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  1. ... or dudes that don't live in NYC, Miami, Paris or even Huntsville AL. There is a great big world out there with horny frustrated guys that do not have access to the live thing or to a gay bar. Their hormones still run rampant. People of different circumstances have different reasons for visiting such sites. Whatever their reason it seems a boon to many, if an expensive boon. And I'm sure farm animals are appreciative as well.
  2. Thanks for the link.
  3. Unfortunately, I think it is a uphill battle at best and probably futile in the long run. I have become very disillusioned that the interests of the people can compete with the interests of Big Business which have the money and influence to achieve what they want. Even in their defeats they manage to snatch victory. (cf. Financial Reform). They are just too powerful to overcome and Congress is so willing, even eager, to sell out for cheap!! There is just too much money at stake for Big Business to accept not getting their way.
  4. LightSquared, New Wireless Broadband Network, To Launch In PETER SVENSSON | 07/20/10 02:38 PM | AP NEW YORK — U.S. consumers and businesses may get more options in wireless service starting next year, with the launch of a new wireless broadband network that aims to provide competition to the incumbent phone companies. Private-equity firm Harbinger Capital Partners on Tuesday revealed details of the launch of its wireless network, LightSquared, which should cover 92 percent of the population by 2015. But there are financial and regulatory hurdles to overcome. And in another wrinkle, LightSquared won't initially be offering conventional cell phone service, just data. It's possible to send phone calls over data connections, but that technology is not fully mature or standardized. Still, LightSquared represents a rare new entrant in the wireless market. Only two other companies, Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc., have firm plans to build nationwide networks using the same, fourth-generation network technology that LightSquared will use. Sprint Nextel Corp., through its Clearwire Corp. subsidiary, is building a third one with a different 4G technology that's likely to get less support from equipment makers. Consumers won't buy service directly from LightSquared. Instead, it will sell access wholesale to other companies that can resell it to consumers. LightSquared hopes to attract cable TV providers, phone companies that don't have wireless networks of their own and retailers that want to provide wireless service under their own brand. Dan Hays, who focuses on telecommunications with consulting firm PRTM, said LightSquared "could provide a renewed opportunity for retailers and major brands such as Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and Office Depot to enter the wireless market as service providers to consumers." LightSquared plans to start providing service in the second half of 2011 in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Denver and Baltimore. LightSquared said Nokia Siemens Networks will build, maintain and operate the network under a $7 billion, eight-year contract. Nokia Siemens is a joint venture of Finland's Nokia Corp. and Siemens AG of Germany. The contract is an important step for Nokia Siemens, which hasn't had much of a presence in the U.S. market for wireless equipment. On Monday, it announced a deal to buy Motorola Inc.'s networks business for $1.2 billion, with a view to increasing its foothold in the U.S. One reason it's rare for new national wireless carriers to spring up is that it's difficult and expensive to procure the rights to airwaves across the nation. Verizon Wireless paid $9.4 billion for nationwide spectrum rights in a 2008 auction, for example. LightSquared is in an unusual position in that it owns nationwide wireless spectrum once set aside for satellite phone use. Harbinger bought SkyTerra, a satellite company, earlier this year. Placing calls over satellites is expensive and impractical compared with using cell towers, so the FCC allows spectrum holders to back up satellite coverage with towers. That gives LightSquared a "back door" to building out a conventional ground-based network of cell towers. However, under current FCC rules, all devices that use LightSquared's spectrum have to come with the ability to connect to a satellite besides conventional cell towers, according to satellite industry consultant Tim Farrar. That would add to the cost of devices and limit the selection. LightSquared is banking on the FCC changing its rules to allow devices that only talk to towers. Regardless, it needs to launch a satellite later this year to satisfy the FCC's condition that it be able to provide satellite connectivity. The launch of the new network would fit into the FCC's goals of creating more competition in the wireless market. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said Tuesday that he was pleased to learn of the creation of LightSquared. Farrar said it's also not clear if Harbinger will be able to raise the billions needed to build out the network, and other expenses. "It's going to be very interesting to see where this money comes from," Farrar said. Tom Surface, a spokesman for LightSquared, said the company "will evaluate our funding needs as we develop and grow our business." LightSquared's CEO is Sanjiv Ahuja, who was CEO of French cell phone company Orange from 2004 through 2007. He then founded a company that started wireless service in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
  5. From the second group I wouldn't throw any or 'em outta bed but if I had only one choice I'd start with this guy -- that is if MarcAnthony hadn't already absconded with him.
