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The Bluefin Bay Family Of Resorts
The Bluefin Bay Family Of Resorts
Hotel Guest Rating: 9.1/10
7192 West Highway 61
Tofte, MN 55615
Welcome to the The Bluefin Bay Family Of Resorts
Priceline guests are inspired by poolside views of Lake Superior as well as free Wi-Fi and full kitchens at the non-smoking The Bluefin Bay Family of Resorts in Tofte, Minnesota.
Hotel Features
Set on Lake Superior, the Bluefin Bay has 133 all non-smoking rooms, studios, suites, condos and townhomes housed in nine two-floor buildings. All units have free Wi-Fi, flat-panel TVs, coffeemakers and views of Lake Superior or the Sawtooth Mountains. Select units feature some combination of sofa beds, kitchens, jetted tubs, fireplaces and lakeside decks. Slip into the soothing waters of the 20-by-40-foot indoor pool with hot tub when the weather's inclement, and enjoy views of Lake Superior year-round in the heated outdoor pool and hot tub. Two saunas, a fitness room and a wellness center and spa give you no end of relaxation options. A bistro or a restaurant with lake views will satisfy the appetites of everyone in your group, and family fun abounds in the video arcade, at the beach, around the fire pit, in the winter ice rink and on the tennis court. Free parking and a free area shuttle round out the seemingly endless list of perks, and pets are allowed for an additional fee. Note: American Express is not an acceptable form of payment if the payment is made directly to the property.
Hotel Location
The Bluefin Bay is on Highway 61 nestled along Lake Superior. Lutsen Mountains Ski Resort and Sawtooth Mountain Park, 10 miles northeast, offer year-round fun, from skiing and hiking to an alpine slide. If you're driving from Duluth International Airport, the hotel is an hour and 45 minutes northeast.
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Priceline guests find comfort and convenience at the Bluefin Bay Family of Resorts right on Lake Superior.
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You must show a valid photo ID and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all special requests cannot be guaranteed and are subject to availability upon check-in. Additional charges may apply.Please note that this property reserves the right to pre-authorize the credit card on file. American Express is not an accepted form of payment at this property. Guests are required to show a photo identification and credit card upon check-in. Please note that all Special Requests are subject to availability and additional charges may apply.
Hotel Guest Reviews of the The Bluefin Bay Family Of ResortsOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
September 14, 2013
There are a lot of scheduled activities that introduce you to the area, such as kayaking, hiking, etc. You can also borrow bicycles to explore on your own. All at no charge for guests. Every evening there is a bonfire, with complimentary s'mores, right next to Lake Superior. What could be better than that?! We had an amazing stay. You can be as solitary or as social as you wish to be, as you can schedule your maid service to your wishes. This vacation has given us a destination for the future. We are already planning our return. I cannot say enough positive things. The reason I chose this resort is for the reasonable price. I do not think anyone would be dissatisfied. And the food...don't miss an opportunity to check out Coho Cafe located on site. The Coho Club sandwich, homemade pizzas, and pastries had us coming back every day. Also, a trip to Grand Marais will be completely worth your while. Loved it!! ...
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Jonas Gardell, born 2 November 1963 in Enebyberg, Stockholm County, is a Swedish novelist, playwright, screenwriter and comedian. He is the brother of religion scholar Mattias Gardell. He is well known for his books and plays in all of Scandinavia and also published in Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and Poland.
Early career[edit]
Gardell's first novel, Passionsspelet (The Passion Play), was published in 1985. Since then, he has written some ten novels, including En Komikers Uppväxt (A Comedian Growing Up), which became a TV series. He has also written several other books, nine plays and two screenplays that were made into movies, including Livet är en schlager (Life Is A Schlager). His novels are not yet available in English.
Later years[edit]
In 2006, more than 20 years after his first novel was published, Gardell is one of Sweden's most famous stand-up comedians and probably the country's most well-known openly gay man. His husband is the Finnish-Swedish-American writer and TV presenter Mark Levengood, with whom he has two children by female friends. Gardell performed his own play Tillfällig gäst i ditt liv (Temporary guest in your life) (2007) at the Scala Theater in Stockholm.
In 2013 Gardell was elected "Homo Bi Trans Person of the Year" at the Swedish Gay Gala, notably for the book Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar (Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves). His prize was presented to him by the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria, whom Gardell thanked with the words: "Victoria, you are our Crown Princess, but tonight I think that I'm our little queen" - this went down well with the Crown Princess, whom Gardell knows well. His husband Levengood hosts the immensely popular "Victoria Dagen" every year at the Swedish island of Öland, when the Swedes celebrate Crown Princess Victoria's birthday at the 14. July.
- 1979 – Den tigande talar
- 1985 – Passionsspelet
- 1986 – Odjurets tid
- 1987 – Präriehundarna
- 1988 – Vill gå hem
- 1990 – Fru Björks öden och äventyr
- 1992 – En komikers uppväxt
- 1993 – Mormor gråter och andra texter
- 1995 – Frestelsernas berg
- 1997 – Isbjörnarna. Cheek to cheek. Människor i solen (tre pjäser)
- 1998 – Så går en dag ifrån vårt liv och kommer aldrig åter
- 1998 – Oskuld och andra texter
- 2001 – Ett ufo gör entré
- 2003 – Om Gud
- 2006 – Jenny
- 2009 – Om Jesus
- 2011 – Har man inget liv får man köpa ett som alla andra: Samlade visdomsord 2010-2011
- 2012 – Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar: 1, Kärleken
- 2013 – Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar: 2, Sjukdomen
- 2013 – Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar: 3, Döden
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Between these presentations and my daily coaching practice, I am reminded yet again at the importance of forming a good scrum team. This, along with proper backlog compilation and maintenance, can make the difference between success and endless frustration. In my experience, proper scrum team formation is the area where companies who are unsuccessful in Agile transformations fail most often. Read More →
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Companies complaining that they cannot find good people, so much so that they have to go outside to United States through programs like H1B (or worse yet, ship work completely offshore), while there are over 200 people actively looking for work. There are so many good people looking for work that there is a waiting list to enroll in a program that helps them to find work. Hate to veer to political, but if anyone is still mystified by the Trump and Sanders "phenomenon" they should look no further than a ProMatch meeting in Silicon Valley! Read More →
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Perhaps malpractice litigation will not affect the realm of software development as I anticipate, but that does not mean it is not appropriate. In some cases, people who with authority to make decisions regarding software development show a willful ignorance of the nature of software development. I believe their behavior is not only detrimental to the production of quality software and the satisfaction of customers and employees alike, but certainly borders on the realm of malpractice. Read More →
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There is an Agile principle which states, "Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely". It has become obvious to me, the word "sprint", which, although it may have a specific meaning in scrum, generally is understood to mean "an act or short spell of running at full speed." Read More →
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I am often reminded of the difference between a cook and a chef in my agile practice. I have used this story numerous times with developers to explain agile development practices. Like me, it seems that some developers will always be cooks. While there are some who don't know the difference, I have even run into some that prefer to be cooks instead of chefs. Not that there is anything wrong with choosing to be a cook, but it helps when one is aware of the choice and makes a conscious decision to be one. Read More →
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THIBODAUX — City police are asking parents who bring their young children to the Thibodaux Fireman's Fair this weekend to put their phone number in the child's pocket in case they get separated.
