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And while I'll always have fond memories of the old site, I am completely besotted by this new one!
Thanks, Simon!
Marjorie
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Who here likes this site better than the old one....a poll ?
by Homerovah the Almighty ini just thought i'd make up a poll on people's viewpoints of who likes this site better or worse than the .
older one ?.
as for myself, i kind of liked the older one better, its just seems that the usability was better,.
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Awww....animals raising babies of another species...everlasting thread!
by rebel8 inever since i saw a video of a crow feeding and nurturing a feral kitten, i've been fascinated by stories of animals who raise babies of another type of animal.
so here begins my official repository of these stories!
feel free to add any others you know of--humans raising house pets doesn't count!.
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Marjorie
Oh, so cute (squeal)!
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Your beloved political party
by IP_SEC inwhy don't you see that political parties are pure ideology?
that they are intended to separate us?
republicans vs democrats.
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Marjorie
#1: IP, I never said that I have a "messianic senator", LOL! Those are your words.
#2: And you didn't pay attention when I said that there are individual Democrats (politicians) that suffer from the same corporatist mindset as the Republicans (politicians).
#3: Concerning the past eight years, I'll defer to Keith Olbermann's excellent summary of the Bush 43 Administration:
George Walker Bush.
43rd president of the United States.
first ever with a criminal record.
our third story tonight,
his presidency: eight years in eight minutes.early in 2001 the U.S. fingered Al Qaeda
for the bombing of the USS Cole
Bush counterterrorism adviser Richard Clarke
had a plan to take down Al Qaeda.
instead by February the NSC
had already discussed invading Iraq,
and had a plan for post-Saddam Iraq.by March 5 Bush had a map ready for Iraqi oil exploration
and a list of companies.
Al Qaeda?
Rice told Clarke not to give Bush a lot of long memos.
not a big reader.August 6, 2001
a CIA analyst briefs Bush on vacation:
"Bin Laden determined to strike in U.S."
Bush takes no action tells the briefer—quote
all right, you've covered your ass now.next month Clarke requests
using new predator drones to kill Bin Laden
the Pentagon and CIA
say no.September 11th
Bush remains seated for several minutes
to avoid scaring school children
by getting up and leaving.
he then flies around the country
and promises quote a full scale investigation to find
those folks who did itRumsfeld says Afghanistan does not have enough targets
we've got to do Iraq.
when the CIA traps Bin Laden at Tora Bora
it asks for 800 rangers to cut off his escape
Bush outsources the job to Pakistanis
sympathetic to the Taliban
Bin Laden
gets awayin February General Tommy Franks tells a visiting Senator
Bush is moving equipment out of Afghanistan
so he can invade Iraq.
one of the men who prepped Rice for her testimony
that Bush did not ignore pre 9-11 warnings
later explains quote we cherry picked things
to make it look like the president
had been actually concerned about Al Qaeda
they didn't give a bleep about Al QaedaJuly and Britain's intel chief says Bush is
fixing intelligence and facts around the policy to take out Saddam
January 03
Bush and Blair agree to invade in March
Mr. Bush still telling us he has not decided
telling Blair they should paint an airplane in UN colors
fly it over Iraq and provoke a response
a pretext for invasionthe man who said it would take several hundred thousand troops
fired
the man who said it would cost more than a hundred billion
fired
the man who revealed Bush's yellowcake lie
smeared
his wife's covert status
exposed
the White House liars who did it
and covered it up
not fired
one convicted
Bush commutes his sentencethen in Iraq, stuff happens:
Iraq's army, disbanded
the government de-Baathified
200,000 weapons, billions of dollars just
lost
foreign mercenaries immunized from justice
political hacks run the Green Zone
religious cleansing forcing one out of six Iraqis from their homes
Abu Ghraib
the insurgency
Al Qaeda in Iraqother stuff does not happen:
WMD
post-war planning
body armor
vehicular armorthe payoff?
oil
and billions for Halliburton, Blackwater and other companies
while Mr. Bush denies VA healthcare to 450,000 veterans
tries to raise their healthcare fees
blocks the new G.I. Bill
and increases his own power with the USA PATRIOT Act
with the Military Commissions Act
public orders exempting himself from a thousand laws
and secretly from the Presidential Records Act
The Geneva Conventions
FISA
sparking a mass rebellion at the Justice Departmentsecret star chambers for terrorism suspects,
overturned by Hamdan v Rumsfeld.
denying habeas corpus,
overturned by Boumediene v Bush.
