Lucky

At the end, in the credits, they spell "captain" as "captian." I wonder if anyone will "temm" them that! Welcome back, 4a. OMG NSFW Lucky

From the NY Times: If you type a wrong password into the Web site of The Wall Street Journal, it turns out that your e-mail address quietly slips out to seven unrelated Web sites. Sign on to NBC and, likewise, seven other companies can capture your e-mail address. Click on an ad on HomeDepot.com and your first name and user ID are instantly revealed to 13 other companies. These findings, released by the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, are among the leaks found on 185 top Web sites. They serve to buttress what privacy advocates have long warned of: Your online travel — your clickstream, as it’s poetically known — is not always anonymous. It can often be traced right back to rather precise parts of you, including your name and e-mail address. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/11/stanford-researcher-finds-lots-of-leaky-web-sites/?scp=1&sq=%22leaks%20found%22&st=Search

I guess I would vote for Quinn. He has that Darren Criss look. But did the city really make this an official holiday? Kind of like G-string appreciation Day?

I am glad that Lookin brought up the camera issue, as I didn't. It is scary, but I think only for us older folks who grew up with certain beliefs in the right of privacy. Think about young'uns today. They have no privacy, and they don't seem to mind. Their entire lives are revealed on Facebook, their cell phone tracks their every movement, their computer follows them around the internet, revealing every site they visit to strangers who have the right bots. They even go on camera to jack off for the whole world to see! What's another camera on the street mean to them? Now of course we use the computer and cell phone too, but we are smart enough to block all of those privacy invasions, aren't we? At least the ones we know about? Which is about, oh, five? All of which is to say that street cameras are here to stay, or so it seems. (And a thanks to MsGuy and Lookin for joining me in the Politics section today. Would be no fun to be here alone. Of course, there are all of those unseen lurkers watching...)

"That said, some might also argue that the following quote makes a prima facie case that Lucky misses the bare knuckle brawls of the other board:" Ah, MsGuy. After all these years do we not understand each other? I do not come here to play the wounded kitten role. I am here for honest give and take, discussion of hot issues, amusement at life's foibles, and a general sense of gay male camaraderie. I admit to creating posts with an intent to provoke. For me, the last thing one should want here is the boredom of general agreement. As you know, my background is as a trial lawyer. Day after day I would go into court and argue. Yes, argue. Not like in the US Senate, where you call the enemy "your esteemed colleague" before you rip him a new asshole. The courtroom allowed for argument on important matters that still left the opposing parties the liberty to leave the building and share a drink together. A badge of honor was the reputation of being fair, yet persuasive. We don't have the more formal rules of the courtroom here, and the consequence is that some feathers get ruffled that we didn't intend to ruffle. But that's one reason I like provoking Epigonos- he can take it and then some. If an opposing lawyer in a courtroom responded to something I said with the comment, "Oh, Lucky, you are so sweet," we would both have been laughed out of court. I am not here to be sweet, but, hopefully, fair, yet persuasive. Not always right, but always interesting. (If someone wants to think I am sweet, that's great(ness), just don't tell anyone!)

It's a tough time to be a New York police officer, as the department has been taking it on the chin in several instances lately. The Occupy Wall Street protests have gained the most attention, as white-shirted police bosses have pepper-sprayed protesters, punched one, and ran over another's leg with a police scooter. The police seem stymied in how to deal with the protest movement, and have, if anything, drawn even more attention to it. But that's not the worst of it. Some 500 officers came under investigation in a ticket fixing scandal. But worst of all are revelations this week that some officers actually made a custom of planting narcotics on innocent people to make their arrest quotas. For me, that's actually the scariest thing coming out of the news this week in New York. With such a huge department, there is no doubt that many bad apples will be in the bunch. Innocent, law-abiding police officers must suffer the hurt to their families and their reputation as these scofflaw officers take priority in the publicity mill. Yet the blue wall of silence keeps them from speaking out against officers who commit crimes, to their won detriment. It's hard to be the finest if you cannot even police your own department.

