Stoked to get my own Google #

Alrighty, goog... go ahead and release this outside of Grand Central at your earliest convenience! I'm sold on the idea.

Uplifting Message Worth Watching!

Take 6 minutes to listen to this beautiful counsel. This man is one I greatly admire.

If you want a wonderful book to read, I stongly recommend his personal memoirs titled "Yearning for the Living God." Here is a link to my Goodreads review.

Healthcare Petition

Having lived in a country with socialized medicine for a couple of years (and visiting with numerous folks during that time who were or had be hospitalized), I firmly believe that the plan being advocated by the current presidential administration is misleading and a bad road for our country to be led down. Please check out this link and add your support if you agree: Healthcare Petition - Bob Bennett for Senate

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Ooo... the time may be right!

I've been dreaming about it now for over a decade... while the dream has morphed a bit from this:

... to this:

the fact remains, I've been wanting to add another type of "bike" to my 2-wheel collection. And I think I just found justification! A tax right-off ought to be incentive, right? NOW my only problem is finding 20-grand that is not needed for far more important purposes. :) Any ideas?

Master Cleanse - Follow Up

I saw this article today in a Health.com email that was sent to all employees at work. They send one every month and I usually delete them; but since I have first-hand experience with "the Cleanse," I couldn't help reading this one.

After reading this article, I felt compelled to put a short blog post in with a link to the article. It was spot on, in my opinion. My experience was very similar, and my after-opinion is like-minded; fasting from solids for a couple of days on occasion is good, if done properly. The salt water, herbal laxative, lemon juice and maple syrup combo just does NOT seem to bode well with the body.

Give it a read! Axious to hear your thoughts if you are familiar with the topic or have heard about it. http://diet.health.com/2009/06/22/i-survived-the-master-cleanse-then-gained-all-the-weight-back/

A Timid Advocate of Freedom

A Timid Advocate of Freedom
President Obama has failed his early foreign-policy tests.
By Mitt Romney

At last week's Summit of the Americas, President Obama acquiesced to a 50-minute attack on America as terroristic, expansionist, and interventionist from Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega. His response to Ortega's denunciation of our effort to free Cuba from Castro's dictatorship was that he shouldn't be blamed "for things that happened when I was three months old." Blamed? Hundreds of men, including Americans, bravely fought and died for Cuba's freedom, heeding the call from newly elected president John F. Kennedy. But last week, even as American soldiers sacrificed blood in Afghanistan and Iraq to defend liberty, President Obama shrank from defending liberty here in the Americas.

In his first press interview as president, he confessed to Arabic television that America had "dictated" to other nations. No, Mr. President, America has fought to free other nations from dictators. And in Strasbourg, the president further claimed that America has "showed arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." London's Daily Telegraph observed that President Obama "went further than any United States president in history in criticizing his own country's action while standing on foreign soil." Of course, it was not just the Daily Telegraph that was listening: People around the world who yearn for freedom, who count on America's resolve and support, heard him as well. He was heard in China, in Tibet, in Sudan, in Burma, and, yes, in Cuba.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire. It was the same confidence that had been ignited decades earlier when John F. Kennedy declared to a people surrounded by Communism that they were not alone. "We are all Berliners," he said, because "freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free." Franklin Delano Roosevelt's confident commitment, spoken as he led us into the war that would free millions in Europe, inspired not only Americans but freedom fighters around the globe: "The American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory." Such words of solidarity, of confidence, and of unwavering conviction that America is indeed "the last best hope on earth" are what freedom's friends would have expected to hear from our president when our nation was slandered. Instead he offered silence, smiles, and a handshake.

Even more troubling than what he has or has not said is what he has not done. Kim Jong Il launched a long-range missile on the very day President Obama addressed the world about the peril of nuclear proliferation. As one of the world's most oppressive and tyrannical regimes is on the brink of securing the "game changing" capability to reach American shores with a nuclear weapon, the president shrinks from action: no seizure of North Korean funds, no severance of banking access, no blockade.

Not to be outdone by Kim Jong Il, President Ahmadinejad announced that his nation has successfully mastered every step necessary to enrich uranium, violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty it has signed. So, like North Korea, Iran will have changed the world's equation for peace and security: It will be capable of devastating Europe and America, and of annihilating Israel. And as with North Korea, the Obama administration chooses inaction - no new severe sanctions, no hint of military options. Ahmadinejad can act with confidence that the forceful options once on our proverbial table have been shelved.

Vice President Biden was right that the new president would be tested early in his administration. What the world learned was not good news for freedom and democracy. The leader of the free world has been a timid advocate of freedom at best. And bold action to blunt the advances of tyrants has been wholly lacking. We are still very early in the Obama years - the president will have ample opportunity to defend America and freedom, and to deter nuclear brinkmanship. I am hoping for change.

- Mitt Romney, formerly the governor of Massachusetts, was a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.

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3430

Huh? What does that number mean? Well, for me, it is a recent accomplishment! I just bought a new pair of jeans. Been needin' some for a while. Last summer, I graduated back down to a 36 inch waist size in clothes. Well, after some more diligent eating (and I credit a couple of weeks of bike commuting), I just bought size 34W 30L jeans for the first time since HIGH SCHOOL! Yeah!

It feels great to be in better shape than I have been in a while, but it only fuels my fire. I really want to keep going. In fact, nutrition truly has become a new favorite topic for me, one that I can't see myself losing interest in anytime soon.