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Romney will win the Republican nomination. Cain and Perry are crumbling as we speak.

I think I've read this conversation before.

Root actually got the kill that won a match earlier in the season.

How can we, in a Capitalist society, have any say in how much wealth our neighbors own? Do I get to decide how wealthy you can be? Well we have checks/balances. We don't alloy monopolies...or anything close to it like when we broke up the phone industry. This is what needs to be done to the banks. We can have taxes, income, estate, that keep the gap from getting too out of control. Don't get me wrong, having rich people is ok. We just the gap should be like it was back before the 80s.....and there were rich people back then. So you advocate scrapping Capitalism? To become what?

How can we, in a Capitalist society, have any say in how much wealth our neighbors own? Do I get to decide how wealthy you can be?

But then again (and I'm not trying solely to be the Devil's Advocate here), isn't that the kind of response you would expect from a manipulative abuser? It's just so hard to judge (no pun intended) from the snippets of info we get in these articles.

So because you aren't personally being negatively affected, there's no problem? Note I said "much more of a problem," not that there is no problem. I am being personally affected. My taxes went to bail out some of these 1% businesses, and we're never going to see much of that money again. I don't not support these people. But I don't see that their movement is going to do anything to make things better. Maybe if they get a more cohesive message I'll understand what they're trying to do better. But Capitalism inevitably breeds 1 percenters. Short of tearing down our societal foundations, they're not going to change much.

My sister was and is tremendously manipulative. She is alive but not part of my life. It is dangerous to project from my life thoughts and feelings onto the life of this woman (then child) and her judge father. But it is possible that the child, at 16, could have been manipulative enough that she instigated events to the point where her parents just snapped. I know this is possible because I witnessed it in my childhood. It is also very possible - and probably more likely - that the judge father was just an abusive a-hole who cowed his (then) wife into participating in the unwarranted belting of their child. The wife has since divorced the judge from what I understand. Stockholm Syndrome would explain her participation, or she could simply be an abuser herself, or simply misunderstood the situation. Again, there are a thousand possibilities. We know nothing truthful from that video. To throw out yet another possible caveat, it's possible that the daughter's choice to release this video has more to do with her parents' divorce than with the fact that her father was truly an abuser. It's possible she is choosing sides, and firing a salvo in mom's defense.

Per Roman Catholicism the Pope is Jesus' representative here on earth and can speak for Him in spiritual matters. I was raised Lutheran. That Pope is just a dude to me.

That raises the question of whether human acceptance means it is "right." And from that, do humans create religion? That answer creates more problems than it solves.

I wondered when this subject would pop up here. The Webz are abuzz with this story. I got the belt from my dad. German temper. The belt landed with serious force. But he only had to do it to me a couple of times, and I stopped being a twit around the house. Still made mistakes afterward, but didn't get the belt for it. After a while mom and dad learned that a very disappointed look carried as much weight as the belt. The last thing I ever did "wrong" as a kid under my dad's roof involved me, the cops and some handcuffs. For that I got no belt - just silence. In many ways the silence was worse. I have spanked my child. Only, maybe, five times. ONLY with my open hand, and only one time on a bare butt. I started early, when she was very little. I think there are people who, in a vacuum, would look at that and say I did wrong. But I have an excellent relationship with my child, and we are to the point where words alone do the trick. I hope they always work, because I doubt I'll ever spank my kid again. But here's the thing about this situation with this judge. The same parents who raised me and who extremely rarely used physical punishment on me had to contend with my hellion sister, for whom no discipline worked. There were times when my mother raised her hand to my sister when my sister was in her teens. Likely, today, mom would have landed in jail for what she did. There were fights, literally. But my sister deserved it. She egged them on. She took their correction and spat in their face. My parents were good people, who raised us with proper values. My sister shat all over those values for no discernible reason. She goaded my mom, especially, and fanned the flames of the situation. Even as a young kid, she was a very good manipulator. I don't think what my mom did was OK, but having lived with that POS of a sibling, I get why she did it. At some point, with some people (kids, I'm talking about) you just can't move forward. They decide, for whatever reason, that they will NOT be corrected. What do you do? I have no idea, and I hope I never find out with my child. My sister's behavior, her ridiculous choices, horrified my parents, and for the last 20 years of my mom's life, my sister was a chain around her neck. There are just some people you cannot deal with, who won't adhere to proper upbringing. That's why I reserve judgment on this Judge. The video is viscerally disturbing. But it is a few minutes' glimpse into their life. We have no idea what the dynamic of their lives are holistically based on this. I can guarantee you that if you saw some of the fights my mom and sister had, you would think my mother was a terrible person. But the truth, the sober, unvarnished truth, blinders off, is that she wasn't. My sister was. And continues to be. Who's to say, based on this video, that their family isn't like mine?

