I used to wake up with a knife in my left knee. Now, it only gives me a twinge when I do something really dumb. For a while, every few weeks I would get a crick in my neck that would not go away. Now it's gone for good.
Yesterday my Darling Wife's back was hurting to the point that she could not live a normal life anymore. As I predicted she would, she finally broke down and asked me to go through the routine described in Pain Free for her back pain. We did the e-cises for knees that are rotated inward.
Hold on there.
Knees for back pain? Yes. If you read Pain Free, you will know why.
At any rate, last night was a typical result. After only one session of the zero-impact, no/low effort therapy laid out in Pain Free, her sciatic nerve is un-pinched and the only pain is residual from low-back muscles that are sore from cramping (seizing) trying to keep her from falling over sideways.
If your bones hurt for any reason. If your muscles hurt for any reason. If you have strange unexplainable pain and doctors are starting to throw around terms like "cortisone injections" "thousand dollar joint braces" and "surgery" then do yourself a favor and spend $15 on this book. You don't have to live with a stiff neck, sore knees, or bulging or herniated vertebral discs. You probably don't need to spend $400 on an orthotic shoe insert.
Don't be so stubborn. You know it's something simple the doctors are missing (or would, if you would go to a doctor). Get Pain Free.
If you absolutely insist on "being seen" you have that option as well. Heck, it's even expensive so you don't have to feel like you took the cheapskate route. Go to the Find a Clinic webpage at www.egoscue.com and see which of their 24 Egoscue Clinics is nearest you!
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Yes it's a sales pitch. No, I have no dog in this fight. I derive no benefit of any sort if you buy a copy of Pain Free or visit one of the Egoscue Clinics.
I just want you to stop living in pain.
Don't you?
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Friday, April 3, 2009
Supreme Court To Review Strip Search of 13 Year-old Girl
From Flex Your Rights:
So a 13 year-old honor student (in government school, where else?) is suspected of having drugs. You know, the real hard-core smack, literally ones (two, total) of ibuprofen pills. Dangerous stuff that. Have to regulate it, zero tolerance and all!
Zero tolerance = zero thinking allowed.
She refused to produce the pills (because she didn't have them) so two (female) school staffers had her strip to her knickers, then shake out her bra & panties.
This, understandably, was disturbing to the girls' parents (who undoubtedly thought it was a "good public school" that was warehousing their daughter). They won at the 9th circuit court of appeals.
Good.
The SCOTUS has agreed to take the case.
Bad? Why does SCOTUS need to hear this 4th amendment case from the 9th circuit?
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Just mark this down as reason #n that I don't want my children being "educated" in government schools. Oh sure, they would never do this in your school district. Right. You go right ahead and think that. I'll do my best to act surprised when the next headline news story is from your child's school.
End of day update: Reason n+1: a co-worker just told me that his 6 year-old learned a new phrase at school: lick your girlfriend's vag!na. Isn't that cute? Look how well-socialized the boy is! Terrible. Just terrible.
So a 13 year-old honor student (in government school, where else?) is suspected of having drugs. You know, the real hard-core smack, literally ones (two, total) of ibuprofen pills. Dangerous stuff that. Have to regulate it, zero tolerance and all!
Zero tolerance = zero thinking allowed.
She refused to produce the pills (because she didn't have them) so two (female) school staffers had her strip to her knickers, then shake out her bra & panties.
This, understandably, was disturbing to the girls' parents (who undoubtedly thought it was a "good public school" that was warehousing their daughter). They won at the 9th circuit court of appeals.
Good.
The SCOTUS has agreed to take the case.
Bad? Why does SCOTUS need to hear this 4th amendment case from the 9th circuit?
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Just mark this down as reason #n that I don't want my children being "educated" in government schools. Oh sure, they would never do this in your school district. Right. You go right ahead and think that. I'll do my best to act surprised when the next headline news story is from your child's school.
End of day update: Reason n+1: a co-worker just told me that his 6 year-old learned a new phrase at school: lick your girlfriend's vag!na. Isn't that cute? Look how well-socialized the boy is! Terrible. Just terrible.
Getting Ready
I went out and dropped some coin last night. This is the first time I have ever been in the category of "thousands of rounds of ammunition" in my house and I like it.
A significant portion of what I will be bringing tomorrow:
Note that the number of cartridges there would be higher, but Kel-Tek is very proud of their spare magazines (nobody else seems to make them) and I needed a fresh bottle of Hoppes #9.
Now we just need to whomp up some food for the pot-luck meal and then it's just a few hours and a wake-up.
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In related news, the price of 7.62x39mm ammunition has gone down a buck-and-a-half since the height of the panic (read: just after inauguration day). Good.
A significant portion of what I will be bringing tomorrow:
Note that the number of cartridges there would be higher, but Kel-Tek is very proud of their spare magazines (nobody else seems to make them) and I needed a fresh bottle of Hoppes #9.
Now we just need to whomp up some food for the pot-luck meal and then it's just a few hours and a wake-up.
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In related news, the price of 7.62x39mm ammunition has gone down a buck-and-a-half since the height of the panic (read: just after inauguration day). Good.
Madness @ Work!
One of the men here is taking a college mathematics course. He put one of his homework problems on a whiteboard to show the crazy equations they are doing in his class.
LB went in and put the numbers below on the board. WM went in there and tried to solve it.
R2D2
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C3P0
LB went in and put the numbers below on the board. WM went in there and tried to solve it.
R2D2
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C3P0
Georgia is RACIST and HATES Poor People!
. . . or so you might think if you listened to the critics of the measure, instead of sound logic and reason.
