...but it seems to me that Mr. Bateman has taken JS' polygamous message and gone farther with it in two ways than JS ever did: 1) Bateman married a 9-year-old; the youngest JS ever married was 14; and 2) Bateman engaged in group sex; there is no record indicating that JS ever did that. Yes, I agree with Summer. Samuel Bateman was/is a disgusting human being.
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Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They can't do that. > > The church is held together by myths, including > prominently the appeal to all people of all social > and economic classes. The fact that people are > leaving is a major problem because it discredits > the faith. > > And really, how much does it cost to ke
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Per the late Tom T. Hall: He said 'Women think about themselves When menfolk ain't around, And friends are hard to find When they discover that you're down.' He said, 'I tried it all When I was young and in my natural prime. Now it's old dogs and children and watermelon wine.' --Tom T. Hall, "Watermelon Wine," 1973
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Last year at the American Council of the Blind (ACB) convention in Omaha, Nebraska, a resolution made its way to the floor. The question up for discussion? Should the first letter of the word braille always be capitalized when writing it in, you guessed it, braille. In the past, when writing the word braille in braille, the B was always capitalized. However, during the 1990s (if memory serves), t
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elderolddog Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You give insurance companies too much credit. > > When you are told your vehicle is a “total > loss,” after they pay you less than market > value, they then sell your “totaled” vehicle > for whatever they can get and it’s usually NOT > to a metals recycler, but to wholesalers and j
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...superiority above other humans. And a certain sector of the human population can't resist that.
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Your story reminds me of what happened when we went to get my nephew baptized in the local Roman Catholic church back in the early 2000s. The event occurred in the afternoon around 1:00pm, and several families were in attendance to get their kids baptized. We didn't do this, but some of the other families brought McDonald's lunches in to the church and were eating as they sat in the pews waiti
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...to sometimes keep my mouth shut (I find that I learn better that way), I have to say that male priests and other church leaders shouldn't be telling you to do this in their "Mormon blessings." It's a negative, and it sometimes prevents people, especially women, from speaking up when they absolutely should!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty While RFE and RL were not AM-based (they wer/are shortwave; I remember picking up the former a couple of times during the 1980s and 1990s on my own SW rig), both were effective at getting the U.S. message and supplying actual news to Communist-block countries and the Soviet Union. And I wouldn't be surprised if, particularly in east
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Nightingale wrote in part: "I do understand that, as Dylan sang, the times they are a-changin' and more quickly than some can keep up with. But it's hard to immediately associate 'liberty' with book banning or discriminatory demands." When you read "Moms for Liberty," think of Liberty with a capital L; that is, Liberty University, located in Lynchburg, Virginia, founded
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You bring up a good point. Outside of the U.S., the Canadian and Mexican authorities have been moving all of their AM signals to the FM Band for the last twenty or so years now. This could happen because the radio authorities in those places never allowed FM broadcasts to grow as fast as they did in the U.S., meaning that the U.S. cannot do the same now with its AM facilities (most of the AM stat
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When I was a teenager, I wanted to be like Johnny Cash. I had heard some of his recordings,, and more importantly for this topic, his Christian conversion story. It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned about his drinking, his two marriages, and the fact that, for the most part, he didn't write any of the songs he sang. I'm now retired with some health issues living in the same house my p
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Bradley wrote in part: "Did any rock band sing about the BBC?" No, but at least one rock song from the 1960s included a clip from a BBC production of "King Lear," at its end--The Beatles' "I Am The Walrus." And while I didn't know about the Asia song, I can tell you that the Van Morrison song, "Wavelength," which is about listening to AM and shortw
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GNPE wrote in part: "I believe KSL was a clear-channel station in that era." You are correct. In fact, it was the only single AM clear channel between Denver (KOA at 850 kHz) and the stations on the west coast.
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While I was never able to pick up anything from the east coast on my receivers, I do remember pulling in WLS in my dad's pickup truck while we were camping at Glamis Sanddunes in Southern California. This was before KDXU came on the air in St. George, Utah on the same frequency.
