Update [2005-8-8 20:36:40 by susanhu]: Murray Waas is now on, and will talk about Patrick Fitzgerald .. is talking about Scooter LIbby right now (see Boo’s Sunday story).
Air America Radio. She says she’s been informed that the property she’s on is private and she must move. And she just said she was in a “photo shoot” for People magazine and told she might be on the cover.
She’s still on … after the advertisements.
ALSO: Below, in the Cindy/Drudge story, I’ve added two updates. One is to the original article that Drudge used to smear Cindy. The Vacaville newspaper placed it online free of charge — I’m sure to counter Drudge’s out-of-context quotes. The second update is a link to a Crooks & Liars tape of Cindy today on The Tony Show.
Oh, yea. I can’t get enough of listening to Cindy. I’m off to make another donation to the Crawford Peace House.
Oh. Thanks for all the work you do, Susan. You, too, are an inspiration.
Thank YOU! She surely needs donations. I so wish we could all go to Crawford and help her.
Crap. They still don’t have their paypal account set up. Susan, do you have any word about how soon that can happen? I FedEx’d a check, but I’d rather not do that again…….
I haven’t got a clue. Let me ask someone.
URL?
Do they have e-mail? We could bug them.
I emailed them begging for news when their paypal is set up.
crawfordpeacehouse@yahoo.com
Just watched Olbermann and he did a lovely tribute to Peter Jennings. At the end of the show, he explained that he had just had a fibrous tumor removed from his mouth. Fortunately, the tumor was benign. He gave an impassioned plea for people who smoke to quit. If you can catch the repeat of the show, the last 5 minutes are worth it.
In the interest of full disclosure, I’m a smoker. Listening to Keith though, I might have to see what I can do to quit this nasty habit. I’m having a physical on Thursday and will discuss options for quitting, even though I’ve tried everything under the sun (patch, gum, zyban, cold turkey). And if I sucessfully quit, I’ll thank Keith.
Acupuncture can help you quit. It can short-circuit the pathways that create the addictive cravings. If you are one of the lucky, the few with insurance, it may even be covered.
I have insurance, but it doesn’t cover acupuncture. I was looking for a practitioner who can help with quitting smoking, but how does one choose? No one I know goes to an acupuncturist, so I can’t get recommendations from friends. I just don’t want to go and find it is a waste of time and money.
Acupuncture, short version: It’s part of an ancient system of Chinese medicine to clear “chi,” or energy in the body; it’s based on the so-called five elements, earth, air, water, fire, metal, each of which relates to a system or part of your body. A practitioner (who has studied for the Lic.Ac. degree as long as an M.D.), takes multiple pulses, not just one. S/he will also ask you a number of questions about medical history, also your life.
Treatments are individual, there is no one-size-fits-all. The aim is to get all your body’s systems into balance, so the stomach isn’t overwhelming the liver isn’t snarling at the gall bladder, and so on.
I use it as a kind of Maintenance of Plant and Equipment, to use a financial term. Because I don’t have health insurance, it’s in my best interest to stay as healthy as I can. Acupuncture helps keep my system in balance, and I have better energy, think more clearly, all sorts of good things as a result.
It will not magically cure you of anything, nor will it fix your broken arm. It can, however, help you stop smoking, although you have to be willing to make the mental and emotional commitment to have it work.
Here’s a general website I found.
There are a number of professional debunkers who will claim that it doesn’t work, or that it’s quakery. Acupuncture is much more accepted in the British and Australian medical worlds than in the more xenophobic American one. The Chinese have been using it for more than 5,000 years. It first came to American attention in the ’70s when NYTimes writer Scotty Reston (I believe it was) was in China with Nixon and had an emergency appendectomy. The Chinese doctors used acupuncture instead of anesthesia, and he wrote about how well it worked.
The New England School of Acupuncture is where mine, and several of the top practitioners in the country, trained. Their web site has a “find an acupuncturist” link. You could also contact them and ask for information.
I’ve studied it, but only for my own use to understand my health and health care better. I will refrain from unloading the entire reading list on you. 😉
Thanks for the information Mnemosyne.
I found an alumna from the NE School of Acupuncture who works right near me. I’ve scheduled an appointment for Thursday.
My sister used Acupuncture for a chronic knee injury and she had great success with it. I’m hoping that the acupuncture will help with my triggers for smoking, which are mostly emotional/stress. Maybe if my chi is balanced, I’ll not want to smoke anymore. I think I’m ready to quit (again), I just need more tools in my arsenal to help me succeed.
Wish me luck!
Meredith
Yay!!
Good for you! I know you can do it. Sending you good thoughts and good luck.
If you have tendencies towards depression and anxiety, as I do, you’ll want to be in close touch with a physician and/or psychiatrist.
I quit cold turkey in 1979. I had crying jags. I became socially isolated. I thought it was just the physical withdrawal.
I lived in Venice, Calif. at the time and used to walk the beach in the morning. All of a sudden, the ocean looked so pitilessly vast and empty, and terrified me. I started waking up at 3:30 AM and soon began going to bed at 8PM.
It wasn’t until years later, as I read a book, that i realized I’d had all the symptoms of serious depression. It never occurred to me, at the time, to see a doctor.
In other words, quitting is a very serious matter. That’s why people shouldn’t cavalierly bash smokers who have trouble quitting.
Nor should they inappropriately push people to quit. Smokers know they should quit, but there can be very serious ramifications for many.
It took me YEARS to get over those feelings and, as I look back on it, it’s rather sad because I might have gotten a lot of help from some mild medication like Prozac or something in that group of drugs. It was a VERY HIGH PRICE to pay for quitting smoking.*
The person who can say, I threw my last pack away and never had a problem, is very rare. (And probably lying or not monitoring his/her own feelings and reactions.)
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*I began again about 10 years later and still smoke. I don’t give a shit if I quit smoking right now. I have too much on my plate anyway at the moment.
Did you all hear about Dana Reeve, Chris Reeve’s widow? She has lung cancer. She is not a smoker.
I really wish people would stop blaming smoking for lung cancer … there are so many terrible environmental pollutants these days that I’d guess that it’d be impossible to blame smoking solely for anyone’s lung cancer.
No, I didn’t hear about Dana Reeve. What a shock! How sad for her, she’s had it rough the past decade or so. I hope it is treatable for her and that she caught it early.
Women are more susceptible to lung cancer than men.
And this article states:
Mike Malloy is devoting his show mostly to Cindy Sheehan tonight … and he is taking calls.
LISTEN
it is more relevent to this diary then to make my own diary…
It is growing beyond Cindy. Gold Star mothers are coming to join. This could turn into a movement. Could? Has, is more like it.
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=51471
Just in case you haven’t seen this yet, here is the link to an op-ed piece on Cindy Sheehan in today’s New York Times:
One Mother in Crawford