Friday evening 1/27/12, while reading at the CuttingEdge.org site, I stumbled upon this WALNUT headline & terrible news… More pathetic, ridiculous hassles from the bureaucrats re our food:
“Walnuts, Milk and Global Tyranny: Squeezing America into a Socialist World System”:http://www.cuttingedge.org/articles/db132.html
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A week after pondering the threats of “spilled milk,” I read an article titled the “The FDA claims walnuts are drugs.” I had just come home from our supermarket with two bags of shelled walnuts packaged by Diamond of California. They were on sale, and I can see why. Our Washington bureaucrats at the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] had warned Diamond and sixteen other food companies that their product labels violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Here’s their main point:
“…because of these intended uses [enjoying the nuts and seeking the health benefits of the Omega-3 fats in walnuts], your walnut products are drugs… Therefore…they may not be legally marketed with the above claims in the United States without an approved new drug application.”[2]
The producers had 15 days to reply. What kinds of hurdles must they face to stay in business?
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See above link for the full story, which is actually an older article but I had never seen it before (the news source link is from 2010!)
But, Walnuts of all things!
What is so weird is that sometime before waking up yesterday, Thursday, 1/26/12, I had a short dream about walnuts! (first time ever!). Basically it was someone (my mother, I think) showing me photos of two different siblings. First she said something like, “Jane (my older sister) is dressed like a walnut in this picture (for whatever occasion).” I didn’t see any walnut shape, only that the garb was peach in color, which made no sense, so I said nothing. Then she says, “And John (eldest brother in age right under me) dressed like a walnut in this other picture” (again, I saw no walnut costume, only the color peach). And that was that. Totally weird dream … Walnuts???
Peach is one of my favorite colors but I haven’t thought of it in awhile since I don’t have anything around me these days in that color. And walnuts are not peachy!
Walnuts I have in the freezer but haven’t eaten any lately nor thought about them.
My first thought was, “Walnuts are known for being ‘hard to crack.’” So maybe this means these two siblings will be the hardest to get saved(?)
Then I remembered a chat with Mom from several weeks ago when I asked her, “Who in the family will know what to do if/when y’all pass on?” (parents are in their 80′s now). “Have you designated someone to be in charge or will it be chaos?” (I assumed Mom had designated this same “walnut” sister, she being the oldest.) Mom replied that, no, she had not really designated anybody but she does have a folder with all their info in it, credit cards, etc., & that she has shown those two “walnut” siblings where it is.
Lol, “walnut” siblings, of all things! But that must be where the dream came from since it is the same two (out of six total) siblings. Funny how our brains regurgitate info weeks later totally scrambled & disguised in dream symbols. Then tonight I see an old news headline re Walnuts! (totally unrelated to my dream, though, but it did remind me I wanted to write all this down!)
I admit to dreading the chaos if our folks were to die because it has always felt to me that nobody in the family has ever known what’s going on, everybody is clueless, flighty, unaware, scatter-brains, disjointed, disconnected, etc. None are “mature Christian people,” if saved at all (doubtful… though some “think” they are). Bottom Line: I have never “felt safe” in this family, period, & I suppose that is the underlying emotion behind the dream: Will the two “walnuts” be hard-headed problems should the folks ever die?
During that same chat with Mom a few weeks back, I also asked had they planned out their funerals? who would they want to speak? where would they want it? etc., even down to what songs they might want sung? etc. I asked because if they don’t leave specific instructions & preferences, this is where the chaos would enter in. Nobody would know what to do (oh, I would know what to do, but being the only “Biblical Christian” in the clan, the others would likely reject any ideas I had). And, no, Mom said they have not planned anything though they think about it sometime.
I then proceeded to tell Mom MY plans should I die FIRST (since people with M.E. tend to die young, late 50′s, early 60′s, etc., virally-induced heart failure, etc. There’s a Memorial site online with a list of people who have died from M.E./CFIDS; & I have outlived a friend with the same condition who died at age 57-1/2 in 2004).
I’m NOT PLANNING on dying, NO!, but one never knows when & I don’t want my work going to waste, is what I said to Mom (none of the immediate family clan would have a clue about my work since none of them are the least bit interested in Christianity, End Times, the NWO, etc.)
I also told her I didn’t want an autopsy, nor embalming, nor cremation, nor an “open casket” at any funeral, etc. I said, “Tell them I’m Jewish if you have to so I can be buried within 24 hours,” & that Walmart sells inexpensive caskets. :)
Just as I was telling her my “death” plans, the once-per-week scripture text message popped up on my iphone, so I grabbed it to take a look, & this, amazingly, is what it said:
Ha! I gasped out loud at the wondrous TIMING & CONTENT & exclaimed, “WELL, OK, THEN! LIVE IT IS!” :D
Mom’s like, “What, What??” So I showed her the phone & read the “perfect timing” text message that just arrived in the midst of our “death” conversation, lol. It was too good. (I took it as a hint from the Lord to “not be talking about dying because you are not done yet!” Amen to that!)
So go enjoy a handful of gorgeous peachy-keen walnuts (before the Feds outlaw them)!
Beautiful pictures, eh?
