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There are superstitions that people believe which say more wierd things happen when there's a full moon. :D--> You talkin to me?

What do you throw to a drowning lawyer? His partners..... What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 50? Your Honor. .... . . . . . . . :D--> You talkin to me?

and as to the Giants, it's always wise to keep your eye on an Alou managed team, but Barry may have to give up his power brew this year, so ya never know. :D--> You talkin to me?

NL east... I'd like to say the Marlins should still be strong, but they did lose the glue that held them together -- Pudge. It's always (at least in the last roughly 15 years) a bad idea to count Atlanta out... but I can't say I'm overly impressed with any of them. The Mets are always trying to upgrade, but seemingly always at least one step behind George and his Bronx crew. :D--> You talkin to me?

well...ya gotta figure the Cubbies are gonna be in it... and Houston definitely upgraded their pitching staff... and the Dbacks upgraded offense, but have the potential for a very good pitching staff... So, they would be my guesses for the NL. :D--> You talkin to me?

ok, Tom... how about -- either one? The Shi-ite Muslim baseball players, eh? :)--> :D--> You talkin to me?

Diamondbacks won their first spring training game... yesterday, before the skies opened up with torrents, the Cubs and Giants played in Mesa (or Scottsdale, I forget) on ESPN. So, prognosticators, who's gonna be playing in October? :D--> You talkin to me?

I hope you folks get some sort of cathartic thrill out of your hostility toward me... ...mwah! :D--> You talkin to me?

1-800-96-Jerry :D--> You talkin to me?

Yeah Radar, but watch out for Hurricanes... and the sun is out now at my house. cnn says predicted high of 69 the rain is a blessing and within a couple of weeks, the desert wildflowers will be bloomin like crazy... :D--> You talkin to me?

Nice job Tom! -------------- If a lawyer and an IRS agent were both drowning and you could only save one of them, would you go to lunch or read the newspaper? :D--> You talkin to me?

Well congrats to youse guys in TN, OH, the Carolinas and FL, though FL folks probably are used to it more. Here in the desert, we've had rain this last few days. Yesterday, it even hailed enough in some places in the Phoenix area to accumulate on the ground as if it had snowed. At my house, it's been raining all night. It's a refreshing change, even though the temps are in the 40s-50s. Last week, I had the front door open several days... but not today. :D--> You talkin to me?

Anyone got a phone number for the Jerry Springer show? :D--> You talkin to me?

Rained here too today... no twisters, however. Probably more snow in the mountains... the desert will love this. (and I do too). :D--> You talkin to me?

How about teaching your "dear" friend zixar about personal boundaries and other reasonable social skills. I don't stalk him. He stalks me. I don't interrupt his discussions. He butts into mine as the whim hits. Resolution won't come by "taking it private." Because when I did try that, Pawtucket banned me from political forums. But when your "dear" friend zixar does it, people tiptoe around his feelings, because they love him so. Resolution will only come by demanding, one way or the other, that he leave me alone as I do him. And Radar, do you or do you not want this to stop? Then why on earth do you take his bait looking for people to beg him to stay? :D--> You talkin to me?

As much as i appreciate LG's insights, I also believe Fog's question is relevant. From a civil perspective, I can see no problem with allowing same-sex marriage. Of course there are logistics, such as insurance and social security survivor benefits issues, but those are hardly justification to undermine the Constitution's equal protection clause or the Declaration of Independence's Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. so that brings us to the religious realm. And for Christians, many have accepted the notion that they should not hate homosexual individuals, but still have a difficult time with various social/cultural implications. And granted that if we accept the Bible as God's will, then there appears to be enough written to suggest God doesn't like homosexuality. However, God also, if I read the bible (and I think I have done so before), seriously dislikes lots of other things that are tolerated in our society, cultures and even churches. And frankly, i think Paul spelling out the admonition in Galatians that from God's viewpoint, there is neither male nor female, etc. is very relevant to people getting past their fear in considering people a little more according to how God does -- by looking at the heart. So, while opponents of same-sex marriage will not be persuaded by me or these points, I believe same-sex marriage as an accepted cultural institution is inevitable, and is not something that is cause for such fear and gnashing of teeth. :D--> You talkin to me?

How can a pregnant woman tell she's carrying a future lawyer? . . . . She has an uncontrollable craving for baloney, How does an attorney sleep? . . . . . . First he lies on one side, then he lies on the other. :D--> You talkin to me?

I can only speculate... but I would guess that's because the fear of homosexuals is based primarily on superstition and not on biblical scholarship or godly reflection. btw, I am not the author of the letter I copied above. :D--> You talkin to me?

