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Hmmm. Actually didn’t boycott. Just don’t care about NFL any more.

Very good and thorough article. Recommended reading.

At present there is some concern that, if you rent the facility, it becomes a “public accommodation”, meaning you would be required to rent to anyone, including people/groups whose use would be inimical to your faith, similar to the gay wedding cake issue. May end up being adjudicated, but we are being told we can avoid the problem by not renting at all.

Fourteen year old boys are placed on this earth so that fourteen year old girls will give more serious consideration to life-path choices other than marriage.

A couple of the links above I don’t recommend, because they have fixed armrests and backs. I got one of those for my home office, and I regret it. You want one with adjustable seat height, back height, and arm rests at minimum. Here are the adustments:
1. Set the seat height so that, when you stand in front of the chair facing toward it, the top of the seat comes just under your knee cap.
2. Sit in the chair, and adjust the seat back until it is putting support right in the small of your back.
3. Still sitting, adjust the arm rests so that, when your arms rest normally at your sides, they just barely touch the armrests. (Or don’t have arm rests at all, there are two schools of thought on this one.)

Here is a suggestion: A religious but non-denominational, non-governmental certification organization (think Underwriters Laboratory). This organization would develop educational programs, standards and procedures for churches to use, and certify those church which, voluntarily, implement the programs and meet the standards. Certification could be provided for churches which do not have a hierarchical structure, and also for religious camps, retreat centers, and other organizations which accept children from various churches.

The Definitive Guide to Temperatures in Minnesota (public domain)

60 above zero:
Floridians turn on the heat.
People in Minnesota plant gardens.

50 above zero:
Californians shiver uncontrollably.
People in Duluth sunbathe.

40 above zero:
Italian & English cars won’t start.
People in Minnesota drive with the windows down.

32 above zero:
Distilled water freezes.
The water in Bemidji gets thicker.

20 above zero:
Floridians don coats, thermal underwear, gloves, wool hats.
People in Minnesota throw on a flannel shirt.

15 above zero:
New York landlords finally turn up the heat.
People in Minnesota have the last cookout before it gets cold.

Zero:
People in Miami all die.
Minnesotans close the windows.

10 below zero:
Californians fly away to Mexico .
People in Minnesota get out their winter coats.

25 below zero:
Hollywood disintegrates.
The Girl Scouts in Minnesota are selling cookies door to door.

40 below zero:
Washington DC runs out of hot air.
People in Minnesota let the dogs sleep indoors.

100 below zero:
Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
Minnesotans get upset because they can’t start the Mini-Van.

460 below zero:
ALL atomic motion stops (absolute zero on the Kelvin scale.)
People in Minnesota start saying...”Cold ‘nuff fer ya?”

500 below zero:
Hell freezes over.
Minnesota public schools will open 2 hours late.

Academic bias is as old as the university system in the west. In those days, students were told to discard their other books and rely on “The Philosopher” (i.e. Aristotle). The development of the scientific method following the publishing of Francis Bacon’s “The New Organon” in 1603 and the bulk of Scientific advancement in the 17-18th centuries was largely done by societies not directly connected to universities.

You don’t understand Islam. It is a sin for a muslim to see any woman other than his wife naked. BUT It is OK to commit a sin if it is part of a greater good, and jihad is the greatest good of Islam. That is why all the terrorists head on over to strip clubs before they blow themselves up.

If you are 18 and you aren’t a liberal, there is something wrong with your heart.

If you are 22 and you are still a liberal, there is something wrong with your head.

I forget who said that, or something similar.

I don’t think it was an absentee ballot. I think it was early voting, which Illinois allows. The wife and I did the same thing here in Granite City (Southern Illinois). And for early voting in Illinois, you have to show a photo id. I recall the news saying that BO showed one, and joked about his hair being grayer. I think he was passing through.

This is a character set issue. The little rectangle is displayed any time a character to be displayed is not in the character set in use. See this link http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928847 for a discussion of possible causes.

If I make the assumption that you want an English translation, there are two that I am aware of, neither being perfect.
1. The Orthodox Study Bible, from Thomas Nelson. This is a “work in progress”.
2. Lancelot Breton’s translation. This is fairly dated; it is available in a Greek English version, which would be better if you are also planning to study Greek.
Both are available from Amazon and other sellers.

Perhaps a more moderate change might be appropriate: Permitting men who are married to become priests. This is the practice in the Eastern Orthodox churches. Notice particularly that the marriage must come BEFORE the ordination; that is, those who are unmarried at ordination must remain unmarried, and married priests whose wife passes away may not remarry.

What isn’t quite said here is that Dassault brokered the sale of the Mirages to Libya in order to sell the Rafales to the UAE.

This goes back to the ancient middle eastern understanding that the right hand is the good hand and the left hand is the evil hand, as in “But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing” (Matt 6:3 NKJV) and “He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left” (Matt 25:33 NKJV). Not to puncture your balloon, but there are MANY injunctions in scripture to the effect that we should not go in either of these two directions, for example: “be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.” (Deut 5:32 NKJV),

They are libertarian conservatives who own/run a large corporate group based in Kansas and support conservative causes.

I think perhaps, that viewing this finding as a “nose under the tent” for Sharia law is something of a reach. Our country has freedom of religion, which includes the right of churches to settle internal disputes in accordance with their own traditions. Court have historically been loath to interfere in these matters or to try to adjudicate them in the context of the particular faith’s rules, which they consider to be outside their expertise.
If, on the one hand, an older man “marries” an eight year old girl and has relations with her, our courts will state that this matter is in their jurisdiction and is child abuse, regardless of the teachings of any church of which the two might be members.
On the other hand, if my (Orthodox Christian) parish decides to hire their own pastor, the courts will rule that this matter must be decided under the canons of the Orthodox Church, which give that prerogative to the Bishop.
If an American court were to rule that the “marriage” in my first example was legitimate because it was permitted under Sharia law, I think you would have a case.
However, the ruling in the Florida mosque case is in according with our judicial tradition. A ruling in the other direction could have been appealed on the grounds that it constituted interference by the court in the religion of the individuals.

The ‘catch’ here is that, not only are there going to be a lot of seniors, but they vote fairly reliably. If Medicare is actually cut, doctors and hospitals will be forced to stop accepting Medicare patients. Congress will not let that happen, so the projected reductions of Medicare spending being used to ‘explain’ how Obamacare will be paid for will not happen. The cost of Obamacare will actually be paid for by printing money, i.e. by destroying our economy and inflation that will make that in the 60’s look like nothing.

The question of the difference between the “Catholic” and the “Orthodox” bibles is fairly complex. To simplify:
1. The early Church generally accepted the existing Greek translations, done previously as valid.
2. Early translations of the Greek into Latin were done.
3. When Jerome did his works, culminating in the Latin Vulgate, he referenced the Greek Septuagint texts and the existing Latin translations to existing Hebrew translations. Jerome came to the opinion that the Hebrew texts better testified to Christ than the Greek and, parting from tradition, favored them in his translations.
4. Jerome was criticized for this at the time (e.g. by Augustine) but over time his translations replaced the older Latin ones as that accepted by the Western Church. The Eastern Church continued to accept the Greek translations. Since Latin never became their main scholarly language, they were largely removed from the question of acceptance of the Latin Vulgate.
5. Today in the West, most critical translations of the Old Testament start with the Masoretic text, which is generally viewed as more ancient. However, the Greek Septuagint and other texts are consulted to resolve questions.
6. The Orthodox Church still considers the Greek Septuagint to be its “benchmark”, as I mentioned before, and prefers to use it as a starting point when developing new translations.

I hope this helped.