The first Bible (Vulgate) was put together at about the year 400 CE by Saint Jerome. But most of the the collection of books he used had been around since the first century, they were available to followers at that time. In addition... Saint Jerome had pretty much copied the collection of books that Saint Melito had put together some time mid second century. The Latin Vulgate was not the first canon. Exactly. Constantine would be offended that all his dedication and work were for naught if he heard this. Further, the Latin Vulgate Bible wasn't even totally completely official until the 1500s. It took more than a millennia for the Church to agree on ONE Bible. And that's not even mentioning Luther's Bible, from around the same period as the Council of Trent "official" Bible.

I understand where JP is coming from, but I don't think he has much of a beef. The way Bo runs his defense is VERY different than McBride. Bo substitutes way more, to the point where I don't think the starter position plays all that many more snaps than the second string. I may not entirely agree with the way Bo hands them out, but 20 makes sense the way he does things.

I've always thought you looked like a Husker.

Isn't that a bizarre definition of Christian by today's standards? Imagine if you tried to get dyed-in-the-wool modern American Right-Wing Christians to live like that. It would be a disaster. I think the conversation that you and I are having lends itself to a discussion of the organic nature of belief; or, in the concept that Theism must adapt. Christianity is not what it once was. Neither is Islam, Buddhism, or any of the other long-term religions. In an inelastic faith, that's an interesting thing.

Can you say that, though? There were a LOT of Christians circa 100 AD. None of them had read the Bible. Today you're told that you MUST read and know and believe in the Bible 100% or... else. Whatever the "or" is in your sect. For ~300~ years there was no Bible. That's about 15% of the total time frame of Christianity. What did those early Christians do without a Bible? Were they not Christians? It's problematic to define a Christian as someone who knows and lives by the Bible.

I'll bet if you and I sat down and talked about this, 74Hunter, we'd probably see that our views are more similar than different. Good luck with your yard. That's my AM job tomorrow.

I have yet to talk to an Occupier here in Lincoln that doesn't have a job. I don't believe joblessness is a prerequisite for Occupying.

I am going to run out of +1s on this thread, I can see it now. Funny stuff. I spit on my monitor after reading a couple of these. Husker_x, ShawnWatson, lionsfan93 and sd'sker to name a few. Kudos. Keep them coming.

If I read this right your expecting Obama to send in the troops to Iran. Because it is an election year and currently behind in polls? You read it correctly. I sincerely hope I'm wrong, but nothing this guy does makes any sense. Look at the timing. This has been going on for years. Why now? He already got Bin Laden. That's going to be a pretty difficult thing to overcome. What won't be difficult to overcome is the dog-and-pony show that is the Republican contenders. Those guys are a disaster, and they're their own worst enemies.

I'm sure that was a completely unintentional coincidence and had nothing to do with subliminal advertising tactics.

Groovy. As long as you have what you need. Enjoy the wonderland that is the Woodshed.

Having read about 90-95% of the Bible, I'd say that what the Bible really is is not what most Christians think it is. Personal, anecdotal experience. TIFWIW

I PMed you, no response You did get it. You read it at 12:17pm.

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