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15 years ago @ Mormon Life Hacker - Why Every Bishop Needs... · 0 replies · +2 points

As the Executive Secretary to our ward's Bishop, I use Google Voice to the fullest: visual voicemail, call forwarding, SMS via email or a Google Voice desktop app. It's also been great using Gizmo5 and Google Voice to answer or make calls on my computer at work.

What's been the biggest timesaver is the visual voicemail. If I'm unavailable when a call comes in, I can triage it quickly by reading the transcript.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Report urges action to... · 1 reply · +2 points

Look, Timmy, if you can't distinguish the news analysis and commentary on Fox News from the news reporting, then maybe you need to put down the paste you're eating. Unless of course you are willing to admit that Dennis the Menace's demented father( i.e. Keith Olbermann), Chris Matthews, George Stephanopoulos, Larry King, Rick ("I make $h1t up without checking the source") Sanchez, and Lou Dobbs are hardly unbiased "journalists."

You know, Timmy, if you can read, you should look up Kirster Stendahl's three rules of understanding as applied to religions. Rule number 2 would be particularly applicable in this case: Don't compare your best to their worst.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Report urges action to... · 6 replies · +2 points

Again, Timmy, good effort! You'll get the hang of reading comprehension someday.

You don't get extra points for using the pretentious-sounding "moniker" when "name" would suffice, but given your form-over-substance condition, we'll cut you some slack.

To reply directly to your claim that Fox News "doesn't do" news, Britt Hume, Carl Cameron, Brett Baier, and Major Garrett would take umbrage with your assertion.

But, if the Obama administration says it, it must be true, huh, Timmy?

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Report urges action to... · 8 replies · +1 points

Do you remember that kid in preschool who urinated on himself when reminded to color within the lines? Timmy was his name.

Well done, Timmy! You have elevated form over substance. Now, go change yourself and try to keep up with the adults.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Scientology Exposed: T... · 0 replies · +1 points

One of my law school professors was working for the IRS at the time the Service was ramping up to strip Scientology of its tax-exempt status. He says he remembers the day that the mucky-muck from Scientology came to speak with the Director: they took a walk around the building for an hour and came back. Shortly thereafter (I believe he said it was within days), the Director sent out a memo that Scientology's tax-exempt status was no longer an issue to challenge.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Scientology Exposed: T... · 0 replies · +1 points

I'm glad you brought up the significant financial investment that Scientology demands, Norman. Other cults are characterized by gaining obeisance by sometimes humiliating and dehumanizing acts, or otherwise cutting off adherents from the rest of society.

Scientology doesn't usually go to that extreme (that I'm aware of), but their substantial financial requirement, which in some ways is enticing to wealthy celebrities looking for tax breaks, is a way of getting the new recruits to buy into the philosophy, pun intended.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Scientology Exposed: T... · 0 replies · +1 points

Sure, Dennis. A good place to start: The Extermination order of 1838, signed by the Governor or Missouri. Also the contemporaneous abandonment of Kirtland, Ohio due to violent mobs and persecution.

16 years ago @ Breitbart.com - Ensign quits Senate GO... · 0 replies · +2 points

"Why did it get the point where he HAD to testify under oath [?]"

It wasn't because of a consensual extramarital affair. He was being sued for sexual harassment in the civil suit Jones v. Clinton. As the Defendant, he was ordered to appear for deposition as part of the discovery, but he kept claiming Executive Privilege prevented him from being sued while in office, which was refuted by the Supreme Court.

"Here is how it should have went." change to "Here is how it should have gone." Go, went, have gone.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - On the Wisdom of an El... · 0 replies · +1 points

I have been using <a href="http://www.screenit.com" target="_blank">www.screenit.com for years and have appreciated it. It's so much better to walk into the theater knowing what to expect, or better yet knowing to avoid a movie altogether.

17 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'New Moon' Trailer Arr... · 0 replies · +2 points

In the words of our big toe, Sgt. Hulka, "Lighten up, Francis."

It sounds like you really have not read the books, only the critiques. Otherwise, you wouldn't focus on the extremely negative interpretations of Edward's character without considering any mitigating examples of positive traits.

Really, those "lessons" you describe can only be derived from the book/movie if you make a series of increasingly unlikely assumptions given the evidence actually written and portrayed in the material.

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