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Strutting her stuff.
Back on March 8 many gathered for the Heart and Stroke Foundation's The Heart Truth Fashion Show in Toronto, Canada. Among the stars included "One Life To Live's" very own Susan Haskell (ex-Marty Saybrooke Thornhart) wearing David Dixon. Also, if you're a fan of Gene Simmons, don't miss how he greets his wife Shannon Tweed-Simmons on the runway - at the very end.
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By Valentino Lucio : August 22, 2013
USAA Real Estate Co. named Jim Hime the company's chief financial officer.
Hime's responsibilities include financial structuring, management of debt strategies, liquidity management and investment performance. The appointment is effective Sept. 1, according to a news release.
Hime joins locally based USAA Real Estate from Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, where he was the sovereign wealth fund's chief financial officer.


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Public safety is the No. 1 priority of law enforcement in Valencia County
A government's most fundamental responsibility is to protect its residents.
The roles of public safety officers in Valencia County is vast, from police officers to firefighters to trained emergency medical personnel. They all take their jobs seriously, wanting to make a difference in their communities.
As first responders in municipalities throughout the county, they are often challenged by decreasing budgets, limited resources and sometimes small staffs. But their missions are all the same: To keep their citizen's safe.
The Los Lunas Police Department is the second largest law enforcement agency in Valencia County, only exceeded in size by the sheriff's office. With 36 full-time police officers on duty, they are charged with protecting the largest-populated municipality in the county.
Police Chief Roy Melnick said his department is a community-oriented police force, whose mission is to build relationships within the community and identify and solve problems 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
"We're more service-oriented, not just catching the criminal," Melnick said. "We're still about reducing crime and making sure the community is a safe place to live, work and raise our children. That's our No. 1 duty.
"But, our secondary primary duty is public service and, if that means someone's calling because they've locked themselves out of their vehicle or house, an officer will go there and assist them," he said. "No, they're not catching a bad guy, but it's about assisting the community."
Within the community-policing strategy, the LLPD has several outreach programs, such as Neighborhood Watch. The department has two full-time community policing officers, paid through a federal grant, who go out to schools and businesses to provide public safety education.
"My cops have been trained from an educational philosophy of law enforcement," the chief said. "It means educating the public, not going out there and writing a number of tickets. My guys are instructed if they stop someone for a minor violation, and they're not a repeat offender, give them a warning. The reason is educating them about what they've done."
Along with protecting and educating the community, Melnick said the department's goal is to serve its citizens with an array of services and programs that will help them in their everyday lives. He said working with other law enforcement within the county is also an essential aspect of public safety within Valencia County.
"We provide not only police services to the village, we also have a SWAT team that we respond out in the county to support the sheriff's department, and we have a regional drug task force that operates with surrounding agencies along with state and federal agencies," Melnick said. "We also have an Internet Crimes Against Children unit, the only one in the county and one of few in the state that we've created with the Attorney General's office."
Melnick said his department has a number of programs geared toward protecting the community and the children, some of which are profiled on the department's website at www.loslunanm.gov.
More recently, the LLPD also has signed up for Raids Online, in which citizens can log on to see where and what types of crimes are occurring in the village. Melnick said the data can help officers track crime trends, and "Report It," a website that residents can securely store serial numbers, item descriptions, pictures and scans of receipts so that items may be more easily identified in the event of theft or loss.
With a budget of a little more than $4.1 million a year, which provides for salaries, benefits, equipment, vehicles and building maintenance, Melnick said since he joined the department a little more than four years ago, he and his team have worked tirelessly to make sure they supplement their budget with state and federal grants.
"These grants are essential for us," the chief said. "It's very important in helping us with getting vehicles, equipment and we've even able to fund two officer positions through federal grants. Since I came here, we've been able to secure $2,294,000 in grants."
While LLPD has been able acquire numerous grants, the Bosque Farms Police Department hasn't been as lucky, said Police Chief Greg Jones. Most of the grants that smaller departments like BFPD receives are from the state's Traffic Safety Bureau and the Local DWI Program for officer overtime.
Jones said it's harder for smaller departments, with less crime, to compete for the larger grants that come from the federal level.
Is it fair? Jones said while he would appreciate more funding, he understands how the system works and knows that the BFPD doesn't qualify for the larger grants because of their low crime rate.
Bosque Farms Police Department is home to 14 full-time police officers, the smallest department in the county. Not only does BFPD patrol and protect Bosque Farms, the department also has an intergovernmental agreement with neighboring Peralta to provide police protection.
"Our first priority as a police department, for the citizens of both Bosque Farms and Peralta who invest in us for a purpose, is to make sure we give them a good return for their investment," Jones said. "We have to ensure that what we're doing is, first of all, providing what the community needs. We then have to make sure that what we do is the best we can with the resources we have."
