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JACKSON – Legislation is alive in the House to increase Mississippi's tax on motor fuel to provide additional funds to improve the state's transportation system.
And House Transportation Chair Robert Johnson, D-Natchez, the author of the legislation, said if that proposal dies in the tax-averse Legislature, he will propose a statewide referendum on the issue.
"It is that important," Johnson said. "All the states around us are taking action to do something with their roads."
He pointed out that in 2012 Arkansas voters approved a half-cent sales tax increase that is supposed to fund $1.8 billion in highway improvements over a 10-year period.
Johnson's proposal would reduce the current 18.8-cent per gallon tax on gas and diesel fuel to 12 cents, but would add a 6 percent tax to the average wholesale price of motor fuel. Or, the tax could be tied to the inflation rate.
Johnson said the tax would generate an additional $300 million annually. If the bill becomes law, he said the tax would be about 35 cents per gallon instead of the current 18.8 cents.
The legislation has passed his Transportation Committee and is now pending before the Ways and Means Committee.
While it has become increasingly more difficult to pass tax bills in the Republican-controlled Legislature, several proposals that could raise taxes are still alive as the session enters its fifth week of a 13-week session.
Legislation has passed the Ways and Means Committee and pending before the full House to allow municipalities to ask voters to approve a 1-cent sales tax increase for capital needs.
Senate Finance Chair Joey Fillingane, R-Sumrall, said he would consider the legislation if it passes the House. He said he does not have strong feelings on the proposal. Fillingane also has filed legislation to ensure taxes are collected from people who win small amounts in the state's casinos. Revenue from that proposal, like Johnson's bill, would be directed to transportation needs.
Johnson said he is not opposed to Fillingane's bill, but questioned whether the state had the technology or the manpower to enforce it.
It's far from a slam dunk that any tax increase proposal will pass.
"I am against raising taxes 100 percent," said Rep. Tracy Arnold, R-Booneville, when asked about the various proposals pending before the Legislature.
One of the first public officials to advocate for a tax increase to improve the state's highways is Republican Central District Transportation Commissioner Dick Hall. He has said that the state does not have the money to build new four-lanes and keep up with maintenance needs.
The problem is that the revenue generated from the 18.8-cent tax, which provides nearly all of state funds for road construction, has not kept up with the soaring cost of that construction.
Hall maintains the tax generates 8 cents by today's standards instead of the 18.8 cents it generated in 1987.
Construction costs have more than tripled, while at the same time the revenue generated from the tax on a gallon of motor fuel has increased much more modestly. In 1989, that tax generated $219 million annually compared with $288 million today.
The key is that the tax generates the same amount of money whether a gallon of gas costs $1 or $4. And today's cars on average get much better gas mileage than they did in the 1980s.
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Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr., one of the most celebrated trial lawyers in America, will deliver the 16th Annual Public Interest Law Week keynote speech at Southwestern on November 7 at 12:30 p.m. Though he gained international recognition for successfully defending Michael Jackson in 2005, Mr. Mesereau has dedicated much of his career to public interest and will share those experiences with the Southwestern community.
A partner with the firm of Mesereau & Yu, he has won many high-stakes criminal, civil and administrative trials involving a wide range of claims, including securities fraud, complex business disputes, murder, sexual assault and the death penalty. In a case covered by more media outlets around the world than any other trial in history, he won acquittals on all counts for music legend Michael Jackson. Mr. Mesereau is also highly regarded for his tireless pro bono efforts.
He actively sponsors and participates in numerous free clinics throughout Los Angeles, one of which has been named in his honor. Bar associations, law schools, the city and county of Los Angeles and numerous other entities have honored Mr. Mesereau in recognition of his outstanding work as a trial lawyer and his efforts to give everyone a chance for equal justice. Barbara Walters named him one of the year's "Ten Most Fascinating People" for his trial excellence and commitment to representing the underprivileged. The Los Angeles Daily Journal has named him one of the "100 Most Influential Lawyers" in California for the past three years, and both the Criminal Courts Bar Association of Los Angeles and the Century City Bar Association have named him "Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year." He recently received the "President's Award" from the U.S. Dream Academy in Washington D.C. for his work with inner city children whose parents are incarcerated.
Mr. Mesereau serves on the Advisory Board of the Salvation Army of Compton. He received the "Humanitarian Award" from the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABCJ), for which he has conducted seminars on various aspects of the criminal justice system. He received the "Annual Service Award" from n-Action Family Network for his efforts on behalf of women in recovery from drugs and incarceration, and he also serves on the Advisory Board of this civil rights group. Mr. Mesereau regularly marches with the Mothers of Watts and their children against gang violence. He is a graduate of Harvard University, the London School of Economics and the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
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It's an ace idea, and the show's designers also make it a visually sumptuous one, a world gleaming with gold clockworks, silk, and leather — think a mash-up of Jules Verne, Alice in Wonderland, and the Cramps. The first thing we see, up stage, is a clockface, washed in a low cobalt gel and mid-horizon like a rising orb. And then come the nobles: Hippolyta (Rebecca Brinegar, who is rather sultry) in a fur stole, champagne silk, and glittering black eye makeup; and her Theseus (Jody McColman) with a fat, shiny watch-fob and a fro of black, red, and golden dreds.
Then the warring lovers: Demetrius (Nate Speckman), with a brown metallic trenchcoat and spiky hair, has the love of Egeus (Mark Barrasso, in a monocle) but not his daughter Hermia (Kristen Peters, in plain peasant-Victorian shirt and purple corset). Lysander (John U. Robinson, who with Peters is quite fluent with Shakespeare's verse), in his bright-buttoned admiral's tails and gold-banded bowler, has Hermia's love but not her dad's. And poor Helena (April Singley, who voices her laconic fury tripplingly) loves Demetrius, who spurns her. Interestingly, Lysander and Hermia are both played as the rather more straitlaced lovers, while the dad-sanctioned Demetrius is surly as a steampunk James Dean.
