May 2, 2013

Itadori Tea from Japanese Knotweed

 

Since I recently plucked some Japanese Knotweed from my neighbors yard to make Itadori Tea, I decided to post and share this with you.

 Japanese Knotweed is an invasive weed, but many people don't know that it's edible, and can also be used as a tea. It grows everywhere.  

Itadori Tea is used in Japan and China as a traditional herbal remedy for the prevention of heart disease and strokes. It contains resveratrol, consequently, The Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry studies state that, ”For people who do not consume alcohol, Itadori tea may be a suitable substitute for red wine.” 

Japanese Knotweed is also edible and tastes like Rhubarb, and can be used instead of Rhubarb in recipes that call for it. There's also medicinal uses for Japanese Knotweed as well. 

 To make Itadori Tea, pluck some young shoots, wash, put in pot, cover with water & boil. Turn down heat to simmer and simmer for 20 minutes. Add sugar or other sweetener to taste. 

WARNING.. Drinking large quantities acts as a laxative. 

 Japanese Knotweed is an excellent source of vitamin A, along with vitamin C and its cofactor, the antioxidant flavonoid rutin, Japanese knotweed also provides potassium, phosphorus, zinc, and manganese. Itís also an excellent source of resveratrol, the same substance in the skin of grapes and in red wine that lowers LDL (bad) cholesterol and reduces the risk of heart attacks. 

 Resveratrol may delay the onset of Alzheimer's disease or slow its progression. Normally, glial cells in the brain support the neurons (nerve cells) and apparently modify the way they communicate, but in Alzheimer's disease, an accumulation of gunk called amyloid plaques signals these helper cells to kill the neurons instead.

April 27, 2013

Tillandsia Air Plants

Collecting Tillandsia Air Plants


Due to moving into my new apartment and having an extremely poor internet connection over the past few weeks, I have been unable to update this blog, but now that my mobile broadband connection seems to have improved, I'd like to share with my readers about these beautiful and interesting plants I recently just found out about these cool little plants called Tillandsia, known as Air Plants, because they live in the air, not in soil.  They're from the Bromeliad family & get their nutrients from the air & water.

Shortly after moving into my new home I was walking around town when I discovered a new shop that wasn't here when I lived here before, so I decided to check it out, and it was there that I first saw the air plants, but at the time I was just looking around as I had no money to spend.

I didn't think too much about the air plants again until I had some spare cash, and ended up going back there to buy some, and came home with three of them.   When I was back at home, I searched on Google to get information on how to care for Tillandsia Air Plants and it was then that I learned that there's 540 different varieties.  I love these cute little plants and decided that I want a small collection of air plants of various varieties, and so, roughly a week or so later, I was back in the shop and picked up three more.

After I decided how I wanted to display my cute little air plants, I couldn't wait to photograph my new Tillandsia collection & show them to my friends and family on Facebook, and now here I am sharing them with you.

Tillandsia Air Plant, Capitata Peach
Tillandsia Air Plant, Capitata Peach, on a glass container I found for free outside, filled with sea glass, rocks & oyster shells my daughter & I picked up at our local beach. Capitata Peach Tillandsia is a native of Dominican Republic, Cuba and Mexico and grows mainly on rocks.

Bulbosa Belize Tillandsia Air Plant
Tillandsia Air Plant, Bulbosa Belize sitting on an oyster shell.  When the Bulbosa Belize Tillandsia blooms, there will be a bright red flower.  This variety is a native of Belize in Central America.

Ionantha Mexican Tillandsia Air Plant
Tillandsia Ionantha Mexican, mounted by making a hole in wine bottle cork I scavenged out of a recycling bin.  There are variations of the Ionantha Tillandsia, this variety being a native of Mexico.

Harrisii Tillandsia Air Plant

Harrisii Tillandsia Air Plant
These two photos are of the same Tillandsia Air Plant, Harrisii, mounted on a piece of Atlantic ocean driftwood bark.  Harrisii Tillandsia was named after an American air plant enthusiast, Bill Harris, that was murdered in 1985 in Guatemala where the species is a native plant.  Harrisii is an endangered species in Guatemala.

Tillandsia Air Plant Ionantha
Tillandsia Air Plant I haven't positively identified as of this posting, but believe to be Ionantha Guatamala, mounted on a piece of Atlantic ocean driftwood.  When mounting Tillandsia Air Plants on ocean driftwood, you must make sure that the driftwood has had all salt removed, usually by soaking it for a couple weeks with several water changes.  Salt will kill a Tillandsia Air Plant.

Juncea Tillandsia Air Plant
Tillandsia Air Plant, Juncea, mounted on a piece of Atlantic ocean driftwood.   Juncea Tillandsia is a tall, grassy air plant.   Juncea Tillandsia is native to Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico and Venezuela.

I hope you enjoyed this post on Tillandsia Air Plants.  If you're interested in getting air plants of your own, considering buying air plants on Amazon & I'll earn a small commission when you buy via my links.

April 1, 2013

The Hypocrisy Of The Vile & Despicable Vermin That Is The Modern Liberal, Progressive Filth

Modern Liberals and Progressive Scum Are Hypocrites & Liars.

Modern liberals and progressives are hypocritical, filthy swine
It is ironic that the modern liberals and so called progressives are actually the most intolerant people in America.    The modern liberal filth and progressive scum are so hypocritical, so racist, so vile, and they disgust me.  They make me sick.

