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BLOGGING BOOMER CARNIVAL #44

Wesley at Life Two brings Blogging Booomer Carnival #44 - Brand Boomer to the forefront. Familiarize yourself with some terrific blogs with all your Boomer interests. Link

SIDNEY LUMET'S NEW FILM LOOKS THE DEVIL IN THE EYE

The film director Sidney Lumet 83, looks like he has a terrific new film,"Before The Devil Knows You're Dead." A drama, one can bite into, appreciate and absorb, starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke, Marisa Tomei and Albert Finney.

Sidney Lumet is one of America's great filmmakers - Serpico, Dog Day Afternoon, The Verdict, Network, 12 Angry Men, Prince of the City are some of Sidney's heavy hitters.

Before the Devil Knows Your Dead - Trailer

Review LA Times - "The name Sidney Lumet conjures a certain manner of movie -- a tough, tight film filled with strong performances and an exacting sense of process, an interest in procedure and how things work. Link

BROCCOLI MAY PREVENT SKIN CANCER BUT YOU'LL BE DEAD BEFORE THEY PUT IT INTO SOMETHING YOU CAN SQUEEZE OUT OF A TUBE

A study shows that broccoli extract may prevent cancer. The only way you're going to see broccoli in a beauty product is if the beauty business can somehow make broccoli sexy and only then will some high end cosmetic company take advntage of it.

Again, why do we have to wait so long for positive proof for medicines that will prevent or help cure existing disease? If I had a severe illness, I'd be happy with three quarters of proof. (Did Bush wait in Iraq?)

Because the drug companies and the American Medical Association don't really want a cure. As Chris Rock put it, they want the comeback. They want you coming back for more and more treatment until you're finally dead.

"Researchers say that an extract made from broccoli sprouts may prevent skin cancer when applied directly to the skin. VOA's Jessica Berman reports scientists say broccoli contains a chemical that stimulates the body's natural anti-cancer ability." Link

TRICK OR TREAT THIS HALLOWEEN WITH A GOTH RAGGEDY ANN AND ANDY DOLL

Jodi Cain took her love of art into crafting these unusual Goth Raggedy Ann and Andy Dolls just in time for Halloween. Her site Tattered Rags has other beautiful dolls which are completely handmade. Link

These dolls are collectables any Tim Burton fan should own. In fact, why not invite your doll and your friends doll over to watch Sleepy Hollow this Halloween

Sleepy Hollow

Via Boing Boing: Link

FIVE FOODS TO HELP YOU BECOME ORGANIC

It's very interesting to know if you change five foods in your diet the overall percentage of your organic food intake will increase dramatically.

"Switching to organic is tough for many families who don’t want to pay higher prices or give up their favorite foods. But by choosing organic versions of just a few foods that you eat often, you can increase the percentage of organic food in your diet without big changes to your shopping cart or your spending."Link

BLOGGING BOOMER CARNIVAL #43-BI-POLAR BOOMER SYNDROME CAUSED BY GLOBAL WARMING?

The Polar ice caps are melting and eveybody knows we're in a period of Global Warming. Across the land Baby Boomers are suffering from Bi-Polar Boomer Syndrome.

Leonard Cohen "Everybody Knows" 1988

You will notice in the posts of this weeks Blogging Boomer Carnival #43 (that's odd) the sudden shift of point of view, the way opinion on issues are polarized, a retreat to the past or a 180 degree turn in ones professional or romantic life.

Bi-Polar Boomer Syndrome has cast its shadow upon the land.

Do I spend or do I save?

Boomie at The Wastrel Show - Time to double check your wallet and monitor your spending habits. The recession has begun. Link

John at So Baby Boomer - Gift buying for grown-ups during the upcoming holiday season can be a daunting task. Check out SoBabyBoomer's gift giving tips. Link

My girlfriend has serious wardrobe problems. She had developed Bi-Polar Boomer Disorder.

It's exciting to get back into some serious fall clothes. But no sooner have you tucked away your summer wardrobe, when the weather takes a crazy turn from cool to sweltering. What the heck do you wear when it's hot as summer one day and nippy as Fall the next? Visit JJ and Deb at Fabulous after 40 to find out! Link

But over at Wesley's Life Two I found out I didn't have a girlfriend

Have you ever had an instant, magical, mutual connection on a first date where you both express mutual attraction, and then as quickly as it starts it fizzles? It happens and LifeTwo’s midlife dating expert contributes the “Faux Vacation Fling.” Link

Or had she become a Cougar? Which Cougar? The one at Linda's Boomers Making A Difference - Age has nothing to do with getting the most out of life... She is smart, sexy, confident, beautiful and financially independent. The Real Cougar can be married, single, divorced - it's not about the band on her finger - it's about her attitude. Link

or the Cougar at yourdrum - My Bi-Polar Meshugge blog - Older women, younger men Braving "robbing the cradle" jokes, almost one-third of women between ages 40 and 69 are dating younger men (defined as 10 or more years younger). Link

What's the difference she decided to remain single, retire and charged over to Ann's Contemporary Retirement to fill out a survey - This is an appeal to all the single women out there. I've started work on my next book - Retirement and the Single Woman. Would you take a moment to drop me a line at Link

What do I do now? Wendy over at Gen Plus said - Getting that itchy feeling? Time to get a new job? - Every year, just around this time, I get the urge to "Go West." One year, about 12 years ago, I heeded that advice and left my home in Montreal and headed to Los Angeles. Link

So did Jim

"The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here, and well do the rest

The blue bus is callin us
The blue bus is callin us
Driver, where you taken us?