The fairies who wreak havoc on the mortals come more or less in two flavors: Wonderland-brothel — checkered tights, colored wigs, parasols, and coy lingerie — for the fairies of Titania (Alison Guite); and industrial goth — skin-tight black and red — for those of Oberon (Charlie Marenghi). Puck himself (Dan Neuville) dashes about in pale face makeup, a sleeveless black hoodie, and red devil horns, cutting an ominous backlit profile. The sounds of industrial rock or clicking gears sometimes prelude their foibles, and when Puck and Oberon mess around with the love-drug flower on various sleeping eyelids, a line of footlights midstage goes red, as if they're using a retro sci-fi ray-gun instead of some weed called love-in-idleness.
The steampunk motif finds particularly interesting potential in the Rude Mechanicals, of course; the very name of the earnest workman thespians — who are highly entertaining in this show — opens up lots of room for fun around unknowingly primitive contraptions. And the troupe, led by John Schrank's Peter Quince and divertingly dominated by Michael Donovan's excellent, puffily narcissistic Nick Bottom, schleps around some good-looking bits of gear: Francis Flute the bellows-mender (Joe Swenson) has binoculars, aviator-style goggles, and lots of chains; Tom Snout, the tinker (Johnny Speckman), has a cool backpack decked out with a variety of metal objects, including what looks like a golden model of an atom. These were great touches, and I would actually have liked to see more, and more overt, references to each of the men's professions, in light of the steampunk styling.
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The Western Wall is Judaism's most holy site, as for centuries people have been going there to bewail the loss of the temple in 70AD. The Wall is not part of the temple itself, rather a continuation of Herod the Great's retaining structure that holds in the arches known as Solomon's stables (the huge dressed stones at its bottom date from that time), but this has not stopped its Sanctification and the practise of writing prayers on pieces of paper that are placed in cracks in the wall in the belief that God will take more heed of them.
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period. The muslims have always claimed it as an integral part of their whole Sanctuary (Al Haram es-Sharif) and the place where Mohammed tied the winged steed that had brought him from Mecca (Al Buraq) while he experienced his "Night Journey", and the mandate authorities tended to side with them as being the larger part of the populace. During that time the only access to the wall was down a narrow alleyway at the back of the houses of the Mughrabi (Moorish) quarter, and this led to the blowing of the shofar being declared illegal as it "disturbed the residents". The residents did some disturbing of their own by driving flocks and herds through the alley even during Jewish High Holidays, and it was this antagonism tinged with the overwhelming relief of victory and being able to pray at the Wall without restriction that caused the Israeli government of 1967 to bulldoze the entire area to make way for the plaza that exists today, leaving over a thousand homeless.
Since then the Wall has become a symbol of national unity, with army swearing-in ceremonies taking place there regularly, but this symbol has weakened in recent years as the Orthodox attempt to monopolise its use even to the point of scuffling with Reformers and Conservatives over the issue of segregated congregations.


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So you want to plant a bee garden and attract many of the native bees that occur in the United States. The first thing you should know is that by planting bee-attracting plants, you can attract a diverse array of other wildlife as well. Butterflies, wasps, flies, hummingbirds and other pollinators will give you a bountiful harvest of fruits, vegetables, and seeds and provide you with many hours of outdoor entertainment. You will be providing pesticide-free safe havens for all pollinators.
Bees as watchable wildlife, you might ask? Don't worry, nearly all species of bees are gentle and will not sting you. They are simply searching for food, pollen and nectar, to feed themselves and their young. All bees need the same few basic requirements in order to thrive. It may surprise you to learn that of the nearly 5,000 species of bees in the U.S. Almost all lead solitary lives and construct their homes (nests) underground or in pithy twigs or abandoned beetle burrows in dead tree branches.
You probably have already taken the first important step in providing what the bees ordered for dinner - you have planted flowers. The bees won't chew up your prize specimens. Instead, they will take away pollen and nectar, leaving a pollination path of luscious fruits, vegetables, and seeds in their wake. Remember, they aren't intentionally trying to be helpful to flowering plants by moving the pollen from flower to flower. In search of a quick sip of nectar, some tasty pollen, and maybe some building materials to transport back to their nests the bees pollinate blossoms leading to fertilization and the formation of fruits. By selecting the best bee-rewarding plants, you can attract beneficial pollinating bees and other creatures to your flower and vegetable gardens or backyard fruit orchard.
The most important consideration is how to use a maximum of native annual and perennial wildflowers which naturally grow in your region. These plants evolved there and are adapted to the growing season and local climate and soils. They often require less water, fertilizer, and pesticides than showy exotics and fancy hybrids splashed across colorful ads in the most recent seed or bulb catalogs. The native wilflowers will also provide your bee visitors with more nutritious pollen and nectar. Plant breeders do not think about providing floral rewards for pollinators and their magnificient creations are often all show and no nectar for the bees. You can also make selections from old heirloom varieties such as cosmos, black-eyed susans, lupines, mints, and others which are now enjoying a Renaissance of popularity.
Once you have provided your garden landscape with attractive and rewarding bee plants, there are a few other things to keep your bees healthy and around to pollinate another day. Apart from bountiful flowers, all bees require places to hide from predators, to locate and court a mate, and establish their nests. Thus, they need you to help provide safe havens from predators, parasites and chemical insecticides.
The number of organic farms and gardens has been increasing over the past several years due to the increasing concern of consumers for buying safe produce at the supermarket. At home, you too can practice integrated pest management by purchasing beneficial insects such as ladybird beetles (lady bugs), green lacewings, or praying mantids. You can also encourage insect control by allowing spiders to build webs in your yard or ants to build nests in your garden. They are worth their weight in gold for controlling insects such as caterpillars which may be pests.
