Meat causes cancer?

Interesting follow-up to the contention that eating meat casuses cancer:

STRAWBERRIES CAUSE DEAFNESS
German University Revelation

Dr Heinz Strabismus, Proffessor Emerius of Clinical Pathology at the University of Arnis, Schleswig-Fleisburg, sprang today to the defence of the Australian sausage.
‘The idea that this so exzellent meat has any effect upon the health is an unverschämte Dummheit,ʼ he declared. ʽI have sausages sent each week by Herren David Jones of Sydney and consume them regularly, and my Gesundheit is the envy of the population of Arnis.'
This declartion follows his announcement last week that ‘It is now absolut verifizierbaren that eating strawberries results in deafness.‘
Asked whether he was stating this as a warning to refrain from consuming strawberries, he replied:‘Sicherlich! This Erdbeere is of all the fruits the most calamitous. We have discovered over many years research that innumerable persons over the age of 85 who suffer from increasing deafness have consumed the strawberries during their lifetime, and see the result! Es ist nicht zu leugnen!ʼ
Under pressure the Herr Doctor admitted that deafness in those of middle age was not as frequent as in the aged, but argued that this was because they could not afford sufficient quantities of strawberries. He advised those who could not refrain from the fruit to consume it with large quantities of rich cream This might result in death from heart disease, but he asked, ʽHave you ever heard of a dead person who has contracted deafness?ʼ
Woolworths and Coles are said to be independently courting Dr Strabismus as an international adviser on the relationship between food and health.

from the 'Arnis Unabhängige Echo' [Independent Echo] October 27 2015

Hi gals - it's still a man's world!

Yes, my female friends   Two things  have hit home to me very recently.       A few days ago we were at Melbourne airport.  It was about four o'clock and there were at least thirty people waiting to check in at the business class gate for a flight to Sydney.   I looked at the queue.   It consisted of us and the rest were single travellors carrying their brief cases and their lap tops -obviously  having done a good day's business in Melbourne, and seemingly going home - or  to yet more meetings.   The whole queue consisted of men.   Looking around I actually saw two business women in line.   I thought, well we've come a long way, but we've sure got a hell of a way to go.   It's still a man's world!   The second incident is really dreadful.   Did you know that when new drugs are being researched and tested they are nearly always just tested on men?   There is considerable evidence that women do react differently  but this is largely ignored.   I have learned that the drug companies have many excuses.  The research would take far longer, and add  to thecost. Women  menstrate, get pragnant and there would be considerable risk to the feotus.     To quote one incident, occasionally  problems occur:  the sleeping pill 'Stillnox' was ony tested on men and it was recently discovered that women eliminate more slowly than  men, causing them to be less alert in the morning, and after taking the pill it has led to cases of  'sleep driving'!  Do these compainies not know that there are millions of us who don't mensttrate any more, who have well and truly have completed their families?     Most of us are all-together gals, physically fit and exercised, with every marble well in place where it should be - even if we are not be under thirty or whatever.    Or will this simply be yet another excuse to cut short important  important research which has impact on half the world's population?       Why not bring up this problem when being precribed a drug you've not experienced before?

We Brits. . .

Hello Gals and Guys    Well yes we Brits. . . .You know we don't sing our own praises that often,   nor do we put our hands on our hearts every morning  as school starts and swear allegiance to the Queen and the flag;  and while we all love HM,really it's not just our way.   Of course we are more than merely excited, and probably feel somewhat smug, when we gather huge clusters of medals at Olympics and so on, but I do feel very strongly that there is one night every year when we can, and should  go O.T.T and be more than proud to be British.   This is the Last Night of the Proms!   I usually, burst into tears when 'Land of Hope and Glory' begins and that's just as it should be.   Glorious in more ways than one.   I have been present on several Last Nights and the atmosphere in the Hall is indescribable.  I remember slightly scolding a woman waving the EEC flag and in my best polite English way I did say 'Oh no not tonight please!'   Of course, we all know that the 'mighty' which is made much of in the inspiring lyrics of our national song, isn't what it was; but it's good to let the world know of our sense of pride, and this night-of- nights is just one occasion when  we really can show off with justification.   Derek and I now live in Sydney so we couldn't be there on Saturday, 14th September, however last evening (Sunday) watching the occasion on UKTV found me tear- stained, opening our patio doors and turning up the television  sound to it fullest. . . Well, ,Australia loves the Queen too, even if at the moment we Brits are tactful when  the cricket is in our favour!!!  And until that long distant day when Australia becomes  a Republic why not?     Cheers Julia

Here's another 'return' for you!

