82311 number of priests in the United States dropped to 45,000 in 2002. By 2020, there will be about 31,000 priests--and only 15,000 will be under the age of 70. Right now there are more priests aged 80 to 84 than there are aged 30 to 34

S & P CHIEF RESIGNS faces criminal probe  under fire from lawmakers, market players and the U.S. Treasury Department since its decision to cut the U.S. credit rating earlier this month, and just last week, news emerged that the Justice Department is investigating the firm over its actions on mortgage/Obama far more successful military leader than George Dumbya Fudd/You fooled everybody. Nobody realized that you would attack your own country but you sure showed us/"Republican Budget (H.Con.Res. 34) – On top of ending Medicare as we know it to pay for tax breaks for Big Oil, millionaires and corporations shipping jobs overseas, the Republican-passed budget cuts key investment to our economic future like education, college aid, life-saving medical research, infrastructure, and clean energy. This will cost Americans 1.7 million jobs by 2014/THE FEDERAL RESERVE IS NOT, AND NEVER WAS PART OF OUR GOVERNMENT.WE THE PEOPLE WERE TRICKED BY THE JEWISH BANKERS BLACKMAILED WOODROW WILSON/when the Fed prints our money, they charge us for the privilege? If we printed our own money, it would cost us nothing/Perry calls Bernanke borderline treasonous/"If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I don't know what y'all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas,"/What blackmail,,,,lol...America is finished/Janjuah: "It's Only Just Begun" - Sees S&P 500 "Fair Value" At 800-900/Germany wants GOLD for "PIIGS" Bailout Going Forward!/USA has turned into what we were founded to oppose. A country where the rich put into office religious dogma spouting fools while they rule us like slaves/he wouldn't have gotten caught. If he were "brilliant" then he would have been able to see the active role the GOVERNMENT played in CAUSING the financial meltdown/The moral: be highly skeptical of the source and motivations of media news sources/sure as H*&# am not voting for any Tea "Let's burn this country to the ground and rebuild it" Party./You can't have "democracy" and a central banking monopoly in private hamds on the same soil/Rescumlicans have collective amnesia when it comes to Dumb-ya. Morons hero-worshipping another moron. Nothing is ever their fault, because in their little minds, they're perfect/They continue to borrow at 0% interest, then LOAN that money back to the government at 3-5 % interest so the TAXPAYER is paying for their PROFITS! This is the biggest fraud of a scam EVER perpetrated on any nations people. And yes, our wonderful government allows it. There should be blood running down Wall ST. right now. Bank of America just got ANOTHER $500miilion dollar back door bailout last week/" Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."-Albert Einstein/Tax rates uncertain,Regulatory expeneses uncertain, What's "in" today maybe "out" tomorrow, long range planning..forget about it! So Ben, you can turn off the printing presses. Business has lots of money. Zero interest rates..good for the banks only./What hasn't Obama done for the rich republican cry babies. He'll get re-elected for that alone. He is the funnel for public tolerance of the rich republican cry babies/GOP wants Bernanke to fail so then can win the election. Sad, but they care less about the American middle-class and have focused all of their resourses on making Obama a one-term president at the cost of Americans/Americans are incredibly violent people. Express ideas by all means, but violence is intellectually bankrupt./if indeed they are american/the general american public is getting awful tired of them bailing out their buddies .if they really want civil unrest here.let them continue to ignore the public,the ones that are suffering the most.pepole are not going back to the fedual system.that is why we left england in the first place.prosperity is a 2 way street and the public has been on the wrong side for the past 2 1/2 years.if matters not to them that they have ruined everyday people lives .you can only go so long before the people will revolt.congress has no intentions of helping anyone but them selves to stay in power/It's not Bernanke, goal...it's his orders/Only time will heal our wounds . There is nothing anyone can do to fix this . Time is the key along with learning from our mistakes/ I don't buy all of this but it's good to know what is being said...even if it's wrong./I wish I could see an alternate universe where a republican president enacted the same policies as Obama and then subsequently listen in on the conservatives' reactions: "This President has the lowest tax rates in 70 years!", "This president has taken the war on terror to the real source in Afghanistan", "This president made sure Osama Bin Laden paid for his attrocities", "This President ensured that the country didn't default", "This President got us out of a recession and into a period of growth."/after obozo is booted out of the WHITE house in 518 days will you still worship him as your God, your Master, your Lord and Savior or will you find another to worship as you follow him to the gates of HELL/How's that "change" working for you? Oh I forgot, you have no job and don't want one unless it is a union/gov't job with free healthcare, early retirement and a 40 hour work week. Bunch of lazy, liberal, socialist patsies/Maxine Waters said that Tea Partiers can go straight to hell today...just another example of "liberal civility"/ traitorous teapublicans can go straight to hell/epublicans have finally found a group they want to tax: poor people/ Bachmann. "We need to broaden the base so that everybody pays something, even if it's a dollar. Everyone should pay something, because we all benefit."/protesting the perception that productive Americans were shelling out for an ever-expanding class of moochers. And Republicans have taken the Tea Party's lead/ a Republican case against making sure that poorer people pay income taxes. "Dr. Paul doesn't want to be president so he can raise taxes on anyone, especially on the poor and middle class," says Ron Paul's spokesman, Jesse Benton. "If half of the American people don't pay income taxes, then we are halfway to our goal of eliminating it for everyone."/ you have finally done it - you've gone collectively insane! How is it that you cannot listen to Warren Buffet but you can listen to these delusional and demented individuals?/funny thing about all of this is that poor people are more likely to be religious, which means they are more likely to be socially conservative, which means they are more likely to vote republican, which means they are voting against their own interests. And Republicans know it./ I don't like to pay for the privilige of being advertised at/ask Walmart shoppers why they go there, they usually reply with something about making $8/hr at their shitty job. I can't recall the details; it's too hard to listen while looking down my nose and judging those bottom-feeders/JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon.The “merger” would completely destroy the value of BAC’s common share/ republican fall-back position......"my statement was not intended to be factually correct./neo conservatives have one agenda to kill the middle class and the poor. Currently the play book reads as follows; destroy public work force, rape public education and pillage the current economy. They will stop at nothing till the common man is reduced to poverty/ If you are going to dedicate your hate in God's name at least read the book/Strauss-Kahn sex assault charges are officially dropped/Obama takes down FOUR powerful Dictators - zero casualties Republicans have protected these pigs for years, to protect Big Oil interests in their countries. always believed oil in these countries was safer for Big Oil if it was in the hands of the dictators. treason is ending a lot sooner than most thought/MY most fervent desire was for Obama to fail so that things would never get this bad in the first place. But alas, he has been extremely successful in getting nearly everything he wanted. Our economy is now paying that price./Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."— Isaac Asimov/agreeable to a 10% tax to support the Injustice Department and an Offensive Military/ you are saying that the 'good enough' for a bronze age chieftain is good enough for you. OH... and the public notification you mention, you think it was adequate? How about the idea that government was only as stable as a god's personality? Think that is still a reasonable mental state?/we should tax money leaving the country....It cost you 2 percent to take your money/sex is like chinese food.  it ain't finished until you both get your cookie/ vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours/The glory of Israel will fly away like a bird, for your children will die at birth or perish in the womb or never even be conceived. Even if your children do survive to grow up, I will take them from you. It will be a terrible day when I turn away and leave you alone. I have watched Israel become as beautiful and pleasant as Tyre. But now Israel will bring out her children to be slaughtered." O LORD, what should I request for your people? I will ask for wombs that don't give birth and breasts that give no milk. The LORD says, "All their wickedness began at Gilgal; there I began to hate them. I will drive them from my land because of their evil actions. I will love them no more because all their leaders are rebels. The people of Israel are stricken. Their roots are dried up; they will bear no more fruit. And if they give birth, I will slaughter their beloved children." (Hosea 9:11-16 NLT /Priests. After skyrocketing from about 27,000 in 1930 to 58,000 in 1965, the number of priests in the United States  dropped to 45,000 in 2002. By 2020, there will be about 31,000 priests--and only 15,000 will be under the age of 70. Right now there are more priests aged 80 to 84 than there are aged 30 to 34. http://www.tldm.org/News11/DevastatingDeclineReligiousOrders.htm /Hawking wrote on this :*"To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational... If aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn’t turn out very well for the Native Americans.”* I think throwing out a broadcast to everyone certainly would be a form of Russian roulette.  Just the technological difference an alien race that could visit would have, even if it were handled well, would be completely disruptive to our way of life/The belief that citizens had to pay for the mistakes of a financial monopoly, that an entire nation must be taxed to pay off private debts was shattered, transforming the relationship between citizens and their political institutions and eventually driving Iceland’s leaders to the side of their constituents. The Head of State, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, refused to ratify the law that would have made Iceland’s citizens responsible for its bankers’ debts, and accepted calls for a referendum-  groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance /behind all those scary ads and pretty packaging, they are hiding a little secret: we don’t actually need them. Antibacterial soaps are no better than regular soap. Scientific studies have shown that. The FDA has admitted that. Even more important, the very chemicals that make those soaps “antibacterial” might actually be hurting us. Laboratory studies have shown that both triclosan and triclocarban can interfere with hormones, especially those most important for proper growth and reproduction. If that isn’t enough, triclosan and triclocarban have also been tied to contributing to antibiotic resistance (that is, the rise of superbugs). The problem of antibiotic resistance means that when doctors prescribe an antibiotic to treat an infection, there is a growing chance that it won’t work