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And that's coming from someone who ran for public office (which speaks volumes right there).

To be honest with you, I think a more appropriate comparison with Martin Luther with regard to politics would have been the American Founding Fathers. They at least had a level of compassion. Marx was just flat out ruthless.

Never mind Shakespeare. Sounds like these guys got the goods on political theatre.

I'm not sure what part of MA this is in, but it really doesn't matter. This could happen anywhere. Nonetheless, they are sick in the heart. Those kinds of comments and the age of these girls makes me think that they'll delve into kiddie porn as long as they can without getting caught.

While I've been making my way through The Rage Against God by Peter Hitchens, he brought up a book in the footnotes that I haven't heard about in a long time. Maybe my wife will get me The Black Book of Communism for my birthday. :)

Sandra Fluke. Enough said. My other complaint. It's too nice outside in central Alabama to be working today.

IDK how much you know about the Protestant Reformation, but I strongly beg to differ on the comparison. Given how much I've studied church history (and there is just sooooo much more to learn out there), this is comparing apples and oranges to an extreme. If both Luther and Marx were alive today, I think both of them would have a visceral hatred toward one another. In all seriousness, Luther wanted to reform the Roman Catholic church from within. IIRC, he was excommunicated for refusing to recant his views and his writings. Even with the papal bull pronounced against him, he still continued to preach according to the dictates of his conscience as he had learned from Scripture. I can't say the same about Karl Marx.

I'm over in the Fort Worth area today. Nice sunny weather. I don't have to pick up my next load until 8 in the morning CT. F'N Fantastic!

I hadn't heard this tune in a long time (since the mid 90's IIRC), but I found it on Spotify and posted it on my FB wall. LOVE IT! EDIT: BTW, the title is actually "Til We Meet Again." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK9jX9EeZDA

That's been one of the reasons why my wife and I haven't gone out and bought one yet. My complaint for the week: my trucking company is gradually converting over from paper logs to electronic logs (aka e-logs). (ThePebble19 might know something abou this.) That's not the problem. What IS the problem is that they are now going to enforce when I check in and check out of a shipper or receiver. I asked how long this has been the policy. I was told that this had always been the policy, but that they're now going to be checking it with the e-logs. WTF? I wouldn't have had a problem with this had they told me about it when I first came on board and used the old paper logs. To me, this is like a bait and switch and they've lost a lot of respect in my eyes for this.

Some really deep, groovy progressive trance here.

That might confuse me as well because it makes me think of a dead mall out in the Albany area called "Cohoes Commons".

I guess we could bring Uwe Krupp out of retirement.

Word to the wise: back off of him before he has a few things to say to you in private that you're not going to like.

Thanks for bringing me back down to earth because I was fuming that Kassian got traded away. Time will only tell if this was really a good deal. Now, if only Stafford could have been shown the door. Who knows? He might do well in one of those European leagues when his contract either runs out or gets bought out.

Have you ever read anything that was written by Ludwig von Mises? I haven't read much about the field of education, but I've heard that Ezola Foster has written some stuff that can be quite controversial.

I guess you wouldn't know anything about that. :flirt: After I get caught up with some of my reading, here's what I have planned in my queue: Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin (Henry Beveridge translation) Catechism of the Roman Catholic Church (I have no intention of becoming Roman Catholic. It's just that it's good to know what they believe so that I don't make the mistake of misrepresenting their position.) That's all I can think of at this time. Ok, I guess if this counts for anything, I just read the Recent Deaths page on Wikipedia.

I sure do hope you have quite a bit of money on you, because they're not a cheap breed by any means. My wife and I bought a Shiba Inu puppy back in 2002, and it was not a purebred. He had been marked down a couple of times before we bought him, and it was around $550 back then. They also shed like crazy when it gets really hot.

Almonds. Love 'em! F'N Fantastic.

Cool tune (although I heard that there were a couple of "preachers" who weren't too thrilled by the message in this song).

I guess it should come as no surprise why homeschooling is booming in both the US and Canada.

There's a problem solving flow chart out there on how to fix a computer. The only problem is that if I were to post a link to it, it would be NSFW.

Hmmm. Quite a reminder for me to work on such people skills as avoiding patronizing and condescending others. So, there's my mea culpa for doing that in the past. :)

I'm planning on going back to school to get a degree in IT. I hear that it's really lucrative right now, but I also want to get into it and enjoy it.

Not a complaint by any means, but I had no idea where to pin this one. It's bad enough the winds from a hurricane or a tornado are strong enough to kill us. But this one would definitely kill us and we would never know what hit us. :o I wish I had the talents and smarts that engineers do. The associated sciences that go along with it were never my strong suits.