General Discussion, Monday, June 27, 2016

Posted on June 27, 2016 by Stella

fireworksDetroitWindsorThe Detroit-Windsor International Freedom Festival celebrates Canada Day (July 1) and our Independence Day (July 4.) The two cities are bisected by the Detroit River and tonight the annual Ford Fireworks display (one of the nation’s largest, produced by Zambelli Fireworks) will begin at 9:48 pm, weather permitting, and last for about 25 minutes. This photo was taken in Windsor, looking directly at the GM Renaissance Center on the Detroit waterfront. The fireworks are launched from three barges in the Detroit River (visible in the photo). This marks the 58th consecutive fireworks show over the Detroit River.

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155 Responses to General Discussion, Monday, June 27, 2016

  1. ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
    June 27, 2016 at 12:25 am

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    • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
      June 27, 2016 at 12:26 am

      Something to watch
      while waiting for the
      usual suspects to arrive. 😉

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        June 27, 2016 at 12:41 am

        I was going to post a video, but I knew you would so I didn’t bother!

        P.S.: If you watch on television (also simulcast on AM radio) there is beautiful music that accompanies the fireworks. Actually, the guy who designs the shows said that the music comes first, then he listens with his eyes closed and designs for the music.

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      • Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
        June 27, 2016 at 5:33 am

        Great movie, never had seen the movie from start to finish, just bits and pieces.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      June 27, 2016 at 8:16 am

      How cool.

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    • The Tundra PA's avatar The Tundra PA says:
      June 27, 2016 at 12:47 pm

      We don’t have fireworks on the 4th of July in Alaska. It doesn’t get dark enough to have them. The sun doesn’t set until after midnight, and even at 2 am it isn’t really dark. We save it all for New Year’s Eve. I miss fireworks on the 4th.

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    • ZurichMike's avatar ZurichMike says:
      June 27, 2016 at 5:09 pm

      We watch fireworks from our roof terrace / balcony overlooking the lake. Three sets of fireworks from three different villages. It’s spectacular! This is done on August 1 (Swiss National Day)and New Year’s Eve.

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  2. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 27, 2016 at 1:16 am

    Volunteer firemen are out collecting for our 4th fireworks display – no telling how much longer they can continue to do it as the area’s economy drops. One of the last places where you can still sit Within 100 feet of where they are setting them off and have them go off right over you and the debris fall in your hair. Lotsa bubbas, no tort lawyers..

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      June 27, 2016 at 1:21 am

      We have an organization called the Parade Company, and their sole reason for being is to raise money and obtain sponsors for the Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the fireworks. Ford is now the big sponsor for fireworks. Before them it was Target, and prior to that it was J.L. Hudson (bought out by Macy’s).

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      June 27, 2016 at 1:24 am

      P.S.: Most of the photos and videos of the fireworks are taken on the Canada side of the river, but you are much closer to the fireworks on the Detroit side, at Hart Plaza and along the River Walk. There is also viewing on the roof deck of Cobo Hall and (if you can pay for it) in rooms in the Renaissance Center.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        June 27, 2016 at 7:33 pm

        Trivia: The reason why the barges are closer to the U.S. than Canada is that the shipping channel (where the freighters travel) is nearer the Canadian shore.

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    • michellc's avatar michellc says:
      June 27, 2016 at 9:57 am

      We have fireworks displays everywhere. I guess Okies like their fireworks. lol

      Most towns though have banned displays and personal use of fireworks within city limits.

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      • Stella's avatar stella says:
        June 27, 2016 at 10:12 am

        We have lots of town-sponsored fireworks around here. Funny enough, Michigan loosened the laws about purchase and personal use of fireworks a few years ago. My neighbors make the neighborhood hell on July 4 (and the days preceding and following), by setting off bottle rockets etc in the middle of our street. Of course, they land on our lawns, driveways, roofs, and our cars if we park them in the street (I don’t). And the dogs go crazy.

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        • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
          June 27, 2016 at 10:40 am

          We have ‘towns’, mostly populations less than 2000, so various organizations support the displays. To be truthful I don’t know if fireworks are illegal here. They are sold all over the county and we’re mostly rural so we pretty much do what we want to. We’ll be setting off our own fireworks along with our neighbors regardles.

