AlmiraGulch
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I'd also go to the Keys. Probably not Key West, because too many spring breakers (I was one of them way back in the day), but I'd stay on Big Pine Key or Marathon Key and drive into Key West.
The Keys are simply breathtaking. I've stayed on Big Pine and shared my outdoor breakfast space with Key deer. Key West is quirky and fun and complete relaxed, and has just a ton of historical and interesting things to see and do. There isn't a ton of beach there, as someone else already said, but Smathers Beach, although man made, is beautiful and very much a traditional beach. I was married on it a couple of years ago. :-) Also, the beach at Ft. Zachary Taylor is nice. There are beachy areas throughout the Keys, though, so as long as you're far enough south you'll get the warmth and the ocean.
My husband and I plan to retire in the Keys. We love it there.
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I loved the brawl. It made a great second half even better.
Then again, I love the fights in hockey, too.
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It makes sense. They need people interested in enforcing the law as it is written to be on the jury, not people who want to re-write the law. There are processes for re-writing the law.
A lot of people feel that marijauna should be legal. If you admit that people should not be charged with a crime over marajauna...it probably makes sense to not put you on a jury for marajuana possession.
I agree with the first part of your post, but I don't think the second logically follows.
There's quite a difference between the potential penalty for a possession conviction and that for a murder conviction, where execution is an option. I know that I am one who thinks marijuana should be legal, but it isn't today and I would have no issue (well...almost none) convicting based on existing laws if I were on that jury.
I am mostly opposed to the death penalty, primarily because I cannot endorse state-sanctioned murder, and because so many people have been exonerated and released from death row based on new evidence and science that I cannot stomach the possibility of putting a single innocent person to death. That said, you will not see me marching on the Capitol on this one, because I cannot honestly say that if there were definitive proof that someone did something to my child that would warrant the death penalty that I would lobby against it. I'd like to say I would, but I can't.
It's a tough one for me, but I can see not putting someone on that jury, where the death penalty is an option, who is categorically opposed. The entire trial could be pointless, then.
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Interesting!
I actually checked Snopes before I ever posted here. This must be a new entry. Thanks for the link.
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Interesting!
I actually checked Snopes before I ever posted here. This must be a new entry. Thanks for the link.
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I'm looking for the best notebook system to use for managing multiple subjects at once.
It needs to be flexible enough to expand and contract as needed by adding extra divider tabs or sheets within each subject, and I need to be able to change them out.
This is to use in my job. I've always just used separate notebooks per client, but that's becoming unwieldy and I'm just not comfortable with it anymore. Plus, I'll start a whole notebook for some client that ends up not coming to fruition, and I feel like I've wasted (because I still don't discard the notes I've taken in case the client comes back around, which it often does).
I also use OneNote for electronic notes, but I take handwritten notes quite a bit, too.I want to be able to add and remove tabs/sections as needed, and expand the sections/add pages. I need a flexible solution.
Who can help me? I know someone out there is an expert with this sort of thing.
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Hm. I still feel like the message that "you can live as a straight person even if you're gay" is damaging to LGBT people.
I agree. Especially since heterosexuality is not a prerequisite for having a family.
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I also got Constant Craver.
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I don't read Swedish, but based on Google Translator ( I know, not 100% reliable) it seems as if the reference is to the same types of crime-ridden areas, based on the socio-economic status of their residents, that are keeping the police from completing their duties because locals are too afraid to inform on the criminals. Reminds of old-school mafia-type stuff, but that's of course just my own interpretation.
It seems as if the crimes are of one of two-tiers: The lower-level, theft, burglary, and drug crimes being attributed to younger, disenfranchised residents, and the more organized crime of the older residents.
I didn't seek translation for the entire document, just the initial summary, but there was no mention of anything religious, although that's not to say it doesn't exist somewhere in the document.
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This sure feels like a great way to promote one's prejudice into action.
PHASE 1: Tell all your friends "Hey, you shouldn't go to [town] There are blacks / Muslims / Jews / Martians there, you'll be assaulted."
