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My Season of Strength. ~ Sarah Cahill
I'm back from a week in the sun: tan, relaxed, and ready.
Remember the craze when everyone was getting their colors done? I never got mine because I didn't feel the need to pay money to be told that I was a summer. I already knew it. I was born a Summer.
In summer, I come alive. The shoes come off, the hair gets blonder and wilder, (even wilder than usual,) and I feel lean, energized, and carefree. The tent comes out of the closet for some backyard campouts and I putter around my garden for hours on end. I can feel the heat in my body and it flushes me with sensation. I feel strong.
Summer is the season of fire; it is the season of transformation, of moving forward and stepping out of our comfort zone. It is when we build inner heat and power. It is the season of strength.
But what is strength?
Webster's dictionary defines strength as:
- Having great physical power
- Having moral or intellectual power
- Having great resources (such as wealth or talent)
Yes, in yoga asana practice we work to strengthen the physical body. Each part of our body over time becomes much stronger. So, if I do yoga for many years does that make me a strong person? By the dictionary definition—yes, it does. But I think strength goes so much deeper than that. I think that the toning of our core, being able to hold plank or crow for a minute, or pop up into handstand, is simply a means to find our inner strength.
It's a path to give us the confidence, focus, and inner knowing that if we can hold ourselves up physically, we can take that off the mat into real life where the challenges are so much greater.
So what does it mean to be strong?
Let me offer some of my definitions:
1. Fully allow your emotions.
We are always told to be strong when difficult things happen – but that usually means acting stoic and keeping the emotions at bay. But what takes much greater strength is to flow with them. Sorrow, anger, fear, desire. They are all a part of each and every one of us and they are neither good nor bad. They are what make us human. Being strong does not mean you don't have fear, (in fact, you might even have more,) but you move toward it and not away. Being strong does not mean you don't cry, (that would be unhealthy), and you may actually cry more to let out stored sorrow so there is more room for joy. Being strong doesn't mean you can't express anger, but it does mean realizing that the anger is a part of you and has absolutely nothing to do with anyone else. Now that takes strength.
2. Let others see you.
Being you and not what others expect or want from you is not easy. We usually feel that "me" is not quite good enough, so we wear our many masks to better ourselves up. Better mom, better spouse, better worker. We're afraid that if others saw us exactly as we are, they may not love us. But we are absolutely at our most beautiful when we are ourselves. We glow in our natural state. We are each perfect.
3. Admit when you are wrong.
I have always struggled with this one. I like to be right. But being right in life does not win you any prizes. It takes much more courage to see and allow other people's view, without the constant need to try to change them. A work in progress for me.
4. Relax.
And I don't mean take a vacation. Relax at every moment that it occurs to you. Soften the breath. Let go of the jaw. Melt the muscles. And the hardest time to do this is when life is confronting you face to face in the forms of someone angry, an unexpected traffic jam when you are late, or less cash coming in this month than expected. Reacting is easy. We are quite good at that. But it takes incredible strength not to react, but to relax.
5. Be vulnerable.
Send out love all of the time—giving without expectation. Take chances.
6. Trust your inner voice.
Your intuition. Living from this place without the need to have everything confirmed by an "expert" or proven in a lab. Doing what feels right. Asking the Universe for guidance and being willing to move forward with its answer.
7. Be flexible.
Strength in its standard definition can make us tight. It can be a contraction of muscles and emotions. When our body or mind are inflexible, our lives can quickly follow behind. We end up wanting things to be a certain way and muscling through when they aren't the way we imagined. When we are flexible we flow with the twists and turns of life effortlessly. Instead of a clear line of sight from here to there, we allow some meandering along curved paths because deep inside we know we will get there. Besides, the fun is in the unexpected curves!
8. Look people right in the eye.
Not for the faint hearted. But when you have inner strength you are ready to share it with others.
9. Not always trying so hard.
Spend more time being.
And finally, have complete and utter trust in life.
This is the one that all of the others above stem from. To me, true strength is when you know—just know without any doubt—that everything is ok. That you can lie back and close your eyes knowing that the Universe is a benevolent being of which you are one unique beautiful spark.
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4 Responses to "My Season of Strength. ~ Sarah Cahill"
beautiful. Great reminders!
Thank you Rajni
You inspire so many people! I have read and re-read Season of Strength many times, as I do with all your postings.
Thank you so much for sharing with me.
Claudia Esposito
You are definitely a summer! Very inspirational and I hope to be as good a gardener as you if I ever get a place with some sun.


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Authorities Monday identified a 26-year-old man killed in a traffic crash early Saturday in Newbury Park.
Fernando Balam Guillen, of Camarillo, died after his SUV rear-ended another vehicle on Highway 101, officials said.
The impact caused him to lose control of the vehicle, which veered off the highway and flipped, according to the California Highway Patrol. Balam Guillen was partially ejected after his SUV stopped on the Rancho Conejo Road on-ramp, the CHP said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
A passenger in the SUV, Axeal Ambriz, 26, of Thousand Oaks, suffered minor injuries and was taken to Los Robles Hospital & Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, authorities said.
The man driving the other vehicle, Kiva Weinsteindelker, 20, of Santa Barbara, and his passengers were not injured.
Authorities closed the highway for about two hours after the crash, according to the CHP.
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Marriage equality in Hawaii? We've got the facts.
As Hawaii lawmakers prepare to consider marriage equality legislation once special session begins on October 28th, we're equipping supporters across the state with the tools they need to show what the marriage bill is all about — extending marriage to loving same-sex couples while protecting religious freedom.
Get the facts below and then click here to ask your legislators to stand on the right side of history by voting for marriage equality in special session.
Religious freedom is a fundamental part of America. The proposed marriage equality law will not and cannot change that. The proposed law ensures that no clergy can be required to perform a same-sex marriage if he or she objects. This protects religious freedom. And the proposed law also says that churches or other religious organizations will not be required to rent their facilities for same-sex weddings unless the facilities are open to the general public for weddings.
Holding a special session gives the Legislature more time and opportunities to focus on this bill. In a regular session, lawmakers have only a few weeks to review and gather public input on thousands of proposed bills. In this special session, lawmakers have 10 weeks to consider a single bill. Additionally, the proposed marriage equality bill will be given at least one public hearing in each chamber.
Religious freedom is a fundamental part of America, and Hawaii's proposed marriage equality law protects the right of clergy to decide which marriages they will solemnize, consistent with their faith. No lawsuit has ever been filed against clergy in any of the 13 states plus the District of Columbia where same-sex couples can marry (or in any of the states, including Hawaii, where same-sex couples can enter into civil unions).
