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  Look what I just did to my kitten!

  by rebel8 in

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  she would not stop clawing everything, no matter what i tried.

  i'd like to avoid declawing if at all possible.

  i found these rubber tips online and glued them to her claws.

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  Declawing is mutilation, plain and simple.

  And ripping out the uterus or testicles is not?
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  To Wt apologists - this is all that mattered to me... please address

  by AK - Jeff in

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  forget all the other smoke.

  b-days, xmas, holidays.

  forget doctrine issues.

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  If you received an answer to your satisfaction , would you return?

  If there was a clear scriptural answer, I bet it would make some think twice, but it's not a scriptural teaching.
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  Look what I just did to my kitten!

  by rebel8 in

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  she would not stop clawing everything, no matter what i tried.

  i'd like to avoid declawing if at all possible.

  i found these rubber tips online and glued them to her claws.

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  jstalin

  I don't understand the lack of willingness to get a cat declawed. It's surgery, like any other. One of my cats is declawed, the other is not.
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  To Wt apologists - this is all that mattered to me... please address

  by AK - Jeff in

  1. watchtower
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  forget all the other smoke.

  b-days, xmas, holidays.

  forget doctrine issues.

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  Does the 1919 selection act as the sole source of authority for the GB and FDS, or are there other factors?
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  Gay Cowboy Movie

  by joelbear in

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  brokeback mountain ang lee.. oh man, i am so excited about this movie.

  i've read the short story by annie proulx.

  it is excellent.. and they aren't dying of aids or dressed up in drag, that is so mmi.

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  Darnit... it's not out here until this Friday...
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  PA Court rules with regard to ID teaching in schools.

  by stevenyc in

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  Pg 75:

  As expert testimony revealed, the qualification on what is meant by

  “irreducible complexity” renders it meaningless as a criticism of evolution. (3:40

  (Miller)). In fact, the theory of evolution proffers exaptation as a well-recognized,

  well-documented explanation for how systems with multiple parts could have

  evolved through natural means. Exaptation means that some precursor of the

  subject system had a different, selectable function before experiencing the change

  or addition that resulted in the subject system with its present function (16:146-48

  (Padian)). For instance, Dr. Padian identified the evolution of the mammalian

  middle ear bones from what had been jawbones as an example of this process.

  (17:6-17 (Padian)). By defining irreducible complexity in the way that he has,

  Professor Behe attempts to exclude the phenomenon of exaptation by definitional

  fiat, ignoring as he does so abundant evidence which refutes his argument.
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  PA Court rules with regard to ID teaching in schools.

  by stevenyc in

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  There's some good stuff in that opinion. Page 28:

  Moreover, in turning to Defendants’ lead

  expert, Professor Behe, his testimony at trial indicated that ID is only a scientific,

  as opposed to a religious, project for him; however, considerable evidence was

  introduced to refute this claim. Consider, to illustrate, that Professor Behe

  remarkably and unmistakably claims that the

  plausibility of the argument for ID

  depends upon the extent to which one believes in the existence of God

  . (P-718 at

  705) (emphasis added). As no evidence in the record indicates that any other

  scientific proposition’s validity rests on belief in God, nor is the Court aware of

  any such scientific propositions, Professor Behe’s assertion constitutes substantial

  evidence that in his view, as is commensurate with other prominent ID leaders, ID

  is a religious and not a scientific proposition.
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  PA Court rules with regard to ID teaching in schools.

  by stevenyc in

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  Here's the ruling:

  http://www.au.org/site/DocServer/DoverOp.pdf?docID=461
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  What are your children doing on the internet?

  by TD in

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  ---stories like this make my trigger finger twitch.

  boy's web cam opens portal to a grim worldby kurt eichenwald the new york times .

  monday, december 19, 2005. .

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  I don't have any kids yet, but when I do, there's no doubt that I'll be tightly controlling internet use.
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  Does the King Kong movie have racist overtones?

  by enlightenedcynic in

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  hey everybody,.

  was having a discussion with a co-worker about the new kk movie.

  he asked if i saw it already.

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  I thought the depiction of the natives was potentially more racist than the Kong thing...