J. D. Stembal

http://www.juvenon.com/calcium-to-magnesium-how-the-ratio-affects-your-health-511/ I wanted to point out that it's not so much that we don't consume enough magnesium rich foods, but that excess dissolved calcium in the body blocks the absorption of magnesium. The magnesium is out there, but you have to be healthy to absorb it into your bloodstream. Relevant to the magnesium problem is grain consumption. According to William Davis, author of Wheat Belly, one of the side effects of the consumption of modern wheat is the acidifying of the blood stream. The human body is constantly under homeostatis, so it will attempt to solve the life or death problem by producing an alkaline chemical agent to balance the acid. The body will use calcium carbonate from your bones, making them more brittle, and permeating your body with excess calcium ion, which eventually are excreted. This is how osteoporosis happens. The above process, and a diet rich in calcium will prevent absorption of adequate magnesium. It's not an issue of magnesium being absent from the foods we eat. Spinach, avacados, sunflower seeds, cashews, almonds, salmon and mackerel, chocolate are very good sources of magnesium. Also, avoid the foods which block absorption (grains and milk) by causing excess calcium ions in your body. http://www.truthaboutabs.com/whole-wheat-unhealthy.html I'm not a big proponent of vitamin supplements. Alex Jones pushes a product called Oxy Powder Colon Cleanser, which is basically magnesium powder among a few other things. If you consume it regularly, you will be in the bathroom fairly often. If you consume way too much of it, you will have diarrhea. This is how it cleanses out the colon by making you shit profusely. Heavy people like Alex Jones claim to have lost 15 pounds on it, but never more than that. (Hint: It was all water weight.) I do have my own powder called Natural Calm but I consume it sparingly and only when I sense that I'm getting muscle cramps. It is almost $40 a pound shipped, so not exactly cheap. It has vitamin C, D3, calcium gluconate, magnesium citrate, potassium citrate, and boron citrate. I bought the supplement because one of the side effects of a low carbohydrate diet is not getting enough electrolytes, which can cause muscle cramps and irregular heart palpitations if you are older. I would sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with a devastating charlie horse in my leg. That's not fun, but as long as I put copious amounts of salt in everything and get enough potassium, I don't have to take the powder. It's the plain, sugar-free variety so it tastes like bubbly chalk as a drink.

If examples of peaceful parenting exist in television, someone is writing those stories. Did they experience this kind of parenting as a child or is it an elaborate form of retroactive wish-fulfillment? It's more likely that it's the former than the latter in my estimation. Yesterday, I was talking to a friend about compulsive buying habits, wondering if they were out of a desire to seek approval or not (an idea harped on in the call-in last show). He said it was because he didn't have a lot of nice things growing up. This phrase struck me as canned because I've heard it before from my father. As a child, I was showered with toys, television and gadgets because my parents didn't have time to love me. I distantly recall conversations which ended in my father telling me how ungrateful I was for receiving all I was given. If you grew up without television, toys, or temptations but you had a loving parent around constantly, as in Isabella's case, would you be a richer person for it? Stefan mentioned in The Mommy Wars that he wouldn't give up the job of full-time parenting if he was offered 10 million dollars to work in software development again. I get the feeling that just about any parent would abandon their children to daycare for a great opportunity. I am also heartbroken over this topic.

A few questions popped into my head. What drove her to contact her former abuser? Was she driven by the need to forgive her mother for the abuse? Why don't you typically hear about daughters wanting to get in touch with abusive fathers? And a few more. Why did her parents warn her no to talk with her mother? What did they say to her exactly and what were their feelings in the moment? Did they try to prevent her from contacting the abusive woman? Is that a sign of emotional abuse in itself? I have no way of knowing this because there are so many questions left unanswered, but what if the adoptive parents were also not peaceful parents (or overtly abusive)? They might see the birth mother as competition, and the daughter might be motivated to seek her birth mother because her adoptive parents did not create a loving environment for her.