The Doors "The End"

But should I go? Rhea at the Boomer Chronicles said no. Become a shaker. Cool. A Shaker. What's a Shaker? Link

No Rhea couldn't mean that - Rhea must mean you should "Shake Rattle and Roll"

Big Joe Turner "Shake Rattle and Roll

These Boomers had completly lost their mind due to Global Warming.

Could I find a cure for Bi-Polar Boomer Condition?

Yes, Ron at I Remember JFK had a cure. "Life in Anneville, Kentucky, located in the backwoods of the backwoods, was not easy in 1915, the year David Akeman was born. His family were farmers who barely scraped by. Entertainment had to be provided by the local folks themselves. Thus arose bluegrass music, which was prolific n the rural areas of Tennessee and Kentucky." Link

David Ackerman had joined a Medicine Show which sold some good 'ole snake oil.

That would do it.

I'd get in my SUV. Get my Cougar back. We'd drink some snake oil and the polar ice caps would stop melting and Bi-Polar Boomer Syndrome would be a memory.

David Ackerman (Stringbean) on banjo.

HOW TO MOTIVATE YOURSELF TO EXERCISE BEFORE YOU DIE ON YOUR COUCH

Are you exercising? Is excercise something you plan on doing soon? You know how exercise impacts your health. Diet and exercise. Live longer. Live healthier.

"How do you find motivation to exercise when you just don’t feel like getting off your butt? I ask myself this question every now and then, and I have the feeling I’m not the only one."

Here are 31 ways to motivate yourself to execise. Link

TV ON THE RADIO IS A GREAT BAND

TV On The Radio from Brooklyn is really a terrific band. Their jazzy, off beat bluesy rock sound is original. Their last cd, "Return To Cookie Mountain" 2006 is one you will listen to over again to hear the complexity of each song.

"Their second album and first for Interscope is almost wholly brilliant. Like Mogwai, Sigur Ros and a dozen others, TVOTR excels at making slowly-evolving tunes with vaguely anthemic choruses and lots of loud-soft dynamics. Unlike virtually any of those other bands, TV on the Radio mix a genuine and actual songwriting ability with their knack for finding sounds that appear to be "new." Amazon: Link

Radio On TV - Wolf Like Me Live

TV On The Radio - I Was A Lover

CHINA WARNS US NOT TO GIVE AWARD TO DALI LAMA, OH DID I SAY FREE TIBET?

The United States was warned not to give the Dali Lama the Congressional Gold Medal. China is not happy with the Dali Lama for wanting his homeland back. Doesn't China have enough problems of their own?

Why won't they give Tibet back to the Tibetans? The Dali Lama has been a man of peace and has always spread a spiritual message among us amazingly messed up humans. China should give the Dali Lama a medal.

" Chinese officials warned the United States on Tuesday not to honor the Dalai Lama, saying a planned award ceremony in Washington for the Tibetan spiritual leader would have “an extremely serious impact” on relations between the countries.

Tibet’s Communist Party boss, Zhang Qingli, at the Communist Party’s 17th National Congress in Beijing today.
Speaking at a Foreign Ministry briefing and on the sidelines of the Communist Party’s 17th National Congress, the officials condemned the Dalai Lama as a resolute separatist and said foreign leaders must stop encouraging his “splittist” mission." Link

IS THERE A CURE FOR PROSTATE CANCER IN THE WINGS OR WILL THE DRUG COMPANIES AND THE AMA DRAG THEIR FEET

This secret plant may have a cure for prostate cancer. It is now bring used as an elixir for prostate cancer in Ecuador.

"At first, it didn't sound like the way a modern cancer treatment would be created. As the story went, it was an elixir extracted from the root of a mysterious plant found deep in the Amazon forest in Ecuador, used there for decades against everything from lupus to AIDS."

It had been developed in the 1970s, he said, by a respected local cancer and immunology specialist, Dr. Edwin Sevallos, director of the Tumor Institute of Ecuador in Quito. Sevallos had impressive credentials -- a degree in medical surgery from the Central University of Ecuador, post-graduate work in oncology and radiotherapy at the Autonomous University of Mexico.

On Cevallos' website, the medicine sounds exotic: ``One of the primary ingredients is the extract of a plant in the Solanaceae family. It grows deep in the Ecuadoran forest giving the plant its unique qualities -- the properties of the mineral rich, volcanic soil of the Amazon.

Locals called the plant dulcamara, Latin for ''bittersweet.'' The name Cevallos gave the elixir extracted from it was less exotic -- ''BIRM,'' for Biological Immune Response Modifier.'' Link

The problem is the cure takes too long. We need these new drugs out on the market as soon as possible.
The drug companies don't want a cure. The surgeons don't want a cure. The prostate specialists don't want a cure. They won't make money on the cure.

NO ONE IS PUSHING FOR THE CURE. EVERYONE WANTS THE REPEAT BUSINESS DISEASE AND SUFFERING BRING.