If you can't avoid not using some insecticides, try to use less persistent ones which have been proven safer for bees and other pollinators. Also, remember to follow the application instructions on the label and apply these materials after dark or when pollinators like bees are safe within their nests. If you poison your bees, you will have fewer prize-winning fruits on your table to brag about with your gardening neighbors. The biggest and tastiest fruits are the direct result of flowers pollinated by bees. Over a third of all the fruits and vegetables we eat are the result of bee visits to blossoms in our farms and gardens.
Bees also need sources of water which can be provided from a dripping faucet or pond or bird bath. Some, require mud as a building material for their nests. If you are lucky enough to have Blue Orchard Bees in your neighborhood, or other so-called Mason bees, encourage them by providing some mud. Create a one foot tall conical mound of soil near your garden. Allow some water to seep up from a pan at the base. The eager Mason bees will collect balls of mud from the wet soil at the proper height and reward you by sticking around and increasing in numbers.
Bees in the large family of leafcutter bees (Megachilidae) nest in the ground or more typically in abandoned beetle burrows in dead wood. Most of them require small leaf pieces which they cut then fashion into the natal cells for their young. They may also collect downy plant fibers or small pebbles and plant resins to complete the job. Please allow these fascinating leafcutters to cut a few elliptical holes from leaves of some of your garden plants. They will pollinate your fruits and vegetables as they go about their housebuilding and grocery shopping to provision their hidden pantries and bee nurseries.
In creating a bee garden, it is important to remember that you should leave a small patch of bare ground somewhere in or around your garden in which bees can establish their underground nests. Very few bees can nest in manicured grass lawns. Similarly, if you, or your neighbors, can tolerate a dead tree, or at least some dead branches, these will prove invaluable as nesting sites for many leafcutter and mason bees. Tie some dead branches up against your garden shed or other building to create some enticing holey bee real estate. The more beetle burrows the better for the bees.
Often, it is not floral abundance but rather nesting sites that is limiting for our native bees. If you have access to elderberry stems, cut and dry some into 1-2 foot lengths. With a drill, different sized starter holes can be drilled into one end and into the sides of the woody stems. Sharpen one end like a tent stake and push them into the ground around your yard. If your dog doesn't use them as toys, the bees will soon find them and reward you for your bee stewardship efforts.
"Bee houses" are easy and fun to make or can be purchased commercially from several vendors. Making your own can provide you and your children with hours of fun and even more entertainment once they are hung up in your yard to entice new bee pollinating tenants. With a drill bit of various sizes (5/16th of an inch works best for Mason bees including the Blue Orchard Bee) simply take some scrap lumber and drill holes 3 to 5 inches deep but not all the way through the wood block. Nail these up securely in protected places under building eaves in the early spring. Using paper or plastic soda straws, you can bundle these materials and glue them into the bottom of paper milk cartons or coffee cans. Place them in protected shady and dry places in the early spring and the bees will come.
Nectar, pollen, water, nesting materials and open ground-- combine these ingredients and your collaboration with nature should result in some larger and tastier fruits and vegetables in just a season or two from now. By creating small patches of pesticide-free safe havens for all pollinators, you can play a small but vital role in reversing the dramatic pollinator declines which have occured during the past few years. it may not seem like much, but magnified across your state and across the country, these gardens (a patchwork quilt of floral islands) can serve a vital role by feeding and protecting many threatened animals that pollinate wildflowers and our crop plants. This is especially true for migratory pollinators (animals like nectar-feeding bats or Monarch butterflies) which travel long distances across state and international boundaries. Along these nectar corridors the migratory pollinators can take a much needed nectar break within your newly-constructed pollinator garden.


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As for the biologist, what is more likely, that 1 guy is not telling truth or dinosaurs still exist and only one guy has seen it. I'm guessing by your logic that you believe in aliens. I mean, how many people have claimed to have seen them. Biologists are human like the rest of us, they're not immune to making a lie in order to advance their career.
Your little Atheist vs SW thing actually goes more like this.
Atheists': You can't prove God exists!
SW: Thinks he provided a valid and sound syllogism proving God has to exist.
Atheists: ummm, that doesn't make any sense
SW: Why not?
Atheists: provides detailed and logical reasons why the syllogism SW created is flawed
SW: ignores atheist posts and claims to have established God exists.
SW: Thinks he already proved God exists, and starts to use scripture to support his position now.
I could keep going, but it's basically the same scenario over and over. You make an illogical claim, people give a detailed rational response, to which you ignore and claim victory. Hell, one time you didn't even need us, you owned your own argument with your link. lmao.
Fallacy of appealing to ridicule.
You can't prove the that. That's just your opinion. We know knowledge exists, you still haven't proven God exists, or even proven that knowledge is impossible without God.
Yes, I can prove it. Yes, I did prove it. Yes knowledge exists, and yes my indirect syllogism proves that knowledge could only exist if God exists, you whining about that doesn't change anything.
It's a completely un-demonstrable/ un-testable assertion. Ergo, it isn't factual; ergo, your syllogism isn't valid. Premises need to be verifiable in order to be valid, you can't prove that God exists, & you can't prove that knowledge can't exist without God.
Actually it is demonstrable; I am not sure why you find this so difficult to understand. I can account for all of the preconditions of knowledge with God's existence, you can't account for any of them with your naturalism or any other religion for that matter; therefore God's existence is demonstrated to be necessary for their existence since all other explanations fail, it's proof through negation and it's completely logically valid.
You can claim all day long that the Christian God accounts for all your "preconditions", but you still can't prove that he does.
I already did, see my syllogism that you have yet to refute.
You can say "he must!", but again you don't know that & you certainly can't prove it.
If knowledge is possible then yes He must, so you either have to assert that knowledge is not possible which of course is a self-refuting position or you have to concede God exists.
You can say "well no one else can prove how the universe was created so mine HAS to be right", but again, that's not how proof works.
Actually that is how proof works, appealing to any other explanation that has not yet been found is a fallacious appeal to ignorance, so you're trying to argue against my valid syllogism by committing a logical fallacy, that doesn't work I am sorry.
I want you to consider again that absolutely nobody can prove how the universe was created, yet.
Where's your proof to back up this assertion?
