When you answer the call for a wreck or domestic situation, how do you manage the high stress situation you find yourself in? Take supplements daily to manage the never ending cycle of law enforcement. Officers are faced with difficult choices every day and must make judgments on volatile situations and ascertain the truth of matters on the street quickly and fairly. So here are the supplements I recommend you keep on hand in a safe location for use every single day.
The first supplement you should take without fail is the water soluble B-complex vitamins. They are the ultimate Keep-Your-Cool vitamin. The first symptom of a deficiency is anxiety and lethargy and a long list of other symptoms, including most mental health issues. The B-vitamins protect and repair the nervous system and support your metabolism. They keep cravings to a minimum and help you remain even and balanced when others around you are losing control.
Another supplement, this time an herb that supports good adrenal function is ginseng. If you start to feel worn down, it aids your adrenal gland to respond to your body's needs. Calcium, vitamin D and magnesium are also important to help repair bones, joints, cells and provide for good brain function.
The digestive enzyme bromelain is also the top remedy to reduce pain, especially lower back and joint pain. It helps break down the cycle of toxin-producing imbalances in your body, and if you take it with turmeric to fight inflammation, your joints and organs will thank you. Also keep peppermint and lavender oils on hand in a diffuser or spray bottle with water to reduce stress headaches and clear the air.
Every day a person is exposed to different harmful substances in the environment, and when your body is overwhelmed, these substances can slow down your brain function and contaminate your circulatory system. Super greens like chlorophyll and spirulina can help eliminate toxins and supply needed minerals and vitamins, including vitamins A and E, as well as essential fatty acids.
There are other remedies that can help detoxify your system when you are getting hit hard. Drink a round of noni juice to help reduce pain, eliminate parasites and detoxify the nervous system. Detox tea will aid your elimination through your kidneys and support good liver function.
Keep packets of an electrolyte mixture with a high dose of vitamin C, since it is essential for over 500 metabolic processes, and it is your first remedy when you have gotten underneath the job. When you don't feel like taking care of yourself, make a cup of this solution, which includes calcium and magnesium and other minerals, as well as b-vitamins.
Use a tincture of wormwood, black walnut and cloves to fight parasites and disinfect your body, skin and environment. Keep a four ounce spray bottle with about 7 or 8 drops diluted with water. The alcohol in the tincture can make an effective hand sanitizer. Mix it with a drop or two of the essential oils from the formula traditionally called thieves oil, including eucalyptus and tea tree oil, sage or thyme and oils from citrus fruits.
Lavender is also an important oil for the protection of the skin and its detoxification. Add all the ingredients above with 10 or 20 drops of essence of peppermint to almond oil to make an effective muscle rub for your skin to help reduce toxic buildup, as well. If you have a biodegradable cleaner based on coconut oil or other natural product, mix a few drops into your sanitizing spray bottle with the other ingredients. Use it to clean your steering wheel and radio and anything else you touch frequently.
Arnica is the top remedy for sprains and bruises, but take this with caution, because it is homeopathic, which means it induces the symptom when taken before symptoms arise. I suggest you use it topically, and minimize its oral use.
All of these items are perishable if exposed to extreme temperatures, left in your car or a damp place, so keep them fresh and use them up within six months. You will feel better and more protected, and don't forget the fresh batteries in your microrecorder.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
The Great Emancipator
(This post is from my homework for American History 2)
Although his overall stance might be characterized as a bit compromising by some standards, in 1837 Mr. Lincoln spoke publicly of the "injustice and bad policy" of the slave trade. Mr. Lincoln was part of the Whig party. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the election of 1848. Congressman Lincoln was a politician, without a doubt, but in his law practice, he took the part of advocate for slaves, which is where he absolutely earned the title the "Great Emancipator." While more radical abolitionists advocated succession from the Union because of slavery, Mr. Lincoln understood he was attempting to challenge some of the most powerful lobbyists in the history of the United States, and he was determined to fight that battle.
