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  WT's carousel of progress.

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  Isaiah 11:6- and the bear and chimp will will play together--

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  isaiah 11:6 -in that day the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat.

  the calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, ( the bear and chimp will play together) and a little child will lead them all.. why can we all get along and play together in peace?

  take a lesson from these two guys-.

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  Unemployment is down, but why did America set a record 47.8 million on food stamps?

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  in the usa a new record was set on food stamp enrollments, which seems ironic.

  you would think as unemployment drops , food stamp usage would be dropping, too.

  maybe those government unemployment numbers are fake numbers.

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  Should you pay the Obamacare penalty or buy health insurance in 2014?

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  i am already reading that some plan to drop their medical insurance coverage on january 1st and just pay the penalty-.

  an individual with $30,000 annual income would pay a $300 penalty in 2014, $600 in 2015 and $750 in 2016.. an individual with $50,000 annual income would pay a $500 penalty in 2014, $1,000 in 2015 and $1,250 in 2016.. an individual earning $100,000 a year would pay a $1,000 penalty in 2014, $2,000 in 2015 and $2,500 in 2016.. here is your insurance subsidy calculator-.

  http://healthreform.kff.org/subsidycalculator.aspx#incomeagetables.

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  Obama's speech writers used the strawman fallacies yesterday

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  seems they liked using that fallacy a lot--.

  president obama has an, at times, well-deserved reputation for delivering his speeches well.

  certainly, the president made an impression today when he delivered his second inaugural address calling for a bolder, more expansive government that would be committed increasingly to the principles of liberalism, with characteristic soaring rhetoric.. unfortunately, another characteristic was also in evidence in obama's speech: namely, his tendency to argue against positions that nobody holds (and by extension, to mischaracterize his opponents' views so as to make them easier to argue against).

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  Computers have successfully replaced college professors

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  http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/15/how-californias-new-online-education-pilot-will-end-college-as-we-know-it/.

  -while faculty worry about the quality of online courses, the truth is that our education system, primarily designed to test rote memorization, is built to scale and be independent of teacher interaction.

  a review of research by the department of education in 2009 found that "students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.".

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  I sent postcards to some JWs at my old KH today.

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  you know the typicial big postcards that we floridians like to send to folks up north in the winter- palm trees, beaches, girls in bikinis--.

  i haven't talked to these two brothers since when i left the kh (in 1988).

  i just wanted them to know i turned out better than fine, with a nice retirement and a new family.

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  JWs who end up in the sleeper car, are on the train to Paradise

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  i read this comment on the memorial page for a 93 yr old jw i knew who died--.

  as our district overseer said, 'some of us will be in the passenger car on this train heading into jehovah's new system, and some of us will be in the sleeper car.

  he's having the best nap of his life.

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  UK Robin Hood tax coming to the USA?

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  seems that a stalled wall street tax inititive in the usa has supporters in the uk calling for a robin hood tax, which would tax stock transactions as small fee on every sale.. .

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  Fukushima nuclear reactor cores have melted into the ground!

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  a newly released scientific study (done some time ago) on a similar tva ge mk1 reactor has determined the uncovered reactor core would have melted through the steel reactor vessel and over 20ft of concrete containment floor in 15 hours-the 500+ degree air temperatures would have melted and blown out all the conduit and pipe seals going into the containment building allowing a free escape of radiation to the atmosphere.

  they are still trying to keep the spent fuel pools covered in water and prevent the used fuel rods from catching on fire- that is a separate disaster.. .

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