2/2

The speaker’s point wasn’t only about the difference between apology and amends (though it was the main point), but about why these steps were 8 & 9 rather than 2 & 3. There’s a lot of work to be done before you get to there.

I recall a very powerful talk about Steps 8 & 9 in Twelve Step recovery.

They do *not* say:

8. Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to *apologize* to them all.

or

9. Made *apologies* to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or other.

1/2

Will this need to be done state by state by state? Or will their removal in one state trigger reviews in (at least some) others?

Well, yes. Of course, we “receive” them, not re-ordain them.

I’d be curious to see data on migration of clergy across all denominations in all directions.

To be fair, it seems this report was specifically about convert clergy in the Roman Catholic Church (Latin Rite), but the reporting leaves the impression that migration was all in one direction. It wasn’t.

5/5

So the success rate for sitting VPs running for President under the party system is 2/9 (22.2%).

Former VPs arguably fare better with 2/6 (33.3%).

Nixon & Biden won.

Mondale won the nomination, lost the election.

Quayle & Pence lost the nomination.

Wallace ran for a third party and lost.

4/?

Both Van Buren and Bush (as well as John Adams) subsequently failed to get re-elected.

By contrast, seven sitting VPs have run for President and lost (Breckinridge, Nixon, Humphrey, Gore, and Harris won the nomination but lost the election. Garner and. Barkley failed to win the nomination.)

3/?

They had been elected VP, not as the running mate of their President, it as the runner up in the election.

So really, that leaves Martin Van Buren and George HW Bush as the only two sitting Vice Presidents to be elected President under the present party system.

2/?

(Some of the other nine were subsequently re-elected President, but as incumbents.)

Of the six, Nixon and Biden were elected President after their term as VP was over. (Nixon had run in 1960 while VP and lost.)

Adam’s and Jefferson were elected when the system operated differently.

It’s a pity the CFL Commissioner is determined to start stripping away everything that makes the Canadian game unique.

It’s a pity the CFL Commissioner wants to start doing away with everything that makes the Canadian game unique.

NFL fans may also be shocked that the game didn’t stop with two minutes to go.