"Why God Disapproves of Sticking It Wherever" would be a kickass assignment for a #4 talk.
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Prince at home in L.A. - The TRUTH about the Bible
by Dogpatch innow that prince is starting a bible study with the rest of the world, we will most likely not need all the other complicated explanations about the bible and life.
this is the truth!!
prince at home in l.a.kevin roderick bio emailprince has lived in los angeles since last spring that is, if you consider the rarefied gated nouveau complex of beverly park to be part of the real l.a. writer claire hoffman visited the musician and jehovah's witness at home for the new yorker and they got to talking about hollywood, the bible and gay marriage.. inside, the place was done up in a generic mediterranean style, although there were personal flourishes here and therea lucite grand piano with a gold-colored artist formerly known as prince symbol suspended over it, purple paisley pillows on a couch.
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Dead Teen's Mom Testifies in MySpace Suicide Trial
by purplesofa inlet's see how this pans out.. .
los angeles the grieving mother of a missouri girl told a jury wednesday how her daughter hanged herself with a belt after receiving cruel messages on her myspace account, some of which were from a boy whose identity was later revealed to have been invented by a neighbor.. tina meier recounted how "josh evans" interacted online with her 13-year-old daughter, megan, during the first day of the trial against lori drew, who is accused of taking part in the internet hoax that prosecutors say led to megan's suicide.. meier said after a name-calling exchange between megan, "josh," and two other girls in october 2006, she told a sobbing megan, who was being treated for attention deficit disorder and depression, that she wasn't supposed to be online and shouldn't have gotten into the argument.. .
"the last words she said to me were 'you are supposed to be my mom, you are supposed to be on my side,"' meier said as she tried to hold back tears.. meier said she ran later upstairs and found megan hanging in the closet with a belt around her neck.
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It's primarily the fault of (a) the girl for being a moron and killing herself, and (b) the girl's parents for raising a moron. There I said it.
Somehow billions of people have made it past age 13 without doing themselves in despite the fact that some people are mean and hurtful. What a miracle, huh?
I would consider the woman's actions to be along the lines of harassment at most. Maybe a civil suit. But sending her to prison for this is just ridiculous.
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Palin gives interview with turkey slaughter as her backdrop
by LDH inyou can't make this stuff up.. .
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/27838743#27838743.
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Anyone know what exactly that machine is, and why it's taking so long to do whatever it's doing? Looks like the operator is having some trouble with it.
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Obama Wins
by drew sagan inthey threw the kitchen sink at this guy and he still came through victorious.
i'm most curious at where the republican party goes from here.
it will be interesting.
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Obama wins? Can't be. The Republicans fix every election, right?
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Crazy Kansas "Christians" plan to picket Tennessee High School
by gaiagirl in</form> thursday october 30, 2008 7:00 am home contact us classifieds myvlt2 voltv2go volzeye desktop alerteast tn churches react to news of scott co. protest planssaveemailprint.
posted: 10:08 pm oct 29, 2008. last updated: 4:28 am oct 30, 2008. reporter: heather haley.
email address: [email protected].
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I gave up using scare quotes in reference to professed Christians when I gave up the judgmentalism and superiority complex of the Witnesses.
Yes, the Westboro members are Christians, by virtue of their belief in Christ and by their following his teachings according to their specific interpretation of the Bible. Most Christians don't want to acknowledge that ugly side. They'd like to think that any term which encompasses their precious religion could not possibly also be used to refer to something evil and wrong. It can. Deal with it.
There are plenty of moderate Muslims who claim that suicide bombers and terrorists cannot be true Muslims. Yet how often do we see see any non-Muslim refer to these as "so-called Muslims"?
Humans are naturally provincial and hypocritical.
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MY THEORY OF ECONOMICS/present situaion
by badboy inwhere the `masters of he universe' went wrong, is they dressed up complex financial instruments(ie sub-prime mortages) as great things to invest in.. it appears that they may have violated a economic law, namely they were not producing any product or service.. if everyone were dealing in dirvaives ,socks or shares etc with the idea that is how to make your money,but not producting any goods etc, you wouldn't have any people making wealth from goods and services.. greed can also bring down an economy.. perhaps someone should have helped these sub-prime morttagees by training them for high quality jobs, making it less likely that they would default... .
