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Let no one say that out featherweight boxer Orlando Cruz isnt taking full advantage of the power of his social media presence. The Puerto Rican-born athlete has posted a tasteful nude photo on his Facebook page, according to Latin website ElNuevoDia. Were not sure of the reason for the photo, but were not prone to question anyones attempt to create art. Full story here: http://www.queerty.com/look-out-boxer-orlando-cruz-posts-nude-photo-on-facebook-20130831/#ixzz2dbgAJ38w

...a law of nature? Someone farts. People flee the room. There is always someone who cannot resist returning, throughout the evening, to vivid descriptions of just how bad it smelt.

We'll be married by Ruth Bader Ginsberg. It's a day we will never forget. We're inviting Scalia and Thomas, But they'll both be too busy, we'll bet.

I love me some good crisp bacon! I know. I know. Bad for you! But, I still love it.

Angela Merkel, the queen of Europe As Germany gears up for elections next month, Daniel Johnson explains how a dowdy chemist has fashioned herself into one of the world’s most respected – and influential – politicians Angela Merkel on the election trail last week. If there is one word to characterise the German Chancellor, it is decency The Telegraph 9:59PM BST 18 Aug 2013 Angela Merkel is riding high. As she returns from holiday to hit the campaign trail for the German elections – making a swing today through the south-east – she is not only her country’s most popular leader for a generation, but arguably the most respected politician in the world. How has this unflashy East German scientist – who disdains glitz and glamour to the point that when she wears a new dress in public it draws comment – succeeded in scaling the heights of international politics? There is a mystery about Mrs Merkel: she succeeds by being a woman seemingly without mystery. Unlike the Iron Lady, she rarely uses her feminine qualities to beguile men or impress women. Her natural habitat is not the public platform; she doesn’t tweet or text about anything and everything in the news. Intensely private, she comes across as unpretentious and incorruptible. That is why Silvio Berlusconi, as vain as Mrs Merkel is modest, did not know what to do when they clashed, except to whisper sexist obscenities behind her back. Next month, on September 22, Germany goes to the polls in what has become virtually a referendum on Mrs Merkel – and she is on course to win a third term of office. Her Christian Democrats are polling at around 40 per cent, twice as much as the Social Democrat opposition. It should be enough to win by a landslide, but under Germany’s proportional representation system, she will still need a coalition partner. The Free Democrats, her present allies, are struggling to cross the 5 per cent threshold to stay in parliament, but Christian Democrats will probably use their second preference votes to keep them in government. Assuming Mrs Merkel can forge a coalition of some sort, she will boast a record matched by only two of her postwar predecessors: Konrad Adenauer, who restored respect for the Germans, and Helmut Kohl, who reunited them. Though Adenauer created her political creed, Christian Democracy, and Kohl was Mrs Merkel’s mentor, they were both patriarchs in a patriarchal society. Their 59-year-old successor has turned her satirical nickname of “Mutti” (“Mummy”) – she has no children – into a badge of honour. Sensitive to history in a nation understandably suspicious of charismatic leadership, she has cultivated an unthreatening, homely, even dowdy image that delights voters but infuriates her (mainly male) colleagues and opponents. Her style is in some ways more like the Queen’s than Mrs Thatcher’s: she has a no-nonsense manner, but is rarely divisive and never dictatorial. As her enemies have found, however, she is definitely not to be underestimated. On the world stage, she owes her clout not just to the country she represents – although Ingolstadt, where she speaks at a rally today, is the home of Audi, a potent symbol of Germany’s industrial prowess. Nor is it entirely down to her lacklustre rivals for the leading role, even though Barack Obama’s mishandling of Egypt and Syria has already left him looking like a lame duck, Vladimir Putin seems to relish playing the pantomime villain, and the hapless François Hollande is even more unpopular than his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy. No, the truth of the matter is that, if there is one word to characterise Angela Merkel, it is decency. The daughter of a Lutheran pastor, she comes from the tradition that gave us the sacred music of Bach, Handel and Brahms. She stands for a Germany that shoulders its responsibilities as primus inter pares in Europe. On the world stage, she does not carry a big stick – the German