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1923 Ford T-Bucket - Early IronWritten by Eric Geisert on August 1, 2012
Chris Ward
'23 T-bucket
Sierra Vista, Arizona
Chris Ward, from Sierra Vista, Arizona, has been working on his T roadster for the past few years, and he is a confirmed Buckethead (what you call someone who is really into the T-bucket form of hot rodding). His latest ride is a little different than what you would think when someone says "T-bucket," so he outlined how the project came about.
"Now known as 'The Viper T,' this car is the third T-bucket build since we started assembling them back in the late '90s. The Viper T concept was derived when we attended a fall event in 1999 at the Big M Drive-in in Churchville, Maryland, with our new 440-powered T-bucket.
"While at the event, we walked through the swap meet area, looking for another project to start. There we found a Viper engine for sale for $3,800 in the back of a pickup truck and, our first thought was, "Wow, that would be really cool in a T-bucket." But by the time we decided that we could do it, the truck and engine were gone.
"Our family's first T-bucket was started 1997 and completed in April 1999. Most of the components, such as body and frame parts, came from Total Performance. Looking to be different, we installed a blown 440 big-block Chrysler engine.
"While serving active duty in the Army at the time, we had to move to Arizona for my next assignment in June 2000. Our second 'bucket (of course I had to build one for my wife, Shari, to call her own so I could drive mine!) has a 360 small-block Chrysler and was finished in 2003.
"By 2006 we decided to start building another T-bucket, so we placed our name on the waiting list at K&S for an extended T-bucket body, which was delivered in April 2007. By May a Viper engine and transmission (with only 8,500 miles on it) plus an ECM and wiring harness was found in Illinois, so we purchased the package and had it shipped to us in Arizona.
"In June 2007 our son, Christopher Jr., came home from college in Wyoming for the 2007 T-Bucket Nationals that our club chapter hosted in Sierra Vista, Arizona. He, along with our daughter's then-boyfriend (now husband), Graham Eberly, began fabricating the frame. It took over four years to build and was completed in February 2012. By the time you see this in the magazine, we will have introduced the Viper T to our extended T-bucket family at the 2012 NTBA (National T-Bucket Alliance) Nationals in Chattanooga, Tennessee."
Chris says his T, which is set up on a wheelbase of 118 inches, weighs in at 2,157 pounds with 10 gallons of fuel in it, and it balances out at 1,170 pounds (54.2 percent) over the rear and 987 pounds (45.8 percent) over the front axle.
Although he has owned several fast cars in his life, Chris says the Viper-powered T scares him, and that's really sayin' something!


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Cal Worthington, whose crazy showmanship style made him one of the nation's best-known auto dealers, has died at 92.
For decades, Worthington was one of a handful of cars dealers around the country who dominated TV advertising on nights and weekends, standing out with their crazy antics. He died at his Big W Ranch near Sacramento, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Worthington was among the last who came up with ways of attracting attention beyond showing pictures of cars with prices (although the tradition continues in Los Angeles, where Worthington made his name, with dealers' Spanish-language TV ads).
Towering more than 6-feet, 4-inches in his trademark cowboy hat, Worthington promised to "stand on my head to make you a deal," a claim he would back up by demonstrating on a car hood. He was always showed off "my dog Spot." Spot was a tiger, lion, gorilla, hippo (which he rode on the back of) or any other animal other than a dog. Even his voice was instantly recognizable because of his Oklahoma twang. Banjo music with his "Go see Cal! Go see Ca!" refrain always played in the background.
Worthington was among the last of the TV pitchmen from the 1950s to the 1980s. In Los Angeles, they included Earl "Madman" Muntz ("We buy 'em retail and sell 'em wholesale. It's more fun that way") and Ralph Williams (who sold cars at "One-five-800 Ventura Boulvard -- in the heart of Encino.")
Worthington outlived the others and became a local celebrity. He made appearances on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. His dealership network grew as well, with lots in several cities.
At California State University, Long Beach, a few blocks from where Worthington had his Ford dealership, Worthington drew some of the biggest crowds as a speaker with his motivational messages. (We were there covering them as a college student reporter.) He talked about growing up poor in Oklahoma, flying B-17 bombers in the Army Air Corps and finding that he wasn't particular talented at anything -- except selling cars. Every person is better at one thing than everyone else in the world, Worthington would say, but few ever discover that one thing.
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Profile: Dana Carson and Ed Chew
Some Peace Corps Volunteers live and work in the same community. Nestled in the rural central mountain region of Nicaragua, Dana Carson and Ed Chew are teaching people about soil conservation. Planting live barriers with trees and different grasses prevents soil erosion along the steep hillsides, where local villagers plant crops of coffee, and banana and plantain trees. "These efforts have helped to stabilize their traditional crops. In addition, we are introducing new produce such as tomato, onion, and cabbage. Because people tend to eat these vegetables with meals, farmers have been receptive to these new elements," says Dana.
Helping farmers has been rewarding and challenging, as Ed discovered early in his service. "When I first arrived, a woman approached me with a rotted watermelon and said, 'What plague destroyed my watermelon?' I quickly learned that people either have little faith that you can help them, or they think you are an expert." Both Ed and Dana confess to not knowing every answer, but they are committed to helping farmers find the answers they need.
During training, Dana and Ed worked with Nicaraguan agronomists six days a week and developed a support network of experts they can call upon when they discover a challenging agricultural issue. They have also arranged to receive refresher training twice a month, as well as circulate an agriculture magazine where they can share techniques and tips with other agricultural workers. "We like to share ideas," says Ed, "and often someone has already discovered a solution to the problem you are currently working on."
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They are telling people to not buy or eat Trader Joe's Valencia Creamy Salted Peanut Butter. Sunland Inc. makes the peanut butter and has also recalled Trader Joe's Valencia Peanut Butter with Roasted Flaxseeds, Crunchy and Salted and Trader Joe's Almond Butter with Roasted Flaxseeds, Crunchy & Salted.
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Fund Resource Officers in Schools
January 17, 2013
The federal government hands out law enforcement grants for all sorts of purposes....
"Most teachers and school administrators are big fans of resource officers, and not just because they deter armed intruders. The program is an excellent one - and Washington should help Wheeling and other localities pay for it."
Above quote from editorial re "resource officers in schools" sounds as thou the federal goverment has a source of income other than our tax dollars. Does'nt matter if funds are state or fed, the money comes out of our pockets and would be a band-aid rather than a solution. What was the size of Virginia Tech's campus police force and did it prevent the shooting that took place there? After an officer in the school do we put more on the playground, do we send an officer along on school outings, or ring a football stadium with "resource officers"?
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This may sound stupid, but I'll say it anyway. One of the duties of this officer shoul be to turn off/on the blinking lights in school zones when no children are presnt. I am sure that many have expierenced having to slow down to 15/20 mph and no kids present.
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From the article on the front page $150,000,000 will hire 1,000 cops, psychologists and/or counselors! That would be $150,000 per position. With 99,000 "public" schools in the US that comes to 14.8 billion per year or 148 billion for 10 years (10 years is the way the goberment considers spending cuts)!
SPENDING CUTS WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN THE US!!! We have programs that the Goberment Accounting Office, COngressional Budget Office and every IG office in the goberment claims are wasting our money....No one is paying attention! If we had an "independent" audit we would find more wasted/fraudulant spending!
