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So... The most intolerable religion right now on this planet in 2013 regarding gay rights and women's rights is the Christian religion? Got it.
Can you believe they let women drive cars and buy bitcoins in the USA and Russia? Incredible!
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''Currently it is a community of hoarders, snarky posters and troll champions...''
Nice to meet you.
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That was a general rehearsal. |
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FoxNews would be reporting Al Sharpton was ordered start riots. That'd interfere with the 'righteous and indignant protests' on the MSM. Everyone knows foxnews is racist. Tawana Brawley told me. |
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There is an opportunity to win or lose some bitcoins. Google employees and people working on those barges should not participate  What is Google building on Treasure Island? http://youtu.be/RHz6WrjuCGQGoogle 'Floating Structures' on Both Coasts http://youtu.be/k5Gquqb-iQEPeople who live and work on California s Treasure Island thought a barge and four stories of cargo containers had something to do with the America s Cup, but as Allen Martin reports, the top-secret floating structure actually belongs to Google. People who live and work on California s Treasure Island thought a barge and four stories of cargo containers had something to do with the America s Cup, but as Allen Martin reports, the top-secret floating structure actually belongs to Google. People who live and work on California s Treasure Island thought a barge and four stories of cargo containers had something to do with the America s Cup, but as Allen Martin reports, the top-secret floating structure actually belongs to Google. |
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http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/sebelius-blame-contractors-for-obamacare-site-20131029week after the contractors who built HealthCare.gov blamed the Obama administration for the site’s failures, the administration is shifting the blame right back. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will tell a House committee tomorrow the site’s botched rollout was the result of contractors failing to live up to expectations – not bad management at HHS, as the contractors suggested. “CMS has a track record of successfully overseeing the many contractors our programs depend on to function. Unfortunately, a subset of those contracts for HealthCare.gov have not met expectations,” Sebelius said in prepared testimony for tomorrow’s hearing before the Energy and Commerce Committee. The site’s contractors have blamed HealthCare.gov’s problems on CMS – the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which handled the Obamacare implementation effort within HHS. Testifying before the same committee last week, contractors faulted CMS for design changes that made the site harder to use.
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What is the purpose of Evolution?
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I see where this thread is going. Bill Maher, Michael Moore, Sharpton, and Richard Dawkins Battle Over the Sins of Islam http://youtu.be/CLsxnMmhec4Maher: Islam is only religion that kills you when you disagree with them http://youtu.be/CVifGxlckAoLiberals on Liberals mud fight regarding Islam. Even a broken clock like Maher is right twice a day. |
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And we all know the differences between the two. They are not remotely similar. One turns the other cheek, the other massacres innocent people.
The first one also bombs abortion clinics, kills gays and transsexuals, is typically very racist and jingoistic, and it is extremely likely that, if the law wasn't there to stop them from doing it, would be perfectly happy wth stoning sinners or burning them at the stake as well. Both are quite subject to irrational mob mentality. kills gays and transsexuals What? Where? Iran? |
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It feels so good to know it is OK to feel safe making fun of Christians, no mater what.  |
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Just another link for people allergic to anything foxnews related: http://www.salon.com/2013/10/28/riots_always_begin_typically_the_same_way_food_stamp_shutdown_looms_friday/Food stamp recipients face a massive benefit cut set to kick in when stimulus funds expire Friday. The nationwide cut “is equivalent to about 16 meals a month for a family of three,” according to a Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis using the USDA’s “Thrifty Food Plan.” CBPP called the roughly $5 billion annual cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program “unprecedented” in “depth and breadth.” “If you look across the world, riots always begin typically the same way: when people cannot afford to eat food,” Margarette Purvis, the president and CEO of the Food Bank for New York City, told Salon Monday. Purvis said that the looming cut would mean about 76 million meals “that will no longer be on the plates of the poorest families” in NYC alone – a figure that outstrips the total number of meals distributed each year by the Food Bank for New York City, the largest food bank in the country. “There will be an immediate impact,” she said. “The fact that they’re going to lose