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Actually, I never ask for details... just facts. I want to know what happened, not necessarily how it happened on a blow-by-blow basis. Just the facts, mam. But you are right, it would have been returned with a polite request for the facts of the experience.

One helluva rousing start!!! .... I wonder if I could go blind... The reward is worth the chance.

lookin, I enjoy your posts. I believe I mentioned elsewhere your uncanny capacity to deliver interesting graphics to supplement a topic or your viewpoint. Then there is the viewpoint as well -- often slighty off-axis for the thread flow, not twisted or off topic just a bit of different slant on the issue. Keep em up.

lurkerspeaks, Thanks for starting this thread. I a sucker for nude male celebs. I've had the hots for Brad Pitt ever since his appearance in Thelma & Louise which achieved a pinnacle in Troy where he was just gorgeous in that role. In fact checking for this reply I found out that he was in the TV night time soap Dallas. Had I known I would have watched.

You make my point exactly. That is just the kind of thinking that got us to where we are today. We didnt take care of business when it was a small problem now we are paying big time after it became big problem. Wishing it would go away by ignoring it won't make it so. It didnt then, it won't now. BTW, we spent a LOT of money on Bosnia even though you may not have been aware of it. I know because I worked in the defense industry and saw some of the tech spending in support of it, not to mention the operations support spending that went into supporting NATO. True, alot then was not too much for these days. But it was alot for the time. Bush I and the Congress (under the Dems with Bush and under the GOP with Clinton) must share in the blame. No one cared to invest the energy and resources into Afghanistan at the time when it was malleable and would have been cheap. That is just the way a short-sited foreign policy, set up to fight the Cold War rather than to cultivate international stability, works . We succeeded -- we won the Cold War and international stability went to hell.

lookin, Where do you get your treasure trove of graphics. You manage to come up with the greatest, weirdest, most appropo, or avante gard graphics imaginable -- and you do it at will. I stand in awe of your library and its organization, to have it so available at your finger tips.

Seems that more than the surf's up!

Cute. I'm a sucker for a bubble ass -- wet or dry.

Well, the budget surplus rings true. I seem to recall Bosnia, Mogadishu, the USS Cole, the US Embassy attacks in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, not to mention the first WTC bombing. Seems we had plenty of war even if it wasn't called war. Maybe if we had more war then we would have had less war in the last 10 years. Who knows? Personally, I'm averse to war but I'm not one for turning the other cheek either. If it has to be war then I favor short hot wars over long drawn out expensive affairs. Some small problems with small solutions presented themselves in Clinton's era. They were ignored and festered into much larger issues. That is just history.

That's when you pull your: "Who? Me? I thought it was a legit expense with legit motives. Who knew? " I suspect you too can make a settlement without admitting wrong doing.

I actually find that a little too distracting. I give them kudos for pain tolerance.

Deduct it on your taxes. Have your doctor write a prescription for physical therapy. No big deal.

Just a ruse to avoid admitting to an 'act of knowing wrong doing' when they got caught. "Who? Me? I thought it was a legit expense with legit motives. Who knew? " Just laying the ground work for the typical resolution without an admission of wrong doing. Nothing new here -- in the brash pushing of the envelope, if not outright misappropriation of government funds, by corporate privateers or the obfuscated justifications such businesses use to defend their acts. Most military contractors view war zones as 'anything goes' zones when it comes to government money.

You can say that again... about the Dems. To say they border on both strategic and tactical incompetance would not be a stretch. As for Obama, there was no more ardent supporter than I. After 18 months, he has gotten one hell of a lot done. Some of it I am disappointed with. Neverthess, the financial collapse changed the entire ball game and I do not know where to fault him and on which things, against that back drop. I was upset at the final form of Health Reform and even more so with the tactics to achieve the end product. Nevertheless, it is a monumental miracle that anything was passed and there is much good to it. Hopefully, it will be improved in the future. He has dropped the ball on jobs and the Dems will pay, as they should. The Stimulus was too small but nothing larger would have passed. It could have been better targeted -- water under the bridge. More $s need to be pumped into jobs and small business loans in a smarter way than in the intial Stimulus. Won't happen until next year, if then, and that is too late to avoid a Dem bloodbath in Nov. In many ways they deserve it. The only problem with that is the alternative is pure poison. I think Obama failed on financial reform. I would fire Geitner and Summers -- twice if I could. Anything short of dismantling Too Big TO Fail is a dismal failure and that describes Finance Reform. What remains still leaves us at risk, permitting the BIG BANKS to still gamble with their money while comingling with despositors money and leaving the financial systems at risk. What we now have is a more orderly way to guide the collapse but that does not prevent collapses or the wakes from those collapses overturning the broader econonmy boat not to mention our pensions and savings. It is shameful to leave us at risk after just having been burned. Of course their is plenty of blame to dish out to the GOP and many Dems too. A curse on all of their houses. Unfortunately, the curse remains over all of us too. I suspect Obama will cave on appointing Warren to head up the new Comsumer Protection Agency. The ultimate choice is likely to emasculate the Agency -- again BIG BUSINESS will win. They always do... even when they loose. I think Obama will go down in history as an historic president for many reasons including much for his accomplishments. It just doesnt feel very satisfying for someone who supported him and appreciates many of those accomplishments, if not all. My enthusiasm has waned as I fear it has in many supporters. Just to be clear, I'm one of those Independents that has lost some confidence in the way the country is going, in the ability of Dems to govern and in Obama himself. That does not mean that I have ANY faith in the GOP as an alternative. They are not an option individually or collectively for me in these times. Things suck!! I hope next year brings reforms in the Senate and some Republicans actually show up to help govern.