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The money comes out of our pockets. As much as I sympathize with victims of school shootings, how many people are killed in elementary, middle, and high schools per year? How many from suicide, drunk driving, drugs, related to mental disorders? Think this is bad call.
Of course teachers and administrators are fans. Im sure they would all be fans of having their own personal assistant to grade papers and do other tasks as well. Maybe we need to send cops to school to teach and replace teachers with armed resource officer/teachers. Then every class would be protected. If current teachers cant pass law enforcement training-rid of them.
I know I would feel much more secure if my second graders teacher was a trained Rambo with speciality in early education.
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Remember this over a year ago?
American Jobs Act "Under the President's proposal, $30 billion be directed towards educators and $5 billion would support the hiring and retention of public safety and first responder personnel."
But we know, teapublicans whined, criticized and blocked the Presidents plan.
Now, not so much.
How many resource officers does America need? How many guns are sold annually? Tax on the sales of firearms to pay the cost, simple.
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goosy, about 10.8 million guns sold in the US last year, need to put a tax of $1,350 on each gun to raise the 14.8 billion needed. Not a very good idea from you...
I have a better idea, how about a national sales tax to fund the cops in schools?
I would also suggest that more funding would be nice for the Center for Disease Control, they only get 5.6 billion per year and an average of 36,000 US citizens die from the flu each year. How many are dying from getting shot in schools?
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The school shooting are horrible. We have no idea where a nut is going to decide to attack, it could be McDonald play center or Chucky Cheese. My grandma's property tax went up 800 this year because a new school was built. How does someone on 700 month SS keep paying for these things. Some people are barely making it and its not that they are not caring, but cant absorb the costs.
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I would like to see a job description for a resource officer in our county, and hear from the school staff.
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Here is the job description I found ***********djcs.wv.gov/pro/Pages/default.aspx
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(Sports Network) - In the winter of 2008, the Baltimore Ravens had a choice to
Upon firing a popular, outspoken, media-savvy coach with Super Bowl
credentials, the franchise could have doubled down on the headline-friendly
approach and hired a familiar face -- long-term incumbent defensive
coordinator Rex Ryan -- to succeed his former boss, Brian Billick.
Instead, they changed the tenor of the conversation.
And now, five Januarys later, the gamble on an untested John Harbaugh has
yielded a Super payoff.
"If I thought Brian Billick was going to be the best coach, I would have
brought him back and hired him," said Steve Bisciotti, who succeeded Art
Modell as the Ravens' majority owner. "If I thought Rex Ryan was ready, I
would've hired him. There's no statement underlying my decision."
Though it was ultimately topped off with the front office's bold move, the
reserved Harbaugh's rise to the top of the coaching ranks actually came after
a prolonged tryout on sidelines.
He began the climb as a 22-year-old running backs/outside linebackers coach at
Western Kentucky University in 1984, then wound his way through college
campuses at Pittsburgh (tight ends coach), Morehead State (special
teams/secondary coach), Cincinnati (special teams coordinator) and Indiana
(special teams coordinator/defensive backs coach) through 1997.
The apprenticeship on the NFL level was nearly as long -- 10 years -- but
significantly less chaotic, featuring a single stop in Philadelphia, where he
spent nine seasons as special teams coordinator (one under Ray Rhodes, eight
with Andy Reid) and one more as Reid's secondary/safeties coach.
A 13-3 run with the Eagles in 2004 led to Harbaugh's initial taste of the
sport's biggest game, which ended with a 24-21 loss to the Patriots in Super
Bowl XXXIX eight years ago.
"I think the experience of going through the Super Bowl one time is positive
for a coach, and it's positive for a player," he said. "You have a sense of
the timing a little bit. You understand how the week goes. You understand the
distractions, the potential distractions and you understand the timeline for
the game as much as anything. That will be a plus, but they're all different.
"I remember it was Jacksonville (and) it was kind of cold that week. That's
the biggest memory I have of that week. And the fact that we did not win, you
never forget that."
Harbaugh's wait to lead his own staff was extended by a day when the Baltimore
job was initially offered to Jason Garrett. But when the then-Dallas assistant
decided to stay with the Cowboys as offensive coordinator and presumed coach-
in-waiting, he got the call.
And upon being formally introduced a day later, Harbaugh quickly converted the
"They would have been crazy not to hire that dude," said Reno Mahe, who
returned 95 punts and 35 kickoffs with the Eagles from 2003 to 2007. "He took
this undrafted rookie and formed me into a player. He made me do things I
didn't think I could do. In 2005, I led the league in punt returns, and 99
percent of that had to do with him."
Within months, the new coach initiated a similar transformation of the
Baltimore roster, which had long eschewed offensive star power while hoarding
some of the league's top defenders.
Though Harbaugh inherited a 2008 cupboard stocked with veteran quarterbacks
Steve McNair and Kyle Boller -- along with youngster Troy Smith -- he quickly
added Delaware's Joe Flacco with the No. 18 draft pick that April, then
provided his new passer a weapon in the form of Ray Rice in the second round.
Neither McNair, nor Boller, nor Smith ever took another snap for the Ravens,
leaving Flacco to start all 80 regular-season games since while advancing to
the playoffs in each of his five years -- winning an NFL-record (for
quarterbacks) six road postseason games along the way.
"Joe has transformed us in a lot of ways. It's been a process and Joe has been
hugely successful doing it," Harbaugh said. "Obviously he's got talent,
everyone can see he's a big strong guy, he can throw the ball, he's accurate,
he's a tough competitor, he's a winner, he's a leader, and he's ours ... he's
a Raven.
"That's what I like about him the best. He embodies the things that the Ravens
are always about. People talk about a transformation; I would say it's more of
an extension of who the Ravens are. That kind of mindset, Joe fits right in
with that and he's just built on that."
Rice, meanwhile, quickly went from a little-used rookie novelty out of Rutgers
to a three-time Pro Bowl performer who's caught at least 60 passes and run for
at least 1,100 yards in each of four seasons since, while scoring a combined
39 touchdowns -- 33 on the ground and six on receptions.
"The last few years have definitely helped out. I didn't know what playoff
football was about my rookie year," Rice said. "The second year was good, but
after my third season, that's when I really started to understand what playoff
football was about. We started getting guys on the team that hadn't been to
the playoffs and they've been in the league 10 years. I've been blessed and
fortunate enough to play in the playoffs five years ... three AFC
Championships and one Super Bowl."
The Ravens won no fewer than nine games and as many as 12 (twice) in
Harbaugh's initial four seasons, capturing two AFC North crowns and adding at
least one playoff win each year before falling short in a pair of conference
title games at Pittsburgh and New England.
Still, the long-awaited Super Bowl berth came after what was arguably
Harbaugh's most trying stretch, when Baltimore tumbled from a 9-2 start with
four losses in its final five games. The ill-timed tailspin -- during which
offensive coordinator Cam Cameron was abruptly fired -- prompted a plummet to
the No. 4 seed entering the AFC playoffs and had most observers expecting a
quick exit.
Instead, Rice said, the coach insisted the new season meant new possibilities.
"You grind all season and everybody was talking about us when we lost a couple
games, but we really knew we only needed one (to clinch the playoff spot),"
Rice said. "You grind to get into the playoffs. And everybody knows when you
get in those games, it's totally different. You can wipe your schedule out,
your yards; wipe everything out to start 0-0 in the playoff schedules. We knew
it was two seasons."
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December 17, 2010 11:00 AM by Shayla Perry
NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? is returning for a second season this February, and the producers of the show are promising even more star power this time around! So which of your favorite celebrities will be getting a look into their family histories? Keep reading to find out!
