Voting Has Gone To The Dogs

There are many politicians who go absolutely ballistic at the mere mention of requiring photo identification to make certain a person who registers to vote meets the requirements.  (Sarcasm alert) If photo Identification were required for voter registration I’m sure that would be viewed as unfair to all the dead voters that have been an important part of many elections is such places as Chicago and New Jersey.  Why should you not be permitted to vote simply because you’re dead?  It’s not your fault you’re dead and if it is so what?  A lot of dead people’s estates pay taxes.  Now a man in New Mexico was able to register his dog to vote.   As usual, my priceless insights are in italics.

An Albuquerque Man Says He Successfully Registered His Dog To Vote In Bernalillo County.

Is this the start of the animal suffrage movement?  Is PETA now going to claim animals have a civil right to vote?  I would not be surprised if they’re thinking about it right now.

The dog owner said he saw a voter registration booth on the University of New Mexico's campus a few weeks ago and decided to see how easy it would be to register his dog to vote.

I’m sure his dog was very interested in this social experiment.  During this time the dog was probably busy cleaning himself or looking for some dog butt to sniff.  You must wonder about the quality of life for an individual who has nothing better to do with his time.

He said he was trying to expose the problems with the registration system.  He said he just received the dog's voter registration card in the mail Wednesday and it was way too easy.

(Sarcasm Alert) Yeah, if dogs want to vote we need to make it way more difficult. Just keep it easy for illegal aliens and convicted felons.  I say we offer free neutering for all pets that vote liberal and make it mandatory for their liberal owners.  Then we’d see how badly they want to vote.

"They should verify.  Somebody should have verified this information and somebody should have come out and taken a look at exactly who it was.  But I made up a birth date, and I made up a social security number and I had a voter registration card in my hand for Buddy two weeks later," the dog owner said.

I wonder if the dog also received a green card, SSI check and invitation to the white house.  At the very least his doggy contraception is probably now paid for by the government.

KOB Eyewitness News 4 contacted the Bernalillo County Clerk's Office.  They said state law does not require proof of your social, your date of birth, or even your name.  But they said what this man did is voter fraud.

Really?  Let us cover our eyes with sunglasses least we are blinded by the brilliance of those at the Bernalillo County Clerk's Office (BCCO).  The person or persons there at the BCCO who possess an IQ that does not begin with a decimal point must realize what this man did is not only voter fraud but an illustration of a system for voter registration that permits animals to become registered voters.  They might want to think about that.  I’m certain there are dead people all over the country saying “What problem?  There’s no problem here”.  I wonder if dead pets are permitted to register to vote.

They also said they strictly look over all the applications that come from third-party registration agencies before sending out registration cards.  But this time, Buddy the dog made it through the system.

This time?  I hate to say it but I have a hunch there have been many other times people not qualified to vote may have gotten registered.  I may be a bit cynical but I think we need a system of verifying voting eligibility that is more than “strictly” looking over applications. 

"We're going to have a lot of people that are registered to vote that shouldn't be able to vote," the dog owner said.

Do you think so?  I bet seeing a line of people with their pets outside of a voting precinct just might be a tip-off.  Next thing you know there will be an amendment on a ballot to ban doggy butt sniffing in public.  The pro butt sniffers and the anti-butt sniffers will have a serious debate.

He said he has no intention of voting under Buddy's name.

What a relief!  I’m more concerned with the guy who registered his Burmese Python to vote.  I’d wait until his snake was finished.  There was a time when voting was considered a privilege.  When I got to vote for the first time I was excited.  Photo identification would be a good start to straightening this out.  Like a wise man once told me “It’s always easy to show people the truth, it’s just difficult to make them see it.”

Here is a link to the article.

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hey-buddy-no-noticed-arf-voter-registration-article-1.1031582?barcprox=true

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False Hope Syndrome

I know that psychologists love to figure out new and different syndromes.  I wonder if they’ve discovered a syndrome for psychologists who are obsessed with creating syndromes.  Now if you have high expectations and don’t meet them you have your very own syndrome.  Psychologists now say you have “False Hope Syndrome.”  I wonder if this also applies to guys who are constantly turned down for dates.  My invaluable insights are in italics.

