Several years ago, I read somewhere that our Indian tribes used to draw the poison out of scorpion-stings, by covering them with the flesh of a prickly-pear cactus leaf, so I carefully (they're full of really long needles!) took one of those leaves apart, cut out the thick green interior gook, wrapped it in foil, and put it in my freezer.

This week, I thanked myself for having done that, because while I was pushing cement into some empty spaces in the wood around my front door, a scorpion attacked one of my fingers. I thought I would freak out with fear, since I had no idea what that sting might cause, but I remained amazingly calm, called my MD to catch him 10 minutes before he'd have left for the entire weekend, wrapped my finger in the foil-covered prickly-pear-gook from my freezer, and drove off.
My MD didn't get excited either. He said that nothing horrific would happen to my brain (I had asked him if I'd get totally weirded out) and that all I needed, was to get a tetanus-shot. Which I got, of course. After which I went back home again and kept that prickly-pear-gook around my finger for the next 6 hours, after which all the burning sensation of the sting had vanished.

A really pleasant thought, is that when winter arrived in a couple of months, this scorpion would for sure have crawled over the half-an-inch that separated it from getting inside my home, from where it might have created a whole lot of totally spookier harm!

And another pleasant thought is that I have now made it through an experience I had kinda secretly worried about during all the years that I've lived in the Southwest and heard all those fabricated scorpion-horror-stories with which some nasty individuals just love to scare innocent newcomers!

UPDATE 1
72 hours after I saw my MD, the sting began to hurt again, so I used a needle and tweezers to open it up and to pull out some white stuff that I assumed to be left-over poison. Then I held a clorox-dipped cotton ball against it for a while, and went online, where I discovered:

1.....Scorpion venom contains the neurotoxin CLOROTOXIN
which appears to effectively destroy brain tumors :-) :-) :-)

2.....I should have saved the offending scorpion
in a closed glass jar so it could be identified

3.....The National Poison Control Call-in-Center's
phone number is: 1-800-222-1222

4.....I should take an antihistamine pill.....so I swallowed
a BENADRYL, slept like a baby, and when I woke up,
all the pain and swelling had left.

UPDATE 2
Every 5 days, or so, my scorpion-bite swells up again, while showing a tiny hill of white poison underneath the skin. So each time, I open it up with a needle, and use my tweezers to pull out that white stuff. It seems that the poison needs to leave my body, and that my body needs to push it out. A perfect and complimentary kind of need, don't you agree? Anyway....I figured I'd share this information, since it seems to be important.
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I didn't. All 35 countries of our hemisphere, including Brazil, Canada, Haiti, Honduras, the USA, and 30 additional ones, have formed the
(how did I miss this and when did they do that?)
ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
usually referred to as the OAS....which seems to have decided, last week (How? Where?) that it has the power to order Honduras to re-instate its ousted, constitution-breaking, drug-pushing, ex-president.
As a friendly gesture of force, the OAS, with the oh, so willing assistance of the US State Department, then decided to threaten to withhold the millions of US dollars that had previously been guaranteed to keep that tiny and poverty-struck nation from going under.

Who gave them permission
to issue such a threat?
When did they ask
Us,the People
if we agree with
such a profoundly
anti-democratic act
of political blackmail?
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you scare me when
you are so kind and
gentle with a stranger
yet speak those
raging hateful words
about the ones
you say you love

which

makes me wonder how
such opposites can be
together in a single
heart and then
you scare me when
I think that one of you
must be a liar and
I fear it's not the
raging hateful one

which

means that all that
kind and gentle caring
is but a tool you use
for getting love from
strangers while
hurting those most dear
and close to you
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It's been a while, since I posted this amazing document, which was created by the
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION
to provide advice and protection for those of us who blog.
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Reliable information about the Russian ship loaded with lumber that was said to have been hijacked on the open seas, is mostly non-existent.

What does seem to make perfect sense, is reports that the ship was not loaded with tree trunks, as had been previously stated by Moscow, but with cruise missiles headed for Iran......and that Israel's Mossad had simply diverted the vessel and then initiated a dialogue with some of Russia's government officials, about this shipment being a really bad idea.

