http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php Sex Stories Post erotic fantasy community discussion forums. en Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:27:49 GMT vBulletin 90 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/images/styles/morbid_blueb/misc/rss.jpg http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=430 Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:46:13 GMT Over the last two weeks I have been suffering with internet so slow, that the technology must have existed before the dawn of time… but thanks to this I have been able to do other things on my laptop besides playing here at SSP or downloading more pics for the forums, or checking emails (they are...
Over the last two weeks I have been suffering with internet so slow, that the technology must have existed before the dawn of time… but thanks to this I have been able to do other things on my laptop besides playing here at SSP or downloading more pics for the forums, or checking emails (they are taking days to arrive) or any of the other things I usually did that involved access to the internet.

The first couple of days, I spent time sorting through my picture folders organising the files and renaming them so that I knew where I wanted to post them once my net was back up and properly running… after I finished sorting through the first 300 sets of photos, I then went to open up another folder which I suddenly realised now contained some 400 more sets of pictures – I quickly closed that folder and checked several others and soon realised just what I was spending all my time on the net doing.

I thought about sorting the rest of them out but instead, I finally opened the files that held my stories. There are files full of Role-Plays that I have participated in, stories that I have written in the dead of night when I am having trouble sleeping, folders holding story ideas and two stories that I have been writing here on the forums. I noticed while I was reading through them, that the stories involving things that I had experienced in the past have flowed over pages and taken on lives of their own, but the two stories that I really want to finish are so tied up in fantasy that I find myself unable to finish them.

Both completely different, but both I’m sure are completely hidden in dark depths on my mind somewhere.

The problem is that I know exactly where I want these stories to end, but I am having trouble with the journey to get there. Though both stories are different in their plots, they both contain some things that I have never experienced before. I have never had a bi-sexual encounter before, nor have I ever participated in group sex with more than 3 people, but on the other hand there are things in each of the stories that I have never lived through either… one being the main character who is torn between the love she feels for two different men.

But with all that aside and after sitting back and really looking at these stories, I found where my problems with both of them lie. One that I have been writing with my husband started to slow when he started to work away from home, this story used to be something that we sat around and chatted about over coffee or with some sort of alcoholic beverage and we usually wrote together, both sitting at the dining room table discussing ideas or reading where each others tales had gone. So I think the problem with it now is that we don’t have that time together anymore while he is away, and that time is what gave me the inspiration to write each chapter to share with him.

The other story is a whole other problem. It began as something, which was very much a shared fantasy between my husband and myself as well as two of our closest forum friends, and it was fun to imagine the possibilities if we could ever sort out the logistics… and then we sorted out the logistics which put a halt on the story for me.

The reason for the halt is pretty simple in my mind – this story began as a fantasy, there is no anticipation, no built up expectations, everything works perfectly and it ends with a passionate orgy before everyone packs up and heads off in the different directions back to their real lives. But does life ever work out that way? Do you ever find disappointment, anxiety or awkward moments tucked away in a fantasy?

I have a terrible fear of disappointing those closest to me, and what if I have built up an image of myself that does not match up with their expectations, what if the person I am in real life is not the same as the one they are attracted to when they see me through a computer screen. What if I can’t meet their expectations of me, and what if I get cold feet before it all starts?

I could go on with a million “what if’s” all day, but it still doesn’t help me finish a story that I was trying to write – and these “what if’s” are the cause of the halt.

This fantasy has a chance to blur with the lines of our realities and I feel like continuing the story as I have been writing it would almost be like writing out an itinerary for a holiday…

Day One: Arrive at destination, check into hotel
Day Two: Meet up with SSP Friends
Day Three: Perfect Sex all Day and Night
Day Four: Leave hotel, catch flight home…

Having shared my bed with a third person in the past, I know that these things work better when they happen naturally without planing or expectations and without feeling the need to be better than a piece of fiction.

So to try and deal with this I have thought about starting my story from the beginning, from when we all first met each other and let the story build as our friendship does, instead of trying to get straight to the end without the journey… or do I try and finish what I started and try to keep a defined line between my imagined fantasy and a possible future reality?

Anyway that is enough rambling in my blog today… it’s time to join the real world and get back to work :)
]]> April http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=430 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=429 Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:54:39 GMT Hey, been a while since I posted on here (had laptop and then housing issues) but I'm pleased to say I am properly back now. :icon275:

Basically just over a month ago I broke up with my bf. While I was with him I would have sex like 6 or 7 times a week, however since I've not been with him my sex drive has gone into overdrive. I find now that I am thinking about sex a lot and not only that, but my thoughts are getting a lot dirtier.

I've had a few one night stands since then and have slept with a work colleague a few times, but other than that I find myself masturbating a lot, so much so that I have at least one orgasm a day. I was wondering if this means I'm addicted to sex or maybe it is just a phase??? :icon042:

Either way I'm enjoying myself and playing safe, so I suppose that is all that matters in the end, but would be interested to hear everyone's thoughts. Cheers. xxx

P.S. Will be posting stories again soon. :thumb: ]]> kinky_kitty http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=429 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=428 Sat, 27 Feb 2010 03:44:06 GMT Attachment 400 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=400)There comes the inevitable scene in a modern Australian film where the friendly Aboriginal appears to save the day or offer their eco-friendly, socialist wisdom. Invariably there will be the usual celebration by... There comes the inevitable scene in a modern Australian film where the friendly Aboriginal appears to save the day or offer their eco-friendly, socialist wisdom. Invariably there will be the usual celebration by the film’s producers and the wider industry of this appearance, usually along the lines of how it gives a positive image for non-indigenous (white) Australians and a positive role model for the indigenous. There is an equally invariable nod in the direction of producers and/or director and/or writers for their progressive attitude by giving Aboriginal actors an opportunity they might not otherwise get. I hate it! It is nothing but tokenism. If these industry people are really as socially aware and concerned as they make out, especially in contemporary movies, why not put these actors in the film in more than a token role? If they are offering a role model and a different picture, why not show them as members of contemporary society? Why not be even more challenging and, instead of portraying them as some sort of socialist ideological warriors, make their characters conservatives? Of course that would mean confronting their own prejudices so it is unlikely to ever happen; in my mind that is even more racist than anything done by some backwoods redneck because it comes with that veneer of tolerance/acceptance.

It is much the same with this new decision by the socialists in the federal education department to include the Dreamtime as part of the science curriculum from the start. You could just imagine the furore if it was decided to include intelligent design; why does the Dreamtime enjoy special consideration when it is even more unbelievable than that rubbish. It is rampant political correctness to make this a serious part of the scientific curriculum. There is also the perpetuation of the fallacy that the Aboriginals were some sort of proto-environmentalists living in a defacto socialist nirvana, when in fact every piece of serious research suggests that far from the picture of the noble savage at one with the environment, they are no worse and no better than any other group. Fobbing it off as attempting to increase ‘cultural awareness’ is the method by which the socialists intend to fend away criticism of the plan by saying that any critics are racist. The same logic will be used for criticism of teaching Chinese medicine; ironic considering that the environmentalists are so critical of natural therapies and Chinese medicine because of their role in the animal trade- now we’re expected to believe that all of this is supposed to help us manage our ecology. Why not go all the way and include ouija boards and voodoo?

Lefties use the argument that integrating intelligent design into the science curriculum is a case of cultural relativism and religious dogma trumping scientific integrity; where is the argument for scientific integrity from the education department lefties now? The Dreamtime, after all, is just another form of religious dogma that has gained lefty approval by its association with a politically fashionable ethnic minority. Having subsumed history teaching to the idea that Australia’s past has been a series of events designed to perpetrate genocide on the native population, it seems that we will now have a version of creationism that replaces the idea of an all knowing God with an all knowing snake or wombat passing for geology, geography and biology. I am no fan of the uber-scientist theologians like Dawkins and company; the smug sense of superiority posing as rationalism but bears all the hallmarks of the religious bigotry and blindness. But they are correct in their belief that religion has no place in the teaching of science; that cultural factors have no place in the learning of science. Normally, because we’re talking about Christianity, the left jumps on board and gets behind Mr Dawkins; now that we’re talking about a lefty pet project of course science has to be changed in order to reflect the prevailing political paradigm. It will be interesting to see if the likes of Mr Dawkins and the Australian Rationalist Society attack this decision for the farce it is.

The launch of the MySchool Website was a step forward to improving the standards of the education system. Rather than being a crutch for the teachers and a slave to the latest fad passing for educational theory, the website seemed to indicate that the education department was being moved to serve that group of people it is actually supposed to be helping- the students. Instead we are being lumped with yet another socialist attempt to make a culturally aware society instead of a generation of school children who know something about science. Forty years of catering to these socialist fads has seen the rise of bullying in our schools; graduates who have difficulty spelling common words and can barely write a cogent sentence; where inspiration and creative intent are more prized than the actual achievement. No wonder, when faced with the hard and fast realities of maths and science, kids are steering towards the more pliant and flexible humanities; they are ill-equipped to deal with the consequences of failure. Now it would seem that success in science is to be given a more flexible interpretation as well. It will be interesting to see how the maths curriculum will turn out.

There is a notion extant among those of the right that parents know what is best to teach their children; given that many of the more pro-active of these parents want intelligent design taught in science or Harry Potter books to be banned or sex education to concentrate on the notion that abstinence is all the children will ever need, I hate the idea. Unfortunately, when the left comes out with a science curriculum that looks the same as the philosophy or theology curriculum it makes it hard to say that the experts are actually better qualified to decide what should or should not be taught in our schools. At a time when Australian schools are slipping down the tables of international standards for want of basic mathematic and scientific knowledge, what was needed was a curriculum that was heavy on scientific knowledge. Instead we have a curriculum that, if it was designed to do anything, seems to be designed to accelerate the decline. It seems that we are being left with the choice between a system that produces a bunch of religious nuts or a system that produces a bunch of ideological nuts- extremism raising its ugly head yet again.

Moderates are being guilted out of the debate by both sides appealing to the notion that education creates the ideal society; no drug problem, no crime, no social dysfunction. It is a lie. We buy into the lie because, like all great lies, it has an element of truth. Education can help to make a better society but we all know that educated are susceptible to the lure of drugs and crime and have problems all their own. Education is not about creating societies; ideal or otherwise. It is meant to prepare children for the trials of adulthood- to make the most of their talents both for themselves and for society. In trying to create an ideal society the education system is merely altering the scope the problems, not solving them. We have adults ashamed of their successes and expecting to be molly-coddled for their failures; we have adults ashamed of the past and despairing for the future. Instead of creating the ideal society, it is churning out adults more concerned with the here and now and maximising their individual pleasures.

As an aside-
In the great furore over the matter of the assassination of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhou, there seems to be a general agreement that Israel is responsible and that, in order to do so, it has forged the passports from a number of countries. There are a few elements that would seem to cast doubt on this conclusion that are being steadfastly ignored by the pro-Palestinian mainstream media.
a) If Israel has been forging passports for as many years as has been claimed, why are these particular passports of such poor quality? Photos that do not meet required standards; illegible signatures; missing details. Surely, if an agency as practiced in the technique as it is suggested that Mossad is supposed to be, it would have ensured a better quality of passport in order to avoid any complications at border checkpoints.
b) If the passports were such poor quality, how did the assassins get past the checks at the airport?
c) If Israel wanted to covertly assassinate Mahmoud, why did it send so many agents so similarly dressed? Why are they so conspicuous in CCTV footage?
d) Hamas is in the midst of a violent disagreement over how to proceed in its dealings with Israel; some want to negotiate in order to better govern Gaza in the interests of their people whilst the militant wing, backed and influenced by Iran, want to continue the struggle. It has already led to violence; could this not be a furtherance of this internecine struggle with a clumsy attempt to shift the blame to Israel?
e) Mahmoud al-Mahbou was not an official; he was not a militant; he was a known, self-confessed, terrorist who once boasted on al-Jazeera television of his role in the murder of two Israeli soldiers (masquerading as a Rabbi). Dressing him up in less threatening language does not change the fact that he was a murderer and a leader of murderers.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=428 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=427 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:31:33 GMT Attachment 394 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=394)Some 70 000 full time manufacturing jobs disappeared from the Australian Economy, most likely never to return. Paul Howes, National Secretary of the Australian Worker’s Union, speaking at the National Press Club,... Some 70 000 full time manufacturing jobs disappeared from the Australian Economy, most likely never to return. Paul Howes, National Secretary of the Australian Worker’s Union, speaking at the National Press Club, made the claim that the actions of his union and their rivals, the AMWU, ensured that more jobs were not lost. This is in fact a disingenuous claim since the policy of the Union was to turn full time jobs into part time jobs in order to keep the maximum number of workers employed- thus a good proportion of those lost full time jobs were caused by the Unions themselves. Now it can be readily argued that having a job beats being unemployed; however, this ignores the consequences attached to underemployment. The Melbourne Institute, utilising data collected by the Household Incomes and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, has found that underemployment leads to life and lifestyle satisfaction ratings not too dissimilar from actually being unemployed. Life satisfaction ratings for full-time employed workers were regularly in the high 70s, whereas underemployed and unemployed respondents reported ratings in the high 60s and low 70s. Spousal and child abuse rates, divorce rates, alcohol and drug abuse rates, etc are roughly the same for the underemployed as the unemployed. In fact the only significant difference was the rates of financial hardship, though at nearly 40% (versus 65% for the unemployed) it is not a particularly fantastic statistic. Mr Howes, though particularly triumphalist in his assessment of the Unions and Labor, is not alone in the belief that having a job is better than no job; but it also means that he is not alone in being mistaken in the extent of how much better off his members are.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has tried to measure the rate of underemployment since 1966, though definitive measuring only began in 1978. Adding the under-employment and unemployment rates has given us a measure known as the under-utilisation rate. Underemployment is defined as those workers seeking more than 12hours of extra work and those seeking work but who have been discouraged the conditions of the labour market. Unemployment is defined as those seeking work but who cannot find work. It is interesting to note that underemployment has varied between 5% and 6% of the workforce; underemployment rates have sometimes exceeded unemployment rates; that under-utilisation has never dropped below 10% and has usually sat at between 13% and 14% (the highest rates of under-utilisation have usually occurred under a Labor Government). It is clear that underemployment is not only a serious life problem; it is also a serious long term problem that is too often ignored in favour of getting the unemployment rate down.

The decline in Australian manufacturing, where underemployment is most prevalent, is likely to see underemployment continue to grow, with detrimental consequences to family and society not wholly different than unemployment. Current solutions to staffing costs and problems are not likely to see a rejuvenation of Australian manufacturing since the decline has been steady for nearly thirty years of trying the same tired policies. Buy Australian failed because it relied too much on the idea that it only had to be Australian to be worth buying; nothing about quality standards, etc to offset the price differential on imported lines. Subsidising has failed because, as with the auto-manufacturers, the necessity to make money could be offset by simply seeking more money from the government. Cutting hours has failed because, as we have seen, it is not really a solution at all. Although hi-tech manufacturing can partly offset this decline, it is only a partial solution in that it requires a certain technological skill not readily available to the majority of manufacturing workers, if at all.

Although wage costs and workforce flexibility are one of the major limitations on manufacturers in Australia, an often overlooked limitation is the stringency of manufacturing and food standards required by regulation and legislation. It was once an irony of Australian food production that the standards required for pet food were once more stringent than that for food for human consumption. The Garibaldi food poisoning scandal changed not only what was required but how food for human consumption was regulated. Australia now has one of the most stringent food standards in the world; yet importers are not required to meet those standards. The traditional argument that regulating imported food in such a way was in violation of trade treaties ignores the fact that, technically, our quarantine procedures and regulations are also in violation of those same treaties. It also ignores the fact that many of our OECD trading partners are introducing such regulations.

Australian food (non-grain) imports now exceed exports. Given the absolute dominance of WA in vegetable exports and Queensland in fruit exports, the bulk of these imports are heading into the welfare dependant inner states of NSW and Victoria, where price is an increasingly important factor. The question is; are the products being sourced by the supermarkets and wholesalers as safe as the Australian alternative? Both Canada and the USA have legislated that food imports to those countries must meet the same standards as are applied to local producers and manufacturers. Of course it took a number of life/health threatening scandals involving Chinese food imports for that legislation to be passed. For example, despite promises to improve food safety standards it has been found that exports of Chinese wheat germ, available in Australian supermarkets, have been bulked up with melamine residue. According to Parliamentarian Frank Zumbo, of the 110 food product recalls in NSW last year, 99 involved foods sourced from China. One can only wonder if Australian legislators are waiting for people to die here. There are also a large number of product recalls on non-food lines. The issue is not simply wage costs leading to cheaper products. Many cheap but dangerous chemicals and materials, long banned in the west, are still legal in China. Product recalls on the basis that lead paint has been used to finish a product are common. The alternative chemicals and materials are usually expensive, though much safer not simply in their application but also in their manufacture.

A safety regime that relies wholly on the idea of allowing anything into the country and withdrawing it only after the product is discovered to be faulty is asking for trouble. It is certainly killing off the manufacturing industry. It really does not matter that the problem was found and a recall sounded. Orders for some lines are required twelve months in advance; if a local company loses the order there is a pretty good chance it has closed its doors or moved onto something else when the problem is being dealt with. The appearance of Chinese garlic in a supermarket produce section (or US navels or Mexican Mangoes) is often greeted by a rabid indignation on the part of the customer. Yet the substitution of Brazilian orange juice concentrate for Australian orange juice goes largely unremarked, mainly because the guidelines on registration for claiming Australian manufacture are so pathetic that because it contains mostly Australian water it is allowed to pass for Australian made.

Having some of the highest consumer and environmental safety standards in the world has not stopped our dairy exporters from dominating the world export markets in so many areas; it has not stopped our fruit and vegetable exporters from their successes. Rather than subsidies and downsizing and job sharing, what Australian manufacturing really needs is a government committed to the standards it claims to be important- at all levels. If Australian regulations and enforcement policies are designed with a commitment to the safety and health of the consumer, then it is nonsense to not apply the same standards to all products entering this country. If the government is really committed to maintaining (and increasing) the manufacturing capacity of this country, then it needs to promote the advantages that come with buying Australian rather than simple patriotism.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=427 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=426 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:58:58 GMT *I was asked to do a follow on reference the urban cowboy and have finally got it submitted so hope those that wanted to read it find it to their liking........ Thanx for all the encouragement some of you have given me over my time here it is very much appreciated ... I was asked to do a follow on reference the urban cowboy and have finally got it submitted so hope those that wanted to read it find it to their liking........ Thanx for all the encouragement some of you have given me over my time here it is very much appreciated http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums...784#post364784 ]]> OldHorny http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=426 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=425 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:55:59 GMT Attachment 384 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=384)The Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, and his staff have been tasked by the government of St Kevin with performing a comprehensive review of the Australian Taxation system. Initially St Kevin had foolishly committed... The Treasury Secretary, Ken Henry, and his staff have been tasked by the government of St Kevin with performing a comprehensive review of the Australian Taxation system. Initially St Kevin had foolishly committed himself and his government to implementing the reforms sight unseen; now that it seems likely the review is going to recommend changes that will raise taxes, he has now committed his government to reviewing the suggested changes. This should have been the position from the start; what sort of idiot commits themselves so unreservedly to a reform without knowing the details? The problem for St Kevin now is that this tax reform is based on a number of concepts he has initially supported only to back away from when they have appeared unpopular. The most significant is the idea of ‘Big Australia.’ A less obvious but more important aspect is just how big the government of Big Australia is going to be; in testimony before senate hearings Mr Henry has stated that the size of government has no natural limit- government grows according to the needs of the people. Between health, pensions and the other factors affected by an aging population, government spending is likely to grow any way; perhaps it is time to consider how much more government we really want on top of that.

In an unlikely alliance, environmental groups find themselves being supported by anti-immigration groups in opposition to the idea of Big Australia. With a suitably high rate of immigration, it is expected that Australia’s population will grow to 36million by 2050. Just as they did with the CPRS, the government has done a wonderful job of failing to explain why this is necessary- St Kevin simply came out and said that it was a good idea. Even with 36million people the proportion of the population over the retirement age is projected at 20%; if we maintain a population of 22million that rises to some 30+%. Start removing other non-working populations such as the disabled and children and before you know it there are more non-workers than workers supporting the system. The advantage of the proposed immigration procedures is that it provides productivity improvements and it provides an injection of tax-payers; in effect it spreads the tax burden for an aging population over an increased and wealthier population. The down side is that the current level of infrastructure spending is insufficient to sustain that population. Melbourne and Sydney are expected to reach 7million people and Brisbane and the Gold Coast some 5million. Even Perth, which is struggling to cope with an expected half a million population increase by mid-decade, is expected to double its current population.

Skilled immigration is good; as noted it provides productivity improvements but it also helps with skill development of the rest of the workforce, further increasing productivity. As attractive as Australia is (God’s own country) we can not expect that we will always meet our targets, so it is necessary to increase research and development spending in order to maximise our own productivity improvements. The fact is that even unskilled immigration is likely to be an advantage; do we really need skilled medical practitioners and carers to flip mattresses and provide more personal services to our elderly? The argument that it will take away jobs from Australians simply does not apply- how many Australians are going to be willing to wipe some old person’s bum, especially at the rates of pay that are likely to apply to such unskilled work? The tradition in some cultures that means several generations live together will inure most of these workers to what we view as degrading work, as racist as that sounds. Most importantly it will free trained nurses and aged care workers to concentrate on those aspects we spend so much training them for. And though not as rewarding, economically, it still adds to the overall pool of workers and, more importantly, tax-payers.

It also gives us the opportunity to address some of the infrastructure problems associated with Big Australia. Writing in the current edition of Foreign Affairs, Jack A Goldstone suggests that a solution for economically disadvantaged countries and aging populations in developed countries is to establish ‘retirement resorts’ in those countries. Effectively the developed world would pay to export its aging population for a level of care and luxury that they can not afford or provide with their own workforces. In a similar vein we could establish retiree care centres in country towns and allow these centres to recruit non-skilled immigrants on short term contracts. The spreading of the population across regional centres spreads the infrastructure dilemma, increases the attractiveness of country towns as places to live with an increase in services to cater to the population and provide a level of care the elderly would otherwise not have and we could not afford. It gives the immigrant, and their family, a level of opportunity that they would not get at home while avoiding the issue of defacto bonded labour (these immigrants could be encouraged to unionise, for example). There would obviously be an infrastructure impost, but the fact is that many of these regional centres have excess capacity- they don’t lack infrastructure so much as people.

All of this will be irrelevant, however, if we do not address the issue of the size of the government we are going to be paying for regardless of an aging and growing population. At the election of the Whitlam Government in 1972, government comprised 19% of GDP; at the end of the Howard Government it had risen to 28% of GDP. This is partly a reflection of the increase in costs associated with defence and health, both of which have increased at about twice the rate of inflation, and the substitution of money for solutions for some of the problems that we face. Mostly it is a reflection of the idea that government is the solution to all of our problems; every crisis or problem is invariably met with a cry of, “what the government needs to do is…” or “what is the government going to do about this?” If, as Mr Henry believes, there is no natural limit to the growth of government, then we are confronted with the dual question of how much government we want and how much we want to pay for. In addition to economic growth, the development of green technologies and information technologies will increase the demand for infrastructure spending. Productivity increases will ease some of the strain but some projections suggest that increases in defence and health spending will swallow much of the gain; population growth will be an important factor in determining the final burden.

