MsGuy

Imagine seeing that on your escort!

So who did you dress up as? Enquiring minds & etc.

Nothing finer than a fresh from the ranch Texas twink with a Panhandle accent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEOem7U2LPE

So the story of an arrogrant selfserving heirarchy is to be morphed into the tale of lascivious gays secretly infiltrating the Holy See and betraying the Holy Father. That wily old Whore of Babylon hasn't survived 2,000 years for nothing. Church Blasts Gay Priests Living 'Double Lives' Maybe it's just the anti-Catholic Calvinism of my childhood coming out.

Much as I love you TY, I suspect you could count the number of folks who go to (or avoid) either site because of management on your fingers & toes. If a forum's got that critical mass of regulars to provide good interaction between posters, it takes truly god awful moderators to kill it off and, if it doesn't, no amount of effort is going to breath life into it. ---- Me, I'm committed to hanging around at least until I get to read TY's first person accounts of the night life in Havana. I should live so long! Which is the core function of both sites. Much as I enjoy the forums, from a business POV they are tack-ons, true?

Lucky, can you tell us what occasioned the lockout or are moderators bound by a blood oath of secrecy?

I was just wishing somebody would put up some eye candy!

As have I, Lookin, as have I. I enjoy both sites but, to my taste, Daddy's could do with an occasional bucket of cold water from the moderators. More specifically, if yellow cards were flashed more frequently and consistently, our manners might improve. But, then, I'm not the one doing the work so it's easy for me to kibitz. Then again, I do enjoy a good cat fight too. Consistency 's never been my forte. ---- I'm wondering if the shutdown wasn't for some reason other than a thread meltdown. I visited the board about 90 minutes before the flag went up and there was absolutely nothing going on in the way of a fight. Bupkis. If something blew up, it happened awfully fast. Amen to that. Which reminds me that I've being feeling guilty about not doing my bit to keep things going over here. It ain't TY's fault if we don't post often enough to keep this board lively. It's on our heads that the longest current thread here is about the other site. [confession: when I found the other site closed, I immediately came here to find out what had happened, but I was too embarrassed to make my first post in a while a question about the other site. Glad though others weren't so shy. ]

So what does a moderator really do? Delete; lock; yellow card; red card; bite tongue. It's those "teaching moments" when the moderator has an opportunity to influence the tone of his forum that get tricky. I confess I find forums over-medicated by the moderator often become dull over time. Accepting some hoorah seems to be the price of keeping things lively and fresh.

Although news reports on these two opinions are already all over the place, I found it difficult to find a link to the actual holdings of the court, so I thought I'd post them here for other search engine challenged readers. In PDF format: DOMA memo opinion Gill v. OPM memo opinion

Read this article, came here to post a link but find TY already on the ball. Maybe the medical boffins are finally getting a good hold on this damned virus.

Thought it might be worthwhile to post this link to The Runaway General, the Rolling Stone piece that has occasioned such an uproar lately in D.C.

So, anybody buying that Jason Pfeiffer was the secret love of Michael Jackson's life? Assuming Mr. Pfeiffer was tired of waiting for his 15 minutes of fame, surely he could have manufactured a better story line.

Google is disclosing the frequency of government data demands from various countries, apparently in an effort to draw public attention to the issue. Here is the link to a map of the demands. Google admits the map to be a poor first effort and promises more sophisticated disclosure as it works out better ways to characterize the information. I suspect that they are having to find work arounds to legal restrictions on what they can disclose.

It would be better if Congress would give the courts some guidance on this as it's not at all clear that there's a majority on the Supreme Court right now to extend 4th Amendment protections to online storage and protecting mobile device location logs are a long shot at best (surely you don't want to protect terrorists and drug dealers, do you!!??). You would think that the conceptual case for the 4th Amendment covering on line activities would be a slam dunk. However mid-20th Century Courts did some theorizing about its application that seemed OK at the time but now, if read too literally, opens the door for law enforcement agences to get into all manner foolishness.

"Marriage of convenience is a lie,” he sighs. “But I will spend my entire life to make this lie work.” Not so very different from the lives of many closeted Gays in America. Beats the madness going on now in Africa. Thanks for the post, TY. I read another article on this last week but this one gave much more insight.

Reminds me of the picture that slid past the censors in my high school yearbook. The yearbooks had already arrived and been partially distributed before someone brought the offending pix to the principal's attention. If they had just kept their mouths shut, most people wouldn't have paid any notice. I mean, even in 1966 high school seniors got erections.

It's a pot luck supper, remember? If you don't like my sweet potatoe cassarole, post your own green beans with almonds. That way there's something for everybody. More to your taste?

I'm nostalgic for the threads of yesteryear; you know, the ones with all those pretty pictures. Seems like it's been forever since we had one. I know there's the Brazilian programa threads, but that's not quite the same thing. Let's see if a pot luck supper concept works, a kind of collective effort where everybody brings their favorite hot dish and shares them around. Did you already guess I have a thing for underwear?

Another major resevoir for HIV has been discovered. "Investigators found that the virus can infect certain kinds of bone marrow cells that are the parents ("progenitors") of blood cells." HIV hides out in bone marrow. This is one of those good news/bad news articles: good that researchers ferreted out another of HIV's hideyholes, bad that this resevoir will be particularly difficult to attack.

Please keep up these posts of your adventures in Brazil, OZ. I'm sure your exploration of Sao Paulo will provide us with some wonderful stories. Just be sure to keep in mind a picture is worth a thousand words.

You already have a box to feature new topic posts so exactly what problem are you trying to solve? I would think that folks who aren't interested enough to scroll down the page to see what's new just aren't that interested in the first place. If you think it best to consolidate the forums down to two (which is in effect what you would be doing) what's the point of refiling everything after some set amount of time?

On the other hand, Conway, it ain't over yet by a long shot. New Virginia Gov. & AG busy dismantleing gay antidiscrmination regs. I suppose it's a sign of progress that these two gay-baiting bigots feel it necessary to issue statements that they would never personally discriminate against anyone on the basis of sexual orientation. Good luck to anybody on the AG's staff who decides to come out.

You could always try a pay as you go arrangement. No Rolex, no sex.