My new friend Miragi asked me some questions about depression. She is the author of several blogs such as Stitch Witch and Read Between My Lines. I was pleasantly surprised and am more than happy to answer. I am an expert on being depressed and over time, have conquered it for the most part; although, I do occasionally fall in the abyss of misery.
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Archive for category Nutrition – Health
I’m taking a break from my usual brutal politics and revulsion of Obama and McCain to talk about something fun: What Bobby Revell Eats Everyday.
I was raised on a traditional southern American diet; lots of meat, cheese, butter, thickened fatty sauces, chocolate, sugar, eggnog and fried chicken. As a young boy, my mother prepared my favorite breakfast every morning: Three gargantuan bacon, egg yolk, butter, cheese and mayonnaise sandwiches deep fried in a thick crust! Each mammoth delight had 12 strips of country bacon, five slices of cheese, six fried egg yolks, four heaping tablespoons of butter and topped in a profusely lush glaze of mayonnaise…YUM.
Since then, I stopped eating all pork because according to cannibals, pork tastes just like human meat. I cannot eat bacon, pork chops, pork roast, ham, pork hotdogs or anything from a disgusting feces eating pig. According to the Kaura tribe in the neighbourhood of Adelaide Australia in 1933, a roasted human infant tastes exactly like roasted pork tenderloin…yeech!
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One of the most disturbing facts I’ve come across is the addition of freebase nicotine to most popular brands of cigarettes. The cigarette drug lords have your number and your life long addiction is their goal. The companies that manufacture cigarettes, alcohol and prescription medications all have one thing in common: they want your money regardless of whether or not you die. They also want your money regularly. They actually make more money as their consumers die and new ones take their place. Death is part of the business model and is a necessary element to perpetuate its success.
What is Freebase Nicotine?
As most of you already know, cigarettes contain much more than tobacco. Actually, most brands of cigarettes contain only 50% tobacco; the rest are additives. What is the other 50%? What kind of additives?
Basically, they make a product called tobacco RECON. It starts with tobacco dust or Offal – all the trash scraped from machinery, swept from the floor and so forth. Also added are cellulosic materials like wood pulp. This is mixed up in a giant vat and a disgusting dark brown fluid called “Mother Liquor” is derived through repetitive hot water extraction. This is like a million cigarette butts in a jar of water, only using the best chemical extraction techniques.
But that is just the beginning of the “Mother Liquor” (I think I’m gonna puke). You would think this fluid is poisonous enough, but it isn’t. They add up to 599 additives into the mix. Finally, a paper-like cellulose is soaked in the pungent liquor, dried and shredded up into a tobacco like product.
One of the main ingredients in this mixture is chemically altered nicotine. Most of you are already aware that crack cocaine is known as freebase, a smokable form which is the most addictive. Cocaine is bad enough normally, but the freebase form is much worse. A very similar process is used in manufacturing cigarettes.
In normal tobacco, much of the nicotine is chemically bound in the fibers. To fix this and make cigarettes 100 times more addictive, they extract the freebase form of nicotine using ammonia chemistry and add it into the Mother Liquor. This ensures that every drag of smoke you take is filled with freebase nicotine and hits you just like crack. This makes nicotine burn into a gaseous form, which is more readily absorbed by the lungs. It’s nice to know that the tobacco drug lords have your best interests in mind.
Are Cigarette Smokers Drug Addicts?
Yes they are. One thing about society that gets under my skin is how people who smoke, drink alcohol or are addicted to prescription medications are seen in a different light than street drug addicts on meth, cocaine, heroin or marijuana.
One major problem is how people perceive drug addicts. They often look down on them and see them as degenerates, untrustworthy or criminals. We fill our prisons with addicts and dealers – when they are released, they can’t even get a job. You should not look down on anyone as no one is above addiction.
If tobacco were made illegal, it would be the #1 illegal drug in the world, turning millions into criminals overnight.
I personally believe that all drugs should be decriminalized in favor of drug treatment. Many US states have what is called a drug court program – this allows drug offenders to get professional treatment and a clean criminal record. Instead of just throwing them in jail, they are given another chance as well a clearing their criminal charges. This is a step in the right direction.
It’s hard to believe that it’s legal to manufacture super addictive cigarettes with freebase nicotine. If cocaine were legal, imagine the groundbreaking science that would make it 1000 times more addictive. The tobacco industry is the best at this type of science and make illegal drug chemistry look like child’s play by comparison.
