Donna Reed is Missing or Dead-Part One

Growing up in the 1950's, I watched vintage television and viewed a bunch of shows that tried to portray just what a "real woman" should be. A present day article in the New York Times focusing on unwed mothers who are causing the rising inequality had me travelling back to the good old days of the 50's T. V. moms. The author of the article compared a married, college educated woman's circumstances to those of a single mother of three. Wow, the New York Times shows us what many would say are the results of "poor choices" and failure for those who don't adhere to "Christian values". Take a moment and relive "those thrilling days of yesteryear".

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Be A Weight Loss Winner

Anyone who's tried to lose weight knows it's not a piece of cake. But, as with everything, we can learn from others and their successes. One of the things I love about attending Weight Watcher meetings is hearing from others who have gone through the process and succeeded. It let's me know I can reach my weight loss goal.

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Swaying Elections: If Felons Could Vote...

According to a Daily Beast report, a record 5.85 million convicted felons aren’t allowed to vote, according to a report out today (PDF) by The Sentencing Project, a criminal justice research and advocacy group. That’s about 500,000 more than were disenfranchised in 2004—and potentially enough to decide this year’s tightly-contested presidential election.

By some estimates, the election could be decided by a margin of roughly two points, or a mere 2.5 million people. The disenfranchised felon voting block is “absolutely enough” to swing an election, says Sasha Abramsky, author of Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House.

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YO-YO: Women and Minorities Going Backward

Comic Jimmie "JJ" Walker slamming President Obama and implying that Blacks vote based on race raises my blood pressure. He must agree with the folks in the Hamptons who paid $30,000 per person to attend a fundraiser for Mitt Romney and managed to get media attention to their views that Blacks are less educated, don't understand our (political) system and therefore don't know how to vote on the issues. Resegregation, racial profiling, increasing crime rates, in adequate public schooling, voter suppression, increasing incarceration- so many issues tell me that unless we make good decisions in Election 2012, women and minorities are going backward and YO-YO (you're on your own).

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Hear-Act-Learn-Treat (HALT) Tuberculosis

There are many lung diseases out in the world, but few are as deadly to the body as Pulmonary Tuberculosis. This disease on average kills 3 million people every year, and has infected almost a third of the human population. In 2010, it infected almost 9 million people, and was a factor to over 15 million deaths in the U.S alone. If caught soon enough, then the symptoms could be killed off with some medicines.  If not, then you will have to take them for a longer period of time, around six months to be exact. The disease is easily preventable and treatment isn’t too rough on your body either.

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