Sigh.  No.   I repeat for the 12th time.      I have said it remains more logical to believe a miracle of modern medicine or cloning than to believe a magical god did it.  I also said there are fantastical things that I could imagine that would make me consider supernatural.  However, pondering nonsense that has never occurred is a COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME.

Now before you ever respond to me in this thread again I want you to repost what I said above and indicate you understand that is my position.

Can you do that?

what if a T-Rex danced on the head of a pin?  Aren't you dying to know if I would believe in God if that happened?

Driver:  Ive been asking him the same question......why waste your time pondering what-ifs and just spill the beans on the evidence you believe you have?  We both know he will NEVER list any evidence other than "what-if"

I already stated that something fantastical could be evidence of god, even though our lack of knowledge how something works has never been evidence of god in the past.  But there is no evidence that what you describe  ever happened despite your tossing out Revelations as a technical citation.  So..... talking about fantastical bullshit that never happened is really a waste of time.  I have asked you now more than ten times....if you think there is evidence of god.....tell me what it is.

Recall   Evidence = body of facts proving something true.  So even if we saw a dead rotting guy who was later alive, this is just as much evidence for a god-like doctor, some other miracle than God, or (insert your own fantastical explanation here). 

The rocket will not be able to enter American air space, let alone American soil. Have you guys forgotten about the state of the art defensive technology we posses? It will take some serious intellectual calculations to achieve that goal. I seriously doubt they could ever come close to accomplishing that. Now Russia or China on the other hand have more intelligence and money to accomplish that goal; however, they are not foolish enough to do it or talk about doing it. If you really want to Nuke someone, you aren’t going to announce it to the world. It is clear that Hwang Pyong-So is only saying this to gain more popularity from his people.

I repeat........ making a list of fairy tale magic events that would have to occur to prove god exists, like a bearded man floating down from the sky and telling me he is god and taking me to heaven to see my grandmother, is a complete waste of an effort.  What the fuck purpose does it serve you to get me to make up fantastic bullshit magical evidences that don't exist and will never exist? 

Now, back to the prophecy and its analysis: It could be reasonably argued that Israel is living more securely today than at any other time in its 63 years. The Israeli Defense Forces are widely considered the strongest and most effective ground fighting force in the Middle East. The Israeli Air Force is widely considered dominant in the skies. Israel has peace treaties with two major neighbors, Egypt and Jordan (though the future of the treaty with Egypt is increasingly in question). Yasser Arafat is gone. Saddam Hussein is gone. Osama bin Laden is gone. Palestinian suicide bombings are not a daily part of Israeli life since 2004. Rockets are occassionally fired from Gaza at Israeli civilians living in the south, but this is not nearly as bad as it was prior to Operation Cast Lead in January 2009. Moreover, Israel has just deployed a short-range rocket defense system called “Iron Dome” that is very effective. Meanwhile, Israel has submarines, ballistic missiles, and first rate intelligence services in her defense. Israel has also enjoyed decades of a close strategic partnership with the United States, has a strong and vibrant economy, and is widely believed to have defensive nuclear weapons, though the government maintains a policy of “strategic ambiguity” on the subject, neither confirming nor denying the existence of those weapons.

The worst part is their attack strategy is failing so badly. Yet they will not stop. The answer is because they want their own civilians killed to use as propaganda.that is Hamas real weapon.

But while the Bible clearly explains that the Lord will bring the Jewish people back to the Land of Israel and allow them to reclaim their God-given ownership of the Land, nowhere in the Bible are Jews (or any group of people) given a license to commit injustice. To the contrary, the Bible teaches Israel to love her neighbors (Leviticus 19:18 and Matthew 19:19). The Bible also teaches Israel to love her neighbors and pray for those who persecute them (Matthew 5:44). The Jews do have rights to the ownership of the Land, but they also have responsibilities to govern justly and compassionately, in accordance with the Scriptures. In Leviticus 19:33-34, for example, the Lord says: “When a stranger [non-Jew] resides with you in your land,  you shall not do him wrong. The stranger who resides with you shall be to  you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.”

