Hey meat pie, ever been in the Kingdom Hall down the street from the Turkish restaurant?
Posts by Daga
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9Anyone in Fife, Scotland?
by neverthere in.
sorry to ask in such a public way but i am looking for an answer for a question that only someone from fife can answer.. diana
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History was made today: first private sub-orbital flight
by observador inthe privately funded spaceshipone made its first flight to out of the earth's atmosphere today.
this craft is one of the contenders for the x prize, which will give $10 mil to anyone who can build a craft to carry 3 people out of earth's atmosphere, bring them safely back to ground and repeat it all with the same craft within 2 weeks.. http://www.cnn.com/2004/tech/space/06/21/suborbital.test/index.html.
does anyone know the other contenders?.
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Daga
Amazing event. I hope it's just the beginning of private enterprise performing manned missions.
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Experience about not bringing our own food to the convention
by NikL inisn't this special?
this is an e mail making the rounds......
remember the letter that was read to all congregations regarding going out to get food during the break.
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Daga
Selected families are allocated the 'privilege' of providing box lunches for visiting Bethel people, etc. It's considered to be quite a plum to be included in this group.
With regard to people being disfellowshipped or reproved for using non-approved hotels, I suspect that's just as much BS as the story that started this thread.
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US Hostage, Paul Johnson, Beheaded
by DevonMcBride inhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/world/meast/06/18/saudi.kidnap/index.html report: u.s. hostage beheaded al arabiya says new video shows killing
friday, june 18, 2004 posted: 1:38 pm edt (1738 gmt) .
(cnn) -- an arabic tv news network said friday that american hostage paul johnson jr. has been beheaded by his saudi captors.
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Daga
These people are so foreign in nature to Westerners that it's hard to think that they are the same species. They glory in this slaughter, and they will continue to do it as long as they have the chance. Now they've got some poor South Korean and they're going to do the same thing to him. This tactic is clearly not working but they carry on because they like doing it. They like the horror and disgust, it's an affirmation to them of their superiority. There is only one way to stop this and that's to kill the leadership. You'll notice there's been a dramatic reduction in the number of Israeli victims of terror since the Israelis started taking out the terrorist leadership.
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Going out with a bang
by LittleToe inafter much deliberation, i decided to go "out" at the end of a public talk.
it didn't go down too well, but at least i was able to give some of my reasons for leaving.. i've put some of the details on my homepage.
i'll update it more when i get the time and the strength.
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Daga
Western Isles? I spent some time on Skye, loved it, but didn't get any further.
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Daga
Brilliant quote from Sharansky:
Natan Sharansky (né Anatoly Shcharansky), the Soviet dissident turned Israeli official, tells a story of Reagan in today's Jerusalem Post:
In 1983, I was confined to an eight-by-ten-foot prison cell on the border of Siberia. My Soviet jailers gave me the privilege of reading the latest copy of Pravda. Splashed across the front page was a condemnation of President Ronald Reagan for having the temerity to call the Soviet Union an "evil empire." Tapping on walls and talking through toilets, word of Reagan's "provocation" quickly spread throughout the prison. We dissidents were ecstatic. Finally, the leader of the free world had spoken the truth--a truth that burned inside the heart of each and every one of us.
Let's remember that Reagan took a lot of flak for that statement--from many of the same people who now criticize President Bush for, among other things, identifying the axis of evil. In 1983 they agreed with Pravda rather than Sharansky. Apparently they are condemned to repeat history.
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Daga
Reagan was a great President, one of the two best in the 20th Century. He was relentless in his intent to end the peril of Communism and he was successful. All this stuff about the Soviet Union falling of its own weight is a lot of revisionis history, simply because the left doesn't want to give the credit where it is due.
And there is some truly disgusting stuff coming out of some liberals about Reagan but not too much. The vast majority of people liked him even if they didn't agree with him.
Check out the following for some of the bad stuff http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_8675.shtml
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MILITARY DRAFT COMING BACK IN 2005 - STOP BUSH NOW
by cbew infor those of you that have not heard yet there are two bills pending in congress to bring back the military draft for all 18 - 26 year olds.
for the website see www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/alert/?alertid=583400/&content_dir=ua_congressorg .twin bills s 89 and hr 163 are now being quitely pushed through so that it could become law as early as spring 2005. the bush administrations illegal and unconstitutional war in iraq has cost hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of american lives and they mean to keep our troops their indefinitely in the foreseeable future.
stop this madness now before it is too late.
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Daga
Rangle is just trying to scare people. It's the same old Democrate tactic, you know the nasty Republicans are going to take your Social Security away, etc. This bill has zero chance of passing, it's just politics.
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The Answer to high Gas Prices.....
by ThiChi inany thoughts on mr. taylor?s claims?.
u.s. demands greater oil output, lower prices.
"finance ministers from the united states and other major industrialized countries, hoping to affect the outcome of a battle within the organization for the petroleum exporting countries, formally demanded yesterday that oil-exporting nations raise production and lower prices to a level 'that is consistent with lasting economic prosperity,'" the new york times reports.
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Daga
"A USA Today analysis of previously unpublished fatality statistics discovers that 46,000 people have died because of a 1970s-era push for greater fuel efficiency that has led to smaller cars."
About all that liberal ranting about those dangerous SUVs, USA Today notes:
Myth: Small cars have a high death rate because they get hit by those big sport-utility vehicles all over the roads.
Fact: In 1997, according to the latest-available government data, 56% of small-car fatalities involved only small cars: 46% from single-car crashes, 10% from small cars running into each other. Just 1% of small-car deaths in 1997 involved collisions with midsize and large SUVs -- 136 out of 12,144 total small-car deaths that year." [Statistically, given the number of SUVs on the road, one might have expected them to be involved in more accidents
Why I Drive An SUV
1. It IS nice to have enough room to carry the luggage, presents, kids and snow gear on a long trip.
2. It IS nice to expect that you can handle the snow levels on the mountain passes (of which there are three or four, depending on the route you choose to attempt).
