Category: Health
Consider yourselves warned: Resistance member coming ‘with pliers and a blowtorch’
I practiced #civility and they rolled back wildlife protections. I was civil and they cut taxes for the rich I was civil and they auctioned off public lands to oil companies. I was civil and they put babies in cages. I’m done being civil. I’m coming with pliers and a blowtorch.— Andrew James Gregor (@andrewjgregor) June 25, 2018Fart noise.— Standard Buttload (@MetricButtload) June 25, 2018 We could really end the post right there.1) Obama put babies in cages. 2) The oil company thing is complete B.S. 3) Essentially you’re saying violence is justified if government does things you don’t agree with. You sure you want that to be the standard?— Denis M Brown (@brown_denism) June 25, 2018Basically he put up with all of this with Obama but now he means business. https://t.co/eyZ1H7sRyS— TC (@Dawgfan) June 26, 2018“I was civil until they didn’t do all the political things I want. Now I’m gonna be violent.” That’s the Left. https://t.co/Tp3f75XmOH— Jesse Kelly® (@JesseKellyDC) June 25, 2018I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and for establishment democrats to realize there’s a hysterically crucial election in 5 months and their base is screaming for political violence. https://t.co/y3jGMbHLF3— neontaster (@neontaster) June 25, 2018He disagrees with policies so he has the right to bring violence against us. This is the American left today. Remember that in November. Policy differences? Violence is the lefts answer. #civility #2A https://t.co/oZnxI91zIR— Steph (@steph93065) June 26, 2018Great strategy, you guys. https://t.co/WyGDySKjxE— Yaboyyy (@Come_On_Sonn) June 26, 2018This doesn’t make a lick of sense. Elections have consequences. Many of us din’t like a damn thing Obama did but never thought about running his cabinet members out of movie theaters, restaurants or going to their homes to harass them! Grow the fuck up and win elections. https://t.co/KXMvx7c5Be— Joe (@JoeC1776) June 25, 2018I practiced #civility and they sold baby parts. I was civil and they destroyed our healthcare. I was civil and they raised our taxes. I was civil and they threatened due process. I was civil and they called us racists, bigots, and Nazis. Pliers and a blowtorch? 😂#BringIt https://t.co/RWjMwSzoOg— The🐰Foo (@PolitiBunny) June 25, 2018He’s bringing pliers and a blowtorch. Good luck! https://t.co/Pb1QAKyKcw— Fiscal Therapist (@BigLifeMark) June 25, 2018“Pliers and a blowtorch” 🤣 Good luck with that, Andrew. https://t.co/8qtSo9tvCv— Uri Blago (@UriBlago) June 25, 2018Someone needs to stop watching “Marathon Man” on a loop. Pliers are so 1970’s https://t.co/lp9QKfLUA6— Sandy (@RightGlockMom) June 25, 2018Show of hands… anyone believe this guy owns/knows how to use pliers? Much less a blowtorch? Dude, they’re all laughing at you, not with you. https://t.co/9rIcK6OrOE— moodyredhead (@moodyredhead) June 25, 2018Bring it! I’m sick of the mewing tough guy bs. https://t.co/mcBFc1OhIm— Lady H (@Hecate40) June 25, 2018You big brute you… https://t.co/FdtTzwozOf— Johnny Angel™ (@TalismanJohnnyA) June 25, 2018When you are trying to look tough, but end up going to your neighbors house looking like you are about to make a minor plumbing repair. https://t.co/QGaMA9El2U— Darrick Johnson (@darrickjohnson) June 25, 2018[ Hey, @jack, why are angry plumber ads in my feed? ] https://t.co/L69vi6kXd2— Ben Shapiro Quotes (@BenShapQuotes) June 25, 2018
