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Not that I'm not fine that the murderer from 2010 was found, but could it possibly be that researching cases more than a decade old is safer than working murders that happened in the past few days? IDK about NYC but DC is full of daily murders with active murderers who are currently killing more people. But it makes a better story for the NYT than the dozen killed last weekend and makes the PD look so efficient.

This blast from the past (2010) came across my Czech gay news feed today and I don't know how I missed it originally. The possibilities..... EU says Czech “arousal” test for gay asylum seekers could violate human rights convention

Title doesn't change, it's the same as other mortgages. Upon death the house is sold and the excess value over the loan amount due and interest is given to your estate. The exception is if you have a surviving spouse they get to stay in the home until their death even though they were not an original borrower. I think 25% of value is closer than 55 % in most cases, especially if you are younger or have a younger spouse. It's basically a home equity line of credit (HELOC) with payments deferred.

IMHO there's a lot of issues with reverse mortgages that should be regulated better. The cost of loan insurance is too high for any minimal "risk", lenders can require not replacement value but full value insurance on the home (at least in DC), and the points above prime for the interest rate are often a little high. Also the lenders doing them are not main banks but rather small lenders who may not be the easiest to deal with. My neighbor talked me into getting one after she did but it didn't take me long to realize I didn't need any extra "cushion" it provided and paid it to minimal. If I need a quick extra half million it's there but unless my lender drops the full-value home insurance requirement I've told him I'll just cancel it and get a regular home equity (they are basically home equities and that's how the feds treat them for tax purposes, ie if you pay it off you only can deduct a portion of interest). It's a shame terms aren't better and there's not enough pro-borrower regulation because they're a perfect idea to help the elderly have an alternative to the norm of the government taking your house away through forced sale to pay extended healthcare bills. Normal home equities can be much more limited amounts and borrowing limits can be decreased by the bank. My opinion is we're better than forced sales for healthcare but last week I was talking to someone at a bar in London who told me the forced-sale thing is in the UK too. Of course the best way to stiff the feds is to sell your home and divert the funds away long enough before you die or need extended care. But some of us like our homes and that's a tough one. Aging in place is my preference.

Reason 10,141 "Why Women Live Longer".

I'm sure there's a perfectly normal reasonable explanation for this. Or there's something even cheaper than cremation now.

childish personal attack.

My first real memory was actually the Cuban missile crisis. We lived not far from a railroad track headed to Florida and I remember the train loads of tanks and armored carriers and jeeps going by nonstop 24/7 for a week on tracks that usually saw 2 trains a day. Everyone was so certain we were about to have a nuclear war any minute and die that I wrote a note to the future and buried it in a bottle telling the future who had lived there before the war. Just after that my father moved us to Washington to work for the Kennedy administration and I have a blurred memory of Kennedy's assassination being announced to our class. I have my first gigantic clear-as-yesterday memory of us going to Kennedy's funeral and burial at Arlington. Kids don't really understand death and funerals much, even one with thousands of people and pageantry. But I most certainly remember Ronald Reagan making a beeline for me to pat my head and I guess compliment my mother and father on me. I felt attacked by a person way taller than I was used to with the most unnatural color of orange hair in the sunlight and wearing more white make-up than would seem possible. My dad wouldn't work for LBJ (and that crowd didn't want him I assume) so he went back to academia and moved us back out of DC. My mother's first cousin (and my future international law professor and Hague sponsor Dean Rusk) and my father split ways over that decision but years later after my father's death Rusk told me disagreed with my father but admired greatly his stand on principles. But that seven-foot tall orange hair guy with white paint on his face suddenly coming for me at a funeral may as well have happened yesterday.

True, I should have said "successors". Nixon was as bad as Johnson even though he was elected on having a "secret way" to get us out of Vietnam. But the US lost 54K and 7 million Vietnamese were killed in what was universally condemned as terrible genocide by the US. In fact, JFK had firmly resisted the military and the CIA urging an expansion of our war in Vietnam and had unwisely let out that he doubted we were in the right direction there according to what I was told and what used to appear on Google before it's sanitizing. (as Jack Dorsey famously recently repeated that JFK wanted to break the CIA into a million pieces it was controlling government so much. Not a wise thing to actually say.) But Google will slowly scrub that too. LBJ was not a nice person but was a legislative master at getting his party's agenda through Congress whatever it was.

His successor also murdered 7 million Vietnamese, mostly by burning them alive with napalm.

