Posted 12.24.07
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A DAX ‘SMUCKLE:’
A Russian couple is enjoying a brisk winter walk together when it starts to precipitate. The man, Rudolph, tells his wife it’s raining whereas, she insists that it is snowing.
They began to argue: She says again and again that it’s snowing whilst her husband persists in his belief that it’s raining.
Finally and angrily, the wife declares, ‘’Rudolph, it definitely is snowing!'’ To which he replies, vehemently, ‘’Nyet! I think there’s little question that Rudolph, the Red, knows rain, dear!'’
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-THIS WEEK’S LIST OF {5} DAX LIFE-ENHANCERS!-
DEAN’S RANT: ‘’Geeze Dean, That’s Too Heav-ee!'’
MONEY-MAKING: 78 Million Hot Prospects! Good For An Easy $100 Grand Per Year . . . Part Time! What More Could You Ask For?!
HEALTH BOOSTERS: DAX Rejuvenator Smoothie!
TASTY REPAST: A Real Fast But ‘’Oh-so-Good'’ Salad!
DAX-YAX: A Mother’s Loving Christmas Letter
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DEAN’S RANT: ‘’Geeze Dean, That’s Too Heav-ee!'’
Admittedly, we all chewed this one over a number of times around here before deciding to spit it out now - in a post which reaches you for the first time on Christmas Eve day, for gosh sakes.
But then, for once, I prevailed over the all-powerful DAX Elves with the argument that you and all other readers of this e-MEGA-zine will probably be getting out ‘n’ about with a larger-than-usual number of friends, relatives, business associates and others during this party week so . . .
. . . perhaps, the following will give you an interesting conversation starter, if nothing else!
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE AMERICAN CULTURE!
Hey! Don’t say we didn’t warn you - this IS rather deep and murky.
But wholly fascinating, as well!
On a recent weekend Larry King Show, his guest was Judge Judy (Scheindlin) and they discussed various of the current ‘icky’ news items, starting with the bounty hunter ‘Dog’ disaster wherein, his ne’er-do-well SON recorded him using racial slurs and then, sold the recording to a tabloid. Look in the dictionary under BASTARD, and see a picture OF said son, eh wot?!
They went on to talk about several female students having sex with their under-age students . . . kids as young as eleven having sex with each other and all too often the inevitable resulting babies . . . the widespread corruption that permeates our society in business and government . . . the too-frequent killings in public meeting places and in general, the diminishing morality in our society.
Larry and the judge mulled all that over a bit and then, one of ‘em said, ‘’Why is this? How have we become such a depraved culture?'’
Upon hearing that, I was hoping it was merely a rhetorical question and that surely, after a commercial, one of them would respond to the other with ‘the answer,’ but alas, that did not happen. Thus, I will provide ‘the answer’ right here and right now!
THE PRINCIPAL (BUT NOT THE ONLY) CULPRIT IS . . .
. . . television. You don’t need or want a detailed history of the phenomenon we all affectionately refer to as ‘the boob-tube,’ but suffice to say, it started to worm its way into the American consciousness around 1948 and within 4-5 years, had begun to insidiously and very effectively assume control of our individual and collective psyche in ways that no other medium had done previously. Not radio, motion pictures, fixed stage shows or even the travelling variety shows that brought major stars of the day to pokey little cities and towns across the country.
The early days of television were innocent enough and many of us recall when the highly-popular ‘’I Love Lucy Show'’ was not permitted to even mention the word ‘pregnant’ (which Lucy was, in real life, during one year of the run. Coincidentally, and apropos nothing . . . that baby would be Desi Arnaz, Jr., whom I met as an adult when I lived out Vegas way. He was part of some strange church in Boulder City that was happy to accept {and haul away} all of the kitchen appliances from my house when I remodelled it.)
‘Back in the day,’ married people were required to be shown sleeping in twin beds only - or, if they appeared in a double bed, it could be done only with both fully clothed, and the man had to have one foot outside the covers and resting on the floor: Seriously!