In fact, the proposed marriage equality law is modeled after Hawaii's civil unions law, which provides that the clergy may refuse to perform a civil union for any reason. No clergy member in Hawaii has been punished or penalized in any way for such a refusal.
Consistent with both the federal and state constitutions, Hawaii's marriage bill protects the right of churches and other religious institutions to decide whom they will marry. Some churches will perform marriages for same-sex couples, and some will not, just as some houses of worship will perform interfaith marriages and some will not. The federal and state constitutions already protect those beliefs and practices. The proposed marriage bill will not, and cannot, change this.
The proposed marriage equality law only applies if a property is open to the general public for weddings for a profit. Any church or religious organization may adopt its own rules about which marriages it will host, subject to that general principle. For example, a religious organization may adopt a practice that its facilities are available for weddings of individuals who share its faith but no one else. This would comply with the state's nondiscrimination laws, and is expressly permitted under the marriage equality law.
A religious organization may still allow visitors and other non-members to come to its services, or enter the chapel or facility to take photographs, or operate a religious school without opening itself up to Hawaii's public accommodations law. Under the proposed marriage equality bill, religious organizations may refuse to host any wedding for any reason, unless the organization rents its facilities to the general public for weddings for profit.
We are unaware of any case ever being brought against a religious organization for refusing to rent a church or place of worship itself for a marriage ceremony.
The proposed marriage equality law ensures that clergy and religious organizations may decide which weddings they will solemnize, no matter what they do, or who they choose to marry. It goes further, and also reaffirms that they may decide which weddings to allow on their premises, unless they offer the use of their facilities for weddings to the general public. If they do not allow anyone to rent their facility for weddings, the fact that another part of the organization is open to the public does not mean that they must allow gay couples to rent the space for weddings. That's because religious organizations have no obligation to allow people to get married on their premises. The marriage law won't change that.
Again, the proposed marriage equality law ensures that clergy and religious organizations may decide which weddings they will solemnize, no matter what they do, or who they choose to marry. They also may decide which weddings to allow on their premises, unless they offer the use of their facilities for weddings to the general public. If they allow their facilities to be used for other purposes like community meetings or rent their facilities under contract, for example to Kumon, but don't rent their facilities for weddings, there is no requirement that they allow gay couples to rent their space for weddings.
The proposed marriage equality law ensures that no clergy can be required to perform any marriage to which they object. This protects religious freedom. And the law goes further, by clarifying that churches or other religious organizations need not allow anyone to use their facilities for weddings, so long as those facilities aren't rented for weddings to the general public for a profit.
Delaware recently passed a marriage equality law with an exemption that is narrower than the proposed Hawaii language. California also has a narrower exemption. And in states like Massachusetts and Iowa, the legislatures have rejected efforts to add any exemption language. In other words, Hawaii's proposed marriage equality law gives more protections to churches and religious organizations than the laws of several other states. The exemption in the proposed marriage equality bill is consistent with Hawaii's tradition of treating everyone fairly, while protecting religious liberty.
In 2006, the Hawaii legislature rightfully extended our nondiscrimination laws to protect gay people. Same-sex couples shouldn't lose these important protections if they are allowed to enter into civil marriage. Allowing same-sex couples to marry promotes fairness while also protecting the religious beliefs of all people about marriage.
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia already have the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. Some states have narrower exemptions, and some have broader special exemptions. The differences in exemptions largely reflect differences in existing state nondiscrimination protections. Religious freedom and a commitment to equal treatment coexist in all these states. The same will happen in Hawaii.
The proposed marriage equality law ensures that no clergy or religious institution will be required to perform any wedding. It also ensures that religious institutions that choose not to rent their facilities for weddings may continue to exclude anyone they wish. When the legislature extended our nondiscrimination laws to protect gay people in 2006, it determined, after due consideration of public testimony, that once a business or organization opens its doors to the public and operates for profit, it must treat everyone fairly, and no one should be turned away just because they are gay or lesbian. Allowing the freedom to marry is no reason to change these basic principles of fairness.
Different faiths have different rules about who they will marry – and no church has lost its tax-exempt status for acting according to their faith. Nothing will change if gay couples can marry in Hawaii.
In 2007, a religious association that owns land in Ocean Grove, NJ, refused to let a lesbian couple rent its beach pavilion for their civil union ceremony, even though the pavilion was otherwise open to the public for rent for all kinds of events. The couple did not seek to hold their ceremony in a church, or to have the religious association perform the civil union. After the denial, the couple filed a complaint with the state human rights commission. The association subsequently decided to close the pavilion for public use, which meant it wasn't entitled to a state "public land" tax break. The association did not lose any religious group exemptions to which it was entitled, and the couple ultimately had their ceremony elsewhere.
We are all entitled to our religious beliefs, but no belief is an excuse to break the law by discriminating against others. We may not all feel the same way about gay people, but we can agree that it is important to treat people fairly, with respect, and as we would want to be treated ourselves. That's why no state that allows same-sex to marry permits businesses to discriminate based on the religious beliefs of the owners.
There is an existing case against an inn that refused to rent a room to a gay couple. The couple won in the trial court and the case is on appeal. The case has nothing to do with marriage equality: it has to do with Hawaii's public accommodations law, which has been on the books for many years.


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Aerosmith is coming to Oklahoma City arena, releasing new album
Tyler recalls when he was growing up in New Hampshire and picking up a country station in Fort Wayne, Ind., at night by running a wire from the antenna of his radio to the top of an apple tree outside of his house.
"And that's a true story," he said. "And so I was born and bred with country music."
Affinity with Oklahoma
Maybe that's why Tyler feels so at home in the Sooner State, to which he recently returned for a sad occasion.
"My ex-wife's father just passed away four months ago," he said. "Frank Barrick. But the family's there, and it's all my family. I love every one of them, and we went and cried for two days and just had a real down-home family funeral, and it was beautiful.
"I love Oklahoma. I love Tenkiller. I got baptized there. My wife tried to drown me, but there's something."
Along with the country touches, Tyler assures that there are plenty of full-on rockers on the new album, such as "Oh Yeah," "Luv XXX" and "Freedom Fighter," the latter featuring Johnny Depp on backing vocals. The album also reunites the band with Jack Douglas, producer of some of Aerosmith's most enduring long-players, including "Toys in the Attic" (1975) and "Rocks" (1976), which rank as two of Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time."