There will be some who will try to paint these concerns and debates as reflecting an uncaring society that is willing to cut services to those most desperately in need. It is the usual response when these suggestions are raised and it invariably leads to a debate over the big ticket items that we would be unlikely to cut in such a scenario anyway. Yet even some aspects of these big ticket items need to be addressed; for example, is it really necessary for the public purse to fund gender reassignment surgery? Is it necessary for effective provision of healthcare to operate a system of public hospitals; would it be better to subsidise public places in privatised hospitals? Is it necessary to do away with a whole level of government in the form of the states? Or do we remove certain departments wholesale; do we need separate departments of health; sports and recreation; youth; seniors; etc, etc? Do we need separate departments of trade; foreign affairs; immigration; and defence? Or are we, in fact, happy to pay the extra that an expanding government will require? Is there a mixture that increases government but not at the same rate we would otherwise expect? Perhaps a different view of the problem may provide more effective solutions for the same money spent. For example, if we are going to be increasingly drawn into interventions in the Pacific Islands perhaps there is some argument to be made for reviving the Pacific Islands Regiment to increase cultural understanding. This would reduce the amount of money being spent on recruitment campaigns while increasing the number of personnel, if not Battalions, available for defence. The money for personnel and equipment is already budgeted for; the savings come from the $300million spent on outside advertising agencies.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=425 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=424 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:52:48 GMT Attachment 380 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=380)It is important to consider more than just where the water is coming from when discussing the immigration intake and the idea of Big Australia. It is important to consider how our aging population is going to be... It is important to consider more than just where the water is coming from when discussing the immigration intake and the idea of Big Australia. It is important to consider how our aging population is going to be cared for and how we are going to pay for that level of care. We are faced with a growing number of issues from healthcare to defence to Indigenous affairs that may seem like they need government intervention but may not require government intervention. We have a public perception that a sizeable population is singularly bad when, in fact, it is likely that it is not only good but necessary to our future prosperity. In order to court Green Party preferences in the coming election, St Kevin has backtracked on the issue of Big Australia. To court middle Australia in the coming election, St Kevin has backtracked on the issue of Tax Reform. Far from offering a cogent vision of the future in line with his statements on the 2020Summit, Karaoke Kevin is trying to sing every song asked of him. Ironically, the threat is not from the Coalition- yet.

Despite having convinced the electorate in 2007 that the Labor Party was a party supporting the future interest of Australia and Australians, we are hearing increasing reports about the dissatisfaction of some factions in the Party, the supposedly controlled Union Movement in particular, with his style and the idea that their support owed less with high minded principles of service to the nation and more with the attainment of the power-not for their members but to control aspects of the economy for their own benefit and ego. The furore over the building industry watchdog and the MySchool website, both key campaign pledges, clearly suggests that the Union Movement and Left Wing of the Party hoped that, once in power, it could readily renege on the promises that got it into power. St Kevin has turned populist because he needs the public support to maintain his position, hardly an effective endorsement of the Presidential style of leadership he represents- the fact is that voting for Rudd as Prime Minister has and will make it more likely that an unelectable far left government will take the reins of power after this election. The big issues we are facing, and the debate required to address those issues, is not likely to be balanced or nuanced if led by Comrade Julia and the socialist Union Bosses, backed by Green Party preferences.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=424 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=423 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:05:57 GMT so I just put in a story on D/s and having fun with it-- it is in the bondage section--- have fun reading-- stay horny sheryl so I just put in a story on D/s and having fun with it-- it is in the bondage section---
have fun reading-- stay horny
sheryl ]]> usafslut http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=423 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=421 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:27:19 GMT Attachment 372 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=372)I am a huge fan of a country duo called The Sunny Cowgirls; sisters Sophie and Celeste Claburn. They’ve just released their fourth album, Summer, and I would not be at all surprised if the lead single, also called... I am a huge fan of a country duo called The Sunny Cowgirls; sisters Sophie and Celeste Claburn. They’ve just released their fourth album, Summer, and I would not be at all surprised if the lead single, also called Summer, has not taken over every inch of free airwaves next summer. It’s one of those peppy little songs that feeds on nostalgia for a time that never was, and yet still seems so real to everyone. It’s certainly not the best song ever written (at least it beats Bryan Adams’ Summer of ’69) but it is a fun song. The rest of the album is pretty good too; certainly not their best effort, but not far off either. The sisters write their own songs, separately. Sophie likes to write about the country girls who like to party. Celeste is more of the traditional country songwriter; most of her themes are based on how lucky she feels to be a country girl (who sometimes likes to party). Another good album out at the moment is Harmony James’ first album Tailwind. The title song was a bit of an international hit from her EP, but she is best known for Somebody Stole My Horse, which sat at number one on the Australian country charts for four weeks and even had some mainstream success. Because the song was so popular as an illegal download there was some doubt that she would be given an album. Nearly two years after the success of her EP, she has been given her chance. Along with her EP hits she has several good songs on the album, especially Precious Little. As good as the album is, whoever is producing her videos is a tosser. This girl has a beautiful smile, yet somehow it has become a thing in her videos not to smile; it makes her look awkward. I bought both albums last Saturday and have been listening to them ever since.

I have also been reading about the controversy over this month’s issue of US Sports Illustrator’s cover featuring Lindsey Vonn. The summary of the article made mention of the presence of overt sexuality so I was half expecting to see some tits or arse when I got to the article itself. Miss Vonn is posed as a downhill skier; I remember thinking that you really had to want to see it to find it any way sexual. I am pretty sure that had it not been a feature of the article I would probably have not associated it with anything sexual, other than the fact that she is quite pretty. As a male, it can be difficult to see just why magazine covers like this one set the feminists off. The most common comment at the end of the particular article I was reading, at least from the women, was why Miss Vonn was not shown actually skiing? The simple answer is that in order to get face recognition, and drive up her sponsorship value, she needs to be seen in the media. Even in this context there is a sort of sexism at work; being a pretty woman means her earnings potential via sponsorships is much greater than if she were merely homely. If she were ugly then we probably would have got the skiing shot. It could be argued that the same standards apply to men; I would suggest that being a handsome sportsman is a bonus, not a necessity. Feminists look at the cover of the Sports Illustrated and see that there is a long way to go until there is true equality between the genders. Most of the rest of us look at it and wonder what the fuss is about. It does not necessarily make the feminists wrong. But as I listened to the Sunny Cowgirls and Harmony James and read about the sexual politics of cougars and equal pay, I wonder if there is not a general division between what the feminists want and what most women want.

Generally speaking, a successful revolutionary movement gives a structure to a society’s unhappiness with the current regime. One might reasonably describe it as idealists using the dissatisfaction of the masses to achieve their goals. The key is that the masses are generally just unhappy about a few aspects of the current system; the idealists believe the system itself needs to change in order to fix those few aspects. However the idealists make the mistake of believing that the masses have signed onto the whole programme, and then get confused when they are challenged. Invariably, in revolutionary societies, there follows a reign of terror not long after taking power where those who are not as idealistic as the idealists are purged in order to effect the change the idealists believe is required. Eventually the idealists become the reactionaries. One could conceivably apply the same scenario to the feminist movement; there seems to be as much criticism by feminists of how women are using their new found power/equality as there is criticism of society for the inequalities that remain. It strikes me that what women want is the ability to pursue their femininity on their own terms; not to be defined or limited or proscribed by society in how they practice that femininity. They don’t necessarily want to change the whole of society because, frankly, they want the freedom to go out, get drunk and screw around- just like the boys can. Yet many (most?) want to wear nice clothes, make-up and so on and so forth as well. Many (most?) feminists seem to see this as a betrayal; they want a society where women don’t feel this urge to decorate their bodies in order to make themselves attractive to men. I suppose there is a sense that just emulating ‘the boys’ sells women short.

Which is not to say that the feminist view is totally wrong; only that it ignores what most women actually want. Revolutions are sometimes necessary because talking can only take you so far with some people. Similarly there are times we don’t realise the opportunities that come from a radical change until that change is upon us. Ironically, in focussing on those areas where feminists believe that women have let them down, the greater challenges that still remain to be met are being given less than full attention. At the same time feminists probably need to remember that women are not inherently superior; a matriarchal society or a gender neutral society are not likely to be really much different from a patriarchal society since they are all, ultimately, based on humans. It is difficult to argue that women deserve to be treated equally because there is no inherent difference and then argue that a society dominated by women would be superior because women have superior qualities. Of course the essential dichotomy of this position has never stopped anybody, which ultimately proves that feminism, of nothing else, is a human movement. Where feminists might enjoy more success is in tying their cause to more general concerns not wholly unrelated to their goals. While there is some evidence of a glass ceiling, it is equally true that the glass ceiling is not wholly based on gender. The reason often given for women failing to crack that ceiling is that women withdraw from the workforce in order to have children and then fall behind their male colleagues in terms of seniority. At the same time there are plenty of people, male and female, who are judged to be too young or lacking in seniority for positions which they are better able and qualified to do. Perhaps instead of attacking the glass ceiling in terms of gender discrimination, feminists might be better served in attacking it as a function of promoting efficiency and ability over who has warmed the seat the longest.

One of the things that troubles me is the apparent inability of feminists to be in conservative politics and the inability of conservatives to embrace feminism. In many ways they are a natural fit; choice, ability and freedom are the main hallmarks of both groups. Tying conservatism to the idea of unthinking opposition to change has not only been a hobby of the left but also of the far right and religious right. Certainly there is no real reason why feminism should not be embraced by the moderate right. A good description of a moderate conservative is somebody who does not believe that just ‘any’ change is necessarily good and that it is not necessary to overturn society in order to effect change or adjust to change. It makes good economic sense to oppose the glass ceiling not simply from a feminist point of view but also in terms of productivity and efficiency; the best person for the job regardless. Equality of education and employment opportunities are equally good for the economy and society; a better educated populace able to work where their interests lie is going to make a happier and more productive workforce. While feminists might feel particularly anxious about anti-abortionists, there is a reasonable argument to be made that unlimited access to abortion has allowed the rise of selective abortion, particularly of female foetuses. One of the more bizarre Obama stories that have appeared recently is the idea that rather than being held up as ethnic role-models, the over-achieving Obamas simply re-enforced the idea that in order to be considered equal ethnics had to do twice as much. In this sense it seems equally bizarre of women’s groups to be opposed to Sarah Palin because she is ‘only’ average. It seems to me that she is a better role model for the average woman precisely because she has achieved so much as an average woman- you don’t have to be spectacularly smart or beautiful in order to achieve, you just have to participate.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=421 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=419 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:37:32 GMT Three weeks ago I wrote about the choice I was faced with come out of retirment and pick up a challenging job offer or stay as I was semi retired picking and choosing who I worked for and who I didnt. I realy did not know what to do freinds were divided into two camps. My younger friends in the... Three weeks ago I wrote about the choice I was faced with come out of retirment and pick up a challenging job offer or stay as I was semi retired picking and choosing who I worked for and who I didnt.
I realy did not know what to do freinds were divided into two camps. My younger friends in the main were all for it as you would expect. except for a few women whos feelings for me came as a welcome surprise.
My older friends were completley split, those who saw it as a chance to even the score would have had me on a plane in hours, some who saw it as a way back for themselves nailed there coulors to the mast very quickley self interest and avarice all to evident the others just declared that I must have lost my mind.

So I decided to do some traveling to see if I could go back. My first stop was the country that had been the bain of my life Nigeria flying into Lagos was like flying into the past very little had changed and what had changed was not allways for the best.

I soon found out that at least one division of government still had my name on a watch list. This meant that seeing some of the people I had come to see was difficult to say the least, one old Igbo politican made it plain that some individuals had long memories and that it would be hard to build any sort of network again. so after two days I flew up to Rawanda.

My stay in rawanda was just as short allthough a lot more pleasent wth a number of happy reunions
Now its tempting to give you the whole Cooks tour so I wont, after criss crossing the continent I ended up in Zimbabwe ( I still think of it as Rhodesia).
A country torn apart I drove Up from Harare to a farm that was still owned by a british family Mike evans took me round and I cant say that I was surprised by what I saw or heard.
In fact nothing had surprised since that first landing in Lagos.

The thing that has surprised me was my own intolerance for the personal inconvenience and deprivation that in my past life I had taken as just part of working in the third world.
I realised then that I had gone soft and that age and experience had taken there toll Its a young mans game and I was not fit to play it any more.

A Hard lesson but you have to be true to yourself no matter what blandishments I was not going back I was no longer fit enough or mentaly agile to live that life again flattering as it was to be headhunted, it was just that flattering.

I got back to Valencia yesterday evning and was met by Mel a girlfriend with benefits , we drove back along the coast and I realised that I realy did not need any challenge other than the challenge of getting Mel to stay overnight and that wasent that much of a challenge.

Going back for some people is a dream for me I now realise would have been a nightmare ]]> espana http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=419 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=418 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:52:58 GMT Attachment 366 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=366)Michael Kingsley, a columnist for The Atlantic, wrote a recent article suggesting that the key to modern journalism is to reduce the size of the reports in newspapers to reflect the ‘new internet paradigm.’... Michael Kingsley, a columnist for The Atlantic, wrote a recent article suggesting that the key to modern journalism is to reduce the size of the reports in newspapers to reflect the ‘new internet paradigm.’ Kingsley maintains that the public are not interested in the wider political ramifications of the news of the day so providing background is simply wasting space and resources. Paul Toohey’s counter-argument on The Punch is to suggest that emulating the standards of blogland is not a suitable model for journalistic quality. Of course Mr Toohey’s argument relies on the notion that journalism has maintained its position of relative qualitative superiority over the offerings of blogs. He goes on to mention that blogs, generally, are not subject to subbing nor are the authors subject to the pressures of the editor. In particular he cites the example of a guy who reports on local-council issues and quotes, word for word, his conversations with councillors and council employees. Mr Toohey decries such reporting as ‘internet vomit’. Yet we are confronted everyday with examples of a comment taken out of context or misreported in the mainstream; Tony Abbott’s recent experience with his comments on his daughter’s virginity is a perfect example of this lack of journalistic honesty. Barrie Cassidy, host of the ABC’s Insiders and one of the most respected journalists in Australia, speaking on radio last week, noted that much of the reportage on Abbott’s response relied on a deliberate misreading of the quote and its context. Far from Mr Toohey’s assertion that this sort of content is limited to ‘internet vomit’, much of the controversy has been fed by mainstream media pursuing what Mr Cassidy calls, ‘an anti-Abbott agenda.’ Far from being a rightwing commentator, Mr Cassidy is a former staffer of Labor’s Prime Minister Paul Keating.

Most of us would be well aware of the debate over charging for online news content. Mr Toohey believes it not only to be inevitable but will effectively mean the end for the blog. Like most journalists, Mr Toohey simply has no understanding of what blogs are actually about; it is somewhat ironic that Mr Toohey uses a blog to offer his opinion that blogs are doomed. It is inevitable that news providers, whether agencies or mainstream media, will charge for their content. And, as Mr Toohey claims, these offerings will have to provide more in the way of picture galleries, video, music ‘and even advertising’ (though why would want advertising on a news service we have already paid for is beyond me). But the ultimate success of these sites is going to rely on a lift in the standards of journalism, and Mr Toohey is very reluctant to address that particular elephant in the room. There seems to be a belief amongst journalists that everything else is to blame for the decline of mainstream media EXCEPT for the content of their reports. The way Mr Toohey tells it, journalism has never been better. If that were so, why would so many people be abandoning the fine offerings of the mainstream for the offerings of ‘internet vomit?’ Could it be that there is a general distrust on the slant that is delivered alongside the facts; that perhaps some facts are being omitted in order that a story is told? The reporting of Tony Abbott’s various utterances since taking the leadership of the Liberal Party would clearly suggest that simply relying on what the journalists tell us is a mistake. Similarly, relying on the media for a view of Scott Morrison’s take on the immigration debate and his subsequent clash with Labor’s John Sullivan would leave the impression that Morrison is a racist bully opposed to all immigration and Sullivan a perceptive debater sticking up for the little guy.

The fact is that collective wisdom and political cant play a big role in journalism. CP and CF Runge, writing in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs, notes that the latest UN projection for population peak is both lower and sooner than previously thought; 9.15billion in 2050. Given our current paradigm that the earth is already overpopulated at 6.8billion (2008) it would be expected that 9.15billion would be that much worse, and how the figure has largely been reported in mainstream media. Yet the Runges’ view is that an increase in public funding of agricultural research, according to their detailed analysis of the relationship of yield improvements and funding, to levels similar to the 1970s would enable this number to be fed without greatly increasing the amount of land under agriculture. They also debunk the long held myth that Ethiopia is incapable of feeding itself; recent developments in Ethiopian agriculture have been so successful that it currently has more grain than it knows what to do with. Rather than continuing large scale investment in food-aid projects, Ethiopia desperately requires a comprehensive investment in transport infrastructure in order to start exporting that grain. A recent article on the Horn of Africa described Ethiopia as famine ravaged when, in fact, its economy is on the verge of collapse because of the amount of grain it is holding, depressing prices. PD Blazy and D Altman, writing in the same edition, note that mainstream media perpetuate biases that it is often difficult to overcome in order to respond to changing priorities. In their article they note that many nations in sub-Saharan Africa no longer require the same amount of food aid but do require a comprehensive investment in medication to combat HIV, malaria and tuberculosis.

It could be argued that this shift in fact has yet to reach the media, except that Foreign Affairs publish the works of experts in their fields who would otherwise not get media attention. Such a description invites the obvious question; if journalists aren’t investigating the facts, what are they doing? What Mr Toohey and his fellow journalists fail to understand is that blogs are the internet equivalent of the BBQ or watercooler without the interjection of an opposing view to interrupt the flow of your thoughts. And just as at the BBQ or watercooler, the person who proves the most perceptive/ accurate/ thought provoking is likely to draw both the crowd and the influence. In that sense, quality journalism and quality blogging rely on the same precepts. You would indeed have to be a pathetic individual to revisit a blog time and again if you fundamentally disagreed with what it had to say; the apparently terminal decline of mainstream media would suggest that the more instantaneous judgements given to blogs is at work there.

As an aside-
The idea that the format is to blame for the low crowd at Adelaide is hollow. The attempts by cricket authorities and journalists to talk up the visit of the Windies and Pakistan prior to the start of the season suggest that the problem of maintaining interest in the tourists was known beforehand. The visit of England and India to our shores in past summers, offering greater competition than has been on offer from the current tourists, led to high crowd figures. There is also the lifting on the ban of telecasting into the host city to consider; why pay the price of a ticket to watch the Windies getting thumped in yet another one sided contest when you can watch it for free at home. It might be different if they had a history of fighting back but this Windies side is about as tough as a soufflé. What is being missed in this debate about whether Test or 50overs cricket is dead in the face of the challenge from Twenty20 is that if you have two quality teams facing each other then the crowds are going to come regardless of the format. Much like journalism itself, this debate over format is confusing style with content. In turning the game into ‘entertainment’, the ACB has to be concerned with the quality of the entertainment offered; it can’t expect loyalty. It might not be wholly unrealistic to revisit the Australia versus Australia A concept it tried when Zimbabwe first toured here in the 1990s.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=418 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=416 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 04:39:47 GMT Thanks to Saffer for reminding me that I have not written to my Blog for a while, I decided that it was time to hop back in here again… though this time it has nothing about my roadtrip with my mum, just something that has been bugging me for a good few year s now. Over the last few years I... Thanks to Saffer for reminding me that I have not written to my Blog for a while, I decided that it was time to hop back in here again… though this time it has nothing about my roadtrip with my mum, just something that has been bugging me for a good few year s now.


Over the last few years I have had to deal with people both directly and indirectly, that seem to find game playing a way of life. Sadly a few of these people were supposed to be loving and supporting family. I personally cannot find the attraction in doing so; all I see is a lost life and exhaustion from using all that time to manipulate people and situations to suit themselves…

I am who I am, and I have only just started to learn that I do not need to apologise to those who cannot accept me – for me. I spent so much wasted time trying to change myself to please others, trying to make myself what they wanted so that I would feel acceptance from them.

I hate that over the years I have let people make me cut off friends, jump on causes that were not my own – or ones that I did not believe in, or make me feel that I am unable to make decisions for myself. I know that I am quite capable of making the right decisions for me; otherwise I would never have gotten to the place I am in my life now. I won’t say they were all perfect decisions, but we all need to make mistakes along the way – they allow us to grow, to learn, to appreciate the good things we find and to spot the bad, and these mistakes shape us into who we become.

Over time I have learnt to distance myself from those who like to manipulate others for either their own amusement or personal game… but every now and then one slips through the cracks, and when that happens it sometimes takes a while for me to realise that I have fallen back into the same pattern of allowing these people to control the world around me.

I know I only have myself to blame, especially once I allow myself to believe the lies, the insincere concerns about my well-being, and most of all – when I knowingly allow them to manipulate something close to my heart, for their own self-centeredness, and their own agendas.

And I hate the lies!! I hold honesty highest than most things, and I think its only fair that if I’m honest then I should be entitled to expect honesty in return. Not to have people twist my words, or just blatantly lie using my name, to control another pawn in their pathetic games. Or to tell me one story, another story to someone else and then deny all knowledge of either conversation…

I suppose what I hate the most, is that I a times would prefer to believe the lies and bullshit than cause trouble and call the players up on their crap.

Sorry for my little rant, but I came across a dick earlier today that was quite amused watching the little drama he had created for his own perverse entertainment… but it did make me wonder if all those involved would learn the lesson a lot quicker than I did, or if they would continue to play their side of the game until the puppeteer was bored and moved along to the next act?


Puppet Masters must lead very lonely and unfulfilled lives when the only thing they can hold close to their hearts is someone else’s strings.
]]> April http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=416 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=414 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:28:23 GMT Attachment 362 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=362)In the interests of gaining a broader range of job opportunities, I have posted my resume online at a number of job related web sites. To be honest, I did not expect much of the decision and so far I have not been... In the interests of gaining a broader range of job opportunities, I have posted my resume online at a number of job related web sites. To be honest, I did not expect much of the decision and so far I have not been disappointed. Perhaps the most bizarre job offered in this manner was that of Store Manager at a Bra Bar. Now I will readily grant that the idea of being able to be intimately involved in the fitting and selection of lingerie was an attractive proposition; one just wonders how long I could have kept the job when the customers realised that their intimate purchases would be viewed by a male. The other oddity was the offer to interview/ submit resume (this was never entirely made clear in the letter I received with the phrases interchanged regularly) for the position of state manager for an auto parts company. The extent of my knowledge about cars is how to drive them plus the basic fuel, oil, air top-ups. Having been in an organization that hired a CEO who didn’t have the first clue about retail, I could well imagine the mirth engendered by my appearance in one of these shops. Similarly placed are the thousands of offers for interview by mobile phone companies. I have a mobile phone- I make calls and send messages. That is it. Though indicating, several times, that I am not interested; still I get about four or five offers a week.

Lately there has been a change of tactics from these recruitment companies. If I apply for the jobs in their adverts I can work for an iconic (national, international or local) business that is seeking (energetic/ go-getting) innovators who are proven sales professionals with a passion for teamwork and customer service. Nowhere in these jobs does it actually say what it is I am going to be selling. At first I thought this was just applied to retailers; after all we are all incredibly stupid and don’t know a lot- surely our jobs are readily interchangeable? But it seems to be spreading into other industries as well. I am waiting for the day that I call the electrician and end up with a plumber. Having dealt with a couple of recruitment companies more intimately in the hopes of finding a job not necessarily linked with retail I was very disappointed to discover that despite being paid to help you, they are trying to score on both ends of the game by shovelling you into a retail job they have been paid to find candidates for. Rather than flounder around in a segment that I know nothing of and, more importantly, couldn’t care less about, I have opted to return to food retail. There are many things I am capable of, but looking interested while trying to extol the virtues of jewellery or fashion is not one of them, not least because it would be difficult for the customer to take me seriously. I was once fixing up the flower stand after a bit of a rush; I could feel the eyes of the checkout girl nearest the display. After a while she said, “You look ridiculous.” How much more so if trying to push that latest fashion must have?

The other part that always amazes me is the idea of being passionate about the most bizarre items. The latest is bedding furniture and linens. Now to my point of view, somebody presenting to an interview claiming to be passionate, especially extra or super passionate, about the humble bedside table and sheet set would probably be the last person I would hire for the job. There is something fetishistic about such a claim. Not to mention the fact that somebody with the household equivalent of an interest in train spotting would be likely to have a personal preference for particular pieces and will brook no argument about their choice. Who knows where a shop of highly individualistic and probably mentally unstable bedding enthusiasts would end up? My guess is the nightly news after the world’s biggest employee rage incident over the merits of queen sized versus king size mattresses. The one I often quoted before this little gem appeared was the idea of being passionate about fire equipment and first aid boxes; I mean, really, if they interested you that much, wouldn’t you have become a fireman or taken a career in medicine? Of course there are plenty of reasons why people can’t pursue those careers despite all the interest in the world, but it puts me in mind of the wannabe cops who make up the bulk of the security guards in shopping centres. Having worked in dozens of shopping centres I have yet to meet a single guard who, when the call goes out, didn’t feel that this was the chance to prove they could have made it on the ‘force.’ The fact that most Police Departments and Forces around the world are changing their names to Police Service is one of those facts that they overlook and is probably why they were rejected in the first place.

