Well they're going to have to do something. How high will the numbers have to go before they do something dramatic? As I stated before on another thread, imo this issue is more important to their house of cards than the issues of 1914 and the generation thing put together.
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Memorial partakers
by etna ini think its probably too soon, but if anyone knows how many partakers of the emblems this year?.
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WOODS UPDATE - "WIFE TO STAND BY HER MAN"
by Bourne inhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1234649/tiger-woods-wife-says-shell-stand-man-admen-running-cover.html.
poor elin.. bourne.
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After an eventful 144-day break from competitive golf, Woods is back on course at the Masters.
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4/07/2010 2:43 PM ET By Mick Elliott
Mick Elliott is a Golf Writer for FanHouse
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- To say it mildly, Augusta National chairman Billy Payne has issues with Tiger Woods.
In the chairman's annual media address before Thursday's opening round of the Masters, Payne acknowledged the golf greatness of the four-time Green Jacket winner, but then followed it with stinging criticism.
"We are not unaware of the significance of this week to a very special player, Tiger Woods," Payne said. "A man who in a brief 13 years clearly and emphatically proclaimed and proved his game to be worthy of the likes of Bobby Jones, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. As he ascended in our ranking of the world's great golfers, he became an example to our kids that success is directly attributable to hard work and effort.
"But as he now says himself, he forgot in the process to remember that with fame and fortune comes responsibility, not invisibility. It is not simply the degree of his conduct that is so egregious here. It is the fact that he disappointed all of us, and more importantly, our kids and our grandkids. Our hero did not live up to the expectations of the role model we saw for our children."
As irony would have it, Payne's comments came on the same day that a new National Inquirer story alleges Woods' list of adulterous affairs includes the daughter of a next-door neighbor. Woods is said to have known the woman, now a 22-year-old college student, since she was 14 years old.
The woman is quoted saying she was seduced in Woods' office, where a baby crib was set up.
"Is there a way forward?" Payne continued. "I hope yes. I think yes. But certainly his future will never again be measured only by his performance against par; but measured by the sincerity of his efforts to change.
"I hope he can come to understand that life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who bring joy to the lives of other people. We at Augusta hope and pray that our great champion will begin his new life here tomorrow in a positive, hopeful and constructive manner. But this time with a significant difference from the past. This year, it will not be just for him, but for all of us, who believe in second chances."
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Health Care In America, how will the Vote go Today
by designs inthe country is polarized on this new bill yet we have social medicine in several forms already- medicare, veterans care, state programs etc... will it be a watershed moment like the equal rights of the 60s or just blend in with other ongoing systems.. we need change in the cost of medicine.. my father died as a result of a stroke brought on by the lack of a blood transfusion in a 'bloodless' hospital, his atena insurance was exhausted there and he spent his final days being cared for very well in a veterans hospital.
and that was that.. .
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HERE'S TO YOUR HEALTH.....http://www.sott.net/articles/show/206251-America-The-Grim-Truth
"Americans, I have some bad news for you:
You have the worst quality of life in the developed world - by a wide margin.
If you had any idea of how people really lived in Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many parts of Asia, you'd be rioting in the streets calling for a better life. In fact, the average Australian or Singaporean taxi driver has a much better standard of living than the typical American white-collar worker.
I know this because I am an American, and I escaped from the prison you call home.
I have lived all around the world, in wealthy countries and poor ones, and there is only one country I would never consider living in again: The United States of America. The mere thought of it fills me with dread.
Consider this: you are the only people in the developed world without a single-payer health system. Everyone in Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand has a single-payer system. If they get sick, they can devote all their energies to getting well. If you get sick, you have to battle two things at once: your illness and the fear of financial ruin. Millions of Americans go bankrupt every year due to medical bills, and tens of thousands die each year because they have no insurance or insufficient insurance. And don't believe for a second that rot about America having the world's best medical care or the shortest waiting lists: I've been to hospitals in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Singapore, and Thailand, and every one was better than the "good" hospital I used to go to back home. The waits were shorter, the facilities more comfortable, and the doctors just as good.
This is ironic, because you need a good health system more than anyone else in the world. Why? Because your lifestyle is almost designed to make you sick.
Let's start with your diet: Much of the beef you eat has been exposed to fecal matter in processing. Your chicken is contaminated with salmonella. Your stock animals and poultry are pumped full of growth hormones and antibiotics. In most other countries, the government would act to protect consumers from this sort of thing; in the United States, the government is bought off by industry to prevent any effective regulations or inspections. In a few years, the majority of all the produce for sale in the United States will be from genetically modified crops, thanks to the cozy relationship between Monsanto Corporation and the United States government. Worse still, due to the vast quantities of high-fructose corn syrup Americans consume, fully one-third of children born in the United States today will be diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes at some point in their lives.
