Most people knows that you can cook with herbs; but not many knows what else you can use herbs for. Herb gardens were the grocery stores, spice cabinets, and pharmacies of our ancestors. The common uses of herbs since ancient times have included: aphrodisiacs, aromatherapy, cosmetics, decorative arrangements, dye,embalming, perfumes, pest repellents, poisons, ritual burning, smoking.

Throughout the ages, people have gathered herbs and used them for sustenance and healing. Wild plants first ensure people’s survival, than cultivated plants evolved and became an indispensable part of the household. The reason for growing and using herbs-beauty for gardens, flavor for foods, fragrance for homes, and well-being for bodies-have endured and expanded worldwide.

Specialty herbs, such as coriander, lemongrass, and garlic once residents only in their native Asian lands, are available to anyone with a little garden space.

Herbs inspire gardeners to express their creativity. it’s fun and satisfying to use the plants in do-it-yourself projects such as home spa treatments, aromatic sachets, decorative wreaths, and cleaning products. When you use them as cleaning products, it’s better for the environment and your health because you’re not breathing in all the poisonous chemicals you get from the cleaning supplies out there.

These days you can easily find fresh and dried herbs at your local farmers market, grocery stores, and natural foods shop, such as Natural Groceries and Tochi.

Preserving herbs, such as sage, rosemary, and thyme for later use is as easy as snipping a bunch of stems and setting them aside to air-dry.

Any references to the use of a plant should not be construed as medical advice. Understanding what herbs do, how they work, and how you react to them is the common sense way to use herbs safely. Not all doctors are in favor of the use of herbs for medical purposes though. It cuts into their cost of them making any money themselves. Some doctors would rather that you purchase their medications over using herbs for healing.

During the Pandemic, I have been using elderberry syrup and ginger roots to strengthen my immune system. It’s the natural way of healing. The medical industry and Pharmaceutical would rather a person shoot themselves full of poisons created in the lab. To them, it’s all about making money by distributing drugs. Doctors will even pushed taking chemo to battle cancer. All the chemo does is make a person sicker. If I ever get cancer, I will not take chemotherapy. They promote shots for every sickness out there. They want you to get the Covid vaccine and the flu shots.

Now I’m against that and could get in lots of trouble because of working in a hospital if they knew that I’m against getting the vaccine and flu shots. I put off getting the poison for COVID as long as I could. When I couldn’t put off getting getting it anymore, I got an advice to take lemon juice to dilute the poison from my system. There are some doctors that were against getting the vaccine and some were fired because of it. These are the doctors who would promote the use of herbs as medicines instead of trusting the lab and science.

There are some favorite herbs out there. I will name a few: lavender, rosemary, mint, basil, aloe,fennel, garlic, marjoram, tarragon, sage,thyme.

Do you know that taking mint and peppermint will soothes your upset stomach? It’s better for you than taking Rolaids and Tums.

Dreaming of a garden? Herbs shine as versatile plants that enhance any type of garden or landscape design. It brings you joy. It suits your home style and your personality. It’s offer something for everyone in the household and creates beautiful views. They demands little upkeep. They even fit into your budget. It’s much cheaper than the medications the doctors would prescribe you. You can grow them in your apartment or house; along with growing them outside.

They are the best pollinator friendly plants. Their pollen and nectar attracts and sustain the beneficial visitors who help add color and life to any garden.

Using plants for food and home remedies is part of their cultural upbringing of sharing recipes and practicing folk medicine to keep the Lithuanian oral tradition alive.

Herbs are among the easiest plants to grow. They’re mostly vigorous and have few problems with pests and diseases.

When deciding which plants you will grow, get to know them up close. Brush your hand gently over the leaves to get a whiff of a plant, nibble a leaf to learn about its flavor and intensity.

Flower pots provide the most manageable and convenient way to start an herb garden. They make any apartments or home more beautiful in the process.

Harvest herbs at the peak of their glory and use them fresh or preserve the bounty for future pleasures.

It all starts with a little plant. Next thing you know, you’re snipping leaves, inhaling heady aromas, and turning ordinary food into marvelously delicious dishes. They also make great tea and aromatic cocktails. I prefer drinking herbal tea to help me relax. Before writing my blog,I would make myself a cup of herbal tea. It relaxes me. When I was a child, I would put sugar in my tea;now that I’m older, I prefer it unsweetened.

The best healing is natural healing as with herbs. It’s cheaper than any medications the doctors will prescribe you. Make sure that you find a doctor who is also in favor of herbs as well. They’re not in it for the money but rather keeping us healthy. They are not out there to shoot you full of every poisons out there. It would keep you out of the hospital and help you live longer than any medications the doctors may prescribe. I could be out of a job since I worked in a hospital if they knew this about me.

Last week, I talked about how to protect yourself from these criminals either on the streets or online. This week, I will delve into the DOGE’s investigation by Elon Musk and President Trump. Those on the Left are crying about it to the point of losing their minds over the fact that they are being investigated for corruption. They even have people taking their side by saying what Elon Musk is doing is unconstitutional. They don’t think that Elon Musk has any rights to investigate. They don’t like anyone looking into their bank records. In other words, they don’t want to see that the government is just corrupt. They put their trust in the government.

Now as taxpayers, we have every rights to know how our tax dollars are being spent. We have rights to see the wasteful spending going on in Washington by our government. That way we can cut the wasteful spending. The majority of the American people, and I’m one of them; those who elected Donald Trump very much want this investigation done to cut the wasteful spending.

