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I only want you to have a good day if you are diligently writing new Chapters of Max & Josh and Indiana Summer.... otherwise naw... okay.... i guess you can have a happy birthday even if ya ain't writin' them new chapters.

It has to be winter because sometimes in winter it plunges to 52 degrees in southern California

Wow, that explosion was so powerful it blew the lights back on...... hmmmmmm.

I didn't vote because my answer isn't there. The answer is no, it isn't wrong to hit a woman any more than it is wrong to hit a man, it all depends on the circumstances. I was taught as a child not to let anyone get away with hitting me, boy or girl, but I was also taught not to give worse than I was getting, so I think Matt was right in reacting to the girl who scratched him, but maybe not a punch, just a slap. A small guy, who for whatever reason decided he wanted to hit me, wouldn't get beat up by me, he'd get neutralized, the same goes for a woman. Now touch a family member and all bets are off, I am much better at controlling my emotions if I am attacked than a loved one.

To me this is a no-brainer. American cartoons are definitely superior. ha ha I think American cartoons are much more diverse, Anime seems all alike and rather angsty. They also seem to be drawn alike as opposed to the many different styles of American cartoons. You had the realism of a Johnny Quest and the caricatures like the Flintstones. People didn't even scratch the surface of American cartoons, besides classics like Johnny Quest, the Flintstones, the Jetsons what about Quick Draw McGraw, Yogi the Bear, Huckleberry Hound, top Cat, Tom and Jerry and modern classics like Dexter's Lab... and that is just Hanna Barbera. Warner Brothers gave us Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Bugs, Tweety & Sylvester, Pepe Le Pew, Speedy Gonzalez and every one knows those were not just for kids, the undertones kept adults smiling too. Modern WB gave us Pinky & the Brain and the Animaniacs. Jay Ward was brilliant with Crusader Rabbit and his follow on, Rocky & Bullwinkle and Friends. Every body gets that R&B, Dudley Do-right, Mr. Peabody's Improbable History, Fractured Fairy Tales & Aesop's Tales were geared towards adults and kids laughed because they were silly. And that is with out even mentioning the Walt Disney Studios and all they did and continue to do with cartoons as an art form. Even Disney Channel has entertaining cartoons like Phineas & Ferb, American Dragon and Kim Possible. Others have mentioned the modern creations of South Park, the Simpsons, Family Guy and King of the Hill. What would the holidays be without A Charlie Brown Christmas and the Grinch? Did I also mention the incarnations of Superman, Batman, Fantastic Four, Green Hornet, etc. that have appeared over the years? So yeah, I'll take American cartoons.

Lacey is slender but his feet look big Did her feet get wet in the Nashville flooding??

It was a pale imitation of Brother Iz. I loved the guest stars though, ONJ was perfect.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQRWeZy-S8Q

I double dog dare you!

For those of you who don't go to The Soapbox. The translation according to Google is, "You need not be so tough" (du trenger ikke vaere so toff)

Hmmmm still not sold. Here is a pink tie from Pink of Jermyn Street

Do you mean 'pink' as in Thomas Pink? 'cuz that tie looks gray or silver to me...... Oh, and you are quite adorable too.

The "Come as you are" campaign has actually been ongoing since 2008. Here is one of the early "Venez Commes Vous Etes" (Come as you are) video ads.

Who hasn't??

So think of the extension of your line of thinking.... if the father DOES know and says "it is too bad your class is all boys, you could get all the girls", that is just awful, it means he doesn't accept his son's sexuality. In saying to his son "that Marcel is quite nice looking too, don't you think?" he would gently be prodding his son and saying, I know and it is okay. I don't find it awkward or creepy, if my parents had let me know a lot earlier they knew and they were okay with me as I was, it would have saved me a lot of sneaking around. And DON'T buy fast food..... you'll wreck your girlish figure Read AdWeek's Take on the Commercial

So okay, if you aren't Hawaiian you may have zero appreciation for this. This is the great Aunty Genoa Keawe, one of Hawaii's most beloved performers ever playing with one of its newest stars, Kamaka Fernandez. Aunty was 89 years old in this video. The story of how an African American from Little Rock, AR became one of Hawaii's top singers is an amazing story of its own. This post has been promoted to an article

Mmmm, I dunno, look at his eyes..... I can see a cutie there 40 years ago (assuming he is 55 now).

