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  Tough Cop

  by Yerusalyim in

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  personally, i love this guy...this is how a jail should be run...what say you?

  http://www.snopes.com/crime/deserts/pink.htm.

  claim: arizona sheriff dismisses prisoners' bellyaching about the heat by pointing out that soldiers serving in iraq cope with similar conditions.

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  Bump!
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  Europe rejects foetal rights bid

  by ignored_one in

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3876311.stm

  europe rejects foetal rights bid

  a woman whose pregnancy was wrongly terminated in a french hospital has lost her fight at the european court to enshrine a foetus' right to life.

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  Mine is and to be worshipped.

  OK, let me change that to HUMAN LIFE.
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  Europe rejects foetal rights bid

  by ignored_one in

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  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3876311.stm

  europe rejects foetal rights bid

  a woman whose pregnancy was wrongly terminated in a french hospital has lost her fight at the european court to enshrine a foetus' right to life.

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  What the hell is she crying about...life begins when you're born...not at conception.
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  How to Be a Republican - A Primer

  by Michael3000 in

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  enjoy .

  1. being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host.

  then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.. .

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  Six,

  You seem to ignore the fact that "trickle down" works. The entire reason the economy has recovered...the strongest growth in 20 years mind you...is because of "trickle down." Taxes were cut meaning people had more money to spend...which means more jobs...which means more money in the economy...which means growth...which means more jobs...etc etc etc.

  You're hatred of the rich is amusing...how many jobs have you received from a poor person?

  You seem to want to support the democrats who think that government spending is the road to prosperity...YIKES!
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  How to Be a Republican - A Primer

  by Michael3000 in

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  enjoy .

  1. being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host.

  then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.. .

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  Yerusalyim

  Corvin,

  17.90 is a LOT of money for a grocery store employee...not sure what the point of your story really is though. Unions served a valuable purpose, but have, for the most part, become obsolete. The Printers union (GCIU) I belonged to was "great" it divided us stackers into two categories...those hired before and after a specific date. If you were hired after this particular date you made a full $2.00 an hour less than those hired before a particular date...WHEN YOU REACHED YOUR MAX PAY. The company didn't do this...the union did. I paid $35.00 a month in union dues back in the mid 80's so that they could support political candidates that I did NOT support, and that didn't help organized labor. I received NO protection...and could have made as much money AND NOT BEEN LAID OFF once a month at a Non-Union plant. SCREW organized labor, it's a racket these days...those at the top are as far removed from the working man's world as Donald Trump.
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  How Come The US Media is Silent?

  by Kent in

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  how come the us media haven't mentioned a word about us troops abusing children in iraq, in their prisons and on cuba?

  it's all over europe - but inside the us the subject is never mentioned.. so much for the "land of freedom" (for war criminals!

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  Kent,

  Notice that the source quoted NEVER WITNESSED ANY ABUSE AT ALL according to his own words...great sources there high speed...come on, you're better than that, don't let politics get in the way of your integrity.

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41035-2004May19.html

  Provance was part of that military intelligence operation but was not an interrogator. He said he administered a secret computer network at Abu Ghraib for about six months and did not witness abuse

  So, as you can see, this HAS been reported in the states, but apparently they know w stinker when they get one.
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  How Come The US Media is Silent?

  by Kent in

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  how come the us media haven't mentioned a word about us troops abusing children in iraq, in their prisons and on cuba?

  it's all over europe - but inside the us the subject is never mentioned.. so much for the "land of freedom" (for war criminals!

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  Kent,

  How Come The US Media is Silent?

  Perhaps it's because we require as proof more than an allegation by an obviously leftist magazine.

  Which is worse, that the US would hold children as POW's or that the enemy would engage children in terrorist activities....aside from a lack of documentation I also notice a lack of comdemnation for children being given weapons with which to kill soldiers.

  Simon,

  You keep suprising me...you're quite fair and balanced about this...my hat is off to you sir.

  know some minors were being held at guantanamo bay and, as far as I know, still are.