And while the band has a well-known history of infighting, sudden departures of members, substance abuse, Tyler's accident-prone tendencies to fall off stages and break bones and mess up his feet, and all the general dysfunctionality, the singer considers this 15-song, nearly 70-minute-long album to be a united group effort, with songwriting contributions from guitarist Brad Whitford, bassist Tom Hamilton and drummer Joey Kramer, as well as prolific lead guitarist Joe Perry and Tyler.
But Tyler seems especially proud of the duet with Underwood, which he expects to become a crossover hit on country radio.
"I learned harmony and singing and my passion from the Everly Brothers, so she was the first one we thought of," he said. "The song was beautiful. I thought maybe the guys would like the song. I brought it to them and one night while we were here in L.A. four months ago, Carrie was here.
"I called her up. I go, 'Where are you? I'd love you to sing this song.' She goes, 'I'm in L.A. but I'm leaving in the morning.' I said, 'You gotta come over.' So she came over to the studio and sang it in about two hours. I sang it with her and voila, man, it's just so good.
"You know, it's funny. You write a song, and if you pay homage to the way it's coming out and not deny it — it's not like we wrote a country song for it to be a crossover, which is an easy thing for people to think. The song kind of wrote itself and turned into this."


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Is your site not generating any more traffic? Are stuck in the lagging phase of your traffic's growth rate? Have you tried everything and still cannot produce any result? If you want to know sure ways on how to keep your traffic growing, then today is you're lucky day. You can learn more on this when you keep on reading.
Reaching a plateau on your traffic's growth curve will surely challenge anyone of you. It is not the easiest problem to solve since most of time, when you reach this wall; it means you have already exhausted all of your tricks on generating traffic. You might even think that it won't matter anymore especially when you are already satisfied with the number of your readers. However, you should always aim for improvement. Why settle when there are definite ways on breaking this wall?
How to keep your traffic growing?
As you drive more traffic to your website your community of followers and your popularity grow as well. It is important for anyone who wants to become a house name in their niche to continuously grow the number of their traffic.
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- Advertise. Yes, there are a lot of ways that you can generate traffic, so why advertise, right? If you'd reach that wall where you're your traffic stops on growing, you would want to explore any opportunities that would help you break that. Besides, paid advertisement will surely generate traffic for you. You'd get what you pay for!
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- Look at your hero. Anyone has someone that they look up to. They might be the very reason why you started your website in the first place. Since you got that inspiration on starting from them, then why not go back to their sites and study how they operate? Most probably your hero is an expert on your chosen niche. Try to mimic how they keep their blogs; see how often they update their sites, the social networking sites that they use, and if they interact with their audience.
- Stick to your strengths. Try to stick to your strengths. Keep on doing what you do best. Do not try to balance everything on your own. Instead of making things better, you might just end up having a mediocre website. So what you need to do is to invest on things that you are not great at. You may want to outsource tasks that you are not familiar with. Buy products that can be integrated with your own to help grow your market. Knowing your limitations and investing on things that can help you counter these limitations will help ensure continuous improvement of your website.
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There are a number of ways that you can do to go beyond the traffic wall. It is up to you to make the right move and take the lead to keep your traffic growing.


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For adults that would like to learn first-hand about birding, there is a Beginners Birding Trip from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, May 6. The group will visit a variety of locations in West Michigan to find and identify a diversity of birds, and to see what birding is all about. Transportation is by personal vehicles. There is no fee; however, advanced registration is required and space is limited. A state park passport may be required. A letter with details and meeting location will be sent in advance to those registered. Call 616-786-4847 to register.
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It was a tough weekend for the Eagles but it also had some bright spots as well. Snow took advantage of their home crowd and downed the Eagles in three. But CEU traveled north and came out hard against an even tougher opponent to win the first game before succumbing to Salt Lake Community College in the final three sets.
On Friday, Oct. 16 the Eagles had to head to Ephraim. This would be the third match-up between the teams this season. The previous two meetings CEU came out on top. This time Snow was at home and it made the difference. Fresh off two wins the previous weekend, the Eagles could not maintain the momentum and lost in three straight sets; 24 - 26, 18- 25 and 22- 25.
"We didn't play bad; in fact I thought we played pretty well, but Snow stepped it up and played better. They were at home and I guess they wanted it just a little more than we did," commented Coach Brent Martindale.
On Saturday CEU seized the opportunity to jump out quickly on the SLCC team. In set one the Eagles surprised the top ranked team with a decisive 25-15 win. CEU's two Brazilian players, Sabrina Simas and Barbara Jardin accounted for 75 percent of the Eagle offense with 28 kills between them. But the Bruins are a great team and rebounded to take the next three straight and the match.
"Again we played some great volleyball. We certainly caught them off guard in game one, but then they woke up. Their coach was impressed and asked if we had played this hard against Snow. I said we had but lost anyway."
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Mashami urges troops to fight till the end
AFTER securing a slim qualification to the quarter finals of the Peace Cup competition, APR FC interim head coach Vincent Mashami has rallied his team mates to keep focus and work their socks off in bid to win the tournament.
The military side who have won the tournament six times had to thank goal keeper Jean Claude Ndoli as he made two saves in the penalty shoot-out as seven-time champions APR completed a dramatic 10-9 win over AS Muhanga on spot-kicks in the Peace Cup 1/8th round at Kigali Regional stadium after a goalless draw over 90 minutes.
The club which was missing five of their first choice players (Jean Claude Iranzi, Patrick Sibomana, Emery Bayisenge, Charles Tibingana and Olivier Kwizera) due to injuries had a poor outing against a re-organised AS Muhanga, wasted many goal scoring opportunities.
Coach Mashami said on Wednesday, "It was a tough game. We could have scored goals but it was unfortunate that we didn't find the net in normal 90 minutes but still we were confident on qualification,"
"We underrated our opponents which was not good because they were motivated having reached last year's finals. Along the way, our players lost concentration and intensity but the most important factor we had to win the game,"
"I must thank players for ensuring that APR progresses to the next round. We hope to keep improving because we have a tight challenge ahead. For us to display good performances and even win the title, players need to be composed and focused because any slight mistake will hurt our title quest," added Mashami.
APR FC, who have a record 13-league titles will face the winner between AS Kigali and Rayon Sports in the quarter finals. The 1/8th round tie between Rayon Sports and AS Kigali will be played on June 6.
