MarciaJ720's Comments (38)

“No, I think its our tax policy thats driving people out.”

“HELLO --- every time you shop at Walmart your dollars leave this country”

“The US no longer produces much so there is no union base. Think that the people working at the outsourced jobs have any benefits or worker protections? When the middle class becomes extinct, the Raygunites, Wall Street, the World Bank, and the IMF will have met their goal. Of course, there will be no need for political parties so the MSM may find intself in financial difficulty.”

“I've read recently that people who find vegetables to have bitter tastes often have a higher chance of having hypothroidism.

Many vegetables are "goitrogenic", meaning that they are bad for the thyroid gland. Of course most vegetables are very healthy generally, but some of them can harm a vulnerable person's thyroid.

I find many goitrogenic vegetables to taste bitter, especially brussels sprouts, cauliflower, broccoli, and turnips.

Most lists of goitrogenic foods only have the few main ones to avoid, and don't include the 30 or 40 foods that I have found by scouring sources. It's amazing, how many foods have goitrogens. The list includes almonds, pine nuts, peaches, etc. It's worth looking on the internet and collecting all information you can find on this, especially if one has a diagnosed thyroid problem. Doctors don't seem to know much about goitrogenic foods or warn against them, preferring to prescribe medication and move on.

Cooking reduces the goitrogenic component of some foods, but doesn't in all (for example - tapioca/cassava, millet). It takes a lot of cooking - 25 minutes of boiling broccoli eliminates about 80% of the goitrogen, for example. Boiling for 5 minutes doesn't remove that much, something like 25%.

I think that Dr. Weil suggests that hypothyroid people limit themselves to 1 serving of a goitrogenic food per day.

To the poster above who finds veggies to taste bitter, if you haven't looked into the possibility that you might have an insufficient thyroid, you might want to check it”

“Be careful when telling Dr. Hyman about taking medicine. He might try to tell you to stop taking it and instead cure your MS through detoxification ... whatever that might mean ...”

“Servicemembers who are being harassed can find help at:
http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/”

“I agree very real intimidation going on, too. In my town Christians wrote into the local newspaper telling people to boycott Walmart because an employee (a Wiccan) was allowed to wear a pentagram. To Walmart's credit, they pointed out that a Christian is also welcome to wear a cross. But you would have thought from the letter that someone's life was in mortal danger from a simple piece of jewelry. They couldn't seem to make the connection about religious freedom.”

“Thanks for mentioning that. Our worthless and cowardly MSM won't go near the subject of militaristic fundamentalist Christians rising in the ranks of our military. Rather worrying, the idea of people who believe we're in the "end times" having power in a military that has thousands of nuclear weapons at its disposal.”

“You said it, MarciaJ720.

We also lost public education, public transportation, reliable air travel, and our national collective sense of integrity and higher purpose. We became spiritually hollow creatures of conspicuous consumption. "I buy therefore I am".

Ronald Reagan had to have been the most glib, affable, yet mis-guided, wrong-headed President we've ever had. The last one, of course, was way more misguided and wrong-headed, but lacking in the glib and affable sectors.”

“I do not judge someone who gets pregnant before marriage, but I do judge someone who babbles incessantly about abstinence only when she and her family do not practice it. Furthermore, Ms. Palin must have known that her daughter's pregnancy would have been the subject of much conversation in the press and the public arena and it was selfish of her to put Bristol in that spot. It is unlikely to me that Levi and Bristol wanted to marry; had they truly wanted this, they would have done so immediately rather than waiting around; and it does not reflect well on Ms. Palin that she lied repeatedly about this.”

“Glenn Beck and Chuck Norris should be arrested for promoting an insurrection!”

“I think you give McCain too much credit and let him off the hook too easily. He is responsible for everything that was said and done during that campaign, and for that reason he should be ashamed and stop blaming everyone else...I agree on that.”

“I watch CSAN and see this old fool walking around, now this is nothing against age ,it just seems he's sputtering to himself saying I should be walking around the whitehouse not this place. He should never of been the rep's pick.”

“Palin 2012!”

“FACT: No actual birth certificate has been produced
FACT: Obama's grandmother said she witnessed his birth in Kenya
FACT: Obama has nor released any of his school records
FACT: Obama has not released any of his medical records

What is he hiding? If nothing, release the records and put this to rest.”

“"Their minds will not allow the facts to change the emotional center in their brains."

Religion, explained.”

“I know. It's what you say in your last sentence that I keep thinking about as well. How many voters who claim to be for Obama will get in the booth in November and find that they just can't vote for the black guy?”

“How can we ensure that she does not wear a wire or mic in the VP debate similar to Bush in 2004 debates?”