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Protest "JERRY BRENDA," editorial writer for POST INTELLEGENCER, Paris TN:

  • Jerry Brenda writes a weekly column called "Across the Tracks" These are hate filled editorials. In his Feb 28, 2012 editorial he bashed Gay and Transgender children as being unnatural and placed fault on liberals. Therefore, we ask that all members check into the "PI "weekly, write on each of his articles your comment as follows:
  • Your First name, Last initial, city, state  (Example:  John Smith; Detroit, Michigan)
    (No email address required)
  • Protest statement (Copy and Paste it): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
  • Link Protest Statement to the "PI" in Jerry Brenda's latest Article  - Latest Link  (Note: I will keep his latest hateful article updated weekly, please use this link to place the protest statement. Your email address is "not" required): http://www.parispi.net/articles/2012/03/14/opinion/columns/doc4f5f6dcb2b790084709988.txt

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Eat Your Veggies

By Jorge Cruise / March 15, 2012

Despite the popularity of salad bars and vegetarianism, most adults today don't consume enough healthy greens. Your childhood memories of mushy peas and golf-ball-sized Brussels sprouts may have kept you at bay all these years, but your mom was right: You should eat your veggies. Vegetables are extremely important because they're stuffed with healthful vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals. And they're low in calories and full of fiber, so they'll fill you up without filling you out!

All vegetables contain water, but some, such as lettuce, cucumbers, sprouts, and broccoli, are particularly high in water content. The water you get from eating vegetables will increase your oxygen levels, and the oxidation stimulates your metabolism, which helps your muscles convert fat into energy. Still not convinced of a vegetable's merits? Here's one more reason: Because of their high fiber content, veggies are digested more slowly, making you feel full and satiated for a longer length of time. So consume at least 3-5 servings of veggies a day to keep yourself from overeating.
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:
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  • 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.
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  • Boycott Salvation Army as they will not hire Gays! "DO NOT DONATE TO THEM."
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  • 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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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 "Male Athlete" that may inspire you to exercise and "get fit!" Warning: This may stoke you!
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Click this - Protest statement (Copy and Paste it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
 
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Click this - Protest statement (Copy and Paste it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
 
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Click this - Protest statement (Copy and Paste it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
 
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Click this - Protest statement (Copy and Paste it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
 
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Click this - Protest statement (Copy and Paste it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
 
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Click this - Protest statement (Copy and Paste it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
 
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Click this - Protest statement (Copy and Paste it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
 
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Click this - Protest statement (Copy and Paste it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
 
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Click this - Protest statement (Copy and Paste it as it will direct you to link): "Jerry Brenda of Paris TN - should be fired for his prejudicial anti-gay, anti-transgender statements, dated Feb 28, 2012. A retraction should be made by the Post Intellegencer! Is Paris, TN (Henry County, TN) a place of Hate?"
 
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Student guilty of hate crimes for spying on gay roommate
By Jonathan Allen and Aman Ali / Reuters / March 16, 2012

NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey - A former Rutgers University student who used a computer webcam to spy on a sexual tryst of his roommate, who later committed suicide, was found guilty of hate crimes on Friday in a case that put a national spotlight on gay bullying.
 
Dharun Ravi, 20, faces 10 years in prison on the most serious charge of bias intimidation against Tyler Clementi, 18, who committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge three days after learning his gay encounter was seen by webcam.

Ravi, who invited others to watch the feed from the camera mounted on top of his computer, was not charged with causing Clementi's death.

Ravi, an Indian citizen who has lived most of his life in the United States, will be sentenced on May 21 and remains free on $25,000 bail after surrendering his passport. He faces possible deportation.

Some legal experts said the case elevated the abuse of social media from a common prank, as Ravi's lawyer argued, to criminal behavior.

"It's very important that the jury returned a guilty verdict on the bias crime. It sends a message and it has a deterrent effect on what kids do. It's really important to say, we're not tolerating this," said Susan Abraham, a professor at New York Law School.

Others called the verdict overreaching.

"It illustrates the dysfunction of hate crime laws that were passed with the idea that they would strike out against hate groups and neo-Nazi groups, and instead end up being used in these one-off kind of cases, where immature confused young people act in some way that evidences prejudice," said James Jacobs, a professor at New York University School of Law. Ravi was convicted for using the webcam to watch Clementi's dorm room encounter with a 30-year-old man, identified only as M.B., on September 19, 2010, and attempting to do the same when M.B. returned to the room on September 21, 2010, although he was thwarted when Clementi unplugged the computer.

