Why I don't watch CNN...

I realized today why I don't watch CNN. Tonight we were at a restaurant for dinner with a TV in the corner and the CNN show "Prime News" was on. While I did try to pay attention to the dinner conversation I did make a mental note of the stories that were broadcast during the show.

1) The latest hollywood teen to be arrested for DUI
2) A new "lead" in the Lacy Peterson disappearance proves to be a dead end.
3) Something about the non-gay Senator from Utah still not being gay.
4) Someone received a urn of cremated ashes by mistake during Christmastime.
5) Politicians biggest blunders and goofs of 2007 (and not getting us out of Iraq wasn't listed!)

This is the most important (hence "Prime") news of the day ? These are the most important stories that CNN is using to compete for viewers against Katie and Brian and whoever is on ABC these days I don't know I never watch it... is it still Charlie Gibson?

Is it any wonder that American's don't know what is going on the world today ? Luckily there are several places where people can find out what's happening in the world around them (oh and you and I both know it's not the Fox News Channel). The BBC is now broadcasting an hour of news on BBCAmerica at the same time just for us here in the United States. It's a very good program and very well done. Check your cable or satellite listings for the channel where you are. I also love a show called Democracy NOW! which we get on DirecTV's LINK Channel but it's carried some places on PBS.

The truth is out there !!

Today Marks the Fortieth Anniversary of the crew of Apollo 8's Christmas Message from the orbit of the Moon.
On Christmas Eve, 1968, during the Apollo-8
mission, Astronauts Frank Borman, James A.
Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders, beamed home this holiday message as they orbited the moon(approximately 240,000 miles above the earth).

William A. Anders:
We are now approaching lunar sunrise. And, for
all the people back on earth, the crew of Apollo
8 have a message that we would like to send to you.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. And the earth was without form, and void;
and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And
the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters. And God said, Let there be light: and
there was light. And God saw the light, that it
was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

James A. Lovell, Jr.:
And God called the light Day, and the darkness
he called Night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day. And God said, Let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters. And God made
the firmament, and divided the waters which were
under the firmament from the waters which were
above the firmament: and it was so. And God
called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and
the morning were the second day.

Frank Borman:
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry
land appear: and it was so. And God called the
dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close, with
good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God
bless all of you, all of you on the good earth.

The 10 Dumbest Thing Bush Said in 2007

10. "And there is distrust in Washington. I am surprised, frankly, at the amount of distrust that exists in this town. And I'm sorry it's the case, and I'll work hard to try to elevate it." --interview on National Public Radio, Jan. 29, 2007

9. "I fully understand those who say you can't win this thing militarily. That's exactly what the United States military says, that you can't win this military." --on the need for political progress in Iraq, Washington, D.C., Oct. 17, 2007

8. "One of my concerns is that the health care not be as good as it can possibly be." --on military benefits, Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007

7. "Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for your introduction. Thank you for being such a fine host for the OPEC summit." --addressing Australian Prime Minister John Howard at the APEC Summit. Later, in the same speech: "As John Howard accurately noted when he went to thank the Austrian troops there last year..." --referring to Australian troops as "Austrian troops," Sept. 7, 2007

6. "My relationship with this good man is where I've been focused, and that's where my concentration is. And I don't regret any other aspect of it. And so I -- we filled a lot of space together." --on British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Washington, D.C., May 17, 2007

5. "You helped our nation celebrate its bicentennial in 17 -- 1976." --to Queen Elizabeth, Washington, D.C., May 7, 2007 ( Watch video clip)

4. "The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear -- I'm a Commander Guy." --deciding he is no longer just " The Decider," Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007 ( Watch video clip)

3. "Information is moving -- you know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it's also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets." --Washington, D.C., May 2, 2007

2. "There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible." --Tipp City, Ohio, April 19, 2007

1. "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." --on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007 (Watch video clip)

Our Troops Must Leave Iraq

Our Troops Must Leave Iraq
by Walter Cronkite and David Krieger

The American people no longer support the war in Iraq. The war is being carried on by a stubborn president who, like Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, does not want to lose. But from the beginning this has been an ill-considered and poorly prosecuted war that, like the Vietnam War, has diminished respect for America. We believe Mr. Bush would like to drag the war on long enough to hand it off to another president.