No I didn't forget to mention that, I chose not to.You forgot to mention the lock ness monster.
I couldn't stop laughing when she said the discovery was dated back to about 68 million years.
Why is that funny? She made a scientific blunder; she used non-empirically tested assumptions to alter her emperically verified dates, of course that's absurd. You could just admit you were wrong about people never finding soft tissue in dinosaur fossils but I think you have too much of an ego for that.
Talking about pulling the stuff that supports your theory and ignoring the stuff that doesn't.
That's funny considering that five days ago you asserted soft tissue has never been found in fossils (simply because you know that it couldn't survive for millions of years), and yet I proved you wrong. I didn't ignore anything that doesn't support my theory, she believes the fossils are millions of years old because of radiometric dating, since I have consistently asked for verification on that dating method and received nothing from you guys I am not ignoring anything, just merely waiting for you to back up your position…still waiting.
By the way you need to keep your jokes consistent. You said to me earlier that it would be impossible to find dinasours and people together and now in this post you are claiming that they coexisted.
Please provide me with the quotation where I said it would be impossible to find them together. I simply said I would not expect to find them fossilized together because they wouldn't have lived near one another, that doesn't mean that they didn't coexist and interact on occasion. So what's your explanation for all of the evidence I provided? You seem to be strangely silent on the whole matter.
Not at all, where did I say anywhere that the people who found the soft tissue didn't believe the earth was old? They merely altered the interpretation of the evidence to support their conclusion. There is zero evidence to suggest soft tissue could last for millions of years, this is exactly why so many "old earthers" completely rejected the notion it was soft tissue for the longest time, they knew what the implications of it were. It's also why the article is called "dinosaur shocker"; if we thought soft tissue could last that long then why would we be so "shocked" when we found it? Sadly, people would rather embrace complete absurdities (i.e. soft tissue lasting for millions of years) rather than alter their presupposed views about the earth's history.Owned by your own link.
I admire her for discovering something creationists have asserted was completely possible and your crowd asserted was impossible; I do not admire her for her ignorance when it comes to how faith, proof, and evidence relate. So you're really proving nothing. Where is your evidence that soft tissue can last millions of years?
Only if you consider animals long thought to be extinct being found alive as part of cryptozoology, which I think that's a bit of a stretch.I wasn't aware this had become a cryptozoology thread. I love this kind of ****. Fascinating.
Statler loves this too. He loves it so much that he takes both sides.You seeming to fail in the area of reading comprehension in no way proves that I am on both sides of the fence on this. I was quite clear in my position, go back and re-read it, slowly and maybe even aloud this time.
I guess that way he can discuss and argue the subject all by himself for hours and days.
I didn't realize that the word dragon automatically means giant bi-pedal reptile. Who knows what they considered dragons at the time, and who knows if they were talking about a real life being or a mythical creature.
It doesn't mean bi-pedal reptile, sometimes the people described a dragon that was a reptile on two legs and sometimes they described one that was on all four legs (such as the one in southern France I mentioned). Sometimes they had scales and sometimes they had plated armor- just like many dinosaurs. Why would some of the greatest historians we know, historians that we base our entire understanding of the Roman Empire on throw in mythical creatures out of the blue in their writings? These had to be real creatures that people interacted with; their descriptions are too consistent to be mythology. You just want to believe they were mythological because it challenges everything you want to believe about the earth's history, that's what this comes down to.
As for the biologist, what is more likely, that 1 guy is not telling truth or dinosaurs still exist and only one guy has seen it.
You just committed the straw-man fallacy, it's not just one biologist; I mentioned several biologists, including the group from the Smithsonian Institute and the University of Chicago. Either way, scientific fact is not determined by majority or consensus so your argument fails either way.
I'm guessing by your logic that you believe in aliens. I mean, how many people have claimed to have seen them.
Actually most of the people I have talked to who believe in aliens are actually atheists, so I am not sure why you'd try to bring that up right now.
Biologists are human like the rest of us, they're not immune to making a lie in order to advance their career.
Yeah because taking the position that dinosaurs are still alive today (a position you all called me crazy for believing) is a great way to advance your career in academia! So first dinosaurs couldn't have lived with people because there were no accounts of them, and now when I provide accounts of large ferocious reptiles that fit the description of dinosaurs you call all of those people liars. It must be amazing knowing you can just dismiss evidence like that in order to preserve your preconceived notions about the earth's history.
Atheists': You can't prove God exists!Wrong, the syllogism I provided was formally valid, and thus far un-refuted so also sound, so what you or I think about it is irrelevant, it is what it is.SW: Thinks he provided a valid and sound syllogism proving God has to exist.
Atheists: ummm, that doesn't make any senseThis never happened! Please point to where you or anyone else has demonstrated how the syllogism is either flawed in form or commits a logical fallacy. All you have done is say you don't like it, or have asserted it doesn't work, neither of which proves a thing.SW: Why not?
Atheists: provides detailed and logical reasons why the syllogism SW created is flawed
I could keep going, but it's basically the same scenario over and over. You make an illogical claim, people give a detailed rational response, to which you ignore and claim victory.
More like I state a position, I back the position up with a valid and sound syllogism and you all proceed to whine about it. Of course whining doesn't get you anywhere in logic, so by all means continue doing it.
Hell, one time you didn't even need us, you owned your own argument with your link. lmao.
You mean that article that proved soft tissue had actually been found in dinosaur fossils nearly 20 years before you asserted it had never been found? Yeah, that was pretty funny alright. What this discussion has certainly proven if nothing else is that you all need to brush up on your facts, I have one guy asserting that brontosaurus existed and another asserting that soft tissue had never been found in dinosaur fossils nearly two decades after it was first discovered! Now that is actually funny stuff.
