Friday, December 17, 2010

[Peckers_Pics] Please call your Senators about DADT repeal



The Senate is scheduled to vote on the stand-alone legislation to repeal DADT tomorrow (Saturday.) It’s not too late to make phone calls. We demand an up-or-down vote—no filibusters—and a fair process. Although the senior senator from Oregon, a supporter of repeal, will be absent for medical reasons, we believe we have the necessary 60 votes to stop John McCain’s anticipated attempt at a filibuster. But we can’t take anything for granted.

 

PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS! If we don’t get the repeal now, it will be years before the window of opportunity opens again.

 

Don

 

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DEMAND END OF DADT! NOW! 

It is up to YOU!  Call your 2 US Senators and let them know how you feel! Do it today!  Be Stern! Don't put it off!   No more Delays!  No Excuses! Now it is time for the US Senate to vote as the US House has passed ending DADT!

Here is the list:

Akaka, Daniel K. - (D - HI) (202) 224-6361

Alexander, Lamar - (R - TN) (202) 224-4944 

Barrasso, John - (R - WY) (202) 224-6441

Baucus, Max - (D - MT) (202) 224-2651

Bayh, Evan - (D - IN) (202) 224-5623

Begich, Mark - (D - AK) (202) 224-3004

Bennet, Michael F. - (D - CO) (202) 224-5852

Bennett, Robert F. - (R - UT) (202) 224-5444

Bingaman, Jeff - (D - NM)  (202) 224-5521

Bond, Christopher S. - (R - MO) (202) 224-5721 

Boxer, Barbara - (D - CA)  (202) 224-3553 

Brown, Scott P. - (R - MA) (202) 224-4543 

Brown, Sherrod - (D - OH) (202) 224-2315 

Brownback, Sam - (R - KS) (202) 224-6521 

Bunning, Jim - (R - KY) (202) 224-4343 

Burr, Richard - (R - NC) (202) 224-3154

Cantwell, Maria - (D - WA) (202) 224-3441

Cardin, Benjamin L. - (D - MD)  (202) 224-4524

Carper, Thomas R. - (D - DE)  (202) 224-2441

Casey, Robert P., Jr. - (D - PA)  (202) 224-6324 
 
Chambliss, Saxby - (R - GA)  (202) 224-3521
 
Coburn, Tom - (R - OK)  (202) 224-5754
 
Cochran, Thad - (R - MS)  (202) 224-5054
 
Collins, Susan M. - (R - ME)  (202) 224-2523
 
Conrad, Kent - (D - ND) (202) 224-2043
 
Coons, Christopher A. - (D - DE)  (202) 224-5042
 
Corker, Bob - (R - TN)  (202) 224-3344
 
Cornyn, John - (R - TX)  (202) 224-2934
 
Crapo, Mike - (R - ID)  (202) 224-6142
 
DeMint, Jim - (R - SC)  (202) 224-6121
 
Dodd, Christopher J. - (D - CT)  (202) 224-2823
 
Dorgan, Byron L. - (D - ND)  (202) 224-2551
 
Durbin, Richard J. - (D - IL)  (202) 224-2152
 
Ensign, John - (R - NV)  (202) 224-6244
 
Enzi, Michael B. - (R - WY)  (202) 224-3424
 
Feingold, Russell D. - (D - WI)  (202) 224-5323
 
Feinstein, Dianne - (D - CA)  (202) 224-3841
 
Franken, Al - (D - MN)  (202) 224-5641
 
Gillibrand, Kirsten E. - (D - NY)  (202) 224-4451
 
Graham, Lindsey - (R - SC)  (202) 224-5972
 
Grassley, Chuck - (R - IA)  (202) 224-3744
 
Gregg, Judd - (R - NH)  (202) 224-3324
 
Hagan, Kay R. - (D - NC)  (202) 224-6342
 
Harkin, Tom - (D - IA)  (202) 224-3254
 
Hatch, Orrin G. - (R - UT)  (202) 224-5251
 
Hutchison, Kay Bailey - (R - TX)  (202) 224-5922
 
Inhofe, James M. - (R - OK)  (202) 224-4721
 
Inouye, Daniel K. - (D - HI)  (202) 224-3934
 
Isakson, Johnny - (R - GA)  (202) 224-3643
 
Johanns, Mike - (R - NE)  (202) 224-4224
 
Johnson, Tim - (D - SD)  (202) 224-5842
 
Kerry, John F. - (D - MA)  (202) 224-2742
 
Kirk, Mark - (R - IL)  (202) 224-2854
 
Klobuchar, Amy - (D - MN)  (202) 224-3244 
 
Kohl, Herb - (D - WI)  (202) 224-5653
 
Kyl, Jon - (R - AZ)  (202) 224-4521
 
Landrieu, Mary L. - (D - LA)  (202) 224-5824
 
Lautenberg, Frank R. - (D - NJ) (202) 224-3224
 
Leahy, Patrick J. - (D - VT) (202) 224-4242
 
LeMieux, George S. - (R - FL)  (202) 224-3041
 
Levin, Carl - (D - MI)  (202) 224-6221
 
Lieberman, Joseph I. - (ID - CT) (202) 224-4041
 
Lincoln, Blanche L. - (D - AR) (202) 224-4843
 
Lugar, Richard G. - (R - IN) (202) 224-4814
 
Manchin, Joe, III - (D - WV) (202) 224-3954
 
McCain, John - (R - AZ)  (202) 224-2235
 
McCaskill, Claire - (D - MO) (202) 224-6154 
 
McConnell, Mitch - (R - KY)  (202) 224-2541
 
Menendez, Robert - (D - NJ)  (202) 224-4744
 
Merkley, Jeff - (D - OR)  (202) 224-3753
 
Mikulski, Barbara A. - (D - MD)  (202) 224-4654
 
Murkowski, Lisa - (R - AK)  (202) 224-6665
 
Murray, Patty - (D - WA)  (202) 224-2621
 
Nelson, Ben - (D - NE)  (202) 224-6551
 
Nelson, Bill - (D - FL)  (202) 224-5274
 
Pryor, Mark L. - (D - AR) (202) 224-2353
 
Reed, Jack - (D - RI) (202) 224-4642
 
Reid, Harry - (D - NV) (202) 224-3542
 
Risch, James E. - (R - ID) (202) 224-2752
 
Roberts, Pat - (R - KS) (202) 224-4774
 
Rockefeller, John D., IV - (D - WV) (202) 224-6472
 
Sanders, Bernard - (I - VT) (202) 224-5141
 
Schumer, Charles E. - (D - NY) (202) 224-6542
 
Sessions, Jeff - (R - AL)  (202) 224-4124
 
Shaheen, Jeanne - (D - NH)  (202) 224-2841
 
Shelby, Richard C. - (R - AL)  (202) 224-5744
 
Snowe, Olympia J. - (R - ME)  (202) 224-5344
 
Specter, Arlen - (D - PA)  (202) 224-4254
 
Stabenow, Debbie - (D - MI)  (202) 224-4822

Tester, Jon - (D - MT)  (202) 224-2644 
 
Thune, John - (R - SD)  (202) 224-2321
 
Udall, Mark - (D - CO)  (202) 224-5941
 
Udall, Tom - (D - NM) (202) 224-6621
 
Vitter, David - (R - LA)  (202) 224-4623
 
