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////112709/a system of advisory committees so vast that federal officials don't have exact numbers for its size; the most recent estimates tally nearly 1,000 panels with total membership exceeding 60,000 people.

Under the policy, which is being phased in over the coming months, none of the more than 13,000 lobbyists in Washington would be able to hold seats on the committees, which advise agencies on trade rules, troop levels, environmental regulations, consumer protections and thousands of other government policies/Dubai announced it requested a 6-month freeze on some $59 billion of debt repayment "contempt" for equities is already evident, he believes: "You had a boat of people short of the U.S. dollar caught offguard."/ livescience.com — Diabetes cases will double by 2034 and costs to care for the patients will triple. /Kucinich (D-OH) today made the following statement: “We have been led to believe that we must make our health care choices only within the current structure of a predatory, for-profit insurance system which makes money not providing health care./
Police said 17 relatives were in the Palm Beach County house when the shootings were reported around 10 p.m. Thursday in Jupiter, a small beach town about 90 miles north of Miami that is best known as a home to celebrities including Michael Jordan and Burt Reynolds.///112609 Dictator Chavez hated Bush--but loves Obama
Hugo speaks for most tyrants and dictators of the world "Obama's our kind of American"/Thankful for (as Maureen Dowd rightly calls him) another self-serving pos in the WH? Bush preened in the neocon "light". Obama wants MORE of it. And neither cares that even Satan can appear as an angel of light..../Nov 14, 2009 / Newsweek
How does Israel - with fewer people than the state of New Jersey, no natural resources, and hostile nations all around - produce more tech companies listed on the NASDAQ than all of Europe, Japan, South Korea, India, and China combined?

How does Israel attract, per person, 30 times as much venture capital as Europe and more than twice the flow to American companies? How does it produce, for its size, the most cutting-edge technology start ups in the world?/Hoping to convert someone? I hardly think so, from what I've read I believe the average Atheist would walk away puffing themselves up and boasting "I just shot another couple of 'Religious Nuts'down today" Haven't you read in Mt 7:6 "Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet,and turn and tear you to pieces."(In other words Holy and valuable things must be given only to those who are open to appreciate them) God is not being 'Judgemental'in saying this, his will is that everyone would come to repentance but it is also his will to give us freewill. This verse was written so we will use discernment and not let God's truths be laid open to mockery and abuse.(Happening on this board) They (the Atheists) have no interest in trying to understand the truths of Scripture but are only making sport of them and trying to distort them. When the Aplstle Peter spoke of Pauls letters in 2Pt 3:16 he said "His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort,as they do the other scriptures, to their own destruction." I believe it would be far better to pray for God to open the eyes of their hearts than to get into silly auguments that they use to score points and pat themselves and each other on the back. The Lord warned us in 2Ti 2:23 "Don't have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments,because you know they produce quarrels." - and again - "But avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and arguments and quarrels about the law, because these are unprofitable and useless." Why quote the Bible to those who have beforehand made up their minds to reject it, you may as well quote from Harry Potter. These people have hardened their hearts as the Scripture says in Eph 4:18 "They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts." I am not saying these Atheists are beyond help but our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. That is why I said to pray. Watch how they respond to this and judge for yourself.
/Marc Emerys legalization of satanic marijuana demon plants and all his perverted pedophile followers that force teens to smoke marijuana genital tingle warfare demon buds to make them overs3xual wit genitals tingling sending such strong s3xual genital tingling pleasures to their brain all the teens can think with is their s3xual stimulation organs for satanism. Holy war to eradicate marijuana demon plants from Canada by convincing potheads to develop their sixth sense by smoking nymphaea caerulea psychic kinetic energy paranormal sensory flowers wit their weed ever session till the truth is revealed that marijuana is a crutch and deadly sin that leads to eternal damnation after death from God in the north east of the psychic crossroads. Once the truth is revealed quit smoking marijuana and transition to smoking nymphaea caerulea wit nelumbo nucifera psychic kinetic energy paranormal sensory herbs to find God in the north east of the psychic crossroads to learn how to live a holy life on earth to reach salvation wit 0ne partner for freedom. Ahmen!//Israel's university students get so much more out of the college classroom because-unlike American students-by the time they go to campus they are far more mature and grounded.