It might seem that I am arguing both sides of the same coin; but I would suggest that there is a great deal of difference in being interested in what you are doing and being passionate about it. Especially since ‘passionate’ has simply become a buzz word; does it really have any meaning in these adverts? Dealing with the issues raised by my Asperger’s I have become increasingly convinced that it is less about actually having that passion and more about showing the outward signs of engagement so as to avoid the necessity of actually engaging with your staff. Asperger’s, in part, means that I have trouble picking up the non-verbal aspects of a conversation; it also means that I might say something that sounds innocent to me but offends somebody else because of the words used. The best way to describe it is not picking up on the offence given in the phrase, “You have to be old to get such wisdom.” While my diagnosis has presented new opportunities to find ways of addressing such social shortcomings, I realise that I have been coping with it in my own way so that I had good relationships with my staff. Yet, despite those coping mechanism and the high morale in my departments, few of my managers ever moved beyond the impression left by the social awkwardness I showed in my infrequent meetings with them. The Asperger’s is probably also responsible for my ability to fire people without too many qualms about it. It’s a sometimes necessary part of the job, but I realise now that the lack of emotional affect on me could not have looked good to people who already had the impression that I lacked the necessary engagement with my staff. Of course that didn’t stop them from making use of the fact that it didn’t bother me as much as it did most people.

The weirdest aspect about being an Aspie is that the exercises and systems that I am being given to cope with the dysfunction that it causes are exactly the same as you would expect to find in any good management text. I half suspect that that is where many of these exercises come from, with the relevant psychologist applying a suitably fancy name to each exercise. Either that or the management texts borrow from the treatment. One of the more interesting discussions I have had with other Aspies is whether you tell prospective employers you have the condition or not, with 99% saying you’re better off not doing it, often illustrated by some story of what happens when the employer finds out. I find it somewhat ironic that the average Aspie is trained in the same sort of management techniques taught in business schools and they have a real interest in making best use of those techniques, yet end up getting fired because they have a condition that makes interpersonal relations difficult. Not because they have actually failed to foster teamwork or whatever, simply that there is perception that they can’t. The average Aspie goes away feeling that they have failed the ‘personal’ test but realistically the manager who has fired them has been the one who has failed to meet their own standards; where exactly in this scenario was the attempt to ‘get’ their employee. It is particularly sad to see it repeated time and time again; that’s the spookiest part- one guy has had 46 jobs and is not yet 40. Perhaps that is why I coped so well at the chain supermarkets; even during the longer appointments I was often out of store and doing other things. It is, perhaps, another irony that somebody with such a poor reputation as a people manager was so often called upon to deal with difficult people.

Asperger’s is a form of autism, and like autism it is a spectrum condition. You can be mildly affected or deeply affected; I fit somewhere in the middle. As I wrote soon after I was diagnosed, it has come as a deep relief to realise that there is actually something wrong. Not only do I feel that I have the opportunity to have a better life, I actually feel like it has made me a better person. Accepting my limitations and using the techniques being taught and simply being aware of what it is about Aperger’s that causes me trouble has meant that I am dealing with people better. I would imagine, though I obviously have not yet had the opportunity to test it, it is going to make me a better manager; hopefully somebody who has a better reputation for people management. I find it supremely ironic that if I were to mention to a prospective employer exactly why this is so, I would not get the job. If, on the other hand, I say nothing, my results heavy resume would likely hand me the job with a bow on top without the issue of passion or teamwork ever coming up. The interesting part is that I find that I am increasingly being sceptical about job adverts that offer the world when it makes such a play on these emotional concepts; certainly those that ask for all these factors from their prospective employees and can’t even be bothered to tell you exactly what it is that they sell. I was already sceptical of these sorts of adverts; now I feel as if the Asperger’s has allowed me to be fully justified in that scepticism.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=414 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=412 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:30:00 GMT Ok- I have to admit I have only done it a couple of other times, but I was doing some dental work on a guy heading out to the big A- I could not ignore the bulge in his pants.
He caught me looking so I said "most guys don't get excited to have dental work." he replied "It ain't hard yet doc." I am sure he saw the look on my face-- anyway- move the time forward and 3 hours later we are pulled off the road in some dark spot off the base-- I am leaning over the hood of my pony (mustang) and this guy is fucking me from behind through 3 orgasms - till he pulls out and asks me if i am thirsty. I squatted down and took his huge cock as best i could in my mouth and took all the cum he could give me.
I could hardly walk straight the next day-- what a fucking white boy cock.
Be safe baby
Sheryl(') ]]> usafslut http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=412 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=410 Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:33:31 GMT Attachment 358 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=358)Most people who know me would describe me as a rational person; those that don’t go with weird, anyway. So it was something of a bonus to discover that not only is there a Rationalist Society of Australia; it also... Most people who know me would describe me as a rational person; those that don’t go with weird, anyway. So it was something of a bonus to discover that not only is there a Rationalist Society of Australia; it also has a quarterly magazine devoted, at least on would assume, to being rational. Deciding to risk the cost of the periodical, which I suppose, by one argument, actually works out to less than $3.50 per month, I purchased the magazine. To say that I was disappointed is to understate the matter. It might be better described as the Australian Extreme Socialist; Journal of the Society of Lefty Bigots. I have read scientology handouts that were less biased than this. Even when factually wrong, one of the correspondents more or less adopted the mantra; “I reject your reality and substitute it with my own.” Of course this is the methodology of the extreme left; take a progressive term, own it and then distort it to mean anything that you wish, even if it ends up having a meaning diametrically opposed to the original. Whilst ostensibly being anti-religious, it calls for a blind faith in the statistics, accusations, suppositions and distortions peppered throughout the articles. Far from being a conjunction of rational articles, it is littered with irrationality. Reading it, one is left with the notion that faith is okay only as long as it is faith in science and socialism.

This is firmly in the Dawkins School which maintains a religious sanctity about science, strenuously denied, while criticising religions for the same sort of bigotry peddled by scientists. For example, matter only constitutes 4-5% of the universe; the rest is made up of 62% Dark Matter and 23% Dark Energy. About these two constituent parts of the universe we know nothing; not what they are, what they consist of, how they work. Yet science assures us that they exist; much as religion assures us that the indefinable God exists. Scientists will counter that these constituents can be theorized from the available data; much as the priests can theorize the existence of God from the available data. So it seems that it is okay to have scientific faith in an unproven and indefinable scientific concept but not in an unproven and indefinable deity. John Perkins, writing a critique of Islamism and Evolution, cites a survey that shows only 55% of Australians have a ‘solid’ or ‘firm’ belief in the Theory. He attributes the 45% of idiots who do not subscribe to the Theory as being the result of the ‘billions of dollars Australian Taxpayers waste on religious schools…’ Simple mathematics makes a mockery of his claim; roughly 20% of the population are of school age; roughly 25% of those go to independent schools, and we will be generous and say that they are all ultra-religious schools and ultra-religious students. This gives us a population of 4%, or 880 000people, who attend religious schools and are taught religious concepts. Even factoring in those people who attend church regularly (and not supposing an overlap), cited elsewhere in the issue as 10%, we’re still left with 30% of the population who don’t ‘firmly’ believe in evolution and aren’t religious. Of course Mr Perkins misrepresents both the Theory and the survey; the Theory is probably 99% correct but in that 1% lays a big difference. I am sure that the Flat Earth Theory or the Geo-Centric Theory were thought to be 99% correct too. And he avoids the number of people who believe it ‘likely’ to be true.

It’s not that I disagree with the science; the evidence supports the Theory of Evolution as it stands. It is the example of a group that believes itself to be the paragon of rationality engaging in behaviour that can only be described as fanaticism. If a religious figure came out and made the sweeping statements and half truths and distortions made in this periodical then these people would be the first to leap all over it; but in their extremism they are blind to their own faults. If this was a matter of a simple conflict of opinions between religious extremists and atheist extremists I would be all for just locking them in a room together. Except it is not that simple. These people are not simply content with a secular society; they want to stamp out all religions and religious beliefs; rather ironic given that their own zealousness crosses that border. One could conceivably argue that atheism is a form of religious observance since the true atheist must constantly think of Gods, though in terms of denial. In attempting to define humanity in terms of non-religious observance, they effectively diminish that right of choice that they claim to champion. One of the more important elements of any human rights statement is Freedom of Religion; remove the freedom to observe the constraints of that religion and it effectively undermines the greater Freedom of Observance.

Victoria’s state Labor government is leading the way in this attack on religion. Under the provisions of the Abortion Law Reform Act, a woman’s right to access to abortion procedures has been enshrined as the over riding principle of the law. Medical personnel can not refuse to perform the procedure unless there is an alternative which the woman takes advantage of; in other words the woman can simply refuse to be referred to another doctor and the doctor still has to do the procedure (or subscribe the appropriate medication). This is in clear breach of the principle of Freedom of Religious Observance; under the law as it previously stood the woman had to accept the referral. It is also in breach of the principle of Freedom of Conscience; opposition to abortion does not necessarily have a religious aspect. In fact, under the UN’s Treaty of Human Rights, abortion is defined as a crime against humanity. Another example is the attempt by the Victorian Labor Party to narrow religious exemptions to the Equal Opportunities Act, specifically the ability of religious groups to require their employees to participate in religious activities. This is aimed mostly at schools, where participation in religious services is an oft stated requirement and usually a block for lefty teachers to get into the higher paying private sector. It is ironic that an essentially socialist policy is predicated on such a capitalist notion. Kevin Childs, editor of the Australian Rationalist, devotes much of his editorial to calling for a re-evaluation of the various ‘draconian’ policies that he claims violate the human rights of asylum seekers, terrorist suspects and ethnic minorities while at the same time vehemently criticising religious opponents for their opposition to laws and charters that violate their human rights. The real danger here is that Mr Childs clearly can not see the innate conflict of such a stance.

There are sufficient protections under the law as it stands for the preservation of the principles of Human Rights. There is a process in place whereby breaches of such principles can be appealed up to and including the High Court. The only reason for accepting the leftist argument for a Charter or Bill of Rights is if the current arrangements stand in the way of a socialist world view. If this charter/ Bill attacks one of the most fundamental rights (one might argue that, in the immediate aftermath of Holocaust, the reason for the treaty’s existence in the first place) then it would seem to be less about Human Rights and more about establishing a socialist new world order. The fact that a guarantee of economic and social rights, as distinct from ethnic and political rights, is being sought as an early enumerated inclusion is fraught with dangers for the future. If, as proposed by the socialists at Liberty Victoria, we include ‘as a priority, a right to an adequate standard of living, the right to health and the right to education’ who is going to define these concepts and how exactly are they to be enforced? Exactly how does this sort of thing propose to deal with the effects of alcohol, tobacco and drug consumption, since these are all deleterious to health and therefore in conflict with a Right to Health? Does the disruptive student not only find himself (or herself) with a detention but a gaol sentence for impinging on the Right to Education for other students? Is an adequate standard of living the poverty line or some other measure? How do we enforce the right to an adequate standard of living on the mentally ill homeless person, just as likely to be on the streets by deranged choice as by circumstance? How do we incentivise the welfare system if it must guarantee the right to the unemployed of a yet to be determined minimum standard? Far from guaranteeing our freedoms, this is placing a socialist agenda at the heart of the political system.

The notion that such ideas are ‘progressive’ and ‘rational’ are mere window dressing for the deeper truth that they owe to a political ideology. It is an ideology of envy and it is an ideology of tyranny. Simply because it sounds good and noble, it does not necessarily follow that the methods used to achieve worthy goals are likely to be worthy of the intent. In essence it holds that manifesto and dogma are more important than your liberty. Whenever confronted by the atheistic or socialist world view, I often think of what a bleak, tiny and insignificant world it condemns us to. No room for aspiration; no room for inspiration; no room for invention; no room for hope. They look ever backward and inward, seeking a perfection in the world that is impossible to achieve and inadvisable to embrace. They are blind to their own limitations and contradictions.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=410 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=409 Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:51:00 GMT Attachment 354 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=354)The arrival of Foxtel, and cable television generally, was supposed to be this big opportunity for minor sports to find their television audience. Women’s sport in particular was supposed to benefit from this... The arrival of Foxtel, and cable television generally, was supposed to be this big opportunity for minor sports to find their television audience. Women’s sport in particular was supposed to benefit from this explosion in available television hours. As the digital revolution unfolds we are hearing much the same noises; minor sports and women’s sports should find their niche on television at long last. It seems unlikely, without some form of legislative intervention, this is going to happen. A recent survey of sports news reports found that women’s sports rated less coverage than horse racing (9% vs 10%); and both were a long way behind men’s sport with an astonishing 81%. Take out golf, tennis, athletics and swimming and it would be hard to imagine that there was any women’s sport mentioned at all. Far from being a revolution in televised women’s sport, it seems that it is entirely business as usual.

The reappearance of the tennis circus on these shores in the lead-up to the Australian Open has seen a few articles appearing on women’s tennis appearing in the mainstream. It would be difficult to say that many of them have been positive. The Punch carried a tongue in cheek article suggesting that Maria Sharapova was too perfect and that it was alright to hate her for it; another admonished Serena Williams for wearing too much jewellery. Remarkably, a lot of these articles are written by women; most are keen to accuse these young ladies of devaluing women’s tennis by turning themselves into clothes horses rather than act the part of professional athletes. It does not seem that long ago that Amelie Mauresmo was being accused of not doing enough for women’s tennis by being more feminine. It seems there is a growing case of damned if you do; damned if you don’t. In a similar vein we have criticism of the professional beach volleyball tour; though our erstwhile correspondents seem to overlook the fact that while men are permitted to wear board shorts, the regulations governing the women’s sport require the wearing of the bikini style outfits the ladies wear. Rather than turning their acerbic prose on the women, perhaps our female correspondents could direct their criticisms where they belong.

Of course there is the rub; where exactly does this criticism belong? The decision by the administrators of beach volleyball to enforce the ‘bikini code’ ensures that there is a professional league for female beach volleyballers. It is a little hard to criticise such thinking when we reflect that the women’s sports that fail to embrace body hugging outfits are routinely ignored. At least this way some women are able to engage in professional sports where they might not otherwise get the chance. This may seem inordinately sexist but the simple fact is that women do not watch women’s sports; in order to get the audience, men, then the game has to cater to the interests of the audience. It is an easy argument to fault; if the sport was the important thing then it shouldn’t matter what the woman wears. The problem with that logic is that if one wanted to see top flight beach volleyball then they would watch the men. This is true of almost every sport; the pinnacle of the ability resides in the men’s game.

Of course the idea that men’s sport is superior to women’s sport is a controversial idea in itself. In general it would be true to say that men have a better grasp of the skills and techniques with more power into the equation. This is not necessarily a good thing; there have been extended periods in men’s tennis where power serves dominated the sport at the expense of other aspects. Women’s sports, by contrast, tend to be a lot more finessed and tactical. Of course any male who has lined up in the local mixed netball league can tell you a thing or three about how dirty women’s sports can be; but even this aspect is more finessed and tactical in its use than the usual biff that goes on in rugby for example. As a regular watcher of women’s sport, admittedly not always for the correct reasons, at least initially, I do enjoy the tactical acumen of those involved rather than the all out power plays in men’s sport.

There is more than enough reason to watch women’s sport; and I would imagine that if it were on more often it would find a natural audience amongst male viewers without having to resort to sexy costumes and sexualised promotions. Would it be a large enough audience to underwrite the various professional leagues? It is hard to imagine that it would cause any harm; it might even help. But is this seeking a solution in the wrong areas? Is it really up to men to watch women’s sports? Why can’t women watch women’s sports? The argument that women don’t like to watch women’s sport because of the scanty uniforms ignores the fact that women were not watching before the advent of scanty uniforms. It seems easier to find women writing negatively about women’s sports, or at least the stars at any rate, than it is to find a positive view. It is also easier to find the view that the problem with women’s sports is the fact that men don’t watch it rather than calling for more women to watch.

The whole system is caught up in traps of perceptions and opinions. We ‘know’ that men are more interested in sports than women; but is the absence of women’s sports from television schedules creating a self-fulfilling prophecy? Would little Regina or Mrs Surefire be more likely to park their butts and watch sport if the stars on show were Debbie Ponting or Belinda Cousins? If there is to be a quota for women’s sports, would programmers simply end up showing the Women’s Hockey World Cup at three in the morning, citing what we all ‘know’? The fact is that the domination of televised sports by the various male leagues has gone on so long that it is difficult to actually work out what we ‘know’ and what we ‘suppose’ to be true. We have any number of surveys suggesting that women have any number of reasons for not participating or watching sports in the vacuum of male dominated televised sports. We really won’t know what we know until that pattern is broken and, unfortunately, it is fairly obvious the market pressures on broadcasters makes it imperative that, just as with Children’s programming, there needs to be some sort of quota for women’s sport; one that actually makes it likely that women will have the chance to watch.

A quota is not the whole answer to the problem; it should go some way to beginning to address the problem, but the stark reality is that women have to acquire an appreciation for their sport’s stars that goes beyond the fashion pages of the newspapers and magazines. It was only as I began to think about this subject that it occurred to me that the Crawford Report on Australian Sport was remarkably light on the matter of promoting women’s sport, especially beyond the school environment. Whilst participation rates across the general population were low, they were particularly low amongst women. A couple of generations promoting women’s sport in school has not translated into a greater participation rate outside of school, whether in terms of junior after school hours sport or senior post-school sport. This is not something that can be quickly dismissed as the result of domestic duties/ career pursuit leaving little time available for sport pursuits. For one thing, the low rates of participation begin at junior levels; another factor is that demographic changes have changed the general dynamic of women in their early and mid-twenties. Perhaps what is required is to review the strategy on promoting women’s sport in light of the relative success of promoting women’s academic options. One thing that might be useful is that instead of wasting column inches on whether they are called pumas, cougars or WiTF we instead concentrate on something useful and important.

Perhaps instead of a joke article informing women that it is alright to hate Maria Sharapova, it might be more constructive for the image of women and women’s sport in particular if it was okay to celebrate her ‘perfection’. Perhaps instead of attacking female sports stars for their scanty costumes and jewellery choices it might be more rewarding to attack the system that makes such gimmicks necessary. Rather than bemoaning the lack of male support for televised women’s sports, it would be more useful to get the natural audience, women, to do their bit for the cause. Perhaps instead of arguing in favour of the view that handbags have helped to empower women (really), it would be more beneficial to talk up the health benefits of participating in sport and the empowerment of watching more female sport’s stars on television. It seems to me that women writing from the feminist perspective are trying to score points for how they put down women who do not meet the feminist ideal rather than arguing for an end to the system that makes such compromises necessary. One would imagine that, if there is a perception that sport is a less than feminine pursuit, the success of Ms Sharapova and the Williams’ sisters would be a useful counter to that perception. Why make these ladies, and the dozens like them, the villains of the piece when it is obvious that they are using the system to their advantage. Why not celebrate their successful use of a flawed system that values a woman as much for her looks as her talent? It would be nice to maintain an ideological purity, but is it to come at the expense of practical help for women?
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=409 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=408 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:56:43 GMT Attachment 350 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=350)The sort of people that are still interested in whether their children maintain their virginity until marriage are not likely to differentiate between the gender of their children. The idea that such people would... The sort of people that are still interested in whether their children maintain their virginity until marriage are not likely to differentiate between the gender of their children. The idea that such people would be happy to see their sons sowing their wild oats but not their daughters is simply laughable. It may be quaint; it may be old fashioned; it may be foolish; but it is not as discriminatory as the mainstream media is determined to make it. Of course if it had been St Kevin discussing whether he would prefer his daughters to ‘save themselves’ for marriage it is likely that we would be treated to as many articles suggesting how forward thinking it is in this day of high teen pregnancy rates and sexually transmitted diseases. But, because it was Tony Abbott, we are instead being treated to a thorough discourse on how he is not merely a religious zealot, but also a misogynist. Of course he pointed out his own hypocrisy; it might be the light of such an experience that makes him think his daughters might be better waiting. While I don’t agree with his position, I detest the obvious double standards here.

Ever since winning the leadership of the Liberal Party, Tony Abbott has had to wear the moniker of the Mad Monk and had his religious convictions ridiculed in the nation’s media. Yet he has made it clear that he believes in the separation of church and state; he has avoided using his church attendance to score cheap political points. Very much unlike St Kevin, who has used his attendance at church every week as a sort of de facto press conference. St Kevin, citing Dietrich Bonhoffer as inspiration, has written he relies strongly on his religion as a guide to making his political decisions. Yet, according to the mainstream media, Tony Abbott is the one we have to watch out for. I don’t object so much to the caution as I do the fact that this is so one-sided. The fact is that if Abbott was a member of the Labor Party the media would be singing his praises about his attitude to his religion; instead it is being misrepresented to demonise him. Meanwhile, simply because he is a member of the Labor Party, St Kevin’s religious views get a free ride. This is worse than the usual political bias because it is a politically inspired beat-up.

This beat-up over Tony Abbott’s views on virginity is simply a device to alienate him from women voters. The subtext is that a vote for an Abbott-led Liberal party will be a return to the 1950s and the idea that a woman’s place is in the home. Never mind that his wife works; that he has encouraged his daughter’s educational aspirations. No; the lefty mainstream media wants us to believe that his views on pre-marital sex are a chauvinistic attempt to place the domestic shackles back onto Australian women. It is just another crass attempt to portray Abbott as an extremist by building Frankenstein’s Monster from the bare bones of a comment. In many ways it is no different to describing his ‘Green Corps’ proposal as a de facto form of National Service, despite the fact that Abbott never mentioned any form of conscripting workers for the scheme.

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister has released a piece of propaganda masquerading as a children’s book in which St Kevin is portrayed as being the only person capable of fixing the problems caused by his pets and firmly in charge of the situation. The media fails to find a problem with the Prime Minister using his position for financial gain. If Abbott had been part of the exercise, I am sure that the media would have found a way to portray him as cruel to animals or of not taking his position seriously. It certainly struck me that one of the few achievements of this government in the last two years has been the publishing of a Children’s book; that and running up a government debt of $132billion dollars.

As fears grow that China’s economic situation is not as rosy as it would like us to believe, one wonders how St Kevin’s government is going to react if things turn sour in the coming months. Will government debt get to $300billion? Of course the lefties are more concerned with portraying the Opposition leader as a religious zealot than they are with questioning this government’s economic management. The government handouts and mismanaged infrastructure package was predicated on the idea that Australia’s economy was the same as that of the US and Europe. But Australia is a primary industries exporter that is tied closely to the Chinese economy. Far from improving Australia’s economic position, the bonus payments served to artificially inflate the GDP figures by boosting imports. This in turn has led to an over-inflated Aussie dollar that has hurt exporters, manufacturers in particular. Government debt is basically being used to fund an increase in domestic debt.

Just as with any issue of importance in this country, the mainstream media seems quite content to ignore Labor mistakes and excess; it is apparently happy to ignore the growing threat to the Australian economy fostered by this government’s China first policy and record debt. Instead of being informed about these issues, we are being treated to a juvenile beat-up of a nonsense issue that has zero impact on the lives of the majority of Australians. This trash is what passes for mainstream journalism in this country; and then they complain that nobody buys the newspapers or watches television or listens to the radio.

