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tagNovels and NovellasMy Daughter's Feet Ch. 04

My Daughter's Feet Ch. 04

Over the next couple months, Kayla and I met for coffee almost every off day I had except for weekends. My wife Corinne dubbed this time 'the dad/daughter coffee hour.' During our talks together we talked more openly about sex, teasing each other. Kayla and I never repeated our one-time deal we made, but some days she made it blatantly clear she wanted to do it again, and more this time around. Some days it was me, but I was careful not to show it because I knew I she would jump at the opportunity. She would take off her shoes when she sat down and would give me a little show of flexing her feet and pointing her toes, usually if she wore flats. If she wore heels it would be a seductive heel tease tracing the heel of her shoe along the inside of my thigh. I would stop her when she got too close to my package.

Somedays she would tease me by asking if I wanted to smell her feet; "Wanna smell my feet dad?" or touch her feet; "Wanna take my shoes off for me and play with my feet dad? These nylons are really smooth." or offer sex; "Can I interest you in a footjob dad? Want a handjob while you smell my feet dad? Need a blowjob dad? Can I ride your cock until you cum in me today dad?" When she wore flip-flops it would be; "do my bare feet in these flip-flops look sexy enough for you to jerk off and cum on dad?" Each time I would turn her down, and she would give me a pouty face, stick her tongue out at me and respond with, "You don't love me anymore, do you dad." The tease would only last for a few minutes, usually until I turned down her various offer of the day. Her shoes would then remain discarded on the floor, and our normal conversation would start while she would be smiling at me as I checked out her bare feet or selection of nylons for the day. "You're so cute when you try not to look at my feet dad." She would giggle.

She would always cross her legs as we talked, usually left over right since she would be sitting on my left, and I would allow her to rub my shin and calf with her foot while we talked. If I was wearing pants, she would lift my pant leg with her foot and just place it against my shin. I think we both mutually agreed without actually saying so, her foot rubbing against my leg was an appropriate showing of affection between the two of us. I no longer got a peck on the cheek when she left; instead we kissed on the lips. When she would be in a frisky mood, the kiss would last a little longer than a normal dad/daughter kiss and she would slip me her tongue.

The teasing wasn't all one way though. I got my shots in on her that would make her blush, or get her wound up just to leave her hanging. On some days when I would be working Kayla would send picture messages of her feet to me on my cell phone with a caption of "coffee tomorrow?" Or of her seductively blowing me a kiss with the caption of "Miss you daddy. Stay safe." I usually just deleted them without answering. The funniest one was a picture of her bare feet in white flip-flops that had a solid five inch heel. Her caption was:"Do these flip-flops make my feet look big?" I chuckled as I texted her back with: "Oh my gosh Kayla, your feet are so sexy in those, I would love to jack off and cum all over your feet while you're wearing those." The next day she practically ran through the kitchen door with the aforementioned flip-flops on her feet. I roared in laughter. The look on her face was priceless; and she started to blush when she realized I was only teasing her. "You mean you were just punking me dad?" she whined.

Kayla discovered I didn't like black nylons when one day she wore them and I didn't realize I wasn't paying any attention to her feet. Unconsciously, I even moved my leg away from her. Halfway through our coffee hour, she reached up underneath her pant leg and took it off. "There! Happy now?" she tossed the knee high stocking on the table. Startled, I just looked at her dumbfounded. "Don't give me that look dad." She scolded me. "You haven't looked at my feet at all today, and haven't let me rub your leg. Move your leg over so I can rub it." Instinctively I did, and immediately her bare foot started rubbing along the normal path against my shin and calf. "Ugh. You're such a brat dad." Our conversation picked up where it was before her outburst, like nothing happened. Before she left that day, I took her bare foot and kissed it sensuously, before putting her nylon back on it. Then I took both her feet, put them up to my nose and audibly inhaled her foot odor mixed with her lotion. Her head lying against the back of the chair, her gorgeous green eyes looking at me accenting her daddy smile as she cooed; "You do still love me, don't you dad."

Corinne took a week of vacation during the week Kayla turned 21. The day before her birthday, Kayla called to make sure I was home for our coffee hour. I informed her Corinne would be joining us. I could actually hear the disappointment in her voice when she told me she would be there in about 30 minutes. Since it normally took her ten to drive from her apartment to the house I stupidly asked her where she was.

"Gosh dad, you can be such a dork sometimes." She said. "I'm going to have to go back home and change now. I got a pedicure and had my toenails painted silver. I'm dressed up to be your perfect little slut today dad. I'm wearing the gray sheer thigh high nylons I know you like with a garter belt. I was going to tease you mercilessly with my nylon feet until you agreed to finally give me your cock to fuck as a birthday present." I was dumbfounded again. After a few seconds of silence: "Dad? ...You still there?"

"I'm still here." I chuckled. "I get it, paybacks right?" Corinne walked into the kitchen and heard the last part of the conversation.

"Paybacks for what dear?" Corinne asked. I just pointed to the phone against my head, mouthed Kayla, and she put her hand up. "Sorry, didn't mean to interrupt."

"Not paybacks dad." Kayla said into my ear. "I have been so horny lately, my pussy is constantly wet. I've been masturbating a lot thinking of your cock. I was going to pounce on you the second I walked through the door. I need your hot cum on my feet and want to make your cock cum inside me. Now I can't! You have to send her to the store or something. I can ride your cock fast and hard and make us both cum in less than a minute! I want my daddy time!"

"Well okay then, I guess we'll see you when you get here. Your mom is already brewing the coffee."

"Ugh. You're impossible dad." And she hung up on me.

"Okay, see you soon. Love you." I said into the dead phone before hanging it up.

"I'm surprised she didn't tell you to get rid of me so she could have her daddy time with coffee." Corinne griped. How could I have almost identical demeanor women? Like mother like daughter?

"Not funny Cory." I snipped at her.

"Oh come on Brady. You're gonna stand there and tell me she doesn't look forward to the dad/daughter coffee hour? Anybody who knows her knows she is daddy's girl. You're the most important man in her life. Especially now since she kicked Matt out or whatever happened there. I'm sure you know more about it than I ever will. Would it actually kill you to show a little more affection to Trina?"

Corinne used the Brady card. She pulled that out at whim nowadays. My real name was Brady, given to me at birth, but the only person who called me by my real name was my mother. Everybody else called me Brad. My dad, in his infinite feisty wisdom, started calling me Brad when I learned how to talk. He was afraid I would get my ass kicked in school if anybody knew my real name. When I was getting my ass kicked in school he told me to buck up, and at least I wasn't getting my ass kicked for my name.

I gave Corrine a slight smirk. "Jealous?"

"Me? Jealous of my daughter? Absolutely not." She poured herself a cup of coffee. "Well, maybe a little. Especially when Trina asks 'mom, how come dad and I don't do neat things together like Kayla and him do.' Makes me wish I had the close relationship with Kayla you two share."

"Hate the game Cory, not the player." I chuckle sang at her. "No room for jealousy here. And exactly when has Trina wanted to do anything with me? She hasn't called me dad since her grandpa died." I ended a little irately

What Corinne said about Kayla is true. Everyone who knows Kayla knows she is daddy's girl. She has been since she was about three when she would wrap herself around my leg or crawl up on me when she was scared or whenever anybody strange tried to come near her. Sometimes, she even wouldn't let Corinne get near her. Although I'm sure Kayla and her are closer than what she is letting on. I'm positive they have had the sex talk and maybe shared some secrets. After all, they both seemed to have the same freaky sex gene in them, and both could be very bullheaded to each other. More than once, I've had to break up their little yelling catfights.

My dad however was an old feisty coot, nobody liked. Except my mom I guess, and my daughter Katrina absolutely adored him. The sun rose and set on my dad in her eyes. My dad would yell at Kayla, or scare her, and Kayla was deathly afraid of him. Katrina was renamed Trina by my dad and was grandpa's Pooky Precious since the moment she was born. When she started talking, Katrina demanded everyone call her Trina. "My name is Trina" she would cutely say. "My Bapa named me and I'm his Pooky Precious." Then she would scowl and point her finger at you, "You can't call me that though. Only Bapa can." Corinne, to my dad, was 'the crack whore who can fuck, but never remembers who she fucked.' Kayla was the 'the fraidy cat crying little bitch that came out of the crack whore.' Ken, my son, dad was convinced will be 'sucking cocks for crack, just like the crack whore.' But Katrina, she was always Pooky Precious. 'The most beautiful thing I have ever seen and God created.' My dad would say. Yep. You guessed it. Christmas was always interesting in our family.