This season, the celebrities appearing on NBC's Who Do You Think You Are? are Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw, Rosie O'Donnell, Steve Buscemi, Kim Cattrall, Lionel Richie, Vanessa Williams, and Ashley Judd, and according to the network, each of the celebs will be led through a "journey of self-discovery as they unearth their family trees that reveal surprising, inspiring, and even tragic stories that often are linked to crucial events in American history."
"I've been a fan of the U.K. version of Who Do You Think You Are? for a long time, so it's very rewarding that the U.S. version is back with more compelling stories this season that are illuminating, touching and aspirational," said one of the show's executive producers, Lisa Kudrow. "This is such a unique show for network television and we're all thrilled that the American audience has embraced it."
And as always, you too can take a look at your own family tree by heading over to Ancestry.com, the show's official partner.
The second season of Who Do You Think You Are? premieres Friday, February 4 at 8|7c on NBC.
Now that the celebrities have been revealed, which ones are you the most interested to learn about on the show? Tell us about it in the comments!
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Martin, TN (Sports Network) - Marland Smith scored 22 points, leading three
players with at least 20 points, as the Southeast Missouri State Redhawks
captured a 96-74 win over the Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks in Ohio Valley
Conference action at the Elam Center.
Nick Niemczyk added 21 points off the bench, shooting 6-of-7 from the floor,
while Lucas Nutt chipped in 20 points and handed out seven assists for the
Redhawks (14-13, 6-7 OVC) as they won their third game in a row. Nino Johnson
accounted for nine points, 11 rebounds and five blocked shots as well.
The Skyhawks (7-18, 4-9) were paced by Terence Smith who scored a game-high 26
points and cleared five rebounds, followed by Mike Liabo with 15 points as UT-
Martin lost for the second time in the last three outings. Before fouling out
Myles Taylor responded with 11 points and a team-best nine boards, while BJ
McLaughlin chipped in 10 points in a mere 11 minutes off the bench.
SEMO scored the first points of the night and never looked back, connecting on
51.7 percent from the floor in the opening half, including a stellar 10-of-16
behind the 3-point line, en route to a 50-30 advantage at the break.
In the second half the visitors made good on 61.5 percent from the field in
order to cruise to the 22-point win.
Defensively, the Redhawks held the hosts to only 37.0 percent accuracy from
the floor and 4-of-20 beyond the arc.
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Here is a whole group of sellers on Etsy using your image for iPhone cases. Please file a DMCA for each on Etsy...if they keep at this, their shops will get shut down, but you have to file for copyright infringement on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTA2MTc...
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Seems they've taken some art from you.
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Ordered this item on December 9. It's December 30, and I'm still waiting for delivery. My credit card was charged on December 9, but it didn't ship until December 17. Not happy with any aspect of this transaction so far.
you know how they say in Italy? "Sticats".
Someone on Etsy is selling your work, I'm betting illegally... just thought you should know. https://www.etsy.com/listing/195018480/ https://www.etsy.com/listing/195896056/
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I like this and I'm promoting it but it would have been cute if the area with the words in it was shaped like a cat head.
That's why... Awesome work!
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lol we have 23 I'm surrounded :P
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So cute!
Who doesn't love cats? Cute and charming!
Love all cat-related art on Society6....couldn't miss this one!
I just found your artwork being used on aliexpress.com, mine is also being used :(
This is the number of cats that I would like to have in real life
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I love all your works! :)
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Delray Beach, FL (Sports Network) - Former champion Tommy Haas and top seed
John Isner moved into the semifinals at the Delray Beach International Tennis
The second-seeded former world No. 2 Haas outlasted tough Croat Ivan Dodig 7-6
(8-6), 2-6, 6-1 in just over two hours on the hardcourts at Delray Beach
Tennis Center. The match featured 11 service breaks, including six by the
winner from Germany.
The 2006 Delray Beach titlist Haas will battle Latvian and fellow former
champion Ernests Gulbis on Saturday.
The talented Gulbis pulled within one victory of making a second trip into the
final here after beating Spanish fellow qualifier Daniel Munoz-De La Nava 6-1,
6-4 in 75 minutes on Day 5.
Isner won a repeat of last year's semifinal by topping sixth-seeded South
African Kevin Anderson, 6-2, 7-6 (7-1). Isner is the last American in the
event after eight started. Anderson beat Aussie Marinko Matosevic in last
year's Delray finale.
Isner's semifinal foe will be Frenchman Edouard Roger-Vasselin. He upended
Lithuania's Ricardas Berankis, 6-4, 6-3.
Gulbis was the Delray Beach champ in 2010.
This week's titlist will collect $78,000.
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Can Toyota Catch Up to Detroit?
Somebody forgot to tell the automakers that the economy is going downhill: Auto sales in September were up 10% over last year's numbers, with all of Detroit's Big Three posting solid gains. Imports, however, did not fare as well. Can Toyota, once unstoppable, win back its former primacy, post-tsunami and accelerator debacle?


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February reminds pet owners to brush teeth
Your dog's bad breath might tell you more than what type of snack he found out in the yard.
Bad breath, along with red and swollen gums, brown teeth, frequent pawing at the mouth, and reluctance to eat hard foods, can mean that your pet has a dental disease.
National Pet Dental Health Month is an initiative by the American Veterinary Medical Association that encourages pet owners to brush and care for their animal's teeth.


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Milwaukee, WI (Sports Network) - Davante Gardner scored a career-high 26
points and grabbed eight rebounds to lead a spirited bench effort for
Marquette, as the 22nd-ranked Golden Eagles topped No. 12 Syracuse, 74-71, in
a pivotal Big East battle.
Both teams were coming off losses on Saturday, as the Orange had their 38-game
home winning streak stopped by Georgetown. They had a chance to spoil
Marquette's lengthy run at Bradley Center but were outscored by 10 over the
final nine minutes to fall two games back of the conference-leading Hoyas.
Marquette (20-7, 11-4 Big East) stayed firmly in the regular season title race
by winning its 24th straight home game. Gardner and the other Golden Eagles
reserves totaled 55 points, with Jamil Wilson adding 12 points and seven
assists in the victory.
C.J. Fair had 20 points and James Southerland chipped in 15 for the Orange
(22-6, 10-5), who were outscored at the foul line, 29-5.
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I have tried to find more human and less programmer readable documentation on zmztozmig but all I can find is the Bugzilla Main Page - Zimbra.
I have a new server to install and need to migrate a specific subdomain. I would like to have the new server using 6.0.x NE, whereas the source server is 5.0.18 NE.
I am thinking that I can install the new server, create the accounts on the new server, redirect the mail for the domain to the new server from our edge (postini) server, then import the mail using zmztozmig. Am I correct in assuming this?
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As gay people in the US slowly begin to gain the rights they deserve, the heterosexual obsession with the homosexual lifestyle has reached fever pitch in the last few years. As is the case with most issues of human rights, the conversation against gay rights continues to be dictated by heterosexual men, who frankly find the idea of sex between two men to be repulsive. And my question continues to be WHY DO THEY CARE?!
As many of you know, I've highlighted many absurd arguments made by various people against the gay lifestyle. However, out of all of the arguments that I've heard, I don't think I can honestly say that I've heard anyone use the having-anal-sex-leads-to-a-lifetime-of-wearing-diapers-and-buttplugs-stance.
