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Here is the answer for the community center. Have Republicans tear down the building, put in a memorial park! But, the conservative crazies won't spend the money because it may break the budget.
OK; freedom of religion is diminished when the government is called upon to identify "legitimate" religions.
I suggest "Superstition," by Robert Park.
Man, the Republicans hate gay people, black people, muslims- women who have to make the tough choice of either not having children as in abortions, or killing them after their born because they can't feed them....because the Republicans call them lazy and hate them......they hate fair trade....
Muslims are a foil. The issue is control through fear. The "brown" people are attacking! Remember roaches? They're brown! We hate roaches. We, by some creative but perverted logic, hate brown people because they're the same color as roaches.
There might be enough room for their bodies, but I doubt there is even close to enough room for their egos. Perhaps we should keep pushing this, though. Maybe then they will finally close Gitmo.
@gerald RE: “Hatred is spreading across America”
Have you read your posts of late?
REPOSTED YET AGAIN FROM 08/17/2010:
Holy crap Gerald . . . Drop knee-jerk, mindlessly hyperbolic rhetoric about Israel.
Israel does not seek the genocide of the folk who label themselves “Palestinians.” In fact since the Arabic neighbors of the “Palestinians” abandoned all support of Gaza and the West Bank, the major of support for the “Palestinian” territories has come from Israel. The “Palestinian” territories remain a huge/gigantic drain upon Israel’s resources and Israel craves peace in the region so they can get on with own business.
The running issue is the sovereign nation of Israel is being forced to attempt to make peace with a marketing gimmick composed of flesh and blood humans, designed with the specific intention to destroy it. Financial backing of the “leadership” comes from folk whose rhetoric for the last 60 plus years has been the destruction of Israel. Peace is difficult to obtain when that folk cross the table shoot thousands of missiles at your civilian population every time you stand down. The “leadership” of the “Palestinians” has zero interest in peace or anything remotely looking like it.
You exhibit a marked tenancy to toss about NAZI references about nearly everything but they are offensive to folk with any relationship to that period of history and have no relationship to the topic at hand. The Christ that you go on about so often would mostly likely consider your characterization of this subject dramatically outside of Halakaic parameters . . . SO please show restraint and refrain from being . . . well . . . yourself on any posting you make regarding this topic
What would the Founders say about a vessel christened 'Privacy?'
Some say Sarbanes & Oxley had a role in City of £ondon replacing Wall $treet as the global financial capital. This may in turn have been why the British bank bailouts were much larger (per capita) and more extensive.
Another side effect, of course, is companies 'going private.'
Did I just hear that guy from CEI praise HONG KONG's economic structure? Of course! Put the vast wealth of our nation into the hands of a few billionaire oligarchs, and the rest of us can work for $1 an hour! No surprise why he likes that as a blueprint for America.
Still, thanks alot, Thom. Now I have to wipe the coffee I spit out, off my computer screen...
What would the Founders say about a gymnasium called Park 51?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/parvez-ahmed/what-will-our-founding-fa_b_686742.html
Thom,
Check the origin at the end.
religion |riˈlijən|
noun
the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods : ideas about the relationship between science and religion.
• details of belief as taught or discussed : when the school first opened they taught only religion, Italian, and mathematics.
• a particular system of faith and worship : the world's great religions.
• a pursuit or interest to which someone ascribes supreme importance : consumerism is the new religion.
PHRASES
get religion informal be converted to religious belief and practices.
DERIVATIVES
religionless |riˈlɪdʒənləs| adjective
ORIGIN Middle English (originally in the sense [life under monastic vows] ): from Old French, or from Latin religio(n-) ‘obligation, bond, reverence,’ perhaps based on Latin religare ‘to bind.’
John Berlau is right--Sarbanes Oxley is the problem! Stop regulating business now! Let the "free market" prevail! I don't know anything about Taiwan or Hong Kong, but I would be willing to bet that they had a lot of regulation.
Obviously. ---------------------
Thom, if I may point out the obvious: none of this insanity would be going on if people just had JOBS!
They'd be too busy working to attend these ridiculous protests if they were working. But angry, unemployeed people are always looking for someone else to blame for their lot in life. And no group is better at harnassing this hate than the GOP.
(Idea: Start calling it "the Ground Zero YMCA", because that's what it is.)
Harder times ahead!
http://www.opednews.com/articles/HARD-TIMES-ARE-GETTING-HAR-by-Danny-Schechter-100823-425.html
Why are Muslims looking to build in that spot 2 blocks from "Ground Zero"? Why not?
I think right-wing people are actually most fearful about the culinary school that will be housed in the community center. Because they don't want Muslims to be known as better cooks than Americans. That makes more sense to me than anything else.
More than a tad hypocritical. Have you ever asked a Fox News listener about it?
Is Israel seeking to cleanse the Middle East by eliminating Muslims from the area?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-secrets-in-Israel-s-ar-by-Jonathan-Cook-100821-24.html
Americans are going insane.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Insanity-of-Our-Times-by-Elayne-Clift-100820-43.html
Three basic problems!
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2010-08-16.asp
There was a super cannon the Army wanted (project cut) that was called "The Crusader."
Hatred is spreading across America.
http://www.opednews.com/populum/linkframe.php?linkid=117366
Unitarian-Universalist might be an analog to Sufi.
Zionism
We have heard that Zionism is a movement that seeks a utopia for Israel. I recall some fifty years ago that Zionism seeks to spread its views across our planet in an attempt to dominate the planet. I do not want any one nation to dominate our planet. Zionism is similar to the Islamic movement to control all nations on this planet. I can respect Islam because the Muslims will do their dirty work. Israel on the other hand attempts to have her puppet the United States of Numb Nuts doing her dirty work.
One of the verses at the three readings had the words of Jesus, “Some who are last will be first and some who are first will be last.” Israel or the Jews were God’s chosen people for centuries before the birth of Jesus Christ. When Jesus came on the scene and spread His messages, He shook up people from their comfort zone. The above verse is directed at Israel or the Jews. Israel or the Jews could no longer claim to be number one; they had to work at being number one.
Israel is quickly becoming last through her genocidal efforts to eliminate the Palestinians.
Is Israel emulating Germany from 1933 to 1945? Is Israel the Fourth Reich and not the United States of Numb Nuts? Is this Israel’s Utopia?
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Israeli-Academic-Freedom-a-by-Stephen-Lendman-100821-485.html
Hail Netanyahu! Hail mine furor of Israel!
A Modern Day Crusade
We keep hearing that we are involved in a war on terrorism. No one will call it like it is. We are actually involved in a modern day crusade to complete the genocide of all the Muslims in the world. The goal is not to spread democracy. The goal is complete extermination of all the Muslims.
A Brief and Yet Powerful Formula
I want to give you a brief and yet powerful formula for justice and peace in our world.
Live each day practicing the Golden Rule! “Do unto to others as you would want them to do unto you!”
Obey the Eleventh Commandment that Jesus gave us at the Last Supper! “Love one another as I have loved you!”
Seek Sacramental Moments (good deeds) each day in helping people!
“Love the poor and your life will be filled with sunlight and you will not fear the hour of death.” - St. Vincent DePaul, the first social worker
“I shall pass this way but once, any good that I can do let me do it now, because I shall not pass this way again.” – St. Ambrose
One of Thom's guests talked about saving souls. People, we must focus on saving our soul first before we can save someone else's soul.