He later attempted to unite the Whig party regarding the slavery issue, but he did not go unchallenged. In 1849, newly elected Congressman Lincoln penned a bill to abolish slavery in the city limits of Washington D.C. in response to a livery stable that was a holding location for slaves who were being shipped to the South. Prominent southerners visited his backers and persuaded them to abandon the bill. It seems to me that Mr. Lincoln was a strategist, and the provisions of the bill shed light on his long term plan as an abolitionist Whig. It included the following:
1. Abolish slavery in D.C. (free all slaves existing there and prohibit any new slaves)
2. Temporary apprenticeship for newborn children of slaves.
3. Cash value from the US Gov't treasury for applicable slaves
4. Prohibiting all slave trade in the city limits
5. Existing Fugitive Slave law remains in force
6. Provision for a local popular vote by all males to see if the bill would be passed.
There is no doubt that various interpretations about Lincoln, slavery, the Civil war and the Reconstruction range according to the radically different conceptual lenses of the historians and observers who comment on them. I would submit that the current accepted interpretation of the 1860 Slavery and Reconstruction issue lacks the passion of the day and a complete grasp of the southern situation for blacks and whites, alike.
A good sampling of the bias in interpretations about Reconstruction, specifically, are the writings of William Dunning contrasted with WEB DuBois. The popularity of the film "Birth of a Nation" is another good example of the way a society looks at history through a variety of cultural norms, and reevaluating those norms is appropriate, and it can improve where the moderate perspective lay on the gradient. But we are in danger of forgetting what a system of terror looks like, and if we do not learn from our mistakes quickly, this lack of perspective threatens to overwhelm us on the two plus fronts of the war we fight today.
I grew up in the south, and perhaps I have a different perspective on the whole thing, but having spent so many years in the southern culture, I've spent a lot of time in personal reflection about this issue. My great grandfather owned a plantation, complete with slaves, and my grandmother was reared by a slave woman who stayed with my great-grandfather until her dying days. My grandmother was a gentle woman who faced many hardships, and she always addressed this issue with respect and a disposition of equality for blacks, although the culture she grew up in interpreted that equality in a way I do not agree with.
Although his overall stance might be characterized as a bit compromising by some standards, in 1837 Mr. Lincoln spoke publicly of the "injustice and bad policy" of the slave trade. Mr. Lincoln was part of the Whig party. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in the election of 1848. Congressman Lincoln was a politician, without a doubt, but in his law practice, he took the part of advocate for slaves, which is where he absolutely earned the title the "Great Emancipator." While more radical abolitionists advocated succession from the Union because of slavery, Mr. Lincoln understood he was attempting to challenge some of the most powerful lobbyists in the history of the United States, and he was determined to fight that battle.
He later attempted to unite the Whig party regarding the slavery issue, but he did not go unchallenged. In 1849, newly elected Congressman Lincoln penned a bill to abolish slavery in the city limits of Washington D.C. in response to a livery stable that was a holding location for slaves who were being shipped to the South. Prominent southerners visited his backers and persuaded them to abandon the bill. It seems to me that Mr. Lincoln was a strategist, and the provisions of the bill shed light on his long term plan as an abolitionist Whig. It included the following:
1. Abolish slavery in D.C. (free all slaves existing there and prohibit any new slaves)
2. Temporary apprenticeship for newborn children of slaves.
3. Cash value from the US Gov't treasury for applicable slaves
4. Prohibiting all slave trade in the city limits
5. Existing Fugitive Slave law remains in force
6. Provision for a local popular vote by all males to see if the bill would be passed.
There is no doubt that various interpretations about Lincoln, slavery, the Civil war and the Reconstruction range according to the radically different conceptual lenses of the historians and observers who comment on them. I would submit that the current accepted interpretation of the 1860 Slavery and Reconstruction issue lacks the passion of the day and a complete grasp of the southern situation for blacks and whites, alike.
A good sampling of the bias in interpretations about Reconstruction, specifically, are the writings of William Dunning contrasted with WEB DuBois. The popularity of the film "Birth of a Nation" is another good example of the way a society looks at history through a variety of cultural norms, and reevaluating those norms is appropriate, and it can improve where the moderate perspective lay on the gradient. But we are in danger of forgetting what a system of terror looks like, and if we do not learn from our mistakes quickly, this lack of perspective threatens to overwhelm us on the two plus fronts of the war we fight today.
