Well sure Philip. If you had a brain tumor. You'd want it removed. But not by taking a shotgun blast to that part of yoru head. People want reform. Just not this thing.
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Health Care Reform Bill Passes - Now What?
by BizzyBee incelebration for some and gnashing of teeth for others.
some are feeling angry and wounded tonight.
some are celebrating vindication after much rhetoric and inaccuracies.
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Health Care Reform Bill Passes - Now What?
by BizzyBee incelebration for some and gnashing of teeth for others.
some are feeling angry and wounded tonight.
some are celebrating vindication after much rhetoric and inaccuracies.
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CNN POLL: 59% of Americans oppose ObamaCare.
As Congress was debating, and ultimately passing, the health care reform bill, CNN was conducting a poll that has some very interesting results:
20. As you may know, the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate are trying to pass final legislation that would make major changes in the country’s health care system. Based on what you
have read or heard about that legislation, do you generally favor it or generally oppose it?Mar 19-21 2010
Favor 39%
Oppose 59%
No opinion 2%21. (IF OPPOSE) Do you oppose that legislation because you think its approach toward health care is too liberal, or because you think it is not liberal enough?
QUESTIONS 20 AND 21 COMBINED
Mar 19-21 2010
Favor (from Question 20) 39%
Oppose, too liberal 43%
Oppose, not liberal enough 13%
No opinion 5%This is pretty extraordinary.
I don’t think there has ever been a time in American history when such an unpopular piece of legislation has become law by such a narrow, and completely partisan margin. The political consequences could be very interesting.
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When being Fiscally Conservative means Raising Taxes
by Elsewhere inmy politics boil down to two simple things:.
1. i'm fiscally conservative.
because the public wanted them, yet are not willing to pay for them through higher taxes.
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Lower Bill Gates taxes and he will spend some, but save most of it.
Where does the money go? Where does all of it go? Does Bill Gates stuff it in a mattress? Where does the money go, and what does it do when it gets there?
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When being Fiscally Conservative means Raising Taxes
by Elsewhere inmy politics boil down to two simple things:.
1. i'm fiscally conservative.
because the public wanted them, yet are not willing to pay for them through higher taxes.
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B-Rock
1. I'm Fiscally Conservative
You are not, you just think you are.
We must be willing to raise taxes in order to pay for it.
No, you want to raise revenues. Do you undertand the difference? If you raise taxes now, you are going to tank an already hurting economy. Get it?
You want to raise revenues. You need to grow the economy to do that. Not raise taxes. Which will shrink your revenue because it will slow the growth of the economy.
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Camels werent domesticated during Abraham's time?
by cyberjesus inone of the many factors that made me loose faith in the bible was the fact that camels were not domesticated during abrahams era.
i read this on the book "the bible unearthead".
do you know of any other evidence that shows camels were domesticated after 1000 bce.
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http://nabataea.net/camel.html
Jus sayin'
THE CAMEL
ANCIENT SHIP OF THE DESERT
And the NabataeansFor centuries the Nabataeans moved goods in the desert by camel caravan. The camel was the backbone of their merchant enterprise, and it is only through understanding the camel, that we can better understand the Nabataeans. While the Nabataeans are mostly remembered in the west for the ancient city of Petra, the Nabataeans themselves etched graffiti on many of the rocks and wadi walls of the Middle East. Many of these inscriptions bear reference to or pictures of camels and are the items that the common people left behind in their own memory.
As one begins to understand the camel, and how the life of desert merchants revolved around the camel, much like the life of the Bedouin of the last century revolves around the camel, then many obscure aspects of Nabataean life come to light.
Origin of the Arabian Camel
The Bedouin of Arabia have a strange legend about the origins of the camel. According to them, it was the Jews, not the Bedouins who had camels first in antiquity. The legend says that the Jews lived in the mountains of the Hijaz, while the Bedouins lived in the deserts. They Bedouins kept horses and rode them in their raids, but they avoided the mountains for fear of losing their way in the mountainous ravines. For some reason, the Bedouins once mounted a raid on the Jews in the mountains, because they had a guide who claimed to know every mountain and pass. But the Bedouin had no sooner entered the mountains that their guide lost his way and they began to wander aimlessly. After several days, they became so starved that they killed some of their horses and ate them. After some time, they came across a traveler who led them by night along winding canyons until they came to a plain where the Jews lived.
When they came to the plain, surrounded by hills, they discovered the many tents of the Jews. In front of the tents were strange animals that the Bedouin had never seen before. These were camels, known to the Bedouin as al-vil. The Bedouins hid until sunrise and then attacked the Jews in the early morning by surprise. The Jews fled by every possible means, and with them, they took their female camels, which the Bedouin call maghaatiir. The Bedouin then looted the Jew's tents, and what camels remained. They noticed that all the camels that remanded were zurq camels, those which had some black hairs mixed in with their white coats. These camels had not fled with their masters and the Bedouin were loath to keep them. Their leader ordered the camels slaughtered because they had remained behind their masters. The Bedouin then chased the group of Jews, defeated them, and took their female camels. Since that time the Jews have had no camels to raise, and instead became farmers or tenders of sheep and goats. The Bedouin however slaughtered all white camel calves with black hairs from that day forward. The Bedouin also say that the Jews used to fill containers with water, and put them outside their homes, hoping their camels would return. From this story the ancient Bedouin proverbs developed for something one does not expect to attain or achieve, rajw al-hihuud min al-bil. or "the Jews hope for the camels."
