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  They saw my Xmas tree! What do I say?

  by Rayvin in

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  this is what i am worried will be going through my mind in less then a month.

  i have always wanted a big christmas tree but since i was a full fledged jw till 5 yrs ago i never had one.

  i just last year was able to get a small table top tree for christmas.

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  Rayvin,

  Print a few of these out to show to the family.
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  Pat Robertson tells town, "Don't expect God to help you"

  by sir82 in

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  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9995578/

  i thought evangelism was supposed to make god more appealing to people?

  the irony is, most jws will point accusing fingers at this representative of babylon the grape, but not realize that their own message preached every saturday morning is essentially the same: "worship god our way, or don't come crying to us when armageddon comes"

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  The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians. -- Pat Robertson, fundraising letter, 1992

  I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, October 29, 1982

  It's one thing to say, "We have rights to jobs ... we have rights to be left alone in out little corner of the world to do our thing." It's an entirely different thing to say, well, "We're not only going to go into the schools and we're going to take your children and your grandchildren and turn them into homosexuals." Now that's wrong. -- Pat Robertson, The 700 Club television program, September 17, 1992

  Where nutbag Pat gets the fundage to continue his campaign of idiocy-the American fundie nutbag.

  
  

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  hey guys............for those who remember me...........

  by Jesika in

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  hey ........been a while since i have been online...........how i miss being on the net......just havent been able......but good to see some of you still here.........and i miss talking to you.. just wanted to say hi!!!!

  and that you are in my thoughts all the time.. love you,.

  jes.

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  Good to see you Jes! Tell us about the "ice cube."
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  Hang 'Em High

  by Seven in

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  filthy, demented pigs.... wed 26 oct 2005. .

  church savaged over sexual abuse .

  john innes .

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  Filthy, demented pigs...

  Wed 26 Oct 2005

  Church savaged over sexual abuse JOHN INNES

  CATHOLIC priests savagely sexually assaulted youngsters in Ireland during the past 40 years, including one who molested ten girls on the altar as he heard their confessions, a scathing report into clerical abuse revealed yesterday.

  A two-year investigation into abuse at parishes across Co Wexford uncovered 100 complaints against 21 priests, with one responsible for 26 assaults.

  The Ferns report revealed that Garda investigations were wholly inadequate, while bishops in the diocese of Ferns failed to take basic precautions to protect children.

  The report revealed that one priest, Father James Grennan, fondled and kissed ten girls aged 12 and 13 in the parish church in Monageer as he called them up one by one to forgive their sins. As he sat on a chair in front of each girl preparing to abuse them, the rest of the class was forced to sit in their seats with their eyes shut.

  Another priest fathered a secret child after raping a 14-year-old girl and left money for her in his will, the report said.

  Canon Martin Clancy began abusing the girl aged 11 after a music concert while he was in Co Wexford in 1971. The Ferns Inquiry report said that the girl, named only as Ciara, went to England in 1974. She gave birth to a child, known as Rachel, but did not initially identify the father of her child to her parents.

  When she was 16, the priest finally acknowledged Rachel as his daughter and gave her two cheques of £500 each for the child's upkeep.

  The retired Supreme Court judge Frank Murphy, who headed the investigation, said steps taken by Bishop Donal Herlihy were inadequate and inappropriate. The reports stated that the late bishop did not recognise that child sex abuse was a serious criminal offence.

  A second senior clergyman, Bishop Brendan Comiskey, was also heavily criticised. The report stated that he had consistently failed to have priests step aside, because he considered it unjust as allegations of abuse were not substantiated.

  Judge Murphy found that the bishop failed to recognise the paramount need to protect children, as a matter of urgency, from potential abusers.

  Gardai were blamed for not keeping records of informal complaints of abuse, including an allegation that ten children were molested at the altar in the parish church of Monageer.

  The 270-page report, stemming from an investigation begun in 2002, details the Roman Catholic Church's handling of more than 100 allegations of abuse against dozens of priests in the diocese of Ferns from the 1960s. A total of 100 abuse claimants were interviewed during the inquiry.This article:
  
  http://www.scotsman.com/?id=2146082005
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  Sidney Crosby

  by kwintestal in

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  i'm watching this guy as he's a hometown boy, but anyone else amazed at what he's doing in his first few games?.

  4 games, 6 points, and tonight's game is just into the third, and he has a goal and an assist.

  not bad for a rookie on an awful team.. kwin

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  Happy D,

  Four OTL's in the first 5 games is frustrating but at least we're keeping pace with the rest of the Atlantic pts wise until the defense comes off life support. It's the worst I've ever seen.

  Crosby's passing is other worldly and he's a joy to watch. His head is definately in the game and living with Mario and Nathalie will keep him real. :) The next Lemieux...there will never be another Mario or Wayne but hopefully he'll be right up there beside them.
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  Halloween

  by bikerchic in

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  i'm excited this year about halloween!

  in the years past i've decorated my front door so it would look inviting for the trick-or-treaters to come to but never got really involved beyond handing out candy.

  last year i had totally forgotten about it we were moving so i ran out and got some candy and put up a door decoration, left the porch light on and no one came!!!