A popular movie couple of the time, Rock Hudson and Doris Day, in one movie portrayed a married couple, having a conversation in bed. The screen went to black and when it faded back in, it was the next morning and as the two arose, not a word was spoken, but an alert audience would note that Rock was wearing his pajama top but HER bottom, whilst Doris wore her top and HIS bottom. Audience members were left to snicker and inevitably, explain to a dense neighbor what the real deal was.
Not these days! In the last half century the television medium has barely lagged behind all others in presenting flagrant examples of every imaginable (and sometimes depraved) form of sexual persuasion one can envision - plus a few that might not otherwise come to mind.
To underscore the above, I’ll review a few other shows that I clicked onto that weekend following the Larry King Show:
There was a show featuring the comedienne, Chelsea Handler, called ‘’Chelsea Lately.'’ One female being interviewed there, referring to being French kissed by someone named Dick, said, ‘’I've never had a Dick in my mouth before.'’ Someone piped up with the comment, ‘’Yeah, sure . . . ‘’
The normally-aspirated and usually benign COMEDY CENTRAL aired a movie whose principal character’s every other word was f*#k - for an entire two hours! A couple was shown having sex almost as vividly as a standard porn flick.
There’s a late-late show on FOX called ‘Red Eye’ that stars some no-talent male who apparently is either gay or bi-sexual, judging by his lewd, suggestive and humorless remarks to - everybody. Guests include day-time, generally staid and conservative female FOX commentators who are perched on the end of a line of several guests wearing extremely short skirts.
That’s called ‘eye candy’ nowadays and, Hey! I enjoy a peak at a pretty leg now and then, too! But this sort of thing used to be more simply referred to as, ‘’a bit slutty - whoopee!'’
The assembled panel mostly discusses sex or sexually-oriented topics - and not very skillfully, at that.
Another show on another network is called ‘Soup’ which again, features some effeminate dipstick who shows clips of several recent network and cable shows. One so-called reality show featured men and women contestants chewing on actual bull penises and testicles amid snide sexual remarks by other players, as well as the host.
I suspect that when Larry and the Judge posed that question we mentioned earlier, ‘’Why has all this happened?'’ and then, feigned ignorance as to the answer, they both were fully aware of the answer. After all, each is a highly paid member of a conglomerate that is a significant component of the cause of the decline and coming abject fall of the American culture . . .
T-E-L-E-V-I-S-I-O-N!
This discourse is not the first that we have presented on the subject - only the most recent. And television is far from being the sole cause of our societal breakdown - but from our multi-decade study, it most assuredly is the initial trigger which, as mentioned, started some fifty years ago.
In those early days, the irresistible combination of both sight and sound which emanated from that innocuous-looking ten-inch black and white exposed-eye silently reposed in a corner of the family living room for most of the 24 hours of each day, as very wholesome and benign on-air programming was limited to (from) noon to midnight on two or three network channels at the most.
Over time, of course, all that evolved into a full-color, 50-60 inch, flat screen, surround-sound, 24/7 broadcasting with hundreds of channels offering just about anything and everything even the basest amongst us could desire.
Before any of that - when there was just radio, listeners had to imagine what the people who were talking looked like. Hard to believe, but MOST Americans could not identify the ’stars’ of the old radio shows on sight. Not even Bob Hope, Red Skelton, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Bing Crosby or others of their day and popularity.
When television became more prevalent, all of a sudden it was no longer necessary to use one’s own imagination to paint the scenery for a drama or try to decide what someone looked like - it was all done for them - in glorious black and white at first, but before long, in full, vivid color.
I well recall coming home from a summer at CASTLE FARM (with my grandparents) where there was no television - to see Art Linkletter for the first time on my folks teevee. I was bowled over at what he looked like, as it was nothing like I envisaged from only hearing him on the radio for all those years!
THE PLOT THICKENS - MORALS LOOSEN
Television though, was just the genesis of today’s problems - actually, in many ways it could be correctly called the catalyst, as well, in that the ‘tube’ (and in this context, we are referencing a ‘monitor’) serves as the central focus for most of our current technology which has poisoned us:
Computers, video phones, VCRs and DVDs and the ‘games’ that children - and not-mentally-fully-developed adults ‘play.'’ Most such are exceedingly and graphically violent, and involve the players in whatever gory activity is written into the script - and the gorier the better. Indeed, the games would not sell if they were anything BUT wall-to-wall blood and guts.
