Posts by Gopher

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On CNN today: Acorn engaging in massive vote fraud.

by BurnTheShips in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkukosnv2zy

Gopher

Again, we're talking potential here. As someone told me a long time ago, "potential" is a scary word.

The election judges at the precincts are supposed to impartially make sure that valid registered voters are casting the ballots.

People of both parties die. There are dead Republican and dead Democratic voters on the rolls. That's an administration problem, and again it leads to that scary word "potential" of fraud.

It's interesting that the previous post (from "Top Hat") cited a source that said there was such fraud in the 2004 general election -- the one where Bush won the presidency and took his home state of Texas (including Harris County).

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GT or Golden Age?

by cameo-d in

so how do you view the changes coming?.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5agws6_ugw&feature=related.

Gopher

The video asserts that society will gradually transcend time and money. How? I think we'll always be subject to those things. Like Ben Franklin said, in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes. Life may seem like it's speeding up, but life has always been short and it continues to feel that way now. We have more choices about usage of leisure time -- and whether we make the most of our short life is really up to each of us.

No doubt technology is accelerating. But technology will be useless unless people actually purchase and use it. It will not outpace the market.

I don't think the Fed is trying to impose fear and control. I think they're trying to stem fear. And it's not really working.

I heard this morning on the radio the results of a survey about America's economy. 25% feel panicked, and 70% are "concerned". I'm in the 70%. I think concern is reasonable. I don't think panic is. The market is going through a major but needed adjustment, after which life will return to a more normal and hopefully more sensible rhythm. People will come to understand once again the value of thrift and saving, much as happened during the Great Depression era.

No matter when we live, we should appreciate the preciousness of life. It is special or precious now, and it will continue to be in the future.

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On CNN today: Acorn engaging in massive vote fraud.

by BurnTheShips in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkukosnv2zy

Gopher

I prefer the system we have in Minnesota where you can either pre-register or register on the same day by bringing a valid photo-ID to your precinct's polling place.

This CNN report focused on an issue with registration in the Chicago area. Obama is going to easily carry Chicago and his home state, so I don't see why any trickery needs to be done on his behalf there.

As the woman shown in the registration office said, there is no fraud yet -- only the potential for fraud if the votes were actually carried out. Of course the assumption is that the majority of these new registered voters (real or not) would be Democratic.

There is a massive GOP effort to discredit ACORN, and possibly to disenfranchise actual minority voters: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6480

GOP's ACORN 'Voter Fraud' Lie Ramped Up; State Police Raid ACORN Office in Vegas
I had been intending to post an answer to the ongoing --- and quickly escalating --- ACORN smears being issued of late by the GOP enemies of democracy out there, who have decided to intensify their unsubstantiated assaults on the community organization, given its effectiveness at registering millions of low-income voters across the country.
Today's incredible raid of an ACORN office in Las Vegas --- in hotly contested Nevada, as coincidence would have it --- has forced me to push this to the top of the heap right now. I've also posted ACORN's statement on today's nonsense in Vegas at the end of this article. Note to corporate media: Be sure not to read or report on that part of the story!
With prospects looking bleak for the Republicans this November, pulling out the old ACORN lie --- in hopes of scaring people away from the polls, causing chaos in November by challenging voters when they show up to vote, and putting in place baseless grounds to contest close results later on (when the GOP become "sore losers") --- is just about all they have left at this point.
Doubtless you've heard the smears by now: that ACORN is committing "voter fraud," on behalf of Obama, in hotly contested swing states. The media have been all too happy to pass that garbage on, without bothering to note that, in fact, the organization attempts to authenticate every registration form its workers submit and by law they must turn in every form to election officials --- even if they find a registration to be fraudulent when they call the phone number submitted on the form, or if the forms are otherwise suspect or incomplete.
They do so, and they flag all questionable registration forms as being suspect before turning them in to officials.
The thanks they receive for registering millions of new voters that nobody else has bothered with, and for notifying officials about questionable registration forms when they turn them in, is that the GOP's democracy-hating propagandists and election officials run to the media shouting, "ACORN is committing voter fraud! They've turned in hundreds and thousands of fraudulent registration forms!"
Of course they have. They have to. By law. But what those GOP despots of democracy always forget to mention is that it was ACORN themselves who notified officials about the potentially fraudulent and/or incomplete forms in the first place!...
(blog article continues....)

