Monday, November 11, 2024

How to make your own Mexican Pizzas

Side Note: The original date of this post is somewhere during the year of 2010. I relocated it to this blog after I deleted another website of mine. Since the post about Barquitos Pizza did so well on here, I figured it was a good idea to add it to this blog. Anyway...

Who needs Taco Bell’s lame version and sorry excuse for a Mexican Pizza, when you can do it yourself! It involves several ingredients & steps, but it’s easy to make and doesn’t take that long to prepare. For motivation, take a look below, at a finished product… Hungry yet? Okay, let's get started.

Freshly made pizza, ready for consumption...

The Cooking Method for this Mexican Bliss:

You will need 2 large skillets, 1 small pot, 1 large pot, and 1 baking sheet, microwavable bowl, storage containers, pizza cutter, cutting board, etc., along with the following:

1 – 2 lb. package of 80/20 Ground Chuck (recommended) or 2.25lbs. of 73/27 Ground Beef.

1 – 16 oz. can of Refried Beans

2 – 14.5 oz. cans of Chili-ready tomatoes

1 – can of sliced black olives or 6 oz. of medium-pitted black olives that you slice yourself.

1 – 16 oz. jar of Taco Bell Thick ‘n Chunky Mild Sauce

1 – 1.25 oz. Taco Seasoning Mix (I get the Taco Bell brand)

1 – white or yellow onion (your choice)

2 to 4 fresh tomatoes, along with a fresh bag of green onions (scallions)

1 – 16 oz. bag of Kraft’s Mexican Style Four Cheese (Asadero, Queso, Quesadilla, Monterey Jack)

2 packages (14.1 oz.) flour tortillas (10 per package)

The oil of your choice (canola, vegetable, peanut, etc.)

Cooking Method:

Begin frying your ground beef/chuck in a large skillet.

While your beef if cooking, dice a handful of green onions and about half of your medium-sized white/yellow onion.

Cook the onions & scallions in with the beef, after the beef starts to brown. Finish cooking until meat is fully done.

Take a large pot and add your cooked beef and onions into it.

Now, add 1 can of Chili tomatoes and about half of the salsa into the large pot, along with the taco seasoning.

Let simmer for about 10 minutes.

Take another large skillet, add about 2 tablespoons of oil and pre-heat over medium heat.

Once the oil is hot, cook a tortilla (2 minutes each side); you want it crispy, but try to not burn them; you’ll need 2 tortillas per pizza.

After you have the desired number of tortillas cooked and set aside, add the other can of tomatoes and the remaining amount of salsa and 2 handfuls of chopped green onions to a small pot; warm over low-medium heat.

Heat refried beans in a microwave-safe bowl.

Take (from the small pot) 2-4 tablespoons of tomato/salsa mix and add ’em into the beans.

Chop the rest of your remaining onions, scallions, fresh tomatoes (slice the black olives if you didn’t buy pre-sliced) and store in separate bowls or containers.

Take a large baking sheet; place one pre-cooked tortilla on bottom of pan.

Spread the beans on the top side of the first tortilla, from here, add your desired amount of meat on top of the beans; now, cover with the other tortilla; then, spread some (until it evenly covers) of the chili tomato/salsa mix over the second tortilla; now, add the Mexican cheese (enough to cover); then, add your desired amount of sliced black olives, fresh tomatoes, green onions/scallions, diced onions.

Bake for 10 minutes @ 350 degrees or until cheese is melted.

Let cool for about 5 minutes; cut in fours with a pizza cutter.

It should look something like this:

2 Mexican Pizzas, right out of the oven... Yummy!

…You can use the leftovers for more Mexican Pizzas or add a little lettuce and make some soft Tacos! 

Image Credits: My own photos.

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Sunday, November 10, 2024

Silly Names & Extravagant Titles for Simple Jobs

Side Note: This is an old blog post that was originally published on another domain of mine that I later deleted. The original date of this post was somewhere around the year 2011. I decided to relocate it to this blog because of the name "Random Twaddle." Well, that is exactly what the content below demonstrates...

Food Assembly Specialist
  I’m writing this blog post today, out of sheer amusement. I’ve recently been thinking about how much value people often put on names & titles, when they really don’t mean anything.

  I don’t want to hear about your silly labels and extravagant job descriptions, well, except on this entry. Any other time, I would rather you simply tell me about such things without all the hoopla and ballyhoo.