  There were three teens being held, they've all three been released about six months ago. (Around 28 January they were returned to Afghanistan) http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/01/29/gitmo.teens/ They were held in a seperate area from the rest of the prisoners.

  The tortures they were forced to endure included attending high school classes and learning some english and playing video games.

  http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/central/08/23/afghan.juveniles/

  The youths are 13 to 15 years of age and were "taken from the battlefield" in Afghanistan and transferred to the Guantanamo facility in February, Hart said on Saturday.

  She said regulations do not allow her to reveal the names or home countries of detainees, but other officials indicated they are native to Afghanistan or Pakistan.

  "They definitely demonstrated a willingness to harm U.S. and allied" troops when they were captured in Afghanistan, she said.

  She said that during interrogations, it was learned that the three had been "kidnapped and forced into terrorist acts."

  Unlike others held in the facility, the three receive counseling, they study daily and exercise with soldiers, Hart said. One senior enlisted soldier assigned to the young detainees "is an eighth-grade teacher back home," Hart said.
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  Tipping the Gal who cuts hair

  by Jim_TX in

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  okay... i may act like a hick from a small-town... but... i'm curious about something.. what is the 'proper' amount that one is supposed to 'tip' the gal at the salon.

  the one whut cuts the hair.. i've never really had a good idea... and i know that i look like a dufus... fumbling and mumbling... as i hand a dollar or two to the gal.. now... if i'm supposed to be giving something like $5.00... forget it!

  i usually hand over 1 or 2 dollars - depending on how well i feel that they did.

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  Yerusalyim

  Back in the day when I got my hair cut, I'd tip a dollar for a $7.00 hair cut. At home, the barber was also the owner...he got ZILCH...he would have been insulted.
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  Tough Cop

  by Yerusalyim in

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  personally, i love this guy...this is how a jail should be run...what say you?

  http://www.snopes.com/crime/deserts/pink.htm.

  claim: arizona sheriff dismisses prisoners' bellyaching about the heat by pointing out that soldiers serving in iraq cope with similar conditions.

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  Personally, I love this guy...this is how a jail should be run...what say you? From Snopes.com
  

  http://www.snopes.com/crime/deserts/pink.htm

  Claim: Arizona sheriff dismisses prisoners' bellyaching about the heat by pointing out that soldiers serving in Iraq cope with similar conditions.
  
  Status: True.
  
  Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]
  
  

  It's even hotter than usual in Phoenix, the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts. On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. "It feels like you are in a furnace," said James Zanzo't, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane." Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, is not sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths. " KIND OF PUTS THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE DOESN'T IT?

  
  Origins: The e-mailed information about the pink-clad prisoners of the Maricopa County Jail was extracted from a July 2003 Associated Press offering about the Summer 2003 heat wave's effect on the Phoenix area. Those few paragraphs devoted to describing the condition of the inmates held in that jail went on to be widely circulated on the Internet although they formed only the smallest portion of the original piece, an article that described the air's heat creating turbulence for airplanes overhead, car windshields shattering or falling out, dogs burning their paws on the pavement, and candles melting indoors.
  
  A clue as to the 'why' of the selective quoting is contained in the tagline now often part of the forwards: "Kind of puts things in perspective doesn't it?" Someone was struck by the comparison of the kvetching prisoners to the (presumed uncomplaining) troops serving in Iraq, and was moved to excerpt only that portion of the article to share with others. That the forward has proved as popular as it has shows the comparison resonates with a great many.
  
  The U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq may well be bona fide tough-as-nails servicemen, but at least in our mental image of them we also need them to be larger than life. We like to think of them as lantern-jawed heroes coolly dealing with the impossible situation that is Iraq without giving so much as a thought to their personal safety or even letting as little as a complaining word fall from their lips about the miserable conditions they must endure during that tour of duty. The juxtaposition of these brave soldiers to the societal dregs that wash up into a county jail is thus emminently satisfying to contemplate ? it's the comparison of giants to ants, working to exalt the one even as it makes the other look petty and small.
  