Zoologists tell us that the camel is not of Arab origin despite it's long connection with Arab life. They maintain that in earliest times, before its domestication the camel was unknown in Arabia. Its original habitat was America, where fossils of ancient camels are found, along with the camel's close brother, the Llama survived. (Hitti, Jurji, and Jabbur, History of the Arabs page 22)
The Camel's History
Camel fossils are also found in India, Kashmir, and Algeria. There is a good possibility that the camels of Arabia were originated in North Africa. (Arthur G. Leonard, The Camel, London and New York, 1894, page 2)
Scholars state the earliest known representation of the camel dates back to the Stone Age. This is found in two carvings in a place called Kilwa in Jabal Tubayq on the eastern boarder of Jordan. In one of the inscriptions the camel appears clearly in the background behind an ibex, and is of the same single humped variety known today as the Arabian camel. (Hitti, History of Syria, page 52)
It is interesting to note that the camel is hardly ever mentioned in any of the Assyrian texts, even though they contain tens of thousands of letters and economic narratives dating from between 1800 to 1200 BC. (Harold A. McClure, The Arabian Peninsula and Prehistoric Populations, Miami, 1971, page 49, and Gauthier-Pilters, Hilda and Dagg, The Camel,, pages 115-116)
It seems that the camel must have been domesticated in North Africa and then made its way into Arabia during antiquity. Some have speculated that it may have been Abraham that brought camels from Egypt to Arabia, but there is no evidence to substantiate this.There is a picture of a camel, with a rider on its back, found in the ruins of Tall Halaf in Iraq, which dates back to between 3000 and 2900 BC. (M.F. von Oppenheim, Der Tell Halaf, Leipzig, 1931, page140). In Byblos, in Lebanon, small Egyptian figurines of camels have been found that dates back to around 2500 BC.
The Old Testament tells us in Genesis 12:16 that Abram had camels in Egypt. Later in Genesis 24:10-11, 30:43; 31:3 also mention camels in relation to Abraham's family life.
In the biblical story of Joseph (Genesis 37:25) tells us of the Ishmaelites who used camels to carry tragacanth gum, spices, balsam and myrrh to Egypt. Later in Judges 7:12 we read how Gideon killed who of the leaders of the Midianites, Amalekites and the other people of the east, who had innumerable camels. Gideon took the crescent shaped ornaments that were on the necks of the camels. (8:21). It also mentions that the camels of the easterners had collars on their necks. (8:26)
The Bible also mentions camels in the account of the queen of Sheba, and in the book of Job, who had 3000 camels before his troubles and 6000 afterwards. (Job 1:3, 42:12). The Bible also mentions that the Reubenites and Gadites and the half tribe of Manassa plundered 50,000 camels from the Hagarites. (I Chronicles 5:18-21)
Later, the Assyrian king Salmanasser III left an inscription with reference to his campaign into Syria and his clash with the armies of its rulers at Qarqar, north of Hamah in 855 BC. The inscription mentions that he destroyed ten thousand camels of Gendibu (Jundub) the Arab (Hitti, History of the Arabs, page 37).
It seems that by this time the camel was already an indispensable part of Arabian life.
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Democrats get twice the talk time as the Republicans.
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"This is sooo boring! Let's just get this charade over with already so I can Rahm it through"
After a brief period of consultation following the White House health reform summit , congressional Democrats plan to begin making the case next week for a massive, Democrats-only health-care plan, party strategists told POLITICO.
A Democratic official said the six-hour summit was expected to “give a face to gridlock, in the form of House and Senate Republicans.”
Democrats plan to begin rhetorical, and perhaps legislative, steps toward the Democrats-only, or reconciliation , process early next week, the strategists said.
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Elton John declared that Jesus was gay.
by Gerard inhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8523538.stm.
sir elton john says jesus was super-intelligent gay mansir elton john has claimed jesus was a "super-intelligent gay man" in an interview with a us magazine.. the singer also told parade jesus was "compassionate", forgiving and "understood human problems".
a spokesman for the church of england said: "sir elton's reflection that jesus calls us all to love and forgive is one shared by all christians.
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This Jesus guy, he just transcends barriers, doesn't he?
White:
Black:
Asian.
Indian.
Native American.
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No global warming for 15 years, a key scientist admitted
by MegaDude inthis scam just keeps getting more and more exposed.. .
article below:.
http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/158214.
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To the self rigteous imbecilic Global Warming Deniers who think they know everything.
I'm not a denier, I am a skeptic. And let me add, all the ridiculous errors and omissions your side has included to make its case is as pitiful as it is hilarious. It has only served to make me more skeptical regarding the claims of the warmists. And I am not alone, public opinion has been moving strongly against Warmist claims since the lies, deception, and stupidity in the movement has been exposed.
So to those who are sincerely interested in the subject, enjoy. To the rest of the mind f*ckable vagina brains who have Exxon Mobile's propaganda cock in their heads, you could simply die in your ignorance. Oh, and start preparing your excuses for the next 10 years of summers and winters as Nature's reality keeps contradicting your psychotic, brainwashed view of things. You will be in denial to the end.
The language of desperation. The only thing we are going to be doing for the next 10 years is figuring our how to reform the peer review system so that you religionists can't game it anymore.
Oh, and we'll be having a lot of laughter and jokes at your expense, too.
