The governor positioned the National Guard 30 miles away and then completely lost communication with the city of New Orleans during the hurricane, so the story goes. Not receiving any information from the city (where was the mayor, etc???) she wouldn't order them into the city.
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The race card has officially been played in New Orleans
by Texas Apostate inwell i knew it was only a matter of time, but the "play the race card" has begun.
never mind that the incompetant mayor of new orleans is black.
it's not his fault.
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the idiot mayor of New Orleans
by MegaDude in.
why weren't these buses deployed before the hurricane hit?.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/480/flpc21109012015
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Fangorn
The mayor is utterly useless, he was useless before the hurricane, during the hurricane and after the hurricane, he's still useless. The mayor sent buses to the Hyatt Regency to pull tourists out today while people were still sitting on overpasses with nothing.
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Interesting statistic about JWs in this week's Newsweek
by lucky ini just got this week's newsweek in the mail.
the cover story is "spirituality in america".
page 54 has a table listing change in religious self-identification between 1990 and 2001. the four bottom religions, with negative percentages, are jehovah's witnesses (-4%), jewish, rastafarian, and protestant.
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Fangorn
Because I've always seen a pretty much 'hands off' attitude toward how people count their time as compared to fairly rigorous attempts to get attendance numbers right. Frankly I think they're afraid to crack down on the way people count time.
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Interesting statistic about JWs in this week's Newsweek
by lucky ini just got this week's newsweek in the mail.
the cover story is "spirituality in america".
page 54 has a table listing change in religious self-identification between 1990 and 2001. the four bottom religions, with negative percentages, are jehovah's witnesses (-4%), jewish, rastafarian, and protestant.
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Fangorn
I've been involved in counting attendance, etc. at all levels in many different places and never once have I seen any attempt to cook the books. Quite the contrary in fact, they're generally paranoid about getting it right. These 'urban legends' get a little tiresome.
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A Comparison Of Translations
by Honesty indecide for yourself how accurate the new world translation is:.
*** rbi8 exodus 6:2-3 ***.
2 and god went on to speak to moses and to say to him: ai am jehovah.
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Fangorn
I'm afraid you're wasteing your breath Cygnus, they wanna believe. I too have made a fairly serious study of the various translations and the NWT is for the most part not too bad, certainly no worse than the others. I do hold many of their insertions of the name in the Greek scriptures against them, that is in my opinion the most egregious thing they've done. Folks on this thread are dragging out the old trinitarian canards that have been around for years, and of course the trinitarians never inserted their bias in translation. Almost all translations are flawed.
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Who here gives to the homeless?
by JW83 ini'm interested in how many here give to the homeless, or any kind of charity, since that was not a part of the witness experience.
i have to admit that my heart is hard ...
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Fangorn
I regularly give money to two charities that have particular meaning to me. I do not give money to grifters with their hands out. Almost all of these people are scam artists, some of them are aggressive and dangerous. For the truly homeless there are plenty of agencies that will help them.
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Bush - Idiot Hypocrite
by Simon injerusalem - president bush said on israeli television he could consider using force as a last resort to press iran to give up its nuclear program..
erm ... doesn't israel have nuclear weapons?
i guess they are allowed to do what they want eh?
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I find some of the comments here frankly mind boggling. Israel has had nuclear weapons for forty years, and not used them in spite of enormous provocation and in the face of millions who have made no bones about their ultimate goal of exterminating every last Israeli. The US has had nuclear weapons for sixty years and has had many occasions when they might have used them and chose not to do so, even when they were the only country with nuclear capability. Yes, they did use them on Japan, to end the war. They used them on a nation that was as imperialistic as the Nazis, a nation which had slaughtered 30 million Filipinos, Malays, Indonesians, Vietnames, Cambodians and Burmese as well as twenty three million Chinese. They used them to end a war that would have resulted in the deaths of even more people had Japan been invaded. Japan still fails to acknowledge its activities during WWII and remains probably the most racist nation on the planet. The war effort was supported almost without exception by the Japanese people. Spare me the tears for these people. On the other hand, the US is supposed to watch the Mad Mullahs become nuclear without lifting a hand. These are people that cleared mine fields with children, these are people that believe it is a heaven blessed virtue to convert or kill the Infidel, these are people that seek martyrdom as the highet expression of faith. In the face of that the US is supposed to avow the use of force? How stupid is that? Do you people really believe there's a moral equivalency? You seem to go further than that and say there is a moral superiority. I find it difficult to accept what appears to me to be nothing more than blind bigotry against Bush, and I guess the US in general. I haven't posted much here, don't come here much for that matter but some of these comments are shocking to me, and bordering on irrational. I didn't realize there was such venemous attitude toward the US or Bush. Is this place some kind of an ex JW moveon.org or what? I'm not sure that everything I've posted here is strictly in line with the posting guidelines but then much of this thread doesn't seem to be in line with the posting guidelines.
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Witnesses dont ask for help (ha ha)
by buffalosrfree inwe are visiting down in province and my wife much to my displeasure on her last few visits has been donating money to the building of a new kingdom hall, of course this has been going on for a couple of years.
well when they found out we had arrived, this elder comes around to visit and it wasnt hi how are you it was "hi i would like to offer you an opportunity to donate once again to our building fund", then he got around to asking how we were doing and were we enjoying our visit.
what a buch of bull.
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Fangorn
For some reason this seem to be a real re-occuring myth. I've been involved in buying, selling and building Kingdom Halls and the simple truth is that the building belongs to the local corporation. The Organization does not own it.
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USA ups the stakes to $350million
by Brummie in.
just announced on sky news.com, but what a disgrace for sky news to mention an email sent by some american joe bloggs who stated that he didnt think the usa should support the crisis since indonesia is anti american... after all the help the usa give they have to refer to one measly stupid email!
grr.
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Fangorn
The US has also sent a sixteen vessel battlegroup including an aircraft carrier, a Marine Expeditionary Unit, six C-130s some PC Orions, and 3,000 Tons of rice. I wonder what all that is worth. It seem like none of that stuff is ever counted. I frankly think it's inappropriate to play the "my contribution is bigger than your contribution" game but that seems to be the way things go.
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Watchtower Dominated Company Does Military Work
by metatron inhttp://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041206/home_solutions_air_force_1.html.
i don't know the capital structure but as the 8-k says the wts of pennsylvania owns a lot of this small company.. .
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Fangorn
I knew an ex Circuit Overseer that regularly cleaned a recruiting office. No one seemed to have a problem with that.