dondub
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Post by dondub on Feb 16, 2020 20:26:14 GMT -5
Even I wouldn't be allowed into Australia or New Zealand, despite being from a Commonwealth country. We both have Her Majesty on our money. Speaking of which....If there's a New Zealand, then where is Zealand? Zeeland is one of the 12 Dutch provinces Also the largest island in Denmark proper.
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Feb 16, 2020 21:30:36 GMT -5
Even I wouldn't be allowed into Australia or New Zealand, despite being from a Commonwealth country. We both have Her Majesty on our money. Speaking of which....If there's a New Zealand, then where is Zealand? Zeeland is one of the 12 Dutch provinces Thanks.
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Gardening Grandma
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Feb 16, 2020 22:16:35 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I could live quite nicely as an ex-pat (since I grew up as one). But I don't think DH would be happy.... DH claims he wants to move to Canada but he grew up in Tennessee and has a low tolerance for cold weather. He's never lived anyplace that stays close to freezing for month (I started out in northern Ohio with the lake effect snow - I know what it feels like to have your nose hairs freeze). I don't think he'd last a whole canadian winter - but I think he'd love to be a snow bird ex-pat. I’d like that
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 18, 2020 11:30:08 GMT -5
Gilead is coming.
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 18, 2020 11:34:49 GMT -5
Gilead is coming. Played to the base. Better to let kids fail in the foster care system or state children's homes than let them be adopted by gay couples. The older the parentless child the tougher to get adopted.
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 18, 2020 12:25:06 GMT -5
Played to the base. Better to let kids fail in the foster care system or state children's homes than let them be adopted by gay couples. The older the parentless child the tougher to get adopted. Don't use a faith based agency. What would be your answer to this one: don't live in Tennessee? Tennessee lawmaker renews call to make Holy Bible official state bookNASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) -A Tennessee lawmaker is renewing the call to make the Bible the official state book of Tennessee. Rep. Jerry Sexton (R-Bean Station), is sponsoring HB 2778 which was submitted in the Tennessee General Assembly on Wednesday. The bill would make "The Holy Bible" the official state book of Tennessee. The bill comes four years after similar legislation was vetoed by then Governor Bill Haslam. Critics of the 2016 legislation which had been vetoed complained about placing the Bible alongside other state symbols like the official rock, tree, or reptile. There were also legal concerns surrounding the legislation which would likely arise again. Tennessee lawmaker renews call to make Holy Bible official state book
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Feb 18, 2020 12:33:21 GMT -5
Played to the base. Better to let kids fail in the foster care system or state children's homes than let them be adopted by gay couples. The older the parentless child the tougher to get adopted. Don't use a faith based agency. Sure, just use another agency. Just use another hospital. Just use another bakery. Just find another job. Reprehensible. At this rate, faith-based discrimination is spreading faster than the corona virus.
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Feb 18, 2020 12:56:58 GMT -5
What can you expect from a country where almost half the population rejects science and evolution? It boggles the mind. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years. news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx
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Post by happyhoix on Feb 18, 2020 21:02:45 GMT -5
What can you expect from a country where almost half the population rejects science and evolution? It boggles the mind.WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Forty percent of U.S. adults ascribe to a strictly creationist view of human origins, believing that God created them in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years. news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx I was reading a news article about a NASCAR race and one of the guys they interviewed at the tail gate party had a confederate flag sticker on his truck. When the reporter asked what that sticker was for, the guy said there was some war between the north and the south, but he didn't know a lot of the details. Now, however, 'they're trying to make it about race.' The same people that scoff at science and evolution aren't that into history, either - or at least, maybe just the history they read on the 'alternate' websites.
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weltschmerz
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Post by weltschmerz on Feb 18, 2020 22:10:45 GMT -5
When the reporter asked what that sticker was for, the guy said there was some war between the north and the south, but he didn't know a lot of the details. Now, however, 'they're trying to make it about race.
I'm not surprised.
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Tennesseer
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Post by Tennesseer on Feb 19, 2020 10:51:08 GMT -5
What would be your answer to this one: don't live in Tennessee? Tennessee lawmaker renews call to make Holy Bible official state bookNASHVILLE, Tenn. (WZTV) -A Tennessee lawmaker is renewing the call to make the Bible the official state book of Tennessee. Rep. Jerry Sexton (R-Bean Station), is sponsoring HB 2778 which was submitted in the Tennessee General Assembly on Wednesday. The bill would make "The Holy Bible" the official state book of Tennessee. The bill comes four years after similar legislation was vetoed by then Governor Bill Haslam. Critics of the 2016 legislation which had been vetoed complained about placing the Bible alongside other state symbols like the official rock, tree, or reptile. There were also legal concerns surrounding the legislation which would likely arise again. Tennessee lawmaker renews call to make Holy Bible official state bookI would file it under 'what about anything'. Has nothing to do with kids not being adopted through religion based agencies. You seem to have an answer for everything so I thought I would ask.
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thyme4change
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Post by thyme4change on Feb 19, 2020 10:58:39 GMT -5
Maybe they should make their bible their state constitution. That way they can start stoning people and activists groups will mandate feeding and housing those in need.
The bible is a soup sandwich. Let's let the lawyers fight it out. LOL.
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Post by djAdvocate on Feb 19, 2020 11:15:27 GMT -5
looks like John Walker Lynde is not the only American Taliban.
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