DOGE: it’s to streamline government, eliminate waste, and upgrade our critical infrastructure. It’s the Department of Government Efficiency, headed up by Elon Musk under President Trump’s administration. It’s reduce federal spending.

It’s job is to organize massive layoffs of federal workers, accessing data from multiple federal agencies, terminating funding related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and climate change initiatives, foreign aid, consumer financial protect, and scientific research.

DOGE is controversial and has spawned opposition and lawsuits. Critics argue that Musk’s role violates the Constitution. The members of the Democratic party challenged DOGE’s authority and some call its actions a coup. Some say that Musk’s potential conflicts of interest.

This is the first time that someone actually committed to this investigation of wasteful spending by our government; but there have been other political candidates who promised to this but once elected forget about their promised to the American people. Even the Democrats themselves had promised a similar program to know avail and criticism.

When Bill Clinton was President, he promised a similar program to investigate wasteful spending by our government. Since he was a Democrat, he wasn’t criticized for it. Even President Obama also had a similar program install as well. Both time, not much was done like it is now. There is more heat behind it now that President Trump and Elon Musk are pushing the investigation.

There are people criticizing the massive layoffs of the Federal Government workers; but when there was a massive layoffs of workers on the Keystone Pipeline, they didn’t complained. They just told them that they can get another job. To them, I say the same thing, “just get another job.”

DOGE is investigating root out waste, shore up vulnerable payment systems, and schemes to defraud the taxpayers. They are investigating the IRS, Social Security, foreign aids, and scientific research. They are even investigating our government officials taking bribes from companies such as big Pharma, food processing and medical professional. People like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar have taken money from Big Pharma. When confronted about it, they argued that it wasn’t so. They are really big at pushing the investigation to stop.

They have discovered people as old as 105 or older collecting Social Security. In reality, those people are probably dead but still receiving money for Social Security. They are probably using them to steal votes as well in the elections.

There are some people complaining about the charitable organization is being accused of fraud under the DOGE’s investigation. They think what they are doing is a good thing. In reality, the money they collect is not going to help the people who actually needs it. Those behind it are pocketing the money for themselves.

Whenever I make a donation to help others, I make sure that I do it through my church. By going through the church, it’s more likely the money would actually get to the people who really needs it. If you donate through any organization, there’s no guarantee it will actually get to the people who actually needs it. My pastor is agreement with that. When I donate to help in Haiti, I do it through my church rather than through the government.

Our Congressman and Senators don’t make a lot of money but they get lots in kickbacks. That’s how they can afford huge mansions and fly around in their jets. They are included in inside trading involving stocks. Remembered, Martha Stewart was accused and went to prison for it. Even though that prison was a country club prison. They need to be investigated as well. People like Nancy Pelosi and Joe Biden.

Before 9/11 happened in 2001, President George W. Bush already had firsthand knowledge about it. So when it happened, he wasn’t surprised at all. He needs to be investigated along with Vice-President Dick Cheney because of it.

These scandals are worse than Watergate and Whitewater. They are investigating the conspiracy behind President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert Kennedy’s assassination. They are also looking into Jeffrey Epstein list involving child sex ring.

We the people has the right to know where our tax dollars are going. I’m all for Elon Musk doing this investigation; so that President Trump can cut wasteful spending. I believe that our forefathers, President Kennedy and President Reagan would be proud with DOGE. We must pray for protection for President Trump and Elon Musk as they continue investigating into government wasteful spending. By doing this, maybe they can cut our taxes.

It has been revealed about $80 million in wasteful spending was discovered. They needs to keep it up. They needs to investigate the war in Ukraine as well. Who actually started that war and how much money was spent wastefully?

Then they wondered why some people have a mistrust of the government. I was raised not to trust the government. My step-dad didn’t trust the government himself. That’s one of the reason why he didn’t patented what he had created. If he had done that, my family would had been better off financially. I believed that he would be excited about what DOGE is doing.

There’s so much work needed to be done by DOGE and so little time to get it done. A lot had already been done so far. Elon Musk is working for free to investigate government waste. Leave him alone, so he can do his job that the American people hired him to do. It’s our money and we the people have the rights to know where it’s actually going.

The bad guys are everywhere and how can you protect yourself from them?

In the 70’s, a person could go walking in the dark in Fargo, North Dakota and not be afraid. You could even do that in the 90’s. When did this all change for Fargo?

You didn’t need to locked your doors to your home and/or car years ago. Back then,you knew your neighbors and they watched out for each others. The kids played together. If you went vacation, your neighbors would watched your place for you. It just seems that people doesn’t take the chance to get to know their neighbors anymore. What used to be neighborhood party, now there is a tall fence between the 2 neighbors; so that cannot see over the other side.

The bad guys are using your phone, your computer, filling your email, mining your info, tricking your love ones, impersonating you, and plotting their next steal.

A quote from Sun-Tzu says, “Know thy enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles, you will never be defeated.”

Make no mistakes about it: we are at war with a growing industry of fraud. Thanks to timely technology and timeless greed,scam pitches have escalated to the point that most pitches every other day, each of us is forced to contend with fraudulent emails, texts, social media posts and phone calls.

Fraud starts with information about you. It can be easily and cheaply bought in an underground marketplace.

