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PAGE 4 - THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2013 Opinions expressed by writers on this page are their own and not necessarily those of The Georgia Post CODE OF ETHICS: Seek Truth & Report It - Minimize Harm - Act Independently - Be Accountable. Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe. — Thomas Jefferson Letters To The Editor Save Our Rights Editor, The Georgia Post: A friend mentioned that you might be interested in print ing this note for your readers. I often wonder how long the American people are going to continue allowing them selves to be disarmed on the streets, and be at the mercy of the criminal element. The irony of this situation is that the people disarming us are our own lying political and so-called ’community lead ers’, who are in violation of their oaths of office. Yet, they, and even the police continu ally restrict and confiscate our guns in many states, like California and New York across our country and thus disarm us so the criminals can kill us easier. Leaders who ignore our Constitution are de-facto domestic terrorists that must be removed from office and prosecuted by legal means. We must make our leaders understand that they must uphold our Constitution and preserve our rights to protect ourselves AND we must do so quickly - All concerned citizens should get politi cally active now and save our Constitutional gun rights for self- protection. Ed Nemecheck A Coup Is A Coup Editor, The Georgia Post: Gertrude Stein famously said, “A rose is a rose is a rose.” Anyone vaguely familiar with what’s going on in Egypt should agree that a coup is a coup is a coup. As defined by Webster, a coup is the same as a coup d’etat, which is “a sudden, forcible over-throw of a government.” That clearly describes what happened when the Egyptian army relieved Mohammed Morsi of his job as president. He and the Muslin Brother hood had been subverting the constitution. Regardless, a coup is a coup. And the administration should sus pend all aid to the country (as prescribed in law) until the Egyptians sort out their mess and have a legitimate govern ment. Robert L. Lehane Crime And Very The System Does Still Work Murders happen across the United States on a daily basis. Some horrific, some during burglaries, some in commit ting crime; many senseless. These do not make national news headlines. If the per petrator is caught and sen tenced, we do not hear about that either. Unborn babies are murdered and it is legal and there is no penalty or justice for the unborn. What makes these murders any less news than the Mar tin/Zimmerman case? What makes the lives of those who have been murdered any less important or devastating to their loved ones? Well, let’s see, the President inserted himself into it which brought more media attention, which brought out everyone else try ing to have a say in it. Now that the trial is over and done with, you are hearing even further about the Justice Dept, being asked to get involved because unless a verdict came down that some people agree with, those people can never be happy. Please give me a break. I am not weigh ing in on whether I agree or disagree with the verdict. However, there was a trial by jury. None of us sat on that jury every day of the trial so we do not know what the jury knows. I do know that to convict someone you must be convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt they are guilty of the crime for which they are charged. A jury has spoken. It should be over but you can bet that it won’t be at all. There are people sitting in prison today who were not guilty of the crime they committed but a jury found them guilty. There are people walking the streets who com mitted the crimes for which they were charged, yet a jury found them not guilty. The Justice system is not infal lible, the verdict may not always be right 100% of the time, but it does work. We could live in a society where, if accused of a crime, whether innocent or guilty, you could be murdered im mediately without recourse. We have movie stars, who by the way, have questionable lifestyles, weighing in on the case saying they are ashamed to be an American. First, those without any sin can cast the first stone and I don’t think anyone living fits that description. Secondly, my ad vice to them would be move to another country if you do not want to be an American. Yes, they can have an opinion but because a lot of the public place actors and actresses on a pedestal they have come to believe they have widespread influence. Not so, in my case. My daddy always told me they put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us! In fact, I have come to the conclusion that a lot of them have had some kind of Pay at a Time Victoria ’’Vicky” Simmons vsimmonsS4@gmail.com train surgery which causes them to lose all sense of right and wrong and any common sense they may have, at one time, possessed. My heart grieves for and I pray for the Zimmerman and Martin families. Each has their own cross to bear. The Martin family has a hole in their hearts that will never be filled. No verdict of any kind could replace the loss. The Zimmermans must live with the fact that a life was taken. A not guilty verdict does not change that fact. Why everything has to be come a racist issue is beyond my capacity to understand. Some even try to make such things a Democrat vs. Republican conflict. There are people without better things to do, who just sit with hatred in their hearts and wait until they can pounce on those issues which they think can become a big deal to cause discontent among the people. These people are per petuating racism, not hying to rid the world of it. When the government gets involved in these issues, you can bet it is to take attention off something major to which we should be paying more attention. Wishing you a blessed week. Little Punishment A Paleolithic Diet ? AMTiJMDWTWr.l T 1 ' J1 - J " "" M 9'W' W' 9? W' 9r W 9? W' ^ W' 9r RANT WARNING! I kinda wanted to get you prepared for the following. Actually, I thought I had better get my breathing under control. As this is indeed a rant, I ask your in dulgence on the whole let’s lead one thing to another, thing. Us ing bullets just didn’t do it for me and stream of consciousness seemed to work for keeping my blood pressure steady. Conviction of crimes