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I saw my movie today. It was pretty good. I recommend it to all my fans.

I haven't started a poll in a while. You are playing teams (IMPs), and you are red vs white. [hv=pc=n&e=saq8ha8da654ct987&d=e&v=e&b=6&a=1d3cdp]133|200|What do you bid, and why?[/hv]

Yeay me!

They should extend this investigation to the people that supervised Dorner (a former cop/navy reservist).

That's pretty awful. In all my classes, profs were required to have a syllabus with the grading policy and weights listed, so at least we had warning about attendance quizzes. To bring this back to more related (albeit perhaps still tangential) topic: I really get frustrated when people display blatant hypocrisy, and don't recognize it as such. I had a person in my cohort who spent most of his time in class on facebook or playing games. Recently, he posted a complaint about his students posting on facebook, and how they were so disrespectful. One of the things that turned me off of organized religion was this "do as I say but don't examine what I do" theme.

I want (fill in the blank). I am going to buy it unless you want to get it for my birthday. I tend to be very specific with what I want (especially if it's expensive) because I do not want my SO to spend a lot of money (which to me is $50+, to him it seems to be more) on something I won't love and don't at least somewhat need. I don't really need to be surprised.

Honestly, all women are different. When I say I don't want presents, it means that I do not want presents, and you won't be getting any from me. But I do think that you should know what your wife means by "I don't want presents".

This seemed to be a double-post. Sorry. I will add that I think that you may be missing the "a" part of "atheist". Also, everyone uses their own judgements as to morality. Others just cloak their judgements by claiming it matches something given from on-high, but they still have to judge if it fits.

By saying that you judge something as harmless it implies that you are JUDGING it. I also think that I was being too subtle: It's atheism (the "i" is part of the "-ism" or "ist", not part of the "athe").

I think that this is less straightforward than you seem to think, as what I was taught is that the commandment says "Thou shalt not murder". Murder is not the same thing as kill. Maybe you liken "athiesm" to that, but as an atheist, I feel rather amused by that statement. I'm glad that you condescend to find my beliefs harmless, but puzzled as to why you liken non-belief in a god to a self-centered belief in a god?

Go further than the Dream Act, which not only affects people that were brought here as children, it also caps it at 30. I don't see why it needs to be capped at all.

I was annoyed that I wasn't given the choice of taxing capital gains as income (I at least would have liked to know by how much that would affect the budget - if at all).

I just say "hello" and ask them which one of them is "Sarah"? I actually don't know if I'm unpopular because of calling the director. It's more that at nationals, many people that I knew and am friends with would walk right by me when I said "hello" to them.

Maybe it should be a requirement if people want to use the "Find me a Table", or other partnership pairing tools, but I don't see why I, who does not use these tools, should be required to have a rating. And if I were willing to have a table filled with random players, I would much rather know about their affability than about their rating. I recently played on a team with someone who was so extremely rude I refused to sit at the table during the comparisons. I would rather have had a beginner on the team than have had to be around him.

When you go to a tournament or club, people aren't required to list their skill level on their cc. Why should BBO require it? And yes, ACBL requires full names (first + last) on CCs. Want to know how many people I saw in a national event who did not comply with that? My favorite is when they hand me a card that says "Sarah Beth", and I'm looking at two gentlemen. I usually ask about it, to make sure that I'm looking at the correct CC. I could make myself even less popular than I am by calling the director about it, but I already have enough people who don't like me.