I took multivitamins every day for a decade. Then I found out they're useless.

I took multivitamins every day for a decade. Then I found out they're useless.:

Evidence is sufficient to advise against routine supplementation, and we should translate null and negative findings into action. The message is simple: Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified, and they should be avoided. This message is especially true for the general population with no clear evidence of micronutrient deficiencies, who represent most supplement users in the United States and in other countries. [Annals of Internal Medicine]

Specifically, the study found vitamins to be ineffective when it comes to reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer, declines in cognitive ability, and premature death. And, Quartz noted, some vitamins can even be "harmful in high enough quantities"...

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Trump Calls for Investigation into the Clintons' Russian Ties

Trump Calls for Investigation into the Clintons' Russian Ties:

"President Donald Trump took to Twitter Monday evening and asked why aren’t congressional lawmakers probing the various deals, transactions, and connections former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have to Russia."

My Friends Think That Being A Socialist Is About Being Nice

My Friends Think That Being A Socialist Is About Being Nice:
"Being a socialist is about being nice?
Do you have a friend who claims to be a socialist?
In the 20th century there have been numerous political systems, but in the latter half of the century there were only two survivors, Socialism and Capitalism.
So we have at this time in the Western world, which for all practical purposes controls the world, two opposing political systems.
(I have already previously stated that there is no basic difference between socialists and communists. 
There are, however, some very important factors relating to socialism of which you should be aware.
Socialism will not work in a free market economy and, as a consequence it invariably deteriorates into a totalitarian state. Anyone wishing to argue that point is asked to point to one single instance where this was not the result).
It therefore behooves us to remember who the worst despotic governments of this century were: 

• Nazis in Germany, 
• Fascists in Italy, 
• Communists in the USSR, [Romania, East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Cuba, North Korea, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc.] and 
• China – each and every one of them a paragon of socialist endeavor. 

Their leaders; Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin [Ceausescu, Tito, Pol Pot, etc.] and Mao Tse Tung.
The outstanding legacy of these individuals is that they each tried to out-do the others in the total number of their own citizens which they murdered.
It is a fact that each of these men killed more of their own civilian citizens than they lost in military conflict..."

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Sessions to Sanctuary Cities: Obey The Law Or Pay The Price [Video]

Sessions to Sanctuary Cities: Obey The Law Or Pay The Price [Video]:

"Two months after President Donald Trump warned America’s sanctuary cities they must comply with immigration officials or pay a price, Attorney General Jeff Sessions backed up that warning with his own statement that the day of reckoning is drawing near.

“The American people know that when cities and states refuse to help enforce immigration laws, our nation is less safe,” Sessions said Monday as he took the podium at White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s media briefing, noting that federal officials could “claw back” funds granted to cities that shelter illegal immigrants."

Every bad idea ultimately comes to America-----Italy Could Soon Offer Women Paid 'Menstrual Leave'

Italy Could Soon Offer Women Paid 'Menstrual Leave':
"Italy could soon become the first Western country to offer paid “menstrual leave” to female workers.
The proposed law is currently being debated in the country’s parliament. 
If passed, it would mandate that companies enforce a “menstrual leave” policy and offer three paid days off each month to working women who experience painful periods.
Health experts and local media outlets have praised the proposal, saying it was a step in the right direction and would shed light on the silent plight of women suffering from debilitating cramps that can sometimes affect their ability to work.
The Italian version of Marie Claire described it as “a standard-bearer of progress and social sustainability.”..."

Budget Basics: Who Pays Taxes?

Budget Basics: Who Pays Taxes?:

Ideas cause distress??!!-----Non-PC ideas 'impose upon the liberty' of progressive students, women's college says - The College Fix

Non-PC ideas 'impose upon the liberty' of progressive students, women's college says - The College Fix
"A cadre of Wellesley College professors wants to help students and faculty decide which potential speakers are too offensive to bring to campus.

...Presidential Commission on Race, Ethnicity, and Equity said the recently invited Laura Kipnis and previous controversial speakers were exhausting students with their offensiveness.

The six faculty on the women’s college commission cited the left-wing historian Jelani Cobb’s theory that certain ideas “impose on the liberty of another” if the person hearing those ideas is “relatively disempowered”:

There is no doubt that the speakers in question impose on the liberty of students, staff, and faculty at Wellesley. We are especially concerned with the impact of speakers’ presentations on Wellesley students, who often feel the injury most acutely and invest time and energy in rebutting the speakers’ arguments. Students object in order to affirm their humanity. This work is not optional; students feel they would be unable to carry out their responsibilities as students without standing up for themselves.

Apparently referring to campus reactions to Kipnis – the subject of a two-month Title IX “inquisition” at Northwestern University, where she teaches film – the commission members said “dozens of students” have told them “they are in distress as a result of a speaker’s words.”
Those who invited Kipnis and previous speakers must have known their ideas “would be painful to significant portions” of Wellesley, the commission members wrote.
They specifically criticized the sociology professor who invited Kipnis, Thomas Cushman, for writing something that “publicly disparaged” a group of students that made a video critical of Kipnis. (MUST WATCH VIDEO!)

