Lucky

LOL. What with impending nuclear meltdown, earthquakes, and tsunamis, I thought we could use a thread that led to important thinking!

For some time now, the last 3 MER forums, on Health, Comments, and the Sandbox, all end with posts from Lucky. Could you all rectify this situation by adding a comment of your own? We don't want outsiders to think that Lucky gets the last word here, do we?

Gay soccer players may be more common than we thought!

Citing his new found belief that God is a forgiving god, potential presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, his third wife, and his 4th mistress, all gathered today to announce that Newt will release all inmates in US prisons if elected. "How can I expect to accept God's forgiveness if I cannot pass it on to others who have sinned?" Gingrich stated. "My God is a forgiving god, and I will be a forgiving president." When asked how this forgiveness would extend to extremist Islam, Gingrich qualified his remarks to state that his God only forgives Christians, and it would remain his policy to wipe Muslims off the face of the earth. Jews, however, having now been forgiven by the Pope for killing Christ, could still hope for forgiveness should they convert to Christianity. Gingrich recently expressed his beliefs that God would forgive him his numerous sins, including seeking the impeachment of President Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky affair while he himself was cheating on his wife the whole time: "I found that I felt compelled to seek God's forgiveness. Not God's understanding, but God's forgiveness. I do believe in a forgiving God. And I think most people, deep down in their hearts hope there's a forgiving God." Gingrich's standing with evangelical Christians immediately rose two points,with many saying that it could rise further if he divorced his third wife to marry his fourth mistress.

We'll be glad to see you if you can make it to Palm Springs. My God, your luggage alone will probably be stuffed with Thai boys!

My flights to Bangkok went through Tokyo, so if that airport is closed, then I can't imagine how many flights will be canceled, re-routed, or otherwise problematic. Each flight to and from Tokyo was jam-packed with people, so that's a huge re-booking problem as well. Lucky Oz gets to wait in out in Thailand instead of Tokyo!

Really? Is that the case? Really? Honestly? I have never seen a show that I couldn't watch without pissing my pants! If I did, I would put down plastic on the chair so as not to ruin it. Or maybe I would wear diapers, but only during that show. Hmm, a show called Two and A Half Diapers...

I didn't know that they covered their butts!

Now, mvan, don't start that guessing! I only meant to use a generic website owner. Could be anyone, except Oz!

It appears that over 30 people will attend Saturday night's dinner, and close to 40 will come to the pool party on Sunday. Our first Palm Springs Weekend we had 14 for dinner, and about 20 on Sunday. Once Oliver began his pool event the second year, the event continued to grow. Why, we are even having folks fly in from the east coast! This is something I never imagined when I first thought of holding the event. I just wanted to get to know some of my fellow posters,and apparently so do a lot of other guys. Many thanks to Oliver for keeping the event running. All are welcome, as long as you are a regular poster or an established escort. I hope everyone has a great time. The event would be nothing if not for the people who attend. I make much the same argument about message boards. They would be nothing if not for the people contributing to them. So take Pride in what you have accomplished! If you hear an owner say "it's my message board" just ask him what he would have if none of us posted!

This isn't Mary on a piece of toast, or a statue suddenly weeping. This isn't the Virgin Mary appearing to remote peasant girls. This is an actual trip to heaven where an almost 4 year old boy saw his great-grandfather; the biblical figure Samson; John the Baptist; and Jesus, who had eyes that “were just sort of a sea-blue and they seemed to sparkle,” Colton Burpo, now 11 years old, recalled. Using Sarah Palin's ghost writer, he has written a book of his experiences that is selling like hotcakes as people starved for a look into heaven want to read his story. More than one and a half million copies are in print. His father, a minister, has rebuffed allegations that the family is in it for the money. Even the parents were skeptical of the story at first, saying that he and his wife, Sonja, were not sure if they could believe their son’s story, which came out slowly, months and years after his sudden illness and operation in 2003. The details persuaded them, Mr. Burpo said. Colton told his parents that he had met his younger sister in heaven, describing her as a dark-haired girl who resembled his older sister, Cassie. When the Burpos questioned him, he asked his mother, “You had a baby die in your tummy, didn’t you?” While his wife had suffered a miscarriage years before, Mr. Burpo said, they had not told Colton about it. “There’s just no way he could have known,” Mr. Burpo said. And the Burpos said that Colton painstakingly described images that he said he saw in heaven — like the bloody wounds on Jesus’ palms — that he had not been shown before. How one could verify exactly what these wounds look like is not stated. Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/12/books/heaven-is-for-real-is-publishing-phenomenon.html?hpw

The NY Times reports on what you could do with 36 hours in Sao Paolo. No saunas are included, but some art and food reports do entice: http://travel.nytimes.com/2011/03/13/travel/13hours-saopaulo.html?hpw

Thanks for the reports. Those of us stuck at home enjoy reading them!

If not all, at least it is a start!

Did he even write his latest novel?

