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  Bragging Rights or I'll Try Not To Be Too Obnoxious

  by HadEnuf in

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  dear friends from wi (and i know you're lurking out there in cheesehead land)!

  tomorrow night at 7 pm (april 6), my son's band, tree of woe, will have their first single off their new cd played on 95.5 wifc here in central wi.

  every week they choose a new song to play and people call in to vote on whether or not they like it.

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  sorry...that's the right page...on it, there's a link for where you can submit music. It's a great way to get some limited national exposure. I live in Nashville....I see people all the time trying to break into the music biz and how hard it is. I figure that quite a few people don't know much about satellite radio programming, but this is one of the best things that they've done to "keep it real" in the music biz.

  Hope that helps some too. I listened to mushroom cloud and it was pretty good. I'd love to check out some of their harder edged stuff. That song kind of reminded me of the band Coldplay. It should be very appealing for the mainstream pop / rock stations.

  Good luck...and you've all got lots to be proud of.

  Ern
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  Bragging Rights or I'll Try Not To Be Too Obnoxious

  by HadEnuf in

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  dear friends from wi (and i know you're lurking out there in cheesehead land)!

  tomorrow night at 7 pm (april 6), my son's band, tree of woe, will have their first single off their new cd played on 95.5 wifc here in central wi.

  every week they choose a new song to play and people call in to vote on whether or not they like it.

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  CoonDawg

  You should also...(this is just another suggestion to promote the success of new music) ... go to XM Satellite Radio's website. Here's a link...
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  Ozzie's Weekend Poll #130

  by ozziepost in

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  so how's things with you?

  it's been one of those weeks, hasn't it?

  i'm sure many who are roman catholics are feeling a sense of loss and wondering how they will cope with change to a new pope.

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  I'll spend more time reading other magazines....like Automobile, Motor Trend, Sports Car and others like that. Maybe I'll spend more time at the track. I'll spend more time doing most anything but reading Awake magazine.

  Ern
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  If there is a global catastrophe how will JW structure survive?

  by Qcmbr in

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  i presume the jws believe that the 'times of trouble' will be 7 years or something like that - during that time what provisions have the jw organisation made to stay up and running?

  seems to me that if communications fail the local congs will be pretty much stiffed without their weekly magazine study.

  does the jw org teach any form of physical preparedness or is it every publisher for themselves?.

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  The way that the congregation is organized with the component of Book Study groups actually is better suited for survival in a disaster situation that more centrally controlled "mainstream" religions. The small bookstudy groups are much like cells in other groups, such as Al-Queda. Given a disaster situation, they can function fairly independently from the central body. Of course, the danger with this (to JW's) would be that the bookstudy leaders, many who have little power trips going on already, would hold alot of sway over those in their cell. They could easily deviate from "mainstream JW doctrine" as long as they could use scriptures to justify what they are doing. After all, who would know any different if communications with the GB are down?

  Just some rambling thoughts.

  Ern
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  Kid Rock or P-Diddy

  by Dustin in

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  i can't decide which i like better kid rock .

  who's your next american smiley idol?

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  I prefer Kid Rock because I feel he has some real talent as a song writer and is more diverse than Puffy. But I gotta say...CHUCK - D RULES! Not only has he made some great music with a real message.... (such as Make Love, F**k War)...but he's socially conscious and very genuine.

  Ern
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  What initially attracted you to your spouse?

  by JH in

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  was it the looks.....the way he/she talked to you, a certain chemistry?.

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  Just the way we were able to talk. We could talk for hours and hours about all sorts of things. When we first met, we were both married to our first spouses and continued to be for another 8 years....but we had a level of communication that we could never have had withour spouses simply because they didn't share as broad an interest in the subject matter...which mainly consisted of ideas and dreams. This is what made me look her up all those years later when both of our situations had become much different and we were both single again. This is still one of the things we treasure about one another even all this time later. Her having a cute ass helped too.