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  Kate,

  You should get the old ball and chain to gather some wood for a bonfire. Start on the pile now and you'll have one big enough to last all of halloween night. The kids will enjoy roasting weenies and sitting around telling ghost stories after trick-or treat. I've had one every year since I've left the org. The pic is of the one from last year.
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  + Remembering Matthew Shepard +

  by Seven in

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  seven years ago today matthew, a gay college student, died as a result of the savage beating he suffered at the hands of two inhuman monsters now serving a life sentence for his murder.

  gone but not forgotten.

  rest in peace.. visit the foundation created in his honor: .

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  Seven years ago today Matthew, a gay college student, died as a result of the savage beating he suffered at the hands of two inhuman monsters now serving a life sentence for his murder.

  Gone but not forgotten. Rest in peace.

  Visit the foundation created in his honor:

  http://www.matthewshepard.org/
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  Three years ago today, Mozz and I got married!

  by Billygoat in

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  back when i joined this board, mozz and i had been dating for about 9 months.

  and then 9 months later, the announcement we were engaged:.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/7/27002/1.ashx.

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  Happy Anniversary Andi and Mozz!
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  Where's gumby?

  by poppers in

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  haven't seen him around.

  anyone know what's up?

  i sure do miss the gumb-master.

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  yeah, my infamous phone still works--

  Fond memories of "flushing" in your ear. Good to see you Craig.

  Hello to Gumby.
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  No end to the grief(Katrina pets)

  by Seven in

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  evacuees anguished at leaving pets behind

  sunday, september 4, 2005; posted: 10:31 a.m. edt (14:31 gmt)

  evacuee valerie bennett, with husband lorne at an atlanta hospital, breaks into tears over leaving their pets behind.

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  Evacuees anguished at leaving pets behind

  Sunday, September 4, 2005; Posted: 10:31 a.m. EDT (14:31 GMT)

  Evacuee Valerie Bennett, with husband Lorne at an Atlanta hospital, breaks into tears over leaving their pets behind. SPECIAL REPORT

  ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs.

  She pleaded. "I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring," the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday.

  They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive.

  Such emotional scenes were repeated perhaps thousands of times along the Gulf Coast last week as pet owners were forced to abandon their animals in the midst of evacuation.

  In one example reported last week by The Associated Press, a police officer took a dog from one little boy waiting to get on a bus in New Orleans. "Snowball! Snowball!" the boy cried until he vomited. The policeman told a reporter he didn't know what would happen to the dog.

  At the hospital, a doctor euthanized some animals at the request of their owners, who feared they would be abandoned and starve to death. He set up a small gas chamber out of a plastic-wrapped dog kennel.

  "The bigger dogs were fighting it. Fighting the gas. It took them longer. When I saw that, I said, 'I can't do it,' " said Bennett's husband, Lorne.

  Valerie Bennett left her dogs with the anesthesiologist, who promised to care for about 30 staff members' pets on the roof of the hospital, Lindy Boggs Medical Center.

  "He said he'd stay there as long as he possibly could," Valerie Bennett recalled, speaking from her husband's bedside at Atlanta's Emory University Hospital.

  On Saturday afternoon, she said she saw a posting on a Web site called petfinder.com that said the anesthesiologist was still caring for the animals.

  Louisiana State Treasurer John Kennedy, who was helping with relief efforts Saturday, said some evacuees refused to leave without their pets.

  "One woman told me 'I've lost my house, my job, my car and I am not turning my dog loose to starve,' " Kennedy said.

  Kennedy said he persuaded refugees to get on the bus by telling them he would have the animals taken to an exhibition center.

  The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals picked up two cats and 15 dogs, including one Kennedy found tied up beneath the overpass next to an unopened can of dog food with a sign that read, "Please take care of my dog, his name is Chucky."

  The fate of pets is a huge but underappreciated cause of anguish for storm survivors, said Richard Garfield, professor of international clinical nursing at New York's Columbia University.

  "People in shelters are worried about 'Did Fluffy get out?' " he said. "It's very distressing for people, wondering if their pets are isolated or starving."

  The Bennetts had four animals, including two beloved dogs.

  They moved to Slidell, Louisiana, in July when Valerie took a job at an organ transplant institute connected to Lindy Boggs. Lorne, a former paramedic, is disabled since undergoing a liver transplant in 2001.

  On Saturday, as Hurricane Katrina approached, both went to the hospital to help and took all four animals with them.

  They fed their guinea pig and left it in its cage in a patient room. They couldn't refill its empty water bottle because the hospital's plumbing failed Sunday, they said. They poured food on the floor for the cat, but again no water.

  "I just hope that they forgive me," Valerie Bennett cried.

  Copyright 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

  Human life is the number one priority as it should be but here's hoping they can try and spare these pets from starvation-one way or the other. Cleaning up and restoring order is the first thing on everyone's mind once everyone is safe but when I saw an old guy sitting on his roof with his cat his "best friend in the world..." This is heartbreaking too. Maybe a few of the lucky ones can be reunited with their owners someday.