Okay. There’s only so much a girl can do for ‘the team’….. Now, I don’t mind clicking on an add for 2 gay guys looking for some hot lovin’, I don’t even mind clicking on an ad for a mail order Asian bride…….
However, I clicked on singlemuslim.com……. (they say they are dedicated to introducing single Muslims on line, and have over 200,000 members). I’m just not too sure how I feel about this… on a lesbian web-site.
My intention is not to be insensitive, however….aren’t homosexuals just slightly disrespected by the Muslim community in most countries? Aren’t we perceived as criminals ? Possibly, victims of public stoning and capital punishment for who we love? Not to mention our, rights as women……
I clicked off as soon as I could.
But, I really don’t feel so good about this……
I am respectful of peoples religious freedoms, but…..on a lesbian website, a Muslim heterosexual dating service? That seems pretty odd.
Just a note to, **Ads by Google …….
Hello, is anyone paying attention?
**(Just a thought…. it seems as though it benefits neither Google ad clients, nor VP to display ads that are so diametrically opposed to the website visitors interests)
My wish for the new year would be, that we don’t sacrifice Rachel Maddow.
I can feel the tide already turning here in some comments.
I really feel Rachel is the best and brainiest person we have. She is able to articulate (with intelligence and humour) our needs, in a way that straight people will actually keep listening - instead of switching off.
I fear whatever Rachel does for us, it will not be enough for some.
My hope for the gays is financial sanity. What you need to know:
1. To save, you must spend less than you earn.
2. Credit card banks (they’re not companies) are legalized loan sharks.
3. Money is debt. When you get a loan from a bank (mortgage, car loan, etc) THEY DON’T HAVE THE MONEY THEY LEND YOU. They literally conjure it out of thin air simply by typing it into your account. It becomes “real” when you sign on to pay it to them. Most of the world’s money is created this way.
A housing alternative to prolonged renting or mortgages:
Loveminuszero may not post comments here today, but has asked me to wish you all a Happy New Year in her name. She will reply to your comments when she’s back home.
Happy New Year 2009 to one and all! Please be very safe tonight and this weekend as you celebrate the end of 2008 and look forward to 2009.
My wish is that each of you get your wish, achieve your goals, find the happiness you seek, and live in peace, prosperity, and good health.
My wish for the LGBT population is that we once again become the community and family we once were, and that we finally find qualified and motivated leadership to guide us into equality, inclusion, and acceptance.
Happy New Years all. My wish for the gays is a national leader. We need our MLK / Gloria Steinem / Bobby Kennedy / Cesar Chavez. That person should be an unapologetic, clear-thinking political strategist ready to rally us. Right now we have too many splintered organizations each tinkering around the edges for change. And too many of them are worried about offending people. (If I read one more online discussion about whether it’s OK to refer to the other side as “haters” I will PUKE.
The Prop 8 rallies weren’t just about gay marriage. Some have called them “Stonewall II.” Fine, but now what? The energy and will is there, we just need someone to organize it and channel it towards specific goals.
I nominate Moon, Cage, and the Prof as the search committee.
I’m with all three of you on your wishes for the new year. Cage, I’m totally with the gay everywhere. I hope in this new year that we can be both fierce and playful in that ongoing process to be recognized as legitimate full citizens of our country. My greatest wish is that no matter what happens outside of us, politically, economically and socially, that we each carry ourselves with dignity.
I’m just grateful to be entering into the new year with a sense of community here thanks to you VP power dykes and all of the wonderful women who’ve come into my life through the efforts of those who create this space for us.
OH, and may VP reap the benefits of this community of committed ad-clickers.
Happy New Year, everybody! My wish for the gays in 2009 is to remember our history as we fight for our rights in the present and work towards a better future. Well, that and lots of blisteringly hot queer humpage.
A toast to all you VP’is, let’s have a virtuell glass champagne together. I’ll drink to your health, love and joy. May you all have a great and save new year.
“Communicate, don’t assimilate.” This is really what it is all about. Instead of giving in to those who tell us to be nice by blending in, let’s be nice and be ourselves. After all, we’re pretty awesome folks.
I do think it is important to see and be seen.
We need to understand how those who damage us think, but not accept their reasoning as more important than our own. By making our own thoughts and ideas known in a rational way, and no, that does not mean demure, we assert ourselves as equal beings who must be acknowledged.
We need to recognize what needs to be done to make advances within our own families, schools, places of worship, neighborhoods, towns, states, and country. True progress begins in the minute to minute interactions, and culminates on a federal level.
We need to support each other. Our road can be quaint and peaceful, but also arduous and full of pot holes. Those outside our community build enough roadblocks for us. Its time to stop adding to them ourselves.
Happy New Year to 3 fabulous lesbians!! To Grace, Diana and the Professor… I would like to wish all of you the best that 2009 has to offer, and more !!
First, let me thank each of you for your strength of purpose. I truly believe that Velvet Park, and it’s growth, will/is touch(ing) a multitude of women….. And, through it’s growth, allow for the ‘unity’ of thought and action between women who would have never had the opportunity to share their experiences without this connection.
I am amazed at the ‘global’ effect that our ‘web’ connections, within the LGBTQ community, can encourage. Speaking with women from France, Spain, Germany, Australia etc. and sharing our common experiences and hopes within the lesbian, and gay community, is a blessing…..for this, I thank you.
Making resolutions is not something that I normally do for myself….. However, hoping for a strong, visible and respected gay community is a necessity in 2009. It isn’t a dream to desire freedom and equal rights. These ideals have been fought for over generations of struggle……We, as a community, can not back down on our demand for equality on ‘09. The right to equal protection under the laws, of this great nation, are meant for all people……
So, in summary…… I am resolute to see that 2009 is a year of inclusion. Not simply the hope to dream of inclusion. I challenge the new administration, in Washington D.C., to stand up to the right - wing - bigots that have had a stronghold on ‘humanity’ for the last 8 years, and break the cycle of hatred, ignorance and intolerance…. This challenge goes to all elected, and appointed, officials who have professed to care about, and represent all people. Inclusion, not exclusion…….. it must happen in 2009.
My hope is that, universal love and understanding, is truly represented in the faces of all, men and women, that hold the key to real change. That the inequality that has become so prevalent and acceptable, is eradicated throughout the global LGBTQ community…….
My hopes for 2009 are not solely for myself, but for all of my sisters and brothers who’s lives are marginalized because of who they love……..
Does yours like air hockey? How about skimming stones and climbing trees? The kind with gently sloping branches for those less agile than they once were.
Kitty….. Thank you for your friendship, it means a lot to me.
I know that 2009 will be a sensual delight for you !!
Enjoy your blessings in the coming year…
LBDL, as I said in my last reply to you at the “Christ, I’m angry” blog… THANKS! Thanks for the magic you bring to this site! It’s more than just a pleasure reading your posts, lady.
I share your dreams and resolutions for 2009… I just hope inequality is not only erradicated from our community, but also from the face of Earth. I wish we may put at least the first stone to build a world where each and every man and woman (and especially, kids) may have a real chance to make all their dreams come true.
You are so right Cris…children are the future. Every step that we take, every positive move forward that we make, is one more obstacle that they will not need to overcome to live fulfilling lives.
Building a gentler world now, insures a safer world… with possibilities for understanding, that we have only begun to realize is so important to our survival.
Happy New Year and …….
Blessings to you and your family Cris.
Mins…….. I know that your 2009 is going to be fabulous !!
Happy New Year to you… and your beautiful Kitty (heee heeee), it is an honor to call you a friend!!
