Lucky

The cop who killed himself was from San Francisco, not Seattle. San Francisco cops don't waste much time on prostitution stings, although street prostitution is often curbed. TheTimes story on corruption in Las Vegas judges was absolutely astounding. It makes you wonder about the entire state as a cesspool.

Conway, why do you keep calling Haggard "Chuck?" His name is Ted. Big K- I know harm when I see it. I am tired of clerics who tell developing young minds that homosexuality is sinful while they themselves are frolicking in the twolips. It screws up young gay kids and encourages others to become bigots and fagbashers. But I guess you think that is better than outing someone who preaches that shit.

I find BigK's remark quite insulting. It makes me wonder if the guys most against outing are themselves in the closet. As someone who is out of the closet, and was very active in helping move gay presence forward, I resent those who do nothing but hide their sexuality all the time taking advantage of the progress that the out guys have created for them. It is not hypocritical to out people whose internal homophobia is damaging to our community, people like Haggard who actively worked against gay rights and poisoned the minds of young people dealing with their sexuality. I agree with everyone else that coming out is up to the individual to do when he is ready. I also agree that it is okay to own a gun. But if you are going to use that gun to hurt someone, then I will tell people that you have one. Haggard and his ilk are taking guns to young minds and causing immeasurable harm.

Hey Corny...I mean, Cory...So I got out the popcorn and pulled up a chair...the popcorn went stale and the chair got spiderwebs. At least no news is good news! http://www.taquitos.net/dbimages13/Poppers-J.jpg

Snatched right in front of our eyes, Ben's pic of Jason Rylee no longer available here. And in a thread promoting Ben's blog. The ingratitude of it all! And, Adam, as for Cesare Mancini, I found him to be a real flake.

I borrowed this from Ben's blog. I hope he doesn't red x it... Jason Rylee: http://www.benjaminnicholas.com/JasonRylee.jpg

...or say goodbye.

You do get around. Which escort are you going to surprise next? http://weizsaecker.bawue.spd.de/download/i...20Smith%20e.jpg BTW: I want pix of Jason!!! BTW: I want one certain pic of AAndre...Christmas is coming!

Isn't Ginger a former actress? I should see about getting a street named after her here in Palm Springs. I hope you both have fun in Rio. Play safely, and remember, smoking is bad for you!

I see you are trying to slide by with saying that you are only one review behind, Adam. tsk tsk. I don't see your review of Ben/LA. Were you really able to knock funseeker aside for a few hours to get to know Ben?

He needs a good barber. You'd think living in San Francisco he could find a better hairstylist! Bring him to Raleigh and I'll bet butch Andre could set him straight. Isn't talking about boys better than talking about Rico?

Adam, did you notice that you are post #13 in this thread? Doesn't that help explain why Rico was banned in Boston? Boston has long banned dangerous individuals. I'll bet Vegas wishes they had the same policy! BTW, is it true that you are planning a big New Year's Eve party with Andre, Trey, Denverlatin, and Jason Rylee? I could come help if you needed it!

What is ironic, tl, is how few people actually seem to care about what happened to Rico, who thought he was so popular. As for me, well, I did cost him that office pool! Others who disappeared from posting about the same time were jackhammer, bugguyfrompasadena, and Boston Guy. Coincidence? Jackhammer has reappeared, so he is off the hook, but what about the other "guys?" We heard about the Vegas arrests, where Four Aces lived and bigguy visits often. Maybe they are both in the clink? As for Boston Guy, no, he couldn't have been Rico. Rico was banned in Boston!

No one was asking you to discuss Rico on Fifteen Minutes, Ben. I was just curious to see what this good info you had on him was. You could post it right here! Obviously, Rico didn't die in jail... BTW, your new post on the blog has great eye candy. Good job!

