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I just figured it out. Give me a gilded star. Gold is just too expensive. Hitoallusa is not an actual breathing human being, but an electronic roboposter, inhabiting some fascistic cloud. Siri's loco gay uncle as it were. TotallyOz's latest creation. A dazzlingly daft clone of Ed Grimly. Designed to provoke most others on the site into increased posting to prove any point contra to the R Money party line.

Gotti said that I was wrong so I won't add more.

Duckie was awarded best lead comedic for his acting, surviving Charlie Sheen or skill in making Asston's atrociousness bearable?

On the days leading up to the start of Carnaval - for me that Friday - the sauna have many boys coming in for the increased number of clients, both Brasilian and tourist, as wells as the much greater amount of money being spent. From that Friday on, I, and I assume many others, are too busy with blocos and bandas and the desfiles in the sambodromo to head to a sauna. So on that I have not much more of a clue. If memory serves me, back in 2005/2006, 117 was really busy. But memory can be more than foggy at times, and/or soggy with sweat and cerveja.

Me.

Can anyone make this stuff up? Mitt Romney appeared on Univision Wednesday alongside Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas, but something was a little peculiar about his appearance -- his skin tone. Looking back at the hundreds of photos logging his every moment on the campaign trail, the Republican presidential nominee is usually not so shockingly tan. While his orangey-brown appearance on Univision could have been the result of bad lighting or a makeup mishap, left-wing blog the Democratic Underground concluded that Romney "dyed his face brown for his Univision interview." The claim is not completely out of the ballpark. After all, as Gawker points out, Romney did say "it would be helpful to be Latino," in a video secretly recorded at a campaign fundraiser earlier this year. Appearing at a campaign fundraiser in Atlanta, Georgia, before his Univision interview, Romney showed a bit more color, but nowhere near the amount of bronze as seen on stage at the 6:30 p.m. ET filming. If Romney did indeed alter his skin tone, it was likely done in the past few days. Three days earlier, on Sunday, Sept. 16, Romney appeared much paler when he landed in Missouri. From left to right: Romney steps off his campaign charter plane on Sept. 16; Romney is introduced at a campaign fundraiser earlier in the day on Sept. 19; Romney speaks on stage during a Univision interview later in the evening on Sept. 19. (All photos courtesy of AP) And on Monday, Sept. 17, when Romney addressed Los Angeles' Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, his face was a bit redder than usual. With his bustling campaign schedule, Romney spending enough time outside to develop a natural tan of that color within the time frame is doubtful -- making it even more possible that he somehow altered his skin tone as Democratic Underground suggests. Though the intentions behind this plausible move are a mystery, some have ventured to make a guess, speculating that Romney's "brownface" is an attempt to appeal to Latino voters -- a voting bloc Romney desperately needs if he hopes to win the election. Romney is currently trailing nearly 40 points behind Obama in Latino support.

There seems something inherently wrong when one candidate is backed/funded by the Koch brothers and their assorted companies to the tune of 400 million dollars. Yep. That is what I heard. 400 Simoleons. And Hitooallusa, let me give you a piece of unsolicited advice, beware of the guy who tells you it is raining when the inside of your boot feels wet. More likely than not, he's been pissing in it. Just like the 2011 returns. He purposely did not take the full deductions for his tithe to the Mormon church. Otherwise putting a lie to his 13 percent claims. Or it would have been around 9 percent. After the election, he can go back, and most likely will, amend them. Can you imagine what one would find in his other years that he won't release? How is it that the stated "greatest country on earth" has reached this level that this type of candidate can be running so strong against an incumbent president who has avoided letting us fall into a full depression, saved the auto industry, enacted real health care law, ended the war in Iraq, abolished don't act/don't tell, stopped enforcement of DOMA, reformed the student loan mess, Kagen and Sotomayor. Dream Act. Killed Qaddafi and Bin Laden.

Many, or maybe most, American don't love and respect Mittens. Nominally R MONEY that he was able to abscond with while legally destroying and bankrupting many businesses. We FEAR him and his financial supporters. Starting with the Koch brothers.

117 was not so great last Saturday night from the report that I got. Also, keep in mind that ends of the month will almost always see less boys in the saunas as there will be less local clients with money left to spend. Tourists are another matter but I'm not sure how many how traveling here at the moment. The weather has been great. Go to the beach that Saturday in Ipa and you might get lucky. It is quite inexpensive to send guys beers that interest you. Start the day at Cafeina and sit at a sidewalk table. After the beach, head to To Nem Ai. Ditto. Nothing happens, grab the metro over one street at the end of Texeira de Melo and get off at Gloria. 117 is only steps away. Next Wednesday is a huge show at Meio Mundo with Jorge's return. If I go, I'll post if they have anything on that Saturday. Meio Mundo usually has a nice crowd when they have special shows/parties.