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        • michellc's avatar michellc says:
          June 27, 2016 at 11:11 am

          For a red state we have a lot of bans. Fireworks stands can only be set up during certain days, I think it’s about 2 weeks before the 4th until the 5th. Bottle rockets are illegal to buy or sell here.
          My husband’s inner child still loves bottle rockets.

          I think there are still a few cities that allow some fireworks, a few who put on a display, a few that allows them on the 4th only, but many of them don’t allow them at all. There is one city nearby us that does still allow personal use in residential areas. I do believe though it’s the only city in our country that allows them.

          Our dogs hate fireworks, but they’ve been having to put up with them the past few days as we’ve hearing a lot of booms around us.

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          • Stella's avatar stella says:
            June 27, 2016 at 11:16 am

            I think the legislators here finally noticed that Michigan citizens who wanted fireworks simply drove to Ohio or Indiana and got them there.

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            • michellc's avatar michellc says:
              June 27, 2016 at 11:56 am

              I’ve known of many people over the years who have drove to Arkansas or Missouri and bought their bottle rockets as well.
              I would make a bet more were purchased after they became illegal than were purchased when they were legal.

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              • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                June 27, 2016 at 1:04 pm

                They’re illegal to set off just about everywhere in the NOLA area but one city still allows historical fireworks sales licence holders to sell them for the 4th and New Years. That’s us, illegal to use yet legal to buy – howya think that works out?

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                • Stella's avatar stella says:
                  June 27, 2016 at 1:06 pm

                  Reminds me of Canada during prohibition. Seagrams was legally producing whiskey, although it was illegal to sell and drink it in Canada. Instead, whiskey was bootlegged across the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair into Michigan.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    June 27, 2016 at 1:26 pm

                    Consumption was not illegal under the Volstead Act, doctors could still prescribe alchol as a therapeutic agent and folks could still make wine and cider at home for personal and religious use. I’d suggest that the biggest looser was the Federal government as they not only had to spend mobey enforcing the Act but lost tax revenue they made on the manufacture of alcohol.

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                  • Stella's avatar stella says:
                    June 27, 2016 at 7:05 pm

                    You couldn’t produce distilled liquor, or sell it. That’s where the money was made by people like Capone, or the Purple Gang in Detroit.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    June 27, 2016 at 9:13 pm

                    Rum clean out of reply space. Yep, the proof was in tne proof though distilled alcohol could be produced/imported for those prescription reasons mentioned – Volstead’s answer to oxycodon. Let’s not forgrt old Joe Kennedy’s piece in making money off of illegal booze. Volstead’s answer to Mena.

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                • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
                  June 27, 2016 at 1:18 pm

                  Don’t drink and drive;
                  however, NH Rest
                  Areas sell booze in
                  state liquor stores.

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                  • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
                    June 27, 2016 at 1:33 pm

                    NOLA still has drive-thru daiquiri stores where you can get them made with anything up to 181-proof booze. Years backnwhen I was doing a fill-in detail at one I watched drivers drive through and buy them in cups from 8-ounces to a gallon with ‘to go’ lids. Cashiers would hand them through the windowvto the driver and remind them not to put that straw thru the lid and drink that daiquiri while they’re dtiving. Uh huh.
                    Won’t even get into the gas stations where there are tubs of iced down beer right by the door and pint bottles of booze right by the cash register.

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                  • Menagerie's avatar Menagerie says:
                    June 27, 2016 at 6:14 pm

                    Ooh, I found a liquor warehouse in New Hampshire last fall. Lots of stuff was way cheaper up there than here at home. I bought some Christmas presents. Only a few for me, truly.

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                • michellc's avatar michellc says:
                  June 27, 2016 at 5:45 pm

                  It often makes you wonder how they come up with this stuff.

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  3. Col.(R) Ken's avatar Col.(R) Ken says:
    June 27, 2016 at 5:30 am

    Morning Stella, great picture of Detroit!!!

