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At the outset let me state that I think it is clear to anyone who has been around for more than a couple of decades that the weather, at least in the northern temperate latitudes has changed decisively in recent decades. Personally I remember vividly the snows of my childhood; snowball fights, chilblains (we called them “hot-aches”), and building snow forts on the school playing fields of the Midlands of England, where today snowfalls are extremely rare and most of today’s schoolchildren, in the Midlands at least, have never thrown a snowball.

In spite of this however I remain skeptical on the climate change issue. Changes in the weather don’t necessarily mean changes in the climate . . . . . . . . .

My skepticism can be divided into two separate “skepticisms” as follows:

1.Skepticism that the current warming trend is outside of the normal range of climate variation.

2.Skepticism that anything we will do can effect a change in the current warming trend.

Let me take a minute or two with each of these:

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This is where I’ve been browsing…I typed Vitamin C Cholesterol into my browser earlier this week & found articles that suggest that Vitamin C naturally acts in the same manner as statins to regulate cholesterol.

Didn’t you ever wonder why your vet never tested your dog or cat for cholesterol levels? Dogs and cats make their own vitamin C. They do it naturally. It’s been a long time since college biology, but I think its only primates (including us) and guinea pigs. I swear to God, I thought the blue footed booby also needed to supplement, but I couldn’t find anything to support that, right now.

The only drawback is that we need way more C than we would normally take. And not being a physician (not even masquerading as one), I couldn’t recommend a dose.

But that gives us 3 anti – pharm choices to modulate our cholesterol, the other two being niacin and fish oils. I wonder if there could be natural, bodily feedback to indicate that our cholesterol is in a target range?

Finally, to raise your good cholesterol, the HDL, check out pantothenic acid. Don’t go on my word, check it out yourself.

I’m rushing through this…gotta go and trim that skinny, drought – struck asparagus!

Obama started out with great promise. He banned Bush’s torture program and scheduled Guantanamo Bay prison to close. Then he complied with a court ruling to release the Bush memos about the torture, and said he wouldn’t appeal it when the ACLU won again to get the photos released.

Now he has decided to appeal that order and stall the release since his generals think it will jeopardize troops. And he has decided to restart Bush’s prisoner trials at Guantanamo.

Some media here are already saying Obama is backpedaling and not a lot different than Bush was. If he keeps this up he is going to lose the good will that he started with in other nations.