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Remember when warts were, like, "in"?
I don't mean in style in the fashion sense. I mean "in" as in talked about by advertisers and media. You know... like erectile dysfunction, and depression, and herpes, and all the myriad illnesses championed these days in TV and magazine ads.
When I was a kid, society's concerns (at least in that department) seemed to be simpler... more down to earth. Like dandruff. And bad breath. And stinky pits. And warts.
I remember the wart thing well because I had them. And Compound W ads were, in those days, inescapable. They started with a young woman crying. And someone asking, "Why the tears?" And her choked up reply was a sniffle and a single, painful word: "Warts."
Oh, the humanity.
Still... I guess the advertising worked. Because I tried Compound W. I also tried sliced raw potatoes. And every other going "cure" for warts in the day. Nothing seemed to make a difference. I had superwarts. Apparently immune to any and all human interventions.
I had this one on the inside of my right elbow. It was massive. Composed of many many long rooty things and protruding at least an inch (no exaggeration), it was roughly the size of a pencil eraser. And because it stuck out, it was always getting snagged on things... zippers, hems, sleeve holes, twigs when I was climbing trees.
It reached its peak of glory in about Grade 5. We were outside, high jumping... going over the bar onto a mat composed of chunks of foam, held together with netting. I was in my element. All the kids hated me, but I was fast and springy and a very good jumper. And so... as they raised the bar higher and higher... it came down to just me and one other girl still taking turns while the others stood and watched.
As I rolled across the mat after finishing my last jump, I felt this tugging on my elbow. And because it didn't hurt, I didn't realize I'd basically torn the wart off on the snaggy stringy netting. As I walked back to take my place for the next jump, the other kids started making faces, going "Ewwww!" and pointing and laughing... which (sad to say) was not at all unusual for me. So... again, I didn't really think anything of it. Until I saw all the blood.
I enjoyed a day of elementary school semi-fame... with kids paying positive attention to me. Instead of just making fun of me, they actually tried being nice... just so they could gawk at the gaping bleeding hole in my arm where the wart had been.
We searched some for the wart, too. But it must have ended up on the ground. Or lost somewhere in the spongy chunks of the highjump mat. Whatever. That was the end of my elbow wart. The hole healed and that was that. And that was the end of my warts in general.
Until I turned 40. Suddenly, the warts were back. And not in fun, easy places like my elbow. See that thing just above my eyelid? Yep, it's a wart. And... just like the one I used to have on my elbow, it's made of many rooty things and sticks way out... and it's growing at an alarming rate. I have a new one on one of my fingers, too... and it's not just rooty and sticky-outy... it has nice black hairs growing out of it!!!
The one by my eye will have to be removed (as have several others which were growing on the same eyelid). It's a fast, fairly painless procedure. My doctor dabs them with liquid nitrogen, they dry up and they fall off. Well... most of the time. The one you can see here has already been zapped twice. So I'm hoping it'll be third time lucky.
The one on my finger... that I'm keeping. It's not like it's in the way or anything. And... hmmm... who knows. I may even shoot it one of these days. After all, it's part of me. Part of who I am. Part (as I like to joke) of my Eastern European heritage.
So... yeah. This is me. Warts and all. It was just a test shot, but I really like the light... especially in the tulip leaves.
It's a quiet Saturday afternoon with temperatures in the 90s as Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern train M-MNAU29, otherwise known as the Mankato Job, heads west past the C&NW passenger depot. The last passenger train to stop here was the Dakota 400 in 1960. In the background is the C&NW freight depot. I'll leave it to you to figure out the caption.
How is it that these sponsored ads keep popping up with the cure for everything from erectile dysfunction to weight loss to hair resoration, and neuropathy? Do people really believe this shit?
For those who have been paying attention, the GOP panel for both the Senate and House of Representatives drafting the newest abomination of Trumpcare didn't include any women. And so, when you have defunding of Planned Parenthood and clauses about how it an employer doesn't really feel like paying for birth control...well, are we really surprised? Rape and C-section should also not be pre-existing conditions when erectile dysfunction is not.
Some other things that have happened that are really horrific-in Texas, it's legal now for Dr.s to not tell pregnant women when they are going to give birth to a baby with a disability even when it is severe. It's also illegal for anyone to drive a woman to an abortion clinic. The woman also must have a funeral service for the fetus.
In Arkansas and Oklahoma, their state legislature are trying to get bills passed referring to a woman's body as a "host" and that even in the case of a rape, a male must give consent for abortion.
In North Carolina, they just recently ruled that if a woman has given consent for intercourse she cannot withdraw it even when a man become violent during the act. Therefore, if a man appears to be harmless and then starts to literally attack her and she tries to stop him and the act, it will never be considered a rape.
If these things don't alarm you, you either don't care about the rights of women or well, that's about all I've got. I'm personally against abortion but for the right of a woman to choose. These people are so extreme that they want to prohibit it in any circumstance. If a woman is raped, she should absolutely have the right to terminate the pregnancy. If a woman will die or the baby will die or suffer immeasurably, she should also have that option! These are not extreme liberal statements. This is about human rights for women. If a woman is being attacked and says no, it's rape. If a woman has been raped or abused, it should not be a pre-existing condition that would deny her healthcare.
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Orto Botanico di Padova, a 1997 inscribed UNESCO World Heritage Site & Europe’s oldest botanical garden.
7 of 12.
We are in the garden biodiversity greenhouse so now too many plant shots including this brightly coloured blue Lotus Flower.
Despite the many claims of blue lotus flower’s health benefits, there’s only limited research on the plant.
Historically, it’s been used recreationally and medicinally, with most advocates claiming it can improve sleep, reduce anxiety, assist with erectile dysfunction, and act as a natural aphrodisiac.
The year is 4583.
Wednesday.
Eighteen minutes ago.
“You had to go with mariachi music, didn’t you?” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) asked. The acidic tone seemed to reverberate deeper in his pachydermatous trunk giving his voice an unusual growl.
“What?” Phat Mac said. “What’s the big deal? I thought it’d be funny.” His worn out fedora with its upturned front brim tilted sideways as he shrugged his shoulders.
“Yeah.” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) said. “Real funny. Fired and set off world funny.”
“Seriously,” Phat Mac continued, “I didn’t think it’d be that big a deal.”
“That big a deal?!” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) spat. “Really?!”
Phat Mac shrugged.
“Haven’t you read Sgaoileadh?!” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) said.
“Sgwee-who?” Phat Mac replied, his bushy eyebrows curling in confusion.
9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) stared at his friend sitting across the hole they drilled in the ice earlier that day. That day. That day? What the hell is a day on Europa?! A satellite orbiting a satellite with a time reference based on another satellite. Who the hell thought that time was a good idea for space?! Time is stupid! “Sgaoileadh, you idiot! Sgaoileadh.” he said.
Phat Mac shrugged again.
“Sgaoileadh’s Brief History of Humanity in Space.” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) supplied an answer as if it would explain everything.
Phat Mac shrugged yet again, adding a sheepish grin this time that dragged his upper lip atop his right fang. The furry muzzle bulged on one side into a quizzical expression.
The sincerity of the last gesture sent 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) rifling through his red tackle box. Lures and bobs flipped out here and there, an errant surface popper stuck a zealous index finger. He plucked it out with a slight wince that curled the top of his trunk and then threw it over his left shoulder towards the debris pile. It stuck instantly to the gold cloth of the Wurlitzer after bouncing off the Ark of the Covenant. Under the spool of forty pound test, he pulled out a vid and turned towards Phat Mac.
“You need to keep up on current events in THE Consortium, buddy.” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) exhaled more than said with a hefty dose of futile exasperation. He pushed off his knees to a stance with a generous groan of age then paced towards his friend with somewhat drooping shoulders of unadulterated resignation. “Pay attention to Sgaoileadh. He knows what’s going on.” He extended his arm handing the vid to Phat Mac.
Phat Mac took it with a bit of apprehension and timidity at his friend’s insistent attitude.
9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) tapped at the icon of a brain sitting in an old Styrofoam burger container with the words “Fast Food for Thought” underneath it. The image of Charlton Heston appeared on the screen and began to speak.
“Book one: Sol system expansion/Pre-jump exploration,” it stated in a voice not entirely unlike Charlton Heston’s with a slight lisp.
“1957: The first man-made satellite, Sputnik, was launched to start the space race. Named after the Swahili goddess of bacon, its soothing mariachi sounds were transmitted across the globe announcing man’s arrival at something really, really big. And cold.
“1961: Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. It was reported that he was sent to end the damn mariachi music coming from Sputnik.