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  4. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 27, 2016 at 7:00 am

    Beautiful! Thanks Stella 🙂

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  5. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    June 27, 2016 at 7:16 am

    Mornin’ kids! What fun will this week bring???

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  6. WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
    June 27, 2016 at 7:55 am

    One more person will conveniently not be testifying against Hillary……..

    http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/22/us/united-nations-john-ashe-dies-while-awaiting-bribery-trial/index.html

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      June 27, 2016 at 8:26 am

      😯 😯 (not)

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    • lovely's avatar lovely says:
      June 27, 2016 at 8:56 am

      The Beasts campaign song.

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 27, 2016 at 10:56 am

      A barbell fell on his throat while he was lifting it…who plans their murders now, out of work Hollyork screenwriters?

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      • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
        June 27, 2016 at 1:25 pm

        Speaking of scriptwriters,
        Judge Napolitano: “Nobody
        died until 05:13 in the morning”

        Note: Statement around 1:50 plus

        http://www.trunews.com/judge-napolitano-not-one-person-died-before-513am/

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        • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
          June 27, 2016 at 1:30 pm

          I believe the FBI or the local police were saying this in their press conferences. It made no sense at the time. And, it was refuted when the reporters started talking to some of the victims. I think he would have gotten this figured out by now.

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          • ImpeachEmAll's avatar ImpeachEmAll says:
            June 27, 2016 at 2:18 pm

            From the link:

            On June 20th, speaking as a guest on Fox News’s talk show Outnumbered, Judge Napolitano says:

            “These are in two parts, theres an actual transcript, and then theres a summary of the rest. Here’s whats news in the summary, nobody died until 05:13 in the morning, when the SWAT team entered, prior to that no one had been killed. The 53 that were injured, and the 49 that were murdered all met their fates at the time of, and during, the police entry into the building.”
            This could be the smoking gun which unravels this entire mystery. Why has the FBI issued gag orders to local police, fire, and emergency medical personnel? Why has the 911 audio and emergency scanner archives between the hours of 12:00 AM and 0300 AM EST been erased or physically requisitioned by the FBI?

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      • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
        June 27, 2016 at 1:58 pm

        I figgered her highness’ hefty upholstered rear end was sittin’ upon said barbell…..

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  7. nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
    June 27, 2016 at 8:13 am

    Mornin’ stella! (Smiter of those that ought to be smote) 😎 🍸 (Long Island Iced Tea)
    Mornin’ WeeWeed! (Master Mixologist Extrodinare) 😎 🍸 (Old Fashioned)
    Mornin’ Menagerie! 😎 |_| |_| |_| |_| |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ Ad rem! (Queen Felis catus) 🐱 🍸 (Flaming Lamborghini)
    Mornin’ Sharon! 😎 🍸 (earthquake)
    Mornin’ ytz4mee! 😎 🍸 (cosmopolitan)
    Mornin’ partyzantski! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ texan59! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ZurichMike! 🙂 🍸 (fuzzy navel)
    Mornin’ Col.(R) Ken! (hand salute) 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ czarowniczy! 🙂 |_| ( and Czarina 🙂 🍸 )
    Mornin’ letjusticeprevail2014! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ ctdar! 🙂 🍸 (grasshopper)
    Mornin’ tessa50! 🙂 🍸 (flaming volcano)
    Mornin’ waltzingmtilda! 🙂 🍸 (sidecar)
    Mornin’ varsityward! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ MaryfromMarin! 😀 |_| (Mortlach)
    Mornin’ Wooly Phlox! (aka “taqiyyologist”) 🙂 |_| (Roy Rogers)
    Mornin’ Howie! 🙂 |_| (Classic Daiquiri)
    Mornin’ TwoLaine! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Sha! 🙂 🍸 (Lemon Drop)
    Mornin’ BigMamaTEA! 🙂 🍸 (Harvey Wallbanger)
    Mornin’ cetera5! (aka “Cetera”) 🙂 |_| (Blackberry wine)
    Mornin’ The Tundra PA! 🙂 🍸 (bailey irish cream on the rocks)
    Mornin’ lovely! 🙂 |_| (Backdraft)
    Mornin’ michellc! 🙂 🍸 (Salty dog)
    Mornin’ auscitizenmom! 🙂 🍸 (Kiss on the Lips)
    Mornin’ Margaret-Ann! 🙂 🍸 (White Russian)
    Mornin’ Auntie Lib! 🙂 🍸 (Tom and Jerry)
    Mornin’ holly100! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ Pam! 🙂
    Mornin’ ImpeachEmAll 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Monroe! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Les! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ shiloh1973! 🙂 |_| (Jack Daniels)
    Mornin’ TexasRanger! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ziiggii! 🙂 |_| (B52)
    Mornin’ oldiadguy! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ smiley! (“stuck in spambucket”) 🙂 🍸 (Spanish coffee)
    Mornin’ derk! (“Stellars”) 🙂 🍸 (Mudslide)
    Mornin’ Jacqueline Taylor Robson 🙂 🍸 (Shirley Temple)
    Mornin’ facebkwallflower! 🙂 |_|
    Mornin’ Ms. Cindy! (aka “Ms Cynlynn” aka “ms cynlynn”) 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ sandandsea2015! 🙂 🍸
    Mornin’ whiners and complainers! ⭐ 😛 (No drink for you!)
    Mornin’ to people posting that I missed. 😳
    Mornin’ to all you lurkers! 😕

