Lonnie

What a great looking neighborhood. Seeing the fallen leaves makes me think of winter and shiver...what's the temperature? The weather in general?

Murder Most Likely!

I have a feeling you don't like Mr. Trump.

I hope you have a wonderful trip...how could not with a reunion with beautiful Douglas and remember give Tomy's gorgeous ass a kiss for me. Now there seems to be another Tomy from Brasil? Maybe size him up too?

Oh boy...here we go again.

Epsteins billionaire pal Bill Gates has some interest and responsibilty in this: (From The New Repubic...they actually get thiings right on very rare occasions) https://newrepublic.com/article/162000/bill-gates-impeded-global-access-covid-vaccines When the Financial Times editorialized on March 27 that “the world has an overwhelming interest in ensuring [Covid-19 drugs and vaccines] will be universally and cheaply available,” the paper expressed what felt like a hardening conventional wisdom. This sense of possibility emboldened forces working to extend the cooperative model. Grounding their efforts was a plan, started in early March, to create a voluntary intellectual property pool inside the WHO. Instead of putting up proprietary walls around research and organizing it as a “race,” public and private actors would collect research and associated intellectual property in a global knowledge fund for the duration of the pandemic. The idea became real in late May with the launch of the WHO Covid-19 Technology Access Pool, or C-TAP. By then, however, the optimism and sense of possibility that defined the early days were long gone. Advocates for pooling and open science, who seemed ascendant and even unstoppable that winter, confronted the possibility they’d been outmatched and outmaneuvered by the most powerful man in global public health. In April, Bill Gates launched a bold bid to manage the world’s scientific response to the pandemic. Gates’s Covid-19 ACT-Accelerator expressed a status quo vision for organizing the research, development, manufacture, and distribution of treatments and vaccines. Like other Gates-funded institutions in the public health arena, the Accelerator was a public-private partnership based on charity and industry enticements. Crucially, and in contrast to the C-TAP, the Accelerator enshrined Gates’s long-standing commitment to respecting exclusive intellectual property claims. Its implicit arguments—that intellectual property rights won’t present problems for meeting global demand or ensuring equitable access, and that they must be protected, even during a pandemic—carried the enormous weight of Gates’s reputation as a wise, beneficent, and prophetic leader. How he’s developed and wielded this influence over two decades is one of the more consequential and underappreciated shapers of the failed global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Entering year two, this response has been defined by a zero-sum vaccination battle that has left much of the world on the losing side.

Good to know we have pledged some money to help...if I remember right Biden is sharing AstraZeneca with Canada and Europe and as it is not approved for use in the US... it's not that generous but certainly better than nothing.

Thanks for these articles...it reminds the world that poor countries need much more help. Germany has not done the greatest job themselves but find the resources to help. What the hell is wrong with the US?

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Wells Fargo Sucks Big Time!

Wow Tomcal...so many classy and handsome guys...can we change lives for awhile. It speaks to the fact of you being a truly terrific guy yourself to have and maintain such great friendships over the years.

I little Grunge never hurt anyone.... Everyone here too young to remember Grunge?

If true, that's really depressing!

So sad for Venezuelans...I see on news reports some have made it to the US from Mexico...I don't know why we don't give them legal refugee status like Cubans.

Let's hope they can speed it up!

Here I was kidding around with you in my awful French thinking you had finally gotten lucky and this awful thing had happened...hope you were not hurt too bad and they catch the scum.

as-tu la gueule de bois?

Take me with you...I'm thirsty.

Sucer une grosse bite française juteuse .

