So, if I understand correctly calcium is the key here and anything that interferes with it can causes obesity depending on our bone's health? So, electronics oscillating at around 900 Mhz shake loose calcium ions with a +2 charge? What a powerful free radical to have in our bodies. Drugs like "Beta Blockers" reduce blood calcium levels in an attempt to control heart nerve function? GMOs stop intestinal mineral absorption again reducing our calcium levels? wow! Lack of calcium in the body causes insomnia? McDonald's food contains GMOs and depending on a persons sensitivity (intestinal damage), gluten can cause both weight loss or weight gain? We digest carbohydrates first then vitamins, proteins, fats, and minerals last. So, even a mild food allergy to a chemical found in processed food can interrupt calcium absorption? In order to make calcium work in all 147 of it's functions in the body it requires 76 more minerals, 16 vitamins, 12 amino acids, and 3 fatty acids? And, our bodies are hungry until our mineral needs are satisfied? I have one last thought, eating the same poisonous or nutritionally challenged food in a bad environment only in smaller quantities while sweating to the oldies and expecting really positive results is the definition of insanity. Hosea 4:6 BT- toxin is just half of the equation with GMO food. Glyphosate is the other. BT-toxin damages the intestinal track; that's how it kills bugs. Glyphosate renders manganese inert causing bone, joint, and lung damage. Oh, this is also how it kills plants. Yum yum, Round-Up ready GMOs. Last note: lung cancer doesn't require smoking; it is a selenium deficiency. However, aggravating it by inhaling a free radical regularly while impeding oxygen (an anti-oxidant) is always a good idea! Here is a brain teaser: Free rascals are positively charged ions. Anti-oxidants are negatively charged molecules. Oxygen's dual molecule can neutralize up to 4 positive charges per molecule making it an anti-oxidant. So, anti-oxidants really oxidize free rascals?

Interesting OpEd piece: Socialism comes to the rescue on Wall Street John Farmer NJ Star Ledger Tuesday, September 23, 2008 American capitalism was rescued last week by -- who'd have believe it? -- socialism. Free-market fundamentalists will spin what happened as something else. "Temporary government intervention in the market" or "just another federal loan program." And there's the ever-popular "bailout," a neutral term implying we do it all the time and it absolves everyone of any blame. None dare call it socialism. But that's surely what it is. Washington has nationalized AIG, the insurance giant, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as much as Moscow under Vladimir Putin has nationalized big-winner industries like oil. But with this defense: The Russians nationalized profit and privatized losses. We privatize profit and nationalize losses. And that's the worst sort of socialism. At the same time, we're told that this "bailout" it good for all of us little people and that we must not point the finger of blame. We're all in this together, the argument goes. It's an argument especially favored by Republicans. But it's too patently self-serving. It you can't point the finger of blame at those "masters of the universe" who turned Wall Street wealth into Confederate currency, then, by extension, you can't fault the Bush administration, which squandered a $250 billion surplus, spilt American blood and treasure in an unnecessary war in Iraq and closed its eyes to the rape of capitalism by Wall Street free-market fundamentalists. What we're witnessing is an end to the era of unregulated capitalism that began with Ronald Reagan and was carried to its absurdist extreme under George W. Bush and his radical Republicans. It's over. And Wall Street will never be the same. So has the hour of 1930s-type socialism finally returned? Not quite. But only because it has never really left us. It just changed. Instead of socialism for the little guy, the American version for almost 40 years has been socialism for Big Business. You doubt that? How about subsidies for farmers who don't even farm? Or tax subsidies for American exporters, some of the biggest winners in the great economic scam known as globalization? Or $14 billion in tax subsidies for an oil industry choking on obscene profits? Or the GOP's tax cuts for wealth individuals? And how about the $50 billion that the colossally incompetent U.S. auto industry wants the taxpayer to pony up? Wall Street's lust for federal lucre -- never mind the Street's pious protestations against government intervention -- borders on the indecent. Not content with the up to $700 billion in federal help already promised, the gluttons on Wall Street want even more at-risk institutions on the welfare rolls -- "the definition of Financial Institution (in the bailout bill) should be as broad as possible," according the Financial Services Roundtable, a shill for the industry. But it doesn't end there. While having its hand out to the American people for help, these same Wall Street miscreants -- "malefactors of great wealth," Teddy Roosevelt called them -- refuse to accept limits on CEO compensation or on the multimillion-dollar retirement packages given CEOs who've trashed their companies. And what about those stockholders? They'll suffer, Wall Street's apologists contend. Gimme a break. Sure, small and middle-income investors and IRAs, 401(k)s and pensions will suffer. But the big guys -- those wealthy enough to have diversified portfolios -- will weather this storm nicely and, in fact, do quite well, when Wall Street eventually recovers. Meanwhile, Wall Street has an ally in this fight for CEO riches. It's the Republican Party in Washington. No surprise there. The GOP under Bush has become a wholly owned subsidiary of corporate America. It's not the Republican Party of my youth, which, under Robert Taft and Dwight Eisenhower, insisted on a decent level of regulation of the capital markets. The modern Republican Party is run by Texas oil oligarchs, Western state ranch and mining interests and a deep South white aristocracy still nostalgic for segregation. They fancy themselves rugged individualists. But actually they're the biggest hogs at the federal trough; unlike the liberal states of the Northeast and Midwest, they take far more out of the federal treasury than they ever put in -- Sarah Palin's Alaska being one of the biggest hogs, with or without lipstick. None of this should be read as an endorsement of socialism. It doesn't work -- at least not for long. Eventually it consumes more resources than it creates. The best example is the collapse into near bankruptcy of Great Britain in the postwar period under a series of socialist Labor governments -- rescued only by Margaret Thatcher's imposition of free-market discipline. But, lest we forget, Thatcher's free-market fundamentalism ultimately failed when it became more an ideology, even a theology (like Wall Street Journal economics), than a real-life politics that real-life people could comprehend. The upshot is this: Socialism sounds good, but it's a scam. But unregulated capitalism is just as bad. It invariably implodes over greed. A mixed economy, blending the best of socialist concern for the powerless and a free-market economics that accommodates innovation and enterprise, works best in a huge nation like America. What we have reached is not a socialist era. Not even a socialist hour. But surely Wall Street's collapse has brought us a socialist moment. John Farmer may be reached at jfarmer@starledger.com. To comment on his column, go to NJVoices.com.

