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  I Need Thanksgiving Dinner Help...

  by skeeter1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  this thanksgiving looks to be hectic.

  we have out-of-town guests coming to stay with us.

  in all, i'm planning on having 19 people for dinner.

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  We always do turkey day with my wifes family. The host cooks the bird and the guests all bring the trimmings. That way the stress and expense is spread out. It would be insane to try to do all that by yourself and have any time to visit or even breath for that matter.

  You can make the cranberry sauce a couple days ahead of time. Do the pie baking the day before and get alot of prep done also. With that many people you could draft a couple to help you mash patatoes and make the gravy. You could peel and get the yams into the cooking container also the night before so all you have to do is pop it in while the turkey is baking.

  I have always preped alot the night before any holiday glut-fest that we have had.
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  Connie Chung interviews two JW molestation victims.

  by BrentR in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the video is not the best but the sound is fine.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpsclcmqek.

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  That was aired back in 2002. Did anyone make a better recording of it at the time and could upload to to Youtube? I would love to send it to my JW mom.
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  Connie Chung interviews two JW molestation victims.

  by BrentR in

  1. watchtower
  2. child-abuse

  the video is not the best but the sound is fine.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpsclcmqek.

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  The video is not the best but the sound is fine.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZpScLCMqEk
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  Jehovah's Witnesses are not a cult and here's why I think so

  by B_Deserter in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  when most people think of "cult" they think of the people's temple, the branch davidians, or heaven's gate.

  many also want to put jehovah's witnesses, mormons, and scientologists into this group.

  i don't agree with that because there is one main difference between true cults and high-control groups like jws:.

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  Ten warning signs of a potentially unsafe group/leader.

  1. Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability.
  2. No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry.
  3. No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement.
  4. Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions.
  5. There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil.
  6. Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances.
  7. There are records, books, news articles, or television programs that document the abuses of the group/leader.
  8. Followers feel they can never be "good enough".
  9. The group/leader is always right.
  10. The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible.

  http://www.rickross.com/warningsigns.html
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  "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

  by whyamihere in

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  2. friends

  just recommending this video.. .

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  Until they perfect internal ceramic engine coatings hydrogen is a long way off being used as an internal combustion fuel. Hydrogen embrittlement destroys metals by forming micro cracks leading to structural failure.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
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  For all you PETROL & GAS whiners. Stop complaining that it's too expensive!

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
  2. current

  here in the uk we're paying over a 1 a litre for regular unleaded fuel, that's about $9 per gallon for my american friends.

  now i'm as aware as anyone that the bulk of my fuel pound goes to the government in duty (or fuel tax) but let's just look at the bottom line cost to you and i as motorists - 1/litre.. just getting the the damn stuff out of the ground is dangerous and expensive, especially at offshore rigs.

  then you have to transport it, refine it and transport it again.

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  I decided five years ago to buy some oil company assets to hedge against high oil/gas prices. You can't beat them but you can make money by joining them. I was able to get into a startup domestic oil/natural gas company for $5 a share. In five years I have tripled my initial investment.

  I do not consider my wife's grandmother or myself as "filthy rich oil barons", we are both just middle class people that own a very small share of oil companies and profit from high oil prices. Anyone can buy into the three largest oil companies and get a chunk of the profits.

  Alot of people that bad mouth "big oil" are profiting from them and may not even know it. Look at your mutual funds and see what companies they are invested with. I have never had a mutual fund that did not have at least dozen oil companies listed.
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  Up to what age have your pets lived ?

  by JH in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  my cat is 14.5 years old.

  she is still doing well.

  i already had a bird that lived 12 or 13 years.. .

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  I had a beagle live to 18 yrs old and a cat make it to 19 yrs old.
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  For all you PETROL & GAS whiners. Stop complaining that it's too expensive!

  by nicolaou in

  1. social
  2. current

  here in the uk we're paying over a 1 a litre for regular unleaded fuel, that's about $9 per gallon for my american friends.

  now i'm as aware as anyone that the bulk of my fuel pound goes to the government in duty (or fuel tax) but let's just look at the bottom line cost to you and i as motorists - 1/litre.. just getting the the damn stuff out of the ground is dangerous and expensive, especially at offshore rigs.

  then you have to transport it, refine it and transport it again.

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  I bought alot stock in a domestic oil and natural gas company five years ago. When the oil prices go up so do my dividends. Yes I will pay more at the pump but I also have that cost more then offset by the income. Money does not disapear, it only changes hands. With a little bit of balance in your investment portfolio you make sure that at lest one of your hands is getting money no matter what the economy is doing.

  My wife's grandmother is enjoying a very comfortable retirement because she bought Texaco shares back when they were $2.
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  "Who Killed the Electric Car?"

  by whyamihere in

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  just recommending this video.. .

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  "Put it this way: Do you really need a conspiracy theory to figure out why people, in 1997, didn't run out to buy a $35,000 car that could only go, at most, 120 miles without a charge and that took at least 45 minutes to charge? Do you need a conspiracy theory to explain why an automotive company wouldn't want to throw good money after bad by strenuously advertising it? As it stood, General Motors' EV1 was a great car to have as a second vehicle, for city driving. But most people who spend 35 grand on a new car want that car to be their primary vehicle. They don't want to have to buy yet another car to drive into the country for the weekend."

  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/reviews/movies/WHOKILLEDTHEELECTRICCAR.DTL&type=movies
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  Gas Prices Are Supposed To Go Up 20 Cents In The Next 2 Weeks!!!

  by minimus in

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  how will that personally affect you?

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  Not very long with me because I use a bottle per week. Gas is a much better value for me considering what I get out of it vs Tobasco sauce.