By their early 20s, they know the true meaning of "life and death," and-as one Israeli general told us-the "value of five minutes" when having to make high-stakes decisions in the fog of ambiguity. That's a skill that's just as valuable on the corporate battlefield as on a real one.//Obama should put Bush in charge of security.
"During President George W. Bush's administration, it was standard procedure to have someone from the White House social office at the gate for state dinners and other events with large groups of visitors, according to a former senior Bush aide who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to be seen as criticizing the Obama White House.".they could have assassinated the president or vice president using other means — anthrax, for example."
/the story of Karin (presumably a pseudonym), a German woman who took a taxi downtown and got arrested for doing so. Thrown into a dungeon, beaten, raped, traumatized, no one knew where she was.Finally, a married Saudi man (alas, one to whom she was already attracted), moved heaven and earth to rescue her. He got her released after having her German husband deported and after marrying her without Karin even being present. A well connected Saudi man can rescue his wife from prison. Satam moved Karin into the home he shared with his first wife Fatima and their children. Satam soon lost interest in Karin and spent long hours away from home. But Karin was already pregnant. Here's how Fatima handled the situation.First, around midnight, while Karin was sleeping, Fatima put on loud Arabic music, came into Karin's room and "slammed a massive stick down onto my stomach…I screamed for help. 'No one is going to hear you, Gahba (whore)!'" The first wife kept swinging the stick at her. Karin fled.Finally, Satam got Karin her own apartment. Whereupon, Fatima started calling her to "harass and terrorize me…she spread rumors that I had a boyfriend who secretly came to visit me." In fact, Fatima enlisted relatives in an elaborate scheme to entrap Karin and to report all such concocted suspicious doings to Satam.But here is the most evil thing that Fatima did. Because Mimi, their housemaid, was helpful to Karin, Fatima reported Mimi to the mutawa for "fornication." The fact that this was totally untrue made no difference. Once Mimi was arrested, Prince Salman signed her death warrant. Satam could do nothing to reverse this decree. Thus, the following Friday, after prayers, the appropriate verses from the Qu'ran having been read, Mimi was stoned to death. The two Indian men she was accused of "fornicating" with (shopkeepers, where Mimi was shopping for Karin) each received one hundred lashes.The graphic description of Mimi's stoning is too awful for me to repeat.I am waiting for Secretary of State Clinton and President Obama to spell out precisely what American policy should be vis a vis Saudi Arabia given their barbaric record on human rights and their major role in funding and exporting Islamic Jihad globally.//Jews "flocking to Israel" in days to come may have revealed a belief in end-times theology, the Rapture, and the death of all Jews who do not convert to Christianity./Tea Party Patriots publicly heckled a grieving family and suggested that the couple fabricated their tragic story. At a town hall held by Rep. Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) on Nov. 14,, Dan and Midge Hough spoke about how they believed the death of their daughter-in-law and her unborn child were caused, in part, by a lack of heal/After a rash of mistakes and apologies over the past weeks, Fox News has sent a memo to employees announcing a new "zero tolerance" policy for on-screen errors./Former British Police Officer Wants To Bring Down ObamaSankey is pursuing what he believes to be fraud on a gigantic scale /Will Someone Get Fired Like Promised?