There are more than 15 billion pieces of stolen personal data. The average person logs in to nearly 200 sites that require passwords or other information.

You can fight back by taking these steps; set up your digital accounts to multifactor authentication, freeze your credit at the 3 major credit bureaus, do not save credit card numbers online, activate biometric locks or fingerprints on your cell phones, use antivirus software, and try not to have your phone numbers involved in too many online accounts.

Criminal call center from around the world may be dialing your number soon. If it sound too good to be true, you are probably dealing with an amateur.

Ignore phone calls from numbers you don’t know. Never make quick decision when it involves money. Listen for telltale words and phrases like “insider information.” Crooks can also reach you through social media or email newsletter. Before committing to any investment check their credentials.

Stealing your money is only half the battle for cyber crooks.Let’s take a look at some of the hottest scams.

Google voice scam-never share verification codes with anyone. Rental assistance cons-as eviction bans in cities and state expire, renter should be on the lookout for rental assistance scams. Fake Amazon employees-ignore calls, text messages, emails and social media messages about suspicious account activity. Cryptocurrency ATM payments. Local tax impostors. Favor for a friend gift cards-double check with your friend to make sure. P2p payment requests-only send money to friends and family.

Never buy gift cards for any purpose other than to give as a gift, Use credit cards for all online transactions, they will with protection. Don’t pay for goods and services with cryptocurrency. Never send cash through the mail.

Organized crimes are becoming more and more lately.

Watch out for medicare scammers! Never give your medicare number to anyone. If someone offers you free genetic testing in person or online, it’s a scam. If someone calls and promises you COVID-19 tests hang up the phone. Medicare will not reach out to you regarding enrollment.

Bad boys,bad boys,who are you going to call when they come looking for you? Crimes are at an all-time high. The polices are overwhelm and underpay because of the defund the police movement by the Democrats. Under the Biden’s administration, we have criminals and terrorist entering this country illegally with the help of the cartels. Our Liberals DA and judges are setting these criminals free with the help of George Soros.

Thank God we got a President who is cracking down on these criminals. Thank God that we got Elon Musk and the DOGE investigation going on involving corrupt government officials. Those on the Left are crying about it.

Stay tuned to next week, Bad Boys part 2; in which I will delve into DOGE’s investigation. This will definitely make those on the Left cry even more.

Do you work for a jerk or a decent manager? What type of manager do you work for? How can you manage your manager?

This blog will be off the book, “Managing Your Manager,” by Gonzague Dufour. Is your boss a go-to person? Can you talk to your manager? This book and blog will show how to get ahead with any type of boss. There are managers of all types that can provide invaluable learning experiences that can enhance your career. Managing your manager empowers you with the knowledge, skills, and savvy for dealing with any type of boss and excelling in your job.

This is a time of tremendous stress in most workplaces. Organizations are pressuring managers to deliver better results with fewer people; they’re asking them to work in new, flattened structures; they’re insisting on diversity initiatives; they’re rotating people in and out of groups frequently; and they’re introducing new technologies that take some getting used to.

The best of environments, bosses can be challenging to deal with. In the worst of environments, they can be more than challenging-frustrating, perplexing, aggravating, and impossible.

Most bosses today work in highly stressful environments. Is there a lot of stress where you worked?

In this blog, I will give you details of some types of managers. Then you can see where your boss lies. Some people deal with a difficult boss by gritting their teeth and toughing it out. They are unhappy in the relationship, not learning much and not doing their best work, but they hang in there for a variety of reasons- their boss will retire or get another job soon. This is one of reasons for a high turnover in employment. If the manager is a jerk, they cannot keep the help; no matter what the pay or benefits may be. Yet these managers cannot see that they are the problems. They think that it’s the workers fault. Even the human resources office cannot see the problems. I remembered working at Kmart, and we had to do a survey reviewing our manager. When it got back to him, he called a morning meeting, chewing us out. He couldn’t understand why he got such a poor reviews from the employees.

Let’s take a look at different type of managers.

The first one is the BULLY. The word bully connotes a number of negative traits, but like all boss archetypes, this one is a mixture of positives and negatives-you don’t get one without the other. These managers have unexpected bursts of anger, and their volatility contributes to their intimidating presence. They are constantly angry all the time. The employees are walking on eggshells when they are there in the office. I know a manager like that. The joke going around when he was around was don’t disturb “Sleeping Beauty!” If another department deliver a better result, they can be intensely competitive, and may erupted. At times, the Bully micromanaged when he should have supervised. This manager would sit on his ass in his office rather than get out and worked with the employees. His office door is closed and locked if he’s not there. Those who do get along with the Bully tended to be either jaded or highly ambitious. They can lose their tempers and be intimidating at times. Does your manager evokes fear, respect, and fascination? The Bully can be a challenging manager to manage. They are impossible to work for.

The GOOD! They are considerate, reasonable, logical and knowledgeable. They inspire leadership. They are not a 24/7 manager. They separate their work from their private life. They are decent and competent. They are not afraid to get their hands dirty and dig right into the job.

The KALEIDOSCOPE are difficult to grasp. Working for them can be a challenge because you feel like you’re working for 5 different bosses. Don’t try to play with this type of boss! Don’t believe everything he tells you!