The commission’s solution? 
Use them as a “sounding board” for potential speakers..."

Dem lawmaker tips off illegals in MS-13 hotbed

Dem lawmaker tips off illegals in MS-13 hotbed:

"In January 2016, federal authorities arrested 56 members of MS-13, a highly organized and well-funded Central American gang known for its brutal acts of violence, in and around the Boston area. They were indicted on conspiracy charges and charges related to murder, conspiracy to commit murder and attempted murder. Some were also charged with other offenses, including drug trafficking and firearm violations. According to the indictment, several of the individuals were involved in the murders of at least five people since 2014 and the attempted murders of at least 14 people.

MS-13’s motto is “Mata, viola, controla” – kill, rape, control."

Clarice Feldman - Jack is Back: The clues and evidence are in the...

Clarice Feldman - Jack is Back: The clues and evidence are in the...:
"The clues and evidence are in the PDB. 
Why? 
Because we know from press reports and other reports it goes back to July 2016. 
That is in the timeframe of the first FISA warrant being denied. 
Call in the spooks and have them set up a "red herring" for the fake.

If you look at some of the manueverings after that as the race tightened but not enough to be troublesome, the Russian thing began to develop because of Podesta's email and the DNC.

Now they are worried. 

Why? 
Because they the DNC and Clintons are the ones in the bag to the Russians, not Trump. 

Turn the tables and leak the hell out of it daily, if not hourly, reports on the Trump team regardless if they are talking to the Russians but because we own the press and can lie to them until their Cheerios are soaked.

Somewhere in the corrupted "deep state" is a patriot, one not turned just yet but still has a smile on his/her face. 

Decides enough is enough and sends Nunes to the PBD's. 

He needs cover to review them. 

Trump already has (by the way) and could be the snitch.

Now can they identify the reading parties? 

Beside the 13 to 19 agencies given open access by the Obama last minute EO? 

You bet they can because of the distribution stamp and sign off.

Remember Ben Rhodes is a Fiction Writing graduate and this is a simple novel for him."

AM Fruitcake

History for March 30

History for March 30 - On-This-Day.com:
Vincent Van Gogh 1853, John Astin 1930 - Actor ("Addams Family"), Peter Marshall 1930 - Game show host ("Hollywood Squares")


Warren Beatty 1937 - Actor, Eric Clapton 1945 - Musician, Celine Dion 1968 - Singer


1822 - Florida became a U.S. territory.


1842 - Dr. Crawford W. Long performed the first operation while his patient was anesthetized by ether.


1867 - The U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million dollars.

1870 - The 15th amendment, guaranteeing the right to vote regardless of race, was passed by the U.S. Congress.


1939 - The comic book "Detective Comics #27" appeared on newstands. This comic introduced Batman.


1950 - The invention of the phototransistor was announced.


1964 - "Jeopardy" debuted on NBC-TV.


1981 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr. Two police officers and Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded.

LIBERTY REVIEW

LIBERTY REVIEW:

https://libertyreview76.blogspot.com/2017/03/interestinghypocrisy-bytammy-derouin.html

Interesting Hypocrisy

By Tammy Derouin

Laws are based on a moral code. In the United States, our moral code was founded on Judaeo/Christian beliefs. Laws establish rules within our society. Consequences are in place to hold those accountable for breaking the law. A certain standard of behavior is expected when living in a civilized society. No one should be above the law.

We have begun a journey down a very dangerous path. When elected public servants pick and choose which laws they want to enforce, it creates a hostile environment. If laws are only enforced at the whim of an elected official, what's the sense in having them? Special privileges emerge when rules are not enforced equally. Are we going to become a land where man is greater than law? Our Revolutionary War put an end to this kind of tyranny, but if history isn't taught and understood, it will be re-visited.

It is very disturbing to watch laws being disregarded so effortlessly. The benefits and consequences of a law should not depend on which political ideology you embrace. When they are not upheld equally, our society as a whole will eventually suffer the consequences.

Sanctuary cities are a prime example of a blatant disregard for federal law. The individuals who run sanctuary cities should be held accountable. They are not above the law. However, after years of the federal government turning a blind eye to the reckless and careless behavior of these illegal safe havens, it's like trying to enforce house rules on a child which has had free rein for far too many years....... 

"Just think of the MSM as Democrat operatives with bylines, and it all makes sense."-Instapundit----- The Myth of an Unbiased Mainstream Media

The Myth of an Unbiased Mainstream Media:
"...For many, the illusion still remains that the mainstream media is unbiased.
...“It’s concerning that news organizations with a clear and stated bias are serving as the eyes and ears of the White House press corps, regardless of their political leaning,” Andrew Seaman, chair of the Society of Professional Journalists’ Ethics Committee...
Yet while many mainstream media outlets may not be “clear”—that is, transparent with their readers—about their perspective, there’s no doubt they indeed have a perspective.

