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10 Uses for Apple Cider Vinegar That You Haven’t Tried

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Apple cider vinegar (ACV) is an inexpensive, natural product that everyone should keep stocked in their cupboard. It has dozens of applications in cooking, household cleaning, home remedies and more. Here are ten practical uses of apple cider vinegar that may surprise you.

1. Adhesive Dissolver

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The acids in apple cider vinegar are effective at dissolving many types of adhesive bonds. Apple cider vinegar can be used to remove price tags, labels or stickers. Heat a small bowl of vinegar in the microwave for about thirty seconds. Dip a rag into the warm liquid and hold it over the sticker until the surface is completely soaked through. It will come away easily when you peel it from a corner.

2. Fabric Softener

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Apple cider vinegar contains potassium and sodium, which work to soften hard water and dissolve the mineral build-up that can leave fabrics feeling rough or stiff. Simply add half a cup of vinegar to the fabric softener dispenser on your washing machine. (The acrid smell will disappear when the laundry goes through the rinse cycle.) For pleasantly scented clothing, stir a couple of drops of lavender or orange essential oil into the vinegar before adding it to the machine.

3. Teeth Whitener

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The acidity of apple cider vinegar can whiten teeth by eating away at stains and discolorations. After brushing, pour apple cider vinegar into a cup, take it into your mouth and swish it around. Keep it in contact with your teeth for one to two minutes, then spit it out. Rinse immediately with water to remove excess acid from your mouth. Used twice a week, the vinegar will gradually restore whiteness to your smile.

4. Flea Repellant

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Fleas find apple cider vinegar unsavory, so applying it to a pet’s fur and skin is a natural way to repel them. If your pet has a flea infestation, you can help to control it with an apple cider vinegar shampoo. Fill a bottle with equal parts of vinegar and mild dish detergent and shake to combine. While bathing your pet in warm water, massage the shampoo into the coat, then rinse thoroughly. Continue to ward off fleas with a spray made by diluting apple cider vinegar with an equal amount of water. Apply the solution to your pet’s fur twice a week.

5. Dandruff Treatment

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Many cases of dandruff are caused by a proliferation of fungal yeast called called pityrosporum ovale. Apple cider vinegar alters the pH level of the scalp, creating an unfavorable environment for fungal growth. Pour equal amounts of apple cider vinegar and water into a spray bottle and shake to combine. After shampooing your hair, spritz the vinegar solution close to your scalp, paying particular attention to itchy, flaking areas. Leave hair to dry naturally.

6. Windshield Defroster

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The acids in apple cider vinegar help to prevent ice crystals from forming on glass and cause pre-existing ice to melt more rapidly. Combine three parts apple cider vinegar with one part water in a spray bottle. If you’re expecting freezing temperatures overnight, use the mixture to coat your car windows. It will help prevent frost from forming and save you time the next morning. If your windscreen is covered with ice, you can use the same vinegar solution to remove it more easily. Just spray it over the glass before scraping.

7. Soak for Athlete’s Foot

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Athlete’s foot is a fungal infection that causes a red rash and scaly, flaking skin on the feet. The acidity of apple cider vinegar helps to relieve the persistent itching associated with the condition. It also creates inhospitable conditions for the fungus. To make a soothing foot bath, fill a dishpan with equal parts of apple cider vinegar and warm water. Soak your feet in the solution for twenty minutes each day until the infection clears.

8. Sunburn Soother

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The anti-inflammatory properties of apple cider vinegar help to reduce swelling, blistering and peeling when skin has spent too much time in the sun. The acetic acid alleviates itching and burning and also works to restore the skin’s natural pH balance. In a spray bottle, combine two parts vinegar with one part water. Spritz on the affected area for instant relief. Alternatively, add a pint of apple cider vinegar to a tub of lukewarm bathwater and soak away the sting.

9. Weed Killer

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The acetic acid in apple cider vinegar is effective at killing many common weed species. It dissolves the waxy protective coating on leaves, causing the plant to wither. It can also lower the pH of soil to inhibit regrowth. To spot kill weeds growing through cracks in patios or driveways, fill a spray bottle with full-strength apple cider vinegar and aim it at undesirable plants. Pour more vinegar onto the soil beneath the weeds to kill them down to the root.

10. Deodorant

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Apple cider vinegar kills bacteria and breaks down volatile compounds. These properties make it an effective natural deodorant. After showering, simply pour some apple cider vinegar on a cotton ball and apply it under your arms to minimize body odors throughout the day. The vinegar smell dissipates as it dries, leaving you feeling naturally fresh and clean.

