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    Weekly Wrap Up (Nov. 17 - Nov. 23)

    By wildone

    Steve has climbed into his cave and don't wake him up until the end of April.  I think it it is @Slytherin's turn to stay awake this winter   That bear just happens to be the colour of outdoors.  We got dumped on the past week. No road lanes, no sidewalks, no nothing. All buried in snow. It is beautiful if you don't need to go out into it  Also, the temperature dropped into the minus celsius without windchill  Winter is here, I hereby declare. May you all share the wonder of it  
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Thank A Teacher

So this past week was Teacher Appreciation Week, and I think it is all very important that everybody thank a teacher that really taught you something valuable. The very fact that you can enjoy reading on Gay Authors all stems from an early elementary school teacher showing you all the skills and techniques of being an effective reader. The fact that so many of you can write wonderful, sweeping, complex stories all began with learning how to write basic sentences in preschool, kindergarden, and 1
TetRefine

TetRefine

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Happy Mother's Day

Happy mother's Day to all mothers, Step-mothers, foster mothers and adoptive mothers. You all do a wonderful job and this day is especially for you all. xxxxxxxxxxx
Caz Pedroso

Caz Pedroso

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This Week

This week is one I would not want to re-live ever.   It started on Sunday with one of the worst things that could ever happen. I got the call from my uncle that my sister has passed away. I didn't believe him and called him all sorts of things but he still stood my me. He was here for my parents while I was 1,000 miles away in Iowa. I got on the first flight I could to be home.   I had to help my parents prep and get things ready to lay my sister to rest. She was only 18 months older than me
AquariusGuy

AquariusGuy

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Rhyming Is Fundamental

. Rhyming is Fundamental   I'm no great Rhymin' Simon, and make lots of 'mistakes' that would cause academics to wag boney fingers at my poetry night and day, but I do know something about the basics. I thought I'd share some information and thoughts on how you can be more comfortable making your own rhymes. I'm not going to present these ideas in a 'right or wrong' method. Rules exist to be broken, but artistry means you know what you are breaking and do it deliberately.
AC Benus

AC Benus

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Summers Been Released In Hastings

Bank holiday Monday (4th May) saw the Traditional Jack in the Green parade in my hometown of Hastings UK.   Every year Morris dancers from all over gather to perform and walk the streets of Hastings Old Town.   The parade ends on the West Hill, where the Jack is symbolically slain, releasing the spirit of summer for another year.   It is a very busy day for the town, with thousands of outsiders gathering to witness the festivities. Many come on their motorcycles, there can be over 40,000
Caz Pedroso

Caz Pedroso

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The Plan

When navies build a ship, it's a big expensive deal. Ships are supposed to last decades but many things change over decades. There are engineering improvements and new technologies. Missions expand and more capabilities are required. There is a real danger and, it has happened many times, that multi-million dollar state of the art warships are obsolete before they leave their builders slip.   It's called different things by different services. Refit. Modernization. Overhaul. Sailors wouldn't c
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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Human Nature Is A Vicious Cycle

In modern civilizations, we hold ourselves as "enlightened" and above the old crimes of the past. Yet as recent history would tell us, such claims are haphazard. Lewis Sinclair would say, "Now is the fact that can't be dodged", because we have a tragic issue beyond just a few isolated cases. There is a terminal illness inside the experiment of free democratic societies.   No matter how long we struggle, how true our cause, or how noble our sacrifices; somethings persist in society, an "open so
W_L

W_L

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Again, Sometimes The Fix Is Easy...

Okay, so here's my funny for today....   The safety release cable that connects from the engine to the handle on our lawnmower broke at the end of last season. We thought we'd have to buy a new mower but we managed to fix it and get it running again.   So I come home after dropping my daughter at her golf lesson, and there is one strip of lawn cut. My husband said that's all he could do before it just quit.   When I asked if he knew what was wrong, he said, "I'm just a computer guy.
craftingmom

craftingmom

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On A Dead Child By Middleton

ON A DEAD CHILD by Richard Barham Middleton   Man proposes, God in His time disposes, And so I wander'd up to where you lay, A little rose among the little roses, And no more dead than they.   It seemed your childish feet were tired of straying, You did not greet me from your flower-strewn bed, Yet still I knew that you were only playing -- Playing at being dead.   I might have thought that you were really sleeping, So quiet lay your eyelids to the sky, So still your hair, b
MrM

MrM

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Youtube Turns 10

YouTube is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month, and to celebrate, I thought I'd post my favorite 10 videos from YouTube. What are yours?   10. by Jenna Marbles, 2010  I love how Jenna Marbles packs insightful social commentary into a dumb blonde persona. Well-done.   9. " , 2008  Twilight brought much laughter during its run, least of all the many, many spoofs that existed.   8. , 2007  For context: Britney Spears 2007 VMA's   7. "Oakland!", 2009 (A Tourism Guide)  
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Q & A With The Beast

Why did you change your avatar from the silly cat to the blue Beast?   I'm posting Broken here at GA and that ties into that story.   Why did you post Broken? It's been on the shelf for a long time.   I'm stronger now. I plan to finish it. Anyone that has read it up to this point will tell you that there is a lot of ugly stuff in it and you can tell by the last chapter- it's going to get worse fast.   There's a whole lot of drugs in it...   Duh. It was the seventies. The whole country
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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About Obama

I live in region where there is little love for Obama.   Some people tune in to a ton of FOX News or something to that effect, and their opinions are shaped by different information than the information I absorb from such sources as "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," MS-NBC, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, NORML, the BBC, the New York Times, and a liberal education in English literature and upbringing as the son of two college professors.   Today I drank beer with a kind, gentle, g
Drak

Drak

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Ingress Anyone?

