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Amazing Human Jumbotron!! brought to you by Free Videos

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http://www.collegehumor.com/video/6131617/freak-with-three-legs-does-cool-dance

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Another kid-ism from my son:"London, London, I see your underwear!"Well, it has some of the right components.

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Original Link to Maker BlogFifteen uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together to produce visual traveling waves, standing waves, beating, and (seemingly) random motion.The period of one complete cycle of the dance is 60 seconds. The length of the longest pendulum has been adjusted so that it executes 51 oscillations in this 60 second period. The length of each

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My six year old son had a word problem in his homework: "Ashley drew a square on her paper. How many sides does it have?"His answered, "2."My wife questioned him to give him another chance. He must remember how many sides a square has.But he insisted, "Paper has two sides!"Good boy.

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In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?

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More American Workers Outsourcing Own Jobs Overseas

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New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

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Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

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I got an interesting version of the Nigerian scam in my inbox today. There was something different that caught my eye. I usually just delete them, but from time to time it is just interesting to read through and try to figure out what new angle someone is using to bilk the the dumb masses.It was from a South Korean with a Chinese name working at a bank in Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Asia). I won't

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I do not like this Uncle Sam, I do not like his health care scam. I do not like these dirty crooks, or how they lie and cook the books. I do not like when Congress steals, I do not like their secret deals. I do not like this speaker, Nan , I do not like this 'YES WE CAN.' I do not like this spending spree, I'm smart, I know that nothing's free. I do not like your smug replies, when I complain

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This is a great visual to help understand the larger immigration problem.

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Thought experiment: see if you think this would work...If you get in a car accident, call up all the states (or a gecko, or someone who is progressive) and tell them you would like to sign up for a policy. Sure you have a pre-existing accident. But they shouldn't be able to refuse, should they?Question 1: Do you think the insurance company would sign you up and pay to fix your car that was

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I was driving in Raleigh a couple of days ago and I saw a bumper sticker that said "Drive Smart, Save Fuel". The license plate was a North Carolina state plate. I find it more than annoying that government workers are telling me how to drive. It was especially irritating because the vehicle was a tan SUV, and probably not the "smartest" use of gas. I had already decided to write about it here,

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Obama is a Vulpophobe! Vulpes is Latin for fox. Last weekend, Obama made the rounds of (almost) all the networks to pitch his health care plan. He went to ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN. He didn't make it to Fox News Channel. He has ignored Fox consistently, having only minimal contact during the 95 year campaign and the first 9 months of his administration. Generally when Fox enters the picture it is

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I don't necessarily buy the idea that this is representative of the entire country, but it is pretty funny, and very sad. It drives me nuts that people like this have the right to vote.

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Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?- Rush Limbaugh, August 20,

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This expresses my sentiment well, so I pass it along without modification from the blog of Neal Boortz...TURN YOUR CHILDREN OVER TO THE GOVERNMENT DAYNo ... no rant here. It's just disappointing. The evidence is there in the form of letters, articles and memos. The people who engineered the evolution of our government school system in the early 1900s were clear ... the goal of "public education"

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The last few months, the government has been going nuts. Take, take, take from the productive. Give, give, give to the lazy.I bought my house. I saved up money for a down payment. I bought a modest house that I could afford. I worked and payed the mortgage for years.Others did not save up money; they got 100% financed mortgages. They bought a big house that they couldn't afford. Many have

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When times are good, a growing economy can support expanding the government to give out all kinds of new goodies.When times are bad, we need to help people, so we can't allow government to suffer in a bad economy. In fact, it must be expanded to help all the suffering people.Does anyone detect a slight bias toward bigger government?It is almost like someone is stacking the deck.

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Do I find it annoying when people ask themselves questions?Yes.Will I engage in this annoying behavior myself?No.

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Here's the link to the full commentary.Some of my favorite excerpts:In the wake of the shooting of late-term abortionist George Tiller, President Barack Obama sent out a welcome message that this nation would not tolerate attacks on pro-lifers or any other Americans because of their religion or beliefs. ... Ha ha! Just kidding.Why aren't liberals rushing to assure us this time that "most

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Last week I came home from work to be met by someone going from door to door asking for money. Right now most of us probably don't want anybody to ask for money, but this was particularly irritating because I have been forced to give money to this group for years for nothing in return.I bought my first house in 1992. I lived there for 10 years. Property taxes were about $2500, and the bulk of

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Video from Glenn Beck 3/09/09

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Everyone is upset about AIG. They are paying bonuses of $165M, some of which are going to the same executives responsible for the problems they are in. The argument is: why should they get paid extra for doing a bad job? A good question.But the bonuses were pre-negotiated, so they are obligated to pay them (or owe double under Connecticut law). The government was no only aware of those bonuses

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I took the kids to McDonalds a few days ago after one of my daughter's evening classes. There was a TV on in the corner with no sound. It was on CNN and was showing lots of pictures of the stock market, dollar signs, and to all too familiar downward pointing charts we have all come to love in recent months.She asked me what they were talking about. Specifically they were discussing Obama's

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I was taking my daughter to her karate class. She was already wearing her uniform and she brought her belt along. As I was tying it on she realized she forgot something...her "woodchucks".

