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I can't stop craving...pecan pie! Make that a la mode, with Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla.

I'm not really sure what you're driving at here, closer ties between the U.S. Government and churches? I can't think of a better way of causing churches not to thrive. Germany has been known to have a "church tax", and such a declining rate of church membership that many churches are closing and congregations merging. I first heard about this from a woman speaking at our church who is originally from Germany. You can click on the following link, scroll down, and read the part about the "Church tax". The Church Tax in Germany. If you think about the result of what the founding fathers did, which was to cause religious establishments to thrive by forbidding laws "respecting an establishment of religion", it makes me wonder why anyone who professes to being a Christian or practioner of any organized religion would want to change that.

Gay marriage and/or civil unions will all come down to money. If conservatives can figure out a way gay marriage can reduce government expenditures and liberals can find a way for lawyers to make money out of it, it will happen.

It kinda sounds like the flip side of the liberals' view that conservatives want people hooked up to machines keeping them "alive" (a la Terri Schiavo (sp?)) well beyond any detectable brain activity. Is there any conversation here that doesn't start or end with "conservatives" and "liberals" demonizing each other? Tired. I can remember getting into arguments with people over various issues at a place called Jim's Diner in Denton back in the early 80's when that those on either side would actually mention that they felt better for having had the argument. I can't even remember if we called each other by any political label. If you believe in God, it seems reasonable to conclude that he made all of us, even though we are of many different views.

That makes 4 of us!

Be careful when picking her up at the airport.

Thanks guys; and I used to go to the Denton County Hamburger Company when I lived in Denton, and yes, they make a great burger. John, I will try the Central Grille sometime when I'm in Denton, since you've recommended it.

Hey, not to be naive about Obama and the National Geospatial Agency (yes, as a GIS professional, I'm proud of the geospatial sensitivity), but it just reminded me of this: If you want a great burger, sometimes you just want to go to a hamburger joint. And yes, I'm now realizing I'm hamburger joint challenged, only having gone to Fuddrucker's and the local Whataburger lately. I'd like to get together with the Tasty Greek and Marleta (sp?), and try out a place I've heard of in Deep Ellum called the Twisted Root. Any area burger joint recommendations?

So, did anyone else notice that the week 8 schedule results show "North Texas over Troy in overtime"? I love that!

That's the cultural anomaly I've seen here in this multicultural oasis we call Euless that I have found rather surprising; although the Tongans with the pinata at their kid's birthday party also seemed odd; granted the Tongan family did have Latina guests. All this takes place in a City of Euless Park next to where I live. I don't find any of that troubling. As a white dude, I do find it troubling that the scariest people to me around this are white folks who appear to have been using meth long enough for it to have wrecked their bodies. Local governments can legally work with those of different cultural and religious beliefs , such as they have done here in Euless, to craft compromises with some of our immigrant groups. I was skeptical of the compromise offered to the Santeria folks to allow the killing of chickens rather than goats here in town, as part of their animal sacrifice ritual; last I heard, the Santerians (sp?) were taking the City to court anyway. It's like Captain said in "Cool Hand Luke"; "some people you just can't reach".

Hey, I was just being sarcastic; to me, she's just another anorexic girl. I must start using that sarcasm emoticon, I guess.

Just started on "Paul Newman, A life". I don't like biography, but this is a great book about a great man! Our manager has a son who's getting a full ride at Newman's old school, Kenyon University, from the "Newman's Best" scholarship fund that Newman and his wife started just before Newman's death. Makes you realize how a man can be ordinary, fun loving, a loving husband, tremendously successful, an international celebrity, and among the greatest philanthropists, all from humble beginnings and never forgetting his family, his college, or his country.

I love it when they do that. Makes me forget all their tired political back and forth.

Tiring thread, with all arguing in different ways for the same conclusion: Obama will nominate and the Senate will confirm. Just to let you conservatives know that even the first justice you loved to hate has good advice for us all: “I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures." - Earl Warren, American Politician, Judge

It sounds like they're more perfect than I'm convinced any human is. Here's a quote from that liberal turned conservative, the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky: ""So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find some one to worship." I just wish I could find his quote about the left having no monopoly on stupidity, but, that's it in a nutshell.

Well, I do remember Gretchen Bataille mentioning the need for sound retention in her Channel 13 CEO segment. I'm very grateful for the emphasis being placed on that.

Yep.

That's a good idea! However, I, a liberal, was wanting to post something from Ann Coulter to back up one of my arguments. So, can liberals post Ann, and conservatives post Arianna? Really, they're so far in either direction, they're probably embracing at whatever point where the curvature of the Earth brought them together. We do believe the Earth is round, don't we?

Well, I'm no fan of SMU, but one of my friends from the UNT College of Music went on to SMU Law School, and eventually was president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, so I guess he reached the top of his specialty. When I saw some of the conservative bloggers attaching Harriet Miers because she went to SMU instead of one of the Ivies, I just became further convinced of the intellectual emptiness of many on the right; quite disappointing after them having such heavyweight thinkers as William F. Buckley and Milton Friedman. Some members of this board will live long enough for a graduate of UNT Law School, nominated for a prominent judicial position, to be attacked based on the law school they attended. It seemed like those who knew Harriet Miers praised her qualifications; those who knew nothing of her attacked her for the thinnest of reasons: that they didn't know enough about her. That said more about them than her; that they really wanted someone whose views on controversial issues were known to them, and had a record of judging on those issues that reflected their own "activist" agenda.

Damned by faint praise!

I meant each uses his/her own flight privilege!

My wife says I have to buy season tickets for this year's football season, and otherwise contribute more substantially, so I'll have to forgo said $1000 donation in favor of (mean) green power.

I'm still looking for further attacks on us Liberal Democrats based on us not being in the spirit of the"liberal arts", a "liberal education", favoring (a term Reagan used in his "tear down this wall" speech) "liberalization" of policies for those nations deserving it.

Just following conservative internet forums convinced me that many of those same conservatives are not the fair minded nonbigoted individuals that the right has been trying to portray its constituents as in recent years. If they had differences with Harriet Miers on issues, fine, point those out, but the personal attacks from Republican conservatives was, in my opinion, outrageously hypocritical. So much for the idea of a nominee getting an up or down vote. And, uh yeah, I had suspected the Miers family connection.

I wonder if we could get a fair sized group of GMG members with flight privileges to make the trip. Seems like there must be quite a few of us who are members of airline families.