Saturday, February 26, 2011

Re: [Peckers_Pics] Model Wars, PICS; Feb 27, 2011-Safe PICS For All Ages



Wisconsin had a surplus of about 3 billion. Tax cuts came around and now there is a 130+ billion deficit. Now they want to act like unions are the issue--not so, I think that progressives are gonna grow some backbone after they realize what the House and other Repubs are doing.


Dan Savage said this: Republicans want to make it seem like they're only after the gays so the straight folks are like: they're not after me, but guess what? They are after you. They're after abortion rights, they're after contraception, they want to make it so all you can do is have married vanilla sex and do away with all things kink. The gays are the canaries in the coal mine!

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From: Jake <jakewest_tn@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Peckers_Pics] Model Wars, PICS; Feb 27, 2011-Safe PICS For All Ages
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Date: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 10:50 PM

 

Model Wars, PICS; Feb 27, 2011
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Your Weight-Loss Foods: Avoid Bagels

By James Beckerman, M.D. / February 25, 2011

Bagels are actually one of my favorite foods, which makes it that much more difficult to present the following public weight-loss solution announcement:

Bagels are not great if you are on a diet.

Bagels fool a lot of people. They're not fried, they're not too sweet and nobody ever serves bagels for dessert. You might absentmindedly buy one the next time you're at your favorite coffee shop, snack on one during an afternoon break, or grab one from your bag on a Friday morning. As long as you don't grab the chocolate chip one, it's not a big deal, right?

Wrong!

As with any food decision that becomes a habit, the daily bagel has consequences that add up quickly. Bagels from a bakery or café usually have about 400 calories. A little obligatory cream cheese adds 100-150 calories. With so many breakfast alternatives out there with fewer calories and carbohydrates and more nutritional value, a bagel with cream cheese should not be your first choice for breakfast, and it should be your last choice for a midmorning or afternoon snack.

Breaking the bagel habit is a good way to institute a small change in calorie intake for a great weight-loss result. Switching to an English muffin will satisfy your carbohydrate craving and with about one-third fewer calories than a bakery bagel. Add a little sugar-free jam or even a touch of vegetable oil spread and you will still take in substantially fewer calories.
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MoveOn Rallies Gay Groups to Sierra Club Behind Public-Worker Unions
By Holly Rosenkrantz and Matthew Robinson / Feb 26, 2011 / Bloomberg

Labor unions, environmentalists, gay and lesbian organizations and anti-war activists rallied in U.S. cities to back public employees who say they are under siege by Republican governors.

"This really is about collective bargaining and the rights of all people to work and support themselves," said Thomas Cannady, the lead volunteer at a Washington rally today for MoveOn. org, an advocacy group formed to oppose the Iraq war.

Efforts by Republicans in Wisconsin, Ohio and New Jersey to cut benefits and bargaining rights for public employees have triggered union protests in statehouses and a push by national labor leaders to rally opposition. Today, the unions were joined by allies from causes they describe as progressive and from past Democratic Party campaigns, including those who worked for the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.

Protesters gathered in New York City aimed much of their vitriol at efforts by Wisconsin's Republican governor, Scott Walker, to curb collective bargaining rights for public employees. Participants at City Hall Park held signs that said "Wake Up! We are all Wisconsin" and wore the yellow cheese- heads favored by fans of Wisconsin's professional football team, the Green Bay Packers.

"Collective bargaining settles disputes in an orderly way," Ed Ott, former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, said at the rally. "If you get rid of that, you'll go back to the old way of protests and work stoppages."

Record-Low Membership

Labor leaders are planning a $30 million campaign to counter the Republican efforts, which strike at the heart of a dwindling movement. Union membership in private industry fell last year to a record low of 6.9 percent, leaving public employees as the backbone of organized labor. Union membership fell to 11.9 percent of the workforce last year, down from a high of 28.3 percent in 1954.

The attack on public workers can revive the labor movement, Van Jones, the former green-jobs adviser to Obama, said in an interview at a rally in Washington.

"Wisconsin lit the spark, but now the candle has to be lit across America," Jones said.

MoveOn. org took the lead in organizing protests that it said would be held in all 50 state capitals and cities from Boston to Los Angeles. The Sierra Club, Health Care for America Now and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force were among participants.

'Progressive' Movement
The public-employee fight is motivating liberal groups to unify after Democratic defeats in the November elections that resulted in Republican control of the U.S. House, gains in the Senate and victories in races for governor and state legislatures, according to Harley Shaiken, a labor professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

"The current offensive against unions has served to jump- start and unify the progressive movement," Shaiken said in an e-mail. "The rallies are taking unions back to the spirit of the 1930s and adding the energy of the civil rights movement in the 1960s."

Some participants at today's rally described unions as a bastion of earlier generations.

Josh Dischinger, 33, a non-union paralegal from Brooklyn who joined the New York rally, said his grandfather was a coal miner in Kentucky. "He always appreciated what the union did for working conditions," Dischinger said.

Father's Job
Taylor Sappington, 19, a freshman at George Washington University and a speaker at the rally in Washington, said he was protesting in part because his father works for Ohio's transportation department and risks losing collective bargaining rights.

Walker and Ohio's Republican Governor John Kasich "feel they can fix budgets by breaking up unions," Sappington said.

The governors and Republican state lawmakers say benefits must be trimmed to reduce deficits that may reach a combined $125 billion in the next fiscal year.

In Wisconsin, the state Assembly passed limits yesterday on the collective-bargaining power of government workers' unions, as Senate Democrats remained out of state to block action on the bill in that chamber. The Oklahoma House is considering a bill to ban collective bargaining for municipal workers, and Tennessee Republicans have introduced legislation that would bar collective bargaining between teachers and local school boards.
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