Hi Gals and Guys.   A while ago I told you about the Jupiter return, well here's another that you can work out for yourselves.   Remember I said that because Jupiter takes twelve years to travel round the sun and comes back to the position it was in when you were born, it makes a useful trend to use to push yourselves on in what is most important to you.   Well. . .  Saturn takes some 29 and a half to thirty years to travel round the sun, and so we get our first Saturn Return as we approach thirty, and the second as we near sixty.   Becoming thirty is a landmark time, when we reassess our progress in our lives and often begin to feel that bit older, and we ask ourselves 'what next?'  Many people at this important time deepen their relationship by marriage  (or end an unsuccessful  partnership) start their families and often make house purchase.  While now reasonably settled in their careers the time is right to decide on long term ambitions and if already done so then the time is also right to decide on the next steps of the ladder - again a time to use constructively and to take important decisions, sometimes hard ones, but it's unlikely to make a bad decision at this time,  but changes are often made.   As we near sixty we approach our second Saturn Return.    So many people come out of full time employment and retire, perhaps they 'down size' .   But here too is a time to look to the future and while they are thinking seriously about their future, they must also think very positively.   This can be hard but. . .  this second Saturn return is unique, because it is also the time  of a Jupiter Return - one's fifth in the order of things.   Here Jupiter is countering any negativity, and at its strongest it is saying you now have time to concentrate on those interests you've not had time for in the past time to do so.   It's not a time to crumble under any Saturn's dreariness but to think of this and use your coming decades in a positive and rewarding way.  Grandchildren often feature, there'll be  time for travel if it can be afforded ,  this surely is time given, and above all else keep exercising, even if you have to modify your schedule.   Make the most of this demanding, but  inspiring period..   Now of course more and more of us live to get our third Saturn Return.   if that's you're lot, be happy think and tell younger people all about what it was like when you were young - especially the second World War.!!! Check out photo albums making quite sure that there are descriptions of what and who are in the pictures on the back of the pictures!

On Masturbation: Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism.

Mark Twain On Masturbation: Some Thoughts on the Science of Onanism.

Homer, in the second book of the Iliad, says with fine enthusiasm: ‘Give me masturbation or give me death!’

Caesar, in his Commentaries, says, “to the lonely it  is company; to the forsaken it is a friend; to the aged and impotent it is a benefactor; they that be penniless are yet rich in that they still have this majestic diversion.’ In another place this excellent observer has said, ‘There are times when I prefer it to sodomy.’

Robinson Crusoe says, ‘I cannot describe what I owe to this gentle art.’

Queen Elizabeth said, ‘It is the bulwark of virginity.’

Cetewayo, the Zulu hero, remarked that ‘A jerk in the hand is worth two in the bush.’

The immortal Franklin has said, ‘Masturbation is the mother of invention.’ He also said, ‘Masturbation is the best policy.’

Michelangelo and all the other Old Masters have used similar language. Michelangelo said to Pope Julius II, ‘Self-negation is manly, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.’

Mr Browning, in one of his latest and most graceful poems refers to it in an eloquent line which is destined to live to the end of time: ‘None know it but to love it, None name it but to praise.’

Such are the utterances of the most illustrious of the masters of this renowned science.

Manilius on the twelve Signs.

'Aurato princeps Aries in vellere fulgens
Respicit admirans aversum surgere Taurum . . .'

Resplendent in his golden fleece the Ram leads the way and looks back with wonder at the backward rising of the Bull, who with lowered face and brow summons the Twins; these the Crab follows, the Lion the Crab, and the Virgin the Lion. Then the Balance, having matched daylight with the length of night, draws ion the Scorpion, ablaze with his glittering constellation, at whose tail the man with body of a horse aims with taut bow a winged shaft, ever in act to shoot. Next comes Capricorn, curled up within his cramped asterism, and after him from urn upturned the Waterman pours forth the wionter stream for the Fishes which swim eagerly into it; and these as they bring up the rear of the signs are joined by the Ram.

Manilius - Astronomica, c.90BC.

What a difference a day makes!