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Yeah he should restate that.....
I am 50-50 on domestic vs foreign.
Wow.. This statement is over the top
Exactly! Someone trying to make a point against taxes would be going against a Fed Building and most likely a place where the IRS is housed. No real American would set explosives with the clear intent to maim and kill innocent people!
We have become the United States of the Offended.
Agreed!
52 Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.
Good!
You can do better than that. I have faith in you. Probably some Gun Nuts exercising their freedom.
Looks Homegrown....to me at least.
I think people are just getting off work.
I found this to be disturbing
FDA Dilemma
This creates dilemmas. The Food and Drug Administration, for instance, has approved a clinical trial studying whether marijuana can relieve symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. The trial, however, which is in the second of three stages of clinical testing, is blocked. NIDA, which controls the legal testing supply of the drug grown at a University of Mississippi farm, has refused to supply the researchers with marijuana.
“NIDA is under a mandate from Congress to find problems with marijuana,” said Bob Melamede, CEO of Cannabis Science Inc. (CBIS), a Colorado Springs, Colorado-based company that develops medicines derived from marijuana. “If you want to run a study to show it cures cancer, they will not provide you with marijuana,” he said. “What you cannot do are the clinical studies that are necessary.”
Attempts to expand licensed facilities beyond the University of Mississippi farm, have been denied, including a petition from University of Massachusetts agronomist Lyle Craker. The Drug Enforcement Administration denied that request in 2011, reversing a 2007 recommendation from its own administrative law judge, Mary Ellen Bittner.
Worth a look
Lol...no...one translation.... Depends on how you read it and the root Hebrew Words.
He spent years as a POW and ran a clean campaign ... sure he is going to talk shit about Obama...thats what politicians do. Please give the devil his due.
Yes it is. Selling a weapon is serious... if you sell a car the title must be transferred.... why not a gun?
Saw it in a movie.
Sadly, due to the Hippa Oath, you cant release mental health records. A lot of people squeeze thru.
This has to be one of the worst people alive
..............Woman faked cancer to fund heroin habit, authorities say
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.By Dylan Stableford, Yahoo! News
A Long Island woman who claimed to have ovarian, stomach, bone and brain cancer, soliciting thousands of dollars for her treatment, faked the diagnosis to help fund her heroin addiction, authorities say.
“There was no cancer, no chemotherapy, no radiation and no medical bills,” Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota said in a statement. “There was just heroin.”
Brittany Ozarowski, a 21-year-old from Selden, N.Y., collected money from unsuspecting donors for more than a year.
College for everybody days over?
Luke Nichter of Harker Heights, Texas, said he’s not a renter by choice. The Texas A&M University history professor’s $125,000 of student debt means he has no hope of getting a mortgage.
Nichter, 35, who’s paying $1,500 a month on loans for degrees from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, is part of the most debt-laden generation to emerge from college. Two- thirds of student loans are held by people under the age of 40, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, blocking millions of them from taking advantage of the most affordable housing market on record. The number of people in that age group who own homes fell by 4.6 percent in the fourth quarter from the third, the biggest drop in records dating to 1982.
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A placard calling for a student bailout lies among the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as students protest the rising costs of student loans for higher education in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2012. Photographer: David McNew/Getty Images
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In a March survey, nine out of 10 people reported they want to own their own home, JPMorgan Chase & Co. said. Yet rental demand is at a 10-year high. Photographer: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
“Student debt has a dramatic impact on the ability to buy a house, and to buy the dishwashers and the lawnmowers and all the other purchases that stem from that,” said Diane Swonk, chief economist of Mesirow Financial. “It has a ripple effect throughout the economy.”
The issue is being exacerbated by an explosion in the $150 billion private market for student debt with interest rates for some existing loans surpassing 12 percent. Unlike mortgage holders, borrowers have little hope of refinancing at lower rates. Interest on some new federal loans is set to double to 6.8 percent in July if Congress doesn’t extend the current rate, as they did last year.
