In Korea it means I am sexier than you are.

I’ll never forget my first adult visit to a jjimjjilbang (click here) — a communal bath house in Korea. A cornerstone of the culture, it’s where women go to mingle and relax. And, apparently, judge each other for not having pubic hair: When I strode in, fully groomed, everyone stared. (Just in case they needed some hints for where to focus, I had some pretty obvious tan lines in key places.)

I’ll especially never forget the way a girl gathered her abundant pubes into her underwear, and then strode past me with stone-cold confidence and a side-eye that said, “Jealous?"...

...In the U.S., the interest in a more natural down-there look may not have had a resurgence in popularity until recently. But, in Korea, pubic hair is seen as a sign of sexual health and fertility. Some have even taken it one step further — with bush grafting. Yup, women are getting hair transplanted from their heads onto their lady parts...

Here's the logistics. (click here) A narrow piece of scalp with hair "bulbs" (we're so picturing fairy lights) is transplanted into the public area. Surgeons then divide the hair follicles evenly throughout your nether regions leaving nothing but a lush new pubic do.

Apparently, East Asian women consider a more 'bewhiskered' lady garden a sign of fertility and sexual desirability but for around £1200 we don't think we could ever care for our lady hair quite that much.

Here's a thought, why don't we all stop bush grafting, waxing and shaving and learn to appreciate our lady parts however hairy they come?

It is a health issue more than it is a good choice for beauty.

7 August 2012
By Emily Gibson

...Pubic hair removal naturally irritates and inflames (click here) the hair follicles left behind, leaving microscopic open wounds. Rather than suffering a comparison to a bristle brush, frequent hair removal is necessary to stay smooth, causing regular irritation of the shaved or waxed area. When that irritation is combined with the warm moist environment of the genitals, it becomes a happy culture medium for some of the nastiest of bacterial pathogens, namely Group A Streptococcus, Staphylococcus aureus and its recently mutated cousin methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). There is an increase in staph boils and abscesses, necessitating incisions to drain the infection, resulting in scarring that can be significant. It is not at all unusual to find pustules and other hair-follicle inflammation papules on shaved genitals....

I was surprised to find a page about "Female Athlete Triad" on a kid's health website.

Hannah joined the track team her freshman year and trained hard to become a lean, strong sprinter. When her coach told her losing a few pounds would improve her performance, she immediately started counting calories and increased the duration of her workouts. She was too busy with practices and meets to notice that her period had stopped — she was more worried about the stress fracture in her ankle slowing her down. 

 

Although Hannah thinks her intense training and disciplined diet are helping her performance, they may actually be hurting her — and her health.

What Is Female Athlete Triad? (click here)

Sports and exercise are part of a balanced, healthy lifestyle. People who play sports are healthier; get better grades; are less likely to experience depression; and use alcohol, cigarettes, and drugs less frequently than people who aren't athletes. But for some girls, not balancing the needs of their bodies and their sports can have major consequences.

Some girls who play sports or exercise intensely are at risk for a problem called female athlete triad. Female athlete triad is a combination of three conditions: disordered eating, amenorrhea, and osteoporosis. A female athlete can have one, two, or all three parts of the triad.

Triad Factor #1: Disordered Eating

Triad Factor #2: Amenorrhea

Triad Factor #3: Osteoporosis

This is just a thought. I don't really have scientific research to back it up, but, do any of these practices add to rejection of a woman's body causing all sorts of strange behavior such as anorexia nervosa?

See, one of the side effects of anorexia nervosa is loss of menstral cycle because of the lack of fat. Estrogen is fat dependent.

Well I'm 15 (click here) and suffered from anorexia for about 6-7 months and have been eating healthy now for about a month, but my hair is coming out by the handfuls. When will this stop? I've started my period again so I'm at a healthy weight and I'm also taking a multivitamin to see if that helps. It's really starting to get thin and I was wondering if it'll stop soon or atleast slow down? Also, does your metabolism bounce back once you're eating enough calories and getting the nutrients that you need?