And do we really need to talk about ‘music’ as it is thinly disguised? Rappers who sing about and glorify rape, incest, beating up women, killing policemen, etc.
Motion pictures and television any more MUST present at least 75% violence and 25% sex acts in order to compete - to sell the tickets or to get enough viewers to the television to justify the exorbitant fees charged advertisers.
Sex is no longer taboo, mysterious or even wondrous. Small children now see more, know more and experience more than ’seasoned’ married adults of just a couple generations back.
Violence in its most horrendous and visceral portrayal are today commonplace.
When all of the foregoing melds, we end up with a nation of 300 million people who are inured to just about anything and everything. We are jaded. When we hear of yet another college killing, school slaughter or mall massacre, we stop for only a moment to say, ‘’Did you hear about those murders out there in . . . oh, that’s a nice dress you’re wearing - is that new?'’
In short, when nothing any longer shocks or surprises an individual or a group, then, there’s nowhere to go from there but . . . down. Where once, as expressed in a song from ‘Thoroughly Modern Millie’ - a ‘’glimpse of stocking was shocking'’ today, TRULY - ‘’anything goes!'’ Wanna see Britney Spears’ nekked crotch? Or Paris Hilton’s? Or, is Lindsay Lohan’s more to your liking? Just mosey your mouse over to GOOGLE and see any of ‘em for free.
Also, Pam Anderson or the self-same Paris Hilton will gladly perform real, genuine sex for your very eyes - just pony up the thirty bux or so for their video - and it’s all yours to ogle.
There’s so much perverted sex and violence in ALL of our modern media that it is sickening to even think about. Sure, there’s a market for it - a huge market. Why? Well again, because those who want that debased crap have been whittled down by a too-permissive society that was fostered by television and fed by all other media with the passing of time.
In 1938 Orson Welles presented H.G Wells ‘War Of The Worlds’ on his Mercury Theatre radio program. The listening audience was told in advance that it was a dramatization, yet thousands of people thought it was real - that men from Mars had landed on Earth and were destroying everything in their path. Many listeners panicked. Some even committed suicide. All THAT was accomplished just by sound - and people’s imagination working at full tilt.
Today, we have three different ‘CSI’ programs to choose from every week, where in each episode, they graphically carve up corpses, show how a knife or a bullet killed the victim, and so forth. Blood and guts. On those shows and others such as ‘Criminal Minds’ and ‘Without a Trace,’ no subject is off limits including bestiality, cannibalism, child molestation, torture, perverted violent sex and well, you name it!
On the larger world stage, there is no doubt in MY mind that the proliferation of all of our recent and still on-going wars, as well as terrorism, itself can be laid in large part at the doorstep of the mass VISUAL media. Without the constant harangue of the round-the-clock news outlets about the terrible injustices that have been a part of our cognizance for far too long, public interest would have waned, as well as the conflicts which spawn such inhuman acts.
Had the recent events, starting with ‘9/11,’ been covered by just the RADIO networks, I would venture to say that MOST of what has happened in the last six years would NOT have occurred at all. Tens of thousands of people would still be alive, as well.
NOW, AIN’T THIS STRANGE?!
Oddly, concurrent with all the extremism to which we are all subjected, has emerged a diminished tolerance for genuine ‘’free speech.'’ Not the kind of adulterated free speech as demanded by those who wish to present perverted pornographic utterances on our public airwaves - demands which are based on a warped interpretation of the First Amendment, but rather, actual erudite WORDS that people wish to use - and they HAVE used for generations with impunity:
Controversial political satire, differing religious views, helpful health suggestions, etc.
Polish jokes are no longer permitted. Not considered politically correct. Might offend someone - although, the very BEST Polish jokes were originated and told by . . . Polish people! Blond jokes and lawyer jokes have replaced them. Blonds are presumably too dumb to form a strong P.C. lobby - lawyers simply realize there is absolutely no support for them from the masses! (Both jokes I can still get away with - HA!)
