Doing the same things over and over expecting different results is insanity. The only way to get different results is to change what we do. The process of change begins in our minds. Our thoughts help shape and create our circumstances in life. Living life abundantly is a continuous process of training and transforming our minds to achieve optimal living.

My name is Marenda. I started this blog with the intentions of expressing my thoughts, provoking thought, bridging gaps, and sparking conversation. The agenda is to entertain, educate, and empower. The goal is to inspire, encourage, and uplift. The mission is to Live Life Abundantly and to share the lifestyle with as many people as possible.

Archive: Rants & Raves

Smarter Goals

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Something In The Water

Were you surprised last week by the breaking news that pharmaceutical drugs have been found in drinking water?

I remember asking a few months ago, Do You Know What is in Your Water, Is Your Water Safe? Needless to say… I was neither shocked or surprised by the news. I was disgusted and disgusted for several reasons:

#1 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has known about drugs in the water supply since 1976. It just took 32 years for this information to be made public via news outlets… Pharmaceuticals in drinking water is actually old news not breaking news!

#2 What goes into the body must come out of the body. When drugs are processed by the body they are often unaltered or slightly altered. This means when drugs are eliminated from the body they still have the same or similar properties and affects. Consequently, pharmaceutical companies are in violation the Refuse Act of 1899 and are forcing the public to participate in their heinous crimes.

#3 Whatever goes down the drains of our sinks, showers, bathtubs, and toilets goes through waste water treatment processing, however, the Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges that there is no system in place to remove drugs during the sewage treatment process! (more…)

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Psychopathic Drug Dealers Kill 100,000

According to research by Drug Safety Researcher Thomas J. Moore, prescription drugs kill over 100,000 Americans every year. Yet, there is no war on prescription drugs!

Drugs:

1. Pharmacology. a chemical substance used in the treatment, cure, prevention, or diagnosis of disease or used to otherwise enhance physical or mental well-being.
2. (in federal law)

a. any substance recognized in the official pharmacopoeia or formulary of the nation.
b. any substance intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in humans or other animals.
c. any article, other than food, intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of humans or other animals.
d. any substance intended for use as a component of such a drug, but not a device or a part of a device.
3. a habit-forming medicinal or illicit substance, esp. a narcotic.

Drug Dealer = One Who Sells Drugs! (see qualities of a psychopath here)

Here’s a blast from the past and some serious food for thought. This is your brain on drugs:


One night I couldn’t sleep so I went on a cleaning rampage while listening to an infomercial on tv. This guy was talking about natural cures and how certain plants and herbs have healing properties but can’t be patented. He talked about how the government and pharmaceutical companies can’t make money on plants they can’t patent…he went on to say that for this reason the FDA passed a law stating that only a drug can treat or cure diseases/illnesses.Of course everything he said made sense to me…and I wasn’t surprised to find out that his 1st book was banned in the United States. I have yet to get my hands on his latest book but I’m looking forward to reading it and keeping it on hand as a reference. Natural Cures and Remedies are the way to go.

My dad had kidney failure and extreme hypertension. He was prescribed so many different medications he had to literally keep them in a huge bag. He died in 2002. Many of the prescription drugs he took are being recalled and/or taken off the market….The stories I can tell about prescription drugs……

Its funny how profitable the drug industry really is and how few if any cures have been discovered. (There’s no money in curing sick people but plenty in keeping people sick).

Drug Industry Profits

Brand Name
Medication

Consumer Price
(for 100 tabs/caps).

Cost of Generic Active Ingredient (for 100 tabs/caps)

Percent Markup

Celebrex 100 mg

$130.27

$.0.60

21,712%

Claritin 10 mg

$215.17

$0.71

30,306%

Keflex 250 mg

$157.39

$1.88

8,372%

Lipitor 20 mg.

