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  Mentallyfree31 Would Like To Formally Introduce Himself

  by mentallyfree31 in

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  i have been absent on the forum for the past couple of months.

  i have previously been known on here as "mentallyfree31".

  i would like to take this opportunity to formally introduce myself.

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  purplesofa

  NIce to meet you!

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  Im finally leaving my jw husband.

  by littlebird in

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  some of you know i have struggled with this for awhile.

  i really do believe in marriage and the committment, however, sometimes enough is enough.. his endless preaching at me and calling me and my (adult) children satan has me realizing that this situation is not going to get better.

  the other day he kicked my son out of the house for wearing a cap, in his car, with a skull on it.

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  purplesofa

  Your life is going to get so much better!

  Have fun,

  purps
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  Ten Highest Paid CEOs Who Laid Off Most Employees

  by Justitia Themis in

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  http://www.resumark.com/blog/sergey/the-10-highest-paid-ceos-who-laid-off-the-most-employees/.

  ceos of the 50 u.s. firms that cut the most jobs during the recession earned 42% more than the average s&p 500 firm ceo, according to a study released by a liberal think tank in washington.. .

  the study also found that 36 of the 50 layoff leaders announced their layoffs at a time of positive earnings reports, suggesting a trend of squeezing workers to boost profits and to maintain high ceo pay.

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  I saw this on the news last week and then the story just kinda died.

  Sickening isn't it?
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  The Pastor cancels Quran BBQ.........

  by Judge Dread in

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  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100909/ap_on_re_us/quran_burning.

  judge dread .

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  purplesofa

  Possibly the 100 plus death threats on his life had something to do with it.
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  Pastor to burn Koran

  by beksbks in

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  us pastor says will burn koran despite petraeus concernshttp://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100907/pl_afp/afghanistanunrestusreligionislampastor.

  tue sep 7, 9:21 am et end .byline washington (afp) the pastor of a small florida church said tuesday he will go ahead with his plans to hold a koran burning this week, despite warnings by the us commander of the afghan war of violent reactions in the islamic world.terry jones, who heads the dove world outreach center in gainesville florida, said he had given "serious" consideration to the concerns expressed by general david petraeus over plans to torch a koran to mark the ninth anniversary of the september 11 terror attacks, but said he would proceed anyway.. "we are taking the general's words very serious.

  we are continuing to pray about the action on september 11th," he said.. nevertheless, he said "we have firmly made up our mind" to go ahead with burning the muslim holy book.. "i mean, how long, when does america stand for truth?

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  purplesofa

  This whole thing reminds me of the movie called Mad City.

  The media is nuttier than the nuts they report on.

  purps
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  Pastor to burn Koran

  by beksbks in

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  us pastor says will burn koran despite petraeus concernshttp://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100907/pl_afp/afghanistanunrestusreligionislampastor.

  tue sep 7, 9:21 am et end .byline washington (afp) the pastor of a small florida church said tuesday he will go ahead with his plans to hold a koran burning this week, despite warnings by the us commander of the afghan war of violent reactions in the islamic world.terry jones, who heads the dove world outreach center in gainesville florida, said he had given "serious" consideration to the concerns expressed by general david petraeus over plans to torch a koran to mark the ninth anniversary of the september 11 terror attacks, but said he would proceed anyway.. "we are taking the general's words very serious.

  we are continuing to pray about the action on september 11th," he said.. nevertheless, he said "we have firmly made up our mind" to go ahead with burning the muslim holy book.. "i mean, how long, when does america stand for truth?

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  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/Religion/post/2010/09/koran-quran-patraeus-burn-dove-mosque/1

  In face of Quran-burning threat, 'Silence is not an option:' Clergy

  

  CAPTION By Mark Wilson, Getty Images UPDATE: 2:30 p.m.

  Deploring a "anti-muslim frenzy" underway from Manhattan to Florida and across the country, a score of clergy and religious leaders from all faiths held a summit today and charged believers and leaders of all faiths with ...

  ... a moral responsibility to stand together and to denounce categorically derision, misinformation or outright bigotry directed against any religious group in this country. Silence is not an option.

  Following their meeting in Washington D.C. the clergy summit participants said at their press conference that they...

  ... denounce categorically the derision, misinformation and outright bigotry being directed against America's Muslim community. We bear a sacred responsibility to honor America's varied faith traditions and to promote a culture of mutual respect and the assurance of religious freedom for all. In advance of the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, we announce a new era of interfaith cooperation.

  

  CAPTION By Kamran Jebreili, AP While the original impetus for the meeting was the rising tension over the Park 51 Islamic Community Center planned for two blocks north of Ground Zero, the determination of a Florida church to burn the Quran on the anniversary of 9/11 also spurred the leaders outrage.