    Also just in case someday; mornin’ to Elvis Chupacabra and F.D.R. in Hell! :mrgreen:

    Breakfast!

    NEW and IMPROVED breakfast with extra bacon for ZurichMike!

    Pastries for coffee!

    ⭐ = Unprintable phallic symbol

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  8. sandandsea2015's avatar sandandsea2015 says:
    June 27, 2016 at 8:44 am

    Very fun, festive, and patriotic photo, Stella! 🇺🇸🎉🇺🇸🎉

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  10. Stella's avatar stella says:
    June 27, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Morning, everybody! Well, it’s another week of summer – with sunshine, heat, humidity and (as my daughter mentioned yesterday) the time when the weeds in the garden seem to grow like never before. Seriously, I am thankful to live where water is not usually a problem, and the trees, flowers, and vegetables use that same water to flourish along with the weeds. Michigan is the “water, winter wonderland” (as our license plates used to say). One of my favorite videos about Michigan, courtesy of the tourist board, “Pure Michigan”:

    This is also a time to ponder history, those who fought for our independence, both the first time, and later to defend it.

    So, this week is an especially good week for picnics, days at the beach, family get-togethers and fireworks! Put out the flag, put on your flag t-shirts and hats, watch a parade, and enjoy the fireworks.

    Fourth of July Night
    by Carl Sandburg

    The little boat at anchor in black water sat murmuring to the tall black sky
    A white sky bomb fizzed on a black line.
    A rocket hissed it’s red signature into the west.
    Now a shower of Chinese fire alphabets,
    A cry of flower pots broken in flames,
    A long curve to a purple spray, three violet balloons—
    Drips of seaweed tangled in gold, shimmering symbols of mixed numbers,
    Tremulous arrangements of cream gold folds of a bride’s wedding gown—
    A few sky bombs spoke their pieces, then velvet dark.
    The little boat at anchor in black water sat murmuring to the tall black sky.

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  11. Stella's avatar stella says:
    June 27, 2016 at 12:41 pm

    Two Trump appearances tomorrow:

    Tuesday, June 28, 2016 –
    Monessen, PA
    Alumisource
    2:30 PM

    St. Clairsville, OH
    Ohio University Eastern Campus – Health and Physical Fitness Building
    7:00 PM
    Donald J. Trump for President Rally
    Doors Open at 4:00 PM

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  12. Stella's avatar stella says:
    June 27, 2016 at 12:50 pm

    This is the kind of crap that the European Union concerned itself with – ever increasing nanny state rules:

    Brexit: EU Planned to Ban Popular British Tea Kettles, Toasters (also Dyson vacuums)

    http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/06/26/brexit-eu-planned-ban-popular-british-tea-kettles-toasters/

    With British consumption of tea outstripping continental Europe’s average by a factor of six, the European Commission (EC) had quietly delayed the implementation of new “ecodesign” restrictions on small household appliances during the run-up to the Brexit referendum vote over fears that bans would be perceived as an assault on the British staples of tea and toast.

