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  If You Could Write Articles For The Watchtower What Would The Titles Be?

  by minimus in

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  if you had the power to print millions of watchtowers & awakes and you could see to it that the articles that you wrote got to all the readers, give a sampling of what the articles highlighting "spiritual food" would say.

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  Young People Ask: Are We Supposed to Ask Anything?

  Suicide Bombing--The New Theocratic Warfare?
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  Run, Sir Clark, Run...

  by teejay in

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  if he runs, he will be the most qualified of all those who now aspire to the office in 2004. if he runs, general wesley k. clark (ret.

  ) will be the second most qualified person to ever seek the presidency of the u.s. over the past 100 years, second only to the great william jefferson cliinton.

  what follows are excerpts from an article about him in a recent esquire magazine.. he is a remarkable man with an unassailable integrity -- the kind of man that has all the little bushites shaking in their boots.

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  Wes Clark, a serious demoratic candidate for President? Well, maybe he is serious about his run, but how serious of a Democrat can you be when you're quoted in Newsweek (not exactly a nest of conservative opinion) as saying, "I would have been a Republican if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls." Anyway, for developing evidence of his bipolar and tenuous credibility, check out the latest on Sir Wes at Drudge: http://www.drudgereport.com/clark.htm
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  Who is your favorite author?

  by Happythoughts in

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  ayn rand is mine.

  just wondering so i can find a new book or books to read *smiles*.

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  <<<<<---------------------------------------------------------- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet, who composed, of course, the landmark literary achievement, La Divina Commedia, known to the unlearned layman only by its first cantica, Inferno. The Commedia is, by no esteem less than that of The Encyclopedia Britannica, "one of the greatest products of any human mind." I don't mean to compare authors here, but all others must bend their knee to this inspired master.

  "Per te poeta fui, per te cristiano." Purg. XXII. 73
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  California Recall Debate-- Listen Live --Entertainment!!!

  by Vita Nuova in

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  anyone interested, who is not a california resident, yet wants to listen to the debate click here and listen live!.

  http://www.kqed.org/index.jsp?flash=true

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  Arianna obviously has no other purpose in this debate than to use it as her own personal op-ed forum, replete with anti-Bush invective. Despicable.

  Arnold: If you wanted to attack President Bush then you're in the wrong race. You're in the wrong state. You should be in New Hampshire right now!
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  California Recall Debate-- Listen Live --Entertainment!!!

  by Vita Nuova in

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  anyone interested, who is not a california resident, yet wants to listen to the debate click here and listen live!.

  http://www.kqed.org/index.jsp?flash=true

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  Best Remarks yet:

  Arrianna Huffington: blah, blah, blah.. Republicans...blah, blah, blah, tax loop-holes!!!

  Arnold: Are you talking about tax loopholes? You've got the biggest tax loophole of all that I could drive my Hummer through it!
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  California Recall Debate-- Listen Live --Entertainment!!!

  by Vita Nuova in

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  anyone interested, who is not a california resident, yet wants to listen to the debate click here and listen live!.

  http://www.kqed.org/index.jsp?flash=true

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  Anyone interested, who is not a California resident, yet wants to listen to the debate click here and listen live!
  

  http://www.kqed.org/index.jsp?flash=true
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  Britney Spears Likes George Bush!!

  by teenyuck in

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  she may have boobies; brains are another thing...... been meaning to post this for awhile....simon, i know will appreciate that his goddess has a different opinion....... http://atheism.about.com/b/a/023941.htmseptember 06, 2003. britney spears likes george bush.

  many actors and entertainers have been outspoken critics of president george bush, but especially of his policies in the middle east.

  quite a few have openly condemned his invasion of iraq and the subsequent occupation.

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  I'm not a fan of Britney Spears, her shamelessness, her music, or any of the products she endorses... except for her tacit endorsement of breast implants. But the difference between her and the Dixie Chix is that she didn't go out of her way to assert an opinion on President G.W. Bush, negative or positive. It seems here she was asked a question and she simply answered it. She has no reason to believe that she would be alienating her fan-base. Not so with the Chix, who displayed utter naivete on the repercussions of their initial words, their impudent defiance in the face of their fan-base in appearing as nude martyrs on a magazine cover, and now making a deliberate break with country music scene like a bunch of sore losers. They, like most celebrities who are not admired for their viewpoints on foreign policy, serve themselves best by just sticking to their day jobs.

  "Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent." --Proverbs 17.28
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  Remembering Names

  by iiz2cool in

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  i deal with over 400 people where i work, and i have trouble remembering names.

  everyone knows mine though.

  i can remember their ip addresses more easily than i can remember their names.

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  Yeah, this problem plagues me too. I think I may be losing my mind. Someone could tell me their name 3 times in a conversation, and even when I ask them for their name again, two seconds later in the conversation I've lost it again. By this time, I couldn't possibly ask them for their name again, so I just have to rely on the coincidence of them mentioning their name once more, looking for places where their name might be written, or creating ingenious ways of extracting their name from them without being obvious. The tricky part about those people I see regularly afterwards is acknowledging them in a manner that seems natural, and not as if I am actually trying to disguise the fact that I don't know their name, which I really don't know.
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  A question of culture

  by Adam in

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  last year my girl's daughter was in 3rd grade.

  we lived in cupertino, ca.

  this area has a lot of newly immigrated families from (mainly) the middle east, asia, and mexico.

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  "All of our Ancestors came from somewhere other than the US."

  That’s right our ancestors. How does the culture of our ancestors affect the culture of someone five generations removed from those cultures? That of which you are thinking is ethnicity. Ethnicity is not culture. Culture is an ever-developing growing experience of the individual, not his/her ancestors. American with a capital A qualifies unreservedly as a cultural experience, of which someone who was born and raised in its particular traditions, customs, and values is categorically American. American is not just a nationality, which is a title that refers solely to a legal identity, but most certainly a culture. If a person has brought with him a personal cultural experience as being inculcated within another country, then of course he is more than just American. But to consider one as having a culture of anything based on nothing more than bloodline is plainly absurd. A multi-ethnic society is one thing America champions, true. But the multi-culturalism that is being pushed by all you hesitant Americans will be the end of this uniquely beautiful nation.

  Oh, by the way… Kwanza is a fabricated “holiday” created in 1966 by a California State University professor. Hardly a viable cultural tradition in my opinion.

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  movies that make you ROFL

  by doodle-v in

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  what are the funniest movies that make you just die laughing?

  feel free to include some quotes!

  here are mine (list subject to change) .

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  Another Strangelove quote:

  "Now I've been to one world fair, a picnic and a rodeo and that's the stupidest thing I've heard come over a set of earphones!"

  Another Groundhog Day quote:

  "You speak French?"

  "Oui."

  And let me add The Royal Tenenbaums to the list! Too much!