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dagny Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's a struggle over every little thing! > > Meanwhile, as of Apr. 16, 2023, the Idaho > legislators killed the Maternal Mortality Review > Committee for this year, which would have helped > to improve health care in Idaho. This committee > tracked, reported and investigated maternal > related
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/05/13/am-radio-electric-cars/ Apparently, the ignition noise in otherwise silent electric cars has gone in to the AM radio, resulting in people not being able to hear as many and distant stations as they used to. And, of course, the programming has really gone downhill as well. But I loved AM radio as a blind kid, growing up first in the Los Angele
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/idaho-library-election-results-most-171229191.html Apparently, the only county where those advocating for the censorship of books won was in Koutenay County in far northern Idaho. The rest of the state, including the Mormon (oops! LDS) strongholds of southeastern Idaho did not in mass vote for those who would dare to tell us what we can and can't read.
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I think her attorneys have already begun their appeals, at least among the public.
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Tumwater wrote in part: "Go to the store that appreciates your business." That works well in urban areas )such as Miami, Jacksonville, Orlando, and Tampa) where a lot of options are available. It doesn't work so well in rural areas (Palatka, Sebring, Cross City, Lake City) where only one or two options may be available.
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Substitute the word "class," for "cast," and you have not only the U.S. but the rest of the world in a nutshell. Even the so-called Communist countries! We humans can't seem to realize that we're all the same!
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Dave the Atheist Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The irony is that cinco de mayo is one of our two > drinking holidays. The other drinking holiday being, of course, St. Patrick's Day, which was started by another U.S. minority group, the Irish.
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...when it came to religion and what role it should play in government. For example, Patrick Henry, the founder best known for his quote of "Give me liberty or give me death!" was, in fact, very much an evangelical Christian who believed that Christianity should be at the heart of any independent government. However, his views were not shared by everyone at the time, particularly Tho
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...and it's not the good kind. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/5/7/2167331/-A-Christian-health-nonprofit-saddled-thousands-with-debt-built-pot-farm-a-bank-and-an-airline?detail=emaildkre&pm_source=DKRE&pm_medium=email I don't know how many of you have seen the commercials about the MediShare organizations, the evangelical Christian answer to for-profit health care businesses.
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summer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You would think that, being Christian, Nelson > would regard Jesus's birth, ministry, and > redeeming death to be of greater importance. > Whoops! Nelson probably does, but I'm guessing that not all of the LDS apostles are on board with this. (Holy Mackerl! Is there dissension among the Mormon church leade
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I think the Cleon Skousen and Moms for Liberty supporters (from another thread) would vehemently argue the point. Nevertheless, the taught history of the U.S. is filled with many factual errors, some accidentally and some purposely left in place.
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For Anybody and anybody else reading this, the positions being taken by Moms for Liberty with regard to Cleon Skousen didn't just come out of the blue. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2011/fringe-mormon-group-makes-myths-glenn-beck%E2%80%99s-help The above link is to a 2011 report written by the Southern Poverty Law Center and it traces what happened to the Freem
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CrispingPin wrote in part: "2) We actually don’t make choices-EVERYTHING is predetermined." What you are describing in 2) is the concept of predestination and it predates Mormonism by a couple of centuries, if memory serves. Its basis is in the writings of John Calvin, the man who started a Protestant religion known as Calvinism which would later be known as Puritanism. Today, t
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I wish this story surprised me. It only depresses me--I had read or heard somewhere (Daily Kos, NPR?) before that Moms for Liberty was extolling the historical correctness of a religious fanatic non-historian. There is no way in hell that the Bible could be the basis for the U.S. Constitution--not least of all because that religious tome says that all power comes from above (God) and not from bel
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Lot's Wife Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's not an unusual view. I wouldn't be > surprised to see the commonwealth shrink by two or > three members over the next year. Yes. NPR reported yesterday that some Commonwealth members--particularly those with dark-skinned heads of state--are very much itching to leave the British Commonwealth and th
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