AS Kigali won their 1/16th fixture against Rwamagana 3-1 yesterday at Kicukiro turf to match into the 1/8th round. This fixture was not played on time due to the club's engagement in Africa club competitions last month.


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City council grants five-year lease for golf course
November 5, 2009
There will be the sound of "fore" echoing from the Baldwin City Municipal Golf Course for at least five more years.
The Baldwin Golf Association had asked the Baldwin City Council for a five-year lease of the city-owned property, instead of the yearly lease it had been given since the city bought the property several years ago.
"In the past, we've done a one-year agreement," said City Administrator Jeff Dingman. "We did settle on a five-year agreement, with a duty to report every year."
Mayor Ken Wagner agreed that it gives the association more of a chance to eye the future.
"The golf association has asked for a longer term for planning purposes," said Wagner.
In past years, members of the association said they couldn't replace maintenance equipment if they didn't know they'd have the golf course for more than a year. The property was bought with the idea of maintaining green space and providing room for more recreational uses. But those needs are still being worked on.
"We have no immediate plans for this property different than what it is being used for," said Dingman.
The council unanimously passed the five-year lease. The council cast the same vote on the only other matter of business at Monday's meeting. That was to purchase a new patrol car for the police department for $22,252. The unmarked police car currently in the fleet will be traded in on the new cruiser.
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greyghost 5 years, 11 months ago
Isn't Junior a member of the Baldwin Golf Association?
greyghost 5 years, 11 months ago
I can only assume that Jr. did not recuse himself. Junior, again with the conflict of interest thing? Why do insist on using your civic powers to push your own personal agendas?
I had called you out on the Hickory Creek BBQ vote to where you abstained from the final decision, but you apparently still can't grasp the notion of recusal.
You should not vote on these things and you should not participate in any way in the decision, including discussions.
jmyrick 5 years, 11 months ago
Moot point, fake. Vote is 5-0 or 4-0. What's the difference?
greyghost 5 years, 11 months ago
Jesus! My point is is that Mr. City Council should not have participated in any of this business. Would it have passed without him? Sure, but that is not the point.
The point remains that this isn't the first time that Jr. has tried to use his position as an elected official to further his own personal goals. Just shows what kind of people we have running this town. Where's the accountability? Who's going to call him out? Me, that's who. . .ME!
Oh, and since name calling is now part of your "editorializing", you've just lost lost yourself my $0.75/week. It's not your fault entirely though, I already get a great deal on bulk toilet paper from Sam's Club!
Why don't you go back to commenting on Halloween candy with Peabody and Still_Pool?
Stacy Napier 5 years, 11 months ago
I agree with the ghost.
We had the same problem with Ken Hayes. Business owners on the Council should not have any hand in a descision that effects their business or property. It is conflict of interest.
Sounds like he might be in violation of 75-4304.
Maybe all the council should read the statutes. And there is accountabiltiy. Maybe someone should call Steve Six's office.
solo 5 years, 11 months ago
He is a member, not an owner of the golf association. I don't see the problem. I am not a big Ted fan, but on this one I don't think he did anything wrong.
jmyrick 5 years, 11 months ago
There you go, solo. Well done.
SpeaksSlowlyToIdiots 5 years, 11 months ago
Leave Ted alone on this. He didn't speak to the measure at all when given the chance, meaning he didn't attempt to influence other Council members. He had no duty at all to recuse himself because there was no monetary gain for him at all. Recreational gain, perhaps. But if Council members were not supposed to realize any gain from their votes, then they couldn't drive on Baldwin streets, or call the Police or Fire Department, or for that matter, attend the Maple Leaf Committee.
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78. Deputy Ciarán Lynch asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport the funds, if any, that have been made available for the upkeep or enhancement of St. Finbarre's Cathedral Cork in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12285/11]
Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport (Deputy Jimmy Deenihan): Between 2008 and 2010, St. Finbarre's Cathedral in Cork received €104,000 in funding for conservation works under the Civic Structures Conservation Grants Scheme, which is administered by my Department. In addition, the Heritage Council, which is funded by my Department, provided funding of €310,500 for the cathedral under the Significant Places of Public Worship Grants Scheme between 2008 and 2010. I understand that St. Finbarre's Cathedral applied for funding under this scheme in 2011 but was unsuccessful in its application. Due to a significant reduction in the budgetary allocation for built heritage, the operation of the Civic Structures Conservation [849]Grants Scheme has been suspended. Limited funding is being provided through a Structures at Risk Fund in 2011 to assist with works to safeguard structures protected under the Planning and Development Acts 2000-2010. Details of the operation of the fund have been issued to each local authority. The closing date for the receipt of applications under this scheme has passed. No application was received by my Department in respect of St. Finbarre's Cathedral for funding under the Structures at Risk Fund.
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Some self-anointed LLMD's (Lyme-Literate Medical Doctors) have jumped on the bandwagon of "chronic Borrelia neurotoxins" and are insisting on the need to "detoxify" them. Since there exists no solid evidence for the existence of such toxins, their treatment guidelines of even those I give the benefit of the doubt contain weasel words such as "it is supposed that", "could be present", "may be found", "has been proposed" etc.
The myth started with patent application nr. 6667038 by Sam Donta and Mark Cartwright.
In it, they claim ownership to any diagnostic/treatment process based on their discovery of a coding sequence in the Bb genome for a toxin they say is similar to Botulin C2 toxin, calling it BbTox1, as if it really has been proven to exist. However, the long patent application never mentions any actual discovery of the alleged toxin, neither in vivo nor in vitro. The mere presence of genes is no guarantee in the slightest for the actual expression of those genes, so their patent is a great leap of faith, a gamble, an investment in the hope that who knows, perhaps some day someone will find significant levels of an actual toxin, expressed by the code discovered in the Bb cDNA. In fact, all the patent does is secure that the discoverers of the sequence will receive royalties if anyone ever does something pertaining to it. However not even after decades of searching, this elusive Borrelia toxin has never been found. Could it be that due to the winding ways of the Good Lord's evolution, that there is all kinds of ancient unexpressed DNA in just about any genome more complex than a simple virus? Lyme neurotoxins are nothing but conjecture, but a veritable cottage industry has been built around it, with a few players raking in the big dough with their dubious "Lyme detoxing protocols".