I grew up in the south, and perhaps I have a different perspective on the whole thing, but having spent so many years in the southern culture, I've spent a lot of time in personal reflection about this issue. My great grandfather owned a plantation, complete with slaves, and my grandmother was reared by a slave woman who stayed with my great-grandfather until her dying days. My grandmother was a gentle woman who faced many hardships, and she always addressed this issue with respect and a disposition of equality for blacks, although the culture she grew up in interpreted that equality in a way I do not agree with.
Reconstruction in the South
(This post is part of my homework from American History 2)
Sometimes it seems as if American history is still being defined and influenced by the issue of trafficking humans for monetary profit. It still makes the news in South Carolina, and the authorities have become vigilant against the industry. There are segments of the American society who will do anything for money, and they find it useful to maintain their supremacy against whomever might challenge their economic status. The proponents of the slave trade in the 19th century did not have any qualms about utilizing a system of terror to maintain the status quo. The slave industry was not only about the utilization of slaves in the south, but also about the supply of humans, which included enterprises in the North and UK. This became a factor in the abolitionist's movement and the Civil War.
When William Lloyd Garrison, editor of "The Liberator" in Boston, Massechusetts who was considered the most radical abolitionist, advocated succession from the union on the basis of its acceptance of the slave trade and those who utilized slaves, he faced physical abuse along with other whites who challenged the industry. Mr. Garrison said in 1831, "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD." He was a catalyst in the movement that transpired over the next 30 years to utilize government to bring equality to the slaves, although he himself did not believe the government was capable of it.
Angelina Grimke from Charleston, South Carolina became the first American woman to address a legislature, besides being one of the first Southerners to speak out against slavery, perhaps because of the organized intimidation against them. This was an extension of the lynching that blacks received on a regular basis in order to maintain the status quo.
The Republican party of the time, still considered and widely accepted as "radical," adopted the philosophy that the slave trade must be abandoned and equality granted to every male in America. Although Lincoln took a more tolerant view of the slave trade, after the war the push for more radical reform of the agriculture industry in the south and the utilization of humans won out, and sweeping measures were adopted and enforced by the federal government with the presence of troops to provide stability. (question #2)
The Wade Davis bill, submitted by Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis required states to renounce slavery and succession from the union, to grant blacks citizenship and the right to vote, and to accept a provisional governor and essentially a complete provisional government, in effect. It also required an "Ironclad Oath" --more than 50% of white males in a state that had succeeded had to affirm that they had never supported the confederacy, in effect keeping states as territories until that number could be met. Historically, this has been seen as outrageous, although the 14th amendment is in keeping with the spirit of these measures. (Question #2)
The situation was temporarily improved for the black man in the south, although it was only the presence of troops that had improved them. Ultimately, the conflict between white southerners who advocated the use of slaves and the federal government was ended in certain states, such as South Carolina, when the troops left and the provisional government collapsed to the factions that would later become the KKK. In 1876, the democrats gained control over the U.S. legislature and Rutherford B. Hayes, a republican, was voted POTUS. The pressure to end occupation was great, which would also effectively end the effort to reconstruct the south. The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement reached in order to stop the contesting of Haye's election over Samuel Tilden. U.S. Congressional Democrats threatened to fillibuster until after inauguration day, which is required in the Constitution, in order to leave the country with no president and no clear leadership of the military, perhaps opening it to the threat of a coup. Slaves had been granted their freedom, so to maintain order and avoid what appeared to be a threat of war, General Grant withdrew, leaving democrats who advocated white control and the oppression of blacks to continue their control of the southern states. (Question #4, 7)
The reign of terror on the southern states would continue for a hundred years. All sorts of tactics to control became the experience and culture of blacks in America across the nation, including the use of sharecropping and separate public facilities. In Plessy Vs. Ferguson, a man (who actually had no physical resemblance to a black) was barred from using a railroad car. The court upheld the use of separate, but equal facilities for blacks, and this ruling would be used to maintain their oppression until 1954 when it was overturned. (Question #5)
In 1915, "The Birth of a Nation" became a film of great renown because it is considered the first modern movie. It was essentially propoganda to clean up the reputation of the Ku Klux Klan. Perhaps the publicity over the system of terror that the KKK was using caused the public to move to a more moderate position, but the locus of power remained with those who committed acts of domestic terror. In my opinion, the culture of blacks has been dominated by the use of a system of terror, and the statistics that appear to prejudiced men to affirm their beliefs about the black race have been skewed to predispose blacks to an experience that is more criminal. (Question #3, 7)
Sometimes it seems as if American history is still being defined and influenced by the issue of trafficking humans for monetary profit. It still makes the news in South Carolina, and the authorities have become vigilant against the industry. There are segments of the American society who will do anything for money, and they find it useful to maintain their supremacy against whomever might challenge their economic status. The proponents of the slave trade in the 19th century did not have any qualms about utilizing a system of terror to maintain the status quo. The slave industry was not only about the utilization of slaves in the south, but also about the supply of humans, which included enterprises in the North and UK. This became a factor in the abolitionist's movement and the Civil War.
