The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker

These Coach peep toe pumps, perfectly tailored and comfortable (for heels), retailed at $250.

At DSW they were $170, STILL too much for this fashionista to pay. Unless they’re couture I won’t pay over $100 for any pair of shoes, ever. But DSW put this pair in the back room at 70% off so I grabbed them, put them on my feet and danced around screaming MINE MINE MINE! OK I didn’t really scream, but I did dance a little. Plus I had a $10 gift certificate, bringing the total price down to

$24 !!!

It worked when I was a kid, and it still works today:  A bowl of ice cream and a bubble bath in the dark makes the mean old crabbies go bye bye.  It’s the perfect thing to do before bed. All better now!

One would think that if the Hedonistic Pleasureseeker were a Muppet she would be Miss Piggy, yes? But one would be oh so wrong.

Surely she has her bitchy and grand Miss Piggy moments, having pretty much nailed the seventh and most deadly sin VANITY. However, depending on the time of the month she is also a female version of either Gonzo or Beaker: Adorably weird and introspective, or a babbling freakout mess, usually over world events she can do absolutely nothing about.

The coming demise of the American economy via the debauching of our dollar currency (see: HYPERINFLATION and STAGFLATION) will soon provide the Hedonistic Pleasureseeker plenty of nothing for which to express much ado. It will take a freaking miracle to save us now. Perhaps instead of Blogging the Apocalypse the Hedonistic Pleasureseeker would be better off with a martini and a mild sedative?

So many midpoints, so little patience. I’m half way through my summer classes: Midterm tests and papers are complete, and I’m gearing up final tests and papers. I will never take TWO summer classes at the same time again! By August I shall be free, but for now I don’t have much time for anything except homework.

Bunny didn’t get the summer job that she wanted, so she’s making money doing extra work around the house. It’s cut my own housework burden in half! Now if only I didn’t STILL have to scream at her to get her to do it.

I am half way to my weight goal. I’m enjoying my cardio very much these days. I love breaking a sweat because - and I know this probably seems weird - it gives me flashbacks of my nights at the burlesque. The dance bug may be biting me again soon, and I can’t wait until August to find out!

Half of me wants to start dating again and half of me doesn’t. Andrew has been calling; he wants me to fly out to Hollyweird to see him again and has offered to cover all my expenses. I enjoy his company (in measured doses) and it seeing him would more than make up for my Summer Sex deficit, BUT. I’m really starting to wonder about the man: I think he may actually be a sex addict, and by that I mean more than the typical man: I mean NOT in a happy kind of way, but in an anxious and seeking relief via constant, rapid-release sex way. I’m anxious enough these days without adding THAT to my vibe. I want a man to DOUBLE my pleasure, not cut it in half!

There is something about this predatory dress that screams TOO MUCH COUGAR TRYING TOO HARD!!! Back to the boutique it goes . . . good thing I didn’t take off the tags . . .

Lesson for the Day: NEVER shop for clothes if you are sexually aroused AND have bad PMS. What was I thinking?

(Is THIS the global warming that killed off the dinosaurs?)

“The liberal’s preoccupation with social “problems” and the Club of Rome’s obsession with entropy are essentially expressions of the Second School view. Change, the fundamental motion of the universe, is bad.”

- J. Orlin Grabbe, The Systems Method: Bilderberg and Club of Rome

Before I begin this PMDD-addled rant, let me es’plain: I’m a Green. I’m progressive minded. I drive a hybrid car, compost, recycle, grow my own food, and buy organic and sustainably when I can. I even distill my own drinking water!  I’m 100% on board with reducing my “carbon footprint” for the sake of everyone else on the planet, because I believe there is enough energy to go around if we do the fair thing and not act like a bunch of pigs. Actually, comparing U.S. hoarding of natural resources to natural porcine behavior is an insult to pigs everywhere, but it’s the only metaphor I can think of right now.

