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This lady has absolutely no chance of drowning. You can take that to the bank.

Ooops... It embedded itself. Amazing!! I just posted the naked link without any special code wrapping it. I could get to like these computers.

Dylan is hot, hot, hot.... I cannot believe he is fifty and looks that hot. I almost blew my load watching him blow his load in Episode 1 of American Horror Story on FX cable last week. He has alwasy been handsome but I was astonished at his physical shape: chest, ass and legs as I viewed him from behind while he jacked off as he stood in front of a window in an old Victorian. Here is a youtube link. I can never figure out how to embed them. Warning: the aspect ratio of the clip is distorted and the lighting appears darker than on my 42 in plasma. I recommend viewing the episode if you can find it. He looks 100 times hotter than in the clip. Comcast has it in TV series On Demand until Oct 31. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbmad5VEkzI

Sorry to hear about your accident. Wow!! Not your average scrape. Glad to know that it you haven't missed a step because of it. I would have never known. Hope it is all behind you now.

Thanks for your contributions, Expat. I always look forward to opening your posts. I have since the early days at HooBoy's in your SF days.

If this story is true then it is a textbook example of why every client should maintain discretion with all escorts unless, overtime with many appointments, you have developed a trust relationship. And I mean over a long time with many engagements that permit to you learn about the other person. Even then it is risky if you are a public figure or otherwise have a high profile.

Who knew?? Two accomplished poets right under out noses. Very nicely done, gentlemen.

Ditto for me. When I first saw the title of this thread I was all set to add my 2 cents by way of "500 Quality Posts, each and every one!!" But Oz beat me to it, right out of the gate. Thanks Tomacal for taking the time to share your vast knowledge and experiences with us. We are the richer for them and for you.

This is why they make lawyers. I feel a defamation lawsuit coming on. It won't undo the rung bell but it will spread the shit back on the offenders be it individual police officers, the police department, the court or the city. Hell, a good lawyer will have enough paper and ink to include all in the suit.

I amazed that such a mix of confusion and contradictions allows one to see so clearly. Beyond that I'm speechless on your remark. Hitoallusa, as someone else remarked I would not contact this other party. One of the escorts I got to know rather well taught me that one doesn't want to engage 'stalkers' in any manner. Especially true for those that operate anonymously or semi-anonimously. They thrive on reinforcement and your attempts to engage provide just that. Any assumption that this guy is just innocently misinformed is misplaced as it is clear that he has gone out of his way to smear you. You are much more likely to get this to pass if you ignore him. Also, there is no need to attempt to rehabiliate your handle reputation. Those who are familiar with you have made their assessment regarding your credibility and demeanor. For those who are unfamiliar they will learn from your interactions with other members who already know you and from your posted concerns within this thread. For hiring escorts, the handle reputation is a non-issue. You can use any handle you desire in your communications with escorts. To cling to a site handle for that purpose is nothing more than a misplaced ego trip. Do what any good professional escort looking to avoid trouble would do: let it go and move on.

Me too. I seldom know the date of any given day and even the day of the week until the evening TV shows orient me. I spent the better part of six decades dancing to other's schedules and tunes. Now I dance to mine and since I have no schedule I have no set time for anything other than changing the Persons of the Day on the Home Page by early morning. So yeah, Today and Yesterday had more meaning for me. I waste time rereading articles now with the new time, if I don't consult my computer calendar. I'll live though.

lookin, You impress me on so many different levels.

Women and couples discovered the home porn goldmine nearly a decade ago when the internet exploded as a medium. It is not surprising to see it rediscovered in these hard times. Unfortunately, everyone in need is not suitably equipped for success whether it be in natural gifts or mindset. For those who are it can be a lifeline in these times.

More than likely, the Viagra gave out.

I think that is a rather demeaning and patronizing comment. I sometimes have an exciting evening at the theatre. That doesn't mean that is all I get off on. What crawled up you ass this AM.