Yes, a North Carolina pastor, by the name of Patrick Wooden, was a guest on Peter LaBarbera and Matt Barber's Christian verbal orgy and got EXTREMELY graphic about the dangers of anal sex.
He said: "The God of the Bible made the human sperm, the God of the Bible designed it and it was not designed to be emptied into an area that is filled with feces, there is nothing for it to germinate with, it will most certainly mean the extinction of the human race. My belief is that if the medical community would just step forward and just would share with the American people what happens to the male anus, the problems that homosexuals have with their rectums, the damage that is done, the operations that are needed to sew up their bodies if you will, and how many of the men don't even give these stitches time to heal before they are back out there practicing that wicked behavior. Some are bleeders, men who are not turned off by ingesting the feces of other men… If the truth was told, people would literally gag and no one would want to be in a lifestyle like that. Who wants to practice anything that is going to ultimately lead a grown man to about the time he's in his 40s or 50s, or what not, having to wear a diaper or a butt plug just to be able to contain their bowels?"
Fascinating. I mean who knew that in between visits to Tim Tebow in Denver, god spends his time designing anally-incompatible sperm?
Here's the deal, peeps: I hinted earlier this week that I just may have had sex once or twice in my life. This may shock you, but I've also had a fair amount of butt sex, too – both ways. And guess what? I haven't worn a diaper since I was a baby and I've never used a butt plug. Yes, folks, my asshole is fine – thanks for asking.
Side note: The male g-spot is located…..drumroll, please….in the ass! Believe it.
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I'm having a few issues trying to get Zimbra test (we're evaluating) to run concurrently w/our existing IMAP mail. Installing the connector nuked everything (which is OK , since IMAP!) but removing I started receiving startup errors because there was prob no default PST file. So I wanted to go back to my orig IMAP setting. Now on Outlook 2k7 start I get an error:
"Addin Zimbra Client Extension sharingaddin.dll cannot be loaded and has been disabled by outlook. Pls contact the addin mfr for update. if no update is available pls uninstall the add-in"
I dont see any Zimbra entries in Regedit that look add-on related.
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Amputee jumps back into cycling
Chris Johnson now training for his first century ride in desert
SAN MARCOS Growing up in the Twin Oaks Valley, Chris Johnson knew all the best tracks.
There was one by Jack's Pond, two near the corner of Borden Road and Woodward Street, and several scattered around the hills of the modern-day Twin Oaks Golf Course. These were the dirt tracks of the 1990s where boys would show up with BMX bikes and shovels to shape the ground and test their jumping skills.
Bike jumping was Johnson's reason to exist, in a sense — until the inevitable accident, a wreck that left him with a broken ankle and a bleak set of options.
Johnson, you see, was born with a rare condition called sacral agenesis, which led to deficiencies of nerves and muscle tissue in his lower legs.
Because of his disability, the doctors said restorative surgery would take a year to heal after his crash. One of them floated the word "amputation" — and explained that a prosthetic lower leg would be much more useful than his natural foot, anyway.
It wasn't an easy decision for an 18-year-old, Johnson recalled: "When my foot was amputated, I'd get in my wheelchair and wheel down to the jumps. The jumps were my place — even though I didn't have my bike and I couldn't jump, I'd just go down there and hang out, watch all the other kids ride their bikes."
Even after he healed, rid- ing never felt quite the same.
Until recently, that is.
Johnson was interning at Southern California Orthotics and Prosthetics last year when he absent-mindedly hopped across the lab on his prosthetic leg while having the brace on his other foot repaired.
"All of a sudden, a few of the practitioners broke out into a round of applause," he recalled. "One of them asked if I had ever heard of the Challenged Athletes Foundation, and soon after that I applied."
The foundation wanted him to train for six months to prove his commitment, which he did. So in addition to coaching and training, it gave him his first professional road bike six months ago. It was resting by his side when we met, having carried Johnson the five miles from his home to the Palomar College campus.
Few can say they learned to ride a bicycle in the same year that they learned to walk, but that is one of Johnson's achievements. He was 6 — and the doctors had said he wouldn't even be able to sit up as a baby.
I met him Thursday at Palomar before he headed off to an 11 a.m. session of his last junior college class before he transfers to Cal State San Marcos.
He told me he plans to earn his bachelor's degree in psychology across the freeway, and then head north, to Cal State Dominguez Hills — home to a renowned prosthetics program.
"The experience I have had with the orthotics and prosthetics, it's given me opportunities in life that I wouldn't have had otherwise," Johnson told me. "There's nothing I want more than to give that back to other people."
Besides, he added, "Practitioners who actually wear the prosthetics, they relate better. They do a better job."
Johnson has entered two road races so far in San Diego County, and at 31 years old, he is training for his first century ride, a 105-mile route through Death Valley on March 2.
Of his initial competition last fall, he said, "When I got out there and actually started racing, I felt competitive. I was actually racing with able-bodied people and passing them. I knew I had what it took to ride a bike.


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Commands & control
Concerns over executive orders grow as President Obama tries to implement parts of his jobs bill without congressional approval
WASHINGTON-"We decided to take matters into our own hands."
That's the message President Barack Obama is taking across the country this fall. Unable to prod Capitol Hill-even the Democratic-controlled Senate-to enact his $447 billion jobs bill, Obama shifted his attention to the American people. His message is persistent and blunt: If Congress won't pass what Obama thinks are the best prescriptions for the nation's dour economy, then he will do it himself.
In Denver on Oct. 26, Obama said, "We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will." And in Yeadon, Pa., on Nov. 8, Obama pledged that, with his agenda stalled in Congress, "We decided to take matters into our own hands. I'm going to move ahead without them. I told my administration I want you to keep on looking for actions that we can take without Congress."
The actions White House officials have found? Executive orders. On a weekly basis this fall the White House, using the slogan "We Can't Wait" in its press releases, is unveiling numerous executive orders that bypass Congress to implement economic policy.
These directives, many taken straight from Obama's faltering jobs bill, touch on a wide range of domestic issues, including changes to the student loan and home mortgage processes, the reworking of business tax breaks, $1 billion to expand the healthcare workforce, and orders to step up the Food and Drug Administration's investigations of the pharmaceutical market. For example, Obama's mortgage order expanded the powers of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, two entities that many blame for the housing crisis.
This flood has occurred without negotiations with Congress and amid concerns about its constitutional authority, but the White House insists that Obama is doing nothing wrong: "He's not pulling pieces out and making them law by fiat," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters. "I'm sure he wishes he could do that."
Presidents since George Washington have issued executive orders, an avenue of presidential powers not explicitly defined in the Constitution and often ignored by the public. Traditionally, presidents have used executive orders to help direct federal agencies in complying with congressional laws. Beyond this administrative function, executive orders also serve symbolic purposes such as lowering flags to half mast or creating a new military medal.
Fifty-five percent of all executive orders have been issued since 1933. Franklin D. Roosevelt tops all presidents, having issued more than 3,400. Gerald Ford, who succeeded Richard Nixon after his use of executive orders in the White House led to claims of an imperial presidency, issued the least with 168, but he was president for only two-and-a-half years. George W. Bush issued 291 in eight years, while Bill Clinton issued 364.
The total in U.S. history, as of Nov. 21, was 13,588. A few executive orders, particularly in wartime, have been controversial. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln used an executive order to suspend the writ of habeas corpus that protects citizens against unlawful detention. During World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt used an executive order to create internment camps for Japanese Americans. Presidents occasionally used executive orders to push for social change: Harry Truman issued an executive order to desegregate the Army, and Dwight Eisenhower used one to desegregate schools.