    But European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, in his weekly College of Commissioners meeting on April 20, accidentally revealed that the EU, just after would move forward with regulatory bans against eight of the best selling kettles and nine of the best selling toasters in the United Kingdom just after the Brexit vote…

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      June 27, 2016 at 12:52 pm

      Another excellent example:

      Why Digital Cameras Have a 30 Minute Video Recording Limit

      http://www.tested.com/tech/photography/44445-why-digital-cameras-have-a-30-minute-video-recording-limit/

      Back in 2006, the EU controversially decided to classify high-end digital cameras as video recorders, which attached a customs duty of 5-12% for digital cameras imported into Europe. The classification was decided not just based on digital cameras’ improving abilities to record video through its lens and sensor, but their ability to record direct input from external sources like televisions. A home video recorder tax would theoretically offset money lost from users recording movies off broadcast television or cable onto digital devices, though the EU has never been very clear on the tax’s intent. The tax’s consequence, though, has been felt in every digital camera user looking to use a DSLR in place of a camcorder, as camera manufactures would rather limit recording capability in software than raise the price of its cameras (or lower their margins)…

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      June 27, 2016 at 12:53 pm

      Stupid elite Europeans, don’t they know you don’t mess with American’s guns or English people’s tea?

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    • czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
      June 27, 2016 at 1:16 pm

      Wow, whoda thunk that the Nuremberg II laws would be applied to household appliances? Will all British appliances have to wear little Union Jacks and be subject to being impounded and sent to appliance detention camps?

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    • Pam's avatar Pam says:
      June 27, 2016 at 3:12 pm

      When we visited England, I was so impressed with their electric tea kettles and their Dualit toasters and the way they worked, that we bought one of each and brought them home. We wired an outlet in the kitchen to handle their plugs. Electric kettles became more popular here, but I’ve never seen anything like those special toasters. The toaster is over 20 years old now, and it’s been carefully stored for years, but I’m waiting until we can get the wiring done in the kitchen so we can use it again.

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  13. Pam's avatar Pam says:
    June 27, 2016 at 2:40 pm

    If this has already been posted earlier, I missed it:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/12/high-cholesterol-does-not-cause-heart-disease-new-research-finds/

    Hey y’all, according to this “new research”, “Cholesterol does not cause heart disease in the elderly and trying to reduce it with drugs like statins is a waste of time, an international group of experts has claimed.” And doctors are shocked if we have the gall to sit in their offices and challenge their pronouncements. If any of you have tried statin drugs and NOT had a medium-to-awful reaction to them, then you will be the first of all the people I know who have tried them. They kept trying method after method with me, down to taking the tiniest amount every few days. Every try was a failure, because no matter how tiny, it would shoot my pain levels off the charts and make me feel weaker and sicker than even my normal. Most of my family/friends say it was like taking poison, and that’s the way they made me feel.

    This part of the article is even better. The peer-reviewed research, conducted on 70,000 people, “found that 92 percent of people with a high cholesterol level lived longer..”

    “What we found in our detailed systematic review was that older people with high LDL (low-density lipoprotein) levels, the so-called ‘bad’ cholesterol, lived longer and had less heart disease.”

    “Vascular and endovascular surgery expert Professor Sherif Sultan from the University of Ireland, who also worked on the study, said cholesterol is one of the ‘most vital’ molecules in the body and prevents infection, cancer, muscle pain and other conditions in elderly people.”

    In the last 4-5 years, I have noticed that most of my doctors, even the vascular specialist at Cleveland Clinic, seem willing to drop the subject of statins very quickly. They mention them, I tell them about my bad experiences, and, where I used to get lectures, they now just stop talking about it. I think they’ve been figuring out some things on their own.

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    • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
      June 27, 2016 at 3:10 pm

      A friend of mine decided to use the Barefoot Contessa cookbook for a month. She figured her cholesterol would go up since Ina Garten uses a lot of cream and butter in her recipes. But, at the end of the month, she had put on 10 lbs. ( 😦 ) , but her choleterol, etc. levels all went to perfectly normal.