LBDL
xxoo
P.S. I was sick this Christmas. My sister didn’t allow me to participate in our traditional homemade tamale orgy. Next Christmas, Fed Ex will be early to your house. Chicken,Beef,Pork or Green Chile & Cheese??
I’m eating 12 grapes right now for everyone! Blackeyed peas and cornbread here in the South with sipping bourbon and branch; got the pico de gallo with red sangria handy; boiled shrimp and white sangria on stand-by. If anyone else has a food tradition let me know - I’m hungry!
Yonks, I am soooooo glad you mentioned that. Yo, Minns, when is that oil wrestling match going to take place? I remember that my partner is Julia, who is yours? - what happened to OC/IC’s FYKE?
After I had left the coast, my dad told me he wanted to get me something really special for my birthday, and wondered what I might really want. I told him to pick me out some rocks. His response, “Rocks? As in diamonds? Opals?” I explained that I wanted him to go to the beach by his house and find me some rocks that he thought were really neat. He sent me a collection of various small granite stones with a message explaining how each one made him think of a member of our family. They are among my favorites to this day.
I also really enjoy building natural stone walls. Right up there with pushing an old fashioned human powered mower. Tae
If she doesn’t, I do! Do I get to wear a plume in my hat and wear those form fitting green tights? Oh, sorry, that’s Hollywood musketeers……or I can be the damsel in distress that the two of you fight over…..ummmmm!
Aww… Thanks LongBeach. That really does mean a lot to me. Despite the distance between us, this community can feel closer than family. And the pictures are way better than family photos!
i wish i’d read this before. you do the 12-grape thing? i’d forgotten about that. thanks for taking up the slack. and shrimp, good choice. i’m unfamiliar with branch. what label bourbon?
Oh Tex I like your food traditions. I’ve never heard of the 12 grape thing, but I’m loving the blackeyed peas and cornbread. We do the sauerkraut and pork thing up here.
i vaguely remembered the sauerkraut thing so i went to Top Dog & got a container but ate my hot dog without it. i didn’t get into it until january 2. does that count?
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?????
Double D’s???
That totally explains your earlier comment about not running very fast. I’m thinking nice little ‘beaters’ for uniforms.
I’m digging all this overin’ for the replies to the comments….nice tee with the lady on the front….we can play in those - if we’re not any good we can distract ‘em!
Let’s see, what position do I want to play? You say everyone wears a cup? Okay, then I wanna be the cup!
and I think the name of the team could be Vp Double D’s!
I want to share a video with you and everyone. I saw the Kennedy Honors the other night and was swept away by all the talent and this one song just had me…
Happy New Year, Rusty! I agree that a true leader is needed, but also a solid, long-term strategy. This community shouldn’t just try “self-defense” tactics, reacting only to attacks from “the other side”… It’s time to take the lead, to play our own game and set the rules!
Anyway, I wish you all the best, our warrior lady!
Cris
Yes, Rusty, I agree. Maybe with a president we can respect, we are entering a year of leadership and someone will emerge. I’d add Rachel Maddow to your suggested committee.
For me, the wheels have just about ground to a halt on the Rachel bandwagon.
Strike 1: I wasn’t happy with her “Everyone else is wrong; I still think Obama could lose” commentary the last two weeks of the election. It was over the top and unnecessary.
Strike 2: Her explanation last week about the issues underlying the current Israeli offensive was one-sided at best. I don’t know enough about the issues to decide what I think, but I can smell propaganda a mile off. (I know I’m sticking my neck way out on this one but like a lot of Americans, I am ignorant about Middle East issues. I have a feeling there is more balanced reporting in Israel than in the US.)
Happy New Beer to you, too CS. And I agree that it’s time to go on the offensive.
I’d also like to remind folks that the voting demographics are starting to smile on us; once the old coots die off and more of our nieces and nephews turn 18 we’ll be achieving electoral victories. As Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight put it:
“The good news for supporters of marriage equity is that — and there’s no polite way to put this — the older voters aren’t going to be around for all that much longer, and they’ll gradually be cycled out and replaced by younger voters who grew up in a more tolerant era.”
We just need to understand that playing it offensively does not mean to actually throw hate back. Because in reality, it is only reactions - and it’s not offensive, but defensive. Playing offensively is not reacting - but just moving forward.
The gay community needs to have leaders, or I want to really call them roll models, who don’t react, but just move forward and keep going about their being. A perfect example of a role model, in our community, of offensive tactics, is Ellen….and kd (whoda thunk?)…and Melissa.
The third one is really funny (I like Jamie Lee Curtis- not very much shwartz-fait-la-guerre) but not artistic at all, lol.
I am waiting for the next lezmovie with courses of Tango, like the flamenco’s course in “l’auberge espagnole” (C. Klapish). http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=OnpG03uSJi4&feature=related
(no need to have the translation, you will understand…)
Yikes! I missed that stuff. That sounds pretty disappointing.
I did watch last night for her “awards” and that was not so good. Perhaps because it was all so low budget, but the content was bad. I wrote it off to her first year and just trying things out. Maybe I need to pay more attention to see if I can catch what you’re saying.
“good eye exercise”> Haaaaaaa! I am rolling on the floor… yes it’s tiring, you want to tell her to stop a little, don’t you?
“ok…ok, thank you… ok…OK!!”
It’s funny for a parisian (I live in Paris, France) to see adverts for tiny houses.
Here, you CAN NEVER afford an appartment (not even a house), or, at least with 600 euros (average) per month for 15-20 m^2 (49-65ft^2- if my conversion is OK…10*10ft) of space.
So we are already used to “ecologic comfort” - in an “ecologic hole” called “city”.
It’s more something around 14tf*14.
a meter is 3.28 feet so for one meter square you have
3,28x 3,28= 10,75ft so 20m2=( 10,75×20)= 215,1ft2 = 14,67ft*14,67
ok, it’s not bijective and you can say “feet square”, in fact I hadn’t done the conversion.
Thank you.
*** so: in Paris, you can live in 215ft² with 600euros, at least, when you know that the average salary is around 1300euros… it mean half of your salary into your appartment every month.**
ROTFLMAO! OMG dornac! lol I could say so many things in response to that with the number of play-on words associated with peace (piece) and kitty (pussy), but I’m staying PG-13.
“FRENCH are more people than YOU”
so what are we if we’r less peoples, monkey? never heard such arrogant thing, even Americans when they think that, never dare to say it out loud
When you have too much peoples doing their dejection in a too small land, the country, soon became a big piece of shit, a big sky open toilet! and you want to fart at the top of it?
it’s too far stinky, even for pepe
you know Moonster wants eventually to sell stuff on the site. this could be… a money maker. imagine how special we’d feel, all going out into the world wearing THE SAME KNICKERS
This still needs some work. Please feel free to copy and play. Or you might do better from scratch. I just have basic paint and my art is always primitive.
Erin, there’s a lady who insult me and look for BIG BIG BIG trouble. of course, i can give her a lecture but it would not be very noble for a butch, what should i do?
What pleasure do you have in calling back, all the time, -yes, people,she does it often- that we are, French (see French as BIG ones) that we , French are smaller than you in this stupid rate of 1/5?
Remember, darling, that we, FRENCH are more people than YOU (only 7 744 530 in Quebec? oh… not even Paris and suburbs…) and PEOPLE is the most important !
Hi m
Thanks for your lovely comment on the other thread. I am looking forward to sharing more e-chats with you this year.
Hope your first day back at work is okay - I woke up to snow this morning!
S
xx
I think homosexuals are as much disrespected in the Christian community as they are in the Muslim community. Why not write to Google, and give them your opinion? Since, it is their ad generator that gives us the links here.
But just a quick question. If that ad would have been a single Christian dating service, how would you have felt?
