No, you spent years writing programs to keep track of money in the United
States, not overseas in unstable countries. I personally carried a sizable
amount of cash provided by the U.S. Government for expenses for a project in
Kiev, Ukraine, in the early 90's. The best receipts I ever got were
hand-
No way. Gore is a pompous bore, and Kerry is an elitist snob. Neither of
them is capable of commanding the attention of the American public. Clinton
is too polarizing. Ultimately I don't think Giuliani can get through the
Republican primary, which leaves McCain. Biden is too much of a centrist to
m
Here's the key:
The right group to you is not the right group at all. You wanted Kerry
to let the UN police the world and we were to take our order from
them. That's too dangerous to even consider.
On 9/18/06, Gruss Gott wrote:
> The question is do you think they'd get the right group together an
y, state police said.
>
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I have spent a large part of my life writing computer programs that
allow governments to keep track of their money. Losing track of
billions of dollars just doesn't happen, unless someone in the chain
wants it to happen.
The people cutting the checks for the taxpayer's money were not in
Bagdad, t
Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for
possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop
yesterday morning on a Louisiana highway, state police said.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060918/ENTERTAIN/60918014
Speaking of faith-based initiatives, I can't remember what show I was
watching, but the intro said something to the tune of "Five years ago,
11 highly religious individuals, embarked on a faith-based
initiative".
Shudder.
On 9/17/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Jerry wrote:
>
> RoMunn wrote:
> I wouldn't trust John Kerry or Hillary Clinton to defend a box of Girl Scout
> cookies. (I might trust old Bubba, but he would just eat them). Kerry is a
> weakling on international relations.
The question is do you think they'd get the right group together and
(here's the key) l
But wait, Giuliani left his wife for a girlfriend, how would he uphold
the high moral standing that the current president has brought back to
the office.
On 9/18/06, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wouldn't trust John Kerry or Hillary Clinton to defend a box of Girl Scout
> cookies. (I
> Sam wrote:
> How come Republicans are always morons to you? I thought Libertarians
> swing both ways.
>
Not all Republicans, just those that are Bushies. For example, Chuck
Hagel isn't a moron, but Cheney certainly is.
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word AITHA brother!
On 9/18/06, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Ignore all the other bullshit, and just read what Jesus says, and what he
> > >does. Call THAT your Christianity, follow those tenets, and you'll be in
> > >good shape.
>
> You see... this is where I lose you guys.
>
> Why i
> >Ignore all the other bullshit, and just read what Jesus says, and what he
> >does. Call THAT your Christianity, follow those tenets, and you'll be in
> >good shape.
You see... this is where I lose you guys.
Why is God needed for that? Why is any supernatural force needed? Learning
from Wisd
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I wouldn't trust John Kerry or Hillary Clinton to defend a box of Girl Scout
cookies. (I might trust old Bubba, but he would just eat them). Kerry is a
weakling on international relations. Clinton is a closet liberal trying to
flex her muscles and show she is one of the guys. I might trust Joe Bide
I was thinking along the merlin lines myself, but different:
Merlin: "If you can fill this cockring, you will be our KING!"
On 9/18/06, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Even more fun is to attempt to guess what the photo is based only on
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>
> T
Even more fun is to attempt to guess what the photo is based only on
the descriptions given on the list...
The father of intelligent design, the mystical wizard Merlin, feeds
his first follower "truthiness serum"
-Cameron
On 9/18/06, Gert B. Frobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "I swear, I will dr
How come Republicans are always morons to you? I thought Libertarians
swing both ways.
On 9/18/06, Gruss Gott wrote:
> > RoMunn wrote:
> > This is why liberals can't win nationally. People are justifiably concerned
> > that they would have no freaking idea of what to do about Islamic terrorism
>
>
> RoMunn wrote:
> This is why liberals can't win nationally. People are justifiably concerned
> that they would have no freaking idea of what to do about Islamic terrorism
I think there are plenty of liberals that would open up a can of whoop
ass, and probably 10x better than, say, Bush which woul
> God is.
hr...is she?