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      • Pam's avatar Pam says:
        June 27, 2016 at 3:16 pm

        Lol! Who knows what really goes on in our bodies? I’ve had doctors tell me, and read research also, that it’s good for older people to have a little extra fat, not to the point of obesity obviously.

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          June 27, 2016 at 3:47 pm

          From reading I’ve been doing. It was fairly well known what was going on in our bodies until progressive science became a type of gold rush about 120 years ago.

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      • michellc's avatar michellc says:
        June 27, 2016 at 5:59 pm

        Back when they first started getting big on cholesterol they had my mother convinced of all these things she shouldn’t eat, like eggs and bacon. It wasn’t even like she ate a lot of either, she always had a slice or two of bacon for breakfast and that was about it.

        She followed their food list though and after the designated time they re-tested and her cholesterol had went up. They put her on drugs and she remained on their strict diet and no change. I couldn’t convince her starving herself and taking drugs wasn’t working so eat what she wanted to because she was too old to be miserable.

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        • Pam's avatar Pam says:
          June 27, 2016 at 6:30 pm

          I’m sorry your mother went through all that. People used to think their doctors were like little gods, walking around on earth. I’m not saying your mother was like that because I don’t/didn’t know her. I remember the attitude was everywhere, when I was young. After I had enough experiences of my own, I began to change my attitude. I can still remember talking to friends and family who were shocked that I would question a doctor. Not so much anymore. I respect so many of the wonderful, helpful things modern medicine has accomplished. But they have also caused some harm and much misery to individuals, and some have died as a result of their “knowledge.”

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        • nyetneetot's avatar nyetneetot says:
          June 27, 2016 at 6:40 pm

          My wife figured out that they did the same thing in the Soviet Union as well. They said her mother had all sorts of problems and prescribed all sorts of medicines. Seems it may have just been menopause and chemical imbalances due to the medications.

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:
            June 27, 2016 at 8:07 pm

            My brother has now been told he has high cholesterol and right now is on the “diet controlled” prescription.
            He called me one night to tell me the doctor said it was hereditary and I needed to have mine checked.
            He told me what he was and wasn’t eating, but I honestly paid little attention.
            I told him I was too old to care or change my spots now. I eat what I like to eat and I don’t care what my levels are. Then I went on to tell him when my kids were babies I prayed for God to let me live long enough to get them raised, He did that and now every day is just a bonus day, so if I die at least I’ll die eating what I want to eat and not what someone decided I should eat. lol

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            • lovely's avatar lovely says:
              June 27, 2016 at 8:24 pm

              My priest back in NC was a very rotund fellow. He had Type 2 diabetes. He was also a chef before he became a priest and was offered his own restaurant in NYC so he was a very very good chef.

              Anyhow it was a small parish and we had a pot luck lunch after Sunday mass and a pot luck dinner every Friday after our home school family/school day.

              Father still enjoyed good food and we always had a lot of good food and people would offer to make him a plate since he was of course always talking to one person or another. Well meaning people would bring him (as he would say 2 stalks of hay and a mashed butter free turnip 😀 ) .

              I would bring him a plate full of food so he learned to tell people who offered to get him a plate, “No thank you Lovely is getting it for me”.

              He told me on the initial diagnosis that he would rather die with a belly full of food than a belly full of sawdust. As it is he is still alive, rotund and happy today.

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          • Pam's avatar Pam says:
            June 27, 2016 at 8:12 pm

            In my way of thinking, doctors are doctors the world over. I have no way of absolutely knowing that is true…I just think it. A doctor I will respect is one who will just come right out and say how much the medical world does not know, especially when it comes to any understanding of how our brains really work. And since our brains are basically the computer and controller of the body, their ignorance of it and their resulting attempts to figure out things like cholesterol, mental illness, all kinds of conditions, leave them with huge handicaps.