I used to smoke and quitting was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done. I still want a cigarette everyday, though I quit years ago. The cravings never go away and I’ll be wanting a smoke for the rest of my life. Though none of the information in this article is unique or new, it is my hope that it helps someone out there quit smoking. Don’t hesitate to get professional help, nicotine addiction is as difficult to overcome as any street drug. You may not realize that cocaine is only psychologically addictive, while cigarettes are physically addictive. In my opinion, it is easier to quit cocaine.
I recommend you to read my articles:
- Extremely Disturbing Facts – Drug Testing
- The Hypocrisy of Alcohol Versus Drugs
- Death By Cigarette – a fiction horror story you may enjoy.
Much of the information in this article was derived from The World Health Organization pdf.
I’ve been through some sticky situations in my life and have made some serious errors in judgment. I was around 22 years old and partying like a fool when a friend and I decided to grow marijuana. My friend’s name is Roy, but I will not reveal his last name as he probably wants no association with this article. All I can say is we were like dumb and dumber, though we had a lot of fun – what I can remember of it.
Our first attempt to grow pot went great. We read all the best books, which we ordered from the pinnacle of intelligence, High Times Magazine. I became a guerrilla farming expert in about a month. I could identify a magnesium deficiency at a glance and was an expert on parasites. I even mixed up my own natural bug repellent to spray on the plants so our product contained no insecticides. From that experience, I gained the knowledge to grow any plant, from vegetable to trees. I have a strong background in chemistry, so that knowledge came in handy for testing soil and so forth.
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I explain step by step exactly how to hypnotize yourself. Self hypnosis is easy to do and is a great way to learn how to relax and stay focused. I was taught self hypnosis as a child, and it has served me well in many areas of my life.
First, let’s dispel the common myths about hypnosis:
- It is not some type of mind control, though it does open us to suggestion.
- Virtually anyone can learn.
- It is not a powerful or dangerous technique that can cause a mental breakdown.
- What you see in the movies is not real and you shouldn’t worry.
Basically, hypnosis is nothing more than a focused, but relaxed state of mind. The problem most people have with it, is they may become sleepy when they relax. Hypnosis is an alert, but detached state of relaxation. First, lets talk about the most important part: Breathing.
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Is Kissing Safe?
Jun 27
We’ve all experienced the dating milestone of first kiss (known as first base in some circles), which is something most people think of as completely safe. In today’s world of diseases like herpes, is kissing safe? This is a subject most people know nothing about, nor care to.
We all know that diseases like AIDS, gonorrhea, syphilis and others are spread through having unprotected sex. What about an unprotected kiss? I know many men and women who date dozens of people at a time and kiss people on the first date all the time without any worries. Most of us don’t want to request a complete disease screening before we date every person we meet – it would be rude, or would it?
is kissing safe
Let’s consider:
I’m on a date, and a girl asks, “Can I kiss you?” (who asks nowadays?)
I reply, “Hold on a second woman…I’m not just a piece of meat. Do you have an updated certification stating you’re free of STD’s (sexually transmitted diseases) with you? Is it current?”
Her face turns red, she becomes disgusted and says, “Take me home loser. You just killed any romance that could ever exist between us. You suck.”
I go home alone and lose her forever…ouch.
The Kiss That Keeps On Giving
Yes, it seems it would take all spontaneity out of the equation and ruin the natural vibe of attraction. The reason I’m writing this is because I know someone who got that one nightmare kiss, which has changed his life for the worse…forever. He kissed a pretty woman he had just met. She had no signs of anything out of the ordinary. She had good hygiene and seemed completely normal. He did not have sex with her, all he did was kiss her.
Soon after, he got huge sores on his lips and a painful, splotchy red rash all over his body. He went to the doctor and was diagnosed with Orofacial Herpes (herpes simplex 1) and Herpes Gladiatorum (a variation of herpes simplex-1 known as wrestlers herpes or mat herpes, which is common among wrestlers). He had a difficult time getting in touch with the woman, but finally did. She was shocked, saying she had never had any breakouts in her entire life and that he must have been infected by someone else. She was actually concerned and caring enough to get tested. It turns out she does have the virus, and is unknowingly spreading it around. Some people never get an actual outbreak, but can still be a carrier and spread it.
What if Barack Obama or John McCain have herpes simplex? That would scare the hell out of parents who let them kiss their babies (and they’ve kissed a lot of them. I’d be more worried about Bill Clinton)! What a way to start life, already having the virus. Don’t let every stranger kiss your baby. It’s also quite common for a parent to infect a baby and never even know it.