I am not sure it is "much more" outside of Boeing, given that a supermajority (65%) of its financing guarantees support the sale of Boeing widebody aircraft (a market where there is only one real competitor--Airbus), and almost 90% of the total goes to Boeing, GE and Caterpillar.

I guess I was not aware of all of the widebody, long-range aircraft being made by Chinese, Japanese and South Korean concerns...

The foreign airlines are getting planes much cheaper than U.S. airlines. And there are significant credit risks in the U.S. market, albeit somewhat different risks, or else the financing rates for established airlines would not be so much higher.

A rose by any other name...

Boeing is not a foreign competitor, but the foreign airlines it sells jets to are foreign competitors of U.S. airlines. The foreign competitor gets a subsidy to buy jets that amounts to a buy eight, get one free card. The U.S. airlines get no such subsidy and have to pay higher interest rates on jet leases and purchases. Are you truly arguing that that this does not create a competitive advantage for the foreign companies?

I don't think it is reductionist to point out that subsidizing upstream equipment purchases for the foreign competitors of U.S. companies is much different from tariffs on intermediate goods. Both have the same downstream effect of favoring one American business over another.

So it's corporate welfare?

So you oppose free trade? Why not just increase tariffs then?

Liberia shuts border crossings, restricts gatherings to curb Ebola spreading

(Reuters) - The Liberian government on Sunday closed most of the West African nation's border crossings and introduced stringent health measures to curb the spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has killed at least 660 people across the region.

The new measures announced by the government on Sunday came as Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone struggle to contain the worst outbreak yet of the virus.

Speaking at a task force meeting, Liberia President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said the government is doing everything to fight the virus including inspecting and testing all outgoing and incoming passengers by Liberia's airport authority.

"All borders of Liberia will be closed with the exception of major entry points. At these entry points, preventive and testing centers will be established, and stringent preventive measures to be announced will be scrupulously adhered to," she said.

Ebola can kill up to 90 percent of those who catch it, although the fatality rate of the current outbreak is around 60 percent. Highly contagious, especially in the late stages, its symptoms include vomiting and diarrhea as well as internal and external bleeding.

Under the new measures, public gatherings such as marches, demonstrations and promotional advertisements also will be restricted.

The outbreak has placed a great strain on the health systems of some of Africa's poorest countries.

"No doubt, the Ebola virus is a national health problem. And as we have also begun to see, it attacks our way of life, with serious economic and social consequences," Sirleaf said in a statement.

Still, despite efforts to fight the disease, the virus continues to spread. A 33-year-old American doctor working for relief organization Samaritan's Purse in Liberia tested positive for the disease on Saturday.

The charity said on Sunday a second American, who was helping a team treating Ebola patients at a case management center in Monrovia had also tested positive.

Samuel Brisbane, a senior Liberian doctor, who was also treating infected patients has died after contracting the virus, authorities said on Sunday. In Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos, a Liberian man who tested positive died in on Friday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/28/us-health-ebola-africa-idUSKBN0FX00V20140728

While I do not agree with you that there is a macro problem with college costs or student loan costs, to the extent you believe there is a problem, you are looking at the wrong cause. The cause, like with healthcare, is the way it is funded--completely divorced from real market forces.

No. Rent is not property tax. Rent is rent.


But many of them do pay personal income tax. I haven't looked it up in a while, but the last time I looked it up, it was a couple million people who had filed with an ITIN. As I understand it, however, the IRS has imposed some restrictions on ITIN filings within the last year or so that would likely disincentivize undocumented workers from filing a tax return. It would be interesting to see if ITIN filings have dropped despite immigration numbers going up.

Like most liberal causes, it is a myth. Neither the cost of college nor student loan burdens are increasing beyond inflation.

I don't think he is cherry picking at all: he is separating the data based on specific and important qualifiers / details. That's done all of the time in statistics and is a perfectly acceptable analytical tool. Those four cases are important because they represent the FBI dealing with a terrorist threat that rests outside of the ones that they construct from the ground up in order to ensnare potential terrorists.