Jones said the police department's role is to provide a safe environment and to ensure that residents and visitors are in a low-crime area and that their property and persons are safe.
"It really is about personal safety and just feeling secure in the area where they live and visit," Jones said. "It doesn't matter where we live or where we work, we all desire to be safe and secure. That's why I believe that's why public safety is always at the top of people's list of concerns, whether it's police or fire departments."
Jones, a retired Albuquerque police officer, said he hires police officers who, first of all, like the community, its residents and visitors.
"We feel high visibility of our officers is a high deterrent to crime," Jones said. "People around this area, and even around the state, know that Bosque Farms, and now in the town of Peralta, is known as a traffic-oriented police department. Our statistics show that our high priority on traffic safety has minimized our traffic crashes with injuries."
Being a highly visible department on the boulevard, Jones said it helps with deterring crime throughout "The Farm." The more visible law enforcement is in a community, the less likely those with ill intent will come in to commit a crime.
BFPD began providing law enforcement to the town of Peralta in 2008, a year after the town incorporated. The expense of starting its own force was too expensive for the fledgling municipality, so they asked their neighbors to the north for assistance.
While Peralta didn't have enough funds to start their own department, they have been able to fund the hiring of additional BFPD officers to cover both municipalities. As the agreement between the two most northern Valencia County municipalities has evolved, Peralta town officials have also been able to contribute to the department's budget to purchase equipment and vehicles.
Today, BFPD has 14 officers who patrol and respond to calls in both municipalities. In the beginning, Jones didn't have too many concerns with taking on the responsibility of Peralta, but did have to work on informing and educating the residents of Bosque Farms that they would continue to receive the same level of protection they always had.
One of the biggest benefits of taking on Peralta is the increase of officer morale in the department. Jones said when he first started working for BFPD in 2001, he soon came to realize that amount of criminal activity in the area was less than he had initially expected.
"The size of Bosque Farms is about the size of one district in Albuquerque," he said. "It took me longer than most officers to become bored with the daily routine, but I did get bored because we have a very small area to patrol and very little crime."
Jones explained that while he enjoyed being able to meet and greet the residents, having the time to get to know the citizens, he was used to going from call to call. The chief also said that the younger officers would become frustrated that there wasn't as much "excitement" in the village, which led to a lot of turnover in the ranks.
But the addition of Peralta has allowed for two officers to always be on shift at one time, which, Jones said, is critical to officer safety. And with a larger jurisdiction, the chief said officers are able to patrol a much larger area, which provides diversification and they're able to respond to more calls for service.
But what the Bosque Farms Police Department makes up for the amount of "excitement" in the village is their quality and quantity of training it provides for not only to their officers, but officers around the state, Jones said.
"Our training program in Bosque Farms has helped to retain officers throughout the years, and it has even been a tool to attract quality officers," Jones said. "We have an applicant pool like we've never had before."
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Special Olympics The Gorge team was fired up Monday evening during the annual Bowling with the Cops and Firefighters fundraiser at Orchard Lanes. The Gorge team — recently renamed after combining Hood River and The Dalles programs — travels to Century Lanes in Portland this weekend for its season-ending regional championship, where it'll compete against other teams from across the state.
The Gorge team of 20 bowlers has been training once a week at Orchard Lanes since Labor Day. After the bowling season athletes move on to skiing for the winter.


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Quote# 87848
Females don't have to kill baby boys. Just not nurture them. Females are forced to *birth* baby boys, but beyond that a female's physical actions are her own.
Males will die without the constant infusion of female energy that they get from our wombs and from our lives. They are perfectly welcome to take the male infants from the hands of the midwife, and what they do with it from that point is *their* decision.
Females need to not be emotionally and intellectually invested in a male future.
Mary Sunshine,
Radfem Hub
52 Comments
Fundie Index: 67
Submitted By: Wykked Wytch
Quote# 87838
I read with astonishment that JC Penney is advertising Father's Day with an ad featuring two real life homosexual males who are in a home with kids. The ad says that a father is 'a swim coach, tent maker, best friend, bike fixer and hug giver—all rolled into one. Or two,' but actually no, only one person is ever your dad, the other parent is your mom. We need to keep repeating this unchanging truth. The pro-family group OneMillionMoms has called for a boycott of JC Penney and I totally support their position. A few months ago OneMillionMoms brought attention to JC Penney because they chose homosexual celebrity Ellen DeGeneres as their spokesperson, DeGeneres is a talented entertainer, but not the right person for a department store to feature. Not, that is, if they want to keep a strong customer base among American families. This latest ad was featured in the company's June catalogue. OneMillionMoms is suggesting families return their catalogues marked 'refused, return to sender.'
