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As long as everyone involved is of age, it's perfectly legal to make a love train of whomever and how ever many people you like*. I have no interest in whether the components of that train wish to create legal connections with each other. *Isn't DFW one of the top areas in the country for swinger clubs both official and underground?

That's like a full gajillionth of the money we need for the stadium. Why aren't we sending him letters of solicitation?

It appears to benefit me to stop making my mortgage payments. Can I stop paying tuition too?

I sometimes wonder if the notion that the United States was founded as a Christian nation is confused with the City on a Hill ideas of society from John Winthrop. Of course, that society was into trying people for witchcraft on a whim. A good quote from Mr. Winthrop: As for the history of racism, here's one of my favorite little gems from Benjamin Franklin The founding fathers lived in a very different time with very different societal mores. Several aspects of that society such as slavery, the requirement of property ownership for voting, and the disenfranchisement and property status of women have been shown over time to be wrong, and have thus been slowly overturned. Sexual activity outside marriage has been deemed a matter of constitutional privacy, and no decision has ever shown the right to freedom of religion to be confined within various sects of Christianity. It is very easy to cherry pick quotations from the founding fathers and their predecessors to sway one's argument of the intention of the original government one way or another. I simply have a difficult time interpreting the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as anything else than live and let live. Under the banner of live and let live, I am never offended if you say, "Merry Christmas," if you put a diorama of the baby Jesus on your front lawn, or if you attend a mega church with 10,000 seats and a giant espresso machine. I am, however, offended if you come knocking on my door Sunday afternoon asking me why you never see me leaving the house in a suit on Sunday morning. I would be equally offended if you asked me what proclivities I have in the bedroom and felt compelled to critique and advise on such. These things are private matters, guaranteed by the constitution, and are not the right of any other person to dictate.

Might I be able to infer from that statement that Jews, to a lesser extent Mormons, and depending on interpretation, even Catholics wouldn't be included in that equation? I'm pretty sure that the founding fathers defined a voting citizen as a white male land owner. They must have had a crappy transcriber. The guy missed the requirement of, "in God he must trust." I've always wondered. How exactly does one build a city on a hill in a state as flat as an IHOP breakfast special?

It's a free country so long as you only do the things I believe in. Seriously. I couldn't give an albino squirrel's left nut who crosses swords with whom. I don't fear that a gay man will touch my daughter. I don't fear that my daughter's going to come home from college with a butch haircut and a pair of comfortable shoes. It both saddens and frightens me that politicians on both sides of the aisle so frequently prioritize matters of government involvement in morality over issues such as economy, infrastructure, and defense. I hate that the democrats try to govern my diet, my health (and my health care), and my speech. I hate that the republicans try to govern my morality, the parameters of my religion (Texas blue laws are still very, very strange to me), and my patriotism. I don't have my copy of the constitution sitting in front of me, but I don't believe government powers of morality legislation were mentioned. As you see by my posts in the stimulus thread, I am still entirely undecided on the role government should play in the economy, but I have no illusions as to what role it should play in daily life -- nothing! In fact, I think marriage should be done away with entirely in the eyes of the government. Marriage is a religious union. For civil matters, allow any two people of majority age to enter into a mutual contract of financial and emotional support -- essentially a contract of mutual super power of attorney. For marriage, leave it up to the individual churches to apply whatever labels to whomever they choose. There. Problem solved. As for personal experience, I'm straight as an arrow. I love women. Mmmm....wooommmeeenn. But I come from an industry run by gay men. Those gay men were, well, pretty much just like anybody else. Some were really, really cool. Some had kids that they raised with love and respect. Some were back stabbing, cut throat businessmen who'd not hesitate to take a dump on their grandmother's grave if it meant getting an extra bonus or up another notch on the corporate ladder. In other words, except for the fact that they choose to cross the streams rather than insert tab A into slot B, they're exactly like any other random sample of the population. In conclusion, sexual orientation gets a big, fat "MEH!" from me.

It beats shaking sausages.

You know, causing me to violently exhale hot coffee through my nose at six in the am is just plain cruel.

I believe his most famous quote was, "My leg!"

Oh no. I got it. It was a poor attempt at a humorous response.

It can't be. Food is not gay.

I'll be out there by 3. Not sure what time Tasty's arriving.

Read the rules, man. This is beanless chili!

I sure would love to enter that. Schedule doesn't allow. Anyone who enters and has extra, feel free to bring it out to the parking lot afterward!

Jake Johannsen has obviously never been smacked upside the head with the butt of a gun handle.

Time to be an ambassador for the program. Bring out some first timers and hang in the parking lot before the game. Then go into the pit and watch UNT beat a very good UALR team. ETA -- Wow. That was a redundant post on my part, wasn't it? Anyhoo, I'm thinking of doing wings and banana bread, and am toying with tacos (just in case the parking police don't like BBQs on non-football days).

Don't care. I don't own a gun nor will I ever. I don't care if someone else owns a gun though. I figure if you shoot me, meh, it's been a good run. If you shoot my wife, meh, it's been a run. If you shoot my daughter, all bets are off, and I will hunt your ass down and go medieval on it with a pair of needle nosed pliers and a bale of barbed wire.

ESPN radio was doing a bit on the naming rights about a year ago. They said Exxon was interested. The name was to be Jerry's Gashole.

C'mon. Be honest. How do you really feel?

Don't worry Lifer. Give it 2 years and they'll be divorced with her taking over half of his fortune. Then we can all dream of a hot sugar mama.

I've noticed a few double headers on the softball schedule. Is that a common softball thing? In other news, I've promised to take the kid to some softball games this year. Where does one park over there?

So is this the official antithesis of Texas/Oklahoma/Florida threads?

I'm indignant! I'm getting carried away! Oh the humanity!

Think back to when you were 13-15. Would it have mattered?

OK. I see where you're going with that. Please understand that as I've stated before, I'm in econ 1110. I have a lot to learn on these things, so I'm asking questions to learn, not to pick sides.