Azalin

it's been a long time since I was there, but I lived in Greensboro for almost 8 years. my grandparents moved there after my grandfather retired, mainly to get away from the snow but still have something resembling 4 seasons to enjoy. I hear it's grown considerably since my time, but I imagine it's still a pretty nice place. I believe Burlington is around a half-hour away. there used to be a club that had live hard rock & metal bands playing called 'Marbles' that we would make the drive to from time to time, but I never really went to Burlington other than those trips. if you take your time in choosing, I'm sure you'll find a nice place anywhere around the greater Greensboro area. good luck with your move!

the funny thing is that I hadn't ever realized that I hated all that stuff until you asked who else was on my list.

why, the longhorn of course. the very longhorn.

from the Washington Times linked article: “Liberty Ridge Farm … has employed gay people and has conducted events for same-sex couples,” Mr. Trainor said. “The Giffords’ objection was to hosting and participating in the wedding ceremony itself and not to providing service in general to lesbians.” it sounds to me like the Giffords are affording this couple the same access & opportunity they've always provided for couples, straight or gay. does the law say that they must participate in the ceremony as well? also from the article: “The fact that the Giffords also reside at Gifford Barn,” the decision says, “does not render it private.” so their residence is a public place? if you have a really nice back yard and someone, say your niece, held her wedding there in the past, does that mean that if someone else wants to do the same that you are legally obligated to consent or pay fines and compensatory damages if you refuse?

I don't know.....that sounds pretty Tuff to do.

I didn't trivialize it. I'm just trying to point out that to actually create, invent, build, or otherwise get anything done, you need to put down the books and get up off your @ss. training and knowledge is a requisite fundamental, but achievement requires vision, action, and persistence to transform ideas and theory to reality. and come off the holier-than-thou BS. nobody is being critical of education's 'perceived lack of value to society'. we're being critical of those that place value on only the education and academic achievements (specifically those people who happen to espouse a political philosophy similar to your own, I might add) and worship the wisdom therein, while either ignoring or belittling anyone who places a more important emphasis on what you do with all that accrued knowledge once you get out into the real world.

they're not renting but they're a business? an important detail that I'm not seeing in that article is anywhere where the Giffords said that the reason they don't want to rent the room is because this couple is gay. they haven't made any claims that I can see that this is about religion, either. what I have seen however are many businesses that I've gone into that had a sign on the door stating that they reserve the right to refuse business as they see fit, which at least until recently hasn't ever been made into a social or political concern.

who can fight while in a straight jacket? and you call us idiots.

you're actually doing a good job of making the counter argument with that example. Edison (your own words) built on the basic knowledge gained by academics. in other words, he took a proven theory and vastly improved upon it's results. sure, he needed his education to have the fundamentals and background necessary to do what he did, but it was his own personal drive and initiative that provided the results he eventually obtained, it sounds like you're defending education, when education is not what's being criticized. it's when those in academia begin to theorize, especially when it pertains to how a society should be run, that people become critical of them, and that's a perfectly normal, sensible thing to do. it's one thing to design a system or method for dealing with things, but too often people forget that before these things can be determined to be successful, they need to be put into practice to see if it will work or not. empirical evidence is required before something, no matter how smart it sounds, can be proven to be successful.

1) there's the Miami Dolphins, a truly contemptible and detestable lot (and I have a strong distrust of the marine mammal as well.....I don't trust anything that smiles that often). 2) people from Chicago. they build this multi-layered mess of bread & goo and try to pass it off as pizza. if you were to build a crappy one-story house, you aren't going to improve it by simply adding a second floor to it. 3) Hippies. 1967 was 47 years ago. can't you please just take a shower? 4) Gangstas. pull your pants up. you don't look intimidating. 5) anyone employed by or otherwise affiliated with the IRS. 6) Florence Henderson, just on principle. 7) the people in the apartment directly above me. be quiet, or I will bring my guitar and amplifier home from the studio and you will never sleep again. 8) fire ants. not people, but I hate them anyway. 9) personal injury lawyers who advertise on TV. 10) Nicki Minaj. not a group of people, but as annoying as a C130 full of insurance adjustors.

yes, at the Hard Rock in Boulder, before it's slated for demolition.

Texas, where men are men, and longhorns are nervous....

probably due to their excommunication of so many former members combined with the ones likely undergoing long recoveries in intensive care. these people (and I use the term very loosely) are one group that I love to loathe.

I'm no drug counselor or psychologist, but that just doesn't add up to me. even when I started getting paranoid from smoking, I never had a violent thought or inclination, and I've never heard of anyone else being affected that way, ever. I could understand being so baked that you might be responsible for an accidental death, but an outburst of violent, lethal insanity? there had to be some seriously loose screws in this person's head to begin with.

or sit him down for a beer summit. that's what we in Texas call an 'in-yer-endo'.

of course!

ignoring the obliquely smutty sound of that statement, I'd have to agree with you.

it's not that they're much more informed....like you, they simply know so much that isn't true.

to me, this is the REAL Halleluja. 45 years ago: http://youtu.be/2_o6W0LJqQw

that's fine. you and your kind can laugh away at the concept of supporting Israel. feel free to continue to blame them for all the ills of this conflict. by all means, vent your ire at the Israelis for bombing weapons installations and ignore the fact that HAMAS stores and stages those weapons in schools, mosques and the like. nobody expects any better from you anyway.

logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead. it's because the white knight's talking backwards.

I think she'll know

my band tried to think of a way to get those idiots to come out and protest our show while they were in town last year protesting the F1 race. it's tough to get more instant publicity than to draw a protest from WBC.