My dad had a lot of medical problems the last year of his life, but he wouldn't take any of my advice or see a doctor. He died in his recliner after telling my mom he was going to rest his eyes for a little while when they were watching television. The next morning, my mother called: "Brady, your father is being stubborn and won't wake up for breakfast." I rushed over there fearing the worst. When I got there, dad died long before mom tried to wake him. I didn't even attempt CPR. Trina was devastated and cried non-stop for days. When I tried to explain to her there was nothing I could do, she called me a murderer for not saving her beloved Bapa.

"She's going to be seventeen and is much more mature now, and you haven't noticed. I don't think she blames you anymore; at least not as much as she used to." Corinne said.

I just gave her a stern look. "Well, if she can talk to me as if I was her dad, and not an alien in this house, maybe I would know when she started growing up. She shouldn't have blamed me in the first place."

"Whatever." She took her coffee to the kitchen table. "Which chair does Kayla sit in? I wouldn't want to piss her off by sitting in her chair." I just rolled my eyes at her. Corinne actually did sit down in Kayla's chair. I began to mentally prepare myself for the ensuing catfight I was sure might happen when Kayla gets here. I couldn't help but smile and laugh to myself. She caught me.

"What the hell are you smirking at?" she asked.

"Well, you are sitting in the chair she usually does." I paused for effect. "Just sayin'."

"Well for one day she can suck it up and sit somewhere else." She scowled.

"I'm just saying. And if the two of you can't play nice while we all have coffee together, you both will hear the lion roar." I chuckled while pouring my coffee.

"Ugh. Some days you're impossible Brad. I should have filed divorce papers a long time ago and escaped to Mexico with Don Quixote." As she crossed her legs in a symbol that said she wasn't moving.

I made my way to the kitchen table with my coffee and sat down. "Shoulda, coulda, woulda babe. Instead you're stuck here with me." I leaned into her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "-And possibly a crabby daughter who will be here in...3 minutes. I gave you fair warning." Corinne turned her head toward me; we affectionately put our foreheads together and kissed. Another kiss, and another kiss for good measure.

"Donny can't satisfy me like you do." She giggled and kissed me again. "I would've escaped with him a long time ago otherwise." She kissed me again and we laughed. "He doesn't have enough money to finance the extravagant lifestyle I would lead, and your dick is way bigger." Kissed me and giggled. "I Love you Brad. Forever." Kiss again, with a little tongue.

"Love you Cory." We kissed again as I squeezed her silver ballet slippered foot and ran my hand along her gorgeous bare leg from her ankle bracelet to the outside of her thigh and back down again.

"Sheesh...get a room you lovebirds. I think I'm going to throw up." We both turned to see Kayla standing at the coffee pot pouring her cup of coffee. She waved a hand in front of her face, and joked. "Yep, I just did in my mouth a little. Eww." She giggled.

Corinne just laughed at her daughter. "Well listen to you. Kissing is gross to you now since you don't have a boyfriend?"

Kayla picked up her cup of coffee and walked to the table sitting on my right. "Morning daddy." She sang, giving me a kiss on the forehead as she passed by me. "I didn't say kissing is gross mom. I was referring to almost walking in on you guys doing it right here on the table. That's gross. No child wants to see their parents doing that." She laughed. "And what's with you dad? You're looking at me like I have two heads or something this morning."

I had to slap myself to wake up. Kayla showed up in a brown tank top with a white button down blouse. Today, there were no highlights in her blonde hair, and nothing holding it up. Her hair was down. I can't remember the last time I seen that. She was also wearing khaki colored Capri pants, with white socks rolled over her ankles and white Nike tennis shoes. Well, she had to wear socks and shoes sometimes right? I mean she did work in a hospital, and went to school for her LPN. She couldn't wear flats, heels or flip-flops all the time, right? I was used to seeing her feet every day we had coffee together, whether bare or in nylons and feeling her feet rub my leg, that it was a shock to see her wearing socks and shoes. I wasn't going to get to see her feet today, and I wasn't going to get a flex and point show, or a- "want a handjob while you smell my feet dad?" today. Corinne was here, and Kayla knew her role. Today, she was just my daughter. Not my teasing little minx. She couldn't play the role of my perfect little slut today.

"Nothing wrong. I just haven't seen your hair au natural in a long time. I am always in awe when I'm graced by your presence Kayla. You know that." I chuckled and winked at her.

"You're such dork sometimes dad." She giggled and gave me her precious daddy smile. At least I got one of those today.

Kayla and Corinne got caught up with each other while I just sat and listened. From talking like a horny slut to me, to being the prim and proper daughter in front of her mom, she amazed me. Kayla took out her cell phone and texted somebody while having her conversation. After she hung up her phone, mine buzzed on my hip. I ignored it since I knew it had to be from Kayla. When Corinne got up for another cup of coffee, I glanced at Kayla out of the corner of my eye. My intention was to yell at her with my eyes for sending me a text message. Instead, Kayla gave me her bedroom eyes, and crossed her leg toward me. Instinctively I glanced down to look at her foot bouncing in her Nikes'. I wanted to see her feet. I needed to see her feet. She just had a pedicure and her toenails were painted silver. At least that is what she said. She denied me my right to see her feet today. I mean, it is my right to see my daughter's feet, isn't it? She told me so months ago. I could see them and touch them whenever I wanted. She said I could. I wanted to see them and touch them right now! It has been at least two weeks since Corinne has offered me her feet to smell and given me a footjob. It wouldn't have taken too much teasing from Kayla today to get what she wanted for her birthday; especially if she was wearing those gray nylons. Those and the pink nylons she wore made her feet look so sexy, I always got hard and remained hard the entire time she would be rubbing my leg. I always wanted to cum on her feet when she was wearing those. Kayla wanted to give me a footjob; Corinne has given me thousands over the course of twenty years. I was sitting between two beautiful women who both knew they had sexy feet and how to use them. Corinne's feet were dainty with a high arch which added to their sexiness. Soft at the toes, a little rough on her heels, Corinne's feet had a slightly pungent odor and salty taste which drove me wild. Kayla's feet were just as dainty as her moms, not as high of an arch, soft all over, and had a sweet/sour aroma mixed with her lotion smell and hardly any taste.

Kayla lightly kicked my leg with the toe of her shoe, which made me look at her. She stuck her tongue out at me and motioned with her eyes toward her mother who was walking back to the table with her fresh cup of coffee talking about something I had no idea about.

"And just why are you sticking your tongue out at your father?" Corinne asked.

"Daddy is giving me the stink eye for some reason." Kayla laughed. Kayla began texting on her phone again, and again when she put it down, mine vibrated.

"He was not."

"You didn't see it, you don't know."

"Ladies please." I interjected. "I did because she kicked me under the table. No big deal."

Corinne and I decided we were going to give Kayla her birthday present early since my shift was tomorrow. Kayla still has her first car she bought with her own money when she was 17; an older Volkswagen Jetta. The car was starting to nickel and dime her to death. Saturday afternoon on her way to work, it died on her. She called me practically in tears because she was going to be late. I took her my beater car and she has been driving that since. My beater car was a 1976 Ford Granada I bought with my first paycheck in 1977. I got a great deal because it was still sitting new, untouched on the car lot. I handed over my check to my friend who was a car salesman, and he gave me the car. When I got to her on Saturday, her car started, but sounded like it was on its last mile. I tried to think of ways to convince Corinne we should buy her a newer car. When I brought it up, she agreed immediately saying the Jetta was giving her so many problems. Corinne decided we should use some of the equity in our house to buy Kayla a brand new car. On Monday morning when I got off work, I took Kayla's car to the junkyard and got back my fifty bucks for her belly button piercing. Corinne and I went to the bank, got the money, then to my friend who now owns the dealership, and bought Kayla a brand new Dodge Neon. The car was sitting in the garage, unbeknownst to Kayla.