15 Disastrous Product Launches That Were Quickly Killed By The Business Insider | Daily Ticker – 22 hours ago.. .....Provided by Aimee Groth and Jay Yarow of the Business Insider: Monday morning, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced that Qwikster is no longer. Hastings decided to listen to shareholders and consumers and kill Qwikster before even giving it a chance. Was it the right move? Netflix shares plunged around 7% Monday while the rest of the market rallied. Investors clearly aren't impressed, but they may just be responding to the company's acknowledgement that Qwikster was a failure. Long term abandoning a bad idea could help the stock. Plenty of other big companies have abandoned products after disastrous launches. We picked out some of the most quickly cancelled products in history. Ford Edsel: 3 years The name "Edsel" is synonymous with "marketing failure." Ford invested $400 million into the car, which it introduced in 1957. But Americans literally weren't buying it, because they wanted "smaller, more economic vehicles," according to Associated Content: Other pundits have blamed its failure on Ford Motors execs never really defining the model's niche in the car market. The pricing and market aim of most Edsel models was somewhere between the highest-end Ford and the lowest-end Mercury. It was taken off the market in 1960. Joost: 2+ years Joost, originally known as "The Venice Project," was supposed to be a peer-to-peer TV network for the future, invented by the European geniuses behind Skype. The company recruited a rising star -- Mike Volpi -- away from Cisco to become its CEO. It got a deal with CBS. Joost was supposed to reinvent the way we consumed professional video. Instead, Hulu, a joint venture between News Corp., NBC and Disney became the go-to site for TV episodes-on-the-web. Meanwhile, Joost had all sorts of problems with its P2P architecture, its bulky software player, its content library, etc. After launching in Sept. 2007, it never took off, with its scraps selling in late 2009. Coors Rocky Mountain Spring Water: 2 years This was an interesting experiment in brand extension. Coors Rocky Mountain Spring Water launched in 1990, and didn't fare well. Turns out beer drinkers only want one thing from their favorite label: beer. HD DVD: 2 years Sponsored mostly by Toshiba, HD DVD was supposed to become the hi-def successor to the DVD when it launched in March 2006. But the Sony-led Blu-ray faction ended up winning the format war when Warner Bros. announced it was dumping HD DVD for Blu-ray on Jan. 4, 2008. About a month later, Toshiba said it would shut down its HD DVD efforts. Cosmopolitan Yogurt: 18 months Cosmopolitan made an interesting decision to launch a brand of yogurt in 1999. Needless to say, the yogurt market was already saturated, and Cosmo's readers were content enough reading the magazine. Pepsi A.M. and Crystal: Both 1 year In 1989, Pepsi tried to target the "breakfast cola drinker" with Pepsi a.m. It only lasted a year. In 1992, Pepsi tried again, this time with a clear cola, "Crystal Pepsi." No dice -- it died in 1993. McDonald's Arch Deluxe: 1 year In 1996, McDonald's introduced the Arch Deluxe. It was intended to appeal to "urban sophisticates" -- outside of its target demographic. To reach this group McDonald's spent $100 million, which makes it one of the most expensive product flops in history. Microsoft Bob: 1 year Microsoft Bob was supposed to be a user-friendly interface for Windows, a project that was at one point managed by Bill Gates' now wife. Microsoft killed it one year after launching it in 1995. Why? "Unfortunately, the software demanded more performance than typical computer hardware could deliver at the time and there wasn't an adequately large market," Bill Gates later wrote. "Bob died." Orbitz soda: 1 year Although the soda, which looks like a lava lamp, appealed to young kids, it was not tasty (people compared it to cough syrup). It disappeared off shelves within a year of debuting in 1997. However, Orbitz is still sold on eBay for a premium. JooJoo: 11 months In the era of a $499 Apple iPad, an inferior tablet computer that also costs $499 doesn't work. (You may remember this device from its previous title, the CrunchPad.) It came out in 2009 and was gone by 2010. But JooJoo backer Fusion Garage continues to tinker and it's coming out with another tablet, which will also flop. Mobile ESPN: 8 months Mobile ESPN, introduced in January 2006, was one of the biggest flame-outs of "mobile virtual network operators," or MVNOs, last decade, which also included Amp'd Mobile, Helio, Disney Mobile, and others. The idea was that ESPN would exclusively sell a phone that offered exclusive ESPN content and video, leasing network access from Verizon Wireless. But ESPN only had one phone at launch, a Sanyo device selling for $400. No one bought it, and ESPN quickly shut down the service, instead providing content to Verizon's mobile Internet service. Google Lively: 4 months For some reason, Google thought it had to compete with Second Life in mid-2008, with a virtual world called "Lively," which came out in July 2008. (Except unlike Second Life, Lively was supposed to be sex-free.) When the economy went down the toilet, those dreams faded fast, and Google quickly pulled the plug by November 2008. RJ Reynold's smokeless cigarettes: 4 months In the 1980s, just as all the anti-smoking campaigns were heating up, RJ Reynold's put $325 million into a new product: smokeless cigarettes. They didn't work, and people weren't buying them -- so 4 months later, they were gone. New Coke: 77 Days In the early 1980s, Coke was losing ground to Pepsi. So it tried to create a product that would taste more like Pepsi. While New Coke fared OK in nationwide taste tests before launching in 1985, it turned out those were misleading. Coke abandoned the product after a few weeks, and went back to its old formula. It also gave its product a new name: Coca-Cola Classic. HP Touchpad: 49 Days After just a month and a half on the market, HP gave up the TouchPad and its mobile OS, WebOS in August. The tablet was no iPad killer, selling just 25,000 units for Best Buy over the 49 days it was on their shelves. Where does this put the TouchPad in the pantheon of tech flops? Well, it lasted one day longer than the Microsoft Kin phones, another recent flop. So it's not the worst flop ever. And, in fairness to HP, the TouchPad wasn't that bad. It was rough around the edges, but those could have been smoothed in the coming months. It just didn't really do anything better than the iPad, which means it's just like every other tablet out there. Qwikster: 23 days In September, Reed Hastings announced that Netflix would spin off Qwikster as a DVD rental business. This move met tons of criticism, and Hastings backtracked on his statement 23 days later. See original article at: http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/15-disastrous-product-launches-were-quickly-killed-150326494.html