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Your irrefutable syllogism is only irrefutable in your eyes because you refuse to acknowledge any argument to the contrary. I simply grew weary of typing the same thing over and over, hence the "lol"
Your irrefutable syllogism is only irrefutable in your eyes because you refuse to acknowledge any argument to the contrary. I simply grew weary of typing the same thing over and over, hence the "lol"
Of course I refuse to acknowledge your attempts because they prove nothing. You have three ways in which you can refute my syllogism, and you have yet to even try any one of the three.
1. Prove the syllogism's form is invalid. (Considering the indirect syllogism was first used by Kant and has been used by logicians for centuries I don't think you're going to get anywhere with this approach.)
2. Demonstrate that the God of scripture actually doesn't make sense of the preconditions of intelligibility.
3. Demonstrate that there is an alternative explanation other than the God of scripture that can make sense of the preconditions of intelligibility.
Those are your only three options, saying you don't like the syllogism, saying it's not demonstrable because nobody can prove God exists (which just oozes circularity), or claiming it is merely my opinion do nothing to refute the syllogism. If you can't refute the syllogism then you have no rational basis for denying its conclusion.
You can't have a rational conversation with the insane and you sir definitely fall into that category with your completely insane posts. It goes to show how morally limited your ilk really are when you need a book to tell you what's right and wrong when most people have a natural born ability to know right from wrong. Actually, thinking about it maybe it is better to have the bible to keep people like you in check. Otherwise, your kind would be probably out raping and killing.
Your syllogism is:
Ill give two different argument as to why this syllogism is either not valid or not relevant.P1 If knowledge is possible, then God exists
P2 Knowledge is possible
C Therefore God exists
First of all, if God is needed for knowledge to be possible, how can you know there is knowledge when theres no proof of God? You argument is circular. In order to make knowledge possible, you grant that God is real. But then to make God real, you have to appeal back to the fact that we have have knowledge. Your P1 states that if knowledge is possible, God exists. You now have to show that knowledge is possible. You cant do that without using a God that your P1 already states is proven through knowledge. Can you not see how circular that is?
Secondly, let me grant you that your syllogism is true and perfectly valid. God is proven for the purposes of this point. Now prove to me that its the Christian God I should follow and not any of the other thousands of options for God.
I doubt that it is best for people like Statler to be kept in check by the bible. Remember the bible condones rape, murder and incest. The bible is a breeding ground for immorality and abuse. It let's you sin all your life without taking responsibility as long as you confess and accept Jesus as your savior. People as narrow minded as Statler run around plenty. Not all of them are as famous as Koresh or your friendly neighborhood priest or pastor or that televangelist dude but plenty are running around.


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Before heading out for another judging assignment, (wearing my new HRC "judge's jacket"...heh heh heh heh) here's some more from Mr. Bonner.
Now Entering the Political Stage
by Bill Bonner
London, England
"Politics is about what works," someone once said. Perhaps it was Hillary Clinton. Someone said it...someone who is an imbecile.
Politics is not about what works, it's about what you can get away with. And what you can get away with is often exactly what doesn't work at all.
Our beat is money, here at The Daily Reckoning. We specialize in fraud and folderol. We leave the homicide beat to someone else.
What the United States is getting away with, from a financial point of view, in addition to counterfeiting, is grand larceny on a Super-Madoff scale. It is borrowing trillions of dollars even though it has no way to honestly pay back the money.
Still, so eager are the lenders to part with their money that the yield on the 10-year T-note fell yesterday to 3.64%. The more the feds borrow, apparently, the more lenders are willing to lend.
We're in the third and fatal stage of a great country - the political stage. In this stage, money and power migrate from the financial community to the political community. The politicians get away with taking trillions out of the productive economy and spending them on their pet projects and private corruptions.
Warren Buffett described the America of the bubble years as "Squanderville." Private citizens were living beyond their means, he pointed out. But he hadn't seen nothin'. Now, government does the squandering. The politicians are spending trillions they don't have on projects nobody was willing to pay for even when they had some money in their pockets.
What the government can get away with now - under cover of a financial crisis - is a big grab for money and power. It 'works' in the sense the feds are able to get away with it. But it will prove fatal to the dollar...and to the US economy.
The Fed is expected to talk about an "exit strategy." It is intervening in markets as no Fed ever has. Its balance sheet - a measure of how much intervention it has done - has shot up in a way that is not only unprecedented, but also almost unbelievable. In an effort to provide liquidity, it has bought up the contents of every neglected refrigerator on Wall Street. The smelly, furry stuff - "toxic" derivatives...SIVs...MBAs...no one seems to know exactly what it is - enters the Fed's books as an asset. Altogether, along with its not-so- pungent holdings of US Treasury bonds, the Fed's balance sheet shows more than $2.7 trillion worth of assets.
"It's not sound economics - nor is it ethical - to trash the US dollar and bail out incompetent investors who poured billions into CMBS at the peak of the bubble," says Strategic Short Report's Dan Amoss. "There is no longer a 'systemic risk' argument for The Fed to be propping up the price of such securities.
"However, as the stock market falls and the economy weakens, we should expect the Fed to step on the accelerator again. I find it useful to think about the Fed's role in such terms; as fear of inflation grows, the Fed will tap the brakes on its monetary debasement, and as fear of deflation grows, it will push the accelerator to the floor, if need be. The endgame under this tragic scenario is the eventual destruction of confidence in paper money, rapidly rising import prices for US consumers, and lower standards of living."
What happens next?
We don't know. But it is far too early to worry about it. The Fed is in no position to head for the exit. It will have to stay on this road for much, much longer.
"Yesterday and today, the market's been on pins and needles," reports Ian, "anxiously awaiting a new plan (or lackthereof) emerging from the Fed's latest gathering. While Bernanke and his brood are out of rates to cut, they still have some face cards up their sleeves - like purchasing agency debt or US Treasuries, or new lending programs with our beaten-down banks. We've even heard some calls for direct mortgage market manipulation.
One of the big problems is too much capacity. We mentioned it yesterday. During the Bubble Epoque the squanderers would buy anything. So, you could make an almost unlimited amount of money by providing them with things to buy. This meant building factories...buying trucks...and renting retail space. Now, however, the squanderers have come to their senses. They want to save their money. So, no need for so much retail space in the malls, so many trucks on the highways or so many factories in China.
