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I-missed-hump-day Poll: Do you think someone with strong religious beliefs and someone with no religious beliefs could have a real relationship? - Hotkiss Feb 24, 08:58 16
- honestly, i think not in the long run. if your life isn't in keeping with his faith, it's not realistic to believe that it won't cause major problems -- nm - Andie Feb 24, 09:08
- It really depends on the people and the levels of religious involvement in day-to-day life. It *can* work, but conflicts are inevitable. - Name Withheld By Request Feb 24, 09:05
- It depends on the 2 people really. If you can accept his religion and that it very strongly guides his life...and in turn, he can accept that you - Jim Feb 24, 09:04
- Alot of the time, the religion frowns upon marrying outside of it. So, not only do you have to work out how you are going to live day to day, but - Amy Feb 24, 09:04
- abstains from sex? nope, no chance - dogbert Feb 24, 09:03
- As with almost anything, it depends on the people involved. - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 24, 09:03
- if by "real relationship" you mean with the expectation of getting married and raising a family, you've nailed the sticking points exactly. -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 09:03
- Not me. nm - Dignan Feb 24, 09:03
- Hang on. How is your second to last sentence in the IM even a consideration right now? - con_carne Feb 24, 09:02
- I kind of agree with your 2nd to last paragraph. - JaxSean Feb 24, 09:02
- Of course. -- nm - Dr.Vermin Feb 24, 09:02
- I imagine it works for some people, but not many. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 24, 09:01
- my sister and her husband do. -- nm - loosilu on BB Feb 24, 09:01
- Yes. (nm) - Will Hunting Feb 24, 09:01
- Agree with your IM. -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 08:59
- No. -- nm - Luke Feb 24, 08:59
mojo brought up something I was thinking about last night re: Survivor/Phillip - Max Feb 24, 08:57 5
- Russell's made a pretty good life for 80 days of being a dick...Philip probably sees - Will Hunting Feb 24, 09:00 1
  - spoils - Beryllium Feb 24, 09:03
- if it's a plan...... - prayformojo Feb 24, 08:59 1
  - That was my second thought. - Max Feb 24, 09:03
- (in my head this would be called 'pulling an Omarosa') -- nm - Max Feb 24, 08:58
(hungry) - What's for lunch? - Andie Feb 24, 08:54 13
- thursday is free lunch at work day; today is *probably* pizza ... -- nm - Beryllium Feb 24, 09:03
- Giant cookie, leftover candied bacon (better the second day!), leftover bbq and mashed potatoes. (This is Why You're Fat) -- nm - Amy Feb 24, 08:58 1
  - But, the leftovers I brought from home are tiny portions. And I'm rationing the candied bacon. (god I wish someone would just eat the rest of that) -- nm - Amy Feb 24, 09:00
- I think I'm going to go try that Pho place again. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 24, 08:58
- Sandwich (BH Blazing Buffalo Chicken Breast on Thomas Everything Bagel Thin) with baked cheddar and sour cream ruffles - ty97 Feb 24, 08:57
- Cheeseburger....need $1's for the vending machine and it's $5.25 -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 24, 08:56 2
  - Cheeseburger from the vending machine? Fries too?? -- nm - Don Homer Feb 24, 08:57 1
    - Of course. $5.25 is a lot for a burger itself. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 24, 08:57
- I had some southwest tortilla soup with bbq chips. Still hungry though. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 24, 08:56
- oreos, and if there is any room left chicken kiev -- nm - dogbert Feb 24, 08:55 1
  - mmm. chicken kiev. i haven't had that in way too long. -- nm - Andie Feb 24, 09:05
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  - really? even in a law office? (i have never, in my life, had my lunch stolen.) -- nm - Andie Feb 24, 08:57
Survivor spoils - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 24, 08:53 1
- Indeed. -- nm - David Feb 24, 09:04
Justified question (spoils) - Jovian Feb 24, 08:53 3
- Spoils - prayformojo Feb 24, 08:58 2
  - lol, that's right, Ava. -- nm - Jovian Feb 24, 08:59 1
    - that mistake probably cost you a shot with her. -- nm - prayformojo Feb 24, 09:00
Apple: So is the new deal "No Steve Jobs, No Keynotes"? -- nm - lileve Feb 24, 08:45 3
- There's a "media event" March 2. Someone will be presenting something. You don't have to call it a keynote if you don't want. -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 08:47 2
  - I think they unveiled new MBP models today. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 24, 08:48 1