Obama issued only 100 executive orders through Nov. 21, but his boldness has made this fall flurry of orders different from those issued by Obama's predecessors. Phil Kerpen of Americans for Prosperity said, "We've never seen a president turn sidestepping Congress into a political virtue." Conservatives are concerned that Obama's latest spate of executive orders veers dangerously close to usurping powers from Congress, especially since some of these domestic policy orders involve untying the federal purse strings.
Article I of the Constitution gives Congress control over taxes and spending. "To me, 'we cant wait' means we can't wait for the process that the framers of the Constitution set forth," said Colin Hanna of Let Freedom Ring, a nonprofit group that promotes constitutional government. "We can't wait for this messy process that the framers designed to grind its way through." Adam Warber, a Clemson University political scientist and author of Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency: Legislating from the Oval Office, said the evolution of executive orders is an example of "someone with power trying to find ways to increase their power."
Some observers suspect that Obama's executive orders are part of his reelection strategy, meant to create a contrast between himself and what he calls a do-nothing Congress. Obama may be using Roosevelt's economic and political playbook: The Depression-era president used some executive orders to jump-start his New Deal program. Obama, like Roosevelt, believes government expansion is the best antidote for economic strife.
An executive order can be overturned in several ways: A president can reverse his own order, another president can revoke it, or Congress can pass a law overruling the order. Two of Obama's earliest executive orders in 2009 rescinded George W. Bush's executive orders banning the federal funding of both embryonic stem-cell research and clinics that performed abortions overseas. The next pro-life president likely will overturn Obama's orders that now permit these activities.
Also, courts can overturn an executive order by declaring it unconstitutional-but Clemson's Warber said examples of a court striking down an executive order are rare. The Supreme Court in 1952 overturned Truman's order authorizing the seizure of steel mills during a series of strikes. In 1996, the court nullified a Bill Clinton order, issued as a nod to his union supporters, that barred the government from contracting with organizations employing strikebreakers.
Republicans in Congress are pledging to scrutinize Obama's orders. House Speaker John Boehner said on the Laura Ingraham radio program, "We are keeping a very close eye on the administration to make sure they are following the law and following the Constitution." Many observers, though, see such promises as political theater on the order of Obama's "we can't wait" motto. Congress tends to be passive when it comes to challenging presidential power: Lawmakers may hold hearings about executive overreach, but they rarely take the next step of formally challenging the orders.
Todd Gaziano of the Heritage Foundation's Center for Legal and Judicial Studies blames this on lawmaker reluctance to be more accountable with legislation. He says Congress prefers passing laws that are broadly interpreted and grant wide authority to the executive branch: "That way they can get political credit for doing something but also be able to avoid the blame for the specifics if things go wrong. They can blame any failure on the federal regulators and their bureaucracy." In the face of such legislative chicanery, Americans for Prosperity's Kerpen says that presidents continue to centralize power in the executive branch: "We need to get citizens involved who will elect lawmakers who will fight to restore power back to Congress and pass specific legislation."
This leeway has allowed Obama to act aggressively. Congress rejected Democrats' cap-and-trade energy legislation, but the Environmental Protection Agency is busy writing regulations incorporating elements of the defeated bill. Congress defeated pro-union card-check legislation, but the National Labor Relations Board and the Department of Labor are issuing rules incorporating parts of what lost. Net-neutrality regulation failed to receive majority support in Congress, but the Federal Communications Commission voted to impose it.
Congress has declined to halt this encroachment: Last month the Senate, in a party-line vote, rejected an effort to override the FCC's decision to enhance its own regulatory powers over the internet. But the private sector has not been as willing as Congress to let the executive branch run free. Verizon Communications has filed a complaint in court against the FCC's new authority. Numerous states and utilities are suing the EPA over its new regulations. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce have brought a lawsuit against the NLRB's new rule requiring businesses to post notices explaining employees' rights to unionize.
Undaunted, Obama in a Sept. 15 speech to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute was forthright in his goals: "Until Nancy Pelosi is speaker again, I'd like to work my way around Congress."
Ironically, Obama during the 2008 campaign accused George W. Bush of abusing his executive power. A former constitutional law professor, Obama took exception to Bush's use of another traditional presidential power: signing statements. Such statements accompanying a bill usually clarify a president's understanding of that law and how it will be enforced. Obama, in a 2008 comment to the Houston Chronicle, said Bush mistreated this power by using it "as an end run around Congress' legislative intent." Obama at the time pledged he would not use signing statements to undermine congressional instructions enacted into law.
Yet this April, as Washington tried to avert a federal government shutdown, Obama issued his own signing statement. It said he would disregard a provision in Congress' short-term budget that blocked funding for four White House policy advisors, known as czars for their ability to oversee major policy initiatives without congressional oversight. "It is brazenly running roughshod over the constitutional limits on his authority," said Ken Klukowski of the Center for Religious Liberty at the Family Research Council. "His 'we can't wait,' is code for 'I know better.'"
Executive orders aren't always orders, though. Just two days after taking office in January 2009, Obama ordered the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay to be closed in one year: During the campaign he had called the center's use a "sad chapter in American history." Nearly three years and numerous classified presidential intelligence briefings later, the camp remains open.


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Reports say that a little girl shot by her father, who fatally shot her mother and himself, is on the road to recovery.
A 5-year-old girl survived the murder-suicide of her parents Friday in Winton in Hertford County. Hertford County Sheriff Juan Vaughn told the Roanoke-Chowan News-Herald that the daughter of Catherine and James McCutcheon underwent successful surgery after getting shot in the stomach, though the sheriff believes she'll have a long road ahead of her from the emotional scars.
The paper also reports Catherine McCutcheon resigned from her job as the director of nursing at Roanoke-Chowan Community College two days before authorities say she was killed.
A five-year-old girl fights for her life after her parents died in what authorities call a murder-suicide.
It happened around 9:45am Friday morning at 104 Whitley Lane in the Hertford County Town of Winton.
Sheriff Juan Vaughan says 40-year-old Catherine McCutcheon and her daughter were moving things from the home with her uncle.
Vaughan says, 56-year-old James McCutcheon, Jr., who lives at an adjacent mobile home went to talk to his wife.
Vaughan says, Catherine was planning to leave her husband and take their daughter with her.
Authorities say that's when James went to his residence and returned with a .38mm revolver and shot his wife in the chest and his daughter in the side, before turning the gun on himself.
Vaughan says Catherine's uncle was in the back of the mobile home when he heard the gunfire, but it was too late.
Once authorities arrived on scene they found Catherine and James dead.
Their daughter was taken to Vidant Roanoke-Chowan hospital where her condition is unknown at this time.
Authorities say this is an isolated domestic situation.
A press conference is scheduled for 3:00 Friday afternoon to talk about the apparent Murder-Suicide in Hertford County.
The sheriff plans to release new information about the shooting that happened off Tuscarora Beach Road.
WITN's Brittany Gunter will have the latest starting on WITN news at 5:00pm.
Sheriff Juan Vaughan confirms with WITN there has been a murder-suicide in a small town near Ahoskie.
We have a crew heading to Winton, North Carolina. That is in Hertford County.
Check WITN.com for more updates as this story develops.


