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Okay fanboi, you are so right, I know nothing about LockMart after being employed by them, having family members employed by them, watching them waste taxpayer dollars, and screw around with people’s clearances. Yup I couldn’t hack being underpaid and continually screwed by the matrix mismanagement. I hope you are getting paid by LockMart for your water carrying, call me if you want to make real money and work for a corporation that actually makes a real product.

Cheers,
CSG

The funny thing was Glendenning was raving about how MoM was a “breath of fresh air after the evils of Ehrlich.” This was of course after MoM won, I really hate the electorate here in MD, sheeple is too good an epitath for them.

Cheers,
CSG

After witnessing the multiple disasters that LockMart can create when it comes to software, I’d rather have Raytheon software and hardware protecting me, even if it is not “as effective.” You really have no idea how bad LockMart is, I’ve worked for multiple divisions as well so it just isn’t one part of the company. As for the PAC-3, believe it when it happens, LockMart is great on paper, bad in development. But then again what do I know? I was only employed by them on several missile/space projects.

Cheers,
CSG

Or north to Maryland, which is going to fail the Real ID act due to its stance on the “undocumented.”

Cheers,
CSG

You should have asked your liberal dinner mate what her PhD was in. If it was “Gender Studies” or English (literature), I would have asked her why that gives any credence to her opinions on global warming, the war in Iraq, or anything else rooted in the real world. People are impressed by others with PhD’s, and as a PhD Candidate myself I always tell them not to be, I’ve met many a stupid PhD out there, especially in the Anthropology departments.

Cheers,
CSG

Having worked for both companies, I’d trust the Raytheon missile over LockMart’s any day.

Cheers,
CSG

I’ve heard good things about Georgia too. My wife and I won’t be here for very much longer. I’m ready to move myself, but the wife isn’t just yet. I don’t know if I could take a nice quiet, low traffic, english speaking, conservative area, it might be too much of a shock to my system. :-)

Cheers,
CSG

There are laws on the books, in VA, and in MD, (Montgomery County is filled to the brim with illegals as well). The fact is that they are just not enforced (much like the speed limit on the beltway). It is only after someone gets killed that people even care, and with the county gov’t it is usually because of the paperwork. If you want to see what America will look like after a Democrat Pres in 2008 go to No. Virginia or by the beltway Maryland. Believe me, it ain’t pretty.

Cheers,
CSG

This from a highly paid expert in his field who I readily admit is a very intelligent guy. It's like once the subject of current events comes up, the brain goes off, and what's cool and hip to say takes over.

Sounds like someone I know. Might even be the same guy, Hippie retread, works for the gov't?

Just Checking,
CSG

I used to live in HoCo, but wife and I wanted a house. Thanks to Greenies (no urban sprawl), and the limousine liberal set, all we could afford that was even close to our respective work areas was Mo Co. I vote a ticket that is anti-Dem, and yes I live in Illegal hell (after all someone has to clean the limo lib’s pool). I was very disappointed that Steele lost and Ehrlich was kicked out, but at least I have the ability to say I told you so to my irritatingly liberal neighbors, and anti-Ehrlich lib friends, who even now call MoM the new Glendenning... On the bright side in another 3-4 years I will be able to sell my townhouse with a small profit to a nice set of illegal families... I may even receive a tax break from the state gov’t for doing so... /sarc

Cheers,
CSG

Yes, I understand, its quite frustrating. I agree, I have an acquaintance who works at an IC agency and still has the nerve to say, “There is no War on Terror, the Bush Administration made it up!” He’s a gov’t worker as well. it wouldn’t be so bad if the guy was some clerk, but he handles TS documents, and can see the “big picture.” I fear there are quite a few of these people in the gov’t and they usually are the leakers. I hope we get a conservative in 2008, it might help things.

Cheers,
CSG

A small sample of references:
The Medieval Kitchen: Recipes from France and Italy by Odile Redon, Francoise Sabban, Silvano Serventi, and Edward Schneider (has very interesting reading concerning feast and fast)
The Medieval Cookbook by Maggie Black
Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade by Henri Pirenne (fascinating look at diet, the church and cities)
Daily Life in the Middle Ages by Paul B. Newman (this is the work that talked directly about the beaver)
You can also look at the Gies’ (Frances and Joseph) work on society (life in a medieval city) etc.