200 renditionings
sleep deprivation
abuseRumsfeld warned in 2002 that he was torturing
that it would jeopardize convictions
out of 550 at Gitmo
hundreds ultimately go free with no charges
dozens are tortured
eight fatally
three are convictedon U.S. soil twelve hundred immigrants rounded up
without due process
without bail
without court dates
without a single charge of terrorismit wasn't just Mr. Bush no longer subject to the rule of law
he slashed regulations on everyone from banks to mining companies
appointed 98 lobbyists to oversee their own industries
weakening emission standards for mercury
and 650 different toxic chemicals
regulators shared drugs
and their beds
with industry reps
the Crandall Canyon mine owner told inspectors to back up
because his buddy, Republican Mitch McConnell
was sleeping with their boss
McConnell's wife is Bush Labor Secretary Elaine Chao
her agency overruled engineer concerns about Crandall Canyon
and was found negligent
after nine miners died in the collapse thereMr. Bush's hands off
as Enron blacks out California
doubling electric bills
after months of rejecting price caps Mr. Bush bows to pressurethe blackouts end
Mr. Bush further deregulates commodity futures
midwifing the birth of unregulated oil markets
which just like Enron jack up prices to an all time high
until Congress and both presidential candidates call for regulationsand the prices fall
deregulating financial services and lax enforcement of remaining rules
created a housing bubble
creating the mortgage crisis
creating then a credit crisis
devastating industries that rely on credit
from student loans to car dealersfirms that had survived the Great Depression could not survive Bush
those that did got
seven hundred billion dollars
no strings, no transparency
no idea whether it workedunlike the auto bailout
which cut workers' salaries.
a GOP memo called it
a chance to punish unionsbut Bush failed even when his party and his patrons
did not stand to profit
investigators blamed management cost cutting communication
for missed warnings about Columbia
Bush administration convicts include
sex offenders at Homeland Security
convicted liars
every kind of thief in the calendar
and if you count things that were not prosecuted
the vice president of the United States actually
shot a man in the facethe man apologized.
Mr. Bush faked the truth
with paid propaganda in Iraq
on his education policytried to silence the truth about global warming
rocket fuel in our water
industry influence on energy policypoliticized the truth of science at NASA, the EPA,
the National Cancer Institute, Fish and Wildlife
and the FDAhis lies
exposed by whistleblowers from the cabinet down
"complete BS" the treasury secretary said
of Mr. Bush on his tax cuts.Rice's mushroom cloud
Powell's mobile labs
Iraq and 9-11
Jack Abramoff
Jessica LynchPat Tillman
Pat Tillman again
Pat Tillman, again.the air at Ground Zero
most responders still suffering respiratory problems.global warming
carbon emissions
a Clear Skies initiative lowering air quality standards
the Healthy Forests initiative increasing logging
faith based initiatives
the cost of medicare reform
fired US attorneys
politically synchronized terror alertsthe surge causing insurgents to switch sides
that abortion causes breast cancer
that his first recession began under Clinton
that he did not wiretap without warrants
that we do not torture.that American citizen John Walker Lindh's rights
were not violated
that he refused the right to counselheckuva job Brownie
some survivors still in trailers
New Orleans still at just two-thirds its usual populationthe lie that no one could have predicted the economic crisis
except
the economists who did
no one could have predicted 9-11 except
one ass-covering CIA analyst
or thirty
no one could have predicted the levee breach
except literally
Mr. Bill
in a PSA that aired on TV a year before KatrinaBush actually admitted that he lied about not firing Rumsfeld
because he did not want to tell the truth.
look it up.all of it
all of it and more leaving us with
ten trillion in debt
to pay for 31% more in discretionary spending
the Iraq War
a 1.3 trillion dollar tax cutmedian income down two thousand dollars
three-quarters of all income gains under Bush
going to the richest one percent
unemployment up from 4.2 to 7.2 percentthe Dow, down from ten thousand five hundred eighty seven
to eighty two hundred seventy seven
six million now more in poverty
seven million more now without health carebuying toxic goods from China
deadly cribs
outsourcing security to Dubai
still unsecure in our ports
and at our nuclear plants
more dependent on foreign oil
out of the international criminal court
off the anti ballistic missle treaty
military readiness and standards downwith two unfinished wars
a nuclear North Korea
disengaged from the Palestinian problem
destabilizing eastern european diplomacy with
anti missile plans
and unable to keep Russia out of Georgia2000 miles of Appalachian streams
destroyed by rubble from mountaintop mining
at his last G-8 summit,
he actually bid farewell to other world leaders
saying quote—goodbye from the world's greatest polluterconsistently undermining historic American reverence
for the institutions that empower us
education, now "academic elites"
and the law, "activist judges"
capping jury awardsand Bin Laden?
living today unmolested in a Pakistani safe haven
created by a truce endorsed and defended by George W. Bushand among all the gifts he gave to Bin Laden
the most awful, the most damaging not just to America
but to the American ideal
was to further Bin Laden's goal
by making us act out of fear rather than fortitudeleaving us with precious little to cling to tonight
save the one thing that might yet suffice:hope.
