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I dunno, but it looks *warm*, which apparently is very important today in DC. lol! man, watching that makes me glad i live in sunny san diego...hehehe Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

my first 2009 "jump" was from...a ski lift. well, more of a step really. or a slide, i suppose. Though i MUST say for all you inclined to BASE jump...the new Peak 2 Peak gondola at Whistler Blackcomb was sure looking tempting! Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

gonna echo the 360 love. good games, good online support, yadda yadda yadda. Wii is for people who aren't gamers. 360 and ps3 are for gamers >< Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

Post modified by the Office of Redundancy Office. err...actually..."venison" can refer to the meat of deer, elk, or similar game...so technically, he was right! Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

I agree, Paul never even met Jesus (unless you count the account he gave of his conversion on the raod to Damascus) Barnbus on the other hand walked with Jesus and was hacked off with Paul to the point where they went their seperate ways when Paul allowed non Jews in, renounced the practise of circumcision and threw the dietary laws of Mosses out the window. Still how the hell was Paul going to sell having to give up pork and getting your willy cut to the Romans? I'd say Paul is the founder of Christianity not Jesus. I'll amend my previous post: Haven't read much of the gospels, have ya? Actually read them all, have you? I have. How about Luke 7:1-10, eh? " 1When Jesus had finished saying all this in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. 2There a centurion's servant, whom his master valued highly, was sick and about to die. 3The centurion heard of Jesus and sent some elders of the Jews to him, asking him to come and heal his servant. 4When they came to Jesus, they pleaded earnestly with him, "This man deserves to have you do this, 5because he loves our nation and has built our synagogue." 6So Jesus went with them. He was not far from the house when the centurion sent friends to say to him: "Lord, don't trouble yourself, for I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. 7That is why I did not even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word, and my servant will be healed. 8For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, 'Go,' and he goes; and that one, 'Come,' and he comes. I say to my servant, 'Do this,' and he does it." 9When Jesus heard this, he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd following him, he said, "I tell you, I have not found such great faith even in Israel." 10Then the men who had been sent returned to the house and found the servant well." FYI, roman centurions weren't Jewish. they were gentiles, like the rest of us. Or perhaps Jesus's great commission itself...what he told the disciples to do, from Matthew 28:18-20 (emphasis mine): "Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age." shall i go on? I would have to say with 99% certainty that Jesus would most definitely NOT be "seriously pissed off had he known ..." Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

I agree, Paul never even met Jesus (unless you count the account he gave of his conversion on the raod to Damascus) Barnbus on the other hand walked with Jesus and was hacked off with Paul to the point where they went their seperate ways when Paul allowed non Jews in, renounced the practise of circumcision and threw the dietary laws of Mosses out the window. Still how the hell was Paul going to sell having to give up pork and getting your willy cut to the Romans? I'd say Paul is the founder of Christianity not Jesus. I'll amend my previous post: Haven't read much of the gospels, have ya? Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

Haven't read much of the new testament, have ya? Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! Sorry...I can't restrain myself sometimes, I just had to post something this time. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! you laugh, but actually, he's right. the ONLY Christian church prior to the Great Schism in 1054 AD was the "roman catholic church" as we now call it. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

Pretty much sums it up, but the *why* of it goes back to Martin Luther posting his theses, etc. There's theological differences as well, involving things like who can forgive sins, who can be the arbiter in a relationship with God, transubstantiation, holiness of mary and the saints, etc. Actually, the Eastern Orthodox churches are not really considered to be "Protestant" either... While i hesitate to cite wikipedia as a credible source, their article on Protestantism is actually rather accurate, and there is a quite a long list of outside sources that you might wish to peruse for further info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

not all protestants consider catholics to not be christian. as a matter of fact, i'd say MOST protestants actually do consider catholics to be christian. please don't apply extremely conservative or orthodox protestant beliefs to the majority of the protestant population. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

two. one is my husband, and one is my pre-husband BF that became my best friend. The others? meh. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

I totally agree with Lou here. Not to mention, i can think of SEVERAL daily comics that managed to successfully integrate the "gag a day" type of thing into a larger, overarching storyline. Look how successful For Better or Worse was, for example. go for it! Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

Me? no bonus because i have no job. My husband actually got about double from what he got last year, and it is somewhat substantial. Helps to work at a defense company when there's a "war" going on. Their profits and business are actually up from last year. His bonus is based on merit as well as how profitable the business is. We didn't expect anything, and never do, and to get this was actually a nice surprise. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

