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Not of this current MKX center console stack trim removal. I spent a half an hour searching on YouTube and closest I found was 4dtech's video on the 2015 MKZ center console stack trim & touchscreen removal.

Aftermarket only. Y'all get a WalMart gift card for one!!

-- Colors are in these preview brochures. Hope this helps. 2018_LincolnMKX.pdf 2018_Edge.pdf

Finally, the 2017 MKX ORDER GUIDE. Enjoy. 2017 MKX Order Guide.pdf

2017 Edge Order Guide is there. No 2017 MKX yet.

Here's a 2017 MKX preview guide. A few new colors. 2017 Lincoln MKX.pdf

I thought some of you would appreciate this. http://ncronline.org/blogs/where-i-stand/when-did-we-confuse-freedom-speech-freedom-be-rude

Disagree with both of you completely.

That's a load of garbage. Looking at the new Continental from all angles, it looks nothing like a slightly enlarged MKZ. It looks like what it is - far larger in size, far more elegant in it's styling.

Mapquest uses a "Send to Sync" feature.

Maybe she's an attention whore? I'm with you - I just don't get it.

I like it. But I'll vote anyway....

CNN Exclusive: Pope met privately with gay couple - CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/us/pope-gay-washington/index.html Guess he ended up meeting with both sides of the issue.

Maybe because of what's supposed to be our country's separation of church and state? Maybe that keep the Vatican keeping this low key? I'm just speculating. My problem with it all, is that if the Vatican kept it low key, why did the lawyer say anything? Oh, and there's nothing to presume about the Pope's position - the Church is vehemently pro traditional marriage, and the Pope called out the mayor of Rome, who came out in favor of gay marriage rights, and called him "a pretend Catholic". Which I guess would make me one, too, on this issue, but then, I'm not a government employee or official, so who cares what I think.

I'm not sure about the "hate" part, but I, for one, am disappointed and at the same time, not surprised. Traditional marriage is one area I don't see the Church changing it's view of, ever. What I am pleased about, is that it was all kept out of sight, and if it wasn't for Kim Davis's lawyer saying anything about this, no one would have even known about the meeting.

Same here. To me, Pope Francis walks the walk. I don't think we've ever had a religious leader like him before in our lifetimes.

"Thrown under the bus" was a direct quote from many conservative Catholics, responding to Pope Francis's statements, like calling proselytizing “solemn nonsense", and that “everyone has his own idea of good and evil” and that everyone should “follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them”. A lot of them don't like how he's tried to broaden the Church's appeal to a wider audience. They want a continuation of Pope John Paul II and more over, Pope Benedict's perceived harder view of morality - very conservative, everyone tows the line on right verses wrong. That isn't this Pope. Like some others are very upset because he said Catholics "don't have to breed like rabbits"> They're starting to call him a historically bad Pope. I can think of three neighbors, age ranges from very early 40's to early 60's, who are livid with him, and yes, feel like Pope Francis "threw them under the bus". I hate to admit it, but I have to laugh. After years of having to tolerate their sanctimony (and while my dog was alive, and I would walk him, it became so intolerable, that I started changing my route to avoid them, even though my dog like to play with their dogs), it's interesting to see them at odds with Rome.

Abortion and gays - not exclusive to Catholics, although you see some softening of the attitude toward gays, by some denomination. My view, on the second part of your post, is that The Church has had some views in the past that did not hold up to the test of time, and has changed things that weren't the case in the early days of the Church. Clerical celibacy is one thing that wasn't true in the Catholic Church's early history, with little to no evidence of it before the fourth century, Prior to Galileo, the Church saw the Earth as the absolute center of the universe. In fact, Galileo came into serious conflict with the Church, having some of his writings subject to the Roman Inquisition (one if three actual Inquisitions held by the Catholic Church). The problem seems that everything religious is subject to some human being's interpretation. Held against the test of time, very little "right or wrong" has been consistent over the centuries. Murder certainly has always been wrong, theft (up to a point...there's always the morality of the starving man stealing something to eat). Adultery - I suppose, But a lot of other things, not so much. Slavery? Nope, wasn't always wrong. Beating your wife if she gets out of line? I don't f***ing think so! Sell your daughter into slavery? I don't think so. Droit du seigneur, also known as jus primae noctis, the practice of a nobleman sleeping with anyone's bride on her wedding night, was sanctioned by the Church during Medievil times. Not sure, but I don't think that held up over the centuries...lol. And the list can go on...forever.

nothing works as a political system for everybody. My experience is different than yours, about half the Catholics I know are diehard Republican, the others are die-hard Democrats, and most of the Catholic Republicans I know are pretty conservative on social issues.That's that's why a lot of them feel like the Pope threw them under the bus, especially on abortion and gay rights.

no, I absolutely would not twist his words. That being said, and being the product of a Jesuit education myself, I can tell you that while many activists in the church don't consider it a handout per se, almost all of the ones that I personally know are looking for a bigger social safety net.

