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(c) 2005 BeefyDrake ___________________________________________________________ Guiding Maxine by BeefyDrake Codes: MF, MFf, MM~F, mm~F, MM~f, mm~f, M+F, M+f, inc, swing, best, cons ___________________________________________________________ It was the summer of 1997 when I took my family on vacation to Greece where I had rented us a wonderful beach house right at the beach for six weeks. Of course both Georgina (or Gina like those close to her call her) and our daughter Maxine were both very exited when I told them. Naturally, I kinda expected that Georgina would ask me for one of my credit cards so she and our daughter could go shopping for the trip. Handing her one of my platinum credit cards, I reminded her in front of our daughter that we were going to Europe where they're quite a bit more liberal minded, and told them not to forget to pick up a few sexy bikinis each. And so, over the next couple of weeks, the girls went on a shopping spree. However, every time I asked them what they had bought, they refused to show me, telling me that it would be more fun for them to surprise me once we were on our trip. Hearing this come from my wife, whom I've been married to for some twenty two years, I knew it was going to be a fun filled summer. So, I made sure to stock up on plenty of film both for my 35mm still-camera and my camcorder. I also picked up extra rechargeable batteries and made sure to check and clean all the equipment itself. Came the day of our departure, the three of us were so excited; we all got up at the break of down long before our alarm clocks went off at five thirty that morning. When Georgina and our lovely daughter Maxine came downstairs in their new outfits they had picked up for the trip, I smiled with approval; and made sure to snap a few pictures of them. "If this is just a taste of what's to come, I can't wait till we get there...! You two look very hot, girls...!" I complimented them on their sexy quite naughty outfits. Just for that, I received appreciative hugs and loving kisses from the both of them. Soon we were off to the airport as soon as the special airport shuttle van came to pick us up. I felt proud being seen with my two girls in public. My lovely wife Georgina, whom I've married some 22 years back when she was only a year older than our daughter Maxine who just had her 17th birthday a few weeks earlier, simply looked stunning. You see, for a hot mom who just turned 40 a couple of months earlier, she's still one hell of a knockout who turns heads wherever she goes. On top of that, Gina's appetite for wild raunchy sex never ceases to amaze me, always coming up with these wicked and crazy ideas. The older she gets, the wilder she becomes in the sack, really putting me through the paces each night. Yes, she needs it daily, and twice on the weekends. Then, there's Maxine, our pride and joy, my precious little princess. At the age of 17, she's turning into a real heartbreaker, a stunningly beautiful young lady who one day will make some guy on lucky fellow. However, until that day arrives, she's mine. I tend to be a little over protective of her, yet I give her, her freedom to go out on dates, dress as she pleases, and hang out with her friends. All I ask of her is that she should always let her mom or I know where she is at all times. Having bought her a cell phone when she was fifteen, she has no excuse to forget to call either of us. Other than that, I do tend to spoil her to a certain extend. Then again, most daddies tend to spoil their little girls. Anyhow, after a long flight and changing planes a couple of times, we finally made it to our destination. Picking up the rental car I had reserved, we were soon on our way to the outskirts of town to our beach house that I had rented for six weeks. The place was more than we had bargained for, a perfect gem of a beach house, complete with its own pool and outdoor spa on a hillside overlooking the Mediterranean sea. The first thing we did after a short rest was to go change into our swimsuits and head down the winding path down the hill to go for a walk on the beach. "Ooh...! I like...!" I playfully remarked when my daughter came out topless in just an itsy bitsy, rather scandalous g-string bikini bottom that left little to the imagination. "Now that's what I call a Euro chick...!" I told my wife about our daughter. The next thing I knew, my wife removes her bikini top, tossing it aside before stepping out of the sexy spandex short she had worn over an equally wicked g- string like the one our daughter had on. And so, with Maxine carrying the camcorder for me, and me totting my 35mm camera over my shoulders, we headed for the beach. "Hey dad...! Nice thong suit by the way. It really makes your package stand out in a wicked way...!" Maxine remarks as we were strolling down the narrow o paths that led down to the white sandy beach. "It's not too much, is it...?" "No, it looks cool and sexy on you dad, right mom...?" Maxine remarks, and turns to her mom for her opinion. "You bet sweetie...! We picked it up for him, didn't we...!" her mom responded. "Oh yeah...!" Maxine remarks with a smile. "Say, hand me the camera dad. Let me take a picture of you and mom with the beach house in the background...!" she then told me, trading the camcorder with the Nikon. While we were taking the first few pictures of us in Greece, a couple of handsome, tanned hunks just happen to pass by. My wife approached them to ask them if they'd be so kind as to take a few pictures of us. Of course, they were more than happy to, and soon, after they had taken some pictures of the three of us, I was taking a few of my girls with the two hunks together as well as of each of the girls alone with both hunks. Afterwards, we had a little chat with them, and learned that they were brothers who came from Italy and were vacationing in Greece with their parents. When they pointed us the beach bungalow they had rented, Georgina pointed out ours and invited them to drop by some time. With that we said goodbye to them, and went on our way down the beach in the opposite direction of those two handsome Italian stallions. "God...! They were so cute...!" Maxine remarks about the two hunks once we were a safe distance away. "You think they'll drop by some time. I mean... I sure would like to get to know them. Maybe one of them would take me out on a date some time...!" she added with jovial enthusiasm. "Why do you think I invited them over...? I wouldn't mind going out on a date with either of them myself, especially the one with that sexy red thong bikini. Did you see that bulge on him...?" my wife playfully remarks with a wicked grin. "Hey, what am I...? Chopped liver or something...?" I playfully protested when my girls were talking between them as to how they liked the two hunks as if I wasn't even there. "Sorry, hon...! He's very cute though, isn't he...?" my wife apologizes, hugging her arms around mine. "Yeah dad, sorry...!" our daughter added, hugging my other arm. "So, you two really would want to go out on dates with them, huh...?" I turned from side to side to ask my girls. "Would you let me...?" Maxine asks with a sexy look and a playful smile. "How about me...? You promised me that I could go out on dates with some of the local hunks, remember...!" my wife added. "Jesus you guys...! I can't believe what I'm hearing here. You promised mom to let her go out on dates with local guys...?" Maxine responded rather shocked when she heard her mom's last remark. "Look sweetie...! Your mom and I have been together for over twenty two years, right hon...?" I began explaining, giving my lovely wife a loving hug and a quick peck. "We still love each other very much, but like every thing else in life, things tend to get stale after a while, especially after so many years. So, we've discussed it, and I agreed to let your mom go out on dates with local hunks. But those two, though hunks they might be, they're not locals...!" I explained before throwing in a playful remark at the end. "Oh m'god...! You're letting mom have sex with other guys...! I don't believe this...!" Maxine responded in shock. "I never said that...! I promised she could go out on dates...!" I smiled at my little girl. "But if that's what your mom wants, then so be it. I mean, as long as she knows where her place is, and only during the duration of our vacations...!" "You would...?" my wife asked surprised. "Sure, why not. I mean... we've both been with others before we got married, right...! So, what's the difference...?" I reasoned. "Jesus you guys. Listen to yourselves. I get the feeling you're actually going to do this. Aren't you, mom...?" Maxine responded in a state of shock. "And you... Does that mean you're going to do some of the local chicks...?" she then asks me. "Not unless your mom gives me permission. I mean... In all those years we've been together, I've never cheated on your mom. And I'm not about to start now...!" I explained to my daughter. "And I'm sure your mom won't actually do it, if it upsets you...!" "Your dad is right, sweetie. Like him, I've never cheated on him; and I won't start now. Look honey...! A marriage is more than sex. It's an institution based on trust and understanding. It's all about being there for each other in good times and bad times. It's all about being able to give and take. It's like a two way street of sorts. See, when your dad gave me permission just now, it shows that he trusts me, and wants me to be happy. So, I'm going to extend him that same trust, and let him have his kicks with others while we're on vacation zillions of miles away from home. However, since you're part of us now, we won't do it if it upsets you. You understand me...?" she explains to our daughter. "I guess...? Um... is that why some married couples are into um... swinging and wife swapping, to um... you know, to add spice to their sex lives...? Are you two into that back home...?" "Yes. And yes, your mom and I have done some swinging, but only during the past few years. However, that didn't change who we are. We're still the same Georgina and Darren we've always been, and like it or not, we're still your mom and dad...!" I explained, playfully tousling her hair. "Gosh...! I had no idea you two were into that. I think that's so cool, but um... I don't think I can do it having someone watching me, though...!" Maxine responded with a smile. "Neither did I when we first took the plunge, but the more I did it in front of others, I actually began to enjoy it, especially after I found out how it turns your dad on to see me with others...!" Georgina explains to our daughter. "Say hon, she's a big girl now, so what do you say we let her watch us at play later on? She could man the camcorder for us...!" my wife then suggested. "Sure, I don't mind, but um... only if that's what she wants of course...?" I remarked, and looked at my daughter. "Are you two serious...? You actually let me watch you two going at it...?" she asked, still a bit unsure if we were being serious or were just pulling her leg. "Sure...!" I confirmed with a