That said, the “global warming” and “peak oil” scams are gonna git it from me this month. I’ve had it with our corporatist overlords lying to the People in order to push it’s murderous and self-serving agenda of Total Control of Everything, Everywhere. It’s a pathology: These people need psychiatric help. Failing that they need to up and DIE already; God knows the Club of Rome and Bilderberger originals are rickety old Globalist Gasbags who REALLY need to retire, like NOW.

(Time to retire, assholes.)

An example of globalist elitists purposely and deceptively misleading the public can be found in the Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth, which sold nine million copies in 29 languages. This treatise rocked the world with its dire forecasts. Four years later the Club said that the conclusions of the first report were not correct and that they purposely misled the public in order to “awaken” public concern. (Source: Julian Simon, The Ultimate Resource, and I’m including his C.V., pluse defense against his Malthusian critics here, just for fun.)

The truth of the matter is that Humanity would do JUST FINE without the meddling by Bilderberger Buggers and the Caligulas at the Club of Rome. We the People have the wherewithal to see that every single person on this family has access to food and care, so what’s the problem? THEY are the problem, because they 1) Hoard and control the vast majority of the world’s resources, and 2) use access to the world’s natural resources, including food, as weapons.

NOW, on with my rant . . .

I FART IN YOUR GENERAL DIRECTION

According to the U.N., farts are a much bigger “threat” to “global warming” than cars, which makes the thinking person wonder just who the UN thinks is the enemy here.

Oh wait! The Global Gasbags at the Malthusian Club of Rome identified the enemy decades ago: Mankind’s very existence must be curtailed for the sake of the environment.

But only black, brown, red and yellow people, mind you. The low birth rates of white people in Europe have supposedly reached “crisis” proportions. Meanwhile the birth rates in colonial territories are a “threat to national security.”

THE NATIONAL SECURITY Of WHITE PEOPLE

(Image from an article from the Advocate on eugenics in Connecticut, U.S.A.)

The environmentalist movement was formed by Sir Julian Huxley who was the founder of the Eugenics Society AND the World Wildlife Fund. Huxley was a top eugenicist from a very eugenics-friendly family. After eugenics was stripped of its good name in the post-World War II world, Huxley coined the term “transhumanism” to encompass eugenical beliefs inside a general belief in human “advancement” through scientific processes.

A number of other notable World Wildlife Fund heads may reveal some of the agenda at hand. Prince Bernhard, of the Netherlands, for instance served as the first president of the fund from 1962-1976. He not only founded the corporatist (read: Fasicst) Bilderberg group– a shadowy organization that is pursuing world government and heavily influences the agenda of nearly every nation in the Western world– Bernhard was also a former Nazi SS officer.

(I don’t care for the shrieky controlled opposition Alex Jones, but this excerpt pretty much sums it up: The recently declassified information from Australia pertaining to race-based bioterror is part of the reason Asia is now hip to the Bilderberger eugenics-based scams.)

Then there’s His Royal Virus, Nazi sympathizer and Club of Rome fixture Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He wants to come back as a virus to cull the earth of the “undesireables;” i.e., the so-called “excess” human population. He does not seemed to have kept it inside his OWN pants, however, as the Duke has several children and grandchildren of his own. But he’s an Important Person, and he’s Whitey, so he’s off the hook.

(People of Color UNITE! Eat a Hamburger for Diversity!)

Take note that “Global Warming” and the unrestrained gobbling of the world’s natural resources was just OKIDOKE so long Whitey was the only one doing it. Once non-whites (China, India, South America, etc.) developed booming economies and started claiming energy for themselves, including driving cars and eating meat, all of a sudden Whitey had a “problem.”

(Damn straight Whitey has a problem: COMPETITION!)

The Western World, aka the New Rome, is in decline and headed to the dustheap of history. WAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH. Whiney Whitey. Expect a never-ending series of news articles and think tank papers proposing “solutions” that at their core are really about maintaining, or restoring, Whitey’s ascendancy on the world stage.

