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  What should upset you the most about high gas prices

  by free2beme in

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  2. friends

  your paying so much in gas right now that it has brought out national economy to its knees, and yet the thing that should upset you this most is this .... the goverment is doing "nothing!".

  not one bill has been passed, plan implemented or action taken.

  all talk and no action, which is why our government needs to be fired and replaced or this country is done.. .

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  Indo_Dude

  Why should the government 'do' anything? This has been a well known issue for 30 years, and yet Americans took the easy way and didn't bother to actually change their habits. You have control over how much oil / petroleum type products you use. There are no 'quick and easy' solutions. Any action taken today will take 5 to 15 years to implement. Why didn't America and the Bush administration do anything post 9/11? I'm glad to see gas where it is and hope to see it go up yet more. $5 a gallon gasoline seems to be a good price to me. Finally, it is making a dent in the consumption side of the equation.

  It didn't have to be painful, but the majority of people stuck their head in the sand while singing Happy Days Are Here Again and buying full sized trucks/vans/SUVs and moving 40 miles away from their jobs. Don't like it? Move closer to your job. Get a new job. Buy a Toyota Prius or Honda Civic. Take mass transit.

  A better question is what are you doing? Have you done anything or are you all talk and no action? Why wait for the government to do something?
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  Dog meat off the menu during Beijing Olympics ! :-(

  by Rabbit in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_re_as/ching_dog_meat;_ylt=ah8_uosjv2iq14nhc9jjxxuz.3qa.

  dog meat off the menu during beijing olympics fri jul 11, 11:17 am et .

  canine cuisine is being sent to the doghouse during next month's beijing olympic games.. dog meat has been struck from the menus of officially designated olympic restaurants, and beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from dogs, the official xinhua news agency reported friday.. waiters and waitresses should "patiently" suggest other options to diners who order dog, it said, quoting city tourism bureau vice director xiong yumei.. dog, known in chinese as "xiangrou," or "fragrant meat," is eaten by some chinese for its purported health-giving qualities.. beijing isn't the first olympic host to slap a ban on the dish.. south korea banned dog meat during the 1988 seoul olympics by invoking a law prohibiting the sale of "foods deemed unsightly.

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  Why is dog so much more disgusting than pigs, cows, sheep or other animals? As far as 'sanitary' concerns, if you have ever been to an American kill floor, you won't care about how sanitary your local greasy spoon is.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsRQCdBRFSo&eurl

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWmAJlwLnQI&feature=related
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  Who owns the wts?

  by Fisherman in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  "the wts has billions.

  " if it came down to distributing wts assets, who would get all the money and property?

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  No one gets to cash out like that. There are very strict rules about non-profit incorporations.

  http://business.venexus.com/Services/BusinessCreationSystem/Incorporation/BusinessEntityMatrix/tabid/129/Default.aspx

  Nonprofit corporations cannot be sold. If the corporation's directors decide to dissolve it, all debts and obligations must be satisfied, and assets must be distributed to another tax-exempt nonprofit corporation.
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  My Dad's "Annual" Letter to his Wayward son...

  by str8?so is spaghetti..until you heat it up in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  so it appears my dad is keeping track of when i left.

  he has mailed me a letter - the first contact in over 6 months - because it has been a year since i left the borg.. for the sake of explanation, dad is a third gen witness and has been an elder all of my life - po in most of the congs i was in.. yesterday i received a letter from him, it began with "hi boy, this is your annual newsletter of births,deaths, marriages etc so thata you know what is going on with the family" and then went on to recount the family news for the year.

  it was actually very touching and made me cry.

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  Since it's only been 6 months you may be able to keep prying that door open more and more.

  Include pictures too if you can that show you happy, smiling, etc.
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  Is anyone working on a book?

  by Mickey mouse in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  i was looking through some old threads and noticed that barbara anderson was in the process of writing a book last year.

  has she had it published yet?

  is anyone else working on any books?