JC Penney also featured a pair of lesbians for a Mother's Day promotion. Someone at this company evidently has a big fixation on the homosexual agenda. And they are not the only retailer going foolishly into sexual deviance. The Gap has a billboard ad currently posted in Los Angeles with the theme, 'Be One,' the photo shows two homosexual males closely embracing as if they are one.
Friends, fathers and males in general are under attack in this culture. There is not a war on women as claimed, but there does seem to be a war on men. Traditional males and fatherhood are under assault everywhere they turn. As we get ready to celebrate Father's Day, let's be sure to give extra attention and show our appreciation to those men, our fathers, husbands and sons, who are still, in spite of heavy pressure to be otherwise, faithful, loving and strong examples of the way God designed men to begin with.
Linda Harvey,
Right Wing Watch
78 Comments
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Submitted By: Zagen30
Quote# 87790
I think the popularity with vampires is based on anne ric. She recast them into the perfect men for modern women, wealthy, effeminate, hair always just right yet super bad ass, super sexy, in touch with their feminine side, their bite is sexual pleasure beyond orgasm etc. Its all the silly shit that gets women wet rolled into one package
and it's part of the war on Christ. The 1st vampire story people know about is; he became a vampire when he cursed God and now he's "free from morality" and near God like in power himself
which makes sense because feminism itself is part of the war on God and Christ
Occidental Dissent
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Submitted By: Rabbit of Caerbannog
Quote# 87507
Gay demons infect animals
[transcript from radio interview]
"Let's step back for a second, Gordon, and say okay, let's assume you're right that homosexuality among humans is only because of marketing," Pakman countered. "What about in the 4,000 other species that have homosexuality? Because, as far as I know, they don't have TV. They don't have advertising. They don't have the iTunes store to recruit people. How is it that humans are gay sometimes because of marketing, but 4,000 other species… Why? Is it something else?"
"It is entirely possible — we know from the Bible, for example, when Jesus cast the devil out of Legion, he went into a herd of pigs," Klingenschmitt said. "So, it is possible for demons or the devil to inhabit or invade animals just the same way they invade humans, and that causes the sin of lust."
Gordon Klingenschmitt,
Raw Story
62 Comments
Fundie Index: 72
Quote# 87837
Atheists can't be real Americans in the truest sense of the word – and People for the American Way should be renamed People for the un-American Way.
Joseph Farah,
61 Comments
Fundie Index: 64
Submitted By: carnerojo
Quote# 87835
Atheists if brown eyes move fast enough, can they turn blue with black slits? What's your explanation?
So some people are possessed by demons, and occassionally their eyes will change.
Atheists can look at this evidence, and even though they have no logical explanation for why it is, they blow it off like it's nothing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pibXy_pr… These are Nicki Minaj's reptillian eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGAImmfA7… The original interview that the first video was taken from. It's called Nicki Minaj fights back tears discussing lil waynes jail sentence. Pause the video at :43. You have to get it at the right millisecond, but everyone who trys can find the reptillian eyes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt90t1-Ch… Nicki Minaj talks about how she is possessed by a spirit that is conjured up.
Yahoo answers
60 Comments
Fundie Index: 88
Submitted By: zipperback
Quote# 87832
Now, that's why the Constitution's a problem. Look at Article III, Section 1, the treason clause--direct quote out of the Bible. You look at Article II, the quote on the President [having] to be native-born--that is Deuteronomy 17:15,
. I mean, look at how many clauses come out [of the Bible]. That drives the secularists nuts, because the Bible is all over [the Constitution]. Now, we as Christians don't tend to recognize that. We think it's a secular document--we've bought into their lies. It's not.
David Barton,
Daily Kos
56 Comments
Fundie Index: 61
The 'History Scholar' Award
Quote# 87825
"Feminism grew powerful in the late 60s early 70s because they jumped on the civil rights bandwagon and became an 'oppressed minority"
yes, when the communists were passing out 'official victim of white man' cards to blacks, indians, etc. the females cut in line, batted their eyelashes and got as many cards as they wanted
and i think it happened that way because the majority of bleeding heart liberal types (folks that can very easily and readily feel for people of different color skin, ethnicity, etc.) are men (ever find a female that could actually feel for people that weren't at least 98% similar to herself?)
if even a fourth of those people passing out the cards were female it might have gone down a bit different
The Spearhead
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Fundie Index: 87
Quote# 87818
["PIV" means "penis-in-vagina (intercourse)" among radical feminists.]
Well, PIV is natural for animals because they have hormonal drives which pushes them to copulate at given times, either during estrus or at given seasons, according to their biological needs. Since they copulate only when their nature/body tells them to, it can't be rape in my opinion.