Voinovich, George V. - (R - OH)  (202) 224-3353
 
Warner, Mark R. - (D - VA)  (202) 224-2023
 
Webb, Jim - (D - VA)  (202) 224-4024 
 
Whitehouse, Sheldon - (D - RI) (202) 224-2921 
 
Wicker, Roger F. - (R - MS)  (202) 224-6253 

Wyden, Ron - (D - OR) (202) 224-5244

CALL NOW! I just did! It is so easy!  Ask if they have a view? If they say no, Ask them - Why not?  Advise that everyone you spoken to in your town wants it to end! Ask if the person is a true leader and can rise above party lines?  Ask them about our translators in Iraq that were supposidly gay and fired for being Gay?  Ask them how many soliders died due to lack of translators?  Tell them 76% of American people support ending DADT.  Ask them to give us a Christmas Gift and do it now!

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The broomstick twist is the perfect move to work your obliques, the muscles that run along the sides of your belly. This will help slim your "love handles," the dreaded fat that accumulates just above the hip. Are you ready? Let's begin:

Step 1: Place a broomstick across the back of your shoulders, grip with your hands, and sit on the ball with your back straight, abs tight, and chin up. Twist your upper body to one side.

Step 2: With your chin up and abs squeezed tight, feather your breathing as you slowly twist to the other side though a count of 10 seconds.

Step 3: Hold and squeeze for 2 seconds at the maximum tension point.

Step 4: Return to the starting position through a count of 10.

Step 5: Repeat three times without resting.

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A Gay Soldier's Letter Before Leaving For Afghanistan

Huffington Post / Dec 17, 2010

 

I'm writing letters to my loved ones in case I don't return from Afghanistan. I hope my partner never has to open his. If he does, it will ask him to tell who I was, because I couldn't.

I was a teenager when my brother came home with an American flag draped over his coffin, so I understand the fragility of life and the dangers of serving. And the additional burden of Don't Ask, Don't Tell is one I choose to carry. I volunteered for deployment, and I continue to serve. It's my deepest core value, whatever the cost.

The silence is the hardest part. I listen intently as my fellow soldiers talk about facing the reality of leaving their loved ones for a year and all the life events that will be missed. I don't talk about my own experience at all, because it's easier to come across as cold and removed than to risk slipping and mentioning that my loved one is of the same gender. For all I know, there are other gay soldiers in my unit, ones who understand what I'm going through. My gay friends in civilian life are supportive, but they don't often understand the military or soldiering. That camouflage is another burden I carry as I prepare to leave.

It's also difficult knowing that this policy is nothing more than politics. I try not to think too much about DADT and how destructive it is to peoples' lives, to military units, readiness, and to the progression of our country to a better place. But when I do let myself think about these things, I seethe with anger.

I am angry at the politicians who have for several years talked the talk on the policy, heightening the awareness of homosexuality among military personnel, and then done little to nothing to actually change it. We gay soldiers are the ones who suffer but can't openly participate in the debate.

I am angry at certain senators -- John McCain comes to mind -- who have obviously lost touch with any understanding of the current generation of service men and women, who, as we all know, support repeal at overwhelming numbers. They hide behind a vitriolic rhetoric fraught with illogical arguments and innuendo, smothered by their obvious fear.

And so we wait to see what the Senate will do. In the meantime, I have to remind myself to look elsewhere for comfort, to remember the courage of people like Dan Choi and his consistent devotion to changing this policy, at a very personal cost. Or Katie Miller, who made public at West Point who she really is, but would seek return the moment the policy is overturned. I also remind myself of the moral courage of Secretary Gates and Admiral Mullen, thankful that some at the highest level of military leadership get it even as others call our plight a "distraction."

And I'm reminded of the moral courage of my partner, who encourages me everyday to continue to put on that uniform; who believes that some things are worthy of our energies; who quietly plods along and prepares for my deployment as I do the same. I know as a soldier, it is the people we leave behind who bear the real brunt of deployment, who hold it all together, who send the care packages and pray for our returns. He'll have to do it on his own though. There are no support groups for the gay partners left back home.

In the meantime, gay soldiers who are still serving in silence will continue to put on our rucksacks and do what our country asks of us -- and wait.

"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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