We have had great experience with the Lowell camp and I highly recommend it.

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jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, well, I'm thinking I already crossed it. I tried to be funny, there was a picture! Not exactly what you were hoping for I'm sure. I just can't "politely" disagree with some people....generally I limit that to racists and bigots...I suppose the poster in question might be a bigot if I stretched the meaning a bit. Anyway, I'll be good from now on, swear.

I wanted to start a .gif war but I'm not sure how to put those in. That would have been much funnier.

Yeah, you were pretty far over the line. I'm sure that emotionally, that was pretty satisfying. But, from a strategic point of view, I'm sure the person with whom you were arguing feels that she owned you. Next time, lower the volume but sharpen your wit.

OK, I'm hooked now.....which thread???

It's a bit like Hotel California, so if you go there we may never see you again:

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/216292.page

Anonymous wrote:
Yeah, well, I'm thinking I already crossed it. I tried to be funny, there was a picture! Not exactly what you were hoping for I'm sure. I just can't "politely" disagree with some people....generally I limit that to racists and bigots...I suppose the poster in question might be a bigot if I stretched the meaning a bit. Anyway, I'll be good from now on, swear.

I wanted to start a .gif war but I'm not sure how to put those in. That would have been much funnier.

Yeah, you were pretty far over the line. I'm sure that emotionally, that was pretty satisfying. But, from a strategic point of view, I'm sure the person with whom you were arguing feels that she owned you. Next time, lower the volume but sharpen your wit.

Anonymous wrote:Just got this alert--anyone know who is protesting and why?


AlertDC alert28970@alert.ema.dc.gov
11:36 AM (22 minutes ago)

to Transportation
DDOT reports a large number of protesters in the area of Connecticut Ave and Macomb Street NW. MPD reports they are on the scene implementing rolling closures as the March progresses. Please Avoid the area.

Sent by DC HSEMA to e-mail....powered by Cooper Notification RSAN

I believe it is the right-wingers from the CPAC convention. They are supposed to be marching to McPherson Square to "take back the park".

Anonymous wrote:Jeff, I fear for myself on the off-topic board today. I just want to cross the line in so many ways... Just wondering how far I can go before you ban me. Then again, I am at work, perhaps I should wait till I'm home.

On another note, this feels strangely like a Catholic confessional booth. Care to give me a penance?

It would be interesting to see how your and my definitions of "crossing the line" compare. What upsets me are posts that disrupt threads and posts that impolitely attack other posters. I am all for polite disagreement. Extra points for being funny about it.

Anonymous wrote:
I'm just curious about the statement that clean currents and WGES are cheaper than Pepco. IME, this can go back and forth over the life of a fixed price contract, and clean currents in particular was more expensive than pepco, but I haven't checked lately.

PEPCO's prices fluctuate throughout the year. So, there may be a month or two where PEPCO's prices are lower. But, if you average prices out over a year, the completive suppliers are cheaper. You can compare rates here:

http://www.dcpsc.org/pdf_files/hottopics/Compare_ElectricSuppliers_Offers.pdf

WGES is a competitive energy supplier. They can supply gas or electricity. If they provide electricity, the current still flows across PEPCO lines and PEPCO continues to bill you. PEPCO bills for a delivery fee or something along those lines, and then adds WGES's bill for the electricity. Purchasing electricity from WGES is cheaper than purchasing from PEPCO and you get a guaranteed price for the length of you contract (usually one or two years). This is totally separate from your gas bill. You can purchase gas from WGES or Washington Gas.

There are other competitive suppliers in addition to WGES. I recommend Clean Currents which is also cheaper than PEPCO but includes wind power offsets for the amount of your bill. So, while your electricity comes from the same place and your neighbor's, you contribute to increased wind-generated electricity.

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C'mon. You are basing this on WP piece? The cheater, loser Paper?

You need to move on. Rhee and Fenty has.

And, here ladies and gentlemen is "accountability", Washington, DC style. If you lie us into a useless economically-crippling war, we just say that you made mistakes, but you made them for the right reasons. If you engage in illegal wiretapping, detain people without charges, legitimize torture, we "look forward" and let bygones be bygones. If you cheat on test scores, lie on your resume, and then go on to base your career on your "success", we say it's time to move on. All the time, we talk incessantly about accountability and fire any teacher that doesn't perform to some artificial benchmarks. There is absolutely no reason that we should be cynical.

Thanks. I deleted it.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm curious; for the ardent conservative Catholics here: Say an established US church held a lot of apartment buildings. And they decided tomorrow that only white people should be allowed to rent those apartments. Would the church be exempt from anti-discrimination laws? Why not?

This doesn't even make sense.

Signed,
Ardent Conservative Catholic

I fundamentally disagree. All sorts of churches are involved in outside activities, whether that be hospitals, retirement homes, schools, colleges, hotels, etc. The question is to what extent the operation of these outside activities have to comply with US law, particularly when that law applies to all and is not targeting a specific religion. What if complying with US law ran counter to fundamental beliefs of that church? The Mormon Church changed its view on multiple wives because the Courts would not exempt the Mormom Church from US law on multiple wives. We should draw a distinction between church and its directly religious activities and other outside activities.

When the Supreme Court addressed the issue of ritualized use of peyote, Justice Scalia -- writing for the majority -- said this:

"To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself."

That seems pretty clear. Religious belief is not superior to the law of the land.

If you want to provide an answer to the OP, then please provide an answer. If you do not want to provide an answer to the OP, then please move along to another thread. There is really nothing more irritating then a thread filled with posters calling the OP a troll. If you think the poster is a troll, then ignore the thread.

Anonymous wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-announce-accommodation-religious-organizations-contraception-rule-120516299--abc-news.html

Thanks for all the public outcry. The government has no right to FORCE religious organizations to offer something that it deems immoral. All the atheists on DCUM can now go back to laughing at people of faith.And as usual the President of no morals or principals is shown as an emperor with no clothes.

How do you feel about the "compromise" now that you know the details?

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Anonymous wrote:http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/10/norquist-obama-translating-harvards-anti-catholic-animosity-into-policy/

While on the face of it this sounds absurd, I do know a good bit of Protestants even in my own family who look down on Catholics.

It's the Daily Caller. Worst publication in the world. Not an ounce of credibility. Ignore.

Yep, the Daily Caller is bankrolled by Rick Santorum's sugar daddy.

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Anonymous wrote:
It's very possible that I misunderstand the technology but I get "free" streaming with Amazon Prime that won't play on my iPad. Does that mean no tablet will be able to stream from Amazon Prime?

My HP Touchpad streams Amazon Prime with no problems. It can't do netflix, though.

This highlights Amazon's dilemma. This device is no longer sold (and also didn't run Android). Amazon's game plan has been disrupted and it will have to turn to Plan B. We just don't know what Plan B is at this time.

Here is the "compromise": Religious institutions won't have to offer contraceptive coverage but insurance companies will have to offer it to the employees free of charge. That just means the coverage will be built into the pricing rather than a separate line item.

I don't see this as much of a step down by Obama.