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  Where is Blondie?

  by Biahi in

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  i haven’t seen her posting lately, is she all right?

  i miss her insight..

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  JW_Researcher

  she would be on trips during January to March of this year.

  Very glad to hear it. She has had consistently valuable input. Safe travels!
  
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  Why Did Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?

  by JW_Researcher in

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  while even non-peaceful people have been awarded the peace prize (e.g.

  arafat, kissinger), i am confused as to how obama could possibly have won the award one year after being the first term junior senator from illinois with zero “peace” experience (other than his ‘well-articulated’ rhetoric)..

  reading the obama-pining on a couple of posts made me reexamine my view of barry’s presidency..

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  Our replies mirror what I found EVERYWHERE else. What a decidedly un-peaceful decision to award the NPP to Obama. I guess they wanted to be provocative?
  

  It seems to be the opinion of most that Obama received the NPP for what he "represented," ideologically, racially, whatever... rather than for something he had done. Basically for his campaign involving "hope and change."

  sparky1: Perhaps if you consult with the source you will find your answer.

  This was one of the first places I looked and that led to the question as this is simply BS. Utter, complete, car-salesperson-level, BS.

  I guess Obama was, we all seem to agree, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for being, as Joe Biden observed, 'articulate.'
  

  " <snip> ... awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.

  Obama has as President created a new climate in international politics. Multilateral diplomacy has regained a central position, with emphasis on the role that the United Nations and other international institutions can play. Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts. The vision of a world free from nuclear arms has powerfully stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting. Democracy and human rights are to be strengthened.

  Only very rarely has a person to the same extent as Obama captured the world’s attention and given its people hope for a better future. His diplomacy is founded in the concept that those who are to lead the world must do so on the basis of values and attitudes that are shared by the majority of the world’s population."
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  Why Did Obama win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009?

  by JW_Researcher in

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  while even non-peaceful people have been awarded the peace prize (e.g.

  arafat, kissinger), i am confused as to how obama could possibly have won the award one year after being the first term junior senator from illinois with zero “peace” experience (other than his ‘well-articulated’ rhetoric)..

  reading the obama-pining on a couple of posts made me reexamine my view of barry’s presidency..

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  JW_Researcher

  While even non-peaceful people have been awarded the Peace Prize (e.g. Arafat, Kissinger), I am confused as to how Obama could possibly have won the award one year after being the first term junior senator from Illinois with zero “Peace” experience (other than his ‘well-articulated’ rhetoric).

  Reading the Obama-pining on a couple of posts made me reexamine my view of Barry’s presidency.

  So….why, again? I'm certain it was all very clear when it happened...I can't remember now though.
  
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  Do Any Of You Still Think Trump Was Working With The Russians?

  by minimus in

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  it seems some people still maintain that trump will try to get help from the russians “again”..

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  Do you still need to see Obama's long form birth certificate?

  Not certain what Obama has to do with it? If you think that Obama’s birthplace is a “fact” then… maybe you’d like to hear about how “you can live forever in paradise on earth.” The truth is that we’ll never “know” for certain (partially his pre-politics self’s fault for muddying the waters via name-changes, misrepresenting and “finding himself”).

  What we can reasonably foresee is that Obama will be viewed as perhaps the least effective president since WWII (move over Jimmy) and probably in the lower third of all presidents. History will not judge Obama favorably (and will not be swayed by the identity politics everyone seems to glom onto with this ‘articulate’ man). His foreign policy will probably be the area in which he will probably be most severely criticized by the historians of 2120.

  This thread is about a Russian threat, about which Obama sneered ‘The 1980s called, they want their foreign policy back.’ He was brilliant …from inserting himself into low-level domestic race tensions (and inflaming them) to “leading from behind” ….the man was brilliant …wherever he was born.
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  Who’s The Best Actor/Actress? Who Is Overrated??

  by minimus in

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  one of my favorite actors is robert de niro.

  some of his later movies were so so but overall i think he was outstanding.

  meryl streep, i just never thought she was anything exciting yet people say she’s the best actress of all time.

