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When you use the "elephant" button in a browser, it copies that entire page. You can then delete the ads and it won't upload them or do as I do and use your mouse to highlight the text you want and then press the "elephant" button and only that text goes into Evernote. It does take a bit to get use to but for me, I find the archival system fantastic!

The Usual Suspects. One of the best movies ever !

How easy would it be for me to get citizenship there? This is devastating news!

I have seen people use this in Thailand and LA and Vegas with great success. Not having a pay for play area, it was not easy for me to find what I was looking for unless it was late at night and my bedtime is 11:00PM.

Update: I am still using this program daily. IMHO, it is one of the best programs, resources on the Internet.

Can someone explain what Moo Baan means?

I totally agree with you here. I comment to the BF all the time when we go out, there are tons of Thais spending money. Yesterday we were at Central World to go to the movie. We ate at a nice place there and cost was around 500 baht per person at least. The place was full of all Thais. We were shopping after the movie in Central and Thais were purchasing very expensive items. I have also noticed the way the younger Thais dress. They know designers and fashion. This is not the wealthy or the poor, IMHO, this is the rise of the middle class Thais. My fitness center costs 20k baht to join and then 2k baht per month. It is filled with Thais and they are always getting personal training sessions at 1k baht an hour. There is a great deal of money in Thailand that is being spent by those not in the upper or lower class. I think Khun Kjun is right on the mark with his assessment.

There has been a lot in the papers recently after a famous newscaster from MSNBC was suspended for a bit for calling one gal a slut. That brought up many reactions from all over the nation. However, is that something to be suspended for? Fired for? http://www.salon.com/life/sex/index.html?story=%2Fmwt%2Ffeature%2F2011%2F05%2F28%2Fslut

He is still sexy after all these years. A childhood crush on him, then an adult crush on him and now a middle age man crush on him.

Personally, I agree with Lucky's assessment.

How does this accidentally happen? LOL but, I did read the story and it said his left buttock was pierced by the hose. I assume this to mean it went through his pants and in his skin. In any case, I am glad the man is alive and well. I do get a sinking suspicion that this will end up on CSI in one venue or another!

Me too. I took a trip several years ago on Carnival and had one of NYC's finest escorts with me. He fell for a worker on the ship and we had him to our cabin a few times. His boss got upset (as it was also his boyfriend) and he put him working double shifts the rest of the cruise and watching him when he wasn't working. I have one friend who gets more action on cruise ships than anywhere on earth. He loves it and says all the guys there are horny and available. You just have to be careful not to get them in trouble if they get caught in your room.

Isn't it illegal in several US States as well? It just isn't enforced.

Curious, is Baby Chicken same as someone saying Baby Mama?

lurker, are you lookin?

Is that from the Devil's Advocate?

OK. I need another clue.

That one reminds me of Hee Haw. "I ain't one for spreading rumors. So, you better sit tight and listen close the first time."

I totally agree with you Martelly. I feel the same way as you do. I don't understand why more bars that have shows don't put more effort into them. I did go see Wild West show several times a few months back and it was the best thing in Pattaya. If you get a chance, drop by the bar and see the show. It is usually fun and entertaining and I didn't see the same thing night after night. I doubt the bar owners will care much about changing their shows. Why? Like Gaybutton, it is one of those things I simply don't get. It is not for lack of talent in Pattaya. Pattaya has the talent to support a great show.

Obsessions is a lot of fun! The boys I took last night had a great deal of fun and laughs. The ladyboys there are not shy. I had at least 5 come over to talk to me and show me on their cell phone a pic of their cock. They would say: "I have big cock and can fuck you. Your boy can fuck me. I can do everything." No one was insulted when we said we didn't want to buy them a drink or did not want them to sit with us. They would move on to the next chap. And, you are right FH, the prices are crazy cheap for so much entertainment.

From my understanding here, this case is about linking to a source. There is a big difference is breaking the law by writing bad things that can't be written and just linking to a place that does.

It has been a while since my review of this area but I was there again last night. Having been to the gay bars on Soi Twilight several times in the past few weeks and with hardly no customers, I was expecting the same in Nana. That was not the case. The bars were full and people were having fun and laughing and spending money. The difference IMHO is the cost. We had 3 beers in Obsessions and the cost was under 300 baht for all three. This means I am very comfortable buying a gogo dancer drinks. If we had the same drinks at one of the bars on Soi Twilight, it would have been 900 baht. So, Nana bars were full with customers (we went to both ladyboy bars and girl bars) and the bars on Soi Twilight are not as busy. The cost is 3 times higher in the gay bar area. I wonder if any relationship can be drawn?

