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Health - Wellness - Exercise - Reflections:
Exercise Euphoria: The Feel-Good Factor

By Jennifer Gruenemay, ACE-Certified, September 29, 2011

Why is it that you can come up with every excuse in the book to avoid exercise, but once you finally do it you feel great? Wouldn't that so-called "runner's high" make you want to come back for more? For those who do keep coming back for more punishment, it's because exercise really can act like a drug. What do exercise and drugs have in common? More than you might have thought, actually. Exercise triggers the release of "feel good" hormones, such as endorphins, that mimic the feel-good effects of taking drugs.

A joint study through Georgia Tech and the University of California, Irvine found that the body releases cannabinoids post-exercise. Canabiwhats, you say? Forget the pronunciation... the important thing is these compounds, which are in the same chemical family as the substances that give marijuana users a high, are what make you feel so good after exercise.

This could also explain why some people seem to become addicted to exercise. But you don't have to be in tip-top shape to feel the effects of an exercise high. You just have to complete at least 20 minutes of aerobic exercise, such as walking, swimming, running, or playing sports. Yes, the first 5-10 minutes of exercise don't feel that great, but keep moving – you'll feel great soon enough. Every time you exercise, you'll feel better and better about your body and your ability to get in shape. So stick with it and soon enough exercise will be your drug of choice – and hey, it's legal.
Take Action:
  • Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a French commercial by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Imagine - Bill O'Reilly compares Gays to Al-Qaida! Boycott Fox's Owner "Rupert Murcoch" and get him thrown in jail for illegal - political donations, corruption, greed, bribery, hacking!
  • Boycott Target, Best Buy, Gold's Gym - for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations. Update: (12/26/2010): Target is continuing to donate to anti-gay groups/causes/politicians. Update 03/08/11 - Lady Gaga Ends Target Partnership, Reportedly Over Target's Poor LGBT Stance. Update 3/25/2010 - Target displays their hypocrisy and Sues California Gay Rights Group for Lobbying Outside Stores. Target is attempting to block the LGBT right of free speech! STOP SHOPPING AT TARGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Update 4/8/2011: Target lost its case to stop the LGBT from canvassing in front of their stores. A huge PR Disaster for TARGET! Perhaps Target should go out of business as they betrayed their investers and customer base. Target contributed massive funds to a politician who would like to exterminate gays. Now, Target can not stop us from Boycotting them, nor picketing, nor talking to customers near their stores; although, Target allows a anti-gay company such as the Salvation Army to stand outside their door and speak with customers and raise money. Isn't this a double standard?
  • End DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). Prevents Federal employees and Gays in the Military from gaining equal benefits. Prevents Gay Partners from gaining equal benefits.
  • Pass ENDA (Employee Non-Discrimination Act). ENDA would prevent employment discrimination of LGBT workforce.
  • Boycott Salvation Army as they will not hire Gays! "DO NOT DONATE TO THEM."
  • BOYCOTT "Chick-fil-a" for donating money to anti-gay groups.
  • BOYCOTT KOCH INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS- to include their products: Angel Soft toilet paper / Brawny paper towels / Dixie plates, bowls, napkins & cups / Mardi Gras napkins and towels / Quilted Northern toilet paper / Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper / Sparkle napkins / Vanity fair napkins / Zee napkins / Georgia-Pacific paper products & envelopes / All Georgia-Pacific lumber & building products (INVISTA Products) / Lycra / Stainmaster Carpet. The billionaire - Koch brothers are ultra republican - tea bag founders/supporters that do not support causes of the LGBT community.
  • Boycott WALMART - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, force criticized Wal-Mart for denying employee benefits to same-s-x partners and for failing to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. By comparison, the group said two other chain stores with a strong presence in New York, Costco and Walgreens, did much better.
  • "Tune Out Trump", Boycott all Trump Hotel, casinos, holdings, The Apprentice and NBC Network! At CPAC, Trump said he is considering a run for president as a Republican. In a interview with the Des Moines Register, Trump added that he opposes all forms of legal recognition for gay couples, not just marriage. "They should not be able to marry," he said. So why does NBC keep the Apprentice when Donald Trump has stated he may run for president? After making racist remarks about Obama and recv'g public backlash, Trump decided not to run for president after NBC renewed his awful TV Show. How can NBC re-new the clown's show after he pulled such hateful shenanigans? Boycott NBC! Boycott advertisers of The Apprentice and Trump's other business's. Don't shop at any bullding with Donald Trump's name to include Trump Hotels, Casinos, Condo's, Offices, Shops! The Donald has expressed extreme Hatred towards gays and blacks with his birther remarks and anti-gay rhetoric. Remember how poorly Trump treated Rosie O'Donnel? Now we know why he did that! It was hate against a lesbian as we now know he is biget. Unforgiveable! Again, Dump NBC because they air/re-newed Donald Trump's "The Apprentice"! Now the Donald Claims the Long Form Birth certificate is a fraud. And NBC keeps this guy?
  • Boycott Georgia for Execution of Troy Davis @ 11:08 EST, Sep 21, 2011:
    Former US President and Former GA Gov. Jimmy Carter felt that TROY DAVIS should not be executed and deserved a re-trial. The Former Director of the FBI feels that TROY DAVIS Was Not Guilty! Do not drive through Goergia as it is dangerous. Do not fly via Atlanta. Do not travel to GA. TELL YOUR COMPANY NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CONVENTION IN GA! "Georgia Executes Innocent People!"