military has not covered itself with glory in Afghanistan – but her integrity, intelligence and insight lend her words weight. When Mrs Thatcher spoke, the world listened. So it is with Mrs Merkel. In an interview last week, for example, she gave notice that the EU might have to “give something back” to nation states. What this might mean was left deliberately vague. But for a German leader, hitherto seen as an arch-federalist, to talk openly about restoring powers to national governments is unprecedented. It suggests that something is finally stirring in the eurozone’s undergrowth. What brought about this change of heart? David Cameron’s promise of a referendum on British membership was one of the factors. Another, which she explicitly mentioned last week, is the crisis in the Netherlands. Coalitions in Holland come and go but, unlike the British and Germans, the Dutch have yet to see their economy revive. Having had their liberal consensus rent apart by the loss of control over their borders, they have no appetite for “more Europe”. The Germans are keen to keep their neighbours in Holland as allies in their wrangles with the Latins to the south. If the price of Dutch support is a limited repatriation of powers from Brussels, Mrs Merkel will stump up. The third factor in Mrs Merkel’s calculus is an unfamiliar phenomenon: German Euroscepticism. Up to half of all Germans would ditch the euro and stop bail-outs tomorrow, polls suggest. This tide of opinion has given birth to a new party, Alternative for Germany. Mrs Merkel is determined to crush this upstart – she has noticed the damage that Ukip is doing to the British Conservatives – and her method is to steal its clothes. The trouble is that Europe is stuck with the euro and all that goes with it. The markets have been calmer since the Germans underwrote the European Central Bank’s promise to do “whatever is necessary” to prevent the continental banking system from collapsing. And some of the invalids are out of intensive care: Greece, for example, claims that it is on course to balance its budget this year, not counting interest and repayments. Yet the underlying problems of the eurozone have, if anything, become more acute as the gap widens between the Latin mendicants to the south and the Teutonic knights to the north. German exporters have done rather well under the single currency, having accumulated a trillion-dollar surplus with the eurozone, but the German taxpayer has had enough of equally astronomical bail‑outs. The continuing malaise of the Mediterranean nations has reinforced migration towards the more dynamic economies of Britain and Germany, which is putting pressure on public services and welfare budgets – hence the unaccustomed spectacle of Iain Duncan Smith visiting Berlin recently to make common cause with the Merkel government against the European Commission, which is trying to stop the British refusing migrants easy access to benefits. For Mrs Merkel and Mr Cameron alike, immigration and welfare have risen to the top of the political agenda, with voters poised to punish politicians seen as a soft touch. Of course, as in Britain, the German Left see things differently. For them, the big issue in this election is cyber-spying, with anti-American conspiracy theories emerging from the Snowden affair and wild comparisons made with the Gestapo and the Stasi. For a few years an internet protest party, the Pirates, briefly captured many of the young with promises of free downloading. But it has now sunk without trace, and Mrs Merkel is trusted to safeguard civil liberties by the great majority of Germans. Indeed, she was able to showcase not only her respect for individual freedom but her solidarity with the Jewish people, by rushing through a law to permit infant circumcision after a German court criminalised this ancient ritual. Dealing with the Nazi past, in fact, is another area on which she never puts a foot wrong: she is supportive of Israel, though not uncritically so, and insisted on the sale of submarines that have given the Jewish state a powerful new means of defence, especially against Iran. If Mrs Merkel does win a third term of office next month, she is likely to become Europe’s longest-serving female head of government. As such, she is a role model for women everywhere. Her statesmanship also bears comparison with the two grand old men of German politics, Helmut Schmidt and Helmut Kohl. The latter, her old boss, held office for a record 16 years, and she would quite like to beat him. True, she’s been in office for eight years already, but she still has the energy to keep going – and having recently raised the retirement age to 67, she has plenty of time to reshape Germany, and Europe, before she departs the scene. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10251271/Angela-Merkel-the-queen-of-Europe.html