I know those who were not Christian, would feel pressured, but being you are a proclaiming Christian, maybe you would not feel so…strained and pulled…and uneasy.
Yes. I am a Christian, and will never apologize to you for my faith in God. I do believe, and I am faithful to my Lord and Saviour… Jesus Christ.
And no… Christians, in contemporary times, do not condemn a man or woman to death because they are ‘perceived’ to be, or may in fact be, homosexual.
And… nowhere on this earth in 2009, will a man or woman, be put to death for the simple act of loving an individual of the same sex, except for countries where a strict Muslim doctrine is adhered to, and is the basis for that countries laws…….
So please, Rover…. read what I say. Please try to understand the ‘intent’ behind the words, before you criticize my Christianity and faith. I do respect an individuals right to be a practicing Muslim, however…… I will never respect any religion, politically oppressive society, or theocracy that believes death should be the penalty for love…… NEVER.
I believe, at this point, I’ve said all I care to say.
Paris and most of all my countryside roads are a mess under snow (hope i can go home tonight !).
first day at work ? 246 messages to read and replied (or forget…)
hope yours is OK
Okay, this bantering has gotten ridiculous. Please stop. I don’t mind anyone countering each other with their ideals, but this countering has gotten too personal. No where on this site should anyone be making satirical comments to anyone else about their religious beliefs - that is absolutely crossing the line of commenting etiquette. I’m asking you, pleading with you, please don’t do this here. This is not the place for personal vendettas - if you have a personal grievance with someone, just stay away from their comments. This precedent does not need to be set - not here - not now - not by us……
I love it too - I “crunched” all the way up my road this morning!!! I think we are going to get more later in the week. Isn’t it amazing how the snow affects the noise level…
I’m not criticizing your religion or faith. But there is substance to being offended or more sensitive to other religions - and this is across the board.
I’m not asking you to apologize for being Christian. But I did ask you a question you failed to answer.
“If that ad would have been a single Christian dating service, how would you have felt?”
This isn’t a personal vendetta, but I am asking a question…and doing so politely. We all talk about how much we can grow by dialog - and I don’t think that this dialog is any more different than that of one to look deeper with honesty and intelligence.
If you think this is bantering, as in real fighting with hate, you are wrong.
This bantering, if anything, is with the intent of intellectual growth.
but I guess it was ok for long to come up out of know where while I was talking with Ca Medicine woman and just yell “what the fuck ever”…and then poke fun. That was…well, apparently acceptable to you.
but me actually moving on and trying to discourse in dialog, of actual importance in understanding how we relate and feel…and grow from that, and MOVE on from prior discussions - is actually not trying to start something, except for change.
With all due respect, I felt that you would understand the ‘intent’ of my words….
However, if this will help to clarify it for you : I would welcome a Christian dating service advertising here. I don’t believe that there is a Christian mandate, backed by irrational religious zealots, to kill homosexuals simply because of who we love……
Rover, this is about advertising. Nothing more. Please don’t read more into this than the original post intended……
No you don’t….and you do understand what I meant….better yet, so do others. There comes an obvious point when bantering becomes bullying with its intent and purpose.
This is not bullying. But I’ve seen others, that roam on here, bully.
My intent is to learn - it is why I question. but thank you so much for letting me know that others, and maybe you, talk about me off this website. I’ve always tried to keep away from talking about other members of the OC/VP community - especially when it was not in the open.
ever since I spoke up about OC after it’s demise - I was oust from the group, because I wasn’t pissed off at OC…like everyone else was…or at least I wasn’t expressing it like ya’ll.
And seriously, I’ve been bullied, and others have been bullied out of no where, by long and it - and all for fun. And because I continue to talk with her, and actually ask her questions that are very viable…it’s my fault and I”M BULLYING.
If anyone actually cared about talking about problems and wanting to fix them, and evolving and changing… when things and opinions come up - people do question.
I spoke that I wasn’t questioning her faith, but was trying to dig deeper into why she had such a huge problem with a Muslim dating site being advertised here. And in light of how much fight we have with the Christian community over our rights and because of our own dealings with people killing and beating us up and raping us, because it wasn’t God’s way to be homosexual…and those that do that to us here in America are “Christian”.
But there is a dislike between religions…and well, since 9/11…a lot of people have very little tolerance of Muslims, especially on our own homeland. Americans are more sensitive to those that seem a threat…or are different.
Many homosexuals would have a problem with any religious dating site being advertised here - especially if they had broke away from mass religion itself. Homosexuals are banned from most religious communities and have to make their own religious communities.
I thought you knew me. I guess I was wrong. I don’t bully, but I do seek to learn and understand.
You’ve been mad at me…and waaay long before this…your beef with me was the OC deal and how they treated Moon and everyone. It’s easy to take another side when your mad at the one person.
I didn’t think there were sides here. This is a community that works things out - by questioning and discussing.
I read the first three paragraphs and stopped - again, you are making this personal - it is not……you cannot be subjective when you make it personal - period.
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Okay. There’s only so much a girl can do for ‘the team’….. Now, I don’t mind clicking on an add for 2 gay guys looking for some hot lovin’, I don’t even mind clicking on an ad for a mail order Asian bride…….
However, I clicked on singlemuslim.com……. (they say they are dedicated to introducing single Muslims on line, and have over 200,000 members). I’m just not too sure how I feel about this… on a lesbian web-site.
My intention is not to be insensitive, however….aren’t homosexuals just slightly disrespected by the Muslim community in most countries? Aren’t we perceived as criminals ? Possibly, victims of public stoning and capital punishment for who we love? Not to mention our, rights as women……
I clicked off as soon as I could.
But, I really don’t feel so good about this……
I am respectful of peoples religious freedoms, but…..on a lesbian website, a Muslim heterosexual dating service? That seems pretty odd.
Just a note to, **Ads by Google …….
Hello, is anyone paying attention?
**(Just a thought…. it seems as though it benefits neither Google ad clients, nor VP to display ads that are so diametrically opposed to the website visitors interests)
LBDL
xxoo
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(The Artist Formerly Known As Joanne-1974)
Happy New Year lovely Grace and everyone!
My wish for the new year would be, that we don’t sacrifice Rachel Maddow.
I can feel the tide already turning here in some comments.
I really feel Rachel is the best and brainiest person we have. She is able to articulate (with intelligence and humour) our needs, in a way that straight people will actually keep listening - instead of switching off.
I fear whatever Rachel does for us, it will not be enough for some.
… and she’s hot.
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My hope for the gays is financial sanity. What you need to know:
1. To save, you must spend less than you earn.
2. Credit card banks (they’re not companies) are legalized loan sharks.
3. Money is debt. When you get a loan from a bank (mortgage, car loan, etc) THEY DON’T HAVE THE MONEY THEY LEND YOU. They literally conjure it out of thin air simply by typing it into your account. It becomes “real” when you sign on to pay it to them. Most of the world’s money is created this way.
A housing alternative to prolonged renting or mortgages:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZM2G-PfEbc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VV2MBo-ZMM
http://www.truveo.com/Shelter-Institute-teaches-about-building-houses/id/104890879
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Loveminuszero may not post comments here today, but has asked me to wish you all a Happy New Year in her name. She will reply to your comments when she’s back home.
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Happy New Year everyone!
Hope x
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happy new years everyone…
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Happy New Year!!!
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Happy New Year 2009 to one and all! Please be very safe tonight and this weekend as you celebrate the end of 2008 and look forward to 2009.
My wish is that each of you get your wish, achieve your goals, find the happiness you seek, and live in peace, prosperity, and good health.
My wish for the LGBT population is that we once again become the community and family we once were, and that we finally find qualified and motivated leadership to guide us into equality, inclusion, and acceptance.
