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Everything posted by Penguin4x4
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I honestly didn't think Bush could get any lower http://gizmodo.com/364116/president-bush-y...st+loving-jerks I was wrong again though
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#242 is still the best, FYI
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uh oh, looks like someone discovered xkcd, this is gonna be a long night....
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Kinky Friedman on Glen Beck = :lol2:
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The one down by the river?
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Apparently Rush Limbaugh compared Obama to Curious George this morning on his radio show
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The motivation to do anything. Have it, I do not.
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basically what it comes down to is having as much "hard" evidence as you can get in the off chance legal action would have to be taken
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Credit Card would be the preferred way IMO. I've heard too many PayPal horror stories to endorse it. Get tracking info too (not sure if tracking info is standard nowadays or not)...
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Based on the blind followers who know very little about Obama, there is a very large number of young, weak minded sheep in in this country, so the research you mention is interesting. Technically there has always been a very large number of young, weak minded sheep in this country
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"And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the horn, and the mountain smoking." Thus the book of Exodus describes the impressive moment of the giving of the Torah on Mount Sinai. The "perceiving of the voices" has been interpreted endlessly since these words were first written. When Professor Benny Shanon, professor of cognitive psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, reads the verse, he recalls a powerful hallucinatory experience he had when he visited the Amazon and drank a potion made from a plant called ayahuasca. "One of the things that happens when you drink the potion is a visual experience created via sounds," he says. Shanon presents a provocative theory in an article published this week in the philosophy journal Time and Mind. The religious ceremonies of the Israelites included the use of psychotropic materials that can found in the Negev and Sinai, he says. "I have no direct proof of this interpretation," and such proof cannot be expected, he says. However, "it seems logical that something was altered in people's consciousness. There are other stories in the Bible that mention the use of plants: for example, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden." Shanon, former head of the Hebrew University psychology department, said his first experience with ayahuasca was in 1991 when he was invited to a religious ceremony in the northern Amazon in 1991 in Brazil. "I experienced visions that had spiritual-religious connotations," he says. Since that time, he has used it hundreds of times, and has published a book about the plant. "Hypotheses have been around for 20 years connecting the beginning of religions with psychoactive materials," Shanon says. He believes the Israelites used two plants in Sinai and the Negev: one of them is wild rue, a hallucinogen used by the Bedoin to this day. However this plant is not identified with any plant mentioned in the Bible. The acacia tree also has psychedelic properties, Shanon says, which the Israelites could have used. The acacia is mentioned frequently in the Bible, and was the type of wood of which the Ark of the Covenant was made. According to Shanon, he drank a potion prepared from a species of acacia while he was in South America, which caused similar experiences to those produced by the ayahuasca. Shanon also sees signs of a hallucinogenic vision in the story of the burning bush. "Moses 'looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed,'" Shanon quotes from Exodus 3:2. Time passes differently when under the influence of the plant, he notes. "That's why Moses thought the bush was not consumed. It should have been burned in the time he thought had passed. And in that time, he heard God speaking to him." "But not everyone who uses a plant like this brings the Torah," Shanon concedes. "For that, you have to be Moses."
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"In an attempt to defy the newly approved state science standards, Florida Senator Rhonda Storms has proposed a bill that would allow teachers to contradict the teaching of evolution. Her bill states that 'Every public school teacher in the state's K-12 school system shall have the affirmative right and freedom to objectively present scientific information relevant to the full range of scientific views regarding biological and chemical evolution in connection with teaching any prescribed curriculum regarding chemical or biological origins.'" gg FloriDUH
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Good ole Snipers, purpose built fun buggies :drink40:
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I prefer following road signs to maps. Of course when you get into western louisiana you're pretty much boned without a map. LaDOT needs more funds I guess
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The capabilities of an H2 The real capabilities, not the asinine propoganda that litters the internet
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*lolz at all the H2 hatred* *smirks because he knows the real story* *goes back to preparing presentation*
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http://forums.audioholics.com/forums/showp...mp;postcount=28
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Yeah he looks goofier than I thought Oh and you puckers aren't goofy looking? Not really, most of my goofiness resides in my brain Of course, putting a pic of myself up not wearing grease monkey clothes when I haven't showered in the day yet might help a wee bit but what fun is that? Well I could give myself a handicap by using my cell phone camera and by taking it myspace style. That should even things up eh?
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TV cooks are funny. Trying to wok stir fry with that tiny little indoor burner ain't gonna work too good sister...
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Yeah he looks goofier than I thought Oh and you puckers aren't goofy looking? Not really, most of my goofiness resides in my brain
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Yeah he looks goofier than I thought
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ITS RAININ SIDEWAYS
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CAT6 goes to 11 CAT5 does not