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tortoise

Slow and steady wins the race.

About Me

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My Interests

Snowboarding, skateboarding, raw vegan nutrition, computer science, mathematics, history, the traditional Catholic Faith.

I'd like to meet:

St. Jerome

Music:

Buddy Holly, Blackhawk, Sara Evans

Movies:

Frequency, Braveheart, Gleaming The Cube, Cinderella Man, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Mr. Deeds Goes To Town

Television:

Name a single objectively good TV show. Right, that's why i don't watch TV. Smallville I enjoy, that's about it.

Books:

All Hilaire Belloc books, G.K. Chesterton, C.S. Lewis

Heroes:

All of the Church Triumphant

My Blog

A Raw Recipe for Yall

I've been asked in messages to give an idea of what I eat. Here's a soup I enjoyed tonight.Tortoise's Creamy Sweet Spinach SoupIngredients2 pint baskets of yellow teardrop tomatoes2 peachesAlmost one...
Posted by tortoise on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:47:00 PST

The amazing self healing human body, A Laugh, and our skoolz

Hi all, I thought some of you may be interested in this news story. It is one of the few uplifting stories in the news. It serves as a good reminder how powerful our self-healing system, the human b...
Posted by tortoise on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:20:00 PST

Back online - your friendly neighborhood raw plant eater

Hi all, this is a quick note to my friends to let you know I'm back on myspace, occasionally at least. I had not logged in since early July, until last night. I hope everyone is well and if you had ...
Posted by tortoise on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:46:00 PST

Ron Paul excluded from Iowa Forum, but we can make a difference!

Ron Paul Excluded in Iowa Forum !!!To those that think, "I can't do anything to change things...", please do not despair. A few months ago, Ron Paul was the only candidate not on the post-debate poll...
Posted by tortoise on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:06:00 PST

How many of you have heard of Ron Paul?

If so, did you hear about him first online or offline? The Internet has had a flurry of activity over the weekend from Ron Paul supporters who were outraged over ABC News' biased poll which did not i...
Posted by tortoise on Mon, 07 May 2007 02:01:00 PST

Do you know the difference? Republic vs. Democracy

This is a repost of an excellent entry found on the Bill of Rights Blog:Bill of Rights MyspaceI keep seeing & hearing the word Democracy and I wonder, do you know our founding fathers had no intent fo...
Posted by tortoise on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:34:00 PST

Ten Signs You Might Be A Raw Plant Food Eater And Enjoying It

1) You don't need gas for cooking, and if you live in a warm climate, you don't have to pay for gas at all anymore.2) When you are following a healthy lifestyle, other people don't have to pay for you...
Posted by tortoise on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:13:00 PST

Your rights: Juries can judge both law AND facts, not just facts.

Remember, if you are ever on a jury, you have the right to judge not only the facts of the case, but the law as well. This means that if the "law" ("code" today really) seems wrong to you, you may acq...
Posted by tortoise on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:25:00 PST

A Defense of a Raw Food Diet by Dr. Douglas Graham

Dr. Andrew Weil is a proponent of alternative medicine and recently came out againsta "raw food" diet. However, just as there are many cooked food diets, there are different raw food diets. Of which...
Posted by tortoise on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:31:00 PST

Ohio Journal of Science - On cooking food - in 1933!

"...cooking renders food pasty, so that it sticks to the teeth, and undergoes acid fermentation. Furthermore, the cooking of food greatly diminishes the need for use of the teeth; and thus tends to di...
Posted by tortoise on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:06:00 PST