LOLZ. My best guess (But Bill Walsh or Maura Pennington can come and correct me):

Ли уже скучаете по мне?

Thanks for reminding me of this quote. It's a great one.

I don't know. As you've pointed out, there are certainly Scripture references that point to God hating the wicked, but I don't know if that provides justification for human hatred of other humans (just like we are not to seek vengeance because vengeance belongs to the Lord).

The LORD examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion. (Psalm 11:5)

And here is King David professing his own hatred toward fellow human beings.

I hate those who cling to worthless idols; as for me, I trust in the LORD. (Psalm 31:6)

And yet, there are also passages like this:

Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 97:10)

(Btw, I'm just looking all the verses about hate up on BibleGateway.com)

"Hate the sin, but love the sinner" is not a matter of mere semantics. If we were to hate the sinner along with the sin, we'd hate everyone (Rom. 3:23).  Surely that has nothing to do with the Christian message.

Plus, in racking my brain I cannot think of one instance in the New Testament where we are commanded or exhorted to hate.  But there are plenty of instances where we are commanded to love.

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love." (1 John 4:7-8)

And this, friends, is what a limited-government conservative solution to the problem of too much sugar on the market looks like.

Not CRIMINALIZE. Just REGULATE.  They really, really should.

Forget logic. It's so...ugh...18th century white male. Let's just argue in slogans!

My body, my choice!

Oh my, CB. I was working up a post on this myself when you posted this.  Guess we got wrapped up in the same outrageous story together.

I would like the San Francisco MUNI to better accommodate women if it meant the buses would be more sanitary and less malodorous.

They are in the same way that squares are rectangles.  All mammograms are a type of breast screening exam (see here and here).  The other type, of course, is where the doc manually checks for lumps.

Let's please not pretend like Planned Parenthood is the only place where low income women can get breast screening exams. It isn't. And there are many, many charities, clinics, and mobile vans that offer free breast screening procedures.  So if the Komen Foundation—which, remember, is a private organization—wants to give to these alternative groups which do not  perform abortions and are not under government investigation, I say good on them. What's there not to get?

That would be because a few Ricocheteers and their kin have friended me on Facebook :)

Fricosis Guy and Tom—

Sen. Santorum is impressed by the Ricochet community and has expressed his desire to stay true to our standards by engaging with individual Members.

Because his time is limited, however, he cannot interact in the comments section in as timely a fashion as some of these fast paced conversations require. Therefore, I have invited him to survey the comments at his own pace and to submit responses to Members as separate posts like he did here.

We can only hope that other presidential candidates will follow Sen. Santorum's lead in trying to connect with and understand intelligent and thoughtful conservatives like those here at Ricochet.

Tristan–do you suppose that the stuxnet attack and the killing of individual Iranian nuclear scientists have been a workaround? They're obviously not as effective as a successful airstrike to nuclear facilities would be, but a) they don't require as many resources, and b) they allow for plausible deniability.

I second the congratulations! And I was going to also suggest Calvin, but Roberto beat me to it!

I agree with the "junk science" report. And my anecdotal evidence consists of this:

I am incontrovertibility superior at a) finding parking spots in San Francisco, and b) parking in them than the soon-to-be Mr. Diane Ellis (and no, I'm not actually making him take my name) .

Actually it was just mine that was low. The others were quite average for Ricochet.

I do have to admit that I had a different formative experience that I expect most Americans have. My mom was a Mexican immigrant nanny who raised rich peoples' children alongside her own and my dad a house painter. Mom got her citizenship in the 90s. But having a large Mexican extended family means that our gatherings and traditions are different.