Sorry for spouting off. But that video from Boca really got to me. The cocky attitude. Beside what he was saying. Joking about "if only I was Latino." It brought back to life for me all of the worst excesses of the period portrayed in Tom Wolfe's Bonfire Of The Vanities.

I am becoming a polling junky. I continue to keep on looking at the NYTimes 538, HuffPost and WaPost as antidote to whatever fantasy numbers Rassymusn't is pulling out of Karl Rove's fat tush. Err, can I say a_s on here? I can only imagine what is going on with the campaigns' polling operations, besides what all of the other polls are producing. Hey, can anyone on actually pronounce the QuininePenisAct one, or something, whatever is the spelling of that poll? In any event, I can only imagine that the back office operationsin Boston must be the theater of the absurd, in real time. Better than any show on TV. Except for Glee and Good Wife. Oh, and Real Time, of course. For some reason I keep on getting the bridge scene from the film Titanic stuck in my thoughts. I have this sinking feeling... I suppose that Willard wishes that this past week's three owies could be as forgetten as the previously ignored requests to see his ten year's worth of mystery returns, info on the Caymen Islands/Swiss bank accounts and of course, polygamous, great grandpappy. Yep. His ancestor fled to Mex-EE-Co so he could live that sister wife dream. Finally, did Mittens muddy his Magic Panties when he first saw the leaked excerpts from the 50K/plate Boca trip?

Maureen Dowd is just not the same. She is a touch too strident. Interesting. Gets right in there. But no sense of the irony in a situation.

As a balance to right-wing, always seeing the bright side, Peggy Noonan, I could really use a dose of Molly Ivans, right about now. She was always good for a smile and a laugh, God rest her soul.

Less than 1/2 a block from Meio Mundo, on the Praca Pio X, opposte Candelaria Church, there is a Banco de Brasil ATM where you can take out money from a US account. Very, very safe. And on the next street over in the other direction from Meio Mundo, on the Rua Barao de Inhauma, is an HSBC, much less well-guarded, outside of normal banking hours, where funds can be withdrawn. About 1/4 block past it at, at the corner with the Avenida Rio Branco, is a travel agency, where upstairs the change money as a very close buy/sell. And they have private rooms where you can count your money, if you are at all worried. If you really want to pay the boys there in US funds, it would be impossible for them to use the money that night unless the likely lost out on an exchange with someone else. However, if they work at Meio Mundo they could change it easily the next day before heading back into the sauna.

Drink at least a half-gallon of ice water, a couple of mixed salads each day, unlimited egg whites and you'll be back in no time.

