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I'll be honest: to me, that looks more like a college campus than a single church.

With the loans, what happened was that people who previously couldn't get credit for one reason or another (usually because they were regarded as poor credit risks for one reason or another) were being given credit via the sub-prime loans. Some banks were only doing it because they were under pressure to be more "progressive" with their loan policies, while others saw the high interest rates that they could charge for the sub-prime loans and started doling them out like peppermint disks. So long as the money was moving, the "right" groups now had credit, and Uncle Sam was playing sugar daddy in case things went wrong, no one cared.

I hope these people realize that the more they try to buck the system with their protests, the less anyone who matters will actually take them seriously.

I hope these people realize that the more they try to buck the system with their protests, the less anyone who matters will actually take them seriously.

Given that I'm having to haul heavy cargo for good distances (30 miles plus) in all sorts of weather and terrain conditions, there's not an existing 100% electric model that would serve my needs.

Another thing to consider is that in this day and age, having stay-at-home moms front-and-center is a major development. Why? Being a stay-at-home mom is officially counter-culture now, especially if the woman chose of her own accord to remain at home. Here in the United States, women are actually getting cussed out by so-called "feminists" for daring to list stay-at-home motherhood as a life goal. Society no longer places value on women who voluntarily remain at home to be the primary caretaker for their children, and in fact such women may even be viewed as "traitors" by the so-called "progressives" in society. So for the church to remind the world that it's OK to choose to stay at home is a pretty big deal.

I have bad allergies, and so sometimes my lungs fill with assorted crud. ...And sometimes, I get heartburn so bad it actually liquifies this crud.

My digital cable provider finally picked up BYU-TV, and so I've been watching it normally and not through Roku. So near as I can tell, it's running on time or even *ahead* of schedule. Might be something with Roku, then.

You're not the only one down, so don't feel too bad. I'm having trouble staying awake as well.

My main set of scriptures is a "quad" that contains the Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine & Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price. However, I do keep a parallel Bible (four different translations presented next to each other) handy for discussions.

God's Not Dead 2 It's not a direct follow-on to the original, but is set in the same town and involves some of the same characters. Unfortunately, it feels a bit flat compared to the first one. Also, I think it's pretty obvious that the production team intends to create a third film, as this one sets up for it.

IMHO, it's possible that you simply have someone who likes to micro-manage.

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29703536/video-sfsu-investigates-student-confrontation-over-dreadlocks-hairstyle A black student confronted and tried to physically restrain a white student when she saw that the white student was wearing dreadlocks. When the white student broke free and told her off, the black student saw that a third party was filming the incident and went after the camera. The person who recorded the exchange is looking to press charges.

Around here, that might actually happen: someone doesn't know who they are and so just looks at their "failure" to finish their mission.

The big issue with Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch is that there's a rights issue. The movie rights to the mutant and Inhuman characters resides with Fox rather than Disney. Both characters are mutants, and so technically Disney shouldn't even be able to use them in the movies or their television shows. This put Disney in a bind, as The Scarlet Witch has been associated with The Avengers since the 1980s. What we saw in "Age of Ultron" was Disney trying to finagle a way they could still use the pair. This is also why Sunfire and Silver Samurai couldn't be used in Big Hero 6: they're mutants, and so Disney can't touch them, either.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/03/27/annual-easter-egg-hunt-ends-after-adults-cause-mayhem/82322972/ PEZ was forced to cancel their annual Easter Egg hunt when numerous parents rushed the fields before the scheduled start times in order to grab as many eggs as they could for their kids. Although most people have been sympathetic to PEZ over the issue, some individuals have blamed them for not having enough people in place to stop the rampage.

IMHO, at this point Warner Brothers should leave adapting the comic book stories to their animated direct-to-video features, where they have a competent staff who know how to handle these things in the appropriate fashion.

Also just got out of Batman / Superman. The writing team tried to cram too many story lines into too short a film, which is why the film's as disjointed as it is. Warner Brothers is moving at a stupidly fast pace to try and catch up with Marvel's own movie universe, and so this film was the side effect. A lot of kids were actually very upset in the theater today thanks to the ending that the film had to have.

If memory serves, Faust was a lawyer, judge, and corporate board member at various points in his career. A guy like that *would* have the bling to get a Mercedes.

I myself drive a third-hand Buick (inherited from a grandmother who bought it used) and am still wearing the same Timex I got back in high school. I allot myself $20 - $40 in "luxury" spending a month, but only after first ensuring that I've got enough in the bank to pay for my bills and my necessities. Yes, even though I live with family I still buy a fair amount of my own groceries and sundries so that I'm not taking advantage of them.

Also, remember that President Uchtdorf was a corporate vice president before he joined the Brethren. The watch in question could easily be an artifact from his days in that position, either purchased in order to maintain the required appearance of a corporate executive or gifted to him by someone so that he would maintain the appearance. And yes, there's actually a fair amount of pressure for people at the top of the ladder to look the part. Higher-end suits, higher-end watches, higher-end vehicles, et cetra. Much of it is subconscious, but sometimes it's also enforced after a fashion. I remember hearing about one incident, for example, in which a higher-up at a firm decided to buy a more fuel-efficient vehicle and drive that around instead of the fancy luxury car he was used to driving due to his position; his boss was so flabbergasted at the concept that the boss initially presumed that some random low-level employee had stolen the man's parking space. After a few words with the boss, the person went back to driving their luxury car to work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2016/03/24/someone-wrote-trump-2016-on-emorys-campus-in-chalk-some-students-said-they-no-longer-feel-safe/?tid=sm_fb College students are going into hysterics because someone grabbed chalk and wrote pro-Trump messages all over their campus.

This was the first one - http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Driver-Dies-When-Car-Crashes-Into-Local-Building-Bursts-Into-Flames-204849911.html#storyVideo . I was at the newspaper office when the vehicle in question plowed into the building next door; I was in the front of the building and so I heard it all. I can't find a link to the article with the autopsy results, but toxicology found large amounts of alcohol, marijuana, and xanax in his system; I showed the article to a guy at church who was a retired Army medic, and he indicated that with the quantities they found, the kid was so blitzed out of his mind that even if he was awake when he hit (he was doing 80 in a 40 zone) he didn't feel a thing. The second one took place along a "main road" that connects several residential zones. In that case, the driver was likewise drunk when she was going past, and due to the way the road is (she was coming up an incline) she didn't see that a vehicle had stopped in the middle of the road so that its occupants could talk with someone who was in front of a house. There weren't any fatalities this time around, but one of the people who was in front of the house had to be hospitalized, the vehicle - a brand new Corvette - was totaled, and a brick mailbox was destroyed.

IMHO, this woman should lose her professorship over this. Not only did she declare that she hasn't been reading the e-mails that are being sent out, she's also declaring that she'll abuse the emergency services system for her own ends.

I was the first person on the scene at two drunk driving accidents in an eleven-month period and made the initial emergency services call in both instances. Between that and a number of other incidents, dispatch kinda knows me. In that sense, I can sympathize with the guy.