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New explosives found on Spanish Railroad

by donkey in

from reuters news service:.

bomb found on spanish high-speed rail track.

by adrian croft .

donkey

Simon,

You took the bait and swallowed it (proverbially speaking of course)...

I am not a republican, that's the problem when you only have a simplistic black or white view of the world....left or right, black or white, ying or yang.

I think the leftist "play nice" and the right-wing "my way or the highway" attitudes are completely silly. Of course since you immediately assumed that my assertions were those of a republican you painted me with your "I hate the conservatives" broad brush. Now I am not weaseling out of things..perhaps you do well to educate yourself on what a Libertarian truly believes and you might view me differently also I am not pro the Iraq war for instance...ahh surprise. The war was ill conceived and should have been internationally sanctioned as the removal of a dictator if we were to remove him at all - not an irrational fear based mess, such as we have now.

All things being said I am just as content for my country to go totally isolationist (esp. with the check book...that's a cheque book for you). Let the world sort itself out and if anyone messes with us on our territory then take them out. Iraq has NOTHING to do with terrorism...I think we both agree on that simple precept.

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New explosives found on Spanish Railroad

by donkey in

from reuters news service:.

bomb found on spanish high-speed rail track.

by adrian croft .

donkey

From Reuters News Service:

Bomb Found on Spanish High-Speed Rail TrackBy Adrian Croft

MADRID (Reuters) - A bomb was found on a high-speed rail track in central Spain on Friday just weeks after 191 people were killed in suspected al Qaeda bombings of four packed Madrid commuter trains.

The discovery disrupted travel as millions of Spaniards prepared to leave cities for the Easter week holidays and came on the day a new session of Parliament opened following last month's elections.

Interior Minister Angel Acebes said the bomb was believed to contain between 22 and 26 lbs of explosives, probably dynamite.
It was found in a bag under the rails of the high-speed train line connecting Madrid and the southern city of Seville. The explosives were connected by a cable to a detonator, he told a news conference.

Acebes gave no information about who may be responsible for planting the bomb, saying the explosives would have to be examined. A railway employee spotted the bag near the city of Toledo, about 35 miles south of Madrid, and alerted authorities who sent explosives experts to the scene to deactivate it.
Services on the Madrid-Seville AVE service were halted while all the track was checked, Acebes said.
On Thursday night, three letter bombs addressed to Spanish media organizations were intercepted at a mail distribution in Zaragoza, northern Spain. Police explosives experts defused two of the letter bombs and blew up a third.

An Interior Ministry source said authorities did not know who was responsible for the letter bombs, which were addressed to executives at newspaper La Razon, radio station COPE and broadcaster Antena 3.

The rail bomb, and the discovery of three letter bombs, kept nerves on edge in Spain and in the markets after the shock caused by the March 11 train bombings -- the first attack in the West linked to Osama bin Laden?s al Qaeda network since the September 11, 2001, strikes on New York and Washington.

On March 11, two of the trains exploded at or near Madrid's Atocha station, which is also the terminus for AVE services to Seville. State television said access to the AVE departure lounge at Atocha was closed on Friday.

Was the newly elected Spanish Socialist party to blame for lax security? Nahh...

Was George Bush to blame - since he is blamed by some leftists for everything evil these days? Nahh...

Who is to blame for this? Is Spain now free of terrorism? Are they better off?

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Why is there a High Rate of Suicide among Jehovahs Witnesses?????

by Aikon in

jw
friends

hi guys.

last week i was involed in a very distressing situation, going with a family to identify their mother who had commited suicide.. we are waiting for the coroner to release the body for the funneral.. but, so far this year a number of jw have commited suicide in england,why???.

can any one throw a light why so many jw of good standing commit suicide,.

donkey

I do not want to minimize the tragedy of any who have endured these horrible circumstances, but the question was asked: Is there any evidence that the suicide rate is higher among JW's than the general population?

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Mussings on Society

by Yerusalyim in

opening myself up to a lot of criticism...but here goes.. i guess i'm getting more cynical...and losing hope in society in general...here's what bothers me.. when i was a kid back in the 1970's i could walk out the door in the morning...and not come home until supper...and i was safe.

those days are long gone.

as i've stated before...society has become oversexualized...and has lost it's moral compass.

donkey

Without commenting on your particular religious views of what a Taliban society (just kidding dude) should be like, I will say I clearly see a collapse of society in the US. I tend to see it as a collapse because it is a house of cards built on massive amounts of consumer and government debt. We will have to pay the piper!! It's just a matter of when...

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Abortion, and the population explosion, what your veiw.

by frankiespeakin in

one of the very real dangers that we face today is the population explosion.

i read that the world's population "now" doubles about every 40 years,

this explosive rate is like cancer,, that no longer follows the proper cell multiplication arrangement in the body and threatens the life of the organism.

donkey

Yeru,

I asked you some questions in this thread...do you want to answer them?

Thanks

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Abortion, and the population explosion, what your veiw.

by frankiespeakin in

one of the very real dangers that we face today is the population explosion.

i read that the world's population "now" doubles about every 40 years,

this explosive rate is like cancer,, that no longer follows the proper cell multiplication arrangement in the body and threatens the life of the organism.

donkey

On the topic of abortion: I believe that the majority of people, if they would have the choice of being aborted or being born, would pick being born. I know I would.

It all depends...

If you are a Christian who believes abortion is the murder of an innocent baby then let me ask you this: what happens to the aborted baby's soul? Does it go to heaven? Is it spared from the possibility of going to hell or some equivalent place/state of eternal disapproval or torture?

...if you believe "aborted babies" do go to heaven then all God can be pissed off about is that we never gave the "aborted babies" the chance to grow into proper humans and screw up - the good ole free-choice!!

Christianity...the new blockage to the brain(tm)...

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Abortion, and the population explosion, what your veiw.

by frankiespeakin in

one of the very real dangers that we face today is the population explosion.

i read that the world's population "now" doubles about every 40 years,

this explosive rate is like cancer,, that no longer follows the proper cell multiplication arrangement in the body and threatens the life of the organism.

donkey

I need to quit using the white-on-white font I think...

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Abortion, and the population explosion, what your veiw.

by frankiespeakin in

one of the very real dangers that we face today is the population explosion.

i read that the world's population "now" doubles about every 40 years,

this explosive rate is like cancer,, that no longer follows the proper cell multiplication arrangement in the body and threatens the life of the organism.

donkey

You mean aside from it's distinct DNA? Aside from the fact that these babies..play...sleep...move, etc in the womb...I don't know...what makes them human?

Yeru,

So all that matters is the DNA? Is a person with a mechanical heart still human? How about a machine with a human heart? Each would have human DNA afterall...

Is an adult on life support murdered if you turn off the lifesupport? Afterall they have "distinct DNA"...

How is an unborn fetus different than an adult on life support? If it's life support is terminated it dies just like the adult doesn't it?

If a fetus can be checked for DNA anomalies of a serious nature is it OK to abort it?

I don't think your world is as black and white as you see it. It is filled with contradictions if you truly think about it isn't it? Further if the whole subject starts getting grey is it still murder? I am using your own defintions - all we are doing is looking for consistency afterall.

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We were invited to The Memorial......

by Nan in

jw
friends

our daughter-in-law (who is a witness) has invited us (via email) to the memorial on april 4. she says it's not just for jws.

is this true??

i thought this gathering was exclusively for witnesses; and to partake....er....not partake of the bread and wine?

donkey

that it's nothing but a man-made religious group masquerading itself as "Christian".

lol

Of course it can be argued that Christians and JW's are one and the same in that category - man made groups...

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Abortion, and the population explosion, what your veiw.

by frankiespeakin in

one of the very real dangers that we face today is the population explosion.

i read that the world's population "now" doubles about every 40 years,

this explosive rate is like cancer,, that no longer follows the proper cell multiplication arrangement in the body and threatens the life of the organism.

donkey

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