An Honorable Man
AP
Sen. John McCain on Sunday once again found himself at odds with Republican colleagues Rand Paul and Ted Cruz when he slammed their intention to filibuster any gun legislation.
“I don’t understand it,” the Arizona Republican said on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” “The purpose of the United States Senate is to debate and to vote and to let the people know where we stand.”
A number of GOP senators, including Paul (Ky.), Cruz (Texas), Mike Lee of Utah and Marco Rubio of Florida, signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) vowing to filibuster any gun bills.
“I don’t understand it,” McCain repeated. “What are we afraid of?…If this issue is as important as all of us think it is…why not take it up and debate?”
He added that “everybody wants the same goal, to keep the guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally disabled.”
McCain previously ran afoul of the group when he referred to them as “wacko birds” following Paul’s filibuster John Brennan’s confirmation as CIA director.
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), also on “Face the Nation” agreed that it would be “very wrong” to filibuster and said senators should at least be allowed to debate.
“Please let us go to the floor,” Schumer said. “If we go to the floor, I’m still hopeful that what I call the sweet spot, background checks, can succeed…hopefully people will rise to the occasion.”
This is interesting
At first glance, the fox on the surface of the limestone pillar appears to be a trick of the bright sunlight. But as I move closer to the large, T-shaped megalith, I find it is carved with an improbable menagerie. A bull and a crane join the fox in an animal parade etched across the surface of the pillar, one of dozens erected by early Neolithic people at Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey. The press here is fond of calling the site "the Turkish Stonehenge," but the comparison hardly does justice to this 25-acre arrangement of at least seven stone circles. The first structures at Göbekli Tepe were built as early as 10,000 B.C., predating their famous British counterpart by about 7,000 years.
The oldest man-made place of worship yet discovered, Göbekli Tepe is "one of the most important monuments in the world," says Hassan Karabulut, associate curator of the nearby Urfa Museum. He and archaeologist Zerrin Ekdogan of the Turkish Ministry of Culture guide me around the site. Their enthusiasm for the ancient temple is palpable.
By the time of my visit in late summer, the excavation team lead by Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute has wrapped up work for the season. But there is still plenty to see, including three excavated circles now protected by a large metal shelter. The megaliths, which may have once supported roofs, are about nine feet tall.
Göbekli Tepe's circles range from 30 to 100 feet in diameter and are surrounded by rectangular stone walls about six feet high. Many of the pillars are carved with elaborate animal figure reliefs. In addition to bulls, foxes, and cranes, representations of lions, ducks, scorpions, ants, spiders, and snakes appear on the pillars. Freestanding sculptures depicting the animals have also been found within the circles. During the most recent excavation season, archaeologists uncovered a statue of a human and sculptures of a vulture's head and a boar.
As we walk around the recently excavated pillars, the site seems at once familiar and exotic. I have seen stone circles before, but none like these.
Left to right: T-shaped pillars at Göbekli Tepe depict two boars accompanied by ostrich-like birds, a crocodile-like creature, and vultures flying above a scorpion. (Haldun Aydingün)
Excavations have revealed that Göbekli Tepe was constructed in two stages. The oldest structures belong to what archaeologists call the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period, which ended around 9000 B.C. Strangely enough, the later remains, which date to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period, or about 8000 B.C., are less elaborate. The earliest levels contain most of the T-shaped pillars and animal sculptures.
Archaeologist Klaus Schmidt downplays extravagant spiritual interpretations of Göbekli Tepe, such as the idea, made popular in the press, that the site is the inspiration for the Biblical Garden of Eden. But he does agree that it was a sanctuary of profound significance in the Neolithic world. He sees it as a key site in understanding the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture, and from tribal to regional religion.
