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I really didn't mean to offend. Seems like I did. Sorry. All I'm saying is that the majority of homosexuals, just as are the majority of heterosexuals in this country, are theists of some kind. As theists, why wouldn't they want to be married just like everybody else? They aren't irreligious even if their own religion (from their family of origin) has repudiated them.

You seem to be suffering under the delusion that homosexual feelings precludes one from holding religious beliefs. If one is of a church that allows homosexual union (and the number that do is growing), why, if we truly have freedom of religion, is it still banned in secular law? The strongest argument is that homosexuality causes harm to the individuals involved and/or society at large, but I haven't seen any solid evidence of that. What I have witnessed is that HOMOPHOBIA causes harm to individuals and society at large.

((actually, that was silver ore mined in Cobalt, ONT))

You can get a strawberry anything, you just can't make her drink it.

Because I didn't know, even if I should: fair to midland/middling Q] From John Rupp, Dallas, Texas: I have often heard the phrase fair to Midland (middlin’?) in response to the inquiry ‘How are you doing?’ Any ideas on the origins of this phrase? [A] I do like “fair to Midland”. It sounds like a weather forecast: “fair to Midland, but the North will have rain”. That’s a Texas variation on the phrase, a joke on the name of the city called Midland in that state. It’s really fair to middling, of course, a common enough phrase — in Britain as well as North America — for something that is moderate to average in quality, sometimes written the way people often say it, as fair to middlin’. All the early examples I can find in literary works — from authors like Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott and Artemus Ward — suggest it became common on the east coast of the US from the 1860s on. The first example in the Oxford English Dictionary is from Artemus Ward: His Travels of 1865: “The men are fair to middling”. Another is from Horace Greeley’s Recollections of a Busy Life of 1869 in which he records seeing a play: “The night was intensely cold, in-doors as well as out; the house was thin; the playing from fair to middling; yet I was in raptures from first to last”. Hunting around, I’ve found an example three decades earlier, from an article with the title A Succinct Account of the Sandwich Islands, in the July 1837 issue of the Southern Literary Messenger of Richmond, Virginia: “A Dinner on the Plains, Tuesday, September 20th. — This was given ‘at the country seat’ of J. C. Jones, Esq. to the officers of the Peacock and Enterprise. The viands were ‘from fair to middling, we wish we could say more.’ ” So the phrase is American, most probably early nineteenth century. But where does it come from? There’s a clue in one of the OED’s later citations, from the Century Dictionary of 1889: “Fair to middling, moderately good: a term designating a specific grade of quality in the market”. The term middling turns out to have been used as far back as the previous century for an intermediate grade of various kinds of goods, both in the US and in Britain — there are references to a middling grade of flour or meal, pins, cotton, and other commodities. Which market the Century Dictionary was referring to is made plain by the nineteenth-century American trade journals that I’ve consulted. Fair and middling were terms in the cotton business for specific grades — the sequence ran from the best quality (fine), through good, fair, middling and ordinary to the least good (inferior), with a number of intermediates, one being middling fair. The phrase fair to middling sometimes appeared as a reference to this grade, or to a range of intermediate qualities — it was common to quote indicative prices, for example, for “fair to middling grade”. The reference was so well known in the cotton trade that it seems to have eventually escaped into the wider language.

wow, nice hunk of magnetite. Have some galena.

Weak plot? Gratuitous violence? Pithy comebacks? Pop-culture references galore? I'm game.

Yay! Well, you just choose your words carefully, I suppose.

It's so adorable! I want one. This is also funny; my favorite part is the warning at bottom:

Hello!

Not just 'supposed,' it did, in my dialect, anyway. I've never lived in WI, so I will take your word for it. If you are ever hard up for a drink in the Big Easy, hit up an AA meeting; in NOLA, white chips will buy you a free drink in many establishments.

Well, I suppose it's better than being killed and eaten.

To answer the latter first, you may have been joking, but they're not smoking: Nicotine Anonymous Now for the former--yes, AA is in WI: list of Wisconsin meetings

You are carried on a litter through life Your journey through life is a relaxing, amusing show. Nothing really touches you. On the plus side, this means you won't dirty your royal slippers talking with the muckety-mucks who think they can put a candle to you. On the down side, it's lonely where you are, and not everyone thinks you are as golden as you think you are, so maybe one day the muckety-mucks will put a torch to you. Maybe it will all come down to how well you treat those who shoulder your burden. [yeah, I'm totally joking]

You Are Peach Iced Tea You are easy going and very friendly. You are happy to make every occasion a social event. You need lots of people in your life. You feel lonely and bored when no one else is around. You are a generous and caring person. You are emotionally involved in many people's lives. You may come off as overly sweet, but you can't help it. You're a naturally sweet person. What Flavor Iced Tea Are You?

You Are a Stable Green Car You are responsible and careful. You don't like to make waves or take too many risks. When it comes to life, you're in it for the long haul. You try to live as well as possible every day. You also believe that slow and steady wins the race. You value consistency and patience. You are a stabilizing influence in people's lives. You can calm down and help out when things get chaotic. The Car Oracle

You Should Teach Fourth Grade You are a very intuitive person. You tend to immediately understand what drives a person and what a person needs. You know how to challenge people and help them break through walls. You are inspiring to others. You are giving and generous. You are willing to spend a lot of time with someone to help them achieve their goals. You make people feel good about themselves. You build self-esteem effectively. What Grade Should You Teach?

Yes, AA was (originally) a Christian organization. In fact, the Lord's Prayer is often said at AA meetings still and its membership is predominantly Christian, but one is not required to be a member of the Christian religion to attend. NA is even more liberal and pretty much from the beginning used the words "Higher Power" to not only make meetings less sectarian, but so that many of non-Christian faiths would feel comfortable. Some NA meetings come down pretty strictly on people who proselytize in their meetings. So, it's not across the board Christian at these meetings. In Michigan, for example, there was an NA Pagan/Wiccan meeting for many years in the Royal Oak area and might still be. I don't know because I fell away from the whole organization some five or six years ago.