Until the existence of Lyme neurotoxins is proven (it shouldn't be so hard to find them in a culture broth), we should not risk what remains of our health and spend time, effort and money on trying to "detox" them, because the "detoxifiers" and "toxin binders" such as Cholestyramine (Questran) have never proven their value in any randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed, reproducible trial but they do have very serious potential side effects, including cancer. Those binders bind important nutrients as well, weakening the immune system. "Detoxing" (AKA the ethereal "body cleansing") distracts from the real issue: How to kill the Lyme spirochetes more effectively and how to prevent an extreme immune response to the Bb bacteria/dieoff damaging our tissues. Lymeland still has trouble being taken seriously and the last thing we need is more bunk to muddy the waters. The big issues impeding a speedy resolution of symptoms under treatment are antibiotic resistance, bacterial persistence and excessive immune reactions to relatively low bacterial loads. We don't need one more excuse to deny antibiotic treatment and blame persisting symptoms on "chronic neurotoxins". Neuro-Lyme patients need open-ended antibiotic treatment with high doses of appropriate antibiotic combo's. Any attempt to distract from this fact – especially in a wholly unscientific, vulgarly commercialized manner – is greatly detrimental to our cause. When LLMD's continue to write books and spam websites, evangelizing their "Lyme detox protocols", eventually, ordinary doctors will take the disease even less seriously and will focus less on long-term antibiotic treatment and more on unproven "detoxing".
As to those elusive "fat soluble Lyme toxins" , I can't put it more consise than this mother of a son with chronic Neuroborreliosis:
Fascinating…….but for the fact that B. burgdorferi does not produce any toxins.
No neurotoxins. No cytotoxins. No hemolysins. No enterotoxins. No endotoxins. No exotoxins. No exfoliative toxins.
No classical bacterial toxin. Period.
The closest anyone has come to seeing any toxin activity with B. burgdorferi was some test tube hemolysis back in 1992. And that turned out to be wrong as two guys at Wesleyan showed in 2000 (J Bacteriol. 2000 Dec;182(23):6791-7).
But why believe an online stranger. Ask Burrascano or Shoemaker. Ask them a couple of very fundamental questions such as….
What's the molecular weight of this toxin?
Is it plasmid-encoded?
If it's plasmid-encoded do all strains carry this plasmid and produce a toxin?
Is it a protein or a glycoprotein?
What's its receptor?
Is it released or membrane-bound?
Has anyone produced commercial antibody to it?
Has it been sequenced (like the burgdorferi genome) and can I look it up in GenBank?
If it plays a role in pathogenesis, why hasn't it been attenuated for use as a vaccine candidate?
So are there really no neurotoxins to worry about?
Borrelia has never been proven to produce any kind of toxin, but Lyme infection may indirectly cause a harmful increase of certain brain chemistry products. Particularly QUIN, Quinolinic acid. A fellow Lyme sufferer and attorney named Anthony Murawski has done extensive medical literature research into this phenomenon, and has published a preliminary paper on this, which we mirrored here:
Suffice to say that no currently peddled "Lyme detox regimen" addresses this possible issue. I'll write a separate article about the possible implications of his findings. He remarks that Lyme patients have a severe Tryptophan deficiency in their brains, and so have MS sufferers and other folks with life-threatening CNS syndromes of officially unknown etiology.
I think most high-profile, top-dollar "LLMD's" are charlatans. The more they talk about dozens of highly complex issues surrounding Lyme disease, the more they're deliberately obfuscating the issue, making you think the problem is so difficult that you really need to be under their expensive long-term guidance. Lyme is caused by an antibiotic-resistant, immune system-evading bacterium that causes a hell of an inflammatory immune response. That's all there is to it. It does not produce neurotoxins or form biofilms. Lyme-induced autoimmunity is a chimera. And as long as you lead a healthy lifestyle, you do not need to be on a cornucopia of supplements to recover. All you need to do is live healthily and be on the proper long-term antibiotic combination/pulse therapy – including cyst-busters, if they ever find one that actually works in vivo. That's all you can do to slowly improve. Minocycline with hydroxychloroquine or just plain Doxy alternated with a week of Amoxi on bad encephalitis days, that's about all there is to it. For as many years as it takes. No outlandish, complex "protocols" such as the Marshall protocol have shown credible merit. The MP in fact promotes antibiotic resistance, although there seems to be little danger for that, with Bb. The little buggers are resistant enough to begin with, mind you. No miracle mineral supplement, "detoxer" or "zapper" helps one iota against Lyme disease, whatever patients, practitioners or pushers may preach. Neither does colloidal silver do much – Tom Grier did extensive research into that.
High-profile "LLMD's" promoting the idea of neurotoxins:
James Schaller
From http://townsendletter.com/July2009/ed_lyme0709.html
Mr. Schaller believes that commercially available "Rife machines" kill Bb spirochetes, albeit not sufficiently. He is on the record for claiming, in writing, on his own website, that Lyme patients need no more than 8 hours of sleep, even when they are desperate to get more. He even prescribes stimulants to keep them awake! He claims that no adult – sick or healthy – needs more than eight hours of sleep, and that sleeping more "just makes one prone to get fired". Of course, few things are more damaging to the immune system than to deprive a sick person of necessary sleep.. He endorses the books of the notorious "Lyme-cure" scam artist and obnoxious forum spammer Bryan Rosner. Schaller exclaimed in an outrageous, all-caps, expletive-filled rant that a reader who gave his Lyme-treatment book a well-argued negative review on Amazon must be mentally impaired due to Bartonella infection. Nota bene: He promises Lyme treatments leading to a "full cure". He minimizes the neurological effects of Neuroborreliosis and blames them on Bartonella – a relatively minor infection with mild symptoms that usually resolve without treatment – instead. Schaller sells "full cures" for a variety of other serious illnesses such as depression on his sites. However, his books do not offer any concrete help, according to several reviewers.
Dr. Schaller was arrested in 2011 for assault with a deadly weapon and was found guilty in court and convicted to four years probation. We added this information because of his recent legal threats and rants against us which may escalate into criminal threats, violating the terms of his probation. We would be delighted seeing him in jail, where he belongs.
Dr. Schaller is alleged to charge 575 dollars for a phone consultation of 20 minutes. Reportedly, he routinely lets patients sign non-disclosure and non-litigation agreements. Update: Mr. Schaller emailed us, stating that he often charges much more than $575 for a phone consultation. Buyer beware.
Rumors are that he was paid by Rosner to endorse the notorious "Rife machine"-against-Lyme scammer Bryan Rosner in the foreword of Rosner's book "The top ten treatments for Lyme disease".