How scary is that? There is no cure for herpes, and once you get it, you have it forever. While there are antiviral drugs that can suppress it, it doesn’t go away. It is up to each and every one of us to get tested and to not assume we don’t have it. This case is not a freak incident, it happens all the time all over the world. Did you know that 1 in 5 people have genital herpes? In many countries the ratio is much higher. There are very high odds that any of us could get it.
Important Facts About Herpes
Most of us have heard about herpes simplex-1 (also known as cold sores, which appear on the lips). Many people have this virus, but don’t really know anything about it. We all know what genital herpes is, but we don’t associate genital herpes with oral herpes. Here are some frightening facts everyone should know:
- You can spread genital herpes when you don’t have any symptoms.
Fact. Genital herpes can be spread to a sex partner even when you have no symptoms. This is how most new cases of genital herpes are spread. - A person can have genital herpes and not even know it.
Fact. The genital herpes virus can be active in a person’s body even though they have no symptoms. That’s why out of the 50 million Americans who have genital herpes, 90% don’t even realize they are infected with the virus and may unknowingly infect others. - You can spread genital herpes to other parts of your body.
Fact. If you touch a genital herpes sore and then touch another part of your body, you can potentially spread the virus. Avoid contact with sores, and if you touch a sore, wash your hands with soap immediately. - Cold sores are just a lip infection and are not associated with herpes.
Myth. Cold sores are generally caused by herpes simplex virus type 1. This virus can also cause an initial outbreak of genital herpes if you have oral sex with someone who has a cold sore. - You can’t get genital herpes from oral sex.
Myth. Most type 1 genital herpes is caused by unprotected oral sex. The type 1 herpes virus can be spread through oral sex—what was a cold sore on your partner may develop as genital herpes on you. It is important to use barrier protection such as latex condoms during oral sex. (Please see your doctor for alternative barrier methods if you’re allergic to latex.) - If you have been with your partner for several years and just found out that you have genital herpes, your partner must be cheating on you.
Myth. The fact that your partner has been diagnosed with genital herpes does not necessarily mean he or she has been unfaithful to you. Genital herpes outbreaks can occur with very mild symptoms that go unnoticed. You or your partner may have contracted the disease from a sexual partner a long time ago or your partner may have genital herpes without knowing it. You may want to consider having an open, honest conversation with your partner about your diagnosis without making any assumptions - The only people who get genital herpes are those who have had many sexual partners.
Myth. Genital herpes is very common. As many as 1 in 5 American adults have genital herpes. Because of this, you can get genital herpes even if you’ve had only one or two sexual partners. However, your risk of getting a sexually transmitted disease like herpes increases with the number of sexual partners you’ve had in your life.
Facts reprinted with permission from: Myths and Facts About Genital Herpes.
After seeing what happened to someone I actually know, it really got to me. He looked so horrible and had a severe outbreak. It’s a great idea for everyone to get tested (go to your local health department for the test, it’s much less expensive than your family doctor). Don’t just assume that because some person is attractive and looks normal, that they don’t have it. If someone really cares about you and you care about them, it shouldn’t be taboo to both get tested. It’s a really good idea. Here’s to your health!
I was eating a hamburger earlier, and while crushing the meat fibers with my powerful muscle driven molars, I wondered what the animal’s life was like. Did anyone ever pet the poor beast? Did anyone scratch behind it’s fly attracting ears? Did it have a name? Was it ever loved? I gnawed another bite of animal flesh and a little roasted blood drizzled down my chin…mmm…yummy fluids. A man wearing a funeral-black suit sat in the booth with me on the opposite side – facing me. He said, “Hello, it’s nice to meet you, I’m Fernando Giovanni McDonnell; half Italian, half Scottish owner of McDonnell Meat Corporation. I saw you enjoying the delicious succulence of our best hamburger – I’m a psychic by the way – I could tell by your expression exactly what you’re thinking.”
“It’s nice to meat you Fernando, I’m Bobby,” I said, choking down another sliver of fried bovine, “So you’re psychic huh? Please…do tell, what am I thinking?”
“You’re wondering about the animal flesh in your mouth. You’re wondering who the animal is,” he pulled a picture out of his inner suit pocket and slammed it down on the table, “Meet Samuel…the beast from which meat was shredded – from his bones – machine strewn, chopped, whipped, blended and digitally fabricated into the scrumptious patty you’re now masticating.”
I picked a hair from between my teeth – flicking it onto Fernando’s suit. He scowled slightly and began laughing, “Haha…I guess we didn’t rinse Samuel’s meat correctly, an occasional hair gets through.”
