gee I can't possibly imagine

why a man who toppled white supremacy in his country isn't popular with the GOP base.

dramatic drop in unemployment

Down to seven percent which is the lowest in five years. Good news across all sectors. 200, 000 jobs added to payrolls.


http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/november-2013-unemployment-numbers-100780.html

what puzzles me about the conservative protestant (rick warren, hobby lobby owners) problem with

with providing contraception coverage in their employee's policies is this- unlike abortion, opposition to contraception has never been a protestant issue. It is something virtually exclusively roman catholic.

Every Young Man's Battle: The Reefer Madness of Porn

how distant must a cousin be before one can date them

Not just legally, but non ickilly?

Edited to say a couple of third cousins and the gossip around them got this started and also I am not one of them but a third cousin to them both.

the old men who send young men to war club

tomorrow

I will go to mass and pray for the bishop of rome

Pope calls unfettered capitalism tyrany

US Flies B52s into China's Expanded Air Defense Zone

November 26, 2013

WASHINGTON — Two long-range American bombers have conducted what Pentagon officials described Tuesday as a routine training mission through airspace recently claimed by China as its “air defense identification zone.”The Chinese government said Saturday that it had the right to identify, monitor and possibly take military action against aircraft that enter the area, which includes sea and islands also claimed by Japan. The claim threatens to escalate an already tense dispute over some of the maritime territory.American officials said the pair of B-52s carried out a mission that had been planned long in advance of the Chinese announcement last weekend, and that the United States military would continue to assert its right to fly through what it regards as international airspace.


http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/world/asia/us-flies-b-52s-into-chinas-expanded-air-defense-zone.html?source=hp&ei=EB-VUsepN6iusASxiYCYDw&q=china%20fly%20zone&oq=china%20fly%20zone&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.12..0i22i30l3.11099.19017.0.22994.15.14.0.1.1.0.337.3292.0j1j7j4.12.0....0...1c.1.32.mobile-gws-hp..2.13.3411.gua9o6oDVDY&hpw=&rref=world&

anglicans Episcopalian s take on NT Wright?

I disagree with him on gay ordination but am reading Surprised by Hope and want to know your opinions on his thesis on the soul and heaven and resurrection.