First, let’s just look at the data about journalists:

• 96 percent of the donations given by journalists in the 2016 presidential election as of August were to Hillary Clinton, according to the Center for Public Integrity.
• 7 percent of journalists identify as Republican, while 28 percent identify as Democrat, according to an Indiana University School of Journalism study conducted in 2013.
• “Of the major newspapers that endorsed either Clinton or Trump, only 3 percent (2 of 59) endorsed Trump,” noted FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver.

When you keep those facts in mind, the actual behavior of the mainstream media starts to make more sense...."

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VDH, always a must-read-----The Civic Cost of Illegal Immigration | Hoover Institution

The Civic Cost of Illegal Immigration | Hoover Institution
The Civic Cost of Illegal Immigration

by Victor Davis Hanson-Tuesday, March 28, 2017

"The arguments for ignoring illegal immigration are as well-known as the self-interested motives that drive it.
In the abstract, open-borders advocates argue that in a globalized culture, borders are becoming reactionary and artificial constructs. 

They should not interrupt more natural ebbs and flows of migrant populations.
More concretely, an array of vested interests sees advantage in dismantling the border: 

• employers in hospitality, construction, food processing, and agriculture prefer hard-working low-wage immigrants, whose social needs are often subsidized by the government and who are reluctant to organize for higher wages.
• The Democratic Party welcomes in impoverished immigrants from Latin America and Mexico. It hopes to provide generous social welfare assistance and thereby shepherd new arrivals and their offspring into the salad bowl of victimization and identity politics—and thereby change the electoral map of key states from red to blue.
• La Raza activists see unchecked illegal immigration as useful in maintaining a large pool of unassimilated and poor foreign nationals who look to group leaders, thereby ensuring the continuance of what has become an industry of ethnic activism and careerism.
• Mexico—which is now offering advice to illegal immigrants on how best to avoid U.S. federal immigration authorities—has the most to gain by porous borders. It envisions the United States as a relief valve destination to export its own poor and desperate rather than to have them agitate and demand costly social services from Mexico City.

Yet lost in this conundrum are the pernicious effects of illegal immigration on the idea of citizenship in a consensual society. 

...The first pillar of citizenship is the idea that the nation-state has the sole right to create and control its own borders.
...When borders are fluid and unenforced, it inevitably follows that assimilation and integration also become lax, as society loses a sense of who, or even where, their residents are. 

And the idea that the Bill of Rights should apply to those beyond U.S. borders may be a noble sentiment, but the practical effect of such utopianism is to open a Pandora’s box of impossible enforcement, affronts to foreign governments, endless litigation, and a diversion of resources away from protecting the rights of citizens at home.
Residency is also confused with citizenship, but they are no more the same than are guests at a dinner party and the party’s hosts, who own the home..."

Lots more, read on!

Nikki Haley Leads Walkout on UN Nuclear Weapons Ban Meeting - Breitbart

Nikki Haley Leads Walkout on UN Nuclear Weapons Ban Meeting - Breitbart:

"American Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced Monday that her country and a list of nearly forty others would not participate in a meeting to pass an international nuclear weapons ban, calling the proposal “naive” and warning that “bad actors” like North Korea would take advantage of it."

Are we EVER gonna get mad enought to stop this?-----Michigan to Pay $660 Million in Secret Corporate Giveaways This Year [Michigan Capitol Confidential]

Michigan to Pay $660 Million in Secret Corporate Giveaways This Year [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"The state of Michigan is expected to pay $660.7 million in refundable tax credits to favored businesses in 2016-17 as part of its corporate welfare programs. 
That’s enough money to give all 99,000-plus Michigan public school teachers a $6,665 bonus.
The state keeps the names of the companies secret, but it is known that as of February, $433.6 million had already been paid during the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, 2016.
It’s important to note that these were not “tax breaks” but actual cash payments — money redistributed from people and small businesses to a handful of large and privileged corporations."

Nike’s Problematic Relationship with the Hijab - Acculturated

Nike’s Problematic Relationship with the Hijab - Acculturated:
"Major sportswear manufacturer, Nike, recently revealed an athletic headscarf for Muslim women. The product is termed the “Pro hijab” and is made of lightweight cloth with tiny holes that help the athletes’ skin breathe while keeping the skin covered.
In producing such a product, Nike is the first large-scale sportswear company to venture into the Muslim modesty market.
In many ways, Nike’s move is worthy of celebration.
In a world increasingly fraught with inter-communal tension and a fear of Muslims, a major brand embracing the hijab as a source of empowerment and paving the way for Muslim women’s integration is laudable. 
...But Nike’s move, while praiseworthy, also raises concerns.
...while leaving young Muslim entrepreneurs in the dust, so, too, is Nike purporting to innovate something that’s already been done.
As one commentator wrote on Facebook, “People keep asking me about my reactions to the Nike hijab . . . sorry folks, the capitalist appropriation of a spiritual practice doesn’t impress me...”

Lunch video-----Why is Modern Art so Bad?