PHASE 2: Call Fox News and say "Hey, did you hear that [town] is a 'no-go' zone? Everyone's talking about it! Gosh, those blacks / Muslims / Jews/ Martians are taking over our country!!"
Yep. This is exactly what I think, too.
I was surprised when a Google search brings back several pages of results talking about how yessirreebob they do exist, and really nothing rebutting it, particularly since it's a term I've heard quite a bit lately. That's why I started this thread. Perhaps I'm just not looking in the right place? Or, maybe my own admitedly liberal bias has me convinced that it doesn't exist when maybe it actually does. I'm just looking to be educated.
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What? Because I take exception to you pointing out I hadn't answered your question to your liking? Has anyone else here answered your question to your liking, and that's why you havn't quoted everyone to tell them that what they said does not answer your OP?
No. You actually didn't answer my question at all, but rather just repeated what you already said on another thread. I don't even understand the point of it, frankly.
There is no "to my liking," so I don't understand what that means, either.
It's the tone of your posts. You seem quite...I don't know...defensive? Offended? Curt, surely. And it seems as if you're looking for people to say something negative where they are not.
Feel free to continue the adversarialism, if it pleases you. I won't engage. There is enough of that going around And if that is not your intent, then perhaps you should take a step back anyway and realize that that is how you are coming across.
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This link has people discussing the origins of what you're talking about:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2009/mar/03/religion-islam
Thanks, Mergath. This was the one thing I found in my admitedly brief search that attempted to explain the origin that was not from an uber-conservative site.
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And yeah, it does address the question to an extent. Because if it Sharia law to follow all civil law, it doesn't make sense that there would be a place where there is the former but not the latter in a place where they are indeed separate.
Yes, it doesn't make sense, based on what you've said, that there would be such a place. That does not mean that they do not exist.
I didn't think they did, but that's why I'm asking for sources to prove one way or another.
Gently, I believe you're seeing adversaries in some of these threads where they don't necessarily even exist.
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Yes, I heard you say this previously. It does not, however, address the question that I posed.
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I am not aware of any of that. The only thing I've heard is that in places like France they don't allow certain religious practices under certain circumstances. For example, children not being allowed to wear a hijab in school.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_law_on_secularity_and_conspicuous_religious_symbols_in_schools
(not that wikipedia is the end all be all source)
There are a lot of Muslims where I live. I know of no case where there was an issue directly related to suppressing them (that was at least a large enough incident to make the news).
It's actually the opposite that I'm talking about. Places where non-Muslims are forbidden or warned against entering, and where Sharia law trumps actual law.
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I'm hearing more and more about these "No-Go" zones, in France and elsewhere, where Sharia law has purportedly overtaken the law of the land, and non-Muslims are warned (forbidden?) against entering.
This morning I saw a post in my FB feed speaking of these areas, and how they are spreading to the U.S. The post reeked of the paranoia of Islamaphobic ideals, and I went immediately to research and post links proving it as false. Trouble was, I couldn't find any. I found an abundance of references to these No-Go Zones in Europe, specifically in France, and how the same thing will happen here in the U.S., citing Dearborn Michigan as the first (obviously false), and all with extreme right wing/concealed carry advocate (odd) sources. BUT....I found nothing countering them.
So, who knows about the reality of these things? Who can point me to some credible sources defining what they are, whether/if/where they actually exist/do not exist today, and what impact they are/are not having on the surrounding communities? I want to believe that the reports are exaggerated or fabricated, and that they are efforts of extremists <<coughHannitycough>> who oppose Islam at large, to promote and spread fear. I want to believe that they may be looking at isolated communites where Muslims are the majority, and that they are conflating that with Sharia law must be taking over, and everyone else BEWARE! I just can't find any credible source to support what I want to believe. In fact, I can't seem to find any credible source either way.
Please educate me.
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Although couldn't the vet have said that thinking even if there was some sort of treatment a cat of that age might not benefit from it? I honestly don't know the answer to that, but I don't know that I'd want to treat a cat that age either unless I could be fairly certain they would tolerate said treatment and have a qualify of life after. Sounds like this cat has a lot going wrong besides the kidney thing. I personally would be skeptical of a vet who would claim he could treat it but was looking to charge me a lot of money for services that wouldn't amount to a desirable outcome in the end.