    - They don't do a keynote for most hardware update, mostly just new products and major revision - Guigue Feb 24, 08:50
Fox renews Hell's Kitchen for 2 more seasons. (So I figure that should get them through at least June.) -- (link) - Ender Feb 24, 08:38 3
- They are supposed to do a resto in our neighborhood tonight (if I read the guide correctly) - Davide. -- nm - Diva Feb 24, 08:54
- Hell yeah! -- nm - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 24, 08:41
- Huh. Someone must still be watching, I guess. -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 08:38
Is it the last Discovery launch now? -- nm - LMS Feb 24, 08:35 12
- The last planned shuttle launch, period, I thought ... -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 24, 08:44
- ain't there one left in reserve? -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 24, 08:43 6
  - Endeavour is set to launch in April. And there's a planned launch for Atlantis in June. -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 08:45 5
    - Ah, I see. -- nm - Beryllium (iPhone) Feb 24, 08:47
    - i hear somewhere they alwasy have one in reserve (just in case) and the last one will be without that reserve -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 24, 08:46 1
      - I suspect they'll keep Endeavor or Discovery around, just in case. -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 08:51
    - Endeavour is the one Rep. Gifford's husband is supposed to lead, correct? -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 08:46 1
      - think so too -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 24, 08:47
- Liftoff scheduled for 4:50PM ET. -- nm - Ender Feb 24, 08:40 2
  - Cool - you can watch here. -- (link) - LMS Feb 24, 08:44 1
    - And for those with HD in the US, being covered by HDNET. -- nm - Ender Feb 24, 08:47
- That is what I heard on NPR -- nm - con_carne Feb 24, 08:37
The world's most expensive homes -- (link) - ty97 Feb 24, 08:34
Feds: According to his diary, Saudi obtained scholarship in U.S. so he could carry out jihad -- (link) - Hotkiss Feb 24, 08:32 5
- "attending college near Lubbock, Texas" - ty97 Feb 24, 08:46
- linked off of this... -- (link) - Mel Profit Feb 24, 08:44
- Maybe we should stop giving scholarships to terrorists? Like, put a box on the application form: - Mop Feb 24, 08:43 1
  - "terrorist" is a far wider definition then "jihadist" -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 24, 08:45
- what a waste - Danedukenuuk Feb 24, 08:39
After flood, Brazilian mom finds 3 year old petting alligator in living room -- (link) - Beaker Feb 24, 08:32 1
- Petting alligator is an oxymoron. -- nm - ty97 Feb 24, 08:35
so am I hearing this right, someone poised as another reporter, talked to the Wisconsin Gov, and during that conversation - tRuMaN Feb 24, 08:31 28
- Go ahead and agitate--teachers, nurses and librarians are pretty unflappable. We'd just smile and put them in time outs. -- nm - Amy Feb 24, 08:47 6
  - And yet so many of them are being given "doctors notes" for "mental stress" - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 24, 08:57 3
    - ha. I tried this yesterday at work. I told one of the docs "sign this" and handed them a work release form. I then put my name on it and handed it to - dogbert Feb 24, 09:01
    - I can DO that??????? -- nm - Amy Feb 24, 09:01 1
      - Only in Wisconsin, I think. :) -- nm - Stephen, Enemy of the RNC Feb 24, 09:06
  - unflappable? bah, I'm plenty flappable. of course I get to just give everyone haldol and put them in a real time out - dogbert Feb 24, 08:51
  - You are a naughty, naughty boy! It's time for a spanking! -- nm - Amy si Feb 24, 08:50
- old tactics nothing new there -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 24, 08:40
- that's not too surprising. vancouver police have been caught doing that a few times. -- nm - mafic Feb 24, 08:35
- Wasn't this the reporter posing as Koch? And is it really so bad to consider doing something that you end up not doing? I consider doing all sorts of - mara Feb 24, 08:34 15
  - No, the governor of Wisconsin does not get to have the "freedom of thought" to consider interfering with free speech -- nm - con_carne Feb 24, 08:44 2
    - I disagree. -- nm - mara Feb 24, 08:53 1
      - you're right mara! -- nm - dogbert Feb 24, 08:54
  - Right, and the Koch impersonator actually brought it up first. -- nm - Ender Feb 24, 08:42 5
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      - I imagine you get any pol on the line with a huge donor and when the donor says "Hey, you should do X" 9/10 of them will say "Heh, we thought about that but decided not to.". -- nm - Ender Feb 24, 08:46 2
        