One of the more bizarre criticisms of Abbott has been his propensity to say what he thinks. While being careful to exempt the longwinded yet essentially empty statements of St Kevin from the mix, the media has been complaining about the dissembling and scripted utterances of politicians for some time. Yet when presented with a politician who actually says something useful in less than a twenty minute speech, the media leap all over him claiming that such bluntness is not very political. Of course what they mean is that it is not very lefty, politically correct. Or perhaps it is just that in making such solid statements, he is showing up the inane verbosity of the wonder-boy in the Lodge

Tony Abbott has the potential to be one of our greatest ever Prime Ministers. The leftwing bias of the mainstream media always made this seem an unlikely scenario; it was difficult to believe that they would treat Abbott equally, much less honestly. Since his elevation to be leader of the Opposition it has certainly played out that way. There has hardly been a policy announcement or utterance that has not been deliberately misrepresented in the media. Despite repeated assurances that the Liberals have no intention of re-introducing the draconian elements of Work Choices, the mainstream media is still reporting that a vote for the opposition will mean just such a move. Despite growing calls from environmentalists and scientists to drop carbon trading schemes as an ineffective way of dealing with climate change, the media still portrays Abbott as being out of touch for opposing the CPRS. Rather than salute his civic participation as a member of his bushfire brigade and surf lifesaving club, we are treated to a juvenile belittling of the outfit he is required to wear. It has always seemed to me that it would take a major crisis for Australia to have the benefit of having Tony Abbott as the Prime Minister.

As much as the mainstream media is at fault here, it is increasingly apparent that the Liberal Party’s image makers are falling into the trap. Instead of bypassing the media and using the internet or even direct mail to get the best representation of their man into the minds of the voters, there seems to be a belief that they can win over the journalists. One look at the nation’s newspapers would suggest that this was a huge mistake. Here we have a government that made any number of promises in order to get elected, and yet has failed to live up to any one of them. Border Protection has become a joke; the CPRS is being ridiculed by economic, scientific and environmental experts; Work Fair has given the Union bullies a second life; health care is worse and the blame game is alive and well. Whilst ignoring these broken promises and others, the fourth estate has failed to challenge the narcissistic and dictatorial style of St Kevin; failed to challenge Comrade Julia for using government money for political self promotion; failed to challenge the poor performance and outright deceit of government ministers. Instead it has filled its column inches with distortions of Tony Abbott’s words and actions. The time has come for a new strategy or we will find ourselves stuck with St Kevin for another three years.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=408 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=407 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:22:43 GMT Attachment 345 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=345)Thanks to the recent visit by Prince William, to these shores we have been privileged to another rendition of the republican debate. So far it seems to mostly consist of insulting both the royal family and... Thanks to the recent visit by Prince William, to these shores we have been privileged to another rendition of the republican debate. So far it seems to mostly consist of insulting both the royal family and monarchists with puerile accusations more fit for the school yard with the occasional mention of how it would be better if an Australian was the head of state instead of ‘an old crone shacked up with her racist husband.’ Possibly, and I say this only because I have not seen every article yet, the most infantile of reasoning forwarded for doing away with the monarchy is the realisation that HRH Prince William suffers from early onset male pattern baldness, and obvious sign of the relentless inbreeding of the Royal Families of Europe, or at least according to the commentator involved. There has been no discussion of the faults of our constitutional arrangements. Apparently the only benefits to be garnered are our ‘real’ independence (without ever quite pointing out what that means) and the idea that an Australian (sans bald people apparently) will be head of state. There has certainly been no discussion of the changes such a move would make to our political structures or the model of republic the various correspondents would like to see. The whole exercise and wastage of column inches on our web pages and in our newspapers seems to be an enormous pissing contest amongst the leftists to prove their bona fides to each other without much in the way of presenting a valid, rational and cogent argument in favour of the changes they propose.

For the record, I am a monarchist. In this regard it is important to note that I am not a royalist; it does not particularly bother me which family has the Crown. It is simply important to me that there is a Crown. In my opinion, the biggest mistake the Royal Family made was to try to have the best of both worlds; to be worldly like the Dutch Royal Family whilst attempting to maintain the mystique of the Japanese Royal Family. Given the wealth of the Royals it might have been better to have held onto the mystique. There are some aspects of the royal behaviour that are unsavoury, but hardly anything more than what happens in any other family. It could be argued that they should be setting a better example, but the pressure of a lifetime of media scrutiny would take its toll.

There are some aspects of the public reaction to the various royals that does confuse me. The story of HRH Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla is one, in particular, that leaves me baffled. Whilst I may be courting a date with infamy, Princess Diana always struck me as a narcissistic bubblehead wholly unsuited to the role of Queen. Certainly she did some good works but it strikes me that the bulk of them came after the split. Either way, in the Tale of Charles and Camilla she was the second prize. Far from being contented with a woman of astonishing beauty, Charles pined for his true love. If it had been a Shakespearean romance it would have rivalled Romeo and Juliet. And yet they have been mercilessly and endlessly pilloried by public and press alike. When once I mentioned my confusion to a few ladies, they remarked that no woman liked to think that her husband might leave her for an uglier woman. The male stereotype is trading the wife in for a younger, prettier model.

I support the monarchy for a number of reasons. Of least importance is a genuine love of pomp and circumstance. There is something just a little soul stirringly special in being able to say the Royal Australian Navy or the Royal Flying Doctor Service or Royal Society for the Protection of Animals. There is something more special in being recognised for your good works by having a title attached to your name than there is in having a couple of initials after it. How often do we remember to write Alan Border A.O.; how often do we forget to write Sir Donald Bradman? Plus there is a small part of the hindbrain that sees A.O. and thinks ‘Adults Only’, like the recipient is being acknowledged for service to pornography or something. I like a good parade too. I wish that more of our National Holidays featured such spectacles instead of just limiting it to Anzac Day; especially if it means getting out the Pipes and Drums, whether they are Scots, Irish and/ or whoever else has them.

More particularly I support the monarchy for what it represents; a real and tangible connection to a dream. Far from being an anachronism, the monarchy is an anchor that reminds us that our traditions and system of government are older than our nation. Our nation was not born in war or revolution; it has not been tested by insurrection or civil war. We can look at our Westminster system of government and see a connection to those events in another nation that struggled to give voice to what our system represents. It is a cry from the past that urges compromise and rapprochement instead of violence and extremism. Does the history of the monarchy represent the perfect strides of a movement from royalist autocracy to democratic pluralism? No, it does not: what it does tell us is that the dreams of equality of all before the law and the rule of law that gave rise to our democratic system could never be wholly extinguished and even Kings and Queens saw their merit. We have a precious gift in our systems of law and government; the monarchy serves as a reminder of how dearly bought and highly regarded they are held.

The other factor in my opposition to a republic is that nobody has come up with a system wherein we could maintain either our current system of government nor a system to replace it if it proves necessary. The most common theory, the idea that we can take a bottle of white-out to the current constitution and change references to the Crown into references to the President seems to be predicated on the idea that we have a constitution similar to the United States. The fact is that the more important reserve powers and, more critically, the limits on those powers are not defined by the constitution. We run the risk, in formulating and describing those powers and limits, that we may forget or, more likely, not anticipate a crisis that can not be clearly handled by the new rules. One thing that people forget about tradition is that it is far more flexible than the hard print of the laws and regulations. One only has to look at the endless debates over the American document as to what is said, unsaid and implied to realise just how fruitless codifying such elements can be. The real danger is that a republic will never become a reality until the voters have a direct say in who will be head of state; and then our whole system of government would have to change.

Unfortunately, the people who would be most suited to the role of Governor-General under the current system are unlikely to be willing to undergo the public spotlight that an election would necessitate; almost by definition the position of president would go to a politician. The risk then arises of a President from one party and a cabinet and Prime Minister from another party. Sooner or later the ‘electoral mandate’ conferred by direct election would lead to a conflict, one that our current constitution has no method of resolving. Even if only a matter of national survival, sooner or later the constitution would have to be substantively changed or wholly rewritten in order for the position to work. Without a substantive rewrite of the current relationships between state, commonwealth, president and parliament, a constitutional crisis of some sort would inevitably involve the rewriting of the constitution under the pressure of events. This would effectively be handing the left the opportunity to cement a radical social and cultural agenda at the heart of the political system. Not simply a reworking of the current political arrangements but the effective overthrow of the elements that have gone to make the country what it is.

Another factor is this idea of true independence. Does this imply a hasty and ill-considered decision to depart membership of the Commonwealth of Nations? While there is an argument that membership of this organization has not delivered much in the way of tangible benefits, it is more a matter of not taking advantage of the unique opportunities afforded by that membership. With expansion now not limited to former British Colonies and Dependencies, it is remarkable to see the number of nations considering or actively in the process of seeking membership. Angola, Algeria and Morocco have all expressed an interest and Brazil has been said to be seriously considering an application. To bail out now without trying to take advantage of the opportunities such membership offers simply concedes that we were inept members. One aspect that would be sorely missed in this sports mad country is the opportunity the Commonwealth Games provide to prepare for the greater spectacle of the Olympics.

I am not such a dyed in the wool monarchist that if we were to become a republic that I would immediately decamp to Britain or Canada. I can understand the sentimentalist notion of having an Australian as head of state. But if the march to a republican Australia is inevitable, then surely we need more details about the form the presidency will take and the constitutional adjustments that will be required to make the position an effective one. It certainly requires more than the casual and juvenile insults that the republicans are currently throwing around in their attempt to prove to each other who is the biggest Windsor-hating person of the lot. Even the Brisbane based head of the Australian Republican Movement indulged in this infantile behaviour; it hardly bodes well for the future that such a key figure in the republican movement did not seek to use the opportunity to educate a wider audience on the benefits.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=407 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=405 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:04:15 GMT Attachment 341 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=341)Lately it seems that whenever I encounter someone discussing human nature, they have an entirely negative view of the entire concept. In fact it seems that there is an accepted view that human nature is solely... Lately it seems that whenever I encounter someone discussing human nature, they have an entirely negative view of the entire concept. In fact it seems that there is an accepted view that human nature is solely defined by negative emotions; hate, anger, greed. There is a general view that we are all pretty poor specimens; that either we have achieved nothing worth boasting of or have merely done so in order to lessen the impact of our base selves upon our fellow human beings. There seems to be an increasing reluctance to find the positive aspects of any organization or individual; where once we would measure the good versus bad aspects of a situation we are increasingly judging the totality of humanity by its negative impacts. A good recent example has been the US constitution; traditionally regarded as the aspirations of a generation of remarkable men, it is being increasingly portrayed as the bulwark against the excesses of ‘human nature.’ Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of these views is the idea that human nature is unchangeable; we are condemned, forever, to be nothing more worthy than a conglomeration of our negative emotions.

I do not believe that such interpretations bare the weight of scrutiny. For one thing it severely limits the definition of human nature; it allows for nothing that is done out of love or compassion. More importantly, there is a certain rationality about human actions that is not explicable by a reliance on human emotions. Loyalty, for example, is not wholly explicable by the emotions we might necessarily expect it to involve; it hardly owes to negative emotions and yet the positive emotions do not allow for the idea of the bad deeds done in the name of loyalty. It is certainly with distaste that I view the idea that we are condemned to be nothing more than a fermented concoction of our negative emotions. I have always thought that the most remarkable aspect of our humanity is the notion of redemption; the idea that we need not, in fact, be limited by who we are but can aspire to be something better.

Every theology and philosophy has maintained a notion of ‘right thinking’. That failure to embrace this correct mindset necessarily entails a deviation from the correct path. This is not limited to religious organizations; one only has to look at the reaction to climate-change sceptics to see that science has its own versions of ‘right thinking.’ Yet despite this collective adherence to the ideals of ‘right thinking,’ humans have been remarkably inventive and adaptive creatures. While the incidence of invention has been, relatively speaking, slow, the proliferation of invention has been remarkably swift, particularly in the Western world. No sooner is the thing invented than it seems to take on the air of normality. While the history of repression is often the history of ideas and ideals, it should also teach us that ideas and ideals have a spread and force of their own; Galileo’s books may have been proscribed but it did not stop every serious scientist owning a copy.

To my mind, human nature is to be defined by more than an emotional response. Certainly there is an emotional aspect; but it is not nearly the negative or dominant force that some would have it. There has to exist a complimentary, perhaps even a dominant, intellectual aspect to our nature or else we are simply complex amoeba relying on stimulus and response to guide us. It is this intellectualism that allows us to be so creative, inventive and resourceful. At the same time it is this intellectualism that explains are propensity for redemption and aspiration; for our ability to take the most remarkable of innovations and normalise their impact within a few years. Perhaps in the melding of intellectualism and emotion we see those aspects of humanity that may truly define us; inspiration and hope.

The reason that we come to normalise invention and ideas so quickly is because they touch upon those two aspects of our nature. Very few inventions have come to us whole; the internal combustion engine is a design that required many steps along the way. Each invention has led to inspiration that takes the camshaft and crankshaft from the mill and applied it to a device that could not be conceived of even two hundred years ago. Although we may look back and say that the internal combustion engine was necessary for the motor vehicle, it ignores the fact that somebody had to be inspired to marry the concept of the internal combustion engine to transportation. As we move into the age of the electric car, it is useful to reflect that the discovery of the electron was deemed to have had no useful application; now we have a world full of electronic devices.

And just as the new inventions serve to feed our inspiration, they serve to feed our hopes. Hopes for a better world, for us, our children, perhaps even for the world itself. Hope more adequately explains the coexistent dreams of the tyrant and the dreams of the parent than anger or fear ever could. There is a strong notion, particularly among the right but also on the left, that individual freedom requires that the government fear the people. This has never been an adequate explanation for the formation, extension or adherence to government, particularly democratic government. Indeed, it seems to me that this very notion of fear of the people is what drives most of the more irrational ideas of government; throwing ever increasing amounts of money at politically sensitive issues when it is clear that more than money is required to fix the problem. The notion that government should serve the hopes of the people is probably more reflective of the attitude of the people. Because, ultimately, hope does not have to be a selfish thing; we can hope to live in a society without homeless people. We may disagree on the solution; we may disagree on the motivation, in which case we expect government to reconcile those views while still fulfilling our hopes.

More importantly, hope and inspiration allow for us to change our views, both individually and as a society or race. Once slavery was considered to be a normal aspect of society; over time that view has successively moderated until we arrive at a point today where such views do not apply but that the very idea we found it acceptable is a cause for shame. Once women were equated with the insane and criminal in their capacity to cast a vote; now we have a society that finds the notion of excluding women from the ballot to be a sure sign of backwardness or barbarism. And it is not simply limited to ideas; changing technology can make us re-evaluate our lives and society. One of the most powerful examples has been the introduction of tolling clocks in Europe in the 14th and 15th century. Quite suddenly the very concept of time changed. A concept of time that relied on grand scales of lunar and solar months, days and seasons was effectively demolished in favour of the mechanical keeping of the hours. Refinements in that technology has made us more aware of the nature of time, but none have quite so revolutionised society as the regular tolling of mechanically precise hours has done. Here, for the first time in history, was a method of telling the time and ordering the day that was available to anyone. It changed not merely the study of astronomy, as it was originally intended to do, but the nature of the working day and with it the concepts of leisure and recreation. It altered the agricultural sector as the farmer was forced to keep to an urban schedule. It not only changed the way our world operated, it also changed the way we saw ourselves.

As long as we allow the process by which we are defined by our emotional responses to the events that affect us we will be adhering to a concept that devalues us individually and collectively. Human nature has to be more than the stimulus-response dynamic of the amoeba, for such a definition ignores the creativity, wisdom, intelligence and inventiveness within us as individuals and groups. It also deprives us of the opportunity to redeem ourselves and the hope that we might succeed and the inspiration to make it work. certainly without these things to guide us and improve our world it would be an even darker place than it appears now.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=405 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=404 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 20:33:25 GMT Attachment 337 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=337)There is a growing chorus of opinion attempting to downplay the seriousness of the Chinese Government’s attacks on Google by painting the company as less than worthy of our support. The argument runs that since... There is a growing chorus of opinion attempting to downplay the seriousness of the Chinese Government’s attacks on Google by painting the company as less than worthy of our support. The argument runs that since Google voluntarily implemented censorship filters it had lost any sort of moral high ground in the current argument with the Chinese. One might seriously ask exactly how you can make the argument that implementing such filters makes you less moral than a government that imprisons and executes people who demand such things as free elections, rights to the their property and equality before the law. In fact such arguments are quite plainly meant to distract us from the deeper questions; like should we be so eager to embrace a Chinese century given it has repeatedly shown that it is anything but a good member of the international community. Its actions at Copenhagen were clearly designed to exploit their standing in the developing world to its own advantage; it backs brutal regimes in Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan and Zimbabwe. It appears that many commentators are less interested in the murkier aspects of China in their rush to celebrate what many foresee as the inevitable decline of the USA.

It is unlikely that the timetable being laid out for the rise of the Chinese Century will be accurate; too much has to go too right for too long. With active and nascent separatist movements amongst the Tibetans, Uighars and Manchurians threatening internal security, the regime’s continued attempts to cover up the extent of top level Party corruption and incompetence is a clear threat to internal stability as the majority Han populace are starting to question who is exactly benefiting from this economic expansion. Whilst unemployment is rising (9% on latest figures), underemployment is also rife within the system. Nearly a quarter million university graduates entering the workforce this year will join the growing ranks of the so-called Ant People- highly educated workers employed as waiters and cleaners earning less than half the average wage. In order to maintain a favourable trade position with the west, China is forced to keep much of its currency reserves offshore, which depresses the value of both wages and the Yuan. Whilst Chinese GDP sits at around US$6000, average wages are only $3400. However, those with higher education do extremely well out of the economy; Chinese professionals can earn two to three times that of Indians even though Indian workers generally earn much the same as Chinese. As much as China is trying to control this flow of information, it is increasingly obvious to the average worker that they are doing far less well than those in the Party or in management positions. Another aspect of Chinese economic progress that is constantly overlooked is the strength it draws from the massive US consumer demand; the looming debt crisis in that country could punch a massive hole in the Chinese economy.

Perhaps the biggest block to China’s assumption of its apparently pre-ordained position is its increasingly erratic foreign policy. For example, the announcement that the PLA-Navy would be seeking a stronger Blue-water capability with the inclusion of aircraft carriers in its force structure has been a disaster. Whilst internal divisions and incompetence over the size and numbers of carriers and supporting vessels has led to endless delays, its announcement has sparked off a buying spree of advanced jets and anti-shipping missiles by its regional neighbours. While Japan, Taiwan and Viet Nam have upped their buy of advanced aircraft, India has taken the long delayed step of finalising and beginning to build its own carrier capacity. Some analysts are suggesting that India’s carrier programme will deliver more hulls before China’s own capability will be complete. As mentioned previously, China has forged close ties to some of the most brutal regimes on the face of the planet. Its constant sabre rattling over the position of Taiwan has sent the impression that its foreign policy is immature in conception and utility, centred on a primary aim of keeping ‘face’ with its people. This aim could conceivably lead to an unnecessary escalation of a crisis, such as the stand-off between the Viet Namese and Chinese navies in the Spratley Islands in the late 1990s, a standoff only defused after considerable bloodshed.

This latest incident with Google should be viewed as an opportunity to discuss the much broader issues involved with our relationship with China. The Australian Defence Force reported that there were a minimum of 4500 attempts to ‘hack’ into their computer networks, the vast majority originating in China. Such attacks are not limited to areas of national security; the Melbourne Film Festival website was repeatedly attacked last year after the Festival refused to cancel screenings of a documentary on the life of a prominent Uighar leader. Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu, still awaiting charges to be laid six months after his arrest last year, was detained and accused of spying days after Rio’s shareholders rejected a bid by a government owned Chinese company to buy a stake in the iron ore giant. Far from questioning our dealings with the Chinese in the light of such events, our Mandarin speaking Prime Minister and his government seem determined to heed the commentariat and tie us economically closer to China. Far from using this opportunity to demand more secure communications and information technology, we are instead being advised that China is not the trouble. Rather than addressing the threat China poses not simply to our security but our cultural, artistic and economic prosperity and freedom, the commentariat are handing us a bucket of white wash. The very idea that a country that controls the internet with such fierce measures is not involved is to ignore the threat posed by such intrusions.

One measure that needs to be implemented immediately is a more open sharing of information as to the scope of this problem with our allies, both in the region and globally. American Intelligence analysts have reported to congressional committees that these hackers are well organised and funded with the numbers of operators estimated to be in the thousands. The magazine ‘Foreign Affairs’ reports that cyber attacks on the US are targeting infrastructure as well as defence manufacturers and the intelligence community. A piecemeal approach by the rest of the world will ultimately lead to critical weaknesses in key areas. It may be that China’s rise is as inevitable as some commentators hope and suggest. It would still be a terrible mistake to ignore the United States. Far from being sidelined or overwhelmed by the potential rise of China, America will still be the pre-eminent western power for some time to come. Its military and diplomatic strength will still be formidable; its geographic position is a unique advantage that none of its rivals share. At the very least, we should not be blinded to the potential and real threats that will emerge with the rise of China.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=404 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=403 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:21:04 GMT Attachment 333 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=333)Using his position as editor of The Punch, David Penberthy has taken the opportunity to pen (type?) and post a number of articles critical of the Victorian Police Service’s handling of the attacks on Indian... Using his position as editor of The Punch, David Penberthy has taken the opportunity to pen (type?) and post a number of articles critical of the Victorian Police Service’s handling of the attacks on Indian students. The latest article, ‘Police credibility decamps in a northerly direction,’ takes particular issue with the statement concerning the firebomb attack on a Sikh temple. At face value, it does seem disingenuous to say that, in the midst of the political uproar over the assaults on south Asians in general and Indians in particular, that there is no evidence that the firebombing is racially motivated. Yet if the Police were to make such a statement, as obvious and uncontentious as it may seem to some, as Mr Penberthy wants, it would probably jeopardise the prosecution of the case in the courts later. Any competent lawyer is going to make the obvious defence that the Police have the wrong person because they pursued the case without an open mind- they were looking for a racist only.

For while the current malaise gives a motive for such an attack, it also provides the perfect opportunity to use it as a cover for some other purpose. Far from being the integrated, loving and respectful society that Mr Penberthy insinuates India to be, it does have some serious, and violent, racial and religious problems itself. It is a country in which as many as 1 million died at independence for no other reason than that they were of the wrong religion in the wrong place. As unlikely as it sounds, the current imbroglio over Australia’s racism might be seen as the perfect cover for an attack on the Sikhs. The point is, that simply assuming it is the act of a bunch of disillusioned bogans gives a lawyer a pretty good excuse to argue police prejudice alone has put their client in the dock. It also means that, if evidence does not support the theory then the police have wasted time and resources pursuing the wrong people. How would Mr Penberthy react then?

It is precisely this situation that faces the WA Police Service in its investigations in relation to the murder of Corryn Rayney. Early in the case, in an apparent attempt to shock a confession, the police named her husband, Lloyd Rayney, as the prime suspect. Although we have been led to believe that this move was made with some indication that he was, in fact, a good suspect, we have had a few stories in the last few months indicating that Mr Rayney was, in fact, targeted because he did not react as he was expected to react- he was not emotional enough for the Police. In a story published in the West Australian Newspaper, Mr Rayney’s colleagues and friends made the point that Mr Rayney was rarely emotional with strangers. The other main cause for suspicion to fall upon him was Mr Rayney’s refusal to let the Police repeatedly interview his young daughters. In fact both daughters have claimed that they were not prevented from seeing Police and have had ‘many interviews’, a statement denied by Police. Now the Police are faced with a conundrum; Mr Rayney did not confess and in fact made a most vehement defence of his innocence. Do the Police operate on the assumption that there must be some evidence somewhere that he did it and pursue it totally? Or do they keep an open mind, fully aware that if they bring in anybody else they are going to look particularly inept for their ham-fisted accusation in the first place? The Police have stated that they are keeping an open mind but as the months become years it seems that either they missed the opportunity to catch the killer or that they are not interested in catching the killer. Either way, Mr Rayney’s lawyer, Michael Bennett, is unlikely to fail to bring up the accusation in any prosecution of his client unless it features a video of Mr Rayney doing the actual deed. Even a confession can be dismissed as succumbing to the “pillorying by the general public my client has suffered since the accusation was made.” Even if apprehended, another suspect has a reasonable defence of doubt- the Police were equally sure of Mr Rayney.