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, declaring that “near-equality is no equality” for gay couples, delivered an uncharacteristically forceful and sweeping speech on Thursday in which he called on New York to “lead the American journey forward” by legalizing same-sex marriage this year. Directly addressing an issue that is roiling the State Legislature in the final weeks of its annual session, Mr. Bloomberg said that the state’s inaction on same-sex marriage was incompatible with its long history of promoting freedom and tolerance. He invoked the riot at the Stonewall Inn in the West Village almost 42 years ago, widely viewed as the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement, as an example of the role that New Yorkers can play in shaping history. “We are the freest city in the freest country in the world — but freedom is not frozen in time,” he told a crowd of about 200 at the Cooper Union in downtown Manhattan. Mr. Bloomberg has no direct control over state legislation, but he wields influence as a generous campaign donor, especially to Republicans, and his decision to repeatedly weigh in on the marriage debate this year suggests that the issue has become a priority for him. Even as same-sex marriage has become a popular cause for elected officials and celebrities in New York, Mr. Bloomberg has emerged as a particularly important advocate given his visibility, wealth and longtime support for conservative politicians. Last week he went to Albany to lobby Republican senators, and on Wednesday he hosted a star-studded fund-raiser for gay rights advocates at the Upper East Side headquarters of his foundation. For the full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/nyregion/mayor-bloomberg-states-case-for-same-sex-marriage.html?_r=1&hpw

May 25, 2011 Letter to Arne Duncan A letter from David Reber, who teaches high school biology in Lawrence KS Mr. Duncan, I read your Teacher Appreciation Week letter to teachers, and had at first decided not to respond. Upon further thought, I realized I do have a few things to say. I'll begin with a small sample of relevant adjectives just to get them out of the way: condescending, arrogant, insulting, misleading, patronizing, egotistic, supercilious, haughty, insolent, peremptory, cavalier, imperious, conceited, contemptuous, pompous, audacious, brazen, insincere, superficial, contrived, garish, hollow, pedantic, shallow, swindling, boorish, predictable, duplicitous, pitchy, obtuse, banal, scheming, hackneyed, and quotidian. Again, it's just a small sample; but since your attention to teacher input is minimal, I wanted to put a lot into the first paragraph. Your lead sentence, "I have worked in education for much of my life", immediately establishes your tone of condescension; for your 20-year "education" career lacks even one day as a classroom teacher. You, Mr. Duncan, are the poster-child for the prevailing attitude in corporate-style education reform: that the number one prerequisite for educational expertise is never having been a teacher. Your stated goal is that teachers be "...treated with the dignity we award to other professionals n society." Really? How many other professionals are the last ones consulted about their own profession; and are then summarily ignored when policy decisions are made? How many other professionals are so distrusted that sweeping federal legislation is passed to "force" them to do their jobs? And what dignities did you award teachers when you publicly praised the mass firing of teachers in Rhode Island? You acknowledge teacher's concerns about No Child Left Behind, yet you continue touting the same old rhetoric: "In today’s economy, there is no acceptable dropout rate, and we rightly expect all children -- English-language learners, students with disabilities, and children of poverty -- to learn and succeed." What other professions are held to impossible standards of perfection? Do we demand that police officers eliminate all crime, or that doctors cure all patients? Of course we don't. There are no parallel claims of "in today's society, there is no acceptable crime rate", or "we rightly expect all patients -- those with end-stage cancers, heart failure, and multiple gunshot wounds -- to thrive into old age." When it comes to other professions, respect and common sense prevail. Your condescension continues with "developing better assessments so will have useful information to guide instruction..." Excuse me, but I am a skilled, experienced, and licensed professional. I don't need an outsourced standardized test -- marketed by people who haven't set foot in my school -- to tell me how my students are doing. I know how my students are doing because I work directly with them. I learn their strengths and weaknesses through first-hand experience, and I know how to tailor instruction to meet each student's needs. To suggest otherwise insults both me and my profession. You want to "...restore the status of the teaching profession..." Mr. Duncan, you built your career defiling the teaching profession. Your signature effort, Race to the Top, is the largest de-professionalizing, demoralizing, sweeter-carrot-and-sharper-stick public education policy in U.S. history. You literally bribed cash-starved states to enshrine in statute the very reforms teachers have spoken against. You imply that teachers are the bottom-feeders among academics. You want more of "America's top college students" to enter the profession. If by "top college students" you mean those with high GPA's from prestigious, pricey schools then the answer is simple: a five-fold increase in teaching salaries. You see, Mr. Duncan, those "top" college students come largely from our nation's wealthiest families. They simply will not spend a fortune on an elite college education to pursue a 500% drop in socioeconomic status relative to their parents. You assume that "top" college students automatically make better teachers. How, exactly, will a 21-year-old, silver-spoon-fed ivy-league graduate establish rapport with inner-city kids? You think they’d be better at it than an experienced teacher from a working-class family, with their own rough edges or checkered past, who can actually relate to those kids? Your ignorance of human nature is astounding. As to your concluding sentence, "I hear you, I value you, and I respect you"; no, you don't, and you don't, and you don't. In fact, I don't believe you even wrote this letter for teachers. I think you sense a shift in public opinion. Parents are starting to see through the façade; and recognize the privatization and for-profit education reform movement for what it is. And they've begun to organize --Parents Across America, is one example. . . . No doubt some will dismiss what I've said as paranoid delusion. What they call paranoia I call paying attention. Mr. Duncan, teachers hear what you say. We also watch what you do, and we are paying attention. Working with kids every day, our baloney-detectors are in fine form. We've heard the double-speak before; and we don't believe the dog ate your homework. Coming from children, double-speak is expected and it provides important teachable moments. Coming from adults, it's just sad. Despite our best efforts, some folks never outgrow their disingenuous, manipulative, self- serving approach to life. Of that, Mr. Duncan, you are a shining example. http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2011/05/letter-to-arne-d...

I promised the boys a ladyboy night tonight and am planning to take them to either King 3 or Nana Plaza. They both like real pretty ladyboys. Any suggestions other than these 2 areas to take them?