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dwise1 Member Posts: 5946 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Aren't followers of jesus christ suppose to NOT LIE? Why is it that christians can find themselves so comfortable at lying right through their teeth like this?
Creationism has given them so much practice at lying that it has been second-nature to them and a way of life. Practically an article of faith.
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. . . of the Republican party nowadays, but it's also the party you join if your political hero is Ayn Rand - one of the most militant atheists the right has ever produced. Such as Paul Ryan? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_ryan:
quote: Ryan rejected Rand's philosophy as an atheistic one, saying it reduces human interactions down to mere contracts. He also called the reports of his adherence to Rand's views an urban legend' and stated that he was deeply influenced by his Roman Catholic faith and by Thomas Aquinas." Yeah, right! (ha-ha-ha!)
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5946 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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Refusing to pay for a war and then refusing to tax the rich who had profited from that war and expecting the middle class to bear the brunt of the cost. That is the Republican plan. It has been tried before. By the Weimar Republic, formed in the destruction of the German Empire (das Zweite Reich) at the end of WWI, in which ruinous inflation completely destroyed the German economy and German's middle class. Which laid the road for Hitler and the National Socialists (AKA "Nazis") to come to power.
Here is what an English historian had to say in 1946:
quote: In 1946! This has all happened before and it will all happen again. Unless we stop it! Edited by dwise1, : "historian", not "history
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5946 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
I am oh so glad I was not drinking anything when I listened to that.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5946 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5
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I wish those Americans would learn that left is red and right is blue. That's the way it is on the spectrum. Communists are red and Obama is a Communist....
No, no, we've got it right. As it's played out in every wargame, Blue Force is us, the Good Guys, while Red Force is the enemy intent on destroying America.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5946 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
This is all as I remember the events unfolding. The financial situation was unraveling and the banks panicked and stopped making any loans at all.
As I understand it, one of every business' problems is liquidity, the amount of ready cash in order to do its daily and weekly business. Ready cash does not do you much good, but you need to have enough in order to pay for things that need to paid for, such as payroll checks. As you make sales, you incur accounts receivable, but those accounts receivable don't mean a thing for liquidity until your customers have made their payments. On a pay-check-by-pay-check basis, those payments can very well lag accounts receivable. One of a boss' foremost duties is to make the payroll, ensure enough liquidity that every single employee's paycheck will be honored and will not bounce. One time-honored method for making the payroll is to take out short-term business loans. So what happens when the company can no longer get a short-term business loan? That company can then no longer pay its employees nor pay its daily bills. Regardless of how much it has in accounts receivable, without that liquidity it goes bust. What I remember of the melt-down was banks refusing to make loans, which in turn strangled many companies, forcing them to close, which in turn left those companies' former employees unemployed. The basic reason we have so many unemployed is because the companies that they used to work for no longer exist. It doesn't matter that the companies that somehow survived can start to do better now, the new jobs they can offer are marginal at best. What is still missing are all those companies annihilated by the banks at the start and all the jobs that they used to offer. So far, I have heard nothing from either Party about addressing this issue. It would appear that job growth depends on the re-establishment of many of those companies that were killed off by the banks. Who is addressing that? And, of course, there is also the question of what the government could possibly do to address that issue.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5946 Joined: Member Rating: 5.5 |
Orange are Protestant "Irish", the Scots who were transplanted to Northern Ireland circa 1600. And we all know who the "Greens" are!
An older local woman remembers working for a Canadian company. Every St. Patrick's Day, everybody made sure to wear Orange. Amazing the meaning that color can take on. And yet, the GOP had chosen red, the color of our traditional national enemy. Why?
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