“1965: Alexey Leonov performs the first spacewalk to finish the job that Yuri couldn’t. Mistaking the outer door for the head, he stepped outside saying, “Дерьмо, man, холодно в здесь. И действительно большой. Подождите минуту…” (Translation: “Shit, man, it’s cold in here. And really big. Wait a minute…”)
“1969: The culmination of years of threats finally lands humanity on a surface other than Earth. The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, mistaking the outer door for a broom closet to sweep up after Buzz Aldrin spilled his bag of pork rinds, opened up his Apollo capsule and famously said, “Shit, man, it’s cold in here. And really big. Wait a minute…”
“1981: The first Space Shuttle launched ringing in the end of getting excited about space. The public was tormented by launches, delays of launches, the promises of launches next Tuesday, the promise of delaying Tuesday’s launch, postponing Tuesday’s launch to Thursday, cancelling Thursday’s launch, rescheduling Thursday’s launch for next Wednesday, cancelling Wednesday’s launch because it was Arbor Day, rescheduling to postpone the cancellation of Tuesday’s launch which no one remembered scheduling in the first place, promising to reschedule the cancellation of the postponement…SHIT!!! Launch it before anyone realizes that was a double negative! This went on for decades until some intrepid entrepreneurs had more money than NASA and found that they could make even more money by selling the notion that postponing space travel could be fun.
“2037: The first space elevator was established off the coast of Ecuador. It was financed by those entrepreneurs that made a bigger killing by taking out insurance policies on their affluent, thrill seeking, slime molds throwing cash all over the place for twelve seconds of dark weightlessness then “accidentally” dropping them on Mexico claiming they were aiming for the mariachi bands. Over the next ten years, twenty three more elevators were built with the only failure being the primary structure due to the great 8.4 Lima quake in 2045 that sheered the moorings sending the elevator and its crew of twenty into deep space. But seeing that the crew were already disenfranchised about the lack of recognition for their roles in establishing the other elevators and the base on the moon, and the subsequent nonstop pirate radio broadcasts from their orbital platform whining about how they deserved more pay and statues devoted to them, and the never ending mariachi music when they weren’t yammering, no effort was made in rescuing them. It was determined that their food and oxygen supply would be depleted by June of 2047; and turning to the world of sports, some team somewhere won something important to someone. So there’s that. Go local sport team franchise! Yay.
“2046: First Lunar base/colony was established. Mariachi music was banned.
“2048: On August 8th, the first extraterrestrial human was born to Herbert and Moira Newsome. Little Alfred became an instant celebrity and was scrutinized and adored over his seventeen year life when, in spite of having rocket scientists for parents, Little Alfred proved that even off Earth, humans could succumb to Darwinism as he tried lighting a bong in the pig habitat on the outskirts of the farming district. In addition to the oxygen rich atmosphere, the methane in the enclosure helped give him and his friend Umberto a high seen from Earth. The price of stocks in pork bellies literally and figuratively shot through the roof along with a resurgence in sales of Pink Floyd’s album Animals.
“2061: First Martian base/colony was established. Seeing that they were much farther away from the Earth than the moon, little news or care came their way due to the time it took to send signals back and forth. Meanwhile, back on the lunar surface, the Moonies (a name they didn’t care for; however, in light of the other options of Loonies and Moonians, they felt it was the lesser of three evils.) took the spotlight. In response, the Martians protested vehemently and often cut into lunar broadcasts to express their displeasure. However, the fourteen minute, single direction delay of each interruption gave everyone the impression that the Martians were tragically slow mentally, and their irritation was met only with tearful laughter at the oddly placed, nonsensical rantings. An agreement was reached in four seconds to share air time when a Martian named George Matzos started transmitting mariachi music. After the twenty-eight minutes of music, the Martians agreed as well.
“2063: On May 18th, the first Martian was born to Harry and Mary Neumann. Little Albert became an instant celebrity and was scrutinized and adored over his seventeen year life… Never mind, just know it ended the exact same way with his friend Roberto. The Pink Floyd Trust was doing very well.
“2068: The sovereignties of Earth united. Kind of. Well, mostly. In name, anyways. There were agreements, promises, promises of agreements, agreements for letters, letters of promises, promises of threats, threats of agreements, threats of letters, and a twenty-six minute war between Liechtenstein and Switzerland that went completely unnoticed until someone in Oakland, California went to order a new gear housing for a Hilti SHG-3400 dual composite angle grinding hole cutter only to find a response in his inbox saying, “We are sorry for the inconvenience of not being able to complete your order for part number 784-983433-343-g due to the current war with the rat bastards over in Switzerland that think they control the world with those annoying clocks, their shit chocolate, and those goddamned stupid knives that you always lose the toothpicks! We thank you for your business and will… -Transmission Interrupted-” And so, the world united under one flag with one less country to try and figure out how to spell. The Moonies and Martians were absorbed into the collective without their noticing, but seeing that they now didn’t much care for the “old world politics” or Hilti products in general, they simply shrugged their shoulders to the whole affair and continued cleaning up pig carcasses.
“2070: A small pharmaceutical company popped up nearly overnight on the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil with the slogan, "A Amazônia, que lugar tem tudo!" (Translation: “The Amazon, that place has everything!”) Roritora Pharmaceuticalia found cures for scores of diseases most notably cancer and erectile dysfunction. The company’s stock prices soared, the good will felt across the three globes was immeasurable, Switzerland apologized to the remaining population of Liechtenstein in the form of fourteen thousand crates of tiny plastic replacement toothpicks, Mexico apologized for mariachi music, May 24th was declared Roritora Day and was the first triple world holiday, and the CEO of Roritora, Esteban Del Esteban III proclaimed himself “Sou o mais mauzão, cagavam pontapés, suíno furador no universo!” (Translation: “I’m the most badass, shit kicking, pig puncher in the universe!”) The cure for cancer helped too, especially in the wake of the death of Esteban Del Esteban III the following February due to an overdose of his company’s E.D. cure at a Carnaval party of two hundred and forty three women and himself, and their stock’s resulting minor hit. With life expectancy increased to nearly one hundred and thirty years with certain bionic implants and youth extension vitamins provided by Roritora from their plantations throughout the Amazon, the populations of Earth, the Moon, and Mars were free to utilize the benefits of the E.D. cure to increase the populace exponentially.
“2071: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems patents the first faster-than-light “jump” drive system. The subsequent tests throughout the following eighteen years were successful in depleting test pilots and expensive hardware. This fact did not however deter their attempts as YPS was subsidized by Roritora and the new CEO Esteban Del Esteban V after his father met a similar fate as his father in a similar Carnaval party with twice as many women.
“2093: Terraforming the Moon and Mars was successful enough to breathe freely in both atmospheres. The first breath came from a Moonie janitor named Philip who, while distracted by some contraband mariachi music mysteriously resonating through an amalgam filling in an upper molar, mistakenly misread the external door as a supply closet. On opening the door, the vacuum sucked him out into the open crater where he picked himself up, dusted the regolith off his coveralls, and was recorded saying, “Shit, man, it’s cold in here. And really big. Wait a minute…”
At that point, 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) took the vid from Phat Mac and sat back at his spot on the other side of the hole after taking a hefty swig of Malört. Charlton stopped talking as he was thrown carelessly back into the tackle box sending a steel spinnerbait into a lovely Louganisian twisting flip into the water with almost no splash.
“See?!” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) asked.
Phat Mac’s head hung low. “I didn’t know.” He said. His scruffy muzzle drooped even lower in a pathetic frown.
9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) just squinted at him while his elongated proboscis harrumphed.
“Honest.” Phat Mac implored. “I thought it’d be funny to blast mariachi music over the PA.”
“Mariachi?” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) questioned with a hint of spite. “You couldn’t pick Reggae, or classic rock, or even Denebian splatter chants.” He paused as Phat Mac’s head dropped even lower. “Nope, had to go with mariachi.”
“I like mariachi music.” Phat Mac mumbled under his hat.
9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) just sat there looking at Phat Mac for a long moment. He wondered if there would be any way they, especially he, could go back to the ABSinite factory on New Vladivostok. This ice rock sure didn’t have any future for either of them in spite of the flourish of activity going on currently around them. Dammit Phat Mac! Why mariachi music? He took a deep breath and exhaled a fully realized corporeal mist out his trunk. Why? He mused for a few more breaths. He realized that New Vladi didn’t have a future for them either for that matter. At least here on Europa they could fish all day. Who the hell can say that?! Just wish there was more fish than garbage here. Who knew it was such a dump? The few Snupa Crot they caught earlier weren’t very filling and there ain’t much nourishment in a worn out Dunlop.
9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) glanced up at Phat Mac and their eyes met briefly.
9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) picked up his rod and cast into the hole with a satisfying “plooop” as it broke the surface of the frigid water.
Phat Mac looked up at the sound and cast his own line in with a similar “plooop”.
“Welp,” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) began.
Phat Mac looked up at his friend who wore his perpetual, cynical, sideways smirk under his grey toque. The pause took a full, long, single breath.
