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Comment on Boston Marathon bombing: What do Chechens have against the U.S.? by dmitry solovyev

dmitry solovyev — Sat, 25 May 2013 21:18:23 +0000

I am russian and about because of two cruel war between russian and chechnya it is bullshit and crap. The first who start is really chechnya. Before of first war they make rebel against moscow and that lead to first war.Also this whay you call”respond” was made by separatist from chechnya not because of war but because they terrorist who were group of people who start rebel against moscow.Reason of war was invasion of separatists in dagestan that want war with russia

Comment on UPDATED: Pope Francis says atheists can go to heaven: Sweet Jesus! The College of Cardinals done elected a hippie by Lex

Lex — Sat, 25 May 2013 19:28:12 +0000

That’s what i say when people quote the Bible, since it wasn’t written in English or even Latin. It doesn’t even take all that much knowledge of the authorship languages (generally not the languages of the people who spoke the things purported to be said) to raise significant questions about the Latin/English Bible.

Comment on “Useful Enemies”: U.S. admitted not just Nazis after WWII, but their sadistic collaborators by geral sosbee (@gsosbee)

geral sosbee (@gsosbee) — Sat, 25 May 2013 19:26:01 +0000

Thanks for the report; pls see a few of mine which are consistent with yours.:

http://a1.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/155/0c4f67d10b2e45899ac19b1f53ef3ac9/l.jpg

Journalists have always protected the fbi/cia from disclosure of their crimes against humanity; now, the journalists complain of suppression. My reports:
Lurking behind the façade of popular & staged tv images of fbi (federal burro of investigation- the Jackass of the nation) is the real fbi , a group of traitors, homicidal sociopaths, torturers and assassins. Some of my reports:　

http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/promo.htm

cicero

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2013/05/18123.php

credo

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2013/05/18128.php

tracking (alt links)

http://antwerpen.indymedia.org/node/6465

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2013/05/260021.php

http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2013/05/18139.php

Comment on UPDATED: Pope Francis says atheists can go to heaven: Sweet Jesus! The College of Cardinals done elected a hippie by Lex

Lex — Sat, 25 May 2013 19:24:41 +0000

That may be because the Reformationist sects that mostly populate the United States threw away pretty much everything that was moderately cool and interesting in Christianity. They only kept (and in many cases perverted) the worst of it.

These are the kind of people who would probably launch a new Albigensian Crusade, the sort of thing that even the backwardness of Catholicism has mostly grown out of over the last few centuries.

And they say that for the sake of temporal power (see below). The only way to accept Him is at church, right? Letting people accept Him and model behavior on his all by their lonesome doesn’t pay the pastor, build new churches, or keep the operation in the black. Those are the real concerns of Christianity’s earthly mission.

Comment on UPDATED: Pope Francis says atheists can go to heaven: Sweet Jesus! The College of Cardinals done elected a hippie by Lex

Lex — Sat, 25 May 2013 19:20:05 +0000

This is my favorite part of Christianity: the intersection of spiritual and temporal power, and it’s most pronounced with the Catholic Church since most other Christian sects haven’t had the kind of temporal power Catholicism has known.

That is evidenced in how concerned with temporal power Catholicism is, and in the end, this whole issue (after the Pope said it) is about that. They’ll keep walking it back, even though Francis was using a Catholic text and it wouldn’t be hard to build a theological argument that Jesus wouldn’t have declared church membership necessary … especially since there was no Christian Church for Jr. to be a member of. Spiritually, the church isn’t necessary. Francis slipped and admitted it. He basically said, Jesus died for everyone and if you act in a manner that would please him, then you’ll be ok.

That path, leads to loss of temporal power for the church, even if it would likely open the church up to more people who want to lead a good life without being harangued for donations and the like.

Comment on “Where Girls Grow Strong” – and Boy Scouts follow by Otherwise

Otherwise — Sat, 25 May 2013 17:31:44 +0000

59! I resemble that remark.

Good contribution, elfkat. Best

Comment on Should we be mean to fat people? You bet. by Carly

Carly — Sat, 25 May 2013 17:06:49 +0000

Thanks, I appreciate it. I didn’t post for pity though . . . but you guys have to know that not all fat people that claim to have medical issues are lying or making excuses. I definitely would not want to be called out or taunted about my weight or looks (this is actually something I have never really had a problem with, by the way, I think people are too intimidated by my overall appearance to tease me )

Comment on I-5 bridge collapse: reflecting on our crumbling infrastructure by Samuel Smith

Samuel Smith — Sat, 25 May 2013 16:57:08 +0000

I found a kml file with all the deficient bridges in town here.

Comment on I-5 bridge collapse: reflecting on our crumbling infrastructure by Samuel Smith

Samuel Smith — Sat, 25 May 2013 16:32:56 +0000

It looks like you’re right, Frank. I can’t find that bridge on any structurally deficient lists. There are a number of such bridges about town, but evidently not that one. So now I’m wondering which one I’m confusing it with.

Comment on I-5 bridge collapse: reflecting on our crumbling infrastructure by Samuel Smith

Samuel Smith — Sat, 25 May 2013 15:45:15 +0000

This isn’t what I was looking for, but yow. http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efee45gkfd/denver-aurora-co/