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QUOTE (Soxy @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 11:54 AM) I really don't think that this is a well thought out move by the vatican. Like you and Rex I think this is a blatant political type move. I imagine as many Anglicans will go to like Missouri Synod Lutheran churches as much as they will go to the Catholic churches. Within Anglican churches there is just too much variation--I imagine people from High churches will go Catholic and low churches will go conservative protestant. I am also unconvinced this will mean a lot for the wider Anglican communion--most of the African churches are extremely conservative (one even is refusing aid that comes from the Episcopal church) so I doubt they will deflect much. In fact some of the conservative anglican parishes in this country have acknowledged an archbishop that is actually in an African diocese. I doubt this will matter much for either roll. There's another possible motivation, there are a large number of more liberal Roman Catholic churches in the US, and there have been a number of rumblings about possibly creating a separate American Catholic Church which represents a more liberal view towards social policy. Could this also be giving precedent to allow American Catholic Churches more freedom to have their own policies and views on social issues and still remain the Roman Catholic communion? Similar to what the Church of England has done with the Anglican communion.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 11:53 AM) Actually I think something like 25% or more already has, which is pretty good considering the contracting process. it could actually have been better but we cut back on the aid to the states, which would have substantially cut job losses and gotten the money out even faster. Actually, that's not really true. Cutting back on state aid would have meant thousands more government layoffs from various states.

QUOTE (kapkomet @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 10:34 AM) This comparison is totally not the same. I have seen you use it over and over, and frankly, it's a leap that's illogical. And I do have some experiences in this area. All three deliver mail. They all have different business models.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 09:31 AM) I think its funny you choose the 7 months number, which is actually 5 months of big jobs losses, followed by the economic trends reversing the past two months. But really, the stimulus bill was never going to be a huge boost within the first 6 months anyway. No one ever said it would be. Especially since the vast majority of the stimulus money hasn't left government bank accounts yet.

QUOTE (FlaSoxxJim @ Oct 22, 2009 -> 07:32 AM) Turning this discussion more toward the subject of religious rites, aside from the selectivity of allowing full communion with married male Anglican priests but not married female Anglican priest, etc., what about the conflicted Anglican views on transubstantiation of the eucharist? Anglicans are all over the map as to whether consecration results in transubstiation, "pneumatic presence" (consubstantiation), or whether it is merely a symbolic act. For faithful Roman Catholics, on the other hand, the occurrence of the miracle is beyond question. How will "full communion" (whatever that means) be attained with breakaway Anglicans if fundamental faith differences like that exist? I think that could be the real outstanding theological question, although frankly not one that will matter to most. I think, on a practical level, the average Catholic doesn't give much thought to the concept of transubstiation. Frankly, the more I think about this particular move, the more nakedly political it seems on the Catholic Church to peel away the more conservative ends of the Anglican communion which is finding itself more and more isolated from a church that is willing to make accomodations to provide a safe place to worship and fully engage with a spiritual community to communities which frequently find themselves excluded from it. There are 77 million members of the Anglican communion - many of them in Africa and Asia - both areas where the Catholic church could still grow. By offering a chance to bring these Anglicans in, it makes the merger of some of these churches much more feasible in the near future.

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QUOTE (Chi Town Sox @ Oct 19, 2009 -> 03:43 PM) I won a trip to London this past week, I am planning on going for around 2 weeks and catching as much as possible without feeling like I am spending the majority of the time travelling. Anyone ever do this before? I have been to Ireland 3 times so I have some family there and in England that I plan on visiting for a small time. Some other places I have on my list are the Swiss Alps, Amsterdam, Ibiza, Italy amongst others- Anyone have any tips and/or suggestions of where to go in Europe? How much to bring Money wise if we are staying in Hostels? I actually found flights from Dublin to London that are as low as 5 Pounds each! Congrats, you should have a great time. Just keep in mind that 5 pound flight you found with Ryanair will be a lot closer to 30 or 40 pounds when all is said and done. Amsterdam is great, Copenhagen is great too. Christania is a lot of fun. Love Berlin - and its a relatively cheap destination for EU standards. There are some really excellent hostel accommodations that were a lot of fun when I was there. "the Tent" in Munich - Lonely Planet is probably your best bet for budget travel tips.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 05:41 PM) Packages, not day to day mail. They'll send day to day mail too. They just won't do it below cost.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 03:57 PM) Those are things that either no one else wants to do (deliver the mail) UPS and FedEx say hi.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Oct 21, 2009 -> 10:06 AM) I wont fault the Catholic church for being "intolerance" towards gay clergy. Heck, i fault those who DO tolerate gay clergy. If you claim to be a Christian bible based religion, and you say homosexuality isnt a sin, you arent following the bible. The bible has many things you can interpret, but homosexuality is not one of them. It's pretty clear: Leviticus 18:22 - "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." Romans 1:26-27 - "Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion." 1 Corinthians 6:9 - "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral... nor homosexual offenders... will inherit the kingdom of God." The problem is too many Christian denominations are not sticking true to the word of God. They are bending to popular culture. I remember this coming up with a priest at a catholic center I went to at IU Gary. He talked a lot about how there are different schools of thought on what Paul actually meant when he talked about this. The text you are talking about in Romans refers to orgies in Rome. The text you are talking about in Corinthians may very well be simply cultural, or it may have referred to extramarital pedophilia. The word Paul used was arsenokoitai which is an old greek word, that many scholars think refers to the practice of married men committing adultery with younger boys. Also tied in with that word in the particular passage you cite is malakoi which I understand to mean morally lax. So it's very possible that Paul never meant to speak of homosexuals in a broad brush, but rather a specific subgroup of people he considered to be immoral. Also, in the same book that Paul wrote, he also viewed men with long hair as "unnatural" as well, so Paul's views may be colored as cultural. In fact, I believe the Bible should also be viewed with the culture of the religion it represents in mind. It wasn't until the fifth century that the concept of the trinity was introduced into the Bible, and that working with translation after translation over 2000 years, there are some changes to the text itself based on those translations that may shade meaning in a number of ways. The intolerance of "gay clergy" by the Catholic church is shameful anyway and a direct violation of their own catechism which does specifically adress homosexuality as present and valid. It calls for gay people to have a celibate life but does recognize that a homosexual being homosexual is not specifically sinful in and of itself.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 20, 2009 -> 07:32 PM) I disagree - I think Obama going after Fox is politically stupid. If you want to convey the idea that Fox is a partisan non-journalistic news network (which... duh), then you treat it as such - ignore them, maybe laugh at them a little bit when the opportunity presents itself, and just go on doing your job. Worked for FDR in 36 and 40.