I am also an argumentative, disruptive, selfish and arrogant person. I'm not sure how these are considered qualities of a sociopath as there is no moral context expressed or implied.

I'm not sure if I follow. Are you writing about people who claim that critics opposing them on logical grounds are being disrespectful toward their beliefs or ideas?

Do you support the initiation of the use of force against me?

I'm happy to hear of your complete recovery, but I also feel genuinely saddened that surgery was deemed the appropriate solution. What other remedies were explored before the gastrectomy, if you don't mind me asking?

There are two stages to any discussion with a feminist. 1) You have to reason out whether or not feminism stands (or ever stood) for equality between the genders. The genders aren't equal by any stretch of the imagination so feminism ether missed the stated goal or equality wasn't the goal in the first place. 2) You have to determine what equality is as a practical matter, and ask ourselves if we really want or need it. Should everyone get paid the same amount because that would be economic equality?

That's the point. No one cares if you vote or write a letter. Openly organizing a demonstration of private firearm ownership actually challenges the legitimacy of authority. Why do we need police if citizens are armed? If you gather enough people together with rifles, no one will dare aggress against you. Wear body armor for security, and cover your face if you don't want to be identified.The act of carrying or displaying a firearm is not aggression. Shooting it is. See the Nevada cattle rancher stand off.

Diabetes and obesity are so strongly correlated that some researchers consider them to be the manifestations of the same disease. Metabolic syndrome is a condition where the body is unable to partition fuel from fat stores due to chronically high insulin levels and the resistance of the body's cells, like muscles, to respond to this hormone. Excess carbohydrate gets trapped in the adipose tissue as triglycerides and obesity sets in slowly over years and decades. This syndrome is thought to influence high blood pressure, cancer, Alzheimer's, and heart disease because there is also a strong correlation between them and obesity and chronically high insulin levels. Carbohydrates are the only non-essential macro-nutrients, otherwise humans would have died out long before agriculture was invented. In fact, diseases like cancer and heart disease were first documented in agricultural societies, and are not present in any society which doesn't use agriculture today. Eating fatty foods doesn't make you obese. It is biochemically impossible. This should be obvious to anyone who reads a college level biology textbook.

Great video, jpahmad. Were you responding to a specific video that Larken posted? There is a direct relationship between risk and reward. There is room for both street peddlers and store owners without the need for it to be a zero sum game. The fact that the store owner can't legally sell loose cigarettes is largely irrelevant when discussing the philosophy of capitalism. The store owner has the advantage of better security (cameras, gun under the counter, bars on the windows, safes in the back) and the space for a larger inventory whereas a guy wandering the street can be mugged. attacked, arrested, or killed much more easily. Some people sell products on eBay, some people sell trinkets off a blanket or table set up by the side of the road, some people pay for storefronts. Every one of these business plans are valid. It is the responsibility of the business owner to make their profits in the best way they see fit. They do not have the right to invoke the violence of the state to have another business shut down. Isn't this the definition of crony capitalism?

I came across Colin Flaherty's channel a few days ago where he promotes his book, White Girl Bleed A Lot. He published a new edition this year after Furguson. It describes how there is a discrepancy between the level of black mob violence occurring in the United States, and how it is reported in the mainstream media. http://www.amazon.com/White-Girl-Bleed-Lot-Violence/dp/1938067061/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420222462&sr=1-1&keywords=white+girl+bleed+a+lot Has anyone read it? There is no mention of it on the FDR forums as yet. I want to buy a copy, but I've got a backlog of a few books that I haven't finished yet.