It was the GOP who had control of both Houses for the majority of the past eight years, IP. And I agree that any elected official from either side of the political spectrum who didn't have the country's best interests as their primary goal, has to share in the culpability of the fiasco that we as a nation find ourselves in today.
I repeat: the Republican (and Republican lite) ideology is sterile, hollow and dangerous. I'll take the ideology of FDR and JFK over the ideology of Reagan and Bush any day.
We will just have to agree to disagree, IP.
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Your beloved political party
by IP_SEC inwhy don't you see that political parties are pure ideology?
that they are intended to separate us?
republicans vs democrats.
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Marjorie
Oh Jeff, I thought I had made myself clear. My mistake. I was speaking about corporatist-leaning elected officials, from both parties.
And I truly don't know of any Republican politician that will put the welfare of the American people over the needs of the corporations.
Neither party is perfect (nothing is), but history shows that the Republican ideology is sterile and hollow, and above all, dangerous.
The last eight years more than bear witness to this fact.
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Isn't It Something That JWs Can't Think Without The Watchtower's Permission?
by minimus inmy mother told me that my beloved headstrong jw aunt was crying up a storm because of sunday's watchtower lessons on how to treat someone who has left the flock and treat them with kindness in hope of their return.
my aunt thought immediately of me and how nasty she is to my existence, taking the lead in totally ignoring me in her presence.. so now she feels awful about her treatment....but why???
simply because a watchtower article told her so.
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Marjorie
To answer your question, no.
If the Borg told the r & f to "exterminate all of those heathen apostates", 99% of them would not hesitate.
Come to think of it, they already do that. I believe it's the slow assassination that's called shunning.
Can't you just feel the love?
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Singing at JW funerals
by keyser soze inmy sister's husband passed away last week, and the funeral was last saturday.
after the typical commercial for the wts, the speaker invited those in the audience to join in singing song #15(life without end at last).
they passed out lyrics to the song to those without songbooks.
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Marjorie
Oh Keyser, such sad news. Please accept my heartfelt condolences.
Was your BIL baptised?
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Your beloved political party
by IP_SEC inwhy don't you see that political parties are pure ideology?
that they are intended to separate us?
republicans vs democrats.
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Marjorie
I believe there to be both, decent and corrupt politicians on both sides of the political spectrum.
Keyser, while I would absolutely concur that there are individual Democrats that suffer from the same corporatist mindset as the Republicans (DINOS or Blue Dogs), I don't know of a single Republican that would actually put the well-being of his/her fellow American first. The one that comes the closest would be Chuck Hagel, but even he doesn't win the cigar, having voted with his party 78.1% of the time. The rest of them have to be forced, kicking and screaming, to do the right thing.
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Your beloved political party
by IP_SEC inwhy don't you see that political parties are pure ideology?
that they are intended to separate us?
republicans vs democrats.
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Marjorie
Beks, I'd love to get together for lunch!
However, 'twould take some planning, as there's quite a bit of distance between us ...
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Your beloved political party
by IP_SEC inwhy don't you see that political parties are pure ideology?
that they are intended to separate us?
republicans vs democrats.
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Marjorie
Repubs: Let's take care of the rich.
Dems: Let's take care of everyone.
Very few areas of life are so starkly dissimilar, as the differences between the political parties and their ideology. It really is a black or white comparison.
There really are no redeeming qualities about the Republican Party. None.
Repubs: Regressive, hidebound to poorly-functioning ideology (remind you of any one that you know? ), the party of xenophobia, racism, torture.
Dems: Progressive, open-minded, the party of liberalism, habeas corpus, workers' rights, social justice.
Night and day, IP. Night and day.
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DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME?
by Mary ini just got some awful news.
my jw brother in law has been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndrome.
needless to say, we are all extremely upset as it is a potentially life-threatening illness that can turn into leukemia.
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Marjorie
Wow. Oh Mary, I'm so sorry to hear this.
I am relieved to read that feel your sister and BIL will opt for blood transfusions, if necessary. This shows that they are dealing with this situation rationally - I'm quite sure that you are a most positive influence for them.
I will keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.