Lloyd's Anything Blog

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    Originally posted on Good Clean Food: So one of my closest girlfriends went on a crash diet last week in a last ditch attempt to get rid of  5 or so stubborn pounds that she wanted to lose. I think she looks fabulous now, but we all have our “preferred weight”. The crash diet consisted of little or no carbohydrates,…

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    Originally posted on Good Clean Food: It’s Somer Saturday and I’m really REALLY obsessed with Annie’s Cashew Cheez. Ever since she emailed me a demo recipe, vegan life has changed as I know it. I thought I was over cheese, and was starting to be a little snobby, even shunning the likes of Daiya, Teese and Sheese since they are all refined…

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    My Vegan Journey, and why I never had a chance to say, “Let lips do what hands do.” – Part 4/4

    Medical research has found that a properly balanced vegetarian diet may, in fact, be the healthiest diet.

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    My Vegan Journey, and why I never had a chance to say, “Let lips do what hands do.” – Part 3/4

    “If it doesn’t work, I’m going back to my cheese pizza, hamburger, French fry, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper diet.”

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    My Vegan Journey, and why I never had a chance to say, “Let lips do what hands do.” – Part 2/4

    My weight plummeted to 160 pounds and then slowly returned to 180 where it stuck—give or take a pound or two fluctuation—for the next twenty-three years.

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    My Vegan Journey, and why I never had a chance to say, “Let lips do what hands do.” – Part 1/4

    I am one of about 4.3 million Americans with a vegan lifestyle, which is about equal to the gay population in the US.

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    Twisting History for Fun and Profit — maybe?

    Many people that go to movies worldwide read nothing about history let alone read books and they walk away from seeing movies believing this is how it really was.

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    Greed is Universal – a human trait

    Someone had stolen her Social Security number when she was age 9 and set up false identities and more than 42 accounts. All of them had defaulted to the tune of $1.5 million dollars.

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    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: According to Vietnam: Looking Back at the Facts: “About 5,000 men assigned to Vietnam deserted and just 249 of those deserted while in Vietnam.” Then there were crimes other than rape. Near the end of my 1996 combat tour, the armorer of our gun company was caught selling weapons on the black market…

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    Originally posted on The Soulful Veteran's Blog: “Rape and the mutilation of women’s bodies are evidently part of the usual military fare in war. During the Vietnam war, rape was in fact an all too common occurrence …” Source: Karen Stuldreher, Political Science Department, University of Washington, Seattle For example: “An August 1967 atrocity in which a 13-year-old Vietnamese child…