The request comes after police handled around 10 incidents Thursday night where children were unable to find their parents, Police Chief Craig Melancon said. Most of the children were 4 or 5 years old.
The excitement generated by the Fireman's Fair, which lasts until Sunday, can lead children to wander away from their parents toward rides, Melancon said. Once that happens, it is easy for them to blend in with the crowd.
Police ask parents to put their cell phone number in their child's pocket, Melancon said. They are also asked to write who the child is with. Melancon added that a few of the lost children could not remember their last name.
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Well we could've just closed the door, but I was concerned she'd wake up disoriented.
Costwise, I have not added the receipts up.
Time wise, I don't know hours really. It's been many evenings and weekends for about 5 months to get it "campable". I still need to finish it. Literally even, since the spar varnish still must go on. The fenders are another thing to do.
If you'll notice the ugly utility trailer fenders went camping. I have these to mount, once I figure how:
Thanks for the reply and info. From what I recall on the price on the 4x10 red oak plywood it won't be cheap. And IT does not sound like it would be a three weekend project-)
Tell the working stiff and the Princess Helper good job for me
alfa6 ;>}
Poor itty bitty girl rolling out....but she really is styling the barbie band-aids.
Looks like a wonderful time PE & I just have to say what wonderful parents you & your Mrs are.
By the end of the trip the boat had acquired gun ports, a stern gallery and poop deck and a forecastle.
The engineer in you never rests does he???? :)
Thanks for pinging me to this!
Well that is just cool as all getout! Looks like ya'll have a most excellent family outing there. Great job to all of you on that teardrop. I am impressed!!! :-)
Speaking of campers check this out
I recall seeing something like this for American cars back in the 70s, but it didn't last for whatever reason.
alfa6 ;>}
Why, thank you.
The engineer in you never rests does he???? :)
Not very often.
Thanks 'Neighbor.
Just realized I posted at the Foxhole & didn't say hello to the hosts....Hiya snippy & samwise!:)
Wonderful, it is very cool.
That's pretty awesome, PE. When are you building mine?
Greetings o Samwise :-)
A week or so ago when gas got down to 2.88 at the local C-Store I accused the Guys of trying to put OPEC out of business!
Off to work I must go Have a great day
alfa6 ;>}
I gotta build one for the kids now. Next step will be to get triple tow legalized here.
Here in the northern part of the country of Texas, we're seeing upper 2.40's.
LOL. From the great state of Indiana....
You got the wrong Sam. SAMWolf is the cohost of the Foxhole. I'm just the hobbit who leaves spitballs all over the place. But "hello" anyway!
If I were a cynic, I'd say prices will soar after the election.
LOL. Yep, we're still finding spitballs in the Foxhole.
Get out of town! You could with those gas prices. I paid 2.49 today, can't even remember when it was that low.
Oopsie....confusing "Sam's" am I?
Well.....gives me chance to wish you all wonderful weekend!:)
That's okay, we knew what you meant and Samwise was always the teacher's (Samwolf) pet so she deserved a mention. :-)
Oh boy, are we gonna pay through the nose after the elections.
2.09 in North Kansas City last Friday according to the daughter:-)
alfa6 ;>}
$2.09 is incredible. I never thought I'd see gas under $3 again. Too bad they won't stay there.
I would not be surprised to see the price of gas stay at around $2.00 give or take .25 for the next year or so. Gas/oil prices are cyclical in nature and we will be on a down cycle for a while.
I hope:-)
The best thing to do will be to drill here, drill now but with oil prices depressed the sheeple will forget till prices go back up.
alfa6 ;>}
Holey Moley! Gas is $1.88 today.
Good night Irene! We heard it was lowest in Indiana. The lowest we've seen it here is 2.26.
It's only fair. We've been paying 20 to 30 cents more than Indianapolis since forever. Now, we are the lowest in Indiana.
I credit cell phones. We've been broadtexting the cheapest prices. Moms, kids, we all do it. LOL
But we're gonna pay after the election; I just know it.
Just in. Gas is $1.82.
Howdy Samwise, good to see you
How goes everything in The Shire?
Back to work I must go
alfa6 ;>}
Wow! That'd make a handy weapon.
I bet he'd be great with SPITBALLS.
LOL. And he doesn't even really aim. It's like a reflex. Pretty cool.
Watch the video. Incredible.
Greetings o Samwise, hope everything is well in the Shire this fine April Morn. That is a pretty cool video, always wanted to go to Germany, now maybe I have an extra good reason
Speaking of train sets this was on Craigslist a few days back...
Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, I could not figure out how to fit it in the house:-)
alfa6 ;>}
We are fine. Nothing new, except Hobbit Lass keeps growing up.
That's the problem with babies, puppies and kittens, they grow up:-)
Does she graduate this year, if I may inquire?
alfa6 :>}
Steve found this last week, isn't it great! I'd love to see it in person.
