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I found the most amazing article on the Mahalo liveblog! According to some new research sex is nature's greatest cure-all. This article from Nerds Do It Better takes 25 common ailments and explains how a night of steamy, hot sex will have you feeling better in no time! I highly recommend...

Nature's Nasty Cure-All

President Barack Obama

As I spent most of my evening glued to my television, watching the electoral votes coming rolling in for Senator, now President elect Obama, I have never been more proud of my country.

Having supported the Gore/Liberman ticket in 2000, and voted for the Kerry/Edwards ticket in 2004, there were times when I wondered if American politics would ever go my way. Tonight I watched history be made. I can't wait to someday, many years from now, tell my grandchildren what I was doing on the night that America elected, not only the first African-American president, but the first president to lay out a plan for an America that I yearned to live in.

I'm elated, euphoric, relieved and hopeful as I look forward to Obama's first term in the White House.

Tomorrow I plan to track down all my friends, family and acquaintances who said this would never happen, and rub Obama's political win in their faces. But that's tomorrow, tonight I'm going to celebrate this great win for our country and the world.

Election Reults 2008

After what seems like the world's longest campaign season Election Day 2008 is FINALLY here! Though I'm definitely not a morning person, you're lucky to catch me out of bed before 11 am, my husband Ty and I sprang out of bed promptly at 9 am. That alone is nothing short of a MIRACLE! We did our morning workout, showered, dressed and headed out to our polling place: the Montana ExpoPark.

Voting was awesome. There were four of us and it took a total of 15 minutes max for us to get in and out. Ty was snagged by an exit poller on the way out...he was so excited!

I was especially proud of my brothers Matt and Jacob. This was their first general election and they dove into it with gusto. Jacob spent two hours before he went to work calling/texting all of his friend and encouraging/badgering them to vote. Ah....I'm such a proud older sister!

I'm so excited...and increasingly anxious. If you're like me, and want to stay up-to-date with all the latest election news, here's a list of some of Mahalo's awesome election coverage pages. Check them out!

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Me On the Issues...Abortion and Gay Marriage

My mom and I were having a discussion about some of the things she's been hearing from her crazy Republican friends about the election. She forwarded a couple of their emails, on the issues of Abortion and Gay Marriage, to me, and it angered the blogger in me so much that I had no choice but to spew out the following:

Abortion is a funny issue. If you're the type of person that vehemently opposes abortion then you're not very likely to be getting one. Why not let people make their own decisions on what to do and not do with themselves?

I really don't support the initiatives that require parental consent for abortions for minors. If kids thought that they could talk to their parents about that sort of thing then they probably wouldn't be needing an abortion in the first place. It's sad, but sometimes parents are even the cause of their children's problems in this regard. If safe abortions are not available for kids in these horrible between-a-rock-and-a-hard-place type of situations, who is naive enough to believe that said child will then choose to go through with the pregnancy and consider the softer options like adoption? What kind of world do these people think we live in? Rather than making an appointment with an adoption agency these girls are going to be making an appointment with a wire coat hanger. Bad news.

I've posed this argument to people several times. I always get the question, "Well, wouldn't you want to know if your minor child was getting an abortion?" My response: I wouldn't have fostered an environment that made my child think they couldn't talk to me about something that important. I can't stand the parenting approach that thinks excessive restrictions are a suitable replacement for involvement.

Gay marriage is actually another one of my favorite issues. People talk a lot about preserving the "sanctity of marriage" by keeping the institution of marriage between a man and a woman. How crass of supposedly refined and righteous people to suggest that the sanctity of marriage hinges on a penis and a vagina rather than on the enduring love and commitment between two people.

If marriage, as it's been suggested, is such a sacred institution, then we heterosexuals should be ashamed for what we've made of it. With domestic violence and divorce rates what they are then Christians the world over should be demanding that marriage be protected from us...the straight people!

I'm very happily married and the thought of sharing the institution of marriage with homosexuals doesn't threaten me or my marriage in the slightest. The only marriage whose sanctity I'm concerned with preserving is my own. Two men or two women choosing to devote their lives to one another and marry doesn't impact my marriage, or the "sanctity" of the institution at all, though it does tread on the "sensibilities" of Conservatives. What an archaic, twisted worldview to believe that the world would be worse for having more love in it.

Legalized gay marriage: three down, forty-seven states to go.

Obama's "Fight the Smears" website...

Don't believe the lies...learn the truth behind the rumors on Obama's Fight the Smears website!

Fight the Smears

Boston Globe: "How to Fight a Rumor"

I just read the most fascinating article on the Boston Globe website. In light of all the rumors circulating about both candidates this election year, the Boston Globe's Jesse Singal wrote an article about new research into the science of rumors. Check it out, it's amazing!

Boston Globe: How to Fight a Rumor

Connecticut Overturns Ban on Gay Marriage...

and it's about time! Three down, forty-seven states to go...