A Fox News anchor reported inaccurately today that the public option is controversial because it will be paid for with tax payer money. This lie has been debunked by reliable non-partisan analyst and is just a fact.//Fleshbot Reviews the Real Touch, a Video-Synchronized Masturbator [Sex] The Real Touch is like a Fleshlight that moves on its own,/Palin frequently refers to to her religious beliefs as part of her core values, but she has never made it clear just what those beliefs are. Now a remark about Jews "flocking to Israel" in days to come may have revealed a belief in end-times theology, the Rapture, and the death of all Jews who do not convert to Christianity./Armageddon sounds pretty good if it starts off with all the crackpot numbskulls being carried of to heaven leaving the rest of us to our debauchery./fear/God rhetoric is chum in the water for militia's and crazy-folk alike. /anti-christ 666 beast is Republican...I hear the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse ...Bush, Cheney, Limpbaugh, Huckabee/a page from Judaism, which says that a person of any religion has a place in heaven, including people with no faith at all, as long as they are foremost a good person.../The real problem is that we actually have enough people out there who are so ignorant, so filled with hate, and so disenfranchised within our system that they create a substantial demand for this stuff./ Senator Nick Xenophon has accused the Church of Scientology of being a "two-faced, criminal organisation" hiding behind religious beliefs to get rich aus/- so are all the other ones./"Scientology is evil; its techniques are evil; its practice is a serious threat to the community, medically, morally, and socially; and its adherents are sadly deluded and often mentally ill... (Scientology is) the world's largest organization of unqualified persons engaged in the practice of dangerous techniques which masquerade as mental therapy." -- Justice Anderson, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia/making quite a fuss lately about how little Google pays News Corp for its content. Hoping to get Google (GOOG) to up the ante, Murdoch has been threatening to remove all News Corp (NWS) content from Google and ink an exclusive search deal with Microsoft’s Bing search engine.//112509/so secure to exchange thoughts without jepordizing anything?/by the time pailins carcuss is picked clean, Romeny won't look so bad or look twice as well?/Suffolk Judge Jeffrey Spinner wiped out $525,000 in mortgage payments demanded by a California bank, blasting its "harsh, repugnant, shocking and repulsive" acts/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9gKXaVBZng&feature=related paltler/http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ray+cumfart&search_type=&aq=f /DONT HAVE TO TRY TO 'MAJICALLY" DO A THING SHEOT FOR BRAINS. YOUR PARTY STARTED TWO STUPID WHOLELY UNNECESSARY WARS. YOUR PARTY SPENT LIKE DRUNKEN SAILORS FROM 2001-2006 WITH A REPUBLICAN MAJORIT.../Sparkman also had recently taken out two accidental life insurance policies totaling $600,000 that would not pay out for suicide, authorities said. One policy was taken out in late 2008; the other in May.If Sparkman had been killed on the job, his family also would have been be eligible for up to $10,000 in death gratuity payments from the government.found naked, bound with duct tape and hanging from a tree with "fed" scrawled on his chest,/investigators concluded Sparkman wrote on his own chest because the letters had been written from bottom to top./"Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8." That psalm reads, “Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow."/"Appearing increasingly agitated, Schaeffer went on to say, "This is the American version of the Taliban."/Talibangelicals get more and more dangerous every day. They killed George Tiller and that census worker, and if they get the chance, they'll kill our democratically-elected president/funny twist of fate, the Jewish Publication Society's translation clears up this passage. This was a Psalm of King David, and the verse in question is what David's accusers were asking the Lord to do unto David. Thus, when the Psalm 109:8 crowd are praying this against Obama, they are praying against the rightful ruler and are asking to be rewarded in accordance with Psalm 109:28 and 29: "Let them curse, but bless Thou; when they arise, they shall be put to shame, but Thy servant shall rejoice. Mine adversaries shall be clothed with confusion, and shall put on their own shame as a robe."/Teabaggers are beyond idiocy. They've crossed the threshold and have plummeted into insanity. They are paranoid schizophrenic freaks who grunt and howl like animals, a bunch of sadistic torture-loving, bible-thumping lunatics governed by fear of figments of their imagination. They're in a perpetual state of tantrum, weeping and wailing, sucking their thumbs in the corner,/misinformed and misguided and propped up by FoxNews to the country's detriment. /They threw away the person and kept the anal cyst./this is Obama's fault, because this guy said that he believed Obama was going to get us out of Iraq and Afghanistan."