Lucky

In an article on the trial of an American Airlines luggage handler for drug smuggling, it is mentioned that 80% of the airline's luggage handlers steal from luggage in what is called a "cesspool of corruption." One luggage handler in particular led a drug smuggling ring, making millions of dollars. Victor Bourne, apparently on his own initiative, arranged for cocaine to be smuggled into planes by similarly corrupt baggage handlers in Barbados. "...his associates in the enterprise were other airline employees: baggage handlers and crew chiefs who delivered contraband while they delivered luggage to the baggage-claim area," the NY Times reports. American Airlines is the leading airline in having items stolen from luggage. Read the whole story, and then think again before you leave valuables in your luggage! What Those Bag Fees Cover! Wonder why they distract us with complaints about Alec Baldwin?

My gosh! 1000 posts and it seems like we hardly ever hear from you. Oh, wait, that's Stu Cotts, He's next on the list of most posted member. But Lookin is only 2 posts behind him, maybe we can make a race out of this. Anyway, congrats mister allusa. I've noticed that not only have you reached this milestone, but that your posts tend to be more substantive too. Good accomplishment!

Yes, I go it, but I don't eat at Carl's Jr. I prefer In and Out burger, so I gave your card to Townie. Thanks, though!

That pic turns out to be from a store opening in Singapore, causing Gawker to ask "Singapore? Where are the Asians?"

In a truly funny response to the Rick Perry anti-gay ad,comedian Stephen Colbert has a skit that is a riot to watch. The link here is part of a story on the as from sfgate.com: HA HA Perry

Christmas cards have come full circle for me. From sending none, to sending many to sending none. Well, if you send me one, I will send you one IF you do more than just sign the card. A card that just says a printed greeting followed by a signature means you are just going through the motions. A picture card is even worse. What am I supposed to do with it? Why do I need a picture of your adorable family that is not much more than a postcard? Especially when it is unsigned and just has a printed "The FourAces family wishes you a Merry Christmas." No, if you are going to send a card, make it a communication. Get your 44 cents worth! Tell me something I don't know about what has been happening to you. If you only write me once a year, go ahead and do the much aligned newsletter, all about Biffy's sex change surgery and Johnny getting out of rehab, "sure hope it works this time"! But, if you only traveled to Branson, Missouri, spare me the story of how you met Wayne Newton in the coffee shop. If you want to include a photo in the card, well, didn't Billy turn 18 this year? You could send a photo of him! But nowadays email has kept most of us in communication, and, if it hasn't, a Christmas card won't help. If I only hear from you once a year, and at that it is only a Christmas card with a signature, perhaps we need to reevaluate this relationship. Finally, for those who actually do send me cards, I love getting them! Send me more! After all, I wouldn't want you to think I was ungrateful. See, I am secretly pleased that you thought of me.

How kind of you to invite us. Will my ticket be first class or business? The latter is fine, but my hotel room must sleep 4 to 6 people comfortably!

I would have gone more for Lord Byron. I could have awoke to him at dawn and not cringed:

How does the Roku work? How does it get the programs? Like Hulu does? So I connect this box to my tv, then the tv will show the shows that Hulu shows on my computer? The 2XS seems the best buy since it is on sale, but do I need that much? Rokuku Looks to me like you have to buy Hulu Plus, netflix, and other premium programs to have anything to watch on Roku.

Thanks for the pic, Townie. I'd take door #4.

Lucky's Opinion Well, think of it this way. Most of us here, no doubt all of us, stay away from underage guys. And, we don't want people thinking we have that interest, either. So the website needs to keep a long arm when it comes to that sort of thing. Meaning, even if twinker there is over 18, we don't need any association with barely legal. I mean, why would we? It wouldn't do the site any good except to attract the wrong kind, and it might drive some of us away who don't want to be anywhere near the barely legal scene. As the porn forum...and your website, for that matter...show, there is no shortage of hot young guys of clear legal age who are willing to pose in the birthday suit God gave them. There's plenty there for all of us, and we don't need to add that added aura of barely legal to the mix. Now, of course, that's just my opinion. I am being clear on that. But you wanted a reason, and there is a reason there. Does your website get a lot of hits when a guy like him is featured? If so, I say good for you. We wouldn't want to take those hits away! Love, Lucky. This has been an expression of personal opinion. All rights reserved!

I hate Time Warner Cable. I need them for my internet, but neither the bf nor I watch much TV. For him, it's cooking shows and International House Hunters. For me, it's the Daily Show and baseball, in season of course. For that, I have to pay extra for 80 games a week. Not that I watch 80. Just the Yankees. But, we can get the shows we watch on hulu.com for free, and mlb.com will provide the baseball games, for a fee, of course. So, why do I need Time Warner Cable? We tried Direct TV a while back, but the doofusses sent out to hook it up literally had the wires strung along the living room floor to the TV. Cost me $300 to have it all taken out, and the satellite dish still sits on the roof. But I need my internet. That's non-negotiable. Hitoallusa might pay for it just to keep me posting. So, anyone else can their cable TV for the internet shows? How's it working for you?

