.... Once you make a charitable contribution, what do you expect from the Hmong nonprofit? Nonprofit orgs, whether Hmong or others, has their own boards directing their activities.  Unless your contribution is subtantial, it's unfair to demand they serve your biddings for pennies on the dollar.  Those who donate $20 and expect to go to Heaven are a bit immature. 3. How ...

... 2. Once you make a charitable contribution, what do you expect from the Hmong nonprofit? Nonprofit orgs, whether Hmong or others, has their own boards directing their activities. Unless your contribution is subtantial, it's unfair to demand they serve your biddings for pennies on the dollar. Those who donate $20 and expect to go to Heaven are a bit immature. 3. How high would you...

.../ Thanks for the clarification, Maren. That is what I guess Alvin meant to say...but didn't, ambiguous and prone to logically valid different interpretation as his words were. I'm waiting his subtantiation of errant bees entering a hive other than their own "...because they smell the honey and the queen's smell." Knowing Alvin, I think it will be a much, much longer rather than...

... I can speculate as to why Microsoft made recurrences computed items instead of real items, but I have no inside knowledge. I suspect that the space saving in the calendar is subtantial and that it would have been difficult to program the calendar to find all the recurrences if they were separate items. Moreover, changing a recurrence would have consumed significant computer ...

.... I can speculate as to why Microsoft made recurrences computed items instead of real items, but I have no inside knowledge. I suspect that the space saving in the calendar is subtantial and that it would have been difficult to program the calendar to find all the recurrences if they were separate items. Moreover, changing a recurrence would have consumed significant computer time ...

... sequential events as to when Angel Gabriel spoke to Mohammed; 3). No witness to testify that Angel Gabriel spoke to Mohammed since he was in a cave; hence Mohammed had not the 4 witnesses to subtantiate his sayings as true as required by sura 24:13; EYE-WITNESSING IS IMPERATIVE in the case of substantiating THE TRUTH of the sayings of the LAST MESSENGER, Mohammed: even in the case of rape, ...

... events as to when Angel Gabriel spoke to Mohammed; 3). No witness to testify that Angel Gabriel spoke to Mohammed since he was in a cave; hence Mohammed had not the 4 witnesses to subtantiate his sayings as true as required by sura 24:13; 4). No incident of conversation between God and the ancient prophets including Mohammed, the LAST MESSENGER; 5). No teaching of righteousness ...

... events as to when Angel Gabriel spoke to Mohammed; 3). No witness to testify that Angel Gabriel spoke to Mohammed since he was in a cave; hence Mohammed had not the 4 witnesses to subtantiate his sayings as true as required by sura 24:13; 4). No incident of conversation between God and the ancient prophets including Mohammed, the LAST MESSENGER; 5). No teaching of righteousness of God as ...

... to protect them from any more abusive pressure or misrepresentation from civilians in the Administration or Congress. And if Congress and our President can agree on any one thing, they should award a special and subtantial hardship bonus to every man and woman who has served in Iraq and in the cases of those who have left us, to their families who honor them, and make us proud to be their...

... the official version of events is substantially correct or whether it's full of holes, whether it was basically an honest job or was a cover-up. I've studied the matter enough to know some subtantial points on both sides, but I lack the knowledge and the expertise that would be required to draw any hard-and-fast conclusions. But now I do know something. I know that the 9/11 Commission has...