Fog, I've answered you. While it is not an authorative answer, I DID answer you and did validate your question. -------------- Here's a letter in the Arizona Republic... because it's a letter, the items claimed as fact have not been checked... anyone able to check it? Gay marriages already plentiful Mar. 4, 2004 12:00 AM To those who fear the world will meet its biblical end if gay marriage is recognized in the United States, you need not worry. We won't be the first country to tempt fate. In fact, at the rate we're going, we may be among the last. On Jan. 29, the United Nations announced that it will grant benefits to same-sex spouses and domestic partners of its employees who hail from countries that recognize such relationships. To date, same-sex marriages and/or civil unions are legal in Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and some Canadian provinces. Gays are granted certain non-marital benefits in Australia, Austria, Hungary, New Zealand, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. However, if you still live in fear of WMD (weddings of mass destruction), grab your Bible and the duct tape. :D--> You talkin to me?

In case, JF, you haven't observed, I DO leave his discussions alone. HE is the one who DOESN'T leave me a lone. And Pawtucket ALLOWS it, even though he claims to have made rules to prevent such attacks. And NOW, Zixar's buddies are singing his praises for him doing what got me banned from the political threads, using the alert button to keep it private. Only, when I used it, it was about posts that violated stated rules. When zixar used it, it was because I was complying with the rules. You figure it. :D--> You talkin to me?

And Excie, I DO like you, but not because you agree with me (or even if you don't). You're generally pretty candid with people here but do so in ways that are considerate. And do so much better than I can. And I admire that. So there. :D--> You talkin to me?

This STARTED by me being BANNED for doing what ZIXAR is getting praised for doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And Linda, I don't take anything you say to me as an attack. It doesn't hurt me for you to tell me what you think. Even in disagreeing with me, or telling me you think I've done something wrong. There's no malice in what you are saying to me. That is very UNlike what zixar has been doing PROTRACTEDLY here. And Linda, have YOU considered that you don't have all of the facts? the FACT is that PAWtucket got very angry at me for doing what laleo is praising zixar for doing now. It IS that simple. :D--> You talkin to me?

Laleo, What hypocrisy. You condone Zixar reporting a thread that broke no rules, but you have tirade after tirade condemning me. However, your lack of awareness of what my LEGITIMATE concern about the administration of this site makes your butt-in-ski-ness in this thread all the more absurd. Because the fact is that MY concern has ONE root and ONE root only. That is that at QQ's suggestion, Paw set up the alert button so that said concerns could be handled privately, rather than publicly. Pawtucket banned me for NO other reason but that I used the alert button to report a couple posts made by zixar and qq that were hateful attacks on me. In response to my reporting of said posts, Paw rewrote the rules more than once to make it such that he could justify saying I didn't have legitimate complaints, when, before the rewrite, I did. Pawtucket's next step was to try to humiliate me. I refused to be intimidated. Pawtucket's next step was to ban me from the main political forum. Zixar continued to harass me and hence the hateful attacks on me continued. I called attention to it. Pawtucket's next step was to ban me from both political forums all together. Then, when I posted a legitimate issue for discussion in the OPEN forum, because that was the only place I was allowed to do so, Zixar's current (now five or six day) attack began and apparently hasn't let up. When Pawtucket heeded Zixar's alert (even though I had violated NO rule...so, by definition we have an unbalanced and biased administration of the site, at least in this situation), he moved the thread, and did NOT tell me whether it had simply deleted or moved elsewhere. At that time, I did NOT have access to the forum, so I posted this thread to ask the question. Zixar took over and has not let up in his hate for me. Do I owe Pawtucket an apology for me telling the truth about the unbalanced administration of this site? Pawtucket has not demanded one, nor has he asked me for one. Laleo, you copped an attitude against me from the first time we interacted, which I recall had to do with me agreeing with something you said. And you told me you were offended that I would dare to agree with you. You've never been anything but hateful to me, but it hasn't, until this thread, been as intense as that which lives so intensely in the words of Zixar. :D--> You talkin to me?

without looking, the thread title IS "As Arizona goes..." It is about Barry Goldwater and an article written reflecting on his politics. The thread and the decaf politics forum has been idle for two days.... all without me looking since earlier today (several hours earlier). The fact of the matter is I disagree strongly with Linda Z. But guess what -- she wasn't attacking me, even when she said she thought I was wrong. Zixar and laleo can take a lesson from that. At some point, I really wish people would let it (this thread) die. I will not be intimidated by anyone who stalks me, who is as intensely and consistently hateful (not JUST) to me, and what I said about what I believe Pawtucket did in this whole series of situations still stands. Is there a conspiracy? that's ridiculous. And I didn't say there was... :D--> You talkin to me?

niKa, 13 new inches of snow at Summerhaven (Mt. Lemmon) last night! . . . . . . :D--> You talkin to me?