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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

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  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  cappytan,

  "But also, for all the individuals gunned down by police, beaten up by police, etc. one thing remains constant: 99% of them were in that position because of their actions outside the rules of society."

  And where do you get a 99% figure?

  I have seen videos of an elderly man being slammed down to the ground by a policeman apparently because he did not speak English. He was paralyzed.

  I have seen a video of a 12 year old approached at high speed by a police car and shot for having a toy gun.

  I have seen a video of a man in Walmart holding a toy rifle that was on sale with one hand, muzzle pointing up, while holding a cellphone with another hand talking to someone. Also shot.

  I have seen a video of a woman, handcuffed behind her back getting repeatedly punched in the shoulder by a cop.

  I have seen, with my own eyes, an elderly homeless person, half asleep, getting kicked by a cop.

  I am intelligent enough to realize that what shows up on video - and there's dozens more - is but a small fraction of similar incidents that no one gets to record. And since the incident that I was eyewitness to happened 30 years ago I can tell that this is a systemic problem that has always existed.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=3YL1ATsi3M8
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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. social
  2. current

  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oW-XE10epVo
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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. social
  2. current

  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  whathehadas, in Ferguson half the people had outstanding arrest warrants for failure to pay traffic tickets. The police would aggressively ticket anyone for the most trivial reasons and they would have difficulty paying most of their fines. It is how the police finances itself and it is a racket.
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  Why are people burning their city to the ground in Baltimore? How doe Looting and Mob Violence Help?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. social
  2. current

  it's hard enough for businesses to enter these areas the government once had to offer up tax breaks to service them.

  in watts, california it took decades for city residents to get a grocery store after the thugs burned their businesses to the ground.

  you can see the insanity taking place, when you allow mobs and fools to burn building down nothing good comes from it.

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  Evidence based folks: what is your stance on GMO's and why?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, the anti-gmo movement scored another victory today.

  chipotle has opted to only use non-gmo food items.. hooray for them.

  i'm pretty neutral on the subject, mostly because, other than questionable treatment of farmers, i have seen no evidence to avoid gmo's for health reasons.. basically, my neutrality boils down to the stance that i'll buy non-gmo, so long as the price is reasonable.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite,

  "Frankly, it still wouldn't be enough organic fertilizer."

  How about rotating crops with nitrogen fixing plants?

  "I think we rely on too few crops as primary staples. Particularly when native African crops, for example, are ignored in favor of European/American/Asian crops."

  Like sorghum and millet? They are drought resistant and we will be having quite a few droughts in the years to come.
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  Evidence based folks: what is your stance on GMO's and why?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, the anti-gmo movement scored another victory today.

  chipotle has opted to only use non-gmo food items.. hooray for them.

  i'm pretty neutral on the subject, mostly because, other than questionable treatment of farmers, i have seen no evidence to avoid gmo's for health reasons.. basically, my neutrality boils down to the stance that i'll buy non-gmo, so long as the price is reasonable.

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  Billy the Ex-Bethelite,

  I don't have any farming background but (?)...

  "People want cheap food, and organic isn't cheap."

  That's mostly because organic foods are not mass produced at the same level as non-organic and therefore you don't have the savings that all mass produced products have.

  "When this subject has come up in my conversations with people that don't have any kind of farming background and they start ragging on farmers for using chemicals, etc...."

  There are natural alternatives to chemical pesticides such as lady bugs and certain bacteria. I had lady bugs in my garden and they seemed to have done well.
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  Evidence based folks: what is your stance on GMO's and why?

  by cappytan in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so, the anti-gmo movement scored another victory today.

  chipotle has opted to only use non-gmo food items.. hooray for them.

  i'm pretty neutral on the subject, mostly because, other than questionable treatment of farmers, i have seen no evidence to avoid gmo's for health reasons.. basically, my neutrality boils down to the stance that i'll buy non-gmo, so long as the price is reasonable.

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  OneEyedJoe,
  

  "It depends on how they're modified."

  Indeed it does depend on how they're modified. Many GMO products are designed to be sterile in order to keep the farmer buying their seeds. That I don't support since it could have major repercussions if there is a loss of crops where these sterile seeds are being grown.

  The peanut gene argument is more of a hypothetical case about the possibility that these genetic alterations will be made by corporations that simply won't care about any negative consequences of their products.

  The bottom line is that GMOs are produced by corporations that do not have the best interests of the consumer in mind. That is bound to create problems.
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  Why the Future of Religion Is Bleak

  by defender of truth in

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  religious institutions have survived by controlling what their adherents know, argues tufts prof. daniel c. dennett, but today that is next to impossible.

  illustration: brian stauffer for the wall street journal.

  by daniel c. dennett.

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  defender of truth,

  "If we are unlucky and calamity strikes, our anxiety and misery will provide plenty of fuel for revivals and inventions of religions we have happily learned to live without."

  Expect calamity and misery to strike in the coming decades.
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  Many christian faiths have an EARTHLY resurrection belief.....

  by EndofMysteries in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i was surprised to learn many other mainstream christian religions believe in a physical earthly resurrection.

  even catholics.

  it seems the belief is that as of now one goes to heaven to wait, then in the future will have an earthly resurrection.

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  My understanding was that most of 'Christendom' taught the bodily resurrection would be in heaven with, depending on the denomination, an earthly habitation during the Millennium consisting of Israelites. Depending on the theology the resurrected were understood to be dwelling in heaven with their "glorified bodies".

  In judgment day the wicked were to be damned to hell in their resurrected bodies.

  There seems to be a variety of contradictory teachings on this matter.
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  Do you think you should have the right to decline business on Personal or Religious grounds?

  by PokerPlayerPhil in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  should individual businesses have the right to pick and chose who they serve?

  if a muslim decides he won't bake the cake of a radical zionist that says "reclaim the temple in jerusalem" should the government be allowed to punish the muslim baker?

  maybe you can help me understand the issues more clearly because were becoming hyper-sensitive and soon your going to need a handbook what's the proper thing to say.

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  Village Idiot

  PokerPlayerPhil, your url is probably breaking the page on your post and cutting off the last few words of each line (On IE). You may want to link it to your main text.