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Still, anything concerning an afterlife remains only speculation and a matter of beliefs including those of Jesus. For me, life on earth is enough of a living hell without the prospect of being plunged into the eternal flames of the "lake of fire" when I die. And no one sensitive to the amount of human suffering throughout the world can fail to understand my thought on the subject. Sure, I can hope this is only purgatory rather than hell; that the evil I have done will be purged here rather than being consigned to the fiery pit and I may yet rejoin loved ones and friends in a heavenly hereafter. But as I said, no one has come back from the other side to either assure or condemn me, and I consider religious people of whatever belief system pontificating on the subject to be delusional at best.
One America Committee blog.oneamericacommittee.com/videoblog
The One America Committee says it is "dedicated to helping elect Democratic candidates across the country." The most important Democrat seems to be Senator John Edwards. Remember him? Eight months after the 2004 Presidential election, Senator Edwards launched a video blog. While it is hard to imagine the Senator fiddling around with his computer late at night editing video (he has some professional help on this), it does maintain a grassroots, homemade feeling. Citizens (right now mostly video bloggers) can video tape a question and send it in. Then Sen. Edwards answers the question, also on video. The end result is a time-delayed conversation, or a really long town hall meeting. It is a great application of the vlog concept. And a good indicator that the Internet will continue to be a key tool in politics.
Suspect fired from several blocks away
The point is, these young people are wasting no time to pick up a powerful weapon to harm someone. Somehow, we need to learn warning signs (assuming there are any), so we can prevent these things from happening in the future.
Posted by: Keonna Location: bellevue,Ne on Jan 28, 2008 at 09:12 AM Love You Brittany your Little Cousin Keonna
Posted by: The Original Cop Location: Omaha on Jan 24, 2008 at 04:14 PM Wallace- As I mentioned below people have been posting as cop, when if fact they were not my postings. The copyrighting thing was a joke obviously, but I have been posting for months under that name and now this happens and people are posting under cop, advocating gun control and "testing" on prisoners. Those were not my postings, nor anywhere near my opinions. I don't believe those are truly even cops posting those.
Iraq Massacres
But it turns out that not just weapons parts are being used to bait Iraqis, but even cameras. As if no innocent Iraqi would pick up a spare camera. Tuesday, September 25: Allen L Roland: *AHMADINEJAD SHINES WHILE BUSH TRASHES AND DEMONIZES HIM (3 comments) I just watched the heavily edited ten minute video interview of Scott Pelley's CBS interview with Iran's president Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad came across as a skilled intelligent debater who more than held his own with Pelley and his talking points were delivered with the calm conviction of someone who knows who he is, what he believes and what he wants whereas Pelley came across as a boorish flack for the White House line. Don Williams: Bush's War Has Only Begun Once again, America is swallowing a big, fat lie. Monday, September 24: Michael Collins: Ten Things Congress Did Instead of Getting Us The Hell Out of Iraq (2 comments) 4.
Tallmadge company preserves families' treasured images
People still bring Betamax tapes to Gary Stennett. For those too young to remember, Betamax lost out to VHS in the videotape format war a couple of decades ago. For that matter, people bring Stennett even more VHS cassettes, now just another has-been analog medium in the 21st century digital-recording era. And then there are the reels and reels of even older 8mm and 16mm home movies. Plus packages of 1970s 3/4-inch videotapes, SuperVHS and other tape formats, along with more contemporary video CDs, mini DVDs and others on which people have recorded memories, only to see them become obsolete. Stennett and his co-workers give new life to all those aging recordings. Stennett is the owner of ARS Video Inc. on West Avenue in Tallmadge, a family-run business started by his parents 20 years ago.
Filed under: MLB
In honor of both March Madness and The Sporting Blog finding video of the horrifically soul-crunching defeat suffered by Memphis against Louisville in a recent C-USA title game, I'm taking nominations for a tournament. In the same vein as "the ur-tard" Bill Simmons' "Levels of Losing", I'd like to see your nominations for the most painful defeat any team has ever suffered. This is limited to actual sporting defeats, as including something like the Hank Gathers incident would most likely be a run-away winner. Events from all sports (Even NASCAR and soccer) will be accepted into this tournament. Right now I have a few examples that are locked into the tournament. I'm hoping for 16 or even a full 32. I'm looking for gut-wrenching defeats, be it in the manner of losing, or the result of that loss.
Does Globalisation Take British Jobs?
India has the fastest growing mobile phone market with seven million new handsets being sold every month. It's not hard to imagine that many people are gainfully employed at Vodafone's headquarters in Newbury thinking hard about how to increase their company's market share in India. So if a company moves a services job to India and in doing so assists in creating a new middle-class of consumer for mobile phones and domestic flights, do they actually create a new higher skilled job in Newbury or Bridgend? The question really is why Britain does not have many companies that are true global leaders in their field? Could an island nation's desire to try and stick within our own shores actually be the problem? Is the UK market just big enough to sustain reasonably large companies such that there is no real need to explore new horizons? Helsinki is the most unlikely place to create Nokia, the largest mobile phone handset maker in the world, but maybe the narrow confines of the small domestic Finnish market forced their business leaders to look elsewhere for growth opportunities? Is it unrealistic to hope that British companies can be the global number one or number two in every sector of the FTSE listing, and if so, why? If our companies were true leaders, we would not have the question about British jobs, instead we would all be enjoying the spoils of being in a country with high GDP growth punching significantly above its weight.
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