Wilhelmina? Herkimer? Ermingard? Heliotrope? Fauntleroy? (Need boxing lessons for this one!) Hortensia? St. John (Pronounced "Sinjun.") The list is endless. I could really make a contribution here!
Anyone who would trust the Chinese is a complete idiot.
A correct BMI includes measurements of the relative size of waist, shoulders etc, to take into account the "bodybuilder" effect that you describe. A very muscular person would have a misleading BMI score if the measurements are not used in the calculation.
Congratulations on your success in becoming fit and healthy. I agree that it is tough to maintain a healthy body mass in our world of high fat and sugar foods. I call it "industrial food." It is really not food at all, but it is loaded with preservatives for longer shelf life and fat and sugar to appeal to taste. Yes, your metabolism does slow after 50. This is why, as you know, at that age you have to cut the fat and sugar and get more exercise. People like you who have the will power to do it will lead longer and healthier lives.
Ironically, there is a report today that Paula Deen, the media food queen, has been diagnosed with diabetes. She has no intention of changing her recipes, loaded with fat and sugar, to encourage people to eat healthy food. Instead, she is promoting a diabetes medicine offered by a giant pharmaceutical company. I guess her plan is to make a lot more diabetics and help her client to expand its market by encouraging people to eat high fat food. It is false and infantile to deny the increase in obesity and diabetes in the U.S. Here is my secret failure-proof diet. Eat minimal fat and get exercise! Oh, rats! I gave away the big secret. I should have charged everybody $39.95!
My impression at the time was that the lesbian Girl Scout leaders simply did not like having men around. I would add that based on my experience with the Girl Scouts, If I still had a daughter of the appropriate age, I would not send her on overnight trips supervised and controlled by lesbian leaders. It is probable that nothing adverse would occur, but there would be a risk.
We had a large group of the "occupy" people at our City Hall for several weeks. When I walked through in November, most were asleep in their tents at 10:45 A.M. when the City was full of people "occupied" with productive work at that hour. The "occupy" people believe that they are entitled to be supported by taxes extracted from productive citizens. Nobody that I encountered was looking for a job and most would be unemployable anyway because of their bad attitude and lack of any useful skills. We have an extensive network of agencies providing for the homeless here who genuinely desire help and I am confident that Providence has such facilities as well. If the working people of Providence want to provide a tent city for these bums, that is their choice, but please do not import such a plan to San Diego.
I join those who are tired of endless car chases, shootouts and collapsing buildings. However, there are some great films out there if you are willing to look for them. I use as an example Tyler Perry's "Madea" films. They are about the problems faced by families and how the right principles of character and integrity can be applied to overcome them. The films depict black families, but the messages apply equally to all racial groups. Typically, the theater is nearly full for these films and the audience includes both blacks and whites. All of the "Madea" movies have made money, so I think that the only reason Hollywood does not make more like them is that they do not depict Hollywood extreme leftist liberal values and they promote the idea that people can actually make positive changes in their lives without government interference.
I would be happy to do so, if the Girl scouts would "leave innocent children out of (their) twisted politics."
In the 1990s I was a "male heterosexual" girl scout leader because no mother was available to form a troop for my daughter and several girls who wanted to be Girl Scouts. The Girl Scouts had and have no problem with lesbian leaders and I encountered several during the time that I was a Brownie troop leader. These leaders, especially obviously lesbian paid staff members who seemed to dominate the local Council, were quite hostile to my participation in the program. I think that there is a not-so-subtle pressure from these lesbians to present homosexuality as an "alternative" for the girls. Are these lesbians "recruiting?" I don't know, but as presently administered I would not recommend to parents that they enroll their daughters in what has become a leftist, gay activist propaganda group. If you buy the cookies, you are supporting the Girl Scout's left wing agenda.
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