harmony wrote:You are my friend, Shades. Have been for years. You would protect me if you could, as I would you.
Thank you. :-)
Scratch isn't Daniel's friend.
Maybe not, but that doesn't mean that Scratch is/would be duty-bound to report DCP to the IRS if he (DCP) is (hypothetically) guilty of tax fraud.
Ah, I see the issue. Perhaps a little hyperbole on my part. Duty-bound was probably a little strong.
(Nevo, Jan 23) And the Melchizedek Priesthood may not have been restored until the summer of 1830, several months after the organization of the Church.
For what it is worth, I can back up the academic money-go-round. For some institutions the aim seems to be to have their minions bring in as much outside funding as possible, the outside agency gets the services of an affiliated academic and the academic agency get, in some cases, heavily subsidised academics.
In my case, I am teaching during 'work hours', I 'earn' a .2 salary for that, but I will never see it. I do get to 'control' it though - by employing a part-time research assistant and buying some off-the-shelf software to make up for the lost time. In other cases the department concerned will use the funds which will be tagged for the specific work the academic is not performing. Anything left at the end of the year will get sucked back into the university.
To actually get anything over a normal salary requires so many hoops to be jumped through showing that your second job is not taking time owned by the university. Contractually, I can not work for anyone else for more than x hours per week, so everything has to go through the juggernaut that is finance department.
With respect, I don't think the situation Mr S describes is out of the ordinary at all.
Daniel Peterson wrote:He's been at it for years now.
Years? I do hope you are indulging in hyperbole here. Seriously.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Mister Scratch wrote:Well, hey---I'm tired of the endless trash pumped out by Mopologetics.
This really sums up the raison d'être for the pseudononymous character "Mister Scratch" and his incessant character attacks on Dan Peterson.
It's ironic that one of "Mister Scratch's" regular complaints about FARMS is that they supposedly engage in ad hominem (just do a search of this board with his name & "ad hominem" to see how many times he makes this accusation), yet "Mister Scratch" spends hour after hour attacking Dan's character because he's "tired" of LDS apologetic articles. Obviously he thinks that if he can show that Dan (and those who contribute to FARMS and FAIR) are the dishonest hacks that he likes to make them out to be, then the arguments they offer are untenable.
"Mister Scratch," I suggest you stop embarrasing yourself, stop the character assisinations, and -- if you really believe that LDS-apologetic arguments are flawed-- engage the issues and the arguments on their own terms.
Always as Scratch? Or in other incarnations too? ;-)
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
JustMe wrote:I second Harmony. Scratch for Pete sake knock it off already. You are really, REALLY becoming a bore. And yes, I already have stopped reading your tripe. You have no fear along that avenue. Now then, I was just starting to have good conversations with beastie and Jersey Girl, where was I? LOL!
Hey Shirtless one, then why not take your idol DCP and head back to your favorite litterbox(located inside the MA&D house) where all of the cats there think its neat that you are the head of his fan club?
... our church isn't true, but we have to keep up appearances so we don't get shunned by our friends and family, fired from our jobs, kicked out of our homes, ... Please don't tell on me. ~maklelan
collegeterrace wrote:Hey Shirtless one, then why not take your idol DCP and head back to your favorite litterbox(located inside the MA&D house) where all of the cats there think its neat that you are the head of his fan club?
I hope JustMe sticks around and continues to post. It would get mighty boring around here if all we heard were critics.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Collegeterrace wrote:Hey Shirtless one, then why not take your idol DCP and head back to your favorite litterbox(located inside the MA&D house) where all of the cats there think its neat that you are the head of his fan club?
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