Gay men have been given a rare opportunity to support the family, as a New York couple look for new ways to make a living in these tough economic times: A couple struggling to make ends meet to support their 20-month-old daughter have found a new way to supplement a meager income - amateur porn. Berkley, 21, and Tyler, 25, have no previous experience in the X-rated industry, nor any long-term dreams to become porn stars - but for now, hey, it's a job, they say. A job that rakes in $1,000 a week, according to ABC's Nightline. That beats the tips Berkley took home while working part-time as a cocktail waitress at a nightclub - and the sub-$350 a week Tyler was pulling in doing odd jobs. "That first night, within 30 minutes we had made $300," Tyler said. "I was like, 'I'm done with a normal 40-hour work week.'" "We just want to be normal. That's what our goal is to be - as normal as possible." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/10/15/2011-10-15_couple_turns_to_amateur_porn_gig_to_support_toddler_im_done_with_a_normal_40hour.html#ixzz1arD6oivt

I do 20 minutes on the treadmill several times a week. It has been too hot here for a walk,except at 5:30 am when the dogs go out. Earlier this year I developed Runners Knees (chondramalaycia sp?)after years of jogging as a younger man. It hurts like hell until you get the artificial cartilage stuff injected. It can make a man downright grouchy.

Justin Bieber was in BA this week and met a warm welcome, so I imagine Axiom will have the same.

Epigonos and I enjoy teasing each other about our political beliefs. The smiley was placed to let others in on the joke. I am sure that he abhors the idea that some right wing republicans would use our very gains politically against us, but I can't help teasing him that he is their fellow traveler, thus the use of the old cliche "avowed.". I had a little fun with bishop Finn too, and I hope he understands that his indictment is a source of amusement to many of us. Yesterday a 78-year old monsignor in New York tried to molest two underage boys in the same day, and it had nothing to do with Bishop Finn, so I wanted to point that out in his defense. (dailynews.com) (P.S.- Conservatives in Britain have learned that you do NOT bring your boyfriend into government meetings!)

PS: A certain fellow poster has appropriately chastised me for my comment here. I agree that Townsend has every right to be pleased that he had the opportunity to go out with some fine and handsome young men. I overreacted in saying that his interest was only in the size of their dicks. It is only natural for us gay men to enjoy the company of charming young fellows, and it doesn't hurt to imagine what tools they carry behind their red hot zippers. I was having a bad morning, so I apologize.

SFGate.com reports: With more than half of Americans in a recent poll accepting same-sex marriage, gays and lesbians need no judicial protection from laws passed by Congress, House Republicans argued Friday in a San Francisco court in defense of a law denying federal benefits to same-sex spouses. "Homosexuals have a great deal of political power" and are not entitled to the safeguards that courts have established for laws that discriminate against racial minorities or women, attorney Paul Clement said in a filing supporting the Defense of Marriage Act... ...House Speaker John Boehner chose Clement, a former U.S. solicitor general, to take over the defense in a series of pending Defense of Marriage Act cases after President Obama announced in February that he considered the law unconstitutional and would no longer defend it. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/14/BANT1LI0F4.DTL#ixzz1ap1nQO3d Our fellow poster Epigonos is an avowed Republican who opposes the Obama administration. Does he support this horrendous claim?

From dailynews.com: Call it "To Catch a Cheater" instead. Chris Hansen, host of NBC's hit pervert-nabbing show "To Catch a Predator" has been caught cheating on his wife, again, reports the National Enquirer. This time around, his mistress is stripper Kathleen Collins, whom Hansen met in a Las Vegas Club early this year. The two lovebirds enjoyed a six-month tryst before news broke of Hansen's other extramarital indescretions. In late June, Hansen was caught on tape having a date with 30-year-old TV news reporter Kristyn Cadell at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., before heading to the young reporter's apartment later that night. For Collins, the news came as a shock, says the Enquirer. The stripper said she was "floored" when she heard about Hansen's other fling. "I know this sounds crazy, but Kathleen really thought she was the only one," a close friend told the magazine. Hansen has two sons with his wife, Mary, 53. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2011/08/04/2011-08-04_to_catch_a_predator_host_chris_hansen_caught_cheating_again_this_time_with_strip.html#ixzz1aosikoQu

I think a woman who ran a complete marathon while 9 months pregnant is bonkers. She endangered her child, as the kid will be adverse to running his entire life.

