Wednesday, April 6, 2011

[Peckers_Pics] Model Wars; PICS + Articles; Apr 7, 2011/Boycott TARGET



Model Wars; PICS + Articles; Apr 7, 2011
Safe PICS For All Ages/Boycott TARGET/Support Keith Olbermann-coming to CURRENT TV

Updates on Keith Olbermann  @ ObamaBiden2008 (Update: Keith joined "CURRENT TV").  Check with your cable provider to see if you have "Current TV".  Current TV's website has option for you to request service from your cable provider.   Current TV's founder is Al Gore.  Charter Cable does not carry "Current TV".  Please Contact Charter now!  Keith is a man who stuck his neck out for progressives, as well as the LGBT community. Update:  Keith began his FOK NEWS blog. 

Alert: Target + Minnesota Forward + Tom Emmer = Support for a rather dangerous and radical political philosophy that diminishes LGBT people to pests that should be murdered. And "Target" is cool with this?   ...Now Target is suing the LGBT community for their peaceful demonstrations in front of their stores.    ....Our answer:  BOYCOTT "TARGET"

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Diet & Fitness:

  • Reminder: Did you complete your Diet Journal today?
  • Did you do any physical activity?  If not, make a point of it by tomorrow! 
  • Perhaps our male fitness photos shall inspire you to get Fit!
Health - Wellness - Exercise - Reflections:
Is My Diabetes Medication Causing Weight Gain?

By Lifescript Editorial Staff / April 06, 2011

Yes, your diabetes medication could be giving you extra flab, according to the American Diabetes Association (ADA). When you get better control of your diabetes, you no longer lose glucose in your urine, so your body retains those calories.
Some classes of diabetes drugs are more likely to cause weight gain. They include:

•Sulfonylureas (such as glyburide and glipizide)
•Meglitinides (Prandin)
•Insulin
•Thiazolidinediones (the glitazones), such as gioglitazone and rsiglitazone (These are the drug class most commonly associated with weight gain and fluid retention.)

To prevent weight gain, you can exercise more and make lower-calorie food choices.

Those most likely to develop edema (retain water) are those who already have it. Women, overweight patients and those with kidney disease and high blood pressure are at greatest risk. Sometimes doctors prescribe diuretics to control edema; a patient may also need to switch medications.

Other medications to try include:

