Thursday, December 04, 2003

South Beach Diet Day 15 This is where you're usually supposed to go into Stage II of the diet, slowly adding back in good carbs, things like multi-grain whole wheat bread, apples and other carbs like pinto beans. I'm going to stay on Stage I a week longer because I feel good with no cravings and the food choices aren't becoming monotonous, yet. Next week I am going to post how much weight I lost. I have yet to weigh myself but the looser clothes and better yoga positions indicate weight loss to me. For breakfast I had a vegetable omelette with a slice of turkey ham. I roasted yellow, orange and red bell peppers, zucchini, summer squash and onions and used those in the omelette. I also had a glass of vegetable juice (which I spice up with tobasco) and some tea. For dinner I am planning on salmon marinated in ginger-garlic soy sauce with roasted eggplant and tomato salad. My particularly rapid weight loss is due to more than sticking to the diet. I have been doing bikram yoga on a consistent basis and also have been skipping a meal a day because I'm at school. I usually eat a number of snacks, things like cashews, almonds, celery and Laughing Cow cheese to make up for the skipped meal. Still, the diet helps because you follow a set course of meals and that helps avoid cheating. 3:39:49 PM    Gimme your feedback! []

WRONG!                                                                                         Gearóid Mac Ádhaimh MP, Uachtarán Shinn Féin The New York Times has always been the hectoring mouthpiece for the Anglo-American alliance. So it comes as no surprise that an editorial in today's newspaper condemns the recent election results for Sinn Fein in the North as a "setback" for the Irish peace process. Still using language that is outdated and stale, the Times says about the Good Friday Agreement: Sinn Fein accepts it, but has always struggled between its absolute loyalty to the I.R.A. and the requirements of responsible democratic compromise. Sinn Fein can make its own constructive contribution by persuading its I.R.A. colleagues to continue working with the international monitoring body that has attested to its previous acts of partial disarmament and to allow future acts to be carried out less secretly than in the past. That would help ease continuing unionist distrust over the I.R.A.'s, and therefore Sinn Fein's, commitment to purely peaceful politics. Where has the NY Times been the last 5 years? The only reason the IRA agreed to the disarmament process to begin with was because of pressure from Sinn Fein, which rightly sees the struggle for the liberation of the North as a continuum, with the electoral process taking over from the armed struggle. The IRA has met every conceivable goalpost that has been set for it by the decommisioning body, and has committed itself to meeting more. The issues surrounding the Good Friday Accord are not as a result of Sinn Fein but instead because of the instransigent demands of the Democratic Unionist Party, which is opposed to the accord entirely and now demands a "re-negotiation."  Sinn Fein has always played its part in keeping the government running and functioning effectively, despite having to share power with parties which refuse to sit in council with its elected representatives. Like it or not Sinn Fein is now the largest Nationalist party in the North and has been entrusted by a majority of Republican voters with the tools of government. The Unionists should respect this and the NY Times should get its facts straight. 11:48:23 AM    Gimme your feedback! []

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