The following video is a prime example of hysterical “Peak Oil” scaremongering. In fact, there is no shortage of oil — the reserves are increasing, not decreasing. Consider the following examples: In 2006, Chevron announced a huge oil discovery in the the Lower Tertiary zone of the Gulf of Mexico, described as “one of the nation’s biggest oil discoveries in decades,” and Brazil discovered giant new offshore oil fields in 2005 (expected to produce 773 million barrels of oil by 2025). Add to this BP’s discovery of new oil fields near the Shetland Islands, recent discoveries in the Timor Sea, Yemen, Tunisia, Libya, offshore Trinidad, in Pakistan, Angola, in the Ordovician Red River Strata of southeastern Saskatchewan, and elsewhere. Earlier this month, the Kurds of northern Iraq announced a major oil find, estimated at about 2 billion barrels. In the last 20 years, known reserves have doubled. Currently there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 680 billion barrels of Middle East reserve oil alone. Add to this an “intriguing theory now permeating oil company research staffs suggests that crude oil may actually be a natural inorganic product, not a stepchild of unfathomable time and organic degradation. The theory suggests there may be huge, yet-to-be-discovered reserves of oil at depths that dwarf current world estimates,” writes Chris Bennett (see Lindsey Williams interview below). “Deeply entrenched in our culture is the belief that at some point in the relatively near future we will see the last working pump on the last functioning oil well screech and rattle, and that will be that. The end of the Age of Oil. And unless we find another source of cheap energy, the world will rapidly become a much darker and dangerous place.” It is a meticulously nurtured myth.

Peak Oil takes a page from publicly available CFR and Club of Rome strategy manuals that say global government needs to control the world population through neo-feudalism by creating artificial scarcity that will result in massive social unrest, widespread famine, and endless war. $15 a gallon gas will most certainly help this agenda along.

-No World System, May 2008

(The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker Farts at the Club of Rome’s general direction)

Whitey will fail. Why? Because the rest of the world is on to the Global Elitist Agenda, that’s why, and they’re not falling for it.

That the members of the Club of Rome and associated think tanks are the spawn of the Eugenics Movement should give pause to decent people. What’s the REAL agenda of our global elitists? Oh that’s easy; they’re not even hiding it!

“It would seem that humans need a common motivation, namely a common adversary, to organize and act together in the vacuum; such a motivation must be found to bring the divided nations together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one invented for the purpose.

New enemies therefore have to be identified.

New strategies imagined, new weapons devised.

The common enemy of humanity is man.”

- Club of Rome, 1991

Remind me to thank Scorpio for relieving my PMDD bitchiness this evening! What a guy. Still, the blogosphere is gonna get my rant tonight because that’s just the mood I’m in, so deal.

Hey, wanna get your mind blown? That’s the spirit!

Below are two of the cards from a role playing game developed by Steve Jackson in 1995. It’s sales prompted a surprise visit from the Secret Service, but Mr. Jackson was found to be “clean” of any intent to harm. CondoLIESalot Rice must not be a gamer, because otherwise she would never have said “Who would have thought . . . blah blah blah . . . into the World Trade Center towers?” Lots of people, Condi, and you even got the memo, bitch.

But there is more!

Senator Karen S. Johnson (R-Arizona) is the first Congresscritter (that I’m aware of at least) to loudly and publically call out the Administration on its lies about the events of September 11, 2001.

No, Dr. Paul and Dennis Kucinich are not the first Troofers! They’ve pretty much kept their mouths shut. However, this grandmotherly patriot just won’t shut up, and it’s causing quite the tizzy in the more aware political circles. The Phoenix East Valley Tribune posted her followup editorial on May 2:

“A recent letter to the editor asked for evidence of my claims regarding the tragedy of 9/11. Below I present some points that are presently known. I won’t be able to convince anyone who doesn’t want to be convinced, but for those who are willing to deal with factual evidence, consider the following . . .”