Not many think that I act conservative and restrained...or at least one of those. I like to live it up, get me a good book, and just read all day, into the night.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: "The number of Lucky supermarket customers whose bank or credit-card accounts were breached by thieves using data-skimming devices inserted into card-swipe machines has grown to more than 500, the grocery store chain said Thursday. Officials at Save Mart Supermarkets, which owns Lucky, have also discovered another store where the card readers were tampered with, this one in San Leandro. That brings to 24 the number of Lucky stores in the Bay Area where thieves were able to steal customers' debit-card or credit-card information. Technicians performing scheduled maintenance on credit- and debit-card readers in self-checkout lines in early November found that the devices had been tinkered with..." Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/08/BA2A1MA5ML.DTL#ixzz1fzclSVlp IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE- Please note: I sold the Lucky stores years ago, including the name. So I am in no way responsible for this scam where people swipe. And I am not owned by Save Mart- they are the folks I sold the chain to. Either that, or I am totally deluded by this Lucky moniker...

Homophobic presidential candidate Rick Perry, who recently put out an ad decrying gay marriage, has a closeted gay man as his top pollster, blogs all over are reporting: Homo Profits on Bigotry

38 years after his death, the most powerful bishop ever to hold that title in Ireland is possibly being named as a pedophile. The NYTimes.com website states: "Two specific complaints and a separate unspecified “concern” against an unnamed cleric were reported to the Murphy Commission, a state-sponsored investigation into the handling of clerical sex abuse of children in the Dublin archdiocese. The newspaper reported that Archbishop McQuaid, who died in 1973, is the unnamed cleric...One complaint alleges abuse of a 12-year-old boy in 1961. " It seems ridiculous to pursue a matter that old, but is is not to Irish abuse victims. The bishop apparently was not vigilant in accusations of molestation by priests. The Times continues: "Although he never became a cardinal, it would be near impossible to overstate the authority Archbishop McQuaid wielded, even before his consecration as archbishop of Dublin in 1940 until his retirement in 1972. He was highly influential in framing the Irish constitution of 1937, which among other things recognized the “special position of the Holy Catholic Apostolic and Roman Church.” This was removed in 1973, the year of Archbishop McQuaid’s death." Deceased Bishop Investigated

Duh! Lucky is the one on his knees!

TY and I are the best of friends. We wouldn't do a cage fight unless it benefited bullied youth, and only if Lookin agreed to referee.

Somewhere else it was mentioned how frustrating it can be to try to book a flight on GOL Airlines in Brazil from a US computer. Now Delta airlines has bought a $100 million dollar share in GOL, which will allow it to see connecting flights on the airline. This might mean you have to fly on Delta first, I am not sure. American has a code share agreement with GOL which expires next year.

Don't worry, Tomcal. 314 guys can testify that you were in Brazil that day!

Having seen the picture,it was the first thing I thought of when I saw this story today on a gay teen who killed himself. They look quite a bit alike, or perhaps it's just the hairstyle. Teen Suicide

The scandal worsens today as hundreds more troops were revealed to have been dumped in landfills. Landfill is, of course, a nice name for dump. The remains, or partial remains, of over 2700 soldiers ended up in landfills. Washington Post story

This here just because it is a bad priest thread, and yes, a gay bad priest: The ex-pastor of a wealthy Connecticut parish — who resigned in 2007 after an audit found he spent more than $500,000 in church funds on meals, travel and other questionable items — is set to plead guilty today to a federal obstruction-of-justice charge, The Post has learned. The Rev. Michael Moynihan’s guilty plea in New Haven federal court involves allegations that he mislead federal investigators probing the missing money at St. Michael the Archangel parish in Greenwich, sources said. The Catholic priest’s lawyers, Mark Sherman and Audrey Felsen, declined to comment. The Bridgeport Diocese in 2007 revealed that Moynihan, 58, had used $185,000 to pay off personal credit-card bills, which included $32,000 for meals; almost $19,000 for travel, and another $13,000 on equestrian training. Another $44,000 went to people who did not work for the parish. The money came from a secret bank account containing parish funds that Moynihan had set up. In 2008, Moynihan was suspended as a priest and fired as a chaplain at SUNY Maritime College in The Bronx after The Post revealed he had long lived in a pricey, one-bedroom Midtown apartment with a man who was the former children’s-choir director at St. Michael the Archangel. Moynihan previously was banned by the diocese from associating with the man, actor-singer Michael Fawcett. Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/priest_pleading_guilty_in_embezzle_HR6viddtNC4bmmmnKSeQnK#ixzz1fx5Ru6wS

We could call it Celebrity Punching Bowl. Who are we really jealous enough of to tear completely to shreds? Has to be someone who has done us no harm. Perhaps Oprah?

Gosh. I wonder what star we will put up tomorrow for our scrutiny of his every move and the pleasure of ripping him apart.