Lucky

Yes, indeed, Steven Draker has been in the past one of the first to call our attention to World Aids Day. Thanks for joining in again.

Today is World Aids Day, not that you would know it from this or the other popular gay message board. It's noon in New York and no one has mentioned it here. So let's take a moment to remember those of our community whose lives were taken by this disease. Even the Wall Street Journal is posting a series of 15 pictures about it about it, take a look: http://online.wsj.com/home-page

"That seems a little paranoid, BBB. The CIA is angling to take down the State Dept,the Oval Office and the US finantial system? The only way we will know for sure is if Mr. Assange gets his hands on the Agency's archives and goes rogue. And somehow manages to avoid falling out a 6th story window. " Finantial...I've been trying to figure out that typo. The t button is in the top row, the c button in the bottom row. Oh well, it's not as if I don't make mistakes in typing also. Unless, yes unless, it's a conspiracy by the CIA to rewrite the English language. Don't laugh. It could be true. I'm not saying it is, but you just never know these days. Of course, MsGuy could be using the Dvorak keyboard...I just don't know. But I heard you could only get those from...you guessed it- the CIA!

There was another boy last night. 20 years old in South America, cute, loves butt play. He does a show putting stuff in there-one time it was purple plastic beads, which he waved around much as a dog wags his tail- but suddenly his underwear is on and the show is over. He's using a mic and we can hear an older woman talking to him through the door. Must be tough to live at home and be horny.

Well of course it is a serious question or I wouldn't have asked it. I looked into it and here is what I found at wired.com: Manning was a 35F intelligence analyst with a Top Secret/SCI security clearance. According to the Army’s web site, analysts in this position “use information derived from all intelligence disciplines to determine changes in enemy capabilities, vulnerabilities and probable courses of action.” Duties include receiving and processing incoming intelligence reports and messages and maintaining intelligence records and files. In chats with Lamo that Wired.com has examined, Manning said he had access to two classified networks from two separate secured laptops: SIPRnet, the Secret-level network used by the Department of Defense and the State Department, and the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System which serves both agencies at the Top Secret/SCI level. The networks, he said, were both “air-gapped” from unclassified networks, but the environment at the base made it easy to smuggle data out. “I would come in with music on a CD-RW labeled with something like ‘Lady Gaga,’ erase the music then write a compressed split file,” he wrote. “No one suspected a thing and, odds are, they never will.” “ listened and lip-synced to Lady Gaga’s ‘Telephone’ while exfiltrating possibly the largest data spillage in American history,” he added later. ”Weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak counterintelligence, inattentive signal analysis … a perfect storm.” Regarding the State Department cables specifically, Manning told Lamo, “State dept fucked itself. Placed volumes and volumes of information in a single spot, with no security.”

...and I read that none of the stuff is classified Top Secret. This isn't that article, but is worth reading: From the Guardian

I love the boys who say "No Tokens." It was much more fun before they added that silly function. BTW, I wonder who verifies the ages of these guys. Can one assume that if a guy has been a member for awhile he has been vetted for age? It bothered me the other day when a jacker said he had to go- his mom was coming home. I don't want to encourage under age kids to be on Cam4. The great majority of the guys look of age.

The funniest moments of the Naked Gun Trilogy:

We could travel in a convoy...that would be safe.

Wikileaks has released thousands of diplomatic cables that may severely embarrass those who wrote them. The damage to international relations is as yet unknown, but what I want to know is why a mere private had access to all of this secret government stuff. The damage caused by this one man may be immense.

Epigonos- up for a trip to Monterrey? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/27/monterrey-mexicos-wealthi_n_788745.html

I ate leftovers on Friday, and Saturday's lunch. I got tired of them!

I see. Thanks, drey.

My frozen dinner says how to cook it in the microwave, but in a side bar, it says that if the product is frozen I should thaw it first, before cooking. I've never had to do that with a frozen dinner before, so I thawed it somewhat and then microwaved it. As I was throwing the package way, I saw a sticker that said to enjoy the product before November 25th...two days ago. I thought frozen dinners kept forever. But I am going to eat it- I just wanted folks to know what happened if I ended up in the hospital with food poisoning! Have you ever had to thaw a frozen dinner before microwaving it? Never mind- after thawing it for 3 minutes in the m'wave, and then cooking it 6 minutes- thy recommend 4 1/2 to 6- I took it out and it was still frozen in the middle! I tossed it.

Drey, I went to gaytravelbrazil.com and read your report. Such a dilemma to have Alexander and also want to go to the saunas. But where are the pics? Thanks, though, for the report.