On a much larger scale, we are a nation in the spotlight over these attacks on South Asians. As a nation of racists, or so the theory goes, any systemic attack on an ethnic minority must be racially motivated. As our newspapers and websites fill up with various accusations and defences of the main charge, that we’re all tarred with the racist brush, it ignores more prosaic reasons for these crimes. Like the idea that these students might be well off to be studying in another country and therefore a more rewarding target for criminals. In fact, since the crimes seem largely unrelated to each other with the sort of systemic signs one would expect from a campaign of racism, this seems a more reliable explanation. So far, and to the best of my knowledge, the ‘racist’ aspect of these crimes has been along the lines of, “Hand over yer money, currymuncher.” By this logic they might in fact be a gang of socialists or capitalists. Arguing that this is a clear sign of racism, based on nothing more than some name calling, is just another attempt to keep us guilt ridden. Arguing that Police are incompetent in dealing with this because they are unwilling to tackle the racism involved because statistics show that south Asians are more likely to be targeted than other minority does not allow that many of them live in already high crime areas. Send a few thousand white university students to live in Footscray and surrounds and it would probably result in similar crime statistics. The argument that they would have a better chance of fitting in ignores the fact that they would still be wearing and using the articles that seem to be the actual targets of these robberies/ assaults.

Another of Mr Penberthy’s articles specifically addresses this sort of racism; our propensity to make a derogatory nickname associated with another person’s racial origin. Wogs, nips and currymunchers seem to be the limit of this racism; no allowance for the poms, yanks and sheepshaggers; nor, would it seem, is there an allowance for wait awhiles, cane toads and cockroaches. And yet, whilst demonising this propensity for racially based epithets he seems to have no trouble with skippy, dazzas and shazzas. The problem with concentrating on this aspect of racism it ignores something deeper and more sinister. We have, in the very heart of our capitol cities as well as in the far reaches of our nation, a population who have the health prospects and educational levels of a third world country. Hand over fist, we have spent billions trying to end this situation with as much racial and cultural sensitivity as can be mustered, and yet the prospects for Aboriginals are still lagging behind the rest of the country. Asking the bleeding obvious, as in where has all this money gone and why has it not fixed the problem, invariably brings about an accusation of racism. Yet watching the first $50million from a $675million programme aimed at improving housing for Northern Territory Aboriginals disappear without trace of an actual house being built, one has to wonder who our reticence in asking the questions actually helping? We are informed that it has been spent on planning and advice; just how much planning and advice do you need to go up there, have the families pick out a design and then build the bloody thing? This is a far more insidious form of racism; this is using our concerns over treating Aboriginals with due respect to cover up incompetence and, probably, corruption. We run around legislating against racial vilification and allow other people to get away with self-aggrandisement, incompetence and theft at the expense of Aboriginal lives. We have similar problems in other areas; ethnic relations are more than an oversensitive reaction to a few increasingly irrelevant names; it was not white Australians responsible for ‘Wogs Out of Work.’

The propensity of some sections of our society to jump at the chance to claim that what we call each other is a clear sign of how racist we are is forcing us to ignore deeper issues within our culture as a whole, and racism in particular. Reviving the racist debate because of the victims of crime in Footscray and surrounds have been south Asian is forcing us away from asking what aspects of the society in those suburbs is leading to such high crime rates generally. Leo Shanahan, also writing on The Punch, notes that his visit to the area indicated that drug use was a greater concern to both ethnic and Anglo residents. Similarly, the concern over the accusation of racism against Aboriginals and ethnic minorities is blinding us to an honest appraisal of the high levels of funding for programmes in these areas that don’t seem to be producing much in the way of results. I doubt that there are very few Australians who are opposed to spending the money on these issues- but there can’t continue to be nothing to show for it. This is not a problem limited to the race debate; Tory Shepherd, again on The Punch, dismisses a fondness for the Australian Flag as the preserve of ‘right wingers and bogans.’ Every article on the Republican Debate, in light of Prince William’s visit, seems to have been more about name calling against the monarchy and monarchists than it has been about addressing the problems in becoming a republic. We are increasingly allowing ourselves to be distracted by the nonsense aspects of these issues instead of asking the deeper questions; more concerned with appearances than outcomes.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=403 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=402 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:21:29 GMT Attachment 329 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=329)Perhaps the dumbest question I have been asked was whether the Titanic sank in real life. It was particularly odd because, along with the release of the movie, we had any number of documentaries and news articles... Perhaps the dumbest question I have been asked was whether the Titanic sank in real life. It was particularly odd because, along with the release of the movie, we had any number of documentaries and news articles describing what had happened to the ship. The second dumbest question would be whether there were New Zealanders at Gallipoli. “Where do you think the NZ in ANZAC comes from, son?” These sorts of questions are representative of the fact that history in this country has become something of a lost topic over the last forty years. Of course a knowledge of the history of Australia has never been a particular aspiration of many Australians even before then; equally true would be the assertion that Australian history has become so depressingly negative that that traditional reticence has become something of a refuge for most. There are few events or people in the history of this country that are not represented by the historical establishment as being the enlargement of a great, evil stain on the fabric of the national identity.

As we head into Australia Day, we are presented with any number of debates that draw on our national history; the status of the Monarchy; the level of racism; even whether we should have an Australia Day and what day it should be held. While history is being presented as the battleground, it would be more accurate to say that certain historical narratives are being used as weapons in what are essentially political debates. And we have to say narrative because if there is one thing we have been able to draw from the History Wars, it is that facts are not all that important in establishing the truth. But it is this sort of casual handling of the facts that ultimately devalues the study of history. Some would argue that the prevailing political ‘understanding’ determines the prevailing historical narrative; that the current narrative does nothing more than redress the rose coloured presentation of the Australian story in the past. Yet far from redressing this imbalance, the current narrative determinedly seeks to demonise the past, especially if it can be used as a bludgeon in a current political debate.

Whilst having an awareness of history is often prized in these debates, there seems to be an equal notion that the relevance of your point of view owes largely to an ability to espouse the accepted historical narrative. Challenging that narrative, even with the facts on your side, is seen as being obstructionist; out of touch; dangerously unenlightened. Increasingly, this evidence of ‘warped thinking’ is sufficient justification to ignore the entirety of a person’s viewpoint, especially if it is politically inconvenient. It is not uncommon for the expert opinion to be dismissed out of hand for the lack of awareness of the ‘historical imperatives.’ In other words, it is more important to bend to the prevailing political winds than it is to actually be right. Of course if you are already starting off from the current political viewpoint, then there is no end to the claims you can make without the backing of evidence. One merely has to follow the current opinions of several commentators as to the role that capitalism played in the disaster in Haiti to realise that.

What is particularly disturbing is the idea that this particular brand of political correctness is not merely passed off as one point of view but as the only point of view. While the general public is increasingly seeking refuge from the negative narrative of most historians in ignorance; in certain areas there has been an increase in historical writing. Books such as Les Carlyon’s ‘Gallipoli’ and Peter Brune’s ‘A Bastard of a Place’ have enjoyed a wide popularity often reserved for the latest fictional offerings. However, Brune is a school teacher and Carlyon is a journalists and this, more than the deficiencies in their research, seems to have attracted the greatest approbation. Certainly Carlyon’s sympathetic treatment of General Hamilton in particular and the operation generally has been largely dismissed as the misguided opinion of an amateur. Heavy works of scholarship they are not; but for a readable and substantially accurate introduction both serve an important role in promoting interest in their topics. The truth is that both works, and others like them, are increasingly more accurate and politically neutral than the works of the professional historians. Rather than seeking to play out the political narrative, they ‘merely’ try to tell the real story as accurately as possible.

A recent survey of Year 10 students found that less than half met the minimum standard of knowledge of our political and legal systems and history as required of those immigrants seeking citizenship. Despite the attempts of various governments of various persuasions to improve and widen the understanding of Australian history, there has been little to show for the effort. The problem goes deeper than a lack of interest from the students themselves. Aside from the perception that there is nothing ‘sexy’ or ‘exciting’ about Australian history (no revolution of independence, no civil war, etc) there is also the problem that it is impossible in this country to promote a past success without a hue and cry going up if there is not some sort of acknowledgement of any injustice or error that was made. Too often our positive achievements end up buried under a plethora of negative claims. How exactly are our children expected to take an interest in the positive virtues we would like to promote when we don’t promote them? One recent example was the celebrations marking the abolition of the slave trade in Britain and her Empire. For the first time in history a nation with a compelling interest to continue the practice actually disadvantaged itself by not only banning the trade but utilised its navy to interfere with the trading of other nations. But rather than acknowledge what had been done, the prevailing political/historical view in Australia was that it didn’t matter- the trade was immoral and should never have been undertaken in the first place: there was no cause for celebrating the ending of the trade.

The left often decries the mythologising of Australian history before 1950; they say it ignores the ‘many’ injustices that were tolerated in promoting the primacy of the white man. They are wont to point out that such mythologising is dangerous because it promotes a distorted view of the past and can lead to distorted decisions in the present. It is somewhat ironic, then, that the left do not have some hesitation over their own mythologising of the past. This time the myth is that there is nothing positive to be learnt from the past and it has distorted the political decision making of the present. There is an increasing perception that a problem must have a whole and immediate solution, that the oftentimes necessary slow progress of reform is an unworthy endeavour. Rather than fix part of a problem, it is becoming preferable to simply ignore the whole issue because it is too large to be resolved in one effort. Complex problems like the homeless will not be resolved by one over arching approach. The requirements of health and education are in a state of constant flux; we have to be flexible enough to realise that the whole system may not have to change in order to improve results.

Santayana is often quoted as saying those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it. In fact the quote is those who do not know their past are doomed to repeat it. In the past this nation has been guilty of presenting its history with a mythologised rose coloured tint. Historians may have addressed this notion of an incorrect history, but they have done so by repeating the mistakes of the past, this time with a dark shaded tint. The mistake remains the same and the results are just as bad for those the change of view was supposed to help.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=402 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=401 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:54:00 GMT When I Decided to retire early I new that iwould still take the odd job to keep current. This year though I seem to have put in more hours and travelled more often than when I was working, It seems that the contacts and friendships of a very cheqered past are now a commodity in great demand. ... When I Decided to retire early I new that iwould still take the odd job to keep current.
This year though I seem to have put in more hours and travelled more often than when I was working, It seems that the contacts and friendships of a very cheqered past are now a commodity in great demand.

Its funny the bean counters and overprmoted morons that were the bain of my life challenging every bar tab restaurant bill and travel expense or bribe to officials are vanishing.
Those buisness consultants and accountants that had no idea of the way the the world works are being turfed out , and some of us are being recalled to the trenches.

I am now being forced to face the fact that yes I live a fairly full life lots of sex drink and the occasonal chemical additive. I ride sail and hunt and am financially secure I have whats called fuck you money so whats missing the challenge thats whats missing.

By this time you must be wondering where this is going well I have just had a phone conversation offering virualy a free hand the problem 7-8 months in the dark continent with no real base.
I havent been to the African continent for allmost ten years I lost two friends when there jeep hit a mine and swore that nothing would make me return.

I spent a long time traveling all overAfrica when it was not the fashion destination of simpering rock and film stars I have no illusions I know the truth I understand the raw hate of tribalism that justifies genocide and the absolute corruption of police courts and government that prevails in most if not all African states.

Do I realy want that challenge again do I want to live on the edge again am I to old is this ten years to late am I scared
I need to realy step back this decision could be the death of me ]]> espana http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=401 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=400 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:55:18 GMT Attachment 325 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=325)You go through life thinking that there is some thing that everyone else has been shown about being around people that you missed. You are puzzled by people who have the capacity to chat amiably about the weather... You go through life thinking that there is some thing that everyone else has been shown about being around people that you missed. You are puzzled by people who have the capacity to chat amiably about the weather or the deeds of celebrities. Somebody asks ‘How are you?’ and you pause for a few minutes trying to work out if they really want to know, even though the person asking could just as easily be your best friend or a stranger. Somebody uses a complex word in a sentence and you find yourself so impressed that you interrupt to compliment them and lose track of what they were actually saying. People think you are not paying attention to them because you are not giving off the usual non-verbal clues that you are paying attention- you look at their tie instead of their face. You can spend an amiable time looking for the pattern in the ceiling, trying to count the number of perforations in each panel and the number of panels used to get the number of perforations in the ceiling. You freak people out with your ability to do complex sums in your head but even the simplest algebra is beyond you. You’re variously known as the human dictionary or the human calculator or the human encyclopaedia; people ask you for the answer rather than going to the resources in question. A heavy thunderstorm on a night out is fantastic to you because there will be fewer people to see you eat at the restaurant. You think that sleeping and eating are distractions from the important things like an online discussion about the hierarchy of the Late Byzantine Navy and how it compares to the US navy. You have more action figures from your favourite television show than you have friends, and prefer it that way. Your library is separated into sections by topic, alphabetical order and by three sizes but you can’t see the floor of your room. You are weird. You do not fit. Try as you might, the world is not your oyster because it has too many illogical and emotional mysteries.

Well now the world makes a little more sense. I have been diagnosed with medium Asperger’s Syndrome. I am an Aspie.

Far from being upset about it, I am actually finding that it has been a tremendous relief. It is difficult to explain; you’ve always known that there is something wrong with you but now you know it is because there is something wrong. Instead of flailing around trying to make sense of things and trying to be more like other people, I can now focus on the root causes of the problems I have with people, with my interests, with my life. I don’t think I have ever slept as well as I have than in the last week; instead of worrying about how abnormal I was I can just relax with the knowledge that I have a condition that makes normal socialisation and normal behaviour impossible. I think the major problem in my life has been this sense of being alone; of not being what others expected or hoped I would be and being left with the feeling that I had let people down by not being what they wanted. It has been a release of guilt on my part; I suppose I just kept thinking to myself that if I tried just that little bit harder than everything might come right and it never happened. In fact, it seemed the harder I tried the worse it got, because I never saw an improvement in my personal situation it led to frustration and depression and anger.

The hardest part so far is telling people I have it. Talking to other Aspies and reading their experiences online I realise I am not alone in a desire to tell people about ‘suffering’ from the condition. Suddenly your behaviour has an explanation, other than being an arsehole. I was quite prepared for the people who would be sympathetic; the people who would want to start fresh, even the people who would not accept that this changed anything. What I have not been prepared for are the people who seem to be in denial about the diagnosis. According to them I can’t have Apserger’s because I am smart; I can’t have it because I have a big vocabulary; because I have some friends; because I don’t hide away from the world. It seems that they would rather think of me as being lazy or incompetent or not trying hard enough or shy- anything but having Asperger’s Syndrome. Or if I do have it then it is just an excuse to avoid doing what needs to be done- I have to get out more and mingle with people and all my problems would be solved. It leaves you wondering if they have actually heard what you said about the condition. With some people it makes you wonder if they have any idea of what your life has been like.

The truth is that I do not want to be ‘normal’, do not want to be the same as everybody else. I keep coming across these periods in my life when everything seems to be going right but I get caught up in this notion that, though I feel happy, if only I was more normal I would be happier. So rather than taking the time to enjoy these periods of happiness I get bogged down by a growing sense of unhappiness that I am not living up to other people’s expectations of what my life should be like. The fact is that rather than living up to those expectations, I should be looking to live my own life. This idea that the importance of a person can be judged by the number of their friends or how often I go out has led me to make some poor decisions lately. I should be cultivating the interests that make me happy and bring me into contact with people more like me so I have a chance of making a friend, rather than slavishly following this ‘normal’ path to joy that requires so much of my energy to just, nearly, fit in with a group. I shouldn’t be unhappy that I don’t go out more often because I prefer to stay at home and surround myself with the comforts of home. Other Aspies call it ‘nesting’. The way I am looking at it at the moment is that if I could be more happy about who I am, then I am going to be more likely to do the things I want to do without checking it against a big fat list of what ‘normal’ people do and feel down hearted that I have made so little progress. As I discover more and more about Asperger’s, I find that the characters in literature that I like the most could in fact be called Aspies themselves; Sherlock Holmes or Sam Vimes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, for example. In the end they find happiness in their self fulfilment, not in the number of friends that they have or how normal they are; they have looked at ‘normal’ and want no part of it.

So my first step in this journey is going to be liking myself more, accepting who I am because I really have no choice in the matter. Trying harder to be normal is not going to make me happy; denying I have this condition is not going to help. More importantly I am going to stop listening to those people who seem to think that I am lazy or uncongenial or whatever. I need to find out more about who I am in light of this revelation and what I need to do to make me happy. Because, truthfully, I have a lot to be happy about, I have just never taken the time to appreciate what I have gained. Always driven by the impressions of others that I have been lazy or emotionally detached or a poor people manager I have strived to keep ‘improving’ myself so that I appear to be more like what other people expect. In hindsight I have always known this but never had the opportunity to do something about it; it is hard to argue against being more normal if there is a perception that there is nothing wrong with you that a bit more effort wouldn’t fix. Now I do not have to worry about it.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=400 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=399 Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:23:10 GMT Attachment 321 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=321) Reading the commentary around the incident between the Japanese trawler and the Ady Gil, it was interesting to see that Australia is not only aspiring to be a regional power but has moved in and started measuring...
Reading the commentary around the incident between the Japanese trawler and the Ady Gil, it was interesting to see that Australia is not only aspiring to be a regional power but has moved in and started measuring for new drapes and carpets. The plan to use Australia’s successful banking system as the basis for creating a regional financial centre and strengthen the nation’s economy, by contrast, seems to have been greeted by a collective guffaw of derision. Such sentiments seem to be representative of the extremes of our response to our position in the world. It is somewhat ironic that we are perfectly comfortable with the idea of being the world’s best cricketing nation or that we might aspire to be a power in the world of international soccer, yet the idea that Sydney or Perth might become an important part of the world’s financial network leaves us amused. We might happily spend the national budget of a third world country on luring the soccer World Cup to Australia, but we are averse to increasing our university spending to get a few more of our universities into the top 20 in the world.

I’m not bashing sport; when the Australian Winter Olympic team slides out onto the ice and snow in Vancouver I will be cheering them on with as much one eyed enthusiasm as the next person. I just wonder why we have so much trouble taking ourselves just as seriously when it comes to other pursuits, especially where it requires half a brain. Are we tickled by the idea of being a financial centre because we don’t grasp the idea of Australians being financial geniuses? It is a little too much to say that we are an anti-intellectual society. One of the comments that is often made by visitors to Australia is that we are very self-deprecating, that we don’t take ourselves seriously. This might make us a friendly bunch of people for the tourists but it certainly seems to make us unlikely to take ourselves seriously. The basis of the idea to make Australia a financial centre was the ability of the banking sector to prosper during the GFC; it strikes me that many people seem to think of it as a fluke rather than a generation of sensible financial regulation paying off.

We seem to enjoy our quirky little inventions; proud of Mr Hill and his hoist or the rotary mower or the black box flight recorder. Is there a pub quiz in Australia where at least one of these three did not feature? Yet it seems that any intellectual endeavour beyond the equivalent of dad pottering in the shed is shrugged off as not being wholly in keeping with our national image. We’re supposed to be laidback and devoted to the philosophy of ‘She’ll be right sport.’ We have the joke that there is nothing in Australia that can not be fixed with bailing twine and a wire coat hanger. Or the joke that every conversation on a mobile phone in Australia begins with, “I am on my mobile.”

It is easy to get defensive about this sort of thing. Some like to suggest that we have left our cultural cringe behind; that we are no longer the poor white trash of Asia. We are no longer wannabe Brits or Yanks or Europeans; we have a proud culture all our own. It seems ironic that the arty types of the left love nothing better to make this claim of cultural separation while at the same time doing their level best to make us feel guilty about that culture. It would suggest that rather than leaving that cultural cringe behind we have simply developed a new cringe that effectively devalues everything in our own culture. Of course when it suits the left to play along with the idea that we are capable of more than usual, the mainstream media talks up a storm. How as a mature regional power we didn’t demand an apology from the Japanese for sinking one of our hospital ships in World War Two when its wreck was discovered recently. How as a mature regional power we should be challenging the Japanese for killing whales in the Antarctic. This is the ultimate problem; too many within our population are too keen to downplay the achievements within our society. While lefty academics schlep off to Europe to present their belief that Australian society is worse than Nazi Germany or Turkey’s treatment of the Armenians in WW1, we also have an anti-intellectual bias on the Right that comes up with such profound pronouncements such as that “The poor don’t like to read.”

Just as we acknowledge that we are pretty good at sports and do well in the arts we need to realise that we are not altogether stupid. Rather than concentrating on the problems, we need to find a way to celebrate what we have achieved. Constantly harping on about the negatives within our society simply makes people switch off from the problem. Our corporate management courses and texts are full of detailed research demonstrating that the most effective methods of managing the workforce are not to constantly focus on the negatives but to make sure that you also celebrate the successes achieved; to balance a negative criticism with a positive outcome. So why is it exactly that so much of our public service announcements and public relations people and our media seem so determined to beat us down with a never-ending stream of negativity?
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=399 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=398 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:44:14 GMT Attachment 317 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=317)Perhaps one of the most interesting creatures on the planet is the plucky beaver. I had two rather prominent front teeth as a kid that engendered the nickname Beaver; though my mother used to liken my propensity to... Perhaps one of the most interesting creatures on the planet is the plucky beaver. I had two rather prominent front teeth as a kid that engendered the nickname Beaver; though my mother used to liken my propensity to sleep-in to the three-toed sloth. There are many myths about the beaver and the truth of this animal is sometimes even more bizarre than anything dreamt up by the cartoonists who make great play on those myths. After the moose, it is probably the animal most closely associated with Canada; one of the main purposes of establishing the colony of New France in modern day Quebec was in order to take advantage of the numerous beavers that lived in the area for the fur trade. When in 1920 it was decided to publish a magazine devoted to the History of Canada, it seemed only natural for the publishers to choose the iconic mammal as its icon and name the periodical ‘The Beaver.’ I have never read the magazine; after this next issue you can’t either. It is not the internet revolution that has caught it out; it is not a declining interest in Canadian history; according to my information it has, in fact, actually experienced a lift in distribution, especially amongst ex-pat Canadians in the US and Europe. In fact the increase in distribution is a big part of the problem. ‘The Beaver’ has fallen victim to the Internet Filter; as many would know, the beaver has also become a nickname for female genitalia. As of 2010, ‘The Beaver’ will be no more, replaced by the more internet friendly moniker ‘Canadian History.’

It is not just the magazine that is being blocked; the editor noted that some filters blocked a great many sites that featured the animal. One wonders how those organizations like schools and universities that utilise the beaver as a mascot are going to cope. When you think of all the sites that might possibly feature the beaver, it should give you pause about the effectiveness of internet blocking and filtering programmes. Since the whole point of the euphemism was to establish a (relatively) polite, colloquial, moniker, one wonders what other words employed as euphemisms for sexual functions, activities and genitalia have fallen victim to the internet filter? Will we be seeking a new term to describe the activities of those Christians at work in the developing world? Will all the John Thomas’ of the world be required to change their names to ensure that they exist in the information age? It may seem silly, but several governments are planning to introduce a comprehensive filter to target undesirable sites that utilise these euphemisms. It’s not like there are sites out there that offer ‘Child Porn Here.’ Will Vlad Nabikov’s contribution to the canon of literature be inaccessible?

I am bothered by Senator Conroy’s internet blocking system on two fronts. One is that this is just another example of rampant legislation and regulation. No matter what the crisis or problem or issue is, this country has an increasingly vocal pack of wowsers from the left and the right who bleat on, asking what the government is going to do about it? Invariably there is a perfectly reasonable justification for it; think of the kiddies or think of the environment or think of the disabled or whatever. And the real solution of ‘Please engage your brain’ gets sidelined because our justice system, whether criminal, commercial or constitutional, has jettisoned the idea of personal culpability and assumed that we are all incredibly stupid and need protecting from ourselves. In this particular effort by Senator Conroy there is not a lot in judicial oversight but the pattern is well set now. Essentially, it places an emotive response, backed up by some dubious facts and assumptions, at the heart of the political system. It empowers the minority to dictate the terms of the public debate at the expense of the majority. The kernel of the idea is that some parents are incapable of looking after their children; maybe they can litigate if the government does not protect them from their …stupidity? The whole idea that you can sue someone else because you’re a bad parent is laughable; but if you can sue the hotelier for letting you get drunk, where does it stop? If it is really such a problem, shouldn’t the legislation, in effect, hold the parents responsible for not monitoring their child’s use of the internet? Instead we are treated to a piece of legislation that seeks to control our freedoms.

