Saturday, October 8, 2011

Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Hair Wars-Oct 9, 2011-Boycott Georgia-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army



You could print it out and give it to him, as you ask him to stop, or put something under the door to stop it from escaping his apartment, as you tell him how it's effecting you. Along with some info on how to get some help. Usually someone on crack is ADDICTED. So, if he's going to stop, he's going to need some help.

--- On Sat, 10/8/11, Chet Thompson <chetkcmo@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Chet Thompson <chetkcmo@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Hair Wars-Oct 9, 2011-Boycott Georgia-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, October 8, 2011, 8:21 PM

 

Too bad EVERYONE can't read the article on smokling!!! I have ajerk who lives across the hall and he smokes tobacco, crack, and weed, and it nearly sends my allergies into major reactions EACH time that he strikes a light for the crack and weed. But he doesn't even think of the realities of what that stuff does to himself, let alone to others.

With Love, in Christ Jesus,

(The Rev.) Chester G. Thompson

Romans 1:16-17; Jeremiah 29:11-14 

 


It is GOD's Plan for us to show His Love to All Others in this Life, may we be True Followers of Jesus! May my life be that kind of demonstration of GOD's Love.

--- On Sat, 10/8/11, Jake <jakewest_tn@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Jake <jakewest_tn@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Hair Wars-Oct 9, 2011-Boycott Georgia-Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS-Salvation Army
To: Peckers_Pics@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, October 8, 2011, 2:30 PM

 

Hair Wars-PICS-Health-News-Oct 9, 2011-
"NO" Religious Discussion / Safe PICS For All Ages/
Boycott Trump-TARGET-FOX NEWS/Murdoch-Salvation Army
Watch "Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann" on "CURRENT TV" (8 PM EST, M-F).

Consider joining:

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:
Why Smoking Is Not Sexy and Other COPD News

Three recent studies on chronic pulmonary obstructive disease (COPD) and smoking shed light on the pulmonary disease. COPD patients, be warned: Your inhaler may be hurting you more than it's helping; an antibiotic has been found to reduce symptoms of COPD and improve quality of life for COPD patients; and - not a huge shocker รข€" a study shows why smoking isn't sexy. Read on for the latest news in respiratory health...
 

Smokers Don't Make Better Lovers

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Lighting up could be slowing your spouse down in the bedroom, suggests a new study.

Men who successfully stopped smoking improved on lab measurements of sexual health more than those who relapsed after a quit-smoking program. The findings show that smoking may be affecting the sexual health of men who consider themselves perfectly alright in the bedroom -- and not just those with impotence, researchers say.

"With younger men, the risks of smoking in that population appear more far off. They think, 'I don't really need to worry about this until much farther down the road,'" said study author Christopher Harte, from the VA Boston Healthcare System.

The findings, he said, are "still not definitive," but the goal was "getting the word out so it could influence [men's] decisions to start the quitting process," he told Reuters Health.

Harte and co-author Cindy Meston from the University of Texas at Austin enrolled 65 men without self-reported impotence in an eight-week quit-smoking program using nicotine patches. Before treatment, halfway through, and a few weeks after, they brought the men into a locked lab and showed them a racy film.

While they watched, men kept track of how aroused they were and a device measured how much their penises grew or shrunk. Separately, they also filled out surveys about sexual function outside of the lab, including questions about desire and sexual satisfaction.

By the end of the study, 20 men hadn't lit up in at least a week, while 45 were still smoking.Quitters saw a greater increase in penis growth (measured by width, not length), compared to non-quitters. By their own scoring, those men also reached their peak level of arousal sooner than men who were still lighting up.

However, men who had dropped the habit didn't report any sexual improvement in "real-life" settings, researchers reported in the British Journal of Urology International. It's possible, they added, that the improvements they saw in the lab may take time to translate to the bedroom.

"It might take longer for men to actually notice their level of difference subjectively outside of the lab, which is also dependent on their relationship with their sexual partner," Harte said.

While smoking has been linked to a host of other health problems such as cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and heart disease, the researchers said their finding is a new angle for doctors to use on men still reluctant to try quitting.

Previous research has shown that long-term smokers and COPD patients are up to twice as likely to have impotence as non-smokers.

"There is a fairly strong body of data that link smoking as a major risk factor for erectile dysfunction," Dr. Lydia Bazzano, who has studied that topic at the Tulane University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, said in an email.

Smoking can slow blood vessel dilation, Bazzano told Reuters Health, which is necessary to get an erection.

But, "this doesn't just apply to men with severe erectile functioning issues," Harte said.

"The take-home point is that even men who don't have a clinical diagnosis of (erectile dysfunction)... may still benefit from quitting smoking," he concluded.
 
 
FDA Rejects New Mist Inhaler

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A mist inhaler used to improve breathing in COPD patients and people with lung diseases, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema, may increase their risk of dying by 52%, U.S. and British researchers said in June.

The increased risk occurred in patients who used the Spiriva Respimat inhaler, a newer device sold by Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Pfizer. It delivers a soluble form of Spiriva, known generically as tiotropium.

The finding was contested by Pfizer and BI.

