TampaYankee

Me too... except I was no kid.

There is much to what you say. SOTUS has permitted our system to be corrupted even more than before Citizens United, and appears set to go even further any day now by strking down a public financing law in Arizona. The GOP Big Business/Tea Pary coalition may ultimately buy our entire government if the people don't wake up. I'm not optimistic. If so then the question is moot and we have lost our country. But that cannot happen now or even next year. So budgets must be compromised. Short term and maybe longer term the GOP BB/TP keep enough power to thwart compromise reform short of outright effective capitulation. The situation ultimately may have to be resolved the way it was done after the Big Crash of '29. Labor reforms, social reforms, and economic/banking reforms came out of the chaos that caused. That shows that the electorate can wake up and focus. If we cannot reach acceptable compromise on spending then it may be necessary to let the national economy fail Big Time by not increasing the debt ceiling and let the electorate choose the path forward. I doubt Big Business would like the effect of that on their bottom line and I suspect they would drop the Tea Party quicker than last weeks soiled diapers. I'm sure some GOPers would hold the ideological line come hell or high water but most of them have pretty short money leashes and most will go the way they are pulled. The governing GOP might look more like the GOP of the 80's than the John Birch Society of the 50's and 60s. So I see either some 'intelligent' (used loosely) compromise achieved or 'going to the mattresses'. As usually the case, we are likely to end up with a compromise no one likes which is no real solution to the problem. Washington is most successful at kicking the can down the road.

LOL... most supermarkets carry it in the kitchen utensils isle next to the meat thermometer, more or less. Also try pharmacies, Walmart, etc. cooking equipments stores, and online too. As for low fat, that is an individual choice. Personally, carbs are a greater problem for me than fat. Plus I don't like rubberized cheese and yogurt or sweet tasteless watery nonfat milk. Thus I do regular dairy products only. That includes real butter and coffee cream. I get away with this I guess because I take a statin and although I eat meat, I eat a lot less than in my younger days. I also use psyllium which is very beneficial to lowering blood lipids. It all works for me.

Maybe I have been looking at this all wrong. Maybe this is a good thing if lots of other countries jump on this bandwagon. That will certainly discourage entrepreneurs from acquiring .xxx domains thus killing it in the cradle. Attempts to force sites to the .xxx domains could then be argued that such force restricts freedom of speech. While many governments could care less, the Western governments would be under pressure if they attempted pressure on site owners. ICANN might come under pressure too. It's a hope anyway.

Au contraire mon fraire... Dimitry the pro dances is molten heat. Sorry to se the above guy go so soon has he was nice eye candy but Dmitry is as hot and has the moves. I'll continue watching him dance and the others too since there is no addtional cost.

It's called Capitolism and is the American Way. Have you ever heard of the Robber Barrons? Do a Google Search. Today's GOP would give them tax breaks and free them from Teddy Roosevelt's undue regulations, i.e. Trust Busting of JP Morgan, John D Rockefellar, James Duke etc. The fact that most companys are publicly owned, but not publicly controlled, does little to change the effects of big business on unhealthy business and labor practices.

I doubt that. If you are like me some of your wants require the body and stamina of a 19 yo.

Yeah, but the real point is that the Comcast customer will pay for it, not Netflix. Ultimately, we get back to metered service. It is my understanding that the internet is a long way from full utilization with developments in the tube. If everyone vies for a fixed limited resource then metering might make some sense, might. But when the resource is essentially unlimited as it presently is there is no reason to charge beyond the cost of bringing the pipeline to your door. Especiall since Netflix or other providers are providing the content to be delivered.

Due to copyright restrictions see article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/netflix-streaming-quality-canada_n_842225.html

And so it begins...

