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That's awesome, can't wait to download it. Sucks that their servers are too overloaded to get it today!

I love the idea of Burn Notice, but there's something about the smarmy-ness of that actor (especially in voice-over) that gets on my last nerve. **ESPECIALLY** when his voice over is actually a typical USA/NBC infomercial for Hyundai/Toyota/whomever! But Sam, the mother... like them. Fiona needs a sammich though!

My old bank was one of the first to have the insert than pull back out style for all their ATMs. Conditioned me--walked away leaving my card in old-style ATMs a couple times after that. In general I agree it's better to use credit--especially with some kind of reward attached (miles, cash back, etc.) and you get a little better security that way too. But I also use my debit card a lot. Have had fraud once or twice, no big deal and quickly corrected. That may have been because I was *not* with BofA though! Have heard *nothing* good about them. Pretty sure it actually stands for Bunch of Arseholes!

I had a doctor pull something similar on me several years ago. Got a vague letter about her closing up shop, referrals, etc. Though I do think she gave more notice than yours! Never knew the reason or any details. But we have to remember they're people with lives. Could've been anything. Family moving, wanted to volunteer oversees, had to care for a sick relative, etc... Odd thing was she was back in town about a year or so later, so I just started going again like nothing happened. Good luck though. So far my preference is to find a place that functions as a group--the HMO BS where it would take a week or more to see the gatekeeper then a couple weeks to see the referred specialist really pissed me off! But paying extra for PPO and going to a medical group of co-operating doctors where I could walk in anytime worked *a lot better*. And with PPO no gatekeeping general practitioner, need a specialist you make a appt. and go!

Everybody will be required to buy into the same level of crappy for-profit HMO-type BS insurance many/most have now. Other than simple scarcity I don't see how it changes much... Except that I will finally be able to get decent non-cobra individual insurance. And that if I get badly sick the insurance company won't be able to cap me or find some reason to drop me. It *will be nice* to have an alternative to being driven into medical bankruptcy, anyway. Forcing the insurance companies to re-invest at least 80% into patient care may help a little, but at heart it's still going to be the same BS where the "death panels" *do exist* and are a panel of the insurance companies' MBAs and actuaries--exactly as now. But *somehow* that's better than doctors, scientists, civilian and gov't representatives making those same decisions in a *transparent* manner... at least according to the expert opinion of Sarah Palin and the like... Sounds like we agree wholeheartedly that it doesn't do nearly enough! Medicare devotes something like 95% of it's money to patient care (even with much over-hyped fraud), my solution is to make it available to everybody at 20% over cost (over a certain percentage above poverty, reduced below that), allowing private industry a huge margin to *do it better* in! And it's funny, for almost every single person who disparages Medicare somehow it's still good enough for their own parents!

There's something about mugshots, I could stare at a site like this for hours...

I drifted away from the show after seeing a couple episodes this season. Everybody mentions the blood and gore, but I just laugh as I see the "wound" move around on the body as the victim moves (bad VFX). Has there been any steamy gay content?

What's gaydom's considered opinion on Pitbull? He's cute, and it seems like shtick but when he flashes his eyes it gets me every time. But he's usually stuck with crappy auto-tuned rappers and manages to make their shit even less musical by seemingly only being there to say weird things...

Reminds me of this one, always loved it:

I really miss the old Hooboy dinners, but haven't found anything I particularly enjoy doing in WeHo since they stopped. I kind of like the atmosphere at MJ's in Silverlake, but I also miss Spotlight a bit.

The way photos are handled seems a bit problematic... I didn't spend much time trying, but could *not* link to a photo in a thread (used to be able to 'copy image location' than paste in into image popup) nor could I save the picture that opened up in slideshow...

It looks like it'll be pretty amusing and I'm looking forward to it, though it feels like Depp is just playing the same character again and again and again lately. I mean, how many of his movies could the second one have been a poster for? Including Helena Bohnam Carter as co-star?