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Over the past few weeks, tensions between Meek Mill and Cassidy have been brewing, culminating in what many believed was a diss track issued by Cassidy. Now, in a recent interview with Power 105.1 via HipHop-N-More, Cass renounces dissing his fellow Philly emcee.
Cassidy explained that his most recent song "The Diary Of A Hustla" is not actually a diss against the MMG emcee. Although he didn't deny having issues with the Philadelphia upstart, Cassidy said that he recorded the song hours prior to their feud on Twitter.
"[Meek] definitely don't [want a battle with me]," he said. "That wasn't a diss record - I was messing around with the beats, I got my MP back, I was banging out and just put something together. But I just put it out a couple hours after we went through that Twitter situation, so everybody called it a Meek diss. It wasn't; it just was a record to give the streets some bars. If I do a diss record, it's gonna be on the ether level, if not worse. It's gonna be direct, you gonna know it's a diss record - you gonna know who I'm talking about."
Check out the full interview below.
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Hans Florine, 50, Sets Solo Speed Record for Triple Direct on El Cap
On July 13, as Yosemite Valley awoke to a high temperature prediction of 106 degrees, speed-master Hans Florine set out to make the first one-day, solo ascent of the Triple Direct on El Capitan.
Florine, who just turned 50 years old last month, had a week-long vacation from his full-time job as manager of the Touchstone Diablo Rock Gym in the San Francisco Bay Area, while both of his kids were away at summer camp at Yo! Basecamp Rock Climbing Camp. When asked what he would do with his free time, Hans said, "I'm gonna climb my brains out this week."
After a couple of days of moderate multi-pitch link-ups in Tuolumne Meadows with a friend, Florine was bursting with motivation. On Sunday, July 13, he set out at 5:48 a.m. on the Freeblast start with a 70-meter rope, a rack, and a gallon of water. He rope-soloed each pitch with a Gri-gri as his belay, and proceeded to rappel and jumar every pitch except for the 5.6 easy terrain from the Half Dollar to Mammoth Terraces.
When questioned about the heat, Florine didn't seem to acknowledge the harsh conditions, saying, "It was only hot when the sun hit me, but I tried to hide in tiny little corners of shade."
Florine topped out at 11:17 p.m., setting an incredible new speed-solo record of 17 hours and 29 minutes on the Triple Direct, which combines the start to the Salathe wall, the center portion of the Muir and the last third of the Nose from the Great Roof up. This was undeniably one of the raddest days of climbing any 50-year-old has ever busted out in the Valley. In addition to being the current speed record holder for the Nose with Alex Honnold, Florine also holds the record for most trips up El Cap, now at 157.
- Reported by Andy Puhvel
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Theology is the study of a God or, more generally the study of religious faith, practice, and experience, or of spirituality.
- All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass — "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners."
- Archibald Alexander, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- When all is said and done, science is about things and theology is about words. Things behave in the same way everywhere, but words do not. ...Theology works in one culture alone. If you have not grown up in Polkinghorne's culture, where words such as "incarnation" and "trinity" have a profound meaning, you cannot share his vision.
- Freeman Dyson, The Scientist As Rebel (2006).
- It is a curious accident of history that the Christian religion became heavily involved with theology. No other religion finds it necessary to formulate elaborately precise statements about the abstract qualities and relationships of gods and humans. ...The idea that God may be approached and understood through intellectual analysis is uniquely Christian. ...It is probably not an accident that modern science grew explosively in Christian Europe and left the rest of the world behind. A thousand years of theological disputes nurtured the habit of analytical thinking that could also be applied to the analysis of natural phenomena. On the other hand, the close historical relations between theology and science have caused conflicts between science and Christianity that does not exist between science and other religions.
- Freeman Dyson, The Scientist As Rebel (2006).
- The common root of modern science and Christian theology was Greek philosophy. The historical accident that caused the Christian religion to become heavily theological was the fact that Jesus was born in the Eastern part of the Roman Empire at the time when the prevailing culture was profoundly Greek.
- Freeman Dyson, The Scientist As Rebel (2006).
- Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.
- Theology is Anthropology.
- Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity ["Wesen des Christenthums"], Preface to the 2nd Ed. (1843).
- "If complex organisms demand an explanation, so does a complex designer. And it's no solution to raise the theologian's plea that God (or the Intelligent Designer) is simply immune to the normal demands of scientific explanation. To do so would be to shoot yourself in the foot. You cannot have it both ways. Either ID belongs in the science classroom, in which case it must submit to the discipline required of a scientific hypothesis. Or it does not, in which case get it out of the science classroom and send it back into the church, where it belongs."
- The Guardian, "One side can be wrong", 1 September 2005.
- Theology must be man's critical reflection on himself, on his own basic principles. Only with this approach will theology be a serious discourse, aware of itself, in full possession of its conceptual elements.
- Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation (1971), p. 11
- We can no more have exact religious thinking without theology, than exact mensuration and astronomy without mathematics, or exact iron-making without chemistry.
- John Hall, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- Theological condemnation of others, which breaks off fellowship in either judgment or contempt, is impermissible.
- Ernst Käsemann Commentary on the Romans (1980), p. 369: Describing Paul's view
- Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty, In Praise of Philosophy (Chicago: 1963), p. 44
- Comparative theology testifies that Jesus Christ, who is not less truly the incarnation of the Christian's theology than of the Christian's God, is indeed the desire of the nations, but not their product, their invention, or their discovery.
- George D. B. Pepper, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
- All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development - in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent God became the omnipotent lawgiver-but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for a sociological consideration of these concepts. The exception in jurisprudence is analogous to the miracle in theology. Only by being aware of this analogy can we appreciate the manner in which the philosophical ideas of the state developed in the last centuries.
- Carl Schmitt, Political Theology (1922; 1934), Ch. 3. Political Theology; translated by George Schwab
- A man must have a stout digestion to feed upon some men's theology; no sap, no sweetness, no life, but all stern accuracy, and fleshless definition. Proclaimed without tenderness, and argued without affection, the gospel from such men rather resembles a missile from a catapult than bread from a Father's hand.
- Charles Spurgeon, p. 580. Quote in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).
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- We are, the great spiritual writers insist, most fully ourselves when we give ourselves away, and it is egotism that holds us back from that transcendent experience that has been called God, Nirvana, Brahman, or the Tao.
What I now realize, from my study of the different religious traditions, is that a disciplined attempt to go beyond the ego brings about a state of ecstasy. Indeed, it is in itself ekstasis. Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, or self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.
- Karen Armstrong (2004) The Spiral Staircase : My Climb Out of Darkness.
- Theologe – einziger Experte ohne Ahnung von seinem Forschungsobjekt.
- Theologian — the only kind of scholar who has no knowledge whatsoever of his supposed object of study.
- Karlheinz Deschner (born 1924) Bissige Aphorismen, S. 29.
- I am saying to modern scientists and theologians: don't imagine that our latest ideas about the Big Bang or the human genome have solved the mysteries of the universe or the mysteries of life. Here are Bacon's words again: "The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding". In the last four hundred years, science has fulfilled many of Bacon's dreams, but it still does not come close to capturing the full subtlety of nature.
- Freeman Dyson (2000) Progress In Religion.
- I am neither a saint nor a theologian. To me, good works are more important than theology. We all know that religion has been historically, and still is today, a cause of great evil as well as great good in human affairs. We have seen terrible wars and terrible persecutions conducted in the name of religion. We have also seen large numbers of people inspired by religion to lives of heroic virtue, bringing education and medical care to the poor, helping to abolish slavery and spread peace among nations. Religion amplifies the good and evil tendencies of individual souls.