Sending out a prayer request to a lot of old freeper friends here:
My youngest daughter is dating a guy (Jeff) who is currently serving in Iraq. Couple of weeks ago Jeff's convoy was hit by "something" we don't have details still. What we knew is that his uniform was destroyed but he was back on the job in a few days. He was still having to see medics to have some shrapnel removed every day.
He was back to work 2 days ago and escorting another convoy. This morning, daughter received a message from one of Jeff's buddies. They had to take Jeff into emergency for severe internal pain in his stomach and chest. He was evacuated and the buddies don't know what is happening back on base at the hospital. (They are still on convoy.)
That is all the information that we have. He's in a hospital, probably in Baghdad. Unknown problem. Unknown condition.
Thank you all for prayers. I know you are all prayer warriors for our troops.
Thanks for prayers. I know I missed some on my ping here cause I can't remember who all I typed "to".
But, Just heard from Myranda who just heard from Jeff in the hospital in Baghdad. Thankfully, his problem is not related to the wounding week before last. He has kidney stones. Myranda said he's still in a lot of pain so I'm sure he appreciates your prayers in that also.
Thanks to all!
Thanks for including me in the ping. We'll keep Jeff in our prayers.
Kidney stones are no fun when they hit you when your well.
Sound like Jeff will be okay but kidney stones are no fun. Been there etc.
Will keep the lad and the daughter in our thoughts that all goes and ends well
alfa6 ;>}
Whew! Thank goodness although kidney stones can be bad too! Prayers for a quick recovery.
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Founding Quantum Theory on the Basis of Consciousness
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In the present work, quantum theory is founded on the framework of consciousness, in contrast to earlier suggestions that consciousness might be understood starting from quantum theory. The notion of streams of consciousness, usually restricted to conscious beings, is extended to the notion of a Universal/Global stream of conscious flow of ordered events. The streams of conscious events which we experience constitute sub-streams of the Universal stream. Our postulated ontological character of consciousness also consists of an operator which acts on a state of potential consciousness to create or modify the likelihoods for later events to occur and become part of the Universal conscious flow. A generalized process of measurement-perception is introduced, where the operation of consciousness brings into existence, from a state of potentiality, the event in consciousness. This is mathematically represented by (a) an operator acting on the state of potential consciousness before an actual event arises in consciousness and (b) the reflecting of the result of this operation back onto the state of potential consciousness for comparison in order for the event to arise in consciousness. Beginning from our postulated ontology that consciousness is primary and from the most elementary conscious contents, such as perception of periodic change and motion, quantum theory follows naturally as the description of the conscious experience.
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- Founding Quantum Theory on the Basis of Consciousness
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- 2006-06
- 10.1007/s10701-006-9049-9
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Explain why he took three of my closest relatives when I was just fourteen.
Explain why I was the ONE KID in school that nobody liked, and was segregated to a class for the "Emotionally Distressed" from how many fights they put me in?
Oh, how about when it seems like things start turning around in my life, something always ALWAYS goes wrong to bring it all down?
I don't believe in God anymore. If he's the all powerful, loving being that he is, why the Hell would he do this to anybody? "Well, god works in mysterious ways!" That's just a way to say "We have NO clue".
It's pretty obvious that if the Big Man upstairs exists, he's not doing me any favors. That's why I'm an atheist. I'm not going to let some big invisible man in the sky determine what I can do. And I'm sure as Hell not going to listen to all of the religious nut-jobs who think I'm some baby killing devil worshipper just because I don't devote every second of my life to some made up deity.
I was highly unpopular in school also.
But if you go back to our own choices in which we had paradise, and decided to go against Him, then it is hopefully comprehensible that He did not want this.
We were granted free will so that we would be more than puppets. And we were given a beautifully designed world to live in, with people to love and people to love us, even if a minority. Horrendous things happen, which is all the more reason we should try to help each other in the short time that we have.
It could be argued that life is a test. I will take an example from my own life in which, in a nutshell, I was bullied. It was pretty bad but astonishingly I wouldn't change a thing that happened to me. I have learned so much; about myself and about others. I've gained a lot of first-hand empathy.
Jesus himself suffered and suffered for us. But waiting beyond that - even if we're not perfect, because despite everything we have the amazing act of forgiveness - is Heaven, eternally.
God is not just anybody, remember. He did create us (at least in my beliefs), so I think it's understandable that we respect His Commandments. It may seem irrational at first but ultimately they are their for our own good.
Lastly, I disagree with your branding of millions of the religious as "nut-jobs". I for one don't think you're a baby killing devil worshipper! Neither of us are perfect, after all.
In my experience it is rare to find someone who thinks you're a "devil worshipper" because you aren't devoted.
Anyway, I hope things get better for you. It might be a long shot since I am nutty to you, but you could always message me if you want to talk about anything. I'm sorry that's all I've got, but venting can help sometimes.
Also, I have prayed for you. You may not believe in the deity but someone is thinking of you, that's all. Thanks for reading this.
God gives you that choice though I hate to hear it and I am praying for you. The Bible teaches this world is cursed (Genesis 3:17) and it does not give the false view that if you're a believer, life will be trouble-free and you'll go around saying, "Praise the Lord!" but I know God will never leave us through our trials.
If your relatives were followers of Jesus they are in a place where they do not hurt anymore. I believe that with all my heart so that is something to rejoice about though it does hurt when they go. I hear your pain and I know these things have hurt you and I want to help you understand. But I have to ask at the same time if God does not exists why do you attack something that to you does not exist?
Psalm 73 is the outline of this world and how it works and Psalm 73 is written by someone who struggled with what seemed to be unfair but instead of clinging to what the ruler of this world (2 Corinthians 4:4) wants him to believe he turned to God and found the truth in God. We must look past this world and into the next. The life of the wicked is short-lived and their doom is eternal, but the blessings of the righteous will receive eternal life, and their trials are short-lived. Yes life is hard and unfair when sin entered this world so did death and trials. (Romans 5:21) tells us death came by sin and righteousness comes from Jesus Christ. Jesus tells us in Matthew 13 about the seeds and this is an outline of how people of this world will believe. Those seeds that don't take deep root will wither away and return to the world. Here is something to think about why is it there is people in this world who have gone through the same as you or worst but instead of losing faith they get stronger in the faith? Because they have received the gift of the spirit and they depend on the spirit to guide them. They know where their reward is "Philippians 3:14 I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus".