…The same thing applies for when you are debating about a subject, let's say under the science genre, and you are more concerned about PhDs, what university you went to, and what fantastical achievements and awards have been presented, etc., while barely even acknowledging the heart of the matter/debate or points being made.  It is like, well, no matter if I’m wrong, I went to Harvard and have a master's degree in “The Art of Poppycock,” so move aside you pathetic Pollock-fish-frying loser from Long John Silver’s! LOL!

At any rate, this little post is for entertainment purposes only while I'm just randomly making stuff up. You are free to add as many additional silly names & extravagant titles for simple jobs, within the comment field. Just make up a scenario or a simple job prior to each humorous title.

I’ll post a few below, to get things started:

A janitor at a local Elementary School once called his job a “Certified Sanitation Technician.”

A garbage man hanging off the back of a big garbage truck once shouted out that he is a “Human Wasteland Warrior!” Uh, that’s nice… Just take my waste to your wasteland and move along, please!

The drive-through manager at a hectic McDonald’s swears up and down that her job title is “Culinary Merchant Guru.”
Speaking of McDonald’s, one of the burger flippers (not that they manually flip 'em anymore) at that very same restaurant, says he is a “Bovine Fryin’ Fool.” Well, at least that job title was a little more honest, that is, if the patties are really made of 100% beef. Ha!

A sales clerk at a pet shop that cleans the aquariums, checks the water’s pH level, adds chemicals and acid/base solutions if needed, gives his self the silly name of “The Aquatic Chemist.” Wow! I thought there was more to chemistry than that!

A poor, confused lady that works at a less-than-steady gas station, calls her job “Petroleum Overseer of Distribution.”

A very attractive woman that worked at a retail clothing store once claimed to be the “Enticement of all Fabric.” Well, I don’t know if she meant that as her job description or not, but she sure enticed me…

The french fry guy at a big-city Burger King proudly stated that he, and only he, was “The Starch Manipulator.” Uh, uh, whatever dude… I don’t think anybody is going to fight you over such a silly title; LOL!

A couple young guys that mow yards and perform other yard-related jobs for money, call their outdoor career “Eco-non-friendly Landscaping Associates.” I hate to break it to ’em, but they really need to drop that first hyphenated compound word, as it can’t be good for business…

There was once a redneck farmer with 3 teeth and a dirty straw hat that would come to town on occasions, bragging about how he was an “Agricultural Scientist.” Uh, I know that such a title does exist, but something tells me that this guy was lying… Ha!

A local bum that should have been castrated, has 12 kids with 9 different women while never holding down a job and barely pays any child support, called his self “The Fornication Specialist of Animalistic Poverty.” Well, I think you could scramble some of those words around and it would still come out right…

See how easy and fun this is? I expect a lot more silly, creative job descriptions within the comment field in due time or at least within the next century. I could add more, but I must stop here or else I’ll be typing all morning about this inane subject. Either way, we live in a world full of Wanna-Be Gurus and misinformation (especially online), as all we can do, at times, is to just sit back and laugh… LOL!

Image Credit: My own photo. One night after I cooked some burgers, hotdogs and fries, I went back through the kitchen and my dad made his tray all fancy with the ingredients at hand. I decided to use that photo for this post and caption it with "Food Assembly Specialist." It just seemed so fitting for this subject.

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Saturday, November 9, 2024

Health Benefits of Laughing - Laugh Out Loud - LOL!

Side Note: This is an old blog post that was originally published on another domain of mine that I later deleted. The original date of this post was somewhere around the year 2011 or thereabouts. Yeah, it was about 13 or 14 years ago, but this is an evergreen topic evidently, as it is still relevant, even in today's world. Anyway, back to the subject at hand...

In today’s cyberworld that is full of cell phone texting, instant messaging (IM), and so on, abbreviations & slang is definitely “in.” For example, the famous ‘LOL’ (laugh/laughing out loud) and ‘LMAO’ (laughing my a*s off) are quite commonly seen all over forums, blogs, texts, in comment fields, et cetera. But are you really? If you’re actually displaying mirth and joy at the other end of the conversation, having explosive laughs, or even merely chuckling in a mild fashion, it is all good for your health.

