Monday, February 27, 2012

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Health, Wellness, Exercise, Reflections:
What Door Will You Choose?

By John H. Sklare, Ed.D / February 24, 2012

If you are serious about wanting to bring healthy living into your life, you must be more mindful about the daily choices you make. There are simply too many people who want the benefits and results of living a healthy life but fall short by making unhealthy choices each day.

For example, there are basically two choices when you are confronted with an eating decision. Choose healthy and you find yourself feeling one way, whereas, choose unhealthy, and you feel an entirely different way.

I was thinking about this the other day when it occurred to me that every health choice you make is a lot like opening a door. Some doors lead you to a new and healthier life, and some doors lead you to more of the same life you have been living. With that in mind, let me offer you an idea that may help you choose the healthy option more often.

Each time you are confronted with a choice regarding nutrition or exercise, let each option represent a door. If you open up the healthy living door, you spirit is lifted, your body is grateful and you close the gap between who you are and who you want to be. On the other hand, if you choose the unhealthy door, you feel your spirit sink, your body aches and you reinforce unhealthy habits from the past. Give this little mental imagery idea a chance to work for you, and see if it doesn't help you choose wisely more often.

Awareness is the key to change, and this new way of looking at your health choices may be just what the doctor ordered. So just consider me your wellness doorman as I ask you, what door will you choose today?
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! Further, Boycott Fox's Owner "Rupert Murcoch" and get him thrown in jail for illegal - Take Action:
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  • 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 a LGBT friendly 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."
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  • Boycott WALMART - The National Gay and Lesbian Task 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 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 felt that TROY DAVIS Was Not Guilty! Do not drive through Goergia as it is dangerous. Do not fly via Atlanta. For your safety -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 "Male Athlete" that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit!" Warning: This may stoke you!
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As Gay Marriage Gains Ground in Nation, New Hampshire May Revoke Its Law
By ABBY GOODNOUGH / February 27, 2012 / New York Times

As same-sex marriage supporters celebrate victories in Washington and Maryland this month, they are keeping a wary eye on New Hampshire, where lawmakers may soon vote to repeal the state's two-year-old law allowing gay couples to wed.

A repeal bill appears to have a good chance of passing in the State House and Senate, which are both controlled by Republicans. The bigger question is whether they can muster enough votes to overcome a promised veto from Gov. John Lynch, a Democrat.

Based on party lines, House and Senate Republicans both have veto-proof majorities. But this is an issue where party allegiance gets muddy.

In a state whose "Live Free or Die" motto figures into many a policy decision, even many opponents of same-sex marriage wish the issue would just disappear. Republican lawmakers with libertarian leanings, a sizable group, seem especially unhappy to be facing a repeal vote, as well as those who maintain that cutting spending should be the legislature's sole concern. Both groups appear worried about a backlash from their constituents.

Representative Andrew Manuse, a Republican, said in an e-mail that he would support a repeal because he objected to government "using its power to redefine a religious, social and societal institution." But he added, "I really am not focusing on this issue."

Should the repeal pass, New Hampshire would be the first state in which a legislature has reversed itself on the issue of same-sex marriage. In Maine, voters repealed a marriage law through a referendum in November 2009, shortly after the Legislature approved it. This fall, a ballot initiative will ask voters to make same-sex marriage legal again. The California Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that same-sex couples there had a right to marry, but voters banned same-sex marriage in an initiative later that year. The issue remains in court.

In a recent poll by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, 59 percent of respondents were either strongly or somewhat opposed to repealing the law, while 32 percent said they supported repeal.

Representative David Bates, a Republican, filed the repeal bill in January 2011, shortly after Republicans took control of the legislature. But House leaders postponed a vote, saying they needed to focus on the budget. Under legislative rules, the bill must come up for a vote this year, although lawmakers could vote to table it again.

A House vote would need to take place by March 29, the deadline for the House to send its legislation to the Senate. Mr. Bates said Monday that he was working on ways to broaden the bill's support in both chambers, like changing or removing a sentence that states, "Children can only be conceived naturally through copulation by heterosexual couples."

"I recognize there's things in it that some aren't happy with," he said, "so we're going to change it, get it to a place where as many people as possible are comfortable with it."

Mr. Bates dismissed the University of New Hampshire poll findings, saying, "It's just not credible to suggest the people of New Hampshire are the aberration of the nation."

A New York Times/CBS News poll conducted this month found that 40 percent of respondents supported same-sex marriage, while 23 percent supported civil unions for gay couples and 31 percent said there should be no legal recognition of a gay couple's relationship.

When New Hampshire became the sixth state to approve same-sex marriage, in 2009 -- following California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts and Vermont -- it was not an easy feat. The law passed with close votes in both chambers, which were then under Democratic control, and with last-minute support from Governor Lynch, who had preferred civil unions.

Since then, about 1,900 same-sex couples have wed in the state. The repeal bill would not invalidate those marriages, but would allow only civil unions for gay couples moving forward.

Same-sex couples can currently marry in Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont and the District of Columbia. Lawmakers in Washington State approved a same-sex marriage law this month, and Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland is poised to sign one this week, though opponents are seeking referendums to nullify both laws. New Jersey passed a similar bill this month as well, but Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, vetoed it.

Meanwhile, voters in Minnesota and North Carolina will decide in November whether to enact constitutional bans on same-sex marriage. Such bans already exist in about 30 states.

Mr. Bates said that if the repeal bill failed this year, he would not give up. Governor Lynch is leaving office at year's end, and both Republicans who have entered the race to succeed him support repeal.
 
But Representative Seth Cohn, a libertarian Republican who opposes the repeal, said he thought it would in fact harm the Republicans' chance of staying in power after 2012, whether or not it succeeds.
 
"They want this as an election issue," he said of the Democrats. "I think it's going to backlash against the Republicans who, in the face of the polls, are choosing not to believe the average person is O.K. with this situation."

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/28/us/gay-marriage-law-in-new-hampshire-may-be-revoked.html
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