I have to say you have gotten bad advice for someone to say God works in mysterious ways. Your right they have no clue and shouldn't be trying to help people with their faith. I have to admit Christianity is the most messed up religion on earth as the people of Christianity do not agree with one another and this is why we have so many denominations in the world but I say it is also proof that it is the correct path to God as well. Do you know why that is? Really why is it that no other religion in this world has people disagreeing and believing differently about its meanings? Because satan has no reason to mess with any other religion, he has created these religions and he has blinded the people who follow them (Ephesians 6:12). We live in a fallen world and that comes with fallen people. God didn't do anything to you; the things that happened to you in school were the choices of those who chose to act that way. If we lived the way the Bible tells us to live those things would have never happened to you. How is that God's fault when He outlines how we should live but we choose to live like the world instead?
Faith comes with trials, this is why it is called faith (1 Peter 1:7). If things where good all the time then how could God reveal Himself to us. God brings glory to Himself through our trials at the same time trials reveal to us there is good and evil in this world. If our life was perfect then how could we witness to others in the world who are going through something we don't understand? If you study the Bible and the disciples you will find they went through a lot of hardship and many Christian's died in terrifying ways but they endured it for God's glory (2 Corinthians 5:1–8). Today many Christian's die for the name of Jesus, it is going on right now in the world we live in (praying). They have found hope and they hold fast to the promises of God. They find strength in the Lord and they endure it to the end (John 16:33). I could go on and on with God's word to why this world is like it is but I can't make you believe anything all I can do is plant the seed and pray for God to use it.
It comes down to this, people make choices and choices make people. Friend, I know life isn't fair and tell the truth I don't use myself or my ideas because I want people to see Jesus not me but I have to share this. I got saved at 29 before that I thought I couldn't be good enough to go to heaven till one day I heard about the grace of God (thank you Jesus). Now I started out like the seeds sown on the rocky places. As I went through trials and I became mad at God, I asked a lot of the same questions you do now. I spent 9 years broke and weak to the flesh and asking God why He has left me like this. As soon as I would get up I would get knocked back down. There were times without food and power digging in the trash for something to sell, almost lost my house 3 times but now I look back and see where God kept me from losing it (Praise God). Though, I didn't stop believing like you, I kept believing but I was mad at God backsliding to the world, living in the world, then I heard a man speak about what he went through and I thought about it thinking dude I have nothing on you, how do you not keep from being mad at God? As I listened to him speak he said something that jumped out at me, "people make choices and choices makes people" it made me think with each action comes a result so in a way we map out our paths through our decisions. I then realized I am missing the bigger picture. I started praying for God to humble me and take the anger I have and turn it too good. I started reading God's word and it slowly began to open my eyes and ears. The word of God is powerful and through it anything is possible (Hebrews 4:12). I came to except my fate and told God if this is what my life is to be then so be it. I will turn it over to you and ever since then things have turned around for me. He has helped me to defeat strong holds in life and as I grow in the Lord I have come to understand it isn't this world we await but the next. Job lost everything but his faith! God rewarded him in the end as He will do for all who believe in Jesus. I am a changed man, living for the Lord and indebted to Him for saving me from myself. Praise God for He works in me and I see with open eyes now.
God has planned it from the beginning and He awaits for it to all take place. God will one day be done with creating the perfect world in which He planned to do from the beginning. Yes, He loves us and doesn't want any of us to reject Him and our savior Jesus Christ. Because God gave us free will to decide what we want to do; this world had to take place so God could separate the people with His light in them from the ones who live by darkness. I am praying for you to find the truth and will keep praying for you! I pray for you to find your purpose and may God bless you with it. One day we will find ourselves on the new earth praying you too will be there.
I ask if you would listen to this YouTube message www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXlCeK… this is a man who has no reason to believe in God but God gave him a purpose to live. God has given everyone of us a purpose and that's the reason we are here to serve God in His plan and His purpose for us. This has set me free knowing God loved me enough to send Jesus to pay for my sins and one day I will share glory with Him. I now serve the almighty God but not without sin in my life. I still mess up, I will still fall in this world but I am forgiven because I have been covered in grace through my repentance. . If God stripped me of everything I will humbly accept it because I know what God has brought me from might and can come around again because of the world I live in. The Bible tells me I will suffer. My reward doesn't come from this world but from the God above, and the savior Jesus Christ sets at His right hand awaiting to come again!
You see, around 6000 years ago, God spoke the earth into existence in a time period of seven literal days. On the sixth day of creation, God made man and beast, and they were "Very good." (Gen chapt. 1/2) God planted two very important trees in the garden in which the first person, "Adam" lived. A tree of everlasting life, and a tree of "The knowledge of good and evil." (Gen 2:9) God told Adam (who later, after she was made, told his wife "Eve") never to eat of that tree, lest they die spiritually and physically. The devil, a fallen angel of music, disguised himself as a serpent and tricked Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. Eve then, because the fruit tasted good, had Adam eat some as well. (Gen 3:1-6) It was then that the two had realized that they had sinned, and tried to hide themselves from God. (Gen 3:7) God then cursed the earth, so humans would have to work by growing crops to live. (Gen 3:17-19) The die was cast the the future of the human race, like a dent in a cake pan, all of Eve's descendants would forever have the curse of sin and death.
Hope was not lost for us though, God made a way for us to escape hell! He sent Jesus, his only son, to die on the cross for us, and after three days rise again. A blood sacrifice to wash away our sin. I'm not saying Christians don't sin, because we sin just like everyone else, However, through the blood of Jesus we can ask Jesus wash each new sin away. Christs painful death for our sake was the ultimate example of love. (Romans 3:10/23, Romans 5:12, Romans 6:23, Romans 5:8, Romans 10:9-13)
~Hope that helps, sorry it took so long for someone to answer!
When you look up these scriptures, I recommend using the King James Bible.
God bless you!