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Happy New Years all. My wish for the gays is a national leader. We need our MLK / Gloria Steinem / Bobby Kennedy / Cesar Chavez. That person should be an unapologetic, clear-thinking political strategist ready to rally us. Right now we have too many splintered organizations each tinkering around the edges for change. And too many of them are worried about offending people. (If I read one more online discussion about whether it’s OK to refer to the other side as “haters” I will PUKE.
The Prop 8 rallies weren’t just about gay marriage. Some have called them “Stonewall II.” Fine, but now what? The energy and will is there, we just need someone to organize it and channel it towards specific goals.
I nominate Moon, Cage, and the Prof as the search committee.
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I’m with all three of you on your wishes for the new year. Cage, I’m totally with the gay everywhere. I hope in this new year that we can be both fierce and playful in that ongoing process to be recognized as legitimate full citizens of our country. My greatest wish is that no matter what happens outside of us, politically, economically and socially, that we each carry ourselves with dignity.
I’m just grateful to be entering into the new year with a sense of community here thanks to you VP power dykes and all of the wonderful women who’ve come into my life through the efforts of those who create this space for us.
OH, and may VP reap the benefits of this community of committed ad-clickers.
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Happy New Year, everybody! My wish for the gays in 2009 is to remember our history as we fight for our rights in the present and work towards a better future. Well, that and lots of blisteringly hot queer humpage.
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Wishing everyone…
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OH! this thread just made me love all of you guys! Hooray for 2009
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Where is our Rover? much love and blessings to you!! Wish you all the best for 2009!
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Germany, 3 hours till 2009.
A toast to all you VP’is, let’s have a virtuell glass champagne together. I’ll drink to your health, love and joy. May you all have a great and save new year.
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Oops! It came out in the wrong place. Taking it down to Dornac, special delivery!
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“Communicate, don’t assimilate.” This is really what it is all about. Instead of giving in to those who tell us to be nice by blending in, let’s be nice and be ourselves. After all, we’re pretty awesome folks.
I do think it is important to see and be seen.
We need to understand how those who damage us think, but not accept their reasoning as more important than our own. By making our own thoughts and ideas known in a rational way, and no, that does not mean demure, we assert ourselves as equal beings who must be acknowledged.
We need to recognize what needs to be done to make advances within our own families, schools, places of worship, neighborhoods, towns, states, and country. True progress begins in the minute to minute interactions, and culminates on a federal level.
We need to support each other. Our road can be quaint and peaceful, but also arduous and full of pot holes. Those outside our community build enough roadblocks for us. Its time to stop adding to them ourselves.
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Happy New Year to 3 fabulous lesbians!! To Grace, Diana and the Professor… I would like to wish all of you the best that 2009 has to offer, and more !!
First, let me thank each of you for your strength of purpose. I truly believe that Velvet Park, and it’s growth, will/is touch(ing) a multitude of women….. And, through it’s growth, allow for the ‘unity’ of thought and action between women who would have never had the opportunity to share their experiences without this connection.
I am amazed at the ‘global’ effect that our ‘web’ connections, within the LGBTQ community, can encourage. Speaking with women from France, Spain, Germany, Australia etc. and sharing our common experiences and hopes within the lesbian, and gay community, is a blessing…..for this, I thank you.
Making resolutions is not something that I normally do for myself….. However, hoping for a strong, visible and respected gay community is a necessity in 2009. It isn’t a dream to desire freedom and equal rights. These ideals have been fought for over generations of struggle……We, as a community, can not back down on our demand for equality on ‘09. The right to equal protection under the laws, of this great nation, are meant for all people……
So, in summary…… I am resolute to see that 2009 is a year of inclusion. Not simply the hope to dream of inclusion. I challenge the new administration, in Washington D.C., to stand up to the right - wing - bigots that have had a stronghold on ‘humanity’ for the last 8 years, and break the cycle of hatred, ignorance and intolerance…. This challenge goes to all elected, and appointed, officials who have professed to care about, and represent all people. Inclusion, not exclusion…….. it must happen in 2009.
My hope is that, universal love and understanding, is truly represented in the faces of all, men and women, that hold the key to real change. That the inequality that has become so prevalent and acceptable, is eradicated throughout the global LGBTQ community…….
My hopes for 2009 are not solely for myself, but for all of my sisters and brothers who’s lives are marginalized because of who they love……..
Equality? Is that too much to ask for in ‘09?
Live in Peace…
Love in Abundance…
LBDL
xxoo
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Health and happiness; perserverance and patience
Professor - nice argyle and rims; Diana - nice Gay Rights tee; Grace - pearl buttons (femme here, sorry, you guys are cute)
Happy New Year to all - be safe!
Minns, I got a black and silver Laser Grip football for Christmas. Let me know when you want to play catch…..
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Wishing everyone a very enjoyable and safe New Year!
My wish: To repeal my state’s Proposition H8.
Cheers! - Andy
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Happy New Year, my friends!
“Go be gay every day!” “You can explain to people why you are different.”
Si. Si. Si. Si.
My wish for 2009: Celebrate difference while finding common ground.
This year, I am reconnecting with my inner tomboy because s/he wants to come out and play.
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Thank you !
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE.
I wish to go on the moon, once (jocking)
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Feliz año nuevo, Minnie! That’s probably the best New Year’s wish I’ve seen in years… I hope it may come true!
Oh! And play a lot! You sure know how to…
Cris
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Not so “inner” tomboi looking for a friend.
Does yours like air hockey? How about skimming stones and climbing trees? The kind with gently sloping branches for those less agile than they once were.
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do you inner tomboy want to grab a piece of wood for a sword and play musketeer with me?
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Sorry for my ridiculous inability to post my icon picture…it won’t let me edit that out.
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Happy New Year, Andy - have a safe one! Looking forward to the avatar - if you need any help with the gravatar site, holler!
Nothing but love
Tex
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My wish for you: to work out a deal with the gravatar gremlins.
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Gracias, Chris, for the Feliz Año Neuvo! Wishing you the best.
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Ohhh, I’m jealous about your football! I was just dusting off my baseball glove.
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MMM catch in french mean wrestling, i first though you challenged Minnie for a wrestling match. lol
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(apart) Dornac, i think joking don’t need a “c”
and i love your dancer.
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Shall we dance?
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=fred+astaire&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#
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Hi ya, dornac,
that’s def. an adorable dancer gif!
love me some step dance ala FrAstaire.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
Dornac,
Blessings for a healthy and magnificent 2009 to you!!
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Gotan Project - one of my favorite groups! “Santa Maria”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zD9W9SZj9w
Happy New Year, Dornac!
Tex
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Oh I love to play catch with the ball and glove.
I suck at softball but I’m great at catch.
Tex, What’s a laser grip football?
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!
Professor, Grace and Diana, you’re adorable. I’m going to be gay every day and explain to everyone why I’m different. xoxo - PK
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Baseball?
I wanna play! I wanna play! I don’t run very fast, but then, when you hit it far enough you don’t really need to. 
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http://TRUS.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pTRU1-4425802reg.jpg
Soft yet firm, conservatively flashy, and fun……
The Laser Grip,
Tex
and there’s not a thing wrong with sucking….at softball
and being a great catch….
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Kitty….. Thank you for your friendship, it means a lot to me.
I know that 2009 will be a sensual delight for you !!
Enjoy your blessings in the coming year…
*Big Hugs*
LBDL xxxooo
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Kitty, I love how you specify, “catch with the ball and glove.” she-he-he
We’re putting you in the lineup. What position do you want?
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“Soft yet firm, conservatively flashy, and fun……”
I thought that was you.