•Metformin -- which works like the glitazones but doesn't cause weight gain -- may help with weight loss. You can ask your doctor about it, but watch for side effects, including gas, bloating or diarrhea. You also can't take it if you have heart problems.
•Alpha-glucosidase inhibitors (such as acarbose and miglitol) don't cause weight gain, but side effects can include gas, bloating or diarrhea.
Take Action:
  • Boycott advertisers of Glenn Beck - Fox News.  Glenn Beck is anti-gay rights.
  • Update: DADT has been repealed. President Obama has kept his promise!
  • Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers.  Bill discussed a French commercial by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to be Al-Qaida friendly as well?  Imagine - Bill O'Reilly compares Gays to Al-Qaida!
  • Boycott Arizona the home of  "hater" - U.S. Senator John McCain. Arizona's Hateful anti-Immigration Law - encourages racial profiling and increases hatred towards minorities.  A remedy: Demand Republicans to  support Immigration Reform (The Dream Act). Further, Senator McCain voted against ending DADT and Blocked Immigration reform! 
  • Boycott Target, Best Buy, Gold's Gym - for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations. Update: (12/26/2010): Target is continuing to donate to anti-gay groups/causes/politicians. Update 03/08/11 - Lady Gaga Ends Target Partnership, Reportedly Over Target's Poor LGBT Stance. Update 3/25/2010 - Target displays their hypocrisy and Sues California Gay Rights Group for Lobbying Outside Stores.  Target is attempting to block the LGBT right of free speech!  STOP SHOPPING AT TARGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • End DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act).  Prevents Federal employees and Gays in the Military from gaining equal benefits. Prevents Gay Partners from gaining equal benefits.    
  • Pass ENDA (Employee Non-Discrimination Act).  ENDA would prevent employment discrimination of  LGBT workforce.
  • Boycott Salvation Army as they will not hire Gays! "DO NOT DONATE TO THEM."
  • BOYCOTT "Chick-fil-a" for donating to anti-gay marriage groups.
  • BOYCOTT KOCH INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS- to include their products: Angel Soft toilet paper / Brawny paper towels / Dixie plates, bowls, napkins & cups / Mardi Gras napkins and towels / Quilted Northern toilet paper / Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper / Sparkle napkins / Vanity fair napkins / Zee napkins / Georgia-Pacific paper products & envelopes / All Georgia-Pacific lumber & building products (INVISTA Products) / Lycra / Stainmaster Carpet.   The billionaire - Koch brothers are ultra republican - tea bag founders/supporters that do not support causes of the LGBT community.
  • Boycott WALMART - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, force criticized Wal-Mart for denying employee benefits to same-s-x partners and for failing to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. By comparison, the group said two other chain stores with a strong presence in New York, Costco and Walgreens, did much better.
  • NEW: Boycott Donald Trump, The Apprentice and NBC Network! Trump stated he is considering a run for president as a Republican. In a interview with the Des Moines Register, Trump added that he opposes all forms of legal recognition for gay couples, not just marriage. "They should not be able to marry," he said. So why does NBC keep the Apprentice running - when Donald Trump has stated he may run for president? Boycott NBC! Boycott advertisers of The Apprentice and Trump's other business's. Don't shop at any building with Donald Trump's name!  The Donald has expressed extreme Hatred.  Remember how poorly he treated Rosie O'Donnel?  Now we know why he did that!  It was hate against a lesbian as we now know he is hater.  Unforgiveable!  Ready to dump NBC because they air Donald Trump's "The Apprentice"?  Start Watching CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.
  • NEW: Boycott "APPLE." For the current owners and the aspiring owners of the I-phone,  Apple allows an application, "The Gay App", which is supposed to help gay individuals turn straight.  This is a step in the wrong direction.
    Apple needs to know that the decision to allow this App on their products is a fallacious idea! Update: March 23, 2011:  Apple removed this app from USA stores; but, possibly not from foreign stores.  This is offensive not just towards the LGBT community in the USA; but, offensive to  the entire LGBT community around the world.  How does anyone approve such a hateful, despicable app towards the LGBT community? Especially when Gay Teens are killing themselves after being harrassed by their church, parents, as well as  by bully's and teachers at school. The idea that this app was used, solicited is disgusting.  
  • Remember David Kato, Gay activist - Uganda, who was slain because he is gay!

And Now, Model Wars!

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!
 
Your participation in discussion of health / news articles - appearing in this message is greatly appreciated.
 
Josh Jolley
 
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Colton Ford
 
You Decide!
Big Top @ Club 8; San Francisco; March 26, 2011
Stoked?
Big Top @ Club 8; San Francisco; March 26, 2011
'Brookings' Of Gay Rights Movement Marks 10 Years As Brains Behind Marriage, DADT Policy Shifts
Andrea Stone / Huffington Post / Apr 6, 2011

WASHINGTON -- The Census Bureau used its research and sought its help when the Obama administration decided to publicly report same-sex spouses for the first time in the 2010 population count.

The Congressional Budget Office cited its work when it gauged how recognizing gay marriages would impact federal benefits and taxes.

And when a federal judge struck down Proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage in California, he based his ruling on expert demographic and economic testimony from its research director and cited its findings more than 30 times in the decision now on its way to the U.S. Supreme Court.

If there has been a single intellectual engine driving the shift in attitudes and laws regarding sexual orientation, it is arguably the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. As it celebrates its 10th anniversary this month, the California think tank has grown into the 'Brookings Institution' of the gay rights movement.

"Objectivity is our modus operandi, the source of our credibility," said Brad Sears, the institute's executive director. "Being at an academic institution, connected to a law school and working with faculty from a wide range of disciplines, our research meets the standards of the academy. No matter how a piece of research comes out, that's how it comes out."

While it may be little-known outside the gay community, Williams policy studies and law review articles are ubiquitous in scholarly footnotes, friend of the court briefs and congressional testimony. Its influence has far outstripped its small staff, which includes respected demographer Gary Gates, co-author of The Gay and Lesbian Atlas.