I suspect no one. After a while the email address gets on different lists. What I hate is that recently my niece sent everyone on her contact list an email...a group email. Now all of those hundred people are in my Gmail contacts...added automatically. So when I try to type a name, these names of people -I have no idea who they are- pop up as suggestions to shortcut my typing. I hate group emails. As for this one, I did not hit send once I saw that they didn't really give a shit about my desire to "unsubscribe." That, in itself, is an insult as I never subscribed to any of the multitude of junk mail I get.

The Broadway musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, ain't what it used to be. The show, now in previews, has had several stops before New York, and there can be no doubt that the show has been tamed a bit for New York audiences. The New York Times takes you through the history of the show, pointing out the things deemed not suitable for the Americans: A Tamer Priscilla

"Father DiGregorio went on the offensive on Friday, saying he is angry and intends to fight, Action News reports. “Angry, very angry, and I intend to fight these accusations with every legal means at my disposal,” claims Father DiGregorio. (CathNewsUSA.com)" Fr. DiGFregorio was apparently NOT one of these priests suspended, so he may well have had every right to be angry at the accusations. 8 of the 37 priests were cleared of suspicion. UPDATE: I spoke too soon. He was one of 3 suspended on a day before the 21 were suspended. "Father DiGregorio went on the offensive on Friday, saying he is angry and intends to fight, Action News reports. DiGregorio was accused of molesting a 16-year-old girl four times in 1967 or 1968 in the Our Lady of Loreto rectory in Southwest Philadelphia and in his car. Another priest confirmed the allegations against DiGregorio, who also failed a lie-detector test when queried in 2005, grand jurors found. Yet, archdiocesan investigators cleared him. Until (Feb. 16th), DiGregorio remained a parochial vicar at Stella Maris parish, in South Philadelphia.

I got some spam for a quilting newsletter, spam that came to the address I use only for this site. I didn't want the quilting newsletter, so I hit the unsubscribe button, here is how I was greeted: Hi Cunt On this page, you can update your e-mail address, change the frequency of the newsletter or completely unsubscribe.

20 year old Anton Hysen, a star in Sweden's soccer world, announced that he is gay: Hysen: I'm Gay He is the son of a former football star. Swedish soccer is no more liberal than any other country, so this is a bold move. Anton Hysén, 20: Jag är homosexuell Futbolista sueco Anton Hysen se declara gay Fotbollsspelaren Anton Hysén kommer ut Coming-out: Le footballeur suédois Anton Hysén sort du placard And with his father:

Having met him, I'd say kjun looks much younger than 66!

In reading the posts from Tampa Yankee and lookin, I would have thought we were pretty much in the same line of thinking, but here I am glad to see the death penalty imposed. I know the objections to it, and I agree that it has to be imposed rarely and fairly. But some people are just evil. The acts they commit deserve our highest punishment. Gacy, for example. Here's my best example for the death penalty: William George Bonin (January 8, 1947 – February 23, 1996) was an American serial killer and a twice-paroled sex offender,[1] also known as the Freeway Killer, a nickname he shares with two other serial killers. Between 1979 and 1980, Bonin tortured, raped and killed a minimum of 21 boys and young men, and is suspected of committing a further fifteen. Bonin was convicted and eventually executed in 1996 for 14 of these murders.- Bonin had a preference for young boys. The LA Times once printed the pictures of many of his victims, and it was one of the most heartbreaking things you ever saw. He actually stuck hot pokers up their asses in his cruelty. So yes, some guys deserve to die. The victims whose lives were cut short:

Warm and cuddly- isn't that how people usually describe me? I know that there are no schools for learning either how to manage or post on a message board. So there are always going to be rough spots as we learn what works and what doesn't. But I agree with Oz that we have a good group of guys on this site, and we all are pretty good about tolerating each other's mistakes, never, of course, shying from an opportunity to lighten things up. But I like that I get to express my opinions and not have the site shutdown for two weeks!

1. I wouldn't make them privately, I'd want all my posters knowing that when someone accomplishes something that helps my website, I let the world know. 2. You sure looked like you needed it when you posted 7 threads and ignored this one. 3. I am happy for you to post. But a thread dump that pushed everyone else's thread down the list doesn't encourage people to post. 4. And Daddy works 16 hours a day. At least that's what he says when he is being criticized. The post for MsGuy was up now. You had time to post 7 new threads, maybe one of them could have been sacrificed to get to MsGuy's thread. 5. Nice. Buried at number 5, but still. 6. Yes, it might have been bitchy. But there are those of us who come here every day and try to keep this message board thriving. It's not easy. There are many days when we feel we are talking to ourselves. So when a frequent contributor is being honored by his colleagues but gets ignored by the management, I do get a little bitchy. When the posts of those who do try to keep the place going get dumped down the line, I don't like that either. I encourage everyone not to just start threads, but to contribute to them. When people don't get responses to their threads, they give up. I love you too. Loving families occasionally get on the opposite side of each other.

I am sure that Totally Oz meant to comment on your rise in status but was simply burdened by all the new threads he had to post. So I will bump it back up to give him another opportunity!