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Andrew Sullivan didn't like this either! "A disclosure upfront: I have met David Miranda as part of a my friendship with Glenn Greenwald. The thought of his being detained by the British police for nine hours because his partner embarrassed the American government really sickens me at a gut level. I immediately think of my husband, Aaron, being detained in connection to work I have done – something that would horrify and frighten me. We should, of course, feel this empathy with people we have never known – but the realization is all the more gob-smacking when it comes so close to home. So of course my instinct is to see this exactly as Glenn has today... I have seen nothing anywhere that could even connect his spouse to such nefarious contacts. Unless Glenn is some kind of super-al-Qaeda mole, he has none to my knowledge and to suspect him of any is so close to unreasonable it qualifies as absurd. The idea that David may fomenting terrorism is even more ludicrous. In this respect, I can say this to David Cameron. Thank you for clearing the air on these matters of surveillance. You have now demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt that these anti-terror provisions are capable of rank abuse. Unless some other facts emerge, there is really no difference in kind between you and Vladimir Putin. You have used police powers granted for anti-terrorism and deployed them to target and intimidate journalists deemed enemies of the state. You have proven that these laws can be hideously abused. Which means they must be repealed. You have broken the trust that enables any such legislation to survive in a democracy. By so doing, you have attacked British democracy itself. What on earth do you have to say for yourself? And were you, in any way, encouraged by the US administration to do such a thing?

I found this very troubling. The British, along with the US, are making a mockery of freedom and democracy. Obama is such a disappointment, caught in his own lies about NSA snooping. More and more I think Snowden did us a favor by revealing the information that he had. Today's detainment seems pure harassment. What will be next? There is a fascinating article in today's NY Times Magazine on Laura Poitras, Snowden, and Glen Greenwald: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-snowden.html?ref=magazine

Well, I forget that you are a British subject, perhaps worried that your Queen endorsed a murder...hehe,, I am just kidding...

Today I went to see the movie The Spectacular Now, which has some good reviews. I hated it. The boy in it was selfish, but more importantly, he was a lush. His girl dumps him and he takes up with a nice girl, giving her her own engraved flask. It's all downhill from there. But I wondered if I would have liked the movie more if the actor was cuter. He plays a charming character, but I wasn't so charmed. Now we all know that cute guys have the advantage when it comes to being charming because we are so willing to be charmed with them. So this movie, I think, would have worked better if differently cast. That's my opinion. And your opinion? Is Miles Teller cute enough to charm you in a movie?

Oz, it's been a month without a report. I hiope all is well in the Land of Smiles- no more hospital visits, and many boys coming your way.

Speculation has long held that Princess Diana was murdered, and now the story is back in the news as a former soldier's estranged in-laws say he told them that British Special Forces working for MI6 killed her. The statement is being taken seriously by Scotland Yard, or at least it appears to be. The revelation comes as a new book on the topic hits the stores on August 29th. More in the NY Post:http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/new_probe_in_diana_slay_Lzp02M4GizAKC4gOb8ECVO

I put a bad review of a doctor on Yelp, Insider Pages, and Yellow Pages. I am not sure of the name of the second site, so I only think Insider Pages. In short, the review disappeared from two sites and was replaced by a big ad for the doctor. Only Yelp stuck with me and did not remove the review. That Yelp must be important is shown in the fact that the doctor then offered me a sum of money to remove the complaint from Yelp.

He's a young kid whose parents seem to have taken the money and run, leaving him without anyone to discipline him. I hope he turns it around before it's too late.

I like YELP and have had good luck with it.

I think the defense has carefully managed this information with slow leaks here and there so as not to prejudice him in the eyes of Ameicans who thought he did the right thing. But he is going to jail, and we can only hope that he will be safe. Given the tough treatment he had already, he may be tougher than we think.

Apparently so, RA1. Without suitable numbers of workers in production, the aging population cannot sustain itself. I am no economist, but the entire Euro population needs German production to stiulate their own growth. Germans killed 6 million Jews, and now there are not enough Germans. Odd, isn't it?

Why you are such a lucky man!

Young German men now have a new patriotic duty, even gay men. Due to a population drop, the economy of the country, indeed its future, depends on the rise of manhood and the impregnation of the female population. Seldom in history has the cock been more celebrated as an economic vehicle for a country's bare survival. And it isn't just germany that depends on this rising problem. Other European countires rely on German leadership and economic production. Little did they realize that young German men weren't fucking enough. A recent census shows a drop in polulation of 1.5 million people. "By 2060, experts say, the country could shrink by an additional 19 percent, to about 66 million," according to an article in today's NY Times. Impregnation now will help in the future, but labor shortages currently require more women and elderly to work. The details: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/world/europe/germany-fights-population-drop.html?hpw Called to duty:

The first time I went for a churrascaria, in Ipanema, the whole lunch cost me $12.50. Last time? $50.00!!! But it's good! Inflation, weakened dollar all went to that higher cost. Hopefully higher wages too.

I have said my piece and have no reason to prolong this discussion. Totally Oz remains my favorite poster at boyoy.com despite any disagreement we might have.