I’m sure most people realize that being happy is an obvious forward step towards an overall state of well-being, but I’m going to show some evidence – from the scientific side of things……

Laughter reduces the level of epinephrine, cortisol and adrenaline, which are all stress hormones in the body. These silly bursts of expressions also raise your levels of healthy hormones, neurotransmitters, and endorphins. Studies have linked laughing to an increased immune system (antibodies, t-cells, etc.), which helps combat disease and sickness.

Due to the relaxing effects and positive hormonal impact within the body by performing the “LOL,” it can improve memory and overall cognitive ability, lower blood pressure, and protect against heart disease. Also, while being relaxed from your bouts of “laughing out loud,” the blood vessels often dilate and this increases blood circulation, which is always a good thing.

There is also something about the way you feel, after you’ve had a lot of humorous moments within a short time span… Have you ever noticed that calm, warm feeling, like your body has expelled pent-up stress or frustrations, immediately after you fell out of your chair from laughing so hard at some of the morons online? Ha-ha! Okay, you don’t have to fall out of your chair, nor do you have to laugh at moronic beings, but it can happen when you visit too many random, online forums & blogs throughout cyberspace. LOL! Excuse me, I got sidetracked… Anyway, this particular release from laughing seems to affect the body in both physical and mental ways.

Some studies have favored the notion that laughter may help increase the pain resistance level in the body, but more research needs to be done. Personally, I don’t think any research needs to be done. It is pretty obvious, like I said before, that being happy (even if it’s just in spurts) is always going to have health benefits.

Laughing is an attribute geared towards the betterment of mental health, as it can help rid yourself of depression or from feeling down and/or enhance your current state of joviality. And, for the temporarily detached individuals out there, a good laugh can bring back your feelings of being a part of something worth living for, something worthy of being an onlooker, if you will.

When arguing with others, finding something humorous amid the turmoil, can often end up being a common viewpoint between the two (or more) at verbal war. This, in return, can change the tempo and often ends the whole conflict, as the parties agree on the reason of laughter. This peacekeeping method of invoking laughs, however, may not apply to Religious & Political debates, because some of those characters wouldn’t know the jest of a joke if it slapped ’em in the face. LOL!

On a physical health note: The act of laughing out loud is good for your heart, lungs, and abdominal muscles; this especially applies to those hard-to-stop, laughable break outs from insane, ludicrous realizations of asininities.

With all that being said: If it’s at all possible, try to find some humor in your life. There are plenty of foolish, absurd things and imbecilic, doltish beings out there to laugh at, trust me. And also, try to not always take life so seriously; being uptight with restrictive thoughts, may shorten your life in the long run. If your life permits, do as the convivial, trite phrase states: “Eat, drink, and be merry!” I just realized; this is the most happy-happy, joy-joy page I’ve ever written. Okay, I’m rushing to go vomit in a toilet now… LOL! Just kidding…


Image Credit: perpendicularity.org/blog/ [link is no longer active]

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Monday, March 21, 2022

Fractals anyone? Can you imagine being an Ant in a Micro-World?

Please Note: This is an old blog post that I relocated here from a website of mine that I recently deleted. The original date of this post is September 10th, 2012.

I suppose that I could expound upon this subject in great detail, be overly elaborate and anything but terse, but since we are all little ants stuck in this micro-world of an infinite pattern, I feel that the readers should help fill in the blanks (in due time) within the comment field.

On the other hand, I will briefly provide a little teasing verbiage and a couple cool videos, to get the ball rolling……

There are plenty of size/proportion concepts out there, and just by using our solar system alone, we start to feel small. It never stops there, as if we go up, into a larger scale like our galaxy, things seem to dwarf us even more. Oh, forget about the galaxies, as they are tiny, so let's move into the great wide open and call it the universe. Yikes! Can I go back? Sure, you can! Okay, let's go back to Earth…

Before I start talking about being an Ant living in a Micro-World, I must ask: Have you ever heard of fractals?

