Super Sunday Slimdown: Hoping to Avoid Getting Sick

This past week is a complete bust for exercise for me!  Major bummer.  My children have all been sick (most are completely better now).  Babygirl is still sick and now I feel like I'm starting to come down with it.  Have had a headache frequently for the past few days and wake up feeling run over by a truck.

I'm not sleeping very well, so that's probably not helping.

We're using essential oils, elderberry, and echinacea.  If you have any other suggestions, I'm willing to hear 'em!  :)

I sure hope to get back to my four walks next week!  I'll let you know how it goes.

How are you doing with your exercise plans?  I hope your past week has gone better than mine!!!

Mind Your Own Business

I've been told directly and indirectly and read that numerous people promote the idea of "minding one's own business."

What is that?  What is my business?  What fits the category as something that is "my" business?

I honestly wonder how it is that anyone can think that anything big, like laws, are not the business of all over whom they are supposed to 'control.'  A law, wether directed at me specifically, will impact my world - somehow.  It just will.

If you know anything about, say, The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child... then you know that, ultimately, my children are not even "my own business."  Aren't my children my business?  Shouldn't I have the right to raise them as I see fit (within reason: no abuse and other such wrong-ness)?  I really believe my children are my business.

So, what about my health?  Is that my business?  According to Codex Alimentarius... nope.  But to take a phrase coined for another area that I consider wrongness: "But it's my body!"  I really do think that my body is my business and the right and ability to care for it (and those of my children who literally came from my body) is my business.

Is the Constitution and upholding it my business?  Apparently, according to the liberals from whom I've heard: definitely not.  First, and foremost, I should not have the right to own automatic or semi-automatic weapons.  But the Constitution protects the citizen's right to own guns.  It does not stipulate kind.  And I believe our forefathers would suggest, as I do, that if the criminals have it, the law abiding citizen should be able to, also.  But if the right to own automatic-whatevers ends, when will the government stop trying to take that which our forefathers tried to guarantee you and me for our own protection... against the government?  When?  At what point?  Will the regular citizen be able to continue to own a handgun?  A shotgun?  A rifle?  What?  I think it's important that we all know their plan.  I really do.  Thus the status of gun rights is my business.

Those who promote "marriage equality" say that I need to get my heterosexual married self out of their business.  I need to stop promoting my agenda.  Ummm... I'm not the one trying to change the laws.  So, who is trying to advance whose own agenda?  Also, if homosexual marriage is legalized and recognized as the same things as a heterosexual marriage (and the gay people's/some liberals opinions and desires about marriage made law), there will come a time when such a recognized partnership will petition the courts to force the LDS church to allow them to be married in the Temple.  This is why "marriage equality" is my business.

Basically, I've been told to just shut up and mind my own business.  But, you see, I think if it has an impact on my world... well, then... it's my business.  Don't you???

To end, a quote: "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.  When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of American dies with it."  Edward R. Murrow

Call For Help with CODEX related Bills in the House, Petitions, and Something Interesting

A petition for you to sign. Also, I hope
you will make the time
to make phone calls to your Congressman
and/or Senators about these issues!

This is an excerpt of one petition: (CODEX related)
"We oppose all deceptive attempts to industrialize the food supply under the guise of "food safety." Current bills before Congress such as HR 2749, HR875, S425, HR759, etc., lack any producer protective language patterned after Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 USCsec 203(s)(2) and DSHEA protective language of the 2007 FDA act, Section 1011."



ANOTHER:
The RIGHT to Self-Shield (rather than be forced or jailed for refusing a vaccination that is not adequately tested).



ANOTHER: (CODEX related)
Letter asking our representatives to be co-sponsors and Support the Kucinich Bills. These Bills require labeling of Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs). This is important because GMOs are permanent: once their genes are allowed to mix with ours, with those of the bacteria in the soil and in our gut, with the DNA of our children, butterflies and weeds, other species of crops, and just about anything else in the food web, they cannot be put back.

In the second paragraph I changed some fuzzy wording that you might also want to address. In the original it said "The Precautionary Principle, in essence, hold agencies and countries to the standard that if something has not been shown to be safe, it cannot be used, grown, offered or sold." I changed the red word to: "a genetic alteration".

Quote from the letter:
Congressman Dennis Kuchinch has introduced three important bills to comprehensively regulate GMO products since they are virtually unregulated now. These bills are:

• H.R. 6636, The Genetically Engineered Food Right To Know Act, which would require mandatory labeling of all foods that contain or are produced with GM material. No such labeling is permitted at this time in the US.

• H.R. 6635, The Genetically Engineered Safety Act, which would require that GE foods follow a food safety review process to prevent contamination of food supplies by pharmaceutical and industrial crops. This Act would also require that the FDA screen all GE foods to ensure they are safe for human consumption. No such safety review is permitted at this time in the US.

• H.R. 6637, The Genetically Engineered Technology Farmer Protection Act, places liability from the impacts of GM crops on the biotechnology companies that created the GMOs, and protects farmers from lawsuits by biotechnology companies. No such liability exists at this time for pharmaceutical plants and animals once approval is granted by the acting agencies for the organism and the same is true for non drug modifications as well.



ANOTHER:
If you are AGAINST Obamacare, join me in signing THIS petition. Stand and be counted.




ANOTHER: (CODEX related)
Ask your Congressperson to support HR 2117. This is also known as The Health Freedom Protection Act!!!
"H. R. 2117 allows reasonable health claims, with proper disclosure language, "unless the Secretary determines that -- `(i) there is no scientific evidence that supports the claim; and `(ii) the claim is inherently misleading and incapable of being rendered non misleading through the addition of a disclaimer." Thus, even "a scintilla" of scientific evidence would allow the making of claims that Dietary Supplements may be of benefit to individuals. The requirements of the bill are consistent with the law that already governs the agency's position, announced in 2004, "FDA intends to apply a standard for substantiating claims for dietary supplements that is consistent with the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC's) standard for dietary supplements and other health related products of 'competent and reliable scientific evidence'."



ANOTHER: (CODEX related)
Citizen's Petition:
Please read this petition and determine if you are as firmly against the PRO CODEX position our government has taken. I definitely AM. I am for the right to choose to buy food that is NOT irradiated. I am for the right to choose to buy milk that has NO bovine growth hormone in it. Those are just two rights that will be removed by enforcing CODEX regulations as they are.



Contact your Congressperson(s). Just put your zip code in the top left to find the contact info you need.
Contact your Senator(s). Go to the pull down menu at the top right and find your state and their contact info.


the "Something Interesting"

Codex Alimentarius

Heaven help us if the Codex is implemented as intended. Currently, things are in place and lined up to do just that. We CAN do something about it, though. Please take the time to inform yourself. And if you don't much care about the specific issue, I hope you will realize that it needs standing against, otherwise this thing could be one of the many holes in the dike that cause the whole structure of our freedoms to break.

Part One of Five
This series is old (2005), but necessary information to understand the issue.



Part Two of Five



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Part Five of Five



Sign the petition!

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