glenster
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Folk tales, urban legends. What would we do without the net.LOL
by jam intrue or false.
woman wearing a beehive hair style dies from.
a black widow spider.
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Joe Sample of The Jazz Crusaders passes
by designs inthe jazz crusaders were as big as any jazz group has ever been.. wayne henderson and wilton felder of the group were jws.. joe sample was the keyboardest and enjoyed a long and muscially fruitful life, a great creative force in jazz.. here is way back home performance live.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddnsbudd8xi.
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I can not hear this song without tapping my foot
by nonjwspouse inbluegrass music to me is the most delightful, happifying music, esecially when outside, listening to it live.. one of my favorite entertainers has always amazed me with his talent on the banjo.
this clip with earl scruggs ( whos son was engaged to a friend of mine, which makes him even more of a special entertainer to me) and steve martin, (one of my very favorites in both hollywood and music genres) is one of my favorite clips of this song.
it shows the true humility of steve martin making sure the stage was not all about him, even though he was more well known in hollywood.. i wish, really wish, one of my kids would have taken up the banjo.
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I know there is NO GOD
by jam inisis, plain and simple.
if there is a god there is no way he.
would allow this to occur (beheading of james foley).
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glenster
Depends what you imagine vs. such people of which we can be sure.
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I know there is NO GOD
by jam inisis, plain and simple.
if there is a god there is no way he.
would allow this to occur (beheading of james foley).
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glenster
Both events are on a coin with no merit as currency.
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I know there is NO GOD
by jam inisis, plain and simple.
if there is a god there is no way he.
would allow this to occur (beheading of james foley).
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glenster
"Islam has got to go. How you ask?" etc.
Too general. Criticizing old text as not inerrant isn't just the domain of
non-Muslims but liberal Muslims. Compare liberal Stephen Colbert: if ISIS were
replaced with Stephen Colberts they'd actually be an exceptionally nice group.
Why would you want to kill Aasif Mandvi?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aasif_MandviTwo, as mentioned before, if we killed all the racist/homophobic etc. people
in the US in 1900 it would be very quiet here (it would get notably quieter
here even if done in 2014). An option to the Hiroshima approach, debatable at
best as an ethical solution, is to have the same thing happen there that hap-
pened here regarding LGBT people in the last generation or so (not thousands of
years)--not increase their prejudice against the West but spread information.
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I know there is NO GOD
by jam inisis, plain and simple.
if there is a god there is no way he.
would allow this to occur (beheading of james foley).
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glenster
"it was done out of a type of ransom to put a stop to the current war but
more specifically the mass killings of innocent iraqi bystandards to US
launched missles.""Have you watched the video?"
"Who memorizes a 'prepared and read statement' like that..?"
Foley speech
http://pastebin.com/yjYChv13His focus is the US as the enemy and notably the last air strike in Irag,
which was against ISIS. He asks us to think about who was targeted, which
was ISIS, for which the US "signed their death certificate."
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/08/20/cen"tcom-pushing-for-more-iraq-strikes/14357707/It's only a paragraph of ISIS propaganda--not a lot to memorize. No mention
of innocent bystanders. ISIS no doubt claims they're they're righteous
fighters--not bystanders. ISIS has made big threats against the US--that "We
will drown all of you in blood" (I assume including non-combatants)--which
isn't a great strategy for diminishing airstrikes. It more likely seems in-
tent on pandering to ham-handed East-West prejudices to justify their own
terrorism. Not a lot of careful thought into who real victims are there.
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I know there is NO GOD
by jam inisis, plain and simple.
if there is a god there is no way he.
would allow this to occur (beheading of james foley).
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glenster
"it was done out of a type of ransom to put a stop to the current war but
more specifically the mass killings of innocent iraqi bystandars to US launched
missles.""...ISIS posted a video to YouTube depicting Foley reading a prepared state-
ment urging Americans to stop their support for the U.S. government for its
bombing campaign against ISIS targets. The video then shows his beheading as
well as revealing that ISIS is holding another American journalist named Steven
Joel Sotloff and will kill him unless U.S. President Barack Obama halts air-
strikes against ISIS."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wright_FoleyGod and religion:
"ISIS is known for its extreme interpretation of the Islamic faith and sharia
law and its brutal violence, which is directed at Shia Muslims, indigenous As-
syrian, Chaldean, Syriac and Armenian Christians, Yazidis, Druze, Shabaks and
Mandeans in particular. It has at least 4,000 fighters in its ranks in Iraq
who, in addition to attacks on government and military targets, have claimed
responsibility for attacks that have killed thousands of civilians. ISIS had
close links with al-Qaeda until 2014, but in February of that year, after an
eight-month power struggle, al-Qaeda cut all ties with the group, reportedly
for its brutality and 'notorious intractability.'"ISIS’s original aim was to establish a caliphate in the Sunni-majority re-
gions of Iraq. Following its involvement in the Syrian Civil War, this expand-
ed to include controlling Sunni-majority areas of Syria. A caliphate was pro-
claimed on 29 June 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—now known as Amir al-Mu'minin
Caliph Ibrahim—was named as its caliph, and the group was renamed the Islamic
State."See the article below for much more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant"Islamists believe that Islam fuses religion and politics, with normative
political values determined by the divine texts. It is argued that this has
historically been the case and the secularist/modernist efforts at secularizing
politics are little more than jahiliyyah (ignorance), kafir (unbelief), irtidad
(apostasy) and atheism. 'Those who participated in secular politics were
raising the flag of revolt against Allah and his messenger.'"
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I know there is NO GOD
by jam inisis, plain and simple.
if there is a god there is no way he.
would allow this to occur (beheading of james foley).
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glenster
PS: as you can believe in life, with its good and bad, apart from any God
idea, you could believe in a God somehow behind it all. You could add a nice
afterlife as sweetner on the deal. Whether or not that's your choice doesn't
make for an important reason to choose which basic definition.