And Now, Our War of the Fittest!

This group is called "Peckers Pics." The English - slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health, Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues. In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!" Whereas, you should select the "Guy" that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit!" Warning: This may stoke you!
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It's Time for Obama to Advance Equality in the Workplace
Kerry Eleveld - Huffington Post - Sep 28, 2011

President Barack Obama scored a big win with the certification of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" repeal last week, but LGBT Americans are still hungry to hear what's up next on his equality agenda as he prepares to address the Human Rights Campaign dinner this Saturday, Oct. 1.

When I interviewed President Obama last December and tried to draw him out on his road map, he spent a good bit of time talking about the changes he could make by utilizing his executive authority even though the House of Representatives would be in hostile GOP hands.

"[L]et me just say there are still a lot of things we can do administratively even if we don't pass things legislatively," Obama told me. "So my ability to make sure that the federal government is an employer that treats gays and lesbians fairly, that's something I can do, and sets a model for folks across the board."

But since that interview, the president has not issued a single executive order that would advance equality, despite repeated calls for him to do so.

One obvious place to start would be to prohibit discrimination in the military based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It is true that gay and lesbian soldiers are no longer at risk for being discharged because of who they love, but they do not receive equal benefits if they have a partner, and they have no means of legal recourse if they are, for instance, passed over for a promotion because of their sexual orientation.

Pentagon officials have expressly opted out of writing lesbian and gay service members into their nondiscrimination regulations, and addressing that concern is unfinished business as far as repeal is concerned. The president has the power to right that wrong by providing a remedy.

Another area that is crying out for presidential leadership is private-sector anti-discrimination policies.

During the 2008 campaign, candidate Obama said he would lobby Congress to pass a law protecting LGBT people against job bias -- legislation known as the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). But at our December interview, the president said he had not pushed ENDA in the last Congress because his administration had been "focusing on" repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Since the employment measure is now DOA in the Republican-led House, President Obama could substantially expand the federal government's role in fostering a fairer and more equitable workplace for LGBT Americans by mandating that the U.S. government only contract with private companies that provide anti-discrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.

It would be a bold move with sweeping implications. While LGBT federal employees already enjoy such protections, they comprise only 1.4 percent of the nation's workers, according to the Partnership for Public Service. Federal contractors, by contrast, employ approximately 22 percent of the American workforce, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

But the administration, which has aggressively courted the business community following reforms in health care and on Wall Street, seems reluctant to upset the corporate apple cart with more regulations heading into the 2012 election cycle.

In fact, President Obama intensified his corporate charm offensive at the outset of the year with the appointments of former JP Morgan executive Bill Daley as his chief of staff and GE President Jeffrey Immelt to head his presidential Council on Jobs and Competitiveness -- an initiative Obama created via executive order. He also gave a major address to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which dumped about $33 million into the 2010 election cycle. And just recently, President Obama stroked the business community and incensed environmental activists by pulling back on regulations designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions that were recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Nonetheless, as the year has progressed, the concept of taking executive action to prohibit LGBT job bias among federal contractors has increasingly gained steam with advocates and Congressional leaders following the demise of ENDA. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi backs it, and Sen. Tom Harkin, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, said he would "strongly support" an executive order.

"Everyone deserves a fair chance to earn a good living, judged by their talent, ability and qualifications free from discrimination," Harkin told the Washington Blade earlier this year.