Can't Get an Erection — This Could Be Why A recent study found that this virus could remain in penile tissue months after recovery. A recent study published in the World Journal of Men’s Health may have discovered a link between the COVID-19 virus and erectile issues. The study, conducted by scientists and researchers at the University of Miami, discovered for the first time that traces of the virus could be found in penile tissue. The most concerning part of the discovery was that these traces were found long after recovery, suggesting the virus may remain active in mens’ genitals for several months. Researchers are concerned that this could possibly cause future erectile dysfunction (ED) or other issues. “Our research shows that COVID-19 can cause widespread endothelial dysfunction in organ systems beyond the lungs and kidneys. The underlying endothelial dysfunction that happens because of COVID-19 can enter the endothelial cells and affect many organs, including the penis,” noted study author Dr. Ranjith Ramasamy, who is an associate professor and director of the Miller School’s Reproductive Urology Program. “In our pilot study, we found that men who previously did not complain of erectile dysfunction developed pretty severe erectile dysfunction after the onset of COVID-19 infection.” For the study, Ramasamy and his team collected penile tissue samples from two men who’ve had penile prosthesis surgery for ED and also previously had COVID. One man got very ill from the virus and was hospitalized, while the other had only experienced mild symptoms. Penile samples were also taken from two other men who had undergone an ED surgery, except these individuals had never contracted COVID-19. Both of men who had recovered from COVID-19 showed signs of the virus within their penile tissue — and both also showed signs of endothelial dysfunction, which is widespread blood vessel dysfunction. “This suggests that men who develop COVID-19 infection should be aware that erectile dysfunction could be an adverse effect of the virus, and they should go to a physician if they develop ED symptoms,” said Ramasamy. Research has previously suggested that many other conditions may be linked to COVID, such as increased risk of heart disease or neurological symptoms, so unfortunately these findings are not out of line based on what we already know. Ramasamy also said the study revealed evidence that COVID-19 can invade the testicles of some infected men. “These latest findings are yet another reason that we should all do our best to avoid COVID-19,” adds first author Eliyahu Kresch, a medical student working with Dr. Ramasamy. “We recommend vaccination and to try to stay safe in general.”

UK slides even further down rankings of most LGBT-friendly nations in Europe ILGA Europe's Rainbow Map is released each year on IDAHOBIT, to track the progress of LGBT+ rights across the continent. (ILGA Europe) LGBT+ rights in Europe have reached a concerning “standstill” and the UK continues to slowly decline, according to the annual Rainbow Map rankings. This year’s Rainbow Map revealed a “widespread and almost complete stagnation” on LGBT+ rights across Europe, reporting “almost no positive legislative change” since last year. The Rainbow Map has been published by LGBT+ organisation ILGA-Europe every year on 17 May for the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) since 2009. It gives 49 European nations a percentage ranking based on 71 criteria broken down into six key areas, including equality and non-discrimination, hate crime and hate speech, and legal gender recognition and bodily integrity. Two additional criteria were added for this year: non-binary recognition and legal gender recognition procedures for minors, both included in the gender recognition and bodily integrity category. The UK was once the highest-ranked nation in Europe for LGBT+ rights. Now, it’s not even close This year, Malta topped the rankings for the sixth year running with 94 per cent, ahead of Belgium in second place by almost 20 per cent. Malta, Belgium and Luxembourg have now occupied the same top three spots for the third year running. Scandinavia also did well, with Norway, Sweden and Denmark all placing in the top 10. The countries at the bottom of the ranking are also the same as in 2020: Azerbaijan, Turkey and Armenia, scoring just two, four and seven per cent respectively. Poland has also continued to be the lowest ranking EU member for the second year. The UK fell further down the rankings, coming in tenth place with 64 per cent, compared to last year when it ranked ninth with 66 per cent, and eighth the year before. Until 2015, the UK was rated the top place in Europe for LGBT+ rights in the ranking. ILGA cited growing anti-trans rhetoric, delays to banning conversion therapy and criticism of LGBT+ curriculums in schools as reasons for the UK’s decreasing score, in their annual review. However, it also praised the Scottish government’s Hate Crime and Public Order Bill, an employment tribunal ruling to protect non-binary people from discrimination and Northern Ireland winning full marriage equality.

As some wise person once said "Americans are weird" !

What a shame this happened to cloud such a wonderful achievement. Republic of China forever!

