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Neighbor said I opened the door all the way, and invited her in. She made some excuse about not being able to stay long, though. Murle, on the other hand, likely walked right out the door, closing it behind him to keep the cat from getting out, and stood on the porch with the JWs the whole time.

When she's been carrying it for 9 months, and you've been putting up with pregnant woman gas for most of that, you'll know it's time to have the baby.

Not necessarily; when Cecil Jacobson was doing this in SLC, at least one case was supposed to be using the husband's sperm, but the doc swapped in his own instead.

I haven't quite managed what a friend did; after answering the door in nothing but black socks and a cowboy hat, (he swears it wasn't intentional, but for some reason in his freshly awakened and very hung over state, he knew something was missing and for some reason his brain picked socks and a hat) and listening to them for a few minutes, he politely did the "step aside a bit" hand gesture without interrupting their monologue, and peed off the porch between them. He says it was just about the time he finished that he finally realized he didn't have anything to pull up afterward, and started piecing together that his sleepy, still somewhat drunk brain had somehow transposed "hat" and "sweatpants." I still wish I could remember the Demerol moment with my old neighbor, but I can only go by the evidence that I did plenty of other complex tasks fully competently (I even washed the dishes and cleaned up the stove) while totally blacked out for three days, so answering the door and having a normal conversation with her while totally and quite casually naked is entirely plausible. The part that's slightly disturbing is that I obviously also took the trash out at least once, down two flights of stairs, and about 60 yards across the parking lot to the dumpster and then walked back to the apartment...and the clothes I brought home from the hospital were the last things in the hamper...and the hospital gown I wore home was apparently in that load of trash.

Yup. Even if you're naked.

Because the EQ was tired of them. It's unfortunate that the FP finally noticed the loophole, and now they won't be quarantined anymore.

Considering the whole point of having 15 of them is to affirm the most important decisions by unanimous confirmation of the same revelation, making the 15 biggest Church decisions since the founding based entirely on one man's revelation would seem to defeat that purpose. While reversing the order (calling 11 other Apostles first, whether all at once, or one at a time with each decision affirmed by all the previously called ones) would likely have the exact same result, (after all, he's going to be the senior Apostle, and the only one with any prior experience at that level) it would at least have the Presidency affirmed by the normal process. (It would also provide the opportunity to change as needed; picture a scenario where Elder Ballard, pushing 90 already, is the sole survivor. It's entirely possible the Lord would prefer the Church to have a younger President right away, rather than deal with the immediate issues only to call a President who may not make it another year.)

He moved to Texas, apparently. And went to a 10PM delivery schedule. Good cookies, though.

Because a rave or kegger wouldn't go over well with the rest of the membership? But really, I think the bigger issue would be some cataclysm with only one Apostle surviving; when he alone declares himself President and calls a whole new Q12 in addition to his counselors, how many people would get suspicious as to how Divinely inspired his decisions really are?

Even hiding the women and children isn't enough when he's around:

Gundecking the paperwork.

Yeah, because setting the Uber robocar free on the streets of Tempe went so well.

So they thought Home Teaching was a Merit Badge?

Care to share just how you know this? And is there something else you're not telling us?

If people at Conference are yelling "hide the beer, the preacher's coming" then something's very wrong.

Well, technically it says "destroyed." So I guess there has to be an effort to make sure none of the 15 are only mostly dead. And for those of you thinking Bednar must be the robot double, I'm sure they realized that would be way too obvious, so it's got to be somebody else.

My ex girlfriend and I took some martial arts classes together. The number of bruises we left on each other from that would probably have had us in court on a regular basis if anyone had decided to raise the alarm every time. My wrist still gets sore when it's about to rain.

Now if we could just change the culture of "be a spouse who has these problems."

If you shoot a man in what you believe is legitimate defense of your child, and someone asks why you murdered him, you're going to deny that you did. What the example questions are designed to establish is simple facts; did the accused have sex with the alleged victim after being pushed away and told no, or when he was aware that she was not sober enough to make a valid decision to have sex? He can then deny all or part: he didn't have sex with her at all; or he only persisted after being pushed away because she had told him she likes it rough; or because she was juggling knives without issue he didn't believe that she was too drunk to say no if she really didn't want to have sex. In any of those cases, he's certainly going to deny raping her. After the facts are established, then a court can decide whether the circumstances constitute rape, just like a court will need to know that you did indeed shoot that man before deciding whether or not the circumstances justify it as a proper defense of a third party.

Does dying without law really matter so much when they lived without soul?

During the pretext call the alleged victim will avoid harsh, accusatory questions like, “Why did you rape me!” Because the answer is, “I didn’t rape you.” The questions are carefully phrased: “Why did you have sex with me after I pushed you away and told you to stop”, or “You knew I was out of it and didn’t know what was going on, but you had sex with me anyway. Why” This type of question is more likely to elicit an incriminating statement. The alleged victims are advised to avoid nebulous questions like, “Why did you do it” A lack of denial by the suspect is argued at trial to be as incriminating as an admission. That's not "phrasing to avoid a denial," it's phrasing to clarify exactly what happened. A rapist may not feel that what he did was "real rape" because she didn't fight back enough, or because she seemed to be enjoying it at some point. One can just as easily categorically deny either of the example situations, and I can't imagine a scenario where an innocent man wouldn't deny them.

Unless she's cute and single; then call me. I'd like to find a good woman with a decent understanding of electronics.

One Apostle at each Conference is actually a Disney animatronic. The real one is kept hidden in Eatonton Georgia for the weekend, because absolutely nothing happens in Putnam County.

So where do telemarketers end up?

Oh, don't even get me (or any other Texan who has looked at the DL/ID renewal form in the last couple years) started on rape kits. Really starting to look like time for another Texas Revolution.