WHOOPS: Daily Kos tries trashing Trump for exhaustion, trips over Hillary collapsing at 9/11 event
At a briefing with reporters a WH official said POTUS is “exhausted.” https://t.co/0ll7Y4U1nt— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) May 21, 2017You know who traveled to 112 countries for an estimated 956,733 miles and never use exhaustion as an excuse? https://t.co/QAvy9BJUVI— Jennifer Hayden (@Scout_Finch) May 21, 2017 ROFL. OMG, no she didn’t?! Hillary never got exhausted … RIGHT.This didn’t go over well on Twitter for Jennifer OR Hillary:She just collapses at public events and blames the heat. https://t.co/BU1spkqYZm— Amy Curtis (@RantyAmyCurtis) May 22, 2017 Thought she had pneumonia?@Scout_Finch @Acosta pic.twitter.com/lZWeN6apkb— LaurieAnn (@mooshakins) May 22, 2017
Read more: http://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2017/05/22/whoops-daily-kos-tries-trashing-trump-for-exhaustion-trips-over-hillary-collapsing-at-911-event/Exercises for Stress Reduction & Deep Relaxation – Part 4 of 4 – Deep Conscious Sleep
You Can’t Joke About Anxiety And Depression…
This Thing Plagues So Many People…And It Makes Human Brains Eat Themselves
Having recently been diagnosed with sleep apnea, I understand all too well the importance of getting enough quality sleep and how awful it feels when you don’t.
A good night’s sleep can do wonders for your health, but for many people, getting it as an uphill battle. I can’t tell you the last time that I felt well-rested. Every single day, I deal with chronic fatigue.And I’m certainly not alone. Everything from anxiety and depression to chronic insomnia can put a wrench in your pleasant dream plans. Chances are if you suffer from any of these conditions, you’re familiar with the effects of sleep deprivation. As a new study reveals, severe sleep deprivation doesn’t just make getting through the workday harder. It can actually cause your brain to eat itself.A study printed in the Journal of Neuroscience revealed that the brain cells tasked with digesting cellular debris can go into overdrive when deprived of sleep and as a result, they can cause the brain to feed on itself.
These cells, known as microglia, are responsible for ingesting the waste products produced by the nervous system.
But microglia cells aren’t the only active cells in the brain. Astrocytes are the multitaskers of the ole’ noggin. Among other things, they sift through unnecessary synapses to help rewire the brain.
For the study, researchers tested four groups of mice. While one group was allowed to sleep for as long as they liked, the other groups were forced to endure different levels of sleep deprivation, including periodic wakeup calls and cruelly being kept awake for five straight days.
The astrocytes in the well-rested mice were active in six percent of the synapses, whereas the sleep-deprived mice experienced major overdrives.
Neuroscientist Michele Bellesi revealed that for the first time ever, they were able to witness portions of the brain being eaten alive by the astrocytes as a result of sleep loss.
However, a much more worrisome discovery was found during the study. During testing, the microglia cells became overly active due to chronic insomnia. Such activity has been linked to diseases like Alzheimer’s.