should address punishment first and foremost and the entire sentence has been served; referrals to those in the business of reha bilitating should be provided. I think prisoners must have done more than watch a big screen TV and pump iron until they’re qualified to enter the Mr. Uni verse title before accessing the benefits of rehabilitation. There’s lots of room for punishment before ever getting anywhere near cruel or unusual punishment. Several people I fly this kind of stuffby have said this next bit is impossible for prisons to achieve. I think it’s a challenge worth taking. There are hard-working households who aren’t able to put enough food on the table to take care of their families; and not because they’ve exceeded their budget. There was a jail uprising a couple of years ago. The reason Of This & That Trenesia Y. Stubbs Columnist email:trenesia@pstel. net the prisoners were indignant was because they received cold-cut sandwiches instead of hot meals two days running. Exsqueeze me?! Meanwhile, there are families with chil dren for whom a nutritional diet would be helpful. Let’s let prisoners get a clue as to the consequences of crime. Paying for it is harsh. Hey, you may not want to do that in the future. Where’s the incentive to straighten up and fly right if not deprived of the benefits of freedom. Heck! It’s gotten so bad that—you guessed it—once again prisoners seem to have surpassed a portion of the non criminal citizenry in education. Mr. or Ms. Criminal is able to go to college and get a law CRIME, Page 7 The Paleo diet has gotten more attention lately and I believe it is in large part due to the explosion of chronic disease and obesity that seems to be directly connected to our modem day diet. Paleolithic to me is refer ring to the era before modem tools, agriculture, etc. which had a direct impact on what types of foods were easiest to gather for consumption. I do not believe in a further extension of this timeline that is claimed by some who use this era to extend a timeline beyond Adam. Many of these same people would probably be shaken in their belief system, if they would simply take a trip throughout the human anatomy to really understand why the gastrointestinal track, and the entire human anatomy responds so well to the same foods today that were foods thousands of years ago, such as vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds berries, eggs, meats from good sources, raw milk and other fermented dairy product. When I took my course in nutrition, I remem ber thinking of how unset tling this study of the human anatomy and physiology would be to an someone who believes that we evolved from anything less then the hands of a Master Architect who designed the human body to be synchronized with its surroundings and the foods produced there. It wasn’t until sometime in the past 100 years that having foods from another part of the country or even another part of the world were made possible by super fast logistics by corporations benefrtting from cheap foods produced in one area and then sold at a profit to another area, preserved, packaged, pro cessed and convenient to the end user! Back in the stone age people were forced to use a more convenient source of groceries, and that meant keeping it local. These were the hunter, gatherer days, and there was a lot of activity involved in “just being able to eat.” Fast food back then had the same thing in common with modem fast food in that it was fast and convenient but was a lot more nutritional then the fast food of our era. Death from trauma and infec tion would have been a much larger cause of death and chronic disease was prob ably not even considered a risk factor. When you have healthy foods and water (from local sources) combined with steady to high levels of activ ity it simply helps eliminate chronic disease as a risk fac tor for death. We don’t have to fully adopt this way of living, “it can be as simple as eating a few items listed below every day combined with some extra activity. Example foods: veg etables, fruits, lean meats, eggs, nuts and healthy oils. I like quality dairy product as a part of this and by the way dairy products are a good source of CLA which helps the body convert stored fat into energy). There are many foods that you can pick from in the nut, vegetable, fruit and lean meat categories so that you’ll always have something around that you like. You can go online and look up “Paleo Diet Foods List Livestrong” and pull foods from the differ ent categories. Next on the paleo list: make water the fluid of choice! Keeping water avail able and foods that fit in the categories above can help to weed out processed foods, by doing things like eating (nuts instead of a cookie, banana and nut butter instead of a processed diet bar, and water Your Health by Wade Yoder Master Trainer & Fitness Nutrition Specialist instead of a soda). Activity: it is important to physically exhaust our pushing, pulling and pressing muscles at least three times a week to not only condition our skeletal structure, but also to counter stress hormones. Long ago when there was stress, “there was usually exertion that went with the stress” so it helped keep cortisol levels down, (now we oft times are stressed to the max with little physical exertion!) By the way cortisol is a big contributing factor to belly fat... We don’t have to be radical, but if we gradually fit in new healthy habits, it unconsciously crowds out bad habits and in doing so “we will see our health and fitness levels improve and resistance to chronic disease!” is published every week by Crawford Publishing, LLC. Our Staff Floyd Buford - President Victoria ’’Vicky” Simmons - GM/Publisher vsimmons54@gmail.com or b3n0nbuzz@pstel.net Renee Goggins - Layout/Graphic Design Susan Gamto - Freelance Reporter Robbie Robertson - Distribution Carey Lee - Sports Photography Trenesia Y. Stubbs, Charles Cook, Denisia Stallings, Student Assistant Nancy Gibbs, Billy Powell, Angie Carr, Jeff Cook, Wade Yoder, Dan Gatlyn, James Earnhardt, Robert Tharpe, Rev. James Snyder, Spencer Price - Contributing Columnists Our Policies Deadlines are Noon on Friday prior to issue. The comments featured on the opinion pages are the sole creations of the writers, they do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Post management. 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