Let's pretend you are trying to sell me (and the other FDR members) that we need rights protection services. Why should we pay into your services? What benefits will we receive and what is the projected cost? My initial impression is that most people aren't going to require your services. Possession is 9/10 of the way to proving ownership. Most people live in or have a close association with their real estate. Such people won't have any need for a real estate DPO. For individuals or companies that hold a wider array of real estate assets, they will be interested in chasing out squatters or protecting their assets from looters and thieves. This is where your services and private security will come into play. Why do we, as individuals, require any guarantees regarding real estate in a free society? A free society cannot agree to anything because it's not an autonomous entity. It doesn't exist. People exist, and can find a way to fend for themselves if needed. If people agree to exchange property, why can't they find agreement themselves? I'm not sure how the rest of society factors into transitions or transactions. Can you elaborate on the difference between justly and unjustly acquired property? How is it a problem? Why do we need a practical solution beyond dissolving the state apparatus?

This is terrible. Notice how the daughter's natural response to the scenarios is to agree since she likes swimming, ice cream and cookies. Her mother corrects her every time and prompts her to deny or refuse, especially if it is a man asking her these hypothetical questions. I'm not sure how rote memorization is going to protect this child from strangers. What if she encounters female abusers? Also, how will this grooming affect her future relationships with males?

Deflation could happen, but people would have to start paying down their debts. Are speculators and investors going to do this with rates so low? No, the Fed will have raise rates in order to compel them to start saving and sitting on cash. If debts begin to disappear, the money supply will contract and our boom-bust economic cycle turns to bust for a very long time. What are the chances that the government won't intervene and allow deflation to run its necessary course? Since the Fed is vocally opposed to deflation, they will likely vault into even more bond-financed quantitatively easing in order to stimulate the economy and avert deflation. After that happens, the Fed will not be able to take the Dollar of the drug of easy credit without the entire economy screeching to a halt. There is only one real option for the US Dollar at this point, seeing that we are approaching 60 trillion dollars in debt as a nation. We are almost beyond the point of no return. http://www.usdebtclock.org/ If we go toward the deflation route, no individual debtors will be allowed to declare bankruptcy or have their debts absolved. Anyone who can't pay off their debts will have to enter into indentured servitude/debt slavery. Who knows exactly how many years of this bitter medicine we will need to salvage the dollar from our past excesses? Not one will be discussing philosophy or morality. We will all be expected to do our part to save the country and the dollar, or else move into a 4' x 8' one room apartment for the rest of your life.

Leftist libertarian groups are analogous to groups like Women Against Feminism. They all want to have a viable platform for injecting the central Marxist ideologies into the opposing movement on the sly, seeing that their previous platform is beginning to lose traction in popular sentiment.

Not all feminists are like that? I've never ever heard that one before. Just ask a feminist how they would feel if 60% of women were still genitally mutilated as infants. I find the claim that feminists challenged the DoD policy regarding selective service to be false. There may have been some discussion around the water cooler back during the Supreme Court case in 1981, but you'll find no feminists seriously discussing the issue today. https://www.sss.gov/wmbkgr.htm

The first four are covered by the NAP. Anti-pollution is an aesthetic preference not shared by everyone. Some people choose to spend less on an apartment and live right next to a factory (noise and exhaust pollution). Some people choose to live next to a major highway to save on rent or property values if they find the highway noise acceptable. Aside from the big four, laws are aesthetic preferences (opinions) backed by the violence of the state. Saying that something is not up for debate isn't a very compelling argument, by the way.

Is it theft, murder, assault, or rape?

Instead of writing a politician, why not find gun owners in your area and stage an open carry demonstration? It is much more effective to spread awareness by uniting and displaying your preferences publicly. Like Molyneux often says, send up a flare and see who follows you. I have no idea what restrictions exist in Canada and your province, but surely non-felons can own hunting rifles which are perfect candidates for open carry slung over the shoulder. Depending on how much of a stir your public demonstration evokes, this will lead other like-minded people to vote with their dollar, buying more guns and also organizing demonstrations. You aren't going to get any traction at the political level. You have to convince other people that owning firearms is preferable to not owning them.

I'm starting to wonder whether or not if anyone has had a peaceful childhood in the last 50 years. (Not just an ACE score of zero, but a positive childhood with negotiation and emotional support without daycare, organized religion, mysticism or school.) Do families like this exist outside the Molyneux household?

