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  Breaking news: RONALD REAGAN HAS DIED TODAY

  by sf in

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  cspan and cnn just reported.. skally

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  Amazing1914

  When Ronald Reagan took office, Iran held American hostages. Inflation was abround 12% to 15%. Mortgage interest was at 17% (I was luckly, because my mortgage was only 16%) and few people could buy a house ... unemployment was at 10% and rising ... and the economy was in a mess. The upper marginal income tax rate was 70%. The Soviet Union was making hell around the world, either directly, or through its subordinate puppet states.

  Reagan launched the greatest and longest post-war (WWII for the young people) economic boom, a boom that George Sr. and Clinton inherited. He forced the conditions which led to the fall of the Soviet Union and Communism around the world ... all without a shot being fired. Tax rates were brought down to 28%. Unemployment reduced to 4% or less. And now today we enjoy 6% mortgage rates.

  He had trouble with the Iran-Contra scandal, but I agreed with his actions ... the scandale went away. While the lower tax rates boomed the economy, which brought in more tax revenue by virtue of the growth, the spend-happy members of congress managed to keep over-spending ... my only complaint about Reagan is that he signed the spending bills. I wish he would have shut down the government until Congress got serious about spending cuts.

  Ronald Reagan achieved far more in eight years than Franklin Roosevelt did in 14 years as President ... and the claims that he killed more people than Pol Pot is typical of the radical idiots who refuse to take an honest look at history. Ronald Reagan had nothing to do with mass killings of any kind. - Jim W.
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  Breaking news: RONALD REAGAN HAS DIED TODAY

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  I will miss Ronald Reagan very much. I was at the Whitehouse in 1981 while Ronald Reagan was there ... but I didn't get to meet him personally. In my opinion, he was the greatest President of the 20th Century ... and I am pleased to have lived during his lifetime. - Jim W.
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  Were You Ever Hauled Into The Library By The Elders...

  by exjdub in

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  for something really stupid, or for something you didn't do?.

  since joining the jwd board i have had a lot of deep, deep, memories pop back into my head.

  sometimes they are memories that are not very enjoyable...and sometimes those memories make me laugh out loud.

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  Amazing1914

  I was hauled in for scolding a sister over artwork she did on the kingdom hall decorations. She and I and one other sister were tasked with designing the year text. We decided upon using the look of an ancient scroll. We decided to balance it out with a scroll showing the tetragrammaton ... the two scrolls were displayed on each side of the front wall next to the platform.

  Unfortunately, one of the hebrew characters in the tetragrammaton was slightly too short. A brother well versed in trivia noticed the problem and pointed it out to me. I was amused and went to tell the sister who painted the scroll. She and I laughed and she promised to come in the next day and make the correction. No yelling or scolding ... just laughing.

  The elder making the allegation lied. But, I was not allowed to know at the time who made the allegation. I politely denied it and went and got the sister, who backed me up and said that we laughed and that there was no scolding. I again asked the name of the person making the allegation so I could confront him/her. Again I was told that was not important. On the ground that I was "insisting" on knowing the name of the accuser, I was denied a recommendation to eldership.

  Years later, after I became an elder, I learned the name of the accuser ... and also learned that it was a set-up to see how I would handle a situation, and whether I was qualified to be an elder. I was shocked at the childish actions of the elders who pulled the stunt ... but they were all gone to other congregations, except the one who lied ... he was no longer an elder and eventually ended up facing me on a JC. He was accused by his wife of smoking. Oddly enough, he was also one of the men who I reported his child molesting acts.
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  Higher Education

  by eiu2003 in

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  well, let's try posting a topic.

  one of the things i felt i missed out on while i was a witness, other than wild sex when young is higher education.

  i quit hs to pioneer and now have just recently finished a college degree and am still working on my masters, but i find myself resenting that i have had to do this all at night and while in my forties.

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  Eiu,

  Thanks for your response.

  I was not informed that an APA or MLA grammar stlye in posting a topic or response was a requirement.

  I don't know who told you that, certainly I made no such suggestion. (currently, my professors require the APA format). Rather, I was having fun ... but evdiently emoticons, and even stating I was having fun were not read by most people ... so the humor was lost. I will be sure to go back to "serious" mode to make everyone feel warm and fuzzy. - Jim W.
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  Higher Education

  by eiu2003 in

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  well, let's try posting a topic.

  one of the things i felt i missed out on while i was a witness, other than wild sex when young is higher education.

  i quit hs to pioneer and now have just recently finished a college degree and am still working on my masters, but i find myself resenting that i have had to do this all at night and while in my forties.

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  Sorry Eiu,

  Didn't mean to hurt any feelings ... I just gound it hard to believe that someone who just completed a degree would turn around and write so "informally" ... something did not seem right to me ... I was not trying to be mean, but I was testing the situation. Anyway, you have not responded ... but many have come to your defence, so I guess that is good enough. Also, I wondered if you were engaged in some sort of parody humor by writing so sloppy ... to amke your point ... so, I thought my comments would be taken in the same type of humor.