The only problem with that, is trying to get a consensus on what is right for everyone.

I agree with him on some things, I don't on others. I do like him far more than Pope Benedict or Pope John Paul II. What amuses me is that finally, there's a Pope who is pushing Church Doctrine - all of it - which, if you're either Catholic or you follow religious news, you'd realize that Right-to-Life, and traditional marriage isn't the be-all-and-end-all of the Church. In fact, with the exception of right-to-life (both abortion and physician assisted end of life) and the support of the tradition one man-one woman definition of marriage, a lot of the rest of Catholic Doctrine is actually moderately left-of-center, something the Catholic Republicans conveniently "forget". Caring for the poor (and support of government programs for such aid) - always supported by the Church. Help for all immigrants, legal or otherwise - always supported by the Church. Labor unions - always supported by the Church, going back to Pope Pius XIII - that's going back a LONG time, 1938 to 1958 Support for workers rights - always supported by the Church, going back to Pope Pius XIII - that's going back a LONG time, 1938 to 1958 Support for government economic programs for the poor and middle class - always supported by the Church., again going back to at least Pope John XXII, 1958 to 1963. Anti war, especially proxy wars - more often the view of the Church, especially against the Iraq War, all Cold War related proxy fights, etc Pro life - with the Church, "Pro Life" means more than just anti abortion. It also means anti death penalty under all circumstances. And "Pro Life" also means the quality of life, defined as low or no cost access to medical care, fair wages and fair treatment of the working class, more emphasis on doing for the community rather than pursuing material success, etc. So it's not a question of supporting the Pope because he supports a policy or policies I may favor. It's a case of calling out Catholics voting right-of-center on only a few issues, when they end up supporting more issues that are in direct contradiction of Catholic Doctrine. You can call out left-of-center Catholic voters for the same thing, pro choice and pro gay rights, but Pope Francis has called for an end to the emphasis on those issues alone, especially with conservatives contradicting Church teachings on everything else. At the risk of being redundant, the bottom line for Catholic Republicans is that the majority of Catholic Doctrine is actually moderately left-of-center, has been for almost a century, and is something this Pope is going to constantly remind the world of.

This one is interesting: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/popes-pronouncements-making-trouble-for-gop-catholics-118234

No doubt not. But at the end of the day, so much of what he says, on the environment, on economic policies, on social justice, on immigration, on the poor, on the rights of organized labor, etc, that on the balance, it's the political right that has more problems with him than the left. In fact, most of the political left loves this guy.

And things get more...interesting. http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/23/442594626/gop-presidential-hopefuls-walk-delicate-line-on-pope-francis?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=storiesfromnpr http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/politics/pope-francis-congress-republicans-politics/index.html?eref=rss_politics http://news.yahoo.com/pope-francis-another-outsider-challenges-212800769.html http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/gop-pope-stick-religious-issues-defined-the-gop https://consortiumnews.com/2015/09/23/gop-vexed-over-pope-on-climate-change/ http://www.salon.com/2015/09/22/the_gops_venomous_pope_tirades_are_the_ultimate_example_of_hypocritical_right_wing_rage/ For me, as the product of a Jesuit education (U of D Mercy, Class of 82), I saw this coming the minute the College of Cardinals did the unthinkable - elevated a Jesuit to the Papacy. The Jesuit Order (The Society of Jesus), within the Catholic Church, is the majority of the Church's doctors, lawyers, and scientists, and is also the order most like to upset the apple cart and rattle people's cages. Some of the other orders, have, over the centuries, even proposed disbanding the Jesuits (not that that was ever likely). Now, for me, this is a source of amusement, as I watch some of my more conservative, both religiously and politically, neighbors just lose it over Pope Francis. He's even got me to attend mass once in a distant while, for me only to see some of these more conservative types get into it with their parish priest, and in a couple of cases, pretty bitterly. I have to admit, it's very petty of me to find the humor in this, but after over fifteen years of having the label "cafeteria Catholic" thrown at me, by these people, seeing the shoe on the other foot is actually kind of fun.