An AP article posted last Wednesday by Drey at gaytravelbrazil.com: From the AP: RIO DE JANEIRO – Health officials say Brazil is at risk of an even deadlier outbreak of dengue fever as the South American nation enters its long, wet summer, when standing water turns into breeding ponds for the mosquitoes that spread the disease. The country saw a dramatic spike in the number of fatal cases this year: 592 were recorded from January through October, an increase of 90 percent over the 312 dengue deaths recorded during the same period last year, according to figures released Thursday by the Ministry of Health. And the resurgence of the Type 1 dengue strain largely absent in Brazil since the 1990s means that cases could continue to rise, officials say, stretching an overtaxed health care system. When the six-month rainy season starts in December, the frequent downpours will quickly turn trash piles, old tires, abandoned wells and even crumpled cigarette packs into containers of stagnant water where mosquitoes can breed. Luis Fernando Moraes, president of the Regional Council of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro, said the risk is particularly high for children who have never been exposed to the resurgent Type 1 strain of the disease and thus have low resistance to it. Exposure to a single strain of the disease helps develop immunity to that particular variant, but subsequent infection by a different strain can cause the sometimes fatal hemorrhagic dengue. Symptoms of dengue include flulike conditions such as high fever, headaches, and severe muscle and joint pain. The health ministry has registered about 940,000 cases of dengue so far in 2010, nearly double last year's total. Treatment options are few, and a potential vaccine is still in testing and not available to the public. A health ministry report said the states most at risk include Rio de Janeiro, where the recent closure of a major suburban hospital and the scheduled shuttering of two more has raised concerns that there might not be enough medical resources to deal with an epidemic. "There is huge concern with the arrival of summer," Moraes said. "We could face a difficult situation in which our overburdened health care system would be stretched even further." Brazil has worked hard to fight the disease within its own borders and help neighboring countries, said Dan Epstein, a spokesman with the World Health Organization in Washington, D.C. The government is campaigning to educate the public to prevent water from pooling, but getting word to the sprawling country's remote areas is tough, Epstein said. "The weather and circumstances make for perfect breeding ground for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes," he said. The WHO estimates that more than 2.5 billion people worldwide are at risk for dengue, and at least 50 million are sickened each year. "It's a serious problem in the Americas and globally, particularly in Southeast Asia," Epstein said. "It's one of the serious neglected diseases affecting tropical countries, and one of the things we have make a priority." To Brazil's north, neighboring Venezuela has also been confronting a dengue epidemic with about 100,000 diagnosed cases so far this year compared with 40,000 during the same period last year, according to recent Health Ministry figures.

I found Unstoppable to be unimaginative and predictable. I went because I like Denzel and Chris Pine, but the train is the real star of this movie. Too much dramatic music and a hoaky storyline about being mad at your loved ones then they face a crisis that of course makes the person sorry they are mad. Guess how that works out! Friends in LA really recommend Colin Firth's new movie about The King's Speech.

Not sure if that is true, KyTop. We spend a lot of time talking about good things. The differences are what makes life interesting. I enjoy being around people who don't necessarily think like I do- it's not boring. We talk about what is bad in order to see how we can improve it. that's not a bad thing. I agree that it can all be overdone, so if that is what you are saying, then I agree with you. (See how I tried to find the common ground?!! ) (CharliePS says I frequently refer to him as CharlieSF. I didn't realize that.)

Well, yes, come to think of it, I did call her a cow, but it wasn't out of hatred! Cows are a valued resource in this country. Just think if we were in India... There was an interesting article today on this online today,, but has disappeared now into the place where stale articles online go. But essentially it said that by claiming that people hate her, she was trying to make more of herself than there is. If I find the article I will pass it on.

Epigonos, I also feel bad for the Mexican people that drugs have essentially destroyed their country. And it isn't the Mexican appetite for drugs, it's the American's. I would love to travel through Mexico as I have in the past, enjoying the small towns, the handicrafts, the beautiful scenery, and even eating some of the walking Mexican food- you know, the food with the shiny black hair and sparkling brown eyes? But can't do. It's become too dangerous. Americans want their drugs and we give the Mexicans guns to make sure the drugs get to us. We've corrupted their police and their legal system, if not their whole government. So, on the same day that many of us are stuffing turkey, other Americans are stuffing their noses. Since they don't live in the poor sections of town, our police can't touch them. If they do get caught, they get a program that almost always fails. In the meantime, Mexicans are so afraid that even their government feels the need to warn people coming into the country. I've been robbed by Mexican police, but drugs are robbing Mexico.

Hey, I could only get Charlie there by promising him a tuna-stuffed turkey! Then, minutes after I awoke this am, it dawned on me that I had written CharlieSF here instead of CharliePS. Sorry, Charlie! I had SF on my mind!

Oz, so sorry to hear that you are ill, especially with something as nasty as dengue fever. Here's wishing you a quick recovery. Don't worry about us, it's you that you need to focus on.

Too bad we can't all gather at Lucky's Place for a big Thanksgiving dinner. The bf is going all out making pies and getting a big dinner ready for the day. I guess CharlieSF will have to represent all of you at the feast. Thanks for participating with your posts and welcoming me into the group at MaleEscortReview.

Epigponos, please feel free to travel to any hot spot you wish, however dangerous. It's called adventure travel, but in this case, maybe suicide travel is more appropriate. What's the difference here? It's the MEXICAN GOVERNMENT ITSELF making the warnings. Disregard them at your peril.