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Thanks, BigK, for pointing out that Jesse's farewell is not his obituary. When one sayys he regrets not meeting Jesse, I think that it must be a regret that there was no sexual encounter, because the person behind Jesse is still available for coffee or donuts, or whatever. Hopefully that person will also decide to keep posting here even if under a new handle. I gotta admire someone who is openly HIV in the escort business today. That courage should serve him well in life...wherever it leads him.

I also do not want to read reviews from women. This is a gay male site. I remember the women coming into the Gaiety and trying to make the show all about them. They should find their own playground. They could call it Hoogirls!

New Year's Eve bombers hit Bangkok today, causing two deaths and several injuries as six bombs went off in the city. No word on KyTop, but I think he was in Pattaya for New Year's eve. 2 Die, 20 Hurt As Bombings Hit Bangkok By DENIS D. GRAY The Associated Press Sunday, December 31, 2006; 9:35 AM BANGKOK, Thailand -- At least six bomb blasts rocked the Thai capital late Sunday, killing at least two people and prompting the city to disperse thousands of people who had gathered to celebrate New Year's Eve. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombings, which capped a year of unrest in Thailand, including a military coup three months ago and a mounting Muslim insurgency in its southernmost provinces. National police chief Gen. Ajirawit Suphanaphesat confirmed six explosions on the iTV television network and said authorities were inspecting several more locations where there were suspicious packages. He said the insurgents were probably not behind Sunday's attacks, which injured at least 20 people. The capital's most spectacular New Year's celebration, at the Central World Plaza shopping mall complex, was canceled and authorities told thousands of celebrants to leave. Hotels stepped up security, searching cars on their premises. Police Lt. Gen. Chongrak Juranond said one person died at Chulalongkorn hospital. Another police officer, Lt. Col. Teerawit Butsaban, said a second person succumbed to injuries at another hospital. Dr. Surachet Sathitniramai, a senior health ministry official, said more than 20 people had been hospitalized at four hospitals in Bangkok. Ajirawit said six people were injured by a bomb in a slum, and four by a bomb near a department store at Victory Monument, a major traffic circle. He said the other blasts were near a police post, where two were injured, and the fourth in a northern suburb. "I heard a loud explosion and I thought it was fireworks. I ran there and saw a bleeding woman at the bus stop," said Somrak Manphothong, a receptionist at the Saxophone bar near the Victory Monument. "Another guy was lying on the floor covering with blood and his wife was shaking his body." The police chief said that "the situation remains under control." Bombings and shootings occur almost daily in Thailand's three southernmost provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani, where an Islamic insurgency that flared in January 2004 has killed more than 1,900 people. Muslims make up the majority in overwhelmingly Buddhist Thailand's deep south, where they have long complained of discrimination. The insurgents are not known to have launched any attacks in Bangkok. Thailand has also been immersed in political turmoil. In September, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a bloodless coup by Gen. Sondhi Boonyaratkalin. The military installed Surayud Chulanont as the interim prime minister until elections in October 2007.

"Well, Barry, it looks like Adam Smith found a better pic than you did, but Happy Holidays anyway! " In one of those computer things I do not understand, all I saw was a red x. Then when I saw KYTop's compliment on the pic, I did the right click thing and now the pic appears. I don't know why that is, but, yes, Barry, it is a nice pic too! happy Holidays!

...and it just gets better! Keep unwrapping those presents, Adam! http://www.men4rentnow.com/fs/149678.6C5DFD92.jpg

Well, Barry, it looks like Adam Smith found a better pic than you did, but Happy Holidays anyway!

LOL...only 6800 to go!

While I agree with all of the warm sentiments expressed at the nearing anniversary of this site, I do wonder if it is a sign of the times that we now celebrate the "almost anniversary." In the past, one would wait to celebrate until the actual date, but we are we now in such a hurry that we celebrate ahead of time? What's next...almost dead obituaries?

I think Adam Smnith and I are going to vote as a team on this one!

Say what you will about Benjamin Nicholas, but on his every blog I enjoy his eye candy, and, this week, to top it off, I actually enjoyed reading his very funny spin on car buying. (Ben- I bought an Infiniti, but they suckered me with a drop dead cute eye candy salesman making his very first sale! How could I say no?)