- Freeman Dyson (2000) Progress In Religion.
- Since Jesus came to the earth the first time 2,000 years ago as a Jewish male, many evangelicals believe the Antichrist will, by necessity, be a Jewish male. This belief is 2,000 years old and has no anti-Semitic roots. This is simply historic and prophetic orthodox Christian doctrine that many theologians, Christian and non-Christian, have understood for two millennia.
- Jerry Falwell, quoted in "Religion, Politics a Potent Mix for Jerry Falwell" by Steve Inskeep in Morning Edition on NPR (30 June 2006).
- No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense.
- Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury (died 22 August 1903).
- They say the religion of your fathers is good enough. Why should a father object to your inventing a better plow than he had? They say to me, do you know more than all the theologians dead? Being a perfectly modest man I say I think I do. Now we have come to the conclusion that every man has a right to think. Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
- Robert G. Ingersoll Speech on Religious Intolerance as presented at the Pittsburgh Opera House (14 October 1879).
- According to the theologians, God, the Father of us all, wrote a letter to his children. The children have always differed somewhat as to the meaning of this letter. In consequence of these honest differences, these brothers began to cut out each other's hearts. In every land, where this letter from God has been read, the children to whom and for whom it was written have been filled with hatred and malice. They have imprisoned and murdered each other, and the wives and children of each other. In the name of God every possible crime has been committed, every conceivable outrage has been perpetrated. Brave men, tender and loving women, beautiful girls, and prattling babes have been exterminated in the name of Jesus Christ.
- Robert G. Ingersoll (1874) Heretics and Heresies.
- "This is an exceedingly strange development, unexpected by all but the theologians. They have always accepted the word of the Bible: In the beginning God created heaven and earth... [But] for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; [and] as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
- Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers [New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1978], 116. Professor Jastrow was the founder of NASA's Goddard Institute, now director of the Mount Wilson Institute and its observatory).
- Although Jesus is widely considered mankind's greatest moral teacher, the greatest Christians, not to speak of scholars, have never been able to agree what his moral teachings were. Matthew, and he alone, reports that Jesus said: "Let your Yes be Yes, and your No, No." But the four Evangelists agree in ascribing to Jesus evasive and equivocal answers to plain questions, not only those of the high priest and Pilate; and quite generally the Jesus of the New Testament avoids straightforward statements, preferring parables and hyperboles. Some of the parables are so ambiguous that different Evangelists, not to speak of later theologians, offer different interpretations. … On concrete moral issues, Jesus can be, and has been, cited on almost all sides.
- Walter Kaufmann, in "The Faith of a Heretic" in Harper's Magazine (February 1959).
- Theologians themselves dispose of the matter by calling everything they do an act of religion, including even such operations as bedizening themselves with high-sounding titles and dignities, superior to any ever claimed by Christ, and laying taxes upon the faithful for their own aggrandizement.
- H.L. Mencken (1930) Treatise on the Gods. Ch. 1: The Nature and Origin of Religion.
- Their [the theologians'] earliest forerunners... were aware of no difference between magic and religion, but practiced both with easy consciences.
- H.L. Mencken (1930) Treatise on the Gods. Ch. 1: The Nature and Origin of Religion.
- The concept of a single omnipotent god, reigning in the heavens in solitary grandeur... was probably devised, not by theologians, but by metaphysicians. They proved there could be but one god, not by bringing up any overt evidence to that effect, but simply by appealing to what they conceived to be the logical necessities. The human race, on its more refined and exalted levels, accepted these proofs with the head, but never with the heart.
- H.L. Mencken (1930) Treatise on the Gods. Ch. 2: Its Evolution.
- Paradoxically, some of the sources of disbelief are to be found amongst the arguments of believers. … Theologians often formulated the most dangerously skeptical arguments in their efforts to test the impregnability of their own faith, and in doing so, they unknowingly furnished atheists with ready-made weapons.
- Jonathan Miller (2004) Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief. Episode one: "Shadows of Doubt".
- There were academics and theologians who spent hours calculating what they thought was the precise age of the Earth, on the basis of the Biblical account of it. And as early as 1650, James Ussher had come to the startlingly precise conclusion that the Earth was created in 4004 B.C. on October the 22nd – in the evening, apparently. What God had been doing that morning is still open to conjecture.
- Jonathan Miller (2004) Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief. Episode three: "The Final Hour".
- Plainly as the direct or instantaneous Creation of animals and plants appeared to be taught in Genesis, Augustine read this in the light of primary causation and the gradual development from the imperfect to the perfect of Aristotle. This most influential teacher thus handed down to his followers opinions which closely conform to the progressive views of those theologians of the present day who have accepted the Evolution theory. In proof of this Greek influence we find that Augustine also adopted some of the Greek notions of the spontaneous generation of life. In the Middle Ages analogous views were held by Erigena, Roscellinus, William of Occam, Albertus Magnus; and Augustine was finally followed by Aquinas, who is now one of the leading authorities of the Church. Bruno struck out into an altogether different vein of thought.
- Henry Fairfield Osborn (1894) From the Greeks to Darwin. Ch.3 The Theologians and Natural Philosophers.
- … it is not my object to pursue the theological question; and having used it as a logical example I drop it, without caring to anticipate the theologian's reply. I only desire to point out how impossible it is that we should have an idea in our minds which relates to anything but conceived sensible effects of things.
- Charles Sanders Peirce Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Vol.5, p. 388.
- The theologian could rewrite the Epic of Evolution by expanding on the story told by the scientist. The theologian could declare that this evolutionary story has had a plot all along. When God created the world in the beginning, according to this option, God placed a potential into creation which now through evolution is becoming actualized.
- Eugenie Carol Scott (2005) Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction, University of California Press, page 235.
- The beauty of science and the nature of scientific revelations constiture part of the modern theologian's perspective and toolbox.
- Joseph Silk (2007) "The Dark Side of the Universe" in: Astronomy and Geophysics, April 2007. p. 2.30.
- I am not very impressed with theological arguments whatever they may be used to support.
- Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950)
- In the course of my research I learned (to my surprise) that biblical chronology played almost no role in the 19th- century controversies, since most theologians had already accepted geological evidence for the age of the earth and re-interpreted the days in Genesis as long periods of time.
- Jonathan Wells (born 1942) Darwinism: Why I Went for a Second Ph.D.
- Among the early fathers of the Church this general view of creation became fundamental; they impressed upon Christendom more and more strongly the belief that the universe was created in a perfectly literal sense by the hands or voice of God. Here and there sundry theologians of larger mind attempted to give a more spiritual view regarding some parts of the creative work, and of these were St. Gregory of Nyssa and St. Augustine. Ready as they were to accept the literal text of Scripture, they revolted against the conception of an actual creation of the universe by the hands and fingers of a Supreme Being, and in this they were followed by Bede and a few others; but the more material conceptions prevailed, and we find these taking shape not only in the sculptures and mosaics and stained glass of cathedrals, and in the illuminations of missals and psalters, but later, at the close of the Middle Ages, in the pictured Bibles and in general literature.
- Andrew Dickson White (1896) A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom. p. 3.
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Testimony :: Iryna Vidanava
Editor-in-Chief - Students' Thought
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Commission:
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you about the difficult situation concerning young people in my country, Belarus. I am the editor-in-chief of
Students' Thought
, the only independent youth publication in Belarus. My publication is produced by students, for students. But our team does much more than produce a magazine; it is also closely connected to the democratic youth movement in Belarus, and its election-related programs.
