TampaYankee

It's been a pleasure to have you particpate. The site would not be the same without you. I know I speak for Oz when I say we look forward to your continued presence and particpation.

Well said. Society -- all of society -- owes a debt of gratitude to the sung and many unsung heros that brought HIV out of the shadows of society as well as the shadows of medicine. It a disease that affects not only Homos and Haitians but people across the spectrum, especially the young and the poor. No one is immune, even the richest white straight people.

Same happened to me. I stopped needing distance glasses about ten years ago, after needing them to pass driver exams since my college days. It saves money as they were sort of pricey and I get by fine with drug store reading glasses.

He's toast.

I'm far from convinced the government has a real case that can get a conviction. Clearly he is guilty of bad judgement and infidelity and generally being a scuzzball. Whether the goverment can prove he illegally laundered money through his campaign, some think it is a real stretch. We'll have to wait and see. I wonder if this is being pursued so agressively because of the Ensign case. Having declined to prosecute that case the Justice Dept has had a damning file dropped on its doorstep by the Senate Ethics Committee that can hardly be overlooked now. Given the reluctance of this DOJ to prosecute political wrong doing I suspect they may want to show evenhandedness with both parties. Just wondering...

I saw that ass!! Exquisite. Amazing at his age he still has a twink body. And yeah, the show sucked but the ass shot made it more than watchable. Now let's see of they have the fortitude to keep the viewership up in my household. The recipe is easy.

Is it April 1st again, already?

Interesting concept. Might be ok for short stays. I don't stay in hotels to live in hotels. For me they are just a bed and a place to clean up for the next days adventures. I almost never use room service, never use pools, seldom gym facilities or business centers any more. I do need house keeping services and climate control. Not sure what the real savings are or how flexible the add-ons can be. I like being able to call up housekeeping for fresh towels and daily fresh sheets when I have company.

Sorry, cut and paste loses the paragraphing in the article which is too long to overcome my lazy gene. Worth a read though. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110601/hl_nm/us_aids;_ylt=AgRXoJm6cOnViv3TmwQ7VI3f47oF;_ylu=X3oDMTMxbXNkanJ2BGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwNjAxL3VzX2FpZHMEY2NvZGUDdG9wZ21wdG9wMjAwcG9vbARjcG9zAzgEcG9zAzgEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yaWVzBHNsawNzcGVjaWFscmVwb3I-

How easy can you learn to be fluent in Dutch? It is a requirement.

A couple of years back I came across a short clip of Ricky that purported to show him stripping. Actually, he was with a couple of older friends -- a few years only. He looked about seventeen or eighteen. It was an outdoor setting not inconsistent with Puerto Rico country setting. I believe there was a carport and 55 gallon barrel on end off to the side of the scene. He was fooling around (non sexual) and laughing. then started dancing and stripped off his shirt. That as far as it went. It was in the vein of kidding and fooling around. He was a very cute twink.

Good for him and better for gay New Yorkers. Hopefully his prestige and influence will help achieve the goal of equality for all New Yorkers. There's a lot about Bllomberg that recommends him. I thought that about Guiliani at one time until, like McCain, he abandoned principle for ambition.

They brought the original stars back to close down the show. They are doing eight shows for the wrap up season, then it is sayonara.

IMO it needs to. Meloni's character was as psycho as the bad guys they were chasing. I stopped watching years ago because it creeped me out seeing a police authority act the way he did. He was a character study in emotionalism running roughshod over professionalism. Not sayin' it doesn't happen -- it's called burn out. Normal people can do that type of job only so long before it takes a toll or they develop a detachment . Else it ruins lives, usually of them and their family members.

