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Today is John's birthday, johnwut. John is "Brian" in It Started With Brian. I know he isn't here as often as he used to be, but I wanted to wish him and his son a great day today and thank him once again for allowing Dan to write the story of their lives. The story had a great effect on me and touched me so deeply. It isn't easy to lay your life and emotions out there naked for the world to see, but I hope he knows the great good done by the story. Happy birthday and God bless.

Love beef liver, coated in in flour, salt and peppered and fried in bacon fat with onions. Chicken liver same way or cooked yakiniku style with gizzards, hearts, and other assorted small meats.

Don't need one, but short and spiky would be cute too.... let's face it, you are very nice looking, there isn't much a different hair style would do to change that.

Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone (November 4, 1916

I guess it depends on what comes to mind when you say incest. I just don't get the parent child thing, I can't imagine how that happens how the normal parent child relationship gets twisted around. Now two brothers experimenting when they are teens or pre-teens, yeah I get how that happens and that doesn't seem odd and might even been more common than not. But at the same time, I don't get or wouldn't get a boy experimenting with his sister, I just didn't grow up that way thinking about my sisters. Flowers in the Attic made me very uncomfortable. Cousins? I guess it depends on how close you both in terms of genetics (first cousin vs third cousin, etc) and how you were raised. I had first cousins I was raised around that were as close as brothers and sisters and I couldn't see them that way because of cultural taboos I suppose, but then there were some of the cousins I never saw except for every 2 - 4 years at family reunions and I didn't feel the same social constraints when it came to attraction (please note attraction, not action). So what am I saying? I would have a hard time reading a story that put a positive light on an incestuous relationship in the parent child situation or opposite sex siblings. I would understand the usage of it as dramatic background to explain how someone developed.

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"churches are masters of indoctrination" Eh not really. Ever been to an Episcopalian service? Nice platitudes.... be nice to everyone, sing Hymn #58, have a nice day..... UCC is pretty similar, be happy, be nice, hug a neighbor.... I wouldn't go to Calvary Chapel or a Foursquare Gospel (did someone put the snakes away?) but a lot of churches barely have any doctrine at all.

It works both ways, a boyfriend can make you a better person or drag you down in the muck. Relationships seldom solve problems, they create new ones and shift focus from the old ones. How you deal with and get through the problems is where growth comes from. And depending on where you are in the relationship (good days, bad days) it has a definite affect on you emotionally and it can have a huge impact on your life as whole.

Ha ha, so sweet, so innocent

Human like creature - Elvis. Animal like creature - Hippogriff.

You are the author hun, make it as big as you want.

Ha I love words.... by being "disappointed" in their judgment, aren't you saying poor judgment without the poor? People might "choose" to be underweigt, overweight, to cross dress, to act queeny, to butch it up... if you say you are disappointed in the choices, are you not judging? I'm just saying....

I hope I misunderstood Skyline, but then Yang Bang said this: "When a person is strictly under/overweight because of the lifestyle they choose to live, that's "uber" disappointing. Of course, there's a range for what counts as a healthy weight and it varies by individual, but if someone is 20 lbs under/over because they eat poorly and never move, that's grounds for being at the end of critical remarks." If I hadn't seen blatant "size-ism" in the gay community, especially among younger people, I wouldn't give it a second thought, but I've been at tables at the local coffee house, like the Abbey in WeHo before it went crazy bar place, and heard the catty comments from my friends about overweight and underweight guys. It always makes you wonder when you leave the table what comments are made about you. I am okay with the large person having to buy two seats if they won't fit into one without spilling over into the next seat, but not the judgment, especially given that overeating is often a symptom of some deeper hurt, ditto for undereating.

This phrase has been bothering me for days, I keep subbing in words like "gay", "bi" and "cross dresser" , for "large" and "overweight" and the statement, despite your denial, does sound hateful and judgmental. Maybe you don't really mean it that way. It is very easy to be misunderstood on the Internet. I guess if you mean by "you must suffer the consequences of your actions", with things like health problems, I can get that, but not if it means discrimination from people, comments from people, etc. are ok.

Hopefully with cash in the eggs......

I guess it doesn't make much sense to me, he really must be crazy because who in their right mind would want to stop everyone from getting Kit-Kats?

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Not at an MCC church and probably not at an open and affirming church. People who don't believe have used "the church" to socially or politically climb for years.

Personally I've never had any problems with Nifty and nothing but helpfulness when I posted over there.

What about church? If there isn't a Metropolitan Community Church near you Google Open and Affirming churches for your area. You don't need to be a Christian to go, but it can be a cool place to meet people. I don't know where you are in MI, but if it is Lansing, Detroit or Ann Arbor, I can't imagine anyone cares a bunch, especially professionally.

On a cold & rainy night One Mister Miller had a rare flight Glen was up there boppin' a rhythm Then the engine stopped to listen with him http://www.youtube.c...h?v=HkgvyYuSTWA Yes indeed he did, Yes he did Parker played in Birdland Yes he really did Yes indeed he really did told the truth way down in Birdland Yes indeed he did, Yardbird Parker played in Birdland Yes indeed he really did, Charlie Parker played in Birdland

Should Sea World release the video of the attack on the trainer? The family has asked them not to. Does the public have a right to see it, or is it only a prurient pursuit?

I'll Be Home for Christmas. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIq-jqm4Vdg&feature=related It became a symbolic song during WWII. I think of all the young Americans in Europe and the Pacific who heard it and never made it home for Christmas again. And God Bless America. Especially when sung by Ronan Tynan, he has become intertwined with that song and 9-11 for me.