09 Jun 2004
Democrats strike back on faith issue

Oh, great! The race for the "water and wafer" set is on for real, now. Why can't somebody just get a clue, and leave religion out of politics?

Group launches initiative to stress religious roots of policies as polls show party faces a 'church gap.'

(link) [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]

00:00 /Asatru | 0 comments | permanent link

Microsoft Patents The Task List

Just when I thought the Patent Office couldn't get any stupider ...

Better not get too fancy with your grocery list, now that Microsoft has patented a glorified form of the to-do list.' Issued Tuesday, the patent covers the use of a 'task list' generated from 'TODO' comments in source code.

(link) [Slashdot]

00:00 /Copywrongs | 0 comments | permanent link

Some Pictures Posted...

as promised, at Hammerstead. The site's framed (deliberately) so you'll have to look under 'Fun Stuff' - there's a link on the page to some downloads. If you enjoyed the Prayer to the Moon pic, you'll enjoy these.

Update

I futzed with things a bit and now you can get there directly. I'd still appreciate it if you went thru the framed site, however, as you might be moved to buy a fleece!

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Just Another New Age Day

This came in from an email list I'm on, marked 'author unknown'... it reminded me that, as a friend is fond of saying, "Fluffy Bunnies belong in stew!"

I was having an out of body experience one day so I grounded myself and got centered with the help of my spirit guides and almost astral traveled anyway, but the phone rang.

I sensed the negative vibrations so I threw the I-Ching and checked my numerology chart and nearly had a primal, but my energy was too blocked, so I did some bioenergetics and self parenting, took some flower essence and ate an organic oat bran ginseng muffin, but my inner child wasn't feeling nurtured yet so I had a Rice Dream Frozen Pie too.

That made me hyper so I did the relaxation response while listening to my subliminal tapes, but I was feeling depersonalized so I did some polarity work, foot reflexology and past life regression, then rebirthed myself and called Moon Beam, the bodyworker, to make an appointment for a Shiatsu, Reiki, Rolfing, Feldenkreis, Swedish, Japanese deep tissue massage.

She flaked out and never returned my call, so I decided to energize my crystals and do some positive imagery because all my visualization techniques and affirmations made my space feel invaded, so to get empowered, I got a psychic reading from Mother HeartLove around the issue of my assertiveness so I could feel my radiance and have some energy for my psycho-calisthenics and inversion swing before my harmonic brain -wave synergy session.

This made me more focused for my actualization seminar, holistic healing class and dreamworkshop, so I'd be more clear for my Gestalt behavioral cognitive transpersonal Rechian Jungian Freudian Ericksonian session at the hot springs but my aura was weak for my trance-channeling group so I fasted until noon to recharge my chakras and I sensed my intuition was high and my cycle was focused.

So I turned on my ion generator to open up for my neural-linguistic programming session, but I needed to have my pyramid recharged before my guided synchronicity meditation, so I got some cranio-sacral therapy, which aligned me for the fire walk, which was between my tarot card reading and my sensory deprivation tank appointment, but after all that I felt what I truly needed was a meaningful relationship to mirror myself so I went to my personal shaman, and then to my guru, but they were no help, so instead I went to the Intensive Whole Life Earth Rebirth Cosmic Expo Symposium Workshop to find someone who really knew what was going on, but that didn't work either, so I locked myself in a calcium coated Orgone Box and went to sleep so I could "get it" in the dream state.

00:00 /Humor | 1 comment | permanent link

Lowly weeds may hold promise for curing host of common health woes

Maybe the medical researchers are finally getting a clue. The "weeds" they talk about include poppies and daturas (source of scopolamine), which are well known psychoactive herbs. It's apparently a newly useful "weed" if scientists investigate it, but a dangerous herb if it's been used for centuries.

Unwanted, pulled or poisoned, the lowly weed is sometimes better than its highly touted ''herbal'' cousins for preventing and curing a host of diseases, according to University of Florida research. ''If I had one place to go to find medicinal plants, it wouldn't be the forest,'' said John Richard Stepp, a UF anthropologist who did the study. ''There are probably hundreds of weeds growing right outside people's doors they could use.

(link) [Science Blog - Science News Stories]

00:00 /Agriculture | 0 comments | permanent link

Peanut


We have a new bottle baby at Hammerstead: Peanut(his name for the time being, until we can think of something more suitably Scottish) is a registered Highland. He's two weeks old, and was not being taken care of by his momma. The guy we bought him off of didn't want to be bothering feeding a bottle calf, so we picked him up for virtually a song! Can't beat that!

He weighs about 100 lbs. already, and feeding him makes us long for the sedate days of feeding bottle lambs and kids - when this guy does the "head slam to the teat" routine, it's enough to nearly break your arm! Just as a trivial aside, he drinks six quarts of milk daily, and is already starting to browse on the pasture as well.

But he'll grow up pretty tame and (hopefully) gentle with humans: which will make him the perfect "ambassador" to Highland games, farm markets and other venues where you normally wouldn't want to take a full grown steer. We'll see.

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