Ritchie Shoemaker
Dr. Shoemaker believes you can have living Borrelia bacteria in your central nervous system that "do no harm whatsoever" and should "just be ignored"!
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This outrageous statement alone is the highest form of treason to Lyme patients. When even the "LLMD's" say that active infection with living, multiplying, T-cell-invading, Myelin-eating spirochetes is often "harmless", what hope do Lymies have to receive long-term antibiotic treatment? Mr. Shoemaker claims that if he diagnoses you with blurry vision on his VCS test ("Visual Contrast Sensitivity"), that this is almost always caused by "chronic neurotoxins caused by infection", and that his "detoxing" can in 90% of cases greatly help you. Shoemaker further says that when his Lyme treatments don't work, that it must be due to "mold exposure", and that "almost everyone with Lyme is exposed to mold". My advice as a self-treating, 90% recovered chronic Lyme neuroborreliosis patient to Dr. Shoemaker is to lay off the cookies and cigarettes and take a very long hike – perhaps that'll "detoxify" him. Update: Shoemaker has been sued for malpractice. This does not mean that he is necessarily guilty of that though – legitimate LLMD's have been prosecuted and persecuted too. Update: On February 11, 2012, Ritchie Shoemaker was reprimanded for malpractice. This doesn't necessarily mean anything though, since MD's have been routinely punished for doing good work. However in Shoemaker's case he deserved it, and more.
There are numerous Internet marketers posing as "Lyme experts" poised to take a piece of the "Lyme neurotoxin" pie, selling eBooks packed with incredible nonsense and quackery, targeted towards the naive reader. One of the most active is Connie Strasheim AKA Conniekillbug AKA Connie Killabugger, peddling eBooks with no answers. Such books make a mockery of Lyme disease and us Lyme sufferers. Schaller, Rosner and Strasheim work as a team, incestuously glorifying eachother's bogus "Lyme protocols". It would be good if they spend more on medical literature research and less on refined psychological sales tricks.
Then what causes the "Herx"?
Lyme supplement-sellers spread the simplistic idea that when a Lyme patient takes antibiotics, that some bacteria die and release neurotoxins that make you feel bad. The reason the quacks made up this story is because it creates a profitable market for "detoxing" products. What really goes on in the brain when you take antibiotics?
1. Spirochetes are extremely motile. They can move great distances through the brain in a short time, and they can "drill" through brain matter like a hot knife through butter. And that is exactly what they do when they sense that their structural integrity is being compromised by the action of the antibiotics. They will randomly move around until they find a location where they may survive. It's a simple evolutionary adaptation to help escape unfavorable environments. Of course, having those spirochetes frantically drilling holes through your neurons causes neurological discomfort. These processes are known scientific facts.
2. Some spirochetes die, and their fragments enter the bloodstream where they trigger an immune response. Antibodies that pass the blood-brain barrier will enter the brain parenchyma and bind to the Bb s.l. Lyme spirochetes. Others activate glial cells. The immune system's lysing actions (the cell-localized release of strong oxidants) cause collateral damage to surrounding neuronal cells. These processes are known scientific facts.
3. Some chemical components of the Bb cytoplasm may cause damage to neuronal cells, when the spirochetes die. If this happens – and this is a theoretical assumption only – this would be totally unavoidable, unless scientific research identifies the neurotoxins involved and develops a neutralizing agent that can be taken with the antibiotic. All this is conjecture and not based on known facts. It is extremely unlikely, and there is no scientific evidence, that there is any known agent that can help "detox" the brain during a spirochetal dieoff, because there is no Borrelia neurotoxin known to science.
Ignorant MD's
Nearly all infectious disease specialists make the mistake of either prescribing antibiotics that do not sufficiently penetrate the blood-brain barrier, or not prescribing enough of it. You have to understand the terrible truth that infectious disease specialists basically don't know what they're doing most of the time. Antibiotics are a taboo subject in medicine, almost. Apart from Lyme and Syphilis, there is little experience treating neurological infections and it seems that every doctor has his own ideas on how to treat them, instead of listening to microbiologists or successful LLMD's. Obviously, when the patient deteriorates over the years, the doctor is incompetent, since we're talking about bacteria here. There exist antibiotics that can at least reduce the bacterial load over time, when dosed appropriately.
Under-dosing or using the wrong antibiotic(s) is the only reason for antibiotic therapy to fail with chronic neuroborreliosis, and there are no other viable treatment options. Your only option is to get better antibiotic treatment.
Ceftriaxone for example does not penetrate the bbb. Neither does Amoxicillin, to give but an example. Most antibiotics do not. And even if the proper antibiotic treatment is prescribed, the doses are usually too low. 300 mg/day of Doxycycline for example will likely lead to ever worsening symtoms. A too low a tissue concentration of the right antibiotic is a slow death sentence for a Lyme patient.
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Susan H Dittman:
|I think Sarah is probably right. Read on LymeNetEurope for similar research. Thank you Sarah for telling it like it is..
|Yes these people are out for your money. I believe Probiotics are necessary maybe some vitamins and baths. As far as all these other suppliments for lyme, most are not effective. Toa free cats claw may be ? Antibiotics are the main treatment with the "known suppliments" ginger for stomach issues nausea is ok. Be careful what you buy. I bought one lyme book but won't buy into any other b.s.
|Dr. Schaller is a charlatan and deserves to be in jail. He has at least a half dozen aliases on Amazon where he praises his own books while accusing anyone who dare disagree with him of being seriously ill. He should be reported to the Florida parole board and his actions should be monitored. He would be banned from ever practicing medicine again within days.
|Dr Ritchie Shoemaker faces charges from the Maryland Medical Board February 6th 2013
|Just a quick google would suggest Ceftriaxone does penetrate the bbb. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu… for example (see the conclusion).Do you have a source for that claim? I'm interested! Also I'd love to see the source for the Amox/Probenecid ineffectiveness if you have it handy. Thanks.
Sarah's reply:
Sure.About Amoxi/Probenecid causing treatment failure in Neuroborreliosis:
The pharmacological reason for this phenomenon is that by inhibiting the renal tubular secretion of Amoxicillin, simultaneous administration of Probenecid leads to elevated serum concentrations and to prolongation of the elimination halflife. In addition, Probenecid inhibits Amoxicillin transport out of the cerebrospinal fluid, so that when it is given simultaneously, the penetration of Amoxicillin into brain tissue (already poor) is still further diminished.