The other issue is that this is an entirely automated process. Senator Conroy maintains that you can gain access to a site by lodging a protest/ request to have it removed from the blocking list. I do not understand how this site won’t be re-blocked on a subsequent sweep, but the real issue is how do you know that you want a site unblocked if you don’t know it exists? What if you have a sudden desire to join an evangelical group doing good works in Africa? What if you need detailed information on the beaver’s habitat? Another concern is the idea that once these euphemisms are blocked, people, being people, will turn to new euphemisms that will also be blocked. How about a political/religious/interest group manufacturing a euphemism in order to have the ideas of their opponents blocked? Good old Clive Hamilton, special spokesman on behalf of the environment, or so he styles himself, has maintained, in writing and on several occasions, that the threat of global warming to the planet is sufficient justification for the views, information and facts of AGW sceptics to be banned; what is to stop the government from doing so? A lengthy court process with a bench full of Lefty, post-modernists in the High Court determining the final result? AGW is, according to St Kevin, a moral obligation; the same sort of obligation that is inspiring the whole programme in the first place.

It is no coincidence that the mainstream media is increasingly supporting the proposal. There has been an increasingly vehement campaign mounted by the mainstream media attacking the new social media sites like Twitter, MySpace, Youtube, etc in addition to blogs and mini-blogs. It is interesting to note that they reserve their most fierce criticisms for those stories they have effectively decided not to report. Iran is in the middle of a political revolution where the young are being joined by their middle-class parents and increasing number of senior clerics and politicians opposed to the policies of the Ayatollah and the President. Of course you won’t hear about this on most news services or sites. Similarly we are faced with the fact that the mainstream media was given full access to the climategate emails and information a number of weeks before it was released on the internet; they simply chose not to report it. AAP has even gone so far to entrust the reporting of the scandal to a journalist named in the emails as a conspirator in preventing anti-AGW theorists from publishing their data. Instead we are treated to the sexual peccadillos of Tiger Woods and Casey Johnson. While everybody enjoys a chuckle at the idea proposed by a religious boofhead that Haiti’s high casualty figure from its earthquake is a sign of God’s retribution, the mainstream media is seriously entertaining the notion that the death toll is due solely to the poverty caused by capitalism. (I thought the death toll was caused by a massive earthquake, but what do I know.) Suddenly we have a system that will allow the media to report only what it wants to report and we will have absolutely no way of determining for ourselves what is not being reported.

Some people believe that we shouldn’t complain because we should be thinking about the kiddies (which is ironic because that is what paedophiles do) without thinking that they are reducing their parental rights. Some people think that we shouldn’t complain but demand better blocking software to replace that being used without thinking about the idea that once it can ban what it likes and blame it on the faults in the system it is unlikely that the government will want to change. Some people think it is a good idea to block information if it does not suit their personal biases; that Clive Hamilton and Fred Nile have reason to agree on this programme should fill us all with trepidation. The real irony behind their alliance of convenience is that they both stand to be victims of the technology they support: Nile’s opposition to Gay rights could see his organization banned in the not too distant future; just as the anti-AGW theorists rely on the internet now, the pro-AGW theorists relied on it to enter the public consciousness in the first place. Senator Conroy and his internet blocking software may be all about good intentions but we should not forget that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Once upon a time the authorities used to burn books with the honest intention of keeping us free of contamination by inappropriate content; a state sponsored and regulated internet blocking programme is nothing less than a digital bonfire.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=398 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=397 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:43:45 GMT Attachment 313 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=313)I am quite the fan of Rockwiz; while I do enjoy ABC’s Spicks and Specks I just find that Rockwiz is more memorable. Of course having the sexy Julia Zemiro as host helps; I think that if Myf Warhurst stood up a bit... I am quite the fan of Rockwiz; while I do enjoy ABC’s Spicks and Specks I just find that Rockwiz is more memorable. Of course having the sexy Julia Zemiro as host helps; I think that if Myf Warhurst stood up a bit more often I would definitely watch Specks a bit more. The only thing that I don’t like about Rockwiz is the tendency they have to be a little precious about the sort of music they think is ‘cool’. It mars what is otherwise a fantastic segment of the show; “What concert did you first go to? What was the first album you bought with your own money?” Whilst the audience contestants are interesting, it is the answers provided by the star guests that I often find fascinating.

The first tickets I ever paid for were a double bill for Hoodoo Gurus and The Stems. Unfortunately I got a knock to the head at the hockey and spent much of the concert in hospital waiting to see if I had a concussion. The first concert I ever attended was Hunters and Collectors at the Old Melbourne Hotel. My dream was to see the Divynals; unfortunately there was always something in the way of seeing them; a regional sports carnival, not enough money, etc. Of course this was the dream of those bands likely to get to Perth. The fact is that the big performers and performances never made it past the Nullarbor; a lot of them don’t even make it out of Sydney and Melbourne. The one act I always hoped to see live one day was Queen.

I cannot remember a time when Queen were not my favourite band. I am sure that there was a time when I was too young; I just don’t remember it. When I finally had money to pay for my own albums the first album I bought was ‘A Night at the Opera.’ I still have that vinyl record from my spotted youth; I also have it on tape and CD. I discovered that tapes were a lot handier than vinyl so I have the complete catalogue on tape whereas I only have four albums on vinyl, including the Greatest Hits. Getting a complete catalogue on CD has proven somewhat difficult; Hot Space in particular has proven elusive and I seem to have a bit of a problem with disappearing Queen CDs at parties. Bad enough, yes, but even more so when it is one of the early albums. I also have all the official DVDs and a fair whack of unofficial ones.

I am not one of those fans that remembers every detail; I know the names of the band members, the instruments they played and not much more than that. To me, it has always been about the music. It didn’t bother me where the album ended up on the charts; what single was number one in Austria or Belgium. I loved the scope of the music; the grandeur that the band tried to add to what was just plain old rock and roll. The tribalism of ‘We Will Rock You’ and the operatic sensation of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ were major achievements in themselves. Yet their hits were only ever part of the story for me; I love the whole albums. It would be a mistake to suggest that each one possessed some underlying theme or spirit. To my mind, each song was meant to be taken on its own merits, not to serve some great building block within the structure of the album. It always seemed to me that each song was presented as an uncut gem; it required the listener to add their own take on the song- to give it its ultimate meaning.

I can think of no other band that has touched us as completely as Queen have. No victory celebration could be complete without their iconic ‘We Are The Champions.’ ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ changed the dynamic of the three minute pop song. ‘We Will Rock You’ is the challenge of the home team in any number of sports and leagues. ‘I Want To Break Free’ must be singularly unique as an iconic song of gay liberation and anti-apartheid protest. Sooner or later every company associated with the auto industry seems to run an advert based on ‘I’m In Love With My Car.’ There are many more; but it seems that the very ubiquity of their influence seems to have diluted whatever credit is owed to them. While it is increasingly rare to hear the Stones or the Beatles on the radio, Queen songs seem to have a hallowed place still. That it is the same four songs time and again is hardly their fault.

My Favourite Queen Songs

It’s A Hard Life- Because nothing has been easy for me I identify with this song; whilst ostensibly a song of lost love I find that the whole notion that everything worthwhile has to be worked for is so true.

Bohemian Rhapsody- As an Opera lover I enjoy this attempt to bring the operatic into the rock milieu. There are a few heavy metal bands that do more, seem even more operatic, but this was a song that changed the way we look at rock.

Teo Torriate (Let Us Cling Together)- a big soppy love song. One of ‘our’ songs.

Fat Bottomed Girls- cause I love fat bottomed girls of loose virtue.

Tear It Up- a sexual song full of grunt- taps right into the hind brain.

Prophet’s Song- big guitars, big drums and Freddie at his operatic best, it is a very underrated song

Innuendo- as much as I like the song, I love the video more. The Spanish rhythms are an interesting addition. It’s come to mean a lot more to me these last few months.

Breakthrough- the video was shot in reverse- the smoke from the steam train obscured the band when it travelled forwards. I love the sentiment behind the song.

Don’t Stop Me Now- another great sentiment- don’t stop me now, I am having such a good time. Back when I was drinking if you didn’t play this or Bowie’s Diamond Dogs there was going to be a fight.

You Take My Breath Away- a really nice ballad.

Of course I could just go on for another ten or twenty or thirty. But these are the songs that I think most accurately reflect who Queen were in my mind. For all the great times I have had listening to your music, thank you Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=397 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=395 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:12:29 GMT Attachment 309 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=309) There is an old saying; Put your money where your mouth is. With a growing population it is not always easy to get to know our democratic representatives as much as we, and they, would like. One result is that we...
There is an old saying; Put your money where your mouth is. With a growing population it is not always easy to get to know our democratic representatives as much as we, and they, would like. One result is that we are forced to measure their commitment to an ideal or a cause not by their words but by how much they are willing to spend on it. Too often this leads to the sort of bidding war that we increasingly associate with Pork-barrel spending promises, and that leads to the whole notion of core and non-core promises. Far from demonstrating a person’s good intents, the whole process undermines the political process. Whilst politicians are the most obvious example of this monetary representation of concerns/ ideals/ causes, they are certainly not alone. Quite often we measure our concern for ‘good causes’ by how much we are willing to donate; but the plethora of good causes, and the guilt inducing tactics of their proponents, means that we often dilute our ability to really help in order to cover the spread of causes. Bill and Melinda Gates of Microsoft fame are often criticised because their foundation has decided to target malaria; so vehement have been the criticisms that this has forced the Foundation to dilute its efforts in order to appease its critics. Does this dilution to include other areas induce us to believe that the Gates’ are truly committed to these other causes? Does the fact that our average $200 in donations are spread over 40+ different causes truly represent that we care about any one in particular?

Does the political bidding war fix any one problem? The outcomes of numerous financial injections into the Australian Public Hospital System by both the state and federal governments have singularly failed to achieve their objectives. The money spent on the problems may indicate a personal desire to improve things; or it may substitute other people’s money for the appearance of caring. We might even say that our random donations to the various doorknockers and mall-creepers simply makes use of our small change to feign interest long enough to get rid of them. It is because we know this that we don’t question it; the simple fact that we do it leads us to believe that we have no right to question it. We are happy for our taxes to be used in a bidding war because we don’t want to be seen as attacking the people at the coal face; the doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc. We do not question the use of our charity monies because we do not have the time to care for everything ourselves. Such an approach is counterproductive. It assumes that our care should stop with our money. It never occurs to us that our money may not be the only solution to the ills we wish to address. Sometimes it can do more harm than good.

The cycle we are in reflects a warped sense of thinking; psychologists call it escalation of commitment. We have invested great amounts of money into the systems and endeavours we have built and think that by sinking just that little bit more into it, all the faults that have stymied our efforts until now will magically disappear. When this fails, we convince ourselves that we simply didn’t spend enough money to ensure that the problem was solved. Combine this with our reluctance to be seen to be attacking those committed to good works and we end up with a system that will perennially swallow vast amounts of money without ever getting any better. Most of us are appalled at the plight of the homeless or the indigenous or the elderly or the school system or the public hospitals or the Africans. We think that if we really cared we would be out there with those doing the hard work in those organizations that seek to help these people. But because we’re not willing to get out there on the frontline we also feel that we have no right to criticise what is being done in our name. The problem with that kind of thinking is that it is not actually helping anyone. It does not help us get over our guilt because the problem is never fixed; it does not help those within the systems and organizations because the problem is never fixed; and it does not help those we hoped to help because the problem is never fixed. It does not follow that a doctor or nurse is necessarily going to design the best health system; it does not follow that an enthusiastic volunteer is necessarily going to fix the food crisis in Africa.

From the earliest days of the European exploration of Western Australia, there was a universal belief that the land was wholly unsuited to agriculture. The sandy soils were judged to be deficient for European style agriculture and that the land would never support a sizeable colonial population. Had it not been for the requirement to colonise the western third of the continent to forestall action by its Imperial rivals, it is unlikely that Captain Stirling and his fellow colonisers would have been given the support required to keep the colony going. By 1901 the population of Western Australia was only slightly over 6% of the nation’s total with nearly half to be found on the goldfields around Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie. Agriculture was dominated by the big cattle stations of the North West; with the soils low in phosphate and nitrogen, the Western Australian wheat crop was only 2.5% of the Australian total. In 2009, whilst WA’s economy is still dominated by the mining sector, the agricultural sector is very different. The advent of superphosphate and sweet lupins has improved the soil to a point that WA now constitutes over 50% of the Australian wheat harvest; in fact the WA wheat harvest represents nearly 10% of the global total.

It was not enthusiastic volunteers or a mountain of money that achieved the expansion of the Western Australian wheat harvest. It was not the farmers who investigated the soil and made the discoveries that needed to be made. It was the right people asking the right questions. Major swathes of sub-Saharan Africa have soils not too dissimilar to those found in WA. Whilst having a far greater population density, these regions are as open to agricultural exploitation as WA presented in the early years of the last century. With higher rainfall patterns across much of the area it is probably even a better bet for agricultural growth than the western third of the Australian continent must have represented in 1911 when the first trials were undertaken with superphosphate. Looking across the Indian Ocean to an example of what is possible, and what to avoid, African farmers should be able to get on with the goal of feeding their people. Instead we have a system that strives for ideological perfection; that prefers a way of life over life itself; that decries the interference of the West in the affairs of brutal native dictators; that sees only the mistakes and not the benefits.

Whether it is a health system in crisis or an Africa short of food, this ideology holds that the greed of the West is to blame. It is not the fault of the system that holds back progress; it is our unwillingness to share our wealth. For far too long our advancement as a civilisation has been characterised as greed and exploitation. It is often forgotten that our material advancement has been accompanied by a moral advancement. Often the actions of the past were at least partly motivated by good intentions; that we now see the methods used as wrong, even unintentionally evil, we owe to the fact that there has been this moral advancement. Discrimination based on wealth, gender, race, birth, even sexuality has been challenged in the West on a scale and with a success unknown in any other culture. The problem is that this ideology is committed to the perfection of the equalisation of outcomes instead of the equalisation of opportunity.

Although ostensibly progressive, the left increasingly finds itself stymied by its inherent conservatism. In its attempts to maintain a moral high ground, it has swapped true reform for instilling a feeling of guilt in those opposed to its agenda. If the West is the root of the world’s problems, it can not be seen to be advocating western agriculture in Africa. The hospitals and schools and universities are a direct reflection of leftist policies. True reform would effectively undermine the validity of leftist ideology; far better to maintain failing systems than to bring into question the tenets of that ideology. Leftist ideas on the perpetuation of racial and ethnic and class discrimination by the courts have undermined the idea of justice. Western culture is built on the notion of equality before the law; introducing the idea that the perpetrator of a crime has more right to consideration of their circumstance than the victim has simply undermined confidence in the whole process. If we are to preserve a truly progressive society, one that reflects our core values of liberty, justice and equality, then we have to stop subscribing to the leftist guilt trip; not everything about the West, our culture or our history has been unredeemable.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=395 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=394 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:25:44 GMT 1. Your Name:
2. Age:
3. Favorite position:
4. Do you think I'm cute?
5. Would you have sex with me?
6. Grade me on scale 1 to 10?
7. Would you have to be drunk?
8. Would you take a shower with me?
9. Have you ever thought about having sex with me?
10. Would you leave after or stay the night?
11. Do you like cuddling afterwards?
12. Do you like it rough?
13. What's your favorite technique?
14. Would you spank me or pull my hair?
15. Have sex on the first date?
16. Would you kiss me during sex?
17. Do you think I would be good in bed?
18. Would you use me as a booty call?
19. Can I use you as a booty call?
20. Can we take pictures of the act?
21. How long would we have sex?
22. Would you tell your friends about me?
23. If I said I loved you what would you say?
24. If I said I wanted you what would you say?
25.Makin' love or havin' sex?
26. Will you post this so I can fill it out for you?
27. What 2 positions?
28. Naked or dressed?
29. Moaner or screamer?
30. Lip biting or back scratching?
31. Rough n Hard or Nice n Slow? ]]> hornycollegeboy http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=394 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=393 Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:44:05 GMT Had a lovley visit yesterday from friends and lovers ,The word has gone round the community that I was back and had returned injured and bedridden. My first visitor was Crista my German neighbours wife they come from Hamburg and I have the suspicion that Crista has more than a passing knowledge of... Had a lovley visit yesterday from friends and lovers ,The word has gone round the community that I was back and had returned injured and bedridden.
My first visitor was Crista my German neighbours wife they come from Hamburg and I have the suspicion that Crista has more than a passing knowledge of the Eros centers Her tastes are eclectic to say the least.
Pushing me back onto the couch she steped back and sliped of her coat to reveal stockings basque and nothing else : Lay back rest watch and enjoy her Germanic accent made it sound like a command.
She sat in the chair facing me and fingerd her cunt parting her lips she stroked her clit she produced a large dildo from her bag 12in long and shaped like a dogs prick minus the knot and slid the length into her cunt in one easy motion slowly she fucked herself her eyes locked on mine. She began to speed up driving that 12in prick deep into her cunt: watch now she hissed :
Well fuck me she sqeezed the end of the dido and a knot began to swell the shaft 3in from her hand it banged aginst the lips of her cunt by now she had pumped it up to the size of a baseball and with one hard thrust she forced it passed the lips of her cunt she had knotted herself.
She shudderd as an orgasam hit her and flopped back into the couch just an inch of dildo poking from her swollen cunt she twisted the top and with the his of escaping air it slliped from her gaping cunt.
Now for real! she crossed the room opened the side door and called for Storm he came at the run smelling her cunt juice he quickley stuck his nose where it was wanted. she walked back to the couch and layed down her cunt level with the edge within seconds storm was between her legs his paws either side of her on the couch.
Storm was more than ready but her hand circled his huge cock stoping his entry into doggy heaven. Now I could see why she held storm back she was slipping the dildo into her arse.
To much I had to join in.
She let go and storm with one thrust found her cunt he buried his prick deep into her piercing her cervix and poping into her womb her eyes opened wide and a groan escaped her lips as storm found his rythm fucking her dripping cunt fast then slow just as he was trained to
Storm lasts much longer than a normal dog cum began to drip from her cunt lubricating the dido in her arse I took over the dildo and pumped the end to put a little knot in her arse.
I could se storms rapidly growing knot pushing the lips of her cunt open then he was in.
He hammered into her cunt now she must be feeling the stream of hot come he was pumping into her womb she half screamed half groaned an orgasm hit her like a fit her head thrown from side to side her fists clenched sweat poping out on her breasts and forehead. multiple orgasms began to hit her like the aftershocks of an earthquake.
Crista began to whimper as storm began to move again there was a look of relief when his prick slid from her cunt a river of come ran down from her cunt coating her arse.
I slipped the dildo from her cunt Ya Ya she said as my cock replaced the dildo I slipped my hand down and found her clit I rolled it between thumb and finger and she came again the muscles of her arse rippling on my rock hard prick.
Crista you slut were had you learnt this trick she milked my prick with her arse I came like a fire hose deep into arse she stopped me with just the head of my prick in her arse and the muscles of her sphincter tightened on my prick squeezing the last drop of cum into her arse..
Crista stood and walked to her coat and bag she put on her coat and looking over her shoulder as she walked to the door said. My welcombe home gift and with a toss of her head was gone leaving drops of cum on the floor in her wake.
I sat for a moment gathering my thoughts 35 minutes from start to finish the day had just begun it was still only 25 minutes to 10 well what next. ]]> espana http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=393 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=391 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:31:07 GMT Hey guys- I have had some slow assignments since the year started so I have been writing-- check them out- and please leave some comments after you have read them-- if not I don't feel loved - boo hoo--

While I am writing this I have to ask a question, that I guess I should do else where on the site-- but here goes-

What do you call the fluid inside a girl- I don't mean cum- I mean the vaginal fluid. It is always such a pain to figure it out-- I mean "pussy juice" sounds so weird - but I don't know if I have heard any other names for it--

Thanks
Sheryl
(last stories have been in Beast,Group, Solo, Brother/Sister) ]]> usafslut http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=391 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=390 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:39:26 GMT My Insurance company has just recieved a bill for the 5 hours I was at the mercy of American medicine and has asked me to comment. My treatment from nurses was exemplary not so much the doctors. The bill in places is like the work of a true master of fiction or an armed robber. Tests orderd... My Insurance company has just recieved a bill for the 5 hours I was at the mercy of American medicine and has asked me to comment.

My treatment from nurses was exemplary not so much the doctors.
The bill in places is like the work of a true master of fiction or an armed robber.
Tests orderd but not done drugs proscribed but not used or supplied the shear cost of some drugs 10 times the price of any other country on the planet. $9072 This for old style anti biotics and pain killers seven stiches and some superglue.

My comment tell them to get fucked ]]> espana http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=390 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=389 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:29:33 GMT Attachment 302 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=302)Living in the forgotten third of the country, I get a little sick and tired of hearing eastern states politicians and assorted hangers-on claiming that this or that local issue is important to all Australians. The... Living in the forgotten third of the country, I get a little sick and tired of hearing eastern states politicians and assorted hangers-on claiming that this or that local issue is important to all Australians. The latest brouhaha over the decision by the NSW government to not release waters from the Menindee Lakes into the lower sections of the Murray-Darling River system (read water for Victorians and South Australians) has been surrounded by all manner of claims from all sides that this continuing crisis is of concern to all Australians. While I am sure it is important to those in the east, it is very difficult to see how it is of concern to us in the west, other than as another sink hole of federal funds. The Howard Government budgeted $400million to fix the Menindee Lakes; two years of Labor inactivity at state and federal level have failed to take advantage of two years of floods. Instead of fixing the blame game between the states themselves and the federal government, we just get told how it is an issue of importance to all Australians.

Of course there is one issue involved, though not exclusive to the Murray-Darling River system, which has a national impact; the proposed solution of removing the states’ control of the rivers and inland waters under Sections 51 and 100 of the Australian Constitution. This mirrors the proposed solution of the Health Crisis; federalise the public hospitals. In fact, it seems that every crisis or issue facing any part of Australia these days draws the inescapable solution that the State Governments are superfluous to requirements and should be done away with at the first opportunity. Given the total lack of awareness that there is a part of the country west of Canberra and north of Newcastle this prospect should fill the outer states with dread. The entire point of maintaining the state governments is to ensure that the more populous states of Victoria and New South Wales don’t come to completely dominate the country. We seem to have lost the cultural battle with our television screens filled with the views of life in Melbourne or Sydney and our ‘quintessentially’ Australian films increasingly reflecting the views of the chi-chi set of those two cities; now we are expected to forgo the last vestiges of our political independence and surrender control to Canberra?

Western Australia is as good a reason as any not to pursue this anti-states crusade. While the north of the state has been largely ignored in terms of civic development and renewal, the state governments of every stripe continue to plan and hope for a redevelopment of Perth that connects the city to the Swan River. Why? Most, if not all, of the plans call for a conglomeration of apartments, shops, nightclubs, restaurants and businesses; yet it is plainly obvious that the rents and leases, much less ownership, of these features is going to make it a playground for the rich and the wannabe rich. Raucous pubs and nightclubs have never survived in Perth when competing against living areas; how will these enterprises be expected to survive in the face of complaints about noise and anti-social behaviour? Will property management be forced to reserve space for local operators or will the nationals and multi-nationals be able to use their clout to outbid locals for the leases? Ultimately we are looking at a sterile enclave for the nouveau riche subsidised by state money that fails to ‘bring the city to the river’ because of the security fencing. The billions wasted on such a scheme could be used to develop the northern towns into attractive population centres that would ease the population pressures in the south of the state; they could be used to redevelop Northbridge’s nightclub areas into a car free zone and ease crowds on the footpaths; they could even build a new hospital and ease some of the pressure. There would be thousands of uses for the money better suited than building Perth’s own version of Sun City.