The Very Reverend Huckleberry Finn, bishop of Kansas City, Missouri, has been indicted by a grand jury there on misdemeanor charges of failing to notify officials of sexual abuse by a parish priest. The diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph was also indicted. The diocese says they did show a photo to a local cop, who said the image was not kiddie porn. But they only showed the one image, the cop says. Tom Sawyer, attorney for the bishop, says they will fight the charges or take a raft down the river, whichever seems best when spring comes. Bishop Finn Yahoo News reports that Finn acknowledged earlier this year that a parish principal had raised concerns in May 2010 that the Rev. Shawn Ratigan was behaving inappropriately around children, but that he didn't read the principal's written report until this spring. Ratigan was charged in May with three state child pornography counts, and in June with 13 federal counts of producing, possessing and attempting to produce child porn. He has pleaded not guilty and remains jailed. After receiving the principal's concerns in 2010, Monsignor Robert Murphy, the diocese's vicar general, spoke with Ratigan about setting boundaries with children. He then gave Finn a verbal summary of the concerns and his meeting with the priest. Finn says: "For our part, we will meet these announcements with a steady resolve and a vigorous defense." (Yeah, like wait a year to do anything!) (hehehe...an indictment is now an "announcement.") Last December, a computer technician found on Ratigan's laptop hundreds of what he called "disturbing" images of children, most of them fully clothed with the focus on their crotch areas, and a series of pictures of a 2- to 3-year-old girl with her genitals exposed. The parish priest, Shawn Ratigan, had hundreds of images of little kids nekkid on his computer, and the diocese and the bishop waited months to notify authorities, the charges allege. The Reverend Ratigan liked little girls. Father Rat http://www.kansascity.com/2011/10/14/3207527/bishop-finn-diocese-indicted.html

I read his post, that's what. How shallow to say your evening was a success because you were with guys who had big dicks. The size of a guy's dick has nothing to do with whether he is a good person, or even good in bed. The obsession here over dick size makes a person's value determined by a fluke of nature, and I don't like that.

He wears eyebrow toupees! One of them slipped during the debate the other night, but his campaign is blaming a bad camera angle! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/fashion/raising-eyebrows.html?scp=2&sq=eyebrow&st=cse

You forgot: Making the rich free from taxation.

So the dick size of your friends determines how exciting your evening is?

Apple plays hard! The Samsung in now banned in Australia: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2011/10/apple-samsung-tablet-australia.html

I can't get the "insert link" to work. But here is a funny dog video, recommended by me: http://sorisomail.com/email/74298/como-se-danca-o-merengue.html

Imagine all of the things that can go wrong in life. You're having great sex with the bf, and you whip out your favorite toy...then: "This may be one sexual encounter April Bonjour will never forget. She’s suing sex toy maker Pipedream Products after her vibrator made her bleed so much that she had to be rushed to the hospital. As she tells it in court papers filed in Siskiyou County, Bonjour and her boyfriend were enjoying a little hanky-panky. Then Bonjour felt what she described as an “intense, sharp pain in my vagina.” Her boo quickly removed the toy, which was covered in blood, Bonjour said. “I thought, very briefly, that I had started my period but as the bleeding continued getting heavier and heavier I knew it was not my period,” she wrote. Bonjour started to get faint and her boyfriend called 911. Her son woke up. “My son was terrified at the sight of me,” the Yreka woman wrote. “He thought I was dying (quite frankly so did I). Once we got to the hospital I had lost so much blood, I was given several pints of blood.” In her suit, Bonjour asks for compensation from Pipedream for her “emotional duress.” She said the company has denied previous requests. “It is for this reason I have initiated this lawsuit,” she said. Pipedream did not immediately respond to a request for comment." SFGATE.com, and no, they never say what actually caused the bleeding. ********** Not sure how old the son is, but I hope he has better memories of mom.

The former drug-addled Limelight nightclub, at 6th Avenue and 21st in New York, will soon become an IHOP. Yes, an IHOP. I have spent a few wonderful times there, in a state of shall we call it "gay grace" and could never see it as a pancake house. But, tis to be! <sigh>

What you said.

I am always embarrassed when I mispell a word in the title of the thread because it is one thing we cannot fix. I have to beg TY or OZ to correct it for me. Maybe they can change that so we can correct those boo-boos.