Details and more details on this #2 Universal Day: We're talkin' pushy Sarah Palin, The Octuplets Questionable Mystery and putrid peanuts.Palin Poop hits below the fold with Sarah nudging Obama - NOW? When the stimulus package is keeping him up nights! - she's stalking him to push the Alaskan natural gas pipeline on his current visit to Canada, first-husband, Todd's in contempt of court with possible jail time and, the details of how first-daughter-unmarried Mom, "Bristol" got to be called "Bristol...Sarah worked at The Bristol Inn, Todd lived in Bristol Bay and Bristol, Connecticut...the home of ESPN where Sarah expected to become a sports newscaster, inspired the ever-lusting-after-publicity-Sarah to name her baby girl after them. Then there's details of the Octuplets conception...
...the same clinic, doctor and sperm donor that gave Nadya Suleman in vitro fertility for her first six babies, implanted her with eight embryos that produced six boys and two girls - that included two sets of twins...double duh! And, those scary details bring me to more not-too-nice details about peanut butter...
...to buy it or not to buy it? That's the question on mother's minds and food manufacturers financial spread sheets. Details reveal; that Peanut Corporation of America's. CEO, Stewart Parnell, knew that the peanuts carried salmonella and there is mold growing on ceilings and walls of the factory. He shipped to processors that shipped to manufacturers who then shipped to retail stores, school lunch programs and throughout the world to emerging countries lacking nutritional food.
How could this happen? Same old story...the overseers, The Department of Agriculture and The Food and Drug Administration are not coordinated and they are not modernized. I hear those details a lot. Now Obama-rama brings us "Yes WE Can", CHANGE and although...
...peanut butter began hundreds of years ago with the Aztecs, was patented in the 1800's in Montreal, Canada and then patented in the USA by Kellogg's and, it seems like it's been a food staple forever; it's definitely time for change. However, changes come too late for hundreds that became ill and a few that died from salmonella in peanuts. It doesn't have to be peanut butter that does you in, it can be those tiny, crumbled nuts atop a cookie or in a candy bar.
Unlike the Securities Exchange Commission that hasn't punished selfish Wall Street CEOs for making the public sick in the pocketbook ,The Agriculture Department Peanut Standards Board kicked the unscrupulous Peanut Corporation of America's CEO off the board. With the recession tightening food budgets, losing nutrition-filled peanut butter from the kitchen cupboard is a disaster.
With it's reasonable price for all the good stuff that we get from peanuts and as peanut butter, it's two year, unrefrigerated shelf value, in mind; should we risk eating peanut products now? "Is it worth wondering if my family will suffer more from eating jelly alone or will they suffer a salmonella illness if by chance they eat tainted peanuts?"
The decision is on how you calculate risk when you know the details. For me...just as an eight embryo, in vitro implant in a thirtyish young woman is a bad judgment call and Sarah Palin's insistence on attention from President Obama in time of worldwide crisis is foolish and naive, until I hear from agencies I can trust - that every tainted, tiny peanut crumb is identified and there is no longer a "peanut problem", I'll eat my crackers with jam.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
A Numerologist's Analysis of a Good Cry
Looking at the world through rose colored glasses is the only way to go...for me. It's a mind-set that I know will keep me crying-for-joy-healthier and stop a flow of depressing tears throughout the incoming four years of recovery.
On this #1 "start something new" Universal Day, I'm gonna' begin a get happ-ier diet. When I think of heroes...scores of young people serving in Iraq and their families and Sully, the pilot who brought his plane down safely. When I feel the joy of the parenting craze begun by the Obama family. Job losses and shrinking retirement funds are causing generations of families to live together. And, with all the negatives of "two women in the kitchen" there are the pleasures of grandchildren and grandparents sharing life experiences. There are happenings brought about by the failing economy that create or bring back better images. And, even good thoughts can make me cry...
...tears of sadness and the eyes oceans of joy are "emotional perspiration" according to Benedict Carey in the NY Times. Sweating out misery or joy...that makes me smile.