I've seen several of the Russian traveling masseurs to DC and they are all fine so long as you don't expect everything. They usually go with nudity and touching but no kissing and any happy ending is "self-provided". But they are priced accordingly and very attractive.

like legal weed? regulate the hell out of it, tax it ruinously high, and make it multiples more expensive. people will long for the good old days of $500 escorts. I think even if prostitution is legalized, hiring for sex will remain illegal as that's now seen as the much greater crime and defined as a predator. And ironically, jailing their clients does the most to harm sex workers by taking away their income.

and Nice has a very active Eagle and a dozen other gay bars, many with strippers, in the Old City. Just to the west of central Nice, Renoir's house at Cagnes-sur-Mer is also a museum. Small rotating collection but I remember a painting in his son's room by the window of the sea view it was painted from. Stayed one night at a fine Indigo hotel down the street from it.

And there's a good argument that elderly gay men need a better supply of reasonable escorts than Microsoft needs half-price H1-B techs to replace the expensive US ones they have. Let's use H1-B for the professions like gay escorts where there are real shortages.

Maybe I should start using the /s tag. But supply and demand does work both in items and workers. Besides, typical Chinese you bring over here hoping they'll be a sex worker and all they want to do is enroll in medical school and study all day and night. /s

Obvious solution: We need to import more cheap escorts from China. Works for cheap tv's.

This is hardly a new thing. Women have loved gay clubs for years and the last few years at Secrets DC there were always a dozen or two dozen young women on any night. Strip clubs for women is an equality thing. Girls love it because they're the center of attention, especially for pussy-starved dancers. Ultimately though the dancers do not like the women customers as they do not tip hardly at all but expect to monopolize the dancer's time. Encouraging more women customers is bad for the dancers even if it sells more booze for the bar.

If that's Bradley Black of DC/Ohio he's an old friend and super sweet. Off RM though I think. I didn't say I'd pay any certain amount (I hire a lot in EU where $200 is considered raging inflation). But I fully expect services of any kind to be at least 25% more than in 2021 and realize that with all the recent growth in nouveau upper middle class, the demand for services of escorts has skyrocketed. I have a European friend who is one of the top escorts and on working trips has been trying to juggle "several" dates a day (he's a bottom} even with his rates 33% higher than last year. It's what the market will bear and in several large US cities people will spend a lot because they have it. In central Europe there's a huge resistance to rates jumping from $150 to $200 because upper level incomes have not risen and they haven't had the generational wealth consolidation we have.

That's why he's $300.

2021 is ancient history. My Snickerdoodles were $1.99 a box at Trader Joe's in 2021. They're $3.49 now. In spite of what the government tells us, we're in runaway inflation now and the price of services is inflating much more than goods. And the "market" for escorts is not the rapidly disappearing middle class but the elite managerial class ("bougies") (The super- rich like Dave G. only support so many escorts). That elite managerial class has doubled from 10% to 20% recently so there's twice as much demand for what's a diminishing supply for several reasons. If you get out of the elite's centers you'll find the supply and demand totally different.

Harrisburg PA is very prime cruising-for-meat area. ($300 seems high there though). Perfect combination of high-income huge gay community (state government) and poor city and local area. Richmond and Roanoke, Virginia are similar. And 100 West Virginia dollars has an exchange rate of about 300 NYC dollars.

Tampa area has a lot of famous porn stars, just like S Florida, and I'd be surprised if they don't make visits to the bar even if they don't strip there. There's a long gay strip club tradition there. When I was young the Parliament House in Orlando was the "the" gay strip club down south and it seemed half the guys who left home in the east ended up hustling in Orlando. That's why Corbin Fisher started in Tampa. Many of the "rougher" OF guys (Derek Jones, Iceman, Liam, Tyler Hansen, etc) who visit Miami live in Tampa/Orlando. I go to Clearwater Beach once a year and I wonder whether it's worth it to rent a car or Uber over to Johnsons Tampa. I'm definitely "getting over" visiting FTL so much and I have 2 months before Czech visitors and trips to Europe start again.

They even took her to the parking lot to get her prize.....

RM doesn't sell the names or photos. A "private" (lol) firm gathers the information and photos and sells it to the gov't here. I know I read where the UK gov't claims to be furious about it and ordered them to stop with UK citizens but that's for show. Big brother sees and knows everything in 2023. I wouldn't want my info transmitted in the US as a client.