About that in my home: Seattle is weird, in any number of ways, both endearing and annoying. The weather is a hot topic because it can be...wildly unpredictable. Yes, it rains in Seattle. There are also windstorms, and rare nasty snowstorms. So what kind of vehicle, exactly, should one purchase?

Decade and a half later, I'm still trying to puzzle it out.

Some years we get essentially zero snow (trace, or less). Last season, 2013-4, was that way. Year before,...

What's your list # .. mine is 21XX and my physical is 2nd week in March

God Himself is With Us
(Revelation 7:9-17)

God Himself is with us, let us all adore Him;
And with awe appear before Him.
Come before the Saviour, trusting in His favor
Merits by the blood of Jesus!
Christ alone, God we own,
He, our Lord and Saviour, praise His name forever!

God Himself is with us, fear no more forever;
Jesus is our dear Redeemer!
Rest upon His promise, He will keep thee ever!
Know His power...

Andrew was not at all bothered by the priest, knowing that he could not hurt him. He was distressed to see a supposed minister of Christ so ignorant of the true meaning.
The following Sunday Father Dominick cut them off from the communion of the Catholic Church. When the priest excommunicated Andrew and his family, he said that to hurt a heretic was hardly a sin. When Andrew heard of this, he rejoiced that he was counted worthy to suffer for the sake of his heavenly Master. Andrew earnestly...

Analogously to parts of Texas, and Hawaii, people these days hear "Seattle" and "good economy" in the same breath and tend to flock here. I recently became aware this kind of migration was occurring in parts of Texas, too: had not dawned on me, prior.

If enough of that occurs, parasitic migration usually over the course of several decades, a Malthusian destructive equilibrium occurs to the destination city, too. It already happened in the cities these "economic...