Topics Started by teejay
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the mind of the exile
by teejay inin an esquire magazine article entitled "end the cuba embargo, now" walter mead makes a very good case that the american embargo of cuba should end, and now.
not only would it help cuba but it would strengthen america's position in the western hemisphere.. as he makes his case, he draws the reader's attention to the powerful political alliance of cuban americans living in south florida primarily miami.
this coalition ("miami") has had a stranglehold on american-cuban foreign policy for thirty years, regardless of who lived in the white house.
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I must be getting old....
by teejay ini remember the andy griffith show (featuring the affable deputy fife) from the earliest times of my life.
it will be popular when my daughter is old and gray, no doubt.
but now... i'm beginning to wonder about me.... i find myself watching i love lucy whenever it's on, and i once hated... i say hated, the show.
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The Lost Children of the UK
by teejay inin 1998 sixty minutes first told this story and on the third of this month sixty minutes ii aired a follow-up... .
following world war ii, great britain was flush from victory but short on cash for social programs.
they had a surplus of kidsoverflowing children's homes with kids put there by parents too poor (at the time) to care for them.
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Not if, but when...
by teejay ini was raised in the truth.. it was about six weeks past my fifth birthday when my mother was contacted by "jehovah's people" and a few months short of my sixth when she got baptized a half year later.
that was the summer of 1962.. because of my experience with the truth from such an innocent age when thought patterns were first being formed, one of the tricks that was played on me one of the lies that was passed along is that some of those of my generation happened to be among the most fortunate of all of mankind since some of us would never die.
if i did my best; if i tried hard enough and did everything that was within my power to do; if i found favor with the most high god, i might well be one of those who'd never taste death at all but live right through this world's end into a global paradise.
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Allah, Gabriel, Heaven and Hell
by teejay inthis weekend my family had a reunion of sorts.
saturday evening while the rest of the clan watched tv and ate and played cards, i had a long chat with my older brother ibrahim who i hadn't seen in a couple of years.
he's a student of islama "talib" (arabic for "seeker"), the singular of "taliban.
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General Rules for Living
by teejay insome of these are pretty good.... romance mathematics.
smart man + smart woman = romance.
dumb man + smart woman = marriage.
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I studied the The Paradise Book...
by teejay in"... soul-chilling terror will spread through the masses... .
a flesh-eating plague will destroy many... eaten up will be .
the tongues of those who scoffed and laughed at the warning .
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Avoiding arguments/hurt feelings on JW.com
by teejay infor exjws (and jws, too), simon's forum is one of the most interesting and potentially beneficial sites on the entire internet since it's a small-scale version of life as it really is.
people from a variety of social, racial and national groups who make up an extended familytied together by a common history of life in the borgcome to share their day to day experiences and openly debate issues old and new.. as different as we are, breakdowns in communication happen and instead of learning something or getting a fresh way of looking at an issue, what should be a reasonable debate turns into an insult-fest.
people, some still hurting from bad experiences as a dub, get hurt even more and bitter feuds result that are felt for a long time.
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my daughter, the clothes freak
by teejay ini'm very cool about not putting many limits on what my 2yr-old says or does.
if you don't know, then axe somebody.. she was hanging out with me in my bedroom, rummaging thru a box of clothes that's bigger'n she is.
the clothes are either too small or too old-fashioned(?