“I like mariachis too.” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) finally said.
Phat Mac’s eyes lit up, he felt his two stomachs lift; an electric warmth shot through his veins. “Really?!” he said half excited, half unbelieving.
“Yeah, it ain’t bad.” 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) said.
At that moment, both Phat Mac and 9ruq88izll4 (pronounced Tim) got a hit on their lines. They instinctually set the hooks in tandem and began reeling in. Both seemed excited from the effort it took. Must be big ones! Maybe things were turning in their direction finally, maybe Europa had something to offer them after all, and maybe this ice rock also enjoyed mariachi music.
Or not.
Fourth Wall: Okay, okay, I know you’re all thinking that I’m really not quite all there. Let me assure you that you are indeed correct. It's just what I was thinking while building my contribution for this:
Here's a brilliant explanation of the whole shebang:
Cardamom
The health benefits of cardamom include gastrointestinal protection, cholesterol control, control of cancer, relief from cardiovascular issues, and the improvement of blood circulation in the body. It is useful for curing dental diseases and urinary tract infections such as cystitis, nephritis, and gonorrhea. Cardamom possesses aphrodisiac properties and is also used as a cure for impotency, erectile dysfunction, and premature ejaculation.
Cardamom is a spice that originated in India, Nepal, and Bhutan. Today, it is available in most tropical places in Asia, including India, China, Bhutan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, and Japan. It is regarded as the Queen of Spices and is one of the most expensive spices, ranking third, the first and second being saffron and vanilla, respectively.
It is believed that cultivation of cardamom began in the tropical and humid climate of the Western Ghats in India. In botanical terms, it belongs to the family of Zingibercease and its scientific name is Elettaria cardamomum. There are two main types or subspecies of cardamom. Their scientific names are Elettaria, which is called green or true cardamom, and Amomum, which stands for black, white, or red cardamom.
The Spices Board of India recognizes three varieties of cardamom, which include the Malabar, Mysore and Vazhukka varieties. There is another variety of cardamom, named Njallani, which has become very popular along with the three normal varieties. This variety was developed by a small farmer named Sebastian Joseph from the Idukki district in Kerala.
It is found in the form of a small pod with black seeds inside. Both the seeds and the pod give a pleasant aroma and flavor. Therefore, they are used as flavoring agents in Indian cuisine. Its use is just not just limited to hot and spicy dishes; the seeds are also added to desserts and beverages to complement the sweet flavor. Cardamom tea is a very famous beverage, along with ginger tea, in India.
In India, cardamom was traditionally considered as an herb and was one of the ingredients in Ayurveda (the ancient Indian science of medicine and lifestyle) and traditional Chinese medicine. It was believed to be a remedy for teeth and gum infections, throat problems, congestion of the lungs, pulmonary tuberculosis, inflammation of the eyelids, gastrointestinal disorders, disintegrating kidney, and gall bladder stones, and was also used as an antidote for poisons and venoms.
© David K. Edwards. Once upon a time this was an ordinary orange candle stuck in a carved and painted wooden candlestick. During a couple of weeks while I was out of town, La Jolla suffered a significant heat wave. During this, the orange candle softened and wilted most grievously. It droops and hangs. The brand-names Viagra and Cialis come to mind. Will you be ready when the time is right? Will you? WL U?
The photograph is poorly exposed and murky. It is intended as an element of reporterage: okay, granted, there was definitely a hot day in the snooty little suburb of La Jolla. But nobody on the planet gives a shit, frankly, and the photograph itself is not worth even the most fleeting glance. A cumbersome, foggy, amateur snapshot at best. Move on.
As we all know Viagra is the brand name for Sildenafil, a prescription drug used to cure erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction means an inability to sustain an erection for a longer time for a flawless intimacy. If you suffer from the erectile dysfunction or low libido, then this just might...
© David K. Edwards. Yearning for turgor while still enjoying the lethal pleasures of semelparity. The curved, towering thing exudes sugar water, and the bees love it. It makes a sweet, sticky puddle in my driveway.
All of a sudden, Leon showed signs of erectile dysfunction. He had none of the normal common causes such as heart disease, clogged blood vessels, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity or Parkinson's disease. Leon's doctor's were befuddled. Then, Leon met Ah Kum the Chinese Elm and, well, it's no longer a problem.
Bakersfield, California 2015
The front runner's massive lead among the party faithful has me once again despairing that conservatives just don't get it (to recycle a criticism from a past election).
A wall...?!! It's going to take more than a wall. That's not even "thinking outside the box", and what it's really going to take is some thinking outside the perimeter wire. Like, say, some of that there "job creation" among those of my neighbors who give my part of town the nickname "Little Saigon", who probably won't be averse to a juicy government contract to import all those punji stakes, because it's going to require 1900-some-odd miles of those plus another 1900+ of concertina wire, with machine gun positions and four-deuce mortar pits every 50 meters or so with interlocking fields of fire, God knows how many Claymores and enough command-detonated 55-gallon drums of fougasse to force us back to those of odd/even plate number days at the pumps we all recall so fondly from the Seventies, with an unbroken chain of firebases a few miles to the rear to provide artillery support. And, if he's really serious about interdicting the Ho Chi Menendez Trail, we're going to need a 50-mile-deep free fire zone where if so much as a Mexican bean jumps, we ARC LIGHT every madref-----g grid square from Matamoros to Tiajuana.
But even all that is just TOO conservative, the sort of effort that's about 15/32nds short of a half-measure, precisely the kind of meaningless gesture that we've consistently seen out of congressional conservativettes under Crybaby Boehner and, from what I've seen so far, what we can continue to expect with the guy who's waffling between the Charles Atlas and Maynard G. Krebs look. Besides, it's a plan based on our weakness rather than playing on our strength. As Patton's romp through Europe in '44-45 proved, and was reconfirmed by the Gulf War and the initial phase of the Iraq War (and proven in the negative by Vietnam and Iraqistan since 2003), if there is one thing that the United States Army absolutely excels at, it's the division-level drive-by shooting.
Therefore, fuzzy-thinking Liberal that I've become, I propose a much more expansive Big Government Spending Program to SOLVE the problem. Namely, have everybody at Hood, Bliss, Riley and Carson mount up, head out the main gate and DRIVE SOUTH! I figure by the time 1st Cav and 1st Armored are holding at PHASE LINE AY CHIHUAHUA! six klicks south of Mexico City waiting for 1st and 4th ID to finish mopping up, security along el viejo Rio Grande will have become pretty much a non-issue.
On a serious note (and I do trust that everyone realizes that I had my tongue planted firmly in my cheek in writing the foregoing; well, except for the part about invading Mexico, of course--you can take the boy out of Texas, but you can't take the Texas out of the boy), what really worries me about the lunatic wing of the party's adoration of The Donald is that I don't trust him, and am just astounded that so many of them have been fooled into doing so.
To begin with, he IS a Republican, which means he talks a good fight but once he wins the election, taking the oath of office will be the only real accomplishment of his entire administration. If voting for those lying, double-dealing, two-faced, back-stabbing bastards for forty-plus years has taught me anything, it's that Richard Nixon was not only the first of them I ever voted for, he's still the best of them. And even he wimped out in the end. As the saying goes, you can't teach an old dog new tricks, and Republicans only have one: roll over and play dead.
More importantly, I believe the most serious problem confronting the United States today is our shrinking middle class and their even-more-rapidly-shrinking real income. There is a reason "bourgeois" is the F-bomb equivalent in commie lexicon, and why so much commie agit-prop hammers at and attempts to discredit, destabilize, demoralize and destroy the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie, the middle class, are the backbone of the civilized world, and no Christian democracy can survive without them. They are most certainly what The Greatest Generation, who won WW II and then came home to make America the world power and Middle Class Heaven on Earth it was in the twenty years after, were. They're dying out, the number of their children and grandchildren and great grandchildren who have remained in their socioeconomic strata are becoming fewer and fewer every year, and those who remain find ourselves paying higher and higher prices to stay there, while working longer and longer hours at jobs that provide less and less real income to pay for the privilege. We have hit the point where we in the middle can no longer do a proper job of taking care of the poor, and certainly can't enjoy the dubious luxury of tolerating an increasingly self-indulgent wealthy class--especially an increasingly self-centered and unpatriotic CEO class. And I don't see The Donald as the man to do anything about it, unless it's everything in his power to make the situation even worse. As his supporters like to point out, he's a successful businessman. They are 100% right, of course, but they seem incapable of grasping the obvious, that that's precisely 100% the danger: he IS a successful businessman, and no successful businessman ever became a billionaire by giving a fat rat's ass about the working class, or failing to screw 'em over any way he could, every chance he got.