Young people have the potential to play a key role in the March 19
presidential election. In Belarus, young people, especially those in cities and towns, remain the most open-minded, tolerant, and pro-European segment of the population. They have no connection with the country's Soviet past and look to the future, unlike older generations with their communist nostalgia. As a result, young people are less satisfied with the current economic and political situation in Belarus. For example, in mid 2005, almost half of all those officially registered as unemployed were young people. It should come as no surprise that, in a December 2005 survey, more than one third of those interviewed who supported Alexander Milinkevich, the candidate of the united democratic opposition, were under 30.
Belarus has a very young society. About one fourth of the population is 15 to 31 years old. About six percent of the population is students. Next week, many of these young people will vote for the first time. But a significant percentage has not made up its mind for whom to cast their ballot. The largest segment of undecided voters is among youth: 41 percent of those aged 18-24 and 38 percent of those aged 25 to 34. And they are skeptical that their choice will be respected. Three quarters of young people doubt that the election will be fair.
Alexander Lukashenka, Belarus' head of state, understands these demographics and trends. As a result, his government has tried to win the hearts and minds of youth by creating the state-run Belarusian Patriotic Union of Youth, sometimes known as the Lukomol, because it is based on the model of the old Komsomol, or Communist Youth League. The government has also targeted independent youth groups that it cannot control. Mr. Chairman, the focus of this hearing is "Freedom Denied," and I would like to report on the freedoms denied young people in today's Belarus.
Young People are Denied Freedom of Association:
Over the course of the last few years, especially after the 2004 parliamentary elections and referendum, the government has dramatically increased repression against youth NGOs and publications. Leading youth groups, such as the Belarusian Students Association, were denied state registration and now operate with no legal status. Paval Seviarynec, leader of the Young Front, was sentenced to two years of forced labor for organizing a peaceful protest in October 2004. Last week, Aleh Myatselitsa, a Zubr coordinator, was imprisoned on a false charge of petty hooliganism.
NGOs and other civil society initiatives cannot operate at universities. New regulations deny "strange elements" access to campuses. Contacts with Western universities are banned.
Young People are Denied Freedom of Speech:
Independent youth publications have been shut down and their print runs confiscated. Last fall, an issue of my magazine was seized by the authorities. According to eyewitnesses, the seizure was justified by the claim that "dangerous ink which threatened readers' health was being used to print the magazine." In August 2005, a criminal action was brought against members of the youth initiative "The Third Way" for slandering the head of state with political cartoons on their Internet site. After a concert during a July 2004 opposition rally, all the participating musicians—among them some of the most popular Belarusian rock groups—were banned from the airwaves.
Students living in dorms are being searched on a daily basis by security officers looking for any type of independent information. For example, after a police search of her dormitory room and the seizure of opposition posters, Lubov Kuchinskaya was thrown out of university.
Young People are Denied Freedom to Travel:
New regulations forbid institutions of higher learning to grant students and professors leave of absence to travel abroad. Students planning to travel, work or study abroad must obtain special permission from the Ministry of Education. Such permission is now rarely granted.
In November 2005, Tatsiana Khoma, a fourth-year student at Belarusian State Economic University, was expelled for making an unauthorized three-day trip to France, where she attended a meeting of European students organized by the ESIB, the largest European student organization promoting students' rights, and where she was elected to the organization's executive committee.
Young People are Denied Freedom of Thought:
In 2003, an elite high school in Miensk was closed down for teaching a "wrong version" of national history and for promoting Belarusian language, culture, and democratic values. The school was condemned by Lukashenka as a "nest of opposition." One year later, the authorities shut down the European Humanities University, the leading private university in Belarus that provided a Western-style higher education.
All first-year college students are required to take a course on "State Ideology," whose syllabus was drafted by Lukashenka himself. Middle and high school students also have ideology classes, where they are shown films portraying Lukashenka as the Father of the Nation.
Young People are Denied Freedom of Choice:
All graduates of state universities are required to work for two years in locations and fields decided by the government, or must pay back the entire cost of their education. Students are often sent to work in the still-polluted Chernobyl Zone and are paid miserable salaries. Students refusing to follow state assignments have been denied their diplomas.
All political activities, debates or meetings with pro-democratic candidates are forbidden at universities. This year, students were forced to sign election petitions for Alexander Lukashenka prior to taking their exams. In an address at Belarusian National Technical University, the Minister of Education, Mr. Radkov called on the country's students not to allow themselves be deceived by the democratic opposition and urged them to vote for the incumbent head of state. Finally, four young activists of the country's leading independent election monitoring effort were arrested by the KGB and are currently imprisoned.
The state's youth policy has made an impact on young people. Lukashenka is Europe's longest serving head of state. A new generation of Belarusians, who are now 18 to 21 years old, have grown up with Lukashenka and do not know anything other than his regime. These youngsters do not necessarily support Lukashenka, or even respect him, but they also do not believe that anything can be changed, or that their voices and aspirations matter. Increasingly, the country's best and brightest young people are choosing to leave Belarus (80 percent of those who leave Belarus to work abroad are students). Others have retreated into "inner emigration," focusing on underground subcultures such as video-gaming and religious cults.
But Mr. Chairman, despite attempts to establish a monopoly over the minds of young people and cultivate a fear of punishment for any act of disobedience, the authorities cannot isolate them from the rest of democratic Europe. Young people in Belarus want to be free and many are struggling for their freedom. Youth are clever and creative; they are using modern technology to bypass the regime and openly express their opinions. On Internet forums such as studenty.by, thousands of students gather daily to discuss political, social, cultural, and educational issues. Denied the right to publish, my magazine was transformed into the first compact-disc edition in Belarus and, using this new format, will continue its mission to inform and activize young people. Young activists in Independence Square used their cellphones to send text messages and pictures to the international community informing them about the peaceful demonstrations of March 2
. Numerous youth groups continue their civil society activities despite increasing repression, and are working to inform and mobilize young people to take part in the March 19
elections. Echoing two youth mobilization campaigns, they say "Enough!" to Lukashenka and wear their jeans proudly as a symbol of freedom. Thousands of young people are meeting and supporting Milinkevich.
These young people, the future leaders of Belarus, need our and your assistance. I would like to offer three recommendations which should be a priority for helping youth in my country:
As an editor, I know that young people are desperately seeking objective information about Belarus and the outside world. Support for independent youth publications should be continued. More assistance should be provided to alternative forms of media, which appeal to youth, such as the Internet and broadcast mediums, such as crossborder radio with a strong focus on youth.
As Lukashenka attempts to isolate Belarus, we must keep the world open for young people through study abroad and exchange programs, so that they can see Europe and America, compare it with reality at home, and tell others about life in the West.
Finally, we must continue to help those brave young people who are involved in the democratic movement. Their civil society efforts should continue to be supported, no matter what will happen on or after March 19
. In particular, we must assist students and young people who will lose their jobs, be expelled and otherwise be repressed for their pro-democratic activities. Legal and humanitarian support is a sign of solidarity. We cannot let them suffer on their own.
Mr. Chairman, the demographics of Belarus tell us that time is on our side. The older, sovietized generation that forms the bedrock of Lukashenka's support is passing away. I ask you to stand with the pro-democratic young people who are the future leaders of Belarus.
Thank you.