new sock kits from KnitPicks. I looked at them but decided it would be a purchase for another day. The thread started with someone asking the question if the 3 different kits contained different sock patterns, you get 12 skeins of fingering weight in the same colorway with different pieces of the sock pattern so you can mix and match. The next response said there were approximately 3000 different socks you could come up with. The next response jumped all over the lady who came up with the roughly 3000 patterns possible. She questioned her math, said she got a different number, blah blah blah. Why would you do that. I know there is a formula for figuring out that kind of stuff but why not just leave it alone, and do what I did wow imagine knitting 3000 pairs of socks. Why do we have to be so ugly, when did American become a nation of ugly people who have to get in others faces and be rude and ugly? What purpose did it serve? It pissed me off and I did not finish reading the thread. I have noticed there are many ugly people on Ravelry, do you not have a life, no real face to face friends, so you come on line and become rude and ugly because your life sucks? STOP IT!
Thursday, February 19, 2009
From The London Daily Mail
The night we waved goodbye to America. . . our last best hope on Earth
London Daily Mail
Peter Hitchens
10 November 2008
Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernize Heaven and Hell - or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.
The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilization. At least Mandela-worship - its nearest equivalent - is focused on a man who actually did something. I really don't see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.
It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which recorded Obama's victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama picture books, and Obama calendars, and if there isn't yet a children's picture version of his story, there soon will be. Proper books, recording his sordid associates, his cowardly voting record, his astonishingly militant commitment to unrestricted abortion and his blundering trip to Africa, are little-read and hard to find.
If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular savior, then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn't believe it himself. His
cliche-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he'd promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over.
He needn't worry too much. From now on, the rough boys and girls of America 's Democratic Party apparatus, many recycled from Bill Clinton's stained and crumpled entourage, will crowd round him, to collect the rich spoils of his victory and also tell him what to do, which is what he is used to. Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan He really did talk about a 'new dawn', and a 'timeless creed' (which was 'yes, we can'). He proclaimed that 'change has come'.
He revealed that, despite having edited the Harvard Law Review, he doesn't know what 'enormity' means. He reached depths of oratorical drivel never even plumbed by our own Mr. Blair, burbling about putting our hands on the arc of history (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it once more toward the hope of a better day (Don't try this at home!).
I am not making this up. No wonder that awful old hack Jesse Jackson sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too, could get away with this sort of stuff.
And it was interesting how the President-elect failed to lift his admiring audience by repeated - but rather hesitant - invocations of the brainless slogan he was forced by his minders to adopt against his will - 'Yes, we can'. They were supposed to thunder 'Yes, we can!' back at him, but they just wouldn't join in. No wonder. Yes we can what exactly? Go home and keep a close eye on the tax rate, is my advice. He'd have been better off bursting into 'I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony' which contains roughly the same message and might have attracted some valuable commercial sponsorship.
Perhaps, being a Chicago crowd, they knew some of the things that 52.5 per cent of America prefers not to know. They know Obama is the obedient servant of one of the most squalid and unshakeable political machines in America. They know that one of his alarmingly close associates, a state-subsidized slum landlord called Tony Rezko, has been convicted on fraud and corruption charges.
They also know the US is just as segregated as it was before Martin Luther King - in schools, streets, neighborhoods, holidays, even in its TV-watching habits and its choice of fast-food joints. The difference is that it is now done by unspoken agreement rather than by law.
If Mr. Obama's election had threatened any of that, his feel-good white supporters would have scuttled off and voted for John McCain, or practically anyone. But it doesn't. Mr. Obama, thanks mainly to the now-departed grandmother he alternately praised as a saint and denounced as a racial bigot, has the huge advantages of an expensive private education. He did not have to grow up in the badlands of useless schools, shattered families and gangs which are the lots of so many young black men of his generation.
If the nonsensical claims made for this election were true, then every positive discrimination program aimed at helping black people into jobs they otherwise wouldn't get should be abandoned forthwith. Nothing of the kind will happen. On the contrary, there will probably be more of them And if those who voted for Obama were all proving their anti-racist nobility, that presumably means that those many millions who didn't vote for him were proving themselves to be hopeless bigots. This is obviously untrue.