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> Sam wrote:
> > Actually grasshoppers use all 6.
>
> I'm not aware of that
>
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I will also tack on, by way of comparison, an anecdote about re-construction
in Bosnia after the Balkans War. I had a nextdoor neighbor on Capitol Hill
who was hired by the government to re-build the Bosnian stock exchange. He
was, I am fairly sure, a Democrat and probably a liberal, but he was als
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That's just gross. :)
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Timothy Leary left me out here in the woods with this little cup of magic
juice thirty years ago and I've been wandering around every since. Want
some?
On 9/18/06, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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This is why liberals can't win nationally. People are justifiably concerned
that they would have no freaking idea of what to do about Islamic terrorism,
that they would, in the name of political correctness, fail to confront the
enemy until it was too late. I believe this is a large part of the rea
Gimme 5 minutes and some tweezers, and I can fix that.
> > > If God is omnipotent and all seeing, if he wrote the bible then why are
> > > there major contradictions and errors (ie., how many legs do grasshoppers
> > > have - the bible says 4 when they have 6).
~
Actually, not all grasshoppers are the same and only a single species are
kosher (though the tradition is only still kept by Yemenite Jews). As for
cud
>> On 9/17/06, Larry Lyons wrote:
>>
>> > If God is omnipotent and all seeing, if he wrote the bible then why
>> are there major contradict
I am the person who pointed out the lack of accounting last year. The
husband of a friend of my wife did a year or so in Iraq working for a
contractor on re-construction projects. We overran a country that we had
spent ten years degrading through sanctions, after Saddam had spent two
decades degrad
Wilson said a lot of things before an election and they ended up being
all lies. Richard Clarke the same thing. Why are you so positive what
this guy is saying is true. Can't we wait until at least one person
backs him up or one source is identified?
On 9/18/06, William Bowen wrote:
> > You chang
> You changed subjects.
No I didn't. The money and the loss thereof is directly related to the
subject at hand. It just looks like now we get to find out _why_ the
money was mismanaged and mishandled.
> We discussed that last year. Didn't someone explain that at the time
> to get thing done peopl
On 9/18/06, Larry Lyons wrote:
>
> Actually grasshoppers use all 6.
I'm not aware of that
> Which animals chew their cud?
http://www.tektonics.org/af/cudchewers.html
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I don't know, but I am guaranteed to meet them on blind dates.
On 9/18/06, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 9/17/06, Larry Lyons wrote:
> >
> > > If God is omnipotent and all seeing, if he wrote the bible then why
> > are there major contradictions and errors (ie., how many legs do
all the grasshopper's I've seen have always used all six legsmaybe
they were put there by the devil. Damn devil, always trying to shake
my faith.
On 9/18/06, Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9/17/06, Larry Lyons wrote:
>
> > If God is omnipotent and all seeing, if he wrote the bible then
> On 9/17/06, Larry Lyons wrote:
>
> > If God is omnipotent and all seeing, if he wrote the bible then why
> are there major contradictions and errors (ie., how many legs do
> grasshoppers have - the bible says 4 when they have 6).
>
> "?that go upon all fours" The grasshopper walks with four l
>i love good and evil & all... and i truly mean all...
>but i pray that the supreme burrito smacks him on his haunches...
you mean the giant flying spaghetti monster...
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You changed subjects.
We discussed that last year. Didn't someone explain that at the time
to get thing done people had to be paid cash and record keeping
sucked. Seems the biggest complaint was paying the Iraqi soldiers
without verifications.
During that time they felt it was more important to get
> Let's see if these claims pan out before we condemn. Remember Wilson?
Hey Sam,
There are billions of dollars missing (un-accounted for) from the Iraq
reconstruction monies that we (you and I and all the other taxpayers,
Republican, Democrat, Green, Religious, Gay, Straight, Atheist,
wingnut, pr
> Come on, Will, get on the bus!
Yeah, you're right.
/me sips Kool-Aid...
hehe...giggle...neocon-medichlorean are all tickly!