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Notice to all retailers: Just because you have something on sale does NOT mean you have a "stimulus package". Don't try to be cute; just have a sale like a normal person.

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More funny phrases from the younger generation...My son complained the other day when he turned on the TV because it was on a news channel instead of cartoons. Well, that's how I describe it. He put it a bit differently:He said the TV was showing "The newspaper movie".

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You can invest in gold very easily through GLD, an ETF. An ETF(exchange-traded-fund) is a mutual fund that is traded on the exchange like a stock.The GLD fund holds actual gold. And since they hold it, you don't have to deal with carting around wheelbarrows full of gold -- we all know how annoying that can be! :)Peter Schiff has predicted the price of the DOW and the price of gold will meet at

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Things are bad in the economy in many ways. I DO mean to sound like an alarmist, because I think we need to be discussing and planning. Before we can plan, we have to look realistically at our situation. The government is playing extremely dangerous games with money. As reactionary as it may sound, I think we may be at the edge of events that could significantly change all of our lives.Citigroup

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Here is a free half our version of the movie I.O.U.S.A. Visit their home web site here.

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There is a tendency people have to avoid the reality of market cycles. Things go up, things go down. But we want to ignore that second part.First there was the "Dot Com" bubble. Internet companies were up, up up! dooooooown.So people bailed and went into real estate. People bought houses that were bigger than they needed because it was an "investment" (how's that working out?). Some people put

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It is entertaining to watch kids learn. My son speaks pretty well, but there are still a few cute quirks.One lingering one is the use of "F" versus "Th" in certain situations. He can say both; it is not a matter of pronunciation. He just mixes them up.According to him, he has two Fumbs and lots of Thingers.

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Condolences to Dick Durban and his family at the loss of his adult daughter (story).

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If you keep your food in a refrigerator, your clothes in a closet, if you have a bed to sleep in and a roof over your head, you are richer than 75% of the entire world's population....and be content with such things as ye have...Hebrews 13:5No matter how poverty is defined, if I were an unborn spirit, condemned to a life of poverty, but God allowed me to choose which nation I wanted to be poor in

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There is an interesting thing I have noticed while investing -- I mean losing money -- in the stock market: when everyone agrees things are only going up, it is time to get out fast.I have a feeling the principle works for things other than stocks also. It certainly held true for real estate over the last few years. The one thing you always here is everyone saying how up is the only direction.

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According to my son, meet...The Incredible Honk

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Two views of the world and our place in it...God:Genesis 1:28: God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."Toyota:...the best way to have an impact on the environment is to have as little impact as possible.

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The appeal of pop culture amazes me. Sure, I have favorite actors. I have even been known to spend real time on imdb.com following a "Six Degrees" thread of links. But it is crazy the degree to which people get caught up in it.Some time ago I was watching an episode of 1 vs. 100 (which may or may not still be on the air -- I proudly don't know). It is a quiz-type of show, which, as the name

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We have all heard the phrase, work smarter, not harder. Apparently the State of North Carolina take the opposite view.Last month I filed a tax report that had a problem. It was my mistake. I accidentally counted some money for the wrong month. I thought I owed $434 and had already filled out the form when I realized my mistake. The tax belonged to a different month. I really owed nothing for the

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Some people argue about whether it is more patriotic to buy an American car than a foreign car. I happen to have an Acura, which is made in Japan.This picture is proof of the patriotism of foreign automobiles. On July 4, 2008, my car added it's support. When I went to start up the car, the trip odometer read "1776". Okay, just a hair past, but still pretty good.

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I am sure I am not alone in being annoyed by the "Proud Parent" bumper stickers. I'm proud of my kids too, but I don't need to advertise it on my car. Get a blog for Pete's sake! :)But worse is how the threshold of pride keeps dropping. It used to be "Proud Parent of an Honor Student at Lincoln High". Now it's things like "My Kid is a Good Citizen at Lincoln High".This is the same sort of

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This is what happens when a child uses headphones before he uses a stethoscope.