But Karen does not win the HPS Quote of the Day award; this commenter, “firebrand,” has stolen the Gold medal out from under her:

(Note the 1997 date on the training manual.)

9/11 COVER-UP for DUMMIES

Interesting that it’s always the so-called 9/11 Truther Movement that has bothered to look at the evidence and support their suspicions with well-grounded fact and not propagandist superstition.

What I like to call the 9/11 LIAR movement constantly tries to label anyone that has evidence to disagree with the bankrupt official Washington conspiracy theory a “conspiracy theorist”. This when the official conspiracy tale has CIA asset Osama Bin Laden (a.k.a. “Tim Osman”) and his hung over cave boys that supposedly pulling off 9/11 past a $40 billion dollar a year “intelligence” establishment.

By the way, 9/11 was one day after the Pentagon (under comptroller and Paul Wolfowitz neocon crony Dov Zakheim) was caught with $2.6 TRILLION dollars “missing” from the Pentagon’s budget. No need to guess where the “jetliner” that hit the Pentagon struck (the accounting department where records of the missing TRILLIONS were kept).

Then there’s FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds (under Washington gag order) that proved the FBI and U.S. Government knew 9/11 was coming at least 4 months before the day.

And then there was the vast (200 man plus) 9/11 Israeli spy operation that had dozens of Mossad agents embedded with so-called hijackers from Florida and California to New York. 9/11 Israeli spies that were caught in phony moving vans with maps, boxcutters and explosives residues. All were deported back to Israel with nary an investigation.

That’s called cover-up, deception and manipulation.

From Tonkin Gulf to CIA “Operation Gladio” brainwash and cover-up has been part of American history. A history that includes butcher Saddam groomed to power by CIA and British intelligence and maintained in Iraq from 1959 on until he became inconvenient enough to officially sucker to take Kuwait and be betrayed for Gulf War I. The same history that saw at least 20 democracies overthrown by corporate cartel ruled CIA intervention.

There is no way to overestimate the slackjaw stupidity and moral cowardice of an American public that believes and defends the wholesale 9/11 LIES foisted by a monopolist corporate crime run government.

Karen Johnson is what amounts to a patriot and American champion. To those that defend the 9/11 LIAR movement I say you are unworthy to live in the republic of the founders. A real democracy would have broken thru the criminal cover-up and brought down this snake pit government to restore it to some semblance of honor and decency among nations.

After the unchallenged blood money fraud of 9/11 “war on terror” the U.S. became a clear and present Fascist corporate crime state. This is the legacy the lies and liars have left us.

POISONING THE WELL

Poisoning the well - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Poisoning the well is a logical fallacy where adverse information about someone is pre-emptively presented to an audience, with the intention to produce a biased result. It is a special case of argumentum ad hominem. The term was first used with this sense by John Henry Newman in his work Apologia Pro Vita Sua.[1

For what it’s worth, I will be the first to acknowledge that the “911 Truth Movement” is full of crazies, crackpot theories and suspect reasoning. Some of these people are just plain nuts, while some of the 911 lunacy you see in the media is due to an intel psyop commonly called “Poisoning the Well.”

Well Poisoning was done to civil rights and anti-war movements back in the ’60s and ’70’s, and for years after the JFK murder. People who are hyper vigilant against Government lies and/or intrusion are still regarded as “kooks” and “scavengers” due to the nutter element that always seems to surface when investigators begin to get too close to the truth behind a Government coverup. I posit this is by design.

Poisoning the dissident well is easy enough for government agents to do: Simply infiltrate a social movement, use malicious gossip to turn members against each other, hijack the leadership positions, and then ensure the public comes to view the movement an annoyance or even a threat by acting like a bunch of total nutjobs with insane conspiracy theories.

“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” - Lenin

As Chomsky explains in his essay “Domestic Terrorism: Notes on the State System of Oppression”, the 60’s and 70’s were replete with violent provocateur actions masterminded by the FBI.