smile. "Yep...!" her mom added. "OK...! It sounds like fun...!" Maxine quickly responded with a wicked grin. And so, with that, the three of us strolled down the beach for a while longer before deciding to head back to our beach house. On the way back, we passed Mario and Luciano just as we walked by their beach house. We stopped to chat with them, and asked them what was further up the beach in the direction they had scouted earlier. Other than more beach houses and a few cozy pubs, it was pretty much the same. Further down the beach however, there was a nude beach they went to check out, just over by the rocks that extended into the sea. When asked by my wife if they had come across something interesting over at the nude beach, the brothers shook their head with disappointment. One of them told us that though there were quite a lot of people, there were way too many guys and hardly any girls. When his brother boldly added that they wished there were more pretty gals like my wife and daughter; Maxine steps up to them, and suggested they'd join us for a swim at our place. "Wow...! You guys have a pool...? That's so cool...! I wished we had one at our place...!" the brothers remarked, finishing each other's sentences. With that, Mario told us all to go ahead, and said that he'd join us shortly after going to let their parents know where they were of to. We all waved at him, and Maxine told him to hurry on over. By the time Mario joined us, he briefly filled his brother in that their parents were going out to dinner with their sister that evening, and suggested they should be back in time if they wanted to come along; and dove in to join us in the pool. Since Maxine and her mom were making their moves on the two brothers, I decided to give them some space; and got out to relax in the outdoor spa. It wasn't long after that before Maxine dragged Mario with her inside the house, and shortly thereafter my wife led Luciano by the hand inside the house. I just smiled, and decided to take a short nap. When I awoke about an hour or so later, and they still hadn't come out off the house, I decided to check up on my girls. I smiled when I set foot inside the house. My wife and our lovely daughter were having themselves some fun with the two Italian brothers. Georgina was on her hands and knees taking an anal reaming from young Mario. Beside them Maxine was on her back on the living room floor enjoying Luciano's mouth and tongue as he was going down on her. Quickly removing my thong suit, I went over to kneel in front of my wife to feed her my cock; and winked at my daughter as she watched her mom suck my dick. She smiles, and reaches her arm out to me. Kissing her hand, I then asked her if she was having fun. Nodding her head with a sexy smile, she playfully reaches around to slap my bare butt. That's when I pulled my dick out from my wife's mouth, and moved over to suck on and play with my little girl's boobs. When she didn't object, I became a little bolder, and reached one hand for her sex, which Luciano was munching on. She was so dripping wet down there, I complimented Luciano on a job well done. The boy just smiled, and gave his brother credit for having fucked her good a little while earlier. "I guess it's your turn now, huh...?" I winked at him. Luciano smiles and gets into position to enter my little girl. Once he started fucking her, I resumed playing with my daughter's nice firm puppies, sucking and nibbling on her prominent, aroused nipples, making her hiss with pleasurable delight, and running her hands through my hair and down my back. In doing so, together Luciano and I had Maxine climax in no time. That's when I tapped the boy on his shoulder and traded places with him. Looking over at my wife for permission, I entered my daughter's forbidden love canal the moment my wife gave me a wink with a smile of approval. Maxine sure didn't panicked or tried to wriggle free from under me. On the contrary, she locked her legs around me, and wrapped her arms behind my neck as she fucked me back with each forward thrust. Meanwhile, Luciano had gone over to join his brother Mario to play with my wife. And so, my daughter and I ended up fucking each other silly. Even after my wife and the boys were done playing with each other, Maxine and I, were still going at it, pacing ourselves to achieve yet another orgasm together. We were almost there when Mario and Luciano tapped me on my back on their way out, and thanked me for having them over and sharing my girls with them. They said they were kinda hungry and were going to join their family for dinner. Since they had broken my concentration, I told them that they were welcome, and extended them an open invitation to come over anytime. They both smiled when I told them to bring their sister over. Not promising anything, they said that they'd see what they could do. They both gave my wife a hug and a kiss, and were out the door. Closing the door, Gina came over to sit beside us to watch me and our daughter have a final round. "You know something, you two sure look very sexy united like that...!" she remarks, lovingly caressing our daughter's boobs. "Remember though...! You two can play together all you want, but once the vacation is over, this all got to stop. No more daddy's cock for you, you hear me...!" she reminded us. We just smiled at her mom, and finished what we had started. Of course, her mom got so horny watching us, she starts fingering herself. When Maxine saw this, she suddenly told me to pull out. Rolling over onto her hands and knees, she crawls over to her mom to take over with her mouth. Following her, I moved up behind her to do her doggy style while she was going down on her mom. That was really something else, getting to do my little girl while she was going down on her mom. I could tell from the expression on my wife's face that our daughter seems to know what to do down there. And so, we ended up having a wonderful time enjoying our very first family threesome. Once we all had had our fun, we jumped in the shower together. After which, we went for a troll down the beach to go sample the local flavor at this cozy bistro and pub the boys had told us about. Both dressed to thrill in matching slinky spandex numbers and only sexy g-string panties on underneath it, we ended up dancing the night away after dinner. As usual, when we go out partying, my lovely wife likes to have a few drinks now and again. That night, it was one of those nights. She got a bit tipsy, and started hitting on a few of the local studs that were hanging out at the bistro pub. Maxine and I just watched her mom do her thing, dancing with the guys and really hitting on them. "Hey dad, mom isn't planning on inviting them back with us, is she...?" my daughter asked me at some point. "From the looks of things, I won't be surprised if she does. Why, is she embarrassing you...?" "Not really. I just never figured her to be such a slut...!" Maxine told me as she shift to snuggle in my arms as we watched her mom do her thing. "I didn't either when I first married her. It wasn't until the time when we went on our second honeymoon during our crystal wedding anniversary when she came out of the closet, and sort of showed me her true colors. It happened pretty much in a similar setting like this one, in a cozy little joint in the Bahamas. She got a bit drunk, and ended up inviting a bunch of the guys back with us for a party I will never forget...!" "How many guys did she invite back that night...?" "You probably won't believe it, but she literally invited back the last few guys that were still there when they closed the place, including the two bartenders... twelve of them all together...! And she fucked and sucked 'em all that night...!" "And you just watched...!" "Yep...! I was so horny by the time they had all left, I practically raped your mom in her sleep...!" "You're kidding. You fucked mom, while she was passed out...!" "I sure did...! I've never told this to her, so, let's keep it that way, ok sweetie...!" "I sure wish I could've been there to see it...! It must've been some wild orgy, huh dad...!" "A wild gangbang was more like it...! I'll show you the tape when we get home...!" "You have it on tape...?" "I sure do, and I made sure I hid it in a safe place she never would think to look...!" "Where...?" "In your room, in a hidden compartment in your walk in closet...!" "Sssssh...! Here she comes...!" Maxine interrupted me when her mom came over to our table. "Hi guys...! Say, you two um... You two don't mind if I invited a few friends back to the house, do you...?" she asked in a drunken slur. Maxine and I shook our head at the same time, and told her that it was getting kinda late, while in reality, it wasn't even ten o'clock yet. So, she went to round up the guys, and we were soon on our way back to the beach house. No sooner did we make it back, my drunken wife puts on some music and started dancing with the nine Greek studs she had invited over to party with us. Having bought a few bottles of booze and wine at the pub including a couple of bottles of ouzo, a local Greek liqueur flavored with anise, the drinking soon resumed. Meanwhile, Maxine had hopped on my lap to watch her mom turn into a nasty slut. "Jesus dad...! Look at her...!" she remarks at some point when her mom drops onto her knees to do some serious cock sucking. "How can you just sit here and watch her...?" she whispers into my ear. "It turns me on baby...!" "So I noticed...!" my daughter wickedly responded, wiggling her butt against my raging hardon. "Would it turn you on if I go over there and join mom...?" she then teases me. "It sure would make my day, but not today sweetie. Tonight you're mine, honey...! I'll be needing someone to take care of me afterwards, and I want that person to be you; that is, unless you'd rather join your mom...?" "No, I don't think I'm ready to take on that many at the same time...! I'd rather be yours tonight...!" my daughter remarks, snuggling comfier into my arms. "Play with my pussy a bit, will you dad...?" she brought one of my hands to her damp crotch. And so, while casually diddling my daughter's pussy, we watched her mom take on the nine local studs till she passed out. That's when I showed the guys out, before I fucked my passed out wife in front of my daughter. Once I was done, Maxine took my place between her mom's legs to savor all that mess of combine cum from her mom's pussy and ass. All the while I did my baby doggy style up her backdoor. Afterwards, Maxine admits that she would have never thought that having sex with someone who was passed out cold could be such fun. She also had a kick pissing all over her mom right along with me before we carried her into one of the spare bedroom to let her sleep it off. Afterwards, we cleaned up the mess before taking a quick shower together, and had us one last fuck before dozing off in each other's arms. Around noon the next day, when her mom finally had risen from the dead, Maxine and I were out on the deck enjoying the hot summer sun soaking in the hot tub, joined by Mario, Luciano, and their sister Isabella. Joining us