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We buried my grandmother last weekend. She was a resilient woman of 92 years who had a long, rich life, fought through much adversity, and bounced back from several incidents in her later years that would have meant the end of most.I remember her for a lot of things: special treats she baked on an old wood-burning stove, playing in the mazes we built in the huge patch of lilacs in her yard, and

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Liberals are such helpful people. I'm not sure it is possible to be a liberal without having a cause. They just always want to help.The problem that I have is their concept of "helping". I always thought that helping meant that you do something helpful -- you contribute something. But generally when a liberal tries to "help" a cause, it involves them trying to make other people do things and pay

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We were sitting in church today and the pastor was preaching about the Israelites about to march around Jericho. He mentioned that they had no weapons.My daughter turned to me and said "A weapon is a chiuaua." I said "What?" -- I thought I must have misheard her. "A weapon is a chiuaua," she repeated, matter-of-factly.Now, kids say funny things all the time, but this one really had me stumped.

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My son has a lot of toys, many of them that use batteries. In fact, an amazing number of them that use batteries. (Is there anything that can't be battery powered?) He is always leaving his flashlight on and then complains that its "out of batteries".Last week there was a car crash a few blocks from our house. It hit a pole and knocked out power to our whole neighborhood. The way he saw it, our

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Have you seen the commercials for the hoveround motorized wheelchair? You can regain your mobility and independence...and Medicare will pay for it.That's right, regain your independence by making all the rest of us buy you a wheelchair.

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Christmas insanity: 'Ho, ho, ho' becomes 'Ha, ha, ha'Controversy erupts over attempt to gag Santa's greetingThe concern expressed by these Newspeak police is"ho, ho, ho" phrase could frighten children and possibly be derogatory to women.Would that be the same children who are taught how to put condoms on produce at increasingly younger ages?Whenever anyone says it's for the children, the only

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Liberals know all about privacy. They will stand up for the government staying out of personal affairs -- affairs such as a private U.S. citizen talking to a friend in the middle-east which may have some alleged tie to terrorism. Privacy is of utmost importance.Privacy is not always the most important issue, of course. In the financial matters, it is perfectly fine to demand every U.S. citizen

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Kid's say some pretty funny things. My son is 2 years 4 months and talking up a storm.I keep forgetting the cute things he said, so I thought I'd commit one to this blog to preserve it. We were eating out and had him strapped into a seat (a result of his shaking salt all over the booth seat a couple of minutes earlier). When he wanted to get out of his seat, he said "Buckle me out!"

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In April, Prince William broke up with Kate Middleton. Some have speculated that the split had something to do with Kate's mother chewing gum in the presence of royalty. Apparently it is considered distasteful, a sign of rebellion, and generally not appropriate around the Royal's.Here's what I find inappropriate: setting yourself above others and judging someone for something as trivial as

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I don't smoke. But if you do, smoke away, while I complain about the freedom-hating anti-smoking crowd. I think I'll call them Smokeophobes. They want to tell everyone else what to do.Their most prominent message venue is a never-ending series of "Truth" commercials. One of the main messages of these commercials is: "Big Tobacco" is evil and tobacco executives are evil. They aren't really telling

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Shock jock radio jerks are in danger of killing free speech for people who actually have something to say. Immediately on the tails of Imus's firing, a scandal erupted involving Opie and Anthony. Personally, I've never had much use for insulting juvenile humor. And since I'm too cheap to pay for satellite radio anyway, I've never heard Opie and Anthony's show. I heard the news reports. Their show

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Jerry Falwell died today. WorldNetDaily reported Anti-Falwell venom flows on blogs. Everyone dies, both conservative and liberal. The difference is that conservatives tend to see death as a sombre experience that deserves some reverence, even if you didn't like the guy. Liberals often seem to see death as just another political event. They gloat. They cheer. They don't express sorrow. After all,

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There was a story today out of Australia entitled Children 'bad for planet'. It does a great job at illustrating how much a person's world view affects what they do, and what they try to force others to do.The Bible says "be fruitful and multiply". It speaks of children as being a blessing from God. These and other statements no doubt have something to do with the "family values" thinking of

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1. Why do a write a blog if no one reads it?2. If I knew no one would ever read it, would I still continue making entries?3. Who am I talking to?Answers:1. Ego, practice writing, practice working out expressing my thoughts (it's one thing to think you have all the answers, it's quite a different when you have to write coherently enough to encourage others to adopt that same opinion!)2. Yes. For

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I am convinced that the average person has no understanding whatsoever of finances. One contemporary point of evidence is a program offered by Bank of America called "Keep the Change"."Keep the Change" is a program which is billed as a savings plan. The basic idea is that every time you make a purchase with their debit card, the program "saves" the change of your purchase by rounding up to the

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Most people have no idea what a "right" really is. This can be seen from time to time, usually when someone is claiming a right.One of those misunderstood rights is the right of free speech. This is quite possibly the most bastardized of the rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights. There is much to be said on the topic, but I will concentrate on just one small aspect in this post.There is a phrase

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Beware: The cultural crusaders who would enslave us all under a repressive government are pressing hard.The global warming phenomenon is in full force. The phenomenon is not the the earth is warming, but that the climate is being used as a pretext for asserting control over the world's population.There is little science in the equation. Adherents of the global warming religion care not about

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This is a very short post. To all who read this, please stop using the term "uber" as it has become an uber pet peeve of mine. It is uberirritating. So unless you can actually speak German, please don't use that word as if you are ubercool because you are ubernot.