There was a lull in the conversation, when Kayla let out a little sigh. "So now what could be the matter with you?"Corinne asked.

"Nothing." Kayla moped. "Well, my car is still in the shop apparently. I didn't see it out front when I pulled up. I have some bills I have to pay this week, and now a car bill too. I need a job where I make more money. Are you guys planning on giving me money for my birthday?" she grinned.

"What makes you think I have money to just give to you?" I smirked at her

"Cuz you're my dad, and daddy's are supposed to always give their little girls money." Kayla grinned before putting her head down on the table. "What a birthday. Dad has to work, and I don't have a car."

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tagLoving WivesNick Watches Di Ch. 07

Nick Watches Di Ch. 07

Chapter 7

One evening Di rushed home from work with exciting news.

“Nick, guess what! Al Black is finally going to marry that gorgeous secretary of his.”

Al Black was one of the VP s at Di’s firm. He’d been carrying on an affair with Lisa, his secretary, for several years. The affair had even caused Al’s divorce. Lisa was so beautiful and such a hot fuck that Al was willing to give up his wife for her and pay the monetary consequences.

And she knew how to keep his interest. She never wore underwear and was constantly flashing her pussy at him and rubbing up on him when no one was around. And for “the good of the company” she’d often do the same to clients, making Al jealous and hot at the same time. Needless to say there wasn’t much, sexually that they hadn’t tried.

“She’s coming over for dinner on Friday to discuss the wedding” Di said. “What shall we have, Darling?”

“Gosh,” Nick said, “maybe I should go out for the evening while you discuss all that girl stuff.”

“No, you can’t” Di said. “You’re going to be involved in the wedding in a special way, if you agree.”

“What do you mean, Di?” Nick asked, and wondered to himself how many times Al had been flashed by his wife’s perfect pussy. The thought brought a slight twinge of jealousy that stiffened his dick.

“You’ll just have to wait, Nicky. Lisa will explain it to you on Friday.”

Friday arrived and Di prepared a healthy pasta dinner for the three of them. Nick brought home a nice wine to accompany dinner. He had been curious all week about what his role was to be in Al’s and Lisa’s wedding. He also found himself daydreaming about Lisa. Thoughts of her sweet pussy ran through his mind. He thought of her lush lips wrapped around his cock. He thought about the unfairness that Al had undoubtedly seen his wife’s pussy (and undoubtedly would again knowing the atmosphere they worked in). But he would likely never see Lisa’s. It troubled his thoughts. Ah, well, whoever said life was fair.

Lisa arrived looking like, Wow! Tight designer jeans, high heeled pumps, a semi-translucent blouse, nearly all unbuttoned, that almost revealed her bra-less breasts, large hoop earrings, flawless makeup. That Al’s a lucky guy thought Nick. He thought wistfully of last years Christmas party.

The dinner conversation was sexually titillating with jokes and double entendres. Nick was sure that Lisa was openly flirting with him. When she laughed at a joke she often leaned his way, hand squeezing his thigh, blouse gaping open concealing nothing. And it didn’t seem to bother Di in the least.

“At least I’ve seen her tits, even if I never see anything else,” thought Nick.

Finally, over after dinner drinks, Lisa brought up the subject of the impending wedding.

“Nick, this is going to be kind of hard to explain, but Al and I would like to ask a favor of you in regard to the wedding” Lisa said.

“It’s like this; Al and I have tried every possible sexual thing we could think of to do in the time we’ve been going together. He’s always groping me at the office whenever he can. He won’t let me wear panties and if he feels my pussy and I’m not wet he proceeds to rub and finger me until I am. He can’t seem to stand it if I’m not wet and ready. And by the way, Di, I know when you’ve shown him that little pussy of yours, too. Every time it happens he comes dragging me into his office to fuck me or to make me suck him off.”

“Oh, I, um, ah....” Di stammered her face flushing in embarrassment.

“It’s ok, Honey” said Lisa, “I get some of my best fucks when you do that. And I know exactly what your pussy looks like; he describes it, how wet it is, how it kind of hangs open, all puffy, like it really needs it. Oh, baby, it gives me some of my best orgasms.”

“Please, Lisa, you don’t know what an affect this conversation is having on me” interjected Nick.

“Oh, yes I do Nicky. I’ve got my hand right on it and I’m impressed.”

Nick glanced at Di, worrying about the affect all this was having on her.

“She better not be mad at me after the way they carry on at the office” he thought.

Di was suppressing a giggle. And if Lisa squeezed him one more time, he thought, he was going to cum in his pants and really be embarrassed.

“Now that I’ve got you into the proper mood, I’ll present my request” said Lisa. “I told Di that in order to make our wedding night special, something we’ll always remember, we have to do something unusual. Di suggested that it would really be unusual if I fucked the best man first, before I fucked the groom. The idea got me instantly wet. I told her indeed that would be exciting if I got to pick the best man. She told me I could pick you, Nicky, if I wanted to. She said you needed a new experience to turn you on and talk about while you guys fucked. I’ve fantasized about you ever since we groped each other at last years Christmas party and I felt the size of “Di’s Delight.” Well, the other night while Al was hotter then hell and fucking me, I proposed the idea to him. He came harder then I’ve ever seen him cum. He agreed and here I am. And I know I’ve made the right choice judging from the size of what I’ve got in my hand.”

“Gosh, you mean, I mean, you want, ah, me to, ah....”

Nick was flustered and confused. Could it be true? He might, after all, touch, stroke, finger, even lick, that cunt he had despaired of ever even seeing? And to think, Di had proposed it. He glanced her way. She was smiling and nodding her head. “Man, how I love that gal” he thought.

“And, of course, Di will be my maid of honor” said Lisa.

“Aha!” thought Nick to himself “Let me guess what Di will be doing while I’m doing Lisa.”

. . . .

The wedding was in Las Vegas, just the bride and groom and their witnesses, Nick and Di. It was held in a wedding chapel that catered to “unusual” weddings. These weddings were usually between couples who had been married before. The couples were usually a bit jaded and knew the chapel by its reputation for sexual ambiance and unusual weddings. Weddings from nude to pagan, had taken place here. The director’s wife, even though she was in her forties, was very sensuous and sexy. She had often served as a naked alter for some of the pagan wedding ceremonies. At one so called “Satanist” wedding her husband had even had to dress up as the devil and fuck the new bride on the alter to consummate the marriage. It was kinky but fun and the pay was good but the orgasms were even better.

Although not naked at this wedding, the director’s wife was dressed to exude maximum sexuality in a clinging long, shimmering gown slit to the waist, revealing black nylons, white thigh and black garter belt. When she moved just right you could catch sight of a well-trimmed pussy, as she wore no panties. Her braless tits also swayed languidly as she moved, and displayed swollen nipples beneath the thin material. The atmosphere of these sexy weddings always aroused her and kept her nipples rock hard. According to the director, compared to some of the weddings he had performed, Al’s and Lisa’s was quite tame. Nick wondered what these weddings had been like.
Lisa wore white silk elbow length gloves, a white Vail, white patent leather, six-inch ankle strap sandals with two-inch platforms, sheer white stockings and a garter belt. The reason you knew she had on a garter belt was because the dress she had on was of white lace on a totally transparent background. You could plainly see the garter belt through the sheer dress that was, by the way, just long enough to cover the tops of her stockings when she was standing. The dress was so tight it had to be slit up one side so that all of one thigh was exposed when she walked. You could tell that she had on no panties and no bra because her pussy hair, that that wasn’t shaved, was visible, as were her nipples, and indeed, nearly all of her breasts.

“Al, you lucky bastard” thought Nick.

Di was dressed exactly the same as Lisa except she was entirely in black. “Nick, you lucky bastard”, thought Al.

“These lucky bastards” thought the director.

The men were dressed in black dinner jackets with red cummerbunds and white silk pants that were almost like pajama pants. Since the women were so exposed they insisted that the men could wear no underwear. With no underwear to hold them in check, the men’s appreciation for each other’s woman was clearly apparent.

“You lucky bitches” thought the director’s wife, who played the music while her pussy swelled open and got wet.

