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Apple, long known to support gay rights, has given 100,000 to fight the Prop 8 in California. What are the polls saying now? Is there a chance of this passing? http://www.macworld.com/article/136372/200...l?lsrc=rss_news

I met another poster tonight for drinks. Normally I do not drink. Wait. To be honest I never drink. I have not ever been drunk. I have been high in my youth but that was from smoking and not alcohol. (Rarely a night goes by in Amsterdam when I am not a bit flighty) But, we met up and started laughing and having a blast. One thing led to another and he got me to play a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors with him. I lost and drank my first shot of whiskey in 20 years. After a bottle of Black went down, I made my way home to some beautiful boys who were horny as hell. My only response to them was "not tonight dear, I have a headache." Now I know what it feels like. While I was not drunk, I did have more than I have had in one night in my entire adult life. And, to top it off, I had a blast. Thanks Jomptien for a great night! I really did have a fantastic time. I convinced the boy I knew from years ago to stay the night so that hopefully tomorrow, I'll be able to get reacquainted with him. But, your lively spirit and fun personality with all the boys was a great treat tonight. If only every Farang were so nice to the boys in the bars and so generous, it would give all of us a good name. PS. Please don't post anything tonight as I know you lost more of the Rock, Paper, Scissors than I did.

I met a boy MANY years ago. For many reasons it did not work out. I have not seen him in ages but my heart always wonders about him. Today, the boyfriend was at the motorcycle dealership window shopping (that is a hint he wants to trade up) and he met the boy and remembered him from over 4 years ago. He called me and said the boy wanted to say hi. We did talk a bit and met for lunch. He has been out of Pattaya for 4 years working in a factory and just came into town today to see his mother. He has been at my place all day. He is adorable and one of the most beautiful smiles I have ever seen on a boy. It is things that this that make this place so magical. It is also a great plus that he and the boyfriend get along so very well. It was karma that he came back into my life. My friends from years ago would remember the tears I shed when he left me and Pattaya. Now, he is at least a small part of my life. What an amazing fucking day!

Don't forget this amazing holiday on the first full moon in November. I have made it to many and the beaches are packed with party goers and revelers. Fireworks are loud and in abundance. I hope that everyone gets a little piece of this amazing holiday.

I see there are over 15 people on line now and I can't seem to sleep as my jet lag has kicked in and my days are my nights and my nights are my days. I'll be at Papa David's in Jomptien at 7:30 and happy to treat anyone up so early to a nice breakfast feast! Just drop on by and have a bit to eat. I'll be sitting at my regular table with a white shirt on. Good morning all.

I have always said that Alexa is one of the worst ways to view traffic results as it is an indication only of those with Alexa tool bars (I think). That sems to be web masters, etc and others interested to know the makeup of the rankings for the sites. The rankings go up and down depending on how they decided to tally the results. I have not looked at these rankings in ages as I have a Mac computer and the tool bar is for IE and not Safari. However, just a recent look shows us as moving up in those rankings. Thanks guys for the support! Gay Thailand 510,490 Ting Tong 599,339 Sawatdee Gay Thailand - 605,728 Bath Stop 3,472,559 All in all the gay sites for Thailand are doing great and kudos to each of them for continuing to move ahead in these rankings! Another prime indicator is the Google Rankings. Our name is good and thus we get a lot of google hits and I am sure that is what boosts our rankings as we know SGT gets much more posts on a regular basis and GT and BS have the more helpful postings and TT has the best eye candy. But, many who buy and sell domain names look at the Alexa Rankings to get a gage. www.alexa.com

Looks like Rainwalker's generosity is not going to be around this year. It will be sorely missed as he was always overly generous in his forum get together. It does look like SGT and TT have decided to hold a dual forum party for the members of their forums. Should we just continue the All Forums get together and I'll pick up the tab? Just an idea that is sprinkling in my little head to be inclusive of all.

The Boyfriend has to get one next week. We were told he needed his ID Card and Home papers. Is that it? Surely there is more to it than that? Anyone done this recently?