Humans on the other hand have no pre-ordained sexuality: there's nothing in the human body that pushes us to copulate at any given time, we don't have any hormonal drives during estrus that forces us to seek a mate for PIV and it's not part of our basic and necessary body functions/needs like peeing or breathing. sexuality is completely social and learned. It's been seen on some adults who've never learned about PIV not to know "how to make a baby" and it didn't cross their minds to do PIV. PIV isn't natural but socially institutionalised by men through compulsory heterosexuality, marriage and rape. It certainly isn't a recreative practice either since men use it as a *weapon* against women to control them – and it IS a weapon of war given the harm it causes women. And as Feuerwerferin says, PIV isn't even necessary for reproduction since sperm on the vulva is enough to cause pregnancy. Plus the trauma-bonding (trauma = survival mechanism to something wrong being done to you = that something needs to stop). Plus the fact that having something the size of an erect penis thrust into your body with a naked man all over you is in itself deeply invasive despite the genital stimulation that is most often just reactive or mechanically activated after years of grooming and is usually only triggered after some first seconds of pain. (PAIN!! that's a normal body sign telling something's *wrong!*). without counting that at the beginning of PIV grooming it's most often just painful, irksome, or at best there's not much sensation, and the girl usually feels she *has* to do it because she's already groomed to believe her value lies in being fucked by men.
Anyway, these are many reasons that make me say PIV is in no way a natural human practice, and that women's vagina isn't meant to be penetrated at all, but only meant to expel a baby.
Radfem Hub
102 Comments
Fundie Index: 144
Submitted By: Wykked Wytch
Quote# 87815
All Men Should Be Castrated? - International "Castration Day"
Some Feminists have considered this as an option. It is highly controversial.
Allow me to introduce myself...
My name is Krista, otherwise known as "The Femitheist". I am a female, a feminist, and someone who believes strongly in True Equality.
Now, I will begin explaining this entry before I post the actual article... for your discussion, of course.
Women MUST and WILL have equality, and this is the ONLY way to achieve TRUE equality. The testicles of all males, which produce the majority of their testosterone, are the primary cause of their violent behavior. The testicles also attribute greatly to many of the health problems men experience later in life (such as prostate cancer and, of course, testicular cancer).
~:The Solution... International Castration Day.:~
It is my belief (which I consider factual based on my research) that all men SHOULD be castrated. Not only for their own safety, but for the safety of all innocent women and children.
And, to achieve this...
The entire world should have an international holiday known as: "Castration Day"
Males of all ages will be brought to the public squares of their cities nude, to stand together in a circle, as they await castration by a woman known as "The Castrator", who will be a woman chosen from the public much like a juror.
Girls of all ages will attend, lining the streets to cheer and applaud the males as they join the rest of civilized society.
It will be a free vacation for any working woman. And, young girls will be able to leave school to attend this glorious ceremony.
The males will then have one hour to get to know their Castrator. Their female "spouse" will also be able to choose whether or not they would like to milk the male in order to retain a sperm sample.
If the male is too young for a "spouse", their mother or closest female relative will decide.
After this, the men will be given anesthetics. They will be placed on a table, where their Castrator will then slice open their ball-sack, remove their testicles, and the excess skin, stitch them up and clean them up.
They will be given thirty minutes to rest after the procedure.
Once the males have all been castrated, they will be grouped together again for one last look before walking nude back to their homes.
The women will then return to their jobs, schools, et cetera, and rejoice in the completion of yet another successful ceremony.
Any man who tries to evade this holiday, "Castration Day", should be murdered wherever they
are found (treated as a criminal, as it will be a crime not to attend). Or, forced to attend.
Regardless of age.
Any woman who disagrees should be provided therapy in order to free her from misogynistic indoctrination.
This holiday should replace the day known currently as "Father's Day".
If this practice were adopted officially all across the world, all war, crime, and violence would end.
We would have a true Eutopia, where peace reigns, and men do only what they exist for...
Likewise, the change of their hormones would make them less aggressive, and thus less likely to rape. It would also provide them with better health throughout their life, as the testicles are a major cause of health issues in males as they age.
All will profit from this...
And, I believe this will come to be someday soon.
Thanks for your consideration!
Femitheist Divine,
The New Era of Feminism
1157 Comments
Fundie Index: 578
Quote# 87810
I've always been fascinated by the fact that it's possible to calculate exactly when the sun will rise and set for a thousand years from now. Or as far out in the future you want to go.
How could that be if evolution is true?
