No but really, shut up.

I saw this in the news last week about this woman, Shoshana Hebshi, who got detained on 9/11, along with two other men on her flight.

You can read the story here. And you can see her blog entry about it here.

It does suck that she had to go through such an incident. Really, I'm not trying to downplay the shock and embarrassment of the whole thing for her. I'm sure it was awful and scary and I am sorry for her. But seriously, I have to just say get over it.

The fact is that this country is constantly targeted by terrorists, who happen to fall into a particular ethnicity. When there is a threat to our country, like the possible threat on the tenth anniversary of 9/11 this year, how are we supposed to stop it from happening? Racial profiling is unfair, yes, but sometimes its the only way. I will say its probably a lot better than being blown up, right?

{{....yesss, I'll give a minute to think about that one.....yep, that's what I thought.}}

If a woman who looks like me has threatened to blow up a building (or insert any appropriate scenario you want), then I can't say that I blame any law enforcement individual for stopping me simply because I look like that individual. I realize that this is a slightly different scenario, but you get the point.

Her husband used social media to express that she was detained because of the color of her skin (paraphrasing). This just really, really infuriates me. It's so dramatic! What if some other person on her plane was detained and actually had a bomb...would people have been so outraged then? It's only "the color of his/her skin" when something suspicious isn't found. But if authorities searched a person of a certain ethnicity and actually found something, then what? Was he racially profiled before he was deemed a threat? Hmmm.

I am sure I would be extremely upset if this happened to me, but it just seems that sometimes America is expected to have everything perfect at all times and to be respectful of every single race and religion, all the while being 100 percent politically correct and keeping every single American citizen safe. I'm sorry, but the keeping us safe part is much more pressing in my opinion than being respectful of the millions of people part.

At this point, if the way to keep passengers on planes (and any other place for that matter) is to do things that aren't perfectly comfortable and politically correct, I welcome it. America may not be perfect, but we strive to make every single person who lives here happy. But first comes safety. Unfortunately, everything changed on 9/11/01. And while our country works out the kinks and fine tunes the safety strategies, I'll gladly have patience and understanding.

And the people who want to sit back and complain about every little thing, yet still expect to be safe in this country should try to swallow the pill that is reality and then maybe drink a cup of shut the eff up. Or better yet, I encourage them to get out of this country. Go live in some other country and see if you don't come back singing America's praises, flaws and all. Yes, I've done that. So there.

If you are ashamed to stand by your colors, you had better seek another flag. ~Author Unknown

I would just like to insert the word *bitches* after "flag". Seems appropriate. ;-)

Yoga Love

I started doing yoga last winter, not really because I was super interested or because of all the awesome benefits, but because there was literally no way I was going out in the freezing cold in Korea to jog which had been my usual means of exercise. I tried jogging in our parking garage in the apartment complex, but after a few days my lungs actually felt burned. I don't know how to describe it, but I concluded that the fumes from the underground parking garage were perhaps not the best thing to be huffing in and out while trying to exercise. So, in an effort to not do more harm than good to my body, my yoga love was born.

I downloaded Body by Bethenny on iTunes and didn't even have a mat the first time I did it. There were some moves that were challenging, but I got through it and felt such calmness after I was finished. And seriously, there is not a lot of calm going on in the realm of my body, so to feel it, was quite significant for me. After I went on jogs, I always came back starving, but yoga was different. I felt like I had actually done something, but not like I had to grab the first pizza in sight.

The morning after I had done my first session, I didn't think I could move. I was shocked because all I had done was some weird ninja moves in my opinion, but it worked muscles in my body that I didn't know I had! I am far from Ms. Fitness, so when I asked Luke why my ribs were hurting, he kindly, while laughing at me, explained that there were muscles there. Wow, I had no idea.

After I had done the Bethenny workout a few times, I downloaded the Jillian Michael's Yoga Meltdown which was really good also, but significantly harder because she incorporates reps into the yoga moves. It's not tradional yoga at all, and really the calm feeling is not quite there for me, but I still love to do this workout, just not when I'm feeling tired.

I really prefer doing exercises alone, so these workouts are great for me. If you are looking for something to do, try these!

Benefits of yoga:

*increases flexibility

*builds muscle tone

*improves posture

*deep breathing helps lung capacity

*decreases stress, increases calmness

*people feel happier

*can decrease risks of heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure

More benefits of yoga

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Remember, if your sense of humor is hiding and has been for the last 10 years, this isn't the place for you, little pumpkin.

Here's what I think--

The more one talks about, advertises, and tries to convince others that they:

a) are a wonderful example of a Christian
b) are in the greatest relationship ever known to man
c) shop all the time
d) are so busy that they don't know what to do
e) have an exciting life
f) are working out every day all day
g) have a lot of money
h) ate a healthy meal

....the more I know that they:

a) can be found at a bar with a hooker the night before church
b) can be found, ahem, anywhere but together in a year or two and in the meantime, probably with the wonderful example of a Christian above and yes, the hooker too
c) can be found at yard sales in wealthy neighborhoods (no, nothing wrong with that!), fighting with their husband about money on any given day, getting served divorce papers
d) can be found on the couch 20 hours a day
e) can be found on the couch crying 20 hours a day
f) can be found maybe at a gym staring at themselves in a mirror, but probably in the vicinity of the couch
g) can be found arguing with their partner about money, divorcing their partner for spending all their money, divorcing their partner because he/she no longer has any money, or the most likely answer, working as a janitor and selling drugs on the side.
h) can be found at the greasiest food place in town, then on their couch with powdered donuts all over their face

The point is...people that have and are and do, simply do not feel the need to gush about what they have and what they do and what they are and how many crunches their monstrous abs did today at the gym or how much their boyfriend loves them, or how busy they are.

I'm gonna go to bed now...I have a super busy day tomorrow that I have to prepare for. So if you're looking for me...I'll be with all the busy people.