3. It IS nice to have the room for people to travel comfortably over very long periods, especially for the kids.
4. It IS nice to be able to offer to buy my parents' church's piano to help them out, and pull a trailer back through the snow and on the open highway at speeds greater than 45mph.
5. It IS nice to be able to take my parents four-wheeling in the desert through some open country they always have wanted to see, even if the side panels did get scratched by the ocotillo plants.
6. It IS worth the extra cost of gasoline for these features, especially in that over the 2,500 miles, at an average cost of $1.75/gallon and an average mpg of 17, the cost was $257. Compared to a little car with none of the benefits but twice the mpg, the $124 was worth every penny.
7. The one option Ford needs to add is a front-end-car-flipper, which would be useful on the mountain passes to move the little cars that get stuck halfway up because of their drivers' misbegotten belief that if they just spin the wheels fast enough, they can get their car up and over the pass. I'm sure they got good rpm/gallon, but their mpg must have been even lower than my truck. I suspect that the fact that they drove an economical car was somehow related to their not owning chains
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The Answer to high Gas Prices.....
by ThiChi inany thoughts on mr. taylor?s claims?.
u.s. demands greater oil output, lower prices.
"finance ministers from the united states and other major industrialized countries, hoping to affect the outcome of a battle within the organization for the petroleum exporting countries, formally demanded yesterday that oil-exporting nations raise production and lower prices to a level 'that is consistent with lasting economic prosperity,'" the new york times reports.
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Daga
Occupant Safety
Myth: SUVs are less safe for their occupants than passenger cars mainly because of their higher rollover rate. WRONG!
Facts:
- SUVs do have a higher center of gravity than passenger cars and therefore can roll over more easily. However, rollover crashes are relatively rare when compared to all other types of crashes ? less than 3% of crashes.
- SUVs are twice as protective of their occupants compared with the average passenger car in frontal, rear and side-impact crashes, which make up 97% of all crashes.
- More people die in car rollovers than SUV rollovers. Historically, less than 25% of rollover deaths are in SUVs.
- Can all vehicle occupants improve their odds even further? Absolutely. Last year 72% of people killed in fatal rollover crashes, in various vehicle models, were not using their safety belts. The government estimates that 75% of those non-belt users would be alive today had they simply buckled up.
- Every 2% increase in safety belt use would save 600 lives a year in the U.S.
Road Safety
Myth: SUVs, because of their greater size and weight, cause more harm to the occupants of the passenger cars they strike in a collision.
Fact:
- The laws of physics clearly show that larger, heavier vehicles provide better crash protection to their occupants. At the same time, bigger vehicles do more damage when they collide with smaller vehicles. However, only about 5% of occupant deaths in small cars occur in crashes with SUVs, while 61% of small car fatalities occur in single-vehicle crashes (against trees, poles, bridge abutments, etc.) or crashes with other cars. There is no SUV ?safety crisis.?
Fuel Economy
Myth: SUVs are gas-guzzlers and are contributing to our reliance on oil from the Mid-East. Absurd!
Facts:
- Since the mid-1970s, the fuel economy of SUVs and light trucks has improved by nearly 60%.
- In fact, today?s SUVs are 50% more efficient than cars were a generation ago.
- When the term ?gas-guzzler? was coined, it referred to cars that got about 10 miles per gallon or less. By comparison, today?s SUVs are relatively fuel efficient for the jobs they perform.
- We will continue to import oil from the Middle East as long as it continues to be cheaper than other sources.
Greater Cargo Space
Myth: Most people don?t really need big SUVs.
Facts:
- Americans buy vehicles that meet their maximum needs. Most can?t afford to buy purpose-specific vehicles.
- SUV owners who may commute alone during the workweek may be hauling a soccer team, boat, home improvement materials or supplies for a local charity during the weekend.
- About half of the respondents in a scientific R.L. Polk poll use their SUV regularly to haul bulky items that just won?t fit into cars.
- Today, less than 6% of passenger cars can tow more than 2,100 pounds, so Americans rely on SUVs and other light trucks to tow almost 24 million boats, ATVs, horse trailers, RVs, snowmobiles and off-road motorcycles.
Emissions
Myth: SUVs pollute more than cars.
Facts:
- Many SUVs today already meet the same stringent federal tailpipe emissions standards as cars. Beginning in the 2004 model year, those same strict standards are being phased in over the next few years to apply to the remainder of the largest SUVs (up to 8,500 pounds). So regulations have already dealt with this.
- The emissions from a new midsize SUV are cleaner than those of the average passenger car built just three years ago.
- A 2004 Ford Explorer driven from Washington, DC to Los Angeles and back pollutes less than a 1968 Ford Fairlane driven one way from Washington, DC to Baltimore.
Myth: SUVs emit more global warming pollution than passenger cars.
Facts:
- When people make this claim they are referring to carbon dioxide CO2 (not deadly carbon monoxide). Contrary to what environmental lobbyists have labeled CO2, it is not a pollutant according to the EPA. Plants breathe CO2 and ?exhale? oxygen for us humans and other living creatures. Some just believe the planet is getting too much of it from us humans. So it?s important to view this argument in its proper context ? it?s not a clean air, smog issue.
- It is true that the amount of CO2 a vehicle emits is directly related to the amount of fuel used. But those concerned about global warming should be comforted to know that ALL the cars and light trucks in the U.S. make up only about 2% of all man-made greenhouse gasses worldwide. So, even if everyone switched from SUVs to cars, the potential effect on global climate change would be virtually nonexistent.