Sunday, December 12, 2010

[Peckers_Pics] Model Wars; Dec 13, 2010; Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated G



 
Model Wars; Dec 13, 2010
Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated  G
 
Diet & Fitness:
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Today's Health - Wellness / Exercise / Reflections:
Ginseng Tea May Help Lower Blood Sugar
 
The herbal extract ginseng has been popular for centuries in parts of Asia and Europe but only recently began gaining mainstream acceptance within the U.S. While many health-conscious consumers enjoy ginseng for its ability to increase energy, stimulate brain function and maintain overall wellness, some studies show that the herb can provide some diabetic-specific benefits too.

According to research conducted in Finland, drinking a cup of ginseng tea daily can help type 2 diabetics experience lower overall blood sugar levels. Diabetics in the study who consumed the daily ginseng brew were found to experience lower blood sugar for up to a year after beginning their ginseng regimen. As always, consult your physician or dietitian before making changes to your dietary regimen.
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This group is called "Peckers Pics."  The English -  slang definition of "pecker" is to pluck at the truth. Therefore, we peck at items such as Gay Men's Health, Male Fitness, Gay (LGBT) Politics & Issues.  In this section you may peck at each photo in order to decide the winner of the "war of the fittest!"  Whereas, who is the model that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit?"  Warning: This may stoke you!
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A Gay Firing Fiasco & Opportunity at Belmont University
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love / Dec 12, 2010 / Huffington Post
 

I've been thinking this week about the abrupt resignation/termination of a young, successful women's soccer coach at Belmont (Baptist) University in Tennessee. She is a lesbian with a partner. They are having a baby. She told her team about the baby and was immediately removed from duty or removed herself from duty under duress.

Her student-athletes were devastated, asked the administration to reinstate her and, when denied, held protests on campus. The media got involved. A major donor called for her rehire. The President issued an apologetic statement for his failure to comment sooner, soothing in tone, but with no reinstatement commitment.

So, things are a bit of a mess at Belmont.

The university is ranked amongst the best value campuses in the U.S.. That value is tarnished now because Belmont evidently played foul. Americans like fair-play. This situation won't go away easily and it's complicated.

Belmont is a distinctively Christian institution. As such, it has the legal right to choose who can teach and who cannot as well as who can attend and who cannot. The President claims that sexual orientation has not been an issue in hiring or firing during his tenure. Recent events make this sound like, "I did not inhale".

There is an old saying that we are as sick as our secrets. I sense deep feelings of dis-ease on the campus now. The leaders need to engage the entire campus in deep introspection and healing. Exclusion and discrimination, in all forms, for all reasons, hurt everyone. The litmus test of the real value of Belmont will be its response to this situation. They have an opportunity to take the first step in righting a great wrong and serve as example to their peer institutions throughout America in doing what is right.

I went to a Christian college. My alma mater is struggling just like Belmont is struggling. A few weeks ago they refused to let a gay student write an editorial about establishing a gay-straight alliance on campus. Sad.

Belmont and other colleges and universities that characterize themselves as Christian are really challenged by no strings attached inclusion of young people and faculty who live their lives with full integrity regarding their sexuality and their sex lives. Why? Christians know that Jesus knew everything about everyone with whom he walked and dined and slept.

He never said,

Don't tell me who and what you really are. Pretend. I don't want to know.
I can only imagine what Jesus would say about Don't Ask, Don't Tell. And, He never mentioned homosexuality.

I think Jesus would find it unacceptable that most of our Christian institutions (and our government) create policies about sexual behavior rather than the kinds of behaviors He talked about in the Sermon on the Mount.

Consider the climate our rules make for LGBTQ students at these distinctively Christian institutions. They are supposed to have sex only inside marriage (but they can't marry the people they love) and they aren't supposed to be gay (even though they are). I cannot imagine the pain of being an LGBTQ student or faculty member at Belmont now, compelled by fear to lie. I can't imagine that Jesus would ask them to.

The problem in the Institution we call Christ's Church is that even though it claims to be distinctively Christian, it simply fails to conform to the standards of inclusion that Jesus modeled in his life -- bringing the most "excluded" people in society into his circle of love -- as his friends and disciples. Even in the last minutes of his life, He invited a man society considered "unclean" with Him into Paradise -- the thief who hung on the Cross beside Him.

The Church is an institution created by humankind. It is fallible and it is failing in its witness to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people just as it has with women and people of color in the past. Belmont is called to Christian witness. So, now it is time to think out of the box like Jesus did. I believe He is knocking on the door at Belmont and I hope they open it and their arms to everyone.

Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."

....Jake

URGENT:  Boycott Gold's Gym, Target and Best Buy for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations and to Proposition 8 (California) to prevent gay marriage. I would not purchase "Blood Diamonds," nor should a person / organization be contributing funds to both Hitler / Nazi's and the Jews at the same time!   Obviously giving money to the Jews and not Hitler/Nazi's was the right thing to do.   Hence, these companies violated my trust and well-being.   They gave money to my enemy who would terminate me from my job, deny me housing and send me to a Internment camp.  Therefore, goodbye Gold's Gym, Target and Best Buy!  The CEO's of these companies have been insensitive to our reaction and do not even comprehend their actions!  What takes so long to "fire" these Neanderthals?



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...Jake (Moderator)



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