America's middle class has rediscovered thrift.
There are a number of sit-down restaurant chains that cater to the middle class - Applebee's...Chili's...Ruby Tuesday and a few others. They expanded greatly during the '90s and '00s in order to meet the desires of the big spending masses. But now that the masses aren't so free and easy with their money, The New York Times reports that they are in desperate competition for remaining diners. This competition is manifesting itself as price deflation.
Applebee's offers dinner for two for only $20. Chili's advertises entrees for just $7. Ruby Tuesday's is going for a 2-for-1 deal. Buy one meal, get one free. All of them are making heavy use of discount coupons.
Oversupply is producing deflation. Prices are falling as suppliers fight for demand by offering more for less. And over at the Red Roof...the roof has already caved in as the chain has defaulted on its mortgage debt.
This is what you'd expect at the end of a long period of credit expansion. EZ credit brought forth too much demand and too much supply. Now, the demand is disappearing...and the suppliers struggle to hold on.
Even now, we're facing an economy in which 70% of our economic output depends on consumer buying. No buyers, no recovery.
This is natural, normal and perhaps necessary to a market economy. And it will take years to sort out. Roofs have to fall in on thousands of enterprises, speculators and households. Then, the rebuilding can begin.
But the Bernanke Fed is not about to let nature take her course. The Fed is on the road to ruin...and it's not about to "exit" yet. Deflation is still enemy number one. Don't expect any tightening from the Fed anytime soon, dear reader...it is far too soon for that.
Governments are essentially parasites on productive activity. So the best governments are the smallest - meaning, the least parasitic. "That government is best which governs least", is how Jefferson put it.
But now we are in the third and fatal stage of a great country - the political stage. In this stage, the parasites take over. Government governs a lot. And governing a lot costs a lot of money. In England, the government budget is bumping up against half the total GDP of the nation. In America, health care is still largely a private matter, so the government spends a smaller percentage of GDP...but it is a percentage that is rising quickly.
Where will the money come from? Taxes. Gordon Brown has already put the income tax rate up to 50%. Michael Caine, an English actor who moved to California to escape the high taxes of the '70s, says he will tolerate 50%...but not a penny more.
"If it goes to 51% I will be back in America," he says.
Ahem...he might have to try somewhere else. Everybody's gunning for the rich - in America as well as England. Obama has pledged to raise taxes on the rich. The states, notably California, are desperate for more revenue too. Add federal, state and local levies...and private health care costs...and you could easily be over the 50% bracket in America too.
But when you rob the productive Peters to pay the parasite Pauls two things happen. The Peters get their backs up. And you've soon cleaned them out anyway.
So, governments need to find other sources of financial support. Typically, they borrow money.
What you come to see is that lending to the government - which always has the power to betray the loan and behead the lender - is merely another form of taxation. Government raises money. Sometimes it repays the loan with revenues from other taxes. Sometimes, it is the lender who pays the tax himself - either because the government defaults...or because inflation reduces the value of his money.
This week...indeed, this year...lenders are turning over massive amounts of money to the US government. There is so much demand for US paper that the yield on the 10-year note fell yesterday to 3.64% - despite the huge new supply of T-notes coming on the market. It is breathtaking to watch. But it is a story that will end badly. We predict that lenders will end up like the financiers who lent to Louis XIV and later regretted that they ever met the man.
"Every loan always diminishes the free revenue and necessitates, at the end of a certain time, either bankruptcy or the increase of taxes," explained Turgot to a later Louis. "In times of peace it is permissible to borrow only in order to liquidate old debts, or in order to redeem other loans contracted on less adventurous terms."
Any borrowing in excess of that puts you on the road to ruin, Turgot went on to explain.
More on Turgot - a man sadly neglected by historians - in upcoming reckonings.
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BATON ROUGE, La. — Zach Mettenberger looked sharp a second straight week, and this time his performance produced a victory for ninth-ranked LSU.
Mettenberger passed for 273 yards and two touchdowns, and LSU kept alive faint hope of a Southeastern Conference title with a 37-17 victory over No. 23 Mississippi State on Saturday night.
One week after passing for a career-high 298 yards in a narrow loss to No. 1 Alabama, Mettenberger completed 19 of 30 passes without an interception against the Bulldogs. His top target was Jarvis Landry, who had nine catches for 109 yards — both career highs — including a 19-yard touchdown to help the Tigers (8-2, 4-2 SEC) beat the Bulldogs (7-3, 3-3) for the 13th straight time.
Mettenberger's other scoring pass went to Spencer Ware. Fullback J.C. Copeland scored on a 1-yard plunge and safety Craig Loston returned an interception 100 yards for a score.
Tyler Russell completed a career-high 26 passes on 38 attempts for a career-high 295 yards and a touchdown that got the Bulldogs as close as field goal early in the third quarter before they faded in their third straight loss, all against ranked teams.
LSU's defense shut out Mississippi State during the last 27:52, during which Tigers defensive ends Sam Montgomery and Barkevious Mingo each sacked Russell and Loston made his interception.
Bulldogs leading rusher LaDarius Perkins was held out of the game. Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen said Perkins strained his quad on Wednesday but still warmed up in hopes of playing before coaches decided against playing him.
One of the loudest cheers of the night came when Alabama's loss to Texas A&M was announced during the first quarter — a result that kept LSU alive in the SEC West. LSU's only hope is to finish in a three-way tie in league play with the Crimson Tide (9-1, 6-1), and Aggies (8-2, 5-2). However, that would require a shocking victory by downtrodden Auburn over Alabama in the Iron Bowl in two weeks.
While the Death Valley crowd was energized by the Bama result, the Tigers' defense apparently was not.
The Bulldogs' opening drive went 74 yards on 10 plays, with Russell completing five of six throws before spot substitute QB Dak Prescott found Marcus Green for a 9-yard score to make it 7-0.