But when Don Imus made an offhand comment about black women, the full weight of the world feigning umbrage came down on him. Had instead, he presented a clip showing Saddam Hussein being hanged from start to finish or, if he had presented a (hetro or homo) couple performing a sex act on the set - doubtful, that anyone - especially, those horn-dogs Al Sharptongue or Jesse Jackass would have said ‘Boo!’
The Politically Correct Police (PCP) spring forth in full battle armor whenever someone deigns to ’speak out of school,’ as it used to be called - but they remain peculiarly quiet when other, far more dangerous - even heinous - acts are taking place under their very blue-noses.
That again, only because we tolerate all sorts of deviant acts, habits, thoughts and actions. But we mustn’t even consider SAYING anything that may be considered by anyone - even a single person - as an unpleasant description.
The latest proliferation of ‘junk’ in our society is being displayed 24/7 on the various Internet meeting spots for teens and the depraved. Probably, it figures out to 25% teens - 75% depraved. Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, etc.
In the future, no doubt, there will be technology that provides us with smells to accompany sight ‘n’ sound sensations and surely, not far behind, we’ll all be able to enjoy highly realistic virtual sex as well as bloody murder - in some legal, ’safe’ way so as to satiate the growing appetite for more-more-more! that was spawned a half century ago by t-e-l-e-v-i-s-i-o-n.
In an upcoming article in this e-MEGA-zine, we will further address the impact of all this specifically as it affects some of those aforementioned unstable types who react by committing despicable and heinous acts in public places. For now, let us agree that we must deal with the FACT that those miscreants are a PRODUCT of all that we have discussed in this article.
But what do YOU think?! I am always eager to hear from you at: DeanFVD@DAXRICH.com
No . . . I am SERIOUS: I’m just sitting idly here, twiddling my twiddle awaiting your input!
-Dean
P.S. Yes, I KNOW what day this is! So . . . PU-LEEZE: Have Yourself A Merry Little Bloodless Christmas!
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MONEY-MAKING: 78 Million Hot Prospects! Good For An Easy $100 Grand Per Year . . . Part Time! What More Could You Ask For?!
YOUR TARGET POT OF GOLD . . .
. . . are the seventy eight million baby-boomers who are now in various stages of leaving the work force and finding themselves with a whole bunch of extra time to ponder such monumental facts as their own mortality, preserving various important aspects of their life for posterity, an so on.
In short, as folks age - and right now there is a really big bunch of ‘em poised on the threshold of doing just THAT - they commence to recognize the importance of setting aside certain artifacts for the offspring - those existent as well as those who may come along later after life’s TRULY ‘big event’ (leaving it!)
To that end, just about everybody today has a battery of still cameras, video cam corders, movie cameras and other appurtenances to record one’s historical events as they occur. That’s fine, but more and more of us are discovering that over the years it’s easy to pile up one heck of a lot of stuff that is in great disarray in boxes, files, drawers, albums and other places. Generally, it is all a very big and messy situation.
Around the time grand children start off to school, most people get it in their head they’d better start organizing all those pictures, mementoes, souvenirs and so forth into some sort of semblance of sanity and here’s where a ‘professional’ might come to the rescue and earn a pretty penny in the process.
For starters, take those videos. Those stacks and stacks of videos that mom and dad (later to transmogrify into GRANDmom and GRANDdad) have been producing religiously at every important occasion (which I confess in MY case would be most any time the Brit-Nic or her little bro, Stevie would come to visit at WINTERWOOD or WILLOWOOD).
Someone who knows what they’re doing could take a big batch and edit them down to something a bit more interesting and punchy than, for example, the 20 minutes S.E. once took of the Brit-Nic just sitting there in a swing with her finger up her nose! Cute . . . but 20 minutes worth?
The idea is to take all those ‘precious memories’ and distill them into something a bit more palatable so one does not fear boring everyone to death when the things are later played at reunions, parties, etc.
We inquired, and the going rate is anywhere from $200.00 to $500.00 for such a service - which includes voice-overs of desired, background music and graphics.
