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California Supreme Court to announce decision on Proposition 8 Tuesday

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The California Supreme Court plans to announce its decision on the legality of Proposition 8 at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning.

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Dormeeces

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BBC Radio 4 Today programme, included a piece on a project to monitor and reintroduce dormice on the Isle Of Wight, which isn't far from Portsmouth. In one wood alone they have 400 nesting boxes for dormice.

I'm delighted that my story is reasonably close to real life, and even more so to hera that in areas where they are being monitored, the rate of decline seems to be decreasing. Go for it Spike!

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Angharad.

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My Graduation From Kindergarten. From Catherine Linda Michel

Why Kindergarten? Well, that requires a bit of explanation, I guess.

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first person, more than one point of view In first person

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I am working on an idea for a new story I intend on posting here, but, yeah theres a but, I think this would really work good in first person POV. But there are several characters that I would like to go into to that are quite important for the flow of the story.
So I am thinking of entering the main characters POV and then changing POV to another to show the scene from another

Is that Possible, WOuld that be too jaring? Has that ever been done before for a published noval

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Katie Who Used To Be Ben

I thought you might find this interesting and encouraging. It was posted on AOL and I put the essential link below.

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10636013

Portia

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"I Hope You Don't Mind Me Saying This..."

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Revised, with minor corrections and additions.

"I hope you don't mind me saying this," said June, the vivacious, large-bosomed, tattooed, gum-chewing, 30-year-old bartender, looking me over again, "but I think you might actually look," pause for emphasis and hand gesture, "better like this."

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TG Tropes

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In everything there are certain stereotypes that get played upon constantly whether people intend to or not. Everybody knows that not everyone fits them, but when we think of whatever subject they apply to, they immediately spring to mind. 'Baseball players do steroids,' 'the good guy always wins,' these are just a couple of the more common stereotypes and tropes that people can easily identify from popular culture.

Here's my question: what do you consider to be the stereotypes of TG fiction? There's a ton of them, so they should be easy to list. Bonus points for catchy names for them.

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Snippet

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I've posted a snippet of my latest project, Forged In Fire, at my TGLibrary site. This is a military sci fi story very heavily influenced by the works of David Weber, so if you like that kind of thing please give it a peek. Be aware that this genre includes violence, explosions and even harsh language!

Oh, and this is a totally raw draft, so please, there is no need to point out the typos. I will get to the proofing in time, but right now I'm primarily interested in overall impressions. On my site you can also find some background material about the story setting.

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Subject Line of Comments and Revealing the Story Content

Subject Line of Comments and Revealing the Story Content.

Sometimes the subject line of a comment can give away an important element of the story.

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Update: Helping T folk

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Well, giggle, I had gotten confused and was not on the panel but in the audience. I did get to make my points in the question and answer period. There was a Drug Company rep there and I am sure that I pissed him off. Had I known before hand, I'd have misbehaved much more.

I did not allow them to take pictures of me because I have been told to behave at my mosque and not speak of it. So, I went there in a knee length skirt, leggings and a loose top sans headcovering so I would not embarass them. I felt half naked. I do not like leading a double life.

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Transexuality: getting to the cause.

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I think all T folk want to know the big WHY of it all. To test my own understanding of what I just read, it seems that in T folk, we experience certain smells the way that women do. I hope I live long enough to see this so firmly resolved that even the religious perverts who have greviously injured so many of us will finally be SHUT UP !

http://transray.com/1.6569

Gwendolyn

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Gabycon 2009 - a personal perspective.

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I collected Brian on the way through, and stopped to eat my sandwiches at his house, then we went to play with the traffic. I'd left home at just before ten, and was at Brian's just before one pm. I'd only got lost once as well, which is good for me - I was to make up for it later.

The M42 seemed not too bad, Friday traffic is always heavy on the motorways, and we got held up a few times. Then the M1 near Nottingham was stop go, mainly stop. However, we chatted as we waited for the bottleneck to clear itself. This was almost habit forming, because it happened several times.

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Future of storytelling?