It's not just OPEC production, but a hangover from the Federal Reserve ending of QE3 monetary manipulation. The analogy Peter Schiff uses to explain taking away QE is like a magician pulling out the table from underneath the table cloth and dishware and expecting them to levitate. Schiff on oil, investment bubbles and the Fed: It's time to start buying into oil producers, because what's going to happen is the little fish are going to flounder and get bought out by the Haliburtons and Exxon Mobils, then the upheaval will swim upstream to the lending banks. Some of the smaller players will go out of business or get bought out, then the larger banks will begin to weaken with the taxpayer on the hook for the FDIC insured losses. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve will begin QE 4 (infinity), which will send commodity prices through the roof and eventually crash the dollar. Then, it will be default time for the U.S. government. What I'm not clear on is how soon this devaluation will spread into housing and how far it will fall. What if QE infinity can't save the housing market? I've heard of some of people selling, downsizing or moving to renting until the storm blows over. The trick is pulling out at the right time if you are currently holding real estate. The turnover process will take years to sort out, but in the mean time rents will be falling all over the place as landlords desperately compete for tenants, so there could be some cut rate rentals out there in the next few years. It will be very interesting to see the real estate bubble deflating at the same time commodity prices are skyrocketing. It is interesting to note that falling oil prices have not decreased airline ticket prices or food prices yet. The economy is like a gigantic bubble that is deflating in stages, and petroleum is the first phase. One of the problems is guessing when each shoe will drop, and when the Fed will step in. We may never see a retreat in food prices depending on how ambitious the next stimulus package is. In summary, if we are to take Schiff's analysis seriously, we should be buying commodities, precious metals, and related assets, and ditching financial stocks and real estate. If the Fed actually raises interest rates next year, you want to be cashed out into U.S Dollars. Reference the linked videos to see why Schiff doesn't think this will transpire.

I would say that if he wanted to strike to not be a pop culture parent, he would have to unschool or homeschool his children. Obviously, that horse has already left the barn. It no use bitching about how the new generation is so emotionally detached when you send them to a school that most likely wants to use Apple products to enhance the leaning experience. Children talk to each other digitally now, just as we are. (Go figure.) It is natural that the child will want to do all the things that his father and mother do, assuming there is a strong parental bond. I took trombone lessons as a child, and then I wanted to quit after two years. (The music teacher was a hateful bitch.) My parents told me that the only way I could quit is if I started taking piano lessons. I don't recall ever wanting to play either instrument. This was a clear case where my preferences were being dictated to me (it is unclear by whom), indicating a very weak parental bond. Parenting without media is almost a completely foreign thought to me. I was essentially raised by a television and computer. I know limiting exposure to media is the right thing to do as a parent, but I would obviously be at a loss navigating the lonely void that was my childhood while trying to parent. I don't presently have children, so it's a moot point for now.

I find this kind of response to be infuriating. Luckily, it's easy to call bullshit on. My parents have conflicting accounts of their own marriage, let alone my childhood. I would assume the child is correct because he the least corrupted by the poison of society when events transpired. Parents like to believe in a this fairy tale existence where the family of the past was perfect, and now it has suddenly turned rotten, otherwise why would you be bringing up protestations? On the phone, I asked my mom why she fought with my dad so much when I was young. Her response was, "That's how people who love each other act." It's the same crap both of them told me when I was a child. Why does she think I will believe the same excuses for being terrible people?

You insistence against spanking was exceedingly brave. Brain tumor or no, your cousin shouldn't be hitting her child. A few thoughts popped into my head while reading you account of the evening that might have some relevance to the discussion on spanking and punishment. Where is the child's father? I've heard it repeated many times that timeouts are worse for children than spanking because it is a form of emotional ostracism. Spending 20 minutes coerced into the corner and told not to move is torture for children, and many will act out on purpose to provoke corporal punishments rather than spend any amount of time isolated. Punishment shouldn't be in the bag of tools at all when in comes to raising peaceful children.