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Planned Parenthood Uses Bigotry in Online ‘Game’ to Promote Candidate

October 30, 2006

WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /Christian Newswire/ — “It seems that releasing a video ‘cartoon’ depicting the murder of Christian pro-life activists is not enough for Planned Parenthood,” said Douglas R. Scott, Jr., president of Life Decisions International (LDI). “The group has released an online ‘game’ that paints those who oppose the abortion-committing corporation’s agenda as Neanderthals.” The game was created to promote the reelection of Governor Rod R. Blagojevich, D-Ill.

“Not long ago, some pharmacists were refusing to fill prescriptions for contraception,” reads the introduction to the game. “See what it was like in the RX ZONE.”

The goal of the RX Zone game is to “get your RX filled as fast as you can!” The player is told to choose one of three characters to continue the game: a recently married man; a married career woman, or a female college student.

The newlywed is at the pharmacy to get a prescription for “emergency” birth control for his wife. The career woman, with a child in tow, is there to pick up her birth control. The college student is going to pick up a prescription for “emergency” birth control.

The game begins. Each character begins the journey at a street corner near the entrance to a pharmacy. The player’s task is to guide the selected character through the “maze” until the drugs are obtained.

Before entering the building, characters encounter pro-life protesters carrying signs which read, “I miss the 50’s!”; “Keep women BAREFOOT & PREGNANT”; “Conditions for sex: married, procreating, missionary position”; and “Birth Control is for LOOSE WOMEN.”

After entering the store, the characters encounter a young man, an elderly woman, and a professional-looking man and woman.

“Could you tell me where to get this prescription for Viagra filled?” the elderly woman tells one of the characters. “It’s for my boyfriend.”

“You want to know where to get your prescription for emergency contraception filled?” the professional woman asks each character. “I tell you, I don’t have all the answers.”

After proceeding to the counter, a female pharmacist says to the newlywed, “Doing your wife’s dirty work, hmmm?” A male pharmacist tells the career woman: “Nope. Not gonna fill it. Please move aside, while I fill this Viagra prescription.” The female pharmacist tells the college student: “Emergency contraception? You must get around.”

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Beginning to leave the pharmacy, each character reencounters the professional looking man and woman, who turn out to be Judy Baar Topinka, the Republican candidate for governor of Illinois, and Joe Birkett, the candidate for lieutenant governor. “Have you met my running mate, Joe Birkett?” Topinka asks. “Let me introduce you to one of the most rabid anti-choice hardliners in the state. He wants to control your sex life!” (Topinka is pro-abortion but not pro-abortion enough for Planned Parenthood. She favors parental consent and spousal notification. She opposes partial birth abortion. Birkett is pro-life.)

Returning to the pharmacy counter, a male pharmacist suggests that the newlywed, “Try the pharmacy in Paris, France.” The female pharmacist tells the career woman: “Aren’t you old enough to know better?” And to the college student she says, “Emergency contraception? You must get around.”

Turning to leave the pharmacy once again, the characters encounter Governor Blagojevich. “You don’t need a four leaf clover or an old horse shoe to get your prescription filled,” he tells the newlywed. “Call the hotline…and make a complaint.”

This is followed by a statement by Planned Parenthood which praises Blagojevich for issuing an “emergency rule requiring pharmacies to fill prescriptions without hassle, lecture, or delay.” He was also hailed for sending a letter to the FDA urging the agency to make “emergency” birth control available over-the-counter. Blagojevich threatened to make the drugs more available to women in Illinois if it failed to act. “The FDA decided to make emergency contraception available over the counter for women over 18 in August 2006,” the statement continues. “Protect your choice in the pharmacy. “Re-elect Gov. Blagojevich on Nov. 7!”

All three characters return to the pharmacy counter where a male pharmacist says, “Contraception? Of course! Here you go!”

“Once again, Planned Parenthood has added the use of bigotry to its campaign of disinformation,” said LDI’s Scott. “The use of such tactics is commonplace for Planned Parenthood and its legions. They seek to paint pro-life activists as uncaring woman-haters, even though pro-life people care about all human beings. They seek to convince people that ‘emergency contraception’ cannot cause an abortion, even though it usually acts as an abortifacient. They seek to depict Governor Blagojevich as a hero, even though he is hostile to preborn human beings. Will the people of Illinois and the nation tolerate or be fooled by such nonsense? Time will tell.”