It's not that I don't understand his appeal to the party base. It's obviously symptomatic of our growing frustration with the unrelenting failure of the GOP to represent us in a meaningful way, to whine and bleat and blather incessantly about the problems but never, ever get them solved like we elected them to do, and in comparison to the others he does SEEM to be saying what needs to be said. I mean, after all those years hearing all that phony sincerity about "my respected colleague, my closest friend and esteemed opponent" being jabber-babbled on the debate stage, it IS kind of refreshing to hear The Donald make it plain that Carly Fiorina is so damned ugly he wouldn't do her with Jeb Bush's erectile dysfunction, nor would he piss up the rest of 'em's asses even if the sorry bastards' guts were on fire. But...if you listen between the lines, it's just the same old Crapola - Breakfast of Losers with a new picture on the box. Just like all the others, he's got his favorite Scripture passage, as if he wasn't a business man whose god is The Almighty Dollar and he worships no other (or as if you didn't have a better chance of finding a Christian child pornographer than a Christian politician), and, yes--rah-rah-rah it's a grand old flag!--him and his third or fourth or seventeenth or whichever mail order Bolshevik babushka he's on now love America with all their Red, White and Blue hearts. It's not a wall, it's a smokescreen, the same old hypocritical Bible Thumping and Flag Waving and Fear Mongering to keep us from seeing that we're getting the business as usual, and the only difference between him and the other betrayers is that he managed to finagle considerably more than thirty pieces of silver for his soul.
Presidents don't create jobs, businesses create jobs, and we only need to ask ourselves a few questions about The Donald's record as a "successful businessman"--and view the answers in light of the old business law, "The boss is always right", and its corollary, "Since the boss is incapable of error, if things are screwed up it must be because the boss wants them to be screwed up"--to know just how much we can expect out of a President Trump. So, how many steel workers have good jobs at the rolling mills of Trump Steel in Pittsburgh? How many engineers, stylists and assembly line workers are on the massive payroll at that massive Trump Motors plant in Detroit? How many pilots, mechanics, dispatchers, ticket agents and what have you are pocketing fat pay envelopes for keeping all those Boeing Triple-7s flying in Trump Airways International's scheduled service? How many engineers and machinists and sheet metal workers are making the big bucks at Trump Aerospace? How many train crews and track gangs and yard and backshop hands does the Trump Pacific R.R. have getting a good paychecks every week and looking forward to a comfortable pension--and how many crack passenger trains do they have in service? Once upon a time in America we had industries like that, industries that made us The Arsenal of Democracy and The Envy of the World, with millions of Americans having secure, and securely middle class, jobs in them, because American--that is, REAL American--Captains of Industry wanted things that way. We don't have them anymore, we have minimum wage plus tips service jobs instead, because The Donald and all his breed of Corporate Thugs found out they could maximize their personal profits by simply selling off--and selling out--their country. And now he wants us to reward his treason by giving him the most prestigious job in the world?
Because regulations prohibit the carrying of weapons in polling places, I may have to turn a one-off incident into a Family Tradition this time around. My great grandmother voted in every single election she could vote in from the time women got the vote until she died in the 1970s, except for one. In 1960, being a good Baptist she couldn't bring herself to vote for that papist Kennedy, but, being an Eleanor Roosevelt clone right down to the klunky toes of her sensible shoes, she sure as hell couldn't vote for "that snake in the grass Republican Nixon". I now have a much more sympathetic appreciation of her predicament. I sure as hell can't vote for that snake in the grass Republican Trump, and thanks to those aforementioned weapons laws, I can't hold a gun to my head and force myself to vote for Hillary.
On an artistic and historical note, those of you familiar with military history, and with the life of George S. Patton, Jr., in particular, may have looked at the helmet of our LUCKY (REEEEEEALLY) FORWARD heroine here and thought that, ever the stickler for uniform regulations, Patton wouldn't have tolerated a brigadier general (or a major general or a lieutenant general, for that matter) running around with the chin strap unhooked like that. But in this case he couldn't have said anything, because, if you'll look again, she's NOT a brigadier general. Altogether, she's wearing as many stars as Georgie had (although one of them IS a bit smaller, due to the limited room for maneuver in the area of operations, so to speak). Whatever his misgivings about her chin strap might have been, however, I'm pretty sure Old Blood'n'Guts would have looked favorably upon the kind of kick-ass pole dancing moves she could make in her spit-shined M1940 3-buckle cavalry boots!
During the late 16th and 17th centuries in France, male impotence was considered a crime, as well as legal grounds for a divorce. The practice, which involved inspection of the complainants by court experts, was declared obscene in 1677. John R. Brinkley initiated a boom in male impotence cures in the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s. His radio programs recommended expensive goat gland implants and "mercurochrome" injections as the path to restored male virility, including operations by surgeon Serge Voronoff. Modern drug therapy for ED made a significant advance in 1983, when British physiologist Giles Brindley dropped his trousers and demonstrated to a shocked Urodynamics Society audience his papaverine-induced erection. The drug Brindley injected into his penis was a non-specific vasodilator, an alpha-blocking agent, and the mechanism of action was clearly corporal smooth muscle relaxation. The effect that Brindley discovered established the fundamentals for the later development of specific, safe, and orally effective drug therapies.
Erectile dysfunction (ED), also known as impotence, is a type of sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis during sexual activity. Erectile dysfunction can have psychological consequences as it can be tied to relationship difficulties and self-image. The most important organic causes of impotence are cardiovascular disease and diabetes, neurological problems (for example, trauma from prostatectomy surgery), hormonal insufficiencies (hypogonadism) and drug side effects. Psychological impotence is where erection or penetration fails due to thoughts or feelings (psychological reasons) rather than physical impossibility; this is somewhat less frequent but can often be helped. In psychological impotence, there is a strong response to placebo treatment. Besides treating the underlying causes such as potassium deficiency or arsenic contamination of drinking water, the first line treatment of erectile dysfunction consists of a trial of PDE5 inhibitor (such as sildenafil). In some cases, treatment can involve prostaglandin tablets in the urethra, injections into the penis, a penile prosthesis, a penis pump or vascular reconstructive surgery. Erectile dysfunction is characterized by the regular or repeated inability to obtain or maintain an erection.
Causes
Medications (antidepressants, such as SSRIs, and nicotine[citation needed] are most common)
Neurogenic disorders
Cavernosal disorders (Peyronie's disease)
Hyperprolactinemia (e.g., due to a prolactinoma)
Psychological causes: performance anxiety, stress, and mental disorders
Surgery
Aging. It is four times more common in men aged in their 60s than those in their 40s.
Kidney failure
Diseases such as diabetes mellitus and multiple sclerosis (MS). While these two causes have not been proven they are likely suspects as they cause issues with both the blood flow and nervous systems. Lifestyle: smoking is a key cause of erectile dysfunction. Smoking causes impotence because it promotes arterial narrowing. Surgical intervention for a number of conditions may remove anatomical structures necessary to erection, damage nerves, or impair blood supply. Erectile dysfunction is a common complication of treatments for prostate cancer, including prostatectomy and destruction of the prostate by external beam radiation, although the prostate gland itself is not necessary to achieve an erection. As far as inguinal hernia surgery is concerned, in most cases, and in the absence of postoperative complications, the operative repair can lead to a recovery of the sexual life of patients with preoperative sexual dysfunction, while, in most cases, it does not affect patients with a preoperative normal sexual life. ED can also be associated with bicycling due to both neurological and vascular problems due to compression. The increase risk appears to be about 1.7-fold. Concerns that use of pornography can cause erectile dysfunction have not been substantiated in epidemiological studies according to a 2015 literature review. However, another review and case studies article maintains that use of pornography does indeed cause erectile dysfunction, and critiques the previously described literature review. Penile erection is managed by two mechanisms: the reflex erection, which is achieved by directly touching the penile shaft, and the psychogenic erection, which is achieved by erotic or emotional stimuli. The former uses the peripheral nerves and the lower parts of the spinal cord, whereas the latter uses the limbic system of the brain. In both cases, an intact neural system is required for a successful and complete erection. Stimulation of the penile shaft by the nervous system leads to the secretion of nitric oxide (NO), which causes the relaxation of smooth muscles of corpora cavernosa (the main erectile tissue of penis), and subsequently penile erection. Additionally, adequate levels of testosterone (produced by the testes) and an intact pituitary gland are required for the development of a healthy erectile system. As can be understood from the mechanisms of a normal erection, impotence may develop due to hormonal deficiency, disorders of the neural system, lack of adequate penile blood supply or psychological problems. Spinal cord injury causes sexual dysfunction including ED. Restriction of blood flow can arise from impaired endothelial function due to the usual causes associated with coronary artery disease, but can also be caused by prolonged exposure to bright light. It is analyzed in several ways: Obtaining full erections at some times, such as nocturnal penile tumescence when asleep (when the mind and psychological issues, if any, are less present), tends to suggest that the physical structures are functionally working. Other factors leading to erectile dysfunction are diabetes mellitus (causing neuropathy). There are no formal tests to diagnose erectile dysfunction. Some blood tests are generally done to exclude underlying disease, such as hypogonadism and prolactinoma. Impotence is also related to generally poor physical health, poor dietary habits, obesity, and most specifically cardiovascular disease such as coronary artery disease and peripheral vascular disease. Therefore, a thorough physical examination is helpful, in particular the simple search for a previously undetected groin hernia since it can affect sexual functions in men and is easily curable. A useful and simple way to distinguish between physiological and psychological impotence is to determine whether the patient ever has an erection. If never, the problem is likely to be physiological; if sometimes (however rarely), it could be physiological or psychological. The current diagnostic and statistical manual of mental diseases (DSM-IV) has included a listing for impotence.
