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"Do you like movies about gladiators?"

According to Matthew 13:55, Joseph was also a carpenter so it's assumed they worked together.  There's very little mention of Joseph outside the nativity story so we can't say with certainty.

For what it's worth, the word translated carpenter is a Greek term meaning craftsman (tekton) which is not limited to just carpentry (metalsmith, stone-mason, etc, would be applicable, too).  The early church had the understanding He was a carpenter, and Justin Martyr writing around 160 AD stated, "He was in the habit of working as a carpenter when among men, making plows and yokes."

There's an old joke along these lines that says we know women won't be in Heaven because the book of Revelations talks about there being an hour of silence in Heaven.

Best night of my life!

As long as I get a Guinness at Nine Fine Irishmen in NYNY I'm golden.  I won't be responsible for any tattoos gotten on the Strip, though.

Answering ads online like this is how I wound up in a dumpster in Tijuana missing a kidney.

Vegas, baby.  Vegas.

If my Jeep weren't in the shop, I'd be sore tempted to make the drive up.

It's not popular to say, but people need to live within their means.  It is possible to live on one income, but it requires people to sacrifice wants (often confused with needs) to make sure real needs are met.  Thrift is not sexy, though, and runs counter to everything our consumerist culture tells us we're entitled to have.

I think we're all in agreement that this is the model we should be promoting, but for too many in our culture, this is not the model.  20 somethings who marry because they feel so in love, then they find out too late that feelings change.  30 somethings who marry in desperation and then find that marriage didn't make everything perfect overnight.  Too many have been sold on marriage qua marriage being a panacea that is guaranteed to make their lives better, but being married to the wrong person or for the wrong reasons can make them even more miserable.  The wife whose husband smacks her around after a few drinks, the husband who suffers emotional abuse from a wife who is never satisfied: these are examples of people who are not better off being married.  Marriage that conforms to a healthy model with both spouses being invested in making it work is a good thing, but marriage for the sake of marriage is not something we should endorse.

Single people are not alone in looking at their lives and asking, "Is this all?"  Some who get married for the sake of being married or because it's the expected thing to do, then soon get divorced because they have not been told you cannot find complete fulfillment in another person.   

This is what happens when you elect a man wearing a bow tie.

Ignoring the personal ramifications of his actions, how can we ignore the impact it had on his last stint in office?  He abused the office by being absent without notice, lied about where he had been, and used state funds to do it.  He's proven himself unfit for office without even considering his personal fidelity to his wife.  If we're going to hold our nose and let him back in, we have no room to complain when Democrats run people like Marion Berry.

I completely agree.  There are benefits to marriage, and they are the selling points that need to be emphasized.  I just found the other funny because it sounds like, "you single people need to suffer like the rest of us".