It was the wrong thread

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by Spanky
No: and there will be no more correspondence with Paigow.

"Correspondence"? Is that what they are calling it these days?

See Slave, and you thought the kitchen was for "cooking".

Originally posted by Spanky
No: and there will be no more correspondence with Paigow. As she said: fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

Cold.

As.

Ice.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by ironweed
Cold.

As.

Ice.

guys like you and me- we're happy with a can of Rheingold's. say if it were hard to open- we'd still work at it. But a guy like Spank, a guy who can walk into any club and bring out Guiness? He's likely to walk away from the Rheingold's if it gives him any trouble at all.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by nononono
Wow - you're a punisher!

You sound surprised. The moniker wasn't a clue?

[nononono]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
You sound surprised. The moniker wasn't a clue?

Clearly I am too naive.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Spanky
No: and there will be no more correspondence with Paigow. As she said: fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.

[NotFromHere]

Hexed: Wiccan priestess loses in high court

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Tuesday from a Wiccan priestess angry that local leaders would not let her open their sessions with a prayer.

Instead, clergy from more traditional religions were invited to pray at governmental meetings in Chesterfield County, Va., a suburb of Richmond.

Lawyers for Cynthia Simpson had told justices in a filing that most of the invocations are led by Christians. Simpson said she wanted to offer a generalized prayer to the “creator of the universe.” Shapeshifter.

Simpson sued and initially won before a federal judge who said the county’s policy was unconstitutional because it stated a preference for a set of religious beliefs.

Simpson lost at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that the county had changed its policy and directed clerics to avoid invoking the name of Jesus.

The Supreme Court is already hearing one religious case this fall. That case raises the question of whether federal agents can stop a church from using hallucinogenic tea in its religious services. But this case would have provided a better opportunity for the court and new Chief Justice John Roberts to deal with government and religion.

Simpson is a member of a group known as the Broom Riders Association.

I like the name.

[baltassoc]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Hexed: Wiccan priestess loses in high court

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Tuesday from a Wiccan priestess angry that local leaders would not let her open their sessions with a prayer.

Instead, clergy from more traditional religions were invited to pray at governmental meetings in Chesterfield County, Va., a suburb of Richmond.

Lawyers for Cynthia Simpson had told justices in a filing that most of the invocations are led by Christians. Simpson said she wanted to offer a generalized prayer to the “creator of the universe.” Shapeshifter.

Simpson sued and initially won before a federal judge who said the county’s policy was unconstitutional because it stated a preference for a set of religious beliefs.

Simpson lost at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that the county had changed its policy and directed clerics to avoid invoking the name of Jesus.

The Supreme Court is already hearing one religious case this fall. That case raises the question of whether federal agents can stop a church from using hallucinogenic tea in its religious services. But this case would have provided a better opportunity for the court and new Chief Justice John Roberts to deal with government and religion.

Simpson is a member of a group known as the Broom Riders Association.

I like the name.

I like this case. Too bad her appeal wasn't taken. This is a better case than the typical atheist-whiner ACLU case of "I can't stand to say 'under god.'" This woman seems to have a legitimate gripe - the counsel is dissing her affirmative beliefs in favor of others.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
Hexed: Wiccan priestess loses in high court

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court rejected an appeal on Tuesday from a Wiccan priestess angry that local leaders would not let her open their sessions with a prayer.

Instead, clergy from more traditional religions were invited to pray at governmental meetings in Chesterfield County, Va., a suburb of Richmond.

Lawyers for Cynthia Simpson had told justices in a filing that most of the invocations are led by Christians. Simpson said she wanted to offer a generalized prayer to the “creator of the universe.” Shapeshifter.

Simpson sued and initially won before a federal judge who said the county’s policy was unconstitutional because it stated a preference for a set of religious beliefs.

Simpson lost at the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that the county had changed its policy and directed clerics to avoid invoking the name of Jesus.

The Supreme Court is already hearing one religious case this fall. That case raises the question of whether federal agents can stop a church from using hallucinogenic tea in its religious services. But this case would have provided a better opportunity for the court and new Chief Justice John Roberts to deal with government and religion.

Simpson is a member of a group known as the Broom Riders Association.

I like the name.

This wiccan sounds more like a cult than a religion. Akin to radical Islamism or something like the David Koresh thing.

[NotFromHere]

Originally posted by Penske_Account
This wiccan sounds more like a cult than a religion. Akin to radical Islamism or something like the David Koresh thing.

How can you call the Broom Riders Association a cult?
If anything, it's more like a gang.

[Penske_Account]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
How can you call the Broom Riders Association a cult?
If anything, it's more like a gang.

"Ping! Pow!

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by NotFromHere
How can you call the Broom Riders Association a cult?
If anything, it's more like a gang.

Wrong board?

And by now the book club should be finishing Chapter 5 of "Never Let Me Go." Summaries are due to me by 5 PM sunday so I may distribute to the group. So far, I am still missing the Chapter 5summaries from SS, and 4 and 5 from ncs, Club and Ty. Spanky has yet to provide any analysis. Are you still with us?

Paigow had some real pointed insights into Chapter 5, and I think may take the best observations/analysis hat away from SS that he won for his Chapter 4 analysis.

Finally, Penske, once again hasn't really done anything. A photoshop of Hillary tiled is not an analysis of the dangers of cloning, nor at all on message to involuntary organ transplants.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Wrong board?

And by now the book club should be finishing Chapter 5 of "Never Let Me Go." Summaries are due to me by 5 PM sunday so I may distribute to the group. So far, I am still missing the Chapter 5summaries from SS, and 4 and 5 from ncs, Club and Ty. Spanky has yet to provide any analysis. Are you still with us?

Paigow had some real pointed insights into Chapter 5, and I think may take the best observations/analysis hat away from SS that he won for his Chapter 4 analysis.

Finally, Penske, once again hasn't really done anything. A photoshop of Hillary tiled is not an analysis of the dangers of cloning, nor at all on message to involuntary organ transplants.

I am holding my chapter summaries until I receive some evidence that anyone is reading my selection, Collapse.

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Wrong board?

And by now the book club should be finishing Chapter 5 of "Never Let Me Go." Summaries are due to me by 5 PM sunday so I may distribute to the group. So far, I am still missing the Chapter 5summaries from SS, and 4 and 5 from ncs, Club and Ty. Spanky has yet to provide any analysis. Are you still with us?

Paigow had some real pointed insights into Chapter 5, and I think may take the best observations/analysis hat away from SS that he won for his Chapter 4 analysis.

Finally, Penske, once again hasn't really done anything. A photoshop of Hillary tiled is not an analysis of the dangers of cloning, nor at all on message to involuntary organ transplants.

You'll get my summaries when I get your membership dues. And next time, don't eat all the chips and salsa, especially when all you brought to the group was an opened bottle of wine.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I am holding my chapter summaries until I receive some evidence that anyone is reading my selection, Collapse.

Oh, I bought it. But we ran out of toilet paper so now I'm missing pages 22-43. anything important happen in that section?