Let’s talk about corn

Another eye opener about what you should not be eating.

What happens when corn plays a dominant role in diet, as it does in parts of South America and formerly did in the southern U.S. and Europe? People develop the “4 D’s”: diarrhea, dermatitis, dementia, and death, otherwise known as pellagra. Because corn products lack niacin and the amino acid tryptophan, over-reliance on corn as a calorie source makes people very ill.

http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/2014/03/grain-bashing-its-easy/

Weaponizing The Trivium: The Greatest Fallacy

Interesting article on the trivium. If I only spent as much time understanding the trivium as I did fakeology…

When I was first introduced to the concept of the liberal arts and its revival called the Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), I thought to myself – at last, the keys to understanding the spelling and illicit word magic that so continuously are used against us. I […]

http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/weaponizing-the-trivium-the-greatest-fallacy/

Aramco Compound, Saudi Arabia

Kurdistan is most likely being modeled after American success in Saudi Arabia building cities.

http://energyriskafrica.blogspot.ca/2011/03/photos-giant-saudi-oil-compound-thats.html

 

Saudi Arabia: The Western Compound

Posted on March 7, 2011 by American Bedu

 

Life on a western compound in Saudi Arabia reminds me in many ways of life on a large embassy compound when posted outside of ones home (western) country.  There is housing.  There is security.  There are amenities.  There are rules and restrictions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Aramco

Distraction master

“Let me say this” — you’re watching the master of performatives – Jesuit trained, trivium trained master of deception. No wonder the average dumbed down citizen swoons when he talks.

Bill Clinton talks about Rob Ford for a bit. One former President of Distractions talking about our own local distraction politician.

President Bill Clinton on Jimmy Kimmel Live PART 6 – YouTube.

Let them play

There really are no new ideas. Views swing back and forth, like a pendulum. We’ve bread a whole new generation of children who won’t take risks. Essentially, we have a whole wave of the population that could be government workers. There will be no inventors, or people willing to take risks. Society will stagnate. Perhaps that’s what’s happening now in the West.

Until we let our children fall out of a tree, they will never learn their limits. That’s sad.

It had been mere months since the gregarious principal threw out the rulebook on the playground of concrete and mud, dotted with tall trees and hidden corners; just weeks since he had stopped reprimanding students who whipped around on their scooters or wielded sticks in play sword fights.

via When one New Zealand school tossed its playground rules and let students risk injury, the results were surprising | National Post.