Most people relate such things to mathematics, as a fractal is a mathematical set that has a fractal dimension that usually exceeds its topological dimension and may fall between the integers. Fractals are typically “the same from near as from far,” and they may be exactly the same at every scale and/or different scales. The definition of fractal goes beyond such petty affairs and into a detailed pattern that constantly repeats itself.
All of this mumbo jumbo reminds me of when I used to say, while proclaiming a theory of unity, that everything is split among the endless dividends of one. This is one of those subjects that you can analyze downward as much as you can upward, if that makes any sense…

I’m going to pick out a couple random (quick) videos about fractals, albeit you must watch them before commenting on this post. I would like for you, for the ones who haven’t thought much about this subject, to get an elementary idea of what I mean by proportion. First up, will be a rather basic video, called “Understanding Fractals,” and you can find it below:


Fractal Art? Oh, why should I go there? It is awesome, to say the least… This post is mainly about proportion and an ongoing pattern, so I’ll skip through the art aspects (although I’m currently a dormant artist) and provide a fairly nifty video of fractals, below:


Why am I talking about being an Ant in a micro-world?
Hell, your guess is as good as mine, but I thought that the ant would best represent an organized insect, one who often fights and engages in wars like us humanoids, all while being oblivious to the higher scales of life.
Can you imagine being shrunk down to the size of an ant, and viewing this very same planet through that perspective? What we deem as a “micro-world” is just as much a “world” as any other. People who often chant foolish rhetoric while talking about the galaxies and the universe, often forget about their very own piece of the pie, which is right here on Earth. It is all the same, really, just different levels. We may never find the funnels that truly create during this lifetime, but we can only hope to eventually find the divine pattern. From microscopic organisms to the gargantuan Dinosaurs of the past, from tiny planets to large suns, from galaxies to the universe and above, what does all this mean? Is it really important to understand the universal proportion or should we simply ignore it and concentrate on our individual portion?

We are like ants, when you think about it, if you back up a few thousand feet. Does it mean that we are insignificant? Of course not, because we are rather unique. Well, I shouldn’t get all poetic, or else I’ll ruin the train of thought. Anyway…

This post reminds me of a couple movies that demonstrate what proportions really mean. One, was a family movie called “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.” The other flick that quickly comes to mind, was an old science fiction film called “Fantastic Voyage,” which they later remade into a more modern movie entitled “Innerspace.”

At any less than insane rate, what is your thoughts about fractals, human proportion with the cosmos, and anything else that relates to being an ant stuck in a micro-world?

---Side Note: You may want to further your reading by searching online for Fractal Dimensions, which is a ratio providing a statistical index of complexity comparing how detail in a pattern (fractal pattern) changes with the scale at which it is measured. It has also been characterized as a measure of the space-filling capacity of a pattern that tells how a fractal scales differently than the space it is embedded in; a fractal dimension does not have to be an integer.

In addition to that, especially if you enjoy digital/computer art, you may also want to search online for Fractal Art. You’ll most likely find some pretty wicked images, to say the least…

Image Credit: perpendicularity.org/blog/ [link is no longer active]

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Friday, March 18, 2022

The Power of Thought, Projections, Imagination...

Please Note: This is an old post that I relocated here from a website of mine that I recently deleted. The original date of this post is July 10th, 2012.

This is a 2-part post.  The first half will be about how “Imagination has a Reason for Existing” and the second part will be about “The Power of Thought & Projections.” 

Even if you’re one of the lame folks that rarely use it, imagination is there and has a mysterious purpose for existing, but there’s a reason, nonetheless.

Many folks, especially the so-called “overly educated” ones, often forget the powers and reasons for imagination.
By the way, we are not talking rocks, nor can any scientific formula unravel the mysteries of life, albeit there will always be people who think they have “figured it all out.” Ha-ha!

Most semi-normal human beings have the ability to ponder, wonder, think deeply and contemplate complex queries along with dreaming up fantasies, fantastical notions, and imaginative, creative ideas, etc.

Notice that I say most (I would like to say ALL) humans “have the ability,” as I excluded the facts and percentages of lame brains, brainwashed folks, and people full of inane thought processes, but I have my reasons for saying such things.

Most of us have heard some of the old quotes that spoke about how imagination is more important than knowledge, and how imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions, and so on.

Well anyway, I was just searching online, to see what type of creative jargon ranked well under this topic, and I ran across an interesting page entitled “The Powers of Imagination.” Many of the mystics and hopeful romantics out there, will love stuff like this (Ha!). But seriously, here is a quick excerpt from that page, below:

“Within the Astral worlds, often known as “the beyond” or “the afterlife” where people transition after the process erroneously known as “death,” there are vast areas of Energy comprising just about every type of environment; all consensus creations of numerous people from the past, present and future relative to temporal concept of Earth “time.” These creations are the result of vast collective, consensual Energy configurations that are continually being influenced by Mind, and which Energy therefore endures under that consensual Mind influence almost forevermore.”

