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You have summarized in a very comprehensive fashion everything I like and take advantage of in the NYT digital version. It costs me around $32 CDN a month after exchange rate is taken into account. A real bargain for information and entertainment all in one format that is easy to use. I have a digital subscription to Toronto’s Globe & Mail newspaper but the format is not half as good and is difficult to read easily and costs more. Go figure.

As a Canadian, the only US publication I read daily is the NYT. 20 years ago, when I was spending my winters in Miami, I also read the WSJ daily and other US publications Like the Miami Herald. After the financial meltdown in 2008, I lost interest in the WSJ as an apologist for Wall St. To balance my reading. I also listened to NPR on a daily basis. Today I only listen to it a few times a week. My political leanings are liberal but I do try to listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity sometimes, just to hear what the other side is saying undiluted. My television viewing has ended as on March as my old TV set died during the pandemic and when the shops were open again I had lost interest in the endless news about Trump’s latest outrages. I’ve never detected anti-semitism in the NYT, as opposed to criticism of the government of Israel and its policies, which is fair game and should not be conflated with anti-semitism. Of course, there may have been specific articles that contained an anti-Semitic tone but forgive me if I do not read every article. There is simply not enough time in my otherwise busy days. I grew up in a WASP family but became familiar with Jewish people at university, law school, and in my professional life. I made friends with them as easily as with other people of different backgrounds than my own. Here in Canada we live in a multi-cultural society and strive to be open to everyone. Of course there is intolerance here too, as in the US. The important thing is to keep people accountable for what they say and do and to speak up when it crosses the line.

Did he drive it all the way in? And, if so, did you require reconstructive surgery after??

Ps our transport minister is a former astronaut who has been to outer space a few times. He was heavily criticized after the second Max crash when he delayed like the Americans for an extra day in grounding the jet, when British and other major countries had all moved immediately to ground theirs. This time he is apparently not going to be caught off side again.

For me the key takeaway from the investigation was that the Max 737 uses older technology and can’t use computers systems that newer plane designs can to assist pilots in dealing with emergencies. So it relies on humans dealing with a situation where multiple alarms and even contradictory warnings are assaulting the pilots’ senses simultaneously, as in the 2 crashes causing 347 deaths. Boeing then used expert test pilots to test the systems, a far cry from the average pilots used by the airlines. Here in Canada the transport minister said yesterday Canada would not accept the FAA new training advice and would develop our own so the plane won’t be certified to fly here automatically. Canada also happens to manufacture the flight simulators used in pilot training worldwide (CAE).

yeah, I guess its hard to panic in 6 seconds, the amount of time they would have to correct the problem.

Did you find it necessary to use lube? Or was more than oral involved?

We’ll see how that works out. Knowing what to do and actually reacting in time when alarms are going off and the recording “Pull up pull up” is yelling in your ears can induce a panic in some individuals, despite all the training in the world.

I hope you swallowed.

That reminds me of my mother’s expression, slow as molasses in January.

There is actually a third problem. As we discovered, the MAX 737 was the old 737 fuselage basically with new engines that were larger and had to be placed on the wings in such a way as required software to correct potential stall issues. Only the software has been changed. The plane is basically a pig that flies, or might fly satisfactorily as long as nothing goes wrong with the software or the devices that feed it information such as the sensors on the outside of the fuselage. If anything in that link malfunctions well, as the expression goes, kiss your ass as you bend over in your seat. As an addendum, I would like to see the entire senior management of Boeing and the FAA and their families, wives and children, take a flight before the first commercial flight takes place by any airline. Even then I wouldn’t get on the plane.

Me too. And I am dated. Best before 20..?

Tenn would say that. He didn’t exactly fit into cities like Boston or Philadelphia. But he knew a place where guys like himself could hang out and have a good time.

It’s such a vague memory but I think it took place in Munich. I had lost a contact lens in my hotel room and went out wearing only one. So the experience was a bit off kilter. Especially in a disco place with the strobe lights and crystal ball reflecting light everywhere. Twenty years later I got the laser surgery to fix my eyesight so no more contacts.

Rereading your post, I’m thinking about BVB’s comments on the California he knew as a child, which I’m guessing must have been in the post-war period of the 40’s and 50’s, if he was of my generation. He characterized it as a “paradise then”. It reminds me of Linda Ronstad’s song, Adios. She recorded it in the 80’s, after I had made several visits in the ‘70s, and she sang of the “Paradise Lost” that was California In that song. I did go back in the 80’s and 90’s but could see hints of the rot that had set in. Since that time many have moved there or visited and think it’s a great place. I haven’t been back in over 2 decades. BVB then moved to south Florida and found happiness there. I’m glad as I have also spent some wonderful time there. It’s over a decade since I have been back so don’t have personal experience how it is now. But looking back through rose tinted glasses, I had a blast in my time in both California and Florida.

House on the centre right of the photo.

Thanks for this news. It brings closure when knowing why a voice has gone silent in a forum such as this. I remember his posts too In a general sense. That pic of the intercostal in FLD brings back memories of when my niece was engaged to a guy whose parents had a house pictured in the centre left on the North east corner. They also had a boat that we would take to a restaurant further downtown on the same side of the canal and it was valet parking. Needless to say we always got a great table.

That provoked a distant long buried memory of when I visited West Germany before the fall of the iron curtain. I met a US military soldier at a gay disco and did we have fun! So many men, so many years!

A butt double??? Let’s call the whole thing off.

Although I’m a bottom, I love a great ass on a top, and he has one. Umm.

My question got garbled. The friggin auto correct feature on my IPad often changes my text to what it thinks I want to write when what I have written is correct. Sometimes I miss it before posting reply. Anyway, not to worry. It will be some time before any vaccine hits the market and there will be plenty of time to assess its efficacy by then.

I’m confused by your last statement. I heard that it’s the Moderna vaccine, even those who have contracted the disease in the study group had less severe symptoms. And most who received the vaccine didn’t contract the disease. Sounded like a win-win to me. Am I wrong in my understanding?

Water sports is pretty mainstream now (pun intended) but scat is on the fringes it seems as few escorts advertise it. Sometimes it is included in dirty play. I’ve also seen ads that include toilet play. I assume that is scat.

I read the Moderna doesn’t need extreme refrigeration like the Pfizer does. That could make it more accessible.

What’s the rate per waking hours?