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It's your call, Dec. 17, 2009
Thursday, December 17, 2009 at midnight
Let it be
This is for the caller who was griping about the two men in the paper who were homeless and smoking cigarettes. As I recall in the article, they said they didn't want anybody's help. So they're out there on their own. So leave them alone.
A waste
I live down by Bode Ice Arena and I was wondering why the lights on the basketball courts are on every night and it's freezing outside. Nobody's using it. Why are they wasting money doing that? They're worried about money for the city while these lights continue being on day after day and night after night.
Reform needed
We think Sam Graves and the Republicans are absolutely wrong on Obama's health care reform. Democrats always do better for all the people in our nation while in office. We need to change in health reform. Also, the climate change is a joke, as our weather is up to God. He controls everything.
Back at ya
Well we totally agree with Baghead Jheri in regard to Tiger, Mayor Ken and Christmas. Right on, Alonzo! It's entertaining as always. And Merry Christmas back at you!
Going up
I think it would be easier to get Satan into heaven than to get corruption out of the White House.
Not OK
I was just reading in Wednesday's paper about how the D.C. city council voted to legalize gay marriage. How sad and utterly destructive this is going to be for our country if Congress gets involved and passes this absolutely horrifying thing. It is the most overwhelmingly wrong thing to do to let our young people believe that this is going be acceptable now in our nation's capitol.
Think globally
Just a reminder to people, that just because it's cold here doesn't mean it's cold everywhere. Global warming is about the average temperature of the entire earth, not just winter temperatures in Northwest Missouri. So if you think global warming is a joke, you should be looking at overall temperatures in the whole world, not just here in the winter.
The enemy
Regarding all this yah, yah about taking the detainees from Guantanamo and moving them into a federal prison inside the United States, the bottom line really is, these people don't have civil rights. They don't have any right to be tried in an American court system. They're combatants at war. They came off the battlefield shooting at American soldiers, killing our boys and girls. The Obama administration is going to give them civil rights. They're the enemy. They're not citizens.
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JAFO says...
"the enemy"
the U.S. government has already given these "enemy combatants," the same rights under the 6th ammednment of due process that you and i enjoy as american citizens. they are to be tried in the federal court system. fancy that.
December 17, 2009 at 1:38 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Wright_Winger says...
Not OK, redux
Gay marriage in D.C. is NOTHING compared to the history behind Obama's Safe Schools Czar, Kevin Jennings.
Read about Mr. Jennings at:
http://biggovernment.com/tag/fistgate/
Warning: Not for the weak of heart
December 17, 2009 at 5:34 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Wright_Winger says...
Reform needed
Today's update for what the Dems have in store for senior citizens with their health insurance reform scam:
Excerpt from Washington Post, Dec. 17, 2009:
"Despite the focus on abortion, other issues remain unresolved, and Democrats continue to push for changes to the legislation. Four senators, including Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), announced Wednesday that they would seek to significantly increase the authority of a new Independent Medicare Advisory Board that the Obama administration views as critical to reining in health-care costs."
"The amendment would scrap deals to exempt hospitals and hospices from additional Medicare payment cuts over the next decade, make clear that doctors and medical-device manufacturers also could face payment cuts, authorize the board to cut Medicare spending sooner and more deeply, and ensure that the board could continue to force Congress to make Medicare cuts years into the future."
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Remember, the actuary for the Center for Medicare/Medicare Services reported to the Senate last week that the nearly $500 billion cut to budgeted Medicare benefits would make it financially impossible for many hospitals and nursing homes to accept Medicare patients in the future.
December 17, 2009 at 5:52 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Andjusticeforall says...
Look at it this way. While the detainees are awaiting their "due process", they'll have plenty of time to obtain their US citizenship status and maybe even earn a degree or two courtesy of the US Taxpayer before they're acquitted of their charges or only get "probation".
December 17, 2009 at 6:48 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
bigbob says...
Hey Wedgie, who built the tilt into the earths orbit?
December 17, 2009 at 11:27 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
StJoeMike says...
Wow wedge47, you really told them.. Why is is so togh to believe in God. I mean let's just pretend that you are correct and there is no God. What happens to us Christians when we die.. Nothing. Same as you, right? But what if we are right.. When you pass from this earth you are in for one heck of a wake up call.. but by then.. It will be too late.
December 17, 2009 at 12:14 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
StJoeMike says...
Oh and you also say... "Now, obviously no one knows for sure what REALLY happened 4+ billion years ago, but this is the most widely accepted theory." I beg to differ.. The most widely accepted theory is that God is the creator of ALL things!
December 17, 2009 at 12:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
jambajuice says...
Actually its not as only about 1-2 billion people are Christian, Muslim, or Jewish. That leaves about 4+ billion people who don't believe that God created everything.
As for healthcare, if we are sooooo anti socialism why do we not A) drop all subsidies for domestic and foreign interests, B) do like the do in Japan and have a book of every medical procedure and list the actual costs to perform any given procedure, C) Open up the entire country to nation wide private insurance (though we will still be lumped into risk groups as the South has the highest incidence of obesity for example) and D) make all insurance carriers non-profit. This way all costs are known to everybody and consumers can tell easily if they are being ripped off, we can keep costs from going crazy , and we can keep the privatized insurance telling you that you can't be covered instead of the federal government or state government.
December 17, 2009 at 1:27 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
jambajuice says...
God of Abraham that is as there are other monotheistic religions.
December 17, 2009 at 1:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
StJoeMike says...