Not surprising. Though here is some news that might be. I wonder if this article explains why you may be able to get your 'dream house' on the hill (foreclosure you've had your eye on) at a steal of $150k, instead of $700k+ you mentioned it was worth earlier? The Great American Housing Nightmare: Next Phase by Martin D. Weiss, Ph.D. 11-03-08 " The end of the decline in home prices will come only when there are no new economic forces driving them down. When will that be? I'd love to say it's just around the corner. But everything I see tells me that, despite the sharp declines already recorded, a steeper plunge in home values is dead ahead. The reason: So far, most of the troubles in the housing market have been caused by bad mortgages going sour. Meanwhile, * the more common causes of housing slumps " high interest rates, rising unemployment, and recession" are just starting to kick in. And * the most powerful causes " depression and deflation" are still on the horizon. In the boom leading up to the Great Depression of the 1930s, most Americans did not borrow money to buy a home. Variable rate mortgages didn't exist. And Wall Street investors rarely got involved in the business of financing homes. Home prices did fall dramatically. But those price declines came mostly after the stock market crashed, after the economy shrunk and after millions of workers had lost their jobs. The crux of the problem today: That phase of the housing crisis still lies ahead. Moreover, this time, because of massive debts, the pressure to abandon or sell homes is far greater. Conclusion: If the U.S. sinks into a depression, home price declines could be as deep as, or deeper than, those of the Great Depression, especially in the hardest hit regions of the country. It is a frightening thought. Yet, on the positive side, a sharply reduced price for the average home is the only fundamental, enduring mechanism for making homes more affordable and restoring demand- especially if the days of easy credit are gone. Already, in 2008, one in ten American homeowners has defaulted on their mortgage or lost their home in foreclosure. Nearly four in ten owe more than their home is worth." The speculative bubble in U.S. homes is as extreme as each of these historic examples; and in the most hard-hit regions, the resulting price collapse could be equally extreme. Indeed, the Great American Housing Nightmare is progressing in three phases: Phase 1. The bust in the subprime mortgage market. This is now history. Phase 2. A severe U.S. recession. As of this writing, this phase is just beginning. Phase 3. Depression and deflation. Still ahead. Therefore, no matter how far home prices in your area have already fallen and no matter how cheap they may appear, they could still fall a lot further. In the hardest hit regions, an individual home that was once priced for $400,000 at its peak could fall to as low as $200,000 by the end of Phase 1. But don't blindly assume that's the bottom. In Phase 2, it could fall in half again, to $100,000. And in Phase 3, it could fall by at least half for a third time, to as low as $50,000 or $40,000. Homes with peak prices of $1 million could sell for as little as $100,000; some, originally priced for $10 million may have no buyers at all-even with asking prices as low as $1 million....." A link that might be useful: www.moneyandmarkets.com/the-great-american-housing-nightmare -next-phase-27880

Why do some drivers ride your tail and/ or impatiently pass you, only to be stopped at a red light within a block or so? And I do so agree about the people in stores who act like they're the only ones shopping! And from my many years of experience teaching kids and young people, I've learned that no matter how carefully you explain, and no matter how much you emphasize or repeat instructions, there's always at least one who gets it wrong. Not everyone is always paying 100% attention. I've typed plurals with apostrophes plenty of times, and homophones too. Sometimes I think my fingers have a mind of their own 😄 It's a good thing I obsessively proofread my writing, or there'd be many more typos. P. S. In answer to the OP questions, lots of people have never seen the words referred to written down and may have zero knowledge of French - or any other language, seemingly.