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I’d really like to tell my teenage son how I spent 9/11, but getting dismissed from class and then going home to alternate between watching CNN and fucking his mother the rest of the day doesn’t seem like a good story.

The lege changed the laws on gun ranges a few years ago to make it almost impossible to sue a gun range for nuisance if your county doesn't have a noise ordinance. When you find a litigator, your first two questions should be whether your county has a noise ordinance and, if not, how can you get around that problem.

Back in the late '80s, I first heard the n-word from my then-stepmother and her dad, including the Daniel Boone song. They were rednecks from Burleson. Can't say I've heard the n-word from too many others since then. The most shocking time I heard it was about 12 years back. My ex-wife's grandmother was talking about doing some landscaping work at her house and how she "hired a n-r" to do the work and he was the nicest person. My maternal grandparents are Hispanic, but both grew up in black neighborhoods. I've never heard them say the N-word, but I've heard my grandfather talk about wetbacks and my grandmother talk about how blacks and non-blacks should stick to their own race when it comes to marriage. Given that two of her sisters, one brother, and both of her children married whites, I've always been a bit confused about where she draws the lines for race, but not really.

The announcers just said Ehlinger is like Tim Tebow.

Everyone is arguing about burning swooshes and I'm wondering why Kirk Lazarus has a Nike ad.

Apparently, the pic is stolen from a 24 year-old pro-life teacher. The essay may or may not be real, but it has been deleted from the source website.

Gray cheese stick.

At least one and perhaps as many as two already have. Cardinal Donald Wuerl of D.C. and the papal nuncio (ambassador) to the United States are both reportedly missing. Or do you mean "missing" as in the possibility of a RICO indictment would make Italy's finest families too nervous and they start assassinating people? That hasn't happened yet, but the whistleblower has gone into hiding and his testimony refers to the "premature" deaths of two colleagues.

This is getting really ugly, really fast. Edit: I don't know what theory RICO would involve, since child abuse is not a predicate offense. But I'm guessing it involves racketeering. After all, tons of cops and prosecutors looked the other way.

Since my son is now a high school freshman, I figured it was time for another father-son chat about girls. He hasn't shown much interest thus far, but he's an Aspie and pretty much every guy in the family was a late bloomer when it came to dating. So I'm dropping awesome dad knowledge about not putting it on a pedestal, how it's a numbers game, etc. The talk went on for some time and was mostly one-sided aside from a few shrugs and I-don't-knows. Later that night at dinner, my wife, (his step-mother), asks if he'll be dating this year. "I think I lack the emotional maturity for dating right now." Where was that earlier in the day?

That's not the sequence of events. 1. No later than the early 2000s, senior church leaders became aware of what many American leaders already knew via rumors, that McCarrick was molesting adult seminarians. 2. This finally gets communicated to Pope Benedict around 2009, at which point McCarrick is kicked out of the seminary where he was living and forbidden from lecturing, traveling, and publicly celebrating mass. Except for having to find a new place to live and not celebrating mass in public, McCarrick ignores most of this. 3. After Bergolio is elected Pope Francis, his ally McCarrick ignores any and all restrictions. At this point, it is not clear if Pope Francis lifted the restrictions or they just ignored them. Given the Pope's documented autocratic ruling style, it is likely nothing was formally rescinded. 4. In 2018, there is a credible allegation that McCarrick molested a minor decades ago. Pope Francis publicly re-imposes Benedict's punishments and then strips McCarrick of his red hat, (he's no longer a cardinal). 5. Immediately after McCarrick's punishment, priests, former seminarians, and others launched a Catholic #MeToo movement aimed at the bishops and others in power who permitted the molestation of seminarians. 6. Then the Pennsylvania grand jury report came out. Some of Pope Francis' closest allies, like Cardinal Donald Wuerl of D.C. were implicated in the cover-up to an extent previously unknown. 7. Vigano's letter, while definitely representing traditionalists, probably was encouraged by a number of progressive prelates, like Cardinal Dolan of NYC, who have buyer's remorse with Pope Francis and fear the loss of power an actual schism would bring. And there is a de facto schism that has nothing to do with the abuse scandals.

Can we get a subforum on NSAA for all the divorce and other talk threads?

I agree with you in principle, but I'm with the other poster. There is way too much diversity in practice at employers of varying sizes for there to be a single answer. While we'd like to think that tOSU is closer to your experience than otherwise, academics are notorious for trailing corporate in many areas of risk mitigation.

If you liked the Catholic/religious bits and would like to read more, and ,if you didn’t mind the retconning in the second book and would like even more changes, then Endymion is for you.

At a guess, people who park in their own driveway but far enough back that it blocks the sidewalk. It is illegal many places.

If she spoke like she did in the book, it wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, she isn't old, or ugly enough, in the tv show to capture the book version.

Meh. "Gholas. He's welcome to them." If you recognize the quote, you get the point.

I tell my son to text me if it isn't immediately important. I often have DND on my iPhone, so I won't hear texts, but I will hear a phone call. So he's trained to call when the matter needs immediate attention, like needing to be picked up ASAP. My wife doesn't get it.

HIPAA only applies to covered entities and certain associates. Law enforcement is not a covered entity. I had to look into this a few years ago when I got a pharmacy’s old 800-number efax. I reported every medical fax I received to HHS as a HIPAA violation. HHS would always send me a letter thanking me for the report and letting me know that the offender had been punished with remedial training.

They're not recyclable?

Not even prescription drugs?

Sixteen is legal in Nevada.

Babylon 5 is now free on Prime.

You might want to pick up a copy of the Catechism and the Code of Canon Law. The TL;DR is that the Catholic Church recognizes marriages between two non-Christians as natural marriages. The Church recognizes marriages between two, non-Catholic Christians as sacramental marriages, i.e. the same as a Church wedding between two opposite sex Catholics. Recognition doesn't extend to same-sex unions and polygamous unions. Moreover, despite misleading press accounts, Pope Francis has explicitly said only a heterosexual couple can form a family.