I was in Washington, DC the night of the election. America 's beautiful capital has a sad secret. It is perhaps the most racially divided city in the world, with 15th Street - which runs due north from the White House - the unofficial frontier between black and white. But, like so much of America, it also now has a new division, and one, which is in many ways much more important. I had attended an election-night party in a smart and liberal white area, but was staying the night less than a mile away on the edge of a suburb where Spanish is spoken as much as English, plus a smattering of tongues from such places as Ethiopia, Somalia andAfghanistan. As I walked, I crossed another of Washington 's secret frontiers. There had been a few white people blowing car horns and shouting, as the result became clear. But among the Mexicans, Salvadorans and the other Third World nationalities, there was something like ecstasy.
They grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.
Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique. These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America 's conservative party - the Republicans - to fight on the cultural and moral fronts. They preferred to posture on the world stage.
Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad.
Where now is our last best hope on Earth?
London Daily Mail
Peter Hitchens
10 November 2008
Anyone would think we had just elected a hip, skinny and youthful replacement for God, with a plan to modernize Heaven and Hell - or that at the very least John Lennon had come back from the dead.
The swooning frenzy over the choice of Barack Obama as President of the United States must be one of the most absurd waves of self-deception and swirling fantasy ever to sweep through an advanced civilization. At least Mandela-worship - its nearest equivalent - is focused on a man who actually did something. I really don't see how the Obama devotees can ever in future mock the Moonies, the Scientologists or people who claim to have been abducted in flying saucers. This is a cult like the one which grew up around Princess Diana, bereft of reason and hostile to facts.
It already has all the signs of such a thing. The newspapers which recorded Obama's victory have become valuable relics. You may buy Obama picture books, and Obama calendars, and if there isn't yet a children's picture version of his story, there soon will be. Proper books, recording his sordid associates, his cowardly voting record, his astonishingly militant commitment to unrestricted abortion and his blundering trip to Africa, are little-read and hard to find.
If you can believe that this undistinguished and conventionally Left-wing machine politician is a sort of secular savior, then you can believe anything. He plainly doesn't believe it himself. His
cliche-stuffed, PC clunker of an acceptance speech suffered badly from nerves. It was what you would expect from someone who knew he'd promised too much and that from now on the easy bit was over.
He needn't worry too much. From now on, the rough boys and girls of America 's Democratic Party apparatus, many recycled from Bill Clinton's stained and crumpled entourage, will crowd round him, to collect the rich spoils of his victory and also tell him what to do, which is what he is used to. Just look at his sermon by the shores of Lake Michigan He really did talk about a 'new dawn', and a 'timeless creed' (which was 'yes, we can'). He proclaimed that 'change has come'.
He revealed that, despite having edited the Harvard Law Review, he doesn't know what 'enormity' means. He reached depths of oratorical drivel never even plumbed by our own Mr. Blair, burbling about putting our hands on the arc of history (or was it the ark of history?) and bending it once more toward the hope of a better day (Don't try this at home!).
I am not making this up. No wonder that awful old hack Jesse Jackson sobbed as he watched. How he must wish he, too, could get away with this sort of stuff.
And it was interesting how the President-elect failed to lift his admiring audience by repeated - but rather hesitant - invocations of the brainless slogan he was forced by his minders to adopt against his will - 'Yes, we can'. They were supposed to thunder 'Yes, we can!' back at him, but they just wouldn't join in. No wonder. Yes we can what exactly? Go home and keep a close eye on the tax rate, is my advice. He'd have been better off bursting into 'I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony' which contains roughly the same message and might have attracted some valuable commercial sponsorship.
Perhaps, being a Chicago crowd, they knew some of the things that 52.5 per cent of America prefers not to know. They know Obama is the obedient servant of one of the most squalid and unshakeable political machines in America. They know that one of his alarmingly close associates, a state-subsidized slum landlord called Tony Rezko, has been convicted on fraud and corruption charges.
They also know the US is just as segregated as it was before Martin Luther King - in schools, streets, neighborhoods, holidays, even in its TV-watching habits and its choice of fast-food joints. The difference is that it is now done by unspoken agreement rather than by law.
If Mr. Obama's election had threatened any of that, his feel-good white supporters would have scuttled off and voted for John McCain, or practically anyone. But it doesn't. Mr. Obama, thanks mainly to the now-departed grandmother he alternately praised as a saint and denounced as a racial bigot, has the huge advantages of an expensive private education. He did not have to grow up in the badlands of useless schools, shattered families and gangs which are the lots of so many young black men of his generation.