Duplex ultrasound
Duplex ultrasound is used to evaluate blood flow, venous leak, signs of atherosclerosis, and scarring or calcification of erectile tissue. Injecting prostaglandin, a hormone-like stimulator produced in the body, induces the erection. Ultrasound is then used to see vascular dilation and measure penile blood pressure.
Penile nerves function
Tests such as the bulbocavernosus reflex test are used to determine if there is sufficient nerve sensation in the penis. The physician squeezes the glans (head) of the penis, which immediately causes the anus to contract if nerve function is normal. A physician measures the latency between squeeze and contraction by observing the anal sphincter or by feeling it with a gloved finger inserted past the anus.
Nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT)
It is normal for a man to have five to six erections during sleep, especially during rapid eye movement (REM). Their absence may indicate a problem with nerve function or blood supply in the penis. There are two methods for measuring changes in penile rigidity and circumference during nocturnal erection: snap gauge and strain gauge. A significant proportion of men who have no sexual dysfunction nonetheless do not have regular nocturnal erections.
Penile biothesiometry
This test uses electromagnetic vibration to evaluate sensitivity and nerve function in the glans and shaft of the penis.
Dynamic infusion cavernosometry (DICC)
technique in which fluid is pumped into the penis at a known rate and pressure. It gives a measurement of the vascular pressure in the corpus cavernosum during an erection.
Corpus cavernosometry
Cavernosography measurement of the vascular pressure in the corpus cavernosum. Saline is infused under pressure into the corpus cavernosum with a butterfly needle, and the flow rate needed to maintain an erection indicates the degree of venous leakage. The leaking veins responsible may be visualized by infusing a mixture of saline and x-ray contrast medium and performing a cavernosogram.[20] In Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA), the images are acquired digitally.
Magnetic resonance angiography (MRA)
This is similar to magnetic resonance imaging. Magnetic resonance angiography uses magnetic fields and radio waves to provide detailed images of the blood vessels. Doctors may inject a "contrast agent" into the patient's bloodstream that causes vascular tissues to stand out against other tissues. The contrast agent provides for enhanced information regarding blood supply and vascular anomalies.
April 5, 2012 - The FDA is advising consumers not to purchase or use "Stree Overlord," a product promoted and sold for sexual enhancement. The product was found to contain undeclared sildenafil. For more information, go to www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsingMe...
And read these FDA Consumer Updates:
Beware of Fraudulent ‘Dietary Supplements’
"All Natural" Alternatives for Erectile Dysfunction: A Risky Proposition
Synchronicity was in a great way for this picture between couple sun ☀️ and moonlight 🌙 , throned son, cristal light’s heals all the soul under nymphs...( thanks to Nymphaea by Claude Monet ) Cristal healing and echoes of consciousness.
Liberation of darkness is possible way with your pineal glands and you can compare them with a crystal light and follow the guidance through your dream.Other significant work for linking the throne to nymphaea could be a Jungian interpretation for Alchemist (following old Egyptian science)
It’s amazing how crystal light is a healing process for testing your body to sitting on a throne.However, it has only recently become clear that apomorphine can be utilized, with excellent results, to treat erectile dysfunction. It is a centrally acting, selective D1/D2 dopamine agonist, and activation of dopaminergic receptors in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus initiates a cascade of events, ultimately resulting in smooth muscle relaxation and vasodilatation within the corpora cavernosa, leading to penile erection. Crystal river and albedo was whiteness day for a throne of consciousness enlightenment
This discovery provides a likely explanation for the appearance of Nymphaea in the Luxor frescoes and in erotic cartoons ... The fact that temple drawings only depict use by the higher castes, such as priests and royalty, suggests that the masses did not benefit from this discovery. The Nymphaea story serves as a further illustration of how the effects of substances of plant origin were known even though the discoverers lacked the technology to explain them. The water lily was also used for other medicinal purposes, according to Lise Manniche in An Ancient Egyptian Herbal, including liver disease, poultices for the head, constipation and as an enema (1989, p. 134). She also notes that it was used in a magical spell to cause a "hated woman"'s hair to fall out. In Greco-Roman times, it was thought of as a cooling herb, and was thus used to bring down a fever.
Original article: www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/egypt_wate...
© Caroline Seawright
The source is one: male and female are united. In alchemical images we see a throne from which streams of water flow into one flashback to primordial life’s hermaphrodite.
The Syrian love goddess who the Egyptians married off to Min, was depicted as a naked woman who stood on the back of a lion, carrying snakes and water lily buds. The buds are likely linked with her role as a goddess of sexuality and fertility. Votive offerings to Hathor included bowls with water lily motifs, again alluding to fertility, the renewal of life and rebirth. (A water bowl was also the hieroglyph for a woman, which A.H. Gardiner in Egyptian Grammar believes to represent the vagina, linking the fertility sign of the water lily in the bowl to female fertility in this case.) The Egyptian idea of sexuality was identified with creation. Being a flower of creation, the flower became linked to human fertility and sexuality. The images of women holding the flower may be hinting at her ability to bear children or that she was sexually desirable, and images of men holding the flower may hint at their potency. It could also be a way to ensure that the person painted would be fertile - and sexy - in the afterlife.
Contemporary reference to the role of water lilies and mandrakes (Nymphaea and Mandragora, respectively) in ancient Egyptian healing ... suggest the possible importance of these plants as adjuncts to shamanistic healing in dynastic Egypt. Although the usual interpretation of the water lily and the mandrake has been that of a part of ritual mourning ... it is argued that the dynastic Egyptians had developed a form of shamanistic trance induced by these two plants and used it in medicine as well as healing rituals. Analysis of the ritual and sacred iconography of dynastic Egypt, as seen on stelae, in magical papyri, and on vessels, indicates that these people possessed a profound knowledge of plant lore and altered states of consciousness. The abundant data indicate that the shamanistic priest, who was highly placed in the stratified society, guided the souls of the living and dead, provided for the transmutation of souls into other bodies and the personification of plants as possessed by human spirits, as well as performing other shamanistic activities. test was carried out to see if there were any narcotic effects of the blue water lily. There were no known psychotropic substance found in the flower itself. In The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies Rosalie David ('Keeper of Egyptology, Manchester Museum') says that "we see many scenes of individuals holding a cup and dropping a water lily flower into the cup which contained wine". The assertion by Dr Andrew Sherratt, based on these depictions, is that he believes that when the flower was infused with wine, that the chemical content might change and become the ancient Egyptian party drug or a shamanistic aid. The lilies were flown from Cairo to England, and nineteen of them opened after the sun came out. The flowers were soaked in the wine, and after a few days, two volunteers - who claimed to know nothing about ancient Egypt - drank the lily-wine:Unfortunately the test was not up to scientific standards - there was no control group (where another set of volunteers would drink wine not infused with the lily, but told that it had been) - so it is rather difficult to know how much of the effects on the two were just from the alcohol and if any were from the lily infusion itself.The blue water lily was possibly also a symbol of sexuality - Dr Liz Williamson says that the flower "has a sort of Viagra effect". Women were wooed with the blue water lily. In certain erotic scenes from the Turin Papyrus, women are shown wearing very little apart from the white lily as a headdress.The blue water lily was possibly also a symbol of sexuality - Dr Liz Williamson says that the flower "has a sort of Viagra effect". Women were wooed with the blue water lily. In certain erotic scenes from the Turin Papyrus, women are shown wearing very little apart from the white lily as a headdress.
The blue water lily was possibly also a symbol of sexuality - Dr Liz Williamson says that the flower "has a sort of Viagra effect". Women were wooed with the blue water lily. In certain erotic scenes from the Turin Papyrus, women are shown wearing very little apart from the white lily as a headdress.
