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PAGE 4 - THURSDAY, AUGUST 1, 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 Letter To The Editor Land Worth Is Just What It Is Editor, The Georgia Post: Does Chapman not understand, land is not worth it’s potential. It’s only worth what it is. Argue about roads to fix, and keep trying to pay too much for land you don’t need. YEA taxpayers,,,.. Lloyd McGowan - Knoxville The Trouble Is... A friend from Florida informed me that the columns I’ve been writing about the sad state of affairs of America and the rest of the world haven’t been rants. She said these columns are actually “think pieces.” Yeah, okay. Let’s call them think pieces. With that in mind, I’m going to tell you what I think and make you think. In Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged people categorized as looters, moochers, the common man (collateral damage, let’s say) and the strikers. Looters refer to those, primarily power driver government, using strong arm tactics to take the unearned from the unwilling and misinformed. Moochers are best described as benefiting from the theft of the production of others. Rand offers a spectacular vision of the different and sometimes surprising variety of moochers. I’ll sum it up as our cultures of need as entitlement and sloth and criminality as a way of life. We’ve managed to put need, variously defined above productive working people. Our programs to ad dress the needs of the deserving are currently rigged to exclude them. The common man is all of us voluntarily victimized by looters and moochers because of misguided social ideas, inat tention to the circumstances that affect our lives and the lives of our children and grandchildren. We’re a bit overwhelmed trying to spend money on things we can’t afford, playing online games, lapping up online addic tion and uninformed politi cal rants in place of an actual investment in time, thinking and action. The strikers are the people who make every effort to keep what is theirs by right from thieves and leeches. In Rand’s opus, this archetype is depicted as industrialists possessing a strict moral code: “I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.” They create a society based upon that principle which is hidden away from the looters and moochers. The nifty thing, though, is non-industrialists or common man is admitted as well. They needn’t own a company, they need merely decide that no one has a right to take parts of their lives and use it as they see fit. Of This & That Trenesia Y. Stubbs Columnist email:trenesia@pstel.net I’d like to think I fit into that category. But I know I’m still complicit in the orgy of need, power and greed. We’ll get to that in an upcoming column. I want to explore all of our hot-button issues with you over the next I don’t know how many columns. Education, crime, immorality, mental illness, gays, our shameful treatment of our military, race, immigration, faith, faulty government, broken industry are all issues we have a grip on if we hope to survive as anything resembling a healthy human society; else we’ll go the way of the Romans and wonder what hit us. If you’ve ever thought about writing a letter to the editor for any reason I implore you to join in this dialogue by either writing to the editor or sending an email to me to enter into what I hope will be a productive dialogue. Your views might provide me with insights I otherwise would not have reached. You may have given an issue a look and come up with a solution that might be workable. We won’t know if you are silent. I’d like to find a different quote to cover this point, but Burke’s is the best, “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Edmund Burke So, that being said, I’m dropping the entire mess on the heads of Christians, people of all faiths and people of goodwill. I’m including me, never fear. How can I not? So be forewarned. I’ll be exhorting the heck out of my fellow Christians. My mother always said, “I have to tell them and, whenever possible show them what God said. The rest is between them and God. His Word never comes back void and no one can put in to practice moral values they’ve never seen. I’m not picking on Chris tians. I am, however, crying in Those \unfortunate’ e-mails If all the e-mails I received about winning lotteries which I never entered and people wanting to share their wealth with me, were just legit, I would be walking on a beach on my own island some where. I do not open them; you can usually always tell, but once in a while you can’t and sometimes they are good for a laugh. Usually they go to my spam folder but one does occasionally get by into my regular inbox. Every so often I even get one that states it is from the FBI concerning money I am owed! I guess they figure you are more likely to open some thing from the FBI. The e-mails which do drive me batty are those which promise to inform you of some eye opening develop ment or tell you some secret or to reveal the next govern ment conspiracy and then they want you to watch the video. Usually, it is just a sales gimmick and I do not have time to watch those videos. I also get a lot of govern ment conspiracy e-mails. Yes, I do believe the government is going to be the death of us all but I do not want to be bombarded daily with that negative news. There are just not enough hours in the day to watch videos. I do not even watch