India First Nation To Block New .XXX Domain The Huffington Post Catharine Smith First Posted: 03/29/11 08:47 AM ET Updated: 03/29/11 08:47 AM ET The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), recently approved the creation of a ".xxx" domain for pornographic websites. Religious groups and even pornographers have taken issue with the assignation, and nations are now taking a stand, as well. India has become the first country to block URLs ending in .xxx. The distribution of pornography is illegal in India and elsewhere, and other countries may follow India's lead. "India along with many other countries from the Middle East and Indonesia opposed the grant of the domain in the first place, and we would proceed to block the whole domain, as it goes against the IT Act and Indian laws," said a senior official at the ministry of IT, according to the Economic Times. "Though some people have said that segregation is better, and some countries allow it. But for other nations transmission and direct distribution of such content goes against their moral and culture." Pornographers and free speech activists have already voiced concerns that the .xxx suffix will allow authorities to winnow out adult content more easily. The Next Web contacted cyber lawyer and author of "The Fundamental Right to the Internet," Vivek Sood, who pointed out that pornography can still be hosted on .com and .in domains in India. Indeed, the application process for a .xxx domain is voluntary. Sites seeking to join will be subjected to a set of standards that prohibit child pornography, among other restrictions, and protect consumers against Malware, TechSpot reports. The new domains will also cost as much as $50 dollars more per year than traditional domains, according to the AP. See original article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/29/xxx-domain-blocked-india_n_841839.html?ir=World

WOW!! I Gotta believe that there is a lot of airbrusing going on. If not then sign me up for an overnight with Rob.

I think he has it just about right. He expresses my view of the best way to achieve a fair, effective and meaningful approach to deficit reduction that recognizes pure austerity measures alone won't produce the economic rubustness we need to reduce tha deficit. We can't cut our way to success alone and have a country with any resemblance to the country we have known since WWII. We have to combine trageted cuts with prudent targeted tax increases and lots of ecomonic growth to get it done. That means creating jobs and it means thoughtful spending reallocation based on reforms and reogranization. That means infrastructure referbishment to provide those jobs and lay the framework for the next fifty years of economic growth. It also means reforming the largest single source of increased cost to govermnment and a big cost to business and the private sector, health care, even more to cut costs of meds and services while improving patient outcomes. It can be done. There are numerous examples that show it can be done.

