I can’t even believe that we have to petition to have autonomy over our own bodies!  But here it is…

They are now calling for forced vaccinations of staff and children at a daycare center in Chicago due to five babies coming down with Measles.

Again, I repeat, MEASLES IS NOT A DEADLY DISEASE.  There are very few deaths, AND those death probably could have been prevented through a non-gluten diet, unpolluted air, and unpolluted water.  Parents, if your child has measles, you need to supplement with Vitamin A.  When given to children with Measles, they avoid the more serious complications such as pnuemonia.  Perhaps juicing carrots would be the way to go.

Be well, my friends…

This is freaking awesome!

Why is an alleged predator still shooting mag covers for Rolling Stone and Bazaar? In this piece that Vogue distanced itself when Richardson’s predatory behavior was being talked about last year.

So…they have quietly decided that Richardson “wasn’t so bad, after all?”

Or perhaps they hoped that once the brouhaha died down, that no one would notice they were once again working with this creep?

By all accounts, he’s not even that good of a photographer, using overexposure as a way to….look sophisticated…?

My other posts on Richardson:

Sleazebag Terry Richardson.

Brainless Model Stands up to Terry Richardson.

Another model comes forward on Terry Richardson

Terry Richardson Assistant who cajoled his alleged victims, identified.

Gene Logsdon, the Contrary Farmer, has an interesting post up on the correlation between the downfall of societies and corn.

From the post:

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In Mayan culture and in the Late Prehistoric Age of the mound-building American Indians, corn was the major crop. It’s what they mostly ate. Archeologists are finding evidence that this diet led to deteriorating health and maybe was the main reason the mound-building Indians seemed to mysteriously disappear about a thousand years ago. The collapse of the mound-building culture and the collapse of the Mayan civilization earlier coincided with an agriculture and diet dominated by corn. In both cases, rising population and diminishing soil fertility encouraged war and instability because the only way the people knew to maintain high corn yields was to find new land to grow it on.

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Perhaps celiac disease developed in the corn-centered diet and the continual eating of corn further inflamed their guts to the point of death?  Or to the point of inability of the gut to digest food properly, and they died of malnutrition and disease due to their gut being unable to mount an attack when a pathogen appeared?

The more I read of farming, the more convinced I am that diverse farms are the answer to soil depletion of nutrients and beneficial organisms; to fight off harmful insects (or at least keep them in check).  I was just reading about planting beets yesterday, and they recommended not planting them in the same spot year after year.  The mistake that most beginner gardeners make is thinking that since a plant did so well in one spot, that they should plant the same plant there again the next year.  Nope.  They were saying that beets are “heavy eaters” in that they take up a lot of nutrients, therefore one needs to plant something else the next year to put nutrients back into the soil.  This also goes along with composting food scraps, leaves, twigs, and dirt, because they also put nutrients back into the soil.

Pic here.  I have one word:  ick.  And it has nothing to do with me wanting the Seahawks to win over cheating Patriots …but everything to do with a passionate kiss between a father and daughter that is highly inappropriate.

Farmer’s Almanac has a video up on natural pest control in the garden.  Marigolds are mentioned a lot when I have researched this, as they put off a scent the bugs don’t like.  They repel caterpillars from tomatoes, for one.

Farmer’s Almanac had suggested this video for making one’s own paper pots to put seedlings in.  I thought I’d pass it along:

Love the dogs 🙂