Try buying diabetic test strips. They cost about .08 cents to produce and sell for almost a buck a piece at Sam's Club.
freydo
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my $1.87 bottle of pepsi at dunkin donuts
by DaCheech ini drive all day at work.. i usually pack my thermos of coffe, but have to stop 2 times a day for a drink.. the other day was dying of 98 degree heat, so i was hard up for a drink.. alas, i saw a dunkin donuts, figured they gotta have something other than cofee.. saw, the frig with soda, and iced teas.............. picked up a 20oz pepsi.. went to pay for it, sir it will be $1.87.
i was thirsty so i paid it promptly.. as i walked away, i wish i could mark up stuff this much.. in my work, i can barely mark stuff up 25-30% and these guys marking this stuff up 300%?.
i can go to supermarket and buy 3 of these for what 1 cost or buy 1 1/2 large bottles.. where is this going?
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freydo
They don't bother anybody except to try and offer you a magazine. Like Amway.
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The Economy for 2010
by oldflame inhello all my jwn friends.. .
i felt the need to share what i have heard recently.
i have a very close friend who has a brother who is an economist.
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freydo
Buffett: Municipal Debt Meltdown Will Hit US
Thursday, 03 Jun 2010 09:18 AM
By: Dan Weil"Add investment legend Warren Buffett to the list of those who warn of a municipal debt meltdown.
Many municipalities have promised overly generous retirement and health benefits to public workers without any viable plans to bring in the money necessary to pay for those benefits. They have assumed unrealistic returns in their pension fund investments and unrealistic revenue from taxes. The Pew Center on the States recently estimated that as of the end of 2008 budget years, states had $1 trillion less than needed to pay for future pensions and medical benefits. And that number doesn’t even reflect much of the losses suffered by pension fund investments in the second half of 2008.
“There will be a terrible problem, and then the question becomes will the federal government help,” Buffett said at a hearing of the U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in New York, Bloomberg reports. “I don’t know how I would rate them myself. It’s a bet on how the federal government will act over time.” In May, Buffett said the feds may end up having to bail out some states from their extreme financial woes.............." -
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The Watchtower And Bernie Madoff, How Different?
by metatron inperhaps one of you theocratic lurkers out there could tell me how the watchtower is different from bernie madoff.. both offered outrageous promises.
both took people's money.
both failed to deliver.. however, bernie madoff was caught and stopped.
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freydo
Where Is Bernie Madoff Still a Hero? Prison
Updated: 7 hours 47 minutes ago
Michelle Ruiz
Contributor(June 6) -- "Bernard Madoff may wear the same standard-issue khakis as the other inmates at North Carolina's Butner Federal Correctional Complex, but to them, he isn't just prisoner No. 61727-054. The $65 billion Ponzi schemer is considered a hero and a celebrity among fellow convicts, solicited for autographs and business advice, New York magazine reports in a feature story on newsstands Monday. Citing interviews with more than two dozen current and former Butner inmates, writer Steve Fishman describes a brazen Madoff who boasts about his crimes to a gaggle of admiring prison "groupies.".............The inside look at Madoff's life in prison paints him as a titan among the "soft" prisoners, including pedophiles and "rats," in his housing unit at Butner, where there are windows without bars overlooking landscaped yards, one inmate said. According to the feature, Butner inmates trailed Madoff as he walked a gravel track during recreational time and even pressed him for his autograph. He has refused to sign them, the magazine said, because he believes they will end up on eBay and does not want inmates making money off his name. (He made an exception for a prison artist who sketched him.)..............."
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Say NO to a mosque at Ground Zero!!
by Scully in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjs0novt3x4&feature=digest.
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freydo
I'd say make them a deal. They can build their mosque if they rebuild the Twin Towers and compensate all the victims and families first as a demonstration of their true intentions. BTW- has Obama said anything about this?
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Say NO to a mosque at Ground Zero!!
by Scully in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjs0novt3x4&feature=digest.
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freydo
Would this be like a group of neo-nazis proposing to build a replica of Auschwitz in downtown Tel Aviv?
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Our Southern Friends- Are you Pissed about the Oil Spill? I Know I Am ...... !
by flipper in......... and i live out here in northern california !
i mean , they go to all that humungous labor, build a huge box to put over the oil gushing out and wham 5,000 ft. deep it gets clogged with ice crystals.
now they are talking about a couple other alternatives in the news- all the while today haliburton, bp, and other reps are meeting with federal officials getting into a pissing match and fight over who is responsible for the spill ?
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Cerberus: Guarding the Gates of Hell - Dynecorp, Pegasus, BP, Goldman Sachs - Gulf Oil Disaster Planned?
"First, this is not an “Air Force Base” — it is a PRIVATELY OWNED FACILITY known as “Reynolds Airpark” a private Airport and “manufacturing facility”. A Mr. Ted McGowan is the manager – and their phone number is: 904-284-3505. Second, these are not “U.N. Vehicles”. These white vans belong to Pegasus International and Cerberus/DynCorp..............Now, for the BAD NEWS —..............Dyncorp Int. was “purchased” back on April 12 by Cerberus Capital, and the “deal” was brokered by, you guessed it, Goldman Sachs who SHORTED TRANSOCEAN STOCKS on April 17, three days before the Gulf Oil debacle began. (See here for more details about that)..........."
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Why should I have to sign a letter saying I want to disassociate ?
by troubled mind ini don't understand why the elders want this letter so badly ....for one i don't remember signing a contract to become a jehovah's witness ,why do i need to resign ?.
also i was baptised in 1978 before the baptism questions changed , i dedicated myself to god not an organization .
my vow was to follow the direction by holy spirit as revealed to me through the bible, not the watchtower ...... if i belonged to the luthern church and quit going after three yrs they drop your name off the member list ........but if i chose to come to easter or christmas service everyonre would still talk to me i just wouldn't be a member any more .. .
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I think for them it's closure. They don't have to do anything. You've done it for them. They have to periodically visit the df'd -which they obviously don't want to do. But I never heard of visiting one who da'd which basically accuses them of apostasy. They don't want to deal with that. For me it was a comfort to kick them out.
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Disfellowshipping - But You KNEW About It Before You Were Baptized!
by Georgiegirl instarted a new topic b/c i didn't want to threadjack another ongoing pointless debate.
:) (isn't it interesting how the apologists all come out around dc time?).
i have seen that statement made over and over again by jws about disfellowshipping.
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freydo
You were never told that absolute loyalty was the primary basis for good standing.
And you were never told that unchecked elder abuse was the method of enforcement and that it was systematic.
And you were never told the consequences and that it was all unscriptural.
So df'g was just a just word without meaning.
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Why do I suddenly get stupid when the elders talk to me
by JWinprotest indoes anyone else have the same problem.
when i'm alone, i am constantly thinking about all the clever things i'm going to say if visited by the elders, but when i actually get confronted, these things never come to mind, and i keep spitting out drivel like some dumb idiot.
after they leave, i rethink the conversation, and i'm furious over all the oppotunities i've missed to put them in their place.......damn it!!!!!
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freydo
What do they have to say that is so all powered intimidating unless you're guilty of immorality? MEEETINGS, MEETINGS, MEETINGS, FIELD SERVICE FIELD SERVICE, FIELD SERVICE. And what's compulsory about any of that? Nothing, but if you disagree you've shown APOSTATE LEANINGS.
So they're hitting you with something unscriptural to begin with, with the threat of excommunication if you slightly disagree by word or action.
Psychologically that's a pretty unsettling situation because it's bullying. You're playing their game and it's their rules.
They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose. So you either fold or go all in with a pair of 2's.