Crying reminds us of infancy when a cry brought comforting. Crying blocks thought. Crying may balance thought. Crying may not be the end all to soothing emotional pain, however, it is always a catharsis of sorts. Sometimes a good cry gets it all out and energy returns. Sometimes a good cry brings exhaustion and depression that drains ability to solve problems. So, I'm gonna' do selective crying on my "happ-ier diet."
I'll tear-up when they play the Star Spangled Banner and drip delicately at a wedding. I did well-up at pictures of Obama looking proud as he tried on his new Air Force One jacket...he evokes my maternal reactions. And, I will create an ocean of joyful tears when the stock market goes up, my house appraisal gets realistic and helpful investment interest rates return. I'm gonna' wear my rose colored glasses to remind me to stay on my happ-ier diet - to keep me truckin' and above ground long enough to cry when my peace-of- mind returns.
On this #1 "start something new" Universal Day, I'm gonna' begin a get happ-ier diet. When I think of heroes...scores of young people serving in Iraq and their families and Sully, the pilot who brought his plane down safely. When I feel the joy of the parenting craze begun by the Obama family. Job losses and shrinking retirement funds are causing generations of families to live together. And, with all the negatives of "two women in the kitchen" there are the pleasures of grandchildren and grandparents sharing life experiences. There are happenings brought about by the failing economy that create or bring back better images. And, even good thoughts can make me cry...
...tears of sadness and the eyes oceans of joy are "emotional perspiration" according to Benedict Carey in the NY Times. Sweating out misery or joy...that makes me smile.
Crying reminds us of infancy when a cry brought comforting. Crying blocks thought. Crying may balance thought. Crying may not be the end all to soothing emotional pain, however, it is always a catharsis of sorts. Sometimes a good cry gets it all out and energy returns. Sometimes a good cry brings exhaustion and depression that drains ability to solve problems. So, I'm gonna' do selective crying on my "happ-ier diet."
I'll tear-up when they play the Star Spangled Banner and drip delicately at a wedding. I did well-up at pictures of Obama looking proud as he tried on his new Air Force One jacket...he evokes my maternal reactions. And, I will create an ocean of joyful tears when the stock market goes up, my house appraisal gets realistic and helpful investment interest rates return. I'm gonna' wear my rose colored glasses to remind me to stay on my happ-ier diet - to keep me truckin' and above ground long enough to cry when my peace-of- mind returns.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
A Numerologist's Analysis of Strange News
A #9 Universal Day brings in expansive news that makes one draw conclusions - and, in these unusual times the additions are really strange...
...here's a case where the wife unwittingly got the best in a divorce settlement a few years ago. A man had to pay his wife half of their 5.4 million in holdings and their holdings were with Madoff. So, he's suing her for a return of the funds blaming Madoff's false securities statements given to the judge as the cause of him being left with nothing but paper - she has the only cash: He's frantic. She cannot be reached for comment. And...
...this economy is making some people spacey. A Man robbed a Colorado store with a Star Trek Sword - Madoff is being defended by an attorney that lost money with him - Barney Frank actually thinks eight CEO's are going to accept his invitation to a hearing to testify to their accountability for 115 billion in bailout funds...
...and angry, mean and needing a padded room...one of the most detested public figures in history, Dick Cheney is writing his memoirs. Will you buy this book? Cheney says that he will prove he's right when he reveals, up to now, secret information. He's been so truthful these past eight years...duh.
In the world according to Cheney - nuclear, biological, catastrophic attacks were stopped by his water boarding torture techniques, the intrusive Patriot Act and the focus by the Bush administration on terrorist waiting to pounce. They had no time to waste on the national economy - which according to Cheney is a global problem. Tis said he seems "unhinged." I conclude that "the crazies" are not his entire problem.
Now that he's not in a position to give war zone contracts to companies in which he has a vested interest, he's gonna' take the Octuplet's mother/Sarah Palin route to make money from a book deal. That's not crazy - it's greed...