More recently, it has been discovered that this plant could have been used by the ancient Egyptians to help with erectile dysfunction. This would help explain why the plant was so intimately connected with sex and sexuality:
Nymphaea caerulea (blue lotus) and N. ampla, which has a white flower but a similar alkaloid content, grow along lakes and rivers, thrive in wet soil, and bloom in the spring. They belong to the water-lily family ... The isolation of the psychoactive apomorphine from Nymphaea species has offered chemical support to speculation that Nymphaea species may have been employed as hallucinogens in both the Old and the New World. The use of N. caerulea and of N. lotos in rites and rituals is depicted in the frescoes within the tombs, and in very early papyrus scrolls. The most important of these was the scroll of Ani (Book of the Dead). Nymphaea is mentioned and represented in several chapters of the book, always tied to magical-religious rites.
The water lily was also used for other medicinal purposes, according to Lise Manniche in An Ancient Egyptian Herbal, including liver disease, poultices for the head, constipation and as an enema (1989, p. 134). She also notes that it was used in a magical spell to cause a "hated woman"'s hair to fall out. In Greco-Roman times, it was thought of as a cooling herb, and was thus used to bring down a fever.The flower wasn't just used at parties, but it was used at funerals. As with many symbols of fertility, the blue water lily was also symbolic of rebirth after death. Tutankhamen's innermost gold coffin had blue water lily petals scattered over it along with a few other floral tributes. The Egyptians looked forward to their souls coming to life "like a water lily reopening", thinking that the deceased died as the water lily closed awaiting opening with the morning sun. The Book of the Dead has a spell to allow the deceased to transform into one of these flowers:
The goddess Qedeshet, standing on a lion, holding water lilies and a snake, the Syrian love goddess who the Egyptians married off to Min, was depicted as a naked woman who stood on the back of a lion, carrying snakes and water lily buds. The buds are likely linked with her role as a goddess of sexuality and fertility. Votive offerings to Hathor included bowls with water lily motifs, again alluding to fertility, the renewal of life and rebirth. (A water bowl was also the hieroglyph for a woman, which A.H. Gardiner in Egyptian Grammar believes to represent the vagina, linking the fertility sign of the water lily in the bowl to female fertility in this case.) The Egyptian idea of sexuality was identified with creation. Being a flower of creation, the flower became linked to human fertility and sexuality. The images of women holding the flower may be hinting at her ability to bear children or that she was sexually desirable, and images of men holding the flower may hint at their potency. It could also be a way to ensure that the person painted would be fertile - and sexy - in the afterlife.As we mentioned above, Aphrodite/Venus as the morning star is a central image for the albedo phase of the Great Work. Aphrodite was born from the foam that arose when the genitals of Uranus (cut of by Chronos, out of hate and jealousy) fell into the sea. The cutting of the genitals represents repressed and tormented love. The sea, symbol of the soul, however will bring forth the love goddess. Liberation will happen when we become conscious again of the contents of the soul. As Aphrodite is born from the sea, she is the guide through the fearful world of the unconscious (the sea, or the underworld). The alchemist descends into these depths to find the ‘prima materia’, also called the ‘green lion’. The color green refers to the primal life forces. Venus also has the green color. An important characteristic of Aphrodite is that she helps us in our human shortcomings. She gives ideals and dreams to fulfill. But she also gives frightening images in order to make man aware of his lower nature. "By her beauty Venus attracts the imperfect metals and gives rise to desire, and pushes them to perfection and ripeness." (Basilius Valentinus, 1679) Liberation can only happen by becoming conscious of the lower nature and how we transmute it.
In Jungian psychology Venus/Aphrodite is the archetype of the anima (in alchemy also the ‘soror’ or ‘wife’ of the alchemist). The anima is the collective image of the woman in a man. It is an image especially tainted by his first contact with his mother. The anima represents all the female tendencies in the psyche of a man, such as feelings, emotions, moods, intuition, receptivity for the irrational, personal love and a feeling for nature. She is the bearer for the spiritual. Depending on the development of the man she can also be the seductress who lures him away to love, hopelessness, demise, and even destruction.
Other alchemical images for albedo are baptism and the white dove, both derived from Christianity. Baptism symbolizes the purification of both body and soul by ‘living water’. ‘Living water’ was regarded as the creative force of the divine. It allowed the soul to be received into the community of the holy spirit. Thus baptism allows the purified soul to bring forth the resurrection of Christ in oneself. This is the ‘hieros gamos’, the ‘sacred marriage’ between the soul and Christ. Christ here represent our own inner divine essence.
There are many other symbols in alchemy for the second phase, or albedo: the white swan, the rose, the white queen, and so on. As lead is the metal of nigredo, silver is the metal of albedo, transmuted from lead. As silver is the metal of the moon, the moon was also a symbol for albedo. Alchemists also talk about the white stone or white tincture. They all means basically the same thing, although one has to understand them in the context in which they were written.
The union of Hermes and Aphrodite. The moon is above the retort, indicating this is the stage of Albedo. The sun above is the next stage of Rubedo. At the same time sun and moon are again the opposites to be united. Aphrodite has two torches. One pointing down, representing the lower passions to be transmuted. The upside down torch is the purified energies. Aphrodite is standing on a tetrahedron, the perfect three dimensional body, as all corners are equally distant from each other, resulting in a lack of tension.
Albedo, symbolized by Aurora, by the dawn, the morning star (Venus-Aphrodite), and by the sun rising up from the Philosopher's Sea.
Albedo is also represented by Aurora, the Roman goddess of the dawn. Her brother is Helios, the Sun. With a play of words aurora was connected with aurea hora, ‘the hour of gold’. It is a supreme state of conscious. Pernety (1758): "When the Artist (=Alchemist) sees the perfect whiteness, the Philosophers say that one has to destroy the books, because they have become superfluous."
Albedo is also symbolized by the morning star Venus/Aphrodite. Venus has a special place in the Great Work. In ancient times Lucifer was identified with the planet Venus. Originally Lucifer has a very positive meaning. In the Bible we find 2Petrus 1:19 "…till the day arrives and the morning star rises in your hearts". In Revelation 12:16 Christ says: "I am the shining morning star". Here Christ identifies himself with the Lucifer! We find the same in mystic literature. In ancient times Lucifer was a positive light being. It was just one man who changed all that: when a certain Hieronymous read a phrase from Jesaja 14:12 (Jesaja talking to a sinful king of Babylon): " How did you fall from heaven, you morning star, you son of the dawn; how did you fall to earth, conqueror of people". Hieronymous used this phrase to identify Lucifer with the dragon thrown out of heaven by Michael. By the interpretation of this one man, Lucifer was tuned from a shining light being into the darkest devilish being in the world.
We find Lucifer in alchemy associated with impure metals polluted by rough sulfur. It means that the light being Lucifer in ourselves is polluted by what the alchemists call ‘superfluities’, ‘dross’, caused by man himself.
Mercury and Lucifer are one and the same. One talks about Mercury when he is pure, it is the white sulphur, the fire in heaven. As ‘spiritus’ he gives life. As ‘spiritus sapiens’ he teaches the alchemist the Great Work. Lucifer is the impure Mercury. Lucifer is the morning star fallen from (the golden) heaven. He descended into the earth and is now present in all humans. Lucifer is Mercury mixed with impure elements. He dissolved ‘in sulfur and salt’, ‘is wrapped with strings’, ‘darkened with black mud’. Keep in mind we are always talking about our consciousness. Lucifer represents our everyday consciousness, all the (psychological and other) complexes have clouded our pure consciousness, Mercury.
The light of Mercury that appears to us as Lucifer, because of the distortion caused by the impurities, gives the impression of what the alchemists called ‘red sulfur’. The red sulfur of Lucifer, as traditional devil, is actually an illusion. It does not exist by itself because it is only an image, a distorted image of Mercury. We ourselves caused the impurities, the blackness that veils our true light being.
Red sulfur is the same as what is called Maya in eastern philosophies. Maya is the world of illusions, or the veil that prevents us from seeing and experiencing true reality, where the eternal light is. By the impurities of Maya, man has become ignorant. He has forgotten his origin and thinks he is in a world which in actuality is an illusion.Albedo - Whiteness
Je ne craignais pas de mourir
mais de mourir sans etre illumine.
(I was not afraid to die,
but to die without having been enlightened)
Comte de Saint-Germain, La Tres Sainte Trinisophie
The herald of the light
is the morning star.
This way man and woman approach
the dawn of knowledge,
because in it is the germ of life,
being a blessing of the eternal.
Haji Ibrahim of Kerbala
Lucifer, Lucifer stretch your tail,
and lead me away, full speed through the narrow passage,
the valley of the death,
to the brilliant light, the palace of the gods.
Isanatha Muni
Being deep in nigredo, a white light appears. We have arrived at the second stage of the Great Work: albedo, or whiteness. The alchemist has discovered within himself the source from which his life comes forth. The fountain of life from which the water of life flows forth giving eternal youth.
