Um, lilly - with ObamaCare patients won't need to recover. Instead, the gub'mint will deceide that they don't need the surgery, etc. in the first place.

There - fixed that for you.

I'm going to try this on a veggie nephew I'll see at a family function this weekend.

I'll remind hime that not only bread but beer use yeast so they contribute to global warming. I'll say this after I give him a frosty, cold one.

Should make his head explode.

Turn off the caps lock. Shouting doesn't make your point (whatever it is) any easier.

Yeah, the peanut farmer was my first presidential vote in '76. To this day (to use Catholic termionlogy) I'm still doing pennance for that.

The good thing is that Carter turned my into a consertative. All we need now is another Reagan - which is why ex-Gov Palin scares the left so much.

I've also been doing that since they were infants. Also, say prayers with them before bed (when I go not them as their hours are strange).

They do listen. I've been having a rough time at work (70+ hour weeks will do that). I was working from home late one nite (a small blessing) when my teenage daughter (who's life saying is 'get out my life but give me $50 and take me to the mall') came and said a prayer over me. Made me cry and we actually had a (small) discussion.

You make some valid points about technology.

You've only got ½ the story though. Without a profit motive why would conpanies develop new technologies, drugs, treatment programs, etc? I am married to a health professional. Dealing with our current government programs (medicare/medicade) is a joke. They either won't pay for new treatments ("until they have been proven") or pay less then the treatment costs.

Coupla' points (you've got so many misconceptions that it would take volumns to discuss):

- 66 books in the Bible. The cannon of scripture was unchanged for over 1000 years until Luther removed several books that did not fit his (mis)understanding of theology. Please read the histories of the councils of Carthage in Hippo (both in the 4th) century where the Church (the Catholic Church) under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit determined which books were to be in the cannon of Sacred Scripture.
- 2nd commandment (worship statues). Reading Exodus ("You shall not make for yourself a graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: you...

Actually ... you can. Fundamentally it is the Holy Spirit that illuminates scripture to the believer, and He can use great men of the word to do so. Those men may have gotten many things right, but some things wrong. We do not have to accept the wrong to gain from the right.



Um, Chris. I've heard this argument many times from protestants. The question is that there is not a good explination for differing opinions regarding the iterpertation of Sacred Scripture. One can even hear from Mormon apologists that the book of mormon is 'true' because the Holy Spirit 'convicts' them of it (this doesn't mean what a Christian means by 'convict' - I bring this up because the argument is the same).

The Catholic Church has...