I replied, “If I do masticate, I do it at home…in private, with the curtains drawn and lights off. Back to the hair, that was no bovine hair. I know bovine hair when I see it. That…Fernando…was a human pubic hair. I know a pubic hair when I see one; nonetheless, please tell me Samuel’s story.”
We both looked at the picture of Samuel – I paid particular attention to the flower in his mouth and happy go lucky look in his eyes. Fernando said, “Masticating means to grind the meat into a swallowable pulp…aka chewing – back to Samuel – well, no one ever loved him. No one ever petted him. No one ever cared about him either. ”
“How freaking heartbreaking,” I said.
Fernando turned towards the kitchen door, yelling, “Anthony, get your ass over here.”
A young guy dressed in blood sodden butcher’s garb walked out with a meat cleaver in his hand. He said, “What? I’m real busy killing killing a baby calf for our veal burgers.”
“Anthony, meet Bobby, he’s eating Samuel.”
“It’s really nice to meet you Bobby,” said Anthony, “I’m the guy who killed Samuel and hacked his body up into it’s respective cuts.”
I took another bite of my hamburger…I mean Samuelburger and asked, “How did you kill him?”
Anthony wickedly smiled, “With a sledgehammer. He didn’t die the first time I hit him,” I took another bite of Samuel, chewing feverishly while Anthony continued, “The first time I hit him, I pulverized his eye socket and blood splattered all over my face…it got all up in my eyes. And dude, that shit burns. You ever got cattle blood in your eyes? Anyway, he groaned in hellish agony…I mean the thing was screaming in pain! He staggered a few steps and tried to run. I used to just cut their heads off on a band saw while standing there alive, but we have an old one and you can’t get blades for it anymore. So I took a machete and chopped one of his legs off. He fell down and went into convulsions. I hit him…must’ve been 30 more times. When I finally finished, his head was beaten flat into the pavement – blood everywhere, buzzards circling above – it was a stomach wrenching nightmare. One of the trainees puked when he saw it…spineless green pea. We actually had to use a forklift to peel his carcass off the hot blacktop – his blood was already starting to cook. We killed him around an hour ago, I’ve been grinding up his meat ever since. Overall, he had a miserable life all jacked up on steroids…and then was ruthlessly beaten to death – heartlessly and without remorse. Hell, I enjoyed killing the stupid thing.”
I took my last bite, and washed it down with a sip of sparkling iced tea, “Ah…that hit the spot. What part of Samuel’s carcass was used to make the hamburger patty I just ate?”
Rolling his eyes, Anthony scratched his chin with bloody fingernails while a sliver of raw flesh dangled from the hairs on the back of his hand, “I’m not really sure, I think it was the left shoulder.”
I looked at Fernando and said, “Samuel was delicious, one of the best burgers I’ve ever tasted; however, I will not pay for my meal, there was a pubic hair on my bun.”
“Hahaha…” Anthony said laughing, “I’m sorry, that’s one of my sister’s pubic hairs…Carnillia, get out here!”
A beautiful red haired woman walked out, giggling, “It’s my pubic hair, I put one on every man’s hamburger…hehe.”
I replied, “Well, in that case…I’ll let it slide. It was quite silky – do you use a conditioner?”
“Yes!” she said, “I use a homemade mixture of Vaseline and jasmine flowers…I hope you enjoyed it. We forgot to change the name on the menu to fur burger.”
I must admit, my visit to McDonnell’s Butcher & Burger Heaven was quite interesting, I may go back tomorrow.
Lab Grown Meat
Have you heard about lab grown meat? Scientists all over the world are working on this concept, and astronauts are being currently fed this petri dish delicacy. When I started writing this post, I was just going to write about lab grown meat, but got carried away and wrote a morbid story instead. I don’t know what happened. I was watching “Pulp Fiction” for the 727th time while writing – listening to Samuel L. Jackson talk about why he didn’t eat pork. Like Samuel (I named my character after the noted actor), I don’t eat pork either. I don’t eat pork, bacon, pork sausage or anything from a pig. Years ago, I met a group of cannibals who were actually part of a tribal musical group, They told me that pork meat tastes exactly like human meat, thus ruining my appetite for pork forever.
