conventional medicine continues to dismiss laetrile therapy as quackery but my sister swears by it. in her latest blogpost Cassava: The Local Laetrile she tells her stories of how even terminal cancer patients who can’t afford laetrile have been helped by the vitB17-rich kamoteng kahoy. chewed raw in small quantities for the juice, or mashed and used as poultice, this lowly root relieves pain and even closes oozing ulcers.
if memory serves, not since the erap impeachment trial of 2000 has the holiday season been as politically charged as this one. the acquittal of hubert webb et al continues to be front page news, with former nbi directors exchanging barbs and brickbats. the dissing of the truth commission is still a sore point among the anti-gma. the release of senator antonio trillanes et al and of ex-general carlos garcia on the right, and of the morong 43 (38?) on the left, have raised temperatures anew among ideologues, hard and soft, die-hards and half-bakeds. and what about the conyo catfight on twitter between carlos celdran and james cordova over COMMUNISM, the big bad word, no less, what fun! waiting with not bated breath for the tibaks to not weigh in, why not nga ba, ever (joma, are you there)?
on the lighter babaw side the absence of twink macaraig from the brew for two consecutive episodes even if she’s been seen anchoring the news until yesterday has raised eyebrows, wazzup wazzup? was it esposo’s philstar column berating her for “recklessly speculating” about the consequences for alfaro etc., or was it her remarks on the brew re tv patrol being too showbizzy , or whoa could it be that something she said about krissyleaky? reminds me of an fb status that asked whether a news anchor loses some credibility when she also dishes out personal opinions on a sosyal venue like the brew. or something like that. sayang, di ko na mahanap, valid question it is. but wait, carlosceldran just twitted that twink will be back next week, abangan, baka naman nagshopping nga lang. meanwhile, truce muna. merry christmas muna to one and all ;))
to get in the christmas mood, for a change, nagsisimbang gabi kami ni katrina. the first dawn we went to st. francis church along shaw blvd., a three-minute drive from the house. the big church was full, all seats taken, standing room only for many late-comers.
to our dismay, merong pre-mass video about RH, complete with a hillary clinton clip equating RH with abortion. the audio was bad, and i was glad. (i wondered if this was regular sunday fare too.)
worse, during the looooong sermon, mga kalahating oras yata yon, at least five maybe ten minutes were devoted to the evils of RH na, sabi daw mismo ni first lady hillary clinton, is the same thing as abortion, all in the context of na contrary to isaiah the prophet’s admonition to “observe what is right, and do what is just”.
nagpanting ang tenga ko. naalaala ko tuloy si carlos celdran. sayang wala akong placard saying, it’s a lie! as if. di ko naman type na umeksena. thought of walking out instead but it didn’t feel like the right thing to do. we wanted to finish the mass more than to make a statement.
over breakfast we wondered if we should find another church. a friend said it might be the same in all parish churches, on order of the bishops. we decided to give st. francis another chance, maybe it would be another priest, maybe it would be another kind of sermon.
hayy. no such luck. same priest. again, this time in the context of joseph’s genealogy, the long string of “begats” tracing his ancestry to abraham, ipinasok na naman ang RH=abortion. this time naalala ko my parents, regular churchgoers all their lives. they would have been so shocked and scandalized to hear such talk in a church, during mass. my ears shut down, my mind wandered, wondering where to next.
day 3 we tried christ the king in green meadows. smaller church, sosyal neighborhood, a 10-15 minute drive away. hallelujah. no pre-mass RH=abortion video. no talk of RH=abortion in the sermon which took 10 minutes or so. on the story of joseph agonizing over what to do when he found out that the virgin mary was pregnant with a child not his, until he was visited in a dream by an angel who told him that the child had been conceived through the holy spirit and to call him jesus. the sermon likened joseph’s travails to what we all go through in life, both dark times and good times, and the choices we all have to make, na naikonekt rin niya sa poverty and ofws. good job.
i can only imagine how the st.francis priest used joseph’s story to again push the RH=abortion line lie. i’m glad i wasn’t there to hear it. thank god for christ the king!
G. Edward Griffin marshals the evidence that – like scurvy or pellagra – aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound in modern man’s diet. That substance is vitamin B17. In its purified form developed for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile.
the good news is, laetrile is available in the philippines.