        I agree with you here. It's sort of a pat on the head to a supporter. You're not going to say "are you frikkin' crazy?" - pmb Feb 24, 08:52
        
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    - Oh, well that makes it ok then. -- nm - Don Homer Feb 24, 08:43
  - *considers punching will in the nose* - dogbert Feb 24, 08:41
  - yeah, idle speculation is meaningless - what I find damning is his implication that he really is union-busting - even though he 'public' denies that. -- nm - decline Feb 24, 08:36 1
    - If you look at the specifics of what he is proposing, I don't see how it could be interpreted as anything *but* union-busting. -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 08:37
  - i am just amazed that he would admit that, regardless of who he was talking. - tRuMaN Feb 24, 08:35 2
    - People probably try to impress Koch all the time. He's rich and powerful. -- nm - mara Feb 24, 08:36 1
      - hmm. its possible. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 24, 08:38
- not as a reporter, as a Koch brother - Reagen Feb 24, 08:33 2
  - right, it was areporter/blogger posing as Koch (which I always thought ended in ch - but is pronounce Coke) -- nm - decline Feb 24, 08:34
  - aww. -- nm - tRuMaN Feb 24, 08:33
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(Gadhafi) said al-Qaida forces had given "hallucinogenic" drugs to youth in Libya to get them to incite unrest. -- (link) - Mop Feb 24, 08:29 12
- "And I can swear you, that there's nothing wrong with my body fluids" -- nm - Colonel Qadaffi Feb 24, 09:01
- What a cool movie it would be: dictator laces nation's water with trippies to maintain control -- nm - Hotkiss Feb 24, 08:43 1
  - I think several movies were made in the '60s with this premise. -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 08:46
- Ya drinkin drugs? -- nm - Grhedaaphee Feb 24, 08:41
- LIR: if this Dictatoring dont work out a gig as comedian is still open -- nm - Danedukenuuk Feb 24, 08:41
- I love this. -- nm - ty97 Feb 24, 08:36 3
  - I kind of do too. - Mel Profit Feb 24, 08:38 2
    - "It's ... space aliens! No? Giraffes dressed as people!" - Reagen Feb 24, 08:41 1
      - If I didn't think it dangerous I'd offer to be a speech writer just to see what I could get away with. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 24, 08:46
- He is the Michelle Glen Beckman of the Middle East. -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 24, 08:30 2
  - I wouldn't be at all surprised if Glenn Beck agrees with him. nm - Dignan Feb 24, 08:31 1
    - I read in the last couple days that he's ended up on the same side as Iran or Qaddafi or both. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 08:32
Sarah Hyland could literally pass for a 12 year old. nm - Dignan Feb 24, 08:29 3
- *obligatory lame cappy joke* -- nm - Mop Feb 24, 08:31
- I know. *giddy smile* -- nm - Ed O'Neill Feb 24, 08:29 1
  - This was a blind item during the 1st season, right? Some rumor about them? Man, if true, I bet the producers of the show leaned heavy on him/her to - HdnAgnda Feb 24, 08:31
Survivor watchers. Did you notice when they place Phillips name on screen it says: - HdnAgnda Feb 24, 08:27 3
- DON'T DOUBT HIS INTEGRITY! *weeps* -- nm - Beaker Feb 24, 08:34
- Besides Phillip's clownishness, I have little reason not to believe that he was really one -- nm - con_carne Feb 24, 08:30 1
  - Becausse of Gary Oldman's character in The Professional, right? -- nm - HdnAgnda Feb 24, 08:32
Justified spoilers - prayformojo Feb 24, 08:27 1
- I thought the last moments (spoils) - JaxSean Feb 24, 08:38
The smaller Rolling Stone gets, the better the writing. - Amy Feb 24, 08:25 4
- I hate the smaller form so much that I just assumed the writing sucked now too. Wow. -- nm - miss amanda phones Feb 24, 08:31 2
  - The longer articles gradually turn into tiny type. nm - Dignan Feb 24, 08:36 1
    - It's all tiny type--but I just can't get over how much I've been enjoying it.. -- nm - Amy Feb 24, 08:39
- It bodes well for me that you think smaller is better. -- nm - HdnAgnda channeling Chandler Feb 24, 08:28
Asst AG Jeff Cox loses his job over his "Live Ammo" tweet -- (link) - amoxy Feb 24, 08:24 5
- Mop? -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 08:26 4
  - Oops, I missed it -- nm - amoxy Feb 24, 08:28 3
    - It happens. I technically should have went with "again?" but the board is more fighty today. -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 08:33 2
      - Thanks. Do you want to kiss? -- nm - amoxy Feb 24, 08:34 1
        