  Yet if the prisoners housed in Arizona's Maricopa County tent cityjails are complaining, they have some good reasons. At that facility the incarcerated are fed only two meals a day, with green bologna sometimes appearing on the menu. They are quartered in outdoor tents under sweltering conditions, and they sleep on cots which lack pillows. They work on chain gangs. And they wear pink underwear.
  
  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, of the "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and the soldiers are living in tents and they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your mouths" quote, revels in the sobriquet 'America's Toughest Sheriff.' He enjoys a very high voter approval rating and has had little trouble being re-elected to the post since 1993. He is a controversial figure, vilified by some and worshipped by others.
  
  In June 2004 the e-mailed excerpt from the July 2003 Associated Press article circulated anew on the Internet, this time prefaced as follows:

  This is the way he is, and he has been re-elected several times ... Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) is doing it RIGHT!!:
  
  He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them. He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.
  
  He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
  
  He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again but only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel. When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.
  
  He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value. When the inmates complained, he told them.....this is a good one......"This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
  
  He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
  
  You have to love this guy!!
  
  More on the AZ Sheriff.
  
  [at this point, the text quoted above in our Example section is repeated]

  With one exception (which could simply amount to no more than our not having yet found the right supporting articles), the claims made in the 2004 preface check out. Sheriff Joe Arpaio has banned smoking, coffee, pornographic magazines, movies, and unrestricted television in all his jails. Those incarcerated in his tent city jail do indeed work on chain gangs, pulling weeds for the city and county, clearing brush, and the like. In 1996 the Sheriff put the nation's first female chain gang to work. Although the e-mailed account makes it sound as if he did so out of fear of prosecution for discrimination, there was no such threat lurking in the background ? he chose that course of action because it suited his beliefs: "I don't believe in discrimination in my jail system. Crime knows no gender and neither should punishment," he said.
  
  Regarding the claim about airing a Newt Gingrich lecture series on the jail's television system, in 1995 the controversial lawman used canteen funds to buy the Republican House speaker's 10-part, $150 video lecture series with the intent of piping it into the inmates' cells. When asked if he'd also be providing those in his charge with a lecture series done by a Democrat, he replied in the negative. "For one thing I don't know of any," he said. "And some people might say these guys already got enough of those ideas."
  
  He is also proud of having lowered the cost of feeding inmates in his care. Though assorted news articles quote slightly differing figures, a 40¢ per serving expenditure is the one most often touted. "It costs more to feed our police dogs than our inmates. The dogs never committed a crime, and they're working for a living," Arpaio said.
  
  In 1998 Arpaio instituted a policy of charging inmates for their meals, levying a dollar-a-day tariff against each of those incarcerated. In 1994 he banned coffee from the Maricopa County Jail, but he did so not because of its lack of nutritional value, but to protect inmates and guards from hot-coffee assaults by other inmates and to lower costs. (By eliminating the estimated 5,000 cups of coffee served daily for 5,400 inmates, it was expected the county would save $94,158 a year.)
  
  The one item we have yet to validate is the assertion that Arpaio deprived inmates of cable TV until discovery that such act was in violation of a federal court order. We've yet to locate this order or to confirm that television programming was ever denied those in his care. It is on record, however, that inmates in his charge view only selected programming, such as what's on The Weather Channel. ("I think my chain gang deserves to know how hot it is when they hit the streets," said Arpaio.)
  
  Barbara "in the pink" Mikkelson
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  Speaking in Tongues

  by Pinned Blouse in

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  i have visited several churches with family and friends and this is something that i cannot get used to.

  i do not know if this is basically done in black churches or not ( i am aa) but it makes me a little uncomfortable.

  i will say that i have had feelings in these churches that i have never felt in the kh.

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  I always thought that the gift of tounges was the ability speak in other languages in order to preach the good news to other lands.

  Actually, my reading of scripture shows tongues in two forms...Pentecost, in which the natives heard the apostles in their own tongue...and here's how I read this...if they were from Egypt they heard ALL the apostles in Egyptian...if from Rome, they heard ALL the apostles in Latin, etc, not just one apostle per language, but all of them.

  The other type is private prayer, the language of the angels that Paul spoke of.