Okay, if you ignore the stupid methods of using voodoo dolls in this study, it does make sense.
I could have saved them the $$ spent on the study…my oldest child was getting into trouble –which usually meant picking on his sisters. I began to notice a pattern that it almost always happened before dinner. Aha! Low blood sugar! So then I would give him something to eat to keep his blood sugar level–cut down on the arguments.
So, yeah…all they had to do was ask a Mom…
I went back to look for updates on Shanesha Taylor, the mother who left her kids in a car to go to a job interview. She pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Leonard Pitts has a good piece up on her plight–the difficulties the poor face in trying to get out of poverty. He makes some stinging observations about all the waste in Congress…and yet…they would rather deny people food and aid to get out of poverty…
First, I have to say that I don’t endorse leaving children in vehicles, period.
BUT, if a mother is poor and going to a job interview to get out of poverty, and has no one to turn to…what is she supposed to do?
She’s told to ‘get off her ass and get a job”…but how is she supposed to do that when she has no money to afford day care until she get that job?
Was she supposed to take the children into the interview? She would have been shot down for the job immediately, especially given all the competition for positions.
“Everything is focused on the mother and understandably so. It seems to be a very compelling human interest story,” County Attorney Bill Montgomery said at a recent news conference. “But I’m equally concerned and compelled about the circumstances those two children were in.”
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Really…? So, if Shanesha brought the kids to your office, being “concerned and compelled” you would personally watch them while she went to the interview…? Yeah, I didn’t think so…
With all the obstacles, how exactly are the poor supposed to get out of poverty? Not being arrested is a good start.
Bless Amanda Bishop for looking out for another.
…all you have to do is buy some land to put it on and find some way to move it….but the cost for the place is $0. Can’t beat that!
Now some enterprising person could help a homeless person by arranging for this house’s transference to another plot of land. The First Nations people could use it. Battered women could use it. The list could go on…
First Nations and Greenpeace women stand together against pipeline expansion…
“We’re standing here together to link arms to build the wall of women to say no, we do not want that in our communities, we will not accept this in our communities, we want better,” said Nahanee. “Canada has a responsibility to protect their communities, we have the right to live in healthy environments— healthy environments to raise our children, to take care of our grandparents, to drink healthy water, to eat healthy food. It’s basic human rights.”
– Mandy Nahanee
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Who would have thought that we would actually have to protest keeping our water clean and healthy??
Good on the women standing together, protecting the Earth. She needs us.
City Jackdaw has the reasons you could have been admitted to a mental institution in the 19th century.
Masturbation and, well, being a woman from all the “ailments” associated with being female. Freud was an influence, I’m sure.
Note the reading of a novel was reason enough to be admitted! No doubt this was directed at a woman, because women were discouraged from educating themselves. Truly, the medical profession said women would “shrink” their uterus if they went to college. They based this genius on the observation that women who went to college were not as likely to have children, not have as many children. Yep.
I wish I could say that the psychiatric profession has progressed passed the misogyny, but if you read the DSM, their diagnostic manual, it has “diseases” that describe the symptoms of being…a woman. It’s a very vague description that has no reasoning behind it.
Related to this~
I was watching a documentary on Andrea Yates yesterday. Her case always troubled me. I felt at the time that she is mercury toxic for her to suddenly start acting mentally ill.
My intuition has been heightened by more clues — she became non-verbal (autistic symptoms) with her children, even though she performed regular duties such as fixing them lunch. Her father had Alzheimer’s, so he and she were probably exposed to mercury (my belief that mercury and aluminum are direct causes of Alzheimer’s). Her father was of Irish ancestry–another strong clue of inability to detox mercury.
She began to act irrationally after the birth of her fourth child. This is crucial because if she were already mercury burdened at her own birth (possibility), and received Rho-Gam shots, she received more mercury via the shots. After the fifth birth, she absolutely would have more toxicity and the mercury amount probably pushed her over the edge.
Those around her described her as loving before she became ill. Her symptoms match mercury/heavy metal toxicity: anxiety, depression, autistic symptoms, bags under her eyes (adrenal fatigue/thyroid), self-mutilation, and on top of that, the very drugs she was prescribed most likely caused more harm than good.
I hope that someone around her with some intellect will look into heavy metal poisoning as the root cause of her illness. I just feel it in my gut.
Ken Previtti has this up on the bullying of Chicago Teachers….a modern day twist of McCarthyism, where if you don’t tow the line, you’re blacklisted via losing certification.
Democracy, meet dictatorship.
