Filed 5/26/09 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA KAREN L. STRAUSS et al., ) Petitioners, ) v. ) MARK B. HORTON, as State Registrar of Vital Statistics, etc., et al., ) S168047 Respondents; ) DENNIS HOLLINGSWORTH et al., ) Interveners. ) ) ROBIN TYLER et al., ) Petitioners, ) v. ) THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA et al., ) S168066 Respondents; ) DENNIS HOLLINGSWORTH et al., ) Interveners. ) ) CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO et al., ) Petitioners, ) v. ) MARK B. HORTON, as State Registrar of Vital Statist...

I've been following this site for a few years and recently "registered" to submit an occasional post. I will never achieve "Hero" status for number of postings - I just don't have the time that some of you have and I'm not a fast typist. But I enjoy reading most of your posts - pro and con on many TB racing subjects (thank you Janine). The one subject that seems to stir up the greatest number of highly emotional comments is the Arlington vs Hawthorne topic. It seems to get drawn into most of the...

On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:44:36 -0500, "MatthewB.Tepper" <oy@earthlink.net Whoza whatsa!? Nelson Muntz is the annoying bully character on "The Simpsons" who humiliates other characters by pointing at them and shouting, "HAW HAW!" in a descending major third. Peter Alward was the EMI executive who proclaimed back in early 2005 that their new recording of Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," conducted by Antonio Pappano and starring Nina Stemme and Plcido Domingo would be the "last ever" studi...

The following article first appeared in the Transactions of the Hunter Archaeological Society , Volume 2, p129 and is reproduced here in full by kind permission of the Society. Published between 1920-1924. ( http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/hunter/index.html the Index is reached by clicking on Publications on the left hand side) STANNINGTON HALL By S. O. Addy MA So far as is known at present, Stannington Hall is first mentioned in 1441. In that year it belonged to John Talbot, Lord Furnival, af...

Well, here it is, final (?) fanfic on sppf! Thoughts will of course, be followed because the fanfic is long enough as it is. shipping: advance, poke, pearl, elder, & contestshipping rating: G story format: short story song: Book of Love by Peter Gabriel Enjoy! Always May Maple had a great life. She knew that. She knew more than anything in the world that she had a great life. And she knew that it was just going to get better along the way. She knew that everything that had happened to her happen...

On Fri, 8 May 2009 15:26:18 -0700 (PDT), stonehengeio <stonehengers@googlemail.com I nicked this to post here, it is not a cross post. I won’t lie, this thread prompted me to rejoin this forum. I received a few texts from people who were quite insulted at some of the comments presented in this thread. I’m a notoriously long poster, so my apologies for the essay. Being an old hat of some pagan forums, none of it particularly surprised me. People just can’t help themselves when they get be...

From: Campaign for Liberty Nullification Revisited By Robert Hawes Published 04/23/09 Printer-friendly version "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." - James Madison, Federalist 45 Recent debates over sweeping new federal laws have re-ignited old quarrels concerning the proper constitutional role of the federal government and the rights and reserved powers o...