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59 cheap eats in Boston, via boston.com.

Thanks to Tim Heidel’s post for the link.

Just finished reading this. I also attended a lecture at Harvard by the author.

Basically the premise is this — religious liberty is a fundamental human right and there are two camps that general oppose it. One camp, fancifully named the Pilgrims, is of the mind that theirs is the correct religion and the only one that should be allowed in the public arena; all others ought to be repressed. The other camps, named the Park Rangers after an amusing story within the book, believe that basically all religions should be thrown out of the public sphere.

The author’s argument lies with the fact that by allowing others the “right to be wrong,” we can have true cultural diversity, with respect and honor for each other’s traditions, even while we may personally feel those traditions are incorrect. He claims that this is not a far fetched idea, citing the example of a St. Patrick’s Day parade and a city mayor wearing green and attending. Is the mayor endorsing Irishness? Is that mayor’s presence at the St. Paddy’s day parade a sign that the mayor is seeking to overthrown American culture and impose Irishness as the right way? Of course not; such notions are laughable. Similarly, the author (an Irish-American :P), puts forth the idea that notions that enabling all religions to exercise their religious expression within the public arena (barring only expressions that overwrite the liberties of others) is the way to end the culture war in America. Furthermore, in the book, he goes into great detail in recounting the tale of our Constitution’s framing and the debate between Madison, Jefferson and Patrick Henry in shaping the nature of American religious liberty; as well as including information on how the Supreme Court’s re-interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment further shook up the picture.

A final aside; in the computer game Civilization IV, the more religions each city of your civilization has, the happier your people are… interesting that a computer game’s score system is in line with this idea :)blowjob spears britney moviespears sex movie britneysex free movies lesbianfree long movies xxxnot movie teen lyrics anothertrailers sample movie porngalleries movie porn movie hardcore freemovie maker Map

An old thread of mine recently received a calm, reasoned comment with several questions.

I took the time to reply, but sadly LiveJournal’s comment length cut me off… and thus I just decided to post here and link my reply in the discussion.

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Thanks for your reply.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I can share what I personally plan to do.

“Your wife will most likely want sex, and will be fertile three days a month, every month, twelve months a year, until she reaches menopause sometime in her late forties. Imagining that you got married to a twenty-year old girl sometime this year, that is at least twenty years of the potential of getting her pregnant.”
Through techniques such as Sympto-Thermal Natural Family Planning it’s possible to accurately map those windows of fertility.
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Think Gmail for Microsoft Word. Full-featured word processing anywhere for free. Interesting concept finally realized at: ajaxWrite.

Haven’t toyed with it too much, but from an initial survey it looks pretty cool and functional.

With about 4,000 to go, the script from the previous post gave out… something had changed about the messages as it went further back in time and it would no longer mark them as read; instead, it would just throw out an error.

I went searching for a different solution and decided to give Greasemonkey a try. Greasemonkey is basically a scripting layover for Firefox, allowing you to script specific webpages client-side to enhance functionality. Most notably for my purposes, it lets you customize gmail.

I came across persistent.info’s page. He’s a Google employee — but these scripts don’t rely on any inside information.

• Gmail Macros - “adds additional keyboard shortcuts to Gmail. Some are obvious (and have been done by other scripts) such as “t” for move to trash and “r” for mark as read”
• Gmail Label Colors - adds colors for labels
• Saved Searches - saved searches (Edit note: I’ve isolated this script as causing crashes when opening Gmail in another tab and then switching focus and as such I’d recommend keeping it disabled for now).

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Finally someone did it.

http://www.thrall.net/maps/mbta.html

Update: I resolved this situation in Mark All As Read in Gmail, Part 2.

Finally… a script to mark all your mail as read in Gmail.

http://www.razorcom.com/blog/2006/01/09/mark-all-as-read-in-your-gmail-inbox/.

It’s started roaring through my 10,000 unread messages… then abruptly came to a stop.

My gmail login now shows:

Lockdown in sector 4!

Our system indicates unusual usage of your account. In order to protect Gmail users from potentially harmful use of Gmail, this account has been disabled for up to 24 hours.

If you are using any third party software that interacts with your Gmail account, please disable it or adjust it so that its use complies with the Gmail Terms of Use. If you feel that you have been using your Gmail account according to the Terms of Use or otherwise normally, please contact us using this form to report this problem.

Grr. Thanks for protecting me from myself. If Gmail had had a feature to mark all mail as read, I wouldn’t need to be running that script, would I?

Fortunately the e-mail forwarding chain I use means I’ll be able to get my mail via other addresses :)

Update: 25 minutes after locking me out, they let me back in. Not bad. Only 9,397 unread messages left :-/ I guess I should edit the script so it does it in chunks of 500 or something…ringtones pires alexandre4010 ringtone free polyphonic lgringtone alias free3rd classic ringtone partypm ringtone a840nextel afi ringtonerifle buffalo 70 harrington richardson 45pm ringtone a840 samsung Map

Just checking into my flight before flying to visit Ave Maria School of Law and I’m shocked to see Northwest has added the ability to buy exit row seats…

It just seems so wrong… paying to be eligible to provide a service in case of an emergency?

Can they really be that cash-strapped to stoop that low? Something about the entire idea of ‘buying an exit row seat’ seems wrong to me :-/

Richard John Neuhaus has an informative essay on the relationship between Catholic Charities and the Real World.movies hermaphroditesfuck home movieshome movies teenhorse cum free movieshot movie chickhuge movies pornindian movie sexygay movies interracial Map

Modern Aftermath of the Crusades has an interesting write-up, with an interview of the author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades).

Q: What are some popular misconceptions about the Crusades?

Spencer: One of the most common is the idea that the Crusades were an unprovoked attack by Europe against the Islamic world.

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