Thank you, Brother.
Thank you really much for the reminding!


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Here is what Bill Hillman wrote in the book he recently co-authored about how to survive running with the bulls in Pamplona:
"At its most pure, this is daring street-art, a dance with death and majesty, a chance to come into harmonious contact with one of nature's fiercest monsters. At its worst, it's a bunch of panicked tourists falling all over each other in an idiotic stampede."
Hillman may want to add a new chapter: "How I Wound Up Humiliated and Hospitalized While Participating in One of the World's Stupidest and Most Repugnant Traditions," after he was gored in the thigh at the annual event and had to undergo emergency surgery.
While I'm not overjoyed that the 32-year-old Chicago man was one of several men injured during the nine-day Spanish festival that ended this week, I don't have much sympathy for him or the others, either.
I feel much worse about a 1,300 pound bull that on the festival's final day festival gored a 25-year-old Aussie, puncturing his lung and ripping a gash in his thigh. According to News Corp. Australia, the bull was then killed and butchered, and people have been lining up to pay about $6 a pound for a hunk of its steak.
As you must know, we can blame Ernest Hemingway's 1925 classic, "The Sun Also Rises," for perpetuating a barbaric ritual that dates back to the 16th century, which only proves that young men haven't evolved much in 500 years.
In addition to featuring a half-mile mad dash among stampeding bulls on Pamplona's cobblestone streets, the San Fermin festival also encourages participants to leap from the top of a fountain in the city's Navarreria Plaza. Almost as many lunatics are injured by this stunt as by bulls, which reminds me of the joke about a redneck's last words: "Watch this…"
I enjoy a good laugh at least as much as the next person, but have never found the "Jackass" movies or "America's Funniest Home Videos" episodes where guys get kicked in the crotch particularly amusing.
The Pamplona event is even more repulsive because it glorifies bullfighting, which, despite Hemingway's attempt to portray it as elegant and manly, joins cockfighting, dog-fighting, bear-baiting and big-game trophy hunting as repulsive blood "sports" that most civilized cultures have outlawed.
Not surprisingly nearly all the "victims" during the running of the bulls and similar death-defying activities suffer from acute testosterone poisoning, which is to say they possess the dreaded Y chromosome.
Really, guys, is this the best you can do?
I did get a chuckle the other day, though, when reading about a recent University of Virginia study in which volunteers who were asked to spend 15 minutes alone in a room doing nothing but sitting and thinking then were given the opportunity to give themselves mild electric shocks.
Only about a quarter of the women elected to self-administer the jolts, compared to a whopping two-thirds of men. One guy shocked himself 191 times.
On that note, Hillman, the gored, disgraced author, said from his hospital bed that he plans to return to Pamplona next year.
Too bad the bull that nailed him won't have that option.
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The awful story this week about a 2-year-old boy who witnesses said was pulled by an alligator into a lagoon near a Walt Disney World hotel in Orlando, Florida and later found dead serves as a reminder that danger lurks even in "The...
While kayaking the other morning I spotted a small, dark object poking above the lake surface 100 yards or so ahead, and I was pretty sure it was the head of a turtle until I drew closer and realized the sad truth: just another beer...
Shortly before the start of the late-great Rose Arts Road Race several years ago, a 10.47-mile running competition over the hills of Norwich considered one of New England's toughest courses, my friend Bob and I decided to jog a couple miles...
Propelled by the sound of crashing surf, my son Tom and I scrambled over a low dune and then gazed in awe.
Lugging back-country skis and poles on our shoulders, my son Tom and I trudged along the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway at Oregon's Crater Lake National Park, searching for a section of road that had not been plowed.
As I clambered toward the crest of the Mist Trail in California's Yosemite National Park a couple weeks ago, spray from the thunderous Nevada Fall washed over me, but I was already soaked, with sweat, after gaining nearly 2,000 feet of...
Just between us, don't you hate it when friends or coworkers post photos on Facebook of awesome journeys to exotic destinations – or if they're really old-school, send postcards depicting glorious sunsets, sparkling lakes,...
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In functional families and communities people know who has a gun problem...
... and they discourage it.
People who behave foolishly with guns are in the same class as drunk drivers, they are very dangerous to themselves and others.
Healthy family, friends, and community have no problem taking the car keys away from someone who is drunk or otherwise unfit to drive, and the same ought to be true of guns.
If the second amendment prevents federal intervention, then friends, family, and community can still intervene.
Potential mass murderers are readily assimilated into a gun culture that fantasizes about murder in their gun play. This same culture is then shocked when a few of their own turn the fantasy into reality.
Posted by hunter | Tue Oct 13, 2015, 10:46 AM (1 replies)
Who made his pants? Or his razor blades?
Hell, why shave? I don't. One day you cut your face (or maybe some other much less visible parts) then some antibiotic resistant bacteria gets in there, and if your culture doesn't have some kind of sophisticated medical knowledge, you die.
Die for shaving? No thanks. Stupid Darwin Award winner, right up there with kissing a rattlesnakes for a selfie, or stuffing a handgun into your pants to look gangster cool... Ow My Balls!
This sort of "primitive" hobby plays into the myth of the "rugged individual." So many U.S. Americans believe that crap, that they will be fighting off zombies.
Nope, they won't. They already are or soon will be the zombies.
If you are surviving by building a hut and gathering food... things rapidly get very complicated. There are simply not enough hours in a day.
Humans are 100% social animals. Drop 100 naked culturally related humans, and 100 naked culturally related chimpanzees into an environment hospitable to both humans and chimpanzees, and all the humans will eventually die, looking a lot worse for wear than the chimpanzees who may be flourishing. It probably takes several thousand humans to simply survive in an environment where a hundred chimpanzees would be comfortable. And in a few hundred thousand years, in separate but equal equal environments, the humans and chimpanzees might end up looking much the same upon the inspection of any alien intelligence.
I'm a modern human and I enjoy stuff like this YouTube. I never use a hammer when a rock at hand will do. I am some kind of Luddite at heart too, patiently waiting for the end of the automobile age, looking forward to a world of walkable cities where most people don't need or want automobiles and homes have no utility bills.