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Maintaining a healthy sex drive

October 27, 2006

The sex lives of men can seem like an Aesop’s fable. As years go by and sexual desire fades, men may stop mating with an enthusiasm akin to rabbits and become more like red foxes, lonely animals who make do with one brief breeding season each year.

This tale is a warning, not a law of nature. Men can take steps to protect their sexual desires and abilities throughout their lives, says Jim Pfaus, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Concordia University in Montreal who studies the biology of libido. With some regular sex drive maintenance, “Our generation might keep having intercourse until we drop,” he says. “I hope so.”

There’s no biological reason why a man can’t carry a strong libido to his retirement party or even to his nursing home, according to David Rowland, sex expert and professor of psychology at Valparaiso University. “It’s a myth that sex drive always diminishes as men get older,” he says. “A lot of men in their 60s and 70s line up at the pharmacist’s office for Viagra.”

Still, desire can crumble over the years, often under the weight of physical problems, emotional turmoil and, of course, troubled relationships.

One way to protect yourself: Have lots of good sex now (or when convenient). Not only will you be giving your partner extra incentive to stick around, you’ll be building a buffer around your libido. Frequent, stimulating sex primes the brain to want and expect more sex later in life, Pfaus says.

Research by the late Julian Davidson of Stanford University suggests that a properly primed libido can even withstand a shutdown of testosterone, the male hormone that helps fuel sex drive. He found that about one-third of men with extremely low testosterone levels (often due to testicular disease) still had frequent, satisfying sex. He surmised that these men had become so accustomed to sex that they could be aroused without help from hormones.

Regular, heart-pounding exercise is another good way to keep your sex drive humming. “When you increase your blood flow, you’ll have a much easier time getting aroused,” Pfaus says. You don’t have to jump straight from the treadmill to the bed, either. The high will remain for a few hours afterward.

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In the long run, regular exercise will help strengthen your lungs and heart, two of your most important sexual organs. Exercise can also help prevent obesity, a condition that could potentially mess with hormones — and your sex drive.

As Rowland explains it, fat cells in men tend to secrete estrogen, the female sex hormone. The consequences of extra estrogen in men aren’t clear, but the hormone could conceivably dampen a man’s sex drive as well as his ability to perform, he says.

When a man starts to lose desire, the problem may be emotional, not physical. An unsatisfying job, financial troubles, a death in the family and other upheavals can steal a man’s mojo. “Stress is the antithesis of sex,” Pfaus says. Anything that can help relieve stress, whether it’s relaxation exercises or a trip to the gym, can help put a man’s mind back on more pleasant subjects.

For people who are married or in a relationship, sex drive also reflects the health of partnerships, for better or for worse. Resentment or power struggles can kill desire. And, after a few years or decades together, men and their partners tend to fall into ruts that drain the excitement out of sex.

Some men try to compensate through affairs. But in most cases, they need a change in routine — not a change in partners, Pfaus says.

Men can kick-start their sex drives without straying from their partners by having sex at different times and in different places or by just holding hands or giving each other massages. The famed sex researchers Masters and Johnson found that a week of nonsexual touching exercises put a charge into tired relationships. “By day seven, the couples were acting like they were 16, even though they were 60,” Pfaus says.

While you’re busy enhancing your libido, you should also work to protect your ability to achieve and maintain erections. In other words: Don’t smoke, don’t drink too much, and do what you can to avoid clogged arteries and diabetes

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Budgetary pirouettes, white nights and Viagra

October 24, 2006

I had been promising myself not to write anything about the budget but must break my promise simply because of Tony Zarb who was responsible for one of the most astounding things I read on post-budget day or, rather, Thursday morning, namely that Mr Zarb and the GWU welcome the positive measures introduced! You could have knocked me down with a feather. Just above the news about Mr Zarb, taking up a good quarter of the back page was a wonderful photograph taken by Jason Borg of the MLP press conference! Every picture tells a story.

While dubbing the budget “weak and hollow”, an urbane Alfred Sant, flanked by his deputy leaders, Charles Mangion, who looked stunned, and Michael Falzon, who looked as if he lost a shilling (5c) and found a penny (4m), passed funny remarks about Viagra, which proves that we have, mercifully, not altogether lost our sense of humour in this country.