The states perform a very important function; they force the federal government to remember that there is more to the Commonwealth of Australia than the suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne. Without the states it would be all too easy to equate the wishes and desires of those in our two largest cities with the rest of the country. Although established as the ultimate guarantor of state’s interests, the Senate ceased this function long ago; the advent of the Democrats and then the Greens has effectively turned the Senate into a chamber representing special interests groups; Family First is but the latest example. With a predominance of voices from Victoria and New South Wales clamouring for special consideration, a Senate increasingly beholden to the Party apparatus, it is left to the Western Australian government to remind Canberra that there is a Western Australian view; for the Queensland government to remind Canberra that there is a Queensland view; for the Tasmanian Government to remind Canberra that there is a Tasmanian view; and so on. Without the Territory government, the interests of the Northern Territory would be effectively reduced to one or two voices as it only has two House and two Senate seats. The population of Western Australia from Kalgoorlie in the south to Wyndham in the north would be represented by one voice; the MHR for Kalgoorlie has the largest electorate (in terms of area) in the world.

This is not to say that the State governments are perfect; as noted the experience of Western Australia in terms of its regional awareness is woeful. But how much worse would it be without the voices of the state parliamentarians influencing the view of the Canberra politicians? How would the interests of Broome and Geraldton fare when forced to compete with the interests of Melbourne or even Adelaide without the weight of the Western Australian government to balance the scales. Our constitution is set up to ensure that the interests of the Australian citizen in Widgemooltha are as valued as the Australian citizen in Footscray. We often forget that we are not a democracy; we are a representative democracy. Our interests are represented by those we vote for, be they councillors, state parliamentarians or federal parliamentarians. When we do away with any one of those representatives, we diminish our own voice and the voices of our neighbours. When we take away those representatives of our interests, we diminish the effect of our democracy.

There will be those who maintain that national control leads to national standards, but is this necessarily a good thing? Who decides the standards- a bureaucrat living in Melbourne- a politician from Sydney? Does the minimum requirement suit the conditions in Wyndham or Hobart? We should be careful of giving away our democratic rights. Once the power of the states is given away it can not be taken back as easily. We should definitely not be conned into it by the inability of the politicians and bureaucrats to fix issues like the Murray-Darling River system or the state of our Public Hospitals.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=389 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=388 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:23:44 GMT http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/showthread.php?t=25188 GET SQUEALING! http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums...ad.php?t=25188

GET SQUEALING! ]]> kinky_kitty http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=388 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=387 Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:32:40 GMT Hey all! Have just been on a night out, only been back an hour or so, but something my bf said made me think (and most importantly want to post on here)...

:icon210:

So, anyway we went on a night out and were dancing for a while. I'm bad enough when I'm drunk, but my bf was teasin me all night long, so I was feeling pretty horny. One thing led to another and I ended up giving him a blowjob in a back alley on our way back (:icon099: not something I do often, it's just my bf is obsessed with sex in public.) Anyway, he came and I swallowed and he called me a "cumslut", now normally I don't mind a bit of dirty talk, but being an argumentative couple when I drunk, I took offense (:icon212:) and so began a long discussion about swallowing.

Anyway... long story short he said that it was good for me to do it, as it showed him I was comfortable with him and that he knew it must have been hard for me to start doing it for him (truth of the matter, I was doing it long before him and it never occurred to me spit until a guy asked me during t or d once if I 'spit or swallow'.) He then told me that apparently men like it because it makes them feel dominant and they like to see a woman accept their seed (whether this is conscious or subconscious - I don't know.)

Does this mean that women should only swallow men's sperm when we feel comfortable with them? Maybe a pointless blog, but it interested me a bit. Please comment. xxx ]]> kinky_kitty http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=387 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=386 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:36:01 GMT Attachment 300 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=300) Attending a training course on People Management, a lot of it focussed on the effective use of counselling and coaching. Part of the process was a form that helped to structure thoughts and responses and how it...
Attending a training course on People Management, a lot of it focussed on the effective use of counselling and coaching. Part of the process was a form that helped to structure thoughts and responses and how it was to be used to address issues of performance by focussing on behaviours. I found it quite useful and used the process throughout the rest of my career- but I was very careful not to use the forms provided. The main reason was that the counselling form and the coaching form were the same with only the heading being changed so it was easy for people to confuse the purpose of the session being conducted. The other reason was that the majority of managers had not been on the PMP course where the use of the forms was explained and practiced. The proper use of the forms was not how the forms came to be used by the majority of managers, particularly senior managers who felt that the PMP course was superfluous to them as they had already proven their people management skills and been promoted. In fact, after a short time, the PMP course was itself used as a sort of punishment; if there was a perception you had a problem managing staff you ended up on the PMP course. The ironic thing was that many managers on the course were already using the systems taught on the course.

The problem was that the method of effective people management within the company was set by those who had already been promoted. They had no use for a coaching form because they had just taught people what they needed to know without setting it out; the coaching form came to be seen either as a de facto counselling form or as evidence that the manager could not cope with training staff. The counselling form was designed to assist with structuring solutions to performance issues and make the whole process less confrontational and more open. In theory you were just meant to define the problem and outline the reasons why it was a problem; together the manager and staff member were supposed to look for a solution and outline the steps that the solution would require. Senior managers often saw this as being unaware of the standards required in the department. If a staff member was leaving green potatoes on show then the solution was for the staff member to stop leaving them on show; by using the form properly you might discover that the staff member is colour blind. Trying to point this out left the senior managers with the impression that this was a lack of connection with your staff, a lack of ‘getting them.’ Far from being a performance management tool, the counselling form became the first formal step in the process of terminating employment. A manager using the latest techniques to improve staff performance could easily get stuck with a label of being ‘out of touch,’ even though they are using the methods approved by a company designed/approved training course.

This issue was not limited to people management. Many senior retail managers, and even store managers, are trained only in grocery; few have experience even in dairy goods much less deli or fruit and veg. Many training programmes now detail that a prospective store manager should spend three months in each department, but necessity often trumps intent. There builds up a view that what is true in grocery is true of the rest of the store. Grocery is very much price point driven; coca-cola is the same where ever it is bought. Fresh foods have a big quality component, and yet price is almost the only consideration that drives promotional activity. Put the ‘wrong’ line on a promotional bay and it will be thought that you are out of touch with merchandising no matter how successful that line is. Perhaps the most frustrating aspect for me, personally, was the idea that innovation became synonymous with ways of ‘getting back to basics.’ Ultimately the perception is that retail is an instinctive art; in reality the ‘art’ is determined by the instinct of the boss. There is, obviously, a way to make this work for you; copy the boss. Looking back I realise that I would have been more successful had I simply altered my target from being the best to being what the boss wanted. The question then becomes would I have been any happier? That is more doubtful.

At my last job we were allotted mushrooms over a three day period until we had built up a back stock of about thirty cartons; selling them from the cabinet was obviously not doing the trick so I put them on a promotional bin. The Boss thought it a stroke of brilliance. The same scenario and solution with pineapples was not so popular and when I tried it with garlic the Boss nearly blew a gasket. In fact all three were about as successful as each other- lifted sales and got rid of excess back stock. The problem was entirely one of perception. As we sold two month’s worth of garlic in two days the boss kept saying that there had to be something better to put there. His solution was a special buy on 2kg onions, which netted about 10% of the garlic sales over the next four days. But the boss was happy because there was now ‘proper’ merchandising from the promotional bins. When time came to part ways, it was not the lift in sales or profit or quality or productivity or cleaning that he mentioned; it was that garlic display. Whenever I think of it, I keep wondering how it was that I ended up in the wrong when by any measure it was a massive success. Even when I showed the figures to prove my point, there was this sense that success was immaterial; I had broken an unwritten rule of merchandising a display and that was that.

Many management texts stress concepts like people management and team building, innovation, effective merchandising, measuring results, etc. The job adverts are full of these ‘requirements’ for the new employee. But how much of these concepts does the employer really understand? Attending interviews I often find that there has been little thought as to precisely what the employer is looking for when they want an innovative manager or a team builder or a merchandiser. Too often I find that it is me asking the questions that will determine if I am going to be a good fit, and this is true of the larger companies as it is of the smaller operations, and even the recruitment companies. I am left with the impression that the ‘requirements’ are added because it is the done thing to attract good staff, but that there is no consideration given to what they mean to the business, how the employer sees them or how they expect the new employee to demonstrate them. The likelihood is that far from having a contextual awareness of these concepts, the employer will ultimately rely on their own perceptions of what they mean.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=386 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=385 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:01:28 GMT Well for those of you that have been wondering where Ive been I flew to L.A on the 29th December to get two interviews that we missed, one of which was to be filmed on 5th street near the missions before we actualy met our contact we were scouting locations Stella was with me as some of you will... Well for those of you that have been wondering where Ive been I flew to L.A on the 29th December to get two interviews that we missed, one of which was to be filmed on 5th street near the missions
before we actualy met our contact we were scouting locations Stella was with me as some of you will remember shes a light skinned african.
Anyway there we were deep in conversation when suddenly we found ourselves surrounded by a gang of skinheads who began to make some real threatning remarks to me and started shoving Stella.
I had to do something so like a fool I pushed back there was a scuffle, from somwhere two Catholic priests appeared and were standing between us and them.
Thats when I noticed the Knife in my shoulder Turns out it was one of those short bladed knives that poke through the knuckles so did not do as much damage as it could lots of blood and some pain mainly in the wallet.
So escaped the American health system refusing hoards of tests and scans that were totaly un necessary ( Its not my first time in the emergency room)
Got back home yesterday with what will be a vary heroic looking scar.
Does anybody after all this time want to know the finish of christmas if so I will finish the diary entry ]]> espana http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=385 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=384 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:55:54 GMT Hey, so my final part of my first story is up (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/showthread.php?p=356726#post356726), I wrote a lot of it whilst at work which felt very naughty indeed, was fairly wet at my desk. :icon239: But anyway, hope you all enjoyed and continue to enjoy the series. I... Hey, so my final part of my first story is up (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums...726#post356726), I wrote a lot of it whilst at work which felt very naughty indeed, was fairly wet at my desk. :icon239:

But anyway, hope you all enjoyed and continue to enjoy the series. I can tell you now they were fun to write, but I will be moving on to other projects. If anyone has any comments, tips or suggestions, they will be more than welcome. :icon082:

But until next time, adios. xxx :wink_2: ]]> kinky_kitty http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=384 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=383 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 02:25:05 GMT YAY! I've made it to 50 posts in no time at all. :flash:

I would like to thank everyone who helped me get here. :icon008:

But no, seriously, when I got to 40 I just kept thinking "Come on, make it to 50, then you can go to sleep."

It took me a good 2 hours of going away and coming back as I didn't just want to post rubish. :laugh:

Anyway, see you at 100, he he he.

xxx ]]> kinky_kitty http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=383 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=382 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:10:42 GMT Hey, I know I've only just posted in my blog, but was just posting to say, for those of you who are interested in reading my stories I have decide to post them in this forum before I post them on the main site so I can get feedback, if anyone is that interested in them I will leave a comment to anyone who wants to be informed links to each new story I do, but otherwise I will post them in my blog. The first three are already up on the main site, but I've just posted them in the forum (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums...898#post355898), so get on there and comment, there will be a fourth installment to come. Keep on rocking in the free world :coolgleamA: xxx ]]> kinky_kitty http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=382 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=381 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:40:20 GMT Hello. Just wanted to tell anyone who wants to know a bit about me. I am Kat and am 18 and live in the UK, I joined this site a few days ago because my bf finds it hot when we come to this site and was wanting me to write a few stories. I post on the main site under the user name of kinky_katty,... Hello. Just wanted to tell anyone who wants to know a bit about me. I am Kat and am 18 and live in the UK, I joined this site a few days ago because my bf finds it hot when we come to this site and was wanting me to write a few stories.
I post on the main site under the user name of kinky_katty, so read my stories and comment/rate.
I thought I would make full use of all the site's facilities so thought I would post in the blog area every now and then, I don't always have things to say , but if people want me to I can do it as often as is demanded.
I am friendly :flash:, so add me as a friend and leave comments, I am pretty much addicted to the site, so you can guarantee I'll get back to you asap, thanks :lew: xxx ]]> kinky_kitty http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=381 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=379 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:10:28 GMT Attachment 296 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=296)Journalists and economists have been complaining for a number of months that St Kevin and his Ministers have been less than forthcoming with the details of the costs, impacts and benefits of the Carbon Pollution... Journalists and economists have been complaining for a number of months that St Kevin and his Ministers have been less than forthcoming with the details of the costs, impacts and benefits of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. So far we have been admonished that failing to support the CPRS not only puts you in the denial camp; it makes you worse than the Nazis and it imperils your soul. If you really care about your children you will accept that St Kevin knows best and embrace his CPRS with open arms. Never mind that an increasing number of economists and environmentalists, including the government’s own hand-picked expert, Ross Garnaut, are suggesting that to really embrace the scheme you might be better bending over.

It was in this tradition of “St Kevin knows best” that the Minister for the Environment, Peter Garrett, wrote an article for The Punch yesterday. Rubbishing Tony Abbott’s claim that households could expect to pay up to $1100 extra per year under the CPRS, Garrett went on to claim that so many households would be much better off and so many households would be a bit better off and so many households would be worse off- according to the model floated by the Treasury Department. Would this be the same model that the Treasury Department has been so reluctant to show to anybody else, including expert economists and mathematicians? Just as Mr Garrett cautions us to be sceptical of the Coalition claims, it might prove beneficial to be sceptical of the Government’s claims until the model has been independently verified as the miracle of modern economics and mathematics he implied it was.

Mr Garrett was particularly upset that, rather than accepting the Government’s figures, Mr Abbott had the temerity to research the figures for himself. Apparently you can’t Google away Climate Change and you shouldn’t rely on the lies, obfuscations and illegalities at the premier climate change research organization on the planet to argue your case that the whole thing has been overblown. Apparently St Kevin, Mr Garrett and company know everything and everybody should be quite happy to trust their judgement on the matter. You would if you cared about the future of the planet.

Unfortunately this fetishist’s obsession with Climate Change is indicative of the government’s record. An awful lot of moralising, reports, modelling, reviews, polls and words but not a lot of action. A lot of money spent, most of it wasted, and the debt left for subsequent generations to pay off as St Kevin makes himself comfortable in a third career at the United Nations. Much too often the government has asked us to trust it, that it knows what it is doing and we should not worry. We might not worry if our journalists were anything other than a lot of lefties in love with the shadow and light show in Canberra. For two years St Kevin has avoided the hard decisions. Instead of putting his country first and leading the decision making process on the Publishing Import Restriction scheme he has been co-writing a children’s book featuring his dog and his cat. I think that when he recused himself from that particular imbroglio on the basis of a forth coming book deal most of would have assumed something weightier and more controversial than the PM’s equivalent of ‘Milo and Otis.’

The waste of tax payer’s money by this government is beyond incompetent. The Building the Education Revolution Scheme saw nearly $20million wasted on signs and plaques congratulating Comrade Julia for her performance. It might have been less insulting if her performance had been more competent and less corrupt. Labor marginal constituencies have averaged $1million more under the scheme than Coalition seats. $2.5million is to be spent on pulling down and rebuilding four brand new class rooms at Abbotsford Public School in Sydney; $250000 is to be spent on a library at an outback school west of Longford, a school with just one student; 20 schools scheduled to be closed by the end of 2011 are nevertheless receiving funding under the scheme for new buildings. The four schools on Kangaroo Island have been hit with a bill for $100000 for a quote on new covered assembly areas. The government itself has had to find $1.5billion from other projects to fund the shortfalls in the BER. Is it any wonder that the signs were found to be a political statement?

Perhaps the biggest political statement made by this government has been the 2020 Summit. Always stuck in the mire of criticism for its unrepresentative nature, the Summit was variously criticised by women’s groups, childcare groups and rural groups for being under represented in their concerns. It failed to overcome the political bias with many individuals who did not subscribe to the inherent post modernist slant of the committees complaining that far from being ignored they were simply not allowed to speak. The section on governance in particular was found to have been run as a series of pro-Republican rants by a select few individuals. Held in April 2008, so far only 9 of the 962 recommendations made by the various committees have received any funding. The whole exercise can stand as an example of St Kevin’s penchant for using outside advice, advice he and his Ministers conveniently ignore when it suits them. The Rudd Labor government has spent $940 million on consultants in 2years.

St Kevin and company are still refusing to reveal just how much of the second round of stimulus bonus payments to taxpayers was wasted. A staggering $40million, at least, was given to deceased estates, criminals, overseas residents and even pets. This is the estimated equivalent of one years interest payment on a scheme that is increasingly being judged a wasteful over reaction. How deeply Australia went into a recession or not has had less to do with the government’s incompetent cash handouts and stimulus package and more to do with whether China was going to weather the crisis. St Kevin’s almost hagiographic reverence for all things Chinese has meant that Australia’s economic success is becoming increasingly tied to the Chinese economy to the exclusion of all else. The debt that this government has run up, at the rate of $162million per day, has made it more difficult to separate our economy from this short sighted China-First policy. As India, Brazil, Turkey, Taiwan, South Korea and the new Japanese government scramble for our attention, these overtures are being wasted on a government that is so committed to the dictators in Beijing that it ignores the fate of an Australian citizen who has been detained without charge for nearly eight months.

Perhaps the biggest example of the St Kevin’s all talk, no action policies, and probably the most shameful, is the government’s approach to indigenous affairs. His politically popular stunt of a formal apology to the Aboriginal Stolen Generation has been supported by waste, incompetence and a return to the leftist policies that have failed to assist the Aborigines for the last four decades. At least $45million of the $675million set aside for the Northern Territory Indigenous Housing Programme has been wasted without a house being spent. The Queensland government’s attempts to increase home ownership rates amongst Aborigines have been all but halted by Federal government bungling as its scattergun policies call into question the rights of individuals within the communities to own land. Noel Pearson and others have called upon the Minister to stop wasting money on a system designed “to keep Aboriginal home ownership out of the reach of all but a privileged few Aboriginal families.”

The government’s legacy on Work Fair, on Health, on the Homeless, on National Security has been as wasteful and hopeless as any other. With such a disastrous record of underachievement the lack of coverage in the media would be suspiciously convenient if we did not factor in the $50million per year the government spends on 418 media consultants, public relations officials and media monitors. With journalists increasingly relying on rewritten press releases as the measure of their investigative abilities perhaps it should not be wondered that we are increasingly in the dark about the incompetent, negligent and wasteful practices of St Kevin’s government. Whilst Peter Garrett might rubbish ‘Google Research’ of the government, when that government and an incompetent pool of journalists conspire to keep so much of its workings hidden, perhaps it is not surprising that people are seeking to inform themselves with any method to hand.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=379 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=378 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:12:48 GMT Ms Cornellian is a regular contributor to the site mental_floss.com She usually finds something interesting to write about- like the Loyalty of Man’s Best Friend. Attachment 291 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=291) Omar Eduardo Rivera worked on the 71st floor of... Ms Cornellian is a regular contributor to the site mental_floss.com She usually finds something interesting to write about- like the Loyalty of Man’s Best Friend.

Omar Eduardo Rivera worked on the 71st floor of the World Trade Centre until September 11, 2001. On that day, Rivera, who is blind, was at his job as a computer technician with his dog Dorado under his desk. When two hijacked planes hit the towers, Rivera knew it would take him a long time to evacuate the building.*
“I thought I was lost forever—the noise and the heat were terrifying—but I had to give Dorado the chance of escape. So I unclipped his lead, ruffled his head, gave him a nudge and ordered Dorado to go.”*
The dog was swept downstairs by the crowd of people. A few minutes later, Rivera felt the dog nuzzling his legs. He had come back up the staircase! Dorado and a co-worker helped Rivera climb down 70 flights, a trip that took an hour. Shortly after they emerged at ground level, the building collapsed. Rivera declared he owes his life to his companion and best friend, Dorado.


In the 1870s, a sheep rancher in New Mexico died alone in his remote home. Two years later, his death was discovered by visitors. Yet his flock of sheep were doing just fine, and had actually increased in number! The rancher’s dog had taken responsibility for the sheep, and had taken them out to pasture daily as he had always done, then herded them back home at night. In 1879, the New Mexico legislature voted to award a pension to the hard-working (but nameless) sheep dog. There are no pictures of this dog.

The first time my daughter spent the night away, was at her friends house across the street. My dog Bucky (a corgi) takes a quick walk each night before we go to bed, to be sure his bladder is empty. He didn’t come back this night. It took us an hour of yelling his name to realize he was sitting on the front porch of the neighbour’s house waiting for our daughter to come home.

I’ve had my 9 month old Boston Terrier/Beagle for about 6 months now and he’s a very happy and social little boy who makes friends with animals and people alike. He sleeps in bed with us and is always perfectly content to snuggle up and sleep the whole night through. If my boyfriend is away though he won’t sleep the whole night. He’ll sit up on the bed, facing the bedroom door until sun-up. If there’s any noise he’ll growl softly and if the noise persists, he’ll get up to get check it out. I can’t go with him though, if I try to get out of bed to follow him he herds me back to bed. It’s sweet that he’s so protective, but it’s really hard to get a good night’s sleep when your dog literally stands (or sits) guard over you. Actually the over isn’t too bad. When he thinks I’m really being threatened though sometimes he’ll sit ON me. It’s a good thing he only weighs 30 lbs! Posted by Jen

When I was around two years old, I fell into the pool at my house. (I think I was outside with my older sisters.) Our Yellow Lab, who couldn’t have been more than 6 or 7 months old at the time, started barking her head off and jumped in the pool after me. My mom heard all the commotion and came running outside and pulled me out. If it wasn’t for my pup, I would have drowned. When she died 11 years later, I was by her side until the very last minute. I’m a sap, I know, but damn, I loved that dog!!Posted by Cassie

In Fort Benton, Montana there is a famous loyal dog, Shep, complete with a statute which acted much like Hachiko. Shep’s owner was sheepherder who got sick and was taken to Fort Benton. When the owner died, his body was placed on a train to his family. Shep followed the casket to the train. Shep kept coming to meet every train for five and a half years until it was eventually killed by a train. Posted by gamerjohn

TAMBO was our last dog. He would get so upset when we left the house that he would leave a pile of things near the front door (one item from every person in the house, yeah, he knew what stuff belonged to whom) just to show he was upset. At first, my mom wouldn’t let him sleep on their bed so she would tell the dog to go to his own bed. Well, dog figured out a loophole: he dragged his little bed up the stairs, put it on top of my mum’s bed and promptly fell asleep. He slept curled up next to my mom every night after that. Posted by GTT

My dog Callie is an amazing dog. She is a collie, Shepard, cattle dog mix and a loving and protective girl. My dad died 8 years ago and for a long time we couldn’t say daddy in the house because she would cry for hours and search everywhere for him. She still sits perched next to the sofa most of the day just as she did when he spent the years laying sick and dying ~ When I take her to the park I unleash her so she can play Frisbee but if she gets a bad vibe from a passer-by she will walk over and stand guard at my daughters side and if I am not standing close enough she will bark to me so that I get closer ~ She is an amazing and loyal sister. Posted by Mary

When I was little (about 7 or 8) a friend and I were sitting outside on the hood of my dad’s car, watching the fireworks for some big celebration. Our always gentle Doberman began growling at the car and would begin barking at us whenever we tried to get down. When my dad came out to see what the problem was the dog attacked the copperhead that was about to bite my dad. The snake bit her on the lip and although she lost a piece of her lip she survived. Even though it seemed like she was being mean to us she was really protecting us. Posted by Mandi

And A Couple of Moggies Make It TOO
Cats are just as loyal as dogs. I was in a bad car accident earlier this year, fractured my back in 3 places, as well as whiplash and neck, shoulder and arm pains. When I got home from the hospital and lay in bed, the cat never left my side, except for 20 minutes to eat, drink and go to the litter box. I spent 2 months lying in bed, barely able to move and he would snuggle up to my side and make me press my back to him so that he could “heal me”. I’m starting to walk now, but whenever I feel terrible pain, or try to push myself to hard, he stands by my bedroom door and whines for me to lie down, then snuggles along with, pressing himself to the part of me that hurts most, like he knows his presence and heat will help. He is the love of my life and I don’t know what I would have done without him these past 10 months. Posted by Dana

I was never much of a cat person, even though I’d been around them most of my life because my mom was. Then, one day, my grandmother took me to pick out a baby kitten. This cat was THE cat for me. He used to lie around my neck like a scarf or perch up on my shoulder like a parrot while I walked around the house. Whenever I came home from school, he would lip on me and purr and nip at my chin. Every day, like clockwork.

