Tuesday: You're a very strong person. I'm sure you'll be ok. But anyway, please stay on the topic. I hope you had a great weekend.
It wasn't intended to insult you personally, and I'm sorry if it did.

Border C Rule: That sounds correct to me. (About Parliament).
Regardless, it would seem to be a silly reason, to not keep to the normal order of ascension. As I said, I doubt there is any King who didn't have a "dalliance" before or during his reign.

And as you said, of course the Catholic Church has zero say. (especially knowing the History)

Tuesday: Apparently the Queen disagrees. Though could she even change that? I definitely don't know.

Tuesday: I would place a bet that there has NEVER been a King who hasn't had a "dalliance". He isn't going to be Pope for crying out loud.

Tuesday: Putin is certainly evil, but that has nothing to do with whether he is a genius or not.

Tuesday: Prince Charles. That's why Queen Elizabeth even just agreed that Camilla can be called "Queen Consort" when Charles becomes King. (She was originally going to be called "Princess Consort" when Charles becomes King, due to being his 2nd wife. But Elizabeth has changed that recently. (Within the last month) I'm sure one of our British players can correct me if I am not completely accurate. Here is something I found : https://www.cbsnews.com/news/camilla-queen-consort-queen-elizabeth-jubilee-message/

Tuesday: It will be interesting if DeSantis runs.
Could be a very interesting Republican primary. Especially if Pence is going up against Trump instead of being his running mate.

Bwild: Agreed. The Libs are the ones who are obsessed with the color of people's skin. They act like "people of color" are less capable than white people and can't handle being treated THE SAME.
The people that say that requiring ID to vote is a racist requirement are absolutely ridiculous.

Bwild: I fully support him

Brian1971: Couldn't agree more. So many "Never Trump" people. I'm absolutely "Never Hillary". Trump wasn't my personal first choice, but he will get my vote. Any of the 17 people who started the process, would be a better president than Hillary or Bernie.

Papa Zoom: At least we are closer all the time to him being DONE. Hopefully Hillary doesn't take his place.

PaoloRus:

Papa Zoom: And it will be SO nice not to see Jay Carney anymore.

Papa Zoom: ALL for the Tea Party. I hope one of our big Conservatives makes it through the primaries. Not someone milquetoast like McCain or Romney.
LOVE Rand Paul, or Rubio or Cruz.
Defnitely NOT Christie

Papa Zoom: If they stick to their guns, and not roll over in fear like a few current republicans have done.

rod03801: And hopefully take that Pelosi and Reid with him. He can take Baynor too. Not thrilled with him either. lol

Papa Zoom: Hannity played part of that on his radio show today. SO good. The part I heard was guessing who said certain quotes, and they were all Obama saying stuff when he was a Senator, about a president overstepping his constitutional "powers", and they are all things he has now done. When I have time, I will see if there was more that I didn't hear in the clip. What a hypocrite. Worst president ever. I can't wait until he is gone.

Papa Zoom: Obama never admits his mistakes. It's to be expected. I haven't seen it yet. I wish the chicken would be interviewed by Hannity.

Artful Dodger:

Iamon lyme: Terrorist mermaids?

Artful Dodger:

Artful Dodger: Yup that dodge ball thing is here in New Hampshire. There is currently a petition going around to overturn the new rule.

Our state used to be reasonable until all the libs started moving in.

Artful Dodger: So many don't seem to get that. I'm sick of all these talking points. The real intent was to be able to stand up to tyranny. If we keep having wannabe dictators, who have NO regard for our constitution, like Obama, we may NEED to be able to stand up against them.
And I'll never understand why they don't get that criminals DONT care which guns are against the law. The only people they are trying to punish are the law abiding people who have THE RIGHT to have what they want.
And some don't seem to get that we aren't under their reign still, thank goodness. They are WELCOME to their silly laws

(V): Show? Sorry, but it was INTENDED that the states have more power than the federal govt.