I agree with this completely.
I'm sorry about your kitty. I just had nearly the exact thing to contend with myself. Mine would have been 17 in April, but we had to let her go late last year. She was elderly, clearly uncomfortable, and treating her further would have been for my benefit, not hers.
If I could afford it, I might see a different vet, to be sure. But yeah, sounds like kidney to me, and probably diabetes, too (not a vet...just experienced with cats).
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First of all, all cats are jerks. That's their charm!
Second of all, I put a cat door in a cheap interior door, and it's just fine. Very secure, very nice, problem solved.
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I have several Dooney and Bourke and several Coach. i love them because they hold up so well, and frankly I just like the way they look.
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Rainbows are of the devil.
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I can't vote, either.
I don't believe in reincarnation in that I don't think my daughter is actually a reembodiment (is that a word? I think I just made up a word) of some long lost great uncle or something. No, I do not believe in that.
I do believe that since energy never dies, it's possible that some of the energy that formed a person's life and personality somehow ends up in another person. I don't know what that would look like, exactly, but I do think that may contribute to some people years later having very similar personality traits or physical quirks (a tilt of the head, a certain manner of standing, etc.) that are reflective of another person who has gone before him.
I am atheist, by the way.
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I love fire chicken, and I make amazing frid chicken. Honestly, I don't care about the chicken. I only want the skin.
Maybe we can eat it together, and I'll eat all the skin and you can have the rest and we'll be a happy, happy pair. Because my mom makes the best fried chicken, and I copy hers. Super crisp, super moist, crazy good flavor. Yum.
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If pressed, I identify as agnostic atheist; meaning, I cannot state with 100% certainty if there is/are any god/gods, but I do not believe that there is/are.
I was born and raised Catholic. I'd still go to Mass if it weren't for the whole god thing. I really enjoy the Mass.
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This is a yummy blondie type cookie bar - it's not my favorite cookie bar - but it's close. My favorite is Oatmeal Fudge Bars (chocolate!!)
Snicker-doodle Brownies:
2 1/3 cups flour :: 1 1/4 tsp baking powder :: 1/2 tsp salt :: 3/4 cup butter, softened :: 1/ 1/4 cups granulated sugar :: 1/2 cup packed brown sugar :: 3 eggs :: 1 tsp vanilla
Cinnamon Mixer:
1 Tablespoon sugar :: 1 Tablespoon cinnamon
Icing:
1 cup powdered sugar :: 2 Tablespoons milk :: 1/4 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 350Ëš. Butter bottom of a 9 x 13 baking pan. Mix together butter and sugars until blended. Add eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla. Mix in the dry ingredients.
Spoon half of the batter into the pan and spread evenly. Sprinkle cinnamon mixer on top. Using the remaining batter, place teaspoon sized dollops on top of the cinnamon mixture covering all the pan. Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from oven, let cool for one hour (yeah right). Drizzle icing on top.
(from: http://a-friend-to-knit-with.blogspot.com/)
This sounds really good! I love Snickerdoodles, but haven't heard of them in bar form. Thanks!
s/o Anyone else LOVE beauty products?
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Guilty.
I'm VIP Rouge at Sephora. I won't say how much you have to spend there in a year to reach that level. It's completely indulgent, and I love it. I have enough beauty samples to cleanse and moisturize the earth.
In my own defense (not that I need one, but I feel the need), I have stupid, stupid skin. Ridiculously dry in the winter, insanely sensitive, breakout-prone....drives me insane. So I'm constantly on the lookout for something that hydrates without giving me pimples or making me look like I'm sunburned. I've tried every natural solution out there, but nothing works, so it's back to the products I go.
Also, when I do find something I like it only seems to work for about 6 - 8 months or so, and then it either stops being effective or I have an adverse reaction to it, and I have to move on to the next thing.
So, in a nutshell, yes.....I'm an addict.