Schmidt and his colleagues estimate that at least 500 people were required to hew the 10- to 50-ton stone pillars from local quarries, move them from as far as a quarter-mile away, and erect them. How did Stone Age people achieve the level of organization necessary to do this? Hauptmann speculates that an elite class of religious leaders supervised the work and later controlled the rituals that took place at the site. If so, this would be the oldest known evidence for a priestly caste--much earlier than when social distinctions became evident at other Near Eastern sites.
Klaus Schmidt of the German Archaeological Institute believes Göbekli Tepe attracted small nomadic groups from numerous regions throughout southeastern Anatolia. (Haldun Aydingün)
Before the discovery of Göbekli Tepe, archaeologists believed that societies in the early Neolithic were organized into small bands of hunter-gatherers and that the first complex religious practices were developed by groups that had already mastered agriculture. Scholars thought that the earliest monumental architecture was possible only after agriculture provided Neolithic people with food surpluses, freeing them from a constant focus on day-to-day survival. A site of unbelievable artistry and intricate detail, Göbekli Tepe has turned this theory on its head.
Schmidt believes the people who created these massive and enigmatic structures came from great distances. It seems certain that once pilgrims reached Göbekli Tepe, they made animal sacrifices. Schmidt and his team have found the bones of wild animals, including gazelles, red deer, boars, goats, sheep, and oxen, plus a dozen different bird species, such as vultures and ducks, scattered around the site. Most of these animals are depicted in the sculptures and reliefs at the site.
There is still much that we don't understand about religious practices at Göbekli Tepe, Schmidt cautions. But broadly speaking, the animal images "probably illustrate stories of hunter-gatherer religion and beliefs," he says, "though we don't know at the moment." The sculptors of Göbekli Tepe may have simply wanted to depict the animals they saw, or perhaps create symbolic representations of the animals to use in rituals to ensure hunting success.
Schmidt has another theory about how Göbekli Tepe became a sacred place. Though he has yet to find them, he believes that the first stone circles on the hill of the navel marked graves of important people. Hauptmann's team discovered graves at Nevali Cori, and Schmidt is reasonably confident that burials lie somewhere in the earliest layers of Göbekli Tepe. This leads him to suspect the pillars represent human beings and that the cult practices at this site may initially have focused on some sort of ancestor worship. The T-shaped pillars, he points out, look like human bodies with the upper part of the "T" resembling a head in profile. Once, Schmidt says, they stood on the hillside "like a meeting of stone beings."
I don't want to see the U.S. Turn into Mogadishu.
Marines 4 Army 2... The Oath at the MEPS Station.....foreign and domestic? Thanks for your service...we can still Disagree.
Again please read my lips.....I'm not for banning all guns nor am I for preventing sane law abiding students. You register a car ....why not a gun?
Easy if a gun is registered to you and you sell it to crazy uncle Larry ...you are responsible unless you produce a bill of sale and report it to the authorities.
Just be honest ... You think everybody should have a gun. Fine say it. Edit Guns Ahoy.
Yeah right. Background checks on Felonies ...the Hipparchus Law prevents the rest. Do some research.
I'm crazy as Hell documented....I can buy any weapon I want... Sad huh?
Look at this face....it says it all
http://a.abcnews.go.com//images/Technology/spl_charlie_the_pug_ss_jt_130113_ssh.jpg
Too little too late.
Do you mind......what happened?
Bible Prophecy is like tea leaves reading or Tarot Cards....you see what you want to see.
No problem, I feel like an interloper there.......I think that board should be for those fighting the fight.....it says a lot about your character giving a place for people to talk to one another with Cancer. Again well done Sir.
If it's true, it's set back Archeology 200,000 years.
What makes you think Big Brother can't pull up your posts here and elsewhere and track you via the Internet?
Good points made....but background checks are still a good idea.
No it's called growing up.... Something needs to be done about gun violence.... Both sides refuse to give in and the end result is more dead bodies
Still a good observation.
Lol We were discussing the Gospels.
Knee Jerk? 4 Firefighters held at gunpoint in Ga? Could he do that if he ha a knife?