He was found guilty of encouraging others to watch by accessing the webcam from their own computers, by talking to them in person, sending Internet instant messages and posting notes on his Twitter page including "Roommate asked for room till midnight. Went into Molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."

GUILTY OF HATE CRIME

After 12 hours of deliberations over three days, the jury convicted Ravi on all 15 counts, including two counts of bias intimidation based on sexual orientation, which is a hate crime, invasion of privacy and tampering with evidence and witnesses.

Ravi covered his mouth with his hand and his eyes widened as the verdict was read in a courtroom in Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Juror Bruno Ferreira said it was "very difficult" to reach the guilty verdicts on the hate crime counts, which were tied to Ravi's efforts to twice use the webcam to spy on Clementi's with M.B.

"Thinking about it not being done once, being done twice, not just on one day," was what convinced the seven-woman, five-man panel, Ferreira said.

Prosecutor Julia McClure said she will consult the Clementi family and M.B. to determine what sentence she will ask Judge Glenn Berman to impose.

Victim statements are among the most important factors the judge will consider, legal experts say. "I wouldn't be surprised if the judge gave him a sentence of a year in jail, or six months or something like that. Now the symbolic point is made," Jacobs said.

Clementi's family in March 2011, before a grand jury indictment elevated the incident to a hate crime, released a statement saying Ravi should not receive "harsh punishment."

After the verdict, Tyler's father Joe Clementi, at a news conference with his wife and son James, who is gay, said, "The trial was painful for us, as it would be for any parent who must sit through and listen to people talk about bad things that were done to their child."

Clementi's death came amid a spate of gay teen suicides nationwide, triggering President Barack Obama to condemn bullying, speeding passage of New Jersey's anti-bullying law and prompting Rutgers to offer "gender-neutral housing," which gives students more options when it comes to choosing a roommate.

Going to trial was a gamble for Ravi, who turned down the prosecutor's offer of a plea deal recommending probation, community service and the promise to help him avoid deportation.

A deportation decision will be made by a U.S. immigration judge after Ravi completes his criminal sentence.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/16/us-crime-rutgers-idUSBRE82F0VP20120316
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Obama Opposes NC Gay Marriage Amendment
By TOM BREEN / AP / RALEIGH, N.C. / March 16, 2012 /(AP) ABC BEWS
 
President Barack Obama took a stand Friday against a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in North Carolina, a state he won in 2008 that remains crucial to his re-election hopes.

"While the president does not weigh in on every single ballot measure in every state, the record is clear that the president has long opposed divisive and discriminatory efforts to deny rights and benefits to same-sex couples," said Cameron French, the Obama campaign's North Carolina spokesman, in a statement. "That's what the North Carolina ballot initiative would do - it would single out and discriminate against committed gay and lesbian couples - and that's why the president does not support it."

Same-sex marriage is already illegal by statute in North Carolina but not in the constitution. Last year, lawmakers approved a referendum question that would amend the state constitution to say, in part, "Marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this state."

The state is the only one in the Southeast without such a constitutional provision, and supporters say it protects traditional marriage from being redefined by the courts.

But opponents contend it's a discriminatory measure aimed at same-sex couples, and on Friday they welcomed Obama's statement.

"The president's support is proof that Amendment One, which could take health care away from children, put domestic violence laws in jeopardy, in addition to hurting all unmarried couples in North Carolina, has far-reaching, negative consequences," said Jeremy Kennedy, campaign manager for Protect All NC Families, in a statement.

Supporters of the amendment say warnings about potential side effects on domestic violence protection orders and other areas of the law amount to empty scare-mongering, and said Friday they doubt Obama's statement will have much effect on the May 8 vote.
 
"I believe President Obama has no business inserting himself into the people's business here in North Carolina," said Tami Fitzgerald, chairwoman of Vote FOR Marriage NC. Fitzgerald said she thinks most voters have already made up their minds on the issue, with early voting due to start in just over a month.

Obama has been praised by gay-rights advocates on some of his administration's actions, but has said he is still "evolving" in regard to same-sex marriage and isn't ready to endorse it.

North Carolina and its 15 electoral votes occupy an important place in Obama's re-election strategy. After narrowly winning the state in 2008, Obama has repeatedly visited North Carolina and the Democratic Party will hold its presidential convention in Charlotte in September.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/obama-opposes-nc-gay-marriage-amendment-15939260
 
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