I have been practicing this for many years, amid some disapproval. So I am glad that science has caught up with me. I am now apparently an exemplar, not a pariah. I am however a very restless sleeper so I had little choice in the matter
New research from the University of Michigan finds that it’s actually more beneficial for couples to sleep apart than together, if a disruption-free eight hours is the goal.
The news comes as more and more couples are opting out of conventional, shared bed sleeping arrangements, with celebrities like Cameron Diaz pushing to end the stigma around sleeping in other rooms.
Called a “sleep divorce,” one in three Americans are keeping the sheets to themselves for improved health — and for sake of their relationships, a recent survey by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine found.
That correlates directly to the number of U.S. citizens not getting enough sleep, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“We know that poor sleep can worsen your mood, and those who are sleep deprived are more likely to argue with their partners,” said Dr. Seema Khosla, a pulmonologist and spokesperson for the AASM.
“Getting a good night’s sleep is important for both health and happiness, so it’s no surprise that some couples choose to sleep apart for their overall well-being.”
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Kanye West’s Aussie wife Bianca Censori made him reverse course on antismitism
Bianca is more than a sexy body
Kanye West’s unexpected apology to the Jewish community after a series of vile anti-Semitic tirades came after a furious “smackdown” by his Australian wife, according to a new report.
The controversial musician, 46, posted an apology on social media on Tuesday, expressing regret for his offensive “outbursts”, including an anti-Semitic rap and praise of Hitler during a performance in Las Vegas in early December.
“I sincerely apologise to the Jewish community for any unintended outburst caused by my words or actions, it was not my intention to hurt or disrespect, and I deeply regret any pain I may have caused,” read West’s message, which was written in Hebrew.
“I am committed to starting with myself and learning from this experience to ensure greater sensitivity and understanding in the future.”
It marked an abrupt attitude U-turn for the rapper, who has been embroiled in increasingly erratic and offensive anti-Semitic behaviour in recent years, culminating in this month’s vile display in Sin City.
“It’s 60 million of us in America, 60 million Jews in the world,” he falsely screamed in a video, obtained by TMZ.
“Who’s going to make the hospitals, though? He’s a Zionist, Trump. This is what I’ve been trying to tell you. Jesus Christ, Hitler, Ye, third party, sponsor that.”
According to the Daily Mail, his apology, which came just weeks later, was prompted by a stern warning from his 28-year-old wife, Bianca Censori, who reportedly “laid the smackdown on him” and told him he was putting them in danger with his outbursts.
“She told him that his recent behaviour was unacceptable and that he needs to apologise because he was putting them in danger and setting a horrible example for his children.
“Bianca is really sick of his attention seeking and she knows that this is not who he truly is, but it is making her look like she is anti-Semitic, which is so far from the truth.
“She has many Jewish friends who she loves dearly and he knows this.”
The insider added that most of his troubling behaviour occurs when she is not around – which they claim is a deliberate choice by West.
The insider added: “It is very upsetting to Bianca and he does it anyway. He just waits until she is gone. By the time that she finds out what he’s done and said, it is too late.
“And now it’s at the point where she is starting to fear for her safety – not because of Kanye hurting her or anything like that. It is more like she fears that a Jewish extremist could potentially do something to hurt both of them.”
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Tulsi Gabbard Says Democrats ‘Will Stop at Nothing’ to Keep Trump Off 2024 Ballot
Former Democratic congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, responding to efforts to keep former President Donald Trump off the 2024 ballot, said Democrats “will stop at nothing” to maintain power.
In a candid interview on Fox News’s “Hannity” on Thursday, the Democrat-turned-Independent former congresswoman raised an alarm over what she described as a concerted effort by Democrats to sideline President Trump from the 2024 ballot.
She described the decision by Maine’s top election official, a Democrat, to remove President Trump from the state’s ballot as a dangerous precedent and urged Republicans and Democrats alike to “stand up for our democratic process” and the right of voters to pick their president.
“This is the MO of the Democrat elite,” Ms. Gabbard said. “They will stop at nothing to try to maintain their power, even if it means taking away the right to vote of Americans.”
Furthermore, Ms. Gabbard charged that Democrats “have no issue taking Trump off the ballot,” including by “pursuing him and persecuting him through a weaponized and politicized Department of Justice.”
“They have no qualms about doing whatever they feel is necessary to hold on to power,” she added.
The former Hawaii congresswoman pointed out the “ridiculous” hypocrisy in the eagerness of some Democrats, whom she referred to as “war hawks,” to intervene in foreign countries when political candidates face similar actions to those experienced by President Trump.
“We’ve seen how the war hawks in Washington, they will see this happen in another country, and they'll be very quick to say we must go and intervene; we must go and topple this banana republic or this dictatorship,” said Ms. Gabbard.