in the outdoor spa, Mario introduced my wife to his younger sister, and handed her the miracle hang over cure I had made for my wife. It took a while for it to work, but once it did Gina was being her cheerful self again. And so, we all went for a stroll down the beach, towards the nude beach, where we ended up spending the rest of the day, basking under the warm Greek sun. At around three or so, we were joined by Mario, Luciano, and Isabella's parents. They were both slightly older than Gina and I, yet I can see where their kids got their good looks from. The boys definitely were chips of the old block, and Isabella resemblance to her mom was simply mind-boggling. Like us, Franco and Monique, were an open minded couple, apparently quite affluent and well-traveled, for they spoke English like it was their native tongue. Nudity and casual intimacy didn't seem to bother them at all. They didn't mind that Isabella chooses to snuggle with me, nor did they mind their boys showing their affection towards Gina and Maxine. We had a great time at the nude beach that day. Later on, when we went back to our bungalows, Monique, who incidentally is a gorgeous mixed race beauty, a real Eurasian diva, was kind enough to show my wife where to get provisions and other things we still hadn't gotten to yet. With Maxine wanting to join them, we men and the adorable Isabella decided to use the pool at our place. It wasn't long after our wives had left with my daughter to go pick up some groceries and stuff, when Franco casually remarked that he had heard from his boys about the fun they had with us. Before I could respond, he told me to relax and informs me in the presence of his kids that he and his wife like to spend quality time with their kids as well. Just to show me what he meant, he motions his daughter to him. Standing up in the shallow end of the pool, he quickly removes his bikini. Looking at me with a smile, Isabella took her daddy's cock in her hand to stroke it a bit before leaning in to give him a blowjob. It wasn't long after that before Mario, Luciano, and I had removed our suits; and we were all standing around the adorable 13 year old Isabella enjoying her talented mouth as she went around sucking our cocks. She sure must've had had plenty of practice at home to be able to suck a mean cock like that at her age. If she was barely 13 at the time, it made we wonder how old she was when her parents started teaching her sex at home. Anyhow, one thing led to another, and soon we had moved it onto the big inflatable air mattress where her dad and two brothers and I had a little gangbang action with the little sex kitten. I don't know how to tell you this, but I sure couldn't get enough of this little honey. I was still going at it with this little darling when her mom, my wife, and my daughter returned from doing their grocery shopping. "I see you're getting to know my daughter a bit better...!" Monique remarks with a smile, when she came out to bring us some beers. "You don't mind do you...?" I responded with a smile while keeping my tempo. "Maybe later, I'd like to get to know you a bit better as well, what do you say gorgeous...?" "Sure, but right now, I'm in the mood for some young cock...!" she remarks with a sexy smile. "Boys, mommy needs you...!" she then motions her sons to her, as she was getting comfy beside us on the air mattress. "Not so fast handsome...! I need some too...!" my wife grabs Mario, pulling him with her over to one of the pool recliners. "I guess that leaves you and me, huh Franco...?" my daughter remarks, as she joins Franco on his pool recliner. And so, we all had some fun with each other before Franco and I got the barbecue started while the kids helped their moms set the patio table. We sure had a feast that evening, followed with a wild family orgy later on. While Isabella was one wild cookie, her mom was as nasty as they come. She sure taught her daughter well, and I sure got a taste of what a hot blooded Eurasian mama was all about. My wife also seemed to be enjoying herself with Franco; and from the looks on his face, he was having as much fun with my wife as I was having with his. Of course, the kids were having a jolly good time with each other as well. In short, it sure beats sitting around watching boring old movies or playing board games all evening. And to think that our vacation was just getting started. Plus from the looks of things, my darling daughter seems to be having a ball, enjoying all the recreational sex. That night, after our new friends had left, Maxine told her mom and me how much fun she was having; and playfully remarks that she can understand why her mom and I like to swing. As a result, rather than sending her off to sleep in her own room, her mom allowed her to sleep with us. Over the next few days, Franco and his family, who've been to Greece lots of times, drove us around to show us some of the sights and sound of what brings tourists from around the world to the islands, particularly the one we were at. When we get back in the afternoon, we either spend some time over at the nude beach, or out by the pool at our place. Once the sun goes down, we usually engage in some family fun. After the first week that we were there, Franco started taking our wives and I out to enjoy the nightlife. Like my wife Georgina, Franco's wife Monique also has a wild side to her. And like me, Franco likes to watch his wife act out her fantasies. So, during those nights' out, he and I, both armed with our camcorders manage to capture hours and hours of wild footage of our wives behave like a couple of nasty sluts. Among other things, we managed to capture our wives on tape giving blowjobs to total strangers in crowded pubs, in parking lots, in and on our car, not to mention the wild gangbangs in public parks, beaches, or some dark alley. By the time they had had their fun, Franco and I, are usually so horny; we can't wait to get back to our daughters. No matter how late we get back, our girls are usually more than eager to please us. And so, after four fun filled weeks with our new friends, they had to leave when Franco had to go back to work. When his kids didn't want to leave, my wife and I suggested that they could stay with us for a while, till we had to go home. Of course Franco didn't mind, so he allowed his wife and kids to spend another two weeks with us in Greece. So, when his wife and I dropped him off at the airport, he made sure I looked after his wife and kids. After seeing him off, Monique went to extend the rental car for another two weeks. On our drive back to the beach bungalow, Monique asked me if I had noticed how her son Mario and my daughter Maxine seems to have become so much closer the past couple of weeks, always sneaking out for a while. Of course my wife and I had noticed this as well. So, Monique and I discussed the possibility of Mario coming to live with me and my family when he starts college in the fall. I told her that I didn't see any problems with that, and that I was more than happy to have him stay with us. However, I suggested she talked to my wife about it to see what she has to say about it. So, two days later, my wife came to me to discuss things between us. Gina said that she basically saw no problems having Mario come stay with us. On a playful note, she teases that she wasn't sure if she could deny herself that big cock of his. So, I made her a deal she couldn't refuse. I'd let her have him all she wants as long as I got to continue playing with our daughter once we get back. She just smiled, playfully teasing me for being such a pervert. Anyhow, we talked to Monique about it in the morning. After calling her husband about it, we sat down with Maxine and Mario. They both were so happy; Mario could not stop thanking us. Of course, he went to call his dad right away. And so, when it was time for us to leave, we made a change to our itinerary, so we could spend an additional week in Italy with Franco and his family. It was then when we learned how wealthy Franco and his wife were. Yet, that didn't change our friendship, for despite their riches, Franco and his family were genuine, down to earth people who like to keep a low profile. However, that entire week that we were there, they sure gave us a taste of what life in the fast lane was all about. Living in Milan, one of the fashion capitals in the world, Monique and her daughter took my wife and daughter shopping till they dropped. Meanwhile, Franco showed me the little empire he had built for himself, and offered me a deal I simply could not refuse. He said that he's had his people do a background check on me, and said that he was quite impressed with what I had built from the ground up. With my background and my business expertise, he offered me to expand my business into the Euro market. He'd put up the start up capital if I was willing to bring the technical know how. So, we shook hands, and during the next couple of days, Franco and I teleconferenced with my partner and our senior staff. In any case, it was going to take a few months before our new venture was up and running. Back to the story, that week Franco and Monique showed us what a wild sex parties were all about. They took us to this exclusive private club, where you had to be wealthy to even be considered as a member. Though at first glance, it looked like a normal executive club of sorts, the scene sure changed when we got off the private elevator. It was a sex club like you'd never believe. They cater to every kink and fantasy you can imagine. You name it, and they'll provide it for you for the right price. The only thing they do not cater, is pedophilia; meaning that they won't condone sex with minors below the age of thirteen. So, we didn't have to worry about that. Franco did however hook us up with a group of the cutest fifteen years olds. Meanwhile, our wives were having some fun elsewhere in the club with a bunch of young sixteen and seventeen year old boys. Now don't get me wrong because those youngsters were not teenage hookers or gigolos, mind you. They were there on their own accord with the permission of their wealthy parents, who like Franco and his wife were members of this secret playground for the rich. Anyhow, since Gina and I had such a great time at this private club, we went there twice more, bringing the kids with us. It was at this club how Gina and our daughter got there first taste of what sex with dogs was all about. And so, I ended up buying the two dogs who had mounted my wife and my daughter that evening. Since they weren't able to provide the necessary paperwork in time before our departure, Monique and her son would bring those dogs with them in a couple of weeks when they came over. Time sure flies when you're having fun in life. With Mario living with us, and the two specially trained dogs always eager to please, we sure had a good time together, especially my wife and daughter. Since I had to cross the Atlantic a lot, I knew my girls were in good hands with Mario looking after their every need. Whenever I had to be in Milan; Franco and Monique, always insist on me staying with them. Of course, I never refuse, for that would mean passing up on some fun and wild games with Isabella and her mom. To tell you the truth, though the club they took us to was fun, I'd rather play with Monique and Isabella any day. Franco knows this, so he never took me to that club again. He does however invite a few cute teens to play with us when I'm in town; and that's all right with me. Business wise, things really looked up from the moment we got the system up and running. I had to hand it to Franco for his keen eye and business instincts. In the few months that I had gotten to know my new friend, I've learned a lot from him. Together, we were already planning to venture into Eastern Europe, China, and the Far East. Meanwhile at home, Maxine and Mario were really head over heels for one another. So, that brought Franco and me even closer together. Sure enough, less then two years later after we all went on vacation together, Mario came to me to ask for Maxine's hand in marriage. The two lived together for a while. Finally, during the summer of 2002 shortly after Mario had graduated college earning his MBA, we had a huge wedding, once in Italy and a second time back home in the good old US of A. I did feel a bit sad seeing my daughter move to Italy after that. At the same time, I was also looking forward to Isabella coming to stay with us to finish high school in the States before continuing on to attend college. My wife was also kinda sad to see our daughter leave, but she still had Luciano to play with. And so, although Maxine was no longer with us, Gina and I still had Luciano and Isabella to look after. It's been a year since Isabella had moved in with us, and she's doing exceptionally well in school. She had no difficulties whatsoever making the transition from an International School to a US high school. Though she dates boys her age, she only has sex with her brother, my wife, and of course with me. As for Luciano, he's got more girlfriends that he can handle, yet he likes nothing better than playing with my wife and his sister. The best part about it is that he plans to take his master's degree after finishing his undergraduate degree. So, for the next four or five years, my wife still has two kids to look after, and play with of course...! Anyhow, we just got some great news form Maxine. They just confirm that she was pregnant. It sure made her mom cry with happiness, for she was soon going to be a grandma. When I asked her if she prefers a grandson or a granddaughter, she smiles, and said that she prefers both, a grandson for her and Monique to play with and guide when he gets a bit older; and a granddaughter for Franco and me to play with when she gets a bit older. Amazing as it may sound, but that's exactly what Monique told me when I asked her. Oh, and by the way... Whenever I'm in Milan, I still get to play with my Maxine...! She might be Mario's wife now, but she will always be mine; and she knows this...! And of course, her mom also knows that when the baby or babies were born, she gets to see Maxine more often...! THE END............................... ___________________________________________________________ If you enjoyed this story, you can find more of my work at: BeefyD's Erotica (c) 2005 - http://www.asstr.org/~BeefyDs/


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Preparations for the summer festival season is really kicking into high gear now. We recently told you about the return of OutKast, who will headline Coachella and the Governors Ball, and now you can add the Firefly Music Festival to the duo's itinerary (along with 37 other fests). Big Boi and Andre 3000 will be joined by Foo Fighters, Jack Johnson, Arctic Monkeys, Weezer, Childish Gambino, Chance the Rapper, Sleigh Bells, Girl Talk, Tegan and Sara, Band of Horses, Iron & Wine, Sky Ferreira, tUnE-yArDs, Phosphorescent, and many more.
Firefly will be held June 19th to 22nd at Dover International Speedway in Dover, Delaware. Get tickets now through the festival's website. Check there or watch the announcement video below for info and the full lineup.
Here on BandAids, we'll explore ideas, innovations and inspirations in band promotion. Making killer tunes is only half the battle; in order to find and keep fans, you need to think of yourself as (cringe) a brand and put some thought into marketing yourself!
By day, twenty-something Bostonian Erica Truncale manages events at a university, but by night she masquerades as Boston Merch Girl, slinging swag for many local and national acts in clubs all over the city and beyond"and she has become the go-to girl for Boston acts who need a hand with sales at their shows. We hit her up for some insider tips on what works and what doesn't behind the merch table. Read on!
OS: So how did you become Boston Merch Girl? What exactly is your role?
BMG: I started doing merch when I was asked/offered to do it for some friends' local bands. My boyfriend had been doing it for a couple of bands, and I took over his role when he took on other responsibilites. It sort of snowballed from there. Other bands alongside our merch would ask if I would do theirs, and I decided this was definitely a niche that no one was filling. My role is to be the support a band needs so they can focus on what they're really there to do"play music. I arrange/inventory/sell merch, circulate mailing lists, answer fan or venue staff questions…things the musicians shouldn't have to worry about"they should be focused on their music and gear.
OS: What is it that you do so well that makes all the bands want you?
BMG: I strive to provide a peace of mind, and like to think that's what has bands reaching out to me again. Merch/fan interactions/mailing lists are really important to bands creating and maintaining relationships with a fan base, but there's not always time to dedicate to that. I do my best to represent the band during a live show while they're soundchecking, playing, breaking down"you know, the stuff musicians are supposed to be doing.
Sub Pop became famous as the breeding ground for the early-90s alt-rock revolution, home to the biggest bands of the grunge-era bands. Music changed fast, though, and Sub Pop struggled near the end of the decade to find their footing again, with WEA (Warner Elektra Atlantic) taking a substantial minority stake and making some cross-label promotional deals that didn't seem like a bad idea, but didn't really help Sub Pop's long-term creative prospects. All that changed around the turn of the millennium, with a new generation of talent forging original and somehow familiar sounds. There have been many quality releases by the label since 2000, but these are some of the very best. I've combined multiple releases in some cases, and left off others when they didn't quite hit the heights.
10. Band of Horses " Everything All The Time (2006) / Cease To Begin (2007)
A slightly more grounded My Morning Jacket or more spacey Built To Spill"either way, nothing to change the world, but really nice vibe-y, hook-filled, atmospheric rock songs with restrained country influences. Now doesn't that sound good?
Forget about dog years. Bands years are even more unforgiving. Ten of them can seem like one hundred when a group is constantly out on the road or in the studio. Luckily, the rigors of touring life haven't dampened the spirits of Seattle-based indie rockers Minus The Bear. After writing songs all summer for the follow up to last year's Omni, they're embarking on a national tour to celebrate their tenth anniversary this fall. We sat down with bassist Cory Murchy to discuss the band's favorite Seattle venues, their predilection toward remixes and what it's like to look back on ten years of hard work.
OS: This fall you guys are playing your 10 Year Anniversary Tour. Where did you think the band would be in ten years when you began playing together?
CM: You know, when we first started playing I don't think we had a vision far outside of just having it be something that we did as a side project. We were all in bands before and had bands going on at that time. But I will say that once we started writing songs and did get a little more serious we just wanted to do this as long as we possibly could and let the band run its course. We've been stoked that it's taken us ten years so far.
OS: How do you look back on some of the earliest Minus The Bear songs, like those on Highly Refined Pirates?
CM: It's always fun to revisit them and listen to the records all in sequence to check out where we were musically. For us, they're little time capsules as far as what was going on at that time. Maybe it doesn't even have to do with the song, but certain songs can remind us of certain places in our lives, which is cool. It's kind of a retrospective of our lives. It's neat to have that sort of marker.
Let's just get this out of the way first: French Cassettes are a young band. As in "fresh out of high school, not that much older than Justin Bieber" young. And, because they're nascent, there are some elements of the music you'll have to overlook. First and foremost, the production quality of their recordings. It's bad. Secondly, the looseness of their playing. Not much is locked in-step or a tempo. If you can get past those two things, there's plenty to like about French Cassettes. They've got a keen sense of melody, a lot of ideas and " as they say in the biz " moxie. Singer Scott Huerta's plaintive voice, reminiscent of Ben Bridwell from Band of Horses, is the most fully-developed instrument of the group, and leads the ramshackle pack through ska (See the herky-jerky Hands), Latin music (See the overwrought, fiesta-gone-wild Cantina) and indie rock (See the winsome and charming Seahorse"). Give these guys a couple years to perfect their technique and watch the indie pundits rave.
The Good
OK Go debut another expertly timed music video
On Monday OK Go debuted their video for This Too Shall Pass, and reaffirmed their status as music's most synchronized video stars. This time around, they joined forces with Synn Labs in Los Angeles to build a large-scale chain-reaction machine to serve as the focal point of the video. The results include lots of funny, bizarre and often poetic effects, not to mention some pretty badass paintball action. Check it out here.
The Bad
Kanye's got a new blog
Well Kanye West is back at blogging, and his newly redesigned site has made his all-caps-stream-of-consciousness rants at least 10 font sizes larger. In this edition, Kanye laments the passing of Alexander McQueen and his mother, muses about the ancient Egyptians being robbed of their MTV awards and still finds space to remind us all that he is brilliant and sometimes his genius makes him cry. That and the booze. Read all about it here.
The Ugly
Mini Lady Gaga and mini Ke$ha prompt the question, What's wrong with kids these days?
What makes you fear the future more " a small child pretending to brush her teeth with a bottle of Jack to Ke$ha's Tik Tok or a small child crawling pants-less across the stage to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance? We'll let you decide. We have to go lie down.
- Bruce Willis stars in Gorillaz video
- Lil Wayne jail sentence postponed (again)
- Kelly Rowland and Michael Bublé cover the Bee Gees
- Gang Starr rapper emerges from coma
- Pavement reunion tour is under way
- Band of Horses announce new album
- LCD Soundsystem frontman scores Noah Baumbach flick
- New Black Keys album

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Food allergies are on the rise. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control) reports that 4-6% of American children have food allergies. Just this week our own Sabrina Garibian learned that her son Raffi has an allergy to peanut. Children under the age of 3 are at the greatest risk of food allergies, especially if there is a family history of asthma, eczema or allergies.
According to a recent article in the online edition of Pediatrics, June 25,2012, children who have a known food allergy are at high risk of having both accidental and non-accidental exposures. The researchers also learned that when children did have a severe allergic reaction, they were often not treated adequately by the caregiver. Only 30% of children who had a severe reaction were appropriately treated with injectable epinephrine (EpiPen.)
A food allergy is an abnormal immune response to certain foods. Symptoms include hives, rash, vomiting, diarrhea, coughing, tingling tongue, wheezing, throat swelling and difficulty breathing. An anaphylactic reaction is when the immune response to the food is so intense that it results in difficulty breathing, throat and tongue swelling, loss of consciousness and can result in death.
Severe allergic reactions are terrifying to parents, and the research published in Pediatrics notes that many caregivers do not recognize the early stages of severe reactions.
The other reason why children were not treated appropriately with epinephrine for severe reactions was that the injectable epinephrine (EpiPen) was not available, or the caregiver was afraid to use it.
More from Dr. Dana: New food allergy guidelines
These are the tips that I give to my patients who have a food allergy:
1. Get a small red back pack that includes your child's EpiPen, a dose of diphenhydramine, important contact numbers and a food allergy emergency action plan.This pack goes every where your child goes. Many parents ask for multiple refills so that they can have an epipen for the house, car, vacation home, and school. I warn parents that when they have so many prescriptions of epinephrine, the medication is usually everywhere, but when it is needed, it is not where the child is. If your child has an allergic reaction at the park, you do not want to have to run to the car in the parking lot to get the medication. Minutes count.
2. Make sure all caregivers feel comfortable using an EpiPen. Let your sitter know that you will never be upset if she uses the EpiPen for an allergic reaction. I have found that many sitters and caregivers are afraid of using this injectable medication. Ask the pharmacist for an EpiPen trainer. These trainers can help teach caregivers how to give the injection.
3. In the event of an allergic reaction, call 911 after you have given the EpiPen. Make sure all caregivers are comfortable calling 911.
4. Read all labels and be vigilant. 70% of the allergic reactions in the study were associated with accidental ingestions.
5. Make sure all caregivers are aware of the severity of your child's food allergy. In the study, allergic foods were provided by non-parents in more than 50% of the allergic reactions.
Several years a go at a birthday party drop off, the parent of one of my food allergy patients arrived with her daughter. She brought a "safe" cupcake to the party and handed her daughter's medication bag to the hostess. Most importantly she asked if the hostess would be comfortable using the EpiPen in the event of a severe allergic reaction. If the answer was no, this organized mom was prepared to stay at the party. I was so impressed. Her daughter was able to enjoy the party, and the mom and the hostess felt safe knowing that they had an action plan.
The advice provided in this blog is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for medical diagnosis, advice or treatment for specific medical conditions
Sources: Pediatrics, CDC
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"Ed," the anonymous proprietor of the Blawg Review, passed away this week. Ed herded cats to make the internet a better place. That is, he organized lawbloggers (a prickly and unreliable lot) to write regular surveys of the legal blogosphere. Here's how he described his labor of love:
Blawg Review is the blog carnival for everyone interested in law. A peer-reviewed blog carnival, the host of each Blawg Review decides which of the submissions and recommended posts are suitable for inclusion in the presentation. And the host is encouraged to source another dozen or so interesting posts to fit with any special theme of that issue of Blawg Review. The host's personal selections usually include several that reflect the character and subject interests of the host blawg, recognizing that the regular readership of the blog should find some of the usual content, and new readers of the blog via Blawg Review ought to get some sense of the unique perspective and subject specialties of the host. Thanks to all the law bloggers who collaborate to make Blawg Review one of the very best blog carnivals of any genre.
Blawg Review did all of that and more. Through Ed's guidance, diverse law bloggers wrote about the subjects that moved them and introduced their readers to other law bloggers across the world. The result was a richer and more inclusive discussion of the law online. Patrick and I were privileged to host a Blawg Review back in 2009.
The best way to celebrate what Ed did is to keep doing it. Today lawbloggers are remembering him by writing Blawg Reviews. We're linking in a chain. Brian Tannebaum linked here, and when you're done here, go read Eric Turkewitz. If you want to read the whole chain, it starts here.
Popehat's Blawg Review entry will review — not surprisingly — recent developments in free speech law.
Student Speech: The Student Press Law Center — an important player in protecting student speech rights and educating us about them — has filed an amicus brief in a case concerning student journalism. The SPLC argues that a vague and ambiguous "harassment" code at Cal State Fresno was improperly applied to a student who confronted professors and asked them tough questions about the journalistic bias of a campus publication:
"A student concerned about the risk of discipline — and with no way of knowing whether his speech would lead to no discipline, mild discipline, or severe discipline — would be inclined to avoid not only information gathering but also the expression of viewpoints that some might find as 'unsettling,' 'rude,' or productive of 'stress,'" attorneys for the SPLC argued in the brief, filed Tuesday with the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in the case of O'Brien v. Welty.
The Ninth Circuit has recently emphasized the importance of free speech in a broad ruling upholding the First Amendment rights of professors, so the SPLC has cause for optimism.
Campaign Finance: The Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission has provoked both vigorous debate about whether campaign contributions are free speech and ongoing litigation over the same. The Constitutional Law Prof Blog discusses a recent decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit halting a New York campaign finance law under the First Amendment pending further litigation:
Balancing the equities, the panel easily concluded that the hardship faced by NYPPP and its donors was significant: "Every sum that a donor is forbidden to contribute to NYPPP beacuse of this statute reduces constitutionally protected polictical speech."
But does more money in politics necessarily mean more freedom to speak? Not necessarily. At Simple Justice, Scott Greenfield discusses how easy money can influence judicial elections, which in turn select the judges that rule upon our free speech rights. Easy access to money for issue ads and attack ads does not produce judges who are more respectful of rights:
It's really quite easy to see: If a judge rules in a defendant's favor in a criminal case, he's a rapist lover. It's not that the other side may be particularly concerned about rapists, but rather that they use whatever is available in their attack ad. This makes ruling in favor of a defendant a dangerous choice for a judge who is required to run for re-election. The ruling may be legally uncontroversial, and the characterization of the ruling in an attack ad totally disingenuous, but so what? It's available to be used and abused, so it is.
Online Expression: Courts — often staffed by judges who "don't do Facebook" — continue to struggle to apply well-established free speech norms to Facebook, and twitter, and texts, and every other sort of society-transforming technological application this century has brought. The trend has been to treat technology as transparent — that is, to look at the nature of the speech uttered via technology and not treating technology as fundamentally changing it:
The Wall Street Journal Law Blog explains how the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that liking a post on Facebook is protected as speech:
"Liking" the campaign page, the court said, was the "Internet equivalent of displaying a political sign in one's front yard, which the Supreme Court has held is substantive speech."
The Richmond-based appeals court reversed a ruling by a federal district judge, Raymond A. Jackson, who threw out the lawsuit last year on the grounds that a Facebook "like" was "insufficient speech to merit constitutional protection."
At the Technology & Marketing Law Blog Eric Goldman uses a decision from the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York to show how traditional journalistic methods, applied online, makes it easier to defend a defamation case. Goldman notes that the targeted post had linked other posts to "show its work" — that is, to illustrate the factual basis for its allegedly false and defamatory assertions:
Hyperlinks as a defense. Hyperlinks aren't a "get-out-of-defamation-free" card, but we've recently seen a number of online defamation cases reaching a similar conclusion, including Redmond v. Gawker and Sheldon v. Compass Restaurants. A trend is emerging in court: if you support your negative factual assertions with hyperlinked citations, you can reduce the risk of a successful defamation claim.
But complicated questions remain. For instance: is an entry on a Facebook account set to "private" public speech, or not? Also at the Technology & Marketing Law Blog, Venkat Balasubramani discusses an Eleventh Circuit case in which a police officer was fired for criticizing fellow cops on a Facebook account set to private.
A final note is that a person's possible social media audience has legal effect in often interesting ways. Here, for example, the court noted that Gresham's audience did not consist of her supervisors and this undermined her argument that she was truly seeking to solve a workplace problem. On the other hand, the court also did not give credit to the fact that her settings were set to private. She probably could not have gotten any traction with the argument that the police department should not have seen her post in the first place. It seems that in the context of a legal dispute, your privacy settings can hurt you, but they rarely help you.
International Approaches To Free Speech: It's useful for Americans to reflect upon how fortunate we are to live in a society where free speech enjoys broad protections. We're a small minority in that.
At the Volokh Conspiracy, Eugene Volokh relates the story of a Kuwaiti man sentenced to ten years imprisonment for "remarks [on Twitter] deemed offensive to Islam's Prophet Mohammed, his wife and companions." The Religion Clause Blog reports on a Saudi Arabian blogger released from custody after a "series of Tweets he posted expressing conflicting feelings about the Prophet Muhammad." These cases were a bit too late for me to include in my annual review of blasphemy prosecutions (and angry mob murders) across the world.
Of course, our neighbors don't only face persecution for blasphemy. In many places political dissent also yields oppression. Index on Censorship reports on Azerbaijani authorities raiding a government watchdog, the Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies Centre:
The raid on the election watchdog NGO signalled a sharp and very serious escalation of the country's deepening human rights and political crisis. "It's a clear message to the government's critics: 'Don't get involved in any issues that question legitimacy of the presidential election", IRFS CEO and chairman Emin Huseynov said.
Americans enjoy statutory protections for their speech in addition to constitutional ones. One of the most important is Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which (to simplify) provides that web sites aren't responsible for defamation based on what commenters and other visitors post there. At the blog of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, Giancarlo Frosio shows how the European Court of Human Rights reaches a very different conclusion in finding a web portal could be responsible for racist and defamatory comments by anonymous users:
First, the Court examined the context of the comments. In this respect, the Court noted that, although the article itself was a balanced one, Delfi could have realized that the article might have caused negative reactions because readers and commenters had a great deal of interest in the matter, as shown by the above average number of comments posted on the article. In addition, the Court noted that the general negative reputation of comments on the Delfi news portal should have induced Delfi to exercise special caution. The ECHR seems to endorse a principle by which, if there is "a higher-than-average risk that the negative comments could go beyond the boundaries of acceptable criticism and reach the level of gratuitous insult or hate speech," an Internet news portal is expected to exercise a special degree of caution in order to avoid being held liable for the infringement of other persons' reputations.
But let's be clear: Section 230 is under attack right here at home. I've discussed how American law enforcement would like to weaken Section 230 — for the children, of course — and at Simple Justice Scott Greenfield examines how some elements of legal academia want to weaken Section 230 in an effort to address things like "revenge porn."
In Ireland, the interests of decency and public order are served by the "Censorship of Publications Board," which the Emerald Isle continues to maintain despite the embarrassment of having a "Censorship of Publications Board." It's true that the Censorship Board is currently vacant, hopefully because Irish politicians have better things to do than to appoint a new slate of Mrs. O'Grundys to ban the works of Edna O'Brien. Fortunately some are beginning to notice the anachronism. We encourage our Irish friends to petition their government to dissolve this body outright.
Brazil continues to make news with its law allowing the subjects of biographies to pull works from shelves if the biographies are created without consent of the subject. Prominent celebrity biographical subjects Jeffrey MacDonald, David Irving, and the ghost of Frank Sinatra have endorsed similar laws in the United States and Europe.
Of course, none of that could happen here, because America is governed by men and women who understand and respect the First Amendment.
The Security State And Free Speech: Government officials continue to surveil us and continue to object to our efforts to criticize their surveillance activities. At Public Citizen, Paul Alan Levy explains his new lawsuit designed to thwart the NSA and DHS, which have employed bogus trademark claims to suppress criticism and parody employing their logos. And as alluded above, Jonathan Turley quotes General Keith Alexander, NSA director, who dreams of legal norms that would allow the government to stop the press from printing leaked documents that show how our own government is spying on us:
"I think it's wrong that that newspaper reporters have all these documents, the 50,000 – whatever they have and are selling them and giving them out as if these – you know it just doesn't make sense . . .We ought to come up with a way of stopping it. I don't know how to do that. That's more of the courts and the policy-makers but, from my perspective, it's wrong to allow this to go on."
Criminal Defense and Free Speech:
Over at Defending People, Mark Bennett savors an astounding appellate victory in Texas in which he convinced a court to overturn a portion of Texas' solicitation-of-a-minor statute which prohibited communicating with a minor in a sexually explicit manner. As Mark pointed out, and the court agreed, Texas' statute swept up conduct protected by the First Amendment:
Subsection (b) covers a whole cornucopia of "titillating talk" or "dirty talk." but it also includes sexually explicit literature such as "Lolita," "50 Shades of Grey," "Lady Chatterly's Lover," and Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida." It includes sexually explicit television shows, movies, and performances such as "The Tudors," "Rome," "Eyes Wide Shut," "Basic Instinct," Janet Jackson's "Wardrobe Malfunction" during the 2004 Super Bowl, and Miley Cyrus' "twerking" during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards." It includes sexually explicit art such as "The Rape of the Sabine Women," "Venus De Milo," "the Naked Maja," or Japaneses Shunga. Communications and materials that, in some manner, "relate to" sexual conduct comprise much of the art, literature and entertainment of the world from the time of the Greek myths extolling Zeus's sexual prowess, through the ribald plays of the Renaissance, to today's Hollywood movies and cable TV shows.
Mark went on to explain how this decision shows that another Texas statute is vulnerable to attack: the statute prohibiting solicitation of a minor. Among the statute's flaws: it covers soliciting someone pretending to be a minor even if the solicitation is pure fantasy and everyone knows no minor is involved:
So if the "minor" is just pretending to be a minor, and the defendant knows it, and the defendant sends a text proposing a meeting for sex with no intent that it happen, the defendant has committed a felony. If you and your longtime partner have ever engaged in "age play" in which you were both sixteen again, and you text her suggesting that you meet for sex, boom. Felony.
But it's for the children, of course.
Mark's client in that case was ridiculously lucky to have such an advocate. Many defendants don't get competent counsel, let alone counsel with expertise in complex First Amendment analysis. Despite the guarantees of the Sixth Amendment, the courts have set a lamentably low bar for adequate representation. Think I am exaggerating? Go read Gideon describing the representation that one court found constitutionally sufficient:
By virtue of a reassignment within the Mercer County Office of the Public Defender (OPD), defendant Terrence Miller did not meet his attorney until the morning on which his trial was scheduled to begin.
and then explain further that:
Defendant's new attorney was a public defender with nineteen years of experience in legal practice, including some experience in criminal cases. On Thursday, December 6, 2007, defendant's new attorney was informed by his supervisors at the Mercer County OPD that he would be transferred from his current assignment in the Mercer County OPD's juvenile unit to a trial team responsible for cases overseen by the trial judge in this case. The attorney was told that day that he would serve as defendant's trial counsel and that defendant's trial was expected to begin on the following Monday, December 10, 2007. It would be his first adult criminal trial in seven years.
Anti-SLAPP Laws: When a plaintiff attacks speech with a defamation complaint or other speech-targeted cause of action, an anti-SLAPP statute allows the defendant to force the plaintiff to put up or shut up — to present evidence early in the case showing that the defendant's speech is not protected by the First Amendment. I've described how the laws work here.
But not all states have anti-SLAPP statutes, and some statutes are stronger than others. Philly Law Blog has good news about Pennsylvania considering an anti-SLAPP statute. The Digital Medial Law Project blog has even better news of how Nevada adopted one of the strongest anti-SLAPP statutes in America with the encouragement of First Amendment badass Marc Randazza.
And So On . . .
Just so eleventy billion people will stop emailing the story to me, Lowering the Bar has the inspiring story of a defense attorney's awesome response when a prosecutor asked a court to stop the defense from calling the prosecution "the government." And at the Volokh Conspiracy Orin Kerr has the story of how a university stands accused of retaliating against pro-union speech by "in effect" calling certain professors "Satan" — by awarding them raises of $666.
Thanks for reading. Thanks, Ed, for all you did, and for inspiring Law Blawgs. Readers, please keep reading the next entry over at Eric's place. Thanks to my coblogger Patrick for his contributions to this.
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Constructivist Approaches in International Relations Theory: Puzzles and Promises
By raising the question of what made constructivism possible the paper discusses the puzzle and promises of constructivist scholarschip in IR. It is argued that the communicative style which coined constructivism as a movement provides the key. Two puzzles are the focus, first, a lack of epistemological overlap, secondly, a disciplinary culture of consecutive debates which reached their high point of non-communication with the so-called Third Debate. However, while the constructivist movement gathered influence as a reference frame in the late 1990s, it is neither genuine to international relations theory nor does it originate in the 1990s. Why and how did constructivism manage to bring such a diverse group of scholars to one table? Section 2 of the paper develops the argument and introduces the concept of framing to understand the puzzle of conversation in IR. Section 3 recalls the emergence of constructivism, identifies the theoretical discussions and the significant conceptual moves. Section 4 summarizes the value-added and flags 'norms' research as the core of constructivist political science.
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Altho I'm learning my Surdiac as we speak (write?), someday I'ld like to up-grade to a "nicer" stove. My house is a turn of the century farmhouse, and my wife will tell you I've gotten a little too "anal" about keeping our house "period" correct. Not that it qualifies for better homes and garden mags, but if you have to do something, why not do it in a manner that will be beneficial "and' esthetically pleasing.(Which is a relevant term).
I've checked out google images and some of this sites gallery, but am still looking for ideas. I like the looks of some of the old Glenwoods, and saw a neat looking Buckwalters, and I'm sure there are dozens out there that would fit my desires and needs. My surround is built for a rectangular stove, with a rear exit pipe, but I could easily be talked in to a 360 degree stove, if the price and trimmings were right. what I'ld really prefer is an antique stove that will heat my 1500sq/ft home, burn for over a day or 2, look absolutely gorgeous, and cost about $100 bucks. ( Yeah...like that's gunna happen)
Being realistic tho, anyone know of a stove with an antique flair, (doesn't need to be), possibly rectangular with rear exit, that I could investigate? thanx


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Paul Einbund is the wine director of the Slanted Door restaurant group including Out the Door Bush Street and Westfield Centre as well as Heaven's Dog. He also runs the beverage program at Frances, and has worked at Coi and more. Look for him here every Tuesday. Follow him on Twitter @pauleinbund.
Was that a gunshot or someone opening a bottle of sparkling wine? Before the clock strikes midnight, there are a few things you should know about serving the bubbles.
1. Temperature matters
If the wine is too warm, it's going to explode all over everything. Fun, but you wont have much left to drink. If the wine is too cold, then you wont taste it. Sparkling wine should be served a little colder then most white wine - let's call it 55 degrees. A little colder is ok, but some people like to bury their bottle in ice until it's too cold to touch, which just aint right.
2. Open me!
Use a napkin when you open the bottle. I know you feel like a fancy waiter when you do that, but there is a reason for it. Actually, there are two reasons: The napkin will help you to grip the cork, still in it's cage, and also prevent the cork from flying anywhere – like into light bulbs. You'll want to loosen the cage around the cork. At this point I always expect the cork to fly out of the bottle, so if it does I'll be ready for it. How? By having the napkin over the cork. I leave the cage around the cork and use the napkin to grip them both. Then I slowly twist the bottle while holding the cork as steady as possible. You will be able to feel when the cork is coming out – though sometimes it just decides to fly outta there. Hold the bottle at a 70 degree angle so there is more surface area for the pressure to diffuse.
3. Make little sound
You don't want to hear the cork exploding, even if it does sound cool. Try to make as little sound as possible. The more noise when opening a bottle of bubbles, the less bubbles left inside. Plus you also run the risk of having more wine on the floor then in your glasses.
4. To flute or not to flute?
Whether it is nobler to use a tall, skinny glass is in one's perspective and desires. If it is true beauty thy doth seeketh, then the flute is for you. If you are looking to get as much flavor and aroma out of the bottle, I say use a white wine glass. My absolute favorite type of glass looks something like this, but you really don't need to spend a lot of money to get a good glass for the sparklers.
Of course, you could be 17 sheets to the wind by time you get to the bubbles, and all this will be gone from your mind – in which case you should ignore rules 1-4. But if you want to open a nice bottle before you get to 'that point' of the evening, remember my words and all shall be merry.
Happy New Year!
Drink well, eat well, have fun, and drive safe. Or better yet, take a cab!


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A quick post. What do you do with your over ripe plantains? Let me tell you the story of these plantains. I've been meaning, like with several other recipes, to make plantain fritters for AGES! I keep buying green plantains, waiting for that perfect moment for them to become slightly over ripe, and then? Well then I look at them, and trott right back to my sofa to catch another episode of Master Chef. Sigh! Well this time I was determined that these fritters were going to make a debut in my kitchen. So, here they are. Well over ripe and ready for fritteration. Now plantain fritters are commonly called 'mosa' in Nigeria. The recipes I found all converted the already over ripe and mush plantains into a batter for frying. However, I wanted to do something different with mine. So I replaced flour for breadcrumbs to give these a crunchy texture and a soft, sweet and spicy inside. Trust that at the time this post is going up they have all been consumed. Too bad my oga wasn't around to part take in this deliciousness.
So, got over ripe plantains in your kitchen? No need to fret. Something amazing can still be done with them.
This is quite the simple recipe. You basically peel the plantains, slice them into a bowl. Add in rest of of your ingredients – spices, chopped vegetables, bred crumbs and mash them all together. (Note; I did this so quickly that I forgot to take a shot for the blog!)
Section the mixture into small balls, roll into a bowl with egg whites and then roll each ball into a plate of breadcrumbs to coat.
Now you can bake these in the oven if you wish. I fried mine as my oven has been misbehaving lately. Before placing them in the pan or oven, flatten each ball of plantain mixture into a flat cake and then fry or bake. It's really simple and they come out totally awesome. Can be eaten alone or as an appetizer. Love these!
Another great way to eat these is to wrap each one in a lettuce leaf and dip into some sauce or salsa. I had some tomato stew left over in the fridge and made a meal out of these. Needless to say a nap was totally in order after consuming these.
3 over ripe plantains
1 small onion diced
1 habanero or 2 chilli peppers finely chopped
4 spring onions (optional)
2 eggs (egg whites only)
¼ cup ground cray fish
½ cup breadcrumbs
1 tsp salt
¼ cup oil for frying (I used extra virgin olive oil)
1 small bunch of lettuce leaves (for eating and garnishing)
- Wash and peel the plantains. Place in a large bowl and mash them with a fork
- Add in diced onions, spring onion (scallions), chopped habanero/chilli peppers, cray fish, salt, and ½ of the bread crumbs
- Mix the ingredients together until evenly distributed. If your plantains were super soft and the mixture still very sticky add in some more breadcrumbs to thicken it.
- Using your hands, form small balls of the mixture approximately 1.5 inches in diameter.
- Separate the whites of the 2 eggs and whisk lightly
- Take each ball of plantain mix, flatten it slightly with your hands, dip into the egg whites and then roll them on the plate of breadcrumbs until fully, but lightly coated
- Heat oil in large fry pan until very hot.
- Fry the cakes on both sides until golden brown, approximately 2 minutes each side. Transfer to a paper towel-lined plate to drain excess oil
- Serve while hot with a garnish (I used lettuce) and a dipping sauce (tomato stew or salsa will do the trick).


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Hormuz is the largest gateway to oil, controlling access to one fifth of the world's oil supply
When Christopher Columbus (1492) sailed across the Atlantic and Vasco da Gama (1497) sailed around Africa into the Indian Ocean, both explorers held multiple objectives. Beyond securing wealth for their Spanish and Portuguese patrons and converting inhabitants, the soldiers sought to make military alliances with the fabled Prester John and the Khan di Marco Polo, to attack Islam from the East. Weakening the Sacracenii was the primary goal of both explorers.
Few people remember that before World War II, the Poles feared the Russians more than the Germans. When the Nazis invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the Soviets attacked from the East sixteen days later.
With their Syrian (Italian) and Chinese (Japan) allies along with their satellite in Iraq (Austria), the Tehran government resembles a fascist state bent upon attacking the people of the Old Testament, with consequences for the believers in the New Testament.
Iran's leaders operate in an ideological matrix of apocalyptic fantasy.
"In light of the realization of the divine promise by almighty God, the Zionists and the Great Satan (America) will soon be defeated," Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian supreme leader, is warning.
Khamenei, speaking to hundreds of youths from more than 70 countries attending a world conference on the Arab Spring just days ago, told a cheering crowd in Tehran that "Allah's promises will be delivered and Islam will be victorious."
The countries represented included Bahrain, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, all of which have been involved in the Arab Spring.
In his remarks, Khamenei advised the youths to remain vigilant, stating that the Islamic awakening in the region has delivered several blows to the enemies of Islam and that all Muslims, despite their own historical and social differences, remain united in opposing the "evil hegemony of the Zionists and the Americans."
Khamenei then claimed the current century as the century of Islam and promised that human history is on the verge of a great event and that soon the world will realize the power of Allah.
Many clerics in Iran have stated that Khamenei is the deputy of the last Islamic messiah on earth and that obedience to him is necessary for the final glorification of Islam.
Khamenei has been heard to say that the coming of the last Islamic Messiah, the Shiites' 12th Imam Mahdi, is near and that specific actions need to be taken to protect the Islamic regime for upcoming events.
Mahdi, according to Shiite belief, will reappear at the time of Armageddon. Selected forces within the Revolutionary Guards [SS] and Basij [Brown Shirts] reportedly have been trained under a task force called "Soldiers of Imam Mahdi" and they will bear the responsibility of security and protecting the regime against uprisings. Many in the Guards and Basij have been told that the 12th Imam is on earth, facilitated the victory of Hezbollah over Israel in the 2006 war and soon will announce publicly his presence after the needed environment is created.
Even though Iran has been asking for it since 1979, when our embassy in Tehran was occupied and Americans were held hostage for 444 days, another war of choice to prevent their nuclear capability should be avoided.
WASHINGTON — American officials who have assessed the likely Iranian responses to any attack by Israel on its nuclear program believe that Iran would retaliate by launching missiles on Israel and terrorist-style attacks on United States civilian and military personnel overseas.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. military is doubling the number of minesweeping ships it keeps in the Persian Gulf, part of a buildup in the region amid tensions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.
The Navy's top officer said the U.S. would send four minesweeping ships along with additional mine-hunting helicopters to bolster U.S. defenses in the region.
An Israeli air strike that targets Iran's atomic infrastructure will drag US into the conflict. The Republican Guard and surface naval units will seek to block with mines the Straits of Hormuz, the vital choke point for the world's shipment of oil. Thirty miles across, the shipping channel is two miles wide, and by sowing mines, initially, the Iranians will be successful by utilizing asymmetric warfare. Minesweepers, frigates and other surface vessels will become the targets of missiles and RPGs fired from speed boats. Larger warships will be targeted by shore-to-ship missiles.
"Iran possesses a build up of anti-ship weapons called Sunburn missiles, which it has procured from Russia and China over the last decade. These are top-notch weapons developed by the Russians as a low-cost challenge to the expensive, tech-heavy weaponry of the U.S., and specifically the aircraft carrier task force."
"The Sunburn is perhaps the most lethal anti-ship missile in the world, designed to fly as low as 9 feet above ground/water at more than 1,500 miles per hour (mach 2+). The missile uses a violent pop-up maneuver for its terminal approach to throw off Phalanx and other U.S. anti-missile defense systems. Given their low cost, they're perfectly suited for close quarter naval conflict in the bathtub-like Persian Gulf."
Oil prices will spike to $200 or $300 per barrel, maybe more, and gas will become unaffordable for many Americans; the world economy could collapse.
In my opinion, there is a reasonable alternative to a possible catastrophic air strike. Western nations must present a united front against the Iranian theocrats, with or without China and Russia, and deliver a warning. Testing a nuclear device will be a declaration of war: launch on warning. Nuclear power produced for peaceful civilian purposes is agreeable but the leaders of Iran are neither agreeable nor reasonable, for their government is the chief sponsor of terrorism in the world. By rolling the dice, the Israeli hurricane of violence will unleash fitful winds of change. A world war may not ensue as in 1914 and 1939 but the world will be affected by the Bibi effect.
With technology, Mankind has defeated the enemies of plague and starvation.
With organization, Mankind can overcome drought and calamity.
Mankind has yet to defeat the last enemy, auto-ignorance.
The hour grows late, very late.
"As the IAEA has documented, Iran is putting all the pieces in place to have the option to develop nuclear weapons at some point. Were Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to decide tomorrow to go for a bomb, Iran probably has the technical capability to produce a testable nuclear device in about a year and a missile-capable device in several years. But as Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Arms Services Committee on Feb. 16, it does not appear that Khamenei has made this decision."
Lost to my memory, not Nostradamus nor Edgar Cacye, an account written by an unidentified prophetic visionary. In 1980, I read this visionary account that described an attack upon the city of hollow mountains. And the rescues that followed. I interpreted this as an atomic attack on NYC. The death and destruction inflicted upon NYC on 9/11 was equivalent to a tactical nuke.
This terrorist attack shocked but did not surprise me. Having read "Clash of Civilizations" in 2000, I learned that "they" hate us.
The previous month I approached Congressman Rob Portman, who attended my church, to discuss this subject with him.
Tip the server without mercy next time you dine out. It's in your self-interest. Likewise, it's in your self-interest to discern that the impossible is possible.
September 16, 2011
Iran's Nuclear Aims and Apocalyptic Prophecy
Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (ret)
…And there should be no doubt, based on the cultist beliefs of Iran's clerics and president, once Iran acquires a nuclear weapon, these men will not hesitate to use it in fulfillment of their self-proclaimed destiny to prepare for the 12th Imam's return.
Born in the ninth century, the 12th Imam disappeared at the age of five and supposedly exists in a state of occultation, destined to return to Earth in the future. He will establish a global caliphate, making all other religions submissive to Islam. The 12th Imam's return will occur only as the world is embroiled in chaos. But it is here the Iranian leadership's beliefs differ from the vast majority of Muslims. While most believe that world chaos must evolve naturally, Iran's leadership believes man can trigger it. No wonder, then, Tehran is fanatically committed to acquiring nuclear weapons.
Next year is shaping up as the year Ahmadinejad intends to create that chaos:
First, according to an expert on the subject, the belief is the 12th Imam will not return in an odd-numbered year.
Second, Ahmadinejad reportedly told other Middle East leaders the 12th Imam will return while he is still president. Ahmadinejad's second term in office ends in August 2013. As he is limited to serving two terms, Ahmadinejad would have 15 months–if the required chaos is to occur in an even-numbered year–to initiate the process. (Note: Ultimate authority in Iran lies with the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He stole the 2009 presidential election from the Iranian people by ruling Ahmadinejad had won what he had lost. That raises the possibility Khamenei could also decide next year that Ahmadinejad is eligible to run for a third term, thus targeting either 2014 or 2016 for the 12th Imam's return. However, since his reelection, Ahmadinejad–perhaps feeling he is personally ordained to usher in the 12th Imam–has tested Khamenei's patience through a lack of submissiveness to the supreme leader's decisions. Accordingly, he knows his days are numbered.)
Third, the Stuxnet computer virus that attacked Iran's nuclear facilities last year severely damaged its nuclear program, causing major delays. Absent an initiative to recover from this, Tehran will be hard-pressed to develop a nuclear weapon by the end of 2012. That initiative has now been launched as Iran has doubled its efforts to produce enriched weapons-grade uranium.
Fourth, Tehran is concerned the West recognizes it is heading down the "homestretch" in developing this capability and may finally realize it will never abandon the program, and will launch a strike against its nuclear facilities. For this reason, Iran has been moving essential parts of the production process deep underground.


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Acer Scores Hat-Trick of Timeline Notebooks
Acer recently presented three new additions to its laptop collection – this time under its TravelMate 8000 Timeline series. While not exactly the slimmest ones around, they certainly are ultraportable and boast of some fantastic battery life.
The three new notebooks are in 15.6in, 14.1in and 13.3in sizes and have been named the 8571, 8471 and 8371 respectively. While the 8571 weighs in at just over 2kg, the 8371 is a feather-light 1.6kg. The notebooks come with a choice of the Intel Core 2 Duo and Solo processors and 2GB or 4GB of DDR3 memory.
Whether you opt for a 2GB model or a 4GB model, your system will carry additional slots to allow you to increase the memory by an equal capacity, namely 2GB or 4GB respectively. Surprisingly though, Acer is not offering SSD storage option on any of the three models; the only storage available is in the form of a 250GB or a 320GB traditional HDD.
Perhaps the best feature of the TravelMate 8000 Timeline series is Intel's Laminar Wall Jet cooling technology. Originally developed for cooling jet engines, the Laminar Wall Jet system has louvers that suck in cold air and moves it around the inner surface of the notebooks' chassis. This same air also rolls over the processor, keeping the entire system beautifully cool.
Of course there is also the eight plus hours of battery life that is claimed by Acer for all three notebooks. This claim is aided by the LED backlit display, Intel's ULV processors and of course, Acer's own indigenous Acer PowerSmart Setting. This is a special button provided alongside the keyboard that smoothly synchronises all power saving features to boost battery life to the maximum.
As with most notebooks nowadays, the 8000 Timeline series models also come with 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, four USB ports, and a five-in-one memory card reader. One good addition is the biometric fingerprint reader, which makes the notebooks a safe choice for business users. An integrated webcam rounds up the specifications.
Pricing for the TravelMate 8000 Timeline models starts from £579 for the 250GB 13.3in model, with the 320GB 14.1in model coming across at £699, and the fully-loaded 320GB 15.6in model carrying a price tag of £709.
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Yet another Ruger Mk III disassembly issue
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figured out the issue
First off, I want to thank everyone for their responses to my dilemma. The solution proved to be something very simple. Evidently, the previous owner had been fiddling with the internal safety lock and hadn't fully disengaged it. The head of the lock pin (item #53 in the expolded view in the instruction manual) was prodruding just far enough to catch on the frame when the main spring housing was swiveled outward, but was threaded in far enough to allow the pistol to function. Once the lock pin was threaded in all of the way, the gun disassembled without any further issues.
I think here might be a good place to give a word of caution. The manual states when one is reassembling the weapon to insert the magazine, pull the trigger with the muzzle pointing downward, and allow the hammer to fall forward in the fired, or decocked, position prior to attempting to latch the main spring housing. However I noticed on my sample the hammer will not fall on its' own without assistance. I investigated into why not, finding the magazine disconnector spring (item #37 in the manual) puts a very slight axial load on the hammer. The resulting drag is very slight, but enough to prevent the hammer from falling by gravity alone. Be careful! I hope this information helps others who may encounter disassembly/reassembly issues.
Again, I want to thank everyone for their suggestions.
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