The inhaler is used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, the fourth-leading cause of death worldwide, which includes the chronic lung diseases emphysema and bronchitis. COPD is usually due to decades of smoking.

"What we think is going on is that the mist inhaler is delivering a higher concentration of tiotropium than it should be and that may be increasing the risk of death," Dr. Sonal Singh of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who led the study, said in a statement.

The inhaler is approved for use in Britain and Europe, but failed to win a nod from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which noted an excess number of deaths in a study of 17,000 patients. Instead, the FDA said it wanted more proof the inhaler was safe.

The new study, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ), is based on analysis of data from five clinical trials involving 6,500 people.

It found that the risk of death in patients using the tiotropium Respimat inhaler was 52% higher than patients who used a placebo."We estimate there will be one additional death for every 124 patients treated for a year with tiotropium Respimat," Dr. Yoon Loke of Norwich Medical School at the University of East Anglia, who worked on the study, said in a statement.

He said some of the added risk stems from patients dying of heart trouble, especially for those with existing heart problems. Those problems may be made worse with use of the product.

Pfizer and BI said in a statement they did not agree with the study authors' conclusion.

"When analyzing the clinical data, Boehringer Ingelheim and Pfizer, unlike the authors of the BMJ publication, have access to detailed patient level data. A thorough analysis of these data revealed a statistically non-significant, numerical imbalance in number of fatal events with Spiriva Respimat," the companies said.

The drugmakers added that all the studies included in the pooled analysis had been published and already shared with European regulatory authorities.

Most COPD patients use inhalers to help them breathe and more than half a million prescriptions for tiotropium inhalers were issued in Britain last year.

Common Antibiotic Reduces Acute Attacks in COPD Patients
Adding a common antibiotic to the usual daily treatment regimen for COPD can reduce the occurrence of coughs and labored breathing attacks and improve quality of life, report new results from a clinical trial funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

"These promising results with azithromycin may help us reduce that burden and improve the lives of patients at risk," said Susan B. Shurin, M.D., acting director of the NHLBI.Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients often suffer from sudden onsets of worsened cough, wheeze, and labored breathing induced by bacterial and/or viral infection. These attacks are called exacerbations.

Azithromycin is already prescribed for a wide variety of bacterial infections including pneumonia and strep throat.

Previous research suggested this antibiotic might work for COPD exacerbations, but this study was the first to enroll a large number of COPD patients and treat exacerbations with this drug over a long time.

Participants had a history of exacerbations in the previous year or needed oxygen therapy.

The 570 study participants who took 250 milligrams (mg) of azithromycin daily for a year in addition to their usual care averaged 1.48 acute COPD exacerbations annually, compared to 1.83 exacerbations for the 572 participants who received their usual care without azithromycin.

Subjects taking azithromycin also assessed their own breathing ability and overall well-being more favorably on questionnaires.

Eighty percent were already taking other medications normally used to manage COPD, including inhaled steroids and long-acting bronchodilators.

"This study suggests that azithromycin's benefits extend beyond those of other therapies," noted James Kiley, Ph.D., director of the NHLBI's Division of Lung Diseases.

Kiley added that more research is needed to determine the long-term effects of azithromycin treatment and to identify which group of patients would benefit the most.Side effects of azithromycin during the study were minimal. The presence of microbes resistant to azithromycin increased in some patients, although no one developed a clinically evident infection.

A small fraction of participants receiving azithromycin were found to have slight hearing loss, which is a known side effect of the drug.

Azithromycin can also cause heart arrhythmias in susceptible people. No heart rhythm abnormalities were seen in study patients, though people with heightened risks for arrhythmias were not enrolled in the study.

There are an estimated 12 million COPD patients in the United States and the disease is now the third leading cause of death in this country. There is currently no cure, though a combination of drugs and lifestyle changes can help manage the symptoms.

The study was carried out by the COPD Clinical Research Network (CCRN), an NHLBI-funded consortium of research centers located throughout the U.S. that was established to study new treatments for COPD.
Take Action:
  • 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! Further, Boycott Fox's Owner "Rupert Murcoch" and get him thrown in jail for illegal - political donations, corruption, greed, bribery, hacking!
  • 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Update 4/8/2011: Target lost its case to stop the LGBT from canvassing in front of their stores. A huge PR Disaster for TARGET! Perhaps Target should go out of business as they betrayed their investers and customer base. Target contributed massive funds to a politician who would like to exterminate gays. Now, Target can not stop us from Boycotting them, nor picketing, nor talking to customers near their stores; although, Target allows a anti-gay company such as the Salvation Army to stand outside their door and speak with customers and raise money. Isn't this a double standard?
  • 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 a LGBT friendly 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 money to anti-gay 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 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.
  • "Tune Out Trump", Boycott all Trump Hotel, casinos, holdings, The Apprentice and NBC Network! At CPAC, Trump said 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 when Donald Trump has stated he may run for president? After making racist remarks about Obama and recv'g public backlash, Trump decided not to run for president after NBC renewed his awful TV Show. How can NBC re-new the clown's show after he pulled such hateful shenanigans?
  • Boycott Georgia for Execution of Troy Davis @ 11:08 EST, Sep 21, 2011:
    Former US President and Former GA Gov. Jimmy Carter felt that TROY DAVIS should not be executed and deserved a re-trial. The Former Director of the FBI felt that TROY DAVIS Was Not Guilty! Do not drive through Goergia as it is dangerous. Do not fly via Atlanta. For your safety -Do not travel to GA. TELL YOUR COMPANY NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CONVENTION IN GA! "Georgia Executes Innocent People!"

