9/11 Fatigue
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| Posted on: Sep. 11 2011,10:22 pm by Stone-Magnon |
I'm so tired of it. So every year we gots to watch big city fireman cry on TV. It's like watching Tony Soprano I tell ya.
Enough already! All this for 3000 victims? More than 3000 people die of worse things every year all the time. A dog a pony show is just that. Tiresome and bad acting from all these big city types on TV.
I've had it. We shouldn't glorify this date. Just stop it.
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Will Republicans Support the "American Jobs Act"
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| Posted on: Sep. 09 2011,6:15 pm by alcitizens |
Fully Paid for as Part of the Presidents Long-Term Deficit Reduction Plan. To ensure that the American Jobs Act is fully paid for, the President will call on the Joint Committee to come up with additional deficit reduction necessary to pay for the Act and still meet its deficit target. The President will, in the coming days, release a detailed plan that will show how we can do that while achieving the additional deficit reduction necessary to meet the Presidents broader goal of stabilizing our debt as a share of the economy.
Estimated Costs:
Tax Cuts to Help Americas Small Businesses Hire and Grow $70B
Cut employer payroll taxes in half & bonus payroll cut for new jobs/wages $65B
Extend 100% expensing in 2012 $5B
Putting Workers Back on the Job While Rebuilding and Modernizing America $140B
Teacher rehiring and first responders $35B
Modernizing schools $30B
Immediate surface transportation $50B
Infrastructure bank $10B
Rehabilitation/repurposing of vacant property (neighborhood stabilization) $15B
National wireless initiative 0*
Veterans hiring initiative n.a.
Pathways Back to Work for Americans Looking for Jobs $62B
UI Reform and Extension $49B
Jobs tax credit for long term unemployed $8B
Pathways back to work fund $5B
More Money in the Pockets of Every American Worker and Family 175
Cutting employee payroll taxes in half in 2012 175
TOTAL $447 BILLION
http://www.businessinsider.com/factshe...V3jJgNH
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can we trust the Bible
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| Posted on: Sep. 08 2011,4:49 pm by the breeze |
Scientific Accuracy
Another striking evidence of divine inspiration is found in the fact that many of the principles of modern science were recorded as facts of nature in the Bible long before scientist confirmed them experimentally. A sampling of these would include:
Roundness of the earth (Isaiah 40:22)
Almost infinite extent of the sidereal universe (Isaiah 55:9)
Law of conservation of mass and energy (II Peter 3:7)
Hydrologic cycle (Ecclesiastes 1:7)
Vast number of stars (Jeremiah 33:22)
Law of increasing entropy (Psalm 102:25-27)
Paramount importance of blood in life processes (Leviticus 17:11)
Atmospheric circulation (Ecclesiastes 1:6)
Gravitational field (Job 26:7)
and many others.
These are not stated in the technical jargon of modern science, of course, but in terms of the basic world of man's everyday experience; nevertheless, they are completely in accord with the most modern scientific facts.
It is significant also that no real mistake has ever been demonstrated in the Biblein science, in history, or in any other subject. Many have been claimed, of course, but conservative Bible scholars have always been able to work out reasonable solutions to all such problems.
Unique Structure
The remarkable structure of the Bible should also be stressed. Although it is a collection of 66 books, written by 40 or more different men over a period of 2,000 years, it is clearly one Book, with perfect unity and consistency throughout.
The individual writers, at the time of writing, had no idea that their message was eventually to be incorporated into such a Book, but each nevertheless fits perfectly into place and serves its own unique purpose as a component of the whole. Anyone who diligently studies the Bible will continually find remarkable structural and mathematical patterns woven throughout its fabric, with an intricacy and symmetry incapable of explanation by chance or collusion.
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t003.html
The one consistent theme of the Bible, developing in grandeur from Genesis to Revelation, is God's great work in the creation and redemption of all things, through His only Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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