*burp*
'scuse me...
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and that would just be unacceptable."
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On 9/17/06, Larry Lyons wrote:
> If God is omnipotent and all seeing, if he wrote the bible then why are there
> major contradictions and errors (ie., how many legs do grasshoppers have -
> the bible says 4 when they have 6).
"Â…that go upon all fours" The grasshopper walks with four legs and
ho
Every election we see all these books coming out trying to sway public
opinion. This is one guy selling a book.
You blindly believe anyone that's anti-Bush admin and automatically
dismiss anyone that supports it.
Let's see if these claims pan out before we condemn. Remember Wilson?
On 9/18/06, Gru
On 9/18/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> So the technical question is: if Jesus was here to guide us, why
> didn't *he* leave specific written instructions? Why is it all
> hear-say?
You wanted a savior that reads more like an instruction manual huh?
Step 1: Check to ensure that al
Thought this article in the LA Times today was interesting. What are your
thoughts?
http://tinyurl.com/kwew5
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> Sam wrote:
> Exactly, why should anyone believe this one guy from the Washington
> Post trying to sell a book.
>
Ah, yes, the confuse-the-facts-via-partisanship argument. A classic.
Come on, Will, get on the bus! When the Whitehouse says something
it's unbiased fact! When someone in the pres
Actually, he was giving a lecture at a university where he made the quote,
which was in context of his lecture. It was not his personal views, but a
historical quote which went on to say that violence is antithetical to God (not
just that Islam was spread by violence).
As is usual for these thi
> gMoneywrote:
> Jesus said that love for each other and for God is the way to heaven.
> Simple, easy, eloquent, pure.
>
That's the question - what is Christianity? Jesus didn't leave any
words himself, what we know is what others say he said. Now for the
most part the truth of these teachings a
these guys are making the case for carpet bombing southeast
afghanistan and northwest pakistan.
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>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.
Ah, I know that feeling. I learned WAY too much about the problems of sensor
dust on a trip to Yellowstone when all my gorgeous landscape shots tu
The pope, in a wondrously unpolitical move, read the words of a
long-dead emperor, who claimed that Mohammad brought nothing new to
the table that was good, and anything that was uniquely Islamic was
evil, and that Islam was spread by the sword.
In response, Al Qaeda and many Muslim leaders and pe
On 9/17/06, Jerry Johnson wrote:
> Remember firing the generals who disagreed? Remember O'Neal? Remember
> anyone that used to work for the administration (and the book each of
> them wrote)?
Exactly, why should anyone believe this one guy from the Washington
Post trying to sell a book.
~
> poor accounting is one thing, but hiring people who are grossly
> under-qualified for the most ambitious foreign undertaking since the
> end of WWII is horribly irresponsible.
I agree, but doesn't the "poor accounting" follow the hiring of
incompetents? And FWIW "poor accounting" is awful damn n
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poor accounting is one thing, but hiring people who are grossly
under-qualified for the most ambitious foreign undertaking since the
end of WWII is horribly irresponsible.
On 9/18/06, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > What I wonder is how this story didn't get out sooner. It has been th
On 9/18/06, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Nope, I can't, nor would I care to try, or care about it's outcome. I'm
> not
> > a God soldier. But to me, your absolute conviction that God does NOT
> exist,
> > is every bit as silly as anyone elses absolute conviction that he does.
>
>
Horse hockey.
Prove to me, right now, that there is no God.
On 9/18/06, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Do we know there isn't an Invisible Sky Fairy?
>
> Yes.
>
> --
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>
> "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true;
> and that would just be unacceptable."
> - Carrie Fis
> Thanks! It's a Colonel Potter'ism.
heh. yeah, forgot about that'n :-)
> Nope, I can't, nor would I care to try, or care about it's outcome. I'm not
> a God soldier. But to me, your absolute conviction that God does NOT exist,
> is every bit as silly as anyone elses absolute conviction that he
On 9/18/06, William Bowen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Horse hockey.