When my mom got sick with a terminal illness just as I entered high school, I became very depressed. Rocky, the cat, wouldn’t leave my side. Every time I would start crying, I would hear him pitter-patter into my room. He’d jump up on my bed and lick the tears off of my face until I stopped. Sadly, he died many years later when I was 19 and away on a trip with friends. I still miss that cat. Posted by Allie
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=378 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=377 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:10:51 GMT Hi- I know you like me to tell you about my sexploits in a blog-- I will soon I have been getting a lot lately- but I have also been writing in my time off here and there- see my newest stories in solo- i wrote what i think is one of my most creative tales here. incest- bro-sis , it is actually... Hi- I know you like me to tell you about my sexploits in a blog-- I will soon I have been getting a lot lately- but I have also been writing in my time off here and there-
see my newest stories in
solo- i wrote what i think is one of my most creative tales here.
incest- bro-sis , it is actually about two sisters and one i can build on
and a beasty story- its another one about a girl and tiger--

have fun and Happy New Year everyone-
luv ya
Sheryl ]]> usafslut http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=377 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=375 Tue, 29 Dec 2009 01:10:27 GMT Attachment 287 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=287)Before she shoots off to a job with an international labour organization, Sharan Burrows, former President of the ACTU, graced us with an article on The Punch mythologising the union movement, supporting the... Before she shoots off to a job with an international labour organization, Sharan Burrows, former President of the ACTU, graced us with an article on The Punch mythologising the union movement, supporting the government’s Work Fair Scheme and accusing Tony Abbott of wanting to reintroduce Work Choices. She completely ignores the fact that Abbott has repeatedly stated, thanks to the harping of the leftist media, that a Coalition government will do nothing of the kind. There is certainly no denying that most aspects of Work Choices were welcomed by workers and employers alike; especially as Comrade Julia looks increasingly like she is making up aspects of Work Fair on the fly.

Nowhere is this clearer than her attempts to mollify the Unions, particularly the CFMEU, by disbanding the ABCC and replacing it with a much more toothless model as part of her Work Fair Scheme. Why she is bothering when Joe McDonald and John Setka seem so determined to undermine her assurances that the Union Thugs are a thing of the past is anyone’s guess. Kevin Lloyd and his staff at the ABCC have been so effective that building unions have been fined $1.7million for illegal strikes and criminal activity since 2005. The CFMEU and the ACTU are so opposed to the ABCC because it is effective at controlling the bully boys of the Union Movement. Especially effective has been the ABCC’s power to compel witnesses to answer their questions without recourse to legal council. Lloyd's most chilling claim is that not all compulsory interrogations are of hostile witnesses. About one-third of its examinations are of people who asked to give information under compulsory interrogation out of fear of retribution if they are seen to be co-operating with the ABCC. Police are investigating “Physical, verbal and sexual assaults of ABCC staff, including incidences of spitting and death threats.” Comrade Julia appointed Justice Murray Wilcox to investigate the effectiveness of the ABCC, doubtless hoping that Wilcox would establish that the Commission’s work was done and that its powers could be watered down under the new Work Fair Scheme. Instead, Wilcox returned a finding that, the "ABCC's work is not yet done" and "it would be unfortunate" if the government reforms "led to a reversal of the progress that has been made". As far as the ACTU is concerned, the Cole Royal Commission that led to the establishment of the ABCC, the ABCC itself, the Wilcox Enquiry and the minister have it all wrong. Having coughed up the cash to mount its scare campaign against Work Choices, the ACTU are obviously expecting a pay back and the first payment is the abolishment of the ABCC and curtailing its powers under the new watchdog.

Unfortunately for Comrade Julia, McDonald and Setka are not waiting. Having been banned from the worksites of Diploma Construction for breaches of ABCC rules, McDonald used Comrade Julia’s new laws permitting any Union Official access to a site for safety concerns to call a three day strike on 5 June. When Diploma management involved the Police, McDonald returned on 24 June and called a two day strike. The ABCC took the affair to the Federal Court where Justice Gilmour held that McDonald’s made use of “spurious concerns about employee safety to advance industrial aims.” "Whatever the real reasons, I am satisfied to the necessary degree that they (the strikes) had nothing to do with any reasonable concern as to any imminent danger to the health or safety of any employee on the site." He added that McDonald’s actions “undermines the legislation's expressed means of achieving this object (efficiency in the construction sector), which include promoting respect for the rule of law; ensuring respect for the rights of building industry participants; and improving occupational health and safety in building work." John Setka took it a step further; according to the ABCC, he “made a serious threat to the personal safety of Bovis Lend Lease's construction manager and general foreman. The alleged threat included a 'promise' from Mr Setka that he would quit his job and 'get' Bovis Lend Lease's construction manager and general foreman." This is the sort of thuggery and deception we can come to expect from the union movement under Work Fair. The TWU has already joined in the action by claiming that its opposition to outsourcing of Qantas’ baggage handling services is motivated solely by concerns for security. Is it coincedence that the first Christmas Postal strike in a decade follows the first move to dismantle Work Choices?

Ms Burrows and her supporters repeated the claims that non-unionised workers were taking advantage of Union negotiators. Given that less than 1 in 5 workers are union members, it is a position increasingly hard to maintain in light of the failure of the vast majority of employers to take advantage of the other 80%. Work Choices enabled the better workers to negotiate a better deal for themselves; Work Fair is looking to establish a national rate of pay regardless of ability. Ms Burrows maintains that large employers are signing on in big numbers; the advantages for big business is an increase in efficiency with set pay rates and the opportunity to halt future pay rises for the workers who have negotiated better deals for themselves on the basis of having to meet the new union standard. It will also discourage these workers from seeking better deals elsewhere because there won’t be better deals elsewhere under a national standard. Work Fair is only fair to the incompetent and lazy; by definition it will discourage people hoping to turn their good work into better rewards. Why put in the extra effort if the end result is that you’re going to be paid the same as the laziest worker in the place? Why care about the quality of your work if you’re going to be paid the same as the most incompetent? Contrary to Mr Burrow’s claims, Work Fair is likely to make Australia less competitive with the rest of the world. Combined with workers allowed to pick and choose their hours without regard to the needs of the individual business it promises to see a few go to the wall.

Small business will be the ones worst off under Work Fair. Not only will the face the Union thugs whose actions can ruin them in days, they will be unable to risk employing people until they grow desperate. Removing the three month trial period means that the small business can find itself permanently stuck with a useless worker- a drain on the productivity and profitability of the business. Re-imposing the archaic unfair dismissal laws of the Keating era, with a suitably leftist enforcement system composed of Union Lawyers and lefty academics, will simply make it a disaster to try and fire all but the most incompetent, lazy or dishonest. Before it was replaced under Work Choices, the IRC was a running joke of bizarre judgements blatantly favouring the ‘aggrieved’ employee. The end result of this reluctance to hire is already being seen in youth unemployment figures- 48% in western Sydney and 47% in south western Melbourne. Ironically these youths live in areas the unionists claim to care most about- the working class. Of course it can be argued the unemployed don’t pay union dues so it’s not an issue for the union movement.

Ultimately this is where the Union Movement stands to gain the most. We will no doubt see a return to compulsory Union Membership and, with it, an increase in Union money. To belong to the ACTU, a union has to provide a proportion of those funds to the Labor Party which means that a Union where the majority of members support their opponents still has to fund the ALP. It also serves the political ambitions of the union hierarchy; some 50% of Labor’s Federal MPs are former Union workers or bosses, the proportion more or less the same in the State Parliaments. It is somewhat ironic that most of these union leaders have never worked in the Industries they represented; often recruited direct from University Industrial Relations courses heavy on socialist rhetoric fixated on outdated notions of class warfare.

The origins of the Union Movement were to improve the lot of the worker; now it has become just another tool of the socialist dream of Utopia. As Phelp Adams once wrote ‘the socialist, seeing the rich man and his fine home says: No man should have so much. The capitalist, seeing the same thing, says: All men should have as much.’ The left have always backed checks and balances on the funds conservative parties can draw from business; it is high time that the alliance between the unions and Labor was subjected to the same standard. Rather than being a major support of leftist ideology increasingly at odds with the views of the membership, perhaps this will leave the Unions to return to the role of supporting the aspirations of their members. After all, as Nigel Lawson once observed; “You can not make the poor man rich by making the rich man poor.”
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=375 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=373 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:23:17 GMT Attachment 283 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=283) Correction: Mr Simon was writing for the New York Review of Books and formerly worked at the Baltimore Sun. I misread the article by-line and apologise for the mistake. David Simon of the Baltimore Sun...
Correction: Mr Simon was writing for the New York Review of Books and formerly worked at the Baltimore Sun. I misread the article by-line and apologise for the mistake.

David Simon of the Baltimore Sun recently described bloggers as “leeches reporting from the mainstream news publications and the parasite is slowly killing the host.” Although discussing the decline of newspapers, I would imagine Mr Simon’s sentiments would find widespread endorsement from across the media spectrum. As far as a great many journalists (and their proprietors) are concerned, internet based commentators are taking advantage of the free media and the hard work of many people and making hay while the mainstream media bleeds to death. But is this a valid judgement? Is it a case of shooting the messenger?

The problem with these sentiments is that it ignores the reality of blogland. By far the vast majority of blogs would not make it onto mainstream news anyway; they tend to be about a person and/ or their family; about their pets and friends; about their hobbies and interests. Some are fascinating; some are banal. But there are people out there who like to read about other people’s lives and the challenges they have faced and perhaps there might be a hint to help you with your own issues; perhaps it is enough to know you are not alone. And while these are the majority, there are still plenty of other types of blogs to interest even the most jaded amongst us. There are blogs devoted to humour; devoted to creative writing; devoted to sport; devoted to cars; devoted to dollhouses; devoted to any hobby you might have or might want to pursue. You can read all about the behind the scenes action of your favourite television show; read what your favourite celebrity or sporting hero really said and not what got reported. The best thing about these blogs is that they don’t treat you like an idiot or a hindrance or a freak. Most are run by people or groups genuinely interested in their blog and what it has to say; they appreciate you taking the time to read their words; and they like to help where they can. Far from being Mr Simon’s ‘leech’, many of these simply would not reference mainstream media, though the interest many of these blogs attracts would detract from the readership of the Baltimore Sun. Of course Mr Simon and friends are referring to the news blog or the current affairs blog; in the minds of most journalists these are the real leeches. What one needs to ask, however, is whether there is sufficient justification for such a label?

I do not believe that there is. The fact is that a significant portion of what is being written about in blogs is not from the mainstream media; we only have to look at Climategate for the most recent example of this. In Australia, even the supposed right leaning The Australian barely gave it time of day; the ABC spent weeks without mentioning it and then, when it did, focussed on the role of the ‘hackers’ in helping to undermine the COP15 summit. Far from being a conspiracy to delude the public, it now emerges that the BBC was given the story two weeks before it broke on the internet but refused to report on it. Even the much maligned Fox News failed to pick up on it in the first few days; suggesting that it is not a matter of political cant but rather plain old journalistic incompetence. In fact the whole climate debate has largely taken place outside the mainstream media; facts that back up the sceptics or undermine the ‘chosen’ simply don’t appear. The UN Meteorological Association has told us that this will be the fifth warmest year in history; but the British Met Office, which collated much of the data, has used less than one third of the stations in Russia and most of those from the warmer areas. We are told that polar ice caps are melting; but the Antarctic Cap is at its thickest since records began. We are told that the Earth is going through singular changes in climate; but Mars, Saturn and Neptune are also going through a warming cycle. To the best of my knowledge, none of this has appeared in the mainstream media or even the specialist publications. So it is more than a little rich for Mr Simon to claim that blogs are leeching off legitimate news services.

The other factor is the rampant political correctness and left wing bias. The problem arises because when something goes wrong, people want an improvement that works; the left see it as an opportunity to remake the whole system. Increasingly they are trying to paint a picture of how they think things should be rather than what people want. People who oppose the prevailing leftist agenda are demonised by the media as being right wing demagogues hopelessly out of touch with modern Australians. Without a representative voice in the media people have felt increasingly isolated from each other; blogs have returned that feeling of contact. Many blogs are vocal in their support for the troops in Afghanistan; vocal for keeping the boat people out; vocal for religious classes in schools; vocal for equality before the law and proper sentencing. They are not pushing some nonsense agenda that rewards sloth and corruption and violence and crime.

Another benefit of blogging is that it gives us more than one generational view. Robyn Williams, writing in the current issue of Fast Thinking notes that his department at the ABC has hired one person in the last twelve years- and that a part-timer. What we are being left with is the Baby Boomers and their “Do as I say” view of the world. Quite possibly the most over-rated and under-performing generation the world has known, it is certainly the least gracious. That quintessentially Boomer phrase, “User Pays” has ensured that not only have their parents paid for their education and healthcare, they have ensured that subsequent generations will be rebuilding infrastructure run down under Baby Boomer policies while trying to pay off their debts. Then we have the ideological assault born of the 60s ‘revolution’ that values opinion over fact and leaves us with an education system where it is more important to be a good, social citizen than it is to spell your name. But having gotten stoned and drunk and shagged like bunnies through-out their adolescence the hypocrites have introduced a nanny society where it is perfectly permissible to blame someone else for your actions regardless of how stupid you are; introduced restraints on civil liberties that would have sent them into a rioting frenzy in their youth; and the media have responded with nothing but fear mongering and sensationalism. Is it a coincidence that, in the face of a continuing swell of online activism, governments around the world are introducing automatic blocking software that might ‘accidentally’ block other content? Is it any coincidence that the biggest supporters of this blocking software are the established media? Or the announcement that FOI requests in Australia can now only be made free for established journalists; everybody else is going to be charged?

It seems incongruous that newspapers have survived and thrived under the more pervasive threats from radio and then television, but that they should fold so meekly in the face of the Internet and, particularly, the blog. Is it the internet or the fact that its reporters have been repeatedly caught out making up stories that is sinking the New York Times? Is it the internet or the rabid posturings of the leftist journos in its papers that have the Fairfax group up against the wall? Is it the endless sensationalism or the internet that is sinking Murdoch’s papers? One of the more ironic mantras of the media is the notion that, in surveys, the general public abhors the reporting of sex scandals, but that the issues featuring the sex scandals sell well. This is all the justification required, in the minds of editors and reporters, to keep running these types of stories; but how can it really be a justification if the regular readership is deserting the mainstream media in droves. Might it be that we are actually interested in quality reporting?

So, Mr Simon- the blogs are not the leeches killing the mainstream media. It is you and your lazy, incompetent, lefty mates who are doing it. Lashing out at blogs only proves that you have neither the inclination nor the professionalism to actually go and investigate what is going on.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=373 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=372 Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:32:23 GMT Attachment 279 (http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=279) One of the more disappointing elements of the Christmas Season is the attack the holiday draws from some atheists. Although sometimes quite content to join in on the celebrations, they object to the fact that...
One of the more disappointing elements of the Christmas Season is the attack the holiday draws from some atheists. Although sometimes quite content to join in on the celebrations, they object to the fact that they ‘have’ to partake of the underlying religious theme. Of course they don’t have to do so- if they want to call it Midsummer Festival or Saturnalia there is absolutely nothing to stop them from doing so. If they don’t want to sing Christmas Carols or swap cards and presents then they don’t have to do so. What they actually mean is that they don’t want you to take part in it either. It offends their sensibilities to realise that there are people in this world who enjoy Christmas because they are religious or because they like the trimmings without really worrying about the underlying religious message. Having seen the ‘light’ of atheism they are not merely content with allowing the majority of people to go about their business; they must disabuse you of your faith and/ or fun. In their regard, you can not be a thinking human being unless you actively reject God and all his evil works. I am often reminded of the atheist taunt at this time of year; “There is no fanaticism like that of a convert.”

Of course it is the very rare atheist that actually refrains from participating in the seasonal celebrations; such prominent atheists as Dr Richard Dawkins and Simon Le Bon, amongst others, have contributed pieces to the new book, ‘An Atheists Guide to Christmas.’ What surprises me about such works is that there seems to be underlying, perhaps subconscious, desire to be convinced of the efficacy of religion or even just faith. Most seem to come to their atheism not as an act of consideration but, rather, that they feel rejected by the faith they were raised in. The failure of a prayer for a special present; not having a bigger role in a nativity play; it is interesting how so many lost their faith in childhood for childish reasons and have had to come to a hard core atheism by study, as if to justify to themselves their point of view. Unfortunately faith requires a leap of irrationality sometimes; not exactly the sure footed argument that might convince Dr Dawkins.

One thing that often confuses me is the correlation in the minds of some people between the actions of the Churches in the past and their current status. I hold a particular animus for Archbishop Daniel Mannix of Melbourne; firmly anti-British, this Irish Nationalist used his position in the Catholic Church to attack the British and Australian war efforts numerous times. But it was his speeches and sermons after the war that I find particularly distasteful; on numerous occasions he maintained that the men who had lost their lives had done so in a dubious cause but that Catholic mothers could at least console themselves with the thought that Catholic soldiers were destined for salvation whilst their brothers-in-arms were damned. Did Mannix represent the whole of the Catholic Church? No; his divisive sermons were roundly criticised by many Melbourne Catholics much less those in other states. So why demonise the whole Catholic Church for this one man? Does it necessarily follow that because Mannix preached such views that he actually spoke for God?

The Catholic Church is a particular target for atheists, especially those who believe that a religious belief has no place in public considerations. One of those reasons is its opposition to abortion; yet it might surprise many that the original Hippocratic Oath also contains an admonition on abortion- part of the reason that it is rarely taken in the West now. The Inquisition remains a favourite target; yet the Inquisition killed far fewer people in all of Europe than Scottish Presbyterians killed witches in Scotland alone. Perhaps more interesting is that the Inquisition never killed a person for practicing Witchcraft- even as demonic a figure as Torquemada flatly refused to entertain the notion that such creatures existed. Yes, the Catholic Church has its demons and its faults but by and large a dispassionate view of the Church in its entirety would suggest that it was responsible for more good than evil. At various times in history the Catholic Church was all that stood between Western civilisation and obliteration.

Secular society has hardly proven itself any better; while it is easy to write off Nazism and Communism as being based on pseudo-science, much of the criticism of Christianity in particular is based on movements and individuals who practiced a pseudo-religion. If Christianity must bear responsibility for the misguided notions of the Crusades or the Inquisition then Science should be held to account for the crimes of the Nazis and Communists. Perhaps the ultimate irony is that in focussing solely on the lives lost and the damage done, it is easy to forget that even the most traumatic events, whether explained or justified through science or religion, tend to have some positive outcomes. Yes, it is looking for the silver lining on the dark cloud but I personally think that concentrating solely on the negative aspects of an event devalues the suffering endured.

Like a great many Australians, perhaps the majority, I go into Christmas without a religious attachment to the event: without the pressures of actually having to put up with the usual crap involved in running a fruit and vege department at this time, I am even enjoying the celebration for the first time that I can remember in a long time. Some Burmese Buddhist friends of ours have really thrown themselves into the event; the sight of a 1meter high Buddha decorated with tinsel and lights is something to behold. One of the biggest sets of Christmas house lights in our immediate area has been erected by a Muslim family. While multi-culturalists might be aghast at such evidence of assimilation, I find it refreshing to see such a communal spirit displayed regardless of whether you think it is Australia or Christmas that inspires it.

While it could be argued that Christians bring this sort of animus upon itself, it nevertheless strikes me as mean spirited. Rather than embracing the celebration as a demonstration of communal spirit, these atheists seem intent on doing away with the thing altogether because of its religious connections. As noted previously, there is certainly nothing wrong with celebrating the event in your own way- even going so far as to rename the event for your own personal peace of mind. I am assured that you can even buy Merry Saturnalia cards on-line. I think that in finding myself re-engaging in the Christmas season I am finding this sort of thing to be a case of petty nastiness. These attacks are made for no other reason than to spoil the spirit of people at this time, and I think it is a little sad.

As an aside-
Dr Nathan Grills of Monash University has been vilified in the media for penning an article suggesting that Santa receive a make over in order to present a better example for children. It should be noted that Dr Grills’ article was written for the December edition of the British Medical Journal; the annual joke edition. Dr Grills’ humorous observations appear next to, amongst others, an article on do-it-yourself appendectomies. The vast majority of these reports have simply re-written the original agency piece without checking the details with either the BMJ or Dr Grills. Just another example of the ever decreasing standards of the fourth estate.
]]> bren122 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=372 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=371 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:42:22 GMT ok that one is done and posted- MERRY CHRISTMAS ok that one is done and posted-
MERRY CHRISTMAS ]]> usafslut http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=371 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=370 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:41:09 GMT i thought i'd post some recollections of previous sexual encounters in hopes that i can find inspiration for a story to write on SSP. This of course is if i can find the time to do so.

One of my favorites was a cyber slut i used to be in contact with. This girl would do anything i'd ask and desired to be owned and used like a worthless whore. She wanted me to talk dirty to her constantly and talk about how i wanted to share her not just w/ friends but complete strangers.

most of all i was totally turned on by how cum - hungry she was and how she would want my jizz all over her and inside her.

She was a nasty cum dumpster who i controlled at all times.

rarely have i had the opportunity to control a woman so completely.i To make her do and say what i wanted from getting fucked in every hole by me to being my complete slave to service all my needs from cleaning my home dressed or undressed how i like to even being my footstool while i watched porno.

she fulfilled anything i desired and was happy to do so because that's what cum whore's do.


le sigh.... ]]> Diddy4269 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=370 http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=369 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:35:32 GMT Well life is full of trials and tribulations what started out as an extremley good day ended up still a good day but for entirley different reasons. The sexual frisson between Mell and I on the way to her stables was only diluted by our very ordinary conversation Mell leaves for the Sorbon after... Well life is full of trials and tribulations what started out as an extremley good day ended up still a good day but for entirley different reasons.
The sexual frisson between Mell and I on the way to her stables was only diluted by our very ordinary conversation Mell leaves for the Sorbon after Christmas shes taking Politics and economics and realy looking forward to Paris.
We arrived at the stable and she quicley found Ramon the groom and gave him an early day.we watched him pull out and drive of.
Mell took my hand and walked us through to the small dressage ring. she sat me in the small observation enclosure and with a bright smile walked back into the main stable.

After what seemed like forever but was only five minutes she returned stark naked except for a quite complicated black leather body harness She was leading a superb Palamino stallion. Mell introduced him as El Poco.

He did not loook very small to me but whats in a name I noticed that there was a harness that hang down either side of his body , what was obvious was it complemented the one Mell wore. this looked interesting.
With out preamble Mell reached underneath and began to massage the sheath of Poco she was rewarded by a rapid length of horse cock emerging at an alarming rate
Thats when things went wrong with out warning El Poco reared and stepped to the side straight onto Mells foot with a sharp scream she fell to the sawdust floor. I ran over to her grabbed Pocos halter and tied him of to a tether ring.

Tears of pain ran down Mells cheeks looking down I saw blood on her foot picking her small frame up i carried her to the office laying her on the sofa, even with her face screwed up in pain she was still stunning
Looking at her foot I realised this was more serious than a simple graze I got her clothes and started to dress her cooing and soothing her, Even now there was an erotic element slipping black lace panties on is nearly as good as taking them of I lent over and kissed her forehead her eyes her lips even in her pain there was a touch of lust as she returned my Kiss .
Hospital for You my girl I said.
Two hours later with Mells foot in plaster we left the hospital two broken bones in her foot. Now time to talk to her father whos in Madrid to let him know whats gone on well a sanitised version at least
What s good about any of this I wiil tell you next time ]]> espana http://www.sexstoriespost.com/forums/blog.php?b=369