no, according to the church it was never ok. yet they did them.
but now, with no reason given, bishops are cracking down.
not enough new catholics? we all know that birth rates are lower than ever.
need more people to put money in the baskets on sundays.

:tro:

and how seriously do they take all this god stuff, considering their past and present actions regarding pedophile priests.
850 years give or take after henry the second and Thomas a becket, we're still having issues with the state and criminous clerks.
unreal.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/ben-carso...d-be-president



I would remind one of the people hoping to swear to uphold the constitution while president that:

The No Religious Test Clause of the United States Constitution is found in Article VI, paragraph 3, and states that:


The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

and I do so hope that by now, the huckster has been educated about dred scott, and that it actually is no longer 'the law of the land'. jackass

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34320413

Pretty bad that i never saw this story til going to bbc.
this move is so beyond ridiculous. I cant find the words to describe how crazy this is.
how is this allowable?

http://fusion.net/story/200779/marti...nt=desktop+top

article from inside the article

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/bu...ests.html?_r=1

http://deadline.com/2015/09/brian-wi...it-1201541910/

https://news.yahoo.com/kentucky-cler...125551704.html

her faith is not worth $80k tho, is it?

well, i already thought he sounded like an a$$hole...so now i know he is.

i like how he was encouraging non passage of drugs so he could make money...regardless of the drugs efficacy.

oh, come on...like you wouldn't have done the same! :)

Now I have this to worry about :zz:

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/body-su...fart-bacteria/

I read this headline and thought, "No, someone faked this story."

Then I read that it happened in Oklahoma and said, "Oh, okay. Never mind. I buy it."

http://gawker.com/teacher-allegedly-...ght-1732307022

So what will the macaque do with all the $$$......hmmm

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/...selfie-photos/

i wish it was fake....
did you see about the second grade native american boy who almost got expelled over his haircut?

back to the lefty...my uncle went thru that, til my grandfather told the nuns to knock it off.

oh, the macaque won't get squat....but if he did, maybe he could buy a drug company and jack the prices up 5000%. capitalism, yo

When I visited my stepmom's family in southeast Asia, I remember one cousin watching me write in my journal, then pulling the pen out of my left hand and moving it to my right. I had a heck of a time trying to explain that I couldn't write that way.

I admit I was disappointed when my kid ended up a righty.

Tony is a righty, I'm ambi, and two of our three are lefts

Oh boy.

http://gawker.com/local-new-station-...ppy-1732555986

Attachment 2588

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/23/politi...ian/index.html

well, if anyone knows about pretending to be a christian, it's this guy.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/turing-p...daraprim-drug/

Twerp at least needs a good beating.

After he got a lot of flak over this, the azzhat has said he will be lowering the price. He's yet to say how much

New Democratic Party candidate: "I didn't know what Auschwitz was."

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/ca...-auschwitz-was

Wonder how many will read beyond your headline to understand that this is not in fact a New Democratic Canidate for president of the United States but some moron running in a Canadian election. Im sure that wasnt your intent.

Maybe he didn't know what Canada was?

http://gothamist.com/2015/09/23/dobr...ppreciated.php

If the video still plays (it's been taken down and then put back up), it's worth the view. Talk about a story with no protagonists. Other than maybe the poor cop having to listen to the would-be Christopher Columbus there.

If the reader can't be troubled to click on the link (or even mouse over the cursor) to see that it's about Canadian poly ticks, that's somehow on me?

This is the second time (first was in high school English class) that it's been suggested to me that I should write down to my audience. I'll keep it in mind going forward.

Well at least you can claim first Derby Trail post on Canadian politics:tro:

i read it. kills me people don't know such recent history.

More likely, your high school English teacher would have criticized you for writing a poor summary of the article, omitting the most important bit of information- which nation.

In today's intertoobs, you'd be accused of trying to create click bait.

Also, see: "bury the lede."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astro...i_science.html

Ben Carson: Evolution Is Satanic and the Big Bang Is a Fairy Tale


In 2012, in a speech at an event called “Celebration of Creation,” he said that Darwin came up with evolutionary theory because the devil made him do it.


I mean that literally. He said, “I personally believe that this theory that Darwin came up with was something that was encouraged by the adversary.” The Adversary is a nickname for the devil; it’s the actual translation of the word “Satan.” So there’s that.


so...were carson to meet the pope, i wonder how that convo would go regarding evolution? probably would be quite interesting.
and he's a great example of how some people want our schools to teach 'science' instead of science.

the earth is not young, creationism isn't science, evolution explains the diversity of life rather than its creation, and carson is full of ish.

I'm sure it was:wf

i thought he was just making fun of a woman.

Yeah, because these are informative, descriptive posts which give the reader a clear picture of what the article linked is about, conveying to the reader whether he/she would want to click on said link

At least the "well informed" are now familiar with the New Democratic Party.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/09...n_8186098.html

But she never heard of Auschwitz...

amazing.
what next, a science denying neurosurgeon??

Well, the great state of New York has no problem putting people on horse racing oversight committees who know exactly nothing about the sport, so why do we expect more from Canada? At least all she could do on the board was hand out awards. ;)

For that matter, we're letting billionaires who have never spent a second of their lives teaching in a classroom dictate to us how to fix education.

Which is not to say that I don't have some pretty funny bad teacher anecdotes. When I was working in education at a conservation facility, one of the guys I supervised had to gently tell a third grade teacher that no, crocodiles are not mammals. She argued it with him, too.

oh christ.

my daughters sixth grade teacher would turn to kelly for pronunciations of words...

and it's funny how your brain will hold onto stuff that you don't know is lurking in there, til something pops it out.

a year or two ago, tony and i were watching something about the american revolution era. and up it comes with 'philadelphia harbor'.
i jumped up and yelled 'i knew it!' he's looking at me like i've gone daft.
i said no, see, in fourth grade the teacher had us all write a paper about a location in that era. she calls on me to read my report. i no sooner start reading about philadelphia harbor when she stops me, tells me i'm making it all up, go sit down, you're getting a zero. i was crushed-but you dared not argue with the teacher and they know everything right?
oh, i wish i could find ol ms truax and give her a piece of my mind.

Your fourth grade teacher and my elementary school's mean, awful music teacher should have hung out together.

Now, if that teacher I mentioned before had said that "humans are reptiles" she'd have technically been correct, according to the phylogenetic system of classification:

https://askabiologist.asu.edu/questi...saurs-reptiles

The Donald is slipping a bit, can't figure why:D