Conan O’Brien left the Tonight Show with class, and a good message for people’s lives.
Catch his last show in its entirety at NBC.com:
http://www.tonightshowwithconanobrien.com/video/episodes/#vid=1196131
Jan 21
With the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti and all the suffering it has caused, people ask what God is angry with those people about. This is the question that Pat Robertson sought to answer with his comments. I think that Robertson’s response misrepresents the character of God, and would submit instead that God did not cause the earthquake there and that there is no ‘lesson’ to learn from the destruction…except for the merit or lack of merit of OUR OWN ACTION for the people of that nation now that the tragedy has occurred.
Greg Boyd from Woodland Hills in St. Paul, MN gives a good sermon about the problem of evil, considering situations like this one in Haiti:
God Must be Angry from WHChurch on Vimeo.
“God Must Be Angry” – Greg Boyd, Woodland Hills Church, 8/22/2009
Jan 19
Perhaps should have posted this yesterday on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, but his words are applicable every day.
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Jan 18
There is still desperate need in Haiti. No one organization is able to take care of everything. There are not enough aid workers or doctors. Food and water are in short supply, and disease is a huge threat.
Please take a moment to see what things are like there at this moment. Many of the images are very graphic.
Haiti Six Days Later
Alan Taylor (18 January 2010). The Big Picture. The Boston Globe.
Please make a contribution to one of these organizations to help this impoverished nation in their time of need.
- The American Red Cross
- Habitat for Humanity
- UNICEF
- Oxfam America
- World Vision
- The United Way
- Clinton Bush Haiti Fund
- Haiti for Christ
You can also give a donation to the American Red Cross via your iTunes Store account, or give $10 on your cell-phone bill by texting “Haiti” to 90999.
Jan 08
Put your money back into your community. Remove all your money from banks like Citibank, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Capital One, etc. Find a good, local, community bank or credit union:
Encourage your community’s economy and keep your money local.
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Jan 06
My favorite line on this Daily Show clip is where Michael Pollan gives this advice about diet:
Eat food. Avoid edible “food-like” substances.
Enjoy the clip.
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“Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual” by Michael Pollan
One of the big things to avoid is food with high-fructose corn-syrup in your food…and for a number of reasons. For example, much of the high-fructose corn-syrup comes from genetically modified corn…usually corn that is technically classified a pesticide. Another big issue is how your body deals with high-fructose corn-syrup:
Gabe Mirkin, MD writes: “Several recent studies have shown that fructose is processed differently in the body than the far more common sugar, glucose (3,4). Glucose causes the pancreas to release insulin which drives sugar from the bloodstream into cells. Glucose causes fat cells to release leptin that makes you feel full so you eat less. Glucose prevents the stomach from releasing ghrelin that makes you hungry. On the other hand, fructose does not cause fat cells to release leptin and does not suppress ghrelin. This means that fructose increases hunger to make you eat more. Furthermore, the liver converts fructose far more readily to a body fat called triglyceride, than it does with glucose. High triglyceride levels raise blood levels of the bad LDL cholesterol and lower blood levels of the good HDL cholesterol, which increases heart attack risk.” http://www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/3021.html
So, follow this Pollan’s guideline here again…avoid “food-like” substances: high fructose corn syrup, aspartame (Nutri-Sweet), sucralose (Splenda…which is chlorocarbon, meaning that sucralose is a chlorinated sugar…which is a toxin), artificial colors and dyes in food, hydrogenated oils, etc. I’ve heard a number of nutritionists say that one can lose weight easily merely by removing these types of substances from their diets and their hidden calories, and then controlling portions.
Jan 05
Something look wrong here to anyone?
from Samantha Cook’s website, posting by Andrew Gelman:
http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009/12/healthcare_spen.html
Jan 03
I found a really interesting documentary about food production and genetic modification of foods. I think that there is a lot to be learned from this film, and a great deal that you will find that you didn’t know about genetically modified foods and the practices of the companies that engineer them. I think that you will find that you will want to be more choosy about what foods you eat, and where they come from.
The film is 1 hour 29 minutes long.
Or watch it right in this window:
Dec 25
Happy Christmas, everyone!
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