The boyfriend and I are going on a holiday next month and the best route to travel in through Amsterdam. Will he have any problems with a Thai passport? I want this experience to be amazing for him.

Ousted Prime Minister is found guilty and sentenced to 2 years in jail. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/...ksin/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-A...amp;oref=slogin

n the early hours of Saturday Morning, a team of officers from the Child and Women’s Protection Unit, a division of the Royal Thai Police conducted a raid of the X-Ray Men’s Club located in North Pattaya following complaints which stated that underage boys were employed at the location. Police checked the age of employees and found them all to be over 18, however 4 were arrested because they were not carrying their Thai ID cards which is a fineable offence. The license for the establishment was checked and was found to have expired and the Duty Manager was duly arrested. A report of the incident has now been sent to the District Licensing Unit at Banglamung City Hall for their consideration. http://pattayaone.net/news/2008/october/ne...8_10_51_3.shtml

LOL. You think that is all the time it takes to build a site? You have planing stage, development and testing. All of them take time. We have moved from the planning stage to the development stage. I hope to have a mock up of the new look for you next week. BUT, it will take about 3-4 more months to do have it ready for testing. Be patient Lucky. It will cum. LOL. You are right. That would be a seamless transition. However, I have never seen one of those. There are always growing pains.

By David Morgan WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros predicted on Sunday that the financial crisis would mean the end of a U.S.-led market system that has dominated the global economy with debt and deregulation since the 1980s. "Globalization, America as the center of the globalized financial markets, was sucking up the savings of the world," Soros said in a CNN interview. "This is now over. The game is out. It does mean a very serious adjustment for America," added Soros, a staunch backer of the Democratic Party. As world leaders rushed to help banks weather the crisis that has sent stocks into steep decline, Soros blamed the turmoil on the faith in market forces that began under President Ronald Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher a generation ago. The notion that markets are self-correcting led to a massive expansion of debt financing that culminated in the sub-prime mortgages that epitomized the easy-money mentality at the root of the disaster, he said. "This belief became the dominant creed. And this, then, led to the globalization of markets, the deregulation of markets and the increased use of leverage and all the financial engineering," Soros said. "This whole enormous construct is built on false conceptions," he added. "You can go a very long way. But in the end, reality rears its ugly head and that's what happened now." Jeffrey Sachs, special adviser to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and director of the Earth Institute at New York's Columbia University, appeared to agree with Soros. "The age of Reaganism is over," Sachs said in a separate CNN interview. "The no-regulation, low-taxes (philosophy) has broken the back of our economy. We now have to get serious about reconstructing normal government that pays its way and a normal financial sector that's properly regulated." Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's embrace of the same "market fundamentalist ideology" has made the Bush administration slow to respond to the crisis, said Soros, who blamed Paulson for not saving the Wall Street firm Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy. "That's what actually kind of unleashed the current phase of meltdown," he said. Soros said U.S. authorities could effectively address the crisis by recapitalizing banks, first with private money, and restructuring home loans to minimize foreclosures. (Additional reporting by David Lawder, Editing by Chizu Nomiyama) http://www.reuters.com/article/bondsNews/i...0081012?sp=true

What is your favorite gay sites? What do you wake up to and find you have to visit. For me, other than this site, I will hit 365Gay, Xbiz and Gaydar. Any other sites I need to not miss?

According to some hotly contested polls, race will cost Obama about 6 percentage points in the election. Is that possible? It does not seem likely to me but that is what is being said. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/weekinre.../12zernike.html