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I've been following the amateur video series, Aurora Trek since it first began in 2006. I wondered if the creator would ever have the time to finish such an ambitious project, what looks to be about a forty minute sci-fi animation. I was relieved to see part three of four came out a couple of days ago, and it looks as though the finish will be something special.

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Am I A Liar?

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There is a resident "expert" on all things on BC, I won't name him because I doubt I need to. Yesterday he made a statement, the subject line said "Every US soldier has the option not to go", followed by pointing out that under the army's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy, a soldier who said he or she was gay would be discharged from the service. Since most soldiers are not gay, I took that to mean he thought it was alright to lie to get out of military service, and said so.

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general thoughts about story writing and my story about Cissy

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I have a few thoughts that I want to let you know. The first is that this story of mine isnt entirely original. I got the original idea for this story from Linda Lafrance and her story "The story of Prissy" In that story a sexist boy makes a bunch of nasty comments during a debate and the girls get him back by feminizing him for a weekend. They inflict terrible humiliations on him and he submissively goes though it even in the end, he seems to have no backbone.

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Helping T folk.

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Gad! I have been asked to sit on a Discussion Panel to talk about how to help T folk in the Portland area. God folks, can you think of anyone less suited for this? You all know about my acerbic comments and nasty point of view on the subject.

Now, I am rightly and truely frightened. Now, I have a responsibility to act er well, responsibly. :( What am I to do? Maybe I should just wear a gag.

HELP someone, anyone! SCREAM!!!!

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Seven months

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Over the course of the past seven months my elderly Dalmatian passed away while I held her; I've lost my job, used up my credit, and had to put my house up for sale; had my wife of thirteen years request a divorce, get her own place and move out; developed skin cancer (albeit a relatively mild form); and just this past week, had our beloved miniature schnauzer, our only pet, escape and get run over and killed by a speeding van.

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Stardust, Fictioneer and Tuckerspawn are back.

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Since there are so many comments I'll leave this message in place. As of about 3:30 PM EDT the power has been restored and all of the critical servers are back in operation. One of the general use systems that runs my lightning detection system is having problems but it isn't as critical as the other servers were.

Bob Arnold

Bob tells me that power is out due to lines brought down by winds in his area of central New York. May be back up today but more winds and storms expected, so it could be a while. Bob will remove this notice when the power comes back up. He's fine.

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Plots and openings

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This morning while on my morning web surf I ran across this article. http://scifiwire.com/2009/05/columnist-michael-cassutt-2.php While oriented towards sci-fi/action movies I think it applies to just about all stories. He has some good advice and insight why some plots work and others don't. Enjoy!

hugs!

grover

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Bike and Gabycon

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This weekend, from Friday, I shall be attending the Gabycon. I'll be taking my little netbook plus dongle with me, and hope I can get a signal while 'oop north'. I also hope I can find an hour or so to write the odd episode of Bike. I'll make no promises other than to try and write and post if I have time. Otherwise normal service will be resumed on monday or tuesday.

I shall try and do an episode tomorrow, although I'll be packing and clearing six months' detritus from my car.

Angharad.

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Inserting the copyright symbol

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The Copyright Symbol ©

Inserting the copyright symbol

by Puddin'

While it's possible to simulate a proper copyright symbol like this: (c)

It looks a little more elegant to use the authentic character: ©

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Hayfever and Finals

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Pretty sick this evening with hayfever and what feels like an incipient sinus infection. Let's hope it's just hayfever. I've got finals this week and next starting Thursday, but they're playing four of my pieces in the composer's recital at college. I hope I'm not too sick to go.

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GID conference in Bay Area

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I was online looking for more comfortable Dialtors, and stumbled into what is said to be a major GID conference by the American Psychological Association on May 18th. I don't understand what some of the issues are and might even disagree with other T folk. I did write one of the speakers for the event, and made a comment that those on heavy doses of Psychotropic drugs are not competent to make the SRS decision. Any one who can should perhaps attend.