//I may reconsider being an atheist. This would be undeniable proof that there is a God, and he's a Democrat/Not even Palin is that stupid!/the idea of those two together, running for control of the country makes me want to urge them on, and buy stock in marshmallows and weenies for the spectacularity of the crash and burn that will surely follow the attempt./Sarah Palin is ok with Glenn Beck possibly raping and murdering a young girl in 1990? //112409/two commanders of the Czech military working under NATO command used Nazi symbols on their helmets during their deployment in Afghanistan. the soldiers, identified as Hynek Matonoha and Jan Cermak, wore the symbols of the 9th SS panzer division Hohenstaufen and the SS Dirlewanger brigade respectively,/Nato is full of people with nazi ideology, Nazism actually was a western european based organization that had it root in the behavior of western europeans people that time. nazism was what the western europeans were doing in Africa long before Hitler was born. most of western europeans have a bit of nazism in them, a proof is the fact that they are the custodian of racism against Africans. /Opiate-based painkillers, routinely prescribed to relieve pain from surgery and tumors, may encourage the spread of cancer, a new study finds. Coffee cuts endometrial cancer risk/ Israel holds over 370 Palestinian children captiveChild detainees are sent to courts that prosecute cases of adult detainees. This is a flagrant violation of International Law.prison authorities place eight to ten children in a four meter square room, and routinely vilify them, put them under psychological pressure at every turn and even molest some of the children,sex slaves or just organ doners?///The United States signed a memorandum of
understanding on Monday according to which it agreed to give $38.7 million
to 27 Afghan provinces that eliminated or significantly reduced poppy
production in the world's biggest supplier country, which will disperse the cash to the 27
different provinces to finance development or alternative crops. [*LOL. Am I
the only one to observe that the US pays to *cultivate* Afghan opium
poppies, while simultaneously paying to *reduce* them? Oh, but we can't get
single-payer health care or the public option --too expensive. /Defense Minister Ehud Barak reiterated on Saturday his pledge
to crack down on Israel Defense Forces soldiers who refuse to carry out
orders, saying Israel should not hesitate to act forcefully to crush the
phenomenon/Ky. police: Census worker found hanging killed himself, staged death to look like homicide. SO, WHY'D HE WANT TO POINT fingers TO THE FEDS/have brought aboot enormous costs to many wars after-1st these men should have been brought home-Viet men r brought back, body cavaties filled with heroin, Iraq war vets r brought back-the $7,000,000.oo per day sent to joosreal should be USed in Americas matters, so we need to remove the jew interest from Americam Gov't//Two people were executed Tuesday in China for their part in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six babies and sickened about 300,000 others,/A possible rise in sea levels by 0.5 meters by 2050 could put at risk more than $28 trillion worth of assets in the world's largest coastal cities, according to a report compiled for the insurance industry./Mary Landrieu Only Charged Harry Reid $100 Million for Her Health Care Vote/were unlucky to have invested in AIG to build up a large retirement, only to watch yourself get poorer and poorer. There is no bailout for us. Al Quaeda is now scattered throughout the world and Osama Bin Laden got what he actually wanted – economic death to America. There is no longer any reason for us to be smack in the middle of a civil war that dates back to before the Soviet Union's failed war. The Taliban are financing their part of the war with proceeds from the illegal opium trade./Forget these Corp Execs. Its time to OUTSOURCE these guys the same way they outsourced us./"SEND MORE TROOPS TO AFGHANISTAN"
It costs $750,000 per troop per year./June 2001. Twenty-seven (27) applications have been denied, 20 cards have been revoked, 216 patients have died, and 1,865 cards have expired, bringing the total number of patients who currently possess valid Registry ID cards to 14,377.II) Engage in the medical use of marijuana in plain view of, or in a place open to, the general publi //112309//school bully who tried to exert control over others by intimidation and beating kids up that weren't fighters. Big bullies would not go after the ones who fight back and kick their arses, but only after the ones that are not fighters, so they could have power and feel like a big man in control, little as they actually were for being who they were and doing what they did. Yep, you were one of the bullies and are durned proud of it, aren't ya?/Cry Babies can't be men and debate you have to cry to Yahoo MB that someone is beating you down like the POS that you all are on the left. You Libs are the Scum of the Earth and you will be scraped off the map soon but not soon enough! psk did nothing but present his case in a professional manner. Feel proud idiots you have won a tiny Battle but the War has yet to ensue! You will be stomped out like the vermin that you are very soon!/Why the Stock Market Should Crash, by Charles Hugh Smith. With all due respect to Mr. Smith, and all the other doomsayers out there, I frankly just don’t get it. In my opinion, fear is a negative emotion that causes more harm than good. My favorite acronym for FEAR is: False Evidence/Colorado Division of Securities has sanctioned a Dallas-based oil and gas company, Nueces Valley Resources Inc., for allegedly offering to sell unregistered securities — the second such action against a Texas energy company in as many days.//"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."/Newly obtained documents prepared by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) describe an elaborate sting operation to capture purported weapons trafficker Viktor Bout in Bangkok and America's current appeal to extradite him to New York.
/ Christians uniting against fascists - The Manhattan Declaration 11 minutes ago
"Because we honor justice and the common good, we will not comply with any edict that purports to compel our institutions to participate in abortions, embryo-destructive research, assisted suicide and euthanasia, or any other anti-life act; nor will we bend to any rule purporting to force us to bless immoral sexual partnerships, treat them as marriages or the equivalent, or refrain from proclaiming the truth, as we know it, about morality and immorality and marriage and the family. We will fully and ungrudgingly render to Caesar what is Caesar's. But under no circumstances will we render to Caesar what is God's." - 11/20/09/You keep ignoring all the informed, enlightened concerned people here. No wonder you are able to maintain your steady level of ignorance./Praying is not a death threat. It doesn't say what manner of death. It's wrong, disrespectable and unchristian, but it's not illegal./ Freedom of speech doesn't include... 23-Nov-09 10:35 am
...praying for someone to kill the President and his family. /Of course it does, and in any case, praying - even publicly - "Let his days be few" is no threat beyond wishful thinking, you imbecile./Nevada, Florida, Arizona, and California--four states at the center of the housing boom and bust--accounted for 43 percent of all third-quarter foreclosure starts. In addition, 1 in every 4 home loans in Florida is either past due or in foreclosure. "That's an amazing number,"/mortgage delinquencies continue breaking records in the face of Uncle Sam's sweeping effort to keep struggling borrowers in their homes. Although the initiative has put more than 650,000 borrowers into trial modifications, there is growing concern that the Obama administration's initiative isn't well suited for today's housing crisis. For example, although unemployment is the key force behind current delinquencies, borrowers who can't make mortgage payments on account of a job loss can't participate in the program//112209/43M Americans identify as non-religious. /Rhode Island's top Roman Catholic leader has asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to stop taking Communion over his support for abortion rights,./University of California students occupied buildings on several of the system's campuses Friday in protest of a 32 percent tuition hike./A British man who strangled his wife in his sleep while dreaming that she was an intruder walked free from court Friday after the case against him was withdrawn, prosecutors said.

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service requested that the case against Brian Thomas,uffering worsening dreams due to withdrawal from anti-depressants -- experienced a violent nightmare in which he attacked and fought an intruder and got him in a headlock, only to wake and find he had strangled his wife.

Dismissing the charges, High Court Judge Justice Davis described Thomas as a "decent man and devoted husband" who bore no responsibility for his wife's death,/

Burrell Mohler Sr., David Mohler and Jared Mohler are lay ministers in the Community of Christ, the Independence, Missouri-based organization said in a statement. None of the three served in leadership roles or worked with children, /Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights put the death toll at 1,419 and said 1,167 of those were "non-combatants." The Israeli military released its own figures earlier this year, saying that 1,166 people were killed, 60 percent of whom were "terror operatives."//112109///birther jihad 7208989019/
DEBATE FAITH: http:////AP - The sign sits propped on a wooden chair, inviting all comers: "Ask an Atheist." » Full Story on Yahoo! News/Victor Stenger, an adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado and author of "The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason."/MOSCOW – A gunman killed a Russian Orthodox priest in his Moscow church and seriously wounded the reverend's assistant, officials said Friday.

An unidentified attacker shot Rev. Daniil Sysoyev at point-blank range late Thursday, prosecutors said. Sysoyev died of wounds in an ambulance after the attack, authorities said. Sysoyev's assistant remained hospitalized in serious condition.

Rev. Vladimir Vigilyansky, a spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchy, said the killing could have been linked to Sysoyev's missionary activities but wouldn't elaborate. Some of Sysoyev's friends and parishioners said on Russian NTV television that he had received threats but wouldn't give further details. killing of priest in a church is a challenge to the Divine Law and desecration of a sacred place," he said in a statement.//debatefaith.chromies.org//Nearly 40% of all Americans ages 18 to 24 were enrolled in college this year, ensuring us a future of very well educated fast food workers and Walmart clerks [Interesting]
/this game they played at church called "cornhole." I couldn't keep a straight face, and they didn't understand what I was giggling about. Apparently it had something to do with throwing a beanbag through a hole cut in plywood, but I'm sorry... CORNHOLE?! Could they have come up with a worse name for a game to play at church?!/Jerusalem's Old City is a district containing a number of holy sites venerated by Muslims, Christians and Jews. The BBC's Heather Sharp, who moved into a home within its walls last year, reports on daily life in a dense tangle of narrow, winding alleyways. //China — Rescuers working in frigid cold and darkness tried to reach 66 people believed trapped a third of a mile (half a kilometer) underground after a huge gas explosion Saturday ripped through a coal mine in northern China, killing at least 42 people.
Major accidents persist. In the first nine months of this year, China's coal mines had 11 such incidents with 303 deaths. Gas explosions were the leading cause, the government said.
/while the United States may technically be close to the end of a severe recession, most of America is facing a near-depression. Little wonder, then, that few Americans believe that what walks like a duck and quacks like a duck is actually the phoenix of recovery.Nouriel Roubini//
University anti-abortion student club suspended
Criticized on different Canadian campuses for distributing graphic literature
--CBC News /MS (WLOX) – A popular St. Martin High School teacher is accused of growing marijuana at his home.

Patrick Charles Walker, 51, has been charged with one count of cultivation of marijuana and one count of felony possession. Jackson County Narcotics agents raided Walker's home Wednesday night, and said they seized both drugs and drug paraphernalia. /NYC man out to silence church bells
'It's too much. I hear it every hour of every day'
$119.50 plus $9 Each S/H valued at $175 http://www.restoringtheoriginalbible.com/teabaggers organized by Dick Armey's outfit, FreedomWorks?/WHAT'S THE POINT OF ELECTING REPRESENTATIVES IF THEY ARE JUST ROBOTS WHO LISTEN ONLY TO THEIR STUPID CONSTITUIENTS?/ real scam is "Injun" Johnson the other Senator from this state. He haD A MAJOR stroke and has no idea what day it is but Dems will not replace him...why do we call him "injun"...well in his first election in 2002, he was behind by 3000 votes with one preceint that had not reported on election night at 2 am...this precint was 100% indians....the precint reported 110% voting ( amazing isnt it) and 99% Dem at 4 in the mornign..so we al went to bed and "injun" was defeated and woke up and "injun" mysterioulsly won.......Still waiting for the AP to investigagte.,.../Republicans are riding an emotional wave. Karl Rove had a piece in Thursday’s Wall Street Journal that captures the mood: Obama is being defined as a liberal. Independents are fleeing. The political tide is shifting.

That overstates things. Obama remains the most talented political figure of the age. After health care passes, he will pivot and pick some fights with his own party over spending. He’ll solidify his standing with independents, and if the economy recovers, he could go into his re-election with as much momentum as Ronald Reagan enjoyed in 1984.

Republicans are still going to have to do root-and-branch renovation if they hope to provide compelling answers to issues like middle-class economic anxiety. But in the meantime, people like Thune offer Republicans a way to connect fiscal discipline with traditional small-town values, a way to tap into rising populism in a manner that is optimistic, uplifting and nice.//112009/"An amalgamation of jewish scripture and christian thought.What will that get you? Not a fuck of a lot." -Propagandhi/
1seer: the weakest atheist is 1000>theist
Tomakazu: opticians must get pissed of at people with faith, they're already blind, they dont need glasses/Twentynine Palms, I found out that there had been a riot between Crips and Bloods, inside the same battalion (!), on the base at Twentynine Palms. It had to be broken up by mp's. What would happen if that fight had erupted in an actual war zone? I wondered. During the course of my research, I also heard that the Aryan Brotherhood was inside the armed services, along with other gangs,/you might get the impression that America is approaching a cease-fire in the War on Drugs. After four decades of mindless prohibition and draconian prison sentences for addicts and casual users, the first four months of the Obama era have seen a rapid turn toward rationality. The administration has announced that it will no longer bust clinics that legally dispense medical marijuana, and incoming drug czar Gil Kerlikowske declared flatly in May that he had "ended the War on Drugs." Prominent politicians from Virginia to California — including Sen. Jim Webb and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger — have begun to discuss the merits of legalizing and taxing marijuana. And most striking of all, New York — the state that pioneered the use of prison cells for drug addicts — has repealed its repressive Rockefeller drug laws, replacing the nation's harshest sentences with a progressive approach to treatment. "We put a stop to 35 years of bad policy," Gov. David Paterson/Does anyone realize lately we don't win any wars any more. Especially, the suppossed drug war. We have been fighting this war since the late 60' 50years of fighting to keep pot out of the United States. Now our national forest are pot growing fields. What is that saying about pot? Americans like to get stoned. Coke is to expensive for the average fellow. Heroin is just as high dollar as coke. You can get 20 dollars worth of pot and it will last for sometime. In the mean time your already "Jonesing" for coke or heroin, and you are still hitting that joint. Pot good!!! Coke and Heroin bad!!/Iran sentences 5 to death in postelection turmoil//Legalization is also backed by a growing number of veteran drug warriors. "The War on Drugs is a constantly expanding and self-perpetuating policy disaster," a group called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, which includes hundreds of former drug agents, police officers and judges. "If all drugs were legal and regulated we could have exactly the same demand for drugs in the U.S., but there wouldn't be any killings. Mexico's 7,500 deaths since the beginning of last year — all those murders just wouldn't exist."/look at the federal budget allocation for the "war on drugs". Add in the state and local budgets for policing etc. The fact is that this money goes into people's pockets. They don't want to lose it. They have a vested interest in the status quo. That is why legalisation or decriminalisation is so difficult. The pro "war on drugs" lobbies have not even begun to react/if Michael Jackson hung out with Snoop Dogg alot more, he'd not only still be alive; he may even had kept a healthier weight? Go figure! BOYCOTT the pharmecuetical industry and buy POT! Think of the economic turn around if "non-narcotic" HEMP was manufactured for clothing, synthetics, paper, oils, etc,. The American farmer would reign the world again?/Bryan Schumacher, the 1st Marine Division's top doctor, said the purpose of studying PTSD triggers is not to bar someone from service. If it turns out that something can be done to prevent it, those vulnerable could get special training to reduce their risk, he said.

Similar research is ongoing 1,300 miles away at the University of Texas at Austin where scientists have collected detailed health data from 178 soldiers from nearby Fort Hood who recently came back from Iraq. The base was the scene of a massacre on Nov. 5 when an Army psychiatrist opened fire, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more. doctors have been mystified as to why certain warfighters exposed to bombings and bloodshed develop paralyzing stress symptoms while others who witness the same trauma shake it off.

Studies on veterans and civilians point to some clues. Childhood abuse, history of mental illness and severity of trauma seem to raise a person's risk. Having a social net and a coping strategy appear to offer some protection.///111909Stress is a word that most of us toss off lightly, a word we use to describe our emotional response to any number of emergencies, demands, deadlines, or pressures. But technically, stress is both a psychological and physical response. Along with the new millennium, we have a new kind of stress: SuperStress. It is the result of our over-stimulated, over-extended modern lifestyle. The diagnosis of SuperStress describes a physical and emotional state that resembles post-traumatic stress disorder. SuperStress leaves you feeling unable to catch up or get a handle on things; it saps you of your sense of humor and perspective about what's important in life. Duration and regularity of stress become silent killers. In the larger context of health, study after study has shown the link between chronic stress and the worsening of many medical conditions such as coronary artery disease, diabetes, gastrointestinal issues, obesity, high blood pressure, asthma, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and cancer. /Peru's anti-kidnapping police. He said the suspects, two of whom were arrested carrying bottles of liquid fat, told police it was worth $60,000 a gallon ($15,000 a liter).

Mejia said the suspects told police the fat was sold to intermediaries in Lima, the Peruvian capital. While police suspect the fat was sold to cosmetic companies in Europe, he could not confirm any sales.

Medical experts expressed doubt about an international black market for human fat, though it does have cosmetic applications. Yale University dermatology professor Dr. Lisa Donofrio speculated that a small market may exist for "human fat extracts" to keep skin supple, though scientifically such treatments are "pure baloney."

At a news conference, police showed reporters two bottles of fat recovered from the suspects and a photo of the rotting head of a 27-year-old male victim. Suspect Elmer Segundo Castillejos, 29, led police to the head, recovered in a coca-growing valley last month, Mejia said.

Mejia said Castillejos confessed that the gang would cut off its victims' heads, arms and legs, remove the organs, then suspend the torsos from hooks above candles that warmed the flesh as the fat dripped into tubs below.

Six members of the gang remain at large, Mejia said, adding that in addition to the five killings the suspects confessed to, the gang may be involved in dozens more. Castillejos told police that the band's fugitive leader, 56-year-old Hilario Cudena, has been killing to extract fat from victims for more than three decades.

At least 60 people are listed as missing in Huanuco province, where the gang allegedly operated, this year alone,//
0 = Never
1 = Rarely
2 = Sometimes
3 = Often

1. How often do you feel like you are getting sick? ____
2. How often are you eating on the run (at your desk working, while driving or walking)? ____
3. How often during meals and meetings do you respond to emails/text messages on your PDA or cell phone? ____
4. How often do you skip meals because you are too busy to eat? ____
5. How often do you feel that watching TV is the most relaxing activity you do? ____
6. How often are you forgetful? ____
7. How often do you feel tired during the day? ____
8. How often do you feel that your life is out of control? ____
9. How often do you have trouble focusing? ____
10. How often do you lie awake at night ruminating? ____
11. How often do you have a difficult time sitting still? ____
12. How many times do you feel exhausted and can't seem to recover -- no matter how much rest you get? ____
13. How many times do you find yourself reading the same paragraph over and over and feeling increasingly frustrated that you just "don't get it"? ____
14. How often do feel like you are close to tears or sensitive to the criticism of others? ____
15. How often do you try to do everything yourself? ____
16. How often do you feel you are fighting a losing battle trying to keep up with your kids' sports schedule, French lessons, dental appointments and homework or your own work deadlines?____
17. How often do you have two or more major problems that you can't seem to resolve? ____
18. How often do you feel as if your stomach is tied up in knots? ____
19. How often are you canceling social engagements or family outings to finish a work project? ____
20. How often do you find yourself angry and annoyed with others-including those at home? ____


THE RESULTS
Are you stressed?
Tally your answers to all 20 questions.
Based on your total, see how you fall into the following categories:

Not stressed: 4 or less
Somewhat stressed: 5-8
Stressed: 9-12
SuperStressed: 12+
Probably Not your type: 0
Could be your type: 1- 2
Probably your type: 3-4

Total for questions 12 and 16 ___Type I
Total for questions 13 and 17 ___Type II
Total for questions 14 and 18 ___Type III
Total for questions 15 and 19 ___Type IV
Total for questions 11 and 20 ___Type V