Tips from the Experts to Beat False Hope Syndrome

Press Release USNewswire/ -- Are you one of the many who pledged to invest more time and energy into wellness? Are you still on target or was your goal sidelined?  Despite their best intentions, people often find it difficult to change their behavior.  According to sport and exercise psychology authorities from the Association for Applied Sport Psychology (AASP), the problem may be "false hope syndrome."

Yeah, I mean this is for real, these people believe this.  I guess being an exercise psychology authority doesn’t pay as well as it seems and you need some sort of syndrome to pad the paycheck.  Maybe they could charge people for “reality check” treatment?  If they haven’t thought of it I’m sure they will.

"False Hope Syndrome is the cyclical pattern where one embarks on a change, succeeds in the beginning, but ultimately fails at sustaining that change," said Dr. Amanda Visek, a Certified Consultant with AASP and a professor at The George Washington University.

Maybe they can develop something called a “stick to it” vaccine and the drug companies can get involved.  Hey, people in the medical profession are entrepreneurs too.  If you believe that someday stupid medical findings will cease to be taken seriously is that also “False Hope Syndrome?”

"Americans consistently show their resiliency to failure because many will resolve to take on the same goals again next month or next year, only to fail again."

These people are suffering from “loser syndrome.”  Get it right will you?

The key to breaking this cycle of failure using the following strategies to increase the odds of sticking with your fitness goals:

Assess Your Expectations –Align expectations with what science has shown us is feasible and healthy.  

Science has shown this path is filled with chocolate cake landmines and fried food attacks.  According to science they are only dealt with through exercise and eating tofu!

Readjust and Refine Goals – Be as specific as possible when developing goals to be measurable, action-oriented, yet realistic.

Duh!  Promise to only eat unhealthy food you can falsely rationalize eating and record the results on a chart so you know how badly you’re cheating on your diet.

Prepare for Action – Gather what is needed for success – appropriate clothing, fitness equipment, social support, etc. Proper planning is crucial. We don't typically plan on failing at our goals, but we often fail to properly plan.

Don’t you also need people to yell and scream at you as you exercise?  Guess I watched one too many episodes of “The Biggest Loser.”

Extrinsic vs. intrinsic motivation

According to Dr. Brandonn Harris, a Certified Consultant with AASP and assistant professor at Georgia Southern University “The key, he said, is to enhance intrinsic motivation, which focuses on physical activity that is fun, inherently enjoyable and may even provide the individual with a new and exciting challenge.”

Does this involve going to brothels?  If it does the obesity issues with men could be over in a very short time.  If the government is going to pay for free contraception they should also pay for this health-related activity!

Harris recommends that people expand their definition of being physically active beyond running or hitting the gym.  For example, activities like walking the dog, golfing without the cart, Zumba classes, and even gardening provide fun alternatives to "traditional" forms of physical activity.  It's also important, Harris said, to remember that some physical activity is better than none.

Let’s not forget the muscle tone, exercise, and fun involved with lifting 12 ounces of beer at a time!

"Fun is the center stone to maintaining exercise," said Visek. "New exercisers don't often know what they like, only what they don't like. The key is to experiment with a number of different activities and find which one suits you best.  It's all about exercising your way. And, you can exercise your way in small increments of time throughout the day.

And people believe the time spent walking to vending machines or to getting coffee in the office has no positive physical benefits.  Oh, how wrong they are!

Research shows that moderate intensity exercise accumulated in small bouts adds up to positive fitness gains."

Finding your motivation and making it work

And that ladies and gentlemen are how you deal with “False Hope Syndrome.”  If you set your goals too low do you suffer from “Low goal setting syndrome?” or if you meet one set of goals but don’t set more is that “Unmotivated goal setting syndrome.”  How about if you lose weight and gain it all back and then try to lose it again.  Is that “Why Am I an Idiot syndrome?”  How about if you lose weight without diet and exercise just maintain your life but stop eating fat and sugar.  Is that “I don’t need no stinking weight loss program crap syndrome?”

Maybe scientists need to realize not everything is a syndrome.  Sometimes things happen because we’re all flawed individuals.  History teaches us some people succeed and others don’t.  That idea will probably never be presented to the world by the medical profession as there’s just no money to be made from it.

Link to article

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/secrets-to-successful-exercise-adherence-tips-from-the-experts-to-beat-false-hope-syndrome-140862793.html

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