>
> Nice rejoinder, well said!
Thanks! It's a Colonel Potter'ism.
> Prove to me, right now, that there is no God.
>
> Ah, the ol' prove a negative routine.
>
> No, I don't have to prove God doesn't exist. The mere fact that
> Horse hockey.
Nice rejoinder, well said!
> Prove to me, right now, that there is no God.
Ah, the ol' prove a negative routine.
No, I don't have to prove God doesn't exist. The mere fact that you
cannot prove he exists is proof enough.
So I will leave it to you to prove that He does.
Proving
> 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?
Dude!
This news is NOT new!!
Google: missing Iraq reconstruction money
The top 4
July 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1522983,00.html
January 2005
http:/
Great spiel Matt, but the problem is that so many people DO focus on the
"man made" tenets of Christianity, instead of the simple teachings of Jesus.
It's what can make people so disillusioned, for good reason, with religion.
Jesus said that love for each other and for God is the way to heaven.
Si
>Ignore all the other bullshit, and just read what Jesus says, and what he
>does. Call THAT your Christianity, follow those tenets, and you'll be in
>good shape.
That's all I've been trying to get at this whole time. The focus on who's going
to Hell is just one aspect of Christianity. Shouldn't
> Do we know there isn't an Invisible Sky Fairy?
Yes.
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> WillBo wrote:
> office. Then it's out with the "leaders chosen by the invisible sky
> faerie" verses again.
>
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> Do we know he wasn't?
Yes.
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> not alone.there are millions of others who support Bush because they
> believe him when he says he was placed there by God.
Funny that, since the bible quote they often refer to for this
balls-out blind-faith devotion says that *all* leaders are chosen by
GeeHoeDee.
Strange that as soon as
> gMoney wrote:
> Because an awful lot of Americans these days are governing their own lives
> as a "3rd awakening". Have you read Matt's posts? Bible quotes and all. He's
> not alone.there are millions of others who support Bush because they
> believe him when he says he was placed there by Go
Good shape, regardless of the divinity of Christ. Most of the ideas
are just smart.
On 9/18/06, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's too bad that you feel you need to reject Christ because you are
> dismayed by his followers.
>
> Ignore all the other bullshit, and just read what Jesus says,
It's too bad that you feel you need to reject Christ because you are
dismayed by his followers.
Ignore all the other bullshit, and just read what Jesus says, and what he
does. Call THAT your Christianity, follow those tenets, and you'll be in
good shape.
On 9/18/06, Wayne Putterill <[EMAIL PROTEC
Because an awful lot of Americans these days are governing their own lives
as a "3rd awakening". Have you read Matt's posts? Bible quotes and all. He's
not alone.there are millions of others who support Bush because they
believe him when he says he was placed there by God.
On 9/18/06, Gruss Go
> Dino wrote:
> Is it a fact that God wrote the Bible? Nope, it's faith.
If we agree that, for example, Moses had the experiences he did, then
isn't God telling us that He didn't write the Bible? That he chose
Moses to speak too, not us, and that he told Moses to speak with his
people.
Here's my
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That is pretty much the exact reason I had for leaving the christian faith,
I remember arguing with a born again friend of mine with almost those words
- he said that a child born in those circumstances would go to hell, I told
him that in that case I wanted no part of any god that would be that un
But by your own words you contradict yourself. We take it on FAITH that
there is a God. For some, that faith is personal (such as my personal
knowledge that there is a God based on events) and for others it is
tradition (passed down from the time that it happened). But this is still an
article
> Jerry wrote:
> 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
> them wrote)?
>
So why would anyone still support a guy who left t
Thank you, grasshopper.
On 9/18/06, G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It pains me to the core to have to agree with anything Maureen writesbut
> uh...yeah, this is right on.
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It pains me to the core to have to agree with anything Maureen writesbut
uh...yeah, this is right on.
On 9/16/06, Maureen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I think there is a world of difference between faith and blind belief.
> We are asked to have faith, not follow blindly as sheep. I think th
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