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  Our Future After Terri Schiavo/ What Hangs in the Balance.

  by prophecor in

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  regardless for how one feels about the situation surrounding terri schiavo, this will be a landmark case in american history, politically, religiously, as well as within the medical profession.

  to put this woman to death in the manner for which is being done, is inhumane and ungodly.

  criminals on death row are afforded a more deserving death than she has been given.

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  To put someone to death in the manner for which she is suffering under, they would have done better to at least kill her with the kindness of a lethal injection, even a bullet to the brain would have afforded her more justice, but because of the cowardly courts, and the cowards who don't wish to face the reality of an uncomfortable life, because we refuse to be reminded that one day, we could wind up in the same condition, having the same fate, and so we wish for Mrs. Schiavo to just disappear.

  I think that you are oversimplifying. Yes, this is a complex case, but if you are going to blame this on "activist judges" as so many on the right want to do, you are only falling for their propaganda and playing right into their hands. This case does have implications for our whole way of life as Americans...but unfortunately, these implications are at the whim of the politicians who are such good manipulators and the press, who are so lazy these days that they are a mere mouthpiece rather than the "fourth estate" that they once were purported to be. To me, this raises the question of "why is Dr. Kevorkian in jail?" His machine helped people like this who had no hope, had decided that they wanted to die with dignity and sought his help. It would certainly be more humane than a death that takes two weeks or so.

  Also, you mention life time appointments being a thing of the past....well, I have a real problem with this. Here it is, nearly 5 years post-clinton....and right wing people still blame everything that they can on Pres. Clinton. I wish they'd just shut up already. Last time I checked, the republicans have controlled both houses of congress since 1994 and the Gingrich revoloution. They are the ones who confirmed these judges. What did they think that they were doing? If they had objections, they should have spoken then, just as the dems have done on about 10 of GW's more whacko nominees.

  I'm glad that people are spurred to think on these issues, though it's unfortunate what this woman and her family have been put through. I think it brings the point home that you cannot leave these issues undecided until the last minute.

  Ern
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  Didn't Go to the Memorial

  by Undecided in

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  i thought about going to see how many of the old pub.

  i would know at the memorial.

  when the time came to get ready to go i had this feeling of anxiety so i just kept watching tv.

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  CoonDawg

  I let my wife go...and my stepdaughter and my grandson went with her....then I met them at a restaurant afterwards for a nice dinner. Worked for me.

  Ern
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  SCHIAVO

  by SixofNine in

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  herr commandant!

  i know, i know, i'm goin' to hell for that... but you're going to hell for having an opinion on it in the first place.

  it's nonya bidness.

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  I would suggest an examination of the parallel of what's happening here in America as it happened in Germany from the period of 1941 to 1945.

  I think that the parallell isn't only here, but it's more of Germany from 1932 to 1945. Quite honestly, I think your drawing a parallell in this particular case is a bit of a stretch. Sure the government is churning out nearly a quarter of a BILLION dollars annually worth of propaganda, but I don't see any of it directed at eliminating the "unfit" as the Germans termed it. This case is a PRIVATE case of a family's dillema. The politicians simply hijack it to try and further their own agendas. I don't see this as any endorsement of any kind of government policy.

  If you want parallells to Germany pre-WWII, there are plenty of others to draw from...such as one party taking over a democratically elected government, then passing laws as the majority to make the things that they do "legal". There's the merging of government with big business interests....there's the manipulation of religious groups to inspire political fervor. There's the finding a group to be the scapegoat for the nations perceived problems...there's fomenting almost a manic version of nationalism....I could go on....

  My point is that while there are striking parallells, the one you are trying to draw really isn't all that applicable.

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  Battle Star Galatica

  by zev in

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  the season finali (sp?

  ) of one of the greatest shows ever to hit the tv.

  and i don't say that lightly.

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  Thank goodness for cable original series. I remember when the original version came out when I was a kid. I loved it then and I really like the new version too. I just bough the PS2 game not long ago. I think Sci-Fi has done a great job on production. I look forward to more of it.