House Refuses To Vote On Abortion Coverage For Military Rape Victims Laura Basset mailto:lbassett@huffingtonpost.com The House Committee on Rules blocked an amendment from going to vote on Wednesday that would have allowed military rape victims to access abortion care through their government-provided health plans. Earlier this week, Rep. Susan Davis (D-Calif.) and five other House Democrats submitted an amendment to the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would reverse the current policy of denying abortion coverage to military women who are raped and become pregnant during their service. As the bill currently stands, servicewomen have to pay out of pocket for an expensive abortion procedure unless they can prove that their lives are in danger. By contrast, other federal bans on abortion coverage, including those for Medicaid recipients, federal employees, and women in federal prisons, all include exceptions for victims of rape and incest. The ban on abortion coverage for military rape victims is actually more extreme than the Hyde Amendment, which has prohibited federally-funded abortions for the past 30 years except in the cases of rape, incest and life endangerment. "I think it's outrageous that we have young women who are serving our country and sacrificing their lives, and if they are raped and a pregnancy happens then they cannot utilize federal resources in order to have an abortion," Rep. Davis told HuffPost. "How can we tell a servicewoman that we would provide funding for her if she were sitting in a safe office in Washington, DC, but because she's fighting for our freedom in Afghanistan we tell her no? It's just not acceptable." Instances of rape in the armed services are alarmingly common: The Pentagon reported more than 3,000 cases in FY 2009, and the Department of Defense estimates that reported incidents only account for a small fraction of the sexual assaults that actually occur. Davis said it is unclear exactly why the House Committee on Rules, led by Rep. David Dreier (R-Calif.), decided that the amendment did not deserve to be debated or get a vote. "I think they just don't want this to come up," she told HuffPost, "so they used a rule to block it." Dreier's office did not return calls for comment. NARAL Pro-Choice America said it was outraged by the House leadership's ongoing campaign to limit women's access to abortion care. "Apparently Speaker John Boehner and his allies believe that women who put their lives on the line for their country should face more obstacles than women stateside when it comes to making personal, private decisions," said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL. "It is unconscionable." See original article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/25/military-rape-victims-abortion-coverage_n_867010.html

Thanks for the update, they are always welcome and appreciated. This one also provides especially crtical information for those planning a trip in the near future.

Not to mention at least five local support pesonnel to help with your luggage and such.

It's sad to see what has happened to the dollar over the last decade. The Euro was introduced at US$ 0.75. Now that has flipped. The Canadian exchange rate was north of $CND 1.55 per US$ back in 2001/2002. Now the US dollar is worth less than the Loony Clearly, globalization and US tax and trade policy has sent us down the toilet in the last decade. I see nothing changing to affect that. We are a banana republic with the oligarchy getting richer and richer while the country gets poorer and poorer. Thanks Bush II and Wall St and the US Chamber of Commerce... oh, and Clinton and Ruben too for the 1999 repeal of the 1930s-era Glass-Steagal Act.

They look OK on my computer... well, better than OK. No size problems for me... the photos I mean.

Ditto... and before that The Practice and it's dramedy spin-off Boston Legal. It's the writing that puts all of these shows on a different level and great cast choices that deliver the lines believably.

Ditto, ditto, ditto.

Czech Republic Denies 'Phallometric' Porn Arousal Test For Gay Refugees Is In Use After European Criticism The Czech Republic has fought back after the European Commission once again alleged the government was continuing to implement a bizarre method of determining whether homosexual asylum seekers are legitimately gay. As the Czech News Agency is reporting, European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstrom slammed the nation for continuing to use "phallometric testing," which measures the flow of blood to a man's penis to determine the physical reaction to pornography, as part of local screening procedures for men who apply for asylum on the basis of their sexual orientation. If the device determines that the applicant became aroused while viewing heterosexual pornography, he will be denied asylum. "This is a pure medieval method and a huge violation of the individual’s right to privacy," Malmstrom wrote on her blog, before noting the commission had tried to contact Czech authorities in regard to the practice but had yet to receive a sufficient response. "There is no question that this is politically unacceptable." Meanwhile, Czech Interior Ministry spokesman Vladimir Repka told Czech Position that the controversial practice -- which has been nicknamed "peter meters" -- had not been employed since 2009. “They were previously used to supplement other sexual diagnostic tests, and in the future we count on just using these,” he is quoted as saying. The Czech Republic previously came under fire from the Austrian-based European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights late last year. The agency said in a report that "phallometric testing" potentially violates the European Convention on Human Rights as it "touches upon a most intimate part of an individual's private life," according to the Associated Press. Furthermore, the reliability of the test is questionable because "it is dubious whether it reaches sufficiently clear conclusions," and noted bisexual people were unlikely to pass. The Czech Interior Ministry then claimed the testing has been carried out in fewer than 10 cases and always in the presence of a medical specialist, and all those who passed the test had been granted asylum. In addition, the ministry also argued the practice was voluntary, according to the Telegraph. See original story at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/18/czech-phallometric-test-slammed_n_863731.html

Ditto. Some good looking guys there.

I'm intrigued by the engineering of the hats. When you consider the size, rigidity, and weight issues, and the torque and air drag pressure force on them generated in the head motions I'm amazed they were so stable and stayed in place without any problems. Yeah, the performance was bizarre and the hatless guitar player was cute.

We have one escort listed for Viet Nam. You might try contacting him about the scene.