You can read more, here: http://www.ourultimatereality.com/powers-of-imagination.html

The purpose for this post, is to hopefully rattle the cages of closed minds and to weaken the strongholds of those copy & paste, facts only, Wikipedia quoting fanatics. It is like some people can’t think for their self anymore. Yeah, I like to use facts and figures when researching at times, but I leave room for my intuition and imagination to fill in the blanks or to create new ideas and possibilities, during the process.

Have you ever wondered why Science Fiction often becomes a reality, over time?
Have you ever thought about how the power of creation may stem from thoughts, alone?
Anti-creationists really get angry or quarrelsome when you mention something that goes against their eternal matter that magically formed from a tiny point of singularity that went bang without a banger involved, but in a divine sense, can you imagine the power of thoughts and imagination as a whole?
No wonder creation never stops throughout the cosmos.

On an indirectly related note… Most of us have all heard of the perplexing question: Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
I’ve heard all types of answers for this question, ranging from not only the ‘chicken’ or the ‘egg’ or ‘why in the hell are you asking me?’ for the answers, but unusual answers like the “unchicken before it became a chicken to lay the egg” along with other asinine crap that I’m not going to bother even typing.

This is an age-old question… Aristotle (384–322 BC) was puzzled by the idea that there could be a first bird or egg and concluded that both the bird and egg must have always existed. He said: “If there has been a first man he must have been born without father or mother – which is repugnant to nature. For there could not have been a first egg to give a beginning to birds, or there should have been a first bird which gave a beginning to eggs; for a bird comes from an egg.”

Creationists would say that the Chicken came first, and most evolutionists would probably say that the egg came first via a mutation from some other non-chicken bird that eventually became a chicken. Say whaaa?

Then, there is the ‘neither’ answer.
Here is a quick copy & paste quote (excuse me) from Wikipedia: “In Buddhism, Hinduism, as well as other Dharmic religions, there is the belief of the wheel of time which regards time as cyclical and with repeating ages, as some other cultures such as Mesoamerican (Aztecs, Mayan) and some native American Indians believe. Their idea of time gives a different answer to the question of “who is first.” The concept of eternal return, which is well known in the Western culture through the writings of Nietzsche indicates that there is repetition of time. The assumption is that time is eternally repetitive, and therefore, there is no “first” in eternity; there is no creation. The answer then becomes neither the egg nor the chicken is first. There is no “first” in a cyclical view of time.”

So, let's just combine all of the answers and say that the power of divine imagination created both at the same time, no?

Humans have limited power, but we do have the ability to create from the material that we have. Have you ever wondered how much we create subconsciously and through our conscious thoughts on a regular basis, that we are not even aware about? Like I mentioned before, imagination has a reason for existing, so can you imagine the power of such, on a grand scale?
Anyway, this subject could go on forever, but I just wanted to jot down a few notes to help spark some fresh ideas about what role people think that imagination plays in our ongoing existence within this seemingly never-ending cosmos that is paralleled with the never-never land of thoughts via the 5th dimension. Is God from another dimension?
At any rate, feel free to enlighten me with whatever ideas or insults you possess towards this subject; cheers!

The entire basis for our existence along with our obvious levels of consciousness is powered by collective thoughts, but I’m not getting into a long, drawn-out debate about the theories of creation – nor am I going to expound upon the properties of spiritual significance. However, I will briefly chatter about the power of thought and also what is known as “thought projections.”

It is amazing, at times, what I consider to be normal, ordinary and commonplace, are actually concepts, ideas and beliefs (albeit actualities) of what many folks consider to be outlandish, insane and just downright mad. Oh, but how many times have I said that the mind is a universe in itself?

Even as a kid, thought projections and the much similar concepts of telepathy was like, uh, duh! Later on, while still being a kid, I heard via science fiction stories and movies that aliens used telepathy to communicate, but hell, we are just as much aliens as they are, technically, although the levels of existence varies from vessel to vessel, if ya get my drift.

Anyway, I think that most human beings, even on this current K-3 planet, experience and are semi-aware about the power of thoughts. By the way, K-3 stands for Kindergarten through 3rd grade, as I think the High School on this planet left a long time ago. So when you hear me speak about being a 4th grader stuck on a K-3 planet, feel free to ignore me and concentrate more on the subject at hand; ha!