“During these years, FBI provocateurs repeatedly urged and initiated violent acts, including forceful disruption of meetings and demonstrations on and off university campuses, attacks on police, bombings, and so on. Meanwhile, government agencies financed, helped organize, and supplied arms to right-wing terrorist groups that carried out fire-bombings, burglaries, and shootings, all with the knowledge of the government agencies responsible 12—in most cases the FBI, although one right-wing terrorist in Chicago claims that his group was financed and directed in part by the CIA. 13

- Cutouts, Moles, Patsies and Provacateurs, Looking Glass News, July 2005

Suffice it to say that today any member of the 9/11 Truth Movement is treated like a tinfoil hatted weirdo by the general public. Discussions of the facts behind the 9/11 conspiracies are probably best avoided at cocktail parties. You might want to talk them over with your cat instead. That’s what I did, after all, mostly because my cats are the only ones in my life who want to listen to me bitch.

(Kitteh and the Matrix: This is not my cat, but which pill should he take?)

NEOCONNED

The existence of whacked out conspiracy theorists doesn’t make the Official Government Conspiracy Theory true. The U.S. Government has done NOTHING to defend its position from a scientific standpoint because it CAN’T. Instead, government agents and their NeoCon stooges attack the dissenters.

Straw man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The straw man fallacy is a rhetorical technique (also classified as a logical fallacy) based on misrepresentation of an opponent’s position; deriving from the use of straw men in combat training.

The Popular Mechanics “debunking” article is a farce, filled with biased and straw man arguments, meaning the author handily takes down arguments that even 9/11 truthers dismiss as faulty.

The so-called “science” behind the justification for the Official Government Conspiracy Theory is credited to a cousin of Michael Cherthoff (our modern day Himmler in charge of Homeland Security). Yes, I just engaged in an ad hominem attack, guilt by association, so shame on me! This is proof of how both sides of the argument are not above playing dirty. For all I know Cherthoff’s cousin might be completely unconnected to the 9/11 coverup. For all I know the man pisses rainbows and is fundamentally incapable of lying.

Still, I have my suspicions of the motives behind the issuance of the Popular Mechanics article: Popular Mechanics is published by Hearst Publications, the inventors of yellow journalism so I think it’s fair that we consider the source. These ARE the elites reassuring you that there is no point to checking out the man behind the curtain. “Move along, nothing to see here.”

There is more to the Troofer arsenal than logical fallacy. The “science” behind every claim the Popular Mechanics article that formed the basis of the book has thoroughly debunked, point by point, by Dr. Griffin, a Ph.D. theologian and logician, even before the 911 Myths’ publishing date! That’s right: The book debunking the debunking came out before the actual debunking! Wrap your brain around that!

Dr. Griffin has probably written more than anyone about the events of 9/11. He is a very careful scholar and takes a methodical approach to his subject. He knows his logic. Unlike the Hedonistic Pleasureseeker Dr. Griffin avoids logical fallacies in his reasoning. While reading his book you will find no wild speculation, no unsupported assertions. Every thing he writes is backed up by documentation including sixty pages of footnotes.

The men behind the Popular Mechanics article/book have declined offers to discuss the events of 9/11 with Dr. Griffin in public, which says a lot, mmm? Whose argument do you think could hold up in a public debate. Come to think of it, WHY HAS THERE BEEN NO PUBLIC DEBATE?

My own opinion is that the NeoCONS are more likely to be lying than hundreds of competent pilots, engineers and architects, professors, military experts, and others. “No Planes” Theories? Oh I have NO idea; I am not an aerospace engineer, but given the nature of Dov Zackheim’s business dealings (remote controlled large jetliners, so who’s the tinfoil hatter, again? DUH!!!) ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE! NeoCons have built an Orwellian world of reversals, and all who enter it are justifiably confused. Even so-called “alternative” media reports on the failure of the U.S. government to adequately support its assertions generally do a shitty job of reporting the facts. Meanwhile, the worldwide diplomatic community agrees that 9/11/01 attack on the the Pentagon and the THREE (hello) World Trade Center Towers was conceived in intelligence circles and blamed on a handful of Arab patsies. The drugged-up, overfed and quite duped United States of America has been living a lie for the last seven years, seven years being the “half-life” of a typical government coverup. Isn’t it time American citizens learned the truth, whatever it is, however awful it’s implications?

