Saturday, December 31, 2011

RE: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Hair Wars-Dec 31, 2011-Boycott Salvation Army-TARGET-Trump-FOX NEWS



Great pics, as always, Jake, Happy New Year!  And many, many thanks for this great service you are providing.  I can't tell you how much I appreciate what you are doing.  Cheers, Eric.
 
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From: jakewest_tn@yahoo.com
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:55:49 +0000
Subject: [Peckers_Pics] Male/Gay Health-Discussion-PICS Hair Wars-Dec 31, 2011-Boycott Salvation Army-TARGET-Trump-FOX NEWS

 
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Danger Signs

By John H. Sklare, Ed.D, / December 30, 2011

A friend of mine just bought a new car that's fitted with a high-tech warning system that sounds if the car gets too close to another object. This new technology has replaced his old system: a hanging tennis ball that helps him calculate his distance from the garage wall. Any system - even a low-tech hanging tennis ball - that warns you of danger and helps you avoid a hazard is helpful. Which brings me to today's thought.

When you find yourself at Trouble's front door and danger is at hand, what sets off the alarm for you? Do you have a warning system that alerts you to impending danger? I believe we all have some internal alarm, but unfortunately, we don't always pay attention to our instincts. The impending danger signal that my friend now gets from his car is what most of us get from deep in our gut. Is your alarm system in good working order, or do you tend to override it when danger is at hand?
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 - Take Action:
    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?
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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 "Male Athlete" that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit!" Warning: This may stoke you!
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Ed Schultz Tears Into Ron Paul For Anti-Gay Stances After… Praising Rick Santorum?
by Frances Martel / Mediate / December 30th, 2011

Ed Schultz's program (MSNBC) yesterday, like many of Ed Schultz's programs, featured a heavy-handed segment bashing a Republican candidate for having extremist exclusionary views on LGBT Americans and their place under the law. The segment was par for the course, but preceded by an exceptionally good and thorough interview with a presidential candidate- one that, while alone was a great bit of journalism, cluttered the contextual frame of the segment before it: a positive interview with Rick Santorum, who received no such scrutiny on his "family values."

Schultz first promised a "completely objective" take on Santorum, and rather aptly delivered, questioning Santorum on a variety of his policy views- particularly foreign policy, and how he had challenged Rep. Ron Paul on issues therein. He praised Santorum, stating that there "are few on the stump who do a better job at retail politics," and in passing mentioning that Santorum "loves" to "cite religion and family values."

A segment or so later, Schultz was talking about that very same Rep. Paul, and the tenor of his program took a noticeable shift into attack mode over, of all things, allegedly anti-gay stances. He chided Rep. Paul with Raw Story's Mike Rogers for receiving the endorsement of a reverend who "thinks homosexuals should be executed," one "who makes extremists look tame. Rogers argued that the endorsement was a result of Rep. Paul wanting "to free up states to be able to do things like this reverend wants," so that "the state of Texas can basically make being gay illegal if it wanted to." Rogers then argued that what Rep. Paul would like to see happen to the American legal system is that "the Christian law and the Bible become one with the civil law," which at face value sounded like an extremely off-base interpretation of a natural law theory.

For anyone even casually following the career of Rick Santorum, an interview where his stances on Don't Ask Don't Tell and same-sex marriage/adoption is already a significant departure from the norm, though a particularly necessary one should Santorum become the next Republican frontrunner after Iowa. But following that up with a display of how important the issue of gay rights are and how dangerous anti-gay views can be rings, at the very least, disingenuous. At first blush, it is difficult to justify a talk with one of the most vilified- and rightfully so- political figures to the LGBT community without citing this fact. Coupled with an extended claim that said issue is important enough to disqualify a different candidate from the nomination, it feels near impossible.

There are legitimate reasons why Schultz did not see a disconnect between boosting Rick Santorum's credibility among liberals by giving the candidate a sort of stamp of approval while going after a different candidate (and it really doesn't matter who the other candidate is) for having a serious problem with the gay community. For one, the pastor involved in the Rep. Paul affair, according to Schultz, believes in the execution of LGBT people and endorsed Rep. Paul because he sees the opportunity for states to regain the ability to trample the human rights of individuals under the guise of a "small federal government" that allows such things. These views are an order of magnitude more malignant than anything that Santorum appears to believe. Sure, Santorum wants to ostracize the gay community from mainstream society and deprive them of basic legal privileges that all people in a relationship should have, but he doesn't want to kill them. He even talks to them sometimes!

There is also the fact that the single most commonly associated topic to Rick Santorum is his "family values" ideas, which the media treats as such a big part of the Santorum campaign that it ignores almost anything else in his platform- similar to the way, one could argue, that the media obsesses over the racism in Rep. Ron Paul's newsletters or his hatred of the Federal Reserve without looking at his beliefs in other areas.

It would not have been difficult for Schultz to explain to a viewer watching these two segments what he was thinking when he put them together, given how easy it is to feel like a segment of Schultz praising Santorum's campaign prowess followed by him bashing Rep. Paul's anti-gay ties belongs in an alternate universe. The disconnect is stark and merits explanation.

That is not to say that Schultz's Santorum segment standing alone was unfairly positive, or that the Rep. Paul segment alone was unfairly negative. In fact, the Santorum segment was possibly one of the brightest examples of objective reporting from an opinion anchor of the 2012 campaign, and there is much potential benefit from these sorts of exchanges between candidates and partisan anchors who make no pretense of not having a point of view. But the context they give each other serves to punish a candidate for several decades-old comments while praising another who has said far more damaging things repeatedly during this very election cycle- a candidate who ignored the booing of a crowd against a gay soldier in Iraq, who said that much like a napkin will never be a paper towel, a gay couple can never be married.

Watch the two segments back to back (via MSNBC) below, and judge for yourself whether they feel incongruent or insufficiently explained:

Video: Ed Shultz - Sanoritum 12/29/2011
http://videos.mediaite.com/embed/player/container/420/421/FCXYGZ2MTTZ9SSRQ?referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Ftv%2Fed-schultz-tears-into-ron-paul-for-anti-gay-stances-after-praising-rick-santorum%2F

Video: Ed Shultz - Ron Paul 12/29/2011
http://videos.mediaite.com/embed/player/container/420/421/93S17R3GCNTD8LW5?referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mediaite.com%2Ftv%2Fed-schultz-tears-into-ron-paul-for-anti-gay-stances-after-praising-rick-santorum%2F

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/ed-schultz-tears-into-ron-paul-for-anti-gay-stances-after-praising-rick-santorum/
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