But I also like the modern communications infrastructure. Until we can grow an internet on literal trees, and plant smart phone seeds in our garden and share the produce with our neighbors, then we will need to maintain a certain level of technology.
There have long been too many humans on this planet. We can't all use trees to bake roofing tiles. There are simply not enough trees.
My own hobby is making things out of garbage. There's plenty of that in the affluent world I inhabit.
Posted by hunter | Sun Sep 6, 2015, 09:59 PM (0 replies)
Any god threatened by a graphic novel or an ancient monument is not a god.
The gods of the grifters are not so sturdy.
Posted by hunter | Mon Aug 24, 2015, 05:57 PM (0 replies)
Most "shit stirring atheists" have plenty experience being opressed by "religionists."
Their pushing back is entirely good, reasonable, and necessary in a free society.
I'm a Catholic heretic. My mom was going to be a nun until she met a leering, smoking, hard drinking priest who didn't seem all that holy to her. My mom bounces around between extremes, so of course she ended up with the Jehovah Witnesses, and meeting my dad, both working in Hollywood, they married and had a whole mess of kids Catholic style.
As a little kid who was already very weird, I ignored the Pledge of Allegiance to fidget at my desk, increasing my reputation for weirdness. My fourth grade teacher, who was a very wonderful person in many ways, used me as an example of religious freedom in the U.S.A.. Is it any wonder I hated school? I was always an outsider, an alien.
Unfortunately my mom has a tendency to say whatever she's thinking, sometimes about her conversations with God, and she also loves politics. That got us kicked out of the Kingdom Hall, bouncers at the front door style. After that we were soon Quakers. My mom could say whatever was on her mind, people listened respectfully, and then the Meeting moved on.
I still didn't say the Pledge in school. Quakers don't do that. I've seen my mom get in pissing contests with Catholic Bishops, and I was worried she might make a scene at my Big Catholic Wedding. (My wife is Mexican Irish Catholic, my mom's family is frontier Wild West Catholic.) I was even more worried about my crazy grandma who had a history of corrupting nice Mormon boys, throwing crockery at firemen, and biting policemen. (My grandpa was not a nice Mormon boy, but the two of them conceived a baby and fled poisonous religious tongue wagging and discrimination to non-Mormon California to work in the shipyards as welders.) My mom and her mom did not cause trouble at our wedding, they seemed to be enjoying themselves immensely. My dad, my brothers, religious heretics all of them, had a grand time making small talk with the priest about fishing.
My own relationship with the Catholic Church is complicated. Someday maybe I'll write a novel.
I know all about religious social pressures. It's not the atheist community imposing their beliefs upon anyone under color of authority.
My most disturbing heresy is time. I believe there is no such thing. Time travel and faster than light travel are impossible. We are all moving at the speed of light, nothing slower, nothing faster. Everything is relative and both the past and the future are fuzzy clouds of probability we are free to wander in from our own "now."
It's all stories, and the stories never end. The universe is very big, and our human minds are very small. We must cherish one another. What we "believe" changes both the past and the future.
Posted by hunter | Thu Aug 20, 2015, 09:53 PM (0 replies)
The oil and automobile companies are not willing to change their business model.
The cheapest methanol is made from natural gas. The first attempt by ARCO (now owned by BP) to supplant gasoline with a natural gas product was MTBE. That was a disaster, MTBE got into lakes, rivers, and groundwater.
The oil companies are now using hydrogen derived from inexpensive gas, and electricity generated in coal fired plants, to transform heavier oils (like the Canadian tar sand crap) into gasoline and diesel fuels for conventional cars and trucks, distributed through conventional channels. There's no reason to use methanol or ethanol for anything. There's no economic reason to replace existing underground tanks certified for gasoline, gasoline- ethanol blends, or diesel with methanol certified tanks.
Gasoline and diesel fuel can also be synthesized from gas or coal. This is done on a very large scale in some places. The U.S. Navy has developed a process that uses electricity from the nuclear power plant on an aircraft carrier to extract carbon dioxide from ocean water to make fuel for both it's jets and accompanying fuel oil powered vessels.
Methanol is corrosive stuff, and its vapors do not play well with traditional lubricants and sealants. Experiments with the fuel in the 'seventies and 'eighties did not end well. Those problem has largely been solved by modern material science.
If you are looking at alternative fuels, my favorite is dimethyl ether (DME). DME is handled like liquid propane, and works as a fuel in very efficient, high compression diesel engines, and as a home heating and cooking gas, producing no troublesome particulates as ordinary diesel and gasoline powered vehicles do. DME can be made from cheap fracked gas, coal, or agricultural "wastes." A DME diesel plug-in electric hybrid vehicle might compete favorably with a Prius if the fuel was widely available.
But personally I'm sick of the fueled automobile age and would like to end it in favor of walkable cities, slow 35mph electric vehicles, and a massive expansion of electric powered railroads.
Every community could have a large railroad station at it's heart, handling both cargo and people.
People would walk, ride bicycles, of drive urban electric cars to places they worked and shopped. Electric cars parked and charged underneath solar roofs is an ideal arrangement. Employee and customer cars don't get cooked in the sun, and they are refueled as they are parked.
Still, it's better to work at home or walk to work.
A larger community might have just a single fuel station for people who still have reason to use dangerous, polluting, and obsolete forms of transportation. The sound of internal combustion engines or gas turbines is not music to my ears.
I hate my car. It's a nice comfortable car that cost $800 and has a salvage title. There's an analog fuel injection computer in this car that's lasted over 300,000 miles without a fault. I'll never buy a new car, especially a new car with all the systems computerized, cell phone network connectivity, and copy protected spyware installed as standard equipment.
Posted by hunter | Tue Aug 18, 2015, 11:01 PM (0 replies)
I'm guessing there's no such thing as intelligence, that it's just a word, not any sort of reality.
Dogs are clearly intelligent, sentient, and social beings very much like ourselves.
I think one of the major innovation of humans (and speculatively cetaceans such as orcas too) was story-telling.
Then later, when we humans started writing down our stories, entirely new levels of social complexity were achieved.
Are stories an important aspect of "intelligence?"