The fundraiser that plays with publc hair is called, "Julyna." You can't make this stuff up.

These are the latest in public hair styles. You ready for this? It is from fundraiser for women's cancer. No lie. 

Women (and men) (click here) will spend the month of July exercising creativity and personal wellness by choosing a style for their pubic hair and sticking to it for the month as a fundraising technique. Women (and men) can leave it au naturel, shave it, braid it, straighten it, or choose a standard pattern like the “The Brazilian”. We encourage women to get creative!

Along with the reverent meaning of Memorial Day, it is also the unofficial beginning of summer. When those days of summer come to visit there are many stresses that enter the life of Americans.

Besides needing to drop a few pounds to prevent embarrassment on the beach, women nationwide shave their public hair. 

Now, I don't want to appear to demand the return of public hair of the purest form, but, what the heck are women doing to themselves?

It's Sunday Night.

The second day of a three day holiday called Memorial Day.

How did we get so far from the original Memorial Day of May 30th? In 2016 the holiday will again visit the day it was first celebrated.

Another name for the day of remembrance of those who died for the country they loved, is "Decoration Day."

The entire concept of Memorial Day started after the end of the Civil War in the USA.

...The 1868 celebration (click here) was inspired by local observances that had taken place in various locations in the three years since the end of the Civil War. In fact, several cities claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day, including Columbus, Mississippi; Macon, Georgia; Richmond, Virginia; Boalsburg, Pennsylvania; and Carbondale, Illinois. In 1966, the federal government, under the direction of President Lyndon B. Johnson, declared Waterloo, New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day. They chose Waterloo–which had first celebrated the day on May 5, 1866–because the town had made Memorial Day an annual, community-wide event, during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags....

This is a little more history.
 
The enormity of human pain (click here) and death associated with the Civil War, unprecedented in so many ways, inspired equally novel responses. Most significant among these was the creation of Memorial Day, an annual national holiday urging citizens to decorate the graves of their soldier dead and observe a day of solemn reflection in gratitude and remembrance....

"Hair" by Hair Cast from the Broadway Musical (click here)

She asks me why
I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night
Hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low
Don't ask me why
Don't know
It's not for lack of bread
Like the Grateful Dead
Darling

Gimme head with hair
Long beautiful hair
Shining, gleaming,
Streaming, flaxen, waxen

Give me down to there hair
Shoulder length or longer
Here baby, there mama
Everywhere daddy daddy

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

Let it fly in the breeze
And get caught in the trees
Give a home to the fleas in my hair
A home for fleas
A hive for bees
A nest for birds
There ain't no words
For the beauty, the splendor, the wonder
Of my...

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy
Shining, gleaming, streaming
Flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted
Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled, and spaghettied!

Oh say can you see
My eyes if you can
Then my hair's too short

Down to here
Down to there
Down to where
It stops by itself

They'll be ga ga at the go go
When they see me in my toga
My toga made of blond
Brilliantined
Biblical hair

My hair like Jesus wore it
Hallelujah I adore it
Hallelujah Mary loved her son
Why don't my mother love me?

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair

The late President Gerald Ford had a better idea. President Obama made the mistake of drinking the military Kool-aid.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is too much a gentleman when describing the Iraqi army.

To begin, the Iraqi army abandoned their post, not just once, but twice. Both times was a major abandonment of the land both Americans and other Iraqis fought and died to defend and protect.

I don't doubt this is the lack of will to fight because the Iraqi army is demoralized by the brutal violence in the Daesh regime, but, the second time proved something more. The Daesh regime benefits from taking over land that has been infiltrated by the Iraqi army.

This is the second time Daesh has benefited from the retreat of the Iraqi army. The abandonment of their fight is not only a retreat, but, allows Daesh an opportunity to better arm themselves and become reinvigorated with munitions and equipment.

