For more than 30 years Lisa Rollins has been a part of upstate radio. Called the most calming, caring, conservative voice in radio, Lisa can see all sides of the issue, yet is never afraid to share her own personal opinion!
Posts from January 2013
BABY PERFUME! by Lisa Rollins,posted Jan 31 2013 12:00AM
Thereâs just something so wonderful about the smell of a baby; that sweet soft skin and special just made smell. I love it!
But have you heard about this? Dolce & Gabbana have announced a new perfume that is meant to enhance the natural scent of a baby. The scent -- which reportedly smells like citrus, honey and melon -- retails for $44. One perfume designer, Frederick Bouchardy, tells the blog Fashionista, "It's not just about a scent for a baby, but it's also a scent for an adult that's meant to be evocative of the scent of baby. I think it's supposed to be a shared experience -- mom and child are meant to smell the same." (Huffington Post)
Come on!!!!
Should a nursing home's efforts to take care of its residents extend to inviting prostitutes and strippers to offer their services? That's the question being asked after reports that British nursing home Chaseley Trust, which is located in a seaside mansion, is doing just that. Manager Helena Barrow told The Sun newspaper, "People have needs. We are there to help. We respect our residents as individuals so that's why we help this to happen. If we refused, we would not be delivering a holistic level of care." Barrow says the practice has the support of Chaseley's staff, who might otherwise be sexually harassed by the residents, some of whom are as young as 18 and have neurological conditions. She told the newspaper, "Most of the time, these are people who feel frustrated by a primeval need they cannot fulfill." The revelation has set off a nationwide debate in Britain over the rights of the disabled, and over the role of sex in assisted living facilities. Meanwhile, the local East Sussex County Council has started an investigation, with a spokesman telling The Inquisitr, "This has the potential to place vulnerable East Sussex residents at risk of exploitation and abuse." What do you think of this nursing home inviting prostitutes and strippers to offer their services to residents? How do you feel about Barrow's explanation that offering these services is part of a "holistic level of care," and that it helps to prevent sexual harassment of the staff? Is the right to sex something everyone is entitled to, therefore falling under the umbrella of rights to the disabled that they should be guaranteed?
A new study suggests a person's facebook profile may reveal signs of mental illness that may not be apparent in a session with a psychiatrist. For the study, researchers had 200-college students fill out questionnaires designed to evaluate their levels of extroversion, paranoia, enjoyment of social interactions and endorsement of strange beliefs. The students were then asked to log onto Facebook, and told they had the option of blacking-out certain parts of their profile before some of it was printed out for the researchers to examine. Researchers found that people who disliked social interactions in real-life usually had fewer Facebook friends and generally communicated on the social network less. They also found that students who took the option of blacking-out certain parts of their profiles were more likely to hold odd beliefs and exhibited higher levels of paranoia. (Fox News)
Remember Mark Sanford? The Republican governor of South Carolina whose staff famously said he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he disappeared for days in June 2009 when he was in reality with his mistress in Argentina? Sanford and his wife, the mother of his four children, divorced the following year, and he served out his term as governor ending in early 2011, falling off the radar after that. But Sanford has decided to try to make a political comeback, telling National Review's Jim Geraghty yesterday (January 15th) that he's going to run for the U.S. House seat that was vacated when current Republican Governor Nikki Haley appointed Rep. Tim Scott to replace fellow GOP Senator Jim DeMint, who recently left Congress to head the conservative Heritage Foundation. It's also the seat representing the First District that Sanford previously held, from 1995 to 2001, before being elected governor in 2002. Sanford told Geraghty, "In life we're all going to make mistakes, we're all going to come up short. The key is, how do you get back up and how do you learn from those mistakes? . . . But I think that the bigger issue is, don't judge any one person by their best day, don't judge them by their worst day. Look at the totality, the whole of their life, and make judgments accordingly." Sanford is currently engaged to the Argentinian woman with whom he had the affair.
What do YOU think...will he be re-elected to his old seat?