The necessity of setting that example at the federal level has been brought into stark relief on several occasions this year.

In May, Tennessee state lawmakers voted to reverse a Nashville measure that would have required city contractors to provide LGBT protections to their employees. When Governor Bill Haslam signed the bill, he said he was ultimately motivated to nullify the Nashville ordinance because it had exceeded protections mandated by the federal government.

"In this case, we were going beyond what the federal requirements were," Haslam said, offering his rationale for approving legislation that clearly targeted LGBT people.

It was a heartbreaker for activists who live in the Volunteer State after what had seemed like a rare advancement for equality.

 "We are in a red state usually controlled by Republicans, or anti-gay Democrats, and we really have no chance of being on the offense and winning anything at the state or local level," Tommy Simmons, a gay activist in Memphis, told me, adding that he was pleased that the Nashville Metro Council had originally succeeded in adding the protections. But ultimately, "this has to be won at the national level," Simmons said, referring to legislation like ENDA.

Another middle-American city that could benefit from an example set by bold federal leadership is Holland, Mich., which President Obama visited just last month to discuss job creation. In June, the Holland City Council fell just one vote short of enacting a measure that, among other things, would have prohibited employment discrimination against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Ever since the vote, equality activists in this conservative enclave of Western Michigan have been staging regular demonstrations at Holland's City Hall to protest the city council's vote.

 Although many cities and states across the nation have enacted laws protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers against bias, providing basic fairness continues to be the exception rather the rule. Gays can still be fired in 29 states, and 35 states allow transgender individuals to be summarily dismissed without a means of legal recourse. Sadly, recent polling from the Center for American Progress shows that 90 percent of Americans believe federal protections already exist for LGBT workers, even as legislation that would provide relief has continued to languish for more than 35 years.

Executive orders not only carry the force of law, they also articulate a national ideal expressed by our country's chief executive that is often emulated by state and local governments and even adopted by Congress itself. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first initiated the idea of barring discrimination among federal contractors via executive order in 1941 and Congress eventually codified it into federal law with Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits employment discrimination among entities nationwide based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

By taking executive action that would require federal contractors to safeguard their LGBT employees against discrimination, President Obama could proactively protect a vulnerable minority and set the nation on the same trajectory toward justice that FDR did 70 years ago. The question is, will he take it?
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OCCUPY WALL STREET:
 
 
Michael Moore On Occupy Wall Street: We're The Majority, `Never Forget That'
by Alex Alvarez - September 28th, 2011 - Mediaite

Filmmaker Michael Moore, who continues his vigil at the ongoing Occupy Wall Street protest in lower Manhattan, dropped in on The Last Word to let host Lawrence O'Donnell know how things are going.
 
Moore kicked things off by giving a synopsis of what the protest is not about:
 
We're not down here to support Senate bill 2567. We're beyond that. They had their chance a long time ago to try and fix this. They didn't fix it because they're in the pocket of these people down here on Wall Street. So this is not about supporting some piece of legislation or "let's get behind some politician."
 
"It's not about `policy wonkness' or `Beltway bullshit,'" he continued, to the delighted soundless clapping of those around him. He also noted that he cannot believe he lives in a country where people on Wall Street haven't had to face a single arrest while 100 peaceful protesters are arrested.

 "Well, you live in a country where that kind of thing has to be protested and is being protested," offered O'Donnell. He then turned the conversation over to a question he'd received on Twitter -- a question that many have had since the protest's inception: "I wonder if mmoore could articulate some specific, tangible goals 4 this protest, as I've yet 2 hear any & really would like to." Indeed, @leenie909!
 
Moore said that this protest is unlike others because "there's no membership form, there's no one person who comes in here and says `Now this is our agenda and this is the way it ought to be!"

He also added that there were a whole variety of Americans participating (even "Ron Paul people"), and that they had strength in numbers:
 
This is our country. We're the majority. The majority. We're the majority. Never forget that, that the people who work for a living in this country, we are the people. Not the people up here who are taking people's pensions and their bank accounts and ruining it and destroying their lives. They are not running this country anymore. They think they are, but that's gonna come to an end right now.
 
Have a look at the video, via MSNBC. And please take note of the "Fox News camera person" behind Moore:

Video:
http://videos.mediaite.com/embed/player/?layout=&playlist_cid=&media_type=video&content=D2S7891GLVHB1JJV&read_more=1&widget_type_cid=svp


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