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Thank you Tony for starting off the day with your music from Bill Withers.
booklover that lolcat is so cute!!!
LOL - thanks and many smiles.
Love the art picture you posted Ian and sk8eycat thanks for the "The Muslims are not happy" post - and Patricia I'm looking at all your photos you took of your remodeling of your kitchen. Very nice!
Just got here after a long day and first thing I saw was this lovely very cute all black kitty that Ruth posted. Thanks - made me smile.
Very cute!!
Comment by sk8eycat on October 8, 2012 at 7:50pm Joan, it wasn't just the puritans, although they were the worst. Almost every colony wanted to have an official religion, only each one was different. At one point Maryland was mostly Catholic, or more tolerant of Catholics than the other colonies were.
And then we had the conquistadores and Franciscan order in the Southwest... We still have the missions as Historical Landmarks. What they rarely say is that the missions were built by indigenous people who were treated like slaves.
Comment by Joan Denoo on October 8, 2012 at 7:39pm sk8eycat, I like your comparison of the Muslims who migrate and the Pilgrims who migrated. You are accurate on the terrible history of Puritanism.
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Comment by Idaho Spud on October 8, 2012 at 3:28pm I very much like the Unhappy Muslims post.
Comment by booklover on October 8, 2012 at 3:23pm Chris, seriously, xmas candy already? That's just sick. It's not even Halloween!!! And the server isn't being slow for me right now. Hmmmm.
Comment by Chris Dodds on October 8, 2012 at 3:12pm Two things:
1. If I ever needed more evidence of the overcommercialization of Christmas, I was at SA today and they're already selling hte Reese's peanut butter cups shaped like Christmas Trees.
2. Why is the server for this site so slow?
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