...however, greed is not for everyone. An Ohio teacher who earned 40 K a year gifted her alma mater with 2 million. I'd rather she wrote a book on how she saved the cash. In these unusually strange times, I'd buy that book.
...here's a case where the wife unwittingly got the best in a divorce settlement a few years ago. A man had to pay his wife half of their 5.4 million in holdings and their holdings were with Madoff. So, he's suing her for a return of the funds blaming Madoff's false securities statements given to the judge as the cause of him being left with nothing but paper - she has the only cash: He's frantic. She cannot be reached for comment. And...
...this economy is making some people spacey. A Man robbed a Colorado store with a Star Trek Sword - Madoff is being defended by an attorney that lost money with him - Barney Frank actually thinks eight CEO's are going to accept his invitation to a hearing to testify to their accountability for 115 billion in bailout funds...
...and angry, mean and needing a padded room...one of the most detested public figures in history, Dick Cheney is writing his memoirs. Will you buy this book? Cheney says that he will prove he's right when he reveals, up to now, secret information. He's been so truthful these past eight years...duh.
In the world according to Cheney - nuclear, biological, catastrophic attacks were stopped by his water boarding torture techniques, the intrusive Patriot Act and the focus by the Bush administration on terrorist waiting to pounce. They had no time to waste on the national economy - which according to Cheney is a global problem. Tis said he seems "unhinged." I conclude that "the crazies" are not his entire problem.
Now that he's not in a position to give war zone contracts to companies in which he has a vested interest, he's gonna' take the Octuplet's mother/Sarah Palin route to make money from a book deal. That's not crazy - it's greed...
...however, greed is not for everyone. An Ohio teacher who earned 40 K a year gifted her alma mater with 2 million. I'd rather she wrote a book on how she saved the cash. In these unusually strange times, I'd buy that book.
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
A Numerologist's Analysis of Strange Bedfellows, Suleman and Daschle
Strange bedfellows, octuplet's mother, Nadya Suleman and US Senator Tom Daschle have similar ethics and relationships problems: Out of balance - Numerology Challenged - morals, ethics, standards, an over-stimulated need to protect and nurture and a parental nature that feeds on emotional contact - and, creates situations that elicit dramatic responses. This numerologist sees what they don't see.
Tom Daschle has a double #6 Challenge and his Destiny is a #6. So, he is obsessive and compulsive in his relationships and meets the people and experiences in his Destiny that cause him to over-react. I doubt that he has room in his mind to put the proper importance a non-emotional, seemingly mundane - need to pay taxes.
The #6 Challenge is motivated by the desire to be the center of an adoring family. To Daschle, his working family and his personal family deserve and receive the same obsessive responsibility in relationships and overly stimulated emotional responses to their problems. Daschle is beloved by colleagues for his genuine emotional responsiveness and unselfish acts and he is respected for his ethics and moral fiber. With his mind and emotions overflowing with other people's problems that he feels compelled to solve - and, having the talent to see the needs that he feels responsible to fill, he's a good caregiver to everyone and a bad parent to himself.
Daschle believes that his morals, standards and ethics are pure and he wants everyone to live up to his perceptions of right and wrong. He believes that he knows what's good for everyone. He just doesn't understand that "live and let live" allows people to maintain self respect. He can be a smothering do-gooder who doesn't "get it" and goes to extremes in his "what's right from wrong" judgments.
In this a strange comparison of a young woman eager to breast feed and mother fourteen children, Nadya Suleman and Tom Daschle, a public servant eager to nurture and sacrifice for a nation, I see the neurotic, "I have a lot of love to give", common denominators.
Public opinion sees Suleman's hiring a press agent-manager, expecting to be a baby expert talk show host and negotiating book and TV deals, as greed. Public opinion sees Daschle's ignoring to mention his tax problems when approached by the president to accept the responsibility of overseeing education, a high powered office that nurtures children, as greed. This numerologist thinks they see themselves as doing good for others and I do not think they have any perception of their out-of-balance understanding of right and wrong. They are "Strange Bedfellows."