A noted Psychologist claims the results of a new study show that praising your child in an exaggerated manner might do more harm than good. Stephen Grosz, author of The Examined Life, says saying something to your child like, "you're so clever" might cause to be unhappy because they feel they cannot meet the false expectation. He recommends bestowing compliments less frequently and using phrases that acknowledge the child for "trying really hard." In the study, psychologists from Columbia University asked about 130 students between ages ten and 11 to solve a number of math problems. Afterwards, some kids were told they did very well and were very clever, while others were told they did very well and that they must've tried really hard. Both groups of children were then given more difficult problems to solve, and researcher found that children who were told they were clever did not do as well as the others. (Daily Mail)
I think that praising your child is of such great value that it can make or break their spirit! Itâs something all parents should do. Praise them from staying inside the lines while coloring, or for being creative and working outside the lines. Praise them for wearing matching clothes or for being brave enough to don stripes and checks.
Build them up! Many times, a parent is the ONLY one who will do so all day long!
Donât be afraid to praise them; kindness is far too often taken for granted! But then again, Iâm no psychologistâ¦just a loving and blessed mom and YaYa!
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A federal appeals court has ruled that a police officer cannot pull you over and arrest you just because you gave him the finger. The ruling comes after John Swartz and his wife sued two police officers after Swartz was arrested for flipping off an officer who was using a radar gun at an intersection in St. Johnsonville, New York. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that the "ancient gesture of insult is not the basis for a reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation or impending criminal activity." (Huffington Post)
In an emotional moment yesterday (January 3rd), Senator Mark Kirk returned to Congress just shy of 1 year since suffering a massive stroke that left him with limited movement on his left side and affected his speech, haltingly climbing the 45 steps to the Senate door at the Capitol.
As he readied for his triumphant return in recent days, Kirk has revealed that he saw angels when he woke up in a hospital's intensive care unit after the stroke.
The 53-year-old Illinois Republican told Chicago's Daily Herald that he saw three angels at the foot of his bed who asked him, "You want to come with us?" He said he answered, "No. I'll hold off." And in a quirky detail, he told NBC Chicago, "Interestingly, they had New York accents, probably because the last movie I'd seen . . . was the original Ocean's 11."
Polls have shown that significant percentages of Americans believe in angels. Are you one of them? If so, was there a particular experience that made you believe it? Do the many reports of near-death experiences boost belief for you in there being an afterlife?
In an emotional moment yesterday (January 3rd), Senator Mark Kirk returned to Congress just shy of 1 year since suffering a massive stroke that left him with limited movement on his left side and affected his speech, haltingly climbing the 45 steps to the Senate door at the Capitol.
As he readied for his triumphant return in recent days, Kirk has revealed that he saw angels when he woke up in a hospital's intensive care unit after the stroke.
The 53-year-old Illinois Republican told Chicago's Daily Herald that he saw three angels at the foot of his bed who asked him, "You want to come with us?" He said he answered, "No. I'll hold off." And in a quirky detail, he told NBC Chicago, "Interestingly, they had New York accents, probably because the last movie I'd seen . . . was the original Ocean's 11."
Polls have shown that significant percentages of Americans believe in angels. Are you one of them? If so, was there a particular experience that made you believe it? Do the many reports of near-death experiences boost belief for you in there being an afterlife?
In its 6th annual survey asking American adults which celebrities that would most and least like to live next door to, real estate website Zillow found that country music couple Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton were the most desired neighbors, and the cast of Here Comes Honey Boo Boo was the most dreaded. Overall, however, 45% say they wouldn't want to live next to any celebrity, the most by far, and up slightly from 42% last year.
As far as the Most Desirable Neighbors: they are Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton â 10%, Reese Witherspoon and Taylor Swift both have 9% each, Jon Stewart 8%, Beyonce and Jay-Z â 4% the same as Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel . And coming in with 2%; both Kristen Stewart and Justin Bieber.
Now, as far as the Least Desirable Neighbors: The Here Comes Honey Boo Boo cast â 21%, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West â 18%, Donald Trump â 12%, Lance Armstrong and Clint Eastwood both have 2%.
What do you think of who's on most and least desired celebrity neighbors list?