Anyone excited? me me me

I am addicted to many things in life. I love chocolate and caffeine. Specifically, I love Diet Coke and any kind of chocolate. I am currently in Brazil and they have a treat called Brigadaros which are chocolate balls with sprinkles on the outside. Nearly every outdoor café and bar has them. They are delicious and I can’t seem to get enough of them. While I do love them, I limit myself to one a day as I know they are not good for me. In contract to that, I also have been addicted to exercise the past year. I love it and can’t seem to go a few days without it. I enjoy all kinds of exercise but I especially love jogging. On a treadmill or on the road, it makes little difference to me. The wonderful feeling I get afterwards is amazing and I crave it. I recently competed in my first marathon. It was a total nightmare as it rained the entire day. Over 5 hours of freezing cold rain with soggy shoes and blisters. The massage I got after the race was 2 hours and much needed. I had forgotten how much I loved massages until I was unable to feel my toes or legs. I use to think I was addicted to sex but as time has grown on, I realize this is not an addiction but just a love. I really enjoy sex but can easily go for weeks or months without it with no necessity to have any. I also think I am addicted to Pattaya. I have loved the city since my second visit. My first visit, I was disgusted by it but on the second one, I feel in love. With a boy of course and then with the city he lived in. It is not even an hour after I leave the city that I start to plan my next trip there. I think about it often. I do have other things to keep me busy in the USA and that often is secondary to my craving for Pattaya. Do others feel the same about Thailand or Pattaya? Are you planning your next trip before you board the plane? Are you counting down the days until your next trip?

Connecticut was the first state to allow Civil Unions and now is the 3rd State that will allow same sex marriages. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/10/10/conne...iage/index.html

Love the offer for more experience.

What are we doing and how do we get out of this mess? It seems like the debt we rack up for the next generation is NEVER ending. For some, that is OK. But, I have nieces and nephews I adore and don't want to see them burdened for their entire life. Will this election stop this spiraling? What will? From BBC : The US government's debts have ballooned so badly the National Debt Clock in New York has run out of digits to record the spiralling figure. The digital counter marks the national debt level, but when that passed the $10 trillion point last month, the sign could not display the full amount. The board was erected to highlight the $2.7 trillion level of debt in 1989. The clock's owners say two more zeros will be added, allowing the clock to record a quadrillion dollars of debt. Douglas Durst, son of the late Seymour Durst - the clock's inventor - hopes to replace the Manhattan clock with its lengthier replacement early next year. For the time being, the Times Square counter's electronic dollar sign has been replaced with the extra digit required. For its part, the digital dollar symbol has been supplanted by a cheaper version - perhaps a sign of the times for the American economy. Some economists believe the $700bn bail-out plan for ailing US financial institutions could send the national debt level to $11 trillion. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7660409.stm