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By A.C. Anshuetz

Here’s a List of 10 Companies Who Are Boycotting “Christmas”… Now Boycott THEM

As many of my readers probably know by now, I am a Christian. If you were unaware of that before, you now know it. As such I have very strong opinions about anything non-Christian, or against Christian beliefs and practices. This being the case, this article on the Conservative Tribune really caught my eye. I don’t know if they are a totally trusted Newspaper Company or not. But I am copying the article for you to read and make your own decision as to what action to take. Will you continue to patronize the companies on the “naughty” list, or boycott them during the Christmas season? The decision is totally up to you. All I am going to do is make the article available for you to read.

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Here’s a List of 10 Companies Who Are Boycotting “Christmas”… Now Boycott THEM

Thursday, November 20th, 2014

Have you grown sick and tired of national retail chains bowing to the very small anti-Christmas minority?

If so, then take a good look at the list below.

The American Family Association has released their annual “Naughty-or-Nice” list that categorizes retailers and how they approach the Christmas season. (H/T The Blaze)

Some of the names that made the “nice” list are well known companies such as Walmart, J.C. Penney, Kmart, and Macy’s. Others fell into a “marginal” list, meaning that they rarely or infrequently referred to Christmas, including Best Buy, CVS Pharmacy, Walgreens and Whole Foods.

Then we have the “naughty” list below. These seemingly anti-Christmas companiesmake almost no reference to the Christmas holiday and don’t recognize it as a company. Big mistake, if you ask us.

Check out the list of anti-Christmas companies below:

1. Barnes & Noble – “Company may use ‘Christmas’ sparingly in a single or unique product description, but as a company, does not recognize it.”

2. Family Dollar – They open their doors on Christmas morning. Who does that? It obviously shows they’re more about profit than the family.

3. Foot Locker – They use the term ‘Christmas’ sparingly and as a company they don’t recognize it.

4. Limited Brands – “Company may use ‘Christmas’ sparingly in a single or unique product description, but as a company, does not recognize it.”

5. Maurice’s – “Company may use ‘Christmas’ sparingly in a single or unique product description, but as a company, does not recognize it.”

6. Office Depot – “Company may use ‘Christmas’ sparingly in a single or unique product description, but as a company, does not recognize it.”

7. Office Max – Since they are now owned by Office Depot, they too fall into the “naughty” category.

8. Pets Mart – The American Family Association have decided to completely boycott this chain for Christmas, as should you.

9. Staples – “Company may use ‘Christmas’ sparingly in a single or unique product description, but as a company, does not recognize it.”

10. Victoria’s Secret – “Company may use ‘Christmas’ sparingly in a single or unique product description, but as a company, does not recognize it.”

The companies that made the notorious list above are otherwise highly-shopped companies and no doubt we’ve all purchased from one of them in the past. But if you believe in traditional family values and celebrate Christmas, boycotting these companies for the Christmas season is something you should consider.

They need to be shown that a majority of Americans will hit them where it hurts for attempting to censor Christmas.

There’s nothing worse than a retailer who’s afraid to use the actual word, “Christmas” and instead substitutes it with the word “holiday,” in hopes of not offending Muslims and other non-Christians and atheists.

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The Comical Conservative

Do you have the courage to spread this around unashamed?
The Comical Conservative

Do you have the courage to spread this around unashamed?

  • Bonnie Jean Hern  I sure do. My question is if all these others want Christians to stop what they are doing, what about the ones complaining. Has it ever occurred to them that what they are doing is offensive to Christians? In this world everything that everybody does is going to offend someone else in some way or another. I guess the only way to have peace is for everybody to just kill themselves. That way there wouldn’t be anybody to offend anybody else and God could start humankind all over. Maybe then nobody would offend anybody else and there would be peace. Why can’t people just not pay attention to whatever it is that offends them and do what they believe is correct and let everybody live their life in peace. But for some reason there are always going to be trouble makers. At the rate we are going there isn’t going to be any world left for anybody to offend somebody else in. Come on people, live your own life and let other people live their life and stop causing problems for everybody. Sorry. I didn’t mean to write a book.
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         The above was my response to the post on Facebook. I find it really hard to accept that the government has gotten to the place that any time one faction complains about another faction, the faction being complained about loses one of their constitutionally given freedoms. Our Veterans fought for us to be able to enjoy our freedoms, not for one faction after another to keep taking them away from us. It’s getting so bad that pretty soon people won’t even be able to come out of their own house because their looks offend someone else.
         Why do we adults have to be so petty? That’s all that it is. We are just being petty about nit picky things. As long as you can practice your religion or lack of religion, let the other guy practice his beliefs or lack there of. If you can’t eat pork but the other guy can, then don’t eat pork, but don’t take that joy away from the other person. People need to be more tolerant of each other.
         If I don’t tell you to stop practicing ASHURA, where all of your men cut and mutilate their self and even cut their sons because it’s your religion, then don’t you tell me to stop eating pork or even showing pictures of pork. To me the practice of ASHURA is VERY OFFENSIVE, but I have not asked the government to make you stop practicing it. That is your religion and you have a right to practice it. I just need to make sure that I stay inside on that day so I won’t have to witness all of the blood shed. Like so, you need to stay away from where there is pork, or even pictures of it. Or you could just try to keep away from looking at it.
         Here is an article from what I found on a Google search about ASHURA. Just look at how bloody and repulsive it is.