Some years back, P.C. had one of those videos put together for me as a special Christmas present. Featuring photographs of P.C. and myself, it served to remind that something good resulted from my otherwise 21 years of torment with her mother! The tape and gesture combined to make one of the nicest gifts I’ve ever received. She took a vast collection of photographs gathered over the years and had them artfully assembled into a video montage with nifty background music and Christmas graphics.
Thus, whenever the mood strikes, I can fire up the VCR and recall great trips to Florida, Hawaii or Hollywood as well as piano recitals, Birthdays, Thanksgiving and Christmas celebrations, nifty cars I once owned, the publication of my first novel (there’s a picture of P.C. holding a copy of the original hard cover edition of ‘The Big Dream’ in front of a fence off the deck - and she remembers how I admonished her not to read the thing until she was 21 - she ‘claims’ she waited!) and other similar good stuff.
By the way, when we looked further into this DAX Money-Maker we discovered that indeed, the largest overall market for this type of thing is for special occasions - not just Christmas, of course, but for anniversaries, birthdays, to commemorate class reunions, graduations, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and so forth.
Once established, your advertising budget should be minimal as you may well get all the business you can handle from referrals of satisfied customers. And consider the fact that in virtually every community in the land there are scads of people who fit your prospective customer profile - just champing at the bit to once and for all bring some order and ‘verve’ to their family history.
This looks to us like a very substantial growth-type venture that could easily return $100,000.00 or more annually to you for your efforts.
As for me: Whilst writing this piece, I got inspired to dig out all the pix and videos from the past 17+ years that S.E. and I have been an item - and WOW! It looks like I’ve got quite a job in store for somebody, starting with several videos that we took to immortalize our ‘Dean & SuEllen’s Excellent Adventures’- visual records of trips we’ve taken to various parts of the globe. Looks like fun, and tonight I plan to start reviewing all those videos!
ATTENTION WRITERS & WRITER WANNABEES!
Next week we have a DAX Money-Maker™ that you must not miss! This is a brilliant brainstorm of mine which I am confident could make you a veritable fortune PLUS provide a life-long career as a writer and ‘noted authority’ even though you may be, right now, far from either! No kidding - be here - we’re talking about the potential of staggering profits!
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HEALTH BOOSTERS: DAX Rejuvenator Smoothie!
I’m going to give you my VERY secret and carefully-guarded (by three attack cats - Pinky, Big Red and Stubby-Butt) formula for my personal breakfast - each and every day of every week of the year!
It comes about only after many years of research, experimentation, honing ‘n’ polishing and any other appropriate descriptor you can conjure up BUT, it has been well worth it because, certain varied properties of the contents of the ‘DAX Rejuvenator Smoothie’ have been scientifically proven to:
- Stimulate weight-loss
- Increase blood flow in the circulatory system
- Ameliorate the pain of both rheumatoid and osteoarthritis
- Positively treat several forms of cancer
- Reduce LDL cholesterol
- Aid in digestive orders
- Mitigate or even eliminate heartburn
- Encourage bowel regularity
- Improve skin tone and fingernail strength
- Help significantly in wound healing
- Prevent common bruises
Additionally, this morning drink (which can also be enjoyed at noon or at any other time of day!) provides 6.24g of dietary fiber, 26.58g ‘good’ carbohydrates and a measly 392 total calories! Want more? You’ll also automatically ingest an important source of antioxidants, painlessly and deliciously plus, 100% of the 22g of fat is the ‘good kind’ that your body MUST have for cellular construction and, well, life itself!
INGREDIENTS AND INSTRUCTIONS
In a plain old, cheap food blender like mine - or in one of those fancy/schmancy food processors that most folks have nowadays (I hate cleaning them!) place the following:
7 ounces of cold decaffeinated GREEN tea. Last summer we told you about my delicious, flavored green tea discovery. I prefer to make THIS recipe using a strawberry-flavored decaf green tea, ’tis your choice - plain or flavored - with ANY flavor you select, of course. I always have a two quart pitcher of the stuff in the fridge as I drink it throughout the day so, that saves time when making this morning concoction.