Gwendolyn

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Pot And It's Effects On The Body-Story

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There is a story I believe posted @ Storysite where an aunt tries to cope with a visiting nephew's smoking pot, and involvement with the pot crowd. She tells him that if he continues to do pot, that he will develop as a girl.

He stops, but because of his friends, she wrongfully thinks that her nephew is doing pot and has him feminized by a doctor. She later on has him totally sex changed because she thinks that her niece is still doing pot.

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Sometimes Having A Family Really Bites!

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My mother just made plane reservations to go visit my brother in Virginia for his graduation from Graduate School. She has made it clear that I can't go, but she is more than willing to have my other brother fly there with her. I told her that I know the real reason they don't want me to come, but she tells me there is no room or I can't afford to go. I know that it wouldn't matter if I was independently wealthy, they still wouldn't want me because they don't want me to be seen. They are ashamed that I am their transsexual daughter and sister.

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Does Anyone Know Anything About The Similac Baby Formula Link To GID?

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My dad was telling me about a health report he saw on the news where scientists have found a link between Similac Baby Formula and GID in babies born biologically male. I have looked for info on it, but I haven't found anything. Has anyone else? According to what my dad was saying, the Similac contained high levels of Estrogen and it caused the body not to produce Testosterone by severely stunting testicular size and making the brain develop as a female.

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Bloody Hills!

My cycling group did a thirty miler, which seemed to be forever climbing hills today - not hard in Dorset, place is full of them, 'delightful rolling countryside' say the visitors. They don't usually try to ride up them.

I am totally cream crackered, as the Cockney's would say. However, I have finished a complete story for the gabycon next weekend (8.5k words)which I will post here after it's been up on Maddy's site.

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Something Feels Strange continues soon...

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Hello all... just a heads up that I will start posting chapters from Something Feels Strange again very soon. I have also been working with Gabi to clean up the first four chapters, which I updated earlier today.

I have been having fun lately seeing where Chris/Kris goes. I can hardly wait to share it with you.

- Tiff Q

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UK MPs proclivities

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Currently, various details of British MPs' "expenses" have become public knowledge (much to the dismay of the Parliamentary swine). In UK law, and even in the lax parliamentary rules, for expenditure to qualify as expenses, it must be incurred wholly and exclusively as part of your duties.

So what does this have to do with us?

Amongst other examples of porcine traits, male MPs have claimed on their expenses for tampons, nappies (US diapers) and women's clothes - to be used wholly and exclusively as part of their duties!

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Mamma Mia. The Movie. WOW!

I finally had the chance to view Mamma Mia, The Movie. All I can say is... I had a BALL!!! What a fun, touching, musical! Loving Abba's music helps a lot, but everyone did a great job of either singing or lip synching and the whole thing was a wonderful movie experience. I particularly liked the sing a long feature on the DVD. *giggle*

Voulez-Vous!!
Catherine Linda Michel

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Plagiarism and Copyright

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Plagiarism and Copyright

As an author, one thing I would hate, and so would probably everyone else who writes on here, is someone copying your work. Indeed, I remember before there was a discussion regarding this June 2008.

However, one thing that I've noticed recently is that some people don't seem to think this applies to images. Some people have been good and if they use something under "fair use" they do then acknowledge the copyright owner. Heck, I am aware of one author who went as far as licencing the images they used.

Some people though don't appear to even be abiding by the "fair use" rule, and using complete pictures from other people's websites. Like people on this site spend a lot of time writing stories, some people have spent a lot of time creating images. I personally feel it is double standards to get upset if someone copies somebody elses writing, but then copy other person's imagery work. And to top it all off, even if they thought it was covered under "fair use", there is no acknowledgement of the image owner.

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Orbits

Well, I'm up early today. I've been thinking about life because somehow, someway, I have today completed 47 orbits about Sol while a passenger on planet Dirt, err ... Earth. As I get ready to start my 48th, I do wonder about it all. It's no wonder that from the very beginning I have always been the outsider looking in. With the deluxe basket of unwanted gifts including learning disabilities as well as some favor of TG, I am also blessed. I am and have been more or less healthy. Unlike, some of the other girls here, I have never been physically abused.