Townie, I admire you for your knack of frequently encountering interesting situations and experiences, social or more. You are an inspiration for leading an intersting life.

Maybe so but IMO the original Mac (and its predecssor the Lisa) did. This is the first available GUI interface outside of labs and opened the use of computers to everyone, not just the command-line litterati. Not taking anything away from Mr. Ritchie. His great contributions were just not visible to the public but rather to the command-line litterti. It is very fitting to mention his contributions upon his passing. The Unix Machine was king prior to the wide spread of desktop computers and it is testament to the robustness of Unix that it made an easy leap to modern PC computing today. We have many giants of innovation who miss the public limelight including some key engineers at IBM in the forties and fifties and even Alan Turing, who rightly is considered the father of modern mechanized computing. His public limelight was being convicted in England of being a homosexual and submitting to chemcial castration in order to avoid prison. He ultimately accepted suicide by cyanide rather than continued endurance of repression.

Rachel paid a nice tribute to him last night, including part of an interview he once did in the past.

When is everyone going to understand that GOP tax policy is all about one tactical goal and one strategic goal. The tactical goal: feathering contributor's beds. The strategic goal: starving the federal government of funding so it will wither on the vine.

Paul Ryan's Newest Tax Policy Talking Point Trips Over Reality Zach Carter and Sam Stein Huffingtonpost.com WASHINGTON -- Joseph Rotella is president and owner of the Spencer Organ Co., a small business with 10 employees that specializes in rehabilitating pipe organs from churches and communities around the country. The operation does quite well, with roughly $2 million in revenue a year and enough profit to land Rotella squarely in the top tax bracket that benefits most from the Bush tax cuts. That makes Rotella Exhibit A in a new effort from Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, to convince voters that in little more than a year, President Barack Obama will oversee a job-killing crush of tax hikes. Over the past week, the Wisconsin Republican has raised the frightening specter that under Obama's tax policies, small-business owners will soon be turning over half of their annual paycheck to the government. "In 15 months' time, the top tax rate on small businesses goes to 44.8 percent. Now they are going to throw another tax increase on it," Ryan said during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" this past Sunday. "We are going to be taxing small businesses at about 50 percent. According to the Treasury Department, 80 percent of businesses file as individuals. Sixty percent of [small] businesses in this country file their tax rates as individuals and will get hit by this new tax that goes to 50 percent in 15 months. Why would we do that?" Broadly speaking, we wouldn't. And even if we did, it turns out that many small-business owners, including Rotella, say it wouldn't make a bit of difference in their hiring decisions. "If we have work and things are rolling along, then we're rolling along," said Rotella. "I'm not basing business decisions on whether our tax rate shifts a little bit one way or another." He added, "My big concern is actually infrastructure within my community, because if my employees are happy, if there's good schools, roads that work, public transportation and public services that are good, then my employees are happy and they're more productive. If public transportation gets cut, one of my employees may have a much more difficult time getting to work. That's really hard. We've invested all this time into this employee, and then they have to think about doing something else for a living." Despite testimonials like these, Ryan's argument that 60 percent of small businesses will face a tax rate of 50 percent -- stated most recently in a CNBC interview on Wednesday morning -- seems poised to become the GOP's top talking point in the weeks, if not months, ahead, as lawmakers look to stigmatize the president's job creation proposals and grease the wheels for a further extension of the Bush tax cuts. But the argument is largely misleading, according to both small-business owners and analysis from the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center. Ryan's office told HuffPost that his claim about the 50 percent rate is based on an agglomeration of several tax policies affecting wealthy