When the ceremony was over everyone, including the director, his wife, and Di, wetly kissed the bride with considerable groping. The party retired to the back of a waiting limousine that was to deliver them to their suite on the “Strip”. Nick, walking behind the bride, watched her tight ass swaying from the effect of her six-inch heels and long legs, and thought of that bare pussy under that revealing dress. His hard-on grew. Then he thought of his own wife’s pussy that was just as bare under her revealing dress. His hard-on grew more and could not be hidden by the silk pants that rubbed him exquisitely. Before the night was over he would fuck them both, he thought. A spot of pre-cum began to stain his silk pants.

In the limo, the groom immediately embraced the bride, kissing her passionately and caressing her now wet cunt. He then pushed her to Nick who proceeded to do the same. After a few minutes of this, to the surprise of the men, Di pushed Nick aside and proceeded to do the same to Lisa herself.

“Why should you men be the only ones that get to kiss the bride?” said Di.

“Amen” said Lisa.

“Holy shit” thought the driver who was watching the proceedings through
the rear view mirror.

This would be one of the best scenes he’d ever catch on the hidden video camera he had concealed in the back of the limo to secretly record the carryings on of the newly weds he frequently carried to honeymoon suites.

“I’d give a hundred bucks to have a camera in their hotel room tonight” he thought.

The two men sat back in the limo and watched as Di aggressively kissed and groped Lisa. Lisa moaned with passion as Di rubbed and flicked her clit and probed her slit with silk-gloved fingers.

The silk gloves had an extremely erotic affect on Lisa’s rock hard clit and swollen pussy. She couldn’t hold back. She came.

“It’s going to take a lot of sex to fully consummate this marriage tonight,” said Di.

“I hope the boys are up to it” Lisa said to Di. “If not, you’re going to have eat me out and fuck me all night with a strap-on dildo.”

“That makes me want them to fail” laughed Di.

It was with the greatest of effort that the two men restrained themselves. Their hard cocks rubbing on the cool, smooth, silk pants was almost too much for them.

The driver was so glad that the back of the limo was always lighted. It was fortunate that traffic was light and he didn’t run into someone as he cranked on his swollen dick and came all over his floor mats while trying to watch the back seat and the road at the same time. He thought of how hot the video was going to make his wife when he showed it to her tonight.

Meanwhile, back at the chapel, the director had his wife lying on the altar. His pants were around his knees and his wife’s nylon clad legs circled his waist. As he poured his cock to her, he had fantasies of two of the sexiest women he had ever seen in an orgy with the two men. His wife had visions of silk pajama pants protruding to an extent that put her husband to shame.

“You’d fuck both those guys at the same time, wouldn’t you, you slut?”
“Ooo, yeah” she sighed.

She came, imagining herself “sandwiched” by those two hunks, a large cock impaling each of her lower orifices at the same time. She whispered this fantasy in her husband’s ear.

“Just think of those two cocks in me at the same time. I’d even suck yours while you watched.” He came with images of those two cocks working her pussy and ass while she sucked his cock.

“Who ever imagined being a ‘man of the cloth’ could be so exciting,” he thought to himself.

“I’m so glad I talked him into quitting that straight laced wedding chapel and starting this kinky one. I was always scared he was going to catch me fucking one of those guys I used to do behind his back. Now he begs me to tell him all about it while he fucks me”, she thought to herself.

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Groom givers his special bride a very erotic and kinky wedding gift
After a very small and private wedding, my groom, Ben, and I passionately made out in the back of the limousine. My short white wedding gown was bunched up around my waist, exposing my white silk panties. My hands roamed the front of my new husband’s pants and made short work of pulling out his hard 8-inch cock.

As I wrapped my fingers around Ben’s shaft I felt his fingers slip under the side of my panties. I cooed as my hot husband pushed my panties to the side, letting my 7 inch cock free. We kissed deeper as his hand encircled my smooth girly cock as I slowly pumped his hard shaft. Of course, my kinky new husband didn’t raise the privacy glass so our driver’s eyes scanned our sexual fondling every few seconds, sharing his attention with the road ahead.

I locked eyes with our chauffeur as my husband kissed and sucked my neck. He could clearly see I had a hard throbbing cock as my kinky husband slowly stroked me as he kissed down my neck. The limo made a slight swerve and I knew we had his attention. My hand took to the back of Ben’s head and I pushed his kissing mouth lower and lover until his lips were kissing my glistening cock head. I looked forward to the rear view mirror with my mouth half open. The feeling of Ben’s mouth gliding down my girly shaft made me let out a soft moan. I pulled down the tight corset like top of my wedding dress, exposing my firm perky A cup titties and I began rubbing them still looking forward to the driver.

My attention to the driver’s eyes faded as Ben’s finger slipped back into my boi pussy and he sucked me faster. I began moaning louder and tensing my body as my orgasm built. Ben’s fingers fondled my smooth balls as his tongue circled my swollen cock head. He pushed me past the point of no return as he finger probed me deeper. I whimpered and grunted as my girly cream rushed into my husband’s mouth. I heard Ben moan around my hard shaft as he swallowed each squirt of cum.

Ben’s pants were around his ankles and his throbbing cock swung from side to side as he turned me and put me on all fours in the back of that limo. My wedding dress was pushed up to my lower back exposing my milky white ass cheeks and my smooth hungry boi pussy. I cooed as my husband licked my spread ass, lubing my hole. I was grateful my maid of honor bathed me and cleansed my ass.

My head rose up and my back arched as I felt my husband’s cock head kisses my smooth hole. His shaft slowly sank in between my round ass cheeks. We both softly moaned as my boi pussy began to squeeze his invading cock. I whimpered “I love you” back to him as I felt his hard cock bottom out in my bowels. My wedding veil slipped back down over my face as the force of my husband’s thrusts shook my petite body. The smell of our sex filled the limo along with our soft moaning.

I let out a disappointed moan as Ben pulls his cock from my ass. I knew he was close, but I knew my dirty husband likes to fuck me on my back. My eyes widened as I saw our limo driver was sitting in the back with us on the opposite seat. Ben was fucking me so deep and long I was oblivious to the limo stopping and him sneaking into the back with us. I looked at my husband who only smiled and offered our driver as my first wedding gift.

I look back to the limo driver, who had taken off his pants and was stroking his hard smooth cock. I lay back on the large bench seat as Ben lifted my legs. The driver approached us as my husband pushed his wet hard cock into my quivering hole. I locked eyes on the driver’s cock as it neared my face. I felt the velvety hard flesh of his shaft slip across my face as he moved in closer. As the driver’s cock pushed between my lips I fondled his balls. Ben’s cock kept fucking me and his hand caressed my hard clitty. I knew what my husband wanted as he leaned his face towards mine. I locked eyes with Ben as I flicked my tongue on the underside of the driver’s cock. I moaned as Ben’s lips rubbed along the top of the man’s shaft as I continued to lick the underside.

My new hubby stole the cock from my mouth and he began pumping his mouth up and down the throbbing shaft. I heard him moan and his cock swell inside me. The driver’s cock popped out of his mouth as Ben moaned out. I whimpered as I held him tightly. Several ropes of my husband’s seed squirted deep inside me. With a few more deep thrusts I was filled with my husband’s creamy load.

My boi pussy felt empty as Ben withdrew his cock. Our dirty limo chauffeur was eager to take his turn. I held my bridal dress up around my waist as the driver sat and held his hard dick straight up for me. I straddled him as he held my ass cheeks apart. Globs of my husband’s cum dripped out of my freshly fucked ass onto the driver’s cock. It was quite a sight to see as the pearly white drips ran down his shaft. Ben reached out and held the driver’s cock steady as I began to sink down. I groaned deeply as his shaft pushed the load in my boi pussy around.

I began riding the driver slowly, making sure he felt every tight part of my ass. I felt my husband behind me rubbing my ass cheeks and smearing the leaking cum on my ass. The driver began sucking my tits as he held my ass cheeks apart. I felt Ben’s mouth on the back of my neck as he began kissing and nibbling on me. He knew my sensual spots and worked me quite well. My girly cock rubbed on the driver’s stomach as I bounced up and down on his shaft. The feeling of two men fucking and fondling me made my body shutter.