Obviously I have taken the RED PILL. I understand how some of you might not want to know the truth. I get it. I suppose that’s what the blue pills are for, and I don’t blame you, but I still want to scream like this guy at FKN News. I probably just need to take a breath or two . . . OK twelve . . . and wait for the rest of the world to catch up. My friends, just remember: HPS was a Troofer before it was cool.

(Is that . . . Philadelphia? Is that Big Ben in London? Shit.)

Now THAT’s an umbrella!

It’s going to be one of those cold rainy weekends. Call me a little odd but I kind of like rainy weekends; they inspire relaxation in a way that sunny weekends never do for me.

The forecast calls for rain? Really? Neato! I think I’ll just sleep in. Maybe I’ll read a book later. Maybe I’ll call back that New York matchmaker about the guy who wants to meet me.

Meh. Maybe not.

“The FDA is finally starting to tell the truth about antidepressants. It is time for psychiatry to tell the truth as well. We have never known what we were doing. We do however know, if we were to just leave people alone and do nothing to them, they would be better in 12 to 16 weeks. “

-Dr. Peter Breggin M.D.

I’m using a vacation day to deal with my stupid hormones.  My edema is back and my weight has ballooned to 137 pounds. Since I can’t get my chubby feet into my shoes and can barely walk, so I know it’s not fat but water causing it. It’s probably my hormones kicking my ass again, with complications stemming from my long term SSRI use. SSRI withdrawal symptoms can last for several months after stopping treatment, and the protocol for coping with the neurological hypersensitivity is rest and the avoidance of all stimulants to the nervous system.

(Important Note: For you PMDD sufferers reading this I’m NOT suggesting you quit the Zoloft or Sarafem or whatever it is you’re taking. Rather I suggest you speak with your doctor about whether or not s/he thinks intermittent dosing could be right for you. Intermittent dosing will reduce both short and long-term side-effects of SSRI use. I might need a SSRI to get me through the winter months and will chose intermittent dosing if this comes to be the case.)

Researchers in the biopsychiatry field have discovered that excess serotogenic activity can lead to REM sleep disruption, adrenal exhaustion, and the edema and weight gain associated with it. AW, fuckitall, but at least I have a possible diagnosis because my doctor, who’s ordinarily very good, shrugged off my unexplained weight gain as food and activity related. Occam’s Razor: Always reach for the simplest explanation, especially when diagnostic tests come out normal, which mine did. Unfortunately adrenal fatigue can’t be detected from simple blood tests.

“When Patient’s Tail Stops Wagging Problems are Imminent.” Dr. Michael Borkin, NMD is a pioneer in hormone and electrolyte research. He specializes in hormone and electrolyte testing and balancing.

Signs and Symptoms of Adrenal Fatigue

• Tendency to gain weight and unable to loose it, especially around the waist.
• High frequency of getting the flu and other respiratory diseases and these symptoms tend to last longer than usual.
• Tendency to tremble when under pressure.
• Reduced sex drive.
• Lightheaded when rising from a laying down position.
• Unable to remember things.
• Lack of energy in the mornings and also in the afternoon between 3 to 5 pm.
• Feel better suddenly for a brief period after a meal.
• Often feel tired betweeen 9 - 10 pm, but resist going to bed.
• Need coffee or stimulants to get going in the morning.
• Crave for salty, fatty, and high protein food such as meat and cheese.
• Increase symptoms of PMS for women; period are heavy and then stop, or almost stopped on the 4th day, only to start flow again on the 5th or 6th day.
• Pain in the upper back or neck with no apparent reasons .
• Feels better when stress is relieved, such as on a vacation.
• Difficulties in getting up in the morning
• Lightheaded