How many of y’all have really tried to send a message to somebody, animal or human, (doesn’t matter who) and feel that strong sense of the reciprocation of thoughts without words? How many times have you predicted the very words that have yet to be spoken? How many people find more truth in their feelings as opposed to what they actually think?

Telepathy is a direct means of communication, and is on a much higher level of existence than common thought projections are, but it all starts from somewhere, right?
A critic can simply claim that when you are around certain folks long enough, you pick up a pattern of words and thoughts, but that simply doesn’t explain the obvious invisible means of conveying messages with people you rarely even see or know!

It happens to me all the time, and I can’t count how many times a person has said to me, “how did you know that … I was just about to say that … You already knew what I was thinking,” blah, blah. I usually just say “Oh, uh, yeah,” and change the subject as it is nothing weird for me. I don’t know how many times, for yet another example, I can bring food over that I cooked for somebody, and they say something like, “that is so strange, I haven’t thought about that in months but for some reason, yesterday, that kept popping into my mind (whatever type of meal it was), etc.

To make it short, I stumbled across a short web page the other day that was talking about thought projections like it was some new discovery or something. I didn’t comment on it, but I could hardly keep from laughing at the content that was glowing from my computer monitor.

This is so old that, although I can’t technically prove it, since the dawn of existence, the power of thoughts is what runs the entire thing. Just think, no wonder scientists have such a hard time understanding the expanding universe, consciousness, quantum mechanics, dark matter, dark energy, the true nature of gravity, and so on.

I’ve always thought that most of the “force” behind things is invisible to our “human” eye. Hey, go draw me a picture of the invisible line of gravity between two objects, for example? Draw me a picture of that strong sense you get when somebody is STARING at you with a thousand-yard stare, only to turn around and see that very same thing, but, uh, you sensed it first!

…I could list so many examples, sort of like how a dog always knows when a person is scared.
Sort of like there have been cats that could sense when a person is about to die in a nursing home. And on and on we go…

I’m still dumbfounded by the fact that most people, as a whole, don’t realize the power of thoughts and how strong and/or what type of effect thought projections can have on this world.
In fact, I wish people would quit thinking about doom & gloom all the time, as if we keep dreaming this stuff up, it will eventually happen.
Then again, this is a K-3 planet, so what do I care? Ha!

Well, I was going to research about thought projections and paste some data into this post, but I have verbally rambled enough already, so, so much for that!

At any rate, feel free to provide comments that relate to this subject below, as I would be interested in hearing what others think about thought projections and/or the power of thought; cheers!

Image Credits: perpendicularity.org/blog/ [link is no longer active]

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Saturday, March 12, 2022

Does having higher levels of oxygen in the body help prevent Cancer?

Please Note: This is an old blog post that I relocated here from another website of mine that I recently deleted. The original date of this post is July 11th, 2012.

This post was inspired by a Q & A section on another website, from a question entitled: “Is there any real proof that genetics relate to disease?”

While, in my opinion, the answer is clear, many folks think that it is merely a hypothesis or even a big load of steaming dung, that a person with higher levels of oxygen has a better chance of preventing cancer.

See, here’s the thing, it is not the “oxygen treatments” that are available today, that disproves or proves this notion, but the fact that if your body is full of oxygen through and throughout, that cancer really doesn’t have a home. Easier said than done, sure, but have you ever thought that the most complicated mysteries could very well have the simplest solutions? Have you ever wondered why life in the past used to grow bigger and live longer?

Anyway, I’ve noticed over the years, that when a person does get cancer in areas of the body where oxygen should be most abundant, that the spread of the disease and the death rate increases substantially. Look at it this way, how rare is heart cancer??? When a person gets lung cancer, oral/throat cancer, etc. (highly oxygenated areas), the outlook is often grim, and so on.

Now, before the skeptics come in with all the babble about how oxygenation therapy, hyperoxygenation, bio-oxidative therapy, oxidative therapy, ozone therapy, autohemotherapy, hydrogen peroxide therapy, oxidology, oxymedicine, and germanium sesquioxide are utter baloney, like the ones mentioned on this site (link is no longer active), I would like to make a point that I’m talking about before cancer sets in, ya know, as a preventative measure and so forth…

I recently found a website that spoke about what I have thought for a long while about this subject, during the first couple of paragraphs, here:


There very well could be a link between oxygen levels in the body and cancer. One of the main reasons for cancer is when a person has low levels of cellular oxygen. Cells can turn cancerous when low levels of oxygen damage the respiration enzymes to the point to where they cannot produce energy using oxygen.