The source is one: male and female are united. In alchemical images we see a fountain from which two streams of water flow into one basin. Albedo is the discovery of the hermaphroditic nature of man. In the spiritual sense each man is a hermaphrodite. We can also see this in the first embryonic phase of the fetus. There is no sex until a certain number of weeks after conception. When man descended into the physical world his body entered a world of duality. On the bodily level this is expressed by the sexes. But his spirit is still androgen, it contains duality in unity. Its unity is not bound to space, time or matter. Duality is an expression of unity in our physical world. It is temporal and will eventually cease to exist. When male and female are united again, one will experience his true self. Conscious and unconscious are totally united.
Albedo happens when the Sun rises at midnight. It is a symbolic expression for the rising of the light at the depth of darkness. It is the birth of Christ in the middle of the winter. In the depth of a psychological crises, a positive change happens.
as ADDA DADA quotes OSCAR WILDE..."I may lie in the gutter, but I can look up and see the...perfect photo op!"
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AND sometimes it is NOT only a PHOTO OP...but an educational opportunity, too. And, we all know it's never too late to learn something new, especially when it involves NUDITY!
So when ADDA was at the CASTRO STREET FAIR and saw a sign for THE FORESKIN AWARENESS PROJECT with the hunky GLEN CALLENDER who I photographed at the NUDE IN the week previously. Well, needless to say, "photo op" popped into my mind, as well as, 'educational op'. OK, more of the photo op than educational but we'll talk about that later.
Mr. "I LOVE FORESKIN", Glen Callender, was going to do a 'private' educational demostration about foreskin. Yes, you read that right. FORESKIN, the natural state of the male penis, unless they have been snipped/cut/hacked by some crazed parents and doctors.
So 20 or so willing men gathered in a tent to hear Mr. FORESKIN explain on the evils of cutting off man's natural equiptment.
Mr. FORESKIN, in his doctor's lab coat and , only his I LOVE MY FORESKIN tshirt underneath welcomed the willing crowd to this educational presentation on.....THE EVILS OF CIRCUMCISION and the JOYS OF FORESKIN.
And just in case he didn't have the crowds total enrapturment....Mr. FORESKIN whipped off his lab coat, EXPOSING his extremelly well-endowed equipment and shouted..HOW MANY SEEDLESS GRAPES ARE UNDER MY FORESKIN!!!
Well, just in case anyone in the audiance needed just a little more encouragement to pay attention to the presentation...Mr. FORESKIN grabbed everyone's attention...well, actually more like BLEW THE FUCKING MINDS OF EVERY QUEEN IN THAT TENT!
As all Californians know, it is now the wine industry's time to harvest grapes, though I doupt any grape picker would ever fanthom that one of their grapes they picked would of end up in the crevices of a man's penis.
Like all willing school kids trying to please the teacher with a correct answer...Everyone's hand in the room shot up. Mr. FORESKIN had a certificate for the person with the right answer. Everyone wanted to GO TO THE HEAD OF THE CLASS on that one...Well, Mr. FORESKIN gently pushed each little red grape out...1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, EIGHT, NINE....and 10 is the answer!
With everyone's undivided attention (and i'm sure other things were at attention in the audience)...MR. FORESKIN went on to discuss the reasons men have FORESKIN.
First and foremost, the FORESKIN provides protection to the most sensitive part of the male's body. Yes, a penis with it's intact foreskin is far more sensitive than one that has had its foreskin cut away. When it is cut away, the skin on the penis actually has to reform into a harder skin to protect the sensitive organ.
The FORESKIN also provides a a 'ribbed' pleasure for women. When the foreskin is pulled back during erection and sex, the skin provides stimulus to the woman.
Then Mr. FORESKIN wanted to dismiss the myth that an uncut penis is dirtier than a cut penis. So, he showed everyone HOW TO CLEAN A PENIS WITH FORESKIN...Well, it's the same way as with a cut penis. Though with foreskin, pull the foreskin away to clean the penis head as opposed to the cut penis which already has the exposed penis head.
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Various studies state that most erectile dysfunction occurs in CUT men, and not uncut...(though i did see many ads for VIAGRA in europe)
All male animals have foreskin and they seem to be doing just fine.
Why the push for cutting men's foreskin? In the 1880's victorian area, religious prudes wanted to stop males from masturbation so they started a campaign to cut off foreskin. Needless to say, nothing will prevent guys from masturbating...
Mr. FORESKIN wants everyone to become educated on the subject and STOP CUTTING MALES. In other words, STOP MALE GENITAL MUTILATION.
Needless to say, it was fun to see the handsome Mr. FORESKIN pull back his forskin. LOTS of times. Ok. It was seeing his nice BIG UNCUT DICK, too!
And ADDA must say, all my BIG FAG YEARS...ADDA has never, ever, and i repeat never, ever, never seen anything like that BEFORE...GRAPES IN THE FOLDS OF A MAN'S FORESKIN
And ADDA must say, I did learn a few things.
So ADDA is joining the FORESKIN MOVEMENT, is there a FORESKIN PARTY? ( the Republican party is full of DICK HEADS). ADDA wants you to join, DON'T CUT, & TELL EVERYONE movement.
THANKS to Mr. FORESKIN, Glenn Callender at the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project
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My husband, Jake, will be 83 years old in December, and he can rememebr a time when our country was one people who worked together for it's good, and the good of each other. The current events in Washington really upset him, as he watches all he once knew and loved and believed in being destroyed. He wrote the following about 4 years or so ago, as his sarcastic solution to the problems we were facing then, and he asked me to post it "all over the internet", because he believes these solutions would apply today also. Anyway...here's Jake:
The “Cash 4 Clunkers” program appears to have been quite a success – at least as far as stimulating new car sales is concerned. However, most of the trade-ins were sound, high quality, late model pickups and SUV’s that fell just below the gas mileage limit (mainly because they were large and heavy, and were geared accordingly). And the new cars that were bought included many hybrids that run on batteries, hype, and hope. Will the buyers actually pay for them? Also the so-called clunker trade-ins were being totally destroyed--deliberately reduced to trash. Is this right? And many local car dealers have yet to receive one red cent of the $4500 promised for each of these piles of metallic junk. In fact, the entire Cash-4-Clunkers stimulus program was cancelled, prior to many dealers being paid anything.
Of course, any money for this, or any other federal program, must come from an empty treasury. So what else is new? If you were to sweep and vacuum all the empty vaults at Fort Knox, you might come up with enough gold dust to make one small wedding ring. But, why bother? Wedding rings are obsolete anyway. However, promised payment from government sponsored programs seem to work just fine. With that in mind—why not initiate a tax refund program? Handled correctly, it could sponsor the greatest consumerism explosion in the history of the world.
It would work like this: Every taxpayer in the U.S. would be eligible for a $10,000 refund. Everyone over the age of 10 would be considered a taxpayer and therefore eligible. Since those under 10 do not normally spend their own money—they would be excluded. We pay income tax, sales tax, property tax, gasoline tax, alcohol tax, tobacco tax, poll tax, pole tax, import tax, value-added tax, syntax, sin tax, excise tax, luxury tax, and numerous other taxes—too taxing to remember. Even illegal immigrants pay taxes. Based on latest census info, there are 258,694,227 people over the age of 10 in the U.S. who would qualify for a $10,000 refund.
The tax refund program would start in October, but it might take some time to process the applications. However, since everyone is eligible and promised $10,000 by our benevolent government—they start spending immediately. People give assignments and vouchers on their expected checks. Credit cards boom. Real Estate sales go through the roof. Developers, contractors, and builders go wild. Retail sales zoom. The economic growth is off the charts. Banks loan to the max. However, there is a downside.
The Tax Refund To Americans Program (or T-R-A-P)—as with every federal program—requires considerable paperwork. In fact, the T-R-A-P application is 877 pages, and weighs 18 pounds 12 ounces. The U.S. Postal Service screams. Tree Huggers, Inc. goes crazy when they realize the number of national forests required to produce that amount of paper—not even considering the massive amount of lumber being used in the housing/construction boom. Al Gore comes to Capitol Hill screaming that Nobel also invented T.N.T. The T-R-A-P snaps shut. Not one dime has been paid to the American taxpayers—yet the economy is booming. The tax refund program ends just before Christmas and our wonderful government takes over every bank in America in January. Hitler could not have done it any better.
The two other major problems—health care and the national debt—could be solved just as easily. Since our current national government seems to be operating in the Communist-Fascist-Socialist New World Order format – why have they not seen such a simple solution right at hand? It is Social Security. Properly utilized, Social Security answers almost all of our health care and money woes. It is so simple, even young people are aware of many of the aspects. In fact, many young Americans are quite well-informed.