Oz, your much to squeamish. You should just should have had him gargle and siwsh with Ti-D-Bol. :lol

I don't know what this means and from the tenor I don't want to know, I think. IMO Daddy isn't going anywhere on purpose. It is his site and he is free to run it as he sees fit. That is just what he does. Certainly, much of his traffic base, seems accepting of that. That has been demonstrated several times.

Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. You definitely know my weakness.

Welcome back Chuck50. It's been a long long time. Good to see some missing names from the past.

It's really not a gay bar then, is it? I really don't care if the odd fag-hag guest shows up on occasion. However, if it is a gender mixed crowd then it really isn't a gay bar. That is especially troublesome when male dance entertainment is available. I would attend an alternate lifestyle bar -- GLBT -- but I wouldn't call it a 'gay bar'. FWIW

I made that observation during the previous eruption. Worse, on a mass scale. Sort of like Jonestown without the Kool Aid. The vast majority were/are willing particpants. Go figure. Some kind of weird group psychopathy.

Texas just never has broken into my Top 40, except in food categories.

In the past, Daddy always posted notices of software upgrades well before the event as special notices in the top-level forum.

Until now I have had no interest in commenting on the latest drama over there. Nothing new about it and I had commented in previous instances with anything I had to say. However, your comment stirs me to respond. Daddy NEVER cared about the MC... NEVER until possibly he found a way to raise money from its members. Still he treats those as he always had -- with patronizing comtempt and the back of his hand. He ALWAYS felt it a major nuisance and recurring source of trouble. That is why he left the MC to deej and Barry and Cooper. Daddy never was an enthusiastic poster or moderator. Daddy ALWAYS wanted the reviews which drove the overall site stats and adverstising money. He hoped to cash in on the boon that HooBoy had cultivated. IMO he doesn't care about reviews beyond the fact that they drive traffic, or that some favor his chosen escorts, at least in the past when I followed the site. He has treated reviews and reviewers with contempt time and time again. Many questionable reviews get posted over there with the philosophy: let the readers sort then out. Of course the readers don't have all the tools that the site admin has to make many of those calls. He does care about the site income, a few favored escorts, and people that make his life easier -- moderators. He tolerates only those who share or accept his world view. That seems to be enough for most of his traffic. Finally, it is only wishful thinking to hope for Oz to save that site. Although Oz has tried to buy that site and would love to have it for sentimental as well as business reasons, I don't believe Daddy would sell it to him at any price. Should a sale ever materialize look for it to go one of the other escort sites. Bottom line: move to another site or continue to put up with Daddy's bullshit... or make Daddy an offer yourself. Put differently, if you want change then be proactive about it. That is the only way it is likely to occurr.

UAE says BlackBerry is security threat By ADAM SCHRECK, AP Business Writer Adam Schreck, Ap Business Writer http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_emirates_blackberry DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The United Arab Emirates has declared BlackBerry smartphones a potential threat to national security, saying the devices operate beyond the jurisdiction of national laws and are open to misuse. The move raises concerns of another attempt by the government to control the flow of information in the Arab Gulf nation, which actively censors websites and other forms of media seen as harming national security or conservative local values. At the same time, however, the UAE is trying to establish itself as an international business hub. This is the second major controversy over the Blackberry in the UAE. A year ago, the Middle East country's biggest state-run mobile operator was caught encouraging unwitting BlackBerry users to install software on the devices that could allow outsiders to peer inside. The government has never made fully clear what happened in that case. In the latest flap, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority voiced fears that the BlackBerry manages data in a way that could allow it to be misused. BlackBerry devices were singled out because they are the only phones operating in the country that automatically relay users' information to privately managed data centers overseas, the regulator said. "As a result of how Blackberry data is managed and stored, in their current form, certain Blackberry applications allow people to misuse the service, causing serious social, judicial and national security repercussions," the regulator said in a statement carried on the state news agency late Sunday. It said that BlackBerry devices operate "beyond the jurisdiction" of national laws because they immediately send data abroad to be "managed by a foreign, commercial organization." That is apparently a reference to BlackBerry maker Research in Motion's system of relaying data such as e-mail messages to network servers that are separate from those operated by local mobile providers. The TRA said the devices were launched in the UAE before "safety, emergency and national security legislation" regulating their use was enacted in 2007. It did not specify what changes it is seeking. The comments raised questions about the gadgets' legality in the country, home to the Mideast business hub of Dubai. An official at the TRA said Monday the agency had no further comment, and that no decision about the phones' future in the country had been made. She would not provide her name, as is customary among Emirati government officials. Spokeswomen for BlackBerry maker RIM said the Canadian company did not yet have any comment. Just over a year ago, RIM criticized a directive by UAE state-owned mobile operator Etisalat telling the company's more than 145,000 BlackBerry users to install software described as an "upgrade ... required for service enhancements." RIM said tests showed the update was in fact spy software that could allow outsiders to access private information stored on the phones. It strongly distanced itself from Etisalat's decision, and provided details instructing users how to remove the software.

Nice.