Then I felt my husband kiss down my back and run his tongue down the crack of my spread ass. The driver was close to cumming and as my man licked around his hard shaft and down to his balls, I felt his load jet up into my bowels. My clitty was now in the driver’s hand and he stroked me faster and faster. The feeling of his still cumming cock hitting my prostate worked me into a huge orgasm. I yelped as he pulled me down as hard as he could on his dick. My girly cock began to squirt my load of cum up onto the driver’s stomach and all over his hand. I kept rocking his cock, getting every last bit of cum. My husband pulled the dirty shaft from my boi pussy and he sucked the cummy mixture of the driver’s cock before his kissed and licked my well fucked taboo hole.

The driver pulled himself together and got back into the driver’s seat. Ben and I kissed and relaxed as we drove away to head to our posh hotel downtown. We had the rest of the night to play before we were to fly to the Caribbean for our honeymoon. I kissed my husband and thanked him for the hot and dirty wedding present.

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My Chemical Romance: The Light Behind Your Eyes Meaning

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The Light Behind Your Eyes Lyrics

So long to all of my friends,

Everyone of them met tragic ends,

With every passing day,

I’d be lying if I didn’t say,

That I miss them all tonight…

And if they only knew what I would say,

If I could be with you tonight…...

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    Feb 26th, 2:40pm report

    This is such a beautiful song and it really comforts me as a close family member has recently passed.
    It makes me feel like they are still here with me.
    To me, this song is from the dead persons POV and they are telling you (the listener) to be strong now they aren't there anymore ("when I'm here, no longer"). Also the line "if you promise not to cry, I'll tell you just what I would say if I could be with you tonight" is like the dead person is helping you to be strong. The light behind our eyes is your happiness or even life.

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    Oct 17th, 2014 10:18pm report

    is this a beautiful song. this is the only song I know by My Chemical Romance.. and I must say, I am impressed. :) it is my favorite song at the moment. I am pretty sure it is about someone who he loved a lot and lost (died or suicide). "Be strong and hold my hand". it could also be about depression maybe? anyways. I don't know. all I know is its such a beautiful song and I want it played at my funeral..... hopefully that will be a quiet a ways away.

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    Jul 18th, 2014 7:52pm report

    I think this song is one of their best. I believe it is from suffering the death of friends, "so long to all my friends. Every one of them met tragic ends." And he's telling everyone else Who has suffered from a death or depression. "Never let them take the light behind your eyes" could either mean don't let them take your happiness aways or don't allow depression to cause you to turn to suicide.

    I'm not exactly sure why he wrote it. All I know, is that I want this song to play at my funeral.

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    Sep 16th, 2013 9:16pm report

    this song is obviously about bandit. yes.
    But in a way this was Gerard's formal farwell to the band members "so long to all my friends" or you could look at it in another light and this could be his way to say goodbye to the characters he created and thus killed in Danger Days
    either way it always makes me cry

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    Mar 24th, 2013 3:13pm report

    I believe this was written for his daughter, Bandit. It's about how he know's how bad this world is, and that people might make her unhappy. He know's he isnt going to be around for her whole life, so he is saying to her to stay strong for him.

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    Feb 12th, 2013 2:35am report

    I think this song is very Catcher in the Rye related (Gerard's and Frank's favourite book); it's about not losing your childhood innocence - the light behind your eyes. I like the idea that it could be a suicide note, though. I don't quite think that fits in with the first line, which would go better with the fact that all of Gerard's (and Holden's) friends have grown up, it's a note to Bandit (and Phoebe) not to grow up, I guess. Boy Division (Track 1 of Conventional Weapons) is also (I think) about Holden's view on funerals, how he wouldn't want to die because all his relatives ("my enemies") would arrange the funeral and wouldn't really care, only pretend to. Depressing shit, right?

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    Jan 25th, 2013 1:44pm report

    to me this song isn't about depression at all. Its about the passing of time. A few others of his songs touches on the fact that as you grow older more and more of the people around you start to die (What death isn't tragic? Some fast, some slow and painful, those left behind). And that you wish you could hold them and tell them that they lived on in people's hearts. Also he is saying that he himself one day will also die, and that the people around him, like he had to be, must stay strong and burn brightly as much as others had before him.
    That in itself is depressing, thinking of your loved ones die around you, and it is hard, and still you only want the people you leave behind to be happy and truly living their lives brightly.

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    Jan 22nd, 2013 1:21pm report

    This song is beautiful. The lyrics could be seen as a letter to a daugher (or Bandit), the band talking to their fans if they were to break up or about anyone facing depression, suicidal thoughts, or sucide. I think that the beauty in this song comes from the diversity to relate to these reasons and more - helping whomever it touches. Just simply writing the lyrics "Never let them take the light behind your eyes.." is so powerful. It can apply to everything that makes your being, the light that fights the dark or dark thoughts, happiness, and even life in general - and so much more. Top of my list for a tattoo, to carry these inspiration words in appearence for all to see would mean more than words ever could express.

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    Jan 12th, 2013 1:47pm report

    Im Swiss, so sry when i write wrong or misunterstood something. Maybe the song is about their friends, realtives.. who comitted suicide. BUt if they had a chance, they would hang on them, sing them to sleep and never let them take away the light behind your eyes(their happiness, their will to live to go forwards), they would protect you or in this sort of way." One day, I’ll lose this fight… As we fade in the dark, just remember you will always burn as bright"It doesnt matter how it ends, that you will be in their toughts and still alive.
    "Be strong, and hold my hand.
    Time becomes for us, you’ll understand.We’ll say goodbye today,
    And we’re sorry how it all ends this way…
    If you promise not to cry, then I will tell you just " Yes its very hard now, but you have to be strong and remember i will be there for you and if those hard times passed away, you will understand and will have learned and got stronger.
    Maybe they want to give back the strenght to live, to get back the light behind their eyes to those ppl who are thinking about suicide or having a difficult time and no matter what happens, they are always ppl who loves you. Its like as if they want everyone to say:"Im not afraid to keep on living, Im not afraid to walk this world alone!" :)

    This is my interpretation of this song. Its not easy to write all your thoughts in English, i have so much more to say, but those thoughts are in German.^^
    This song is actually so beautiful that no words can describe it.

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    Jan 5th, 2013 1:47am report

    I think everyone reads off it based on their personal experiences and I admit I do too. To me it's about friends he's lost, who've died ' so long to all my friends, everyone of them met tragic ends' maybe through suicide. He missed them and wishes he could speak to them again "next verse basically". He wants to give them a message.
    He then moves into talking to them. Telling them that he wants to sing them to sleep, maybe either easing their way into suicide or literally just something nice and innocent and pure.
    "Never let them take the light behind your eyes' - this is both about innocence and life, he wants them to stay clean of dark thoughts and also stay alive, the life represents both.
    However, he knows that they killed themselves, so he knows he can't stop them dying -well lose this fight
    But he's telling them he won't forget them and they're amazing - burn as bright
    Then he just comforts them a lot
    Light behind your eyes I think maybe is also happiness, he wants to remember them at their best

    I've obviously taken a lot from personal experience but that's what it means to me

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    Jan 4th, 2013 1:49am report

    The way I saw it was like it was written for the fans. Like at the end of TBP era, mcr didn't know if they'd make it through. They thought the band was over. Maybe pieces of this song were written at that time? And it's like to the fans, if depression would've or will ever get the best of them, we have to keep going. I'm sure that's not actually what it's about, but that's just what I thought when I first heard it.

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    Jan 3rd, 2013 1:22pm report

    Well considering he said that it was based off of a letter he wrote to his daughter Bandit to read when she reached a certain age, i think that he is basically telling her that no matter what, to keep going. The lyric says "If i fail and lose this fight, never fade in the dark, just remember you will always burn as bright" and my interpretation of that is no matter if he fails or she fails he wants her to never give up and never stop trying to pull through because he will never be disapointed in her, as long as she still burns bright and strong.

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    Jan 3rd, 2013 1:27pm report

    i think this song is meant to be like, best friends, or a couple. the singer loves someone, and they are fighting to keep that person happy, to keep them away from committing suicide. but i also think its like, he nows he can't keep her from the sadness, and hes falling into the sadness too, and he wants her to know that even though he wont be there to protect her anymore, she has to keep fighting, and to never give up.