LOL, my dad did the opposite. He forced me to learn how to change my oil, change a tire, and drive a stick even when i didn't really care about that stuff. I'm glad he did! Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

Yep, I remember it. It's sitill being used??? Actually, Matlab is very similar to fortran...i've used both. but i don't remember much of it! that was a while ago :P Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

So she should not carry a gun because she has not had a home invasion?? Has your house ever been on fire? Maybe you shouldnt have smoke detector. Has your house been broken into? Maybe you shouldnt lock it. Why not prepair just incase?? You must live in loly pop land I think you're missing the point, the proper response to a car accident is buying a Volvo. What the hell is a gun going to do in a car accident? No, i don't live in "loly pop [sic] land". Quade got my point. JohnDeere did not. I even said at the top of my post that my issue wasn't with her owning or carrying a gun. Hell, I have a gun. I'm saying that the proper, sane, normal, un-paranoid response to a car accident is buying a safer car, taking a driving course, going to court, or ceasing driving altogether. Not buying a gun. I repeat...what good is a gun going to do in a car accident? Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

I have no issue with her right to carry. What bothers me is how amazingly freakishly paranoid she is. Seriously, reread some of her comments and views in the article. This woman needs psychological help, not because she's packing, but because she's paranoid to the point it's affecting her life negatively. She decided to pack because of a CAR ACCIDENT? It's not like her home was invaded, etc. This woman needs help. You know they say "guns don't kill people, people kill people?" Yeah. people like her. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

I always wondered where you got to. Thank you for the post. I am not the type to hold grudges. It's been a long long time since i thought about what happened or why it happened, but know that what DID happen taught me some things as well, about myself, about *real life* and real problems, and about forgiveness. I haven't decided if i'll PM you yet, but i do want you to know that while forgiveness doesn't necessarily mean forgetting, that I forgave you a long time ago. -Andi Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

Bird >= the word one of the best 15 min of Family Guy ever. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

Same here. 100%. The tricky ones were handled by using test-taking skills to augment admittedly sketchy knowledge of the subject. :P if you read the choices very carefully, you would see that some of them made no sense at all (contradictory, impossible, circular, etc) though i had to really dredge the depths of my brain to recall the Lincoln-Douglas debates! Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

one of the best fantasy series out there. This is no "hero finds magic and saves the world" type of series. If anything, i would call it political fiction that happens to be set in a world that isn't our own. Honestly, it's more spy novel than fantasy. Which is fine, especially for folks who have never really read a lot of fantasy before. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/sports/30genetics.html?no_interstitial does this bother anyone else? Sure there's the whole "playing god" bit. But what about letting your kid do what he/she thinks is...yanno...fun? Heaven forbid we let kids be kids. This strikes me as an extension of parents living vicariously through their children. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

ugh, it's not all "techno". Techno is a subgenre of Electronic Dance Music. go here: www.di.fm scroll through the channels. Take a listen. Learn just how diverse EDM really is. Usually the stuff you hear on skydiving videos is trance or epic trance. Sometimes vocal trance. I prefer progressive house or breakbeats myself ;) I think a lot of people use EDM in their skydiving videos because it is upbeat and makes people feel excited or happy. My only wish is that people would break out of the epic stadium trance mold and diversify their videos with some different types of EDM Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

By the way, forgiveness (the kind that Jesus advocated) does NOT mean forgetting. It doesn't even necessarily mean repairing or mending the relationship that was hurt by the wrong done to you. So many people choose not to forgive because they think it means they have to play nice and forget the original transgression. It's not that at ALL. Forgiveness is NOT minimizing the seriousness of the transgression. Forgiveness doesn't mean you instantly trust the person who hurt you. Forgiveness isn't for the person who hurt you. Forgiveness is for YOU. Vengeance is for God to take care of. Basically, ALL of Jesus's teachings can be summed up in one passage, one bit of the bible that so many people who claim to be "christian" seem to forget so often. It's in most of the Gospels, in some form, and it's called the Great Commandment: "Jesus replied, 'You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. A second is equally important: Love your neighbor as yourself.'" (Matthew 22:37-39) It's the golden rule, do unto others as you'd have them do unto you. Think how it would be if we truly lived by this commandment. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

seriously, just let him take his white pointy hood and be on his way. You aren't gonna reason with him...reason holds no place in that worldview. Never meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!