But wedge47, who created the scientific proof? How can you be so sure that God did NOT create ALL things including science..
December 17, 2009 at 3:05 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
jambajuice says...
Not that I'm agreeing with or disagreeing with anyone, but how did mike prove your point? Gotta admit I am confused by that one. Unless its a reciprocal thing in which science can prove what is happening directly while saying God did it can not be proven through tests. Though I wonder why a sentient being would be given free will and then let loose is like a scene from the Terminator... Cause I would love my kids unconditionally, but I wouldn't put it past them to go their own way. In which case they need to be reigned in. So one of a few things can be extrapolated:
A) God exists, but honestly does not care about us or else God would reign us in somehow. Saying hell is that means is kinda like saying to your 5 year old "Son, don't talk back to me or I'll shoot you in the face with a shotgun."
B) God does not exist.
C) God exists, but failed to realize that we as a people would see the day when we do not need him anymore. In which case we grew up and God would be heading for a retirement home hoping we come and visit for christmas.
D) We are naturally self serving as I have never been told why you should be a Christian if you remove the idea of heaven or hell from the equation. Cause if you live something cause you want to get something out of it, then you are self centered. If you do something cause you are scared of the consequences, then you are fearful and self centered. And if you do something without regard for what happens in the end, then you are either a looney or one of the most most dedicated people ever to do something just to do it.
I find most christians fall under the 2nd half of D where they are afraid to do anything else or are self centered and only want to do what's needed to get the ice cream bar at the end of the tunnel. Those few who server without regard for the reward or consequences are those who are to really be respected, though you wouldn't find one of them throwing fire and brim stone at someone or say "DO AS I SAY OR YOU ARE GOING TO HELL!" or some such.
Wow that got one sided fast... Can't we all just say, the rest of the world is moving forward with science and want to be at the forefront of that. To do that we gotta say hey, you can keep your beliefs, but this is what we gotta do to advance as a world. You may be against stem cell research or genetic alterations, and thats fine, but other countries see those as the next step and will make the breakthroughs that take us to the next step and we will be sitting back here telling them they are wrong. Yet they will be living longer lives and we will give in and the religious people will accept it (remember when credit cards came out, people had a fit over that as it was one step closer to the mark of the beast, now they and debit cards are like second nature, same with social security numbers). The world will keep moving on, with or without your consent.
December 17, 2009 at 3:40 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
StJoeMike says...
Im sorry but your wrong wedge47.. you don't have to look at the scientific community and say that. One of these days you will look at us Christians and say, "you know, they just might be on to something there." Hopefully it will not be too late..
December 17, 2009 at 4:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
jambajuice says...
Ah gotcha. Basically yo uare saying science is proving how things work, so belief in a supernatural being is not as necessary, though it is still ok on a person to person basis.
What are christians on to?
December 17, 2009 at 4:57 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Agent_Provocateur says...
I would submit "Expelled: No intelligence Allowed" for a good movie to see how hostile the scientific community reacts when one of it's members even mentions intelligent design. What are they afraid of? Why don't they let their science prove God doesn't exist? Oh I know why, they would PROVE the opposite and they know it!
December 17, 2009 at 5:45 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Dude says...
"Such as the huge impact that created our moon."
"Now, obviously no one knows for sure what REALLY happened 4+ billion years ago, but this is the most widely accepted theory."
So you're saying there's no real proof, just that some scientist have a theory that makes it true? How is that more believable than a God. There's no reason the two can't coexist together.
Trading a belief in God for a belief in science.
December 17, 2009 at 6:02 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Dude says...
I don't know if there is a God or not, but not sure science has been able to further disprove there is a God. Alot of science goes of blind assumptions then they get proven or disproved. Then there's things in science that stay in the middle called theories where there's no sure way to prove it but most scientist believe it to be true.
What I'm getting at is that I pretty much see a theory the same way i see God. Can't prove either one but that doesn't mean that they both can't exist.
December 17, 2009 at 7:33 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
Bmeyer says...
Blind faith, what a statement.Just believe because you are supposed too,hmmm. Oh, and what is, "the Reason for the season" again? The bright lights, the smell of pine,the CHRISTMAS carols, and the gifts, can't forget all those gifts!! Especially, the greatest gift of ALL, OUR LORD and Savior.HE is the "proof" and READING the Bible , and living the in the WORD, is proof of God's existence. Remember that Satan was not called the "great deceiver" because he told good jokes. Those of us who believe, pray daily for you who do not, and as in the book of Revelations, pray you repent before it is too late.
December 17, 2009 at 10:25 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
thenfixit says...
STJOEMIKE, God gave humans the ability to think freely. Hum
December 18, 2009 at 6:49 a.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )
royaldiam says...
Hello Mr. Wedge47...I am trying to understand your so called logical way of thinking...Someone that you dont know does a scientific study about something or anything, creation etc. and because you can see the writting on the page you believe it to be 100% true. Another person tells you that they believe in God and that he created everything. And you can also read about it in a book that has been in existence forever. And you call it weak minded and absurd, and well, Im not going to go back and read it all again....There are somethings that we are able to study and figure out. I dont think that science is total bunk. But I also give God the credit for giving us the knowledge to pursue these things. To believe that something as fragile as life was created by an explosion of two rocks coliding in space is pretty far out there. I think I will stick with my belief that there is a god and that he loves us all..including you. We need skeptics....and they need us. If not for us, who would you argue with.
Have a very Merry Christmas ad a wonderful New Year!
December 19, 2009 at 1:15 p.m. ( permalink | suggest removal )