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    Dec 27th, 2012 12:40pm report

    This song made me cry. I love MCR. I really, really do. They save lives. I look so far up to each member of the band, as well as the band as a whole.
    I cried. It's so relevant, and Gerard's voice just hits home. He's telling everyone suffering out there, everyone who needs help, that you are strong.

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    Dec 18th, 2012 12:01pm report

    I think this is written from the point of view of someone with depression. They know one day they will "lose this fight", but they want their friends and family to be happy, even if one day soon, they will be dead. Basically, they're trying their best to keep their friends and family happy in the meantime, and kind of make up for his/her planned suicide.

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If your CSA is anything like mine you’re going through what I like to call the Root Vegetable period. Long gone are the tomatoes and corn of summer. Instead, your bags are full of beautiful turnips, vibrant carrots, sweet onions and yams. Oh and let’s not forget all the potatoes.

I’ve been hoarding my stash of potatoes for the past three weeks so I could make one of the season’s most comforting and simplest of pleasures: baked potato soup. Most recipes are loaded with extra calories and bacon but this version is equally satisfying, vegetarian and made with easy/healthier substitutions.

  • 2 tbsp. butter
  • 3 carrots , peeled and roughly chopped
  • 1 turnip , peeled and roughly chopped
  • 2 stalks celery, roughly chopped
  • 1 medium-large onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, diced
  • 3 lbs. potatoes, peeled and roughly chopped
  • 2 tsp. dried chili flake
  • 2 tsp. thyme
  • 32 ounces flavorful vegetable stock
  • ½ cup milk
  • 1/3 cup sour cream
  • Salt and pepper
  • Chive or parsley , chopped

1. In a stock pot, heat the butter over medium-low heat. Add in the carrot, turnip, onion, celery. sautéing until translucent, about 2 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for an additional minute. Add in potatoes, thyme, chili flake and cook five minutes.

2. Season generously with salt and pepper. Pour in the vegetable stock, turn up the heat to medium and bring to a boil. Let boil, covered for 8 minutes. Add the milk and bring back to a simmer. Remove from heat and add in the sour cream. Use an immersion blender to blend the soup or transfer to regular blender and mix in small batches.

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[Editor note: For an in-depth look at Enron’s political capitalism model applied to the climate-change debate, see Bradley’s Capitalism at Work: Business, Government, and Energy (M & M Scrivener Press, 2009)]

On four occasions,  Joseph Romm at Climate Progress (Center for American Progress) has deployed an argument ad hominem against me, using my prior employment at Enron and my direct association with Ken Lay (see here, herehere, and here). My response to Romm earlier this week has received thousands of views and several blog links, including here.

The irony here is two-fold. First, Romm ignores the fact that I was an employee who personally challenged the company’s rent-seeking via climate alarmism. Secondly, and more ironic still, Enron was his darling company. Specifically, he was an unpaid consultant and collaborator with Enron Energy Services (EES), whose contracts were money losers, reflecting of paucity of economic energy savings. The hidden losses and fake profits of this division were showcased at trial. EES was not a “cool company,” and the companies that outsourced to EES found out they were not that cool also.

A future post [now published] will explore the failure of EES, PG&E Energy Services, and Duke Energy Solutions–the big energy service companies, or ESCOs, that were touted by Romm and Amory Lovins as the next big thing and as leading the way to Kyoto compliance.

I add the following exhibits to the Romm/Enron connection (Enron is bolded below for ease of identification).

Romm’s Emails to Enron

“I hope there is something in [my book] Cool Companies Mr. Lay can refer to. I’m sorry Enron isn’t in it, but if you have any good case studies, I would love to use them as I talk to the media and Fortune 500 companies. Feel free to use my personal email.”

– Email communication from Romm to Enron, June 6, 1999.

“Your ESCO [Enron Energy Services] folk believe what I say is possible, and, more to the point, is a reasonable ‘goal’–I have that from [EES co-chairman] Tom White himself, though ‘Kyoto’ probably has more meaning as a benchmark goal so that is more my focus now. I have had many discussions with EES’s senior staff. The trick is to combine efficiency, cogeneration, and greenER power purchasing to cut CO2 emissions whiles cutting the energy bill.”

– Email communication from Romm to Enron, July 23, 1999.

“ESCOs are DEFINITELY the future. I intend to work with the big ones to transform the market, which I think will take about two or three years.”

– Email communication from Romm to Enron, July 23, 1999.

Joe Romm on Enron before Congress

In testimony before the Committee on Commerce of the U.S. Senate in September 2000, Romm, then executive director of the Center for Energy and Climate Solutions, stated:

“Outsourcing – another New Energy Economy trend – is starting to change this. Soon it may revolutionize corporate energy efficiency investments…. Some companies have turned over their entire power supply needs to outside contractors. In March 1999, Ocean Spray announced a $100 million deal with the energy services division of Enron, a major natural gas and utility company based in Houston. Enron will use its own capital to improve lighting, heating, cooling and motors and to invest in cogeneration (the simultaneous generation of electricity and steam onsite, which is highly efficient). Ocean Spray will save millions of dollars in energy costs, have more reliable power and cut pollution, without putting up any of its own capital. In September 1999, Owens Corning, the fiberglass insulation manufacturer, announced a similar $1 billion deal with Enron.”

 Joe Romm on Enron at his Website

From Romm’s Cool Companies website:

Polaroid will achieve the Climate Savers goal through a combination of sound energy management practices combined with efforts to use less carbon-intensive forms of power. These measures include renovating or replacing heating and cooling systems and industrial boilers, replacing old factory motors with more efficient models, installing high-efficiency lighting and energy management systems, purchasing “green” electric power, and switching to cleaner fuels for power generation.

“This deal will utilize clean, efficient technology in a real-world setting,” said Joe Romm, executive director of CECS. “Working with outside partners to provide technical and strategic expertise is the next wave in corporate energy management, which will dramatically improve the speed and cost of solving environmental challenges.” (italics added)

Polaroid will be working closely with Enron Energy Services, which partners with commercial and industrial businesses nationwide to provide integrated energy and facility management outsourcing solutions.

 Joe Romm on Enron in a Published Essay

“Increasingly, such technologies will operate over the Internet itself. Companies like SiliconEnergy have developed software that uses the Internet for real-time data collection and analysis and energy management. We believe energy outsourcers like Enron (discussed below) may ultimately manage hundreds if not thousands of buildings over the Internet.”

– Romm, “The Internet and the New Energy Economy” (2002).

  1. Ron Cram

    Thanks for this info about Joe Romm. I had never heard of the man before today. I happened upon his blog this morning and, as fate would have, found a blog post there by Carlin Rosengarten. I initially thought it was a post by Joe Romm. Anyway, the lead post had to do with a new climate science education project. However, it seemed to me to be more of an indoctrination program than promoting real science. I commented on this and a lively debate began. I posted five times before life called me away for several hours. When I returned there were a number of factually incorrect and unsubstantiated statements. Some of them by Joe Romm. I wished to comment learned the blog was now “moderated” meaning that people who agreed with Joe could comment but I could not. You can read it for yourself at http://skepticalscience.com/Is-the-climate-warming-or-cooling.html

    I told this story on one of my favorite science blogs, Climate Audit, and one of the regulars there directed me to this article. Thank you for this background on Joe Romm. He is obviously a person who is profiting by climate alarmism and does not want his audience confused with facts.

  2. Rob Bradley

    Interesting comment, Ron.

  3. Enron and Waxman-Markey: Response to Joe Romm — MasterResource

    […] evidence for this conclusion in two posts: Joe Romm and Enron: For the Record (May 5, 2009) and Joe Romm and Enron: More For the Record (May 8, […]

  4. Rod Adams

    Robert- I have had a number of run-ins with both Romm and his intellectual mentor, Amory Lovins. Romm started his political energy career at Rocky Mountain Institute, which has been Lovins’s vehicle for years.

    I had not heard of Romm’s connection to Enron until this morning, when I read a comment that you posted on the Breakthrough Institute’s series on the bullying tactics that Joe uses against those who favor a different approach.

    It has been my growing suspicion for years that the Lovins-Romm school of energy conservation, efficiency, and non nuclear fossil alternatives are simply cover for a profitable association with oil and gas extractors and service providers. Your information helps to solidify that interpretation.