Tom Butler,
Baptist Board
99 Comments
Fundie Index: 135
Submitted By: PT
Quote# 87807
"They're saying that the Ten Commandments have been taken out of the court houses and out of the school houses lest we offend the atheists. Let me be very clear: This country was not built for atheists nor by atheists. It was built by Christian people who believed in the word of God.
To the atheist watching this telecast, if our belief in God offends you, move. {Applause.}
There are planes leaving every hour on the hour, going every place on planet Earth. Get on one. We don't want you and we won't miss you. I promise you.
Our coins say in God We Trust. President Obama, you recently told the foreign media that America is not a Christian nation. You're absolutely wrong. We were, we are, and always shall be a Bible-reading, praying, Christian people. {Applause and standing ovation.}
Several years ago, witchcraft and satanism were officially approved by the U.S. Military at the direction of the U.S. Congress. We have officially chosen to recognize another god. I call upon the members of Congress to outlaw the practice of witchcraft and satanism in the U.S. Military lest we offend the God of Heaven. I don't care about the atheist."
John Hagee,
God Discussion
70 Comments
Fundie Index: 90
Submitted By: JSS
Quote# 87806
This sodomite attempt to destroy all morals in this country will never end as long as God-less democrats, let by the muslim Obama,continue to call the shots. If Obama is reelected, I guarantee you he will get on national TV and tell the world that sodomites have the right to get married and he is strongarming a bill through Congress to have DOMA overruled and that states have no right deciding who can and can not get married. Churches all over the country will be mandated to perform sodomite "marriages", under threat of having the church closed down. The will also tell the Boy Scouts of any other organization they can not "discriminate" action a minority and that sodomites are in the same class as women and blacks, which is absolutely BS because you have no say so about what sex you are born or the color of your skin. There is no such thing as a sodomite gene, and it a learned trait. Elect Obama and this garbage will absolutely never end.
Free Republic
41 Comments
Fundie Index: 53
Submitted By: Rabbit of Caerbannog
Quote# 87805
When I was an atheist, I came to the conclusion that homosexuality was illogical. One need only look at the shape of the sex organs to see that they have an innate purpose to them, and there is no moral code, not even the most liberal or liberatarian, which does not contain a tacit appeal to the innate purposes of things for moral authority. An atheist can rightly conclude that a sex act which does not involve sex is illogical. An atheist can conclude that the nature of reason is such that to defy reason is to defy goodness: that is it morally wrong to be illogical, for the same reason to tell lies is wrong. From this comes the conclusion that homosexual acts, because illogical, are therefore morally wrong.
John C. Wright,
John C. Wright's Journal
63 Comments
Fundie Index: 59
Submitted By: David
Quote# 87799
When we ingest other living things, the DNA of those living things (fruits, vegetables, nuts, meats, etc.) just happens to be compatible with our DNA so that cellular respiration can take place. If it were not for the fact that our DNA is so akin to all other living things, we could not eat. If we could not eat, we would die.
Is the process of eating and cellular respiration the result of a mere fluke of evolution? Alternatively, could it be that a common Designer made certain that the process of eating and cellular respiration would function in such a precise and perfect manner? Which answer appears to be the most probable to you?
If the supposed cosmic and random happenstance of evolution was the real reason that all living things exist, why, when, and how did this happenstance mechanism decide that living things needed to eat anything in the first place? Would it not be odd that evolution should come up with the idea of food and energy creation through cellular respiration?
Cellular respiration is an astoundingly complex, energy-expending system. Yet in order for life to be sustained, living things must have other living things to ingest. What an odd thing for a mere cosmic coincidence to develop, by random generation. Is it not a strange convenience for evolution that all living things have such unimaginable DNA similarity that cellular respiration is possible?
Carl Gallups,
57 Comments
Fundie Index: 67
Submitted By: Night Jaguar
Quote# 87788
[This is from an 1973 anti-abortion comic called "WHO KILLED JUNIOR", hosted on ep.tc. It was created by the then two-month old organization Right To Life, right after the Roe v. Wade decision.]
Right To Life,
57 Comments
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Submitted By: Wykked Wytch
Quote# 87773
Atheists are so funny...
You sneer at religious folk who base their world view on 'faith'.
Let us examine, if you dare, this "reason" you rely upon. Your rock. Your precious.
Your "scientific method" is tremendously helpful in getting right down to the bits we don't understand. Most of you will complete the previous sentence with "yet". Perhaps you're right. Maybe one day we'll fully understand why probability waves collapse, whether the future exists, free will, what life is, why we find rainbows so beautiful (don't tell me that's adaptive). On the other hand, perhaps there will always be "uncertainty". In fact, quantum theory tells us uncertainty is one of the fundamental building blocks of our universe.
Point being that when you get right down to it, your entire world view is also based on faith. Think about that for a second.