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Tex, I thought you were describing yourself instead of the football! Hehe.
Here’s a 2009 resolution: Tex, Peacekitty & Minnie must meet up to play a game of catch.
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Pretty pretties! This is not the ball you play mud sac with.
Still more interested in Minnie’s glove.
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Hahaha. Too funny. We said the same thing.
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lol…yeah at almost the exact same time. I love synchronicities like that.
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Awesome.
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LBDL, as I said in my last reply to you at the “Christ, I’m angry” blog… THANKS! Thanks for the magic you bring to this site! It’s more than just a pleasure reading your posts, lady.
I share your dreams and resolutions for 2009… I just hope inequality is not only erradicated from our community, but also from the face of Earth. I wish we may put at least the first stone to build a world where each and every man and woman (and especially, kids) may have a real chance to make all their dreams come true.
Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!
Cris
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Equality first then the rest will fall into place…. beautiful comment and heart….
Smooch, LB! Happy New Year!
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LBDL, Happy New Year to you. You put the sen in sensual!
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Happy new year LB, you put fairy dust all around VP with your sparkling
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just thanks for all the fairy dust, yonks is talking about.
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happy new year LBDL
fight is also life
or life is also fight
lots of love and courage my friend
and a very happy new year to all of you girls
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Too cute - and yes, we must plan a meet in ‘09
Love syncing,
Tex
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Minnie wrote:
Tex, I thought you were describing yourself instead of the football!
Haha, that’s just very cute.
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Prost! Or as we say in Spanish… “¡Salud!”
Ein glĂĽckliches neues Jahr, Annermarlen!
Cris
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To you too, Annemarlen!
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I will think of all europeans here at 18h, your 0h best wishes
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Happy New Year, Anne!
Nothing but love
Tex
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Holla, now I’m in oops 2009!
Cheers, Cheers and all the best for the new year.. !!
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Okay, there seems to be a consensus here - I’ll have to copy that down some place to remember how to describe myself…..
Thanks……
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“¡Salud!” y Feliz año nuevo, Cris.
P.S. Don’t forget the grapes..
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Smooch, sweetheart! All the best back at ya…..
Tex
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LOL… I have my 12 grapes right here with me! Should I add 12 more for you?
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I know that 2009 will be an awesome year for you Tex….
Happy New Year my friend !!
*Kisses*….LBDL
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Yes, ah, thanks, would you do that for me?! Just to bad, I forgot my 12 now here in Germany.
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he he, look, we love ya…
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You are so right Cris…children are the future. Every step that we take, every positive move forward that we make, is one more obstacle that they will not need to overcome to live fulfilling lives.
Building a gentler world now, insures a safer world… with possibilities for understanding, that we have only begun to realize is so important to our survival.
Happy New Year and …….
Blessings to you and your family Cris.
LBDL
xxoo
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Happy New Year! Minnie, good luck for your inner tomboy in 2009!
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Tae……
Thank you for your awesome words throughout the past year.
You have a way of making me laugh, and cry…..
Happy New Year to you & and those you love…
LBDL
xxoo
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it’s good to feel like a pretty awesome folk in your post.
i wish you strength and agility to avoid all the roadblocks in your road.
XOXO
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YAY, a fellow tomboi. My boy is not good at air hockey but loves skimming stones, collecting stones and climbing trees.
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Cheers, Minniesota.
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Mins…….. I know that your 2009 is going to be fabulous !!
Happy New Year to you… and your beautiful Kitty (heee heeee), it is an honor to call you a friend!!
LBDL
xxoo
P.S. I was sick this Christmas. My sister didn’t allow me to participate in our traditional homemade tamale orgy. Next Christmas, Fed Ex will be early to your house. Chicken,Beef,Pork or Green Chile & Cheese??
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Happy New Year, my sweet Tex!
Cris
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To post your icon picture, you need to register there http://en.gravatar.com/
Cheer to you
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I’ll eat them for you!
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And I’ll think of you all, my friends from over the pond, from 6 am to 9 am my time!
(yep… I’ll be still partying and celebrating) 
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same here, I’ll think of you all. so: Cheers!.
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LB…
I know you weren’t talking to me…
but I’ll take one of each…
unless they’re small…
in which case I’ll take two!!!
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Chicken! I can’t wait. Yum. I had beef tamales today for an early New Year’s treat.
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The only time I miss my ex-most recent is when folks talk about home made tamales. (Chica could cook.)
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Happy New Year LB! Great post up above.
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You too, Cris!
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ahahaa..
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I’m eating 12 grapes right now for everyone! Blackeyed peas and cornbread here in the South with sipping bourbon and branch; got the pico de gallo with red sangria handy; boiled shrimp and white sangria on stand-by. If anyone else has a food tradition let me know - I’m hungry!
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You too, sweet thing!
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Same here! I wish you a
All my love!
Cris
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They’re not small (but,you already know that). Please, help yourself Itty. Have I ever said no to you ?
What were you talking about ?? heeee heeeeeee
A Very Gentle Embrace For the New Year,
LB……
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Yonks, I am soooooo glad you mentioned that. Yo, Minns, when is that oil wrestling match going to take place? I remember that my partner is Julia, who is yours? - what happened to OC/IC’s FYKE?
Oiling up right now,
Tex
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on collecting stones
After I had left the coast, my dad told me he wanted to get me something really special for my birthday, and wondered what I might really want. I told him to pick me out some rocks. His response, “Rocks? As in diamonds? Opals?” I explained that I wanted him to go to the beach by his house and find me some rocks that he thought were really neat. He sent me a collection of various small granite stones with a message explaining how each one made him think of a member of our family. They are among my favorites to this day.
I also really enjoy building natural stone walls. Right up there with pushing an old fashioned human powered mower.
Tae
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**sigh**
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Thanks Cris…
Wishing you the best in 2009!!!
xoxo
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If she doesn’t, I do! Do I get to wear a plume in my hat and wear those form fitting green tights? Oh, sorry, that’s Hollywood musketeers……or I can be the damsel in distress that the two of you fight over…..ummmmm!
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FYKE! Yikes, I forgot who my partner was going to be. I’ll draft Moon.
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The pic on the left looks like they’re covered in blood. Please, use clear oil for your match. I don’t want anything to mar the visual.
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Aww… Thanks LongBeach. That really does mean a lot to me. Despite the distance between us, this community can feel closer than family. And the pictures are way better than family photos!
Much love,
Tae
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Just wanted to jump in and say I love you both and think you’re both awesome.
xoxo -PK
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Thanks Tex…
and please extend my good wishes to kelakey if I don’t catch her online….
Cheers!
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Wow Tex! You found a picture as effervescent as you you are! Keep sparkling, Texas star.
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branch?
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here here, champagne “Rotkäppchen Sekt”
http://p3.focus.de/img/gen/Z/J/HBZJAbpa4SA_Pxgen_r_220xA.jpg
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As in the branch of a river?
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i wish i’d read this before. you do the 12-grape thing? i’d forgotten about that. thanks for taking up the slack. and shrimp, good choice. i’m unfamiliar with branch. what label bourbon?
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Oh Tex I like your food traditions. I’ve never heard of the 12 grape thing, but I’m loving the blackeyed peas and cornbread. We do the sauerkraut and pork thing up here.
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P.K., REPLYING TO YOU
i vaguely remembered the sauerkraut thing so i went to Top Dog & got a container but ate my hot dog without it. i didn’t get into it until january 2. does that count?
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TO ERIN - Jack Daniel’s for the American bourbon - Crown Royal for a sipping whiskey…..poured over a couple of ice cubes to slow melt….
TO ERIN AND TAE - “branch” is a Texas synonym for water.