3000 mg of ester ‘c’ - tablets or crystals. If tablets, be sure to drop into tea right away to allow to dissolve.
Two ROUNDED tablespoons of rice protein powder. I MUCH prefer the vanilla flavor. Just make certain that it is RICE protein - not some other grain!
1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon. Yes, I realize that the ‘’cinnamon'’ we Americans buy is NOT genuine cinnamon, but it’s the best we can acquire domestically!
TWO full tablespoons of Flaxseed Oil. This MUST be the cold-processed kind with lignons. Store in your refrigerator! (It can also be frozen for up to six months). One brand (but NOT the only one!) is Barleans.
A handful of raisins. NOTE: If you are a devotee of the ‘’drunken raisins,'’ i.e., the 9 gin-soaked golden raisins that we’ve talked about in the past - then, substitute those for the ‘regular’ kind. The ‘drunk ones’ are supposedly effective in reducing arthritis pain and many people swear ’tis true! For info, check our ‘Previous Entries'’ (link is way at the bottom of this page) OR just GOOGLE ‘’gin-soaked raisins'’ for info.
One small apple - ANY variety. Wash it thoroughly, chop it up on a plate (skin and all - just discard the core!) and drop into the blender.
1/2 cup of frozen (or fresh, in season!) blueberries.
A small handful of unsalted English Walnuts.
NOTE: All of the above is basic and a ‘must’ to EVERY ‘’DAX Rejuvenator Smoothie.'’
The following ingredients are optional, and may be varied from one day to the next:
1/2 cup of peaches - fresh or canned. If the latter, rinse and drain away the fructose packing syrup - you do NOT need that! Or . . .
1/2 cup of pears - fresh or canned. Same caveat about rinse ‘n’ drain!
1/2 banana. Or . . .
One entire kiwi. Cut off the two ends, insert a tablespoon near the outer skin and work around to release the fruit. Then, chop up and drop into the blender.
You may choose to add a ‘’third flavor'’ (meaning above and beyond the standard apple and blueberries) - some sliced-up strawberries, seedless grapes or raspberries - fresh or frozen as available. A half banana makes the drink thicker and adds some potassium to the mix.
Bear in mind that if you do add anything to the basic recipe - but especially fruit - you will be adding additional calories and carbohydrates, as well - but they truly are the healthiest kind possible.
OPTION: If you regularly take a variety of other vitamins - besides the ester ‘C’ that is, you may want to try adding the TABLET variety to the above admixture. It saves having to swallow them separately, however, I would suggest NOT placing any capsule-delivery vitamins in the Smoothie mix! Those outer gelatinous carriers are sort of icky when they get emulsified!
However, I must say that by putting the tablet kind in the smoothie it tends to buffer any potential stomach upset you may otherwise experience when you take them ‘’raw.'’ Try it and see.
If you find that after consuming this recipe a few times you continue to suffer constipation (very unlikely!) you could opt to add a tablespoon of a Metamucil-type product, some psyllium seeds or better yet, one tablespoon of flaxseed - not more oil, but the actual ground flax SEEDS.
The many other ingredients in the smoothie will mask any unpleasant taste or the sense of grittiness that keeps many people from using that type of mild, healthier-than-other laxatives. WARNING: If you suffer from diverticulosis, too much seeds (or non-ground nuts) may trigger a diverticulitis event. Again, check all this with your own medical professional.
Also, be SURE to check with your own medical advisor before making or enjoying the above detailed ‘’DAX Rejuvenator Smoothie.'’ There may be something in there that he or she feels is unwise for you to take in YOUR particular circumstances. For instance, 3000 mg of ester ‘C’ is quite a lot, but WE have found that it offers a major assist in our overall health, and it is what is responsible for the fast healing from little cuts and bruises, etc.
You can see where, depending upon the ingredients chosen, the caloric content will vary. But taking an ‘’average,'’ we have discovered that the total count is generally less than 400, as mentioned earlier, and that includes the 6 calories for the teaspoon of cinnamon - it’s that close!