Sodomy laws that labeled gay people sex offenders challenged in court “I’m outraged that in 2021 that we have what is essentially a registry of gay sex,” attorney Matt Strugar said. Hundreds of gay rights activists demonstrate against a Supreme Court decision that upheld a Georgia law making sodomy a crime on June 30, 1986, in San Francisco.Norb Von Der Groeben / AP file By Dan Avery Nearly 20 years after the Supreme Court struck down laws criminalizing consensual same-sex activity, the legacy of sodomy bans is still felt across the United States. In 1993, then-18-year-old Randall Menges was charged under Idaho’s “crimes against nature” law for having sex with two 16-year-old males. All three worked and lived at Pratt Ranch, a cattle ranch in Gem County that doubled as a live-in foster program for troubled teenagers. Menges was convicted despite police reports indicating the activity was consensual, and the age of consent in Idaho when a defendant is 18 is 16 years old. After serving seven years in prison, he was placed on probation and required to register as a sex offender. Today, what Menges did wouldn’t be considered an arrestable offense. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2003 that laws criminalizing consensual sodomy or oral sex were unconstitutional. But Idaho still requires people convicted of sodomy or oral sex before the Lawrence v. Texas ruling to be on the state sex offender registry. His attorney, Matt Strugar, has challenged a similar statue in Mississippi and is representing Menges and a John Doe in a suit against Idaho’s sodomy ban. Idaho, South Carolina and Mississippi still require people who were convicted of consensual sodomy before the Supreme Court’s decision in Lawrence to register as sex offenders, Strugar said, even though the court said what they did wasn’t a crime. There are probably hundreds of people in Menges’ predicament, and forcing them to register as sex offenders is a violation of their right to due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment, he added. “I’m outraged that in 2021 that we have what is essentially a registry of gay sex,” Strugar said. Randall Menges.Courtesy Randall Menges Hoping to start a new life, Menges moved to Montana in 2018. “I love the mountains and taking care of horses,” he said. “And I thought the fewer people I had to deal with the better.” Even before the Montana Legislature officially repealed the state’s ban on same-sex activity — which the Lawrence ruling declared unconstitutional — in 2013, people convicted under the statute weren’t required to register as sex offenders. But a law passed in 2005 mandates that individuals on a registry in another state must register as sex offenders if they move to Montana. Menges filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana in December, challenging the constitutionality of Montana’s policy. In filings shared with NBC News, he said being on the registry “has damaged dozens of employment opportunities and personal relationships.” No one believes him about why he has to register as a sex offender, he told NBC News. “If they find out, I lose their friendship,” he said. “Even girlfriends, they don’t buy it.” The same month he filed his suit, Menges said he was turned away from a homeless shelter in Boise, which he returned to temporarily in 2020. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Montana did not return a request for comment on the case. In opening arguments March 30, Montana Assistant Attorney General Hannah Tokerud argued Menges was trying to get a Montana court to weigh in on Idaho law. According to the Missoulian, she said the case doesn’t hinge on the validity of that statute, but rather “it hinges on whether he is required to register in Idaho.” "Montana requires Menges to register not because of his criminal offense," the state wrote in a motion to dismiss in January, "but because Montana gives credit to other states’ determinations about convicted offenders who are required to register." “Idaho has determined that Menges must register, and thus, when Menges moved to Montana he was required to register,” the state wrote. But Strugar said Montana is trying to “pass the buck” to another state while continuing to enforce what he calls an “unlawful” policy. Menges isn’t seeking to overturn his conviction, he said — the statute of limitations passed a year after his conviction. He just wants to be free of the shadow that’s been cast over his life. “If someone’s not a molester or a rapist, they shouldn't be subjected to what I have,” Menges said. “If we can change the law, at least it’ll have been worth it.” Ultimately he’d like to return to Montana, where the cost of living is lower and he can work with horses. “I’ve had a passion for horses since I was 6. I’d like to get my equine veterinary nursing degree and take care of them, maybe for a rodeo or for private individuals,” he said. “I just want to go where I want and make the choices I want without this hanging over me.”