Monterey Bay Forum

On May 26, MSNBC political analyst Michael Eric Dyson described Virginia lieutenant governor nominee E.W. Jackson as “a black puppet” who carries a white supremacist message.

Jackson is a black man, and is urging Christians in the black community to break free from their loyalties to the Democrat Party.

According to Newbusters.org, Jackson raised Dyson’s ire by warning these Christian that the Democrat Party has “has created an unholy alliance between certain so-called civil rights leaders and Planned Parenthood,” and that this alliance has resulted in the deaths of “tens of millions” of “black babies.”

Dyson responded by saying “Planned Parenthood is not about abortions.” He then added: ”[Jackson's] a vent. He’s being ventriloquized. His mouth is moving but White Supremacist ideology is floating through it, and the most repressive sorts of ideas that we can  imagine are being evoked here.”

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Firenze Sage:  Three hundred forty thousand(340,000) planned parenthood abortions a year is not about abortions according to this pundit.    Four More Obama Years

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Can’t run? Then walk your way towards health!

Research discussed in Medical News article below  suggests that a  mile walked provides the same health benefit as a mile run.

So, put down the TV clicker or computer mouse and move, move, move!

DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

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“Brisk walking can reduce a person’s risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol just as much as running can.

The finding came from a new study published in the journal Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology which examined 33,060 runners in the National Runners’ Health Study and 15,045 walkers in the National Walkers’ Health Study.

During the six-year study period, the investigators discovered that the same energy used for moderate intensity walking and vigorous intensity running lead to comparable reductions in the likelihood for diabetes, high blood pressure, and potentially coronary heart disease.

Paul T. Williams, Ph.D., leading author and staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Life Science Division in Berkeley, Calif., said:

“Walking and running provide an ideal test of the health benefits of moderate-intensity walking and vigorous-intensity running because they involve the same muscle groups and the same activities performed at different intensities.”

Walking and running expenditure was evaluated by distance, unlike previous research, which used time. The volunteers were given questionnaires in order to provide their activity data.

“The more the runners ran and the walkers walked, the better off they were regarding health benefits. If the amount of energy expended was the same between the two groups, then the health benefits were comparable,” Williams explained.

The experts compared energy expenditure to self-reported, doctor-diagnosed incident hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes, and coronary heart disease.

Results showed:

• The risk for first-time hypertension was notably reduced 4.2% by running and 7.2% by walking.
• The risk for first-time high cholesterol was reduced 4.3% by running and 7% by walking.
• The risk for first-time diabetes was lowered 12.1% by running and 12.3% by walking.
• The risk for coronary heart disease was lowered 4.5% by running and 9.3% by walking.

Williams revealed:

“Walking may be a more sustainable activity for some people when compared to running, however, those who choose running end up exercising twice as much as those that choose walking. This is probably because they can do twice as much in an hour.”

Subjects were between 18 and 80 years old, the majority were in their 40s and 50s. Twenty-one percent of the walkers and 51.4% of the runners were male.  A study from 2012 indicated that regular exercise in middle age protects the heart.

“People are always looking for an excuse not to exercise, but now they have a straightforward choice to run or to walk and invest in their future health,” Williams said.

A report from earlier this year found that the best way to save energy and maintain endurance is to alternate between walking and running.     Written by Sarah Glynn published in Medical News

A thick green and yellowish haze in China caused by straw? Young and old residents of the Chinese metropolis of Wuhan were advised to stay indoors on Monday after a thick haze blanketed the city of nine million people, official media said.

Described by residents as opaque with yellowish and greenish tinges, the fug descended suddenly in the morning, prompting people to rush to put on face masks, witnesses told AFP.

The official Xinhua news agency quoted the environmental protection department of Hubei province saying in a statement: “Children, the elderly and people with heart or respiratory diseases are advised to stay indoors.”

Xinhua said straw burning was the cause and denied there had been any industrial accidents in or near Wuhan, after Internet rumours suggested there had been an explosion at a chemical complex northeast of the city.

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STRAW!!!!

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Put all your kitty’s cat litter in a securely tied bag. Make sure it goes to a land fill and not into Monterey Bay for otters to feed on.

There’s a new Santa Cruz, CA website dedicated to Otter-ly information. Check out seaotters.com based in Santa Cruz, CA.

To get off the Endangered Species List, sea otters must grow from 2,700 to 3,090. Their numbers have stayed steady instead of growing in recent years. Scientists wonder why. Various pollutants may contribute.