A quick excerpt from that particular site: “In 1931 Dr. Warburg won his first Nobel Prize for proving cancer is caused by a lack of oxygen respiration in cells. He stated in an article titled The Prime Cause and Prevention of Cancer that “the cause of cancer is no longer a mystery; we know it occurs whenever any cell is denied 60% of its oxygen requirements.”

“Cancer, above all other diseases, has countless secondary causes. But, even for cancer, there is only one prime cause. Summarized in a few words, the prime cause of cancer is the replacement of the respiration of oxygen in normal body cells by a fermentation of sugar. All normal body cells meet their energy needs by respiration of oxygen, whereas cancer cells meet their energy needs in great part by fermentation. All normal body cells are thus obligate aerobes, whereas all cancer cells are partial anaerobes.”

Now, one may ask, how do you elevate your body’s level of oxygen and how will all of my organs and cells be provided with an ample supply of oxygen at all times? One could automatically start going into things like “natural cures” and promote herbal supplements like Ginseng, that supposedly raises oxygen levels and a sense of well-being; one could start harping about exercise, not smoking, and so on, but one could also blame such matters on the pH level of your blood and speak about ways to elevate your pH, eat more veggies and less meat, blah, blah, etc.

I know this was a rather quick blog post without very much elaboration, but it is one of those types of queries and thought-provoking subjects (in my opinion) that I think would be better discussed in the comment field or left up to the reader to research for their self. Hey, only YOU can truly change your ways and only YOU can control your mindset, beliefs, actions and whatnot. In short, just think of all the different ways the body becomes healthier when your blood flows freely while your body is stress free, happy, laughing, exercising, thinking, breathing nicely, etc., and perhaps you may find the best preventative measure for disease within your own self, yet… One can only hope, as this is just a simple drug-free idea, but for anybody to say that oxygen is not an enemy of the cell-killing cancer, must not be thinking very clearly since oxygen is what keeps you ALIVE during your brief stay on this lovely Blue Planet. Cheers!

I’d appreciate any feedback that anybody is willing to offer, in the comment field below...

[Side note: This post originally had numerous comments, but that was when I first posted it to a community writing site. I lost the comment field to that site during the transfer. However, when I moved it to my main website in the past, it only had one additional comment, which I will provide below. Hopefully, it will garner more responses in due time since I re-posted it here, to the blogger platform, etc.]

Comment #1:
Robert R. says:
August 2, 2012 at 5:09 am
I might as well throw in my 2 cents worth… We look at cancer as cell deterioration, new cells that lack a controlled growth pattern. If the cancer breaks out in a place where we have an old injury or a weakened portion in the body it only indicates that the cancer is in the bloodstream. It only accumulates, like a boil or an ulcer, in a weakened area and drains the poisons in a weakened area. The medical profession cuts it out and says, “Well the cancer’s all gone.” The cancer breaks out in another place. The bloodstream must be cleaned. The causes may come from a variety of areas, air, non- nutritious food, water, genetics etc. Since 90% of all disease comes from the bowel or even more clearly, from the table (food we eat), you are right, our best prevention starts right there. The battle for health is over pH, again I agree with you. The only way to truly reverse diseases is to re-establish health internally at the cellular and system level. No offense meant but doctors are sick care specialists, not health care specialists. You have sick care insurance, not health care insurance, so it leads to a disease epidemic, rather than a health epidemic. The only way of establishing health to a patient is to use organic natural substances coming from clean air, clean food, clean beverages, and clean environment (well 2 out of 4 ain't all bad). You cannot use a kill mode mindset of killing pathogens inside the human body without killing part of the patient too.

Comment #2: Robert: Thanks for actually adding a quality comment, as not only was it related to the subject, it also added to the content; cheers!

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Friday, March 11, 2022

Genetically Altered Animals & Cultured Meat

Please Note: This is an old blog post that I transferred here from a website of mine that I recently deleted. The original date of this post is September 7th, 2012. 

