The appeals decision must now be applied to the sexual relations of a defendant or the defense council with the judge or prosecutor of a criminal trial.

In Texas, it would not be applicable to homosexual relationships. There has to be some standard of decency left in the Lone Star statutes.

The communities being hit the hardest relied on obsolete production, obsolete goods, or obsolete services. or they depended on the delusion that inflation and unregulated financial services would self correct.

The United States has lagged in new technologies for decades. New jobs cannot be manufactured by government subsidy. It takes vision and leadership, something that big business has failed to accomplish with government subsidies for failed and outmoded enterprises.

The new jobs are in new energy, new pollution control. new water reserves, new soil preservation, new species protection, new food sources, and population control. This is no longer the age of tribal competition or religious domination. We are all in a fight for survival on the only planet suitable for life.

The jobs are here for those who have a concern for future generations. For those who believe in an afterlife and expect divine intervention, there is no future on Earth.

The proletariat were the lowest class , propertyless citizens under the ancient Roman constitution. It became a term of derision in Victorian times, used to indicate the use of propertyless people as property of the state, of service by having children and living by selling their labor.

Marx, who wrote in this period simply reversed the positions of ownership of capital and production without regard for human rights and individual liberties. The result had to be a dictatorship and had to create the slavery and state totalitarianism to survive. The bread up of the Soviet Union released a lawless race for private ownership of resources, again at the expense of the proletariat.

We are bow enduring the effects of this same philosophy that continues to treat those with property as a special class of citizen and refuses to understand that labor, health and education are resources, not commodities to be used by the owners of capital and the means of production, but to secure a better quality of life for a nation, not a party.

First you plant the potatoes . . .

The very idea of an elected woman running off to Argentina for a little Tristan is nauseating.

Dear Steve,

Your title, 'God, He's moody', answers 'the most basic religious question -- the existence of God.'

Which God do you want to discuss? There are as many answers as there are individuals with a universal need for self-identity. When each of us reaches a level of feel-good about who we are, never mind that the result is a learned cultural behavior pattern, our beliefs, the end result of a universal belief process allows for certainty within a world of virtual reality. The illusion of a father figure, eternal life, and a free pass to paradise would get any god elected to The Almighty. Even atheism, the certainty that God does not exist, is a belief that satisfies.

Many have made a nice living interpreting the meaning of rites, rituals and texts. These are the necessary rituals of repetition and loss of objectivity to retain specific belief patterns.

God is as moody as the constant clash of the virtual reality of belief with the reality of the natural universe. Surprise, rejection and violent defense of the security that cultural identification with a magical authority provides is a typical reaction and a sure indication if a ritualized belief.

Go to the source. Don't ask Moody or Harvard or Princeton to interpret the Old Testament.

Your confusion about the apparent contradiction in time when "Mark says that Jesus was crucified the day after the Passover meal was eaten (Mark 14:12, 15:25) and John says he died the day before it was eaten (John 19:14) -- maybe that is a genuine difference."

Mark 14:12 places the first day of unleavened bread beginning at sunset, Friday, and crucifixion 15:25. in the third hour of of the Sabbath, the 'next day' for the gentiles. John 19:14 "And it was the preparation for the Passover". Jesus could not be crucified by Jews. It was a Roman punishment for rebellion. The entire chapter is a false representation of Jewish authority in a Roman territory under martial law. Pilate inscribed a plate 'King of the Jews' , 19:19-21. There could be no burial preparation or service (19:39-42)

This is an obvious calumny insinuated into this tale to remove Jesus from the Jewish heritage of the earlier Christians.

Line by line the contradictions and false statements have been repeatedly identifies This country was founded by men of the Enlightenment. I suggest reading 'The Age of Reason' in English, by Thomas Paine instead of those who hold their truths to be self evident and their morality self satisfying.

Bible is the indifferent word of God, interpreted by politicians to sustain a patriarchal authority.

The individual, not some scribe, is responsible for determining social responsibility.

All belief is derived from the conviction and the emotional gratification that communal security is the highest authority.

When you take a piece of the pot out of every game, it is not necessary to be concerned with who wins or who loses.

The fool who doesn't know that the odds do not effect the house cut is always surprised when he loses and always believes that the house was luckier than the gambler.

The bubble is in the head of the gambler, not the house.

Ruth Bader Ginsberg never begs to differ.

The conservative mantra: "No Taxes, No accountability" is the perfect fit for those who need to defend global greed.

Is it mere coincidence that Clinton and Bush ended their terms with a picture of someone on their knees culling favor?