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Junior arrived about 12 hours later on sunday morning, then we agreed. It was actually a problem, because you don't know, how the things will continue. That is why i didn"t want To go to the appartment, when he arrived, but i forced him to come to the Beach with all the laguage. Saturday and sunday the beach was overcrowded. Even the vendors could Not walk through. Very crowded. Usually, the moral standards on gay beach are higher, then on european Hetero beaches. However wity such a crowd... I noticed a guy mastubated another guy under towel. Slow, phigranic work. I am sure the guy was under 18. In the afternoon, 2 guys came out of the blue. Only cunga, on the sand, but they were really in love and one on top of the other all the time. Erotic sansation.... I would ask them to join us, but i ws sure they would punch me, because they were really in love. Junior also brought another friend. I foung later today that he was also willing to travel to ilha grande. But i didn't find him sexy. Also junior is a very shy guy, and he is sometimes not expressing all his thoughts... This morning junior and myself traveled to ilha grande. Green and blue paradise about 3 hours south of rio. Looks great, but i will post just 1 picture today, and more at next occasion. We arrived at 13 hours, had great lunch and Coctails, which i post for you. After finished round of coctails on the picture i asked junior: Do you want another round or we go to fuck ? You tell me what was the answer???

I can see right now where Callipygian is going with this and I wish to issue a preemptive denial. I am not now, nor have I ever been, Benjamin Nicholas.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/11/politics/obama-kerry-paris/index.html

I'm doing as much reading on the net as possible as well as in good guide books. My best website has been http://www.cubaabsolutely.com. It's a monthly mag on the next and is all about Cuba; there's even some salient information related to the GLBT communities as well. ...plan to take in what's presented. Also, for private gay-friendly rooms and apartments, I recommend http://www.cubafriendly.webcindario.com. ...got this contact from a guy at the other site, wrote to his contact and plan to meet him when I'm in Habana during next month and the following.

Nothing personal but... Bite Me

Ok, why?

Who among us has custody of our train of thoughts? "Why is a raven like a writing desk?" Best regards, RA1

OR that more people aren't focused on the hypocrisy of many of the nations that attended, walking arm in arm with this "kumbaya" photo op, that have an appalling record on freedom of the press back home. That criticism notwithstanding, Michelle, Kerry or Biden would have been an appropriate representation. Source: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/paris-rally-charlie-hebdo-free-press-reports-without-borders Presence at Paris rally of leaders with poor free press records is condemned poor free press records is condemned Reporters Without Borders singles out the leaders of Egypt, Russia, Turkey, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates Panels depicting the eyes of the late Charlie Hebdo editor, Stephane Charbonnier, as hundreds of thousands take part in a solidarity march in Paris. Photograph: Yves Herman/Reuters Press freedom campaigners condemned the presence of world leaders attending the unity rally in Paris on Sunday who have poor records on human rights and the free press in their home countries. Reporters Without Borders singled out leaders from Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as being responsible for particularly harsh environments for journalists. These countries rank respectively 159th, 154th, 148th, 121st and 118th out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom in a league table compiled by the group. “We should show solidarity with Charlie Hebdo without forgetting the world’s other ‘Charlies’,” said Christophe Deloire, secretary general of the campaign group. “It would be intolerable [if] representatives from countries that reduce their journalists to silence profit from this emotional outpouring to … improve their international image … We should not allow the predators of the press to spit on the graves of Charlie Hebdo.” About 40 world leaders gathered in Paris to take part in the massive rally. France’s president, François Hollande, the British prime minister, David Cameron and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, walked arm in arm with other leaders at the start of the march. Also invited were the Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, Sheikh Abdallah ben Zayed al-Nahyan of the UAE and the foreign ministers of Egypt, Russia and Algeria: Sameh Choukry, Sergei Lavrov, and Ramtane Lamamra. Nearly 70 journalists are being prosecuted in Turkey for referring to corruption allegations against close associates of the former prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is now the president. In Egypt 16 journalists, including three from al-Jazeera, are in jail. The al-Jazeera journalists have been held since December 2013 for “spreading false news” and “membership of a terrorist organisation”. The al-Jazeera journalists include Peter Greste, formerly of the BBC, who has lodged paperwork with the Egyptian government seeking his own deportation. But his release from prison could be weeks or months away, as the new presidential power to deport foreign prisoners is tested for the first time. A member of Greste’s Australian legal team said the jailed journalist’s application was “among the first” to petition the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, for deportation. Several Russian journalists have been imprisoned, often in Siberia, and two NGOs that support the media have been added to an official list of “foreign agents”, a term used to stigmatise bodies that receive foreign funding and are suspected of “political activity”. In December, 20 activists including Masha Alyokhina from Pussy Riot were arrested in Moscow, after staging an all-night protest against the conviction of Alexei Navalny, a critic of the Kremlin, and his brother Oleg. Algeria bans marches and public protests, prompting the Algérie-Focus website to say: “Marches and public protests are banned in Algeria, but Algerian ministers have the right to march in the streets of … Paris!”

