A good rule of thumb is to not condemn other people the hell, since you're not God.
But it was explained to me in Catholic school that the only real way for un-believers to be condemned for their non-belief was to have the word of God truly presented to them in its fullness and to turn away deliberately.
Rob Long: ...why are they choosing the opposite when it comes to health care and education, just to name two important things that government wants to deliver? · · 7 minutes ago
Because there's a difference in what you spend your own money on and what you spend other peoples' money on.
Most people who demand socialized medicine or fanatically embrace the public school system are either unable to spend their own money on medical care or education or they've deluded themselves into believing that the highest common denominator is the eventual result of government spending.
When TV is in the hands of government you get PBS - and frankly outside of parents with young children and people who watch Masterpiece Theater's selected BBC imports, who wants PBS to be their only option?
Rob, the title really should be Cash Air - if you make it a sequel to Con Air and pitch it to John Cusack and Nicolas Cage I bet you'd get it greenlit.
I have joined game 2 as Italy, and like all Italian governments I court both allies and scandal. Your bribes (in the form of likes for my many hilarious comments) are welcome.
James Of England: Because we're too much of a happy family and need a few friendships destroyed, I thought I'd set up an online Ricochet Diplomacy game here, (after registering, tell it you want to join game 57575, or that you want to join a game with JamesofEngland) with myself as England, because I was recently called a "continentalist" by a Ricochetti and thus feel the need to affirm the fact that a good part of Europe is a part beneath an English boot (plus, to be fair, some very nice restaurants and the occasional museum or church).
Truly a great game: I was introduced in college by several friends who loved it, and my first game was the most memorable: I was suckered into playing Italy and began by forming an alliance with France.
Once I discovered back-stabbing was the surrest way to victory(this was not part of the description of the game I was given) I quickly bribed my way into control of North Africa and launched an offensive into my erstwhile friend's holdings in Spain. A few hours later I finished destroying Russia - it helped that I was the only sober game player near the end of the game.
For whatever reason I could never quite persuade my friends that I was a trustworthy ally, and was regularly removed from play early after that.
Former Governor Jeb Bush: “(Lyndon Johnson) went and he cajoled, he begged, he threatened, he loved, he hugged, he did what leaders do, which is they personally get engaged to make something happen.’’
· · 18 hours ago
Lyndon Johnson has to be one of the worst executives in American history. He was a great, great Senate Majority leader, but he had no clue how to be President, which is why he declined to run for renomination.
You only have to look at the electoral map of 1968 to see how people felt about someone carrying on LBJ's legacy.
Franco: being able to articulate that the Church can mistakes and some Popes are better than others while having no ability to explain how they as ordinary Catholics can tell these things while scolars and Cardinals apparently can't. Speculating on trivial worldly matters like what his ethnicity will be, etc.
· 42 minutes ago
Franco, as an ordinary Catholic I will give you two examples -
Catholics, even us non-Cardinals, have been making judgements about Popes for a long, long time. You can go back and read Inferno. If you don't believe me.
dash: I have concerns, sure: Daughter n°1 has decided that her calling is Environmental Law and I imagine her further inhibiting industry through litigation to protect the Gascony Snail, or some such. . · · 2 hours ago
I wouldn't worry about her inhibiting industry specifically because the plain truth is there are too many lawyers. I don't mean that in a philosophical-I-hate-lawyers way, but in a market-glut way. So unless she's valedictorian of her law school class, there's a pretty good chance she won't get an environmental law job and have to do something else.
Re: Taking The Fifth
It could be worse, but honestly I'm surprised we haven't done some stills from The Distinguished Gentleman yet.