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The Yankees slogged their way through the end of the season, almost intentionally wanting to take second so they could get Minnesota as their first target...at Target Stadium too. Then, once in the playoffs, they played like champions. So, that's what I expect them to do against Tampa Bay...I think Texas has shot their wad...after all, they blew a 2 game lead. So, will the longer layoff hurt the Yankees? Will The Rays come from behind victory give them added momentum? The Rays played well against the Yankees, but then, a championship was more of a theory. So again, I expect the Yankees to beat the Rays. As for the Phillies, can't count 'em out. They've been Champions too!

Well, Buster grounded out with the baseball loaded as the Braes went on to win last night. it's a game of luck and chance as well as skill. Sure, Lycecum stretches out that skinny body, but stocky Buster squats, so you know his hole spreads each time. that boy is loose after a game and he can take quite a baseball bat. And, may we congratulate the 2009 World Champions on their sweep of Minnesota. That means no Yankee games for a few days, and long lay-offs rarely help a playoff team.

Aces, after 5 or 6 years of making licence plates, I'd be happy to do something else as well. Have you talked to you probation officer to see if you could take some sort of aptitude test? These aren't moments to waste in life. Perhaps you could become a philanthropist, tossing meer pittances at the poor? A little B&B up near Everett WA could be fun. Whatever you do, don;t come to Palm Springs. it's just a collection of old folk sitting around awaiting to die, very depressing!

Buster was a bust as he came up with the bases loaded in the bottom of the tenth, one out. He grounds into a double play in what I was sure was going to be a legendary Buster moment. He still looks hot when he squats down to catch those balls. And as for Lincecum, well, Boo Radley would be proud of him. Buster and Boo....

That's Buster Posey, the catcher for the so-far playoff winning San Francisco Giants. Buster is 23, a former star athlete from Georgia, once named the Gatorade player of the year! Now the cute young catcher finds himself playing in San Francisco, where the whole town wants a piece of him. Catch the Giants v. the Braves on Sunday and you can get a live glimpse of a future hero...and current heartthrob! Ideally, if I weren't a Yankee fan, I would like to see Posey go against sexy Minnesota catcher Joe Mauer, but the Yankees will have finished off the Twins soon. Okay, I know baseball isn't a hot topic here, but at least I try. Right, Buster?

NeedSome, welcome to the forums. I look forward to reading your posts. I think we agree that many people who followed the rules were left holding the bag when the economy collapsed. You could put down 20%, invest more in improvements, make your payments, and then see it all lost when home values plummeted. That's my neighborhood. Hundreds if not thousands of people who bought at the wrong time, in retrospect. Sure, there were plenty that bought too much, and they seem to be really knowledgeable about how to avoid responsibility, but something has to be done for those who did follow all the rules. Many now are foreclosed, and foreclosed by companies that did not follow the rules: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/09/your-money/mortgages/09money.html?hpw What a mess this is going to make, and what happens to the housing market in the interim? And what's the value of following the rules anymore if you just end up the sucker who pays off for the rest?

The actual burger:

Seriously, Oz, sometimes you can give me the best laugh. If this is the consideration, then wait. Go to Rio as rested as you can. Get there on a Tuesday. The boys from 117 will also likely be rested too, and then the marathon can begin. PS- Charity might require you to take along a poor friend. I don't need first class, but economy plus would be nice. PPSS_ How do you go from Thailand to Brazil? Take a month in LA first? I find Brazil so intensely different from Thailand that it would take some adjustment to go from one to the other, at least right away.

From the San Diego Tribune: Taste is the main reason why his discriminating shoppers buy Mexican Coke – they say the cane sugar sweetener used in Mexican Coke has a sweeter, cleaner flavor than the high-fructose corn syrup in the American version. Many are willing to pay $1.10 per 12-ounce bottle for the imports, even with cans of American Coke sitting nearby for 49 cents each. "You drink it and taste it – it's something you tasted all your life," said Carvallo, referring to the many immigrants who prefer Mexican Coke. While the flavor of Mexican Coke provides a taste of nostalgia for immigrants hundreds of miles from home, its retro green-tinted contour glass bottles have also caught on among some baby boomers, who can recall a time when their cola was made with sugar – before rising costs drove U.S. bottlers to switch to corn syrup in the 1980s. With a niche market for Mexican Coke taking root in the United States, The Coca-Cola Co. and its bottlers are quietly looking to block its passage across the border. One reason the company wants to lower the profile of the drink in the United States is that bottlers here don't profit from sales of the import, which are produced by independent Mexican bottlers. Mexican Coke, brought in by third-party distributors and retailers, infringes on franchise territory rights of the U.S. plants. "We believe that those territory rights belong to the rightful bottlers," said Coke spokesman Mart Martin. The Coca-Cola bottled in Tijuana is made with sugar, and limited quantities of it show up north of the border from time to time at small neighborhood grocery stores, said Bob Phillips, spokesman for Coca-Cola Bottling Co. of Southern California.