That, if true, would be totally cool!
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It's what I love about the Internet:
sometimes.....often, actually....I'll find
a totally amazing and brilliant new website.
This is one of them: a complete encyclopedia
of everything imaginable that pertains to
NATURAL HEALTH

If you're worried or wondering about
your health and how to maintain and promote it:
this is the perfect place to
get all the information you'll ever need!
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"Can Bernanke thread a needle
between inflation and recession?"

CNBC'S Steve Liesman
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
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Imitators can't originate.
That's their saving grace.
But it's also everyone else's downfall,
since it's exactly "because" they can't originate,
that they've become experts at imitation.

Ever since American Idol was originated, dozens of similar competitions have been started in the US and elsewhere, and it's almost comical, how every one of those imitations follows the exact same protocol of having 3 judges, two of whom are male, and one of whom, is a female.

This summer, getting individuals out of foreign jails and back into their own country, was originated by Bill Clinton, who flew to North Korea and somehow managed to get 2 American reporters out of jail and back into the US.

Then, US Senator Jim Webb simply flew to Burma, secured a rare interview with Suu Kyi, and got Burma's military oppressors to return an imprisoned American named Yettaw to him, and to let him take that guy back to the States.

Yesterday, Scotland released a convicted and jailed terrorist who may or may not have been guilty (no one will ever know) and allowed the Libyan government to pick him up in a Libyan jet (flight #103 - the same number as the exploded Pan-Am #103.....no doubt a private joke for Ghadafi).....and to fly him back to Libya, where he received a hero's welcome.

So now, there remains the problem of 3
AMERICAN HIKERS
who were jailed by Iran for having crossed the Iranian border, and who definitely need saving.....leaving us all to wonder who'll be the hero to accomplish that?
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FATAH'S
LATEST
PROGROM
MESSAGE
is finally being presented with total clarity
in this lucid, no-nonsense description
by the always-brilliant
CAROLINE GLICK
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we fall into an abyss
and
crash
to the
bottom

we climb a mountain
and
reach
the
top

every abyss is but
an
upside
down
mountain
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Last night on TV
there was a film titled
Woodstock: Now and Then
in which people continuously talked
right over some of the most cherished
performers on earth for many of us
thereby creating an insult to the memory
of a time when no one would ever have
degraded musicians and their gifts, like that.
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Great leaders
have the ability
to intuit the essence of a situation
and to know how they must react to it.
That Stimulus Spending
of $787 billion dollars
created nothing in the form of
jobs or shovels on the ground
or any other kind of enhanced security
for our country or for our population.

For the same amount of money
we might have built 2 nuclear power plants
in every State of the Union
thereby getting America back to work on
the one thing we are all desperately in need of.
I wish we had a great leader.
Don't you?
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she accepted his terms
of cruel endearment
with the pathetic gratitude
of a born non-entity
cherished for its neediness
which was as desperate
and formless
as his own
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Read the rest on this blog post by:
ALAN KEYES
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For in case, like me, you had forgotten some of this, here --to remind you-- is a precise and well-written article by
THIERRY CHERVEL
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No deposits go in
no withdrawals come out
while dividends
are re-invested
and the total
grows in tiny
increments so when
my car decides
to die the money
will be there to
buy another one

But wouldn't it be
sad I thought if
I die first and
there's no fund
on earth that
will provide a
brand-new me to
drive the car that
kept on going past
the moment of my
unpredicted death?
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Claude Lanzmann is the director/creator of the 1985, 9-hour film titled "SHOAH" about the murder of the European Jews in Nazi deathcamps. I watched all 9 hours of it, back then. It's not a fictional account. There are no actors. It's a precise and devastating documentary steeped in a reality that's often too painful to grasp. There are interviews with Polish women, in that film, which I remember so clearly, that I could have watched them only yesterday.

This man is a genius, During the late 90's, he produced a sequel to "SHOAH" that's titled "TSAHAL".....which is about the Israeli military.

This link is to an interview with
CLAUDE LANZMANN
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GOD IS DEAD.
--Nietzsche--

NIETZSCHE IS DEAD.
--God--

2009
QUESTION: "What do you do?"
RESPONSE: "I'm a self-unemployed technician."
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I'll always remember
how my sister pushed me
so I'd fall down the stairs
when I was 3 years old
and me not quite believing that she had done that
yet knowing that she had
and so I couldn't tell anyone
because I knew she would deny it
and then I'd have to doubt my own perception
and then it would be me
who was the crazy one
instead of her
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Here's a really nice report on how it came about that a tiny democracy in South America, managed to keep away the monsters of violence and despair which had hoped to
DESTROY IT
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World-wide news reports on this incident have completely vanished, but yesterday I was able to still read an account of it, which was that a cop in Paris approached a young man for questioning, when the young man jumped on his motorcycle and while racing away from the cop, smashed into something, and died.

