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RA1, your sense of humor is even more twisted than I thought. For the longest time your posts just went right over my head. I couldn't quite decide whether I was simply confused or you had a bad case of dementia. Or both. But I'm starting to catch on more often or so I think, not that I'm sure that's entirely a good thing. Should I be concerned for my mental health? Did I decipher your post correctly?

MsAnn, you've outed yourself. Somewhere under that bouffant wig and behind those inch long polyester eyelashes you've got a brain hidden away. Thanks for the informative link.

LOL and as I said before, your expectations seem to mesh well with theirs.

My own perhaps not so hard won view is that the average homo sapiens is comfortable enough with inflicting horrendous trouble on anyone he can define as "not one of us". Kind of hard to make sense of all the stuff we get up to if that's not the case. Witness the case of the Viking recorded in the historical annals as 'Olvir Barnakall (Oliver Child Lover)'. Apparently he was reluctant to bash in the skulls of French children which trait was thought odd enough by his buddies to warrant a nickname commemorating it.

Joking aside, Zipper, the continuing close ties between former colonies and England are a puzzle. Not speaking of the military support in the two world wars (understandable) but the casualness with which the elite moves back and forth. An Australian buys a huge chunk of the English press back in the 60s and 70s and no one found it remarkable. More recently, the Brits decide the governor of your central bank was a promising lad and poached him to run the Bank of England. !!!! I mean WTF is that about? Can you imagine Obama nominating a foreigner to be chairman of the Federal Reserve? All hell would break loose in Washington.

Christian intervention goes horribly wrong: http://brunostrip.com/wp/comics/2015-02-17.gif

Hell? AS, you surprise me. I would have thought you would be one to appreciate the wonders of Montreal.

LOL, American is the world standard nowadays, zipper. All others are just local dialects. Including Brit. Especially Brit. Give it up old chap, the days of Empire are long gone. USA! USA! USA! :laugh:

Lookin, the long term danger to Israel is planting the notion in the heads of liberal democrats that supporting Israel means supporting a government that supports the same people that block domestic US legislation they care very much about. Supporting Israel = Supporting Republicans. Now that's not an equation Israel needs Democrats to make. And Bibi knows it. He just doesn't care. All he cares about is winning the next election in Israel (which is forecast to be close). All he cares about is hanging on to power a bit longer. IMHO. PS Sorry if I come across as agitated. Mr. Netanyahu has a way of doing that to people.

RA1, in our father's generation, antisemitism was both common and respectable in the US. And it's still there, it just ain't so respectable and maybe not quite so prevalent right now. But times change. For people the age of the kids we chase, the Holocaust is as much dusty history as the WWI Armenian genocide was to our generation. Who knows how long before the Evangelicals decide Israel ain't the harbinger of the Second Coming and revert to form on Jews? The Jewish lobby has spent the last 60 years building in a scrupulously non-partisan way a political consensus in the US in support of Israel . And here come Bibi to preen and pose before the United States Congress to the utter consternation of a sitting US president and the entire leadership of one of our two governing parties. And for what? To grandstand for folks back home and gain another 2 or 3% of the vote for shit that will be forgotten in Israel in a year or less. Well it won't be forgotten here, not by the Democrats and not by anybody if we get into a shooting war with Iran. Not to mention that this is just the kind of behavior that gives cover to antisemites.

Bibi has never been a friend of the US. And his clumsy efforts to publicly intervene in partisan US politics for short term domestic gains at home is about as irresponsible a thing an Israeli politician can do. Is it really wise to risk converting American support for Israel into a partisan, party dependant political issue like say Obamacare?

The nationalist crazies may have just accidentaly made the Arab Israeli vote much more problematic for the Knesset. Unlike the US (which uses single member districts), Israeli elections are conducted on a national basis with parties being awarded seats in proportion to their national vote. Jewish right wing parties pushed through a new law raising the minimum to receive any seats from 2 1/2 % of the total vote to 3 1/2 %. The idea was that the Arab vote, which is split 4 ways between incompatible parties, would be discarded when they failed to make the cut off. Oddly enough even pecker-headed Arabs can do basic arithmetic. The 3 main Arab parties promptly formed a united front and are running as a single party. Worse yet, the threat of being excluded from the Knesset has energized them into a very active campaign and the effort to cancel Arab voting rights widely pissed off Arab Israelis. Polls point toward a turnout among Arabs of upwards of 60% (from the mid 40's %; Jews usually turn out at about 70%), all concentrated on the unified Arab list. It is now a real possibility that neither the center/left nor the conservative/religious groupings of Jewish parties will be able to form a majority government w/o the votes of the Arab MK's. It's now possible that Bibi will be faced with either joining a Grand Coalition style government with the lefties (hateful & personally politically dangerous) or see a government formed that is dependant on the support of Arab MK's (anathema to Jewish Israelis). Best laid plans and all that ... :laugh: .

Heads up guys, The Walking Dead just introduced its first gay character (right at the end of Sunday's episode). Aaron, the gay character, is still in the closet to Rick's bunch but supposedly all will be revealed soon. Click here for the inside dope but watch out for the spoilers if you care about that sort of thing.

Also see this article for similar information.

Not good news but something folks here should be aware of. ==== See also tomcal's thread about Cuba in the Latin American threads.

Yeah, he looks pretty cute in the preview ads. But does he get nekkid?

Yeah, I saw that. 1) Gonna happen in 35 years, more or less? Ain't my problem. 2) Is this from the same folks who couldn't tell the difference between 2 inches and 2 feet of snow in New York City last week?

O.I.C.

On what evidence do we now know JimBoi to be the guy who filed the complaint? If I remember right, Daddy did not specify a name when he notified his board of the matter.

:laugh: Score one for Hito!

Well lookin arrives at last and it's not a moment too soon to have him pouring a bit of his soothing oil on our little tempest in a tea cup. Not to mention giving us a distracting flash of Beiberness. But I have to ask... What the hell took you so long?

Many thanks, tomcal, I'm hoping some of those boys will laugh and joke and horseplay their way into my dreams tonight. And sincere thanks to you also, Mvan1, but my COPD is a bit too far gone for me to go traipsing off to the saunas. Or even traipsing anywhere much over a 100 yards at a time. My rent boy days are behind me now. Which doesn't mean I don't have memories of days past to keep me warm, lol, not does it prevent me from very much enjoying y'all's adventures second hand here on BoyToy.

I don't doubt your point, mvan1. I would speculate that cultural differences must be working themselves out in the background but I have no idea what. I also suspect that your (and tomcal's) expectations of those relationships mesh well with those of the garatos and that others might have a very different experience. In any case, thank you both for your entertaining and instructive posts. I only wish my health permitted me to take just one visit with you to Brazil and find out for myself if my personality meshed half so well with the boys. There's just no substitute for direct experience. :tongue: