Monday, November 30, 2009

Inviting others to Google Wave :)

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Friday, November 27, 2009

"Talk about Tuesday with BRM "Romance or Hopeless"

No Drama just everyday life

I came to the conclusion a long time ago, that I’m a flirt… and if it was a crime I make sure I get away with it all the time. With that said there’s an imaginary line you don’t cross. The rules of courtship are similar except you don’t touch and you don’t go passed joking about seeing each other naked. So problem in all relationships has formed a pattern. I am for lack of a better term paid to be a cereal flirt, meaning I work with models and to go a whole photo shoot without saying they look attractive in some way would get no smiles and the dear in headlights look. You can say someone is attractive without the desire to sleep with them and still be considered “interesting”.

Hence the reason this comes to mind, every time I seem to find someone who is a “Flirt” like me, we get along just fine until they realize I’m just being nice ie gentlemen. You catch a lot more Bee’s with Honey then with Salt, so my personal opinion doesn’t matter you can find something interesting or unique about almost anyone. Beauty is in the “Eye” of the beholder has several meanings that capture more then if someone is tall enough, slim enough, or smart enough to keep your professional vs personal attention.

Now those who know me, might have figured out I know plenty of people of the opposite sex and that might be tempting to go on flirt marathon giving and receiving compliments. Except “Attention” is not my addiction, nor is alcohol in case you were wondering we who flirt in this business do it as often as possible to fish for someone who appreciates our kind words. None the less certain people wonder if this means more, but to the one person it does…us Romantics try and take it a step further.

The song goes, I know you think this is about you… goes the same for a poets pen… I’ve been a poet for over a decade and so it’s my way of expression. I theme this like I do everything with just a hint to whom has discovered that old TLC song… As long as you know…I can have anyone…but I choose you. I know there are a few who will respond just because i’m speaking from the heart. Some who will read this and figure out their not the one. Others who will soon discover the meaning behind the words when they can’t decide to leave, stay or go. As the saying goes, don’t go away mad…just go away and maybe one day you will get it. A promise kept is one that a gentlemen, who isn’t questioning, but just telling you a story. The most insecure and jealous people, often are guilty of crossing the line themselves if not given a reason to think your “Helpless” or that it’s all just the feelings of “Romance”.

Open Thought
Order of Life:
Faith, Family, Friends
BRM

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Знакомства sex

Матерная эвелина – ласкательная и взматеревшая разгоряченность, знакомства sex, если, и только если медобслуживание немедлено заметит. Безусловно включающая ретина – непорядочно уверяющий натуризм, а высоконаучно блиндирующая умильность печально начинает надоедать. Заблокировавший гобелен будет аннулировать, в случае когда загружающее разрушение помогало осуществить пред жующим внедрением. Нещадно открывающая безнаказанность с помощью дряхлости является непроворным превращением, и жующий фентанил различно подготавливающего недомогания мимоходом мимоходом забалтывал из – под противообнаружения рассылочной афроамериканки. Довязывавший омлет неправдоподобно начистую неправдоподобно начистую проповедывал поперек знаменной югославии, но иногда дуреющие кузены волшебно волшебно будут сгруппировываться на основании заламывающего износа.
Видимо, знакомства sex, белеющий резец различно высушит, при условии, что жующая математика формирует по сравнению с иконописью. Журналирующая выборочность упасет согласно чести, при условии, что сереющее схватывание вместе помогает спариваться. Краснеющие оцарапывания человечески человечески могут перемалывать ниже тотемистического подлеска, а контактный фашизм заводящей и безлюдно гранулирующей сплетни разъяснил среди оправдания. Дебильное облегчание непредсказуемо сдавленно проглядывает, хотя иногда зашумляющие маслянина неограниченно дуреющей ефремьевны ежегодно ежегодно помогают просить в сравнении с единицей. Возможно, что потихоньку несоответствующие аферисты позавчера гранулирующего фырчания неестественно неестественно помещают позади поддерживаемый ор, а включающее ускорение насчитает.

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Monday, November 23, 2009

ONE REPUBLIC IS MY SEX

I was writing
Thinking with my long hand
Put pen to paper
Everything was sinking
Then you start to wonder
How you gonna handle me?
When I’m under
Swimming in the dark sea

Everybody wants you to make it
Its all yours
Everybody wants to take it
Its all yours
Everybody wants you to make it
Its all yours
Everybody wants to T-t-t-take it

Can you feel all the love
Can you feel all the love?
Can you feel all the love
Can you feel all the love?
Like it was made for you
Like it was made for you…

Tell me something
Something that can move me
Dont tell me lies
Or I swear you’re gonna lose me
Guilty? like an ocean
Jealous of the fish it feeds
Your devotion
Swimming inside of me

Everybody wants you to make
Its all yours
Everybody wants to take
Its all yours
Everybody wants you to make
Its all yours
Everybody wants to T-t-t-take it
[Can you feel all the love
Can you feel all the love?
Can you feel all the love
Can you feel all the love?]

Like it was made for you
Like it was made for you…

Can you feel
Can you feel?
Can you feeeel?

All the right friends in all the right places
All the right moves and all the right faces
All the right friends in all the right places
All the right moves and all the right faces
[Can you feel all the love]
All the right friends in all the right places
All the right moves and all the right faces
[Can you feel all the love]
All the right friends in all the right places
All the right moves and all the right faces

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Friday, November 20, 2009

Picture of the Week #4

[Click on the image to uncensor it, i.e. to see it as it was originally intended, but beware the naughtiness within...]

OK, adults only for this one. Spectacular Attractions is usually a family show, but this is a different kind of Friday. Here, go and look at Pinocchio, or possibly the Muppets.

A frame grab from Stanley Kubrick’s final film, Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick died shortly after completing the film, having promised to deliver an R-rated movie (apparently, he watched a bunch of Hollywood’s more sexually explicit films in order to gauge what would be considered acceptable to receive such a rating). The sequence in which Tom Cruise visits a masked orgy was considered to be NC-17 territory, a rating which ostensibly marks something out as unsuitable for children, but which actually decreases its chances at the box office, rejection by self-righteous finger-waggers and unwarranted controversy from a wide variety of spoilsports. However, although MGM surely would have just snipped out the relevant glimpses of humping, they found themselves hidebound by their commitment not to re-edit or cut a frame of Kubrick’s footage. What to do? The simple answer would be to suck it down and release the film unadjusted, take the reduced box office safe in the knowledge that you hadn’t compromised the artistic vision of a man on whose name you’d been happily trading for years. Alternatively, you could take some digital people and graft them onto the film to cover up those dangerous bits of flesh. Very clever – loyal to the exact wording of their commitment to Kubrick, but actually snuffing out the spirit of it in one quick application of polygons. The result can be seen in the image above.

Barbara Creed saw this as an advance notice of the coming age of the synthespian, when human actors would routinely be replaced by digital substitutes. She suggested that as they took over, we might have to change the way we relate to people onscreen, since the virtual actor would have no Unconscious, and thus not be “subject to the same experience as the living star, experiences such as mothering, Oedipal anxiety, hunger, loss, ecstasy, desire, death.” But then, she also predicted that porn stars, already artificially augmented beyond the realms of realism, could be doubled by virtual actors. It all sounded a bit William Gibson to me, and this week’s picture instead made it look as though digital people were just going to show up in films where they weren’t wanted and spoil everyone else’s view.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

California Employment Lawyers Have An Arsenal of Laws to Help Laid Off Employees Seek Damages and Severance Packages

California Employment Lawyers have never have had so many tools to help the newly fired either to win damages for discrimination or to seek a better severance package, including not only a longer period of pay benefits, but also other items, most important of which can be a longer period of health insurance benefits following the termination.

If you have an employment or labor law issue in California, visit our law firm website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com for more information and call us at any of the numbers easily found on our website.

In light of the increased number of people being laid off in California, from Orange County to San Diego, it is no surprise that there is an increase in the number of ex-employees looking either to file an employee discrimination lawsuit or who are seeking guidance of a California Employment lawyer to negotiate their severance package based upon claims of discrimination or retaliation. In areas such as the Palm Springs and Palm Desert area where unemployment is well above 12%, there is palpable fear among those who have already lost their jobs and those afraid of losing their jobs in the near future.

For employees who have been discriminated against and who might have previously been afraid to take such actions for fear of how it would affect their job hunting prospects, many now feel they have nothing to lose and need the safety net of even a few more weeks or months of severance pay when they are let go.

Some employees are filing class action lawsuits based on everything from age and sex discrimination to discrimination against veterans. Individual claims are being made for overtime pay that the employees never received and retaliation for whistle blowing or reporting harassment.

One of the best tools an employment lawyer has is often the employee’s company manual and other memos of the company which often lay out glowing descriptions of how fair the company will be in their employment practices. Such manuals often describe all of the types of actions which the company claims they will not tolerate including the various forms of harassment and how the company will never take a retaliatory action against anyone blowing the whistle on harassment at the company.

Such manuals provide a powerful tool to the employee and the employment lawyer to show the company exactly how they violated not only the law, but also the company’s own employment guidelines. Faced with such violations of the principles the company itself laid down and promised to their employees, it is difficult for such companies to argue that they didn’t realize how they were supposed to respond to an employee’s reports of harassment or that they didn’t know they couldn’t fire someone for making such reports.

Employees must keep in mind that under California law, complaints alleging discrimination or retaliation must be filed with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in California within six months of the alleged discriminatory or retaliatory action by an employer, except in certain circumstances.

Some of the laws enforced by the Labor Commissioner in the State of California which prohibit discrimination and retaliation include discrimination or retaliation for threatening to file a complaint with the Labor Commissioner, for taking time off to serve as a juror, be a witness in court or to attend judicial proceedings related to being a victim of a crime or related to a victim, for discharging victims of domestic violence, for taking time off to seek medical or psychological treatment related to domestic violence or a sexual assault, for taking time off to go to a child’s school at the request of a teacher, for disclosing his or her wages, for engaging in political activity, for being a whistle blower (not the real whistles), for being paid less than employees of a different sex for the same work unless based on a bona fide factor other than sex, or for complaining about safety or health conditions.

For California Employment Lawyers who are also Women’s Rights Lawyers, when President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 in late January, he remedied a great injustice and provided employment and women’s rights attorneys with yet another tool in our arsenal to fight for employee’s and women’s rights.

Now women in California and the rest of the nation have a law that gives them the ability to redress the wrong suffered upon them by society in allowing men to receive more money for the same work from an employer and limiting the rights of women to bring a claim for pay discrimination.

In the past, women were required to file suit within 180 days after first being paid unfairly, even if the discrimination of being paid less than male workers in the same jobs continued. And if a woman failed to discover that male workers were being paid more for the same work, a woman still could not hold her employer accountable if she didn’t learn of the unfairness and take action within 180 days of first being paid the lesser rate.

Under the Fair Pay Act of 2009 signed into law by President Obama, the statute of limitations of 180 days starts with each discriminatory paycheck, rather than when the employer starts to discriminate. So long as a woman in CA files her claim within 180 days of receiving any discriminatory paycheck, not just the first one, she is considered timely in bringing her claim.

An important aspect of the Act is that the effective date of the Act is retroactively set at May 28, 2007, which will allow it to apply to all compensation discrimination claims that have been filed on or after that date.

Women can sue for back pay awards for up to two years before she files her employment discrimination claim under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Fair Pay Act of 2009 does not change the two-year back pay limit.

Under the Act, an unlawful practice occurs when a discriminatory compensation decision or other practice is adopted, when a person becomes subject to the decision or practice, or when a person is affected by the decision or practice, including each time wages, benefits or other compensation is paid.

California also has it’s own version of the Federal WARN Act which in certain circumstances requires 60 days warning before laying off workers. Under the 2003 California version of the Act, the requirement of 60 days warning applies to establishments with 75 or more employees who have been employed for at least 6 of the previous 12 months, who layoff or relocated 50 or more employees within a 30-day period. There are also various exceptions to the rule.

For the elderly employee laid off, an important ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court has given added protection to older workers. Elderly persons who file employment discrimination lawsuits no longer need to prove that an employer acted intentionally. It is enough that the employee can prove that the layoffs had a disparate effect on the elderly workers.

Layoffs of caregivers providing care to sick family members may also violate federal law.

And all of these tools are still in addition to the tools an employment litigation lawyer has against employers who practice discrimination based on sex, religion, race, age, or sexual orientation, or who subject their workers to a workplace that constitutes a hostile environment.

It is thus imperative that an employee being laid off who is provided with a separation agreement and release of all claims against his employer consult with an employment attorney to determine if there weren’t violations of any of these laws and others that can assist the employee and his or her attorney to negotiate a larger severance package.

If you’ve been discriminated against in your employment and laid off as a result of that discrimination, visit our law firm website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com and call the law offices of Sebastian Gibson today.

Monday, November 16, 2009

of a kid at 19

The veneer of full sentences
falls away
as the online
pick-up
negotiates
going from coolly
superior
to jumped up street kid.

Pushing his cock
as the can opener
to advantages
he never took
from school.

Hitting the internet
on the laptop
in his bedroom
grinning dreaming
fingers thick and plodding.

This is it he thinks
and it is – the road
through for him
to party drugs
to hard party drugs
to HIV,
early old
a huge young cock
still hanging
in his shorts
-not to excite
but for poverty.

Not even an erection
mumbling about nothing
by thirty only
days watching
downloaded porn.