I agree. The better the kiss, the better the bang! http://www.actuacine.net/Poster/kiss.jpg

In the what will they think of next department, German engineers are showing real ingenuity to help make safe sex easier: German sex educators plan spray-on condom From Reuters 10:44 AM PST, November 30, 2006 BERLIN -- German sex educators plan to launch a spray-on condom tailor-made for all sizes. Jan Vinzenz Krause from the Institute for Condom Consultancy, a Singen-based practice that offers advice on condom use, told Reuters today the product aimed to help people enjoy better and safer sex lives. "We're trying to develop the perfect condom for men that's suited to every size of penis," he said. "We're very serious." Krause's team (spraykondom.de) is developing a type of spray can into which the man inserts his penis first. At the push of a button it is then coated in a rubber condom. "It works by spraying on latex from nozzles on all sides," he said. "We call it the '360 degree procedure' - once round and from top to bottom. It's a bit like a car wash." Krause said the plan is to make the product ready for use in about five seconds. He said it would function more effectively as a contraceptive because it would fit better and not slip. However, before the new condom can be sold in shops, the firm must ensure that the latex is evenly spread when sprayed, as well as optimise the vulcanization process. Krause hopes the high tech condom, which will be available in different strengths and colours, will on the market by 2008. He said the spray can would likely cost some 20 euros ($26) as a one-off purchase. The latex cartridges - sufficient for up to 20 applications - would cost roughly 10 euros, he said. Krause said he had hit upon the idea when considering the difficulties some people faced using condoms, and drew inspiration from spray-on plasters now used in medicine.

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The LA Times recently presented an article on this subject: Laptop seizure raises concerns over firms' data Travel managers worry about what can happen to proprietary information at customs. By James Gilden, Special to The Times November 4, 2006 It may surprise many air travelers, but your laptop and its contents are far from secret at the nation's international airports. Increasingly, this is prompting new privacy concerns for business travelers. Customs and Border Protection agents have the authority to search and seize laptop computers belonging to travelers entering the United States, those of U.S. citizens and foreigners alike. And they use it. But just how far these officers can go in inspecting the contents of an overseas traveler's laptop is being tested in federal court. In July 2005, Michael Timothy Arnold, then 43, of San Juan Capistrano arrived at Los Angeles International Airport after a nearly 20-hour flight from the Philippines, according to court documents. After retrieving his luggage from baggage claim, he proceeded to the customs checkpoint. An agent selected him for additional screening because she was targeting single males between 20 and 59 who were returning from Asia. After some secondary questioning, the agent inspected Arnold's luggage, including his laptop computer. She instructed Arnold to turn on the computer. When the computer booted up, its desktop displayed the usual assortment of icons and folders, including two folders titled "Kodak Pictures" and "Kodak Memories." The agent and a colleague clicked on the folders and looked at photographs on the computer, including one of two nude women. Special agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were called in to question Arnold about the contents of his computer. He was detained for several hours while they examined the computer, and they found numerous images depicting what they believed to be child pornography. The agents confiscated the computer as well as a hard drive, some CDs and a flash drive and released Arnold. He was later arrested, jailed, held without bail until this week, and charged with transporting and possessing child pornography and attempting to engage in illicit conduct in a foreign place. It is cases like Arnold's that have corporate travel managers up in arms — but not because of the pornography connection. Their concern is with what happens to the proprietary data that business travelers often carry on their laptops. "That U.S. government officials have the right to examine, download or even seize business travelers' laptops came as a surprise to the majority of our members," said Susan Gurley, executive director of the Assn. of Corporate Travel Executives, an Alexandria, Va.-based trade group. Eighty-six percent of members surveyed said that court decisions allowing government agents to seize computers at the borders were cause to limit the kind of proprietary information typically carried on executives' laptops. Two out of 155 members surveyed said they had an employee who had had a laptop seized. The politics and the law behind the seizures are complicated, according to attorneys and court documents. The 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects citizens against unreasonable search and seizure. But the courts have given government agents more leeway to conduct searches at the border than inside the country. For example, the courts have found that it is acceptable for border agents to search through the belongings of someone entering the country for no reason other than that he or she is entering the country. But if the search becomes more invasive, such as a pat-down or a body cavity search, then agents have to have probable cause. It is at this nexus that the courts are trying to decide what constitutes reasonable when it comes to a laptop computer. After all, it could contain personal information, confidential business information, blueprints for terrorist attacks or child pornography. A ruling last month by U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson of Los Angeles in the Arnold case may be the beginning of a shift in the courts. In his opinion, the judge noted that "the information contained in a laptop and in electronic storage devices renders a search of their contents substantially more intrusive than a search of the contents of a lunchbox or other tangible object." The court found that "a search of this type without reasonable suspicion goes well beyond the goals of the customs statutes and the reasonableness standard articulated in the 4th Amendment." "While not physically intrusive as in the case of a strip or body cavity search, the search of one's private and valuable personal information stored on a hard drive or other electronic storage device can be just as much, if not more so, of an intrusion into the dignity and privacy interests of a person. "This is because electronic storage devices function as an extension of our own memory. They are capable of storing our thoughts, ranging from the most whimsical to the most profound. Therefore government intrusion into the mind … are no less deserving of 4th Amendment scrutiny than intrusions that are physical in nature." As a result, the judge threw out laptop-related evidence against Arnold retrieved during the search, which may hurt the government's case. The government is appealing the judge's ruling, said Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles. Arnold still faces federal child pornography charges, but he was released from federal custody this week on $50,000 bail. The association of travel executives is not concerned as much with the constitutional questions as it is with the practical implications for business travelers. It has tried to get answers from Customs and Border Protection about its policies regarding the search and seizure of laptops and measures taken to protect sensitive business information on them but has not received an answer to its queries, Executive Director Gurley said. The Times e-mailed the agency questions including what its policies are regarding the protection of sensitive corporate data. The agency responded with a statement saying, in part, that "officers adhere to all requirements to protect privileged, personal and business confidential information." Said Gurley, "Our issue is whether the proprietary business information on the hard drive can be taken. Is it returned? Is it destroyed? We have not received any word from [the agency], not even 'Thank you very much, we have your request.' "What's so difficult about giving the public this information?" *