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    ASHURA: My favorite Muslim holiday, where Shiite Muslims celebrate in the streets by self-mutilating themselves

    Ashura marks the death of Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, the revered Imam Hussein in Karbala, Iraq 1,300 years ago.

    Ashura, an optional fast day for Muslims, falls on Dec. 4-5, 2011. The word itself, ashura, means 10, and the holiday is the 10th day of the Islamic month of Muharram. The Islamic calendar is lunar, so the date of Ashura can vary depending on sighting of the moon.

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         Don’t try to come into my country illegally and then try to take away all of my freedoms. If you are going to do that and cannot find the power within yourself to just keep away from looking at my beliefs or hearing my practice them when I recite them, such as the Lord’s Pray, The Pledge of Allegiance, or singing the National Anthem, THEN GO BACK WHERE YOU CAME FROM. You are not welcome here.
         You know that if I came to your country and tried to have your government make ASHURA illegal, and you had to stop practicing it, then you would throw me out of your country as fast as you could. Why can’t you just be happy that you are even being allowed to stay here illegally as it is? Because you are an UNGRATEFUL ILLEGAL ALIEN that should not even be allowed out of your own country.
         Don’t come to my country and try to make our children practice Muslim by you teaching it to them instead of the required curriculum. I don’t try to make your children learn Christianity by going into your schools and teaching it to them even though I am not supposed to. Just be happy to be allowed to practice your religion, and leave me alone to be able to live my life practicing what I believe in.

 

The Hidden Tragedy of Entitlements: What a 12-Year Welfare Abuser Says About Finding a Job

 

 

It is not compassionate for people to be in the welfare system for years at a time. America is about people bettering themselves and attaining dignity and self-respect through supporting themselves and achieving things.

That is why the story of Kiara, a 30-year-old woman with four children, is disturbing on multiple levels. Not only should taxpayers be upset with her blase attitude about abusing the welfare system, they should feel bad for the thousands of Americans like her who are spending their lives wasting their time, instead of living life to the fullest and achieving things.

YoungCons points out a great quote by Ronald Reagan, “Welfare’s purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence.”

This follows a sage quote by Benjamin Franklin: “I am for doing good to the poor, but…I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. I observed…that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.”

People cannot be empowered when they are on welfare. What is needed is more opportunity, and that’s where the federal and state governments can come in. Governments should stop penalizing successful businesses, eliminate burdensome and unnecessary regulations, and let people work and lead their own lives.

Restaurant Puts Up Sign That Is Pissing Off Muslims Around The World

Restaurant Puts Up Sign That Is Pissing Off Muslims Around The World

      August 27, 2014 Restaurant Puts Up Sign That Is Pissing Off Muslims Around The World2014-08-27T12:27:56+00:00    News

Once again, it appears that freedom of speech is being taken away at the hand of someone offended by it. This seems to be a common theme, especially when it comes to messages that oppose the religious beliefs of Muslims.

According to reports, a business in Winooski, Vermont was recently forced to take down its sign because it offended a Muslim community member.

The offensive word? Bacon.

Apparently, when the Sneakers Bistro & Café attempted to help city officials with an operation known as “Operation Bloom,” they had no idea that they were signing up for some major controversy. The agreement was the café would support the efforts to landscape public areas of the town, and Sneakers was able to put up a sign reading “Yield for Bacon.”

According to reports, a Muslim woman complained about the sign, claiming it was against her customs to eat pork. The restaurant reluctantly removed the sign.

“It’s nice that they were respectful enough to take it down,” resident Caleb Wiley told reporters. “But I also think they shouldn’t have, or had to at any rate.”

What do you think? Should the business have been able to keep its sign?

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I will never understand how any group can think that they can come into a foreign country and start demanding that the country make it’s legal citizens change their way of life because of that group’s beliefs. Group in question, the Muslims. If they don’t like the way America lives and the signs and menus , or anything for that matter, THEN GO BACK HOME. I am sure that if any Americans went to the country that is mostly Muslim, they sure wouldn’t take anything down because it was offensive to Americans. It just infuriated the hell out of me every time I read something else that the Muslims are demanding of Americans. If you don’t like our way of life, THEN GO THE HELL BACK HOME AS FAST AS YOUR ASS CAN GET THERE. I am tired or reading EVERY DAY ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE THAT THE DAMN MUSLIMS ARE DEMAND.