The street signs and emergency warning boards in Georgia are in
a) English
b) 14 languages, including English (like the current drivers test in Georgia)
So why, then, is is somehow a violation of 'civil rights' when Georgia's Elected Heroes are working on a plan that will require that people take the written driving exam in English, without the aid of a translator?
a) it's not
b) it isn't
Go read the stub article, and then add your ballot to the 93% of voters on the WSB opinion poll that agree with the Legislators in Georgia.
The street signs and emergency warning boards in Georgia are in
a) English
b) 14 languages, including English (like the current drivers test in Georgia)
So why, then, is is somehow a violation of 'civil rights' when Georgia's Elected Heroes are working on a plan that will require that people take the written driving exam in English, without the aid of a translator?
a) it's not
b) it isn't
Go read the stub article, and then add your ballot to the 93% of voters on the WSB opinion poll that agree with the Legislators in Georgia.
Thursday, April 2, 2009
I Felt Like The Witch In Hansel & Gretel For a Moment
My whole house is a buffet. For child #3, that is.
When we put him down from his high chair, he fights with the dogs to get the food that fell off his shirt.
If there is food (crackers, typically) on the coffee table, he is usually to be seen grazing on it.
Tonight, my Darling Wife and I were sitting around the living room and he toddled over by the coffee table, picked up something off the floor, and ate it.
I said to her, the whole house is a buffet for him. She thought I was kidding.
#3 wandered off for a minute. When he came back, he had an apple and was taking 4-teeth sized bites out of it. I reiterated my comment about the whole house being his buffet and my Darling Wife burst into laughter.
If you don't have children, you are missing out on the Good Stuff.
When we put him down from his high chair, he fights with the dogs to get the food that fell off his shirt.
If there is food (crackers, typically) on the coffee table, he is usually to be seen grazing on it.
Tonight, my Darling Wife and I were sitting around the living room and he toddled over by the coffee table, picked up something off the floor, and ate it.
I said to her, the whole house is a buffet for him. She thought I was kidding.
#3 wandered off for a minute. When he came back, he had an apple and was taking 4-teeth sized bites out of it. I reiterated my comment about the whole house being his buffet and my Darling Wife burst into laughter.
If you don't have children, you are missing out on the Good Stuff.
Enforcing the Law: "It's Grossly Unfair"
In Houston, they are failing to comply with the usual catch-and-release program for illegal aliens.
This of course is racist and terribly unfair. The quote in the article says "grossly unfair."
You know what's grossly unfair? I have to pay thousands of dollars every year out of my own pocket to pay for the medical care of people I never met, who are in my country illegally. They don't have health insurance, so they just go to the Emergency Department. I pay for them to get routine medical care instead of buying new shoes for my children. That's grossly unfair.
Get off mylawn country, ya punks illegals!
This of course is racist and terribly unfair. The quote in the article says "grossly unfair."
You know what's grossly unfair? I have to pay thousands of dollars every year out of my own pocket to pay for the medical care of people I never met, who are in my country illegally. They don't have health insurance, so they just go to the Emergency Department. I pay for them to get routine medical care instead of buying new shoes for my children. That's grossly unfair.
Get off my
Why Am I Paying For This?
We just dropped somewhere around $1200 for the materials to homeschool our children next year (again).
Every month as part of a mortgage note, we pay a little piece of several thousand dollars in taxes to the local school district.
The local school district does not educate our children. Or any of the children warehoused there but that's another story.
Why, then, do we not get the money that we pay to educate our children, back from the State? School vouchers, anyone?
Oh, that's right. The teacher's union lobby. You stay bold, Texas legislature. For those who don't know, we have a communist "rob from the rich to pay the poor" method of funding school districts here in Texas. Every year, the politicians raise a fuss about it and every year the teachers union lobby somehow manages to convince enough of our Elected Heroes not to vote against the destruction of the union's power base.
Every month as part of a mortgage note, we pay a little piece of several thousand dollars in taxes to the local school district.
The local school district does not educate our children. Or any of the children warehoused there but that's another story.
Why, then, do we not get the money that we pay to educate our children, back from the State? School vouchers, anyone?
Oh, that's right. The teacher's union lobby. You stay bold, Texas legislature. For those who don't know, we have a communist "rob from the rich to pay the poor" method of funding school districts here in Texas. Every year, the politicians raise a fuss about it and every year the teachers union lobby somehow manages to convince enough of our Elected Heroes not to vote against the destruction of the union's power base.
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Herding Cats / Dropping Like Flies
As the date for Schutzenfest 2009 draws near, participants are falling out. This one doesn't know if he'll be in town (US Army pilot). This one his wife is having a surgery on Friday. This one has to be at a family function in another city.
Oh well. At least I got one of them to lend me a weapon for training the neophytes on the platform. I just hope nobody bought ammo for a gun that isn't going to be there now!
Oh well. At least I got one of them to lend me a weapon for training the neophytes on the platform. I just hope nobody bought ammo for a gun that isn't going to be there now!
Obama: Gave the Queen an iPod. You Stay Classy.
Seriously? SERIOUSLY? We pay an official state visit to the Queen of England, a serious person who stayed with her subjects in Londres during the blitz, and as our official state gift, we give her an iPod?
Wow. See how technologically hip our President is? Sure, it's tough to pick a gift for someone who's been the sovereign of our greatest ally for longer than you have been alive. . .
. . . but she already has an iPod.
Wow. See how technologically hip our President is? Sure, it's tough to pick a gift for someone who's been the sovereign of our greatest ally for longer than you have been alive. . .
. . . but she already has an iPod.
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