  We are profoundly distressed and deeply saddened by the incidents of violence committed against Muslims in our community, and by the desecration of Islamic houses of worship. We stand by the principle that to attack any religion in the United States is to do violence to the religious freedom of all Americans. The threatened burning of copies of the Holy Qu'ran this Saturday is a particularly egregious offense that demands the strongest possible condemnation by all who value civility in public life and seek to honor the sacred memory of those who lost their lives on September 11. As religious leaders, we are appalled by such disrespect for a sacred text that for centuries has shaped many of the great cultures of our world, and that continues to give spiritual comfort to more than a billion Muslims today.

  The summit was called by the Islamic Society of North America -- the mammoth civic group let by Ingrid Mattson, director of Islamic Chaplaincy at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Conn., clergy are going to call out for compassion and solidarity and more interfaith collaboration.

  In New York today, seven Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders including Archbishop Timothy Dolan also issued a statement committing themselves to "facilitating" respectful dialogue about Park 51. Their statement said, in part,

  All of us must ensure that our conversations on this matter remain civil, that our approaches to each other are marked with respect, and that our hearts stay free of bitterness.
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  Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

  by mrsjones5 in

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  a close friend of my aunt just posted this on facebook.

  i thought it was wonderful.

  this child calls for self-responsibilty among those in the black community starting with the deletion of the n-word:.

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  PZ Myers mocks Latest Awake

  by cofty in

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  biologist and science blogger pz myers has commented on the upcoming awake magazine in today's blog at pharyngula.. .

  "unfortunately, i was only able to read as far as the second sentence before i was blinded by the irony.

  " - pz.

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  Dishonering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr

  by Dark Side in

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  i challenge everyone on this board to show the same anger, hatred and racism at glenn beck's rally.

  watch, listen, learn.

  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/video-glenn%e2%80%99s-disgrace-shocking-racism-at-al-sharptons-mlk-anniversary/.

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  purplesofa

  yep, that's what it says,

  By: Steve
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  Glenn Beck

  by will_the_apostate in

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  do j dubs like glenn beck?

  they seem like peas in a pod to me.

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  I guess for me at the end of the day, I totally forgot that the event was to raise money.

  It became all about Becks message for all to turn to God, so I got confused, if It was church, a charity, a rally, just what was going on.

  But the more I research about this event the more I understand how people work a/the system/rules.

  How to get around certain things. It's clever, it's legal.

  FRIDAY, AUG 27, 2010 07:01 ET

  Is Glenn Beck profiting from his "Restoring Honor" rally?

  Saturday's self-promotional, "non-political" rally will raise money for -- and be financed by -- a charity

  BY JUSTIN ELLIOTT

  Despite Glenn Beck's insistence that his "Restoring Honor" rally at the Lincoln Memorial on Saturday is devoted to honoring troops, the event is, indisputably, all about Glenn Beck.

  Dubbed "Beckapalooza" by Politico, it has already garnered Beck untold hours of free media coverage and, however high or low the turnout is, it is guaranteed to make Beck the center of attention for a few more media cycles next week. For a man selling books -- "Arguing With Idiots" comes out in paperback Sept. 14 -- free media is a valuable thing.

  So it's worth noting that Saturday's rally -- and all the publicity that will come with it -- isn't going to cost Beck a cent. That's because it's being organized as a fundraiser for a charity, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. And, as the fine print at the bottom of the Restoring Honorwebsite notes, "All contributions made to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation (SOWF) will first be applied to the costs of the Restoring Honor Rally." One SOWF official estimated the rally will cost $1 million. The rest of the money will go to SOWF, which says it provides scholarships to children of special operations soldiers killed in action or in training.

  So Beck and Sarah Palin, his fellow featured speaker, will get their free self-promotion rally, and SOWF will get the rest; they've reportedly already raised $5 million. (The event was originally billed as the unveiling of a new Beck book called "The Plan," which would outline steps to take over the next 100 years to "restore our great country." That was later scrapped for a vague focus on restoring honor.)

  The one catch is that the sponsorship of SOWF -- a tax-exempt charity -- means that the event cannot be "political," as Beck's promotionalliterature emphasizes.

  But this does not mean that Beck is barred from making political statements. To the IRS, nonpolitical actually means nonpartisan, said Brett Kappel, a campaign finance lawyer at Arent Fox in Washington. "If speakers endorsed specific candidates or political parties at the event, that could create an IRS problem for the charity," Kappel told Salon.

  That may explain why Beck felt free on Thursday to say of the rally: "This is a moment, quite honestly, that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement." Tea Party groups have also reportedly provided financial assistance for the rally.

  Time reported today that SOWF has required speakers, including Palin, to sign an agreement "not to talk politics." On Saturday, we'll see what that really means.