I go to "daddysreviews" almost daily and read, view, and write. When I've had a stellar experience with a hot man {escort} and want others to have a similar experience, I've written thorough reviews. Last Friday I read what daddy had written and was saddened for the obvious errors. Wish he'd carefully proofread as well as I when I've written and submitted reviews. I will continue to go to his site and extract from it what I find useful and valuable as well as submit which others are seeking!

citylaw: For what it's worth, I completely agree with you that it's stupid (specifically I mean donating money to the proprieter of a site that profits off of my participation while the owner publicly indulges in some excesses). Personally I would not do it, and if it happened to be friends of mine that were doing it, I would tell them it's stupid too (and they should stop). Since it's not friends of mine, I also agree with the others. I don't care. LOL that being said, I do understand why you posted it because things that happened "over there" used to irk me when I felt betrayed by that site and its management. A couple of years ago, I stopped looking at it... even just occasionally. Now it doesn't irk me at all, and I don't miss it. Something to consider....

No privacy left anywhere, is there?

So glad to see you here numerito! I love your take on life and miss when I don't see you!

OK, Donde esta el PINGA y bollas ?????

Open Relationships take the pressure off Monogamy .... I'm ALL for them !

Epi, Thanks for sharing such wonderful and informative experiences with us. You are exposing us to new saunas, new cities, with respect to detailed reports. Great photos too.

Thanks for the report.. love reading them

I agree with Expat. An open relationship can work when the terms are agreed upon by the parties. I would add that the terms need to be simple, clear and straightforward, leaving little or no room for creative interpretation. That has been my experience with my bf of 10 years. We set up three basic rules since the very beginning: never bring anyone home; fool around with escorts only (that way they leave), and always tell. We have kept the deal ever since. We even used to have threesomes together, but we stopped since it didn't seem to work for any of us....Of course, different strokes...,but we are happy.

Lookin' I sympathize with your point of view and in a perfect world there would be no killing with malice. However, the world is not perfect, and based on observation it never will be as long as humans walk its face. Killing goes back to Cain and Able metaphorically and that means since there have been humans. Our desires to the contrary do not seem to change that. Many people have decried why worry about the death of 1400 when we ignored the death of 100,000 over the last two years or so. What's the big deal? The big deal is what Weapons of Mass Destruction do -- mass destruction. Gas warfare can kill 100,000 people in a week easily, and more indiscriminately than any conventional weapons. And for little more than a Happy Meal costs in the scale of things. Imagine what Syria would look like if Assad went full scale with gas weapons. You open the door a little, then next time a little wider and the next time still wider. Nobody does anything. Ok, lets end this thing once and for all, he says. Aleppo is wiped free of life. The outskirts of Damascus are made a no mans land. Who knows what else. The next war may see the Kurds gassed or one crazy African tribe gases another. Ten thousand dead in a day, maybe more. Who knows? Weapons of mass destruction are ideal for wars of genocide which we have seen several in our lifetime, thankfully without WMD. The point is gas is cheap, light thus easy to transport, and very effective at killing tens of thousands indiscriminately -- men women children, farm animals and honey bees. This is what the world embraces, now and in the future, if it does not take a definitive stand against these weapons. Imagine Rwanda or the Balkans with gas warfare. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been wastelands. We learned this lesson in The War To End All Wars. Neville Chamberlain also taught us that ignoring it does not make it go away. It really is true that those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

I'm not up to speed on all the reasons why France wants to bomb Syria, although they certainly have the ability to step in and do it themselves if they can't prod the U. S. into doing it. ------------------- France nabbed Syria and Lebanon as League of Nations mandates when the Ottoman Empire was carved up after WWI. Europeans tend to take a special interest in the goings on in their former colonies. That's a significant part of the reason England so readily joined joined us in our second war with Iraq. Or maybe they just like being contrary. Who knows, they are French, you know.