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Southern Comfort Conference. Here I come, ready or not!

Well, I just finished making my reservations for the Conference and for my hotel room! This is a BIG thing for me. The first time out of my comfort zone, away from home. I'll be visiting Grover and Paula on the way to Atlanta, and seeing Ariel at the Con. I'll also stay a night or two with my Nephew and his family who are behind me in my transition, and can't wait to have me there.

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Hello all. My first blog entry.

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Well hello all. It's my first blog entry here. Part of the reason I'm posting it is I plan to get around to putting up my first story which I hope you enjoy. It's quite short and only my girl Mags has read it so far. I plan to put it through the cleaners a bit after I add some content, submit it and see what all of you think.

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Argentinian Bank Ad Featuring Transsexual

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I've seen this before, somewhere. I think someone here may have posted it already, but I haven't seen it in a while, and today Andrew Sullivan posted it on his widely-read blog at The Atlantic magazine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEaGbTr8B2o

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Captcha Pain

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I understand that spam is a continuing source of problems for websites, and I applaude your efforts to keep it in check, but this new method is really a pain. I' ve posted two comments and had to fill-in a Capcha box both times. Doesn't this thing have some kind of a prescreening setting, where at least preexisting users get a pass?

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Laika Goes To Hell Part 1

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DOGGIE’S INFERNO
a bit of doggeral by LAIKA PUPKINO
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Canto One: LOST IN THE WOODS
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My name is Laika and this is my canto
And you might think it’s some strange mad-dog rant though
If you’ll spare some indulgence and hear this tale out
You’ll see just as plain as the nose on your snout
That every last word of my grim account’s true,
And be glad this all happened to me and not you…

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On Maiden by Decree and Wings of Shadow

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To those of you waiting for more chapters on these two stories, never fear, they will show up. A bout with a mild form of pneumonia and other RL problems have gotten in the way of my writing recently is all. Plus, my muse decided to take a sharp left turn and play with something completely different from those two stories.

Once I stop falling asleep at the keyboard, I'll get more done on Maiden and Wings.

Be well, all of you. Later.

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Pretty Pictures

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Hey everyone! I have a question to all of you computer gamers out there! As you know most RPG games now will let you make a character portrait. Which ones out today are really good at that? I figure with all the WOW and other players out here if anyone knows it'll be the people here. So any recommendations?

I've looked at Poser but I'm a little hesitant to get so involved I need to learn a whole program. I'm afraid I'm a point and click kind of person. :) Easy is good! Just looking for a way to waste a little time in a way I can pretend is constructive.

Hugs!

grover

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Scared.and angry.

Tonight, driving home from an all day D&D session with my friends, I almost hit a power wheelchair that I didn't see until almost too late. The chair had NO lights on it, NO reflectors, the person piloting it and the one walking with him were both wearing dark clothing. The chair was in my lane, traveling toward me and it was dark.

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Amaria Title page

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I updated the title page for Amari to include chapter names and characters name and possision. Hopefully this will help you keep track of everyone as the story progresses. Chapter 3: The Hidden Truth was posted today. This is all I have completed so far. Chapter 4 and 5 are in work and I hope I will have them completed plus more by October. I know that is a long way off but my work will have me away from home for 5 months.

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Computer Dying?

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Well, the Hard Drive on my 7 year old Dell Laptop is making Death Knell noises, the screen resolution keeps changing, and I can't get on my Bank because of Security Certificate problems, so I think that the old Gel is about to give up the ghost.

I'll likely just go get one of those $250 "Netbook" to tide me over. I found that I can run an auxiliary Screen and Keyboard. I am in the process of saving my pictures and other documents to my 300 Gig stand alone HD, so I really am not too concerned.

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Life is full of surprises

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Today I was out with my fiance and we were talking about things from our past, past relationships and experiences, and talking about when we first met and our initial thoughts about each other. During this time I got a pretty big surprise. She looked at me and said. "When we first started dating, I thought you were transgendered." I was more than a little bit surprised by this and asked if she thought I wanted to be a girl. She said, "No, I mean when I first met you, I thought you used to be a girl but became a man." Once again I was surprised and asked her why.