        Only on Wednesdays, silly. -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 08:40
Joey, he's bad for a tribe. - David Feb 24, 08:23 3
- Put it this way....if my choices are playing the unknown or the toxic, I'm playing the toxic every day of the week. -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 24, 08:25 2
  - Spoilers - David Feb 24, 08:28 1
    - In the whole Rob v Russell argument, this is the only thing we might actually agree on. (spoils) - Jim Feb 24, 08:31
hug it out, boitches. -- nm - mafic Feb 24, 08:22 6
- but hands above the equator. -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 08:23 5
  - I promise nothing. -- nm - mafic Feb 24, 08:25 4
    - *hug* -- nm - Amy Feb 24, 08:28 3
      - *moves Amy's hands off of mafic's butt* -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 24, 08:30 2
        
        *hug* -- nm - Amy Feb 24, 08:31 1
        
        watch.it. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 24, 08:40
STIS: At what dollar amount should I move cash into my savings account from my checking account? -- nm - lileve Feb 24, 08:22 7
- increments of $1000, over whatever cushion you feel necessary to keep in the checking account... -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 08:23 6
  - i'd got even smaller. it cost nothing to transfer, right? every payday, whatever extra is there before you got paid, transfer it over. - Andie Feb 24, 08:26 4
    - Yes, I'm trying to figure auto draft from my pay check to my online savings but I don't make the same every week sometimes. -- nm - lileve Feb 24, 08:32 2
      - can you set up direct deposit so it deposits a specifc amount into your checking, and whatever's left into your savings? -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 08:33 1
        
        Not sure, I'll look into it. -- nm - lileve Feb 24, 08:40
    - yup, that works too. Making sure there's a trigger (payday, reaching a certain threshold) to make it a habit is the important thing, I think. -- nm - znufrii Feb 24, 08:32
  - this -- nm - Beaker Feb 24, 08:24
LIR: Does ST know? When applying for a mortgage, which looks worse? Credit Card or bank Line of Credit debt? -- (link) - Name Withheld By Request Feb 24, 08:22 [Backboard] 8
- Pay down the one that is closest to being maxed out. - ceregon Feb 24, 08:47
- It's all about the credit score. What you can do to fix that is debatable, other than the typical stuff - JaxSean Feb 24, 08:40
- I don't know that there is a difference in how it is viewed. debt is debt. - znufrii Feb 24, 08:25
- what znu said. Higher interest rate first and always -- nm - Beaker Feb 24, 08:23 4
  - Okay, then its status quo, because that's what I've been working on already these last few months. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 24, 08:25 3
    - and if you get approved, see if you can consolidate your CC debt and LOC into the mortgage. Lower interest rate I bet and 1 payment over several rocks -- nm - Beaker Feb 24, 08:28 2
      - (and deduct the interest on taxes.) - JaxSean Feb 24, 08:41 1
        
        Yep to your IM. We don't get to do that on primary residences up here. Only interest on mortgages on revenue properties. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Feb 24, 08:49
blah -- nm - Spawn Feb 24, 08:21
LOUD NOISES!!! -- nm - David Feb 24, 08:20 1
- *stabs you with a trident* -- nm - Reagen Feb 24, 08:21
offs. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 24, 08:20 3
- ? -- nm - Diva Feb 24, 08:22 2
  - I did not save a bundle on my car insurance. -- nm - Mel Profit Feb 24, 08:24 1
    - On it brother. -- nm - Black Shadow Feb 24, 08:30

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