that much TV. If you read all of these e-mails, there would be little time for anything else and by the time you were through you would want to find a hole to jump in and cover yourelf up. I do not want to worry about every thing all the time. Worry robs you of your peace and I enjoy my peace of mind immensely. At least on those days when I seem to have a mind!! Besides we are not promised tomorrow and I know who is in control and it ain’t me. That is one reason my column title is ’’Day at a Time” as that is how I try and take life. That is not always easy and I contin ue to work toward that goal. Shifting gears here - this is one of those days where my mind is having attention deficit syndrome. I attended two wonderful events over the weekend. The first was Friday for the Chamber’s Fresh Taste of Crawford event which, to me, was a smashing success. Some restaurants were close to running out of food and that is always a good sign. With my gluten intolerance is sue, I even found a few things which I could eat. My hubby thoroughly enjoyed himself. It was a great time to try out food from local restaurants and to fellowship with friends and even meet new ones. I, for one, am hoping the Cham ber will make this at least an annual event. Path and everyone involved deserve a big round of applause. Special thanks to all the restaurants who participated as well be cause this took a lot of effort on their part. Saturday it was the Love of Junk sale in Byron at the Peach Shops, sponsored by Byron Main Street. Everyone who had some junk to sell could load it up in the back of their truck and park in the Pay at a Time Victoria ’’Vicky” Simmons vsimmonsS4@gmail.com designated spot at the outlet center and sell their wares. The farmers’ market, which is usually held downtown, was also held at the outlet center so you could hunt for treasur ers and get fresh vegetables at the same time. You also were entertained by Big Daddy, Paul Carreker. The response to this event was so overwhelming they are planning on doing it again as well. Great job Tiffany and those involved. We sometimes forget what is available in our own com munities and it is good to be reminded. Wishing you a very blessed week. Be a blessing to some one. ^ ALL THEY HAVE ^ OH TV LATELY ARE ROYAL BABY REPORTS - NOME OF . TIT USUAL NEWS> YEP-WHAT A RELIEF'.'! ROfAL COLIC SPECtfil Muscle and Economy of Movement Last week was about posture and the economy of movement and this week is on one of my favorite subjects because of its effect on pretty much everyone that can still move. A person’s economy of movement sim ply is a measure of how eas ily they can do their activi ties of daily living (ADL’s) whether an office worker, elite athlete or someone us ing a wheelchair. Either way the tasks we face throughout each of our days can either be very fatiguing or we can make them become easier by increasing the strength of the muscles that move our ten dons, ligaments and skeleton throughout our daily routine, “whatever it may be.” Our muscles work a lot like our senses, when we lose one, “another tends to be come more sensitive helping to compensate for what we lost or don’t have.” Exam ple: a person who loses usage of the legs can strengthen up per body muscles to compen sate for the lost leg strength or usage, “thus increasing the economy of movement and her or his independence.” When we are less active and our muscles become weaker, “our weight tends to hang much heavier from our tendons and ligaments causing structural problems and premature aging to our joints.” And when this happens, “our tendency is to move even less to avoid this pain” causing further weakness. If this cycle is not stopped, especially when combined with increased weight gain, the shear weight of our vital organs, body fat, untoned muscle etc on our spine, hips, and knees along with the weight of our head on our neck will cause pre mature aging to our vertebra, joints, tendons and liga ments, causing a degenera tive condition to our mobility and eventually causing a dependence on others for our normal activities of daily liv ing (ADL’s). Things we can do: there are lots of exercises that can strengthen movements we use in real life, and you do not have to have a gym or exercise equipment to strengthen functional life style movements. It’s as simple as doing the things you have to do more often and at a faster pace. Exam ple: if you want to strengthen the muscles you use to go up a flight of stairs, by simply repeating this activity more often along with a gradual increase in the speed going up the stairs, it will become easier because of our muscles adapting to the new level of stress put on the muscles that help us go up the stairs. This same method works for an athlete as well, and the reason is simple “our body is designed to adapt to new or Your Health by Wade Yoder Master Trainer & Fitness Nutrition Specialist increased stresses.” Isn’t it neat that by simply strengthening the muscles that we use throughout our day, “can make it so we’re a lot less tired at the end of our day” making so that we still have the energy for other things and to enjoy the ones we care about? “Strengthening our muscles not only strengthens our movements and makes our days go better, it also takes a lot of weight off our load bearing joints!” is published every week by Crawford Publishing, LLC. 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