Of course, it's not just the food that's killing you, it's the drugs. If you show any sign of life when you're young, they'll put you on Ritalin. Then, when you get old enough to take a good look around, you'll get depressed, so they'll give you Prozac. If you're a man, this will render you chemically impotent, so you'll need Viagra to get it up. Meanwhile, your steady diet of trans-fat-laden food is guaranteed to give you high cholesterol, so you'll get a prescription for Lipitor. Finally, at the end of the day, you'll lay awake at night worrying about losing your health plan, so you'll need Lunesta to go to sleep.
With a diet guaranteed to make you sick and a health system designed to make sure you stay that way, what you really need is a long vacation somewhere. Unfortunately, you probably can't take one. I'll let you in on little secret: if you go to the beaches of Thailand, the mountains of Nepal, or the coral reefs of Australia, you'll probably be the only American in sight. And you'll be surrounded crowds of happy Germans, French, Italians, Israelis, Scandinavians and wealthy Asians. Why? Because they're paid well enough to afford to visit these places AND they can take vacations long enough to do so. Even if you could scrape together enough money to go to one of these incredible places, by the time you recovered from your jetlag, it would be time to get on a plane and rush back to your job.
If you think I'm making this up, check the stats on average annual vacation days by country:
Finland: 44
Italy: 42
France: 39
Germany: 35
UK: 25
Japan: 18
USA: 12
The fact is, they work you like dogs in the United States. This should come as no surprise: the United States never got away from the plantation/sweat shop labor model and any real labor movement was brutally suppressed. Unless you happen to be a member of the ownership class, your options are pretty much limited to barely surviving on service-sector wages or playing musical chairs for a spot in a cubicle (a spot that will be outsourced to India next week anyway). The very best you can hope for is to get a professional degree and then milk the system for a slice of the middle-class pie. And even those who claw their way into the middle class are but one illness or job loss away from poverty. Your jobs aren't secure. Your company has no loyalty to you. They'll play you off against your coworkers for as long as it suits them, then they'll get rid of you.
Of course, you don't have any choice in the matter: the system is designed this way. In most countries in the developed world, higher education is either free or heavily subsidized; in the United States, a university degree can set you back over US$100,000. Thus, you enter the working world with a crushing debt. Forget about taking a year off to travel the world and find yourself - you've got to start working or watch your credit rating plummet.
If you're "lucky," you might even land a job good enough to qualify you for a home loan. And then you'll spend half your working life just paying the interest on the loan - welcome to the world of American debt slavery. America has the illusion of great wealth because there's a lot of "stuff" around, but who really owns it? In real terms, the average American is poorer than the poorest ghetto dweller in Manila, because at least they have no debts. If they want to pack up and leave, they can; if you want to leave, you can't, because you've got debts to pay.
All this begs the question: Why would anyone put up with this? Ask any American and you'll get the same answer: because America is the freest country on earth. If you believe this, I've got some more bad news for you......" -
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Compare the New Worlds Translation with all of these!
by wannabe injames 5:7 (holman christian standard bible).
james 5:8 (holman christian standard bible).
2 peter 1:16 (holman christian standard bible).
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Compare NWT rendering of Luke 2:33 Jesus is refered to as IT!
Every other translation I know of, including the Diaglott, says HIM!
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'Not defiled by women in fact they are virgins' ??
by Heartofaboy in.
can anyone enlighten me what these words at rev 14:4 means?.
this scripture was read at the memorial last night to prove the anointed come from the earth but the 'not defiled by women in fact they are virgins' part was glossed over..
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"The WTS teaches that the 144,000 of Rev 7:4 and Rev 14:3 is to be taken literally. If these passages in scripture are to be taken literally, then the 144,000 are all literally male (Rev 14:4), Jewish (Rev 7:4-8), virgins (Rev 14:4). Was Charles Taze Russell a Jewish virgin? Are all women excluded from this number? Are any of the other 144,000 people included in this number Jewish virgins? If not, then how can this passage, including the number 144,000, be taken literally? What justification is there for switching methods of interpretation from literal, in the case of Rev 7:4 and 14:3, to figurative in the very next verse(s)?"
Blondie nailed it. Forget anything the wtbt$ has to say-
better go back and look at the Tabernacle which jw's are clueless about.
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Obamacare loophole
by B-Rock injoin the amish.
http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/250426.
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· REVIEW & OUTLOOK
· MARCH 27, 2010
The ObamaCare Writedowns
The corporate damage rolls in, and Democrats are shocked!
"It's been a banner week for Democrats: ObamaCare passed Congress in its final form on Thursday night, and the returns are already rolling in. Yesterday AT&T announced that it will be forced to make a $1 billion writedown due solely to the health bill, in what has become a wave of such corporate losses.