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Shocked

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Wow I am really surprised that within the first hour of posting chapter 3 of The Dream I already have 16 hits.
No I do not plan on having as long of a break as I did between chapters 2 and 3.

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TGLibrary and TopShelf

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Okay, I'm republishing all my stories over on my page at Erin's new site, the TGLibrary. I signed up for an account, added and customized it and now I'm publishing everything I write to there, as well as using it as a personal blog for me as Joy and those kinds of thoughts/feelings.

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Aunt Greta Marches On

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Those of you awaiting the next chapter (22) of At Aunt Greta's can rest assured that it is on the way and should be posted in a few days, after it has been checked by Bonzi and his Mum to be free of naughty words that might upset the kiddiwinkies, who probably know them better than I.

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About Desert Misstake. I'm surprised

that NO ONE has caught the most obvious pun, at least to me, that I included in the story!

In Casablanca, the Head Police figure, played by Claude Rains, was named, Captain Louis Renault.

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Olbermann Excoriates Congressional Critic of Matthew Shepard Hate-Crimes Bill

On "Countdown," his political news/analysis/commentary show on MSNBC last night, Keith Olbermann used his "Worst Persons In The World" segment to highlight (not to mention rip, tear and shred) a Congressional critic of the Matthew Shepard anti-hate-crimes bill that was later passed in yesterday's session.

Random slide, World's Worst program segment.

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Scheduling of Crises

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In the future, I'd like to request that people who want to violate the rules of posting here, or annoy others for such transgressions, or anything that does not contribute to the peace and tranquility of what is essentially a library -- I'd like to request that all such disturbances, disagreements and denunciations take place while I'm here at my desk and not in bed, at dinner or in the bathroom.

Thank you all and hugs,
Erin

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H1N1 virus, or swine flu,

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To all of you on this site especilly those of you that that are pre/or/post SRS. From what I have heard from most of you but not all are that you have heath problems easly especially you post operate SRS women/girls. If any of you get what you think is the FLU get to a Doctor like now and get tested as I and many others on this site don't want anything to happen to any of you, so please take care to the safe side. Richard

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The Pastor and his donkey

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My middle son sent this to me and I thought this applied to alot of you and it was cute and I'm sure this is and old joke and alot of you have read before especially the last paragraph probally applies here. A friend to all of you and alot of Hugs to you all! Richard

The pastor entered his donkey in a race and it won. The pastor was so pleased with the donkey that he entered it in the race again, and it won again. The local paper read: PASTOR'S ASS OUT FRONT.

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I quit! You all win I will no longer post for anyone and I remove myself and all my postings from this site!

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I release control to all the stories that I have posted for other authors back to them!

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US House passes inclusive hate crimes bill

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http://www.hrc.org/12625.htm

U.S. House Passes Inclusive Hate Crimes Bill

Updates to Federal Law Would Strengthen Law Enforcement Ability to Investigate, Prosecute Hate Crimes.

4/29/2009

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The Times They Are A Changing.

At the end of my emails I always put this quote under my name.

"If I have to be this girl in me, Then I have the right to be."

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Sorry!

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I goofed when I posted the first part of Pass On What You Have Learned. I forgot that the bold and italics don't carry over when you copy and paste the text to post it. I've fixed it now. There aren't that many of them, but I think they help get the right emphasis, so the story may make a little more sense now then it did. I'm sorry for the screw up, my only excuse is it is my first time posting here.

Saless

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Discussion of Hormones

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I'd like to start a discussion of the use of various hormones. I have absolutely no experience with them since I'm not planning on going on hormones and I'd like information on estrogen/oestrogen/progesterone/testosterone blockers/chemical castration/puberty blockers and so on.

The only thing *I* know is that the Over the counter estrogen, Estroven can actually work when combined with an herbal testosterone blocker. I have a friend who has been doing this for the last year or so and she's got nice breasts although she still grows a beard.

So.... GO!

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