So about a month ago, my husband started playing this google maps game called Ingress. If you don't know what it is, it is basically an overlay of google maps with things called Portals. There are two teams--the Green Enlightened group and the Blue Resistance group, of which you pick your side when you join. Then you 'hack' the portals and attack the portals from the other team to gain points (AP). The part I like about the game is that it gets me out walking to new and interesting places.
craftingmom

craftingmom

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Iceland's Facebook War Over Sex Education

Iceland is one of the most progressive countries in the world when it comes to gay rights - but more conservative views are not unknown, and one prominent musician has started a social media storm by attacking a new sex education curriculum. Gylfi Aegisson was once one of Iceland's most well-liked musicians, known for his folk songs about sailors. But he's now attracted the ire of gay rights groups after criticising authorities in one small town who decided instruction about homosexuality would
MarcW

MarcW

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My Beliefs On God And Religion

Recently, I was given a questionnaire by a student instructed to interview a homosexual. One of the questions was whether I was religious. I put down that I did not belong to a religion.   Do I believe in God? I have trouble with the semantics. I think we need to determine what is meant by the word before we go any farther. God means different things to different people, just as Lucifer does. Every divinity seems to fluctuate in popularity and reputation just like a soft drink brand. A lot dep
Drak

Drak

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Without A Hitch

I should have known better. Really, I should of, but I didn't. I had faith that everything would be A-OK. We found a house, we put reservation money on it, we could afford it, we got the mortgage, we chose our options, they built my house (and my kitchen) just the way I wanted it.   And then the fuck-up happened.   Here I am, sitting in a land of boxes, with two plates and one saucepan in my stripped out kitchen, and instead of surviving like this for another day, we have to manage for anot
Sasha Distan

Sasha Distan

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What matters to me and what matters to you?

Lots of stuff has changed in the last 4 months: I have left my old job and have moved to a new company. I am getting paid more working as a corporate accountant for an insurer, but I felt more drained and lost ever since I got this new job. I have done a lot in health care, a lot in finance, but there is something so mechanical and dehumanizing with the insurance industry. I don't know what it is, but I think I can understand why Brad Pitt started a Fight Club Revolution now   I have been sor
W_L

W_L

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What a difference a year makes

It’s been almost a year since I posted a blog entry, but what a different place I find myself in now to where I was a year ago which was kinda dark and more than just a little bit scary. When I read those last few blog entries I can see how much I was retreating inside myself, letting negativity and self-doubt take over and keep me from doing the things I loved. I’d stepped away from martial arts, stepped away from writing, stepped away from almost every online community I belonged to and just s
layla

layla

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20th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which is the largest domestic terrorist attack that has happened in the U.S. On April 19th, 1995, 168 people died when Timothy McVeigh parked a van in front of a federal building filled with explosives. Bill Clinton, who was president when the attack happened, lead the memorial ceremony today. 20th Anniversary of Oklahoma City Bombing Remembered   I was 2nd grade when this happened, and its the first big tragedy that I remem
methodwriter85

methodwriter85

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Boston Bomber

I'm tired of hearing about murderers in the news. I don't really think their trials are newsworthy. The latest headline concerned the Boston Bomber. Do victims' families want him executed? I guess some journalist took a poll.   You know what, who cares? My opinion on the Boston Bomber can be summarized in four words: Take Out The Garbage.   Human life is neither precious nor rare enough to nurse a mass-murderer all his days. There are millions in the world dying of various causes, disease, f
Drak

Drak

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Boys and Sex

There has always been some inequality of the sexes - even tonight my son was teasing a teammate that he'd been beaten by a girl and I had to explain to him why that wasn't the way to tease. But, as was discussed in the recent Sanitaria Springs story, Asher, there exists a disconnect between boys and underage sex and girls - specifically when their partner is of legal age.   Firstly, sex in these circumstances is, in my opinion, wrong. It isn't an equal relationship, the adult has the power, th
Dabeagle

Dabeagle

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Police Misconduct- Have you experienced it?

I'm curious to hear from my readers:   Have you ever been on the wrong end of police misconduct?   Bullying, Harassment- that sort of thing?   I'm considering a story that involves it and I would like to hear your experiences.   If you aren't comfortable replying here, please PM me.
JamesSavik

JamesSavik

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