There is no doubt the Iraqi army was overwhelmed the first time when Daesh first crossed the Iraqi border, but, to have that happen again is a profound curiosity. The first time there were many people taken prisoner and consequently executed in brutal methods. But, the second time the Iraqi army did exactly the same thing as before. They left tanks, humvees and munitions behind and in doing so caused the reinvigoration of Daesh. The soldiers are not only leaving their post, they are allowing enhanced danger to the civilians they leave behind. 

Enough. The region is unstable and has been since the USA invasion. The warring never ended and it still hasn't. The regional powers are going to have to assess their own sovereign interests and move to take land away from Daesh. To expect an Iraqi army to do the job is ridiculous. There is no reason to continue to expect the USA to have a role in this disaster in international policy since March of 2003. There was rarely a day that went by without sectarian violence of one kind or another. This is not the USA's fight. 

The cute and catchy theme of "You broke it, you bought it." is hideous and ridiculous. The USA has poured billions after billions if not trillions into this country with the same result. It's over in Iraq. The United Nation has to assess the shifting borders as well.

May 24, 2015
By Ken Dilanian 

The Islamic State (click here) group’s takeover of Ramadi is stark evidence that Iraqi forces lack the “will to fight,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said, in the harshest assessment yet from a high-ranking Obama administration official of the U.S. effort to bolster Iraqi forces to retake their territory from extremist militants.

Iraqi soldiers “vastly outnumbered” their opposition in the capital of Anbar province but quickly withdrew from the city in Iraq’s Sunni heartland, Carter said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” The interview aired on Sunday.
The Iraqis left behind large numbers of U.S.-supplied vehicles, including several tanks. 

“What apparently happened is the Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight,” Carter said. “They were not outnumbered; in fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. That says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIL and defend themselves.” 

Iraqi lawmaker Hakim al-Zamili, the head of the parliamentary defense and security committee, called Carter’s comments “unrealistic and baseless,” in an interview with The Associated Press....

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article22134486.html#storylink=cpy

May 18, 2015. Massive Hail Storm in Texas.

This is where Pecos, Texas is located and 5 days ago this hail storm is what happened there. It was caught on video.

The next day another team of storm chasers caught still yet another odd storm/tornado on video. At one point the hail is at least 6 inches deep and increasing.

A man also walks across a pavement wearing a hard hat.

Tuesday, May 19, 2015, 12:07 - We started (click here for video which includes advocacy for a "Tornado Safety Plan" ) our day off in Abilene, TX and after some breakfast, we began our trek southwest along the I-20 toward Midland, TX. This was our "target" to start the day to get us into position for storms to fire. After waiting at a gas station in Midland for a couple of hours, storms began to develop near the NM-TX border. We started vectoring southwest toward Pecos, TX where the storm was.... 

The weather Channel has remarkable submissions from the people who lost their entire town to a tornado. At one point a teacher walks down the hall of a collapsed roof and some destroyed walls and her reaction is profound. There should be no elected officials even entertaining the words, "These folks are tough and they are good as recovering from these storms." The videos clearly show people unable to cope with their reality.

 

It 

The Earned Income Tax Credit is nice to help lift the income of the poor, however, it is Wall Street Welfare and it is not a substitution for a higher minimum wage.

There is very severe weather across the country. The flooding along the 'blue dots' is disasterous.

Kindly read the explanation (click here)  and examine the color code to understand where the severe flooding is occurring. Red dots on this map is the intuitive opposite of most ideas about the color red. In this instance the blue (probably to indicate water) is where the heaviest rains and flooding is occurring.

The information found on this map is 'REAL TIME' data. 

Click on the state of this government page at link above and it will show the distribution of danger in that particular state. 

These are record floods. No one, but, no one should be overlooking the fact people have to be evacuated. This is going to require the National Guard to attempt any rescue for those that have not be evacuated.