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Is it the JW's or the God of the bible you no longer believe?

by reniaa in

i have a question for the ex-jw's on this forum after months of reading the forum..... many say how good it is to be free of the oppressiveness of the jw's that they can now enjoy the freedom to... have sex, celebrate christmas, gamble, embrace politics etc.

there are still biblical scriptures and principles in place that if you still followed the bible would mean you avoid these things and yet these are now embraced as one of the perks of no longer being a jw so in my confusion i ask.... if these are what you want, isn't it more correct to say you no longer follow the bible as apposed to just the jw's?.

Gopher

I think the "sex" problem you refer to, Reniaa, is more often a symptom then it is the root of a marital breakup.

If there are deeper relationship problems, then the sex relationship between the married people will suffer. Sex is often a barometer of how the overall relationship is going.

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Reunion with Former Bethelite friend

by jesussaves in

hello board, .

so i had a really good friend go to bethel years ago and he got put out to pasture like so many others.

i procured his telephone number from one of his df'ed family members and sent him a text message asking if he'd like to make contact with an old friend.

Gopher

I just hate he had to throw away 15 years at Bethel. It seems like such a waste.

Some of us threw away more of our adult years in the organization than that. Not that it's any solace. However the main thing is that he's getting free and clear while he is still relatively young. He likely has more than 15 years left to live, and hopefully he'll live it to the fullest. Anything is better than living to satisfy the whims of leaders of a pseudo-religious printing firm.

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Reunion with Former Bethelite friend

by jesussaves in

hello board, .

so i had a really good friend go to bethel years ago and he got put out to pasture like so many others.

i procured his telephone number from one of his df'ed family members and sent him a text message asking if he'd like to make contact with an old friend.

Gopher

Very cool -- to renew a friendship, and to do it on real terms (rather than like when we were JW's, and we had to kind of make sure our friends were still theocratic enough).

I do hope your old friend is on his way out, it sounds promising. He'll need support - and good information, depending on how far along he is in the process.

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How about some music?

by beksbks in

jw
friends

let's forget all this politics for the next 3 hours hmmm?

here's one of my absolute favorite songs.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrcn2yxahoo.

Gopher

Beks,

I read that Woody Guthrie wrote "This Land is Your Land" to wash Kate Smith's "God Bless America" out of his mind! (Don't think he liked Smith's song too much.)

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How about some music?

by beksbks in

jw
friends

let's forget all this politics for the next 3 hours hmmm?

here's one of my absolute favorite songs.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrcn2yxahoo.

Gopher

Sorry, I can't get politics out of my mind.

OK -- as a compromise, here's part of Beethoven's 9th symphony. You'll recognize the first eight beats as the theme to "Countdown with Keith Olbermann" on MSNBC.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAOTCtW9v0M

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OU-Texas Red River Shootout 2008

by sooner7nc in

jw
friends

go sooners!.

let the hatin' begin.

sooner7nc.

Gopher

I favor Oklahoma because it's the alma mater of the Vikings' Adrian Peterson.

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Oh God she's dumb... LOL!

by dawg in

this election is over... no way that performance can't hurt the mccain cause... lol!

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bye bye republicans, at least she's "honest"... lol!

Gopher

Free2 stated:

It has been my experience, without fail, that people who are all acting all freaked out by Palin; never liked her in the begining and were Obama supporters in the first place.

I liked her at the very beginning, in the first day or 2 after she was introduced. I hoped she would be a voice of moderation and reason. She's turned into a shrill attacker with little substance.