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What I was pointing out is that the parchment (animal skin in this case) could have been processed in lets say 500CE but not actually used until 600CE. So even if you could nail down the age of the parchment, it doesn't tell you the age of the ink--that's what you'd need to know to know when the words were actually put down. That's a trick that forgers use--they'll produce their copies of paintings on blank canvases or historical documents on parchments that date to the correct period so that it's that much harder to detect the fraud. Either way, we still have a broad date range that covers Muhammed's entire lifespan as well as a decade or so after it. There doesn't appear to be any conflict with the dating. This is a very early example of the fragmentary written recordings that the NYT quote you posted reference. Think of them like the Dead Sea Scrolls containing parts of different Biblical stories but not actually all compiled into one book yet or the various early Christian writings and gospels that weren't canonized until a couple of hundred years later.

Raiders cut Trent Richardson. Will the guy two different teams spent 1st round picks on play in the NFL again?

It's also a dating of the parchment that book is made of, not necessarily a record of when the ink was put down on paper. Either way, the date range from the carbon testing fits just fine with the book being written late in Muhammad's life or within a decade or so after his death.

She'll have a GoFundMe for dopes to send her huge piles of cash shortly if she doesn't already. edit: apparently the Kentucy state legislature is on their regular recess until next year, so barring an (expensive) special session just to impeach this county clerk, the earliest they could even vote to impeach her is months from now.

The state legislature could impeach her.

Yep, though it looked like he had a big walking boot on now instead of a hard cast.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 1, 2015 -> 09:58 AM) http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_...-09-01-08-52-48 Apparently the lawyers don't want her to go to jail. They want her to pay money damages. I wonder why. Also it's weird that she stopped issuing marriage licenses all together. Two straight couples were also denied licenses. Pretty screwed up situation. Maybe sending her to jail allows Davis to portray herself as some sort of a martyr whereas paying a fine isn't nearly as much of a spectacle? It's dumb grandstanding like this that's part of the reason greg's religious poll has the numbers it does. Religious homophobia has driven a lot of people away.

The judge probably has the ability to throw her in jail for contempt of court, but if they're an elected judge, I'm doubtful that they would take that risk.

Without googling it at work, yes, I think there is in at least some states. e.g. age of consent might be 18 in the state, but you can get married with parental consent as young as 16 and then that'd override the normal age of consent.

She's not just a clerk in the office, she's the elected County Clerk and her name is on all official forms that come out of that office. It's not a matter of the people applying for the license just going to the employee at the next window, it's that per her instructions, marriage licenses for same-sex couples will not be issued from her office at all. If you're same-sex and live in that county, you have no other option.

Still defying multiple court orders and refusing to issue licenses. http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/Rowan-C...-323580981.html

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Sep 1, 2015 -> 09:19 AM) Back in the day when you lived to 40 or 50, Don't confuse average life life expectancy at birth with average lifespan of adults. Generally speaking, infant and childhood mortality rates in pre-industrial cultures (including many places in the world today) are high and drag the "average life expectancy at birth" way down to 30 or 40. But if you actually make it to your mid-teens or so, odds are you're going to live into your 60's-70's. That's true of increasing lifespan in the US in the 20th century, too. Age of consent is lower than 16 in probably the overwhelming majority of the world.

I, too, remember Democrats frequently threatening to shut down the government.

1) that's what incognito mode is for 2) I have a hard time imaging a situation where a 16-17 year old prostitute isn't being exploited and deserves scare-quotes.

Some background on the history of the name of the mountain and the attempts to change it. http://www.adn.com/article/20141221/denali...ckinley-renamed

That's the traditional indigenous name of the mountain (and the name of the park surrounding it). It was renamed McKinley in the early 20th century.

Mt. McKinley officially renamed to Denali over the weekend

The whole idea of statutory rape and age of consent laws is that children can't legally consent. And it ignores the pretty obvious exploitation of prostitutes and especially underage prostitutes that sort of negates any idea of consent anyway. eta:

Having someone say some mean things to you on facebook is just like centuries of enslavement and oppression.

Uh, why is victim in scare-quotes? Weren't they all underage?

Foo Fighters rocked the hell out of a sold out Wrigley field last night.

Tell us more about how unfortunate it is that it's a little less acceptable to fly the flag of white supremacy while it's still okay to fly a gay pride flag.

Presidential campaigns already devolving into twitter fights

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QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Aug 28, 2015 -> 01:08 PM) Both flags are used as symbols of pride in a certain status/heritage by some Yes, in one case, it's pride of a history of explicit white supremacy. The other is pride in being gay, but not superiority. I, too, remember the Second Civil War when the Gay Army of Virginia flew the rainbow flag with great pride as they fought to enslave all breeder scum and when they brought that same symbol back in force when the Straight Rights Movement started making some ground.