birdog1960

wait, the principles preached by Christ are not part of a conversation on Christianity in your alternsative universe? shouldn't they be the basis for Christianity of all flavors? and i'm not sure why you feel qualified to define my religious beliefs.

explain. not following. portrayals or interpretation of what exactly?

i don't know a single liberal who disagrees with the principles professed by Christ. I'd argue that, in fact, on the whole, those priciples are more aligned with liberal tenets than conservative ones (hence the overwhelming acceptance and admiration for pope Francis). the disagreement is not with Christianity per se, but rather with what many consider inaccurate and self serving portrayals or interpretations of them.

hmmmm....have you seen the thread on the pope? he's a Christian and many liberals like him a great deal. and that terry schiavo thing http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp058062....brilliantly engineered by the left. the bombings of abortion clinic as well.

from the article: The [GOP] does rely too much on older and white voters, and especially in rural areas, deaths from this group can be significant,” Frey says. “But millennials (born 1981 to 1997) now are larger in numbers than baby boomers ([born] 1946 to 1964), and how they vote will make the big difference. And the data says that if Republicans focus on economic issues and stay away from social ones like gay marriage, they can make serious inroads with millennials.” Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/05/the-gop-is-dying-off-literally-118035.html#ixzz3abcztDJm that's a big if. so far i don't see much evidence that front running national or local repubs are going to follow suit. they are beholden to groups that prioritize conservative social issues. .

i think it's about right and wrong, morality. that's what they likely thought through.

and then there's this http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/vatican-finalizes-treaty-recognizing-palestinian-statehood/. what's next? God, i love this guy!

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catholicism now ok in cuba: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2015/05/10/raul-castro-thanks-pope-for-aiding-diplomatic-breakthrough-says-may-return-catholic-fold/cOXhXeX9oZR316Y6DStcoJ/story.html?hootPostID=36841c15b12a23488c33b881a95fa35d “I am from the Cuban Communist Party, that doesn’t allow believers, but now we are allowing it,” Raúl Castro said during his news conference on Sunday. “It’s an important step.”

same general area we currently live in. we'll probably stay when we retire. we've considered moving from the mouintains to the beach but in looking around i'm unconvinced. places right on the water are extrermely expensive and reasonably priced places are often planned communities with tons of restrictive covenenats and hoa fees and they're a drive and park to the beach.. can't see myself letting a group of stepford wives tell me not to plant corn and tomatoes in my own backyard. for what it's worth, i don't find savanah or charleston to be low cost of living in comparison to where i now live. one other thing about the coastal area is that the islands there are called barrier islands for a reason. hurricanes and erosion happen. islands actually reshape and/or disappear as does the coastline. and then there's the rising sea level... debate continues at ppp.

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/08/405260407/global-carbon-dioxide-levels-reach-milestone

because i can't imagine anyone doing a better job at vital position than my wife. it would have been a shame to waste that talent when a wet nurse would suffice. i believe you lead by example. there's clearly merit in stay at home motherhood, at times even glory. i believe successful parenting does not require it, however.

do you carry a club and drag women around by the hair?

exactly. nice summation. but even more than that: if they played their cards right and sold out after the neighborhoods gentrified (and exiled point is that not all did), they stood to collect a gov't enabled windfall that could go towards upward mobility through education that blacks were never given the opportunity to receive.

the ghettos were not an accident. read the article. romney's daddy knew it. he tried to undue the damage. never happened. places like levvitown might have lifted many more up if not for segregationists. yes, it was a long time ago. and roosevelt himself may have felt that the leittowns were meant for white only…but i doubt it.

what's typical is shallow minded folks missing the moral of the story. "morals, we don't need no stink in morals…"?

cheers back...but i know you saw the part about it involving a coalition of segregationist southern dems (known nowadays as sothern republicans) and their more liberal northern counterparts compromising on this issue to make it happen.

http://www.npr.org/2015/05/06/404441478/troubled-neighborhoods-reflect-segregations-legacy-researcher-says. I found this a very interesting and logical piece. comments? From the 1930s onward, white people moved into new houses. Many were in new suburbs like Levittown, N.Y. Black people got public housing apartments in the same center cities where they already lived. Decades later, there's an enormous gap between the grandchildren of one group and the grandchildren of the other.

i'm seeing the putin stolen super bowl ring incident in an entirely different light now. he probably figured he was just stealing from another thief.

we don't know that yet just as we don't know how good or bad the bills picks are going to be.

so now we have polian and belicheck as accolytes of the draft qb's often philosophy. on the other side we seem to have whaley. just wondering what compells you to choose one strategy over another.

it's a formula that worked very well for him. if he were are gm and drafted a middle rounf d qb this draft, i suspect most everyone here would have agreed with that decision. but whaley is our gm asnd bills fans are loyal to a fault. he still has much to prove and i hope he does. i'll give him the benefit of the doubt but my confidence in him is no where near where it appears the boards consensus is. i think the skepticism is justified.

this. so are we agreed that a 1st round qb is ,at best, a 50/50 proposition? that the odds aren't all that much longer for a mid round pick? i think recent history bears that out. Then why not go best available mid round qb til you find one? what's that vaunted bills anaytics dept been up to? there must be a statistical analysis on drafting a qb…any fool can tell you that drafting one is the most commonly successful method. you have to actually draft some in order to find one.

tom brady was a sixth round pick….just saying.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or fascist dictorship, or a parliament or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peace makers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” Hermann