Well, having been an IPhone user since the beginning, I love it. I love the device and the new push e-mail is a direct "fuck you" to RIM. So, it was no surprise that this device was coming. Here is the CNet article: We all knew it was approaching, but brace yourself, the Storm has made landfall. Tuesday night, Research In Motion and Verizon Wireless officially introduced the first touch-screen BlackBerry to the world: the RIM BlackBerry Storm. Also known by its code name, BlackBerry Thunder, the Storm features a touch-sensitive display that's unlike that on any other touch-screen smartphone available today, thanks to RIM's own twist (more on this below). There are plenty of other highlights as well, including dual-mode functionality, support for Verizon's EV-DO Rev. A, integrated GPS, BlackBerry OS 4.7, and more. Now, before you run out to the nearest Verizon store, we've got some bad news. Unfortunately, you won't be able to get your hands on the BlackBerry Storm quite yet (groan). A specific release date and pricing were not announced, but Verizon said the Storm would be out by the holiday season with "competitive" pricing. Obviously, we're not fans (and we're guessing you're not either) of such vague answers, especially in light of the RIM BlackBerry Bold delay. RIM and Verizon did come by our office to give us a full rundown on the features, as well as some brief hands-on time with the device, so without further ado, here are all the details and our impressions of the RIM BlackBerry Storm. Design Obviously, the touch screen is the biggest highlight of the BlackBerry Storm, but as we mentioned earlier, it's unlike any other touch-screen smartphone we've seen so far, including the Apple iPhone, T-Mobile G1, and Samsung Omnia. Rather than provide haptic feedback (or none at all), RIM developed something completely new called ClickThrough, which consists of a suspension system that lies beneath the display, so that when you go to select an application or enter text, you actually push the screen down like you would any other tactile button. Admittedly, it was a little weird when I first tried it. Given that with all other touch-screen devices, it's just a matter of lightly tapping on an icon or some similar action, it wasn't my first inclination to physically push down on the screen. My colleague Kent German also tried it out and had a similar reaction; while cool, the idea behind it took some explaining to fully realize the capabilities. Now, that's not to say we don't like ClickThrough; it just takes a little acclimation. Plus, it was responsive and I was pleasantly surprised at how easy and accurate it was to compose messages and notes. In terms of text extry, the BlackBerry Storm features a SureType keyboard when the smartphone is in portrait mode and then switches to a full QWERTY keyboard in landscape mode. The Storm has a built-in accelerometer so it will automatically rotate the screen depending on if the phone is held vertically or horizontally (left- and right-hand support included). The letter/number keys also glow blue when you're typing. The quality of the display is slightly better than the RIM BlackBerry Bold's. The Storm features a 3.25-inch diagonal display with a 480x360 pixel resolution and support for 65,000 colors, where as the Bold has a half-VGA, 480x320 pixel display. The handset itself is about the size of the BlackBerry Curve, but slightly thicker. It measures 4.4 inches tall by 2.4 inches wide by 0.5 inch deep and weighs 5.6 ounces. It's equipped with a 3.5mm headphone jack, has four shortcut keys (Talk and End, Back, and BlackBerry menu), and a microSD slot behind the back cover, among other things. Features Don't be fooled; the RIM BlackBerry Storm is more than just a pretty face. As far as phone features, the Storm, like the RIM BlackBerry 8830 World Edition, offers dual-mode functionality. This means the phone switches automatically between CDMA and GSM networks to offer seamless international roaming--all while keeping the same phone number. (Note that the phone does not support domestic GSM bands, and a SIM card is included in the box.) It also works on Verizon's EV-DO Rev. A network as well as Europe's 2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA band. There's a full HTML Web browser (no Flash), and the Storm will also support Verizon's V Cast Music and Mobile TV services, though not immediately at launch. Other wireless options include Bluetooth 2.0 with support for stereo Bluetooth headsets and dial-up networking and GPS but no Wi-Fi. BlackBerry Maps is onboard if you want text-based turn-by-turn directions, but for more advanced navigation features, such as voice prompts, you'll be forced to use Verizon's VZ Navigator service. The BlackBerry Storm will run the latest BlackBerry OS (version 4.7), so you finally get an updated interface while still getting support for multiple e-mail accounts (BlackBerry Enterprise, Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, POP3, IMAP4, and more) with wireless synchronization. In addition to an attachment viewer, you can also do some light editing on Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files. There's 128MB of flash memory and 1GB of onboard memory, which is all supplemented by the microSD/SDHC expansion slot (supports up to 16GB cards). Though the BlackBerry is historically known more as a business device, RIM and Verizon hope to attract more consumers with the BlackBerry Storm and it comes with a number of multimedia capabilities. The media player can handle various music and video formats, including MP3, AAC, WMA, WMV, MPEG4, and H.264. The included Media Sync software will also help you synchronize your iTunes files with your BlackBerry. The Storm is equipped with a 3.2-megapixel camera with video recording, auto focus, and flash. For the entire article go to: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-100594...l?tag=mncol;txt

Right now the dollar is also up against the Brazilian Real. For those of you waiting for a trip, it is a good time right now.

Looking to book another ticket for my return after the New Year and found some flights. However, all the ones I found are now only economy or business. No Premium at all. The website still says that the economy tickets may be upgraded to Premium if there are no economy seats available but I think that is just an error on the part of Thai Air that they forgot to remove. Now, the prices for the tickets were slightly over 800 for economy. I thought that was great so I went to book. The taxes were almost 700 US. Still that is not a bad price for a flight to Thailand but when the taxes get to the point of the almost the same as the flight itself I do have to wonder why?

I do think that the decisions that the next President makes on the Supreme Court is the SINGLE most important reason to vote. Second would be their commitment to peace around the globe.

I read one article that said these skits are having a negative effect on the campaign. If that is true, it is best for her to combat that head on to show she has a sense of humor. It might just be a very smart move if that happens.