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Things to Try

Date and Time  - Oct. 30th, 2007, 02:09 pm

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From the The Universal Household Assistant or What Every One Should Know (1884):

   Things to try. — Try popcorn for nausea.
   Try cranberries for malaria.
   Try a sun-bath for rheumatism.
   Try ginger ale for stomach cramps.
   Try clam broth for a weak stomach.
   Try cranberry poultice for erysipelas.
   Try a wet towel to the back of the neck when sleepless.
   Try swallowing saliva when troubled with sour stomach.
   Try eating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel.
   Try eating onions and horseradish to relieve dropsical swellings.
   Try buttermilk for removal of freckles, tan, and butternut stains.
   Try taking your cod liver oil in tomato catsup, if you want to make it palatable.
   Try hard cider -- a wine-glass three times a day -- for ague and rheumatism.
   Try taking a nap in the afternoon if you are going to be out late in the evening.
   Try breathing the fumes of turpentine or carbolic acid to remove whooping cough.
   Try a cloth wrung out from cold water put about the neck at night for sore throat.
   Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal "cold in the head."
   Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself becoming bent forward.
   Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to go against a cold piercing wind.
   Try planting sunflowers in your garden if compelled to live in a malarial district.


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Spin Any Harder and I'll Puke

Date and Time  - May. 15th, 2007, 03:23 pm

Current Mood  - hungry hungry
Current Music  - traffic

I was just at the Fox News website. One of the story teasers (second story, directly below Falwell's death) read:

Hard Time at Gitmo
Detainee cries 'torture,' says he was forced to use unscented deodorant and read newsletter full of 'crap'

If one clicks the link and reads the article, it does mention that the source for the story, a transcript of Majid Khan's military hearing, was "redacted" (in other words, parts that would not be in the best interest of the United States military were deleted). Buried deep into the article we also find this:

Ali Shoukat Khan said his son [Majid Khan] was kidnapped in Pakistan and that there, Americans tortured his son "for eight hours at a time, tying him tightly in stressful positions in a small chair until his hands, feet and mind went numb. ... He was often hooded and had difficulty breathing. They also beat him repeatedly, slapping him in the face, and deprived him of sleep."

"Fair and balancedâ„¢" is a joke. And a bad one, at that.

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