Police, sheriffs, deputy sherrifs and prison guards should be required to carry a pulse oximeter into any procedure where restraints are applied.

These are portable pulse oximeters. The mechanisms can be easily carried by police. When restraints are being applied in any way, the person being restrained should have their oxygen saturation checked. If the suspect and/or prisoner states, "I can't breath." immediately the oxygen saturation should be checked without delay of any kind.

When a pulse oximeter reads below 95% a person's oxygen saturation is compromised. At no point in time should the oxygen saturation level fall below 90%. If the oxygen saturation level falls to 85% the oxygen saturation level is completely compromised and all activity compromising the person restrained should stop.

A young black man will not have health consequences to cause a reading, as in COPD, that is related to chronic health issues opposed to asphyxiation. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to be threatened with death by police when in their custody. Should a reading of less than 95% should be provided with relief to allow them to breath better and immediately transported to an emergency room for further evaluation and intervention. 

In the case of Eric Garner the man needed a patent airway that was not crushed. That means a whole has to be performed to his neck below the crushed airway to insure air exchange. EMTs should be instructed in the procedure of providing a temporary tracheotomy to provide air exchange as the person is transported to the emergency room.

Not all the problems in Baltimore relate to the Freddie Gray murder.

There are nearly fifty percent less arrests in Baltimore because of crowds recording the actions of police. The Baltimore police asked for it. They have not had the confidence of the community that are under Big Brother surveillance. There is a lot more wrong with the policing relationship other than the death of Freddie Gray.

If the community is showing up at arrests, there is probably surveillance of the police band radio. These people are terrified of their police. There is no clear communication or advocacy for the people with the police. The communication between the police and community has to improve.

If there are fifty percent less arrests in Baltimore, maybe there should be. There are still arrests, but, less of them. The arrests that are happening might be the ones the community recognizes as necessary and important. There needs to be a Citizen-Police Board where complaints are brought to end the tensions with the community. 

The Freddie Gray murder was the spark that lit the flame. Not every action by police or the community is linked to the death of Freddie Gray. Those dynamics are now facing the court. He died in the custody of police in a heinous manner. That is a fact. How many other infractions exist in the community not caught on camera yet. The death of Freddie Gray was not a freak incident. There are others that have died in police vans. There is a lot wrong in Baltimore and until there are clear understandings and not an 'US and Them' relationship there will be problems. 

Senator Paul with the help of Seantor Heinrich has successfully defeated...

...procedural votes on both The American Freedom Act required a 60 vote majority and failed. The NSA provisions of the Patriot Act was defeated with less than a simple majority. Senator McConnell attempted short term extensions in several renditions of the with no success. 

The current idea is to bring the US Senate back to session on May 31 at 5PM for a vote on an extension of the Patriot Act before it expires midnight of June 1, 2015.

Highway extension to be passed this morning. The highway extension has been postponed until May 31st. The Senate was adjourned until May 31st at 5PM EDT.

Congratulations to Senator Paul and Senator Heinrich. Senator Paul was more than willing to forgo four of his six amendments to pass the Patriot Act, but, it was not allowed. The US Senate has successfully blocked the House NSA surveillance bill and the two month extension.

Majority leader McConnell is somewhat alarmed by the fact there is a high threat level overseas and the Patriot Act was not returned from it's sunset date.

The Senate is acting on a House bill for the renewal of the Patriot Act and it is not going over well in the US Senate.

Senator Mikulski is appalled the US Senate has been adjourned without renewal of the Patriot Act or at the very least voted for The American Freedom Act. She stated the thousands of people at the NSA were carrying out an important job to protect the USA's defense. She stated these people have been harassed in their private lives, including bullying of their children because of the work they did.

No one is dissolving FISA or Executive Order 12333. I suggest the people at the NSA and it's director review the importance of FISA and expect to fall back on it as the Patriot Act expires.