The Col: Yup. I'd agree that's part of what makes it hardest. The triggers. My favorite was after eating.
I'm still amazed I don't smoke anymore. I TRULY loved it.

Driving was hard too. I chain smoked when driving. On "regular trips" I always knew right where I would have to be passing for the best time to light the last one, so that I'd be done with it right when arriving. LOL

The Col: I smoked longer than I should have. LOL. Started on a bet. (I thought people "addicted" to cigarettes were making it up)

And just because you smoke twice as much, it really doesn't give you a lot of grounds to discount the hard time anyone who smoked less had in quitting.

I can promise you I did not have an easy time. And if I hadn't had the month long hospital stay, I probably would have failed this time too. (Or 3 years later I'd still be buying that damn patch)

I enjoyed the patch though! Gave me VERY vivid amazing dreams! (Some people hate that part, but I LOVED it)

I mostly decided to quit the last time, because the cost had gone up again, and I was sick of spending all that money on something so awful. I miss it. I enjoy the smell. I'm not bothered being around smokers. (I enjoy the smell of the smoke and the cig.. A dirty ashtray or old smashed out butts gross me out though)

And I was sick of being banished outdoors in the Winter to puff. LOL

Iamon lyme: No doctor needed for the patches now. (When they first came out, years ago, you did need a prescription)
I don't recommend the cheaper "no name" ones. Maybe it was all in my head, but they didn't seem to work as well.
I recommend the NicoDerm ones They have 3 sizes. Start at the big and work down. They have a recommended amount of time for each size, but I found I needed to follow MY OWN path, and decide when I was ready for the next size down. (Because I failed when following THEIR plan, and dropped sizes quicker than was appropriate for ME)

They have finally gone down in price. I think 3 years ago, I found I was spending about half on the patches than I was on cigs. I was smoking 1 pack per day.

Iamon lyme: Have you tried the 3 step program on one brand of Nicotine patches? It can be very good. First it helps stop that habit of picking one up, getting a large amount of nicotine in the first stage. Then gradually you lower the amount you are getting.

They helped me finally quit. Of course it took major surgery (unrelated, of course) and almost a full month in the hospital to get over that final hurdle. I was on the smallest patch, and was not going to stop using it until I was positive I would be successful. However, being in the hospital and having NO choice, helped me to take off that final one.
I haven't had a cigarette now since July 2009. I had tried many many many times before that and failed. (Even WITH the patch - it was that final small patch that I couldn't let go of, so when I stopped, I'd start back up to smoking)

I still miss it though lol. I just don't NEED it. I often think I'd like to have JUST ONE - but after being unsuccessful too many times, I don't dare to ruin it.

(V): I completely disagree. Thankfully you don't have a vote here.

(V): It's a fundamental difference. I repeat, these "pouting republican members" were VOTED in with the expectation that they would do this. If mine gives in, she won't be getting my vote next time.

This "controlled change" as you call it, WILL not DO ANY good. There has to be a SEVERE cut in the way our government keeps growing.

I don't expect you to agree. It's not unusual.

(V): I hope the people who should, continue to stand their ground. I doubt they will though. I hope they don't allow themselves to be held hostage and give in. They were NOT voted in there to give in.

Giving this government more money is like giving a drug addict more drugs. They will just spend EVEN MORE. Nothing has proven that to be different, EVER. and then require even more tax increases.

Even the tax increases this incompetent president wants, would run the government for less than 2 weeks. The TRUE answers are reducing spending by huge amounts. It's the only logical answer

Iamon lyme:

EXACTLY

The Col: Your continued rudeness will not be tolerated. I will thank you ahead of time to rein it in.

Iamon lyme: Seems as though it was a silly attempt to make you seem less than masculine. Sort of a teenager-ish tactic. But a silly one, personally I've heard it said equally from men or women.

JerNYC: I agree about Christie. My first thought with how he handled everything after Sandy was that it was with the intention of setting up 2016. I kind of like him. There's a few that sort of interest me for 4 years from now. Rubio is one. I still also like Ryan.