The blog world sure is getting dull. I have even thought of starting my own, as Cory's lackluster attempt to succeed Rico has been laughable, Scott hardly ever blogs, Ben is every couple of weeks on ever changing weblinks, Four Aces hasn't posted on 4Rockets since July. BTW, whatever happened to Four Aces? He disappeared at the same time that Rico went to jail, IF he went to jail. Ben has evidence, so he says, that Rico is sitting pretty. I know Ben was a big fan of Rico's, but he hasn't shared his "good evidence" with us. And I have seen something that means Rico is out of jail...IF it is our very same Rico. (Let's hope not, cuz the outcome wasn't good), but I do know that Rico once posted this: June 22, 2006 An Agent Amongst Us? The Hooville Village News staff has been investigating a tip we received that their just might be an FBI agent posing as one of us. We've learned that there is definitely some weight to this tip and will fill the Hooville Village News readers in with more detail as we confirm the facts. Stay tuned this is gonna be a shocker. posted by Rico at 12:53 PM Some weight to it? And then shortly thereafter Four Aces discontinued his blog! How could Rico know that there was a an FBI snitch, unless??? On the other hand, one source tells me that Rico is in jail on a parole violation, so who knows if this is our Rico: FBI Snitch Accused of Murder Dies Awaiting Trial Inmates and Prisons Posted on Nov 7, 2006 at 01:39:00 PM EST This is very sad. A 48 year old former FBI snitch recently charged in a 20 plus year old murder case died while awaiting a psychological evaluation by the court to see if he was fit to stand trial. The former FBI snitch, who was accused of helping former mob informants arrange the murder of a Tulsa businessman, died a week after he was extradited to Oklahoma to face charges, a hospital spokeswoman said Saturday. Rico, 48, died late Friday, a few hours after a Tulsa County judge put the murder case on hold pending a psychological evaluation to determine if Rico was competent to stand trial. His family said he had congestive heart failure and had lost 53 pounds since his arrest Oct. 9 in Florida, where he had been living. ....During his arraignment Wednesday, conducted by video feed from the Tulsa County jail, Rico sat in a wheelchair and occasionally moaned but said nothing. His attorney at one point interrupted the judge, saying: "I am telling you this man is sick, extremely sick." He requested an emergency medical furlough, saying his client was ailing and needed help; the judge ordered the psychological evaluation. The lawyer said during that hearing that Rico, who had a pacemaker, was disoriented after being beaten Oct. 15 by an unknown assailant in the Miami-Dade County Jail, but that he had recovered his mental competency and "wants a jury trial to clear his name." Prosecutors offered this handy excuse: Tulsa County prosecutors had questioned the assault allegation, saying an improper dose of medication may have been responsible for bruising on Rico's body. Why wasn't Rico put on house arrest instead of kept in the Tulsa County jail? He's 48 years old and 450 pounds. Where was he going to run? Who was he going to hurt if he hadn't been charged with a crime in the 22 years since the murder? As to the murder with which he was charged, the details are: Rico was accused of helping arrange the 1981 murder of Tulsa businessman Roger Wheeler, chairman of Telex Corp. and owner of World Jai Alai in Florida, where Rico worked as security chief after leaving the FBI informers group. Members of Boston's Winter Hill Gang had been informants for Rico when he was an FBI snitch in Boston. Murder charges were filed in March 2001 in Tulsa County against Winter Hill Gang members James "Whitey" Bulger, Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi and John Martorano. Martorano pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 15-year prison term for carrying out the hit on Wheeler. Flemmi pleaded guilty in October to racketeering charges related to 10 murders, including Wheeler's, and awaits sentencing Jan. 27. Bulger remains at large since being tipped off to a pending indictment in 1995.

"Bottom line: Temper the information you reveal with the discretion you need or desire." But what about the tops?