Williams analysis was cited in the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. Advocates for federal hate crimes legislation and workplace anti-bias laws in 21 states and the District of Columbia used (.pdf) its data to bolster their case.
 
The ongoing efforts to pass the stalled Employment Non-Discrimination Act and repeal the Defense of Marriage Act are relying heavily on Williams research. Indeed, it would be difficult to find an Obama administration policy change affecting gays and lesbians that didn't cite Williams research.

The institute has also trained more than 2,000 judges on LGBT issues, including domestic violence in same-sex relationships and the problems gay youth face in the juvenile justice system. It also runs a fellowship program that has produced six law professors who focus on gay and lesbian issues.

Williams research has determined that:

* One in five same-sex couples are raising children. Four percent of adopted children in the U.S. are being raised by gay parents and 6 percent in foster care live in homes headed by gay adults.

* 71,000 members of the military are gay, lesbian or bisexual. So are more than 1 million veterans.

* Poverty rates are higher among gays than the general population. Gay men earn earn 10 to 23 percent less, on average, than straight men. Children of same-sex couples are twice as likely to be poor than those of opposite-sex couples.

Conservative advocates routinely dismiss such findings. Yet, as the think tank marks the end of its first decade -- Census Director Robert Groves is scheduled to give the weekend's closing keynote speech -- it isn't universally applauded in the gay community either. Sometimes its findings don't follow the standard gay advocate talking points.

When it began a decade ago, activists routinely insisted that gay men and lesbians made up 10 percent of the population. Research by institute scholars later concluded that just 3.5 percent of Americans, or 9 million people, identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual. The percentage rises to 7 percent if those who don't identify themselves as gay but practice same-sex behavior are included.

The institute's first report in 2003 was similarly "politically incorrect." It predicted a loss in state revenues if California passed a domestic partnership bill for same-sex couples, even as it showed that extending benefits would have a positive impact overall. Gov. Gray Davis took the finding into account when he signed a bill legalizing domestic partnership later that year that barred domestic partners from filing state income taxes jointly so as not to negatively impact the state budget.

More recently, Williams released an economic analysis of proposed civil unions in Delaware. It estimated the state would see increased business activity if they were legalized but also said Delaware would net nearly $400,000 less in annual tax revenues.

"You don't get laws passed or court cases won by just saying it would be nice or it should be or its not right if you don't change this. You don't win that way," said Chuck Williams, the businessman and academic who founded the namesake institute. "You win by presenting objective data."

A wealthy Malibu philanthropist then teaching business at conservative Pepperdine University, Williams was writing his will when he decided he wanted to use his money to help end discrimination "embedded in our society" against gays and lesbians. Starting with an initial gift of $2.5 million, he approached 15 major research universities before settling on UCLA. Since then, he has given $13 million more to help bring the institute's endowment to more than $20 million.

The think tank was founded three years before Massachusetts became the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. Today, 80,000 gay couples have married and 90,000 more are in legally recognized civil unions or domestic partnerships. But the institute's founder insists that when he thought up the project, "marriage was not on the radar screen."

Equality was. "Is that an agenda? Yes," he said. "But this thing called 'a gay agenda'? No."

Conservatives scoff at the notion the think tank is anything more than an arm of the gay rights movement.

"The Williams Institute, with its generic-sounding name and academic affiliation, seeks to give the impression that it is an unbiased source of information regarding issues of sexual orientation," said Peter Sprigg, senior fellow for policy studies at the conservative Family Research Council. "In truth, it is nothing but an advocacy organization, using its resources to promote elements of the pro-homosexual political agenda."

Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest gay advocacy group, said it is "always tactical to impeach the messenger or impeach the research." But he and other gay rights activists say the institute's research has stood up where pure propaganda has not and has helped convince a growing number of legislators and judges that policies and laws need to change.

"It wouldn't serve any purpose if their research weren't objective," Solmonese said. "From where I sit, it's been incredibly helpful to have factually based, methodologically sound research to back up the cause."
"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
  
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