LSU responded by driving deep into Bulldogs territory, before coach Les Miles, who had several gambles fail a week earlier against Alabama, elected to kick a field goal on fourth-and-1 from the 11.
A second stalled LSU drive inside the Bulldogs 20 led to another field goal and a 7-6 score. Then LSU got its first big break when Derrick Milton mishandled a pitch and Lamin Barrow recovered inside the Bulldogs' 25. That set up Mettenberger's scoring strike to Landry over the middle to give LSU its first lead at 13-7.
Devon Bell's career-long 47-yard field goal pulled the Bulldogs to 13-10 inside the last minute before halftime, but the 48 seconds remaining proved more than enough for Mettenberger to respond. He quickly strung together completions of 15, 36 and 20 yards, the last for a touchdown to Ware, who made a diving catch.
The quick score gave LSU a 20-10 lead and looked like a crushing blow, but Odell Beckham Jr.'s fumbled punt early in the third quarter gave the Bulldogs the ball at the LSU 29 and they promptly cashed in, pulling to 20-17 on Russell's 14-yard scoring pass to Chad Bumphis.
That was as close as the Bulldogs would get, though, as the Tigers scored the next 17 points on Drew Alleman's 41-yard field goal and the touchdowns by Copeland and Loston.
Click here for a photo gallery of the game.
Click here for Brad Locke's Inside Mississippi State Sports Blog.
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The suit seeks to prevent Actavis from commercialising its ANDA product prior to the expiration of its US patent
Singapore: Dublin headquartered generic drugmaker Actavis has now been caught in a legal tangle after Indian drug major Ranbaxy Laboratories filed a legal case against the company.
Ranbaxy claimed that Actavis attempted to launch a generic version of its acne medicine, Absorica in the US market.
Ranbaxy's top executives had said earlier in November that the drug, Absorica commands 19 percent market share in the US. The same drug had helped the Indian company shore up its sales in the US market in the September quarter too.
As per data from IMS Health, Absorica had total US sales of $97 million in the 12 months to September 2013.
Actavis said in a statement released in Dublin on November 1 that Ranbaxy, along with innovator firms Cipher Pharma and Galephar Pharma Research, filed a suit on October 29 in the district court of New Jersey.
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Someone who's been a stand-out in the Senior Bowl practices by all accounts is Wisconsin Badger LB Chris Borland. As we may be in the market for drafting a linebacker, I thought I would pull together some info on him..
SENIOR (Measurements taken from Senior Bowl)
LB Borland, Chris Wisconsin Height - 5'11 3/8 245 lbs Hand - 9 3/4 Arm - 28 7/8 Wing - 73 3/8
- ESPN Article -
Borland is short at 5-foot-11. His recruiting profile next to Clowney's is laughable. He played soccer and other sports growing up, didn't participate in organized football until high school and appeared headed for a Division III school until wowing Wisconsin at a summer camp before his senior season. Of the 17 players in Wisconsin's 2009 recruiting class graded by ESPN recruiting, Borland received the second lowest.
He'll finish his career Wednesday as one of the best defensive players in team history, a four-year starter with multiple All-America honors who earned Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year honors this season. His NFL draft forecast isn't as promising as Clowney's -- most mocks have him in the second or third round -- but few defensive players have more accomplished college careers.
"He's as good as advertised," Andersen said.
NFL Network - Video with Mike Mayock, Charles Davis & DJ discussing his NFL potential
Senior Bowl performance so far (Will update as I find more)
- Eric Galko (@optimumscouting) -
Tuesday -- "Chris Borland is really taking advantage of the week with another strong performance. He has a real feel for the game and minimizes his size limitations by using leverage and short area explosiveness to his advantage and disengaging quickly from blockers. Scouts have also been impressed with his pursuit effort as he's been flying to the football all week."
Wednesday -- "Chris Borland excelled again in his diagnosis of plays, composed read steps and instincts. Borland fits in the run game better than any of the backers here, has the hip snap to meet blockers in the hole and stay balanced to disengage for the play. During team drills, he even showcased cover skills by baiting Logan Thomas into a interception on a late shallow cross throw over the middle of the field. Borland will be a riser for us at Optimum Scouting after this week."
- Matt Miller (@nfldraftscout) -
"Liked Chris Borland a lot heading into the week. Still do. His instincts are amazing."
- Todd McShay (@McShay13) -
"WISC LB Borland is an animal. Great instincts. Strong this wk as rusher and in cvg. Doesn't have measurables but who cares. He's a player!"
- Daniel Jeremiah (@MoveTheSticks) -
"I think I'm the only 1 that's riding the fence on Chris Borland. Heard "I love that dude" a bunch and "good college player, bad pro" a bunch."
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Season GP/GS UT AT Tot. Tackles TFL
2009 13/6 36 18 54 10.5 5 5 3 1 3 2010 2/2 5 2 7 2 1 0 0 0 0 2011 14/14 64 79 143 19 2.5 5 0 2 7 2012 12/12 56 48 104 10 4.5 3 3 0 6 2013 12/12 73 39 112 8.5 4 2 2 0 2 Totals
vs Ohio St (2013)
vs Arizona St (2013)
vs Stanford (2012 bowl)
vs Nebraska (2012)
vs Purdue (2012)
vs Illinois (2012)
vs Illinois (2011)
vs Michigan St (2011)
Massive thanks to the guys over at Draft Breakdown for those videos, thats why I linked to their site rather than the youtube links. So I'm not very good at analysing players and how they'll project to the NFL (you can decide for yourselves with the videos) but from what I see is a hyper-instinctual linebacker who isn't as athletic as you'd like. Great at diagnosing plays, has a bit of difficulty shedding blocks but knows how to blitz well, play coverage with instincts and, imagine this, a solid & reliable tackler. As Mike Mayock put it, "Y'know what, there are certains time when a kid is just a football player". Obviously, I like the guy and I think we really missed that in our LB corps this year.