The war in Iraq reminds us of the tragedy of the Vietnam War. Both wars began with false assertions by the president to the American people and the Congress. Like Vietnam, the Iraq War has introduced a new vocabulary: “shock and awe,” “mission accomplished,” “the surge.” Like Vietnam, we have destroyed cities in order to save them. It is not a strategy for success.

The Bush administration has attempted to forestall ending the war by putting in more troops, but more troops will not solve the problem. We have lost the hearts and minds of most of the Iraqi people, and victory no longer seems to be even a remote possibility. It is time to end our occupation of Iraq, and bring our troops home.

This war has had only limited body counts. There are reports that more than one million Iraqis have died in the war. These reports cannot be corroborated because the US military does not make public the number of the Iraqi dead and injured. There are also reports that some four million Iraqis have been displaced and are refugees either abroad or within their own country. Iraqis with the resources to leave the country have left. They are frightened. They don’t trust the US, its allies or its mercenaries to protect them and their interests.

We know more about the body counts of American soldiers in Iraq. Some 4,000 American soldiers have been killed in this war, about a third more than the number of people who died in the terrorist attacks of 9/11. And some 28,000 American soldiers have suffered debilitating injuries. Many more have been affected by the trauma of war in ways that they will have to live with for the rest of their lives - ways that will have serious effects not only on their lives and the lives of their loved ones, but on society as a whole. Due to woefully inadequate resources being provided, our injured soldiers are not receiving the medical treatment and mental health care that they deserve.

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start. Not only was Congress lied to in order to secure its support for the invasion of Iraq, but the war lacked the support of the United Nations Security Council and thus was an aggressive war initiated on the false pretenses of weapons of mass destruction. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Nor has any assertion of a relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda proven to be true. In the end, democracy has not come to Iraq. Its government is still being forced to bend to the will of the US administration.

What the war has accomplished is the undermining of US credibility throughout the world, the weakening of our military forces, and the erosion of our Bill of Rights. Nobel Laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz calculates that the war is costing American tax payers more than $1 trillion. This amount could double if we continue the war. Each minute we are spending $500,000 in Iraq. Our losses are incalculable. It is time to remove our military forces from Iraq.

We must ask ourselves whether continuing to pursue this war is benefiting the American people or weakening us. We must ask whether continuing the war is benefiting the Iraqi people or inflicting greater suffering upon them. We believe the answer to these inquiries is that both the American and Iraqi people would benefit by ending the US military presence in Iraq.

Moving forward is not complicated, but it will require courage. Step one is to proceed with the rapid withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and hand over the responsibility for the security of Iraq to Iraqi forces. Step two is to remove our military bases from Iraq and to turn Iraqi oil over to Iraqis. Step three is to provide resources to the Iraqis to rebuild the infrastructure that has been destroyed in the war.

Congress must act. Although Congress never declared war, as required by the Constitution, they did give the president the authority to invade Iraq. Congress must now withdraw that authority and cease its funding of the war.

It is not likely, however, that Congress will act unless the American people make their voices heard with unmistakable clarity. That is the way the Vietnam War was brought to an end. It is the way that the Iraq War will also be brought to an end. The only question is whether it will be now, or whether the war will drag on, with all the suffering that implies, to an even more tragic, costly and degrading defeat. We will be a better, stronger and more decent country to bring the troops home now.

Walter Cronkite is the former long-time anchor for CBS Evening News. David Krieger is President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

December 1, 2007 -- World AIDS Day

We Gather Together....

Whether it be your family of birth or your family of choice I hope everyone is sharing today with those that mean the most to them.

This bombshell just dropped by Rep. Dennis Kucinich on the Ed Schultz show. Kucinich is considering forcing an impeachment vote on a "privileged resolution" on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Time to call your representative and let him/her know that you will not support any candidate who doesn't support accountability and the rule of law.

You can reach the Capitol switchboard toll-free at 1-800-426-8073.

More details to follow on this post as this news develops…

from the desk of Alex Baldwin....