As everyone with the modicum of common sense predicted, this was a mild and genial pre-election budget. What I would have expected to be a top priority is a heavy investment in alternative energy to make those cruel surcharges unnecessary. When asked why he had not given an indication of a reduction in surcharge, Dr Gonzi said the budget had actually introduced an energy benefit and other initiatives to help people cut down on their energy bills. These measures are “vouchers” given to 17,000 families to enable them to pay their bills and a 20 per cent subsidy, capped at Lm50, on the purchase price of energy-saving white goods.

Not a murmur about wind energy; not a squeak about solar energy was to be heard anywhere.

For all intents and purposes, unless you are one of the 17,000 of the low-income families that are entitled to be given Monopoly money to pay their bills with, you and I are going to have to put up with colossal bills being shoved in our letterbox every couple of months.

I am still very unhappy about how my personal complaints are being handled by both Enemalta and Water Services. I am being charged on an “estimated” 65.53 units per day which everybody I meet with, having, give or take, the same amount of appliances that I have, say, is utterly and ridiculously exorbitant! I have been told that families of six consume an average of 18 units a day so what does that turn a family of two, mine, into? Profligates? As I very much doubt whether I would qualify to receive Monopoly money to pay these bills with and I have no spare cash to pay for new energy-saving white goods to get subsidies of Lm50 maximum, I am truly at my wits’ end about what to do. The sad thing is that, despite the Viagra asides, Alfred Sant and Co. are unable to open their mouths about fuel bills, therefore we, the people, have literally nobody to stick up for us when we are hit where it hurts.

An interesting item was that there will be a 40 per cent increase in the tourism budget with emphasis on improving the product. I would take that to mean training of personnel, restoration of Valletta, the establishment of a special corps that would control abuses, stuff like that which would ensure that Product Malta will become more competitive and a worthwhile one. We will wait and see.

Meanwhile we have had yet another eye-opener about our own culture with the highly successful Notte Bianca. The experiments in July and August - Strada and Streets Alive - had already indicated that the resuscitation of nightlife in our capital is something that would appeal, and greatly too. I was pleasantly surprised and encouraged by the response to the summer events and, like many, was praying for the forecast rain on the 14th to hold off, which it obligingly did till 3.30am.

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The response was overwhelming. The traffic jams converging onto Valletta were a phenomenon we had never seen!

I was due to cover two events for Weekender, one was the Mozart Chamber Music concert at the Manoel Theatre at 7 p.m. and the other was an A Cappella Choir in the Courtyard of Auberge de Castille at midnight. The Manoel event happened without a hitch.

I parked out at Floriana. Met some of my artist colleagues in front of the Opera House. Along with Isabelle Borg, I worked my way down Republic Street to the Manoel. Things changed somewhat after the concert. It was about a quarter to nine and the crowd was becoming denser by the minute. Eventually, after a stint of shopping, where, disappointingly, one of my most frequented bookshops was shut, we ended up at one of my favourite haunts, Trabuxù, which was packed choc-a-bloc.

After a most enjoyable supper and several glasses of wine I felt it was time to get myself to Castille Place. It was about 11.30 p.m.; ample time to get there and find a good place, or so I thought. As I strolled up South Street, my jaw dropped. Castille Place was crammed with people with about 1,000 of them queuing up patiently of the steps of the Auberge. There was nothing I could do as one did not encounter an official till one was practically at the top of the internal staircase. By the time I got there and informed the officer that I wanted to attend the concert in the courtyard and not the tour of the Prime Minister’s Office, it was far too late and when I did finally get to the courtyard, the choir had already gone through three quarters of the programme.

Many people I met were disappointed because many restaurants actually ran out of food or had no place for them! They were all jam-packed anyway. I did notice one outdoor food stall in front of the BoV in Republic Street but that was all. There may have been more. Possibly the mobile kitchens that one usually sees may have been afraid of the rain; who knows? I think though that they would have cheapened the event; a giant marquee on the Palace Square with organised food stalls may be a good idea to consider next time round.

Saying that there were too many people is not a criticism. I very much doubt that the organisers ever anticipated such a response. What has to happen is that Notte Bianca, in a modified form, should be a year-round ongoing occurrence that will breathe life into our capital city.