This has everything to do with the issue of gay clergy.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Sep 26, 2009 -> 10:50 PM) No one's going to stop doing the research. There's probably a dozen other ways out there that people are trying to do the same thing (ethanol from algae, ethanol from the leftover parts of agricultural processes, etc.). Right now there's just none of them that work well. And yea, corn ethanol wouldn't exist in this country without the government subsidy/mandates. If we could seamlessly use those plants as a way to shift from corn ethanol to genuinely renewable ethanol, that'd suddenly become a great investment, but I'm currently unconvinced. Sugarcane says hi. Half the emissions of regular gas. Rapidly renewable, its what led Brazil to energy independence.

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QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 08:49 AM) Look no further than the automotive industry which at one point had just about everything that liberals were looking for from corporate America... great health insurance, pension, super high wages, etc. To place the blame of GM and Chrysler's demise solely on good worker conditions is a massive oversimplification and, quite frankly, a ridiculous notion. Maybe if GM and Chrysler focused on making cars people wanted on a more consistent basis, they wouldn't be the massive s***show that they have become.

QUOTE (CanOfCorn @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 01:51 PM) I love this version. The video for it was incredible, it almost got banned in Germany because it uses some of the calisthenics sequences in Triumph of the Will, the nazi progaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl from 1936. But that song made me laugh so much - so ridiculous! And it was actually, the first song they ever performed together in English, IIRC. Anyway - more songs Seu Jorge - Rock N Roll Suicide Dengue Fever - Mr. Orange Q-Tip - Life Is Better The Whitest Boy Alive - Keep A Secret Capone N Noreaga - Neva Die Alone Beirut - In the Mausoleum Jens Lekman - A Sweet Sumer's Night on Hammer Hill The Stooges - Search and Destroy Brazilian Girls - Long Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds

QUOTE (Tex @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 10:49 AM) The dimensions were plotted to be 20 x 5 or 1,000 square feet. The known lift of helium placed the max lift at 100 pounds. And of course that isn't lift to 5,000 feet. Plus you have to subtract the weight of the mylar It wasn't that big actually, the shape reduced the amount of cubic footage in the balloon. A few experts that were on TV said that judging from the reported dimensions, and the shape, it likely couldnt have held more than 20 pounds, and thats fully inflated which it wasn't. And for that matter, why aren't these kids at school at 11 AM on a Thursday in October?

QUOTE (G&T @ Oct 16, 2009 -> 07:19 AM) This is the quote: CNN Why is this family putting a six year old on national television 18 times immediately after this event if it wasn't for publicity? These people make me kinda sick.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 04:03 PM) No, but these will be some of the people that we will all be forced to pay for under the "no one can be dropped" portion of the plan. We are already forced to pay for them when they need emergency treatment and don't have money to pay the ER bills.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 15, 2009 -> 01:12 PM) That would be part of that overdraft reform bill that we discussed a couple pages ago. I'm pretty sure we were told how bad of an idea reforming that process to make it less like outright theft would be at the time. Was listening to the Diane Rehm show last week and there was two consumer advocates and the president of a banking association that was lobbying against overdraft reform and the idea of consolidating oversight over banking and her answer to every customer experience, about crazy overdraft charges, holding deposits for nearly a week and changing terms arbitrarily is always - "There are over 8,000 banks in the US, maybe you should change yours." Like its as easy as going to a different supermarket or flying a different airline. It's so difficult to unwind from where you bank, that it's easy for banks to screw customers. Because going somewhere else usually takes a long time and a lot of effort. With automatic charges and waiting for checks to clear, etc... it can often take months, and any mistakes in transition can be extremely costly.

Sorta like everyone calling the stimulus a failure when in reality, its a slow burn bill - only 20% of the money had actually been spent by Sept 1.