Infuriated, crowds of other young men then once again began to set fire to whichever cars they could find, returning Paris to the good old days of the Peugot Flambe.

There was no mention of the nationality of the perpetrators, so we can assume that they were Islamos, because if they hadn't been, this story would not have vanished as totally and as completely, as it now did.
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QUOTE:
"I accuse the EPA, the Department of Energy, and the Department of the Interior,
in collusion with many "Green" organizations, of thwarting
the construction of coal-fired and nuclear plants that would generate the energy
necessary for the growth and expansion of the nation's economy, general welfare, and security."

Read additional accusations by:
ALAN CARUBA
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Calcium needs to be with Magnesium and Magnesium needs to be with Calcium. Dolomite.......which contains the perfect amounts of each, is therefore the best way to get both.

Make sure your salt container announces the presence of IODINE (it'll say so on the box) and you should throw it out and get a new one, if that's missing.

Potassium can be found in Oranges, Bananas, Potatoes, and Raisins. I don't care for eating raisins plain or out of the box, so I keep them in a glass bowl in the refrigerator, covered by my favorite brandy.

I like to avoid heavy foods like meat and chicken, when it's hot, so I replace those with eggs, which contain plenty of Protein, lots of Iron, Zinc, B-vitamins, and the neuro-transmitter Choline.
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"Obama holds up the Mayo Clinic and the Cleveland Clinic as examples of
innovation - but neither was created by a government committee or by federal
legislation. Rather, both institutions were founded and expanded because of
community-based innovation and excellence. The Mayo Clinic, incidentally, joined
several other top health-care institutions in a letter warning that the congressional
bills would force them to close."

Oh, WOW....that's ironic, isn't it?
I think you may want to read
the rest of this article written by:

DAVID GRATZER, M.D.
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like an empty
horizon
till the moon
etched a mountain
on
darkness
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I just watched the arrival of the 2 journalists who had been detained by North Korea, and I actually almost cried, because

1) I didn't know that one of them had a little daughter
and
2) We've all experienced so much pain about Michael Jackson's death by probable murder.....and everybody's loss of financial security.....and Pelosi's hate-infested Congressional Cartel.....and Obama pointing his pistol-finger at our heads shouting, "I want you to do what I (!) want you to do, and I want you to do it NOW!".....while there's been SO little reason for any of us to feel some non-threatening joy, that just watching Bill Clinton return to the US with those 2 women who'd been destined to enter some horrific labor camp.....brought momentary tears to my eyes.

I just re-read that last sentence, and realized that I never consciously noticed that
US.....like in United States, also stands for US.....like in:

US, THE PEOPLE
!!!

One of these, is
GUY SORMAN
whose insightful articles about
SOUTH AMERICA and ASIA
are listed among his other
titles in this City Journal link.
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Research has shown that Buddhists who meditate, discipline their brain-waves to experience peace and to silence their aggressive impulses.

Research has also shown that individuals of all ages, who are taught to take responsibility for their lives, discipline their brain-waves to exert control over their own destiny, thereby endowing them with the self-empowering character-strength which significantly reduces all aggressive impulses.

Research has additionally determined, that those who are subjected to the emotional, visual, and intellectual violence being projected by so many of today's films, television shows, and religious fanatics, allow their brain-waves to be subverted into a random, free-floating rage that inflames their aggressive impulses, causing them to constantly seek to express this rage via violent forms of action.

In all societies, those who are the genuine creators,i.e. the true writers, musicians, builders, artists, and thinkers, will always discipline their brain-waves to transmute their individual energy into life-enhancing forms of expression, thereby directing all aggressive impulses towards the creation of beauty, meaning, peace, and justice:
A
PROCESS
THAT CONTAINS
THE VERY ESSENCE
OF
CIVILIZATION

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US Congressman Connie Mack actually went to Honduras to determine for himself, what seems to have occurred there. I intuitively agree with his conclusions, yet it's strange, that our President does not. For me, the Chavez-connection is proof enough, but you may wish to read this article about the
Congressman's
own research.
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