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    Wealth Gap and Corporate Law

    I agree. Now that 90% of "money" is electronic transfer and has no intrinsic value except as an IOU for goods and services, I propose to go to 100% electronic money with coins issued up to $50 for picket change, Hanging offense for cooking the books, and ALL transaction posted on the web...
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    Wealth Gap and Corporate Law

    It goes beyond money. Why would a person with a billion in the bank "work" for another billion? It has to do with our sin nature and pecking order. People want life and death power over other people. I suspect that the invisible rich despise the working poor and that the old money rich hate the...
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    7 black Houston firefighters sue, say city exam biased

    The union is probably correct. Don't know the current situation in fire departments. When I joined the Seattle Police Department in 1965 a GED was required and a person with a GED could do 90% of the work. Yes, (even) back then homicide investigation was very specialized . . . and still is...
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    Wealth Gap and Corporate Law

    The working poor, and most middle class people, say up to $100K/year income probably would be hard pressed to give a tithe and save 10% of their income. Most of these people have only wage income and pay income tax on most all of it, and pay 7% payroll tax on most all of it, and their...
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    "fake" baptism

    Bible teaches we are all fakes.
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    Utopia

    Actually, "utopia" means "no place." <G>
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    A challenge

    The commandments of Deut and not the same as the NT commandments. The Mosaic Covenant was/is a social contract for Land of Israel.
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    Understanding the Gaza Conflict

    If the Jews are the nicest people in the world then why did the peace loving Christian Americans refuse to let one miserable ship of refugees land here and send them back to Hitler?
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    Iranian satellite fuels diplomatic fear and loathing

    Good for them! Even a country hated by the US can make technical progress.
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    Homeschooling numbers climb 36% since 2003

    There is a big difference in public schools depending on location. Anyone who sends a normal kid to an inner city school should charged with child abuse.
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    How many people are saved in the world ?

    God's work has a 90&#37; rejection rate? Probably 90% are saved, anyone who tries to be a good neighbor according to the best information available to him.
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    Protestant Poll: Peter in Rome?

    >13 The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.-1Pt5 >During those times Babylon was a code name for Rome because it was the romans who were hostile to Christians just as the Babylonians had done to the jews in centuries past. Assumes...
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    One big boulder...

    Or maybe it is an antinomy. <G>
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    What's love got to do with it?

    Move to Mass. They have socialized meds there.
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    America at War: Then and Now

    The writer of the IP quit reading to soon. (He forgot to read) What got people <staff edit> over Pearl Harbor was it was a sneak attack - The Japs never declared war against the US or against anyone. WE then declared war against Japan and against Germany. And that was the last time! We have...
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    Limitations on human comprehension

    Because we are made in God's image. <G>
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    Major Moral Dilemma: It Started with Viagra

    The one who pays the piper names the tune. If the government is required to pay for all medical treatments then the government is obligated to limit its liability by limiting unhealthy activity . . . fat burgers, beer, mountain climbing, ice cream, motor cycles, ski boats . . . .
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    Wealth Gap and Corporate Law

    This situation will never be changed without a shooting revolution which will be impossible because we don't know whom to hang. The rich people who are in the public's eye are mostly new rich with paper assets and so far down the food chain that they don't matter. Second, because the old...
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    A question of inclusiveness

    back to page 1 of the thread, anyone notice this sort thread, newspaper story, whatever, is always about African Americans? Never about Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Irish . . . . "Minority" has become a euphemism for "African American."
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    Padded Bras And Such.

    More important, supposedly a third of American women have STDs. Should both sexes carry medical test results if they want to date?