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It was this song that got me into liking classic rock: I heard the real Chuck Berry song later and it got me hooked into classic rock. I saw the movie in the 1995 on my local cable station, it is one of my favorite movies of all time. As for non-rock and roll oldies: http://youtu.be/1gewTWM6fH0 Yes, I am a fan of the Bee Gees' soft Ballads

Since banger got sidetracked, I'll have to be the one to point this out. Those British boys were hot !!! (drooling ) Thanks to all the athletes and good events. Rio will be interesting, does anyone know whether the Olympics was ever done South America?

Well, you do know I am a science fiction writer, so I do take my scientific research as deeply as I can get it. I am a huge fan of scientific development. I noticed there was a strange correlation in SIV infections of primates with AIDS like symptoms in Asia and India, not Africa where it originated, so perhaps there is an environmental factor that has led to a genetic factor in Asian populations that could be part of HIV origin into AIDS after centuries of SIV dormancy in primates in Africa without issue. Maybe, we might cut down the time to find a working cure for AIDS (the current prototype is based on a limited and prohibitive research development of stem cell blood treatment) I think prohibiting stem cell research is ludicrous, when it is currently the best means we have to fight AIDS. Of course, I also am writing a science fiction story with the idea as background, so there's a reason why I do know an amount about viral origin theory and some AIDS research.

You need to move to the big cities on the east coast, we'll bend you right Anyone know if TMZ is getting sued by the UK for exposing Prince Harry?

Well, he has a future in playgirl magazines covers Myr is still a gay guy, beneath his admin hat; we all need to be reminded of that from time to time.

Looks like it affect autoantibodies and blocks chemical interferon gamma for the body. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/22/aids-like-disease-asians-immune-system_n_1823296.html (Yes, I will use Huffington post outside the Soapbox ) My thinking is more along the lines of viral origin for HIV. Viruses are still mysterious. Under most theories right now, retroviruses, specific to the group which HIV is part, are believed to be a RNA based chemical entity (no, it's not living; though it shares similarities to life), it is possible for RNA to transcribe incorrectly and create DNA that holds the incorrect chemical keys for a human bodies natural functions i.e. the immune response as HIV does. The articles also said that the disease was misdiagnosed as TB, so I wonder how many other times have people made that mistake. Maybe, the disease is far older and more chronic than 2004, when it was first identified. The origin theory right now on HIV is that SIV or Simian Immunodeficiency Virus was the starting point for HIV from Africa due to human beings eating monkey meat infected with SIV (West Africans have been doing that for centuries with no issue and the apes are not affected by SAIDS originally, which makes me wonder.). The species of primates in Africa that were infected with SIV did not get AIDS like syndromes and lived normally. However, outside African primates, Asian and indian primates would get AIDS like symptoms, if they were infected with SIV. For me, it was just a hypothesis, sorry to get everyone into angry protest.

May the passage to what lies before you in death be as bright and monumental as those steps that you took in life RIP Neil Armstrong,

I did say it's a long-shot hypothesis. I work with doctors, but I am not a doctor. I am simply an upper management accountant, who doe doesn't sit in his office waiting for people to deliver numbers to me I like hearing them debate medicine and information between disciplines. It would be fascination, since we spent several hundred billion dollars on African HIV research and experimentation thinking it was a cross species viral mutation based on a evolutionary link with chimps, when this disease was present in Asian population and it could have been a inter-species viral transcription issue. I am not discounting evolutionary theory that SIV to HIV are linked under standard origin ideas, but posing a possible alternative that it was a inter-species.

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=120006S9RJMO This is really fascinating, it's a rare disease that only affects Asians, is not communicable through a virus or other carrier agent, and yet it bears a striking resemblance to the bane of GLBT people, AIDS. As a gay Asian male, it hits close to home on two fronts. Also, due to the misdiagnosis of the disease to Tuberculosis, there could have been many people of Asian descent, who suffered. Seeing a natural form of the HIV-AIDS issues, any type of religious connotation about the disease being God's wrath on gays should never have been levelled. I know this might seem like a long-shot hypothesis, but what if AIDS did not originate in Africa as infectious disease experts believe for the last 30 years, what if AIDS was naturally formed, then a virus copied genetic codes within Asians, who held the immunity issue. If this disease has been present in the Asian population under the misdiagnosis of Tuberculosis, then there could have been a large base for a rogue virus to work with. This isn't a conspiracy theory (I've read the stuff about the US government secret genocide against gays, too, which I am skeptical towards), it is plausible alternative to the African theory. Biologist have been trying to link up West African chimps to humans for years through SIV (SIV however when in human bodies dies very quickly and cannot manifest the AIDS symptoms that we see today), but cross species infection might not be the real reason.

