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Oklahoma Tornado
Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by Loren Miller 57 minutes ago. 2 Replies 0 Likes
An amazing photo of the tornado's power,Continue
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'Crazy ants' a threat in southern U.S.
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10 Things You Can't Do and Become President
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Girl Recovered After 10 Years Claimed Dead by Psychic
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Brutal 4 Minutes for All of Religion Christopher Hitchens
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Talented young singer
Started by Ruth Anthony-Gardner. Last reply by booklover May 14. 3 Replies 0 Likes
Aldrich Lloyd Talonding is going to take the world by storm. What do you think? He's singing Dance With My Father Again. Continue
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Comment by Steph S. on December 10, 2012 at 9:18pm -
Hey Tony I got home just a while ago myself. Just exhausted today. So I'll be back here tomorrow to catch up.
Nice to hear from all of you!
Hope you had a good Monday.
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Comment by Tony Carroll on December 10, 2012 at 9:02pm -
Hey everyone. Just getting home from work. Boy, did the extremely malodorous fecal matter impact heavily upon the rotating blades of the air circulating machine today. One of the busiest we've ever had. Just trying to catch up now, over 187 messages in my in box. Well, I'll talk with you guys later. Have a good one.
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Comment by The Flying Atheist on December 10, 2012 at 8:21pm -
Sk8eycat, from Wikipedia to answer your question:
"Plans to launch a complementary Gay Winter Games, slated for February 1986 in Denver, Colorado collapsed, due to a lack of sufficient funding and logistical problems. There have been no subsequent attempts to launch a Gay Winter Games since, although Whistler, British Columbia, Canada hosts an annual gay winter sports festival."
You're right about having a shortage of non-gay male skaters! lol
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Comment by sk8eycat on December 10, 2012 at 8:09pm -
Are there WINTER Gay Games? LOL I think if the "official" Winter Olympics were limited to str8 athletes, they'd have very few male skaters! O, la!
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Comment by The Flying Atheist on December 10, 2012 at 7:52pm
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Melinda, the Gay Games are held every four years in cities around the world, just like the International World Olympics. The first games were held in San Francisco in 1982. It was originally called The Gay Olympics, but a few weeks before the opening ceremony, a lawsuit was filed on behalf of the International Olympic Committee claiming that the word 'Olympic' could not be used. Since then they've been known as The Gay Games. They were held here in Chicago in 2006. I had the great fortune to volunteer and to meet and assist LGBT athletes from all over the world. When I was in Amsterdam in 1998, several people from my Friday night LGBT bowling league were competing. It was fun to be halfway around the world and to see fellow league-mates competing.
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Comment by Pat on December 10, 2012 at 7:27pm -
I agree sk8eycat. Santa is more credible. I posted this somewhere else. During the Council of Nicea, where Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire, one of those that voted on it was Bishop Nicholas of Myra (present day Turkey). Nicholas, who was later morphed into St. Nicholas, then Sinterklaas, and now Santa Clause, voted to make Jesus a god. To me, that seems to be the perfect comment on Christianity. Santa Clause voted for Jesus being god.
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Comment by Patricia on December 10, 2012 at 7:03pm -
And at least Santa is fun, Sk8ey!!!!!
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Comment by sk8eycat on December 10, 2012 at 6:01pm
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I forgot to say that I had seen an article a few years ago about the Dutchman's smaller version of "Noah's Fictional Ark," and it mentioned that he was building a "full-size" version. Hah! Looks like he missed a few pertinent details; the buybull specifies ONE window, and ONE door.
The Hebrew storytellers didn't know Jack Schidt about boat-building OR animal care; if there was no way to keep everything clean, ALL of the "passengers" would have been sick before less than half the "40 days and 40 nights" were over.
So, is the guy now going to go all over the world collecting the specified number of animals? Will he include saltwater and freshwater fish? How will he keep them alive? How about insects? (Why save things like fleas and mosquitos? And tse-tse flies?)
The Flood is one of the most childish stories in the entire book, and yet educated adults keep funding expeditions to "find" the ark...that never existed.
I'd rather believe in Santa Claus.
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Comment by booklover on December 10, 2012 at 5:50pm -
Thanks Spud. :)
Me too Felaine!
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Comment by sk8eycat on December 10, 2012 at 5:42pm
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I'm not really as irritated by punctuation errors as I am by things such as "your" for "you're," "flare" for "flair," and similar malapropisms. Makes me wonder what's being taught in our schools.
Right now I'm making typos all over the place because my right hand is almost useless. I do try to proof my posts, but sometimes I just miss things. (Makes logging in to web sites where I'm already registered a hassle some days.) Having a small orange cat standing on my lap doesn't help either.
I think I'll go to Schwan's and order some comfort food...the cats like to snack on their diced chicken breast, and so do I. Nom, nom, nom!
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