  6. Over 70,000 Blogs Mysteriously Shut Down Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker First Posted: 07-19-10 09:44 AM | Updated: 07-20-10 10:37 AM http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/blogeterycom-blogs-myster_n_650934.html UPDATE: In a press release, BurstNet has provided new information that sheds light on why the company shut down over 70,000 blogs hosted by Blogetery, a blogging platform. "It was revealed that a link to terrorist material, including bomb-making instructions and an al-Qaeda 'hit list', had been posted to the site," BurstNet explained. In a previous email exchange, a BurstNet representative had said that "law enforcement officials" requested that Blogetery, and, by extension, the blogs it hosted, be shuttered. However, it has since become clear that BurstNet shut down the Blogetery of its own accord after finding material that violated its policies. "Upon review, BurstNet determined that the posted material, in addition to potentially inciting dangerous activities, specifically violated the BurstNet Acceptable Use Policy," the company wrote in a statement. "This policy strictly prohibits the posting of 'terrorist propaganda, racist material, or bomb/weapon instructions'. Due to this violation and the fact that the site had a history of previous abuse, BurstNet elected to immediately disable the system." CNET explains BurstNet CTO Joe Marr "said a Burst.net employee erred in telling Blogetery's operator and members of the media that the FBI had ordered it to terminate Blogetery's service. He said Burst.net did that on its own." -- Late last week, the Associated Press reported that "dozens of blogs by some of China's most outspoken users" had been "abruptly" closed in China, notorious for its strict Internet controls. But less attention has been given to another blog blackout--this time in the US: As CNET reports, some 73,000 blogs hosted by WordPress blogging platform Blogetery.com, were shut down last week by BurstNet , Blogetery's web hosting company. According to CNET "nobody seems willing to say why or who is responsible." What is known is that BurstNet informed Blogetery's operator, via email, that the its service had been terminated "by request of law enforcement officials, due to material hosted on the server." "Please note that this was not a typical case, in which suspension and notification would be the norm. This was a critical matter brought to our attention by law enforcement officials. We had to immediately remove the server," BurstNet additionally told Blogetery (see quotes from the email exchange here). A BurstNet representative told TorrentFreak that additional information on the shutdown of the blogs cannot be provided. “Simply put: We cannot give him his data nor can we provide any other details. By stating this, most would recognize that something serious is afoot,” the representative reportedly said. Is this a copyright issue? TorrentFreak notes that Blogetery's owner does "admit to handling many copyright-related cease and desists in the past, albeit in a timely manner as the DMCA requires." People on Twitter have voiced concerns over the shutdown of the blogs. One user, @Veribatim, tweeted, "I've been researching what happened. Either way tens of thousands of blogs who were not criminal were shut down. Not kosher." Another wrote, "70k+ blogs shut down for no reason, no appeal; and people want MORE gov. control of the internet?
  7. Reminds me a little of Bruno Gaucho when he arrived on the scene but final comparison would depend on how this guy's ass compares with a full on perspecitve. Bruno had a gorgious ass for my taste. Here are more recent photos of Bruno. My photos of a younger Burno didn't survive a computer crash.