The government should also get real about Valletta itself. In the last five years, less has been spent on the restoration and maintenance of Valletta than on one measly embassy or what have you in Brussels, to mention just one example. There also should be something done to organise traffic and to facilitate transport to and around the city. In the East there are these wonderful little taxis called Tuktuks which would be ideal to negotiate Valletta’s narrow streets and enable the elderly and the disabled not only to enjoy events like these but to get to their destinations around the city on a day-to-day basis.

Whatever happened to the Park and Ride scheme? If ever there was a time to try it out it was during Notte Bianca. If it worked out then we would all have known whether it was a worthwhile exercise or not. Now we can only guess!

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Get on the (Short)Bus: John Cameron Mitchell in High Gear

October 19, 2006

Movie directors have gone to extraordinary, unexpected lengths to gain their cast and crew’s trust, or to coax performances. Add actor/writer/director John Cameron Mitchell to that ever-growing list of auteurs. While shooting Shortbus, his dramedy about a group of New Yorkers who intersect at a progressive underground salon/sex party—that features explicit, very real sex—one of the lead actors felt that Mitchell should show solidarity by going to the same lengths he expected his cast to.

“She was like, ‘If we have to have sex, you should do something,’� he recalls. “I said, ‘Alright, I’ll do something I haven’t done—I’ll eat pussy.’ So I eat pussy for the first time in one shot. I didn’t get turned on, but I realized that from that angle I could see the actors and could continue to direct them, so that was fun.�

The long-awaited follow-up to 2001’s Hedwig and The Angry Inch, and Mitchell’s second feature as director, Shortbus begins as a gay couple—depressed former hustler James ( Paul Dawson ) and extroverted former child actor Jamie ( PJ DeBoy ) —seek relationship help from a couples counselor/sex therapist, Sofia ( Sook-Yin Lee ) . But Sofia is dealing with her own relationship problem—she’s never had an orgasm with her husband, Rob ( Raphael Barker ) . So her new clients take her to Shortbus, a modern-day underground salon where art, discussion, music and sex intermingle. At Shortbus, Sofia meets Severin ( Lindsay Beamish ) , an emotionally jaded dominatrix who may hold the key to her G-spot. Meanwhile, James and Jamie welcome a third lover, youthful Ceth ( Jay Brannan ) , into their relationship—much to the chagrin of an across-the-street stalker, Caleb ( Peter Stickles ) , who obsessively spies on them. Can this diverse group of individuals reconcile their love and sex lives … or must they ultimately exist apart?

Sprinkled amongst the cast are some of NYC’s best loved queer and underground performers, including Justin Bond ( of Kiki & Herb ) , drag king Murray Hill, film guru Stephen Kent Jusick ( whose real-life event, dubbed “Cinesalon,� served as an inspiration ) and musician Scott Matthew. Gorgeous animation sequences by John Bair—an amalgamation of CGI and miniatures depicting the city and its outer boroughs—bridge the film together, which is ultimately a celebration of and valentine to the city and its omnisexual denizens.

After starring in, writing and directing Hedwig, which garnered international acclaim and prestigious film-festival awards ( Sundance, the Berlin Film Festival and numerous others ) , Mitchell decided that he would exist exclusively behind the camera when it came to his next project ( barring unforeseen cameos! ) . He also decided to incorporate explicit sexuality, which he saw emerging in serious art-house fare like Patrice Chéreau’s Intimacy and Catherine Breillat’s Romance, but with a humor those titles lacked. ( “We tried to integrate the sex into the characters’ lives the way it is in life,� he adds. ) The story and characters would be developed through improvisational workshops, a la the films of Mike Leigh, and the actors playing couples and sexual partners would need to have genuine sexual chemistry together. Mitchell dubbed this ambitious undertaking the “Sex Film Project� and, in early 2003, he, producer Howard Gertler and casting director Susan Shopmaker held an “open call� via the Internet and trade ads, soliciting audition videos from thespians and would-be actors willing to have real sex onscreen.

Nearly 500 tapes arrived.