Other signs and symptoms include:

• Mild depression
• Food and or inhalant allergies
• Lethargy and lack of energy
• Increased effort to perform daily tasks
• Decreased ability to handle stress
• Dry and thin skin
• Hypoglycemia
• Low Body Temperature
• Nervousness
• Palpitation
• Unexplained hair loss
• Alternating constipation and diarrhea
• Dyspepsia

So how does one treat adrenal exhaustion? I dunno, but when I see the word “exhaustion” I think “rest.” Dr. Lam has an adrenal fatigue protocol at his natural medicine website and it looks quite doable, if I can force myself off the caffeine and into bed earlier. The protocol is too long to cut and paste in its entirety here but here are his main points distilled:

1. SPA DAY!!! Minimize or eliminate what causes stress (duh). Make relationship changes if they’re the problem.

2. Change bedtime habits. Turn off TV by 8pm and do NOT spend late evenings on the computer; the artificial light fucks with melatonin levels and the sleep cycle. I will need to cut down on my nighttime blogging.

3. Everything I’ve been doing to self-treat in the food arena has been wrong. I just ate half a watermelon to treat my edema and bought a bunch of bananas to replace the potassium I’m losing from my over-the-counter diruetics, but these are bad choices for the sufferer of adrenal exhaustion. From Dr. Lam’s website:

The primary diet should be high in raw food and that is low in glycemic index. Fruit juices should be avoided. Whole fruits should be limited, especially melons, which are high in sugar and causes sugar spikes soon after food enters the body. Good quality protein from meat, fish, and eggs are recommended. These provide a steady source of energy to carry the body through between meals.

Vegetarians who have adrenal fatigue have a much higher challenge. Legumes (beans) must be eaten with whole grains, seeds, or nuts to make a complete protein. It is important for vegetarians to add eggs, miso, as well as combining beans, seeds, and nuts with a small amount of whole grain. About 50-60% of the diet should consist of raw food. 6-8 servings of a wide variety of vegetables should be included.

Seeds and nuts are critical elements and sources of fatty acids that the adrenal glands need in order to manufacture cholesterol, a precursor to all adrenal steroid hormones. The key is to take nuts and seeds that are raw and free of rancid oils. Oils that are rancid make the symptoms of adrenal fatigue worse and should be avoided at all cost. Raw nuts should be taken on a liberal basis and should be soaked overnight in water. Nuts such as cashews, almonds, brazils, pecans, walnuts, and chestnuts are excellent. Peanuts should be avoided. Olive oil should be used for light cooking. The cooking heat should be low to moderate. Use coconut oil and butter for any high heat or deep-frying.

Vegetables high in sodium include kelp, black olives, red hot peppers, spinach, zucchini, celery, and Swiss chard. Fruits should only be taken in moderation. If you feel worse after food consumption, that is the body’s way of telling you that you are on the wrong track. Organic fruits such as papaya mango, apples, grapes, and cherry are recommended. Bananas, dates, figs, raisins, and grapefruit are high in potassium and should be limited.

Many people with adrenal fatigue also have a lower level of hydrochloric acid (HCl), which is necessary to break down the protein. Symptoms of this problem include gas, bloating, and heaviness in the stomach (HPS says BINGO!) after eating a meal containing protein. In such case, the use of digestive enzymes, probiotics, as well as HCl replacement is indicated

4. Just Do It: Exercise is a hormone regulator.

5. Supplements: Vitamins and minerals (duh) but especially Vitamin C, pantethanic acid, magnesium and vitamin E. Pregnenolone and DHEA highly recommended.