Now think about this. What if we were to call all that, "Uncertainty" I don't know.... God!
You guys are funny. You've proved God exists and don't even realize it. Yet.
97 Comments
Fundie Index: 68
Submitted By: emau99
Quote# 87767
Fourteen-year-old Caiden Cowger, who hosts the twice-weekly "Caiden Cowger Show," made his anti-gay proclamations in a recent broadcast, video of which was uploaded to his YouTube channel on May 26. "Homosexuality is a belief," Cowger, who has previously interviewed former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, declares. "The person is not born that way, no matter what Lady Gaga says...it is a decision."
After confessing that he was once friends with some kids who have since come out as gay, he notes, "They were not homosexuals [then]...they just decided all of a sudden, 'I think I'm going to be gay,'" before he eventually concludes, "I'm going to tell you this, guys: President Obama...Vice President Biden...is making kids gay!"
Cowger, who is identified by The New Civil Rights Movement as a Pentecostal Christian, slams homosexuality as "a perverted belief, it's immoral and not natural" before noting, "I'm not for bullying homosexuals, I believe that it's wrong. But when you're trying to teach them the word of God and they consider that bullying...I find that a big problem, not being allowed to convert other people to my religion."
Caiden Cowger,
Huffington Post
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Submitted By: Zagen30
Quote# 87762
How does throwing acid in their faces when they demand independence from men benefit women?
Because female independence is strongly correlated with a whole host of social ills. Using the utilitarian metric favored by most atheists, a few acid-burned faces is a small price to pay for lasting marriages, stable families, legitimate children, low levels of debt, strong currencies, affordable housing, homogenous populations, low levels of crime, and demographic stability.
How do honor killings benefit women?
Because female promiscuity and divorce are strongly correlated with a whole host of social ills, from low birth and marriage rates to high levels of illegitimacy.
Vox Day,
Vox Popoli
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Quote# 87755
[re: the fish-tetrapod transitional fossil
being found in the very geological stratum predicted by evolution]
might have been found in that deep stratum for either of at least two reasons:
1. It was less able to seek higher ground than other, "smarter" animals, and thus was buried deep in the Flood.
2. It is actually an antediluvian laboratory chimera and hence an out-of-place artifact of a society already known to have been inordinately cruel.
Terry Hurlbut,
Conservapedia, Essay:Evolution Is More Vulnerable than Ever
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Submitted By: Night Jaguar
Quote# 87753
With environmentalism, especially the radical version of it—you know we used to have conservationism in America with Teddy Roosevelt and these people—but now environmentalism has taken over and nature is the most important thing. So you have to adjust everything to nature. Nature is viewed as a holistic tyrant, so to speak, and holism really teaches tyranny. Fascism is all connected here. You have to bow everything to nature's holistic inter-relatedness and you can't buck anything with regards to what nature does. This is the problem with environmentalism and why it's so dangerous, because it becomes your tyrant.
Israel would be the example of this originally, as they were commanded to go in and subdue the promise land and fill it and that's what they did and for a while it was a good land, then these other things came in, environmentalism came in and destroyed their culture, what I call the Baalism, the nature worship, instead of worshiping the Creator they worshiped nature and this led to the destruction of their society. I think the same things are happening in our own country today too. We have this nature-worship now that is infiltrating our society, infiltrating Christianity too, and it is bringing us down and it is something that people need to be wary of. There is a dark path to this whole environmental discussion that people need to know.
Janet Parshall,
Right Wing Watch
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Submitted By: Zagen30
Quote# 87752
I had a lesbian friend on facebook. I thought she wasn't a lesbian because her partner looked just like Drew Carey. They tricked me, and they will trick you too!!! Don't be fooled by their often hideous appearance and attempts to look like a man. After realizing the mistake I had made I threw up in my mouth and promptly deleted them from my friends list. No man should be tricked like that. It's wrong!!! I can't look at Drew Carey without seeing that disgusting beast of a woman now.
Mattius Maximus,
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Submitted By: Rabbit of Caerbannog
Quote# 87750
Walter Reed Medical Center under attack by the Jug-Eared Marxist and his minions.
The soldiers who wake up in Walter Reed Medical Center are in Maryland --not communist China . But under the Navy's new rules, they may not know the difference! After months of peeling away the military's core values, Obama's army is on the move. And this time, it has a high-value target: the Bible. In a memo obtained by FRC, Navy officials have announced that "no religious items (including Bibles, reading material, and/or artifacts) are allowed to be given away or used during a visit." The new orders are buried in a four-page document about patient care, which an Army officer forwarded to us in disbelief. Effective immediately, families, friends, and even pastors will have to check their beliefs at the door to visit one of the largest military hospitals in the United States . Last night, after we circulated the memo to leaders on the Hill, an outraged Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) took to the House floor and blasted the policy. "Mr. Speaker, these military men and women who are recovering at Walter Reed and Bethesda have given their all for America ... They've defended and taken an oath to the Constitution, and here they are. The people that come to visit them can't bring a religious artifact? They can't bring a Bible? ...A priest can't walk in with the Eucharist and offer communion to a patient who might be on their deathbed because it's prohibited in this memo from the Department of the Navy?"
