Entries by Jerry Winkel

Best Grains: How They Rank

I found this at: http://askdoctorsears.com/html/4/T042700.asp.  I thought it was interesting. I think buying these different grains and adding them to bread, soup or whatever is a good thing. Flax isn’t mentioned, perhaps because it isn’t as common, but is also very good.   Best Grains: How they Rank  It’s misleading, if not impossible, to rank grains. Their relative […]

Let’s just slow down the economy

“We just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions ’cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.” Bill Clinton (January 30, 2008 – Denver Colorado) Slowing down the economy is easy to say when you’ve got hot and cold running water and $50m in the bank. But […]

Incredible LDS Scripture Website

Latter-Day Saints are mostly aware of the web page http://scriptures.lds.org/. This is a great site that allows you to easily traverse the scriptures as you study. However, there is another site that everyone should be aware of: http://scriptures.byu.edu/. This website has been around for several years but is still largely unknown. If you use the footnotes in the LDS scriptures, you […]

One Mad Hombre

I’ve been dreading this for years. My boy is in sixth grade and is preparing for a three day school excursion. Sixth graders go to a place called “Clear Creek”. It is up in the mountains at a school district camp. The activity lasts three days and two nights. The camp is staffed with teenagers. […]

The Government is setting up Land Mines in Utah Mountains

Wow! Is that a title for a blog or what? Before you start thinking I’m one of those nuts who believe the government is using jet contrails to mass vaccination on the public; please read the following article:  Poisoning in Utah intensifies efforts for a national ban By Matthew Daly Associated Press Published: Tuesday, Jan. 22, […]

John Edwards—Destroyer

Democrats are known for making statements targeted at intellectual light weights. They are the party of emotion. However, John Edwards made a statement the other day that I found amazing and I believe should be addressed. His candidacies have always relied heavily on agitating the lower class and that was certainly the purpose of this […]

Protecting Children from Internet Smut

I’ve been using Blue Coat’s K9 Web Protection for years. It is free filter and takes just a minute to install. I also run it on my work laptop to protect me from accidental exposures to bad sites. It allows you to set degrees of protection and has a password to override its filter. You can view a history of visted […]

Dumbing Down our Children

“In my daughters parent teacher conference we expressed our concern about the lack of spelling words and tests. And that my daughter really struggled with spelling.  Her teacher’s response was, ‘all she needs to know is how to click the spell check button on her computer. No one needs to know how to spell anymore.’” Teacher in Jordan Utah School […]

Outrage of 2007

Saudis defend punishment for rape victim RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The Saudi judiciary on Tuesday defended a court verdict that sentenced a 19-year-old victim of a gang rape to six months in jail and 200 lashes because she was with an unrelated male when they were attacked. The Shiite Muslim woman had initially been […]

Hate Crimes

If a person commits a crime they should be punished for that crime. I don’t believe they should receive a stiffer penalty because of the reading material found on their bedside table. I’m not opposed to using that information to support the argument for premeditation but the reason a person commits a crime does not matter. I […]