Tom Daschle has a double #6 Challenge and his Destiny is a #6. So, he is obsessive and compulsive in his relationships and meets the people and experiences in his Destiny that cause him to over-react. I doubt that he has room in his mind to put the proper importance a non-emotional, seemingly mundane - need to pay taxes.
The #6 Challenge is motivated by the desire to be the center of an adoring family. To Daschle, his working family and his personal family deserve and receive the same obsessive responsibility in relationships and overly stimulated emotional responses to their problems. Daschle is beloved by colleagues for his genuine emotional responsiveness and unselfish acts and he is respected for his ethics and moral fiber. With his mind and emotions overflowing with other people's problems that he feels compelled to solve - and, having the talent to see the needs that he feels responsible to fill, he's a good caregiver to everyone and a bad parent to himself.
Daschle believes that his morals, standards and ethics are pure and he wants everyone to live up to his perceptions of right and wrong. He believes that he knows what's good for everyone. He just doesn't understand that "live and let live" allows people to maintain self respect. He can be a smothering do-gooder who doesn't "get it" and goes to extremes in his "what's right from wrong" judgments.
In this a strange comparison of a young woman eager to breast feed and mother fourteen children, Nadya Suleman and Tom Daschle, a public servant eager to nurture and sacrifice for a nation, I see the neurotic, "I have a lot of love to give", common denominators.
Public opinion sees Suleman's hiring a press agent-manager, expecting to be a baby expert talk show host and negotiating book and TV deals, as greed. Public opinion sees Daschle's ignoring to mention his tax problems when approached by the president to accept the responsibility of overseeing education, a high powered office that nurtures children, as greed. This numerologist thinks they see themselves as doing good for others and I do not think they have any perception of their out-of-balance understanding of right and wrong. They are "Strange Bedfellows."
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
A Numeologist's Analysis of Personal Chaos
There's #7 Universal Day news to ponder...On the back to simplicity topic...the rage in Italy is miniature cupcakes...libraries, meatloaf and spaghetti-and-meat-balls make a comeback. The weather? 'Cause Phil, the Groundhog, predicted it - and he's a tried and true "predictor"...it's gonna' be another six weeks of cold weather and probably a colder stock market. However, The National Academy of Sciences is investigating Alzheimer's as brain type diabetes - hormone insulin could protect against damage to brain cells - the key to memory - and offer Alzheimer's patients disease-modifying treatments. That's the good news.
Once again, I am reminded that my #6 Personal Day stresses emotions if I don't focus on home. I awoke at 5 AM...It's 6:27 AM and the dog has thrown up in the office, on her four inch think...very furry...real lamb skin bed - my coffee spilled all over an upholstered chair, the carpet and me...when I tripped on the bouncing, vibrating dog hovering around my feet. The dog is haywire 'cause I am not keeping our morning routine, The computer is meandering as I try to work fast. Plans to leave the office at 9 AM to cover a political rally and my quick-stepping made the dog nervous and we all know, "haste makes waste" --- I will never get to cover my story as a timely or calm reporter...
....'gotta shower, dress-nice, remember the camera and stay calm so my drama-queen-dog doesn't get mad at me...and, when I'm gone leave a "disapproving-dump" where I can easily step in it when I get back...It's my #6 "family responsibilities and a stay-at-home focus" Personal Day......I said yesterday, in my #5 Challenged Personal Day, "I never learn." The lesson: Ya' gotta' follow the numbers or chaos reins!
Once again, I am reminded that my #6 Personal Day stresses emotions if I don't focus on home. I awoke at 5 AM...It's 6:27 AM and the dog has thrown up in the office, on her four inch think...very furry...real lamb skin bed - my coffee spilled all over an upholstered chair, the carpet and me...when I tripped on the bouncing, vibrating dog hovering around my feet. The dog is haywire 'cause I am not keeping our morning routine, The computer is meandering as I try to work fast. Plans to leave the office at 9 AM to cover a political rally and my quick-stepping made the dog nervous and we all know, "haste makes waste" --- I will never get to cover my story as a timely or calm reporter...