  Again, my apology.
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  Higher Education

  by eiu2003 in

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  well, let's try posting a topic.

  one of the things i felt i missed out on while i was a witness, other than wild sex when young is higher education.

  i quit hs to pioneer and now have just recently finished a college degree and am still working on my masters, but i find myself resenting that i have had to do this all at night and while in my forties.

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  eiu,

  Well, let's try posting a topic. One of the things i felt i missed out on while i was a witness, other than wild sex when young [you also missed a comma] is Higher Education. I quit HS [high school] to Pioneer[.] and now [ I ] have just recently finished [earned] a college degree and [ I ] am still working on my Masters, [start new sentance] But i find myself resenting that i have had to do this all [all of this] at night and while in my forties. I felt as a JW i was discouraged from Higher Education. Does anyone esle [else] feel this resentment?

  Now, look very close at the paragraph you wrote. I quoted it for you. Tell me, do you really have a degree? What kind of crap education are you getting? If you do have a degree, it certainly did not involve the use of good English. Or are you just screwing around. To make it easier for you, I have yellow highlighted some of the points at issue. There are other grammatical and sentence structure errors, but I don't want to completely discourage you. No, I am not being an anal-retentive ass. I am mostly having fun with you. We all make errors in our writing. Certainly, this forum lends itself to informality. I find it difficult, however, to understand how anyone with a degree would choose to make such a post as you did. You are making an introduction of yourself to the forum, so first impressions do count ... especially if you are going to claim you have recently earned a degree. Jim W.
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  Anyone Involved In The Resturant Business????

  by ApagaLaLuz in

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  my friend and i have been contemplating opening up a sushi/ karokee bar.

  we have been doing our research and have alot of great ideas.

  however, neither one of us has any experience in the resturant business.

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  Amazing1914

  Chevy,

  Currently, I have two restaurants listed for sale ... I sell businesses as part of my real estate practice. I find restaurants to be very difficult businesses to operate or sell. The restaurant business is among the most risky to start and have about the highest failure rate.

  Location, popular demand (fad) ... quality of service, cleanliness, and taste of food are all-important ... cost competitiveness is important, but relative to the first three factors ... Sushi bars, if done right (avoid the fast food image like the plague) can be very profitable and sustainable ... but they can flop. Advertize ... and be sure to have a person of Japanese or Korean heritage to help in the event you are not one of these two groups ...

  You might consider buying an operating Sushi restaurant, as you will have some advantages. The biggest is that if you fail, you will more likely break even compared to a brand new untested restaurant where it never gets off the ground.

  I have some other pointers about containing costs with respect to your operating expenses, such as the type of lease, lease terms, etc. ... but we can talk in PMs. - Jim W.
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  collectors of vintage JW literature...

  by PopeFauve in

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  i was wondering if anyone who collects this stuff could help me out.

  im looking for pictures of the harlot riding the seven headed beast, preferably one published before 1923 for copyright reasons, but anything around that time will do.

  doesnt even have to be jw, im more interested in getting the right time period (1850 to depression-era).

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  Amazing1914

  Hi PopeFauve,

  I don't recall the Society using a pictoral of the Harlot riding the Beast prior to the 1950s ... at least none that I have seen as I reviewed much literature prior to that time. However, if I find it again, I saw a really fascinating pictoral of the Catholic Pope sucking at the tits of Satan the Devil. It would be from the vintage you are looking. - Jim W.
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  Buy Canadian Meds for US?

  by patio34 in

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  a friend asked me to research purchasing meds via email or mail from a canadian pharmacy.

  a lot of americans are doing this.

  this friend's sister is on femara, a breast cancer drug and her insurance will not pay for any brand names and there's no generic form.

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  Hi Patio,

  The FDA supposedly has a statement saying that you can't be sure what you're getting buying from the net from Canadian pharmacies. This seems biased to my friend, since they want you to buy from USA drugs.

  The FDA has this policy against all drugs and treatments that have not been approved through its processes, whether they originate within the USA or any other country in the world. Unfortunately, no matter what the FDA does, people cynically claim its in the back-pocket of the drug industry. My only concern is that the Canadian citizens pay very high taxes that are used to supplement their healthcare system, including drugs. When Americans buy Canadian drugs they put a strain on the Canadian system that reduces availability of those drugs to Canadians. Jim
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  Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 wins top award at the Cannes film fest

  by Realist in

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  cannes, france (reuters) - u.s. director michael moore's ``fahrenheit 9/11'' won the top award at the cannes film festival saturday.. thanking the jury headed by cult director quentin tarantino, moore said: ``you will ensure that the american people will see this movie.

  '' moore's win capped a politically charged festival, with documentaries and films reflecting troubled times and french show-business workers staging demonstrations and sit-ins to protest against cuts in their welfare benefits..

  nice!

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  Amazing1914

  Mikey Moore would be a great addition to the Watchtower magazine writing department. He is skilled at spin, pick-n-choose facts, and outright fabrication ... so he could maintain Society low standards for intellectual honesty ... yet, he would bring in that Disneyland fantasy-entertainment touch that could lift sales for the JWs ... yes, a marriage made in in the world of make believe.