When William Lloyd Garrison, editor of "The Liberator" in Boston, Massechusetts who was considered the most radical abolitionist, advocated succession from the union on the basis of its acceptance of the slave trade and those who utilized slaves, he faced physical abuse along with other whites who challenged the industry. Mr. Garrison said in 1831, "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I will not equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD." He was a catalyst in the movement that transpired over the next 30 years to utilize government to bring equality to the slaves, although he himself did not believe the government was capable of it.
Angelina Grimke from Charleston, South Carolina became the first American woman to address a legislature, besides being one of the first Southerners to speak out against slavery, perhaps because of the organized intimidation against them. This was an extension of the lynching that blacks received on a regular basis in order to maintain the status quo.
The Republican party of the time, still considered and widely accepted as "radical," adopted the philosophy that the slave trade must be abandoned and equality granted to every male in America. Although Lincoln took a more tolerant view of the slave trade, after the war the push for more radical reform of the agriculture industry in the south and the utilization of humans won out, and sweeping measures were adopted and enforced by the federal government with the presence of troops to provide stability. (question #2)
The Wade Davis bill, submitted by Benjamin Wade and Henry Winter Davis required states to renounce slavery and succession from the union, to grant blacks citizenship and the right to vote, and to accept a provisional governor and essentially a complete provisional government, in effect. It also required an "Ironclad Oath" --more than 50% of white males in a state that had succeeded had to affirm that they had never supported the confederacy, in effect keeping states as territories until that number could be met. Historically, this has been seen as outrageous, although the 14th amendment is in keeping with the spirit of these measures. (Question #2)
The situation was temporarily improved for the black man in the south, although it was only the presence of troops that had improved them. Ultimately, the conflict between white southerners who advocated the use of slaves and the federal government was ended in certain states, such as South Carolina, when the troops left and the provisional government collapsed to the factions that would later become the KKK. In 1876, the democrats gained control over the U.S. legislature and Rutherford B. Hayes, a republican, was voted POTUS. The pressure to end occupation was great, which would also effectively end the effort to reconstruct the south. The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement reached in order to stop the contesting of Haye's election over Samuel Tilden. U.S. Congressional Democrats threatened to fillibuster until after inauguration day, which is required in the Constitution, in order to leave the country with no president and no clear leadership of the military, perhaps opening it to the threat of a coup. Slaves had been granted their freedom, so to maintain order and avoid what appeared to be a threat of war, General Grant withdrew, leaving democrats who advocated white control and the oppression of blacks to continue their control of the southern states. (Question #4, 7)
The reign of terror on the southern states would continue for a hundred years. All sorts of tactics to control became the experience and culture of blacks in America across the nation, including the use of sharecropping and separate public facilities. In Plessy Vs. Ferguson, a man (who actually had no physical resemblance to a black) was barred from using a railroad car. The court upheld the use of separate, but equal facilities for blacks, and this ruling would be used to maintain their oppression until 1954 when it was overturned. (Question #5)
In 1915, "The Birth of a Nation" became a film of great renown because it is considered the first modern movie. It was essentially propoganda to clean up the reputation of the Ku Klux Klan. Perhaps the publicity over the system of terror that the KKK was using caused the public to move to a more moderate position, but the locus of power remained with those who committed acts of domestic terror. In my opinion, the culture of blacks has been dominated by the use of a system of terror, and the statistics that appear to prejudiced men to affirm their beliefs about the black race have been skewed to predispose blacks to an experience that is more criminal. (Question #3, 7)
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