TO PK - I’m diggin the sauerkraut and pork - love a great sausage with sauerkraut.
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**tears**
Damn girl……..you and your fish.
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Pepe and Tex in tights? With swords! I can bring my camera and document it for the site.
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I’m sure you’ll look awsome with a charcoal drawing mustaches
well yea, i guess even in a musketeer dress, Minnie will look more like a pirate. That’s not fair, damsel in distress always prefer pirate.
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Though jocking (doing a really hot jock/sports gal) can be a lot of fun!
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OK thanks. In PM I prefer…
Do you want me to correct both your english and french too?
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You teaser, you! We’ve got to meet at Jo’s to have coffee in 2009, my Lone Star friend! Happy New Year to you and yours….
http://www.joscoffee.com/congress/jossouthcongress.htm
Nothing but love
Tex
“branch” is water
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Happy New Year Tae!!!
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Coffee with Tex!! What hat should I wear? Tie? No tie? Removable tie!
I’ll have to get a new bandanna for my furry. Prepare to be licked!
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(can’t post pics right now..)
Cheers! to you both Cris and Tex!
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God bless you, Jules, and here’s to your sassitudinals of 2009 and beyond……know you’ll keep us informed of the hot screen scenes to come…..be safe
Love to you and yours
Tex
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No licking at Jo’s - well, two legged licking anyway! Looking forward to it, Tae - we’ll plan a Saturday! Casual, no ties
….
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Tae…
cool story…
I love collecting stones too.
Happy New Year to you!!!
P.S.
If we get up enough for a game…
can I play shortstop???
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itty, you can take any position you want!
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I wanna be catcher, please - I like talking trash and wearing a cup!
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Yay! Ittybitty wants to play too!
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She-he-he! My furry has 4 legs, and Jo’s is pooch friendly. Have no fear, Tex. How did I know you were going to go thumbs down on the tie?
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Happy New Year Itty!!!!
Happy New Year Everyone!!!!
Have fun and be safe!
XO
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there you are Kelakey…
I was saving this just for you…
Happy New Year…
Forgive me please!
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LMAO!!!!! Always forgive!!! Not the type of Pussy I had in mind for the new year!
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Did Tex get another pair of new boots? I never thought of her as the pink pussy type. They are a cute couple, though.
*ducking for cover*
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I know Lakey…
I don’t think I can post that ‘type’ here!!!
Have a great New Years!!!
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Thank God I have a good imagination!!!!
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Right back at ya, Kel! Don’t you gals get into too much trouble tonight.
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ROTFLMFAO!!!
I like to pitch AND catch. My only cups are double Ds.
Aren’t they all supposed to wera a cup? Those bouncing balls are dangerous.
Damn! I’m laughing so hard my pooch is freaking out.
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Did someone say DD’s……. holy shit girl.
I’m loving all this baseball/softball talk.
Slidin’ into home,
LBDL
xxoo
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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?????
I’m thinking nice little ‘beaters’ for uniforms.
Double D’s???
That totally explains your earlier comment about not running very fast.
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itty, do you think Tex would like this one?
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Taem…I’m up here on top…
replying to your comment down below.
I don’t know about Tex…
but I could definitely play in that!
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I’m digging all this overin’ for the replies to the comments….nice tee with the lady on the front….we can play in those - if we’re not any good we can distract ‘em!
Let’s see, what position do I want to play? You say everyone wears a cup? Okay, then I wanna be the cup!
and I think the name of the team could be Vp Double D’s!
Holding firm,
Tex
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Oh Tex, I like the name! Holding?
Dear, not so tightly. Those aren’t melons, you know!
Itty On Top: Sounds like a book title. Maybe a picture book.
Thanks for cheering me up ladies. On this sick ward even the shivers can be fun.
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Happy New Year, Erin! Keep that spirit up! I hope your self may genuinely smile in 2009, and find new ways for you to build new dreams to follow.
Cheers!
Cris
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Happy New Year, Rover!!! A big, big hug to you and your mom!
I’m sure your wishes will come true!
Cris
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Happy New Year! Btw, should I now say “Lucia 2009″?
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Happy New Year, CMW! My wish is that your wishes may come true. Please be sure that, beyond apparent differences, we are still a big family.
A big hug from Madrid!
Cris
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Thank you, hun
A big hug right back…
I want to share a video with you and everyone. I saw the Kennedy Honors the other night and was swept away by all the talent and this one song just had me…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJZiZqy61zs
First is Joss Stone (cooool) - Talking about my Generation
then comes Dave Grohl - Who are you
then…my favorite.. Bettye LaVette with - Love Reign Over Me
“only love can make it right
like when the beach is kissed by the sea
only love can make it right”
(what a performer….she had me in tears)
Maybe this could be in another blog, but….
I want love to reign over us this year….
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Happy New Year, Rusty! I agree that a true leader is needed, but also a solid, long-term strategy. This community shouldn’t just try “self-defense” tactics, reacting only to attacks from “the other side”… It’s time to take the lead, to play our own game and set the rules!
Anyway, I wish you all the best, our warrior lady!
Cris
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Yes, Rusty, I agree. Maybe with a president we can respect, we are entering a year of leadership and someone will emerge. I’d add Rachel Maddow to your suggested committee.
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Thanks, Rover!
As Minnie perfectly explained it, “celebrate the difference while finding common ground”…
A bigger hug! (Un abrazote),
Cris
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Happy New Year, Lezbeth!
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likewise, i’m sure
may we all find ways, alone & together, to be our truest selves
& advance the transformation
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Ow Tex, you have found exactly the music that my dancer can dance, sync ! Thank You!
Btw, I love TANGO too…
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Oh yes, please !!
And also cheek to cheek!
*Smooch*
Thanks Taem!
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Thank you, I know you like dancing too, don’t you?
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Joking on the moon is a jock stuff.
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Off topic (may I?)
one of your comment inspired me this little moving pic :
Sappho looking up at your comment.
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C’est très artisanal… I am not a professional…
but well… she seems to have some joy (the sound is missing)… 
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looks like a good eye exercise. AMAZING. i don’t even know how to post a picture.
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OK i wont do that again….
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Think she’ll join our ball game? She could bring Julia. Am guessing that girl can pitch.
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Back at ya Cris, Happy New Year!
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Tango?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bibtqDxXv1o&feature=related
Hmm… Maybe more like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3×7ognhwbhM&feature=related
Really, it would probably go more like this, with Tex and Kelakey bantering in the truck.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/617826/true_lies_tango/
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Well done! You can have a picture dual with Long Beach.
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yonks, bringing good will to the world one spray at a time.
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LOL!
is it the answer to my question?
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For me, the wheels have just about ground to a halt on the Rachel bandwagon.
Strike 1: I wasn’t happy with her “Everyone else is wrong; I still think Obama could lose” commentary the last two weeks of the election. It was over the top and unnecessary.
Strike 2: Her explanation last week about the issues underlying the current Israeli offensive was one-sided at best. I don’t know enough about the issues to decide what I think, but I can smell propaganda a mile off. (I know I’m sticking my neck way out on this one but like a lot of Americans, I am ignorant about Middle East issues. I have a feeling there is more balanced reporting in Israel than in the US.)
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Its not that i don’t appreciate to be spank but publicly…. I have a reputation to take care about
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Happy New Beer to you, too CS. And I agree that it’s time to go on the offensive.
I’d also like to remind folks that the voting demographics are starting to smile on us; once the old coots die off and more of our nieces and nephews turn 18 we’ll be achieving electoral victories. As Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight put it:
“The good news for supporters of marriage equity is that — and there’s no polite way to put this — the older voters aren’t going to be around for all that much longer, and they’ll gradually be cycled out and replaced by younger voters who grew up in a more tolerant era.”