$272.37

$5.80

4,696%

Norvasc 10 mg

$188.29

$0.14

134,493%

Paxil 20 mg

$220.27

$7.60

2,898%

Prevacid 30 mg

$344.77

$1.01

34, 136%

Prilosec 20 mg

$360.97

$0.52

69,417%

Prozac 20 mg

$247.47

$0.11

224,973%

Tenormin 50 mg

104.47

$0.13

80,362%

Vasotec 10 mg

$102.37

$0.20

51,185%

Xanax 1 mg

$136.79

$0.024

569,958%

Zestril 20 mg

$89.89

$3.20

2,809%

Zithromax 600 mg

$1,482.19

$18.78

7,892%

Zocor 40 mg

$350.27

$8.63

4,059%

Zoloft 50 mg

$206.87

$1.75

11,821%

The street dealers are making peanuts compared to the real drug dealers. The war on drugs is a joke!

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Are You Still Using Internet Explorer?

I stopped using Internet Explorer a long time ago.

IESUCKSWith Internet Explorer my computer would freeze up, even with my fast internet connection pages took long to load, I was getting pop ups even with the pop up blocker on, my computer was constantly being bombarded with spyware, and going online was a hassle.

Does any of this sound familiar?

I thought it was my computer until I figured out it was actually Internet Explorer!
Turns out…Internet Explorer has security issues that hackers exploit and use to wreak havoc (maybe that’s why your computer is acting crazy). Internet Explorer put my desktop PC on the injured reserve list. I won’t even touch it any more. I downloaded and installed Firefox for free on my PC and Mac laptops. It took me about 5 minutes and has saved me hours of frustration.

Firefox Why anyone would continue to use Internet Explorer when they can get Firefox for free is beyond me. I say give it a try you have nothing to lose. It’s free, easy, and more importantly better than Internet Explorer. Why use a mediocre troublesome web browser when you have access to the best?

I know for some of my friends, switching from Internet Explorer is like changing phone service. They are so use to and loyal to AT&T that going with another provider is unfathomable. Guess what folks… Internet Explorer sucks and its time for change. If you’re paying for internet access every month you might as well access it with the best and most secure web browser.

Its funny how changing our thinking affects so many areas of our lives even down to how we surf the internet.

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Lock Bumping: How Secure Is Your Home?

GSThose with ferocious trained attack dogs like mine (pictured on the left) rarely lose sleep over home security.

Home security is an issue that for some reason people take lightly. I guess people think a home invasion can’t happen to them….Years ago, my husband worked for ADT and was often amazed by how so many home owners were uninterested in investing in securing their homes.

I’m from the school of it is better to have and not need, than need and not have.

I bring this up because I received a disturbing email showing how burglars are breaking into homes by walking right through the front door. Here’s the video:

People that use home alarm systems don’t have to worry much about lock bumping because even if the lock is bumped the alarm must be deactivated with a code. With most alarm systems, if the code is not activated the police show up right away, and in some cases with their weapons drawn!

Take the appropriate measures to secure your home and protect your family.

5 Ways to Secure Home:

  1. Install quality locks on all windows and doors.
  2. Install an alarm system.
  3. Use video cameras and peepholes.
  4. Post warning signs/stickers (beware of dog, alarm system signs).
  5. Install outdoor motion lighting.


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Federal Identification Card and RFID

Since 2002 I’ve been perhaps overly concerned with mirochips, RFID, NWO, spirituality, universal laws, and the end of the world.  I know that sounds strange but its the truth.  My friends at one point thought I had lost my mind.  There are times when I wonder the same lol. 

Living life abundantly is about living in truth…it is about LUCK.  Not luck as in lucky but L.U.C.K. as in living under conscious knowledge. Too many of us sleep walk through life unaware of what is really going on around us.  We don’t ask enough questions.  We don’t ask the right questions.  We accept what they tell us and remain in a bliss of ignorance and a web of deception.  It is time to wake up.  I reject the federal id card and I reject RFID.