Peak STUPID: Psychologist on board with movement to BAN best friends in school
Should schools ban kids from having best friends? https://t.co/V695aqcEH3— U.S. News (@usnews) January 6, 2018Home schooling FTW https://t.co/R7YcJuVIMo— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) January 7, 2018 “So, what do I, as a psychologist, think of this trend where schools are banning best friends?” asks Greenberg. “I have thought about it long and hard, and I say bring it on.”What does this even mean? https://t.co/2JJ7ql91En— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) January 6, 2018 OK, bring it on … how? Are schools supposed to “ban” friendships, or simply ban the use of the words “best friend”? In either case … nah.No. But we should ban this author from writing. https://t.co/tLv82hmcFh— Ben (@BenHowe) January 6, 2018I keep hearing that homeschooling my kids will make them awkward, and that only a prison run by animals who think up things like this will properly “socialize” them. https://t.co/1FSNa7pu3X— Mr X the Ever-Living (@GlomarNeverDies) January 6, 2018I can’t even. No. The answer is NO. One more thing on my list of 274,345,824 reasons to homeschool. https://t.co/7frpWNsPop— Kate Paredes (@Paredes44katie) January 7, 2018I’ll write more later, but here is an actual adult arguing that schools should ban best friends bc they are “inherently exclusionary.” We are dumb as bricks. https://t.co/Rua2dL1iu6— a very stable genius at that (@the36review) January 7, 2018What the hell is wrong with people? As someone who to this day struggles with making and keeping friends, banning me from having the only friend I had in school would have been beyond devastating. STOP PRESUMING EXTROVERSION IS NOT ONLY THE NORM BUT THE ONLY HEALTHY WAY TO BE! https://t.co/B4mJfvwtOm— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) January 7, 2018I am going to yelp about this more. The adolescent psychologist who wrote that article sets a standard of no best friend, but a small circle of close friends, but not too large a circle of friends. That is a ludicrous standard that will only amplify social anxiety. https://t.co/B4mJfvwtOm— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) January 7, 2018Ever wonder how we got so many emotionally stunted adults who fail to grasp how life works? Well, our education system (and some parents) think their job is to protect kids from reality. https://t.co/6HNejX3Y3z— Jesse Kelly (@JesseKellyDC) January 6, 2018Schools should ban all human nature https://t.co/3EfYI1lLsy— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) January 6, 2018Someone really had a rough, jealous-filled childhood https://t.co/PbS510ptWW— Benji Backer (@BenjiBacker) January 6, 2018Eureka! We have just discovered there is no limit to the insanity… https://t.co/22y2LWPw0t— Jim Henderson (@DrJBHenderson) January 7, 2018“Hey boss I have a really dumb hot take I wanna write about.” “Say no more get it in by the end of the day” https://t.co/zn4nwQcXEp— Funny Libertarian (@funlibertarian2) January 7, 2018We are only 6 days into 2018 https://t.co/knEkFx3V7A pic.twitter.com/rjy593ucIz— Harry Khachatrian (@Harry1T6) January 7, 2018It only took five days for 2018 to reach peak stupid. https://t.co/s9YhUSmkLn— Ian Parish (@IanTreyParish) January 7, 2018
Read more: https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/01/06/peak-stupid-psychologist-on-board-with-movement-to-ban-best-friends-in-school/Coping With Stress: Cognitive-Behavioral Stress Reduction
This AMAZING thread on being pro-life is just what you need as we head into the Christmas holiday
Read this. Read every word all the way to the end … it’s freaking amazing:
For my twitter friends who actually care, i said one day I’d share the story of why I’m so damn pro life:— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
I was about 22, i mostly lived to party. I’d get drunk every single night at my favorite dive bar before heading downtown to whatever party or bar was happening— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
I had nothing going for me. Dead end job, lived with my parents, barely working car. I probably would have wrapped it around a tree drunk if given a few more years.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
On my birthday, a bunch of my friends came out, and i got exceedingly drunk. I ran into an old fling, nice enough girl. We had a one night stand.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
A few months later, I’m working the night shift stocking shelves at a grocery store, i get a call. It’s he girl from my birthday night. She’s pregnant.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Fuck. I make 9.50 a hour and work at home. What the hell am i supposed to do? Call a guy i know who is a pastor.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
He’s a pretty understanding dude. Asks me what i plan to do. Plan? I haven’t planned a thing in my life, i live in the moment.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
He asks me if i want a kid. “Hell no!” He gives me a card, says it’s a relationship counselor, tells me to call her and explain my situation.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
I called her, explained what was going on, and she had a reasonable proposal: why don’t you two come meet me, and we can talk about this in a environment that feels safe and open.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
I called Jenna (my wife now) i tell her that i want to try to be a good person and maybe we could talk about it with this person who is in expert in bad situations.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
First meeting comes and this lady is a little out there, but very understanding. Jenna and i are able to talk about what we want. We come to a tentative agreement that we should get to know each other.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Jenna’s dad is a doctor, she’s had everything she’s ever wanted or needed in life. She’s a great student and college athlete. I’m a fuck up, my parents, while wealthy, have mostly cut me off and i have a awful relationship with them at this time.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
