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I'm a 60 something wife, mom and grandmom who is homebound/disabled by severe hypersensitivity to chemicals. I fill my days with learning, loving and art. My favorite values are truth, generosity and gratitude.

Home Remedies for Depression and Anxiety

Depression heart

  1. Follow a Mediterranean diet.
  2. Eat naturally fermented foods daily.
  3. Meditate.
  4. Exercise.
  5. Allow yourself to weep.
  6. Share with a friend.
  7. Contemplate truth.
  8. Experience beauty.
  9. Take a nap.
  10. Give yourself a treat.
  11. Relax in a hot bath.
  12. Go to bed on time.

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MASCOT: Bunny starts kindergarten next month

2017_07 03 A w guitar

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Saturday’s Tidbits

2017_07 08 Ocare fact of the day

MAGA: President Trump’s Weekly Address

FAKE NEWS: WaPo is pushing a misleading story about how the First Lady of Poland allegedly refused to shake hands with President Trump. It didn’t happen, as the FULL video shows.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/07/this-is-what-fake-news-looks-like-polish-first-lady-passes-over-trump-handshake/

WHINERS: “European protesters are angry that America isn’t footing the bill for every social justice issue the world can come up with.”

2017_07 Fauxcahontas' foe

FAUXCAHONTAS’ FOE! The Indian-American entrepreneur who is gunning for Elizabeth Warren’s U.S. Senate seat tweeted that he was “deeply saddened” that she had refused his “thoughtful (gift-wrapped) Birthday Gift.” He then posted hilarious screenshots of a DNA test kit he had purchased online for her.

BIASED NEWS: Senator Bob Menedez is two months away from a 22-count felony trial. Menedez is accused of taking gifts from a man found guilty in federal court in April of pocketing more than $90 million in Medicare payments. And yet, this is not making national news at all. Maybe because Menedez is a Democrat?

http://www.nj.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/07/judge_denies_co-defendants_req.html

OOPS: After SCOTUS reinstated substantially all of Trump’s Travel Order No. 2, Hawaii went to its district court demanding “clarification.” The district court told Hawaii to ask the Supreme Court justices, not them.

http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/07/judge-denies-hawaii-request-to-halt-trump-admin-interpretation-of-scotus-travel-order-ruling/

TERROR: Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist convicted in the November 2009 shooting rampage that left 13 dead and 31 wounded, was sentenced to death Wednesday by a military jury.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/08/28/military-jury-sentences-fort-hood-killer-hasan/2712803/

BWAHAHAHAHA! CNN has fallen to #13 in cable TV rankings, according to weekly numbers posted on Thursday by TV Newser.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/06/cnn-slides-to-13-in-cable-rankings/

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God, have mercy on the Catholic Church!

Baptismal vow

July 2017 – The secretary to one of Pope Francis’ closest collaborators has been arrested while hosting a cocaine-fueled homosexual orgy in a building right next to St. Peter’s Basilica.

Michael Hichborn, president of the U.S.-based Lepanto Institute, says the Church’s enemies are trying to destroy her from within.

“We know for a fact that Communists and homosexuals were specifically recruited as far back as the 1920’s to infiltrate seminaries. It was a concerted effort to destroy the Church from within. What we are seeing is the culmination of nearly 100 years worth of this effort playing itself out,” he said.

Hichborn said that faithful Catholics must not abandon their Mother, the Church, in the face of such evil. “What Capozzi was caught doing is absolutely vile, but his crime was as much against the Church he claims to serve as it was against the faithful who are affected by his actions.”

I am sickened by this, though sadly, not surprised. It’s not that I expected this degree of filth so close to Pope Francis, but that I have suspected for a long time that his closest advisors are devout Leftists whose true agenda is to advance the cause of Satan by weakening the Holy Catholic Church.

It is my sincere prayer that he has been deceived, rather than complicit, and that this appalling scandal will serve as a much needed wake up call.

Please help me pray for my church and for my fellow Catholics.

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“Here, Jesus Christ is our King”

Poland to Muslims: “We don’t need aggression in the name of Allah.”

Also courtesy of facebkwallflower:

This is an old story, a couple of years old but still interesting.

Tens Of Thousands Of Christians In Poland Take Over The Streets To Fight Islam And Leftism, They Cry Out “God, honour, homeland” And “Stop Islamisation”

More. Again from a couple of years back.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/catholic-poland-reluctant-help-muslim-refugees-2091168202

 

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I had a sensational check-up yesterday!

I’ve been cleaning up my dying puter in anticipation of getting an upgrade from the House of Buzz, where puters are upgraded to actual newness, leaving me happily and cheaply surfing the trailing edge of technology. 🙂

Anyhoops, I came across this scan of my graduate school i.d. card. I thought y’all would be highly amused. Keep in mind that, by the time they took this picture, I had been standing in lines for about 5 hours, trying to get registered for the classes I needed. If I look a tad manic, it’s probably because I was feeling a tad manic! LOL
So, on to the main topic!