Mitchell says that few full-time or professional actors submitted tapes—most maintained other artistic endeavors or careers. “Sook-Yin is a journalist and musician and filmmaker,� he notes. “PJ is a musician. Paul is a writer.� Yet there was one well-known exception: Joseph Gordon-Levitt ( who since has starred in Mysterious Skin ) . “It makes sense that the best-known actor who auditioned was a former child star,� Mitchell observes, “because they’re the ones caught in a very mainstream box and they’re desperate to break out. Joseph was fantastic. He had a very provocative videotape. I was seriously considering him but there was no perfect consort and I wanted [ believable ] couples and it didn’t work out with some of the other actors for compatibility. But I think he enjoyed pushing the envelope and I really admire him.�

Aside from chemistry, Mitchell says practical concerns included STDs ( with everyone who made it to the workshop stage being extensively tested, while background actors who had sex—dubbed “sextras�—were all pre-existing sexual partners ) and representing a wide variety of different body types. ( On the de facto lack of small penises onscreen, Cameron said, “I didn’t really check size when I cast; it kind of turned out that way. And, of course, the screen does add ten pounds.� ) .

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Once filming began, Mitchell admits a few unforeseen sex-related complications arose, resulting in the occasional comedy of errors. “Some people tried Viagra and took it too early,� he recalls, “so they were on Viagra during some dialogue scene and had to take it again. Some people came by accident, or the camera missed them cumming and we had to do it again.�

Other times, the sex was as good at it got for both the filmmaker and the actors. “I think we counted seven real orgasms on screen,� he adds. “Only one is simulated. I’m not telling which one.�

During the extensive improvisational workshops, Mitchell encouraged his omnisexual cast to incorporate elements of their own lives into the story and characters. Yet DeBoy and Dawson, close friends who became a bona fide couple over the course of the film’s making, stress that it was equally important to not simply play themselves.

“The reason John wanted us to dig around in our own sexual and emotional baggage was to get the authenticity of the character you see,� says Dawson. “He wanted us to be playing things that were important to us and that we were especially equipped to play. But, also, he was clear from the beginning this wasn’t a reality entertainment project and in order to do this process we were going to have to distinguish ourselves.�

“It was very important to have the characters not be us at all,� DeBoy adds. “That’s why it was such a great experience creatively.� Dawson and DeBoy shared some pretty intimate experiences with co-star Jay Brannan—famously, a riotous three-way scene during which they sing The Star Spangled Banner.

Singer/songwriter Brannan moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting but became disenchanted and quit. Then a friend spotted a Sex Film Project ad in a trade magazine and thought Brannan, by that point working as a receptionist, might be interested. “I thought I’ll send in the audition tape and take it one step at a time,� he recalls. “I believed in what John was trying to do and if it is something I believe in why not. He’s so good at creating an environment that’s safe and comfortable and it’s very validating.�

All of the actors praise Mitchell and the creative, trusting atmosphere that allowed them to journey down sometimes outrageous, provocative directions and come up with some very funny riffs on pop and political culture. However, not all of those elements and scenes made it to the final cut. One cut sequence saw Ceth masturbating while cruising online porn ads, text messaging and instant messaging at the same time when, just as he ejaculates, his mother calls. “It’s a bit of a satire on this multitasking thing that overwhelms us and we end up not being able to communicate at all,� says Mitchell. And a subplot in which the character of Caleb was working as the Bush twins’ personal assistant, constantly communicating with President Bush via a wireless headset ( which he’s still seen wearing in the final cut ) , was excised. “We found that it called too much attention to this character,� Mitchell explains. “It was an editing decision but it’ll all be in the DVD.�

If Mitchell has his way, by the time the DVD hits shelves we will see a revival of salon culture and social/artistic/sexual gatherings in real life, which he feels could inject a little much-needed liberation, human connection and free-thinking and willingness to explore ideas in today’s queer community. “I’m a little disappointed in today’s gay culture,� he admits. “At how conformist it has become. We listen to the same music, have the same clothes, the same bodies, the same bullshit. I was saved by being gay. It opened me up to art and politics, and to question religion. Now it just seems to be an [ entrance ] to a certain marketing niche, letting people tell you what you’re supposed to like. There’s a lot of diversity. Why not use the fact you’re a freak to create?�

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Hey, I’ll tell you my Max if you tell me yours

October 16, 2006

THERE are certain measurements that define us as men. Yes, there’s that one. Then there’s the maximum amount of weight you can raise in a bench press in a single stroke, known to red-faced, horizontally herniating gym rats everywhere as the “Max” — as in, “What’s your Max?”