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/prop-8-myths.html
And to bring it back around to the point Diana made - “be gay everyday” because the younger generation (both gay and straight) needs to see us.
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We just need to understand that playing it offensively does not mean to actually throw hate back. Because in reality, it is only reactions - and it’s not offensive, but defensive. Playing offensively is not reacting - but just moving forward.
The gay community needs to have leaders, or I want to really call them roll models, who don’t react, but just move forward and keep going about their being. A perfect example of a role model, in our community, of offensive tactics, is Ellen….and kd (whoda thunk?)…and Melissa.
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Musketeers don’t wear tights, do cowboy wear tutu?
I’m a poor lonesome musketeer, i’m a long long way from Roxanne
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Oops, I posted on the wrong comment. Sheesh.
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The third one is really funny (I like Jamie Lee Curtis- not very much shwartz-fait-la-guerre) but not artistic at all, lol.
I am waiting for the next lezmovie with courses of Tango, like the flamenco’s course in “l’auberge espagnole” (C. Klapish).
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=OnpG03uSJi4&feature=related
(no need to have the translation, you will understand…)
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Yikes! I missed that stuff. That sounds pretty disappointing.
I did watch last night for her “awards” and that was not so good. Perhaps because it was all so low budget, but the content was bad. I wrote it off to her first year and just trying things out. Maybe I need to pay more attention to see if I can catch what you’re saying.
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witch side did she take at the Israeli issues? do you have a link to the video?
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Thank you.
Hmmm… LBDL : high level !
Not sure I can compete…
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I loved that scene…
My new year resolution, take flamenco dance classes
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Her summary was definitely pro-Israel. As I recall, she made no mention of any legitimate Palestinian concerns. I’ll have to find the link.
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I’v found it thanks.
i’m on my way to watch it.
http://swedenburg.blogspot.com/2008/12/rachel-maddow-big-fat-idiot-on-gaza.html
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OK, first lesson:
Paulina Galvez and CĂ©cile de France in “L’auberge espagnole” by C. Klapisch
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“good eye exercise”> Haaaaaaa! I am rolling on the floor… yes it’s tiring, you want to tell her to stop a little, don’t you?
“ok…ok, thank you… ok…OK!!”
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/artsyt/1104190300/
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all right all right i will wear tights. Super hero wear tights too, i’ll be super musketeer!
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Vous serez le héros superbe du meilleur fichu mousquetaire sur la planète !
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You just wait - and here I was asking you to have coffee at Jo’s! I would not be caught dead in pink rubber boots…..
Not coupling,
Tex
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It’s funny for a parisian (I live in Paris, France) to see adverts for tiny houses.
Here, you CAN NEVER afford an appartment (not even a house), or, at least with 600 euros (average) per month for 15-20 m^2 (49-65ft^2- if my conversion is OK…10*10ft) of space.
So we are already used to “ecologic comfort” - in an “ecologic hole” called “city”.
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Personal advertising forum?
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(conversions need help 10m^2=10m*10m= 32.808 ft *32.808 ft ??)
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rowwwwwl! I love it when you get all fired up.
PS: I posted a picture! With glitter!! I’m so proud of me! Now if I can just remember how to do it again, since it took a couple of false starts.
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sh**!!
everytime I look at it again I see a mistake!!
20m^2 (20m²=4.472m*4.472m)=(65.616)ft² (=8.10ft*8.10ft)? Is it ok?
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I’ll second that motion. Or emotion. Or major hormone producing thought.
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oh, i was wondering who you were…
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Right back at ya!
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What did you want to say?
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It’s more something around 14tf*14.
a meter is 3.28 feet so for one meter square you have
3,28x 3,28= 10,75ft so 20m2=( 10,75×20)= 215,1ft2 = 14,67ft*14,67
you can also do 4,472×3,28=14,668
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It was the link for your dancer. I realized that I had made a separate post instead of a reply, and moved it down where it belonged.
Keep dancing!
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ok, it’s not bijective and you can say “feet square”, in fact I hadn’t done the conversion.
Thank you.
*** so: in Paris, you can live in 215ft² with 600euros, at least, when you know that the average salary is around 1300euros… it mean half of your salary into your appartment every month.**
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Oh my god I so want that t-shirt!! Did you make that yourself?
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Nope, I just googled Peace Kitty and clicked around until I found something cute. Sorry, should have included the link.
http://www.buddhiwear.com/shop/product/661e40e3-199f-4be1-b22b-b3d6b901ad87.aspx
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It’s not because I’m jealous, but… yes I am.
So I propose you PK something…
And I have to admit that I couldn’t get rid of the excellent logo of TAEM…
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good work taem
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OK
WE ARE NOT TAEM BUT A TEAM!
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ROTFLMAO! OMG dornac! lol
I could say so many things in response to that with the number of play-on words associated with peace (piece) and kitty (pussy), but I’m staying PG-13.
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Damn! Talk about 1 upsmanship. Nice job Dornac. That was quick work.
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for Kitty
Now see, I had that and took it out because I thought it might offend your sense of propriety. LOL So much for the prim Ms. Kit!
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i’d like to wear a pair in solidarity. except i’d move the nose up to where the lines meet so it looks more like a kitty.
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A lady needs some options.
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that’s why you need fusional relationship to share space… and everything else.
how much is a good pain-au-chocolat?
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The imperial system is a *&?%&?%$@# i really don’t understand why those morons stick to it.
they should used roman numeral for their calculation…
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yea but in france it’s1/5 the size of quebec and it got twice the all canadian population.
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J’entrave quetchi a ta rĂ©moulade.
“FRENCH are more people than YOU”
so what are we if we’r less peoples, monkey? never heard such arrogant thing, even Americans when they think that, never dare to say it out loud
(a pétasse, pétasse et demi)
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wait a second
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When you have too much peoples doing their dejection in a too small land, the country, soon became a big piece of shit, a big sky open toilet! and you want to fart at the top of it?
it’s too far stinky, even for pepe
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they recycling it in food, thats why frenchs are so full of shit
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I have a bad impression that i just shoot my own foot LOL
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faut qu’j'y aille bise
XOXO
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welcome to the team !
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SAPPHO, UP HERE DARLING
you know Moonster wants eventually to sell stuff on the site. this could be… a money maker. imagine how special we’d feel, all going out into the world wearing THE SAME KNICKERS
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Yes welcome Erin! I would make the peace sign in the gay rainbow colors.
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This still needs some work. Please feel free to copy and play. Or you might do better from scratch. I just have basic paint and my art is always primitive.
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Silk screened? The last thing I did was a wall hanging in junior high. Anyone have any experience with panties?
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I don’t know, I am on a diet!
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2 euros (2,8 $)
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Erin, there’s a lady who insult me and look for BIG BIG BIG trouble. of course, i can give her a lecture but it would not be very noble for a butch, what should i do?
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TO THE COMMENT BELOW
Don’t call momy like that, YONKS!!
***dornac: pétasse jusqu’au bout***
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What pleasure do you have in calling back, all the time, -yes, people,she does it often- that we are, French (see French as BIG ones) that we , French are smaller than you in this stupid rate of 1/5?
Remember, darling, that we, FRENCH are more people than YOU (only 7 744 530 in Quebec? oh… not even Paris and suburbs…) and PEOPLE is the most important !
ahhh..m just sayin’…
***dornac: pĂ©tasse jusqu’au bout***
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Yonks and Dornac, are you familiar with the American term pissing match? Please, when is the next round? I make a great corner person.