These leftist scumbags like to toss around accusations that conservatives, the religious right, republicans, libertarians and anyone else not a democrat or leftist are racist, homophobic, and so on, yet, from my own actual life experience, it is quite the opposite that is true, and it's nothing but liberal lies, but that's no surprise, because lying is one of the lefts infamous tactics.

If you're a regular reader or follower of my social media, then you know that I am not only a libertarian, "formerly conservative republican", and that I am transsexual.     In my personal experiences, so many other transgender persons found it a problematic issue that I am libertarian and that I do not support progressive, leftist goals, etc..   They almost always say "but they don't accept transgender", or things like "but they hate transgender people" and "but they're against our rights" and so on..    But, in my own actual experiences, this is not only a lie, but so far from the truth, because it's actually those on the left who exhibit these characteristics of intolerance, prejudice, hate, and so on...  I would have included ignorance, however, it isn't necessary because one would certainly have to be ignorant to be a modern liberal or progressive in the first place, so it's a given that ignorance is most certainly a modern liberal character trait.

Although I have known my whole life about my gender identity issues, I hid it and kept it secret, until summer of 2010.   Since 1988, the first presidential election I was eligible to vote in, I have been voting republican, with the exception of when Ross Perot ran.. that is until 2008 when I learned that my political ideology, philosophy and beliefs are libertarian, and not conservative, and I was awakened, and began supporting Ron Paul.      Naturally the majority of my closest friends and acquaintances are also libertarian, or republican.  Granted that I do have a few, but not many, friends who are liberals or progressives, however,   it is these modern liberals who have expressed lack of acceptance and shown bigotry regarding transsexualism, and that it's my libertarian and republican friends who have accepted me regardless of coming out as transsexual.

Although I have experienced very few real life negative impacts of being openly transsexual in public, whenever an incident has taken place, in the majority of these few and rare instances, the culprit who expressed trans-prejudice was 95% of the time, modern liberal filth.

It's even worse on the web.  I am, (or was up until recently), very active on YouTube, and on my channel, have discussed various political topics, and also have videos discussing being transgender, and several even appearing as my female self.      The majority of my subscribers are also libertarian, or conservative republican, due to my political commentary prior to coming out and telling them that I am transgender... However, it's mostly the liberal filth that have expressed bigoted anti-trans epithets.

Reviewing comments left on numerous videos, in the majority of instances, roughly over 90% of the time, it is modern liberal scum, you know, the Obama loving scumbags, who post negative slurs, most notably, "faggot"....  Ironic considering the fact that the issue of same sex marriage is one championed by modern liberals, yet it's a majority of liberal swine who call people faggot on YouTube.    In the overwhelming majority of trans bashing experienced online, it's a modern liberal scumbag who is the one doing it.

Granted that yes there are those who are conservative, republican, libertarian and so on who are intolerant towards transgender people, and so on, however, in my own actual experiences, it is the modern liberal filth, the progressive scum who have shown to be the intolerant ones.     They are indeed, hypocrites.

Thinking about several of my friends, the very few who have expressed any form of intolerance towards transgender persons, are all progressive idiots.  Fortunately, the number of friends I have that are liberal account for less than 1%

Since I'm rambling on about liberal hypocrisy, let's talk about the issue of same sex marriage...   These liberal idiots go on and on pissing and moaning about their rights, yet simultaneously are outspoken against the rights of others, such as gun owners..   They are hypocrites, and are against LIBERTY...  They make me sick.

A lot of people use photos of sheep in memes about liberals and progressives, but I think swine is more appropriate, because these modern liberal scum, this progressive filth, they're disgusting pigs is what they are.

March 7, 2013

Nothing Ever Works Out... WTF!

I'm Sick and Tired of Trying and Getting Nowhere.


  To say I'm frustrated is an overwhelming understatement.  Matter of fact, I'm at my wits end and it's really pissing me off.  It seems that no matter what I do to improve my quality of life and my current situation of being homeless living in a hotel, that anything I try ends up not working out the way I had thought it would, or had hoped for.

Last summer, in an attempt to avert becoming homeless, I tried selling advertising on this blog, yet ended up selling none of the spots.

Later, after making a couple of paracord bracelets with my daughter, I took photos of the bracelets we made and showed them on my Facebook profile, and of the 585 friends there, a few dozen of them commented that they wanted to buy one.   Because of that, stupid me went out and purchased $100 worth of paracord and buckles in order to make paracord bracelets, and of the few dozen friends who asked about buying them, only TWO of them actually bought any, meanwhile, I have an inventory of already made paracord bracelets and lots of paracord and buckles left over to make more, yet nobody is buying, because one, everybody and their goddamn mother is making them and selling them..  The goddamn bracelets are even mass produced by Chinese child labor camps... WTF!!!!!!!!!

As if this wasn't enough of a waste of time, I also progressed onto making my own handmade jewelry, and once again, it's a ƒuckíng waste of time insofar as selling my jewelry goes.  Sure I enjoy it and do make some nice handmade jewelry for myself and to give as gifts to friends, family and loved ones, but thus far have only made a single sale and am in the hole $300+ on materials purchased, hoping that I'd make it back and then a little profit.

Meanwhile, for the last 3 months I have been looking for an apartment, and have been getting nowhere with it, because I am rejected left and right, having contacted several hundred potential landlords... WTF... Apartment hunting is just as bad as job hunting..   I'm so sick and tired of everything...  Why do I even friggin bother anymore...  I just keep trying and trying, all for nothing...and it's driving me over the edge