  8. AIDS Breakthrough: Gel Helps Prevent Infection MARILYNN MARCHIONE | 07/19/10 06:28 PM | AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/19/aids-breakthrough-gel-hel_n_651628.html For the first time, a vaginal gel has proved capable of blocking the AIDS virus: It cut in half a woman's chances of getting HIV from an infected partner in a study in South Africa. Scientists called it a breakthrough in the long quest for a tool to help women whose partners won't use condoms. The results need to be confirmed in another study, and that level of protection is probably not enough to win approval of the microbicide gel in countries like the United States, researchers say. But they are optimistic it can be improved. "We are giving hope to women," who account for most new HIV infections, said Michel Sidibe in a statement. He is executive director of the World Health Organization's UNAIDS program. A gel could "help us break the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic," he said. And Dr. Anthony Fauci of the U.S. National Institutes of Health said, "It's the first time we've ever seen any microbicide give a positive result" that scientists agree is true evidence of protection. The gel, spiked with the AIDS drug tenofovir, cut the risk of HIV infection by 50 percent after one year of use and 39 percent after 2 1/2 years, compared to a gel that contained no medicine. To be licensed in the U.S., a gel or cream to prevent HIV infection may need to be at least 80 percent effective, Fauci said. That might be achieved by adding more tenofovir or getting women to use it more consistently. In the study, women used the gel only 60 percent of the time; those who used it more often had higher rates of protection. The gel also cut in half the chances of getting HSV-2, the herpes virus that causes genital warts. That's important because other sexually spread diseases raise the risk of catching HIV. Even partial protection is a huge victory that could be a boon not just in poor countries but for couples anywhere when one partner has HIV and the other does not, said Dr. Salim Abdool Karim, the South African researcher who led the study. In the U.S., nearly a third of new infections each year are among heterosexuals, he noted. Countries may come to different decisions about whether a gel that offers this amount of protection should be licensed. In South Africa, where one in three girls is infected with HIV by age 20, this gel could prevent 1.3 million infections and 826,000 deaths over the next two decades, he calculated. He will present results of the study Tuesday at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna. The research was published online Monday by the journal Science. "We now have a product that potentially can alter the epidemic trends ... and save millions of lives," said Dr. Quarraisha Abdool Karim, the lead researcher's wife and associate director of the South African program that led the testing. It's the second big advance in less than a year on the prevention front. Last fall, scientists reported that an experimental vaccine cut the risk of HIV infection by about 30 percent. Research is under way to try to improve it. If further study shows the gel to be safe and effective, WHO will work to speed access to it, said its director-general, Dr. Margaret Chan. The gel is in limited supply; it's not a commercial product, and was made for this and another ongoing study from drug donated by California-based Gilead Sciences Inc., which sells tenofovir in pill form as Viread. If further study proves the gel effective, a full-scale production system would need to be geared up to make it. The study tested the gel in 889 heterosexual women in and near Durban, South Africa. Researchers had no information on the women's partners, but the women were heterosexual and, in general, not in a high-risk group, such as prostitutes. Half of the women were given the microbicide and the others, a dummy gel. Women were told to use it 12 hours before sex and as soon as possible within 12 hours afterward. At the study's end, there were 38 HIV infections among the microbicide group versus 60 in the others. The gel seemed safe – only mild diarrhea was slightly more common among those using it. Surveys showed that the vast majority of women found it easy to use and said their partners didn't mind it. And 99 percent of the women said they would use the gel if they knew for sure that it prevented HIV. This shows that new studies testing the gel's effectiveness without a placebo group should immediately be launched, said Salim Abdool Karim. The only other study testing the gel now compares it to placebo and will take a couple more years to complete. The study was sponsored by the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa, or CAPRISA; Family Health International; CONRAD, an AIDS research effort based at Eastern Virginia Medical School; and the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. Gilead has licensed the rights to produce the gel, royalty-free, to CONRAD and the International Partnership on Microbicides for the 95 poorest countries in the world, said Dr. Howard Jaffe, president of the Gilead Foundation, the company's philanthropic arm. The biggest cost of the gel is the plastic applicator – about 32 cents, which hopefully would be lower when mass-produced, researchers said. Mitchell Warren, head of the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, a nonprofit group that works on HIV prevention tools, said the study shows a preventive gel is possible. "We can now say with great certainty that the concept has been proved. And that in itself is a day for celebration," he said. ___ Online: AIDS conference: http://www.aids2010.org and http://www.kff.org/aids2010
  9. I was blown away the first time I saw this clip some years ago. My interaction with Ralph was mostly before his porn days when he told me he was a dedicated top with no inclination to bottom. That was the last I knew even though I had heard he went into porn. So this was REALLY a very pleasant suprise as I remain a dedicated top that still harbors a fantasy or two. lol He has turned into a very accomplished bottom and seems to relish it.