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  Indo_Dude

  My life adventure is really suited more for a mini-series or after school TV special. LOL
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  A Buddhist Monk in NY

  by JeffT in

  1. social
  2. humour

  got this on another board in response to reposting john doe's joke.. buddhist monk walks up to a hot dog wagon, hands the vendor a twenty and says, "make me one with everything.

  vendor sticks the twenty in his pocket and hands the monk a hot dog.

  monk stands there looking at the vendor, waiting.

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  Indo_Dude

  A Buddhist Monk eating a hot dog? That's funny in of itself. :)
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  USA spent 1 Trillion dollars on war with Iraq and Afgans, good investment??

  by Witness 007 in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  in foxnews reports show the usa has and will continue to spend 1 trillion dollars on the war effort.

  with no end in site in either country for maybe the next 10 years, do you think they could have avioded this and spent this elsewhere...can you imagine 900 billion spent on american healthcare or homeland security?

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  $1 trillion doesn't even cover it. Most all experts agree at a minimum the war will cost around $2.5 trillion to as high as $3.5 trillion. Once Congress passes the funding for the war to last until spring of next year our hard costs will be about $750 billion just on the military effort. But one also has to add in the other costs that must be borne, including but not limited to:

  The additional interest on the debt incurred financing the war.

  Paying for healthcare and making disability payments for the next 30 to 50 years for all 31,000 wounded (so far) in the war.

  Additional veteran's benefits war time action merits.

  Replacing weapons systems prematurely worn out and lost in combat.

  Death and survivor benefits payment for those killed in action for all of their family and children

  And the list goes on and on. This author wrote a book about it, called 'The $3 Trillion War'.

  http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2008/04/stiglitz200804
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  Wow-I didn't know.

  by QuestioningEverything in

  1. jw
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  i am shocked and saddened by the things that i have learned from this website and a few others i've seen.

  my grandma was a witness and my mom started to study seriously when i was 8 yrs.

  i was baptised at 13-way too young.

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  Indo_Dude

  Welcome!

  I think your thoughts are normal. Once we find out something we were so sure was real, is shown to be an illusion, we have to rethink everything we think we know.
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  Why a college education is bad

  by TooBad TooSad in

  1. watchtower
  2. scandals

  at our recent butt numbing, mind dulling, sleep inducing district assembly on saturday morning there.

  was a talk where the speaker said that we are going to make a list that shows the contrast between.

  jehovah's organization and satan's organization.

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  Indo_Dude

  Satan da Debil is lurking everywhere!

  College gives you critical reasoning and thinking skills. It challenges your preconceived notions and forces you to examine your core beliefs. Also, using the internet is a necessary thing in college.

  The Dubs are facing what many other religions have faced in the past. Knowledge is power. Previously many churches were the only source of knowledge. The Dubs have nothing to offer anyone anymore, and their beliefs are laughable given the history of their teachings, that is all laid out in detail on the net.
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  30,000 US troops to go home in July.

  by BurnTheShips in

  1. social
  2. current

  http://66.111.34.180/look/english/article.tpl?idlanguage=1&idpublication=4&nrarticle=82678&nrissue=2&nrsection=1.

  weird!?

  for some bizarre reason this news didn't make any headlines in the us today.

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  Indo_Dude

  The 30,000 troops returning home has nothing to do with any events, or status on the ground in Iraq. Those 30,000 soldiers have hit MAXIMUM TIME IN A COMBAT ZONE time limit. It has no bearing on if Iraq is better, worse or the same. Those troops were going home no matter what. What was 'sold' to the American people as a "few month" surge, turned into the maximum time possible under deployment limitations.

  As far as the 'surge working' that's pretty stupid to state. The stated goal of the surge was to reduce violence so the govt of Iraq could get their shit together. Has violence been reduced? Duh. If the state of Texas (which is about the population of Iraq) hired another 30,000 police officers don't you think crime will go down? Ok, violence was reduced, what did the govt of Iraq do during this time? Not much to nothing at all by any measurement. a

  We can't replace those 30,000 troops even if we wanted to. Why? Because we have no more troops to rotate in. That's why!