…This particular subject dawned upon me today, after re-reading a brief blog post that I wrote in the past (about 1.5 years ago) about the "Chupacabra – Goat Sucker" on a Myths, Legends, & Folklore Blogspot. While perusing over this old material, I was trying to not get hit broadside with folklore while I kicked the legends and pushed the myths far away. …This left me in a critical thinking mode, and I no longer needed some mythical creature as a focal point, as it was plain as day that we have our own genetically altered animals of today that beckons for a closer look. To make this even more troublesome, we got people trying to grow meat products in a laboratory, hence forth the “cultured meat” part of the title for this post.

Before I provide any related links and information about this subject, please get this simple word embedded into your brain, which is MONEY! Yep, the true culprit for these bizarre genetic experiments is about money, no matter what lovely reason of utter humanitarianism they try to feed you.

Anyway, the first article I’m about to link to, speaks about genetically modified animals.

It starts off by saying how it is a slow and tedious process that needs a lot of money to get off the ground. Oh, but ain’t the sole purpose of this to make a lot of money? Remember the old saying, “ya gotta spend money to make money.” Think about it: If you can grow meat in a lab along with animal-based organs for human transplant, wouldn’t that be a mega-money maker? Who cares about our health and/or if it is natural or how much antibiotics and growth hormones these “things” are pumped with or where it comes from, as if we can sell this crap in bulk, we got some rich folks in the making…

At any insane rate, after that article mentioned how this “genetically altered animals” stuff was a slow process, they went on to say: “Behind the scenes, though, a quiet revolution has been taking place. Thanks to a set of new tricks and tools, modifying animals is becoming a lot easier and more precise. That is not only going to transform research, it could also transform the meat and eggs you eat and the milk you drink.”

Toward the end of that page, they sort of spilled the beans by asking this question: So, in 20 years will GM (genetically modified) animals be as widespread as their botanic counterparts are now? “Technologically, nothing is standing in our way,” says Fahrenkrug. “Really, the issue is coming down to: what are you going to make?” You can read more about this, here: http://www.brainwaving.com/2010/07/28/genetically-modified-animals/

I think most of you will find that last article to be somewhat interesting, but not necessarily in a good way.

Hey, just think of the possibilities! Do you want a cool pet that glows in the dark? You want some cheap prime cuts of beef that was grown in a petri dish via not-so-natural methods? Yada-yada… They also tend to blame some of this type of research for the long journeys that space flights may have in the future, but I know that is one big load of baloney. I mean, NASA doesn’t have to provide their astronauts with a never-ending supply of lab-grown steaks, right? Get real…

I planned on covering more ground about the genetically altered animals, but I see (I sort of write as I go) that the main concern of mine at the moment, when concerning this subject, is this cultured meat stuff. I went to the glorious Wikipedia to get additional info and terms, and they seem to mainly call this junk “in vetro meat” but they mentioned how it is also called “cultured meat,” “laboratory-grown meat” and “shmeat” which is short for sheet meat, so go figure…

Back to NASA, Wikipedia states: “Modern research into ‘in vitro’ meat arose out of experiments conducted by NASA, attempting to find improved forms of long-term food for astronauts in space. The technique was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1995, and NASA has been conducting experiments since 2001, producing ‘in vitro’ meat from turkey cells. The first edible form was produced by the NSR/Touro Applied BioScience Research Consortium in 2000: goldfish cells grown to resemble fish fillets.”

You know, in a way, I could say “good for y’all.” Personally, I don’t want Lab Meat that has to be pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics, just so they can mass produce it and make tons of money while neglecting our health risks. Yes, they have admitted to that, as well, and you can read about it, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_vitro_meat [link is no longer active, but as the years went by, it now re-directs to this URL with modified information, here: Cultured meat - Wikipedia]

To make a long complaint short, everything that man has done to the food that isn’t natural, has never been good. Artificial this, artificial that, chemical injection here, a word I can’t pronounce in the ingredient list there, etc. Hell, when you think about it, cakes, pies and “junk food” aren’t natural either [I can hear the moans now…], as I have never seen a twinkie or cupcake grow from the ground yet; ha! I’m not trying to come off as a technology hater, but some things need to be left to Mother Nature. It is hard enough now, to find quality meat & produce that hasn’t been totally abused by human input. The last thing we need right now is genetically altered animals and stupid cultured meat that was grown from a petri dish.

Maybe I’m the oddball here, but what do you think?

At times, a Petri Dish is best when it's empty...

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