PrimateDave
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Circumcision and Jehovah's Witnesses - a personal account with research
by PrimateDave ini wrote this article to post on this forum because of the pain that i felt at one time.
i know that i can never get any acknowledgment from the watchtower bible and tract society because they could never admit that infant male circumcision is mutilation and abuse.
if for some reason some of you believe with all your heart that circumcision is a good thing, i would request that you read this with an open mind.
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Milah, Periah, and Messisa
by PrimateDave inmilah, periah, and messisa: these are the different kinds of circumcision as practiced historically in judaism.
this post is not meant to debate the issue of infant circumcision or the issue of whether health benefits can be derived from this practice.
so, please do not cut and paste wads of information claiming that it prevents aids or other stds.
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Mortgage crisis and increased consumer spending
by PrimateDave ini just read this piece at financial armageddon: .
more about that 'healthy' consumer spendingi've highlighted posts at the market ticker, business insider's the money game, and housingwire which have suggested that one reason why americans can afford to keep on spending in the face of 20 percent underemployment and stagnant incomes is because many of them have decided to stop paying the mortgage.. now, yves smith, publisher of another one of my daily must-read blogs, naked capitalism, and author of econned, a great new book on how we got into the mess we are in, is also weighing in on the subject.
in the following excerpt from "strategic defaults increase consumer spending," yves reveals some of the eye-opening tidbits that others have passed along to her:.
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Auschwitz survivor: "I can identify with Palestinian youth"
by PrimateDave inauschwitz survivor: "i can identify with palestinian youth".
"hajo meyer, author of the book the end of judaism, was born in bielefeld, in germany, in 1924. in 1939, he fled on his own at age 14 to the netherlands to escape the nazi regime, and was unable to attend school.
a year later, when the germans occupied the netherlands he lived in hiding with a poorly forged id.
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Back at the meetings for the past couple of weeks...
by PrimateDave inwell, i made my move from puerto rico and have been staying with jw family for a few weeks now.
needless to say, they are as "into it" as ever before.
they started pioneering the first of september.
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Any Vegans on the Board?
by PrimateDave inmy new year's resolution is to make the lifestyle change to the vegan-pure vegetarian diet: no animal derived foods.. it is a change i have considered before on different occasions.
i didn't stick with the diet in the past due to lack of information, or perhaps the abundance of misinformation available on the optimum diet.
i've never been grossly overweight, probably never over 170 lbs.
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Headline: "Iraq War Ends" - New York Times
by PrimateDave inthe new york times saturday, july 4, 2009. .
troops to return immediately.
by jude shinbin.
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Banks earmark Billions from Bailout for year end Bonuses
by PrimateDave inaccording to msn money:.
$50 billion of bailout going to employee bonuses.
dave
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Wall Street bail out keeps oil prices high
by PrimateDave ini just read an interesting article.. .
"if speculators were forced to liquidate their positions, oil would easily be $65 to $75 per barrel by the time the liquidation was complete," said michael masters, the founder of atlanta-based hedge fund masters capital management.
tuesday, oil was trading at $108.74 in midday trading in new york.. .