Sometimes I cannot believe what I am reading. It is hard for me to assemble my outrage at what is being attempted by the some very wealthy Republican contributors. I keep on waiting for the newest polling numbers to be released. This op-ed by Jonathan Chait in New York Magazine kind of summarizes the May R Money tape Something in here, paraphrasing Forrest Gump, about evil is as evil says: Presidential campaigns wallow so tediously in pseudo-events and manufactured outrage that our senses can be numbed to the appearance of something genuinely momentous. Mitt Romney’s secretly recorded comments at a fund-raiser are such an event — they reveal something vital about Romney, and they disqualify his claim to the presidency. To think of Romney’s leaked discourse as a “gaffe” grossly misdescribes its importance. Indeed the comments’ direct impact on the outcome of the election will probably be small. Romney repeated the wildly misleading but increasingly popular conservative talking point that 47 percent of Americans pay no income taxes. The federal income tax is, by design, one of the most progressive elements of the American tax system, but well over 80 percent of non-retired adults pay federal taxes. But most people hear “income taxes” and think “taxes,” which is why the trick of using one phrase to make audiences think of the other is a standard GOP trick when discussing taxes. For that very reason, it won’t strike many voters as an insult: Most people who don’t pay income taxes do pay other taxes, and fail to distinguish between them, and thus don’t consider themselves among the 47 percent scorned by Romney. Instead the video exposes an authentic Romney as a far more sinister character than I had imagined. Here is the sneering plutocrat, fully in thrall to a series of pernicious myths that are at the heart of the mania that has seized his party. He believes that market incomes in the United States are a perfect reflection of merit. Far from seeing his own privileged upbringing as the private-school educated son of an auto executive-turned-governor as an obvious refutation of that belief, Romney cites his own life, preposterously, as a confirmation of it. (“I have inherited nothing. Everything I earned I earned the old fashioned way.”) It is possible to cling to some version of this dogma and still believe, or to convince yourself, that cutting taxes for the rich or reducing benefits for the poor will eventually help the latter, by teaching them personal responsibility or freeing up Job Creators to favor them with opportunity. Instead Romney regards them as something akin to a permanent enemy class — “I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.” Romney explained to reporters tonight that his remarks were not "elegantly stated," but did not repudiate them as his true beliefs. In fact, it was quite eloquently stated. The Romney speaking to fund-raisers was not the halting, smarmy figure so frequently on public display but an eloquent and passionate orator. He had no reason to believe his donors needed to hear him denounce the poor — they would have been perfectly satisfied with a bromide about how cutting taxes on the rich will create opportunity for one and all. Instead he put himself forward as the hopeful president of the top half of America against the bottom. Some pundits have likened Romney’s comments to Barack Obama’s 2008 monologue, also secretly recorded at a fund-raiser, about his difficulties with white working class voters in rural Pennsylvania. But the spirit of Obama’s remarks was precisely the opposite of Romney’s. While Obama couched his beliefs in condescending sociological analysis about how poor small town residents vote on the basis of guns and religion rather than economics, the thrust of Obama’s argument was that he believed his policies would help them, and to urge his supporters to make common cause with them: But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there's not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it's not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. Um, now these are in some communities, you know. I think what you'll find is, is that people of every background — there are gonna be a mix of people, you can go in the toughest neighborhoods, you know working-class lunch-pail folks, you'll find Obama enthusiasts. And you can go into places where you think I'd be very strong and people will just be skeptical. The important thing is that you show up and you're doing what you're doing. Obama was aspiring to become president of all of America, even that part most hostile to him, in the belief that what they shared mattered more than what divided them. Romney genuinely seems to conceive of the lowest-earning half of the population as implacably hostile parasites. The revelations in this video come to me as a genuine shock. I have never hated Romney. I presumed his ideological makeover since he set out to run for president was largely phony, even if he was now committed to carry through with it, and to whatever extent he’d come to believe his own lines, he was oblivious or naïve about the damage he would inflict upon the poor, sick, and vulnerable. It seems unavoidable now to conclude that Romney’s embrace of Paul Ryanism is born of actual contempt for the looters and moochers, a class war on behalf of his own class.

Who says something like this in response to an f-up? Is this one of the first of many aftershocks as the R Money campaign implodes? His defense includes the request to view the entire tape of which Mother Jones has so far released just a few segments. Although I much prefer a delicious blowfront, I am waiting and watching for future blowback. And here is the story of the Eastwooding and Romney acceptance speeches: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81280.html

This week's NY Times and Wash Post had some interesting Op-Ed pieces. Besides the strong stuff from Maureen Dowd. However, with the release of the new tapes with Romney "unchained", I think that the Republican campaign has, more or less, blown itself to smithereens. If the media chooses to cover it. The debates might be interesting to watch. As far as the polls go for the next week, who knows?

Although I have my satisfying and cheaper "sure thing" by me, as I had to go to my banks yesterday, decided to head over to Meio Mundo after having anothing craving satisfied, fairly good sushi. Raw fish as opposed to the Pussy Riot kind, as it were. Anyway. got there at about 5PM. Not alot of boys. About the same number of clients. 15 or so of each. But around 5:30 or so, lots of boys started arriving. A few left after a programa. Another wave arrived about 7:30-8:00. Karina Karao had a show with her own buys dancing. Maybe that was why? Also, last night was the first time with Tuesday having the house closed. Acyr is supposedly not sure what the results will be. For better or worse. The kitchen is now closed. Only warmed-over pizzas. Not even fresh popcorn. Just the over-priced(5Reais)chips in bags. Sorry that I'm being cheap here, but the same bag my local markets sells for 1Real. Finally hot shows upstairs and downstairs. Still broken soap dispensers all over. Not a clue why 117 doesn't have these problems and Meio Mundo does. On the 26th, Jorge returns from his extended trip. They are having an enormous flashback show. Most likely I won't bother returning before then. Mondays and Fridays are now the night to visit there. Wednesday not too bad, but it seems the guys are arriving later and later.

I was in the US and saw the trials during June and the beginning of July. Really a disappointment to find out that the Animator got so far.