what’s basically an entire week’s worth food” each month, said Purvis, “it’s pretty daunting.” She told Salon that while policymakers “are attempting to punish people for being poor,” and “people are comforted by believing that they know that a person has to have done something wrong in order to be poor,” in reality, “I can tell you that more and more folks have more than one job and are still needing help.” (As I reported last week, audio recorded by a McDonald’s worker-activist showed a counselor on an employee hotline encouraging her to sign up for food stamps because it “takes a lot of the pressure off how much money you spend on groceries.”) Purvis added that cutting food stamps was “not even good business sense,” because each dollar of food stamps infuses over $1.70 of spending into the economy. “We were all told that these cuts for November 1 would not happen,” said Purvis. When “they decided they were going to take from some of the increases to food stamps” to fund First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” program, she told Salon, “We were told, you know, by the president…these cuts will not happen, we won’t get rid of the program. Well guess what? November 1 is around the corner, and no one has restored that money.” --------------------------------------------------------------------------- My conspiracy theory tin foil hat tells me (yes it talks to me) the Democrats are facing a shellacking in the upcoming election thanks to obamacare. If I were a not so good president I would cut off the food stamps just before the election, making enough people miserable, have my MSM minions blast their suffering on TV non stop 24/7 and blame the Republicans for it. I would point out to the government shutdown, telling "my people" how horrible it is to take the food out of the babies mouth for political reasons. I would ask "my people" if the solution is more suffering by electing more Republicans in. Once I regain total power in both chambers, I would drop Benghazi, drop the IRS scandal, drop any investigation into the NSA surveillance, reinforce my people "free will" with even more massive free stuff so to never ever vote anything but a Democrat forever. My face would be on Mt. Rushmore and historians will slowly replace MLK Jr's message with my "people message". Of course my tin foil hat has always been wrong and has no imagination. I am not a not so good president. I have a Nobel peace prize that proves it. |
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I believe there is a God and I am perfectly OK if He is made out of String Theory Spaghetti living in the 10th dimension.
Does pure chaos even exist?
We try all kind of Zen meditation to be more in tune with the universe. Why not simply be a rock and never evolve? There is nothing more in tune with the universe than simple elements.
So far we have gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear forces. What is the name of that fundamental force that pushes simple elements into the shape and interaction of the DNA structure?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9iHYec8eFghttps://www.shtfplan.com/emergency-preparedness/mainstream-reports-dhs-battens-down-the-hatches-this-could-be-all-hell-breaks-loose-day_10282013November 1st could be a very, very iffy day. This could be ‘all hell breaks lose’ day. The Department of Homeland Security is spending $80 million on a wrath of armed guards to protect the IRS and other government buildings in New York, not from terrorist threats mind you, but from American citizens because on November 1st the food stamp program is set to start decreasing the amount that is allocated to food stamp recipients… and they’re worried that violence will ensue. I guess they’re preparing for the worst… … If we do not radically change our economy and revamp so that those nearly 50 million people have an opportunity to be liberated from food stamps to get $75, versus $70, versus $65. What these people need is economic opportunity and a good job so they can put food on their own table. You know, the slaves had food stamps too. It was called scraps from mazza’s table… we have a crisis within our country right now when you have 50 million people, nearly the entire West Coast, on food stamps.
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http://www.irs.gov/irb/2010-29_IRB/ar08.html#d0e479[...] Reliable data are scant, but a variety of studies indicate that between 40 percent and 67 percent of policies are in effect for less than one year. Although data on changes in benefit packages comparable to that for the group market is not readily available, the high turnover rates described here would dominate benefit changes as the chief source of changes in grandfather status.
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If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat.
If you get too cold I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Taxman!
No but really, next they'll try to put that box in my shoes and charge me for the privilege.
"Sidewalks don't fix themselves! Shoe makers need a bail out!" |
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The Army is warning not only from Christian groups but Muslim groups and Buddhist groups to, I am sure...
No, you are not sure of that. Yes, I am sure I was being cynical. |
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What's your opinion about this topic, so controversial and prone to ridicule?