DECEIVE
1. To cause to believe what is not true; mislead.
2. To catch by guile; ensnare.
Synonyms:

betray, mislead, beguile, delude, dupe, hoodwink, bamboozle, double-cross
These verbs mean to lead another into error, danger, or a disadvantageous position by underhand means. Deceive involves the deliberate misrepresentation of the truth.

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In September of 1996, President Clinton signed into law, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Buried at approximately page 650 of the new national Defense Bill, also known as Public Law 104-208, Part B, Title IV, the American public was given a national ID card. (read more)

Federal ID Card
A federalized ID card plan based on state driver’s licenses aims to increase security nationwide, but many fear the opposite at great cost to taxpayers.
The Real ID Act, signed by President Bush in 2005, requires every state to recertify driver’s license and identification card holders over a five-year period beginning in May 2008. Recertification calls for an in-person visit to state offices, such as the California Department of Motor Vehicles, with a certified birth certificate, current U.S. Passport, Social Security card and proof of address in hand.
The act was passed by Congress and is supported by the 9-11 Commission and the Department of Homeland Security, said the department’s spokesman, Russ Knocke. (read the rest)

FDA Clears VeriChip for Medical Applications in the United States

The VeriChip Health Information Microtransponder System consists of an implantable RFID microtransponder, an inserter, a proprietary hand-held scanner, and secure database containing the patient approved healthcare information. About the size of a grain of rice, VeriChip is a subdermal radio frequency microchip. Once inserted under the skin in a brief outpatient procedure, the VeriChip cannot be seen by the human eye. (read more

Security under the skin

A US company has been given the green light to implant microchips in humans. It’s intended to provide medical information … but will it turn into a surveillance system? (read more)

Cashless Society
From embedded microchips to RFID tracking, the cashless society roll out is going on in full force. With children thumbscanning to get their lunches and amusement park goers biometrically scanning for entry, we are being trained to use our biometric signatures as payment and identification. (read the rest)

The Mark of the Beast MOTOROLA, who produce the microchips for the MONDEX SMARTCARD, has developed several human implantable bio-chips. The BT952000 chip was engineered by Dr. Carl Sanders who was directed in 17 NEW WORLD ORDER meetings to develop the device for global use in humans for economic and identification purposes.The bio-chip measures 7mm long and .75mm in width, about the size of a grain of rice. It contains a transponder and a rechargeable lithium battery.The battery is charged by a thermo-couple circuit that produces voltage from fluctuations in body temperature. They spent over 1.5 million dollars studying where to place the chip in the human body.They found only two suitable and efficient places -the FOREHEAD just under the hairline, and the back of the hand, specifically the RIGHT HAND.

“And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given mark in their right hand, or in their forehead, and he provides that no one should be able to buy or sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast, or the number of his name.” (Revelation 13:16) …(read the rest)

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Pretty Boy Floyd Kicks Hitman Hatton’s Butt!

Boxing is one of those sports that I actually watch and enjoy with my husband. On big fight nights we always order the fight. There have been many occasions where the fights have been disappointing to say the least…but last night was not one of those nights.

mayweathervsfloydThe crowd was singing “Walking in Hatton Wonderland” not knowing that Pretty Boy Floyd would land the punches to send Hatton to knock out wonderland lol.

Floyd Mayweather kicked Ricky Hatton’s butt! What comes to mind is the infamous scene from the movie Friday, you know the one!

Pretty Boy Floyd was oh so pretty after the fight not a mark on him…can’t say the same for Hitman Hatton he looked like he had taken one hit too many. If you didn’t see the fight catch when it re-airs on HBO.

What impresses me most about the undisputed welter weight champion is that even with all the titles, accomplishments, and trash talk after every fight he’s humble. I’m glad that he said that he would retire from boxing and not let boxing retire him. With a record like his its clear why he’s the champ and as he put it he has nothing else to prove.

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