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Have you ever noticed the odd pricing when you go to buy gas? They use a tactic much like stores that price an item at 99 cents. They think they are fooling us by not pricing it at $1. I don't know about you, but for me, I'm rarely fooled by it. If I see $1.99, I read that as $2, not $1.However, the gas stations are a bit more clever. Any price you see always has a little 9 after it. What is that

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I wish I had the luck of the U.S.S. Enterprise.No matter what the danger, they escape it, usually by one of the following methods:1. They figure out some clever 11th hour (for dramatic effect) solution. There is generally some technical jargon to help dismiss any lingering implausibility.2. There was some unfortunate ship in the same situation earlier that they are now able to learn from and

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A mother polar bear abandoned its cub and the zoo stepped in to take care of it. Now there are calls by an animal rights activist, Frank Albrecht, to kill the bear. They think it is "unnatural" for the cub to be raised by humans. In nature, they say, it would have died.It can be helpful to try to figure out a person's world view to understand things that seem incomprehensible (e.g. how can an

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It is two years away from the next Presidential election and many Republicans are rushing to tell us why Giuliani would be such a great President, despite the fact that he is pro-abortion, pro-gay rights, anti-gun -- you know the sort of things Republicans are known for.It is one thing to hold you nose at election time and vote for the lousy candidate who managed to bubble to the top. But it's an

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It is hard to watch more than a few minutes of TV without seeing an ad telling you how much money you can save by switching to some other car insurance....We save the average customer over $300 per year......Customer's who switched to our insurance saved an average of $233...It is interesting how all of the insurance companies are cheaper than all the other insurance companies. I'm pretty sure

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Cingular has been advertising that they have the fewest dropped calls of any network.I don't think this is a very good measure of the quality of a network. At first, it seems good, because we've always gotten annoyed at those pesky dropped calls.But another network may have a higher number of dropped calls for a couple of valid reasons:1. There are more people on the network, therefore more calls

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Advertizing if often stupid, but sometimes it goes above and beyond the call. One of the stupidest things often repeated in advertizing is a line we have all heard, and probably never thought much about since it pops up so often: "We'll beat our competitor's price...or it's FREE!"Let's see how this might work:"How much is it?""$100""Your competitor sells it for $90""Sorry, I'd lose money if I

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Are you just a little tired of being reassured at the total lack of terrorism every time something bad happens?Yesterday a man blew up a building in New York. Apparently it was a divorce gone bad...really bad. Today we can call that news, since there has been time for the reporters to do a little investigation and get some actual facts.But yesterday, as the smoke was still billowing from the

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Hollywood is such a great moral teacher. When I see one of their great movies, I like to reflect on the lessons I have learned. After watching "Liberty Stands Still" I have learned several things:1. It is okay to murder people using gun violence if your goal is to eliminate gun violence.2. Teaching kids to use guns responsibly causes them to shoot other kids at school.3. If someone you love is

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What is a Q-tip for?According to the box, there are 14 suggested uses from removing makeup to cleaning your computer keyboard. But real use of Q-tips is not just absent from the list, but in fact, found in a warning at the bottom, "Do not insert swap into ear canal"As far as I am concerned, cleaning ears is the only logical reason for the existence of a Q-tip. I quite sure that's what it was

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The Discovery Channel, TLC, National Geographic Channel, and others have been getting into the Christmas spirit, as they usually do this time of year.They basically run two types of shows. The first is "historical" accounts of the "real" story of Jesus. You see, everything you have been taught, everything in the Bible is not true. Miracles have simple explanations. Jesus isn't who he said he was.

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If one person tells you that 1+1 is 3, and another person tells you that 1+1 is 4, does that mean that 1+1 is really 3.5? That is the average answer. It is the "middle of the road" position.That may sound like a silly illustration, but it is not unlike the straddling that moderates try to do every day. They will stake out a position of compromise between the two prevailing positions and declare

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I saw a bumper sticker that gave me a laugh: "Frodo Failed. Bush Got the Ring." The sad thing is that the person sporting the bumper sticker, and perhaps the manufacturer of it, seemed to miss the real point of the Ring of Power message from The Lord of the Rings. You see, the person had another bumper sticker, one advocating John Kerry for President.The problem is not that the wrong person got

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