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“Southern sea otters have been listed as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act since 1977. While California sea otters have made a substantial recovery, decades of protection haven’t helped their population bounce back as dramatically as hoped. Annual surveys currently peg the California sea otter population at about 2,700 individuals, short of the minimum of 3,090 for 3 years running needed for delisting from the Endangered Species Act. Their numbers have hovered at 2,800 otters in recent years, and the current estimate represents a population dip instead of growth.

“What is behind this population plateau? Scientists have pinned the cause on too many deaths of mature adults, especially females who should be producing pups. However, understanding why otters are dying is far from straightforward. No single factor jumps out as the most important cause of California sea otter deaths. Rather, scientists have discovered that otters encounter a complex and deadly cocktail in contaminated waters, and many are dying from the combined onslaught of diseases, parasites, and toxic compounds.

Is it a bird? A plane? Or is it a flying, carrot dispensing machine?

Obama-Care’s individual mandate penalties –what you pay if you don’t buy government approved health coverage— are best described as a flying, freebie carrot dispensing machine. With pilot Obama at the controls.

Obama will turn the individual mandate penalties into carrots which he dispenses free to all whom Obama decides cannot afford.

So, remember the motto of the Scouts: Be Prepared! How? Know the history and know what Obama’s next step is likely to be.

History: Is it a fine? At first, the Obama administration defended the Obama-Care individual mandate as a “fine”. This argument is weak as the Supreme Court could reject this expansion of the Commerce Clause as without precedent and limitless. If not to act is an act ,what other acts can government demand? That is not a path the Supreme Court is likely to go.

Is it a tax? Currently Obama’s lawyers, now before the Supreme Court, defend the individual mandate as a “tax”. And much as people moan about taxes they are commonly viewed an inevitable as death.

But remember Obama’s campaign promise: no increase of taxes for the middle class making less than $250,000. So, Obama needs to call the individual mandate something else.

So Obama will frame the individual mandate as neither fish nor fowl – neither fine nor tax. Then Obama will mandate it as something given free to all whom he deems cannot afford it.

All good things are free according to Obama. Hence, the cost of Obama-Care must be free to those who Obama thinks can ill afford it: youth, those receiving unemployment benefits, Food Stamp recipients, those who pay no federal taxes.

Can’t you hear Obama’s speech:

I, President Obama, mandate that the initial cost for health care is free to all who cannot afford it. This is only fair.

If you are a youth 18-25 and never had a job? It’s free….

If you lost your job and have not yet found another one? It’s free.

And for those who are on Food Stamps and can show that they are looking for a job? It’s free.

And if you already do not pay federal income tax, you should not be further burdened.

This is only fair …. [according to Obama]

How many times does the word ‘fair’ appear in The Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution?

Written by DrCameronJackson@gmail.com

In the Ten Commandments there are 10 or so Thou SHALT NOT ….[steal, murder, bear false witness, covet].

In Obama-Care — alias the Affordable Care Act — there are 1,563 “the Secretary SHALL”.

Think of that — 10 Rules for civilized behavior versus 1,500+ Rules to control medical decisions.

The Mercatus Center at George Mason University evaluated all major Obama-Care rules that cost over $100 million a year. All of the Obama-Care rules scored F’s — some lower but all F’s.

Messrs. Conover and Ellig conclude that regulators working on deadlines usually resort to “analytical shortcuts, leading to lower-quality decisions.” The Bush Admin. post 9-11 regulatory overload was no great shakes. But at lest there in the White house was working to protect national security rather than usher in a new social and economic order through the Federal Register.

Mr. Obama has made clear that the rules will keep coming, but at least his team could try to write good bad rules Probably too much to ask.

The above is based on information from The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011 Badly Written Bad Rules.

(Exodus 20:2-17 NKJV)
1 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. You shall have no other gods before Me.
2 “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My Commandments.
3 “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
4 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
5 “Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
6 “You shall not murder.
7 “You shall not commit adultery.
8 “You shall not steal.
9 “You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
10 “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” the Ten Commandments:

Aptos, CA psychologist: Going into surgery or if in a fox hole, would you say the King James version of Psalm 23 or … http://is.gd/zyLJey

Anyone have a house — reasonable rent!! — for 5 near Waldorf School in Santa Cruz? Grandparents sent their kid and now want next go

Waldorf school is great for kids that do not “fit in” regualr ed classes. What say?

Should redevelopment money (for blight) be spent for various projects in Santa Cruz, CA and elsewhere? http://is.gd/XLrUUS