individuals. By adding up the effects of multiple perks that will expire with the Bush tax cuts, and then lumping in individual Medicare taxes, Ryan created a total top rate for high earners of 44.8 percent. This combination of several different taxes is not how individual income tax rates are usually stated. Ryan could just as easily add in the average sales tax that individuals pay and cite that higher figure as the total tax rate. On "Meet the Press," the congressman nevertheless made another addition to his already arbitrary figure, tacking on the 5.6 percent surtax on millionaires that Democrats have proposed to pay for the president's job creation proposals. From there, he arrived at the menacing 50 percent figure. From a narrow, technical perspective, Ryan's claim about the total tax rate is true. Congressional Democrats acknowledge that the millionaires tax -- if it ever passed -- would remain in place even if the Bush tax cuts expired and the rates on the wealthy, as a result, rose. The more problematic portion of Ryan's claim is his argument that, because many small businesses file as individuals rather than as corporations, higher taxes for rich individuals can be considered higher taxes on small businesses. In fact, the overwhelming majority of small businesses do not earn anywhere near enough profit to land them in the brackets that currently benefit from the Bush tax cuts. According to an analysis by the Tax Policy Center, just 2.2 percent of the 36 million taxpayers who report small-business income on their tax returns would land in the highest tax bracket if the Bush tax cuts were allowed to expire. And only 1 percent would make enough to be subject to the millionaires surtax. But even within this tiny slice, many of the operations that would be subject to higher taxes are not the mom-and-pop stores that the public generally pictures when it hears "small business." "These are not all people running what we think of as small businesses," said Roberton Williams, senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center. "They may be giving speeches, writing books, we don't know. This includes lots and lots of different kinds of people. This could be a hedge fund manager. This could be a law partnership. This could be a doctor running his own office. Or it could be a guy operating a store with three employees." Added a White House official: "[T]he Republican definition of 'small business' includes many investment managers, lawyers and extremely wealthy people who are not, by any common-sense definition, small-business owners. In fact, more than half of the top 400 earners –- whose average income was $271 million –- would qualify as small-business owners under the Republican definition." If Ryan's numbers are debatable, so too is the premise of his argument. A trio of progressive-minded small-business organizations -- the American Sustainable Business Council, Business for Shared Prosperity, and Wealth for the Common Good -- have collected thousands of signatures for a petition seeking to repeal the Bush tax cuts and use the resulting revenue for sustained government investment in public infrastructure, renewable energy and education. Rotella shares the sentiment. He isn't in the millionaire bracket, but he would qualify for Ryan's almost-as-dreaded 44.8 percent rate. He doesn't care. "I'm actually in the tax bracket where the Bush tax cuts have been beneficial for me," Rotella said. "But my business is better off if that money goes to infrastructure." See original article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/paul-ryan-tax-policy-small-business-owners_n_1002365.html

I can just imagine some of those rejection letters to those guys who applied to your NY escort service. Sorry... your dick is too long, ... too short,... your ass has only one gear,... you talk with your mouth full... yada,... yada,... yada.

Tomcal, merci beaucoup for the clip. Hot guy!!

I liked it very much too. I was pissed when it was cancelled. It never got any backing from the network, prbably because it was not owned by them. Too short of a run to get 'The Best' IMO. Maybe most promising might be better.

That goes a little far for me. I believe they were more than content to just help their Wall St friends to rob America. When the fraud was exposed by the Lehman and Bear Stearns failures every Banker said "Who Me? No, it's the other guy." Republicans said " Let the bastards fail." Thus taking the rest of the economy down to the basement where they could proceed with the complete dismantling of government and the New Deal, which has been their goal all along since the 90s and still is.