Monday, December 20, 2010

[Peckers_Pics] Twink Wars; Dec 21, 2010 - Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated G



 
Twink Wars; Dec 21, 2010
Safe PICS For All Ages, Rated  G
 
Diet & Fitness:
  • Reminder: Did you complete your Diet Journal today?  Get it done!
  • Did you do any physical activity?  If not, make a point of it by tomorrow! Own a bike?  Ride it to lunch, work, park, lake!
  • It is our hope that our male fitness photos shall inspire you!
Today's Health - Wellness / Exercise / Reflections:
Anxiety and Diabetes

Is there a link between having diabetes and always feeling anxious? Maybe, says the American Diabetes Association (ADA).

Of course, plenty of people feel anxious, whether they have diabetes or not. But having the disease adds an extra burden of worry. It can be hard to tell the difference between normal (and even useful) worrying and the kind that indicates a problem.

Additionally, low blood glucose levels can contribute. When blood glucose levels are low, people often say they feel shaky and agitated, which can be embarrassing and even dangerous. Many diabetics can have low glucose anxiety, says the ADA. Preventing lows is important, but so is preventing highs. That's why it's important to maintain stable blood glucose levels.

Here are some tips from the ADA on dealing with anxiety:

  • Try to picture clearly what worries you. Picture it and describe it to yourself in detail. Sometimes writing it down helps.

  • Does anything help you manage your worry? Some people find relief in physical exertion or exercise. Others find relief in meditation, prayer or laughter. Some find that making one step toward changing the worry helps. Talking about your worry to a friend or family member may also help. Try different approaches and repeat the ones that work best.

  • If nothing helps and you can't think of anything that would help, the ADA recommends that you talk to your health care provider.
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And Now, Our War of the Fittest!
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, you should select the guy that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit!"   Warning: This may stoke you!
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College Football's Top 25 Hotties of 2010 – No. 2 Coty Blanchard
- You'd have to look long and hard to discover TheSportsFag's No. 2 college football hottie of 2010: Jacksonville State quarterback Coty Blanchard. No, not Jacksonville, FL, Jacksonville as in Alabama; population ~ 9,000 and home of Cooter Brown's rib shack. From what I understand, the Long John Silvers/A&W closed down a few years back.
- The Jacksonville State University Gamecocks, like their South Carolina brethren, lost last week. Unfortunately for Jack State, the loss occurred in the second round of the FCS playoffs, meaning their season is over. However, the Gamecocks, under the direction of former Arkansas head coach Jack Crowe and quarterback Coty Blanchard, upset Ole Miss in double overtime to start the season and finished second in the Ohio Valley Conference.
- Besides being a total hottie, Blanchard is best known for his athleticism. As a senior at nearby Cherokee County high school in 2009, Blanchard won the state of Alabama's Mr. Football Award, and in basketball and baseball he won the Anniston Star's Area Player of the Year award.
- Blanchard, who rotated quarterbacking duties with junior starter Marques Ivory, also played running back and played in all 12 games as a true freshman in 2010.
 
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aussieBum Boys Invade Selfridges in London
- London shoppers hardly put up a fight Thursday (December 17, 2010) when faced with this invasion crew -- the aussieBum boys took over the men's underwear department in Selfridges on Oxford Street showing off their new day-of-the-week undies. While the calendar may have said Thursday, I'm sure many shoppers were more excited by Mr. Friday
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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' vs. Gay Marriage

By Chris Good / The Atlantic / Dec 20, 2010
They're the two dominant gay-rights issues today, but how do marriage and "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" compare to each other, politically?

At The Corner, Maggie Gallagher tries to relate DADT's nascent repeal to the fight over marriage, perceiving a trend in American culture that backgrounds both debates:

... the inability of those who opposed DADT repeal to kill this bill in the lame duck, even in light of the strong opposition to repeal from troops in the field, is an example of the growing mismatch in culture power -- the power to name reality, the power to determine which stories get told and whose feelings count.

For Gallagher, the DADT debate revealed a cultural mainstreaming of gay rights, which ultimately led to the political consensus around repealing the military's policy.

Gay rights, and homosexuality in general, do seem far more supported/accepted now than they were five or ten years ago, but few actual metrics that come to mind. Fictional gay couples now star in primetime network sitcoms, where "Will and Grace" once seemed kind of edgy. Our last Republican president, Dick Cheney, has a lesbian daughter and supports gay rights. The former chairman of the Republican National Committee is gay.

But there's a mismatch in public opinion on the issues of DADT and marriage, regardless of whether cultural attitudes have changed. The public has long supported a repeal of DADT, while it has opposed gay "marriage."

See the following chart from Gallup on DADT, from May 2010:

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And on gay marriage, from the same month:

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The trends are the same. Since 1996, more and more people have supported gay marriage, while more and more have opposed DADT since 2005.

But changing DADT remains far more popular (67 percent per Gallup, as of December 9) than recognizing gay marriage (43 percent for vs. 47 percent against pew Pew, as of September 9).

At issue, it seems, is the word "marriage." When Gallup asks if gay marriages should be recognized by law with the same rights as "traditional" marriages, it gets negative responses. But when Pew asked in 2009 whether respondents supported "civil unions" that entailed the same legal rights as straight marriages, it found 57 percent support. "Marriage," Pew found, was supported only by 39 percent. Coincidentally, President Obama supports full rights but opposes the nomenclature, saying repeatedly during his campaign that he sees marriage as something that exists only "between a man and a woman."

Policy changes, meanwhile, have followed parallel tracks, as activists have pressed the administration to overturn Clinton-era policies and found that slower means of change, outside the Executive branch, were their only options.

With pressure on the Obama administration to unilaterally repeal DADT early in Obama's tenure, the administration had to tell gay-rights supporters that only Congress could do it; a laborious legislative process ensued. And as gay-rights activists pressed Obama to oppose the Defense of Marriage Act, the issue could ultimately be solved by the prominent court case against California's Proposition 8.

If that case makes it to the Supreme Court, gay-rights supporters could get their way on both issues within the span of a year.

"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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