Fight the Flu (And Healthcare Costs) With Nature's Finest Anti-biotics

   Getting sick sucks, and ask my wife—when I get sick, I act like a little bitch. I take it personally; how dare nature question my immortality. In any case, I try to avoid the drugs unless it's a last resort—I'd rather at least try to give nature's best a shot to work their magic. I won't get in depth about the curative properties of each ingredient—they are easy to look up, and if you have the motivation to use them, I trust you'll do the work yourself.
  This is just one way, one recipe, to pack in as much of these natural powerhouses to aid you in your illness. I have other recipes, but this is a comfort food night; let's make a curry!
  General ingredients: Chicken(I used boneless skinless breasts. I prefer skin-on, but I'm sick, and they're quick.)
  Potatoes(I diced a russet),Onion(1 diced),green onion(it's a sexy, healthy garnish), 3bulbs of diced garlic(don't be a puss, one bulb won't do it.), Carrots(2 peeled and diced), one cup chicken broth, one tbsp. extra-vir olive oil.
  Magic ingredients: Dr. Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar, organic oregano, turmeric, organic honey. These are four of nature's most powerful anti-biotics, anti-septics, anti-inflammatory, anti-trip to the doctor, ingredients. Look them up, learn, love, and benefit from them all!
  The vinegar will go into a little salad with a few squeezes of honey, and a couple dashes of evoo(ex-virgin olive oil). I did a cucumber, radish, and carrot salad, but it's just a dressing so get creative!
  For the curry, saute the onions and garlic in evoo until soft. Add the carrots next. Between the garlic, onion, and carrots, you are also creating a powerhouse dish of nature's best detoxifiers, and anti-oxidizers...rust never sleeps man, Neil Young said so!
  Now add the chicken, and saute until it is no longer pink. Any time after this point add your oregano, and turmeric, salt, pepper, I like a little cayenne(also super-healthy). After adding the potatoes, pour in the broth. Cover and reduce heat low to simmer, no boiling! If you gotta have a thick curry, feel free to add a pat of butter and flour before you add the carrots, this is more of a brothy dish. I finished this creation with a hard boiled egg, and served over white rice...now it's time for bed...enjoy in good health!

Thank You Mr. President!

   In the halls of American history, no president will be spared the spectrum of opinions, on the success, or failure of their policies. The land of the melting pot has as many thoughts and feelings, as we do variety in our cultural landscape—from sea, to shining sea baby! But that's politics, and I'm more of a communications guy. I view the world through the lens of how we communicate, and the methods we employ. Other than an election year, I pay loose attention to how the top dog implements their agenda—I just always hope it's the people's agenda. So politics aside, I want to ask the country to join me in a collective round of applause, as president Obama makes his farewell tour.
  The post election back and forth, is what I call a "mostly" healthy discourse, that is ultimately a collective demonstration of our first amendment rights. But let's not let our agreeing to dis-agree, bury the last few days we have to salute the historic impact this man has had, and will have, in those hallowed halls of history. If you have any inkling of the last two hundred years of American history, you know it's been a protracted struggle that still ensues, to ensure equality for all. Considering that, it was high time for our first African-American president to sit in the oval office and call the shots. Our generations to come will look at this man's appointment to the top job in the land, and they will be able to believe in the symbolism of the statue of liberty, and the flag itself.
  "United we stand, divided we fall.", it's that simple, and it will be that simple after all talk fails, succeeds, dies down, or rises up...once again—I'm fine with that, it's the American way. But let's be united on this one. Thank you Barack Obama, you have meant, and will continue to mean a lot to this country!

My Prayer for America

  As our country moves forward today, I think the most important thing to remember—regardless of whether your candidate won or lost—is that a quarter of a million people cower in fear in the city of Aleppo as we speak. They are being bombed and ruthlessly exterminated by Assad. Coalition forces close in on the city of Mosul...the closer they get, the more mass graves of decapitated people they find. Inside the city, brainwashed teenagers with automatic weapons continue to torture and kill.
  In the city of Chicago the death toll mounts as gangs solve their differences with bullets. In Mexican border towns, from California to Texas, families patrol their own communities with guns. They have instructed their own children to shoot the drug cartel members, because their government, and for way too long, our government, has turned a blind eye to their struggles. They don't want their towns over-run by drug lords, they don't have anyone else to turn too.
  In Africa, the terrorist organization Boko Haram, rides into villages on motorcycles, shooting men raping women, stealing children...have you heard of them?
  All through-out south and central- America, children and their mothers embark on a treacherous journey—they are coming north to America, fleeing their oppressive regimes, only to die in the Mexican desert. The wind blows across the bones and skulls of these lost voices. They all wanted what we have, and they died trying for it.
  It is my hope, that moving forward, we can set our differences aside and turn our attention to those who really need us to do it the most. Today I love my country more than I ever have. The joy I take in this victory is the hope that we will help each other heal, we won't turn our backs anymore, we will pick each other up and get this "human race" back on course. Thank you for lending me your ears, can we all smoke the peace pipe now? It's LEGAL!