This is Obama's military, where homosexuality is celebrated and Christianity is censored; where witches are financed and crosses are scorned; where bestiality is embraced and Bibles are banned; where same-sex "weddings" are encouraged but international charity is not. After three years of ideological warfare, the administration's intent is clear: to disarm the military of its biggest weapon. Faith. Regardless of President Obama's agenda, there is absolutely nothing in the Constitution that empowers the government to stop family members from giving Bibles or crosses to their loved ones. And from a PR standpoint, I'm not sure the best way to boost approval ratings is by denying comfort to wounded warriors. Unfortunately for our troops, who have endured so much turmoil under the Obama administration, this is another blow. Hopefully, with the help of Congressman King and others, it's only a temporary one.
America is losing everyday with this president. I for one do not believe America can survive these onslaughts from the Obama's administration. I challenge all who read this to vote Obama out before it's too late. How much more proof do you need????
Where Liberty Dwells
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Submitted By: Rabbit of Caerbannog
Quote# 87747
The entire structure for scientificating was built on a single assumption. This assumption was a modification to Aristotle's metaphysics which has its roots in Catholic friars such as Thomas and Scotus. In their efforts to adapt the pagan's system to the Bible, they invented new concepts such as being and essence. When Newton made his operational definition of time and space, he did so mathematically using the notion that the ESSENCE of substance is changeless. No one has ever detected any essence or being. In fact the visible properties of all matter are observed to continue to change throughout cosmic history. Even local clocks that transmitted their precision signals yesterday do not match with clock that emit their clocks frequencies today (the Pioneers).
The horror of empiricism is that they define almost all of their measuring units in a double circle. They actually believe that mass, energy and time exist even though they are utterly undetectable and can only be measured mathematically with other undetectable things circularly. Almost all of them were contrived using the assumption Peter predicted for the false teachers of the last days.
EvC Forum
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Quote# 87740
Sister Margaret McBride, a Catholic nun and a long time administrator at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, has been excommunicated by her local Phoenix bishop, Thomas J Olmsted, after she agreed with a hospital ethics committee that an 11-week-old fetus had to be aborted in order to save the life of a mother.
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted stated the Sister of Mercy was "automatically excommunicated" because of the action. She has also been demoted in her job.
The patient concerned had a rare and often fatal condition in which the pregnancy can cause the death of the mother.
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted,
Irish Central
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Submitted By: Wykked Wytch


text: Prev | Next Purchase this photo Chris Harris/The Herald-Dispatch Several people take advantage of the log ride at Camden Park on Friday, Aug. 3, 2007. Gallery: Camden Park through the years Jun. 03, 2013 @ 02:16 PM Camden Park began in 1903 as a picnic area for the Camden Interstate Railway. Today, it remains the only amusement park in West Virginia. ()


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Session HM: Microfluids: General V: Particle Manipulation
10:30 AM–12:40 PM, Monday, November 22, 2010
Long Beach Convention Center Room: 202B
Chair: Metin Muradoglu, Koc University, Turkey
Abstract ID: BAPS.2010.DFD.HM.3
Abstract: HM.00003 : Control of Biologically Inspired Robotic Microswimmers
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U. Kei Cheang
(Drexel University)
Jun Hee Lee
(Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials)
Dheeraj Roy
(Drexel University)
Min Jun Kim
(Drexel University)
Flagella have been employed as nanoactuators for biomimetic microswimmers in low Reynolds number fluidic environments. The microswimmers utilize flagellar filaments isolated from Salmonella typhimurium to mimic the spiral-type propulsion mechanism of flagellated bacteria. The microswimmer included a polystyrene microbead conjugated to one or multiple magnetic nanobeads via flagellar filaments using avidin-biotin linkages. Wireless propulsion energy was supplied to magnetic bead by an AC magnetic field, which in turn rotate the bead and induce spiral-type swimming. A magnetic controller consisted of electromagnetic coils arranged in an approximate Helmholtz configuration was designed and constructed. In conjunction with a LabVIEW input interface, a DAQ controller was used as a function generator to induce AC current outputs from the power supply to the magnetic controller in order to generate an AC magnetic field. Numerical analysis was performed to characterize the magnetic controller. A high-speed camera provided real-time imaging of the microswimmer motion in a static fluidic environment. The robotic microswimmers exhibited active propulsion under an AC magnetic field, which demonstrates the possibility for future biomedical applications for drug delivery.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2010.DFD.HM.3


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Jesus Calling, by Sarah Young
Featured front and center on this month's edition of Family Christian Bookstore's catalogue (2/1-3/14/2013) is Sarah Young and her popular books for women, Jesus Calling and Jesus Today.