I feel sorry for Larry Craig. Truly. Even though Craig voted to censure Barney Frank for Frank's tryst with a male prostitute. Craig has been behind some of the most intolerant and anti-gay legislation that a US Senator could put his mark on. Now the very condition that drives countless gay men and women into the closet, the bathroom stall or the hospital may have claimed Sen. Craig himself. That is not a cause for gloating. That is sad. Pathetic and sad.

No one can honestly say what Craig did or did not do. No one can know his real intentions. In the new, jacked-up reality of airport "security", maybe those cops in Minneapolis jumped the stall. But if Craig has the chance, especially now that his Republican colleagues have cut his throat, maybe he will experience a change of heart and realize that to be gay, whether he is or not, ought not be a shameful thing, let alone a crime, for anyone. Had he embraced at least that he might still be a Senator today.

Molly Knows Best...

As usual, the Democrats have forty good issues on their side and want to run on thirty-nine of them. Here are three they should stick to:
1) Iraq is making terrorism worse; it's a breeding ground. We need to extricate ourselves as soon as possible. We are not helping the Iraqis by staying.
2) Full public financing of campaigns so as to drive the moneylenders from the halls of Washington.
3) Single-payer health insurance.
Every Democrat I talk to is appalled at the sheer gutlessness and spinelessness of the Democratic performance. The party is still cringing at the thought of being called, ooh-ooh, "unpatriotic" by a bunch of rightwingers.
Take "unpatriotic" and shove it. How dare they do this to our country? "Unpatriotic"? These people have ruined the American military! Not to mention the economy, the middle class, and our reputation in the world. Everything they touch turns to dirt, including Medicare prescription drugs and hurricane relief.
This is not a time for a candidate who will offend no one; it is time for a candidate who takes clear stands and kicks ass.

Remembering Katrina

Today, August 29th, is the 2nd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Today there are still tens of thousands of families without homes. 30,000 families are scattered across the country in FEMA apartments, 13,000 are in trailers, and hardly any of the 77,000 rental units destroyed in New Orleans have been rebuilt. And this is just one of the many issues the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are still dealing with.

Today, United for Peace and Justice re-affirms our commitment to the struggle to shift the use of our tax dollars away from war and toward the rebuilding of the communities still suffering from Katrina, and serving the many other needs of communities around the country. On this sad anniversary, we urge you to re-commit to this critically important work, a struggle that is interwoven with our efforts to end the war and occupation in Iraq.

We want to call your attention to a new short film produced Brave New Foundation, " When the Saints Go Marching In."

Here's what the filmmakers have to say: "During the making of this video, we heard the heartbreaking stories of good people unable to return home. We have heard the story of the Aguilar family who lost their home to the storm and only received $4,000 in payments from their insurance company. We have met Mr. Washington, an 87-year-old man and former carpenter, who owned three homes prior to the storm. He is still living in a FEMA trailer today. And we've met Julie, who could have returned to her job and normal life, if the government had opened up the public housing units that she had lived in prior to the storm."

Click here to view video

After watching the film and hearing these voices, there is something very specific you can do to help. Sign the petition urging the Senate to pass the Gulf Coast Recovery Bill of 2007 (S1668). The bill is expected to come to a vote after Labor Day. Its passage will be an important step toward rebuilding the infrastructure in the Gulf Coast region.

Sign the petition today.

Please pass the video on and encourage people to sign the petition. It's important we all support the Gulf Coast region's right to return home and put the needed resources toward rebuilding these families' lives.

The Eyes of Tammy Are Upon Us

Tammy Faye Bakker Messner
March 7, 1942 - July 20, 2007

Top 10 reasons to vote Kermit the Frog for President

10. More likely to favor a blurred line when it comes to marraige.

9. Pro-environment. Slogan "It's easy being green" rasing awareness.

8. Miss Piggy potentially karate chopping foreign diplomats in the rose garden.

7. Two heckling old guys in the press room.

6. Gonzo as Secretary of Defense.

5. Electric Mayhem and fish juggling at the Inaugural Balls.

4. Late night shows will be funny again.

3. He'd, naturally, be a Green Party candidate.

2. Fozzie Bear as Vice President.

1. At least we'll know he's a puppet before he gets in office.
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Elect Kermit the Frog for president... at least they don't have to hide the fact that he's a puppet.

