Posted on 01/11/2005 6:18:33 PM PST by malakhi
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Visitation rights have been arranged. One day a month I will hand him over and he will spend the day with his friends:')
Sounds like he's checking to make sure you're not dead. ;-)
SD
SHHH. I'm guilty. That thought did go through my head.
But what happens if you don't respond? Does he ring for a nurse, or call the coroner?
I thought about playing asleep and see what he does but I'm afraid he might bite me:')
It's a cat. Dinnertime!
SD
I think it's time to turn on the heat when it's in the 40's:)
We all stand in front of the stove all the time. Even in the summer if the AC is on too low, I stand in front of the stove, even tho it's not on. As my son said once, it's a comforting place to stand:) In the winter we have to squeeze in between the dogs and cat all lying around in front of it. The carpet there is more worn then anywhere else.
Nothing like having your backside HOT:).
Becky
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LOL!
Well, only if it has been a few days... ;o)
Not this cat. I have offered him everything from cat treats to a cheese burger. He will only eat purina and it has to be in his bowl.
I think Eddie likes him. Someone came by awhile ago and told me there was a cat outside my window that looked like mine. It wasn't but Eddie was out there chasing him down to make sure:')
Ya mind if I tell Mack he married a Hippy? :-)
I don't mind. But it won't be anything he doesn't already know:)
Becky
Becky, if you want something for winter, you might check out some of the different varieties of heath and or heather. Some bloom during the winter. Other varieties, their leaves change color during the winter months.
Interesting. Escaping the 7 year Trib for 2000 years.
Luke 21
36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
Luke 21
35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
I think the verses you gave only show escape/protection from harm while they endure them here on earth. NOT that they are removed from the planet to avoid them and that is the difference.
Per my previous post:
Psalm 91 (JPS-DNR)
(4) He will cover thee with His pinions, and under His wings shalt thou take refuge; His truth is a shield and a buckler.
(5) Thou shalt not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flieth by day;
(6) Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
(7) A thousand may fall at Thy side, and ten thousand at Thy right hand; it shall not come nigh thee.
(8) Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold, and see the recompense of the wicked.
(9) For thou hast made YHWH who is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation.
(10) There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent.
(11) For He will give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
All those christians which have died to this date (barring those who endured Tribulation-like persecution for their faith) ... have, in fact, ... escaped the Tribulation.
All religions could make the same statement.
All those hristians that went through persecution didn't escape did they? Why do you suppose that is?
But MacLeish and Johnson do reveal, inadvertently, truths about liberalism's meaning and its problems. First, conservatives' questions about the welfare state's ultimate size and cost are turned aside by rhetoric that emphasizes the processes and attitudes that go into building it. What's important, liberals say, is that the creation of government programs to promote social welfare be pursued in a vigorous, confident, optimistic manner, suffused with concern for the vulnerable and respect for the common man, unconstrained by the stifling precepts of the past. ...Conservatives wonder if all this lofty talk is a smokescreen--they wonder, that is, whether there really are blueprints in a safe back at the central office, detailing the vast, Swedish-style welfare state that is liberalism's ultimate goal for America.
The answer is, probably not. If that answer is correct, it then raises this question: Which would be more troubling--the existence or the absence of those blueprints? That is, should conservatives conclude that liberals pose a graver threat to self-government, freedom and prosperity if they have an ambitious but hidden agenda, or if liberalism has no master plan at all because it is, ultimately and always, an adhocracy?
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Many Democrats lament that Republicans have been successful in getting working-class Americans to vote "against their own interests," by stressing social issues like abortion and gay marriage. Thomas Frank wrapped an entire bestseller, "What's the Matter with Kansas?," around this idea. It's a "false consciousness" diagnosis that betrays rather than describes the Democrats' problem: the smug assumption that we know, far better than they do themselves, the "real interests" of people who live in dorky places and went to schools no one has heard of.
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Lyndon Johnson gave one other memorable speech in 1964. At a campaign rally in Providence, R.I., he climbed onto his car, grabbed a bullhorn and summed up his political philosophy: "I just want to tell you this--we're in favor of a lot of things and we're against mighty few."
...Ruy Teixeira says that after 2004, "the bigger question is: What do the Democrats stand for?" Here's a better and bigger question still: What do the Democrats stand against? Tell us, if indeed it's true, that Democrats don't want to do for America what social democrats have done for France or Sweden. Tell us that the stacking of one government program on top of the other is going to stop, if indeed it will, well short of a public sector that absorbs half the nation's income and extensively regulates what we do with the other half.
Say what you will about the Slick One, he did manage to run a ficticious "third way" campaign and Hitlery is well on her way running from the same book. Truth has no meaning to them.
"Most of the footprints left by neoliberalism have been washed away; the rest are fading. Bill Clinton, in seeking a Third Way, disparaged the false dichotomy between big and limited government. With the passage of time, Mr. Clinton's triangulation looks less and less like a political philosophy and more like a personality disorder, the type afflicting a man who thinks every dichotomy is false. (As Charles Kesler has pointed out, Mr. Clinton apparently believed that there was a Third Way between fidelity and adultery, and between telling the truth and lying.) Good government is, in any case, too small and banal an idea to settle the problem of the proper size and scope of the welfare state, and too slender a thread to tie together a majority coalition for the Democratic Party."
I am mentally unable to conceive of an electorate that would elect that woman. I just can't see normal joe sixpack blue collar union Democrats voting for her. If such happens, I shall either marvel at the political mastery or descend into DUmmie-type madness.
SD
The Eagles were once the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Steelers were once the Philadelphia Eagles. It's a long story, but the Steelers still own the original corporate minutes of the Eagles that stayed with them when the franchises were traded in 1941, Dan Rooney said.
"The Eagles are operating under the original Steelers franchise," Rooney, the Steelers' chairman, said yesterday. "And the Steelers are operating under the original Eagles franchise."
... The Steelers and Eagles also combined operations for the 1943 season because of the shortage of football players during World War II and played as the Steagles.
SD
Have you ever heard of this before? I can't imagine. For a Steelers fan, it must be like waking up the morning after your wedding and finding out that you married the wrong woman. ;o)
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