"How can you not love the guy?" Did he escort? http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/images/aleister-crowley.jpg

That is my ministry, TY. I am so glad to see your success! http://www.lastchanceministry.net/images/L...nceMinistry.jpg

Well, then! There is the solution! After you register, you will then have to post in the forum to see the enlarged pictures, at least of the cock shots! Brilliant idea, oz.

It looks like the only Thai fun I will have is the vicarious kind. I have a first class ticket to Bangkok next month, a time period I've always wanted to try there, but, alas, more pressing needs will keep me at home. So Ky, if you want drool, get to Pattaya and let me know all about it!!! Thanks! Oz, I would love to attend one of your parties even if it is only a small group of 400 or so. TNT, my thread is just a light hearted commentary on the lack of posts here given the large number of professed members of the site. Given that I get half of my kicks in life in these online forums, the more interesting they are the more interesting half of my life is! TY, as always. I know you're doing your best!

What a busy weekend I had! First, I spent hours reading all of the new posts in the various forums. Then I drooled over the two new reviews. But the big surprise was that totally oz had ordered all of the 9000 non-USA members of MER to write me a letter with photo enclosed. It took me hours to look at each kind note, expressing in its own caring way their interest in the forums and reason as to why they had yet to post anything. It's kinda busy at the call centers in India, I am told. Nonetheless, the pics were fascinating. Did you know that over 4000 of the new members signed up right there in oz's apartment in Bangkok? Yes, and they sent photos too. There was mama-san and Lek-san and Numbers 1 through 3998! Very interesting. Only a few members professed to not having looked up their profiles yet, but will do so right after the dust season ends. The best part of the weekend, though, were the boxed sets I got from the registered escorts here. Each box contained a photo, a pair of used underwear, and a piss container so that the next time I get pissy I can do it right inthe privacy of my own home. Thanks for a great weekend, oz. And, guys, all 8738 who wrote, thanks for letting me know why MER is the first thing you read each day. Now just start posting!.

The cop who killed himself was from San Francisco, not Seattle. San Francisco cops don't waste much time on prostitution stings, although street prostitution is often curbed. TheTimes story on corruption in Las Vegas judges was absolutely astounding. It makes you wonder about the entire state as a cesspool.

Conway, why do you keep calling Haggard "Chuck?" His name is Ted. Big K- I know harm when I see it. I am tired of clerics who tell developing young minds that homosexuality is sinful while they themselves are frolicking in the twolips. It screws up young gay kids and encourages others to become bigots and fagbashers. But I guess you think that is better than outing someone who preaches that shit.

I find BigK's remark quite insulting. It makes me wonder if the guys most against outing are themselves in the closet. As someone who is out of the closet, and was very active in helping move gay presence forward, I resent those who do nothing but hide their sexuality all the time taking advantage of the progress that the out guys have created for them. It is not hypocritical to out people whose internal homophobia is damaging to our community, people like Haggard who actively worked against gay rights and poisoned the minds of young people dealing with their sexuality. I agree with everyone else that coming out is up to the individual to do when he is ready. I also agree that it is okay to own a gun. But if you are going to use that gun to hurt someone, then I will tell people that you have one. Haggard and his ilk are taking guns to young minds and causing immeasurable harm.

Hey Corny...I mean, Cory...So I got out the popcorn and pulled up a chair...the popcorn went stale and the chair got spiderwebs. At least no news is good news! http://www.taquitos.net/dbimages13/Poppers-J.jpg

Snatched right in front of our eyes, Ben's pic of Jason Rylee no longer available here. And in a thread promoting Ben's blog. The ingratitude of it all! And, Adam, as for Cesare Mancini, I found him to be a real flake.

I borrowed this from Ben's blog. I hope he doesn't red x it... Jason Rylee: http://www.benjaminnicholas.com/JasonRylee.jpg