George Bush walks into a bar...

During the 2000 presidential campaign, Bush said that he gave up drinking after waking up with a hangover after his 40th birthday celebration: "I quit drinking in 1986 and haven't had a drop since then."

Here's a clip from a BBC News report on June 7, 2007:



More proof the President doesn't have much touch with reality.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Let us pray...

Let us pray that, on next year's National Day of Prayer, there is better attendance at the "Bible Reading Marathon" on the West Front of the Capitol.

Organizers put out 600 folding chairs on the lawn -- the spot where presidents are inaugurated -- and set up a huge stage with powerful amplifiers. But at 9:30 a.m. yesterday,
not one of the 600 seats was occupied. By 11 a.m., as a woman read a passage from Revelations, attendance had grown -- to four people. Finally, at 1 p.m., 37 of the 600 seats were occupied, though many of those people were tourists eating lunch.

Where was everybody?

"This isn't that kind of event," explained Jeff Gannon, spokesman for the host, the
International Bible Reading Association. Gannon, actually a pseudonym for James Guckert, had earned fame in 2005 representing a conservative Web site at White House briefings until it was revealed that he posted nude pictures of himself on the Web to offer his services as a $200-an-hour gay escort.

Let us pray for the power to understand how Gannon made his way from HotMilitaryStud.com to the International Bible Reading Association.

--from THE WASHINGTON POST, Saturday May 5, 2007

This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.

It is not the concern of any one race. The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one - no matter where he lives or what he does - can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.

Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet.

No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

"Among free men," said Abraham Lincoln, "there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lost their cause and pay the costs."

Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far-off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire whatever weapons and ammunition they desire.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them.

Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.

I have not come here to propose a set of specific remedies nor is there a single set. For a broad and adequate outline we know what must be done. When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered.

We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force. For all this, there are no final answers.

Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is not what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence.

We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.

Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution.

But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.

Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.

-- Robert F. Kennedy, April 5, 1968

The Trevor Project Announces Recipients Of Annual Hero And Commitment Awards

Nathan Lane to Receive The Trevor Hero Award and Bravo to Receive
The Trevor Commitment Award at Organization’s Seventh Annual New York Event

The Trevor Project, the non-profit organization that operates the nation’s only around-the-clock suicide prevention helpline for gay and questioning youth, today announced the recipients of its annual New York honorary awards. Nathan Lane, the Tony Award®, Olivier Award and Screen Actors Guild Award®-winning actor who has starred in The Producers, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and numerous other stage, screen and television productions, will receive The Trevor Hero Award; Bravo, the cable network that broadcasts hit programming such as Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Project Runway, will receive The Trevor Commitment Award. Both awards will be presented at The Trevor Project’s seventh annual New York City gala, Harmony, Heart & Humor, which will be held on June 25, 2007 at the Hudson Theatre.

The Trevor Hero Award honors an individual who through his or her example, support, volunteerism and/or occupation, is an inspiration to gay and questioning youth. Past recipients of The Trevor Hero Award are Michael Cunningham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours (2006), and Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award®-winning playwright of Angels in America (2005). The Trevor Commitment Award, of which Bravo will be the first recipient, honors a company or organization that, through its policies, initiatives and other efforts, demonstrates a commitment to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) causes and is a prominent, public example of corporate acceptance of individuals regardless of sexual orientation.

“Nathan Lane’s brilliant career and unapologetic openness about his orientation provide continuing inspiration to our community, especially to its younger members, and we are excited to be honoring him with the 2007 Trevor Hero Award,” said Charles Robbins, executive director of The Trevor Project. “In particular, his very human, poignant and wonderfully funny portrayal of complex gay characters in projects such as The Birdcage and Love! Valor! Compassion!, long before such choices were popular, offer an important source of hope to young people.”