And when it comes to what they will not do so far as sanitation is concerned, it makes me sick. It’s common sense that in any medical setting, sterility has to be practiced. I know that no one can be denied because of religious beliefs, but YOU DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT TO JEOPARDIZE MY LIFE JUST BECAUSE YOU WON”T SANITIZE YOUR FUCKING HANDS. YOU KNEW THAT WAS GOING TO BE A REQUIREMENT, SO WHY DID YOU GET INTO THE MEDICAL FIELD TO BEGIN WITH.

It also IRRITATES THE HELL OUT OF ME THAT THE MUSLIMS THINK THAT THEY CAN MAKE AMERICAN CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS STOP PRACTICING CHRISTIANITY. WE AREN’T TRYING TO MAKE YOU STOP PRACTICING YOUR RELIGION, SO STOP TRYING TO MAKE US PRACTICE YOURS. WE HAVE OUR OWN RELIGION THANK YOU. JUST GET THE HELL OUT OF AMERICA IF YOU CAN’T STOP TRYING TO CHANGE OUR WAYS!!!!!!!!! WE AREN’T TRYING TO CHANGE YOUR WAYS. IF YOU DON”T LIKE SEEING US PRACTICE OUR RELIGION, THEN STAY THE HELL IN YOUR OWN HOUSE OR APARTMENT!!!!!! YOU ARE TAKING YOUR DAMN MUSLIM SHIT TOO FAR WHEN YOU TRY TO CRAM IT DOWN OUR THROATS!!!!!!!

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Should This Man Refuse To Remove His Flag?

Comment ‘yes’ or ‘no’.

Bonnie Jean Hern

We’ve heard this story time and time again, and each time it gets a little bit more disturbing. Americans are being reprimanded for waving the American flag. Apparently, the patriotic act is “threatening.”
At least that was what Duy Tran, a Texan resident, was told by his apartment manager. Apparently, the U.S. flag he was flying at his apartment was a ‘threat to the Muslim community.”
According to Tran, he was absolutely shocked when he received the news.
“What really stunned me is that she said it’s a threat towards the Muslim community,” Tran told reporters. “I’m not a threat to anybody!”

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City Arrests Pastors For Refusing To Perform Gay Weddings

Its one thing to amend the law to support gay marriage, but it’s entirely another to force religious entities to perform them. Such is the case for two Christian ministers who own a wedding chapel in Couer d’Alene, Idaho. The pair is facing some serious fines and even jail time for refusing to perform same-sex ceremonies.

“Right now they are at risk of being prosecuted,” attorney Jeremy Tedesco from the Alliance Defending Freedom told a Fox News reporter. “The threat of enforcement is more than credible.”

Still, many argue that the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel, owned by Donald and Evelyn Knapp, is not responsible for accommodating ceremonies that fall outside of their beliefs. ADF argues that the Chapel is not a church, but a for-profit business, meaning that they must obey an ordinance that prohibits businesses from discriminating based on sexual orientation.

Legal representation for the gay couple argue that the chapel is designed to be a “place of the public accommodation”, and since same-sex marriage is now legal in Idaho, they must follow the law.

If enforced, the Knapps could face a $1,000 fine and up to 180 days in jail.

What do you think? Should the Knapps be punished for standing by their beliefs?

Muslims Attack Christians Leaving Church… Judge Rules Them Innocent

The relationship between Muslims and Christians in Europe seems to be growing more hostile by the moment, especially with the number of Muslims emigrating from the Middle East rising significantly.

In fact, in many European countries, the Muslim population is nearing the majority, and tensions rise as the group seems intent on proving their presence and control.

Now, according to recent images that have surfaced, a crowd of Muslims recently attacked Christians as they left a Catholic church in Southern France. The group of Muslim teenagers threw rocks and bottles at churchgoers simply because of their faith.

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Other nationalities and/or religions are NOT throwing stones at the Muslims as they get out of Church. Is this how Muslims say “Thank You for letting us come here to live.” I have yet to hear much of anything good about the Muslims, but I know that they aren’t all bad. Just the majority of them seem to be bad. These bad ones are giving the good ones a bad name and an even worse reputation. Why does every other nationality hate America so much. America is the first country all other nations look to for emergency help any time that there is any kind of disaster. And this is the way we get re-paid. SOME GRATITUDE – NOT!!!!!