In terms of the Dolphins taking this guy, I'm not so sure. I expect him to be a mid-low 2nd/high 3rd round pick - and I'm not sure we take a linebacker that high when we already have four commitments at the position (Misi/Ellerbe/Wheeler/Jenkins). But hopefully our new GM is smarter than that, and can see a massive need for an instinctual linebacker and a massive talent in Chris Borland. I'd love to hear your opinions on him though, and whether you want the phins to pick him up.
HOUSEKEEPING By the way, three guys I'm paying close attention to in the senior bowl and draft coverage are RB Charles Sims, OT/OG Zack Martin, and OG Gabe Jackson. Could be potential fits for the phins in rounds 1-3. Worth keeping an eye on, as they're impressing so far. Other notes - here's a journal that's being updated everyday by Vandy WR Jordan Matthews and Chris Borland on their Senior Bowl experiences - worth a read. Finally, if you want a video breakdown of the entire Shrine Game, look no further.


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This half day event is your FREE opportunity to learn the basics of common legal issues. Central Texans are invited to attend legal classes at People\'s Law School, Sat., Feb. 25, at UT Law School. Lawyer volunteers from the Austin Bar Association and the Lawyer Referral Service of Central Texas will speak on several areas of the law from family law to debt to the legal process. See a full listing and schedule of classes, registration, and logistical information at www.PeoplesLawSchoolAustin.org.
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We got some real feedback from a non-developer that was encouraging. Oh so nice. The mailing list has been somewhat dead. Whether people are sick of the project or just busy is unknown. Though we still seem to have people following the list.
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Been a while. I've been doing work for LiveJournal lately, a Perl module that handles the nitty-gritty of the protocol. Because of this, libFreeDnD hasn't gotten very far :) But I did make a treasure generator I need to clean up and release soon (it's already in my APT archive).
Bleargh. I need to sleep more (I think I say that every diary entry. Heh. Maybe one day I'll listen to myself).


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I love when other people put words in celebs' mouths. I find it hilarious. Because, it's like, we'll never really know what Beyonce is thinking or feeling or paying her surrogate. But we can take guesses. Very public guesses.
Some genius out there created this fabulous tumblr called "Jay-Z and Beyonce Worry About Kanye West." You know, because he's faux-dating Kim Kardashian and making his already horrible reputation of being a douchebag even worse. And he hangs out with Jay-Z, a respected human being who manage to speak publicly without pissing off 76% of the population.
Rather than waxing poetic for hours on the greatness of this new tumblr, I thought I would just share a few of my favorite posts with you. Because we're best friends and I want to share everything with you. (Unless you're the person who's constantly tweeting at Crushable to fire me. Then we're not best friends, we're still just at frenemy level. For obvious reasons.)
So take a look and laugh with me. Maybe even roll on the floor and laugh with me. I'm a big believer in literal ROTFL-ing. It's why I never wear white. I fear looking like a human swiffer.
Love this entire concept? Obvi, that's we're BFF. (Next stop on the friend train: a blood pact. More information on that next week!) You can read even more about the sordid love triangle between Kanye, Jay-Z and Beyonce right here.
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Seems like we've had a few mashups of sorts around here lately. Today I bring you a movie poster for The Big Falcon. It's a combination of The Big Lebowski and another classic noir film, The Maltese Falcon. This comes from SuperPunch.com. I'm not sure if this is the source or if they're just re-posting it.
Another little piece of art comes from Trent Walton. We've linked to stuff of his in the past and he's obviously an achiever. Trent makes websites and like many of us "nerds" he gets those ridiculous technology requests that would require something between pixie dust and an act of God to make happen. It's not that these kind of requests are that impossible, sometimes what they're really asking for is you to do a lot of work for nothing. Anyway, here's Trent's thought for the day.
Trent has made this as a desktop wallpaper image which you can download in several sizes to fit your needs. Trent's post can be found here - http://trentwalton.com/2010/04/05/quoting-lebowski-vol-2/
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// set the free block mem to a released value memset( ((u8*)pFree) + sizeof(MemHeapFree), MEMHEAP_RELEASED_MEM, pFree->uSize - sizeof(sizeof(MemHeapFree)) );
See it? See the sizeof(sizeof(expression))? I just had a massive WTF moment when I saw that while stepping through the code.
So, this thread is for any other things in C, C++ or any other languages that you think other people would find strange, amusing or unbelievable.
Oh, and for anyone that's interested, the sizeof(sizeof(x)) comes out to 4, which I guess is expected once you know the compiler actually accepts it.


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That ***** is now in San Fran. Such a fitting city. Post your memories here.
That ***** is now in San Fran. Such a fitting city. Post your memories here.
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Ted Ginn sucks
I was at the Colts Monday nighter, and the Saints game last year.
Both games where you can partially blame Ted Ginn for us losing.
He is easily one of the Top 5 worst first round picks we've ever had, if not one of the worst picks in general. I just took a peek at some 49ers message boards, they're giddy with excitement thinking they're getting an elite returner. If this softie couldn't play under Sparano, just imagine how he will perform under Mike Singletary.
The nightmare is finally over. Good riddance, and nothing of value was lost.
This thread.... it's.... it's just so beautiful! I can't believe it's here!
This thread may become the greatest thread ever.
Ginn sucks!
This thread is long overdue. We waited a long time for this one, gentlemen. Let's make it worth our wait.
Ginn sucks.
Support NAFTA!
I looked for you in a time of war, Ted. I thought you had my back. But you were cuddled up in a blanket by the fireplace.
Are there no warriors that lust for battle?
Oh yeah, we just got Marshall. Sweet.
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Steve Ramsey served as vice president of Aerospace Solutions at Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in Owego where he had the responsibility for the Presidential Helicopter competition. He also served as the vice president and general counsel for Lockheed Martin Electronics Platform Integration and Federal Systems.
Ramsey began his career practicing law with Steptoe and Johnson, a major law firm in Washington, D.C.
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