IrishAyes
IrishAyes's JournalSpider Venom
It's probably good for something, I just don't know what. But spider cobwebs have an ingredient that's a good emergency treatment for all sorts of open wounds. That's what the pioneers used for gunshot wounds when they had nothing else.
If you get an open wound out in the wilderness and your dog's along, let him lick the wound. That's what animals do for themselves, and it helps clean a human's wound also.
All creatures have a place
For instance, I always wondered about flies; what possible good can they be? But in mountain meadows too high for bees to live, flies do the pollinating.
I still don't want them in my house, though.
Absolutely
There's something in nature to improve health and/or cure anything. We just have to find out what it is. Although of course not every popular remedy works, but many have a scientific basis, my favorite being the 'tree frog cure' for wounds. You have to take one of the poor little critters (if you can find one!) and place its belly over the wound, then bind it just snugly enough so it can't get away. Eventually it will expire, and then you have to get a fresh one.
A few years ago scientists figured out WHY this works to heal wounds. The tree frog knows its in a bad fix and tries to take care of its own perceived wound by exuding a natural antibiotic from its stomach. You have to change tree frogs when they quit squirming because then they're not pumping out antibiotic anymore.
Because
... why do you think so many idiots watch Faux News? It feeds their insanity and makes them feel smart. CBS and other stations might not have so many idiot watchers, but they have enough to want to curry viewer/advertiser approval.
Bingo!
Good for you. Especially your last sentence. Some people simply are unwilling to acknowledge another's right to hold different beliefs that harm no one and help many. I was taught that we're supposed to love people, and that has to start with respect. When it comes to Jews, we are grafted onto their tree, not vice verse. Jesus was (probably still is) a Jew, and so was Mary. True, I'm a left-leaning Catholic, but we're not as monolithic as some would imagine. American Catholic practice for instance is far closer to Anglicans than to Rome. We like the Pope, we listen when he speaks, then we go ahead and live as we ourselves believe regardless of who likes it or not.
Then again
... you can't help wish Harper Lee had written more. I'm sure she had it in her.
Tell me about it
I live in a remote corner of MidWestern RedNeckLand where probably half the men play soldier in the woods. (No telling what else they play, but that's a subject for another day.) I hope they fall out and shoot each other before they get around to visiting me, which they've promised to my face they will do someday. When the Repugs took the House in '12, a pickup load of militia stopped on the street outside my house, honking and hooting and waving their pistols and rifles. I went out smiling, waved, and took their picture. They peeled rubber and haven't been back. But they're still out there.
They didn't know the camera doesn't work. But they know my extended double barrel Colt does. I really hate needing to keep a gun, but it's the only thing those nuts respect, especially with a woman alone.
You might not NEED
... the sarcasm, but we love it. Pour it on! Be warned, however, some of us will keep trying to outdo you however low the odds.
I'm going to copy your funny spelling of soshaylist for my own use offsite, if you don't mind. That's a good one. I already knew how to spell furriner.
Hey, I just realized how to remember that spelling: it's 'sos hay list'
Me2
The president's grace and courage under fire proves him to be one of the best. Remember when opponents used to say he was too untested and naive for the office? Well, they switched their tune pretty fast to calling him the antichrist, didn't they? Now the wingnuts who used to charge that he would be too easy for enemies to push around have changed their tune, claiming he wants to incite race war and hit the rebs with predator drones.
Personally I like Joe Biden's take on President Obama, who does play famously close to the vest. The VP warned, "Don't ever play poker with this man."
BTW
In my first post above where I said I agreed with Bradley about Vietnam, I meant General Omar Bradley and not Bradley Manning. It was ambiguous at best and some of the younger folks may focus only on the latter. My bad.
As far as I know - didn't hear it personally - Gen. Bradley summed up the misadventure this way:
"Wrong time. Wrong Place. Wrong war."
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