Just remember what happened the Last time you made tea..... we went to war with Britain !

I think if I were RA I would be better able to follow my own chain of thought. Or so I think. I'm pretty sure you were very near the bottom of that bottle of scotch when you told me that.

Thought we established you were RA1. And I told you I am Andre.

OK, so Banning "over there" usually means a whole lot of vermin shows up here. Oh Happy Day, another one is on the way....

We can only Hope !

I think the pink hair would make your outfit ? Otherwise , it has it ALL !

Another one falls. South Dakota same-sex marriage ban struck down by federal judge A federal judge struck down South Dakota’s same-sex marriage ban on Monday, in a “detailed and powerful” move that LGBT advocates hoped would lead to a once-and-for-all ruling on the issue by the highest court in the United States. The decision was immediately stayed pending a possible appeal in the eighth US circuit court of appeals, meaning same-sex marriages are still not permitted in the state. Judge Karen Schreier ruled the state’s ban is unconstitutional because it “deprives same-sex citizens of a fundamental right, and that classification is not narrowly tailored to serve a compelling state interest”. With the holdup in South Dakota and a US supreme court decision on Monday not to take up a case in Louisiana, same-sex marriage remains legal in 36 states and Washington DC. South Dakota voters approved an amendment banning the practice in 2006. The case, Rosenbrahn v Daugaard, was filed in May 2014 to challenge the state’s law, which defines marriage as between one man and one woman. “Plaintiffs have a fundamental right to marry,” Schreier wrote in her opinion. “South Dakota law deprives them of that right solely because they are same-sex couples.” Lawyers with the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) filed the suit on behalf of six South Dakota couples. Five of the couples married in states that permit same-sex marriage and want their marriages recognized by the state. The sixth couple would like to marry in South Dakota. NCLR staff attorney Christopher F Stoll said in a statement that he hoped Monday’s decision would hasten the supreme court’s decision to issue a nationwide ruling on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. “We are thrilled for our clients and for all same-sex couples in South Dakota, who have watched and waited as progress has been made in so many other states, and who can now see light at the end of the tunnel in their own state,” Stoll said. “We are also grateful to Judge Shreier for writing such a detailed and powerful analysis and for affirming in such strong terms that same-sex couples have the same fundamental freedom to marry as others.” Opponents of same-sex marriage have long argued that the issue should be decided by state governments, not courts. Schreier, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1999, attacked that line of thinking in her ruling. Schreier said that because South Dakota amended its constitution to block same-sex marriage in 2006, the state legislature is clearly not waiting to take up the issue. “[T]he act of incorporating the same-sex marriage ban into the state constitution sends the message that South Dakota’s same-sex marriage ban is not a temporary state of affairs but rather a fundamental statement of the state’s public policy,” she wrote. Schreier also accused the defendants’ attorneys of making a “slippery slope” argument by insisting that legalizing same-sex marriage would allow South Dakotans to question the state’s right to regulate marriage based on polygamy and incest. The South Dakota case is likely to soon join cases from Missouri and Arkansas that are before the eighth circuit. Lower-court judges in both states ruled that their respective bans were unconstitutional, and the decisions were quickly stayed pending appeal. Plaintiffs then filed for an appeal in the eighth circuit, as those in South Dakota are expected to do. Same-sex marriage is already legal in the eighth circuit states of Iowa and Minnesota. The final two states in that appeals court’s jurisdiction, Nebraska and North Dakota, are on track to be in the final group of states to defend the bans. The eighth circuit court of appeals is in the unusual position of having ruled to uphold a state same-sex marriage ban already. That ruling, however, arrived before the landmark supreme court decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act (Doma) in June 2013. After Doma was struck down, state bans began to fall across the country, leading them through a similar appeals process to the one now facing South Dakota. Only the sixth circuit has ruled against same-sex marriage since and the four states its decision applied to have been distributed to the supreme court. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/12/south-dakota-same-sex-gay-marriage-ban-struck-down-federal-judge

While it might have been good PR, I'm not sure Obama's presence would have changed much and his security arrangements may even have influenced who else could have attended. I think Biden's presence would have helped, and Holder should definitely have participated since he was already there. But PR concerns have a way of backfiring. Apparently, Netanyahu muscled his way in once he learned that two of his political rivals would be attending. After failing to discourage Netanyahu from coming, Hollande felt compelled to invite Abbas. Bibi further upset the French by using the occasion to encourage French Jews to move to Israel. All of this political jostling and Monday morning quarterbacking does little, in my opinion, to send the message that needs sending. I'd much rather have seen a dozen leaders from the Middle East heading the procession, and am surprised that more folks aren't focused on that missed opportunity.

The link I posted highlights his absence. Excuses aside, I thought it was a mistake and political faux pas. A bit shameful, if someone were to ask me. But what do I know, I'm the guy in a double wide down by the creek.