Beware as this book promotes the author's extraordinary claims that Jesus has audibly spoken to her for a period of time. So much so as to generate a year long devotional for publication, etc., etc. As such, Jesus Calling falls squarely in line with the false teachings of gnosticism and its counterparts of contemporary revelations and open canon-type encounters from God. Conversely, deviating from the closed canon, Sola Scriptura.
Biblical Resources:
~Exceprt, "But I can't get past what she says it is. Underneath all of this is the fact that Young has recorded new revelation from God, spoken audibly to her, on a nearly daily basis, and now I am supposed to have my devotionals from God's words to her. I just can't get past that to the content of the actual words Jesus allegedly spoke."
From Steak and a Bible Blog, Julia's Book Review
Ken Silva, of Apprising Ministries, Reports Beth Moore's Endorsement for Jesus Calling


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emema before arriving in l&d?
M/C 08/2011 & 11/2011 * DS Born 02/2013* M/C 01/2014, 04/2014 & 07/2014 * IVF #1 Jan. 2015 * IVF #2 March/April 2015
I didn't poo with either of my kids. Never did anything to prevent it.
During the actual delivery, no one gives a fuck. If a nurse said something to me I would throat punch her.
Never did and havn't had any trouble with first 4 so not going to with #5 either!
Suzanne loves David... along came Miss H and now Sir J! Loving life...
According to the nurses I have talked to they really do not care. They will normally clean it up before you even know what happened.
Rachel Josephine & Kirk Wade 4-16-12
Cora Elizabeth born 2-15-13.
Jen (31) and Dave (35) married 2006
Parents to Trey (3/4/11) and Luke (2/28/13) Furbaby Sandie
I've heard that for some women, before you go into labor, your body will try to clear itself out and you'll end up having multiple bowel movements in a day... and then go into labor shortly thereafter. I didn't go into labor naturally with DS so I can't testify if that actually happens or not though
Candace + Preston
Jared (C/S) + Kyle (VBAC)


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Two ousted with much left to do
OXFORD — Granville County's school board will go through the next seven months with several projects to complete and two members who were defeated in Tuesday's primary.
New members won't be taking their seats until December. Publicly, board members and the school system superintendent said the upcoming changes wouldn't have significant impact.
"I don't think the election is going to change things that much," said Leonard Peace, a longtime board member who was not in the primary. "We'll have the same board until December. At that point, I think we'll head down the same path we've been heading."
But there's a great deal of water to pass under the bridge.
Brenda Dickerson-Daniel, chairwoman of the board, lost to Tom Houlihan. Catherine "Rose" Lyon lost to Danny Eudy. Toney Smith was an unopposed winner on Tuesday.
Houlihan is an educator with a resume that includes tenures as superintendent of Granville County Schools, North Carolina Superintendent of Public Instruction and executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers.
The loss of Dickerson-Daniel and Lyon leaves the board with just one female member.
"They'll be losing the woman's perspective on things," Lyon said.
She also said there's a great deal of unfinished business, including teachers getting raises and the completion of Granville Central.
Not mentioned in the aftermath of the primary were the contentious debates that preceded it.
Between February and March:
• One school board member accused other board members of meeting in violation of the state's open meetings law.
• That same member described a recent request for auditing an entire process of compensation to school district personnel as a "political stunt."
• The school board, in a specially called meeting, approved a third-party probe of policies, processes and actions regarding compensation in the school district.
• Dickerson-Daniel stepped down from presiding at a meeting to address accusations of improprieties.
• And Tim Farley, the superintendent, told the board legal action — "consequences," he said — would come should his character or integrity suffer as a result of collateral damage from the board's activities.
Peace said he is hopeful for the impact Houlihan's experience can bring to the board.
Farley offered nothing but praise for the service of Lyon and Dickerson-Daniel.
"I'd like to thank the two current board members," he said. "I've worked with them for seven years, and they've always looked after the welfare of our children.
"As for the impact of the new board members. I'm sure we'll be doing the things we've been doing."
Lyon said she thinks the controversy had little or no influence on the election results.
"Not at our end of the county," she said.
Multiple attempts over two days to contact Dickerson-Daniel for comments in this story were not successful.
Contact the writer at email@example.com.