Lab grown meat is actually known as in vitro meat, isn’t that appetizing? It all started when cosmetic companies were looking to test their chemicals on flesh other than human. Then animal rights activists got all riled up and forced them to actually grow skin to test their chemicals. See the chart below (I downloaded this picture six months ago, but cannot find the site I got it from – I’ll happily give credit if I can find the original site, the author is apparently a guy named John Lawson):
lab grown meat
Isn’t that strange? Did you know that the chemical laden skin moisturizing sunscreen you’re currently spackling on your body was tested on actual human flesh grown in a petri dish? It should give you comfort that a poor animal wasn’t used. For actual in vitro meat, check out the chart below:
in vitro meat
Here are the steps: 1. Scaffold-based cultured meat production: 1. Myoblasts in petri dish; 2. Porous collagen microspheres; 3. Myoblasts form myotubes on collagen microspheres; 4. Bioreactor; 5. Microwave; 6. Hamburger.
Eventually, entire muscles will be grown in labs – like a sheep’s buttocks muscle in an incubator with clear plastic blood vessels hanging out of it – blood pumped into it by a Jarvik artificial heart. Sounds grotesque? Well, it couldn’t be more grisly than eating an animal who was beaten to death with a hammer. Now enjoy your steak and pass the ketchup.
*The laboratory hamburger picture and text below it is from Would You Like to Eat ‘Cultured’ Meat? (originally from the University of Maryland) – a fantastic article by Roland Piquepaille. Make sure you read it…it’s fascinating.
It never ceases to amaze me how companies make millions selling bogus products that do not work. In the early 70′s, a product called a solar clothes drier made a company millions upon millions. It consisted of a string and directions which read: Tie between two trees and hang your clothes on it while the sun is shining. Then you had that ridiculous million dollar idea, The Pet Rock, which was a stupid rock in a cardboard home. They made truckloads of cash.
Nowadays, one of the easiest ways to rip people off is selling them fraudulence in the area of “homeopathic” remedies. Just remember this, if it is labeled homeopathic, it doesn’t work. Homeopathic means it is modern day snake oil, or Corinthian leather. It means it contains nothing, or something in such small diluted amounts that it costs nothing to manufacture.
Here’s an example of what homeopathy is:
Salt causes you to retain water, which could be construed as a cure for dehydration by an evil marketer trying to sell you a bogus remedy. To make it into a magical remedy, you dilute the salt into water – not just once, but anywhere from a hundred to thousands of times. It becomes a sodium solution labeled “1000x”. The more times it’s diluted the more powerful it is…hahaha! Then, by harnessing imaginary resonant vibrations, it becomes a cure for water retention! That’s right, the opposite of what it normally did before it was diluted. If poison ivy makes you itch, then dilute poison ivy 1000x and it now cures the itch instead of causing it. It’s actually more complicated than that but you get the idea. In other words, it doesn’t work. It is a blatant marketing scam with extremely low overhead. One poison ivy leaf could make a million bottles of itch tonic.
Head On
The king of this type of product is one you may have seen advertised on TV called “Head On”, a waxy grease stick that you rub on your forehead to cure headaches. Please don’t waste your money on any of these deceptive products. On the other hand, the company who made this (Miralus Healthcare) are marketing geniuses. The words “head on” are repeated three times very loudly in a brainwashing fashion much like the word terrorism is repeated ad nauseam on the US daily news. This is an unforgettable commercial. Brainwashing is a fantastic marketing tool. It has been used successfully by people such as Adolf Hitler and president George W. Bush.
Miralus Healthcare made millions selling this fake Headache cure
My Ingenious Start up
To prey upon people’s fears of the supernatural, I want to market a special anti-ghost salt. Based on ancient folklore – salt has long been used to protect homes from ghosts, ghouls, demons and evil spirits. Just look at how many people bought a Ouija Board to contact spirits – an ingenious marketing plan indeed.
Unlike Kosher salt, Spirit Salt is blessed. $24.95 per box
I thought up a TV commercial for my product: Show a terrified little girl crying and shivering in fear. She screams, “Mommy, daddy, there’s a monster in my room. Please save me.”
The mom sprinkles “Spirit Salt” in her door way and window sill. The little girl goes to sleep with a smile on her face – protected from monsters. A priest pops up and says, “Don’t live in fear any longer. If you love your children, protect them from evil with Spirit Salt! Let your kids know you really care. Revellian’s Spirit Salt, don’t let the goblins get ya!”
You place it on the bottom shelves in grocery stores so frightened children will see it and beg. Make the parents feel guilty for not buying it. Also, the kids will think their parents don’t care about them if they don’t purchase it – pure brainwashing perfection. So, do I have a million dollar idea? I’m looking for investors, please contact me immediately if you have start up capital.
* The Head On picture is from Byrdhouse HeadOn: Apply Directly To The Forehead
* The Pet Rock picture is from Eikongraphica Why Sylvia Sucks