Most younger Americans know what Tweetie-Bird had for breakfast and where Goldi-locks itches. They also know that Michael Jackson’s circulatory system contained 52% drugs and bleach and only 48% real blood. And every young person knows that 40 is old, 50 is really old, 60 is ancient, and 65 is ridiculous. And most folks in America – both young and old – realize that our current Social Security system is the most massive Ponzi scheme of all time. Young folks will never receive a penny of what they contribute. So why wait? Why not cut off all payouts from Social Security now? Money comes in, but nothing goes out. Everyone over 65 is eliminated. All of their assets go to big government; and we can then pay off the national debt, loan money to China and Brazil, and underwrite the Euro. SS Agents, of course, will supervise. Social Security will become the answer instead of the problem.
The total assets of the elderly in America is a mind-boggling amount, surpassing the combined wealth of 158 poorer countries around the world. Members of Congress (under 65, of course) can divide-up condos, mansions, estates, etc.-- but only one each. Since many older folks have funds stashed in off-shore banks, SS troops will be sent to seize these accounts -- along with the banks and Caribbean Islands where they are located. Everyone knows that these islands should belong to America anyway.
Many jobs are created. Hawaiian document forgers are overwhelmed with orders for birth certificates showing more recent birth dates. And, of course, a large number of jobs become available to build and operate the Senior Serenity System -- a system which eliminates a senior’s aches, pains, worries, and confusion forever. Each facility consists of a very large caldron, capable of holding 1000 seniors, a forge furnace, and a conveyer through a tunnel. SS agents with pitchforks keep the conveyer running smoothly. Abundant corn oil, unused for ethanol, is used for the boiling-in-oil process. On the 2nd day, the temperature reaches 2,200 degrees -- then it is allowed to cool. On the 4th day, funeral parlor workers come to skim off burial bottles, before any flavors are added. Cinnamon, lemon-lime, and chili all seem to work; but the original “Granny” flavor is by far the most popular – whether for Fido and Rover in “Bow-Wow Chow” or George and Larry in “Wham-Bam Spam”. The list of new jobs and other positive ramifications goes on and on.
Alaska Caldron No. 3 could be built at the end of the Bridge to Nowhere. Videos of SS agents with pitchforks, keeping order on a conveyer, are sold to evangelists, and are shown on large screens at revivals. Since griping, grouching, frowning, and bitching are no longer permitted – SS agents enforce our happiness. Yippee!
As the elderly disappear, the general health of the population improves dramatically. In fact, Alzheimer’s rarely shows up at all, and Erectile Dysfunction becomes fairly uncommon. Nursing homes can now take in the homeless. There is no more Medicare or Medicaid. Hospitals now compete, using discounted rates. Doctors will have to work for reasonable wages. For instance, a regular MD will receive 2 times the minimum wage. Surgeons get 3 times minimum wage, and the Surgeon General gets a whopping 4 times the minimum wage. How could it be any more fair. Also, it is discovered that swine flu is a by-product of excessive congressional pork spread all across the country – which will be corrected just as soon as pigs fly. Welcome to the new America!
Jake Von Canon
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Folkloric
· In the Philippines, leaves used as cataplasm on the belly to induce menstruation.
· For eczema: Boil 3 cups of chopped leaves in one gallon of water for 10 minutes; add 2 gallons of hot water.
· Fresh leaves are fried in oil and applied to itchy skins lesions for symptomatic relief.
· Leaf juice applied for wound healing.
· Hot Foot Baths: A local immersion bath covering the feet, ankles and legs used for a variety of conditions: To relieve head, chest and pelvic congestion; to stop nosebleeds; to relieve spasms and pains of feet and legs; to induce sweating; to relieve menstrual cramps and headaches.
· Poulticed leaves applied on the abdomen to hasten childbirth.
· Ifugao-migrants in the foothills of the Sierra Madre used the plant latex for wounds,
· Erectile dysfunction: In Tiaong, reportedly used as "herbal viagra." Boil 15-25 leaves in 3 glasses of water for 10 minutes; drink the decoction. (Note: Like many of the herbal medicines touted as "herbal viagra," kampupot use is rural folkloric with no known scientific or pharmacologic basis for its claim.)
· Decoction of root and bark used for a variety of stomach and intestinal ailments.
· The white sap of the stem is applied to thorn injuries and to hasten the surfacing of the thorn fragment.
· In Thailand, roots used to treat fever, pain and dysentery.
· The Ayta people of Porac, Pampanga use as repellent against hematophagous insects. Decoction of fresh leaf and roots is drunk, while leaves and stems are hung inside the house
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Here's a "safe for work" photo of my obese older cousin. For the NSFW photo (and to his great embarrassment, LOL!), make sure your account can view restricted photos.
The NSFW photo, with his partially buried micropenis on display...
www.flickr.com/photos/jessicajohnson1983/50160487197
...is a perfect one to illustrate the consequences of male obesity (such as my cousin's erectile dysfunction!).
He's over 260 with a very bad BMI. I'm trying to get Phillip to get off his lazy butt and exercise and also eat healthier. I warned him I'd embarrass him if he didn't meet weight loss goals he agreed to let me set for him. Several years ago gave me carte blanche to punish him, he just never thought I'd make him strip naked. I'm his health care power of attorney - and yes I sit in on his medical exams. That was part of the agreement. To his credit, although he whined like a little boy about having to strip in front of me, he's become subservient enough to let me discipline him as I see fit even knowing the pics I take of him are fair game for me to show anyone I want. He just never thought I'd embarrass me as such, let alone to female family members. And of course, once I had an initial set of pics of him nude, it was quite easy to make him quite obedient for future punishments. LOL! So over the past few years he's become quite submissive - oh he HATES that word and he denies that he is. But now a whole lot of female family members are seeing how unhealthy he is - "SEEING" being the operative word - and can get on his case, too (after they stop laughing). Phillip has become impotent, as well. (Ooops! Did I just tell everyone that? LOL!) So if he ever wants to have sex, he'd better get healthy. Sure, he'll be teased by all of us for many, many years to come! But we want him around for many, many years to come. The shame of several dozen female relatives ranging in age from 20 to 61 now seeing him totally naked is something Phillip will just have to live with - "live" being the operative word.
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These were 'first-timers', you can ALWAYS tel, LOL.
Stage fright or performance anxiety is the anxiety, fear, or persistent phobia which may be aroused in an individual by the requirement to perform in front of an audience, whether actually or potentially (for example, when performing before a camera). In the context of public speaking, this may precede or accompany participation in any activity involving public self-presentation. In some cases stage fright may be a part of a larger pattern of social phobia or social anxiety disorder, but many people experience stage fright without any wider problems. Quite often, stage fright arises in a mere anticipation of a performance, often a long time ahead. It has numerous manifestations: fluttering or pounding heart, tremor in the hands and legs, sweaty hands, facial nerve tics, dry mouth, erectile dysfunction and dizziness.
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Here's a "safe for work" photo of my obese older cousin. For the NSFW photo (and to his great embarrassment, LOL!), make sure your account can view restricted photos.
The NSFW photo, with his partially buried micropenis on display...
www.flickr.com/photos/jessicajohnson1983/50096884278
...is a perfect one to illustrate the consequences of male obesity (such as my cousin's erectile dysfunction!).
He's over 260 with a very bad BMI. I'm trying to get Phillip to get off his lazy butt and exercise and also eat healthier. I warned him I'd embarrass him if he didn't meet weight loss goals he agreed to let me set for him. Several years ago gave me carte blanche to punish him, he just never thought I'd make him strip naked. I'm his health care power of attorney - and yes I sit in on his medical exams. That was part of the agreement. To his credit, although he whined like a little boy about having to strip in front of me, he's become subservient enough to let me discipline him as I see fit even knowing the pics I take of him are fair game for me to show anyone I want. He just never thought I'd embarrass me as such, let alone to female family members. And of course, once I had an initial set of pics of him nude, it was quite easy to make him quite obedient for future punishments. LOL! So over the past few years he's become quite submissive - oh he HATES that word and he denies that he is. But now a whole lot of female family members are seeing how unhealthy he is - "SEEING" being the operative word - and can get on his case, too (after they stop laughing). Phillip has become impotent, as well. (Ooops! Did I just tell everyone that? LOL!) So if he ever wants to have sex, he'd better get healthy. Sure, he'll be teased by all of us for many, many years to come! But we want him around for many, many years to come. The shame of several dozen female relatives ranging in age from 20 to 61 now seeing him totally naked is something Phillip will just have to live with - "live" being the operative word.
June 2, 2014 - The FDA is advising consumers not to purchase or use Full Throttle On Demand, a product promoted and sold for sexual enhancement. The product was found to contain undeclared propoxyphenyl sildenafil. For more information, go to
www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsingMe...
And read these FDA Consumer Updates:
Beware of Fraudulent ‘Dietary Supplements’
"All Natural" Alternatives for Erectile Dysfunction: A Risky Proposition