  10. Those were heady days at the height of the Montreal experience. I remember that night we met Ralph. I couldn't believe my eyes. We had been at Taboo's parked at our reserved table for sometime, enjoying the crowd and the boys. I had forgone supper to arrive early to secure our table. Eventually hunger of the more routine kind overtook me and I excused myself to run over to McDonalds for a couple of quick burgers. Being next to Adonis I ducked in for quick survey to see what the competition had. That is when I saw a lean twink on stage going through his routine. I was nothing short of flabbergasted at the site of this young thin twink hung like a stallion putting it all out for show on stage. Needless to say I hung around until I managed to take him in the back for 8-10 dances. Nice kid, friendly and conversant as well as entertaining. He had just turned 18 two weeks earlier and has started dancing for extra money as you mentioned. I finally broke off from my fixation fearing bankruptcy in my near future. As I left I told Ralph that I would send a friend right over. I scurried back to Taboo to inform you that a very pleasant suprise named Ralph awaited you over at Adonis. You wasted no time picking up on my Ralph-alert. lol.
  11. I could have told anybody that if they'd asked. This is in no way a slam at Lucky. Au contraire, it may be a kudo of a type. Lucky is the uber poster -- love him or hate him. He loves to read and particpate in discussions. Unfortunately, this is not a good trait for a moderator who is a lightening rod just by the force of his position. That inhibits particpation, or it should, and that is not Lucky at his best or his happiest.
  12. Lucky, Congrats on your moderatorship, if I'm not too late. I just found out.
  13. For those who may not be familiar with the case (as I was not): http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/16/fla-detectives-porn-stars-texted-plans-days-hours-killed-tattoo-shop-owner/ More of his Sean Cody photos at: http://seancody.com/page.php?frame=movie_index&model=431
  14. Sorry, I've never been but I wish you a good trip. Report back on the cute guys please.
  15. When posting a new thread topic or responding to an existing post, add your text in the text box. Next, below the text box there appears the word Attachments. Below that is a window to type in a file name or directly to the right a button to browse your computer files. Click on Browse and locate the file you wish to add and click on it. The location will appear in the attachments window. Then click on the Attach This File button below that address window. Repeat for additional files to attach. When done click on the Add Reply button to post the message complete with attachments. Voila... I have attached some asian candy I found lying about on my computer.
  16. Court strikes challenge to DC gay marriage law Court: Opponents of DC same-sex marriage law cannot take the issue to voters Staff AP News Jul 15, 2010 11:15 EDT D.C.'s highest court has ruled against opponents of the city's same-sex marriage law, saying they cannot ask voters to overturn it. Opponents had wanted to challenge a law that took effect in Washington in March allowing same-sex couples to marry. They attempted to get approval to put an initiative on the ballot asking city voters to define marriage in the city as between one man and one woman. But city officials balked, saying a district human rights law barred initiatives that would authorize discrimination. On Thursday, the D.C. Court of Appeals ruled 5-4 that officials had the authority to keep the measure off the ballot and acted appropriately. Found at: http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2010/07/court_strikes_challenge_to_dc_gay_marriage_law.php?ref=fpa
  17. Antibody Discovered for 91% of HIV Strains By MARK SCHOOFS http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703609004575355072271264394.html U.S. government scientists have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains, more than any AIDS antibody yet discovered. Looking closely at the strongest antibody, they have detailed exactly what part of the virus it targets and how it attacks that site. Together with recent research into how to make animals produce antibodies, the new findings constitute a significant step toward an AIDS vaccine. The antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known in the scientific literature as Donor 45, whose body made the antibodies naturally. Researchers screened 25 million of his cells to find 12 that produced the antibodies. Now the trick will be for scientists to develop a vaccine or other methods to make anyone's body produce them. That effort "will require work," said Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who was a leader of the research. "We're going to be at this for a while" before any benefit is seen in the clinic, he said. The research was published Thursday in two papers in the online edition of the journal Science, 10 days before the opening of the large International AIDS Conference in Vienna, where prevention science is expected to take center stage. More than 33 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2008, and about 2.7 million contracted the virus that year, according to United Nations estimates. Vaccines, which are believed to work by activating the body's ability to produce antibodies, eliminated or curtailed smallpox, polio and other once-feared