Even if it is, so what? I pass churches with sometimes provocative posted light-up signs, guys downtown and at transit centers on soapboxes spouting Bible verses and exhorting me to get saved. Jehovah's Witnesses come to my door; Mormons come to my door; representatives from the multitude of neighborhood churches and temples come to my door. I'm not going to get bent out of shape or apologize for the rare billboard that might go up from some organization I'm not affiliated with. I don't care. Why single these out when they are so very much the exception we can only post and repost a small handful of images in this entire country? Has an atheist ever come to your house in an effort to win you over? Hand you tracts? Invite you... I dunno... to a coffee shop or a bookstore on a Sunday morning instead of a church? Ever? Get back to me when "Godless" isn't used an epithet.

But you aren't everyone.

All that orgiastic sneezing might be having a soporific effect.

Roll all you like, but part of the idea is to show that atheists are just ordinary, everyday people who do ordinary, everyday things like volunteer or work as, say, a bank teller. If you look at the statistics, atheists are judged very harshly in the US relative to those of faith.

We had one very much like it, set on a mantel covered with cotton batting snow, winter wonderlands and Hummels all around.

I used prefolds and didn't have a problem, even in an entry level FL without a sanitary cycle. If I'd used fitteds I would have want to have heard success stories from people using an HE front loader (particularly the ones without an option for extra water) before buying. I suspect our current washer would be fine, but not the entry level one we started out with... it simply didn't use enough water and didn't have options for pre-soak, pre-wash, or extra rinses.

Woohoo, the link actually worked. :) We have at least one "good" translation of his major works... some of the contemporary translations were not only butchered by are also written in leaden prose. We particularly enjoyed 20,000 Leagues and the Wesleyan edition of Mysterious Island (20,000 Leagues *must* be read first). I used my best filmstrip narrator voice for the descriptive paragraphs in 20,000 Leagues... it got us through. :)

Water is expensive here, so HE is the way to go. I had an entry-level front loader for 11 years, and it did a good job. Now we have a fancy front loader with all the bells and whistles, including the option of a 40 minute "turbo" cycle. I'm very happy with the purchase. It's good with pet hair too; the hair collects in the gasket for easy cleaning.

http://jv.gilead.org.il/evans/VerneTrans(biblio).html This probably didn't paste correctly (I always have problems with this url), but I'll fix it later this morning. On mobile right now.

My dad used to boil them. Don't do that either. Sliced and sautéed is good though, either as a vegetable side or part of a grain-based salad.

Trim stem and discard any ugly leaves (if there are too many of these, don't even bother as they're probably too old). Cut in half. Toss with EVOO, salt and pepper. Roast at 400F for about 30 minutes. You can throw in other stuff for the last five minutes or so if you like. I like a small handfuls of cranberries and pecans. Mix in to coat with oil. ETA: Bacon is always a welcome addition, especially if you have some extra bacon grease.

I just assume they have to sneeze that way or they'd wet themselves. :tongue_smilie:

Dust swans.

I'm craving Jaffa cakes. Whaaaahhhhhh!

Roll away. I loathe all that is Disney.

We had some here in Portland that just said, "This is what an atheist looks like," with a name, picture and IIRC profession of a local atheist. They were kinda bland, not nearly so colourful and stiking as the billboards and wallboards (?) of the Timbers Army, but some were still defaced.

And you sound sober. I'm totally stealing "HAPPY ALL THE THINGS," but I'm going to slur it.

All ours so far are cat themed. It's like they're taking over everything, only beginning with the Internet. Perhaps the War on Christmas is just a diversion so we don't notice the cats' mobilizing. :tongue_smilie: ETA: Our cats are currently duking it out for the spot under the tree nearest a heat register. Senile 18yo appears to be coming out on top.

carp/cr*p? chicken breasts I'm not swayed by the spammer argument as I've never seen stats from vBulletin, ipBoard or other sources to back it up.

The original guy died about ten years ago (obit linked), and I don't know who is in charge of it now.

I disagree with the bolded because I see it as reason as opposed to faith. There's a supernatural element in mythology and religion which by definition requires faith. You could post your montage to YouTube. :D Here's the Uncle Sam billboard... the message changes regularly. I'm not embedding the picture. http://unclesamsbackyard.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/mexicans1.jpg

In my "ideal" world I wouldn't have to see the hellfire and damnation billboards, or the infamous Uncle Sam billboard when going up I5 (or any billboard for that matter, visual blights that they are), but there's that freedom of speech thing. But to be fair, from my POV most religions are based on a mythological element (I say "most" because I'm not familiar with all), and I think most Christians would, if pressed, agree with that terminology, particularly when talking about polytheistic religions. I don't see "myth" as negative -- after all, it's broader definition often explicitly includes religious tradition -- although I readily concede that some do. This is where Bill would come in and rail against the definition of "myth" as a generic term for a false belief. :)

He was a whip-smart, funny guy in a terrible situation on that show. I seem to recall he recovered career-wise, at least for a few years.

But you were the one talking about eliminating "Christmas" in favour of "holiday." And a bigger push by whom?