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I had a big response to heyfea and lost it, but here's a quick reply, it's unfair to blame real estate agents just like it's unfair to blame gas station owners for the high price of gas.
Agents don't set prices, the marketplace of buyers and sellers does. Agents just facilitate the transaction. One could argue that the agents should have known the prices were inflated, but that's pretty bogus because that is simply not part of their job. And if anyone wants to argue that a real estate agent should know what the market is going to do in advance, please find me this infallible agent so he/she can invest every dollar I have for me and make me rich.
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THEY'RE HERE!
by Sasha inlast week the new tract was put in door.
(after 3 years of me being out) and now they are canvasing like crazy all over the place with armfulls of stuff.
they came to my door and through the screen i yelled "got the tract, thank you" and disappeared to the back of my home.
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Post a "$500 fine for littering" sign on your property. With the WT logo in a circle with a line through it.
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Sorry God, I'm Not Dying Today. But Thanks For Playing.
by SixofNine inthis is skill.
and a man who's quick to adapt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrcbkbfdbrq
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It's a decent fake, but looks nothing close to real. The perfect landing, prominent advertising, and sharp focus give it away even if you somehow can't intuitively tell that the physics are all wrong.
Now the meteor hitting the Toyota, THAT was real...
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MY THEORY OF ECONOMICS/present situaion
by badboy inwhere the `masters of he universe' went wrong, is they dressed up complex financial instruments(ie sub-prime mortages) as great things to invest in.. it appears that they may have violated a economic law, namely they were not producing any product or service.. if everyone were dealing in dirvaives ,socks or shares etc with the idea that is how to make your money,but not producting any goods etc, you wouldn't have any people making wealth from goods and services.. greed can also bring down an economy.. perhaps someone should have helped these sub-prime morttagees by training them for high quality jobs, making it less likely that they would default... .
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Well now it depends on how you define greed. if you define it in such a way that it necessarily implies harm to others, then yes it is bad. So it may be a matter of semantics. I think of greed not as an action so much as an attitude or an emotion. And I don't think of myself as having it, for the most part. But it's unrealistic to think it can be eliminated or that an economic solution can be found that ignores it. Accountability for one's actions, I feel, is enough to check greed. This involves having certain laws, "rules of the game," that must be followed, with appropriate consequences otherwise.
There are no consequences. The greedy persons who created this mess pass the suffering along to others, and knowing this emboldened them to engage in such profitable but unpunishable actions.
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MY THEORY OF ECONOMICS/present situaion
by badboy inwhere the `masters of he universe' went wrong, is they dressed up complex financial instruments(ie sub-prime mortages) as great things to invest in.. it appears that they may have violated a economic law, namely they were not producing any product or service.. if everyone were dealing in dirvaives ,socks or shares etc with the idea that is how to make your money,but not producting any goods etc, you wouldn't have any people making wealth from goods and services.. greed can also bring down an economy.. perhaps someone should have helped these sub-prime morttagees by training them for high quality jobs, making it less likely that they would default... .
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The problem is not greed, as without greed there IS no economy.
The problem is greed without accountability, which is doomed to screw up the system as we are seeing.
The mortgages were indeed a product or service, this was not a violation of an economic law. If you have a promissory note, that is a valuable item. Its value depends on the likelihood of repayment. Taking large numbers of mortgages, its possible to predict very accurately what the default rate will be and therefore how much they are worth. This is why packages of mortgages were considered such "safe" investments by institutions. However, the predictions were based on assumptions that proved untrue... like the future value of the real estate, the impact of ARM rate adjustments, the ability or desire of low-income or low credit-score buyers to make payments, etc.
But it all comes back to accountability. The homeowner who decides to stop paying on a house that's worth more than he owes on it loses nothing. He passes the loss along to the bank. The bank passes the loss along to the government (which is us... taxpayers) in the form of the bailout. Our losses are socialized. When it's everyone's responsibility, it's no one's responsibility.