Senator Dick Durbin has objected to another extension of the Highway Bill and wants a six year program. He is consenting to a 60 extension but there is a six year program that is needed. He expects the full bill to be passed when the US Senate returns. The extension was approved for 90 days on a verbal consent. 

Most of the Senators have left the chamber.

Senator Mark Rounds has moved to Executive Session and nominations be submitted. All nominations passed.

The US Senate finally adjourned until 4PM May 26th. The further votes on the Patriot Act will not occur until May 31st to convene at 4PM.

The region of the Middle East has to stabilize itself.

Ahmed Ali is a visiting senior fellow and director of the Iraq Security and Humanitarian Monitor at the Education for Peace in Iraq Center in Washington. 

May 21, 2015
by Ahmed Ali

WASHINGTON — THE fall of the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday, (click here) and of the Syrian city of Palmyra on Wednesday, is a big gain for the Islamic State, but not an utter disaster, as many observers fear.

Rather than inducing panic in Western capitals, it should lead to a realistic assessment of the Islamic State’s strengths and weaknesses. One setback in a long war must not trigger hasty strategic shifts that lead to foreign countries’ becoming mired in Iraq once more.

Palmyra has economic and cultural significance, as it sits among gas fields and is home to renowned ruins. But Ramadi, in western Iraq, is of far greater military and strategic consequence.

The attack on Ramadi was a sign of desperation, not strength. It took 16 months of continual clashes with tenacious Iraqi security forces and loyal Sunni tribes before the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, could take Ramadi. Before it fell, the Islamic State already controlled half of the city. Its battlefield rivals were exhausted, and it wanted to give its adherents a psychological boost. Ramadi was a ripe target....

The dolphins that are dying and giving birth to genetically damaged young have been studied for over 40 years. The BP disaster has decimated the integrity of this population.

The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program (SDRP), (click here) a partnership led by the Chicago Zoological Society and based at Mote Marine Laboratory in Sarasota, Florida, conducts the world’s longest-running study of a dolphin population. The program’s primary goal is to contribute to a better understanding of the structure and dynamics of populations of small cetaceans, as well as the natural and anthropogenic factors that impact them. The SDRP uses an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach in conducting studies of bottlenose dolphins within Sarasota Bay, Tampa Bay, Charlotte Harbor, and the Gulf of Mexico coastal waters.  For more information about the SDRP, please visit: www.sarasotadolphin.org.

This was stated in the 2000 election.

George W. Bush (click here) "will also ensure that the federal government, which is the country’s largest polluter, complies with all environmental laws."

Lies.  

To refuse the USA was responsible of 25% of global greenhouse gas emissions, it was easier to blame China. So much for accountability. 

LEADING on the Climate Crisis means setting the example other countries need to follow. At the time Bush was pointing fingers at China, it was building wind farms in number and acres greater than the USA had. 

When President Obama went to China he didn't point a finger and demand for China to modernize their country and end their polluting. He showed China's leadership the willingness to work together with them to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Now, both the USA and China have a common mission and it is a good mission to end the danger of the Climate Crisis. It takes grown up with a moral center to act in a responsible way to bring about change. President Obama is that moral president. 

If Germany can do it, the USA can do it. Reduction in greenhouse gas emission by Germany also lowers it's dependency on natural gas. Alternative energy helps Germany with it's long term national security.

FRANKFURT, May 22 (Reuters) - German carbon dioxide (CO2)(click here) equivalent emissions regulated under the European emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2014 fell by 4.1 percent to 461.2 million tonnes, according to official national data released on Friday.
The number was published by Germany's carbon registry DEHSt and underscored the general trend of lower pollution in the EU last year. The bloc's ETS emissions fell 4.5 percent, helped by the rise of renewable energy and mild weather, which lowers energy demand. "In Germany, 2014 was the warmest year on record since measuring started in 1881," the DEHSt report said....

All the other 195 countries needs to take example and apply alternative energy to increase their national security.