Winter

Last week we got lots of snow - looks to me like about fourteen inches. I love snow in the winter. Joseph Andrew Stack piloted his plane into an IRS building and died, seems he was just that frustrated with his tax situation. He said that communism is from each according to ability and to each according to need. He contrasted capitalism saying that capitalism is from each according to gullibility and to each according to greed. I thought that clever.

August 17, Happy Birthday, Charlie

Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday Dear Charlie, happy birthday to you. And many, many more!!!
I will try to make a birthday cake.
We are going to be packing and moving. Looks like Roger will help us.
We will be moving the first week in September.

Dr. Jay's birthday, August 12

Happy Birthday, dear Jay, happy birthday to you. And many, many more.
It looks like Charlie will retire soon. They want him to work overtime 10 hour days and often Saturdays on top of that, It seems just too much. So we are thinking of going back to Morehead City and packing up and selling our beach house in Newport and buying a house in beautiful Arkansas.

Visit Us Before We Move; Southwest Airlines"

When will we leave Fort Campbell, Kentucky? Charlie is on a travelling team modifying six aircraft here. The team has to do it correctly or people will die, so time is not a consideration. His assignment here will last as long as it takes for the team to do the job the best possible safest way. The current estimate is that the team will be finished sometime between October, 2009 and December, 2009. Then the team moves on to modify another group of aircraft in Pennslyvania.
Last night we saw an unusual and good movie from Netflix, "A Man Called Horse". It is timeless and may be just as relevant one hundred years from now as when it was made.
Anyone who wants to visit us, we have a sofa-bed in our small living room. The nearest commercial passenger airport is Nashville Metropolitan Airport (IATA code is BNA) at 1 Terminal Drive, Nashville, TN 37214, phones are (615) 275-0147, -1675, and it is 73.91 miles southeast.
For an airline, I would choose SWA - Southwest - www.southwest.com and click on "Travel Tools" which gives a calendar displaying fares on each day, and one can choose the lowest fares which are called "wanna get away". Today I see some one-way $99 fares starting August 19, 2009.
One could use the Jarmon or Clarksville Airport Shuttle for ground transportation to Hopkinsville. See www.flynashville.com/Ground_trans/bus.aspx for phone numbers of about eight shuttle companies to make appointments and get estimates.
Our apartment is in a cove a few feet off the main drag which is about 2500 block of Fort Campbell Boulevard. See you soon ?

Flu and Star Anise; Tamiflu; Spices

Monday morning, July 27, I got hit with flu symptoms, all of them. Tuesday I felt 50% better and today I feel about 80% back to normal.
There is a lot of talk about vaccinations and flu vaccinations. I won't get a flu shot because the flu virion is constantly mutating and the vaccine is merely a guess as to which of the thousands of virions to protect against.
I am concerned with child vaccinations which are now being given to young infants, way too young in my opinion. Why don't they wait until the child is at least 8 or 10 years old ? 50 years ago, smallpox was the only vaccine given. (Later it was found that it also provided immunity against some of the Herpes.) When a kid got chicken pox or measles or mumps, he stayed home and stayed in bed a week or two and his mother babied him and nursed him while his brothers and sisters tiptoed around. He was a star ! Autism was unknown.
Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is made from star anise mixed with talc (lung, skin and ovarian cancer), saccharin (cancers), propylene glycol (anti-freeze), iron oxide (aging), blue, red, and yellow dyes (carcinogens), titanium dioxide, maltodextrins (GMO corn), sorbitol, and on and on.
Tamiflu (oseltamivir) fights the flu because its active principle, shikimic acid inhibits the release of flu virions from the host cell. So far, scientists are actively fermenting GMO's (E. coli) and are making synthetic shikimic acid, but the yield is still too low, so the star anise, a seed from a bush grown in China, is also used.
Shikimic acid is also found in chinchona (quinine) tree bark, all of the sweetgum tree, the gingko biloba tree and from Christmas tree needles by a company called Biolyse Pharma in St. Catharine, Ontario, Canada.
And remember, the bioflavenoid, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory pain-reliever pycnogenol comes from the bark of the French maritime pine tree.
Sunshine prevents flu. So does frequent hand-washing. So maybe I will go outside nude and lie in the full sun for 20 minutes or so right at noon so I can get some of the important vitamin D3 that cannot be put into a pill, it can only be made in the skin when real sunshine hits it.
Why not make your own star anise tea? Knowledge that all the spices are microbicides has been passed down for over 10,000 years by our ancestors. After all, that is why Columbus discovered America in 1492 - looking for spices to preserve food.
I think I will make a tea by steeping star anise seeds and sweetgum tree seeds and some pine needles in freshly boiled water for 15 minutes. Maybe I will add cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg and just drink it all day.
The adult dose of Tamiflu is 75 mg. twice a day for 5 days.

Pennyroyal; Library of Forbidden Knowledge; Sister Zeus

July 22, 1998 - Gabi's birthday!!! Happy Birthday to Gabi.