Fifty weeks ago, I was admitted to the ICU for kidney failure and severe electrolyte imbalance. Then, while I was hospitalized, I sprung a leak and lost a bunch of blood, which led to one more visit to the ER.

Yesterday’s check-up revealed my kidneys have improved amazingly! They were functioning at 15% when I was admitted to the hospital. Afterwards, they improved quickly into the low 20s, then stayed stuck there for months. The nephrologist told me that if they stayed below 25%, I would suffer permanent kidney damage and end up on dialysis.

Yesterday, my blood test showed my kidneys are functioning at FORTY-ONE PERCENT!!

Two other signs of kidney recovery include Blood Urea Nitrogen (BUN), which is now in the normal range, and creatinine which dropped from 2.0 in April to 1.3. If I do as well again during the next 3 months, I’ll be in the normal range by my next check-up in October!

My electrolytes are still a tad off, but they are improving, and I’ve almost replaced all the blood I lost.

Also, since the hospital, my doctor tested my thyroid, found it underactive and put me on Synthroid, which has helped my energy level. This time around, since I have so many auto-immune issues and continue to battle with fatigue, we tested for thyroid and adrenal antibodies. No sign of either, which is outstanding.

PRAISE GOD!! And mega huge thanks to all of you who have prayed for me!

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Another Promise Kept

Newcomer House

President Donald Trump has donated his entire first-quarter White House salary of $78,333.32 to fund restoration projects at Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland.

The money will restore the historic Newcomer house on the Antietam battlefield and help replace fencing at the national park, which preserves and commemorates the site of the bloodiest day of the Civil War.

The Battle of Antietam occurred on Sept. 17, 1862, leaving nearly 23,000 soldiers dead, injured, or missing.

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“I hope you will be treated unfairly.”

This is well worth five minutes of your time and all of your attention. Lots of wisdom and some very funny bits as well.

Middle School Commencement Address by Chief Justice John G Roberts, Jr.

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The world’s greatest provocateur

There are many discussions about the President Trump “wrestling” CNN tweet, but it’s time to get to the heart of the matter: that the tweet was brilliant, anticipating a ridiculously overwrought reaction by the legacy media, and boy, did they deliver.

It’s one thing to say the media is fake and can’t be trusted, and quite another to show it to the American people. So consumed with their loathing of the president, some in the legacy media can’t see past themselves and did exactly what you’d expect the pathologically obsessed to do: pathologically obsess.

While everyone else was laughing at the tweet of a staged pro-wrestling stunt from years ago, various CNN news actors insisted their lives were now at risk. This proved the president’s point that the network is not serious, on a singular mission to destroy the president, and ergo can’t be trusted to report what really matters to the American people.

The president remains one step ahead of those who work to harm his ability to do his job, creating an environment where the American people can decide for themselves who they can trust. And it’s apparently not the media. A new NPR/PBS/Marist poll found just 30 percent of Americans have trust in the media, which is double-digits lower than the president’s latest Rasmussen approval rating.

There is another revelation brought to us by the absurd reaction by the mainstream media: their hypocrisy.

We’ve been told for weeks that a play in Central Park featuring the slaughter of Mr. Trump was “just art.”

Just after Kathy Griffin, who worked for CNN at the time, distributed a picture of her holding up a bloody, decapitated head of Mr. Trump ISIS-style, CNN’s Jake Tapper hosted a panel which insisted it was much ado about nothing. …

Well, fast forward just a few weeks, and CNN suddenly does care, and did find time to accuse the president of inciting violence against them — because of a staged wrestling meme where their logo gets jumped. Got it.

Read the rest @

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/5/donald-trump-cnn-tweet-shows-his-mastery-of-social/

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This is the real face of single-payer health care

2017_07 Charlie Gard

Great Britain has nationalized health care. The government pays for any and all health care that British citizens are permitted to receive.

And, because he who has the gold makes the rules, the British government is in charge of deciding what, when, where, why, how, and whether any citizen gets any particular service.

Charlie Gard is a British citizen. British doctors want to turn off his life support.  A British court has ruled they can do this despite his parents’ wishes.

Last week, the European Court of Human Rights ruled against his parents’ appeal to take him to the U.S.

His parents raised £1.3 million on a crowdfunding site for his care. The British courts said that didn’t matter. British citizens are not allowed to have privately funded health care, because that wouldn’t be FAIR.

The Vatican hospital has invited Charlie to come to Rome for care. The British courts have ruled that for “legal reasons”, the baby cannot be allowed to leave the country.

World leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump and Pope Francis have offered their support for British infant Charlie Gard, but his own prime minister, Theresa May, declined to intervene on his behalf.

Until President Trump tweeted about Charlie’s plight, the major networks refused to report his story.

Supporters who run two prominent social media pages for Charlie say they are being censored by Facebook and Twitter.  Messages are being marked as spam and the hashtag #SaveCharlieGard has been suspended.

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