Sorry for your loss James, I know the attachment we can get to our pets.

Imperfection is part of the beauty of baseball. They don't need a plate umpire, they can have machines call balls and strikes perfectly as defined by the rules of the game, but the human element of each ump having different strikes zones, some being a pitcher's ump and some being a hitter's ump is part of the 19th century charm of the game. It is too bad Galarraga lost a perfect game on the last out, umpires are supposed to go the opposite in a situation like that, to give more benefit of the doubt to the pitcher, not less. But how many other outcomes of games or no hitters have been disrupted early in the game by bad calls, not just bad calls on the final out. Baseball is slow enough already, they don't need more to slow it down.

I thought being gay in France and places like that wasn't a big deal? Why isn't he out to his father? I like the ad, but I would have been more impressed with it if his father at looked at the picture and said, "you look just like me at that age, quite the handsome lad", followed up by "that Marcel is quite nice looking too, don't you think?" Indicating that his father had noticed who he hung out with, that he understood what was between them and that it was okay.

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My cousin the lesbian and her partner of of 37 years are both deacons in the Episcopal Church, my ex is a lay reader in his Catholic church and doesn't hide who he is and neither do any of the other gay congregants, what happens 10,000 miles from the Vatican in local churches is very different from what happens on the ground with individual churches that serve their community. I think you would find a good gay community in the pews at many Catholic churches in San Francisco. The Congregational Church (now UCC), my mother's main church, is actually open and affirming, there is the MCC (gay church), the Methodist Church has strong statements about accepting homo's but not the behavior, but it amounts to a wink and nod policy, ditto for the Presbyterian Church, my father's primary church, and they are debating full acceptance like the Congregationalists. Our last church, the Dutch Reformed Church (goes by different names in dif places) is much more conservative and much further away from "open and affirming", but is also strong on "treat everyone well".

Has anyone noticed how damned expensive it is to eat healthy? Why is that? How can Mickey D's charge $1 for a hamburger that I can't make for less than $4? (meat, bun, lettuce, pickles, tomato, cheese, onion plus sauces).

I found remarkably that there didn't appear to be any forum discussions of this very good Mark Arbour story. I am not sure what the over arching theme is, but here is what I got out of it. It is easy to hate people you don't know. The British Lt. hated Germans and Germany because they killed the love of his life. It was very easy to hate Germans and Germany because Lt. Bellairs didn't know any Germans until he met Gerhardt. When he finally did meet Gerhardt his 'enemy' now had a face, a soul and really gorgeous pale blue eyes. So it should be pretty obvious and on some level we all get that it is easy to hate groups, but much harder to hate individuals. I hate "illegal immigrants" they have totally messed up California schools and hospitals and our state prisons are chock full of them, but I really like my parent's gardener of twenty-five years. I see what he has accomplished in those twenty-five years from one old broken down old truck and going door to door in my parents neighborhood to find clients to a fleet of six fairly new trucks and a 'landscape maintenance' company that employs about 20 people. He was single when he started cutting my parents lawn and trimming their trees. Then he got married, somewhere along the line, his son, about ten years old when I first met him, would join him during summer. That first son went off to college. Two other sons also worked summers beside their father, one will go off to a four year college next year and the other opted for community college to stay home and work leading a crew for his father. So yeah, I hate "illegal immigrants" and will continue to clamor for the government to do something about it, but it isn't as easy when you know one. (by the way, Arturo did become legal and then about ten years ago became a citizen, he may still root for El Tri to win the World Cup, but will also be pulling for the U.S. when not playing Mexico). Maybe Mark could write a story where a gay activist falls in love with another man, only to discover he is a Republican and a Christian? P.S. A follow up story with Bellairs and Gerhardt in a Paris cafe in 1946 would be lovely.

Have you read any Vince Flynn novels? Not as good or sweeping as Clancy, but still pretty good. Vince Flynn Books