That poor woman is faced with a couple bad choices: hitch her wagon to a fucking deadbeat loser, get an abortion, give the baby up for adoption or keep the baby, cut me off and try to finish school as a single mom at 20.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
In the worst decision (later best) she’s ever made, she decided to go with me… a guy who stocks grocery stores, living in his parents basement with a car that barely runs.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
We started going to couples counseling twice a week, literally to get to know each other. Now Jenna had never dated anyone before. Suddenly this deadbeat scruffball shows up with her at all her family events, church and dinner on Sunday, the whole 9 yards— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
We eventually got to the point where we decided we wanted to keep the baby and maybe get married. This is about 4-5 months into the pregnancy. She hadn’t told her parents yet and she was starting to show a little— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Everytime we tried to tell them, she’d have a panic attack and we wouldn’t tell them. Eventually it got to the point where someone had to do tell them or they would guess— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Eventually i realized that i was going to have to tell them myself. I looked her dad up on his hospitals website and called his office. Asked to meet with him.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Folks, i was not a brave man. I always took the easy way, i was a coward and a weasel. But i went to that fucking meeting and i broke that poor mans heart. He knew what i was, and now his beautiful, intelligent, sweet daughter was forever linked to me.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Hardest thing I’ve ever done is telling a good man that i may have just ruined his daughters dreams, and his dreams for her.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
My FIL is a saint folks. He took it stoically. He didn’t yell or scream or kick my ass. He thanked me for telling him and said he would be in touch, that he had to talk to his family.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Jenna called me a hour later. She was furious. Called me every name in the book and then some. She would have made @liars_never_win blush.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Her mom called an hour later and asked me to come to dinner that night. Talk about walking into a bad situation. I went that night.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
It went great actually. Her family was supportive of her, wanted to make the best of the situation and offered to pay for the counseling we were going to (100 bucks a week is a lot when you make 9.50)— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
After a month or two we decided we would get married. Jenna dropped out of school and started sewing decorative pillows to make a little money. I started to get my act together with work. I went from a shit employee to the best motherfucker they had.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
I completely turned my life around. I had no choice, it was sink or swim and i had to carry two others on my back. I worked my tail off and got some promotions and small raises.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Out of the blue, my parents made us an astounding offer: they would buy a very modest house for us, and would defer payments for the first couple years of our marriage.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
We found a nice house in a safe neighborhood and they bought it. A month later Charlie was born.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Charlie changed my world. From the moment i found out about him, he began to save me. Charlie transformed me from a directionless fuck up to a man with a purpose pic.twitter.com/seJTmltXnC— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Hindsight is great right? I didn’t see it then, but that tiny little human inside Jenna changed me more than any outside influence ever could. He made me be a man, he saved my life, and he brought the love of my life into my life.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
So why am i pro life? Because i understand that a small, seemingly insignificant and helpless human can have a profound impact on the world. Simply by existing a unborn child has the power to save someone, to radically change a life.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
And Charlie didn’t just save me, he brought Jenna and i together, and through that came Henry and Annie, two more wonderful amazing people who will have a huge impact on their world. pic.twitter.com/YJ7Smzjnk0— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
A life is never a mistake! The power in a life to save others is immense. It may not be clear at the time, but in time it becomes clear. Charlie saved my life. I would never want someone to lose that amazing chance.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
Side note for those curious: Jenna’s pillow business took off, and what used to help feed us, now helps pay for the kids school, and our house that we bought with our own money. I worked my way up through a factory into a supervisory position, and now manage a factory of 200— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
My relationship with my parents has never been better. I love my inlaws so much. Jenna and i are able to help others in need. I can’t imagine where i would be if we had choose abortion. Abortion is an evil thing.— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017
/fin— NaughtyDerek🇺🇸 (@NaughtyDerek) December 22, 2017