I had Polycystic Ovary Syndrome when I was in my early teens and suspect I’ve been dealing with adrenal exhaustion in my own halfassed ways for decades. Have I finally found the Holy Grail? Maybe . . . Then again I’m beginning to notice that most non-hereditary disorders can be improved with a highly alkaline, low glycemic diet and proper supplementation . . . plus exercise. I know they call this adrenal exhaustion for a reason, but don’t forget the (snore) exercise. I know, I know . . . that’s why I’m getting a massage instead.

Dear HPS,

Video: Comcast tries to buy our silence

SavetheInternet.com just caught Comcast Corp. stacking an FCC hearing with paid (and apparently sleepy) seat-fillers.

The hearing was set up to investigate Comcast’s recent blocking of the Internet. But Comcast packed the room so that the public couldn’t get in to voice their support for Net Neutrality.

We took pictures and recorded an interview that proves Comcast was taking seats from concerned citizens. Now, we need you to make sure that the company doesn’t get away with this ever again. Here’s what you can do:

1. Tell the FCC to stop Comcast Web blocking.
2. Urge your representative to support the “Internet Freedom Preservation Act.”
3. Tell your friends to take action at SavetheInternet.com.

Comcast is blocking the public debate just like it is blocking the Internet: it wields its substantial political and financial power to shut out debate and shut up people.

The picture above (which you can redistribute as you wish) tells a part of the story. Comcast paid people to fill space who were so uninterested in the issue that they took the opportunity to nap. Meanwhile, more than a hundred people with legitimate concerns were left out in the Boston cold. (read more about it on our blog and the links below)

Tens of thousands of people have already protested Comcast by writing the FCC a or urging their elected officials to support the “Internet Freedom Preservation Act,” a bipartisan bill that would re-establish Net Neutrality protections as a foundation of communications policy.

For too long, media policymaking has been rigged against us. By taking action, we’re sending a wakeup call to phone and cable lobbyists that they will no longer set the agenda.

Whether it’s on the Internet or at public hearings, we will stand up for everyone’s right to connect and be heard.

Thank you,

Timothy Karr
Campaign Director
SavetheInternet.com

P.S. You can read more about Comcast’s tactics here:

1. Grassroots Support? Or Astroturf at Portfolio.com
2. Allegations Fly in FCC Hearing Aftermath From Associated Press
3. A View From Outside the Hearing at SavetheInternet.com
4. Seat filler admitting he is being paid

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The Hedonistic Pleasureseeker is playing hooky today. She has several important Things to Do, the details of which shall forever remain a secret.

(I found this on a MySpace site a year or two ago, but there were no credits and the file name was only “gothic photo.” But I found a whole group of gothic photos at Photobucket! Neato!)

I couldn’t take any pictures tonight.

First, Bunny has run off with the camera as though it were hers. It’s been gone for days! Second, I must be coming down with something: I had tummy problems all day. I fell asleep twice at my desk. On the way home I had to pull the car over two times because I thought I was going to fall asleep at the wheel. When I got home I lay down on the sofa and slept for a good four hours, and when I woke up I was soaked in my own sweat. So much for a perfectly good Wednesday night!

The sweat is a good sign though, because it usually means my body just killed some creeping crud and then broke the fever. That’s good, because I don’t want to ruin a perfectly good Friday off being sick!

Blue Notes Martini

3oz blueberry vodka (Stoli is best)
1/2 oz blue curacao

Once again I turn inward; it’s that time of the month. I’m all blissed out and I haven’t even upped my meds yet! I’ll probably spend the whole weekend puttering around the house in my jammies. I’ve already stopped answering the phone, my ballet videotape is cued and I think there is a book calling my name. I don’t need to go anywhere; everything I need is here except for a certain food I’m craving right now . . . gluten free pizza with pepperoni and pineapple!

Vintage gown by Vanity Fair

I want Eggs Benedict and a mimosa. Brought to my bed, with flowers. And a massage. Sniff.

Perhaps I should have spent the night in a hotel. Certainly it would have been cheaper than dolling myself up to find a man?

I’ve got to get out of the house.