The STAR is dynamic and dramatic. They can also be difficult but never boring. They have no problem challenging the status quo and they can shake things up a little. They hate anything that would cause delays, such as: meetings, bureaucracy/red tape, a series of presentations, slow software, discussion that circle endlessly around a point, indecisive managers, and paperwork.

Imagine working with people like Ralph Nader, Jesse Jackson, Donald Trump, Elon Musk or any other Charismatic leader. You better enjoy the ride, try to steer rather than control, and be precise. Don’t be disloyal, don’t be a naysayer, don’t talk back. Be a good little soldier!

The SCIENTIST relies on theories. They talks a good game. They make a great show of listening but don’t really hear anything you say. They are easily distracted and may allow meetings to drag on or go off on tangents. A pastor is a prime example of this. Don’t be overly emotional, don’t be afraid to ask for more precise direction, don’t assume his support is unconditional and unlimited.

The NAVEL challenge your own values. They tends to runs a business and/or family like a military, my step-dad for instance. They tend to be ruthlessness: they are not averse in throwing people under the bus. They are highly decisive without second guessing themselves. They have a hard time in admitting they are wrong. They are more a doers than a thinkers. They have the self-confidence and the desire to be in the spotlight, and can be an excellent salesperson.

Which of these type of managers do you worked for?

Now days people doesn’t stick with a job very long, especially the younger generation. They have a tendency to jump quickly for any reasons. My generations or older will stick with a job no matter how bad the atmosphere may be. That is the way I was raised.

When I finally left Kmart, I had a better job offer at the right time. I saw the writing on the wall of Kmart closing up shop. Now I got a good paying job with benefits, like health insurance and retirement. Even though, we had a horrible boss, I stuck with it because of the benefits and being so closed to retirement. I do encourage someone younger to do so if they’re not happy; because they got plenty of time.

We have a better manager and supervisor now than what we had. We are not walking on eggshells like we used too. You can talked with your manager and supervisor now. I had some good manager and some horrible manager.

I mentioned before in another blog, the executive chef at the Fargo Country Club treated the workers good and worked with them. He was one of the good one. It was hard to leave but you knew you had to for a better paying job with benefits.

I also enjoyed working at the Fargo Dome. When the time comes for me to retire, I would still work there part time to keep busy and make a little extra spending money. There’s less stress.

This is unusual for a Valentine’s blog to have a 2 part; but this is part 2. last week when I wrote part 1, finding true love. In this blog, I will ask if you are a cheap or generous lover.

Valentine’s Day is a romantic day of the year. On this day, a guy would proposed to the one they love. They would go all out to make that day very special as they get ready to pop the questions, in hoping she or he would say yes. The first thing they would do is find the perfect ring. They would saved up money for the ring put it on their credit card. Some may have their mother’s ring to used to propose. That person has to be someone very special to do that though.

After getting the ring, they would set up the most romantic way of proposing. They would buy them flowers and chocolate. They would take them out to a fancy restaurant, no fast food place. They will have either wine or champagne. Some may even have music playing at their table before popping the the question. Some may even do the cooking themselves. They may hide the ring in the dessert in hoping that they will find it before choking on it. Some may put rose petals trail leading to the bedroom and bed of roses. As a rule, a guy would get down on one knee to propose.

You tell me if this sounds romantic. My mother thought it was romantic when my step-dad proposed to her. My mother and I were living in a house in North Fargo, when he entered the house and sat beside her on her bed. He said, “Marry me or you’ll never see me again.” When she told us kids this, we just looked at her and said, “No mom,that was not romantic.” We thought that she should had said, “by then.”

After the proposal, comes the wedding. Some may decided to get married on Valentine’s Day. I had been to a Valentine’s Day wedding.

If you love someone, you must be willing to spend money to win their love. That’s the commercial behind Valentine’s Day. You cannot be cheap or you may chased them away.

My real father was very cheap. One time, someone dropped a quarter and he put his foot over it and asked my mother to pick it up for him. Luckily, she didn’t do it; so he waited until that person left and then bent down to pick it up.

Another example was when the 3 of us went out. My mother ordered vegetables with my meal. He blurted out that a burger and fries would had been enough. The only thing my real father paid for was the hospital where I was born. He had money too. I got more from my step-dad than I did my real father.

Luckily, I didn’t inherited his cheapness. I’m usually quite generous when it comes to buying for the ones I love. I’m usually a pretty good at buying gifts for others. I usually pretty much know the right gifts to buy.

I was raised to open a door for a lady. Even though, now days, some may take offense with anyone who would do that. Especially now days when women are more independent. It’s not about control, it’s about being polite and respectful.

Do you hold the door open for a woman? If you are a woman, how do you react to someone holding the door open for you?

Before sitting down at the table, do you pull out a chair for her?

If you really love someone, I hope that you are generous and not cheap. Treat them right and let them know that you love them.

I’m no expert on what love is. It’s hard to figure out women. I don’t even know if a person is going too fast or too slow.

This past Friday, February 14th was Valentine’s Day. Valentine’s Day has become too commercialize. This is the day that people would spend money for the person they love. People would buy cards and flowers. Usually a husband or boyfriend would spend money to take their wife or girlfriend out for a nice meal.

According to the world’s definition of love and romance, it’s all about being sexually active. There is more to love than just sex though.