My ex-lover, a part-time Funk DJ here and full-time LPN, sent me an e-mail that he will be "spinning"(?) (Does one still spin records when everything is digitized?) this Sunday after the Campo Grande(RJ and not MS - Mato Gross do Sul) gay pride parade. Rio de Janeiro's Gay Pride Parade is on November 18th, for those planning on cumming, by the way. This weekend is quite busy with today, September 7th, being Independence Day. Here where I am we are having a live show with one of my absolute favorites singing, Gustavo Lins. Here is his site if you want a listen. http://www.gustavolins.com.br/ Then Sunday, one of the Parades. Lots of the smaller cities here in the metropolitan region are having parades, by the way. If anyone read this far, wish me some congratulations. Here we say PARABENS! I am now an avo or grandfather. My bitch whelped 8 puppies late in the afternoon yesterday. Two(#'s 5 & 6) came out simultaneously. The whole process from 1-9 took about 5 hours. Number 3 popped out not totally developed sadly. My girl tried to eat it. Just like what people say. I am definitely sleep-deprived and in fact, needed to double-up on my heart medications last night. Quite interesting, all-in-all.

I went back to Meio Mundo tonight. Against my better instincts. Got there at 5PM. A nice number of clients and double the number of garotos. Only reason I went is that I had a date set up with the tall half-Egyptian, Ricardo. Of course, this being Rio, he didn't show. And as I predicted, the terrible soap dispensers in 2 of the 3 downstairs showers were all broken. No soap. At least the showers upstaris had some. The sauna door still isn't installed correctly and someone outside has to close it for whoever is inside. Ditto on the steam door not closing. I have to say that there were a lot of new guys there tonight. Lots and lots of them. It was like when all of the new toys for the winter holidays all were stocked on the same day. YUMMY. A buffet of tasties. I went with one up to one of the pay rooms. New paint, new lighting, carpeting ripped out. I suppose new being installed soon. Entertainment was by Desiree and she had her own dance troop. So Jorge and the others were just working tonight. Other big news and caused me to blink twice and repeat out loud what I couldn'y believe what I was reading - THEY ARE CLOSED ON TUESDAYS. I suppose they just cannot compete with the free suites Tuesdays at both Clube 117 and Pointe 202. Also tonight, the kitchen was closed. No plates of food and no freshlt-popped popcorn. Just the medium-sized bags of chips. Some of the old stand-bys like the two Mineiros, Eduardo and Junior, weren't even there. The youngsters must be trying the trampoline effect. One in particular was a Leao/Leandro with a wonderful, nonsteroidal body, cut but not vascular, beautiful smooth skin and the type of thick, thick dick that would choke a double-jointed sword swallower. I don't have that type of breath control or a jaw that I can dislocate on command to do that monster justice. However, my friend did. He got an extra-large load down his throat. He didn't need to eat any supper with all of the protein he ingested.

Very interesting report by Reuters on the progress(or lack-of) and problems facing Brasil for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, combined with the general infrastructure investments currently occuring in this fascinating country. As a sideline to the story, about 18 months ago, I had read a story concerning the stadia problems in many of the cities here in Brasil. There were predictions then of severe problems. They still exist. I just went past the Maracana this past week. Lots and lots still to be done. But as as to the reformation, they are even running HVAC ductwork under the newly-poured bleachers. Two weeks before Carnaval, the Sambodoromo looked like a mess, the skyboxes/camarotes were still under construction, forgetting the interior finishes. Anyway, everything was done by the Friday of Carnaval and the Parade of Mirins. Brasil is great at poring concrete. And the folks in Rio are great and getting 2-3 million partiers off of the beach in Copacabana every January 1st. So....it might still be possible that things work out. Here's the link: http://news.yahoo.com/brazils-olympics-fine-world-cup-182644966--oly.html

Just anounced today that the minimum wage has been adjusted upward for the start of 2013 by 7.9% and the official increase in prices due to inflation has been stated as 4.5% Living here day to day, some prices have gone up, some have gone down. All various amounts. For example, to bumpr the economy a bit, the government has ended the IPE tax on domestic electrical products. Many electronics products have had price cuts. Ditto stoves, fridges, etc. As to the sauna boys, last week at 117, most wanted 70/80, the one I went with only wanted 60, two others I chatted up were at the 100level and my friend/roommate when with a longtime regular of his and got the standard price from five plus years ago of 50. Maybe I am like a broken record but they all are trying to get 50 Reais in their pockets as earnings after expenses for roundtrip travel and their discounted entry, so more or less 70.00. And instead of buying them an expensive plate of food and drink inside, you might decide to give them 5Reais for a couple salgadinhos and a refrigerante(the meat-filled, fried dough savories and a soda.)

Very cute. I was up to the top with a visitor in February and there was no work going on. I was interested to know what was up. For anyone visiting now, they have a new transit system. Gone are the days of private taxis all the way to the top. One must either take the funicular all of the way to the top - often with long waits - and more costly or else a minibus and then a different bus combined with an entry ticket for the last bit to the top. If anyone is 65 or over, the entry and bus are free. Not sure about the railway.