viral diseases, so they have been the holy grail of AIDS research. Last year, following a trial in Thailand, results of the first HIV vaccine to show any efficacy were announced. But that vaccine reduced the chances of infection by only about 30%, and controversy erupted because in one common analysis the results were not statistically significant. The vaccine was not designed to elicit the new antibodies. The new discovery is part of what Wayne Koff, head of research and development at the nonprofit International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, calls a "renaissance" in HIV vaccine research. Antibodies that are utterly ineffective, or that disable just one or two strains, are common. Until last year, only a handful of "broadly neutralizing antibodies," those that efficiently disable a large swath of HIV strains, had been discovered, and none of them neutralized more than about 40% of known HIV variants. In the last year, thanks to efficient new detection methods, at least a half dozen broadly neutralizing antibodies, including the three latest ones, have been identified in peer-reviewed journals. Most of the new antibodies are also more potent, able to knock out HIV at far lower concentrations than their previously known counterparts. Dennis Burton of the Scripps Institute in La Jolla, Calif., led a team that discovered two broadly neutralizing antibodies last year; he says his team has identified additional, unpublished ones. Some of the new antibodies attack different points on the virus, raising hopes that they could work synergistically. In unpublished research, John Mascola, deputy director of the Vaccine Research Center, has shown that one of Dr. Burton's antibodies neutralizes virtually all the strains that are resistant to the strongest new antibody, called VRC01, and vice versa. Only one strain out of 95 tested was resistant to both antibodies, he said. Dr. Mascola is one of the authors of Thursday's papers. In the latest research, the antibodies were found to attack a key site on a spike on the virus that attaches to cells the virus infects. Because this site has to attach to a specific molecule on the cell surface, it is one of the few parts of HIV that don't mutate much. Scientists tested 32 patients to see which ones had sera—clear fluid in the blood—that neutralized HIV. The sera contained unknown antibodies. Donor 45 had promising sera, so they focused on him. Researchers say they plan to test the new antibodies, likely blended together in a cocktail, in three broad ways. First, they could be given to people in their raw form, somewhat like a drug, to prevent transmission of the virus. However, they would likely be expensive and persist in the body only for a limited time, perhaps weeks, making that method impractical for all but specialized cases, such as to prevent mother-to-child transmission during childbirth. The antibody could also be tested in a "microbicide," a gel that women and receptive partners in gay male pairings could apply before sex to prevent infection. The antibodies might even be tried as a treatment for people who are already infected. While the antibodies are unlikely to completely suppress HIV on their own, say scientists, they might boost the efficacy of current antiretroviral drugs. Dr. Nabel said that the Vaccine Research Center has contracted with a company to produce an antibody suitable for use in humans so that testing in people could begin. The second way to use the new research is to deploy classical vaccine approaches. Traditional vaccines work by using a weakened or dead virus, or a viral fragment, to train the immune system to recognize the invader and produce antibodies. Because the new HIV antibodies are extremely specific, attaching tightly to particular parts of the virus, scientists have to show the immune system an exact replica of the parts of the virus that the antibodies attack. That's a tall order—for example, it can be hard for such a replica to hold the correct shape—but different teams are trying different ways to achieve this goal. In a little-noticed study published earlier this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at Merck & Co. provided what Dr. Koff calls a "proof of principle" that other researchers can build on. Starting with an old antibody—one that is much weaker than the newly found ones—the Merck researchers created replicas of its target site. It was a painstaking, iterative process, requiring the researchers to add chemical bonds to stabilize the replica so that it wouldn't collapse. Eventually, Merck was able to produce experimental vaccine candidates capable of stimulating guinea pigs and rabbits to produce the antibody. John Shiver, head of Merck's vaccine research, said he believes similar vaccine candidates could be "engineered using one of these new antibodies." There are other potential pitfalls. There is evidence that Donor 45's cells took months or possibly even years to create the powerful antibodies. That means scientists might have to give repeated booster shots or devise other ways to speed up this process. Finally, there are experimental methods that employ tactics such as gene therapy. Nobel laureate David Baltimore, with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is working on one such approach. His team at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, Calif., has stitched genes that code for antibodies into a harmless virus, which they then inject into mice. The virus infects mouse cells, turning them into factories that produce the antibodies. Using one of the old antibodies, Dr. Baltimore said his team was able to protect mice from getting infected when injected with live HIV. Those experiments are not published. Recently, his lab has begun working with Dr. Burton's antibodies and the strongest antibody from Donor 45. Even if it proves successful, this strategy is years away from the clinic, Dr. Baltimore cautioned. Write to Mark Schoofs at mark.schoofs@wsj.com