You have to applaud young people who abstain to abstinence before marriage.There are some who would buy purity ring to remain pure until marriage. You have to applaud young girls who agreed to remain pure so they can wear white on their wedding day. Yet, at the same time; it’s not emphasize for boys remaining pure. For some reason, there is a stigma on women who have a lot of sexual partners, but society seems to look at it differently when it comes to men. We’ve allowed ourselves to be fooled into thinking that it’s acceptable because that’s what men do.

Valentine’s Day aside, television and films seem to fuel inappropriate and sensual messages designed to jeopardize the sexual purity of our children and young adults. We are bombarded by sex on television, in the movies, and in the music we listen to.

Boys are censored to how many time they score. There’s even such things as the walk of shame on college campuses. If boys doesn’t score, other boys may think that there is something wrong with them or that they are gay.

Whereas if girls are sexually active, they are labeled as a slut or easy.

Like I mentioned earlier,I haven’t been very lucky in the love department. I just can’t seem to understand my heart or what is considered too fast or too slow. Because of that I would lose out in finding my soul mate.

I had my first girlfriend when I was in the 6th grade. When I was in the 7th grade, I kissed that girl, named Janet. I got my face slap for it too.

When I was in college at NDSU, I was friend with an older college woman named Susan. She was a member of the NDSU Goldstar Band. We would eat supper together in the dining hall. One time, we went rollerskating at Skateland. As we were rollerskating, we would hold hands. Other boys in my dorm would joked and say that she was my girlfriend; even though we were just friends. I have to admit that I fell for peer pressure as a lot of boys and/or college men would do. I asked her if there was more to our relationship and was shot down. I didn’t knew my heart at the time.

Then years later, I became interested in a woman named Holly. Whenever we would talked on the phone, I loved hearing her voice. I even fantasied about marrying her and we had 2 boys. Before we met, she had a nervous breakdown. When we finally met, I soon realized that she was more like a sister than a girlfriend;so we broke it off. I soon learned that she eventually had a child. The thought went through my head that the child could had been mind, if only I didn’t mess up.

Then there was a woman named Theresa, who I had a crushed on; but I didn’t act on my feelings and lost out to her to my best friend. I didn’t recognized my feelings at that time. I soon learned that I was lucky to not get involved with her, because she would had driven me to the poorhouse. She broke my heart and stabbed me in the back in the process though.

There was a woman named Danielle, who lived in my old apartment building before the Pandemic. We would talked. One time she came into my apartment to used my phone. I overheard her conversation and saw how upset she was getting. When she was off the phone, I offered her a hug to comfort her. She was from a small town in Minnesota. One day, I made some margarita and brought some over to share with her.

Now it doesn’t have to be between a man and a woman. We don’t have to buy into the world’s definition of love and romance. If you are sexually active outside of marriage, stop. Think seriously what you are doing. As humans,we have a tendency to be sexually attracted to someone by their appearances or whatever. We are drawn to a person sex just for the sexual appetite we have. There’s more to a relationship than just sex though. According to the world’s standard, that is not the case though.

I have a confession here. I never thought it would happen. I never thought that I would become attached to this young man named Joey. I took him under my wings to look out for him. I even want to adopt him,since he was abused himself. I enjoyed hanging out with him. Somehow, I noticed a sexual attraction with him. He opened my eyes to things. He made an impact in my life. I hope I made a positive influence in his life also.

I noticed that I’m co-dependent. I’m usually drawn to someone who needs to be taken care. As I get to know someone and see that they have emotional problems, I feel a connection with that person. Not just with Joey, but with Danielle and Holly as well. If I see that they need someone to take care of them, I’m hooked. Maybe, I haven’t dealt with issues in my own life. Maybe that’s why I wasn’t able to find my soulmate and settled down.

This is a Valentine’s message to my readers. This is only part 1. Next week,will be part 2, looking at being a cheap or generous lover.

I may know what true love is; but I know what love ain’t. There’s more to love than just sex. At the same time, a relationship shouldn’t be depended on if that person needs someone to take care of them. When a person finds their soulmate, they will know it in their heart. But they have to be in tune with what the heart wants.

This is in honor of Carson Wentz.

As you know, yesterday was the big Super Bowl game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Carson Wentz was a backup Quarterback to Patrick Mahomes for the Kansas City Chiefs. Just a few years ago when the Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl against the New England Patriots, he played for the Philadelphia Eagles. He led the team to the Super Bowl but was injured. The score for that game was 41 to 33.

Everyone was excited to see the Eagles win that Super Bowl because of Carson Wentz, a North Dakota’s boy from NDSU. They were also excited to wiped the smug off Tom Brady’s face at the time. It was Carson Wentz first Super Bowl ring. A proud moment for North Dakota, putting them on the map.

Carson Wentz was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and moved to North Dakota with his family at the age of 3. He played quarterback and defensive back for Century High School in Bismarck. As a freshman in high school, he was 5 feet 8 inches in height and grew to 6 feet 5 inches as a senior, when he graduated in 2011 as valedictorian of his class.

He attended North Dakota State University(NDSU). During his first season, he redshirt for the Bison as they won their first football championship subdivision title under ninth year head coach Craig Bohl.

As a redshirt freshman in 2012, Wentz was backup quarterback to Brock Jensen and played in his first collegiate game on September 22. He completed all eight of his passes for 93 yards and threw his first touchdown in relief of Jensen in a 66-7 blowout victory over the Prairie View A&M Panthers.