The Max — capitalized when used in the sense of its Platonic ideal — is actually a bit of an exercise throwback, a weight-room holdover from a less enlightened time of physical fitness, the anaerobic equivalent of Cold War “throw weight.” As a practical matter, it’s a virtually irrelevant number unless, of course, you plan to push your car to work. As for aesthetics, if you want Abercrombie & Fitch pectorals, you’d be far better off repping out with a lighter weight. You want a major man-rack? Do 200 push-ups a day.

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Only bodybuilders, football players, power-lifters and other scary, thick-necked beefalos really need to care about the Max.

And yet, the Max has its own fascinations. It’s a fairly reliable measure of physical strength — many police and fire departments have a bench-press requirement of their fitness test, usually indexed by body weight, age and gender. For example, an 18- to 29-year-old man might be required to lift 110% of his body weight (203 pounds for a candidate who weighs what I do, 185 pounds). A 46-year-old would probably be obliged to lift only 80% of his body weight — 148 pounds.

Typically, though, the Max is an unequivocal number, a straightforward, highly dynamic test of weight-room heroism. To know your Max is to know the satisfaction of adding weight to the bar after your training partner — with an air of cool and casual superiority that says to him, quietly, “wuss.”

The Max has an ineffable Arnold-ness about it. Nobody cares about your V-Max (cardiopulmonary efficiency) or Pilates stroke count. Please, spare us your breathless tales of holding the salty pretzel pose in yoga class. What kind of iron can you push?

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Given the Max’s exalted place in gym culture, it’s no wonder older guys blow out their rotator cuffs on the bench with such regularity. In my gym, you can actually hear it — from out of nowhere the sound of crashing steel plates, then the keening wail, like a wolf caught in a leg trap. It’s like bells and angels’ wings, except when you hear the sound it means another orthopedic surgeon is going to get a boat.

Like all other measures of physicality, the Max declines with age. The good news, however, is that the Max is less susceptible to decrepitude than other performance metrics. At 46, I can still bench as much as I could when I was 26 — I think my lifetime Max is 250 pounds — it just takes me several more weeks of training to reach that plateau.

Indeed, the Max would seem a resolute outcropping of youthful virility in a rising tide of flab and fallen hair. For this reason, you often see Viagra-generians preoccupied with the Max to the exclusion of other exercises. In my gym there are several old guys who have the pecs of a 20-year-old, even though their keisters are hanging down around their tube socks.

The Max has other satisfactions, such as fellowship. You can’t know how much weight you can lift on the bench without risking what’s referred to in the gym as “failure.” Failure means dropping the bar across your chest and neck, a sensation like being executed by a very dull guillotine. For this reason, you always need a spotter when “Max-ing,” a workout buddy who stands behind the rack, shouting encouragement — All you! You da man! and so on — while bracing to catch the bar.

I think this is one reason I never fixated on the Max. Not that I’m antisocial. I just don’t like lying on the bench with some guy’s crotch over my head.

Another intoxicating feature of the Max has to do with physical proportion. As men get older, their waists inevitably thicken, turning their splendid V-shaped torsos into less-than-splendid H’s, or even ignominious O’s. The body-sculpting solution: Pack on the muscle in the chest and shoulder girdle, thus recapturing some of the taper of younger days.

Chasing the Max — with heavy weight and fewer reps — is a recipe for bulking upstairs. There are, of course, limits. I don’t look good with anything more than about a B cup.

There are certainly ways to maintain the Max. Smarter routines and better nutrition, for example. I personally am an advocate of creatine and other quasi-legal “nutra-ceuticals.” Ask me about my back-ne.

Ultimately, though, the Max doesn’t comfort men so much as haunt us. There are no excuses for declining performance, no places to hide. It’s not like they are making gym equipment out of denser materials these days, like depleted uranium. If you can’t get it up like you used to, well, that’s the way the fragile male ego crumbles. One day, your Max will become your min.

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`Perverted Justice’ sting targets pedophiles

October 11, 2006

LEXINGTON, Ky. - Seven men have been arrested in a sting operation that targeted adults who use Internet chat rooms to try to have sex with minors.

The men - one an elementary school teacher - each traveled to Louisville, Ky., to have sex with what they thought was a 12- to 13-year-old girl.

Some of the men brought condoms, alcohol and the impotence drug Viagra with them.

“These people will go to any lengths to accomplish their act of perversion,” Attorney General Greg Stumbo said Tuesday at a press conference at the state Capitol. “They are that desperate, and that’s the scary part.”

