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X. Benedict

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  1. Juan Cole did a piece on this in Salon. He's a Lefty, but he outlines the obstacles to such a program pretty well: http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/...iraq_partition/
  2. A Shia partition would be Iran's best ally. A Kurdish one would be pro-US. A Sunni one would likely blame the US for impoverishing their country by losing the oil-rich Shia and Kurdish regions. In the balance we would only get a pro-US kurdish region which Turkey would never forgive us for.
  3. White and Nerdy
  4. I only wanted the shot glass. I live in WNY, gay marriage hasn't gotten here yet. And you like those cardiomyocytes, don't you?
  5. I'm starting to like this guy.
  6. How about lying under oath just before: I swear to God I'll marry you if you do this.
  7. I've seen him at home games. Ans: sick to his stomach. But that has everything to do with the O-line.
  8. I'll manage this campaign if we can run the first two months based on the Head-ON commercial. Frontal Nudity! - vote for Bungee Jumper Frontal Nudity! - vote for Bungee Jumper Frontal Nudity! - vote for Bungee Jumper Frontal Nudity! - vote for Bungee Jumper Frontal Nudity! - vote for Bungee Jumper Frontal Nudity! - vote for Bungee Jumper
  9. Gentleman. We have ourselves a 2008 candidate.
  10. Second Amendment. Use it or lose them.
  11. Have you ever voted a little curious?
  12. I just took them down again. this can go on all day
  13. I voted. I also removed 3 illegal signs within 100 ft. of the polling place.
  14. Kudos to the both of you.
  15. So does that make it better or worse than that "I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free"
  16. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/n...y/144-58.0.html
  17. And they omitted Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer And Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love What a crap list.
  18. Remembering Ren and Stimpy: The Hangin' Song" C'mon everbody! Let's have a hoedown! Oh, Lord loves a hangin'. That's why He gave us necks. It tightens up our vocal cords And loosens up our pecs. So if you are a horse theif And guilty to the bone, Go ahead and blame a friend And you won't hang alone. It may be hard to swaller, But you'll be three feet taller. It's a dandy way to entertain your friends. You say you are a villain, But can't abide by killin'; Go ahead a steal yourself a horse. Oh, Lord loves a hangin'. And so do we, by heck; So get yerself a lasso And decorate your neck. Oh, we is awful ignorant And uglier 'n sin; So go ahead 'n cut us down And hang us all again, Hangin' that is. Swing a spell...
  19. Some pretty sloppy work on this site. There was no Pope Boniface IX in 1045. Recall Dante put Boniface VIII in hell and he was a contemporary in the 1300's. Also the Nicene Creed makes no mention of priestly celibacy. Perhaps the site is attempting to reference approbations or canons of Council of Nicea.
  20. The riojas right now are some of the best values and plenty yummy.
  21. Almost right. The rules for celibacy came in the Lateran reforms. While monks did not marry, priests did marry and tended to pass down the duties to sons - the problem was many had no training or vocation and were illiterate, and often the kings and counts were investing bishops and priests. Most of the married priesthood was actually not wealthy or professional, they were usually able to recite a minimum number of prayers. The monasteries had the most wealth - land. The parishes of the married priests were usually meager and for the peasants. Greed doesn't really wash because in the 12th century the New Economy of coinage had not really reached the churches this edict effected. It had much more to do with who had the right to invest bishops and priests: the German kings or the pope. In the Catholic Church, I believe only the Roman Rite requires celibacy, all the other rites have a married priesthood and are in full communion.
  22. The guy was probably pretty upset to learn he joined the gay gym. Judgment free zone.
  23. I do. Never at the same time.
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