In 2013, Wentz was again the second string quarterback. Then in his junior year he became the starting quarterback in 2014 in his first start in the opener against the Iowa State Cyclones of the Big 12 Conferences.

People in North Dakota were excited to have one of their own be chosen as first draft pick in the NFL.

Carson Wentz married Madison Oberg 2018. He’s 32 years old, born December 30, 1992. He has 3 daughters and is a Christian. He founded the AO1 Foundation in 2017. In 2018, he helped builds a sports complex in Haiti. He is an avid hunter and frequently returns to North Dakota to hunt.

Carson Wentz played for the Philadelphia Eagles from 2016-2020, the Indiana Colts in 2021, the Washington Commanders in 2022, the Los Angeles Rams 2023, and now Kansas City Chiefs 2024 to present.

When he played for NDSU he was a good quarterback; but it seems when he went pro he wasn’t prepared for it. He had lots of injury when he went pro. It goes to show that when you play with the Big boys, you better be ready to play.

I wouldn’t say that he was the best quarterback in the NFL but he is North Dakota’s homeboy, and the people here are proud of him for going pro. Not many can do that. It takes someone special.

My prayer is that he never forget the grounds he grew up on. He never forget how he was raised, his upbringing. It seems that when fame goes to some people head,they seems to get a big head and forget where they came from. They forget their roots and become too big for their britches.

As I written before, Taylor Swift is prime example of that. She has now no class. She is an example of what happened when fame goes to your head.

May Carson Wentz stay grounded in his faith and never forget where he came from. Just like, even though my blog is small, when it does finally become successful, may I never forget where I came from. May I not get a big head in the process and become conceited. As the song by Mac David, “It’s Hard to be Humble.” May we remain humble; otherwise people will lose all respect for you.

It would had been nice for Carson Wentz to win another Super Bowl ring but that didn’t happen. The Philadelphia Eagles won with 40 Kansas City Chiefs at 22.

Patrick Mahomes said, “Never change who you are, and be the best you can be.” He told the quarterback for the Eagles to enjoy the ride. Now that’s classy. He didn’t get upset over losing the Super Bowl. He didn’t show poor sportsmanship, like Tom Brady did when the New England Patriots lost to the Eagles.

May that be not a just lesson to Carson Wentz but to us all.

Do you know that there is a better healthier way than doing what the doctor says or getting vaccinated for such things as Covid?

In this blog, I will be discussing The Modern Herbal Dispensatory: A Medicine-making guide.

Herbal medicine is one of the most ancient of the healing arts. It is, and always will be, the medicine of the people. Not even the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in all of its regularity glory can prevent someone from stepping out their door and using nature’s free medicine. Herbal medicine exists, and always has, because we live in symbiosis with plants. Now plants have been here longer than we have. They have learned their lessons and adapted to their environment, and they have produced a beautiful language to communicate those lessons with other plants, animals and fungi. The chemical compounds that plants produce,their biochemical language, is so complicated that we haven’t even scratched the surface in the thousand or so plants that have been researched, let alone the remaining tens of thousands of plants around the world that we used as medicine.

Although we may not understand how plants act chemically in our body, we have a long and well-documented history of their use as food and medicine. As we move toward a more sustainable world with clean energy production, locally grown organic foods, and nature conservation, we must look at our current model of medicine through the same filter of sustainability. A world that remains totally dependent on high-cost chemical medicines, controlled by multinational pharmaceutical companies whose main purpose is profit, is dependent upon the very institutions that created the environmental problems that are poisoning this world.

Bobby Kennedy Jr. is making waves as he is up for a cabinet post in the Department of Health. The Big Pharma, the process food industry, and the medical professionals are shaking out of fear if he gets in. Heads will roll! Our government officials are under the payroll of the Big Pharma, process food Industry, and the medical professionals. People like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Amy Krobuchar are just 3 of them.

Any system of medicine that is separated from the greater whole of health, including food production, ecological health, social health, and emotional health, can only put a bandage on a bullet wound, conveniently masking the real issues that are slowly bleeding us to death. The rising costs for disease care and lack of access to care are taking a toll on everyone, and minorities and underprivileged groups bear the blunt of that burden. In America, disease care is the primary cause of financial ruin: nearly 2 million people file bankruptcy every year because of medical bills.

The government wondered why healthcare is so expensive and looks for ways to lower the cost of healthcare but yet they doesn’t look at other means of healthcare such as herbs and eating healthier by avoiding process food and putting poisons into our bodies. Before process food became prominent people were healthier. Once they started poisoning our food that we grow with chemicals we were healthier. It seems that people had gotten lazier and/or too busy to actually cook a home-cooked meals. America has been eating more junk food lately than ever before. Then they wondered why they are so sick all the time.

This started to change once women entered the workforce;but yet there was still some women who would still cook a home-cooked meal and worked outside the home. It goes to show that it can still be done. I grew up during the time that both my parents worked outside the home; but yet still had time to cooked a home-cooked meal. The generation now doesn’t take the time to do that anymore. They don’t have their priorities straight.

Medicinal plants grow everywhere and are easily available for harvest or purchase for a fraction of the cost of modern pharmaceuticals. As Reaganomics stands for the supply and demands. The more the demands for something, the more the supply for it will be. There is starting to be a demand for healthier organic food and herbs but the cost of it is still rather high for the poor working class. In the long run, it’s still much cheaper than healthcare you get from doctors and hospitals; and even the Big Pharma. Yet they are so afraid of losing money that they fight against anyone who would used herbs as medicines. They care more in making money rather than helping the people in the name of greed.

