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quote:The story you heard yesterday about President Obama refusing to sign Eagle Scout Awards is true. (He does not refuse to sign these)
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# ? Apr 6, 2010 05:22 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 09:22 |
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Wait, shouldn't they be glad he refused to be the honorary president (even though he didn't?) since it would sully the Boy Scout name because of his corrupting Muslim faith or something? Maybe it's one of those lose-lose situations.
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# ? Apr 6, 2010 14:20 |
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Well see the public sheeple are still falling for the Obama illusion so they need to focus on presenting evidence he isn't christian.
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# ? Apr 6, 2010 15:57 |
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Oh, I see now. What troopers.
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# ? Apr 6, 2010 19:05 |
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According to science our universe has a beginning (search at “age of the universe” on https://www.pnas.org) and time is purely physical. Therefore there can be no such thing as time external to the physical universe. Timespace has a beginning. It is a fundamental law of physics (causality) that every physical occurrence in the universe has a cause. The fundamental laws of physics then require a cause of the universe ex nihilo (since timespace has a beginning); i.e., a Prime Cause Singularity that is non-dimensional and independent of timespace. To conclude the above paragraphs: Fact: No thing nor event in the known universe or laws of physics lacks a cause. Assume: There is no Prime Cause (Creator / Singularity). Ergo: There is no universe. Fact: There is a universe. Therefore: the statement that was assumed is proven to be a false statement by reduction ad absurdum (proof by disproof). (Since "There is no Creator" is proven false, the opposite is true: There is a Creator.) Being logically consistent (orderly), orderly universe must mirror its Prime Cause / Singularity-Creator—Who must be Orderly; i.e. Perfect. An orderly—"not capricious," as Einstein put it—Creator (also implying Just), therefore, necessarily had an Intelligent Purpose in creating this universe and us within it and, being Just and Orderly, necessarily placed an explanation, a "Life's Instruction Manual," within the reach of His subjects—humankind. It defies the orderliness (logic / mathematics) of both the universe and Perfection of its Creator to assert that humanity was (contrary to His Tor•âh′ , see below) without any means of rapproachment until millennia after the first couple in recorded history as well as millennia after Abraham, Moses and the prophets. Therefore, the Creator's "Life's Instruction Manual" has been available to man at least since the beginning of recorded history. The only enduring document of this kind is the Tor•âh′ —which, interestingly, translates to "Instruction" (not "law" as popularly alleged). (Source and further reading of how to relate to the Creator:https://www.netzarim.co.il) The fact that the Creator is perfect implies that He isn’t self-contradictory. Therefore any religion, and all religions contradicts each other (otherwise they would be identical), that contradicts Torah is the antithesis to the Creator.
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# ? Apr 7, 2010 07:00 |
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quote:Seems people will be getting more than they bargained for in this new health care bill.
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# ? Apr 7, 2010 12:04 |
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So what does it actually refer to? Pacemakers or something? edit: Also, I think "libtard" is the most insufferable of right-wing catchphrases. "Lib" is not even remotely similar to "re"; you might as well say "contard."
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# ? Apr 7, 2010 12:09 |
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freebooter posted:So what does it actually refer to? Pacemakers or something? Exactly this. But it's from an older version of the bill and doesn't apply anyway.
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# ? Apr 7, 2010 12:30 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:
what That's just...it's an acronym, not some diabolical scheme!
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# ? Apr 7, 2010 16:09 |
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freebooter posted:So what does it actually refer to? Pacemakers or something? It may be dumber than that. I have had several evangelicals/pentecostals go on tirades about the mark of the beast being a chip implanted on the forehead or right hand, without which people would be unable to participate in commerce, society, etc. I am pretty sure that email is full of Revelation dog whistles.
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# ? Apr 7, 2010 16:34 |
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Vartiter posted:what What's funny is if the government was actually trying to cover up a program to implant chips into your body without your knowledge why would they use such an obvious acronym? Obviously assuming no one would bother to read the bill isn't a good way to handling it. It'd be like calling something PROJECT DEATHCAMP Turnquiet posted:It may be dumber than that. I have had several evangelicals/pentecostals go on tirades about the mark of the beast being a chip implanted on the forehead or right hand, without which people would be unable to participate in commerce, society, etc. I am pretty sure that email is full of Revelation dog whistles. Naw he's asking what the bill actually did in the context of the law, not crazy email logic. It was meant for pacemakers and that kind of stuff.