Good luck to all the dieters. I know it is hard because I can't do it either. When I stopped weightlifting a couple of years ago the pounds started going to the wrong places. I gained and lost 20, gained 15, and there I am. I love ice cream. It is my comfort food, and I could not go a day without a Mexican Coke. Last week on one of those tiny regional jets I made the mistake, or had no choice, but to take the window seat. Such small seats, and sure enough a 300 pound man sits next to me. He makes no concessions whatsoever for me. I am almost leaning out of the plane to make room for him. I think: it's a short flight. I have friends who weigh that much; how would I want them treated? So I shut up and take it, trying to read my book and hope the time passes. Then he reaches up to his light switch, with his elbow a half-inch from my nose. I say nothing. He does it again, and then I could no longer shut up. I told him that he had done nothing to accommodate me in this situation and perhaps next flight he should get two seats for himself. His response: "Well, alright then."

Zipperzone, I, for one, tried to let you know how much I liked your pics. My concern is for the conversation in the forum. Please do not go all EXPAT on us and quit because someone said something you didn't like. I like you too. For me, it's just a question of moderation. Nude guy pix are all over the internet. One can find them with ease. I never get tired of looking at them, but I do get tired of dead threads that go nowhere. The Gallery at the other site has been a huge hit, and we can make this too a win-win situation for our members.

Christopher Saikua Chambers RS Tower, 24 Fl., Ratchadapisek, Dindeang, Bangkok 10310 Thailand. Dear Sir/Madam, I am sending you this email and I believe you must have been getting something similar but still seems this is the only best way of communication apart from telephone conversation, but we cannot because there are Bad people in the world and will not recognize the good ones, so I advice you to settle down and read this mail comprehensively and you will know I am for REAL. Well, Barrister Christopher Saikua is my name, I was born in the City of Bangkok but I traveled sometime and I studied in UK , I am a Solicitor. I am the Personal legal representative to Late Mr. Steve Anderson, who used to work with SIAMRAK Company Limited in Bangkok Thailand. Something painful happened on the 21st September 2008, as Mr. Steve Anderson, was traveling from Phuket for a New Year holiday with his Wife and only Son Jerry, Unfortunately, while they were at along Ratchaburi Express Road, they had an accident and they all lost their lives in the event of the Accident. Since then, I have made several enquiries to your Embassy to locate any of my client's relatives, this has also proved unsuccessful. Subsequent to these several failed efforts, I strong-willed to unearth his associations over the Internet to locate any member of his family but for no avail, hence, I wanted to put the announcement on television or news paper but that will alert the bank knows that I don’t know any of his family member and then, they will have the chance to confiscate the fund just like that. Right now, I contacted you to assist in repatriating the Fund. This Bank has waited for me for more than one year now, So they issued me another notice to provide the Next of Kin to late Mr. Steve Anderson, who will claim the US$15 (Fifteen Million United States Dollars Only) in their custody within the next Fourteen official working days as the bank knows me very well, I do visit their office with Late Mr. Steve Anderson, so they all knows I and Mr. Steve Anderson, and they all know that I am his only Attorney and they believe I should know everything about him. Since, I have been unsuccessful in locating the relatives for over more than one year now, I seek your consent to present you to claim the fund as the Next of Kin, to the deceased, so as to enable the Bank transfer the fund into your Account. Upon receipt of the fund, I will either give you an account from another bank where you will transfer my share to me or I will come over to your country to meet with you for the disbursement of the fund, and then you and I will share the money in this order: 60% will be for me, 40% will be for you. I have all the necessary legal documents that can back our claim we may make with the Bank. All I require is your honest co-operation to enable us seeing this deal through. I guarantee that this will be executed under a justified arrangement that will protect you from any Breach of the Law. Thanks, as I hope to hear from you soon. Sincerely Yours, Barrister Christopher Saikua.