This wholesale destruction of wealth and capital came with more than ample warning. Turning over every couch cushion to make their new entitlement look affordable under Beltway accounting rules, Democrats decided to raise taxes on companies that do the public service of offering prescription drug benefits to their retirees instead of dumping them into Medicare. We and others warned this would lead to AT&T-like results, but like so many other ObamaCare objections Democrats waved them off as self-serving or "political."On top of AT&T's $1 billion, the writedown wave so far includes Deere & Co., $150 million; Caterpillar, $100 million; AK Steel, $31 million; 3M, $90 million; and Valero Energy, up to $20 million. Verizon has also warned its employees about its new higher health-care costs, and there will be many more in the coming days and weeks.
As Joe Biden might put it, this is a big, er, deal for shareholders and the economy. The consulting firm Towers Watson estimates that the total hit this year will reach nearly $14 billion, unless corporations cut retiree drug benefits when their labor contracts let them........."http://dailyradar.com/beltwayblips/story/the-obamacare-writedowns/
Subject: FW: New ARMY Hidden In The "Healthcare" Bill! VERY SERIOUS!!! (AND NOT REPORTED BY WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS )
And what's that got to do with Improving your Health Care and lowering your premiums..!!?He also will have the power to deploy them to anything HE want's
To PUT DOWN... Germany 1939 Hitler had a Private Army seperate from the regular Germany army.... called "The Brown Shirts" which became the "Nazis"...
Strange how this is Buried on pg. 1312 of this more than 2000 pg bill... Wonder why He didn't bring "this point" up during his Health Care "cheerleading" Speeches...??? How much more is buried in this Bill... Well, guess we'll find out.....
This is a copy of the Senate bill that was approved Sunday night. Pg 1312 are the forces mentioned.
IT LOOKS LIKE B.O. JUST GOT HIS OWN PRIVATE ARMY.
SEC. 430. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS. SEC. 430. ESTABLISHING A READY RESERVE CORPS.
Section 20 3 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 20 4) is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 20 3. COMMISSIONED CORPS AND READY RESERVE CORPS.(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—There shall be in the Service a commissioned Regular Corps and a Ready Reserve Corps for service in time of national emergency.You Can Read the entire bill here:
http://democrats.senate.gov/reform/patient-protection-affordable-care-act-as-passed.pdf
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Memorial 2010 Your Experiences
by scotinsw injust got back from memorial.
only went so that i could say to my parents that i had gone and to remind myself why i left.. oh my word!!!
it was sooooo painful.. got there a bit late - it was a couple of minutes into the talk.
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Joshnaz
Post 317 of 317
Since 4/15/2009partakers:
8,524 for 2005
8,758 for 2006
9,105 for 2007
9,986 for 2008
10,400 for 2009
WOW!
What are the options the borg has in dealing with these embarrassing partaker numbers? They're going to have to deal with it before things get way out of control, like having 50,000 in one year. It seems like they're going to have to admit error one way or the other. Either they've been wrong theologially, or admit to having been blind for allowing so many false witnesses into the borg who are obviously apostate. But to admit error is against corporate policy, because that would implicate their spiritual claim of authority. My guess is that there could really be a blood letting, because to me, these partaker numbers are more important to their whole house of cards than the generation and 1914 things put together.
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The New "Do More" Kingdom Song
by pirata ininspired by the recent "do more!
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Chorus
Do More! Do More!
You know what's in store
Turn in your time and toe the line
Forevermore.
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How do we identify the Man of Lawlessness?
by wannabe inhow do we identify the man of lawlessness?.
my sole intention in writing this atricle is to expose the governing body of jehovah's witnesses, as the man of lawlessness.. as students of the bible we have come to know that to inherit everlasting life, one must come to know jehovah and his son, jesus christ.
as far as jesus has revealed his father, to that extent we will come to know him, so it's crucial we gain that knowledge.
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Will the Pope Resign? http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/social/current/190825/3/Should-the-Pope-resign
When was the last time there was call for the resignation of a Pope?
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Should the Pope resign?
by slimboyfat inquestions are being raised about whether pope benedict was personally involved in covering up a case of child sex abuse by a roman catholic priest.
documents seen by the new york times newspaper suggest that in the 1990s, long before he became pope, he failed to respond to letters about a us case.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8587082.stm.
that would prove the catholic church is capable of reform, no?
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Will the Pope Resign? It Wouldn't Be Easy, And May Not Be Possible
"Continuing revelations about cases of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy are raising more questions about what Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, did -- or did not do -- about them, both as Archbishop of Munich (1977-1982) and for nearly 24 years as the Vatican's chief guardian of doctrine. That has left many wondering if this is the Catholic Church's version of Watergate -- and if it could end the same way. (Richard Nixon, raised a Quaker, once mused that he'd have made a good pope, and as things worked out for him, you could understand that wish.) As things stand now, and under almost any imaginable scenario, Benedict is not about to resign. Some say he can't. Here are some of the most common questions -- and answers --............Have popes resigned before?...Yes, but not for a long time, and it was never pretty...."