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Also Alberta, Quebec, Saskatchewan, NWT and Yukon.

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Her Twitter bio still includes: "Fueled by metal & ska."

Without veryfying, I'll bet she's referring to SoCal ska, a pox that is an insult to real ska.

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Schools in down undah land and pommy land (and prolly Canada too) are allowed to rent their school halls for a fee to anyone with a legit (and legal) reason for holding a function there. So your local religious group have as much right to hold an activity there as the local martial arts group (and i have seen the change over from one to another and it is quite funny, especially when the pastor bolts for the loos to get changed into his ghi while the rest are packing up their bibles) - its not about separating religion from education in those places, its about choosing not to have religion crammed down a kids throat in school

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ok, well, trying not to judge... *shudders*

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trippy

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I've always been baffled by every secret society's predilection for putting clues any bible-ignorant bible-believer could interpret correctly by sight, and without training.

ETA Do they want to be found?

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The church lost me quite young because my parents let me read books from the library - mostly science and science fiction. And of course, rock and roll on the radio when they weren't around.

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Seriously? If you have faith, you don't need brains. /s

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One of the nicest people I knew was a member of the United Churches of Satan.

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Just because you're concerned doesn't mean you should get your own way. Especially if it involves taking a good principal away from your children's school. That would be highly inappropriate.

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The witch craze in Europe got started because the Inquisition was running out of heretics to persecute. Some of the inquistors were even complaining that their financial futures were uncertain. Before that time, it was actually heretical to believe that witchcraft had any place in the real world.

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"SoCal ska" is either a very rare phrase, or search-engine unfriendly. Either way, I can't find it.

When you speak of "real ska" are you talking about Jamaican ska, 1970-ish ska revival, or third wave ska?

i.e. The Skatalites, Madness, or The Slackers?

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When I was in 8th grade a "civics" teacher recommended I read "None Dare Call It Treason." I did, at least some of it. Good thing my parents didn't know.

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So that's where Steve Martin got his Egyptian moves from.

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grew up Lutheran, doubted the whole thing early, tried to find it again in my twenties, and was finally able to shake religion or anything supernatural in my mid thirties. this stuff can be pernicious and worm its way through your life, and realizing this can be a whole experience of its own.

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