He could also preempt the petition by having the rules committee pass its own version of the petition that does nothing and once it is put on the calendar, the original petition is ruled moot and removed from the calendar

He can do what he did with the national emergency stuff and change the meaning of legislative day for the petition. The petition has to be on the calendar for seven legislative days before it gets a vote. The Republicans can pass a rule that every day only counts as one day for the petition

Yeah which is why cynicism keeps on winning

Otherwise, all I can think is that some wealthy constituents pitched a shit fit about their holiday flights being up in the air.

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We would do this time to time with dental stuff because it was cheaper but those are very limited cases

When people keep proving you right just listen

He peeled them off

Lots of roster malpractice building the defense and then thinking they could run anyone out there at receiver. His insistence that Nix will be a superstar is the height of his narcissism

Ah, but atonement includes works. My reading of the specific passage there is that Leah's frustration is that there needs to be a better answer to "what must we/what can we do". adam Przeworski made a similar point that, at least in academic settings, there isn't always a connection to action

I think this is a bit unfair. Within the system through which Leah sees the world, guilt is a diagnostic tool, which is why she focuses on atonement. Otherwise guilt becomes psychologically and spiritually deleterious.

My kingdom for kids programming to be free of the political ads

East at St. Peter's was to stand behind the altar. Because of the construction of St. Peter's, this was both ad orientem and versus populum. /2

He believed that the rood screen prevented the implementation of Trent's reaffirmation of the Mass as sacrament and sacrifice. So he wanted it removed and the altar to become central to the Mass. Thus freestanding altars. He saw this as restoring tradition because the only way for priests to face /1

That post has some galaxy braining going on but let them cook

Went to a conference session about this. Unfortunately the presenter argued for complete racial separation because it's unsafe to live around white people and they'll just do evil in comfort out in the suburbs

A friend recently relayed to our group that he didn't know that Aslan was meant to be Jesus and so he built a little altar in his room to worship Aslan. Upon hearing this, another member of our group said that she assumed Lewis was writing about another god because Jesus didn't map onto Aslan well.