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  Not certain about "best" (subjective), but an outstanding actor is/was Robin Williams.
  
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  Michael Bloomberg—what’s your opinion of him?

  by minimus in

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  and do you think he has a chance to win it all?

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  Why vote third party??

  Because, like you, I live in a Democrat state. Voting third party is a way to have a "protest vote."

  However, because of the uproar regarding the electoral college vs. the popular vote in 2016, I'll not vote third party this year.
  
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  What happens to bethel members who get sick?

  by JimmyYoung in

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  so i am sure if you are at bethel and have the flu you just get time or what ever to recover, but what about serious sickness.

  say you get cancer or some possible terminal illness?

  what happens?.

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  JW_Researcher

  If one had a chronic situation, it was suggested that they’d get better quicker at home (my BIL).

  The largest physical problem I had while at Brooklyn (early 1980s) was due to a dropped piece of steel squashing my toe.

  There was pressure building up under the nail and the doctor (who was a psychiatrist but performing as a GP) heated a unfolded paperclip and pierced the nail to relieve the pressure. We knew he had made it through the nail because when the very hot paperclip hit the very sensitive skin under the nail … I screamed.

  He was a good guy and actually introduced me to diazepam (Valium) for “stress.” Perhaps he was more “liberal” than others.

  Anyone remember his name? He had a family with him there as well.
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  They Are Already Talking About Impeaching Trump Again!

  by minimus in

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  because he voiced his opinion on roger stone’s recommended sentencing as being grossly unfair, the democrats are talking about impeachment.. do they really think that impeaching him will mean that a democrat will get into the white house??.

  it is crazy!!

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  JW_Researcher

  We have this thing in the US called the Electoral College. It dates back to the time when only land-owners could vote and giving sparsely populated States more rights.

  You may enjoy reading exactly why we have the electoral college (actually brilliant) in the book Summer of 1787
  

  HERE

  Folks who rail against the electoral college often don't seem to understand it much deeper than a bumper sticker or sound bite they heard on MSNBC.

  It is the height of simplistic thinking to think a straight "one person, one vote" approach is good at the national level. It was employed to address the same (but not identical) issues, then and now.

  Besides, if the popular vote was all that was necessary we'd have Hillary Clinton in the White House. Certainly you wouldn't want that.....no matter how much you hate The Orange One.
  
  
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  Unfollow - How a prized daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church came to question its beliefs.

  by Captain Schmideo2 in

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  http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/conversion-via-twitter-westboro-baptist-church-megan-phelps-roper?mbid=social_twitter.

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  JW_Researcher

  Great book. Surprise tie-into the JWs in Chapter 8 and in Chapter 9.

  I've read a few of these "exit" type books.

  This is one of the better-told tales and, again, has an integral tie-in to the JWs.

  Recommend it.
  
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  What’s Your Opinion of Adam Schiff?

  by minimus in

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  i’ve heard some people praise him for his zeal against president trump.

  others have not been so praiseworthy toward the california congressman.. today he was so concerned that trump might be so emboldened now that he has won acquittal, that he suggests that trump might make a deal with russia and sell them the state of alaska.

  😐.

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  JW_Researcher

  The same loyalty that JWs feel to the GB is the same that the right feels to trump. I think that should get people to stop and think, why is this the case?

  This may be partially accurate (who really knows?) but there are a fair number of folks with whom I interact who are not necessarily pro-Trump but ARE anti-Schiff and his team. If there are two choices, they veer Orange.
  

  If you're looking for cult-like adulation of a political leader, look no further than those who elevated Obama to god-like status because he was half-black. In those days, if you legitimately asked a question about Obama's policies, you were a racist ...end of story

  Most I hear (not on TV), qualify their acceptance of The Orange One.