Using the Word Fag in Articles and Stories on Boytoy Posted by TotallyOz on 27 February 2013 - 09:12 AM in The Hooboy Pub: General Chat OK. You all have convinced me that it is offensive to some and thus, it is removed from my vocabulary for this site. ****** So the discussion was in February. You said what you said, waited a few months, then started a new poll as if there had never been one. You finished the Porto Alegre travel guide, which gave you a great chance to remove the fag word from it. But you didn't. You posted it "on this site" and kept the word fag in it. There is no doubt that many here are offended by the use of the word fag as a term to refer to our fellow posters. That doesn't bother you, despite what you wrote above. How quickly you forget, or how insincerely you speak. Had you spent enough (any?) time with victims of gay bashings, you might have some understanding of the hurt the word fag holds. I don't care what you call your friends in private conversation, but I don't want to be associated with a web site that casualy uses the word fag as though it has gained some acceptability. That much I at least owe to those who were called fag over and over while getting the shit kicked out of them. I am well aware that it's your website, so have at it. Continue hurting these people for the fun of it.

This topic is not about what two individuals choose to call each other in private conversation. It is about the website officially calling its members fags in its travel guides. I am not alone in finding that offensive. We discussed all of this last year and I was led to believe that Oz had come to understand why many of us did not like the use of the word. i also understood it would be removed from the guides. Now, a year later, it is not removed from the guides, and Oz claims that those of us protesting the use of the word are now having a "meltdown." A far cry from his purported understanding of a year ago, and his concern expressed in another thread about an individual's goodwill in using the word faggot. It's time Oz followed through, removed the word from the guide and from any official use by the website. To diminish the members who object to the word simply tells us we are not wanted here. Yes, firecat, I know.

Friends who saw it were quite disappointed.

But not that uncomfortable, huh? Since today you are back advocating it and accusing those who differ with you of having a "meltdown." Well, we should be havin meltdowns! I am glad that you felt a little uncomfortable though. Not so uncomfortable as those gay guys are who are getting the shit kicked out of them. Once again I find myself in the wrong place. I don't choose to associate with people who use the word "fag" and similar slurs in cutesy little ways like Oz does. His lack of sincerity in the above post is very telling. I thought the matter had been settled, but it was only an appeasement.

Really IHop guy, fuck these twits who can't take a joke! Fuckin' fags! DIE FAG! Hate Murder Victim Charlie Howard’s Memorial Desecrated, Rededicated Charlie Howard Memorial desecration, prior to refurbishment Bangor, Maine – Two weeks ago, unknown vandals spray-painted “Die Fag” on a memorial to hate crime murder victim Charles O. “Charlie” Howard. On Saturday, 75 people gathered to rededicate the newly cleaned and restored memorial beside the State Street Bridge in downtown Bangor, the site where 23-year-old Charlie was thrown to his death into the Kenduskeag Stream below. Howard’s death by drowning at the hands of three youths from respected Bangor families shocked the town in July 1984. For twenty years controversy raged over whether and how to memorialize the young gay man’s death. Finally, in 2009, a tasteful, unassuming granite memorial was erected at the State Street Bridge site. The Howard Memorial is the focal point of a small ornamental garden featuring tulips, hollyhocks, magnolia bushes, lilacs, cosmos and crabapple trees. Local and state social justice advocates made the murder of Charlie Howard a celebrated cause, bringing about the forerunner organization to today’s Equality Maine, and giving impetus to the drive for marriage equality for same-sex couples in recent years. His death pricked the conscience of Mainers in a way that has proved more productive for practical human rights advances in New England than the more well-known story of Matthew Shepard’s murder has ever effected in Wyoming and the Mountain West. The Bangor Daily News reports that local residents were repulsed by the recent act of hate and vandalism. Margaret “Miki” Macdonald, who lives in the neighborhood of the memorial, had gone to care for the flowers and weed the plot around the Howard Memorial as she had often done in the last two years, when she saw the angry words painted across the dedicatory plaque. As Macdonald told the Daily News, “At first I couldn’t even read what it said. I wasn’t sure if it was writing or just some random lines. Then when I saw what it said, I said, ‘God, that’s pathetic. How ridiculous for someone to do this.’ Just seeing that was disgusting.” The act of desecration spurred local and state church and advocacy groups to action. If the perpetrators, who are still at large, intended to scare the local populace and the LGBTQ community, they failed miserably. Now, in light of the community energy to remember and honor Charlie Howard, Macdonald says she can see something good coming out of the ugliness. “Actually, having something so offensive like that happen to the memorial made all these people regroup, and I think it’s rekindled our intention to encourage tolerance in our community,” she explained to Daily News staff reporter, Andrew Neff. “So in a way, it’s a good thing.” Diversity Day, observed annually in Bangor on Charlie Howard’s birthday, July 7, was established to promote acceptance of a whole range of human differences. This year, the words carved into the stone of his memorial will take on refreshed meaning: “May we, the citizens of Bangor, continue to change the world around us until hatred becomes peacemaking and ignorance becomes understanding.”

Yeah, really! Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke! Twits! The Brutal Brooklyn Gay Bashing Of Barie Shortell Full story here: http://www.queerty.com/the-brutal-brooklyn-gay-bashing-of-barie-shortell-20110316/#ixzz2bEMNKW7j

More proof that a loving God is looking down at us all, taking such pride in his handiwork. Too bad he is so busy with all of those praying athletes to help these kids: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/boys_killed_after_python_escapes_hCg9vyj6HC53TXigFX52YJ

Um, by not doing so? I don't know what you are talking about and plan to contact a meltdown specialist forthwith!