            When my carotid artery was blocked for so long, I got to experience how completely messed up almost everything else in my body could actually get because of a problem in one part of my body. My brain was trying to cope with how to work around the blocked artery. My brain caused little blood vessels in my forehead and the back of my neck to expand so they could carry more blood to the brain. I had no idea what was causing those massive headaches, until the surgeon explained that part to me. The interactions and neurons and all that stuff in the brain went haywire in some ways. I had monumental increase in my chronic pain, enough so that I went almost crazy with it. All of a sudden, I had instant, long-term insomnia, which just made everything else worse. Other really weird things happened (like 1/2 of my hair falling out), and body systems stopped working correctly. Bad things have happened to my teeth. My digestive system is still a mess. No doctor had a clue about any of it. When the surgery was successfully completed, it took a year for my brain to try to put things back the way they should be. I had massive headaches again as the little vessels apparently went back to normal size. Since I already had a dysfunctional body before the artery, it’s basically back to that. Thank God, I can process information and think and talk. My heart and blood pressure seem fine. I guess the more important systems and brain functions were preserved, while lesser systems suffered. (If the hair is growing back, it’s so slow I can’t really tell yet 🙂 )

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            • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
              June 27, 2016 at 9:34 pm

              Bless your heart, you are just a mess. It is so hard to deal with so many symptoms at once, especially since they seem so unconnected sometimes. My best friend started developing symptoms, at first her arthritis flared up really bad, then her hair started changing, and her stomach bothered her. She went from a specialist on one thing to a specialist on another. She had seen about 5 doctors and they were all treating her and she was just getting worse. Finally they decided she needed a hernia operation to fix her stomach and they sent her to a (lung heart doctor or something) for a test before she had the operation. He took hold of her arm and told her she had scleroderma. She googled it and she had a classic case. All the symptoms were because of that. Unfortunately, there really wasn’t much they could do for her at that point. Although, I think they should have given her heavy pain pills and didn’t.

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        • Stella's avatar stella says:
          June 27, 2016 at 7:17 pm

          Back when doctors were warning against eggs, I had a friend who was a vegetarian and worked in a health food store. She told me that eggs were very healthy and, even though they contain cholesterol, they also contain lecithin, which is a natural fat emulsifier. Turns out she was right. I have never worried about eggs, and eat them whenever I feel like it.

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          • auscitizenmom's avatar auscitizenmom says:
            June 27, 2016 at 7:24 pm

            I worked in a health food store. It was a very small one, and not very busy. So, in my down time I read all the books on the rack. I did not believe the hype about eggs for that same reason. I really don’t understand eating just the white of an egg. Unless you are making meringue to go on a pie. Then it is all right. 🙂

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          • michellc's avatar michellc says:
            June 27, 2016 at 8:10 pm

            You know me I worry about no food and never have.
            I thought they were full of it when they claimed how bad eggs were and kept on eating them.

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      June 27, 2016 at 7:12 pm

      My mother had heart disease, but it was mostly caused by a bad heart valve, and she refused surgery (in her 80’s by then). She died of heart failure, but at age 91, in 1997. She never took statin drugs, as far as I know, and her doctor told her that it was normal for older persons to have higher cholesterol.

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  14. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 27, 2016 at 4:25 pm

    So how long until Trump prods The Beast into making Pocahontas into her running mate?

    😀 What a guy!

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  15. Stella's avatar stella says:
    June 27, 2016 at 8:32 pm

    Good find on Facebook:

    Wretchard T. Cat

    Standing outside a university café, after a night of celebration following her final exam, 19-year-old (Oxford) medical student Evie Rothwell said she was feeling a sense of “betrayal” this morning.

    “A really important decision was made for us by the older generation,” she explained, noting that exit polls showed that three-quarters of voters aged 18 to 24 wanted to remain in the EU. By contrast, more than 60 percent of seniors aged 65+ voted to leave.

    “Essentially people much, much older than us — and who won’t be around for the consequences — are giving us a future we don’t want,” added Jack Lennard, who just finished his undergraduate degree in archeology and anthropology.

    http://www.vox.com/…/brexit-youth-voters-wanted-britain-rem…

    To which one might reply:

    “Essentially people much older than you gave you what you now take for granted. They won World War 2, fueled the great boom, walked through the valley of the shadow of nuclear death — and had you.