    Rod Adams
    Publisher, Atomic Insights

  5. Robert Bradley Jr.

    I do not think these two have any secret agenda with “oil and gas extractors and service providers” as you say. Yes, Enron was pretty big in natural gas, but they were deep into solar, wind, and energy efficiency, as well as emissions trading, to want to parade as a “sustainable” and “green” energy company.

    I am perplexed why Romm and Lovins have fought against nuclear, using free-market-sounding arguments that they would reject with wind and solar. Maybe you can explain that for the reader.

  6. Rod Adams

    Robert – I know that it may sound counterintuitive, but support for solar, wind and efficiency does not prove that someone has any desire to break free from fossil fuel addiction. None of those sources has ever successfully taken market share from burning hydrocarbons – in fact, as Jevons pointed out at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, more efficient machinery for using energy generally results in an overall increase in its use. There is a reason why you can find some very positive advertisements from established fossil fuel companies about wind, solar and energy efficiency.

    Take a look at the consulting that the Rocky Mountain Institute has done over the years. You can find some records of the customers on their web site – they often involve established companies in coal, oil and gas. Lovins himself has stated in a matter of fact sort of way that he has worked for oil companies for more than 35 years. (July 18, 2008 during a Democracy Now interview.)

    In contrast to unreliable and diffuse alternative energy sources, nuclear fission has successfully pushed oil, gas and coal out of markets and materially increased the supply of useful energy to the point where it forced the price of fossil fuels down. For example, what do you think supplied electricity in France, Japan, Taiwan, the UK, Switzerland, Sweden, and several portions of the US before fission was introduced into the market? What do you think supplied the US Navy’s aircraft carrier and submarine fleet before fission?

    Lovins started writing negative things about nuclear way back in the early 1970s when he was the UK representative for Friends of the Earth. He became recognized by some as an energy guru with his publication in 1976 of an article called “Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken” in the October 1976 issue of Foreign Affairs. http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/E77-01_EnergyStrategyRoadNotTaken

    In that article, he called for a total elimination of nuclear energy in the US and casually accepted a “temporary” doubling of coal consumption. “Coal can fill the real gaps in our fuel economy with only a temporary and modest (less than twofold at peak) expansion of mining, not requiring the enormous infrastructure and social impacts implied by the scale of coal use in Figure 1″. (In “Energy Strategy”, Figure 1 was a graph of energy sources under a ‘business as usual’ path.)

    As you found during your tenure with Enron, energy efficiency projects are often fraudulent or poorly designed. They are certainly not “easy”, a fact that Lovins and Romm should (and probably do) understand quite well. However, if people have been sold the idea that efficiency strategies are easy and cheap enough to allow them to avoid an investment in something hard like nuclear that takes a long time of dedicated effort, there will be a LOT of fossil fuel extracted and sold during the time that it takes for the data to come in and the failure of the strategy to become evident.

    Rod Adams
    Publisher, Atomic Insights

  7. Robert Bradley Jr.

    Rod, that is an interesting point that wind and solar have not reduced fossil fuel burning that much. The inefficiency cost of revving gas plants up and down to firm-up wind and solar is a very interesting debate as shown here: http://www.masterresource.org/2009/11/wind-integration-incremental-emissions-from-back-up-generation-cycling-part-ii/

    I think that oil companies promoting energy efficiency is less about increasing demand for their product as it is two things: 1) good public relations or what the Left might call ‘greenwashing’ and 2) concern during times of high prices that there will be a political price to pay if demand does not subside to bring prices more toward historical levels that are acceptable to the public and politicians.

    Jevons’s point about energy efficiency had more to do with natural conservation than government-mandated conservationISM where with CAFE, for example, economists believe that 20% of the fuel savings is lost by motorists driving more miles in their (mandated) fuel efficient cars since the incremental costs of driving are lower.

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Congestive Heart Failure. What is it? What can we do?

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Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) describes a gradual weakening of the heart over time.  As it weakens, the body tries to compensate.  With the weakening, the heart may have to pump faster to maintain the blood pressure.  Blood and oxygen are diverted from some parts of the body, such as muscles, to keep organs working.

Eventually the body can’t keep up and symptoms begin to appear:

  • Shortness of breath with little exertion.
  • Fatigue with little or no activity.
  • Swelling in the ankles and feet due to inability to pump fluids back to heart.
  • Fluid in the lungs (pulmonary congestion) creates breathing problems.
  • Problems thinking clearly or a confused state of mind, due to lack of oxygenated blood.
  • Weight gain from the fluids but muscle loss from lack of oxygen and nutrients.

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  • Diabetes fails to remove sugar from the blood, which can harm the heart.
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  • ACE inhibitors cause blood vessels that lead away from the heart to expand, making blood flow easier.
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  • Digoxin and other similar drugs improve the heart’s ability to beat stronger and pump more blood.

Diet. Restrict the amount of fluid you drink.  Eat a low fat, heart-healthy diet.  Sodium can increase fluid retention.  So, eat a low-salt diet.  If you are taking diuretics that help eliminate fluids from your system, your doctor may want you to take extra potassium.

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Formed in 1999, the Yuval Ron Ensemble endeavors to alleviate national, racial, religious and cultural divides by uniting the music and dance of the opposing people of the Middle East into a unique mystical, spiritual, and inspiring musical celebration. The ensemble plays songs of Sufi origin from Turkey, Jewish prayers from Morocco, Yemen, Israeli, and Armenian chants. Guest dancers will light up the stage and bring a new dimension to the music.

Yuval Ron graduated cum laude from the prestigious Berklee School of Music in 1989. His music has been featured in over a dozen feature films and countless television programs. Yuval Ron also composes for theatre and dance. In 2006, he was granted the ACTA award to document traditional women and sacred songs of Adan and Yemen. He was nominated for a 2007 Academy Award for his score and songs for West Bank Story, which won the Oscar for Best Live Action Short.

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Test your knowledge of training, nutrition and supplementation with this true/false quiz from Elliot Reimers. Do you have a degree in Swole-ology, or failing Gains 101?

Being a recent graduate, I find myself still stuck in “school mode”. I know, most people yearn for the last day of school like they’re disciples of Alice Cooper, but I’d surmise a part of many graduates still burns with desire to return to the academic setting at one point or another.

I mean come on, who didn’t enjoy those all-night study sessions that sucked your eyeballs right out of their sockets? Alright, maybe those weren’t the fondest of memories, but you get the point.

Given this, I have taken the feedback from a previous bodybuilding/fitness quiz and composed this new and improved “Brains vs. Brawn” exam to assess your knowledge on all things training, nutrition and supplementation. This time around, the questions will be exclusively true/false-based so as to keep the reader engaged and the scoring simple.

Don’t get too cocky though; this mental workout will challenge even the mightiest of meatheads. So grab your shaker cup, take a swig of your pre-workout supplement and prepare to train…your brain that is.

Questions: (each worth one point)