I Love anything ET. I Love Sci-Fy and Love anything Sci-Fy related geeky stuff. I am sad 2 of my friends were witnesses of "lights in the sky", but not me. Ancient Aliens Marathon on H2 channel right now is cool.  But I don't get the Cattle Mutilation. So they spent 1000 of years traveling through space in this amazing tech. Then, finally Earth! What do they do first? Carve off the cow's a$$ for target practice? Could this part of the animal almost taste like a delicacy from their homeland? Very strange. Bob Lazar for the Win!. What a cool guy. No one can't confirm what he is saying like everything else. Of course. How come no one made even a TV movie based on him is a real mystery? http://youtu.be/igUMDICqTpQ (the soundtrack is really annoying!) Foo fighters: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighterThe term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots in World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and Pacific Theater of Operations. Though "foo fighter" initially described a type of UFO reported and named by the U.S. 415th Night Fighter Squadron, the term was also commonly used to mean any UFO sighting from that period.[1] Formally reported from November 1944 onwards, witnesses often assumed that the foo fighters were secret weapons employed by the enemy, but they remained unidentified post-war and were reported by both Allied and Axis forces. Professor and ufologist Michael D. Swords[2][unreliable source] writes: During WWII, the foo fighter experiences of [Allied] pilots were taken very seriously. Accounts of these cases were presented to heavyweight scientists, such as David Griggs, Luis Alvarez and H.P. Robertson. The phenomenon was never explained. Most of the information about the issue has never been released by military intelligence. |
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Regarding the OP, I don't like the idea of other people killing some other people in my name. BUT, the idea of religious fanatics, who are blindly convinced that what they are doing is righteous, who don't fear death because they are convinced they will go to heaven, I dislike even more.
Allahu Akbar! The idea was, I believe "freedom of religion" not "freedom from religion". It does not matter if you believe or not, as soon as you agree the military has a right to control what people should believe or not doesn't compute with being a true libertarian. This state of mind is more likely compatible with a State of Minds that will "quiet the enemies of real Freedom". The Army is warning not only from Christian groups but Muslim groups and Buddhist groups to, I am sure... |
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http://freebeacon.com/government-mining-social-media-for-information-on-health-behavior/The National Library of Medicine (NLM) is “mining” Facebook and Twitter to improve its social media footprint and to assess how Tweets can be used as “change-agents” for health behaviors. The NLM, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will have software installed on government computers that will store data from social media as part of a $30,000 project announced last week. “The National Library of Medicine is the world’s largest biomedical library and makes its stored information available online at no charge to consumers, health professionals, and biomedical scientists through a diverse suite of resources,” the agency said in a contract posted on Oct. 23. “Evaluating how its databases and other resources are utilized is an important component of continuing quality improvement and has long been an on-going program of NLM management through a potpourri of monitoring tools.” “The world-wide explosion in the use of social media provides a unique opportunity for sampling sentiment and use patterns of NLM’s ‘customers’ and for comparing NLM to other sources of health-related information,” the agency said. “By examining relevant tweets and other comments,” the contract said, “NLM will gain insights to extent of use, context for which information was sought, and effects of various health-related announcements and events on usage patterns.” Specifically, NLM will look at the “value of tweets and other messages as teaching tools and change-agents for health-relevant behavior.” “The overarching objective of these studies is to obtain a richer understanding of how consumers, clinicians, researchers actually look for the health-related information they seek, and what they do with what they find,” NLM said in a response to frequently asked questions about the project. OhMyGov Inc., a media company that specializes in the promotion of government agencies, will be paid $30,660 to monitor social media for NLM for one year. The company will install software on computers at NLM headquarters in Bethesda, Md. to “maintain a comprehensive ‘universe’ of social media data.” Government bureaucrats will be trained on the software so they can search the database for health-related content. “Content from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, news sites, discussion boards, video and image sharing sites will be maintained by the Contractor and kept up-to-date in a timely manner and made available for query by Government,” the contract said. When asked by a vendor if they are interested in storing the data for “historical analysis,” NLM said “Yes.” The project will also track NLM’s impact on social media in comparison to its “competitors,” which they define as Google, Mayo Clinic, and WebMD. “Demographic characteristics” of Facebook and Twitter posts will be noted “to the extent permitted by privacy regulations.” NLM said they are interested in the location, number of followers, and academic degrees held by users. The contractor OhMyGov Inc. is partially funded by the National Science Foundation, and a member of President Obama’s “Startup America Initiative,” a public-private partnership designed to spur entrepreneurship. “The OhMyGov Media Monitoring and Policy Analysis system is the first and only business intelligence software completely politically focused,” according to the company’s website. “It provides real-time data mining, analysis, and visual analytics to uncover patterns in message uptake and critical insights into how issues are being characterized by Congress as well as the media, public, and key stakeholders.”
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