Great weather here, they say it's cooler than usual. We seem to get refreshing rains quite often. Poor Janice is sweltering back in L. A.
We have lots of trees and plants and wildlife, and Fort Campbell has a huge wilderness area. Yesterday Charlie passed three Amish buggies on his way home from work, he takes the back roads leaving the fort.
A museum here is named "The Pennyroyal Museum" after the pennyroyal that flourishes here. Pennyroyal is in the mint family, similar to spearmint, and is used as a cooking herb, as a flea and insect repellant (the concentrated oil) and the tea is used to cause abortion, stimulate labor or menstrual flow. The American Pennyroyal is called Hedeoma pulegoides and the European Pennyroyal is called Mentha pulegium.
The name "pulegium" is from Latin for "flea". Pennyroyal is called "fleabane", "mosquito plant" and "tickweed" because it is an insect repellent. It is also called "Pudding Plant" because it is used in cooking puddings and stuffings. Medieval herbalists called pennyroyal names such as Pulioll-royall, piliole-rial and Pulegium Regium. It is also called "squawmint" because it stimulates the uterus to contract to cause menstruation, abortion and labor contractions. Long ago, Aristophanes, in 421 BCE, identified pennyroyal as an abortifacient.
Recipe: For abortion: Make an infusion by steeping a full ounce of leaves and flowers for 15 minutes in a pint of freshly boiled water and drink a cup of tea up to four times a day for a maximum of five days. Do not eat grapefruit which depletes the liver enzymes.
Option: Add the oil infusion below. Another option: Add a plaster to the abdomen. Make a plaster by soaking wool flannel or cotton cheesecloth in a strong tea or oil infusion (but never essential oil) of pennyroyal. Know that you are inactivating your liver enzymes at the same time you are stimulating your uterus and know that you will be in an unpredictable and dangerous zone. I would take R-alpha lipoic acid (in divided doses, up to 800 mg. per day) to help my liver.
The dose to cause abortion is getting close to the lethal dose. So if doing the tea, the oil rub and the plaster together, only do it a day or two and listen to your body and stop at the first sign of any abnormality. (It seems to me that it would be better to pay a medical doctor for an induced abortion since abortions are currently legal.)
I want to say that no woman would ever want an abortion if the loving and caring father was there to help her to have food and shelter and to take care of her during and after her pregnancy.
Note that the pennyroyal tea is more effective for abortion when combined half and half with blue cohosh root (Caulophyllum thalictroides) in a tea.

Why it can kill you: Stop the use of pennyroyal at the first sign of nausea. Pennyroyal might make you sick or kill you if you consume too much or for too long . Sick people should not use it. Its activity is from its volatile oil, pulegone which is converted to menthofuran by the body which inactivates liver cytochrome - CYP450 A26). People have died taking prescription drugs and eating grapefruit because grapefruit uses up a lot of liver enzymes and combined with medications, the liver runs out of enzymes and is unable to function and the person dies. Pulegone affects the uterus and the liver and the nerves and the kidneys. So one could die from an inactivated liver from too much pulegone.

(Rest in peace, Kris Humphreys, died August 14, 1994 - She used Susan Weed's book "Wise Woman Herbals for the Child-Bearing Years". But her pregnancy was ectopic, tubal, outside the uterus so pennyroyal could not abort her. She kept using too much pennyroyal too long. Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: "Pennyroyal Tea".)
Never use the essential oil for abortion. Drinking even a few drops of the essential oil is lethal. One should never use the concentrated essential oil on the skin, because it will be absorbed into the blood stream. The essential oil should only be used as an insect or flea repellant.

See http://www.sisterzeus.com/
for Sister Zeus's "Library of Forbidden Knowledge" for information on fertility, herbal contraception, abortion and the like.

Recipe: Make an oil infusion by soaking the macerated plant in a good oil, like olive, walnut, jojobe, grapeseed for a week. For up to five days, rub this oil on the abdomen, on the Achilles tendon and on the heels (acupuncture points) to stimulate the uterus to contract.
Pennyroyal (pudding plant) was used to flavor meat puddings and stuffings in medieval cooking.
Recipe: To make a stuffing or a meat dressing, mix 2 cups of bread crumbs with an ounce of chopped pennyroyal, 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper and 1/3 cup of honey. Moisten with water or any soup or stock, and stuff a chicken or roll up in sliced meats.
Pennyroyal in small amounts has been used successfully for centuries for medicinal uses: a garland worn around the head to ease giddiness, weak feelings, to ease headache; tea for whooping cough or any cough; tea for sudden chill or cold; tea for indigestion; tea for anxiety; tea for gout; plasters applied to bruises, burns, boils, tumors and insect bites.

The tea is often sweetened with honey.

Nomad living

It's nice to live as a wanderer. I have found that I use things daily that I did not pack and that I packed things that I thought that I needed, but I do not. I am remembering that there is a difference between "need" and "want". I appreciate items which are light-weight and small.
Living "light" and lean feels good.
KY is scenic, clean and serene. The air and water are clean. Traffic is light. I like the wildlife. The people in Abilene ( they call themselves "The Big Friendly" ) were quite open and about the nicest anywhere, the people here are much shyer. And there is a big difference in culture. The performing arts here are rare, and in Abilene they were richer and superior in every way, even superior to Los Angeles and Hollywood. Abilene was a wonderfully sophisticated city with less accompanying wickedness.
One amazing thing: this town has a population of 32,000 and the corporate chain stores are here in full force. Almost all of the shops here are nation-wide chain stores. I have only found one local restaurant, "Dots", named after its fried grated potato balls. Their food was excellent and at least some was made in their kitchen, and was not just heated processed commercial food.
Except for "Dots" and "Peebles" (a department store) I have not so far seen even one local shop. There is a Rite-Aid, a Walgreens, the usual car parts chains, the usual fast-food chains, grocery chains, and of course, a WalMart Super Center open 24 hours. We have a Salvation Army and a Goodwill and many, many Christian churches, but none of any other faith. The name of the county is Christian County.
This town is also called "Hop Town" because people used to hop off here to buy liquor because it was legal here but not in surrounding counties.