If the nonsensical claims made for this election were true, then every positive discrimination program aimed at helping black people into jobs they otherwise wouldn't get should be abandoned forthwith. Nothing of the kind will happen. On the contrary, there will probably be more of them And if those who voted for Obama were all proving their anti-racist nobility, that presumably means that those many millions who didn't vote for him were proving themselves to be hopeless bigots. This is obviously untrue.
I was in Washington, DC the night of the election. America 's beautiful capital has a sad secret. It is perhaps the most racially divided city in the world, with 15th Street - which runs due north from the White House - the unofficial frontier between black and white. But, like so much of America, it also now has a new division, and one, which is in many ways much more important. I had attended an election-night party in a smart and liberal white area, but was staying the night less than a mile away on the edge of a suburb where Spanish is spoken as much as English, plus a smattering of tongues from such places as Ethiopia, Somalia andAfghanistan. As I walked, I crossed another of Washington 's secret frontiers. There had been a few white people blowing car horns and shouting, as the result became clear. But among the Mexicans, Salvadorans and the other Third World nationalities, there was something like ecstasy.
They grasped the real significance of this moment. They knew it meant that America had finally switched sides in a global cultural war. Forget the Cold War, or even the Iraq War. The United States, having for the most part a deeply conservative people, had until now just about stood out against many of the mistakes which have ruined so much of the rest of the world.
Suspicious of welfare addiction, feeble justice and high taxes, totally committed to preserving its own national sovereignty, unabashedly Christian in a world part secular and part Muslim, suspicious of the Great Global Warming panic, it was unique. These strengths had been fading for some time, mainly due to poorly controlled mass immigration and to the march of political correctness. They had also been weakened by the failure of America 's conservative party - the Republicans - to fight on the cultural and moral fronts. They preferred to posture on the world stage.
Scared of confronting Left-wing teachers and sexual revolutionaries at home, they could order soldiers to be brave on their behalf in far-off deserts. And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad.
Where now is our last best hope on Earth?
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Ravelry
I don't remember how I found out about Ravelry, guess it does not matter now. I signed up because based on what I had read and previewed it looked like a great place for me to get my knitting organized if nothing else. I eagerly awaited my place inline to become accepted as a member. The day finally came, I had my name picked out and created my profile. I have added some of my stash in various areas and some projects but have never really had the time to devote to working my own little space there.
After the incident this week of having my group removed due to political issues I debated whether I wanted to remain a part of this large international group. I decided to stay based on the fact that I love the ladies in my now defunct group, they are my online family. I have learned so much from them, we laugh together, we cry together, we love together, we pray for each other, we have so many likenesses in common but mostly our love for America and wanting to see it prosper as the country we know and love. We create afghans for those conservatives who mean a lot to us and have online baby showers. I do belong to other groups but am not real active in them, but I still get "stuff" from them.
I still think Ravelry is a great place to use as a crafter. I do not feel however that many of the groups that are allowed to exist should be on there. I noticed the other day a young child who was just learning to knit, if I was his mother I would not want him exposed to the vulgarity of speech and ravatars, the group such as crotch shots and those discussing their periods and some of the general ugliness. I would hope after this incident that the moderators of Ravelry would step back, take off their liberal glasses and re-adjust to make Ravelry the great place it could be.
After the incident this week of having my group removed due to political issues I debated whether I wanted to remain a part of this large international group. I decided to stay based on the fact that I love the ladies in my now defunct group, they are my online family. I have learned so much from them, we laugh together, we cry together, we love together, we pray for each other, we have so many likenesses in common but mostly our love for America and wanting to see it prosper as the country we know and love. We create afghans for those conservatives who mean a lot to us and have online baby showers. I do belong to other groups but am not real active in them, but I still get "stuff" from them.
I still think Ravelry is a great place to use as a crafter. I do not feel however that many of the groups that are allowed to exist should be on there. I noticed the other day a young child who was just learning to knit, if I was his mother I would not want him exposed to the vulgarity of speech and ravatars, the group such as crotch shots and those discussing their periods and some of the general ugliness. I would hope after this incident that the moderators of Ravelry would step back, take off their liberal glasses and re-adjust to make Ravelry the great place it could be.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SARAH
Today is Sarah Palin's birthday. And yes I do celebrate the day because she is one woman I can truly believe in and yes she would make a good POTUS and do what is right for this country. All you liberals, just wait you have not seen the last of her yet no matter how ugly you are towards her and her followers, we will not be stopped.