(V): Get with reality. It doesn't make it harder. Most people have ID anyway. ID's ar necessary for so many other things already. And I'll NEVER understand why it isn't logical that it should be guaranteed that only people who legally can vote, do vote. Nothing will EVER explain why that isn't logical. NOTHING.
Maybe OVER THERE people don't need ID's. But over, here, yes. This is not OVER THERE.
*cough*

Plus, most of those unregistered voters probably already have ID's. Sadly, many people just don't get involved because they don't think their vote matters. I went like that many years. (and have had an ID since 16 like MOST people)

Artful Dodger: I did take the time to watch that whole thing. Very moving. And I think it cleared up my ambiguity towards abortion. (Never something I supported, but at the same time I thought there might be times when it is ok for certain people. Never a choice I would make, but didn't feel I could make the moral decision for someone else) I would say that I would absolutely support getting rid of roe v wade.

However, I would NOT have watched the whole thing if about 7 minutes of the last 10 minutes had been at the beginning. (The whole heaven/hell bible "stuff" that I find abhorrent, personally) Glad it was at the end, because I would turned it off right away because that stuff annoys me.

Just me, and don't bother trying to say I'm wrong in my non bible stance, because it won't matter. LOL.

But thank you for posting that. Most of it was very thought provoking.

Artful Dodger: I guess I always wonder how much of it is because THEY TELL US so many states are "decided". You know?

Artful Dodger: My state is a "swing state"... which is funny because we don't have many electoral votes

Artful Dodger: I'm so excited for 2 weeks from tonight! It could be an edge of the seat night. However, if momentum keeps up, it could be less stressful than it would have seemed a month ago.

I fear 4 more years of the jerk. I personally don't even think its just incompetence. I don't even think he has our best interests in mind.
But I guess that's a bit controversial.
I honestly feel if he gets 4 more years, it could be the end of our great country as we know it. Or so far down the tubes that it would take a miracle to reverse it.

Heck, maybe even Romney can't fix it. He wasn't MY first choice, that's for sure. Hopefully we can get as many conservatives in the House and Senate as possible to give him an easy road to success.

Artful Dodger: She also goaded him, and not Biden "Oh , so STILL no specifics?" she said that twice that I remember. It just seemed like she wanted to confront Ryan, and coddle Biden.

Artful Dodger: I swore the ticket had become Obama/Biden/Raddatz

She seemed to be trying to help Biden through a lot of it.

Granted, he needed it.

(V): It's not even worth having a discussion with you. You twist twist twist to the point that looks ridiculous.

You suggested Vikings was blaming Obama for Iceland bank failures. Not even close to what he typed AT ALL.

(V): Vikings said something about blaming Obama for Iceland's bank problems ? ?? Seems to me, he was talking about U.S. unemployment. Gets a little dizzy....

Iamon lyme: lol.. that sign is EXACTLY the truth though

Artful Dodger: well makes as much sense as the bible tho.

Artful Dodger: GREAT link. Someone who says what so many are thinking. Yes, yes, we all know they are the extreme end of the religion. Let's get that out of the way. But the world for some reason is feeling the need to CATER and BOW to these extremist freaks. I don't get it. It's like in America the FREAKS who riot after sporting events. And vandalize INNOCENT peoples' belongings. I don't see much of a difference. THUGS.

(V): Of course you're missing the point. He said it with the meaning that after the election, he doesn't have to be concerned about the public's opinion.

You really DO need to debate EVERYTHING, don't you?

Iamon lyme: I see disaster if Obama wins. He already does things against the constitution, and gets away with it! What will he do in a 2nd term when he doesn't have to worry about re-election!!??
And this is not a baseless fear, as you may recall that microphone that was on (and he didn't know it) when he was talking to some foreign leader, and basically said, wait until after the election, then we can do such n such. (I don't recall the details off the top of my head)
He has to be pushed out!

To me, there are SO many things Romney should be doing, but isn't! He should be reminding people of things like this!