Much love,
Tae
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to taem below
I guess its not easy to follow, i admire your perseverance.
well i’m sure your pretty good at this game
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pfff cé pô du français çô
***dornac: pétasse jusqu’au bout**
trans: french? where is FFFrrench heeere?
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tu veux compete en pétasse en plus?
-qu’on pète en pĂ©tasse?-
no translation is possible here, sorry, this is just a SLUT story, you know…
***dornac: pétasse jusqu’au bout***
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We know how to bury our dejections.
http://www.andra.fr/dechets-radioactifs/enterrement-des-dechets.htm
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LOL
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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bises
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Oh my goodness…
Tae, might I remind you of the ‘objectification warning’…..
Someone may be roving around here that could be terribly offended by your objectifying of Peacekitty…..
One clue: It’s not me.
Lovin’ the customized panties,
LBDL
xxoo
P.S…… Ohhhh Kitty, you should be modeling these. Maybe we could put together a Peacekitty fashion show as a fund raiser for VP.
All in favor say…….Meowwwwwwwww !!
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This is supposed to be down under LongBeach…
errrrrrrr….under LongBeach’s comment I mean…
Hee,Hee.
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*** Objectification Warning ***
For the VP Meowwwwww! PK Fashion Show
enjoy!
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Great!
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Hey Ms. Moon-
Delighted to see that things are going so wonderfully over here. It’s a mitzvah indeed.
Happy in the New Year!
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I am just a Bigelow’s
And everywhere I go
People know how fan I’m baby…
(chorus: “Bigelow’s, Bigelow’s”)
Happy New Year
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Hi m
Thanks for your lovely comment on the other thread. I am looking forward to sharing more e-chats with you this year.
Hope your first day back at work is okay - I woke up to snow this morning!
S
xx
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I think homosexuals are as much disrespected in the Christian community as they are in the Muslim community. Why not write to Google, and give them your opinion? Since, it is their ad generator that gives us the links here.
But just a quick question. If that ad would have been a single Christian dating service, how would you have felt?
I know those who were not Christian, would feel pressured, but being you are a proclaiming Christian, maybe you would not feel so…strained and pulled…and uneasy.
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Rover :
Yes. I am a Christian, and will never apologize to you for my faith in God. I do believe, and I am faithful to my Lord and Saviour… Jesus Christ.
And no… Christians, in contemporary times, do not condemn a man or woman to death because they are ‘perceived’ to be, or may in fact be, homosexual.
And… nowhere on this earth in 2009, will a man or woman, be put to death for the simple act of loving an individual of the same sex, except for countries where a strict Muslim doctrine is adhered to, and is the basis for that countries laws…….
So please, Rover…. read what I say. Please try to understand the ‘intent’ behind the words, before you criticize my Christianity and faith. I do respect an individuals right to be a practicing Muslim, however…… I will never respect any religion, politically oppressive society, or theocracy that believes death should be the penalty for love…… NEVER.
I believe, at this point, I’ve said all I care to say.
LBDL
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There’s lesbian muslims, you know.
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i woke up to snow too !
Paris and most of all my countryside roads are a mess under snow (hope i can go home tonight !).
first day at work ? 246 messages to read and replied (or forget…)
hope yours is OK
xxx
m
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Okay, this bantering has gotten ridiculous. Please stop. I don’t mind anyone countering each other with their ideals, but this countering has gotten too personal. No where on this site should anyone be making satirical comments to anyone else about their religious beliefs - that is absolutely crossing the line of commenting etiquette. I’m asking you, pleading with you, please don’t do this here. This is not the place for personal vendettas - if you have a personal grievance with someone, just stay away from their comments. This precedent does not need to be set - not here - not now - not by us……
Thanks with love,
Tex
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HELLLLOW STEPH AND LMZ!!
Yes SNOOOOWWW in Paris.
I love it too
1/ Less Noise
2/ More light
3/ Cars driving slower
The best ecologic weather.
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I love it too - I “crunched” all the way up my road this morning!!! I think we are going to get more later in the week. Isn’t it amazing how the snow affects the noise level…
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Yes our mineral environment suddenly turned into white soft cotton… sort of anesthesis.
crunch… crunch… crunch
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I’m jealous! Got the freezing rain going here - yuk!
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I’m not criticizing your religion or faith. But there is substance to being offended or more sensitive to other religions - and this is across the board.
I’m not asking you to apologize for being Christian. But I did ask you a question you failed to answer.
“If that ad would have been a single Christian dating service, how would you have felt?”
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This isn’t a personal vendetta, but I am asking a question…and doing so politely. We all talk about how much we can grow by dialog - and I don’t think that this dialog is any more different than that of one to look deeper with honesty and intelligence.
If you think this is bantering, as in real fighting with hate, you are wrong.
This bantering, if anything, is with the intent of intellectual growth.
but I guess it was ok for long to come up out of know where while I was talking with Ca Medicine woman and just yell “what the fuck ever”…and then poke fun. That was…well, apparently acceptable to you.
but me actually moving on and trying to discourse in dialog, of actual importance in understanding how we relate and feel…and grow from that, and MOVE on from prior discussions - is actually not trying to start something, except for change.
but I see where we stand. thanks.
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Rover:
With all due respect, I felt that you would understand the ‘intent’ of my words….
However, if this will help to clarify it for you : I would welcome a Christian dating service advertising here. I don’t believe that there is a Christian mandate, backed by irrational religious zealots, to kill homosexuals simply because of who we love……
Rover, this is about advertising. Nothing more. Please don’t read more into this than the original post intended……
LBDL
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Hi Steph……..
Happy New Year to you my friend!!
I hope that you enjoy a year filled with good health,
and warm, passionate love!!
Peace in ‘09
LBDL
xxoo
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No you don’t….and you do understand what I meant….better yet, so do others. There comes an obvious point when bantering becomes bullying with its intent and purpose.
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This is not bullying. But I’ve seen others, that roam on here, bully.
My intent is to learn - it is why I question. but thank you so much for letting me know that others, and maybe you, talk about me off this website. I’ve always tried to keep away from talking about other members of the OC/VP community - especially when it was not in the open.
ever since I spoke up about OC after it’s demise - I was oust from the group, because I wasn’t pissed off at OC…like everyone else was…or at least I wasn’t expressing it like ya’ll.
And seriously, I’ve been bullied, and others have been bullied out of no where, by long and it - and all for fun. And because I continue to talk with her, and actually ask her questions that are very viable…it’s my fault and I”M BULLYING.
If anyone actually cared about talking about problems and wanting to fix them, and evolving and changing… when things and opinions come up - people do question.
I spoke that I wasn’t questioning her faith, but was trying to dig deeper into why she had such a huge problem with a Muslim dating site being advertised here. And in light of how much fight we have with the Christian community over our rights and because of our own dealings with people killing and beating us up and raping us, because it wasn’t God’s way to be homosexual…and those that do that to us here in America are “Christian”.
But there is a dislike between religions…and well, since 9/11…a lot of people have very little tolerance of Muslims, especially on our own homeland. Americans are more sensitive to those that seem a threat…or are different.
Many homosexuals would have a problem with any religious dating site being advertised here - especially if they had broke away from mass religion itself. Homosexuals are banned from most religious communities and have to make their own religious communities.
I thought you knew me. I guess I was wrong. I don’t bully, but I do seek to learn and understand.
You’ve been mad at me…and waaay long before this…your beef with me was the OC deal and how they treated Moon and everyone. It’s easy to take another side when your mad at the one person.
I didn’t think there were sides here. This is a community that works things out - by questioning and discussing.
I’m not a click person anyways…peace.
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I read the first three paragraphs and stopped - again, you are making this personal - it is not……you cannot be subjective when you make it personal - period.
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