    You didn’t make the present, nor as you now complain, are you making the future. No children, no national defense, no love of God or country.

    But that’s just it. You’ve brainwashed yourselves into thinking someone else: the old, the older, the government, the dead would always do things for you.

    If you learn anything from Brexit, learn that nobody got anywhere expecting someone to do things for him.”

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    • WeeWeed's avatar WeeWeed says:
      June 27, 2016 at 9:45 pm

      I got the same Shiite from a nephew (the OLDER generation) – pissbeuponhim. And he lives wherever Oxford is and is not even a Brit.
      Youth is wasted on the young.

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      • lovely's avatar lovely says:
        June 27, 2016 at 10:24 pm

        Youth is wasted on the young.

        Ha ha!

        Today I was in the presence of youth for a while. One was bemoaning the state of the “American mind” which must be bereft of all morals as so many people think Trump would be a good president.

        So me being me let her talk. And then I said “Did you hear what happened to the BLM people ? They were holding up signs that said “The Only Good Cop is a Dead Cop”, “Black Power,” and “Black Lives Matter”!” So some people attacked them with boards, bats and knives and several of the BLM folks ended up in the hospital with serious injuries.

        The people who attacked the BLM crowd, claimed they attacked them in self defense because the signs were an obvious call to war against white people.

        Well 😀 She was incensed, blood came out of her eyes, nose, ……. after she ranted for a solid minute, I said Oh wait no I got some things turned around, it was a neo-nazi group holding a pro-white rally and some savages attacked them because the savages said the Neos didn’t have a right to feel the way they felt.

        🙈🙉🙊

        Everyone was very quiet. She just stared at me as the whole scenario that happened played out between her two ears.

        And then she said, “Nazis have a violent history so it was justified.”

        😞

        So I said then you condone violence against a people who have a history of being part of an organization that has a history of violence even if the majority of the people in the movement have not been violent.

        “Yes” says my little fish on the hook.

        “Great!” I said, what should we do with all the Muslims because they sure have one heck of a violent history on their team.

        And it is then I learned that I am “hopeless racist.”

        😀

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  16. Stella's avatar stella says:
    June 27, 2016 at 9:48 pm

    Watching the televised fireworks program. Singing ‘Oh Canada’ right now. Now our National Anthem.

    If you are interested, you can watch live stream here:

    http://www.clickondetroit.com/fireworks/watch-the-ford-fireworks-live-on-local-4-june-27

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    • Stella's avatar stella says:
      June 27, 2016 at 10:16 pm

      BEST fireworks ever! I’ve never seen such beautiful colors (brilliant orange, chartreuse are new to me). During the 1812 overture, everything was beautiful gold, the usual round bursts, but also raining gold shells (waterfalls?) that I’ve never seen. 10,000 shells.

      I don’t know that I liked the music as well, but it was a tribute to artists who passed away this year, such as David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince.

      Overall, just gorgeous, and beautiful weather too.

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  17. czarowniczy's avatar czarowniczy says:
    June 27, 2016 at 10:31 pm

    Just a thought here but we’re hearing about yet more terrible wildfires consuming thousands of acres and hundreds of homes. What we’re not hearing are the causes of the fires.
    In the past the media’s been all hot to trot to report a campfire, carelessly discarded cigarette butt, some arson – whatever. Now we’re even hearing guesses by the MSM or police – whazzup??
    Let’s go back to just after 911 when we were still talking about Moslem terrorism and the instructions from al Qaeda to its minions who CAIRed, included bits on starting range and forest fires to burn down the lands and houses of the infidels. Now we have a group descended from AQ rampaging through the Mideast, Europe and (according to the POtuS) one day maybe here and we have fires breaking out suspiciously close to heavily populated areas…I’m just sayin’.

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  18. lovely's avatar lovely says:
    June 27, 2016 at 10:41 pm

    Anyone else follow andieiam on Twitter. I wish I had her wit. Some nutter was blathering on about their stupid agenda and andieiam told them to please stay off her time line because she is not the “feral whisper”. 😀

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