Stumbo’s office teamed with the sexual predator watchdog group Perverted Justice and law enforcement officials from across the state to complete the three-day sting last weekend.

Perverted Justice is an organization that trains volunteers to pose as juveniles in order to catch predators on the Internet. The group has worked with police and the NBC television program Dateline in at least four other states.

In the Kentucky sting, each man approached an adult posing as a young girl in an online chat room, describing the sexual acts they planned to do and then setting up a face-to-face meeting. Some of the men sent explicit photos or videos, Stumbo said.

Perhaps even more worrisome, officials said Tuesday, is that the men came from all types of backgrounds: One Louisville man drove his Mercedes sports car to pick up what he thought was a 13-year-old whose mother was away. A 44-year-old Lexington man with children of his own drove to Louisville for sex with a child. Similarly, a Fleming County, Ky., fourth-grade substitute teacher traveled for hours one day last weekend thinking he had lured a young girl into a sexual relationship.

“The diverse backgrounds of the men arrested last weekend make plain that these dangers are widespread,” Stumbo said.

Six of the men are from Kentucky. One lives in Indiana.

They are: Bryan Prow, 33, of Morganfield; Anthony V. Ross, 26, of Louisville; Leslie Peek, 48, of Owensboro; Steven Duncil, 24, of Flemingsburg; Jeffery Barnes, 44, of Lexington; Todd Noble, 37, of Louisville; and Damon Baete, 23, of New Albany, Ind.

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The men were charged with using an electronic device to entice a minor into a sexual act, a felony. All but one - Peek - were charged with attempted unlawful transaction with a minor, also a felony.

They were all lodged in the Jefferson County Detention Center on a $25,000 bond. Only one of the accused - Baete - had posted bond and been released from jail.

Tuesday, some neighbors who knew two of the men said they were “shocked” to learn of the charges against them.

Monica Story said Duncil lived just down the street from her in Flemingsburg and was a substitute teacher at her 9-year-old daughter’s elementary school. Duncil had accompanied her daughter and her fourth-grade classmates on a field trip to Fort Boonesborough State Park Friday.

“My daughter always said she liked him,” Story said. “When she learned about the charges against him she was, in her words, `grossed out.’ She was thinking he was a nice teacher and he went on her field trip and now to find out what he has tried to do. It was very upsetting to her.”

Fleming County Superintendent Kelley F. Crain said Duncil was a full-time fourth-grade teacher at Flemingsburg Elementary school last year but lost his job because of a decrease in enrollment. He began working in late August as a substitute.

The Kentucky attorney general’s office contacted Crain on Monday to inform her of Duncil’s arrest. She said the school system opened its own investigation and Duncil has been suspended pending the outcome, she said.

Crain said a background and reference check was completed on Duncil before he was hired. She also said that so far there had been no reports by parents, students or teachers of inappropriate behavior by Duncil.

Similarly, Sharon Cole said Barnes, who has lived upstairs from her for about four years in Lexington, appeared to be “a nice guy.” She said he was divorced and has two grown daughters and grandchildren who visit him often.

“I had knee surgery and he would help me mow the yard and would help me inside when I couldn’t get up the steps,” Cole said. “He would even take my snow off the car in the winter time without even asking. This is all just shocking to me.”

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Spam could spell trouble for wireless industry

October 10, 2006

Everyone with an e-mail box knows about spam: junk messages hawking porn, Viagra deals or Nigerian get-rich-quick schemes. But now spam is going mobile, chasing after cellphone users who use text messaging services.

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Earlier this month, some Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel subscribers received unsolicited text messages promoting penny stocks First National Power and Encore Clean Energy. “Subject: the end of oil? First National Power (OTC: FNPR) invents new patent for green energy intiative,” reads one message, sent from Otto@comcast.net. “Encore Clean Energy unveils a new patent for green energy alternative to oil! Exxon, get out of the way!” reads another, sent
It’s unclear who actually sent the messages: Mutual fund company Dimensional Fund Advisors, which owns the dimensional.com web address, has a disclaimer on its Web site stating that it has nothing to do with the spam. The phone number listed in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission documents for Vancouver-based Encore Clean Energy is not in service. First National Power’s SEC documents describe it as a Bellevue, Wash.-based company, but an August press release lists a British Columbia telephone number. Calls to Darryl Mills, described in First National’s press releases as both president and the company contact, were not returned.

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