Re: excellent article on Iraq reconstruction

2006-09-17 Thread Jerry Johnson
I've known about it (the philosphy, not the specifics) ever since the election in 2000. Remember NASA? Remember the FDA? Remember gagging planned parenthood? Remember firing the generals who disagreed? Remember O'Neal? Remember anyone that used to work for the administration (and the book each of

Re: excellent article on Iraq reconstruction

2006-09-17 Thread Robert Munn
What I wonder is how this story didn't get out sooner. It has been three years, how are we just learning about it now? On 9/17/06, Gruss wrote: > > > Jerry wrote: > > Replacing competence with idealogy is so 1940s Soviet Union, or 1950s > China. > > > > I think it shows how deluded this administra

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2006-09-17 Thread Jim Davis
[I posted this message to CF-Talk yesterday but it was returned today as spam... I didn't think it was spam but it's not my list. ;^) ] [This is a copy of a post I've made to alt.lang.javascript... but you guys tend to be less pendantic.] I've been working on a new release of my JavaScript "debu

Re: excellent article on Iraq reconstruction

2006-09-17 Thread Gruss Gott
> Jerry wrote: > Replacing competence with idealogy is so 1940s Soviet Union, or 1950s China. > I think it shows how deluded this administration was/is and how faith-based over fact-based they were/are. The surprising thing is not so much that they plowed head first into a faith-based initiative

Re: excellent article on Iraq reconstruction

2006-09-17 Thread Jerry Johnson
This is so sad. Replacing competence with idealogy is so 1940s Soviet Union, or 1950s China. On 9/17/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14868608/ ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quar

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Maureen
On 9/17/06, Chesty Puller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somehow you and others think that we as Christians blindly follow. For my > crowd, nothing could be further than the truth. We closley examine the > beliefs that we have, and question them ourselves. I don't know you, and you may closely exam

Re: 18mm lens anyone?

2006-09-17 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
Thanks Mary Jo, that's a pretty good article. I'm wishing I would have had a wider lens now that I'm in Disney.I also wish that I would've bought that camera/laptop backpack for this trip. Funny story though, I went to one of the camera "outlets" here on the main drag outside the magic kingd

Re: excellent article on Iraq reconstruction

2006-09-17 Thread Robert Munn
Or read about the 24 year old guy with no finance background who was tapped to re-open the Baghdad stock market. Sheesh. On 9/17/06, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > I've been looking for specifics on what went wrong early on in Iraq. > This > > story is very telling: > > > > http://www.msnbc.

RE: Battlestar Galactica

2006-09-17 Thread SMR
Can you send me the last episode of season 2 (data file) so I can see the last hour and figure out why part of their webispodes don't make sense to me ?? Are the webispodes the same as season 2.5 ? -Original Message- From: Rick Root [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2

Re: Battlestar Galactica

2006-09-17 Thread Rick Root
Rick Root wrote: > The religious overtones and the ties with the Roman gods are quite > fascinating. I finished season 1 and am now a couple episodes into > season 2.0 ... I don't have season 2.5 yet. Which apparently is because it doesn't come out 'til Tuesday ;) ~

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Gruss Gott
> Larry wrote: > If God is omnipotent and all seeing, if he wrote the bible then why are there > major contradictions Speaking of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John ... John suurrree does disagree with the Matthew, Mark, and Luke ... I wonder which one is right? ~~

Re: Battlestar Galactica

2006-09-17 Thread Rick Root
The religious overtones and the ties with the Roman gods are quite fascinating. I finished season 1 and am now a couple episodes into season 2.0 ... I don't have season 2.5 yet. Rick ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarter

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Larry Lyons
>Because you have no faith, you don't know that God in fact wrote the Bible. >I do. > >- Matt > Now lets see, according to biblical scholars there were about 6 distinct authors of what we call the Old Testament. Which one is Jehova? Also the council of Nicea in the 5th century tossed out severa

Re: excellent article on Iraq reconstruction

2006-09-17 Thread Gruss Gott
> RoMunn wrote: > I've been looking for specifics on what went wrong early on in Iraq. This > story is very telling: > > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14868608/ > I couldn't read it all yet, but this seems telling: The daughter of a prominent neoconservative commentator and a recent graduate from a

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Gruss Gott
> Matt wrote: > He gave Divine direction to the men who physically wrote > it down. Then, when determining the canon, He came in again. > > You ask questions that you already know the answer to, Gruss. I'm basing > this on the matter of faith, which directs a set of posulates that I accept > to be

Re: Bush Preaches "3rd Awakening"

2006-09-17 Thread Paul Ihrig
i love good and evil & all... and i truly mean all... but i pray that the supreme burrito smacks him on his haunches... ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion informa

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Chesty Puller
Because you have no faith, you don't know that God in fact wrote the Bible. To be more precise, He gave Divine direction to the men who physically wrote it down. Then, when determining the canon, He came in again. You ask questions that you already know the answer to, Gruss. I'm basing this on

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Gruss Gott
> Matt wrote: > Because you have no faith, you don't know that God in fact wrote the Bible. > I do. > So do you know that he didn't write the Apocrypha? Or the Gnostic Gospels? Or the Book or Mormon? How about the Koran? And how about all that stuff the canonizers threw out? Did He write that

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Chesty Puller
Because you have no faith, you don't know that God in fact wrote the Bible. I do. - Matt - Original Message - From: "Gruss Gott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2006 5:41 PM Subject: Re: My Convictions have a Price! >> Matt wrote: >> that what they

Bush Preaches "3rd Awakening"

2006-09-17 Thread Gruss Gott
President Bush said yesterday that he senses a "Third Awakening" of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation's struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as "a confrontation between good and evil." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/a

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Gruss Gott
> Matt wrote: > that what they say in the Bible is real, then my belief in the matter is > irrelevant, But God and Jesus don't say a thing in the Bible; that is, they are not the authors, Man is. (there's an interesting question for you BTW: why didn't Jesus author anything that's in the Bible?)

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Chesty Puller
Somehow you and others think that we as Christians blindly follow. For my crowd, nothing could be further than the truth. We closley examine the beliefs that we have, and question them ourselves. You're right, deciding who gets to go to Heaven and Hell is God's job, and not man's. However, ju

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Gruss Gott
> Sam wrote: > Christianity teaches that? Tough religion. > The religions of politics teach the same things; rather than be ideas based they're exclusionary. Rather than lay problems on the table and solicit solutions, it's an us and them type thing. It's probably a left over from pre-historic M

Re: My Convictions have a Price!

2006-09-17 Thread Sam
Christianity teaches that? Tough religion. On 9/16/06, Maureen wrote: > "and everyone else will burn in hell" ~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by y

excellent article on Iraq reconstruction

2006-09-17 Thread Robert Munn
I've been looking for specifics on what went wrong early on in Iraq. This story is very telling: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14868608/ *Adapted from "Imperial Life in the Emerald City," by Rajiv Chandrasekaran, copyright Knopf 2006* After the fall of Saddam Hussein's government in April 2003, th