You are invited to visit some information in the field of... Thanks!!!There is no URL for readers to click upon, so other than causing annoyance, I do not understand the reason for this spam. However, I have deleted too many of these messages to count and they keep coming. So I have turned off the ability to place anonymous comments - you must now enter a name and email address to comment. Feel free to enter a fake email (e.g., no@nospam.com) as I don't care if you post a real email address or not. I'm just hoping to defeat some of this spam without eliminating my comments altogether.
However, today I am defending singer Natalie Maines, the one that "bravely" said she was ashamed of President Bush when she was overseas surrounded by those who wanted to keep Saddam in power.
The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present War with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst of his judgments he hath remembered mercy, having remembered his Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion, and regard; reserving many of our Towns from Desolation Threatened, and attempted by the Enemy, and giving us especially of late with many of our Confederates many signal Advantages against them, without such Disadvantage to ourselves as formerly we have been sensible of, if it be the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed, It certainly bespeaks our positive Thankfulness, when our Enemies are in any measure disappointed or destroyed; and fearing the Lord should take notice under so many Intimations of his returning mercy, we should be found an Insensible people, as not standing before Him with Thanksgiving, as well as lading him with our Complaints in the time of pressing Afflictions:Happy Thanksgiving!The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour, many Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not those who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same Beseeching that being persuaded by the mercies of God we may all, even this whole people offer up our bodies and souls as a living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ.
Mr. Schrempp locked his car and left it for 20 minutes while he dashed into an evening business meeting in Stuttgart, the centre of DaimlerChrysler’s operations in Europe. He was travelling without a chauffeur or the customary bodyguard. By the time he returned, a gang had overcome all the security systems, rolled the car on to a transporter and made their getaway. They also blocked the satellite navigation and tracking systems.
Not a good advertisement for DaimlerChrysler. But maybe they could put a good spin on it. "Our security systems are so good, it takes a professional to steal a Mercedes."
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This is very important, yet I have not seen anyone comment on the implications of an overrepresentation of Democrats. I have seen some people dismiss the finding that moral issues were the most important issue for a plurality of voters (22%), of whom 80% voted for Bush, simply because if the exit polls were wrong about Kerry winning, they cannot be trusted at all. However, there is no reason to assume people lied in these polls as there is no motive in doing so. Therefore let us postulate two assumptions. First, Democrats were overrepresented in the exit polls. Second, people were honest in their answers. I believe both assumptions are reasonable and supported by the available evidence. What does this mean?
And because the Leonids are moving along in their orbit around the Sun in a direction opposite to that of Earth, they slam into our atmosphere nearly head-on, resulting in the fastest meteor velocities possible: 45 miles per second (72 kilometers per second). Such speeds tend to produce bright meteors, which leave long-lasting streaks or trains in their wake.For most of us, the weather looks good. During prime viewing hours (1:00 AM to 4:00 AM), astronomers are forecasting about a dozen meteors per hour.
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The Commandant of the Marine Corps' 2004 Birthday Message
Two hundred and twenty-nine years ago, the Second Continental Congress established a Corps of Marines to fight for a democratic people's independence. Since then countless Marines have raised their hand and sworn to defend our Nation's freedoms and preserve its liberties. This year's anniversary again finds Marines engaged throughout the globe for the same noble purposes. The bravery, heroism and selflessness of all Marines—wherever they are serving—have added significantly to our rich legacy and measured up to the high standards that have come to epitomize all who wear the eagle, globe and anchor.
In The Battle of Loos many British soldiers lost their lives fighting alongside the French against the Germans. How do the French show their respect for British sacrifice on their behalf?
A BATTLEFIELD where soldiers from Norfolk died in one of the bloodiest episodes of the First World War is being turned into a rubbish dump.
His work to date is posted at his site. I just read his first story, the maiden voyage of the USS Menagerie, and enjoyed it. It is on par with many of the paperback novels that currently fill the science fiction aisles and you do not even need to pay for it.
Why do the rest of us feel such revulsion towards the Liberal Elite? Towards the people who live in cities in the northeastern or far western US or Old Europe? Towards the people who read the Guardian, the Economist and the New York Times. The ones who now say they will move to Quebec or Novosibersk because they feel soiled living in a country where everyone doesn’t vote the same?
The Liberal Elite think our revulsion is because of their opinions. It isn’t. There are lots of people who hold weird opinions. Trotskyites for example. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Where you live, all the Communists are probably either Maoists, Classical Marxists or (if you live in Europe) Big Labor Communists. In Berkeley we still have all those and we have Trotskyites too. And then there is the Far Right: David Duke, M. le Pen et al.. And the back-to-nature Greens. And those annoying people who go door to door on Sunday afternoon with pamphlets about their religion.
These people all have opinions I think are incorrect, dangerous, looney, or d) all of the above. But, although I dislike their opinions I don’t loathe those people. Well, not all of them, anyhow.
What is repellant about the Liberal Elite is not their opinions, but their attitude towards anyone who doesn’t share all their views. Every single view down to the latest, politically correct term for Fiji Islanders who have migrated to the US via Madagascar.
I am really tired of these people telling me that because I don’t think and vote in lockstep with them I am must therefore be old, fat, dirty, stupid and live in a house trailer. That I must have married my sister, be ignorant, uneducated and need them as a moral keeper to make sure everything from my car’s mileage to my recycling habits meets their expectations.
If there is any group on this planet who shouldn’t go around telling others they are unethical and stupid it is the crowd who believes in forged documents from Dan Rather and Andrew Gilligan, think Nixon was president in 1968, believe Al Gore invented the internet and look to Ted Kennedy and Jacques Chirac as moral paragons.
I don’t loathe the Massachusetts Supreme Court for being in favor of same-sex marriage. I am in favor of same sex marriage. I loathe them for saying that the 75% of the voters who disagree with me have no rights. I loathe them for instructing the Massachusetts State Legislature to vote not according to the will of that 75% of the voters but according to the will of the Court Justices “because those Justices know better.”
Their contempt for everyone else is the repellant part.
It looks like Social Security reform will be a Big Item in the coming congress. So what do you all want?
Do you want a social safety net (ie only payments to the poor. That is cheap and affordable but most people - 90% say - get nothing) or some money for everyone (which costs more)?
Do you, personally, want more in benefits (and in payments) or less in benefits (and less in payments)?
If the benefits decrease, what will you do with the money? Save it, I presume, but how? How much do you save now?
If you post your opinion, please also tell us a) are you in the US or elsewhere (US Social Security is in general less generous than European government pensions) and your age.
You got me thinking about the reason of this seemingly stupid spamming, but the last sentence in your post sort of provoked and answer that might be correct or might be not. Could it be that the people who do such spamming are against free thinking? I mean, the free exchange of thoughts? It could be personal, could be general, aiming at certain individuals or groups (right, left, whatever) or just the net in general. I'm just knitting in the air here, but usually every human act has a reason behind, so...well this has a posibility -from my view point- of being that reason. God bless :)