Oops, hit report instead of quote... So, Gale or Peeta?

I've been pleasantly surprised to find people who find me attractive, but can't imagine how fucked up you'd have to be to be on either side of the 'gainer' fetish... Now that I've lost a lot of weight I'm stuck in between... had one or two people wish I was heavier! Don't suppose excess skin is actually a fetish of a bunch of hot young WeHo clones...?

It's not a matter of people not being able to seek it out, it's a matter of it being worked into curriculums and assemblies in the off chance it gives bullies, or maybe more likely, bystanders, reason to think and maybe act differently.

Should I know who is this is? I didn't just lose my gay card, did I? Whomever he is, I think he's pretty damn cute!

Given the heavily "Twilight girl" part of the audience you'd think so, but it's not really a sexual film at all. Guess that's how you can have children slaughtering children and still get PG-13! FUCKING MPAA.. but anyway, there are two cute guys and every sign of a love triangle with the heroin (personally, while I'd kick neither out of bed, my first choice would be the actor that plays 'Gale' over the on playing 'Peeta'), but there's not much time spent on that and I can't remember seeing as much as I'd like of either... So again, 180 degrees/opposite of Twatlight with its perpetually shirtless werewolf. And if you want your fill of homo-eroticism the choice remains John Carter.

I have still had luck posting on Craigslist (M4M or Casual Encounters) mentioning gen in the ad... But it's hard to believe there's no longer anywhere to go (certainly not in person, but even online), browse available guys and pick one. Sure, Rentboy, but many of those guys are talking appointments, etc...

I just don't see the GoGo boys as anything like the answer to this question... sure maybe if the planets align on just the right night you'll find one who'd exchange numbers for a future meeting (possibly at exorbitant rates...) but as to the question of where to find available working guys in LA, especially of the old SMB/Numbers/Spotlight model is still in great need of exploration! Even online, anybody try Adam4Adam? Heard good things in passing. Gaydar.co.uk had an interesting flexibility in postings from escorts, last I looked, but there weren't many on and it's been a while...?

I am very glad to hear that the assumed worst was not in fact the case!

Happy Birthday Oz! Here, I got you a stripper...

I wonder if poster-boys like Santorum are helping the building anti-Catholic sentiment? Love this protest!

Good ( R )-Money vs Frothy political cartoon:

Maybe if they keep it up Fox News will be a self-correcting problem? Fox News Literally Scares Woman To Death I barely resisted the urge to try to shake some sense into a dipshit going on about Obamacare in the supermarket today. Maybe if I had it'd save his life some day...

Hard to imagine a 'beloved High School Principal'; easy to imagine this happening in Arizona... Cynthia Davis, a respected and beloved principal at Paradise Valley High School, was fired by the school district at a meeting last Thursday that so enraged parents police helicopters were brought in to control the situation. The parents had no idea why the board had voted 5-0 not to renew Davis' contract. Arizona's 12News now believes they know why Davis was fired: On Friday, community member Shelly Hickerson came forward with a letter she had written to the district administration, including Superintendent James Lee, on March 11 praising Davis' work as principal. In the letter, Hickerson says that a governing-board member had "aggressively" questioned Hickerson on whether she approved of the selection of Davis as principal in 2008 and "... told me she was concerned about her (Davis') lifestyle." Hickerson was on the committee that made the recommendation to hire Davis. Hickerson, whose daughter graduated from Paradise Valley High School in 2008, said she never received a reply to her letter. Davis said she learned of the allegation of the "lifestyle" comment on Friday. Davis tells 12News that she is gay, has lived alone since 2005, and has always kept her personal and professional life separate. The school board won't comment on the reasons behind the vote. The district does include sexual orientation in its non-discrimination policy. Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2012/03/beloved-arizona-high-school-principal-appears-to-have-been-fired-for-being-gay-video.html#ixzz1qGz4KVSB