About The Trevor Project

The Trevor Project is a non-profit organization that operates the only nationwide, around-the-clock suicide prevention helpline for gay and questioning youth. The Trevor Helpline, 866.4.U.TREVOR, is a free and confidential service that offers hope through its trained counselors. In addition to the helpline, the organization’s website provides information on identifying and assisting potentially suicidal youth and “Dear Trevor”, a confidential resource where youth can ask questions about sexual orientation and identity issues. The Trevor Project also provides lifesaving guidance and vital resources to educators and parents. The organization was founded by three filmmakers whose film, Trevor, about a teenager who attempts suicide after realizing that he might be gay, received the 1994 Academy Award® for Best Short Film (Live Action).

For more information about The Trevor Project, visit www.TheTrevorProject.org. The Trevor Project is a 501 (c)(3) organization.

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With a rigid ruler handy, get a full erection. Lay the ruler along the top of your penis (that is, the side that faces upward when you're standing with your penis sticking straight out), and press the end of the ruler firmly against your body (where the pubic hair is). Hold your penis against the ruler with your hand, straighten out as much as possible any curvature that may exist, and try to hold your penis so that it's sticking straight out from your body. Then, looking straight down, determine the ruler reading at the very end of your penis.
Which of the following ranges reflects your erect penis length, as measured by the above method? Under 4": 1.1% Between 4" and 5": 7.3% 5.0" to 5.4": 11.5% 5.5" to 5.9": 21.9% 6.0" to 6.4": 25.6% 6.5" to 6.9": 16.8% 7.0" to 7.4": 9.3% 7.5" to 7.9": 3.9% 8.0" to 8.4": 1.4% 8.5" to 8.9": 0.6% over 9.0": 0.4%
Approximate average (based on ranges): 6.13" Approximate average of those age 16 and over: 6.20"
Approximate average erect penis length (age 16 and above) vs. preferred underwear type: Briefs-wearers: 6.00" Boxers-wearers: 6.25" Boxer-briefs-wearers: 6.29" None: 6.33" Interesting — guys who wear briefs have shorter penises than guys who wear looser styles, or nothing. But it's impossible to determine cause and effect: Does the underwear syle affect penis size, or does penis size affect a person's choice of underwear? More studies are needed!
How would you describe the typical size of your flaccid (non-erect) penis relative to your erect size? It grows a lot with an erection and shrivels up a lot when it's soft: 61.5% (average length: 5.96") It grows significantly with an erection, but it still has some length when it's soft: 36.5% (average length: 6.41") It doesn't grow by much when I get an erection; it just gets stiffer: 2.1% (average length: 6.25")
Which of the following do you like least about your penis — that is, what would you change, if you could? Its length: 49.9% (average length: 5.76") Its thickness: 13.5% Its curvature up or down: 7.8% Its curvature left or right: 11.5% Its hairiness: 17.3%
Average approximate penis size based on ethnicity (age 16 and over): African/black: 6.74" Native American: 6.49" Middle Eastern: 6.28" European/white: 6.26" Hispanic: 6.03" Asian/Pacific Islander: 5.50"
We've all heard the politically correct claim that penis size doesn't vary by ethnicity, but these findings show a clear correlation, at least among certain groups. African-based ethnicities have the largest average penises by far, and Asians have the smallest, with over an inch separating the two — quite a lot for considering that these are broad averages. Of course, there are many, many exceptions in all groups.
How would you describe the color of the hair on your head? (If it has grayed or fallen out, answer based on the hair you had when you were younger.) Black: 18.3% (average penis length: 5.92") Dark brown: 47.7% (average penis length: 6.15") Light brown/dirty blond: 25.1% (average penis length: 6.20") Blond: 6.3% (average penis length: 6.24") Red: 2.6% (average penis length: 6.09")
Guys with blond hair, on average, have the largest penises. As hair color darkens, average penis size goes down; those with black hair have the smallest average penises. Guys with red hair (whom some believe have the largest penises) are actually below average in size, coming in second to last in this breakdown. Understand, though, that this is only an average correlation; many blond-haired guys reported having small penises, and many dark-haired guys reported having large ones.
What is your shoe size? (Unfortunately we neglected to consider that non-U.S. countries use different shoe-size units; therefore, for this question only people from the U.S. were considered.) Average shoe size: 10.8 Average penis length for those age 16 and above with shoe sizes 7.5 and under: 5.85" (56 people fit into this category.) Average penis length for those age 16 and above with shoe sizes 9 and under: 5.96" Average penis length for those age 16 and above with shoe sizes 9.5 through 12: 6.19" Average penis length for those age 16 and above with shoe sizes 12.5 and over: 6.42" Average penis length for those age 16 and above with shoe sizes 14 and over: 6.62" (123 people fit into this category.)
Interestingly, there does appear to be a direct correlation between average adult shoe size and average adult penis size, which seems to debunk the claim that there is no such correlation — although again, this is based on averages of many JackinWorld readers.
If someone gave you a bottle of pills advertised to enlarge your penis, and you took them for the recommended time period, what do you think would happen? Probably nothing: 91.8% They'd probably enlarge my penis significantly: 7.0% I've taken penis-enlarging pills, and they had no effect: 0.7% I've taken penis-enlarging pills, and they enlarged my penis significantly: 0.4%

