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  AGM - did anyone miss this?

  by Anony Mous in

  1. watchtower
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  according to the live blog: god's will to be completed by the end of the millennium.

  very casually said by louche (;-)).

  i think this is one of those things that is supposed to rile up the r&f.

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  The end of the millinium will be in 3001. Not that it makes any difference.
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  39 years down the road (pictures)

  by JeffT in

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  2. friends

  october 6, 1974, outside the kingdom hall in pullman, wa.

  good grief, we look like children.

  friday afternoon on our way to celebrate on whidbey island.

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  Thanks to everyone. When I get them out of the camera, I'll post some pictures of the tirp.

  Shirley, I was 23, she was 22. We'd only been witnesses about a year. I had done my share of running around in college and I was ready to settle down (not at liberty to speak for the wife).
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  39 years down the road (pictures)

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  october 6, 1974, outside the kingdom hall in pullman, wa.

  good grief, we look like children.

  friday afternoon on our way to celebrate on whidbey island.

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  October 6, 1974, outside the Kingdom Hall in Pullman, WA
  
  Good grief, we look like children.
  
  
  
  Friday afternoon on our way to celebrate on Whidbey Island
  
  
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  Going out of town this weekend

  by JeffT in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm going to be off the air this weekend, which means the planned blog entry will be delayed.

  it's our anniversary and the wife apparently expects my full attention.

  we have a cabin on whidbey island rented.

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  I'm going to be off the air this weekend, which means the planned blog entry will be delayed. It's our anniversary and the wife apparently expects my full attention. We have a cabin on Whidbey Island rented.
  
  We need some R&R.
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  Government shut down explained

  by JeffT in

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  A freind of my son's worked in Tech Support at a large computer company that will remain nameless. He took one call that went like this:

  "My computer won't do anything. The monitor is black."

  "What happens when you push the 'on' button."

  "Nothing, I already tried that."

  "Is your computer plugged in?"

  {Sound of furniture moving, cords rattling etc}

  "Shit! Never mind."

  Apparently that happened fairly regularly.
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  What to be for Holloween

  by Found Sheep in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  two years ago i was an angel, last year a cat.

  i am working that day so i need to be "modest".

  yes they let us dress up it's kind of fun.

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  I once considered wearing a bathrobe, slippers, carrying a coffee cup and telling everybody I was dressed as myself on Saturday morning. It was too wet and cold to pull it off.
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  Government shut down explained

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  Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'

  by frankiespeakin in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhw9ui.

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  Generally, we're losing the ability to understand how things work deep down but gaining the ability to work things.

  Case in point: I learned accounting just as desktop computers started becoming commonplace. Most of my training involved green columnar pads and a pocket calculator (itself quite an advance from earlier years). The computer was a tool I used to do to things, most of the actual work went on in my head. In the last few years of working I found more and more recent college graduates that did not really understand debits and credits and fine points of accounting and financial management. The attitude and knowledge was "the computer will do it." Mostly they got along, if the power went out they were lost. Ever watch a grocery store clerk try to count your change when the computer wasn't working?
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  Why our IQ levels are higher than our grandparents'

  by frankiespeakin in

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  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vpqilhw9ui.

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  Snarky answer: they dumbed down the test.

  Serious answer: Measuring IQ is a slippery business, better education may account for better ability to take a test. I would not be surprised that better health care and nutrition are significant factors.
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  So are Republicans now openly terrorists?

  by Simon in

  1. social
  2. current

  they seem determined to undermine the us democracy and shut the government down hurting employees and veterans.. what a despicable bunch, hope they get their asses kicked for what they are doing..

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  The bill was passed in the senate 219–212.

  That would have been an interesting trick since there are only 100 Senators.

  As to what the electorate voted for: The current makeup of the House of Representatives also represents the electorate, just at the local level rather than the entire country. There is considerable opposition to the ACA in various parts of the country.

  I agree with tootired, just let the dems own it. If its the mess the Republicans think its going to be, the Democrats can clean it up.