If anyone ever doubted that Daddys site is one of convenience, where one hand washes the other, They are a Fool. Daddy perjures himself by posting made up reviews of his favorites in exchange for them giving him these "little handouts", like when his car breaks or he needs a new Server.. And I guess if Dadsdy wants a little nookie from his boys, he has to spring for dinenr and a show now and then ? These escorts aint no Fools.. All very civil and convenient... Not sure why Mr Citylaw or anyone else has a problem with it. ? Daddy can only use people that ALLOW themselves to be used. And when he needs a new pair of overalls and Straw fedora, I am sure the escorts will chip in to buy it for him so he looks presentable at the next ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET.....

He probably didn't hire them. I imagine that many escorts would provide a free tug and rub, if writing your own reviews was the reward. It's a simple marketing expense. This man could not afford to fix his car, yet he rationalized purchasing 3 tickets to the show? Actually, fuck it, go to the show, but don't post the story. Enjoy the generosity of some fool, but laugh alone - don't broadcast it. What must he think of his audience?

Kindness and generosity can never be found too often, so if Daddy found it, I quote Pope Francis and ask: "Who am I to judge?" He does run a popular escort review site, and if that brings some escorts his way for whatever reason, then why not? Ace has been a very popular attendee at several Palm Springs Weekends, and no doubt he went with Daddy out of the friendship that came from that. Recently two local escorts (Dane Scott and Steven Kesslar) went to lunch with me. We even went Dutch. It was kind of them to join me with no expectations. I'd hate to have someone come here and say I had hit a new low for doing so. And, as for Fred fixing Daddy's car, Fred, PM me!....I can use the dime(s)!

I highly recommend a little sex when out in the weeds. Best regards, RA1

Well, in the matter of prices... What can I say? Even at the 100 BR level they ask to foreigners, it's for me somehow hard to start a negociation. Come on, it is less than 30 euros. so I did negociate, though, but to give them after the meeting a gratuity (100 BR in total). In Rio they tend now to ask 80 to 100, but I still found guys for 50 (plus the tip) and 60....I would say I paid 100 as a rule (since I got some BR for my lectures, I'm spending money from the country anyway). The nice gay in Brasilia, Denys, he asked 50 at once,,, I liked it and he got his 100 at the end. Usually they give not only sex but good company; you can learn a lot from them about the country and the gay milieu, they give you pics... It is not a bad deal, IMHO. I went yesterday to Sauna 520 in Curitiba (Senador Sousa Neves 520). I had a nice impression, perhaps because on fridays the place is very popular. Anyway, compared with my last visits yesterday the 520 had a lot of handsome garotos (other not so young, but as Standford University: very well endowed). I met two boys. The first one caught my eye for his Slavic look: your typical round face with strong features, vey short hair, pure white skin, and muscled-not-defined body. The guy asked for 100, we settled for 80 but got his 100. He was very good in the oral department. Second one is Rafael. A beauty of face and body, 25 y.o., but somehow a cold encounter. He is such a vedette than he cannot get into a warm intimate moment, I guess, But he came very, but very copiously, and twice (he was leaving). He asked 115, Follow pics:

I don't drink, have NEVER smoked, and only tried pot once in high school (and I am 62). Don't need any of that shit to enjoy myself. I am proud to be an ALL NATURAL girl (my only vice is Cocksucking as some of you MAY have detected)

Whaddya mean we're goin' to Mississippi?

Guys it is pretty simple, I put it in this forum as the Supreme Court is supposed to be non political. Right?

Sean Hannity Reportedly Set To Be Dropped From Cumulus NetworkRead all about it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/16/sean-hannity-cumulus-dropped_n_3766767.html