You'll think twice about carrying your laptop on board after you read Joe Sharkey's excellent column in today's NY Times. Does your escort carry a laptop? On the Road To Do List: Rename Laptop Files ‘Grandma’s Favorite Recipes’ by JOE SHARKEY Published: November 7, 2006 A COUPLE of weeks ago, I wrote a column that reported two basic things about traveling abroad and back with a laptop that has sensitive business or personal information. One is that anecdotal evidence indicates a growing number of laptops are being randomly and legally scrutinized, and some are even being seized without a reason given by customs agents when travelers return to the United States. And two, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, a worldwide trade group representing corporate travel managers, is worried about how much proprietary corporate information may be at risk, and how companies can re-evaluate policies. Association members are worried about what happens to sensitive data “if their computer with business information is seized,” Susan Gurley, the executive director of the group, wrote in a letter yesterday to officials at the Department of Homeland Security. She asked to know what the specific policies were. “Are copies made of the information?” she asked. “What safeguards do you have in place? Is the information destroyed? Is the downloaded and/or mirrored information stored somewhere and if yes, for how long? Who has access to it?” As I said in the previous column, the travel managers’ group recently surveyed its 2,500 members and found that nearly 90 percent had no idea that customs and border agents have the legal authority to scrutinize contents of laptops randomly and even confiscate the laptops for an unspecified period of time, without invoking probable cause. Last Friday, on behalf of a corporate client, the law firm of Arent Fox filed a Freedom of Information request with the Department of Homeland Security seeking all information related to “searches, forensic searches, temporary or permanent seizures and/or confiscations” of laptops at airports or other border crossings. The law firm also requested information about how many of these searches or seizures have been conducted randomly. From what I can piece together, there are not a lot of laptops being seized, but travelers tell me that they see a lot more being opened, turned on and briefly scrutinized, evidently at random. One e-mail correspondent told me that at Dulles International Airport several months ago as he returned from a business trip to Europe his laptop was seized in what he said he was told was a random search. “After giving me and my shoes a thorough search, they moved on to my laptop,” he wrote. “On the desktop I had a folder named ‘Blueprints’ which contained, as labeled, blueprints for several potential designs for our company’s expansion in Madrid and Houston.” He added, “My laptop was initially searched by one person, but he called for backup” when he saw the blueprints. “It seemed they were convinced I was sent to plant bombs in those nonexistent buildings.” He said he hasn’t seen the laptop since. Eddie Baron, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Oklahoma, suggested that a “simple solution to the possible confiscation of a laptop is subterfuge.” He said that all data should be kept on a flash drive “that goes in your checked luggage or is Fedexed back and forth.” Other readers had other ways to avoid losing, or losing access to, important data, and we’ll look at some of them later as this issue gains traction among business travelers. Personally, this all gives me some pause, even though there is nothing on my laptop that would have any conceivable value to anyone but me (O.K., maybe my long file marked “Cheryl Tiegs interview notes” is worth something on eBay). But it is possible to convey mistaken impressions. For example, after I was on a plane involved in a midair collision in Brazil on Sept. 29, I had understandable professional, not to mention personal, curiosity about the cause of it, and had a file on my laptop called, “Mid-Air Collision: Cause.” Returning through customs at Kennedy International Airport three days later, it did not occur to me that this file, had it been examined by a suspicious federal inspector, might have raised alarm, especially if the word “Cause” had been deemed to be an imperative. “Hey, that’s nothing. I got a file on my desktop called “Terrorist Notes,” said Jack Riepe, a spokesman for the travel executives’ organization. “I’m keeping notes on writing a thriller, but maybe I should change the file to “Grandma’s Favorite Cookie Recipes.” I told Mr. Riepe he should certainly do that before his next international trip, but that won’t buy him total safety, as even a Google inquiry will turn up the fact that he is the author of a 1999 book called “Politically Correct Cigar Smoking for Social Terrorists.” “You’ll like the weather in Guantánamo,” I assured him. “Can I take my motorcycle?” he asked. “No.”

Well, I guess the votes are in. I can have this guy all to myself. I hope his butt is shaved!

Very clever, TY. Management has adjusted my membership here so that I cannot view the threads of the 8795 guys posting here today for the first time. Dang you! But I do appreciate KY's support, and will as a result go vote.

I am not in the least bit worried about it. I can't see where our discussion here about outing will activate the donut crowd to do anything. Assuming that it did, and an escort was busted, do you really think that the cops would then seize his computer to get info on his clients? If so, then Big Brother has arrived ahead of schedule. Cheney wasn't planning to do that until late 2007! The most they would learn about me is that I am a gay man who likes smooth, fit young guys, over 18, (really over 22) preferably Latin or Asian. Tell the world, I don't care! For the record, I do not support outing of customers or escorts. This is a business that can be conducted with discretion. However, I do agree with the outing of Ted Haggard given his active opposition to gay rights and his continued efforts to fuck up the minds of young gays who are told that they are evil sinners when in reality they are just as good in the eyes of God as anyone else. As one who was raised to believe that sex itself was sinful, only to find out that the priests who preached that were themselves horny little buggers diddling boys themselves, I can only only hold great contempt for them.

Hmmm, suddenly we are up to 8800 members. Prophetic? Or did someone stuff the box?

TY, you are obviously unaware of the 32 secret memberships that totallyoz granted "in pectore." These members are kept secret because they would be subject to persecution in their homelands if the membership became known.

A word to the wise: On Tuesday, all 8800 members here will be posting, so it is important that the five regular posters get their remarks in early so as to avoid the wait.

Then there's Ricky Ullman, who plays Phil of the Future on Disney and was in the LA producction of Dead End Kids. http://img25.exs.cx/img25/2892/tc15he.jpg