When you consider the potential health benefits, as well as the fact that most experts concur that breakfast is THE most important meal of the day, and even if one is on a restricted calorie regimen, this ‘’DAX Rejuvenator Smoothie'’ should be a welcome addition to one’s everyday routine.
Plus, it tastes delicious and when I consume mine at around 4:00 A.M., I NEVER get hungry until noon! It’s that satisfying!
I think you’ll find that the ‘’DAX Rejuvenator Smoothie'’ is a good way to end THIS year and a terrific way to start each day of the new one!
IMPORTANT POSTSCRIPT:
If you have little knowledge of the extraordinary importance and health value of flaxseed and flaxseed oil, in particular, I strongly urge you to take a few minutes and GOOGLE the subject. There are many excellent books on the topic and one that we highly recommend is ‘’The Healing Power of Flax: The Definitive Guide.'’
There are many other treatises available - some of which we have recommended over the years, but this one by Herb Joiner-Bey, ND is definitely one of the very best and most compete. We have communicated with the author several times and the man certainly knows his subject. (We ARE currently awaiting a response to our query as to which of the two different ‘tablespoon quantities’ he recomeneds)
And you may very well benefit, as well, from learning about the subject of flaxseed oil, as it most assuredly could help extend or even save your life.
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TASTY REPAST: A Real Fast But ‘’Oh-so-Good'’ Salad!
I whipped this up the other night as an after-thought, when I noticed I had a menu of only three principal items. I like to serve at least FOUR different things at a dinner so . . .
Enter my tasty ‘’slice ‘n’ dice'’ tomato salad:
Cut the butt-end off two large tomatoes. Slice in half and carefully cut around the inside to remove the seeds and gelatinous gunk - and discard.
Rinse and drain.
Slice the tomatoes into 1/2 X 1/2 inch pieces.
Chop up 1-2 green onions - white part and green part.
Scoop out and slice up one firm avocado. If it will be awhile before actual serving to your hungry eaters, pour a bit of lemon juice over the avocado (then drain off excess liquid) BEFORE adding to your salad admixture to prevent browning.
Add a few small chunks of stilton or other PUNGENT cheese.
Mince a small handful of pickled ginger and drop into the bowl.
Sprinkle with chopped (fresh) cilantro.
Drizzle with extra virgin olive oil and toss gently.
(Why don’t all of us ‘cooks’ just start calling it ‘Mother Mary’ Olive oil? I mean, how many OTHER ‘extra virgins’ have you ever heard of?!)
Pepper boldly - salt lightly! Preferably, use the ‘No Salt’ product to avoid sodium.
And yes, my dear wife SuEllen, IS the luckiest women in the world to have a handsome, smart, rich husband who cooks great meals for her every night. But tell HER that - not ME - I already know it - HA!
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DAX-YAX: A Mother’s Loving Christmas Letter
Dear Darling Son (And That Person You Married),
Merry Christmas to you, and please don’t worry about me - I’m just fine considering I can’t breathe or eat. The important thing is that you have a nice holiday, thousands of miles away from your ailing mother.
I’m sending along my last ten dollars in this card, which I hope you’ll spend on something nice for my grandchildren. God knows their mother never buys them anything nice. Does she ever feed them? They look so thin in their pictures, poor babies.
Thank you so much for the Christmas flowers, dear boy. I put them in the freezer so they’ll stay fresh for my grave. Which reminds me . . . we buried grandma last week. I would have invited you to the funeral but I know that woman you live with would never have let you come. I bet she’s never even bothered to watch that videotape I sent you of my hemorrhoid surgery, has she?
Well son, it’s time for me to crawl off to bed now. I lost my cane beating away muggers last week, but don’t you worry about me. I’m also getting used to the cold since they turned off the heat, but I’m grateful, because the frost on my bed numbs the constant pain.
Now, don’t you even think about sending any more money, because I know you need it for those expensive family vacations you take every year. Give my love to my darling grandbabies and my regards to whatever-her-name-is . . . the one with black roots who stole you kicking and screaming from my bosom.
Again, have a Merry Christmas,
Love, Mom
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