....'gotta shower, dress-nice, remember the camera and stay calm so my drama-queen-dog doesn't get mad at me...and, when I'm gone leave a "disapproving-dump" where I can easily step in it when I get back...It's my #6 "family responsibilities and a stay-at-home focus" Personal Day......I said yesterday, in my #5 Challenged Personal Day, "I never learn." The lesson: Ya' gotta' follow the numbers or chaos reins!
Monday, February 2, 2009
A Numerologist's Self-Analysis of "Oops"
Oops...close but no cigar! The Arizona Cardinals had me gleefully, dropping my martini glass for refills, screaming, "yes, yes, yes" until instantly, some "he who shall remain nameless to me" Pittsburgh Steeler, caught the ball: A Cards win "went south." In mini-seconds, due to a miracle catch, after I accurately predicted a surprising, exciting game my prediction of an Arizona-Southwestern Cardinals "first"- a Super Bowl win - went northeast.
I saw the seconds ticking away with the Cards leading for an upset - and then - the amazing Steeler defense put my yesterday's prediction of a Cardinals win - to a partial success. Today, sober and back to reality I wonder "what ever made me blast predictions all over the Blogging networks? Aha...there's my usual excuse for indiscretions and mishaps, "The devil made me do it."
Same numbers are attracted to themselves! Yesterday's #5 "expect the unexpected" Universal Day strange things happened. Our swimming American hero, Phelps, admitted to "doing pot"...the Pope continued to defend his Bishops who deny the Holocaust , supposedly sane mothers are reported hosting chickenpox parties - children's play dates with a germ - and it was confirmed that doctors in a fertility clinic put eight eggs into a penniless, single mother of six and nursed her through to delivery of a litter of eight --- the unusual was news - so, my #5 Destiny should have attracted a Cardinals win...
...my psychic-whoopee sports prediction wasn't unique...experienced sports journalists, Gregg Doyel and Pete Prisco predicted the Cards were a "21st Century, flashy, fun" and gonna' win team. However, in the future, since sports predicting is not my bailiwick, I'm gonna' practice what I preach and stick to my area of expertise because, predictably human and only right, according to feedback, 98% in thirty-nine years...
...with my #5 Challenge to my #5 Destiny...the problem is...there are some things ya' never learn!So I'm gonna' chalk yesterday's "close but no cigar", partial "oops" up to, "The Devil made me do it" and continue to be guided by an empathetic angel suffering with a #5 Destiny - carrying a #5 Challenge, who when repeating mistakes, excuses herself with, "The Devil made me do it" - chastises herself with, "I never learn! - and feels compassion for me too.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
A Numerologist's Analysis of Super Bowl Surprises
...for this numerologist's early morning, it's a time for, late afternoon game, Super Bowl prediction. There's no getting away from #5 "expect the unexpected, surprises, upsets, plans change" Universal Day and on my, #4 "work , be practical and produce tangible results" Personal Day, it's Super Bowl Sunday and you may ask, who's gonna' win?The new millennium began in September 2008 and a universal Genesis began. Witness the election of the first African-American President of the USA who made visionary promises - did not run on past performances - as a platform for election. Venerable politicians with long-standing. outstanding carreers and public service records, promising more of the same could not sell hope for the future...and they lost. The past will not return to be relived or old structures followed. The solutions to new millennium problems will be "firsts" and so, in keeping with the "nothing old is new again" theory...the Super Bowl winner will be "a "first." On the premise that the winner does not have a Vince Lombardi Trophy to hang their helmets on; the winner should be the team that has never won an AFL or NFL World Championship or played on the Sunday that followed the championship game or won the football's showpiece, The Super Bowl. So, I have to forecast a win for the Arizona Cardinals.Philanthropic, born-again Christian, father of seven, Kurt Warner and "no one should mention his noisy, smelly nickname out of the locker room" Darnell Dockett - Go...Go...Go! With long-term congrats to the Pittsburgh Steelers winning past performances..."Big Ben" Roethlesberger and "Smiling" Hines Ward as standouts...you've been there-done that...this probably isn't your day.
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