Why I didn't sign deficit letter By JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ | 3/28/11 5:24 AM EDT I was asked to sign the letter from a bipartisan group of former chairmen and chairwomen of the Council of Economic Advisers that stresses the importance of deficit reduction and urges the use of the Bowles Simpson Deficit Commissions recommendations as the basis for compromise. The letters signatories believed that their support would show that there was a core to scientific economics that crosses ideological boundaries. While I agree there is a core set of principles to which all card-carrying economists would (or should) subscribe resources are limited, incentives matter I did not sign. I believe the Bowles Simpson recommendations represent, to too large an extent, a set of unprincipled political compromises that would lead to a weaker America with slower growth and a more divided society. In a white paper written for the Roosevelt Institute, I explain the principles that should underlay deficit reduction and what a deficit reduction package consistent with these could look like. The ballooning of the deficit since the crisis struck has understandably moved deficit reduction to the center of the debate. But the best way to reduce the deficit is to put America back to work. Overwhelmingly, the deficit increase has been caused by the enormous shortfall between the economys potential and actual output. Even as growth has resumed, the output gapreflecting in high unemploymenthas persisted. The Bowles-Simpson recommendations, if adopted, would constitute a near-suicide pact: Growth would slow, tax revenues would diminish, the improvement in the deficit would be minimal. What matters for sustainability is the debt to gross domestic product ratio and that likely could worsen. This is what we have seen in the similarly poorly designed austerity measures of Greece, Latvia and Ireland; and in earlier such measures in Argentina and East Asia. The International Monetary Fund seems to have learned the lesson but not the Bowles-Simpson Commission. With monetary policy demonstrably ineffective in pulling us out of our malaise, fiscal policy is only recourse to putting America back to work. Fortunately, we can simultaneously stimulate the economy now and reduce the deficit in the medium term. Years of underinvestment in the public sectorin infrastructure, education and technologymean that there are ample high-return opportunities. Tax revenues generated by the higher short- and long-term growth will more than pay the low interest costs, implying significant reductions in deficits. Any firm that could borrow at terms similar to those available to the U.S., and with such high return projects, would be foolish to pass up the opportunity. So, too, increased progressivity of the tax systemshifting the burden from low and middle income Americans, who have seen their incomes decline, to upper income Americans, the only group in the country that has prospered for the last decadewould have double benefits. The shift would stimulate the economy in the short run, and reduce the growing divide in the country in the long run. With a quarter of all U.S. income going to the upper 1 percent, and Americas middle class actually facing lower incomes than a decade ago, there is only one way to raise more taxes: Tax the top. So, too, increased progressivity of the tax systemshifting the burden from low and middle income Americans, who have seen their incomes decline, to upper income Americans, the only group in the country that has prospered for the last decadewould have double benefits. The shift would stimulate the economy in the short run, and reduce the growing divide in the country in the long run. With a quarter of all U.S. income going to the upper 1 percent, and Americas middle class actually facing lower incomes than a decade ago, there is only one way to raise more taxes: Tax the top. In short, redesigning tax and expenditure programs could promote faster economic growth in both the short run and long; increase equity and opportunity, and lower the national debt, and the debt/GDP ratio even more. In my report, I outline the low-hanging fruit that could easily exceed the $4 trillion dollar target set by the Bowles-Simpson Commission. For example: (a) The Cold War ended more than two decades ago, but we continue to spend tens of billions on weapons that dont work against enemies that dont exist. Fruitless wars have not increased our security and our militarys credibility. Rather, they have undermined both. We could have more security with less spending. The commission recognized this but didnt go far enough. Congress and the Obama administration have not gone far enough either. (B The health care reform bill did little to eliminate the trillion-dollar giveaway to the drug companies, resulting from restrictions on the ability of government (the largest buyer of drugs) to negotiate prices. In contrast to every other government in the world. While much more can, and should, be done to control health care costs, this little change would make a big difference. Eliminating corporate welfare, both that hidden in our tax systems and in the hidden give-aways of our countrys natural resources to oil and gas and mining companies; eliminating the unjustifiable and harmful tax breaks for speculators and companies that keep their money out of the country, and taxing activities that generate large negative externalitieswhether the environmental pollution that threatens our health and our childrens future, or the financial transactions that brought out country and the world to the brink of ruincould all easily generate trillions of dollars in revenues. At the same time, they could also create a fairer society, a cleaner environment, and a more stable economy. Deficit reduction is important. But it is a means to an end not an end in itself. We need to think about what kind of economy, and what kind of society, we want to create; and how tax and expenditure programs can help achieve those goals. Bowles-Simpson confuses means with ends, and would take us off in directions which would likely be counterproductive. Fortunately, there are alternatives that could do more for deficit reduction, more for putting America back to work now and more for creating the kind of economy and society we should be striving for in the future. Joseph E. Stiglitz served as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton. He was chief economist of the World Bank from 1997 to 2000 and was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2001. His most recent book is Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy. See original article at:http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/52027.html

You can turn regular plain yogurt into Greek style yogurt by draining much of the liquid out of it. Simply put yougurt in a sieve or drain it through a couple of layers of cheese cloth. You will be amazed how much liquid drains out of it in a couple of hours, how creamy the result is, and less sour too, as much of the sourness is carried out in the liquid.