Many of the congressional lawmakers who advocate along those lines, she added, “are the people who are driving” these efforts against President Trump.
She noted that efforts to sideline President Trump extend beyond the Democratic Party, with some Republicans “threatened by” his departure from “their establishment ways.”
Ms. Gabbard accused the White House of being in “complete denial of what every American is seeing.”
The influx of migrants making their way to the southern U.S. border and crossing illegally “poses a direct threat to our national security,” said Ms. Gabbard. “They have no idea who these people are who are coming across the border,” she added.
“We do know that they’re coming from around the world. We do know that these are not just poor women and children who are trying to escape oppressive conditions. This is a very real direct threat to our national security,” she added.
Ms. Gabbard, who formerly represented Hawaii in Congress as a Democrat before retiring to run for president, publicly resigned from the Democrats in 2022, saying she could “no longer remain in today’s Democratic party that is under the complete control of an elitist cabal of warmongers who are driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing every issue and stoking anti-white racism.”
On Thursday, Ms. Gabbard suggested that “there are many Democrats like myself across the country who are disgusted with the direction the Democratic Party has taken but acknowledged that unlike her, ”they’re afraid to speak up“ for fear ”the Democrat leaders will smear, destroy, and try to cancel anyone who doesn’t go along with their narrative.”
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The war on Christmas
By Naomi Wolf, a recent progressive apostate, a former liberal feminist and now an anti-vax influencer. Not to be confused with another prominent Jewish girl, Naomi Klein. Wolf has better hair
In the 2000s, a new wave of cultural change is targeting what little is left of the warm memory of the season, and erasing entirely the story of that baby’s birth, from Western culture. The Daily Mail reported in 2020 that half of Britain’s schools had cancelled Nativity plays—surely the breaking of the chain of memory among generations of British schoolchildren. This breaking of the chain between generations of children, was one goal of the “lockdowns,” a point I made generally in my book “The Bodies of Others.” The Daily Mail reports now that Nativity plays in schools are being “repackaged” to refer to pop TV shows, such as “The Great British Bake Off,” and to celebrities, instead of following the traditional Nativity scripts handed down for decades.
Alarmingly, when I searched “Daily Mail” and “Nativity Plays No More,” I saw that stories about schools banning Nativity plays, or barring parents from attending their own children’s Nativity plays, go back to 2012, with a drumbeat of escalation in recent years. This is the drip, drip, drip of water intentional set slowly to boil—of deliberate cultural change.
Of course, you know where this is going, because Marxists do not like families, just as they don’t like religion. Schools in England now banned parents from attending their own children’s Nativity plays. Due to? Colds, flus, and COVID. The State has finally taken your child, and your Christmas, away.
What else debuted by the 20-teens? A range of new Christmas movies that depicted cherished Christmas symbolism as tawdry, drunk, or sexually licentious. There was the 2014 film “Bad Santa,” with Billy Bob Thornton.
There is 2022’s “It’s a Wonderful Binge,” a send-up of Christmas classics such as “It’s a Wonderful Life”; but in this Holiday movie, “St Nick” is “inebriated” and the setting is a world in which all alcohol is banned, so Christmas represents the one time to binge on intoxicants.
“In this first trailer for It’s A Wonderful Binge—the forthcoming sequel to 2020’s The Binge—its revealed that the recklessly wild event has inexplicably been moved by the government to Christmas Eve, and the drugs and booze are flowing freely.”
And finally there is SantaCon—which seems like a cute idea, at least superficially. It launched in 2011, the decade in which all the public Santas first went bad. It is a mass gathering of people dressed like Santa (or like elves; and now pandas have debuted—echoes of China’s cultural intervention in our world, anyone?). The Santas—and now elves, and pandas—storm cities drinking steadily in various bars. By the end of SantaCon, thus, little children (this happened to our family) get to witness Santas vomiting at scale in the street, or engaging in corny super-drunk public sex jokes.
I could go on, but there you are. It’s a slow war.
I remember the purity, the clarity of the energies around us all at Christmases before this war.
How people would grow more gentle; how their faces would soften as they counted out change for a customer at a grocery store. “Merry Christmas!” we would call to one another. Who cares what religion we were? It was Christmas for all of us. No one owned Christmas.
How could the energies around us not have purified, softened, and uplifted us all? I’ve shared how aware I was of “energies” as a child, and even, I am sometimes sorry to admit, to this day. I realized when I was five, that the Christmas Spirit was called forth by the thoughts of the people.
How could all of those people thinking all day, consciously or not, of a baby who had been born to save the world from itself—of a holy star sent to guide us even in the middle of the darkest part of our winter—of animals and strangers and kings recognizing that someone so small and vulnerable had been sent in fact to rescue us—not have made for the Christmas miracle?
How could all of those thoughts, not have made us all kinder, sweeter, more hopeful?
