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I lived in Denver for 15 years and loved it for most of the time. It’s a cozy place to live but doesn’t seem like much of a tourist destination. Of the three, I like Seattle the best. Great views, nice neighborhoods, great restaurants. Last time I was there, I stayed at the Hyatt on Lake Washington, one of the nicest hotels I’ve ever stayed in. I’ve enjoyed Vancouver every time I’ve been there. My nicest memory of Vancouver was a hunky Cuban I met at a bathhouse.

True - as lawyers say - a right to do something and the power to do it are two diffent things.

I want to meet this guy - he's straight, a bottom and he's into FF - my kind of man.

I worked in the hearing aid industry for a few years . Audiologists and dispensers nearly always recommend binaural hearing aids - meaning hearing aids for both ears, even if one ear doesn't require amplication. Sound quality and the ability to discern sounds in noisy crowded environments is improved a lot. When I was in the industry, they didn't yet have hearing aids that could talk to each other and exchange data, which is a huge breakthrough in the ability to provide an amplified signal that mimics our natural perception of sound more closely.

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Yes, I think that's right. As a matter of fact, I think I remember at least one murder case in Okinawa where that was the case.

I don't think that's correct. A soldier can be prosecuted for crimes committed on or off-base under the UCMJ. So he/she could be prosecuted under the UCMJ in your first case. The military may cede jurisdiction to the civilian authority, but only because they decide to do so. I don't know how the military and the civil authority work out questions of jurisdiction though. I do know that when crimes occur off-base in a foreign country, the military typically retains jurisdiction. Nonetheless, the military works closely with civilian authority of the host country because, as a matter of diplomacy, the host country has to be satisfied that justice was served.

Actually, nearly the same thing happened to me. A nice-looking older guy asked me to go to another bar in the hotel and have a drink with him. He got me rather sloshed and suggested we go to my room. He didn't offer to pay, so he may not have been vice. I only said no because I thought he was dreary. Thinking back on it, I might well have dodged a bullet.

I don't see a First Amendment issue here. A soldier has a durty to disobey an lawful order. Orders to perform a military duty are presumed to be lawful, so the soldier has the burden of convincing the court that the disobeyed order was unlawful.

As you say, though, they are "media spectacles," caused, a least in part, by (1) improved communications technology and (2) mass media that have lost any sense of propriety.

People generally don't understand that the First Amendment isn't as broad as they may think. The First Amendment only protects speech from state action - attempts by the government to curtail speech. There is little to no First Amendment protection from actions by private employers.

Th First Amendment applies differently to members of the military. Speech that is protected in the civilian community may not be protected in the military setting.

True enough - but the scope of a person's need to know could vary depending on his/her duties - very narrow to very broad.

I haven’t done it since before the pandemic, but a mani/pedi is one of my favorite indulgences. I really the way my feet look after.

As a matter of fact, I think they do do that.

Rank or age doesn't have anything to do with it - it's the clearance. When I was in the military, there were plenty of young enlisted men of low rank in intelligence-related jobs who had top secret clearances. Of course, we always tried to get them to talk about what they did that was so secret and they would not say a word. Once, when we were both shit-faced drunk, I got one guy to admit that the information he dealt with was usually stuff that was in the news, but hadn't been sanitized. Once, I was investigated for divulging DOD secrets. I was overheard discussing something that was common knowledge even though it was classified top secret. I sweated bullets for a few days. I had an interview with the base adjutant so that he could find out how I knew what I knew. I told him that everbody knew it, it was common knowledge. He said he knew that there had been a leak and that I hadn't done anything wrong because they only other way I could know what I knew was if I had had access to documents in his safe and he knew that was impossible. Later that day, the officer in charge of security for the entire command was relieved of his duties and reassigned.

I grew up in the northeast, but I have lived just about my entire adult life in the western US. I lived in the northeast again for a couple years and was ever so glad when I was able to move back to the west. Life isn't any easier in the west - life sucks as much as it does in the east, but it is just a more comfortable way of life.

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We follow each other on IG. Had no idea he was a provider. He's very generous with bodybuilding advice.

I like hairy muscle bears.

Interesting exercise - I wouldn't change much about my facial appearance -just a little more muscle and about as hairy as Elliot Gould; Pre-aids San Francisco or Mykonos in the 70s; I would fuck all the swarthy musclemen with hairy asses I could meet. Actually come to think of it, I would roll back my facial appearance to the way I looked at 28. I had a driver's license photo taken when I was 28. When I looked at it, I was stunned - I had turned out to be just about what I had hoped for.

Several years ago, I went to the Steamworks in Berkeley. This was on a weekday during the day. The place was jammed and everybody seemed very forward, not to the extent of pushing their way into a room where they weren't wanted, but these were all men who were definitely there to get laid. I loved it, one of the best times I've ever had at a bathhouse.

I don't think it's stupid- they just haven't given it much thought.

I don't list preferences - I say "no preference." I try to keep my system of classification as primitive as possible - a guy is either white or black or brown.

I have never made a formal study, but if you look at ethnic preferences in profiles on hookup sites, it seems fairly common for guys to list just about every ethnicity EXCEPT Asian.