I’ll have to dig through my library for my primary resources, as well as their translations.

My wife is the resident culinary expert on the medieval period, suffice to say things have changed since medieval times. Additionally most of my primary resources come from Germany, which was mostly a whole different ball of wax from England, Holy Roman Emperor and all that. The market for fish was augmented by the lean days, and yes Europe has coasts. :-)

Cheers,
CSG

I can attest to several bishops proscribing no meat on Sundays to their dioceases in Germany in the 14th Century, there were also other proscriptions (no fruit during certain holy days being one of them). How much of this was actually followed, who is to say, but the regulation of diet was one of the many things the church took upon itself in medieval times. It was a different time though, the most hard core Christian today doesn’t even approach the amount of religious fervour a “regular” person of the medieval period had. Medieval peoples were far more faith driven. Just look at how many people go on pilgrimage these days...

Meat was never proscribed on Sundays. It was only proscribed on Wednesdays in Lent and the four "ember" Wednesdays.

No, in the late medieval chuch it was proscribed year round. I have several sources (some primary) where this was the case. The dietary restrictions of the middle ages were far more severe than they were in the modern Pre-Vatican II era. Much of this change was caused by the counter-reformation, and subsequent Councils where the restrictions were relaxed, or abolished.

The "beaver tail" exception was a local, not a Churchwide matter.

Define local? Europe? The beaver was hunted into exctinction by this rule.

There were only dietary restrictions in Lent.

No, there were year round restrictions on diet in medieval times, once again primary sources support this. This was one of the reasons why there was a large market for fish in Northern Europe.

Cheers,
CSG

Err ttay == stay

No, he disbanded the order under pressure from the King of France. This was also during the Avignon Papacy, which of course kept the Pope under the King's thumb. One of the many reasons why a Pope will never come from a lone superpower. Additionally the Pope merely disbanded the order in France, it survived in other countries. The church did not seize their property, the King of France did. I do not see where you are getting these facts, if you'd like FRiend, I can give you several reliable references on the Templars. FYI: It might be wise to ttay away from the Dan Brown stuff.

Cheers,
CSG

medieval church rituals

Like no meat on wednesdays, fridays, and sundays? (Except for beaver tail of course). Or the plethora of dietary restrictions? What about passion plays in the church? Lay brothers and sisters gonna make a comeback? Does this include the Peace of God and Truce of God as well? :-)
/end medieval historian humor

Cheers,

CSG

"The thought of somebody vandalizing it never crossed my mind," said Gareth Groves...

Gareth, buy a clue, you live in D.C. the most liberal of liberal enclaves, you are riding around in a Hummer, the most hated of all liberal hates (because algore says it thus it must be true.) Your car is going to be vandalized because that is the way things are in D.C. Either 1. get a new car, 2. move out of Mom's place (to like (the red part of) MD or VA (past NOVA)) or 3. realize this will happen again because you ARE in the insane asylum there, get a lower deductible on your insurance. You live around people that feel that the state should own everything and Karl Marx is a better economist than Milton Friedman. This is the norm one should expect from liberal minds.

Cheers,
CSG

(Who does not display bumper stickers on his car for similar reasons (i.e. liberal vandalism))

It turns out one of the well cleared individuals was getting crap all over the place in the restroom and not flushing and many people were leaving trash and sanitary napkins in inappropriate places.

Amazing isn't it? You'd think if you can fill out the paperwork for a clearance you can figure out how to flush the toilet? I feel your pain, everyday...

Cheers,
CSG

Bah! Whining self centered people. Gen X is not the ME generation, that was the boomers. I’m a Gen X’er and although my twenties didn’t go as planned, my thirties are one heck of a great run (and I still have more years to go). The trick is not to whine and say “I should have had a wife, a 4,000 sq foot home, and 2.3 children by the time I was thirty.” Its to realize what you do have and if you aren’t satisfied change it. Whining about it to Canadian newspapers or making cry-baby plays isn’t going to bring happiness.

Cheers,
CSG