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# ? Apr 7, 2010 16:37 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:What's funny is if the government was actually trying to cover up a program to implant chips into your body without your knowledge why would they use such an obvious acronym? Obviously assuming no one would bother to read the bill isn't a good way to handling it. It'd be like calling something PROJECT DEATHCAMP Stuff that already the makers of the products have the data on. It's just not centralized and therby takes a lot of effort as well as time to track down. Everything from breast implants, to dental crowns these days has serial numbers or other markings. I can see why a central database would be usefull for medical purposes.
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# ? Apr 7, 2010 16:52 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:What's funny is if the government was actually trying to cover up a program to implant chips into your body without your knowledge why would they use such an obvious acronym? Obviously assuming no one would bother to read the bill isn't a good way to handling it. It'd be like calling something PROJECT DEATHCAMP http://www.fda.gov/MedicalDevices/ResourcesforYou/Consumers/ucm142523.htm FDA posted:Class I – These devices present minimal potential for harm to the user and are often simpler in design than Class II or Class III devices. Examples include enema kits and elastic bandages. 47% of medical devices fall under this category and 95% of these are exempt from the regulatory process.
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# ? Apr 8, 2010 05:23 |
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my dad posted:I agree that something has to be reformed in health care but creating a mandated system without any control of costs and no tort reform will only benefit the trial lawyers and the insurance companies. It will increase the cost of doing business, increase taxes, and increase the deficit. It is irresponsible and near sighted. The same mandated system implemented in 2005 in Mass has increased from 600 mil to 1.3 bil in 5 years. A system like this will hinder the development by private enterprise of new cutting edge technology that's made this country great. The system is rigged in favor of trial lawyers and insurance companies both of whom will benefit from this new law. The insurance companies will have another 47 mil people paying premiums and the lawyers will have a field day suing doctors that have to scramble to see more patients in order to make ends meet. I don't see any one controlling how much they get reimbursed for their professional services. Anyone want to take a stab at this one? For the record my dad is a family practice doctor that owns his pretty good sized practice and hasn't taken a pay check yet this year to cover his expenses and paying for his staff's payroll, which he says is because medicare has been pushing off their reimbursement cycle over and over.
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# ? Apr 8, 2010 17:17 |
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I think your dad is almost completely correct. I'd like to see how he justifies the "A system like this will hinder the development by private enterprise of new cutting edge technology that's made this country great." bit because the problems that he is describing aren't magically popping up, they is just going to be more money in the pot up for grabs. Hospitals aren't going to stop buying equipment and the universities aren't going to stop doing medical research.
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# ? Apr 8, 2010 17:45 |
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EnsGDT posted:Anyone want to take a stab at this one? Tort reform is largely a red herring. Ask your Dad to support his assertions about it, as numerous studies and trial projects have shown tort costs are largely irrelevant to health care costs. OB/Gyns have a legitimate beef, as people tend to sue any time a baby is born with a birth defect whether the doctor had anything to do with it or not - and juries tend to sympathize with the poor parents regardless of the facts. I know of no other field of medicine where torts are a genuine problem, though. Torts are currently the only way patients are able to hold doctors accountable for serious malpractice. As for the rest, he's right that there aren't major cost controls in the current bill - it was a fight they chose to leave for another day. The main goal was to get as many Americans covered as possible for now. His problems with Medicare are probably not unique, but not really a part of the current legislation.
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# ? Apr 8, 2010 17:57 |
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Not political EXACTLY but the people who'd buy this without a source linked are in the same groupquote:Urgent prayer request! Please pray for all the churches in India. Buddhist extremists in India burned down 20 churches last night. Tonight they plan to destroy 200 churches in the province of Olisabang. They plan to kill 200 missionaries within 24 hours. Right now all Christians are hiding in small villages. Please pray for them and send this mail to Christians you know worldwide. Please ask God to have mercy on our brothers and sisters in India . Please pray for them and commit this matter to our Almighty and Victorious Lord.
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# ? Apr 8, 2010 19:42 |
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No date, eh? I wonder how long this email will float around, forever requesting our prayers to protect Christians from an attack "tonight".
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# ? Apr 8, 2010 19:47 |
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/india.asp EXTREME BUDDHISM!
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# ? Apr 8, 2010 20:14 |
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quote:Barack Obama — Editor of the Harvard Law Review — Has No Law License?
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 06:17 |
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quote:As in, Too Quickly. Less than a half-second quickly on a Search Engine that can take five seconds to Search for anything. As in, "there's a block on that information" kind of thing. What the hell search engine are you using that takes 5 seconds to bring up a result?
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 07:38 |
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freebooter posted:What the hell search engine are you using that takes 5 seconds to bring up a result? I would tell you, but I'm just heading out the door for a check-up with my doctor who is currently in prison for murder.
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 14:47 |
Holy poo poo Google produced my results in .054 seconds and there's no results for "Barack Obama is not a Venusian slime monster from the outer reaches of Jupiter"!!!!!!!!!!!! This means he really is an alien! It came back... TOO quickly to be anything else!
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 18:21 |
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freebooter posted:What the hell search engine are you using that takes 5 seconds to bring up a result?
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 18:38 |
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Maybe theyre on 56k?
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 19:07 |
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Someone just posted the Walk Naked in America Day bullshit on my facebook. There's been a fuckload of just stupid, uninformed Conservatism coming out of my facebook friends lately, but this has finally initiated a great purge of idiocy from my friends list. And 90% of this retardation is my extended family. Next family reunion is gonna be fun! And we have 3 family reunions a year!
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 20:26 |
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http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.aspquote:Not true. Information about the statuses of both Barack and Michelle Obama's licenses is readily retrievable, both show no record of any disciplinary actions or pending proceedings, and the elapsed time for searches we performed on their information was comparable to that for searches on information about other names in the Illinois ARDC database. hahahaha
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 20:47 |
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chesh posted:http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/lawlicenses.asp I expected no less.
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 20:52 |
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quote:Dear fellow patriot,
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 21:08 |
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quote:Poverty in Our Cities. I just got this from my uncle. I'm really tempted with replying with redstatesocialism.jpg, then again, he seems to think that mayors wield this much power when it comes to poverty rates, so I doubt it would do much good.
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 21:26 |
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EDIT: ^^^^ What those cities all have in common is that they're surrounded by rich white Republican-voting suburbs. But then again, that's true of most American cities... I can't find any info on the "Small Arms Treaty" except reposts of this, but the "Arms Trade Treaty" appears to have been derailed in 2009 after the US insisted that it be passed by consensus. Here's a speech someone at State gave about it: http://www.state.gov/t/us/136849.htm . It appears to require that all signatory members apply the same restrictions to international arms sales that U.S. manufacturers already operate under. So in short it's absolutely nothing like what's posted above. Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Apr 9, 2010 |
# ? Apr 9, 2010 21:44 |
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Small Arms Treaty. It's like some GOP think tank was sitting around smoking pot trying to come up with the next great email chain. Hmmmmm.....uhhhh...treaty yeah yeah....arms treaty. WAIT GUYS. Small Arms. Arms Treaty. SMALL ARMS TREATY HOLLLLY poo poo.
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 21:53 |
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quote:*** CONFISCATE and DESTROY ALL “unauthorized” civilian firearms (all firearms owned by the government are excluded, of course);
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 21:58 |
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ApathyGifted posted:Someone just posted the Walk Naked in America Day bullshit on my facebook. There's been a fuckload of just stupid, uninformed Conservatism coming out of my facebook friends lately, but this has finally initiated a great purge of idiocy from my friends list. I had to look this one up. I wish it was true! You know, the naked chicks and beer part, not the overt racism.
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 22:06 |
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Turing sex machine posted:I'm pretty sure that if a government entity was caught using unauthorized firearms, it would get in some sort of trouble. Is Blackwater a gov't entity?
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 22:34 |
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chesh posted:I had to look this one up. I wish it was true! You know, the naked chicks and beer part, not the overt racism. Yes, I want a nude love-in too. As a followup, removed 2/3's of my friends.
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 22:42 |
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Lansdowne posted:I just got this from my uncle. I'm really tempted with replying with redstatesocialism.jpg, then again, he seems to think that mayors wield this much power when it comes to poverty rates, so I doubt it would do much good. Amazing! I had NO IDEA that democratic mayors had the ability to shape our international trade policies that destroyed domestic manufacturing industries!
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# ? Apr 9, 2010 22:48 |
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ApathyGifted posted:Someone just posted the Walk Naked in America Day bullshit on my facebook. There's been a fuckload of just stupid, uninformed Conservatism coming out of my facebook friends lately, but this has finally initiated a great purge of idiocy from my friends list. Can someone clarify this to me? Never heard of it.
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# ? Apr 10, 2010 04:16 |
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RagnarokAngel posted:Can someone clarify this to me? Never heard of it. http://tinyurl.com/y3vqsjb
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# ? Apr 10, 2010 04:33 |
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# ? May 11, 2024 09:22 |
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Thanks mate.
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