This even been a problem back during the Salem Witchcraft Trial. The women back then were accused of being witches because they were using herbs as medicines.

Mastering herbalism involves a lot of work. Many Native Americans used a cooled decoction of the whole herb as a digestive tonic for weak digestion. It all goes back to the fact that people do not have the time or make the time to eating healthier or making herbal medicines. They rather trust their doctors and science rather than what God intended with nature.

You think after the Pandemic, people would wise up and not trust science and doctors as they promote putting poisons into our body such as the Covid vaccine. I know that I could get a lot of slack for this because I worked in a hospital but I don’t care. We can bring the cost of healthcare down by eliminating process food, and stop putting poisons in our food. We just need to put our trust more into herbs over science. I mean, if it wasn’t for my job, I wouldn’t had gotten the poison that they call the vaccine. When the truth comes out that the vaccines had a bunch of side effects, the Big Pharma, medical professionals and the government would still deny the fact. Those who choose to believe them would also not admit it either.

During the Pandemic, I was taking elderberry syrup and ginger roots to keep healthy. When I had to get the poison, I was told to take real lemon juice to dilute the poison from my system. I was doing all I can to build up my immune system.

You see, our immune system is shot because of all the poison we put into our body.

Since I have been drinking almond milk, I can tell the difference in my body after drinking almond milk and regular milk. After drinking regular milk, I just feel blah.

I’m looking forward for Bobby Kennedy Jr to be the Secretary of the Department of Health. He’ll make some waves in the Big Pharma, the process food industry and the medical professionals. He might even bring down the cost of healthcare in the process.

The only true way to bring down the high cost of healthcare is get more people looking at eating healthier and organic. More people needs to look at herbs as medicines rather than trust their doctors and science. You do not to be drugged up but rather take more herbs instead.

SAY NO TO DRUGS AND SAY YES TO HERBS!!

Do you have an addiction? What are you addicted to? Do you have a compulsive disorder?

Depending on which assumptions are made, overall 12 months prevalence of an addiction among U.S. adults varies from 15% to 61%. Addiction is a common problem but help is available. From careful studies, scientists estimate a person’s genetics account for 40-60% of their risk. Each person has a mix of gene variations that influence addiction.

Men have a higher likelihood of becoming addicted to drugs. Those who live with mental health conditions, like bipolar disorder or depression are also prone to addiction.

The factors that leads up to addiction is peer pressure, physical and sexual abuse, early exposure to drugs,stress, and parental guidance can greatly affect a person’s likelihood to addiction.

ADDICTION: the fact or condition of being addicted to a particular substance, thing, or activity. You can see that there are many things people can be addicted to, not just alcohol and drugs.

COMPULSIVE DISORDER: It’s an excessive thoughts(obsessions) that leads to repetitive behaviors(compulsions). Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears that lead to compulsive behaviors.

Those who grown up in an alcoholic family are prone to some forms of addictions. Those who had suffered some forms of abuse in their childhood are prone to some forms of addictions as well. It’s called the sins of the father passed down from one generation to the next. A person can break the cycle of addiction though.

An addiction is a cry for help.

Addiction runs rampant in my family from alcohol to overeating. There is some members in my family who also has a gambling addiction as well. My grandfather was an alcoholic and he had passed that addiction down to his children and grandchildren. My mother had a gambling addiction and because of that addiction, she had a huge credit card bill before she passed away. A prime example of what the addiction of alcohol though goes to my Uncle Frank. Not only was he an alcoholic, he also had a gambling addict as well. He passed that down to his children as well. Some of them got into drugs as well. Out of his children, 2 of them are doing better despite of the situation. One turned out to be a homosexual, because he was starving for affection that he never gotten growing up. He made more money when he retired but because of his addiction to such things as alcohol and gambling he didn’t had as much as my other uncle,who was lucky not to have that addiction. That uncle made a wise decision to invest and ended up doing better when he retired.

My family tends to be overweight because of our addiction to food.

Some people are sex addict. They either think about sex or constantly got to have it. Usually this addiction comes about because of sexual abuse that happened to them as a child.

Some people are workaholic as well. They put themselves into their work to avoid not have to focus on their issues.

Any forms of addictions will keep a person from dealing with their issues by avoiding it completely. A person can be addicted to overspending as well. They have a tough time in saving for a raining day.

It’s weird, but when I was in school, I didn’t much care for reading; but now I find myself addicted to buying books to read. The books I buy, I used as a guise to get further ideas for my blog. I have ordered lots of books on line through Amazon.

I’m not an alcoholic but I have a tendency to become one because of the addiction gene. Don’t get me wrong, I love having a drink once in a while. I also tend to overeat; even though since I have changed my diet I’m doing a little better at that.

I have suffered with depression as a child due to the fact that I was sexually molested as a child. I had got hooked on aspirin to cover up the pain of the my abuse. That’s what addiction would do; it would help cover up the pain a person may be going through.

There is hope out there for those who suffered with any forms of addiction. There is help for those who needs help. There is a program called Genesis to help those who has some forms of addictions as alcohol, drugs and nicotine or narcotics. You can break the cycle of abuse as well as the cycle of addiction by seeking help. Some addiction may not be as bad as others but all addictions are compulsive and could lead to something worse.