I don't know.
Looking at any ant-colony as a single organism it's very clear that the colony has a sort of intelligence in the way it responds to it's environment.
One can attribute similar sorts of intelligence to fungal colonies and plants. We are just now learning that plants, even across species boundaries, communicate in various ways, and even more fascinating, sometimes using fungal intermediaries.
What we humans call intelligence is simply a large box of tools. What we recognize as "intelligence" is measured against our own human toolbox.
Underlying intelligence it's all just chemistry. Nothing "woo" here. No religion, no mysticism. Not even any "emergent" properties. From my perspective any theory that "consciousness is an emergent property of the brain" is just more human mysticism.
Personally I'm not a big fan of human exceptionalism. It's blinded us to most of what's going on in the minds of species we share the planet with, even blinding us to even recognizing broad classes of intelligent behavior. For all our talk of "pattern recognition" we are blind and stupid, defining intelligence as the patterns we humans tend to recognize, but clueless about the rest.
If, by some unlikely circumstance this existing civilization doesn't entirely collapse in the manner typical of any innovative species experienceing exponential population growth, then "intelligence" in machines will continue to be an incremental process, just as it was in the evolution of natural life on earth.
My preferred answer to the Fermi Paradox is that the earth and universe are teaming with intelligent life. We are simply too dim and unintelligent to see it. We won't even recognize what intelligent life there is here on earth, creatures we share common ancestors with.
Posted by hunter | Fri Jul 31, 2015, 02:56 PM (0 replies)
When I got my driver's license about forty years ago...
... I was expecting the automobile culture would be dead by now.
I've never liked automobiles, especially the gasoline or diesel sort. They are stinky noisy expensive things that kill and maim people.
Nevertheless, when I was younger I did more than my fair share of driving.
My wife and I were Los Angeles commuters when we met, but we've avoided that lifestyle, most especially once we had children, who are all now 21+ adults. When our kids were infants and toddlers we were able to manage our work schedules so one of us was always home. We never did daycare. I'd also take our babies to my wife's work so they could nurse.
One of our kids now commutes (in a Prius...), an adaption to California's impossible Bay Area housing costs, where wages seem high until you look at the rents.
I drive a mid-eighties $800 car with a salvage title. I also have the mechanical skills to keep it going, barring any major engine failure. I have less than zero interest in cars. If someone gave me a new car, no matter how wonderful, I'd give it away as fast as I could.
Personally I don't care if the Interstate Highway system rots.
In my Utopia the maximum speed limit for anything but emergency vehicles is 35 miles per hour, including airplanes. Passengers and freight are moved long distances by ambling electric trains, and vacations are long enough to enjoy the ride.
Everyone is in too much of a hurry, and for what? We're all racing along the highway to hell, faster, faster, faster...
What our economists call "productivity" is a direct measure of the damage we are doing to the earth's natural environment and our own human spirit.
Posted by hunter | Thu Jul 30, 2015, 10:41 AM (0 replies)
Automobiles suck.
We need to build communities where automobiles -- private, taxi, or otherwise -- are of little or no use to the "average" person.
I ought to be able to walk to the grocery store, post office/bank, pharmacy/general store, pub, and restaurants fast-food-and-otherwise, no automobile required.
Automobiles are tools of fascism, and they always have been. Who the hell cares what flavor of fascism it is?
Posted by hunter | Thu Jul 23, 2015, 06:22 PM (3 replies)
I think a prerequisite for being a cop should be at least five years satisfactory accomplishment...
... as a high school teacher in under-served-mean-street communities.
It doesn't matter the teaching subject really. Home room, detention, basic words and numbers literacy, raw "health" classes of sexual diseases, condoms, and birth control... lunch litter pickup, or sorting the recycling with the most deviant misfits...
I was frequently a lunch litter pickup deviant in school, and later as an urban school teacher, supervisor of such deviants. I met my wife teaching. Later she was accepted, following her dreams, to graduate school in another state.
The skills required to deal non-violently, without escalation, with over-crowded situations of hungry hormonally challenged teenage students in difficult environments, all are directly transferable to police work.
Ideally cops would be accomplished teachers who only rarely arrested anyone, and then always in the most polite and civilized way possible.
Arresting people for trivial things would make a cop subject of official scorn and derision.
A ticket for a burned out turn signal instead of a friendly fix-it? WTF is wrong with you dude? Two more like this and you'll be fired.
If you can't break up a fight between people bigger than you without a gun, if you can't deal with a teenager questioning your manhood or womanhood, if you can't suffer an occasional bloody nose or black eye or personal insult in the "line of duty," if you ever need a gun to feel secure, then you are simply not qualified to be a cop.
I've never been qualified to be a cop because I hate handguns. I'd probably rather be shot than shoot someone, but always I'd rather not find myself in that situation.
Posted by hunter | Thu Jul 23, 2015, 05:20 PM (0 replies)
It seems to me our current international economy is incredibly fragile.
"Mother Nature" (no, I'm not any kind of pagan, it's just a nice short description) is going to pound this international economy and civilization into the sand, possibly quite literally as the oceans rise and storms become more intense.
The uber-wealthy are going to end standing on the pavement pounding on their cellphones wondering why they can't buy fuel for their private, jets, cars, and yachts, just before their phones stop working, as their bodyguards desert them, and the pitchforks and torches crowd arrives to burn down their palaces.
The hard working invisible people living in poverty, will as a class survive, they usually do, but for no other reason than that there are so many of them.
That's generally how life on earth has always worked, for billions of years. Exponential population growth always ends badly, not only for the dead, but for the survivors too until something new comes along.
Our current economic system, as others have noted, "is dumber than a vat of yeast." Fossil fuels powered our population's exponential growth, and thus this economy is doomed.
Meanwhile, we are all free to walk our own paths, and always have been.
Some of paths individuals find themselves walking are difficult, and some are easy. But not everyone gets to leave this world peacefully, checking out in old age without pain surrounded by friends and family. Nor is that "ideal" end everyone chooses. Base jumpers in their wing suits, monster wave surfers, people who race big motorcycles along twisy mountain roads, people who challenge bloody "authority," they know there is some great risk they will end crushed on the rocks.