Boxers and undershirts, my dog jumps on me in the morning to wake me, naked leave marks. On vacation, i could sleep in a lot of ways depends on weather and air condition.

Well, we can try setting them up As for the questions: yes, he does go on long walks and see other dogs. However, most boy dogs ignore or are too rough for him and he ignores girl dogs except to bark. His best friend was the dog across the street who was around his size and could wrestle with him. They would bark at one another at night driving us crazy. As a reference, my dog is a cross between a pure bred pomeranian and mixed beagle. He's not small like a toy poodle, but he's smaller than a Labrador retreiver He likes cats, boy and girl, even working with them to chase little squirrels. He has personally caught two mice in our house, so we sort of think of him as a cat.

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I've noticed he's been very lonely recently, He no longer humps stuff or runs around much anymore (No I will never have my dog neutered, I personally think it is cruel to castrate your best friend). Anyway, it coincided with a neighbor moving away with their dog (a boy dog, who's three years younger than him. As I said in my blog entries a few years back, my dog isn't exactly heterosexual), who just lives across the street. I know he's getting on in years at age 12, but I don't want him to feel left out and lonely. Does anyone know how to help with Doggie depression? With all the big discussions and stuff, I know this topic is fluff, but I'd like to hear what you guys think I should do.

Not really, we'll all become Google OS based cyborgs before Bing can even become a common term

I hate to say this, but I agree with Zombie, where did I focus on the teacher? I focused on the kid and then I focused on the education system. I come from a family of teachers, who were working under even worse condition during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, so Wildone, I think you misunderstand my point.

Zombie, are you copying my points from two weeks ago in the Soapbox? I already said my part about education reform and the need for specialized track education, which do not exist by in large around the world. In addition, this kid is like the Mozart of Oncology, why not give him a helping hand? Einstein was great at math and science, but sucked in language and other studies. The only real generalist genius in recorded history without a tint of the religious iconic figure (unless your Dan Brown) was Leonardo Da Vinci and we haven't seen another generalist like him in centuries.

Nope I want to see the front too... For comparison Daniel radcliffe disappointed me after his expostion.

Some of us enjoy boggling the royal jewels He's a young guy, who picked up some girls and had fun playing private games. Why is that so scandalous? Now if he picked up some boys, we would just be jealous not to be part of his group.

my point exactly, awhooooo! Thanks for sharing

So, how do you explain the unexplained? Is there life after death? Is there such a thing as extra-sensory perception? Or, can everything be explained by science and observation, i.e. we see ghosts, because we think they are ghosts rather than people. My example may not even be a premonition, but just my mind anticipating outcomes, perhaps I saw the old man before and noticed something about him in my subconscious that he did not know about his health. Maybe, the civil war spirit was simply a re-enactment actor, who was disoriented and drunk after a show, then the humidity and bog in your area generated a mist that made him appear translucent. The paranormal and supernatural are great topics of discussion, for skeptics and believers.

I've had weird dreams for years, like I was walking in another body or something. In one of them, i dreamed i was in the hospital as an old man dying in my bed, but i knew it was not my body. When i went to my hospital for eye surgery, I saw the old man from my dreams and a shudder drew up my spine. He did die during my stay. I don't know how i knew months in advance. It's not like seeing ghosts, but it is still creepy. I went to a psychic once, just for fun and he said i had a strange energy about me, not evil just not natural.

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I took the test and I am a real 6: Your result for The Kinsey-n-Klein Orientation Test ... Kinsey - 6 You scored 84 variable 1! Exclusively homosexual with no heterosexual leanings. A single gender is all you want. Not a touch of breedery instincts in you. Perfectly delightful though. And sexy. You scored 84% on variable 1, higher than 91% of your peers. http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-kinsey-n-klein-orientation-test

Oops, didn't notice this one, Happy Birthday Panda Bear

This song is making me cry: