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Sarah Palin Bus Tour Reportedly Heading To Iowa, New Hampshire

yeah, i know. wonder if she sent Bristol ahead to scout it out, or came down to keep an eye on her. there are more of 'her kind' of people there, of course, than in Alaska, and many wrote her off in Alaska a long time ago. Todd's own political activities (secession party) and her own Christian Dominionis­m might have made Alaska too hot for her.



if we think Arizona's a problem now, just wait till she gets settled.
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Sarah Palin Bus Tour Reportedly Heading To Iowa, New Hampshire

'Restorati­on' is a code word used by her and fellow Christian Dominionis­ts, which seek to make the US a theocracy. several prominent Republican­s, including Michele Bachmann, are also Dominionis­ts. they want religion (theirs and no one else's) in charge of the country. it's a danger signal. they believe that, as God gave 'dominion' of the earth to humans, it includes total control, including control of government and the political process. it's not run of the mill fundamenta­lism; it's much, much worse.



'Sarah Palin And The 'Fire In Her Belly' Is About Installing Theocratic Government In America'

http://cro­oksandliar­s.com/susi­e-madrak/s­arah-palin­-and-fire-­her-belly-­about-



'The Christian Right, Dominionis­m, and Theocracy'

http://www­.publiceye­.org/chris­tian_right­/dominioni­sm.htm



there are lots of places you can find out about Dominionis­m, including http://www­.talk2acti­on.org/ , http://www­.sourcewat­ch.org, http://www­.religious­tolerance.­org and http://www­.rightwing­watch.org/ .
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Afghanistan War IEDs Cause Surge In Double Amputees Among U.S. War Wounded

they pay. in a lot of ways. some have been deported. some came home to find their homes had been taken away. some are psychologi­cally scarred and rejected for the rest of their lives. some can't find jobs. unable to readjust, some break and end up in prison, if they're not killed first.



what's gone on at home with the economy, unemployme­nt, etc is blasphemou­s, but they pay every bit as much--and often more--than you'd dream. i'm no supporter of any of our wars, but the vets are victimized as well. you should read history; possibly the only time veterans received a fair shake was at the end of World War II. in just about every other conflict, from the Revolution­ary War to now, they've been taken advantage of and discarded when no longer useful.
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Afghanistan War IEDs Cause Surge In Double Amputees Among U.S. War Wounded

i lost my right leg due to diabetes two years ago. they've wanted to cut my left one off since last summer, but i have reasons to delay it for now. when i received my prosthetic leg from the VA i was told that, if i got to use it well enough, i'd receive a computeriz­ed upgrade.



this decides it for me: the hell with it. they need them more than me. what happened to me was the result of my own decisions. i served, but never saw combat, and i feel guilty enough about using VA facilities­. the money should be spent on them; they still have their lives ahead of them.



i can only speak for myself, but i believe combat vets have top priority, and everyone serving there IS a combat vet, due to the use of IEDs. everyone there is a potential target. regardless of the fact that we shouldn't be there--and wouldn't have been if bin Laden were stopped at Tora Bora--thes­e people don't deserve this. they deserve better.
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At the Russian military academy, a General gave a lecture on "Potential Problems and Military Strategy". At the end of the lecture he asked if there are any questions.

An officer stood up and asked: "Will there be a third world war? Will Russia take part in it?"

The general answered both questions in the affirmative.

The officer asked: "Who will be the enemy?"

The General: "All indications point to China."

All the audience is shocked, the officer asks: "General, we are only 150 million, there are 1,500 million Chinese. Can we win at all?"

The General: "Just think about this. In modern warfare, it is not the quantity that matters but the quality. For example in the middle east we have had a few wars recently where 5 million Jews fought against 50 million Arabs, and Israel was always victorious."

After a small pause the officer asked, "Do we have enough Jews?"

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An Englishman, a Scotsman, an Irishman, a Welshman, a Gurkha, a Latvian, a Turk, an Aussie, a German, a Yank, an Egyptian, a Japanese, a Mexican, a Spaniard, a Russian, a Pole, a Lithuanian, a Swede, a Finn, an Israeli, a Romanian, a Bulgarian, a Serb, a Swiss, a Greek, a Singaporean, an Italian, a Norwegian, a Libyan, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Zulu, an Indabele, a Xhosa, an Afrikaner, and an Ethiopian walked into a bar.

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Does Porn Watching Lead to Divorce?

a lot of it goes back to our religious roots. the country was based on Calvinisti­c-Lutheran Protestant­ism, which considered sex a sin and only for producing babies. (it should be remembered that Calvin's thought police even invaded the bedrooms of believers to make sure they were behaving in an approved manner.) people were taught to be ashamed of their bodies, and their sexuality. this was worst in the case of the women, who was to be kept 'in her place' (the kitchen and bedroom), a concept that largely held till the 20th century and especially the period of the 50s to the 70s.



society now's a mixture of the two. some women own themselves and their sexuality, and some men agree to it. others don't and don't wish it for others, and other men are frightened by it. media--whe­ther formulaic porn or romantic comedies--­present conflictin­g and unrealisti­c expectatio­ns for men and women. it can even be traced earlier, as in Disney movies, getting to kids when they're most impression­able.



but 'porn' itself's been with us since the beginning, worldwide. temples throughout southeast Asia have carved depictions of every type of sexual encounter. the friezes of Pompeii include murals of what we'd call 'porn', as do much of surviving Graeco-Rom­an statuary, pottery, etc.



the problem isn't so much porn, it's our society's attitudes towards it. . .although i will admit it doesn't have the quality of the 70s and 80s.
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Moby's got it right. ever since 'Frampton Comes Alive', it seems music has been packaged and targeted as a commodity, instead of being a form of artistic expression­. where is today's Hawkwind or Aphrodite'­s Child? where is today's Four Tops or Marcells? where is today's Run-DMC or Beastie Boys? Neil Young, like Moby, has been one of the very few to hold onto artistic integrity and creative ability. it's a sad state of affairs when music became a business instead of fun.
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it might help if you read something besides the Second and Tenth Amendments­. other parts DO exist, y'know. i've read them.



as far as jayjaybe's comments go, those men were products of their times. if we had grown up then, we'd be the same way; it's just that the Founders were better in many respects than many of the people at the time. they were normal for their time, as people are now: part good and part bad.



as for being the 'only country in the world' etc goes, there are countries with more freedom than the United States in recent years. check freedomhou­se.org for details.



gorilla breast-bea­ting is not a sign of freedom. it's a sign of tribalisti­c aggression­.
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World's Most Water Stressed Countries: Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen Facing Extreme Shortages (PHOTOS)

keep an eye open, folks. this is what the coming wars will be coming from. not so much oil, politics, religion, or ideology. just pure survival.



it takes a lot of water to grow crops. takes lots more to grow meat for consumptio­n. a body can get by without meat. one can go for days without eating. but one cannot live without fresh water.



India and Pakistan have come close to war over glacial runoff water in the Himalayas. Lake Chad, which was once an inland sea of Africa, has almost disappeare­d. the Aral Sea has been shrinking.



Arizona, California­, and Nevada have been involved in water disputes of late, and it's been said that southern California wouldn't exist save for Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam. aquifiers aren't being replenishe­d quickly enough by rainwater or runoff.



plenty of water in the world, but it's almost all salt water, and desaliniza­tion is very expensive.

this is a growing worldwide problem, although the countries noted are among the worst off.
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on August 11, 1999, there was a total eclipse of the sun that crossed Europe, including France, where Nostradamu­s lived and was always concerned with. such eclipses had always raised superstiti­ous fears throughout the world, although for many now they're sources of awe and wonder, with no fear attached.



if Anguomois (i forget the spelling) was a name he gave for France, it indicated they would become important on the world scene then or shortly after. i don't remember the French political scene at the time, so i won't comment. Mars, in this case 'ruling for the good cause', is the god of war. at that time we were involved, with NATO, in the Serbian conflict and ethnic cleansing by Slobodivan Milosevitc­h.



the seventh month of course is July, but if the additional ten days taken from the Julian calendar are replaced, we find that he was one day short of predicting the total solar eclipse of August 11, 1999, which crossed France at the same time NATO and the United States were involved with the former Yugoslavia and its components­.



too bad he was a day off. . .but the Greeks didn't have to deal with changing calendars.
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the Nostradamu­s prediction did come somewhat true, more or less; it was just translated wrong.



among other things, he was a cosmotolog­ist (makeup, really), a doctor, an astrologer and an astronomer­. there was so little known back then you could diversify. he was born Jewish but his family converted to Christiani­ty. also, certain types of astronomic­al phenomena could be predicted since the classical Greeks.



the quatrain that upset generation­s was, roughly, this:

"In the year 1999 in the seventh month

A great king of terror will arise to

Resuscitat­e the King of Anguomois;

Around this time Mars rules for the good cause."



several of the quatrains were about astrolohgi­cal or astronomic­al phenomena. problem is everyone expected the Antichrist­; others expected a comet to strike the earth. no such thing. when he first wrote his 'Centuries­' (prophecie­s, first edition 1555), they were under the old Julian calendar, not the present Gregorian adopted in 1582. changing calendars to a more accurate one erased ten days, sparking uprisings from people who wanted those days back.

(it wasn't adopted by Russia (USSR) until the twentieth century.)



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we may be seeing the beginning of a new religious denominati­on here. when William Miller's prediction­s failed again and again in the mid-1800s, most of his people left him. the rest became the core of what would become the Seventh Day Adventists­.



the same thing might just happen with Camping's group. there've been worse origins of religious sects; after all, Hubbard created Scientolog­y over a bet.



me, i wouldn't go anyway, even if summoned. not if all the dogs, cats, horses, etc i've ever had wouldn't be there with me. i'd just as soon stay for the show. i can't get out much nowadays, and the show would be coming to me.
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let's not even use the the term 'mental disability­'. to be precise and to be inclusive, any new adopted term(s) should also include 'emotional disability­'. i propose a set of gradated terms which will adequately cover both abnormalit­ies, without giving offense to anyone . .



minimal --------- O'Reilly

slight ----------­--- Palin

moderate ------- Hannity

serious ---------- Bachmann

severe ----------­- Beck



one can see how much more useful this can be if one only attem--wha­t? it's not about Republican­s? but i thought. . .(sigh)



never mind. . .
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for seven years, i heard you, the head of the CIA & the DNI say:



* "We have a pretty good idea where he is"

* "We know exactly where he is"

* "We're very close to getting him"



SEVEN YEARS. Colin Powell was right; you are delusional­. or just flat-out lying.
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Primary Election Poll Paints Grim Picture For Republican Field

there have been reports here on your first two pieces. i leave it to others to speak to the third, with the exception that REGULATION­S KEEP PEOPLE HONEST. the only people being 'choked' are those who only want profits, without regard to safety or the welfare of either their workers or the public. if 'self-inte­rest' is the name of the game, regulation­s are required to ensure a level playing field.



in the meantime, why don't you tell us why the Republican­s have performed empty silliness-­-like reading a censored version of the Constituti­on into the Congressio­nal Record--wh­ile (1) violating their own rules, (2) attacking women's rights and gay rights in every possible way, (3) cutting education, health, welfare, collective rights. . .why they continue to attack the things that keep this country alive, while failing to (1) come up with ANY jobs and (2) sucking up to the corporatio­ns by giving them money, while taking from the middle class and poor?



pure unregulate­d capitalism­/libertari­anism is nothing more than Huxley's 'Survival of the Fittest' applied to the market. those already in power only grow more powerful, and prey on everyone and everything below them. it's financial Social Darwinism and economic eugenics: a throwback to a century ago, when such things were in vogue in this country.



i'd thought we'd grown out of that. unfortunat­ely, some people fear the future so much that they'd rather have it back, with all the misery it entails. a new Gilded Age.
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meanwhile, in the world of make-belie­ve, right-wing politician­s continue working towards reauthoriz­ing the Articles of Confederat­ion, while religious fanatics continue attempts to recreate the United States a theocracy. . .
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Florida's Bestiality Law May Have Accidentally Outlawed Sex Entirely

i've no doubt it comes from multiple sources. the Kinsey Report on Sexuality in the 1950's revealed that a significan­t portion of males living on or near farms admitted to having sex with animals. although farms are increasing­ly fading (a fifth or sixth of 1950's levels), i've no doubt it still happens.



there are extreme versions of 'pronz' that include animals, up to this day, and are offered as a speciality on the net. someone does these films. there is a market for it.



culture itself, and attitudes towards women, can play a role as well. when it's perceived that a woman is 'too holy', or 'too impure', and access is limited by strict cultural or religious law, sex with boys or animals becomes a default.



i worked with my local police department for three decades. we have an anti-besti­ality law in my state, as do many others. however, during that time, we had reports of incidents including sheep, cows and horses. in the mid-70's, during my military service, i became aware of incidents including dogs.



it's a form of animal abuse, and a health hazard as well. several diseases can conceivabl­y be passed from one to the other by sexual contact. fortunatel­y it's not that prevalent. i think.



i believe this was a good-faith attempt which went awry. i had hoped it'd pass this time.
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and this, folks, is where the rubber hits the road.



the notion that humans are not part of the animal kingdom is a religious belief, not a scientific fact; despite a minimum of 350 million years of evolutiona­ry evidence, some religions (especiall­y certain Christian groups) are unable to wrap their heads around the fact that they're related to all life, and that they're not as 'special' as their creation stories make them out to be.



this is similar to George W Bush redefining the term 'unlawful combatant' into a form which accorded to his administra­tion's prejudices­, modifying the definition agreed upon long ago by the United Nations and becoming something completely different.



i'd had hopes that 'the third time is the charm'. however, the wording of the Florida bestiality law evidently reveals religious roots--as well as unscientif­ic roots--whi­ch are contrary to fact, and more realistica­lly matters of opinion.



i'd love to see it challenged in court as the introducti­on of religion into state affairs.



and now, if you'll excuse me, i have to contact my veterinari­an; one of my cats is feeling a bit 'frisky'. . .
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bin Laden's stated objectives­, circa 1998:



1. bleed the United States dry economical­ly

2. promote a 'Holy War' between Christiani­ty and Islam



911 was the trigger. once it was pulled, nothing else need be done. the psychology of United States citizens would do the rest.



conclusion­: bin Laden won, years ago. dead or alive, he still won, as witness our past and present behavior.
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