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Why doesn't #21 get a rating?

I assume because it can be interpreted as "I don't remember," which is unscoreable, not "there were no attacks," which is of course what he meant and false.

Shorter: he might be stupid or amnesiac and not lying.
 
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I assume because it can be interpreted as "I don't remember," which is unscoreable, not "there were no attacks," which is of course what he meant and false.

Shorter: he might be stupid or amnesiac and not lying.

I think it's a wry comment on how obviously wrong it is.
 
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Is this where I laugh at Hobby Lobby for supporting ISIS so they can have ancient tablets, or ***** because they got a piddly fine instead of 10 years in prison for their owners like small people would.
 
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So the thing I didn't see answered, to whom does Hobby Lobby forfeit these artifacts? What happens with them?
 
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The good guys win a round.

The German parliament, or Bundestag, on Friday passed a bill legalizing same-sex marriages in a snap vote that made it onto the agenda before the summer break after a surprise shift by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The bill passed by 393 to 226, with four abstentions. Merkel herself voted against the bill, although her comments helped bring it about.

However, more than 70 members of Merkel's conservative bloc must have voted in favor of the bill for it to pass.
 
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Now will the German bishops refuse the Church tax in protest? Nah. Didn't think so.

Is that a tax collected by the state for the churches or a tax collected by the state on the churches? The latter aint a bad idea at all.
 
Is that a tax collected by the state for the churches or a tax collected by the state on the churches? The latter aint a bad idea at all.

former. and it's YUGE, but, IIRC you have to be a registered Lutheran or Catholic. Now, the dear bishops have decreed if you don't pay the tax, you can't receive the sacraments.

Flippin hypocrites.
 
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At least It Was done legislatively, not judicially.

Now will the German bishops refuse the Church tax in protest? Nah. Didn't think so.

Ours was done legislatively. A tad under 149 years ago today in fact!
 
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Ours was done legislatively. A tad under 149 years ago today in fact!

I wouldn't say that's empirically true. Otherwise we wouldn't have needed a SCOTUS court case to rectify the situation, and Minnesota wouldn't have had to hold its various votes over the six (eight?) years to affirm them at the state level.
 
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I wouldn't say that's empirically true. Otherwise we wouldn't have needed a SCOTUS court case to rectify the situation, and Minnesota wouldn't have had to hold its various votes over the six (eight?) years to affirm them at the state level.

I was being cheeky. But then again, the Court did affirm the right.
 
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Not that old. You have to pay to go to CCD (not cheap) in order to get OK'd for the sacraments in our locale in the Catholic Church. The Lutherans are freeeeee! :D

Our CCD was pricey too. I mostly learned how to argue with the fathers* in terms they understood. Didn't make me any less obnoxious, though. :(

* The priests who taught CCD classes (really, they special guest starred) were always very interesting, even when they weren't very smart. The lay volunteers were eejits and they treated arguing about religious doctrine as if it was sacrilege. The priests were really into it, and liked, ahem, to parry and thrust.

Ideas, you scum.
 
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