Liar Liar Pants on Fire!!!

Recently released Justice Department documents show Attorney General Alberto Gonzales indicates he lied about his involvement in recent dismissals of 8 U.S. Attorneys. Two weeks ago Gonzales said, "I was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussion about what was going on."

However the documents reveal that on November 27th, Gonzales met with 5 other officals from the Justice Department and signed off on a plan to fire the prosecutors.

same sex attraction disorder

From the 2/6/07 episode of BOSTON LEGAL:

Has anyone ever heard of restless leg syndrome? It's where you move
your leg around in your sleep. It's awful. You may have it. May not
keep you awake; may not harm you in any way; may not bother you in
the slightest. But it's awful. The pharmaceutical companies have
declared it so, so they've invented a drug and you simply must take
it.

If you haven't heard of restless leg syndrome, then you probably
have attention deficit disorder. Awful … there's a lot of drugs for
that one. You must take them.

You're depressed …
You're not sleeping enough …
You think you're shy, but you've actually got a social anxiety
disorder.
Weak stream …
Irritable bowel syndrome …
You people have all kinds of ailments that you don't know about.
Luckily we've got drugs for every one of them. You must take them.

(At this point the judge interrupts and asks what the lawyer is
talking about. The following is his reply.)

Same sex attraction disorder. And what troubles me is why the folks
in big pharmaceutical companies haven't invented a pill for this
disease. Clearly they're in the business of selling sickness. If
there was a profit to be made, they would make it. And with an
estimated gay population of over 10 million people just in the US
alone, there certainly is a big enough market. Could it be that they can't cure it?



Well, not to worry. If big pharmaceutical can't do it, maybe big
religion can. And they are. They are the ones who have coined the
term 'same sex attraction disorder.' It's a very good name. And a
good name is very important. It's the crucial first step in
disqualifying homosexuals as a segment of the population and
categorizing them as a disease. It makes homosexuals seem less like
people and more like … the flu. And with terrible, awful symptoms.
But curable. And therefore, less concerning when it comes to things
like an individual's rights, freedom, privacy, marriage.

Big religion is very concerned with marriage. Big religion is the
one filling the pockets of Congress and actually got them to propose
a Constitutional ban on gay marriage. Think about that. A
governmentally imposed, systematic prejudice against a class based
on their sexual orientation. Nevermind that one of the most trusted
evangelical advisors to the president was himself having a
homosexual affair on the side. Nevermind that one of our Congressman
was writing naughty emails to his teenage male pages. Isn't it just
a disease? And I just thought that it was curable. That's what they
told me down at the church.

Well, you can legislate against it, you can give it a clever name
and treat people for it, you can shut your eyes and have sex with
your wife and pretend it all feels right. You can join the church
and swear to be celibate for the rest of your life; you can drive
around on a Saturday night with a baseball bat and try to beat it
out of some poor soul you happen to meet. You can even come to this
courtroom and testify about your "new leaf" and how well it's all
working. What a miracle. My only response is … give it time, we'll
see.

Meanwhile, this company took $40,000 from my client promising to
cure him of his gayness. Only in America, only in a country that overtly and notoriously celebrates its prejudice against a class of people by proposing constitutional amendments. God bless us all. Home of the brave.