The Fairness Doctrine Starts in Ravelry
I am a proud member of The Bunker on Ravelry. If you think Obarfey's new policy of: Get in their face and yell at them til them believe like I do is not alive and well, then you have been hiding under a rock. One of our members has posted on her blog. I plan on writing more later, but I need to calm down before I do. If you are a conservative, be careful it has started, we will be silenced, just wait and see.
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009
More on the 2009 Tea Party
There is a new movement starting called - The 2009 Tea Party - the purpose is to let Congress know just how we feel about their performances. On Feb. 1st we ask that every American send to their Senators and Congressmen a postcard, e-mail, etc. with a picture of a tea bag and this greeting:
2009 Tea Party
We're Mad as Hell
and we're not going to take it
ANYMORE
Welcome to the Revolution
We are determined to get as many people out there to voice their opinions. It worked all those many years ago for our patriots in Boston..Let the Revolution begin. If you are a member of Facebook, a group page has been set up called 2009 Tea Party. It has some good info. Spread the word, let Team Sarah be the leaders.
Time for a Tea Party
So long as we have an inauguration drawing this sort of crowd and not a protest about our government blowing $700 billion of our dollars so that The Pigmen of Wall Street can continue to rob our nation blind, then saddle us with the bill when their bets go bad, we will see no solution.
I cannot take credit for the idea floated on the forum, but I do like it.
It is time for We The People to send a strong message to Washington DC - no more. No more loading our children and grandchildren with debt. No more bailing out speculators and bankers who made bets they knew were unsafe at the time. No more bailing out people who came to Congress to demand the removal of leverage limits, got what they asked for, then blew themselves up with the very leverage they demanded to be able to use.
No more.
Therefore, on February 1st, which is more than enough time for Barack Obama to be seated in his chair in the West Wing, I am recommending an act of peaceful, lawful and yet unmistakable protest.
That is, to mail President Obama one teabag. Nothing dangerous, nothing illegal - just one teabag.
Send one to your Congressman and one to each Senator.
Later, when the weather is a bit warmer and fountains are running water (rather than frozen!) this sort of protest can be repeated with LOOSE tea in select cities.
But for now, let's start with the symbolism, to be repeated each and every time our government votes or intends to do something similarly stupid - which I presume will include Obama's "stimulus" package.
If we all mail our teabags on February 1st, it will send a strong message to Washington. Include a copy of this Ticker, another Ticker related to the many bailouts (pick one!) or write your own letter condemning the fraud and abuse in our banking and financial system - with the teabag being your symbolic refusal to quietly pay for it.
Pass it around the blogs and email lists - its a bag of tea folks, and the obvious parallel to the Boston Tea Party of old should be instantly obvious to everyone who receives it.
This is from market-ticker.org
I cannot take credit for the idea floated on the forum, but I do like it.
It is time for We The People to send a strong message to Washington DC - no more. No more loading our children and grandchildren with debt. No more bailing out speculators and bankers who made bets they knew were unsafe at the time. No more bailing out people who came to Congress to demand the removal of leverage limits, got what they asked for, then blew themselves up with the very leverage they demanded to be able to use.
No more.
Therefore, on February 1st, which is more than enough time for Barack Obama to be seated in his chair in the West Wing, I am recommending an act of peaceful, lawful and yet unmistakable protest.
That is, to mail President Obama one teabag. Nothing dangerous, nothing illegal - just one teabag.
Send one to your Congressman and one to each Senator.
Later, when the weather is a bit warmer and fountains are running water (rather than frozen!) this sort of protest can be repeated with LOOSE tea in select cities.
But for now, let's start with the symbolism, to be repeated each and every time our government votes or intends to do something similarly stupid - which I presume will include Obama's "stimulus" package.
If we all mail our teabags on February 1st, it will send a strong message to Washington. Include a copy of this Ticker, another Ticker related to the many bailouts (pick one!) or write your own letter condemning the fraud and abuse in our banking and financial system - with the teabag being your symbolic refusal to quietly pay for it.
Pass it around the blogs and email lists - its a bag of tea folks, and the obvious parallel to the Boston Tea Party of old should be instantly obvious to everyone who receives it.
This is from market-ticker.org
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