This is unconscionable. The teachers refuse to subject the kids to it. The parents don’t want it. And the kids certainly don’t benefit from it. As Ken states, the only people that benefit are the education profiteer$ who sell the test prep, the tests, scoring the tests, and anything else they can think of to profit.
Are the parents not taxpayers? Are the teachers not taxpayers? And the public taxpayer who does not want CCSS? Again I ask, if the taxpayers don’t want this…then why are their wishes being ignored?
Meanwhile, in Indiana, they are going to push online learning to make up for all the snow days we had this winter….nice way to shoehorn the kids into online learning…
…and get rid of teachers altogether.
The critics of environmentalists claim that we’re phonies…okay, well, here is my journey…
…my advocating for the environment has been a slow evolving process that includes my experience with mercury poisoning, growing awareness of what we’re doing to the atmosphere, and a spiritual component of realizing everything is connected.
Here are some of the things I do:
–use cloth bags when going to the grocery. I might use plastic for meat, but I re-use those bags, too, bringing them to the grocery along with the cloth bags. If you use the cloth bags for meat, be sure to launder them before using again, to avoid contamination.
–avoid plastic packaging. …well, plastic *everything*. This has been much easier following the GAPS diet because you don’t eat the processed food in packaging, but real food. If I am given an option, I will buy something in glass packaging before plastic.
—re-use the glass containers for drinking glasses, food storage, plants, etc. I try to avoid ziploc bags when possible.
—don’t purchase synthetic materials like nylon and other materials requiring petroleum. The list I think is a catch-all, because I think some of the things listed are made with petroleum if plastic or manufactured cloth such as nylon, so some of the products listed could be okay if not using those materials. Here’s a website on organic cotton, fyi.
–When I had my home, I made a conscious decision not to pave the driveway–it was gravel. I didn’t spray for weeds, either. I let my grass grow to 3 inches so that the roots could grow deeply enough to avoid having to water the lawn, especially during the dry time in July–this also helped keep the weeds down. Meanwhile, my neighbors practically shaved the grass off and…wait for it…had to waste precious water to keep the grass from dying in July. I let a patch of ground that was the former owner’s garden, grow its natural way, without my interference. Yeah, I was the neighborhood hippie…
—use baking soda, borax, and vinegar for cleaning. A formula I found in a natural health mag goes like this: Bathroom cleaner: 6 T vinegar, 2 T borax mixed with a cup– of warm water. Put this in a 1 qt. spray bottle and fill the rest with water. Works great, especially if used every day.
—I would like to use non-toxic natural cleaners for laundry, dish washing, etc., but with my finances, this isn’t doable right now. Oh, and fyi, avoid dishwashers–the detergent used in them is highly toxic.
—ride a bike or walk when going somewhere. This was easier for me when I lived in Fort Wayne, where everything was within walking distance. I could get to the downtown in 45 minutes to an hour. There is something to be said for walking or riding–you are much more connected to what is going on around you. You hear the birds sing. Feel the breeze. Hear the ripple of water along the river…driving a vehicle cuts you off from so much, besides polluting.
—use flannel cloths instead of toilet paper and re-wash them. I know, I know, some of you are going “ick” right now. No. 1 is fine…No. 2 still requires paper. So there.
—cloth pads instead of chemically manufactured pads.
—use less. I just use less. This was part of the learning process of being poor–you just learn how to manage on less. Not easy, for sure. I became much more adept at planning meals and using food up before it went to waste. I didn’t buy as much at the grocery until I needed it. This is easier if the grocery is within walking distance….which is becoming harder as the independents are being forced out while big box stores are situated out in no-man’s-land, forcing people to drive there.
—garden organically, using compost from kitchen waste, and if you’re really adventurous, pee and poo. This is not for sissies…so come with your brain in active mode and your determination to get away from petroleum and chemicals. You will succeed, but you can’t give up when challenged. Nature does challenge you, but also gives such splendid rewards. 😉
This is an ongoing process, for sure. I didn’t just wake up one day and start doing all of this. It was a gradual endeavor with every new discovery of my own contribution to pollution.
So…there you have it…my efforts towards helping instead of hurting the environment.
I think if we all took those first steps, and built on that, we would greatly reduce our dependency on petroleum. Everything helps and every bit matters.
Jan Resseger has a blog up on the report of the Chicago Teachers Union strike in September 2012. This, my friends, is what a democratically run union looks like. Other unions TAKE HEED.
The teacher’s and counselor’s passion is evident in this report. They care about these kids and what the profiteers are doing to them. Note how the police, fire, parents, and community stepped up and supported them. Good for them.
Eagle 
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