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!
Your participation in discussion of health / news articles - appearing in this message is greatly appreciated.
1
 
2
 
3
 
3a
 
3b
 
4
Michael David Barre
 
5
CASTRO STREET FAIR 2011 - San Francisco - Oct 2, 2011
 
6
CASTRO STREET FAIR 2011 - San Francisco - Oct 2, 2011
 
7
CASTRO STREET FAIR 2011 - San Francisco - Oct 2, 2011
 
8
CASTRO STREET FAIR 2011 - San Francisco - Oct 2, 2011
 
9
CASTRO STREET FAIR 2011 - San Francisco - Oct 2, 2011
 
10
CASTRO STREET FAIR 2011 - San Francisco - Oct 2, 2011
 
11
 
12
 
13
 
14
 
15
 
16
 
17
 
18
Ryan Smith
 
19
Denis Cyplenkov
 
20
Nick M
 
You Decide!
2011 Folsom Street Fair - San Francisco - Oct 5, 2011
Stoked?
2011 Folsom Street Fair - San Francisco - Oct 5, 2011
Super Stoked?
2011 Folsom Street Fair - San Francisco - Oct 5, 2011
Acutely Stoked?
2011 Folsom Street Fair - San Francisco - Oct 5, 2011
Dangerously Stoked?
2011 Folsom Street Fair - San Francisco - Oct 5, 2011
Buck McKeon Would Reject Defense Bill That Doesn't Ban Gay Marriage
By Carlos Santoscoy - On Top Magazine - October 08, 2011

Rep. Buck McKeon, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, has said he would rather pass no defense bill at all than one which doesn't ban marriage for gay and lesbian service members.

Late last month Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness Clifford Stanley issued a memo which stated that chaplains may officiate the marriage and civil union ceremonies of gay couples in states where it's legal, including those taking place on military installations.

The issue had previously surfaced and the House responded in May by attaching a provision to the defense bill that bans such unions.

During an appearance on cabler C-Span's Newsmakers to air Sunday, McKeon told host John Donnelly of Congressional Quarterly that he would rather see the bill fail than have the marriage provision stripped. McKeon also wants a provision that seeks to direct suspected terrorists into military custody.

"It's a give and take process," McKeon said, referring to the process of reconciliation between the House and the Senate.

"It's a give and take process, but you're not going to give on those two issues," Donnelly asked.

"Right," McKeon answered after a brief pause.

Aubrey Sarvis, executive director of Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), called McKeon's threat "shameful."

"It's nothing short of shameful that the Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, charged with protecting and authorizing funding for our nation's service members at war, would be willing to put at risk the equipment and supplies they need in order to advance his narrow, social agenda," Sarvis said in a statement.
Important Notice: Our ObamaBiden2008 Group works hand - in - hand with Peckers PICS (Both groups were co-created to work with each-other). To prevent duplication of articles and questions, all members of this group are expected to join ObamaBiden2008. It is unfair for members that belong to both groups to hear members of just Peckers PICS (only) to make statements when the ObamaBiden2008 has covered such topics in detail. Therefore, members need to join ObamaBiden2008 immediately. This shall clear up communications and confusion. The LGBT cause is too important and beyond 1 person's need to just look at pictures. Therefore, please join ObamaBiden2008 now. No you don't have to read every article! But, it covers the LGBT community and includes updates on Health insurance; LGBT boycott list; Westboro Church; and the end of DADT, etc...Also, updates with the multi - state gov't's war against unions and people with disabilities. The group is created for you! There are gay teen suicides going on. There are Hate crimes against gay people. There are gays who are fired over their sexual identity. There are gay people who died for our cause! You always reserve the right to remove yourself from all my groups if you do not appreciate this request. I have done everything I can and now it is time for you to step up! My Groups are for Yahoo members who sincerely care about LGBT rights and Gay Mens Health! Please Join Now!
 



__._,_.___


All members of "Peckers PICS" are requested to join our "Obama Biden 2008" group as it runs in conjunction to this group.  Both groups shall not repeat articles from one group to another.  However, to gain full knowledge of Gay rights, members must belong to the Obama group as well as this group.  Therefore, please accept your invitation to join. 

To join the Obama group please click (or copy and paste the link into your browser) @  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ObamaBiden2008/join

Thank you!
 

�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 (Moderator)






Your email settings: Individual Email|Traditional
Change settings via the Web (Yahoo! ID required)
Change settings via email: Switch delivery to Daily Digest | Switch to Fully Featured
Visit Your Group | Yahoo! Groups Terms of Use | Unsubscribe

__,_._,___

No comments:

Post a Comment