Well, here is where the multitude of pictures posted on the site have some more practical value. These are pictures of young men, young men with hot bodies. Clearly, if you accept the above, these young men did not grow up on healthy Entemann products brought by horse to the Brooklyn bakeries. No, they eat foods made today with guar gum, and xantham gum and high fructose corn syrup, tons of sugar, Propylene Glycol Monoesters, Oat Fiber, Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate...AND THEY STILL LOOK GOOD! So every time you see one of those hot young 'uns in a photo shoot, pop a pop'em or whatever they are called, and soon enough you too will look like photo material for Lurker and Zipper!

You know, I realize that the assumption in my thread is that it is the pix that are intruding on the conversations, and that may not be true. It does seem to be more of a gallery forum, but is that because those of us who like to talk are not doing so much of it nowadays? I don't know. The photos are secondary for me, but I know they are not to Zipperzone and Lurker Speaks. And they do find some hot shots. So how about those who like to gab doing more of it?

Would it not be cheaper to keep a dildo collection in each of your favorite ports, rather than lug them from one place to the next?

I guess I shouldn't revive this thread, but, as much as I like pix of hot guys, and as much as I think zipperzone has great taste (Lurker too), moderation isn't always bad. Would the photos hold more value to the viewer if there were less of them? Could we get more discussions going if that again became the focus of the forum? Let's face it, the conversations we were having in August that went to two pages aren't happening any more.

The song billionaire is also featured on the new album by Bruno Mars, mentioned here yesterday to a resounding thud.

HuffPost lets us in on a joke: UPDATE: An Obama administration official tells HuffPost that the White House has 'concerns' about the bill. Challenging foreclosures could become more difficult for homeowners if the president signs a bill that passed through the Senate last week. The little-noticed bill comes at a time when the validity of foreclosure proceedings across the nation have been called into question. The House passed the bill in April, and its brisk journey through the Senate has drawn scant attention, Reuters reports. If signed into law, it would require courts to accept certain documents that have been notarized out of state, streamlining foreclosure proceedings and stripping homeowners of one legal method of challenging a foreclosure. The legislation would come just as a foreclosure validity crisis is mounting: GMAC, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America have admitted to not properly reviewing some of their foreclosure documents. The foreclosure controversies that have emerged in recent weeks throw doubts on the larger foreclosure system. A non-bank entity, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, has been initiating foreclosures, the Washington Post reports, exercising an authority that judges have ruled it does not have. In response to the mounting scandal, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called on Tuesday for an investigation into foreclosure fraud. "This is a very big deal," she told HuffPost. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner told Reuters the timing of the bill's passage was "suspicious," implying that mortgage companies might have engaged in behind-the-scenes lobbying.

Remember back in the days when you could believe that people in business and government knew what they were doing? The mess in foreclosure documentation is just astounding: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100607227.html?hpid=topnews

...and you live where? Get a grip, if Trent Lott could fuck Benjamin Nicholas and no one cared, why would they care where Boehner gets his stick dipped?

Beck is a joke. The man is so paranoid he can't go anywhere for fear of getting shot. He wears a bullet proof vest in public. His viewership at FOX is down by almost one million people...every night!

The White House denies it, so it must be true. What would Hillary add as vice-president? Would she help get DADT abolished? Personaly I think that Biden is more liberal than she is.

It's not everyday, or even every year, that a singer comes along who interests me. My taste in music seems to have stopped growing when I was about 30. But yesterday, online, and today in the print edition, the NY Times features singer Bruno Mars, 24, and, of course, it was his cute face that got my attention. But then I watched and listened to the video on is website, with the song Just the Way You Are. the graphics are great, and his voice is like butter. Sure, he is singing to a girl, but one can imagine differently. I do it all the time! So, go to www.brunomars.com and take a look for yourself. (Sadly, like Paris Hilton, Bruno got picked up in Vegas recently for cocaine possession. Damn I hate that drug.)

Yes, I guess they did. With Brazil becoming a more affluent society, I hope that education also improves. That's always been good for gays...hasn't it?