I'm wary about putting personal files on third party storage. I also do not like depending on them to hold the only back-up copy of valuable information. I dont control them and their procedures. They could be hacked, go out of business, suffer catastrophic failure, or data mine your files depending on the fine print of the agreement. In this day when even Google reads your email it doesn't pay to trust these companies too far. Given that DVDs are dirt cheap and hold 4.7 GB or 8.5 GB each, I prefer to keep my data/files in hand so that I control my destiny. FWIW

What has he ever done to warrant such disdain and disrespect? I never met the man and he is not my type but so what. He was HooBoy's type and hundreds of not thousands of others. What's up with dissing and pissing on someone you dont even know first hand and as far as I know never heard anything substantially negative about. Don't we have better things to do than to take cheap shots? I's true that success breeds contempt, but I'm not sure why.

It is conceivable that it could happen here. The Conservatives are using the debt and deficit 'crisis' to implement ideological cuts in the name of deficit reduction. This couldn't be more obvious to anyone who follows the political scene. However, there are significant segments of the population that are strongly commited and dependent on some of those programs and institutions that Conservatives wish to weaken or destroy: labor unions, contraception and abortion rights, gay rights, social security, medicare, medicaid... to name the obvious. Some are even trying to roll back child labor laws for god's sake. If they make serious inroads into effecting this agenda I do see the potential for large demonstrations and possibly isolated cases of violence. There is no question that debt and deficit are concerns that must be addressed. However, if it becomes a question of ideological agenda over thoughtful spending reallocation based on reforms and reogranization then I see a troubled road ahead.

Do dispell confusion on my part, are you asking that the title be truncated to two words only? Or do you want them in quotes?

Oz, you may know more than, I but as I recall HooBoy telling it, he was so exhilirated by an assignation with Aaron that he wanted to tell the world (gay escort hiring world anyway). He posted a 'review' of his encounter on webpage he created specially for the purpose. He got so much positive feedback from it that he was inspired to start a litte escort review website. The rest is history. Thus Aaron was HooBoy's inspiration and Hooboy was the inspiration to hundreds of us, maybe more. He didn't invent hiring escorts but he did make it a much less of an uncertain experience for many by fostering communication and sharing of information about the experience, in general, and hundreds of individual escorts, in particular. So Aaron is much more of a lynchpin in modern gay escorting than even his book credits him with. That book is out of print but still in demand as paperback versions are quoted online in the seventy plus dollar range if you can find a copy.

Newt is running hard as a born-again Christian of the Catholic stripe in his attempt to court evangelicals for his Iowa presidential run. This all materialized a couple of years ago when he was developing strategy for the run. Truly a desperate course. He'd been better off choosing Baptist for obvious reasons if Iowa was the main target. Guess chose based on total numbers rather than fine targeting Iowa and SC. Why would the Catholics even accept him after serial adultury and divorce. But then one can always shop for a forgiving ear, I guess. Newt is so transparent and a public hyprocracy spectable. He doesnn't stand a snowball's chance in hell.

I love a good fruit cake but poor renditions can be horrible. A good one has the right spices, plenty of glace cherries, pineapple and pecans, and may a few plump raisins. No other fruit please. It should be cured for at least 30 days wrapped in brandy soaked cheese cloth reinvorgated weekly, and that wrapped in air-tight foil or plastic. Bourbon will do in a pinch.

I cannot think of anyone with less credibility, from his entrance on day one here. Some posters warrant just being totally ignored. It is the most effective way of answering them because they thrive on conflict exchanges. If nobody plays they disappear in disappointment, if not dispair. All like-minded individuals who share the site interests are welcome here unless they show up with an agenda or to play games at others expense. Welcome hitoallusa/greatness. You seem to fit in just fine. Thanks for sharing your comments/experiences.

Marc Anthony must be on his way to Phoenix. He a sucker for spinning signs.

I apologize for the frustration and problem. Can you provide any addtional information that might help find the problem? Did the post complete without the photos? Was there any message or unusual behavior observed? Did the screen freeze momentarily or longer? Anything else out of the ordinary? BTW, I tried your link and it wasn't working. Maybe the trouble is rooted in that site? I do not know but I suggest trying to post some photos from another site to see if the problem is in our software, your space allocation or the site.