It's common human nature to reject the advice of others who tell us what we "should" or shouldn't do, especially when that advice comes wrapped in some sort of threat.
We should quit fossil fuels because of climate change!
We should quit nuclear power because of nuclear waste, Fukushima, and Chernobyl!
Oh bother...
I hate automobiles with a passion, even electric automobiles. If somebody gave me a Tesla I'd toss it away like a hot potato. But I'm also a hypocrite who doesn't want to suffer the inconvenience of not owning a car in this automobile-centric society. My protest is to drive an $800 piece of shit car that I never wash, except for the windows, and drive as little as "possible." I cheer the floodwaters that recently took out the bridges on Interstate 10 here in California, disconnecting us in some small way from Arizona, and the only people I really feel sorry for are independent truckers who had to eat the costs of delays and detours.
Fuck you, automobile culture!
If I was emperor of this planet earth then the maximum speed limit for anyone in motorized wheeled vehicles, boats, and planes, all but for paramedics, would be 50kph.
But mine are shallow gestures.
My own philosophy is born of my inclinations as an amateur evolutionary biologist and paleontologist. I've got the college education documenting that interest, plenty of coursework and fieldwork, and have been a science teacher at various times.
In a million years none of this shit matters. Our civilization is an interesting layer of trash in the geologic record.
In ten thousand years nuclear waste doesn't matter.
In a hundred years or less, most of the work we busy humans are so concerned with today simply doesn't matter. I've installed tile and stonework (my brother is a tile contractor), built with exquisite craftsmanship to last centuries, that has been ripped out and replaced on the whim of trophy wives of wealthy men. (Don't accuse me of sexism... one bully who used to torment me almost daily in middle and high school ended up as the boy-toy of a wealthy older woman, and she very proudly introduced me to him, at which point both of us, as proud adult men, decided instantly to pretend we'd never met.)
I've also been a hermit, and I'm sort of living that way now. Our animal shelter rescue dogs probably think I'm one of them, useful in our pack for magically procuring food, opening doors, and filling their water dishes whenever the lids to the toilets are inexplicably closed. Dingo is fairly certain she ranks above me in the pack hierarchy. Mostly I'm okay with that.
My own philosophy has a lot of Ursula K. LeGuin in it.
Picking a short story and a novel, I'd say, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas and Always Coming Home.
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This was a picture for the school Christmas card in 1972. I think Dias or Grenkow took it. I didn't come to the school until the next year but my brother was there and says a lot of work went into the lighting e.g. the light at the bottom left is a flashlight. I think there might have been someone in one of the trees holding a flashlight as well.
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Is there a way to counter the computer's
"You're Screwed" combos? Or do you just have to sit there
and be juggled through the air, taking it?
"you're Screwed" X8
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Posted 03 January 2006 - 05:25 AM
If you are in the air: you are screwed. Your only hope is to counter the move that would have made you airborne.
Posted 03 January 2006 - 08:27 AM
It rages me so much when your owning up on the comp then they do a counter and get you in the air... Then its just jab jab jab on your toe which amazingly keeps you airborne while they finish thier 11hit combo and kill you! God and the last boss, freaking disapears whenever you attack then does some huge combo! I just wait for her now and do power hits when she gets close, never lost to her again lol.
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There is certainly nothing cult-like about Clinton's following.
"This was time for a dynamic woman to be elected president", So tell me, why did they support Hillary in the first place?
So, let me get this straight - they're going to vote for a 7-2 anti-choice anti-equal-pay Supreme Court with McCain instead?
@1: What's cultish about a neurotic obsession that persists long after logic, mathematics, fiscal accountability and democratic will have all had their say?
Am I the only person sick of people thinking that Roe v Wade was about abortion? Abortion was the secondary element of the case; the constititional question was the 14 amendment and the right to due process along with the right of privacy as protected in Griswold v Connecticut. When they talk about overturning Roe v Wade they are trying to get a whole lot more than allowing states to ban abortion, so much more.
So we have to watch out for Clintonistas disrupting the convention by playing kazoos and who act like the scriptures have ordained this time to be that of the dynamic woman candidate but Obama is the one with the cult-like following?
There isn't anything worse than a mega Obama fan. I'd rather lick vagina than vote for Obama. I'm voting for McCain if Hillary isn't attached. Period.
Good luck with that, @7. Call us when you're drafted for the Russian invasion.
The whole "Obama supporters are like a cult" meme is so incredibly played out. Even McCain isn't getting that much traction out of it these days. It's overhyped, unoriginal, and when uttered by a Clinton supporter, a wonderful example of the pot calling the kettle black.
Way to betray America and our core values of Truth, Justice, and the American Middle Class way of life, @7.
Mmmm, licking vagina. That sounds like fun, as long as it's clean and attached to a hot body. I'd rather lick vagina than vote for anyone, really, but seeing as how I can both lick vagina and vote Obama, I shall be doing both. More of the former than the latter. Now excuse me while I go masturbate to the thoughts of a vagina grinding on my face with her hands grasping my head......... hoo, hot!
Please equip these whips with tasers.
simple - without Hilary, the Obama/Somebody ticket will loose
sorry to disturb the rapture of it all
the Mc Cain negative machine will chew him up and spit him out
@11 Given that Washington is a vote-by-mail state, it is possible to lick vagina and vote for Obama simultaneously in the safety and comfort of your own home. Two-fers don't get much more exciting than that. Excuse me, I need to have word with the missus.
But multi-tasking is bad for you, @14.
I recommend concentrating on the task at hand, personally. Don't mix sex and politics. Unless you're a Republican. Or Edwards.
@7: you lick the VULVA. licking vagina is really tough. your tongue can't reach the g spot, so there isn't much point.
Some people have very long tongues.
And, remember, don't go straight for the clitoris.
Jesus God, if there's ONE THING I don't want to see on the Slog EVER, it's tips on sex technique from goddamn Will in Seattle.
I'd rather lick vagina than vote period. But since I haven't had any delicious hair pie offered to me lately, I guess I'll vote. (then again, I don't know why I couldn't do both).
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