Lyme borreliosis
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, New York Medical College, and the Lyme Disease Diagnostic Center, Westchester Medical Center, Valhalla, NY, USA (R B Nadelman MD, G P Wormser MD)
"However, neuroborreliosis later developed in 5 patients, 4 of whom received the amoxicillin-probenecid regimen. The concomitant use of probenecid with amoxicillin may be inadvisable, because probenecid may impair penetration of β-lactam antibiotics into brain parenchyma [170, 229]."
About Ceftriaxone not passing the brain Parenchyma:
The study you link to confirms my assertion – Ceftriaxone only penetrates the bbb in case of bbb inflammation. The problem with most medical specialists is that they are not scientists like engineers or mathematicians. They are more comparable with bureaucrats or lawyers. They learn a bunch of facts but they do not understand the reasons behind them. Doctors think that because Ceftriaxone cures brain infections such as Meningitis, that it passes the blood-brain barrier. However, they do not understand that Cef only passes the bbb because the capillary vessels are inflamed. Without such inflammation, there is no bbb penetration, since Cef's molecule is not lipid-soluble plus < 500 Daltons (that is the simple explanation, there are exceptions such as micelles and cochleates).
Lyme neuroborreliosis as well as other neurospirochetoses often does not result in Meningitis. Meningitis is the inflamation of the capillary bloodvessels that form the blood-brain barrier. Meningitis degrades the structural integrity of these vessels, and an increased penetrability for larger molecules is the result. There often only occurs Lyme Meningitis in the acute untreated stage and as soon as antibiotics reach that area, the Meningitis subsides and Cef will not penetrate anymore, leaving the remaining bacteria unexposed. Bb s.l. is microaerophillic so it moves out of the Oxygen-rich parenchyma and nestles deeper in the brain, such as inside neurons. It has a great tropism for Myelin as well.
The below study shows that Ceftriaxone does not penetrate the bbb, except in the presence of Meningitis:
Zhonghua Nei Ke Za Zhi. 1989 Jun;28(6):340-2, 381.
"The penetration of Cefuroxime (CXM), Ceftazidime (CTZ), Cefotaxime (CTX), Ceftizoxime (CZX), and Ceftriaxone (CTRX) across the blood-brain barrier was studied in 119 patients with or without meningitis after an intravenous injection of 2 grams. Cephalosporins were undetectable or their concentrations very low in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), when there was no inflammation in the meninges. On the contrary, the mean CSF concentrations of cephalosporins were 2.21-5.36 micrograms/ml and the CSF/serum ratios 3.73-31.80% in acute stage of purulent meningitis."
|Oh my, I never thought of this being quackery. What do you say about heavy metals leaving toxins in our bodies? So there really is no evidence to having any toxins at all in our body? Also, do you know what antibiotics would help cross the blood brain barrier for severe neurological problems. I have constant derealization (feeling like I am living in a dream) and confusion, brain fog all the time. Also, are IV antibiotics the only thing that can help? I have just started oral antibiotics. Should I try to transfer to the IV as soon as possible, or see if the oral antibiotics work for a certain amount of time (maybe a few months??) and then consider IV? Is your philosophy, "the sooner the better" for getting on IV antibiotics, or is it just as good to start off with orals? What are your thoughts?
Sarah's reply:
Hi Lymegirl,
I am sorry to hear about your ordeal. It is a very good idea what you're doing, to try to educate yourself on this disease from as many varied sources possible. Do not give up hope – things do get much, much better but at first the improvement is very gradual. Provided you take the right abx at the right dose and right duration (usually permanently..) I went through a few years of horrifying, suicide-tempting experiences and frankly, if I ever will fall back to that level again, I have everything ready to kill myself (plastic bag and helium gas). With the full understanding of my husband. So I know how you feel!
1. About heavy metals leaving toxins in our bodies:
This is an inaccurate statement. Heavy metals ARE toxins, they do not "leave" toxins. Heavy metals have no relationship to Lyme, so I assume you made this statement in order to argue that because there is such a thing as heavy-metal toxicity, that from that follows that there must also be such a thing as Lyme-toxicity.
That is ignoring the fact that heavy metals are toxins, but Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato ("Bb"), the various bacterial strains that cause Lyme disease, are not toxins at all but sophisticated organisms.
There is indeed a THEORY that Bb produces "neurotoxins" but my article attempts to show that there is very little substance to this theory. In fact there exists no credible evidence for this theory at all. In fact, it is easily shown that the theory is incorrect. Look for example at the spirochetal load in the CNS after antibiotic treatment. It is minute. Even if Bb would produce neurotoxins (which never has been proven), the amount would not be sufficient to cause any symptoms of those, even if those "toxins" would be highly cumulative.
All the theory is good for is to move money from the pocket of the Lyme patient to the pocket of those who claim to believe in the theory, and who claim to have a way to get rid of the "toxins".
2. The only oral bbb-passing antibiotics I have (very extensive) experience with are doxycycline and minocycline, as well as Amoxicillin, which only passes the blood-brain-barrier in case of encephalopathy, often present in severe cases of Neuroborreliosis. None of these antibiotics has ever cure me, but I went from near-dead to quite able to function. More than 3-5 days of 6 g/day Amoxi did not seem to yield much more improvement (neither treatment duration nor dose), presumably due to the reduction of capillary inflammation.
I need at least 400 mg/day of doxycycline not to rapidly deteriorate. Minocycline makes me feel much worse initially, but after a month of taking it, I see sustained improvement and then I continue with doxy.
3. I have never received IV treatment but there are many cases of failure, even after prolonged treatment. I keep this option as a last resort, esp. given the increased risks associated. If I ever get a blood/organ infection with my own antibiotic-resistant gut bacteria, I still have the option of Ceftriaxone in a hospital to prevent me from dying of septicemia. Ceftriaxone does not pass the blood-brain barrier anyway, so it is next to useless to treat Neuroborreliosis.
4. If your symptoms are caused by Neuroborreliosis, then you will likely only see very gradual improvement on oral antibiotics, detectable only on a month-by-month basis. Expect to need 5 years to feel really much better. Expect to be on them for life (I take highly-dosed orals since 1999). I am sceptical that IV abx. will make much of a difference, but there have been success stories so you could try (and please let us know the result here!) I would start with orals.
Don't give up yet!