  18. Taken from Iraqi GLBT (http://iraqilgbt.org.uk/) 22.6.2010 There is growing concern that the Iraqi government is stepping up a witch-hunt against gays and lesbians in the country after a police raid on a Karbala safe house, the London-based Iraqi LGBT said at the weekend. Last week, twelve police officers are reported to have burst into the safe house, and then violently beat up... See full article at: http://gaymiddleeast.com/news/news%20213.htm
  19. Syria cracks down on gays, at least 25 men arrested! Syrian authorities have raided more than four different private gay parties over five weeks between March and April, arresting more than 25 men on their last raid. Indictments have been officially submitted against them; most of the arrested guys are charged with "having a homosexual act", others are charged with dealing and/or buying and consuming illegal drugs... See full article at: http://gaymiddleeast.com/news/news%20210.htm
  20. Thanks for posting. I was curious to see the article that caused all the commotion. Interesting read. Pretty amazing expose' really, if substantially accurate. Not the bad-mouthing of the CIC and political establishment so much (bad enough and dealt with as necessary) but personal trajedy the these men pairing such ability and bravado with the apparent arrested development of grown-up maturity and judgment that seems to have alluded this General and so many in the group he surrounded himself with. I get the feeling of a really talented group of military school frat boys who just never grew up. Too bad the country has lost their continued contributions. Too bad they didn't have the maturity and judgment to act responsibly in the positions they were given. A loss for everyone. FWIW
  21. I had hoped that this case would await Obama's second term for the probability of more favorable make up of the Supreme Court. However, on reflection I see little to gain from waiting except for possibly growing acceptance by the pubic as refected in pools. Not a great influence on this Supreme Court I expect. First, I'm doubtful Obama will have a second term. Second, there is little to gain with respect to the makeup of the court. Given the ages of the current justices only Ginzberg seems close to retirement in the next six years. I suspect she will retire next year. It doesn't seem that there is much to gain by waiting and possibly there is much to lose. This question will be settled by Kennedy in a 5-4 decision. Based on his recent record I am not optimistic.
  22. Yes, for stupidity and grossly bad taste, but that is not news. Miley is hardly a 'child', traveling the fast lane and shaking her booty all over the stages from Tulsa to Timbuktu. This is not a knock on her only that one doesn't exist in that world for long without acquiring the skills/sophistication to navigate those streets. I suspect, truth be known, she is pleased with the coverage spawned by the exposure -- pun intended. We have a recent history of the legality of child brides with marriages sanctioned as young a 15 and younger. Today, 'children' can get married at 17 with parents permission in many States. There is child porn and there is 'child porn'. To treat this the same as kiddy porn with 9 and 11 year olds or even younger children is to misconstrue and misapply the really heinous nature of kiddy porn IMO. Cyrus is a celebrity, thus a public figure. I assume the photographer did not crawl up her dress for the photo. Perez did not intend to distribute the photo with the intent to promote 'child porn', I assume. She is a borderline adult traveling often without parental presence for guidance -- else she wouldn't be getting out of taxis wearing short dresses without panties. Apparently her parents feel she is mature enough for that or else maybe they should be the target or prosecution for wreckless child abandonment in this case. Just a thought. Nevertheless, laws must be written with a certain arbitrariness. That is where judgment of the prosecutors and judges come into play -- to soften the sharp edges of arbitrainess. Unfortunately, some prosecutors and judges live in worlds of black and white, whether because of ideology or maybe political objectives. IMO the punishment should fit the crime taking into account intent of both the aggrieved and the trespasser and extenuating circumstances that apply. Perhaps it is time to add nuance to child porn laws to distinguish really heinous kiddy porn from high school sexting from papparazi photos of borderline 'adult' celebrities seeking publicity. FWIW
  23. Yahoo If this were 2001-2002 then it would have been HooBoy's. I pretty much lived that site 24/7 except when I tore myself away for work, but that was then.
  24. San Hayes is aging well.
  25. Thanks again Tomcal. Thiago is very much my type. The guys in the video qualify big time too.
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