I remember in January, when the trees were thrown out onto the streets, naked now, and the decorations were taken down, that the sour mood of adults in ordinary life returned to the world. Christmas was over.
And I would wonder at this, because I understood what I had lived through in December. “Didn’t they realize?” I asked myself as I watched. Christmas never had to be over.
It was up to them.
Didn’t they understand that the magic was not just something that came and went... it was not caused by the decorations or the gifts; didn’t they understand that they had created the magic? Did they not realize that they had accomplished this feat by thinking those sweet thoughts—by singing those uplifting songs—by elevating their attention—together?
No—year after year, the adults took down the decorations, and it was over; and they did not realize that Christmas never needed to end.
Lastly, I want to speak to this dangerous notion—emblematized by the metastasis of “Merry Christmas!” to the fearful, euphemistic “Happy Holidays!”—that your Christmas, your proud, happy, eager, delighted, full-blown public Christmas, somehow offends or erases me, a non-Christian.
This notion—that one’s sense of self is so fragile that others’ cultural or religious expression alone can damage it—is the neo-Marxist theoretical basis for the wholesale targeting of Western culture, as I have said before.
When I was a child, I never felt that the overt, uncensored, exuberant celebration of Christmas, by the Christians around me, diminished Jewish little me, one bit.
I felt enriched by it.
I knew I was a Jewish child, and that this was not our holiday. So what?
I got to have the happiness and wonder of watching it all, and of sharing in the warmth of it; we did not need to be Christian—we did not need to have a tree at home or to open Christmas presents—to get joy from the religious expression of others.
I got to learn about a story of hope and redemption; about a society that was changed when mortal kings bowed down to a baby; kings who had visited a poor woman who herself could find no room in an inn.
Those were not just Christian values. They were Western values. They thus included me, and I knew it. That story was part of my story, as a Western child, and I got to inherit pride in those values too.
If anything, experiencing and reveling in these differences among my friends and classmates, strengthened my identity as a Jewish child. I learned what I was not, and I also learned what I was. How does others’ culture or religious expression “erase” an identity? Identities are not like drops of water, so fragile that they lose all shape when anything touches them.
We had our own thing, and it was awesome too. Christian friends who learned about Hanukkah got the chance to learn about other wonderful values from another extraordinary story that had influenced the West; about courage, about facing the greatest empire of the time and bringing it to heel against all odds, about miracles.
How would learning about the Hanukkah story make any Christian child less Christian, or offend anyone? We were sharing our values too. All of that sharing of religious difference, as our Founders knew in their wisdom, simply adds to America’s blessedness and richness.
This illogical, childish notion—that asserting a cultural or religious identity somehow by definition offends or diminishes or erases anyone else’s—has to be consigned to the garbage heap of history’s most pernicious ideas.
This premise will leave our culture a parking lot with a quarantine camp attached, as I have said before. And that is exactly its intention.
This premise is China’s and the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) way of making us all ashamed of ourselves, so that we never have transcendence again—and so our kids have no idea what Western—or American—values, really are.
The WEF and China know what they are doing. Bring on the barfing Santas, and bring on the Christmas Pandas. Close the Nativity plays in British schools. Bring on “The Great British Bake Off” characters and the moment’s celebrities, instead.
And for heaven’s sake, don’t mention that little child who began it all.
How will children of any religion or background, raised on “binging Christmas” and vomiting Santas, almost ignorant of the story of a baby in a manger, really feel what Christmas really brings: this elevation in consciousness?
Eventually the Western religious celebrations of this season—that energy that redeems and saves us from the deepest, scariest winter—will be the faintest and most marginalized of memories, for the generations to come.
But no one will notice what is really happening, or understand—or care.
So let us fight these plans too that the demons of our era, have for us. ACLU vs. Allegheny was decided wrongly.
We need to honor and remember the terms of our Constitution, and strengthen ourselves in our current life-and-death fight against the “globalist neo-Marxists,” by refusing to let our free expression of religion, be silenced.
Bring on the not-drunk Santas. Bring on the cookies. Release the carolers. Put the golden stars of the past, over the crosswalks. Raise up your giant menorahs.
Haul out your creches. Put them on your lawns. I won’t sue you.
Turn up “Hark the Herald Angels Sing.”
I am not offended at all. You make me richer, and I make you richer.
Whoever you are, however you worship, please honor our Founders by expressing your religion freely out in the open without fear in exactly the way you choose.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/i-remember-the-real-christmas-5555798
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http://dissectleft.blogspot.com (DISSECTING LEFTISM)
http://edwatch.blogspot.com (EDUCATION WATCH)
http://antigreen.blogspot.com (GREENIE WATCH)
http://australian-politics.blogspot.com (AUSTRALIAN POLITICS)
http://snorphty.blogspot.com/ (TONGUE-TIED)
http://jonjayray.com/blogall.html More blogs
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