  1. True or False? The largest muscle in the human body is the latissimus dorsi (mid/lower back).
  2. True or False? Glutamine is one of the three (3) branched-chain amino acids found in nature.
  3. True or False? Both casein and whey proteins are found in animal-derived milk.
  4. True or False? Atrophy refers to the growth of tissue.
  5. Muscle Head JoyTrue or False? The breakdown of carbohydrates to generate cellular energy (ATP) is known as glycolysis.
  6. True or False? Traditional cardiovascular training, such as jogging, is a form of aerobic exercise.
  7. True or False? Fats are a nonessential nutrient for humans (i.e. we can survive without eating them).
  8. True or False? The type of joint that allows for the greatest range of motion is known as a ball-and-socket joint, like that of the shoulder region.
  9. True or False? Insulin is a highly anabolic hormone.
  10. True or False? Mixing protein, fats and/or carbohydrates will alter the overall glycemic load of a meal.
  11. True or False? Sucrose (table sugar) is an example of a monosaccharide.
  12. True or False? Anti-catabolic and anabolic processes are essentially the same thing.
  13. True or False? A kilocalorie (dietary calorie) is the amount of energy it takes to raise 1kg of water by 1 degree Celsius.
  14. True or False? Many “pre-workout” supplements contain the stimulant drug caffeine.
  15. True or False? A pull-up is differentiated from a chin-up by having a pronated grip orientation.
  16. True or False? An “empty calorie” does not contain energy.
  17. True or False? Lipolysis is the process of liberating lipids and breaking them down into free fatty acids.
  18. True or False? A common phenomena experienced in the days following intense resistance training is delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS).
  19. True or False? The deltoids are comprised of two distinct regions: the anterior and posterior heads.
  20. True or False? The by-product of creatine is nitrocreatine.
  21. True or False? Since D-aspartic acid has been shown to increase testosterone levels it is classified as a steroid.
  22. True or False? There are nine essential amino acids for humans.
  23. True or False? There is no such thing as “toning” a muscle.
  24. True or False? The eccentric portion of the bench press involves lowering the bar to the chest.
  25. True or False? Omega-3 fatty acids are monounsaturated fats (they contain one double bond at the omega carbon position).
  26. True or False? All amino acids contain nitrogen.
  27. True or False? Dumbbell curls are an example of a multi-joint exercise.
  28. True or False? Arnold Schwarzenegger holds the IFBB record for most Mr. Olympia wins.
  29. True or False? Powerlifting and Strongman events are actually the same thing.
  30. True or False? Your body can only digest up to 50g of protein in one feeding.
  31. True or False? High-intensity interval training is a form of anaerobic exercise.
  32. True or False? You can’t overdose on a water-soluble vitamin (like vitamin C) because you simply excrete out any excessive amounts.
  33. True or False? Technically speaking, dietary carbohydrates are not an essential nutrient.
  34. True or False? Gynecomastia (more eloquently known as “bitch tits”) occurs when there is an excessive amount of androgens relative to estrogens in males.
  35. True or False? Chronically elevated cortisol levels are indicative of adrenal fatigue.
  36. True or False? The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure of an individual’s body-fat percentage relative to their height.
  37. True or False? Fat cells are inert and serve simply to insulate/protect underlying tissues.
  38. True or False? The bench press is an example of a multi-joint exercise.
  39. True or False? Beta-alanine and alpha-alanine are both nonessential amino acids.
  40. True or False? Nootropics are supplements/ingredients that serve to enhance neurological/brain processes.
  41. True or False? Gluconeogenesis refers to the generation of energy from glucose molecules.
  42. True or False? The base molecule in ATP is adenine.
  43. True or False? The triceps brachii muscle is an antagonist of the biceps brachii.
  44. True or False? The resiliency of many connective tissues (like skin) is due to the protein elastin.
  45. True or False? Soy protein contains a higher leucine proportion than whey protein.
  46. True or False? Cholesterol is a modified steroid.
  47. True or False? Proteases are enzymes that serve to synthesize proteins from amino acids.
  48. True or False? Tendons are connective tissues that serve to conjoin muscles to bones.
  49. True or False? Casein protein is rapidly digested, almost as quickly as whey protein.
  50. True or False? Creatine must be supplemented with since it is not found in foods.

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After you’ve completed the quiz, use the answer key below to assess your level of aptitude:

0-10 pts: The fact that you were able to successfully navigate to this webpage yet still achieve a score this terrible is disconcerting.

11-20 pts: Consider some remedial courses, bro.

21-30 pts: Justification of the term “meathead”.

31-35 pts: If it’s any consolation, at least you didn’t fail.

36-40 pts: Ahh, there is a brain in that noggin’ of yours.

41-45 pts: You’re either A) A Google-searching cheat or B) A four-eyed nerd with really-ripped abs.

46-50 pts: Congratulations, Dr. Brawn.

  1. False: The gluteus maximus is the largest muscle in the human body.
  2. False: The three BCAAs are leucine, isoleucine and valine.
  3. True
  4. False: Hypertrophy refers to growth; atrophy refers to decrease in size.
  5. True
  6. True
  7. False: Fat is an essential nutrient; we must obtain it through diet.
  8. True
  9. True
  10. True
  11. False: Sucrose is a disaccharide composed of fructose and glucose
  12. False:  Anti-catabolic refers to something that protects against breakdown which is not the same as an anabolic process.
  13. True
  14. True
  15. True
  16. False: An empty calorie still contains energy; it just lacks the micronutrient content like vitamins/minerals/antioxidants/etc.
  17. True
  18. True
  19. False: There are actually three regions: anterior, posterior and medial heads.
  20. Shredded MMA FighterFalse: The by-product is actually creatinine.
  21. False: DAA is an amino acid, not a steroid.
  22. True
  23. True
  24. True
  25. False: They are actually polyunsaturated fatty acids.
  26. True
  27. False: DB Curls are an isolation/single-joint exercise (assuming proper form).
  28. False: Arnold won 7 Mr. Olympia titles, the record is 8 held by Ronnie Coleman and Lee Haney.
  29. False: Powerlifting is a measure of your strength in the bench press, deadlift and/or squat. Strongman involves more hybrid power events like atlas stone lifts, keg throws, etc.
  30. False: Your body does not arbitrarily stop digesting protein at the 50g mark.
  31. True
  32. False: Technically, water-soluble vitamins do still contain a level of toxicity, but it is extremely high.
  33. True
  34. False: Gyno is actually caused by the inverse situation (i.e. excess estrogens relative to androgens).
  35. False: If your cortisol is elevated, this would actually be a state of hyper-adrenal activity.
  36. False: The BMI is actually a measure of bodyweight (not body-fat) to height.
  37. False: Fat cells are living cells like any other cell and even secrete certain hormones, called adipokines.
  38. True
  39. True
  40. True
  41. False: Gluconeogenesis is the generation of glucose from non-carbohydrate moieties, such as amino acids.
  42. False: It’s actually the nucleoside Adenosine, not the nucleotide Adenine.
  43. True
  44. True
  45. False: Whey protein actually contains much more leucine (proportionally) than soy protein.
  46. True
  47. False: Proteases actually serve to breakdown/hydrolyze peptides/proteins.
  48. True
  49. False: Casein protein is digested much slower than whey proteins.
  50. False: Creatine is actually found in moderate amounts in certain foods like beef, tuna and salmon.

How did you do? Let us know your score in the comments section below.

About The Author
Elliot is a raw powerlifter who enjoys researching the science behind how the human body works. He has a BS in Biochemistry.

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Posted Sat, 07/13/2013 - 05:53

yea i knew i need to improve my knowledge

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Posted Sat, 07/13/2013 - 05:26

31 pts: If it’s any consolation, at least you didn’t fail.
Maybe could get more if my english would be a slight better :)
Still, cant regret that score is that bad

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Posted Sat, 07/13/2013 - 03:39

Yahoo i got 21/50 :). I was not expecting even that

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40. :( I'm kinda disappointed.

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41/50........ and btw I am a four eyed bodybuilding nerd Biology major! and what

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Got 36....just barely got a brain in my noggin. ;)

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Yas 29/50


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Abstract: Since the focus of all community justice projects is solving local crime and public safety problems, one of the foremost tasks for planners is to identify the key problems that the targeted neighborhood faces. The first step in identifying a community's problems is to go directly to the community, i.e., its leaders, its merchants, and its residents. Focus groups, surveys, individual interviews, and attendance at community meetings are all tools planners can use to determine how various segments of the community view what is wrong and right with the community. The second step is to obtain more specific data, including statistics on crime patterns and the disposition of cases. The third step for planners is to analyze how community problems are currently handled. This can involve interviews with key players, e.g., police, prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges, and probation officers. Data gathering can also involve first-hand observation by sitting in court, accompanying police officers on a ride-along, or being with a probation officer for a day. The intent of such data gathering is to look for inefficiencies and areas that call for improvement. After obtaining data on community problems, the task is to develop proposed solutions tailored to the problems. This is also done by soliciting ideas from members of the community and the criminal justice system. Planners should also look at other jurisdictions that have handled similar problems in creative ways. So far as possible, programs with proven success should be the first effort, so as to avoid debilitating trial and error.
Main Term(s): Misdemeanor courts
Index Term(s): Data collection devices ; Community involvement ; Data collection ; Program planning ; Neighborhood justice centers ; Needs assessment ; BJA grant-related documents
Sponsoring Agency: Bureau of Justice Assistance
US Dept of Justice
Office of Justice Programs
United States of America
Grant Number: 96-DD-BX-0090(S-1)
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Type: Instructional Material
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Language: English
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