Did you miss this part of the article on Solo?

"Hope Solo last had contact with the Kirkland Police back in 2012, when her husband, former UW football player, and Seahawk, Jerramy Stevens was arrested for assaulting her at another gathering at the home. The couple later got married."

Wasn't the 1st time, won't be the last. She and Stevens are a match made in hell.

Hope Solo is not the most gracious hostess in the world apparently.

When you scare your own brother and there's stun guns involved rather than real guns, the stranger is incredulous.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainmen…

It been a busy General Assembly for the Presbyterians.

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/arch…

Jerramy Stevens is a garbage human being who would gave been in jail since his late teens to present day if not for his football skills. Hope Solo married the douche after he assaulted her. Doesn't surprise me that she's apparently cut from the same cloth.

Ha, the Presbys may be trying to out-do the Unitarians after the former made a strong move toward final approval of same-sex marriage (joining the Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutherans, and the United Church of Christ) a couple of days ago.

Youth spending tax money...

Went through the links to try and find the mechanisms with which the decision are made. Found a custom built (by Boston) site called Citizinvestor:

http://boston.citizinvestor.com/

Which looks like a form of Kickstarter.

I'm all for this type of participation, and I would hope there could be social media broadcast follow up details like which projects got funding, and what items were purchased, and so on for transparency.

I remember that during the first Obama term there was quite a bit of action to build websites that offered citizens the chance to suggest policy and funding directions. Not sure where it all went.

That's a nice turnaround from Guzman's days of trading privacy for shoe store coupons.

@1 She was (allegedly) assaulted at that time. She's charged as the assailant this time.

So yeah, it can be a surprise.

@6 The Methodist church may well be next.

They will know we are Christians by our Love.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrOywJnLj…

@ 10, what current investments in Syria are worth more than the paper they use for printing the stock certificates?

@12, that wasn't @10's point, which you surely know.

@ 13, but it addressed it. If Syria is a terrible place to invest, most investors and institutions have divested already. There may be no Presbyterian investment there now - and if there is, it's probably losing money.

Sometimes the right thing happens for practical reasons.

@11, the Methodist church in my little backwater is actually more lefty, rubber-meets-the-road in real life than the Presbyterians. They've been welcoming and affirming of the very few same-sex couples here, though not allowed to perform marriages; they host the Alzheimer's day-care program, they have a seniors-and-homeless soup kitchen, and they took over the community Christmas dinner (open to all) when the county-funded senior center was forced to drop it by the drown-government-in-a-bathtub fucks on the County Commission. In fact, they do more by far than any other denomination in town, and without regard to anything but need.

This anti-Islam group of RWNJ's in New England also loves to bash any denomination that 1) cares about leftist social causes or 2) doesn't blindly support the state of Israel in every respect. I particularly relish their description of UU's:

The Unitarian Universalists are a far left bunch of hippies from the 60's who take every liberal stance they can get their hands on from illegal immigration, to sexual deviancy, to anti Israel rhetoric.

@14
"STFU"
That's a quote from you.

Link back to it or GTFO, &16.

I wonder how the 1,137 Israelis killed by Palestinians during the Second Intifada feel about the divestment.

@15 I meant no offense, there are deep links in my family with the Methodists communion just as there are with the Presbyterian communion. It is not a competition we're Working on a Building.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEWo6zyyS…

I'm proud of my birth church today, and know in my heart that the Methodists church in which my father was first ordained* is walking the same path with us.

*Dad later switched denominations, its complicated but not acrimonious.

@21, no offense taken whatsoever; that was an enthusiastic rejoinder. I have Methodists, Presbyterians, Catholics, and a few others in my roots. Even a Jehovah's Witness. No Episcopalians or Mormons, though. All Irish, Scots, German working-class ancestry.