So if you have any addiction, I advise that you seek help immediately. Don’t let your addiction affect your family. Whatever your addiction, search it out to see what help is available. You can break the cycle!!

Tomorrow is great historical day for America. A day in which the American people take back America from the tyranny of our government. It’s Inauguration Day, and the second Inauguration of President Donald Trump. Some say it’s also America’s new Independence Day. In this blog, I will show the comparison between this day and the original Independence Day on July 4th.

This day should be a national holiday much like the 4th of July. Then again, we already celebrate this day as Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday.

It was a glorious day when Donald Trump won reelection back in November by a huge win for him and the Republican party. He got the most popular votes and a landslide victory ever since President Ronald Reagan in 1984. The only difference, Reagan won every states but Minnesota and Washington D.C. Donald Trump didn’t turned every states red; but he still won the most popular votes and was able to carried the electoral college.

How is this Independence Day similar to the 4th of July, I will try to explain to you in this blog. Let’s take a history lesson back prior to the Revolution War. The Colonist were upset with the tyranny of the King of England at that time; that they stormed the British ships at the Boston Harbor. It was under the guise of the Boston Tea Party.

The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts on December 16, 1773. It was a pivotal moment in the American Revolution, symbolizing American Independence. The protest was in response to the Tea Act of 1773, which was passed to helped the financially struggling British East India, to sell tea from China in American colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the Townshend Acts. The Sons of Liberty opposed the taxes in the Townshend Act as a violation of their rights. In response, the Sons of Liberty, some disguise as Native Americans, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.

Back in 2000, during the George W. Bush’s administration, we had another Tea Party movement in this country. The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2007, catapulted into the mainstream by Senator Rand Paul’s presidential campaign. The movement expanded in response to the policies of Democratic President Barak Obama and was a major factor in the 2010 wave election in which Republicans gained 63 House seats and took control of the U.S.House of Representatives.

The Participants in the movement called for lower taxes and for a reduction of the national debt and federal budget deficit through decreased government spending. The movement supported small government principles and opposed the Affordable Care Act. This movement was composed of a mixture of libertarian, right-wing populist, and conservative activism. It put a big divide in the Republican Party, as many establishment were not in support of the Tea Party Movement. You could say that was the reason for Donald Trump in 2016, and the fact that he went after the Rhino Republicans in Washington DC. It was still an uphill climb though.

The Republican Establishment wanted Jeb Bush in 2016; but the American people didn’t want another Bush in the White House. Any candidates that wasn’t a part of the Establishment polled better in the primary over Jeb Bush. Candidates such as Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Ben Carson did better with the American people.

When Obama ran for President in 2008, his campaign slogan was “Change we can believe in” and the chant was “Yes we can.” It goes to show that the American people was unhappy with the tyranny of our government, much like the Colonist were unhappy with the tyranny of the British government prior to the Revolution War.

The change Obama was looking at was different than what the American people actually wanted. Some would chanted, “Keep the change,” to President Obama. You can say that Obama started this change in our government; but his change was not actually what the American people wanted.

This past election was a prime example how the American people was upset with the tyranny of the government and the Democratic Party. Democracy is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people. It’s a way of governing which depends on the will of the people. Yet,it seems that the Democrats had forgotten about the people they were supposed to represent. They have become a part of the tyranny in our government. They have been behind forcing the American people to wear a mask during the Pandemic. They even had mandated that everyone is forced to get the Covid vaccine. They also was mandating the idea of eliminating all gas cars in favor or electric cars. They were trying to take away our freedom and our democracy from the people in the name of power. They felt that they knew better than the American people did; much like the King of England did prior to the Revolution War. Now that’s tyranny!

The Democrats even forced some prominent Democrats out,such Tulsi Gabbert, Bobby Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump,Elon Musk, and even Joe Manchin out, because they chose to disagree with Democrats. They didn’t want Bobby Kennedy Jr. to run against Joe Biden, thus they forced him to run as an Independent before he decided to support Donald Trump for President.

All through the election they claimed that Trump was bad for Democracy; when it was them that was hurting our Democracy. They didn’t want the American people to vote. When Joe Biden did poorly at his debate with Donald Trump in July of last year, they pulled a coup to forced him out of the race for President. They nominated Kamala Harris at their convention without having her goes through the proper channel way of letting the people decide. They even tried to had Trump arrested and charges filed against him. The more they went after Trump,the more the American people came out in favor of him. Everything they did to stop the Trump’s train just blew up in their face. The Democrat party is now a shamble worse than the Republicans was when the Tea Party movement came about.

With Donald Trump’s second term approaching, he has appointed people for his cabinet to help drain the swamp in Washington. He created the department of DOGE to cut the wasteful spending of our government. I believe that our forefathers and Ronald Reagan would be proud of. With Bobby Kennedy Jr.in charge of the Department of Health, the Big Pharma, the process food industry, and the medical professions are scared, and they should be. I believe that President John F.Kennedy and Robert Kennedy Sr.would be proud of Bobby Kennedy Jr. Even Pete Hegseth being charge of the Department of Defense would be very good to get the Woke out of our military.

I hope that you can see the comparison between the original Independence Day and our new Independence Day. It was all about saving our democracy by going after the tyranny of our government. It will be a party in the USA tomorrow as America celebrate the new Independence Day. All in favor in making this a National Holiday, please comment below or just like.