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The little desk makes a fine bench because it is stable, has three big drawers (I keep my Dremel bits in the top drawer). I keep my tools like precision screwdrivers, wire cutters, snippers, etc. in a piece of plywood with holes drilled in it to hold the tools upright where you can grab them quickly (and put them back neatly.)
Soldering generates fumes that are not good to breathe. So, you need some ventilation. I just added a little fan that is controlled by my powerstrip on the left side of the bench. It blows away all those nasty vapors. Also, the powerstrip controls the little 20w halogen table lamp that put light on your projects.I found having the powerstrip on the left side of the bench works best for me (I'm right handed).When I turn on the powerstrip, the fan and light come on...and well as making the outlets available for plugging in 120VAC to DC power supplies as needed.
Recently, I built this little wood setup that holds a metal rod to hold my solder spools and wire spools.
I set this up so you can remove the rod quickly to change spools. With these spools on the left side of the bench you can pull exactly the amount of solder you want to your project, and snip off wire to length as you need it. Radio Shack sells a nice set of 3 black, red, and green insulated solid copper 20 AWG wire spools. Use this insulated copper wire for most low voltage (+5 Volt to +15 Volt) hobby circuits.
Stranded copper wire is just too much of a hassle when connecting up to joints that are very close to one another. Yes, it's a good idea to use red wire for your positive voltage and black for your ground wires. Color coding can help you later if you want to debug an old circuit you made a long time ago.
Speaker wire is cheap and can be purchased in spools of 100'. I use this for connecting low voltage/low current wiring for long runs of wire from power supplies to LED lighting effects. It already comes paired for positive and negative which is a big plus.
I found a nice padded secondhand office chair on wheels that is comfortable for soldering sessions.
I use my Dremel tool a lot for shaping perf boards, project boxes, etc. Soldering can also generate solder bits flying up...so eye protection is important! Comfortable safety glasses are just a must (comfortable so you'll keep them on). I found these Pyramex V2 Reader Safety Glasses that are just great. They are comfortable and as a bonus, they have reader glasses built into the bottom of them. These are very unique and you won't find them at the big box hardware stores. For those of us over 40 years of age, they are fantastic! You can actually see the fine details of your little electronics projects! Cheap too--they are only about $9.
You'll save a lot of time if you buy a good soldering iron. You only need a 75W or 100W gun. Higher wattage guns will just fry your components as you solder them. Stay away from the "pencil type" soldering irons. These pencil type irons typically have no on/off switch and stay hot all the time. Even with a stand to hold them in...that's a bit dangerous. You could walk away and forgot you left them on.
The more heavy duty soldering guns have a trigger switch so that when you are done, you release the trigger and the tip will cool off. When you pull on the trigger, the iron tip will heat up rapidly. If you simply must use a pencil type soldering iron, at least purchase a quality thin tip one like this Weller model WM120. It's too bad you can't get a tip that small in a soldering gun model, it would really make electronics soldering much easier.
A soldering gun will last many years if properly cared for. You can also replace the tips easily. One downside to these is you have to constantly keep the tip cleaned and tinned. Another downside is the tips themselves tend to be very big in comparison to the small solder joints you want to solder (easy to get solder where you don't want it). You may also want to purchase a small bit of desoldering braid when you get solder where you don't want it...and some tip tinner paste. Using a wet sponge/cloth to clean the tip is not recommended as it "shocks" the hot tip with the cold water and reduces its life. Instead, you can purchase this metal mesh setup that keeps the tip clean.
You may be tempted to buy one of these little portable soldering irons. The new "ColdHeat" portable irons have small tips and are battery operated, but this article doesn't recommend them for the electronics hobbyist. They are apparently too fragile and don't do a good job on soldering joints.
I suppose if you must have a portable soldering iron (perhaps to do a quick fix on an outdoor prop), you might want to try this Weller portable iron, although it seems like it would go through alkaline batteries very quickly.


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In his weekly press briefing today, Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) said families and small businesses are getting squeezed by President Obamas failed economic policies, and outlined the actions House Republicans are taking to help turn the economy around and create jobs. As Congressman Boehner noted, while Republicans have remained focused on jobs, the president has been disengaged focusing instead on election-year posturing and political gimmicks that have diminished the presidency to the size of a Post-It note. Following are video and text of Congressman Boehners remarks:
On Americans Being Squeezed By President Obamas Failed Economic Policies:
You know, just last week, the American people received another depressing jobs report just 115,000 Americans found work, while three times that many gave up looking for work. Wages in the country are flat. And, while theyve fallen slightly lately, gas prices are still way too high.
You know, its graduation season around the country, and today half of new college grads are not going to be able to find a job.
Between a weak job market, falling home prices, and the rising cost of living, the American people are getting squeezed. They are getting squeezed because President Obamas economic policies have failed.
On House Republicans Actions to Create Jobs & Reduce the Deficit Without Harming Our Nations Defense:
They feel stuck so the House is going to do the work that the American people expect of us.
Last week, we passed a responsible bill to extend current, low student interest rates. A conference committee is underway on legislation to rebuild our infrastructure and advance new energy projects like the Keystone pipeline. Yesterday, the House passed a reauthorization of the Export-Import bank – with reforms – that will help create jobs in our country. And this week, well pass our first appropriations bill of the season under an open process, with real spending cuts. And today, I believe that the House will pass a reconciliation bill to protect our military from devastating cuts, while providing significant deficit reduction.
On President Obamas Gimmicks & Posturing Diminishing the Presidency:
So, the House is doing its work. The House is governing.
And what do we get from the other side Show votes in the Senate, more gimmicks and posturing by the president. I cant think of a better symbol of how small this presidency has become than looking at the Post-It note that the president's been carrying around. Weve got the most powerful office in the world there to tackle big problems and hes shrunken it to the size of a Post-It note.
My goodness — our economy is stuck, we have a national debt over $15 trillion, millions of Americans are out of work, and all the president has is his gimmicky to-do list Give me a break.
On the Actions the President Could Take Immediately to Put More Americans Back to Work:
If the president is looking for a to-do list, he can start with the more than two dozen House-passed jobs bills that are sitting in the United States Senate. He can start by putting Americans to work by approving the Keystone pipeline. He could do something about sky-high gas prices by increasing American energy production. And, he could empower small businesses by cutting red tape and reforming the regulatory process. He could deal with our crippling debt by encouraging Democrats in the Senate to finally pass a budget after more than three years.
Look, we want to work with the president, but its about time that he get serious, focused on jobs, focused on our economy, and enough with the gimmicks.


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