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I hope the employee who was hit didn't get tagged by friendly fire. Assuming she was hit by the BG, then I have to say it sounds like a good shooting.
This is a discussion on BG: 0.5 / McDonalds employee: 1 within the In the News: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Didn't see this posted so if it was, my apologies, and merge as necessary. McDonalds shooting in Charlotte NC. ------------------------------------ A man who police say ...
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McDonalds shooting in Charlotte NC.
A man who police say was shot by an employee when he attempted to rob a McDonalds restaurant Thursday night in west Charlotte has died of his wounds.
Police say the District Attorney's office will decide if charges will be filed in the case.
According to police, Donte McFadden, 20, entered the restaurant about 10 p.m. and attempted to rob the place at gunpoint.
An employee who was armed with a handgun began a shootout with McFadden. Several shots were fired, including one that struck a female employee. McFadden was seriously injured and taken by Medic to Carolinas Medical Center, where he died overnight of his injuries.
The wounded employee also was hospitalized, but police say her injuries were not life-threatening.
The employee who shot at McFadden was not injured. His identity has not been released.
Police say several other employees were in the restaurant at the time, but none of them was injured. There apparently were no customers in the McDonalds when the shootout took place.
No word as to whether or not this guy was a CHL holder or not, but in all, I think a good shoot.
I hope the employee who was hit didn't get tagged by friendly fire. Assuming she was hit by the BG, then I have to say it sounds like a good shooting.
It would be great if this employee has a chl. I've read too many times where the robber kills all the employees and they find them the next morning. I hope the other employee who got shot was not the fault of the GG and that they recover fast. Hope this was a good shoot.
Killed in the shooting was Donte Antonio McFadden, 20, who police say attempted to rob the store with a handgun.
McFadden was featured in a 1995 Observer story about his youth baseball team, organized to keep kids out of trouble in one of Charlotte's most violent neighborhoods.
Police would not name the 25-year-old shooter Friday because he has not been charged. Detectives are investigating and will ask prosecutors to decide whether charges are appropriate.
Thank you, President Clinton, for the midnight baseball team that kept this youth out of trouble.
Sheez, to think that if not for your 1994 Omnibu**#&@^ Crime Bill, this kid might have, say, started committing armed robberies!
Oh, and P.S. thank you for the 100,000 new cops on the street, too.
Twisting of the facts #1: The armed gunman criminal started the shootout by escalating eating at McDonalds to a capital crime. The citizen defended life and liberty. Heck, at least they didn't resort to the normal headline of "Vigilante without license shoots customer," or some such. I suppose that's something."An employee who was armed with a handgun began a shootout with McFadden."
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).


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Some of the best material on emancipation in the Civil War is easily accessible due to the hard work of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project (FSSP) at the University of Maryland, founded by my mentor, Ira Berlin, and headed up for over two decades now by his longtime collaborator, Leslie Rowland. The staff of the project over the years reads like a who's who of many of the best scholars of African Americans in the 19th century. Collectively, they did a heroic job of sifting federal records at the National Archives for documents relevant to the end of slavery in the United States, many of which have been published and much more remain unpublished in the project files up on the third floor of Francis Scott Key Hall in College Park.
Naturally, the FSSP joined the internet revolution and put some of the best of best documents up on the web, which I have made considerable use in this blog. An especially poignant example from their collection comes from correspondence of the Confederate Army that made it into the federal archives in Record Group 109. It is a letter from Pleas Smith, Adjutant of the 2nd Tennessee Infantry to the Adjutant of the Army of Mississippi and East Louisiana. The letter read:
This account is difficult to accept at face value. The black man in question was captured near Okolona, Mississippi, which is about seventy miles south of Corinth. Corinth, a major railroad hub was, in January 1863, under federal occupation and would remain so until the end of the war. Consequently, it became a magnet for slaves seeking freedom. Yet is seems implausible that federal authorities were handing escaped slaves pistols and sending them back into Confederate territory to encourage other slaves to flee. Neither was this man a black Union soldier. While recruitment of African Americans in the Mississippi Valley under Lorenzo Thomas would get underway in few months, in January 1863, no black soldiers were yet being recruited around Corinth, Mississippi. What seems more likely is that the black man mentioned letter with his own pistol went from Corinth south to spread the news that the city was a sanctuary of freedom. When captured by Confederate forces, he spun a yarn about being part of a group of armed black men spreading the news about freedom among the slaves in Confederate-held territory.
In any case, it was not unusual for African Americans that made it to Union controlled territory during the Civil War sometimes to make the risky trip back home to let family and friends know there was a place within reach where they could be free. Hence, the man mentioned in this letter was one of many missionaries of freedom. Their numbers would grow considerably once the recruitment of black soldiers began in earnest later in 1863. African-American troops would spread the news of freedom among the slaves wherever they went. The film Glory (1989) illustrates this well.
The Confederate Army did not take kindly to these missionaries of freedom. The adjutant of the Army of Mississippi and East Louisiana instructed the commander of the 2nd Tennessee through Pleas, "When you take Negroes with arms evidently coming out from the enemie's camp proceed at once to hold a drum head court martial and if found guilty hang them upon the spot."
It is not known if the missionary slave with a pistol suffered the hangman's noose, although it is likely he did. Less offensive slaves met worse fates from the Confederates. The New York Times reported on January 5, 1863, that rebel troops in Tennessee had massacred about twenty unarmed African-American teamsters working for the Union Army. The story read:
Yet ruthless cruelty could not stop the missionaries of freedom. Indeed, with the arrival of the Emancipation Proclamation and the mass recruitment of black men as Union soldiers, such violence would only make them more determined and effective. While the lonely missionary of freedom described in the Pleas Smith letter likely died, he would soon be followed by hundreds of thousands more that would over the next two years play a major role in overwhelming the slaveholders' rebellion.
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ohh lovely are u on the london to athens plus greek island hoping commencing 23rd june ?
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Nah I'm going on the 5th June, but have fun on your trip! I shall do the same =)
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YES!!! My 2 cousins and I will be on this tour!! We from Perth, Adelaide anmd Queensland Australia!!!
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hey all!! My names Bec and I'll be on this tour!!! I just asked to join the facebook group. Cant wait to meet you all!! add me on facebook and we can chat? :)
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p.s im an aussie- from sydney! go us aussies!!! :) 19 years old also solo traveller. This is the 9 day trip right? haha hope i have the right one!
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Me and my sister are doing this tour as well as the london to athens tour before it.
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Hi! I just wanted to confirm with you guys, is this forum (and the facebook group that's been set of this tour) for the June 25 13-day Greek Island Hopping tour, or the June 25 9-day Greek Island Adventurer tour. I noticed Contiki has 2 greek island tours starting on the same day. Thanks!!
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Aw that sucks, I'm actually on the Greek Island Adventurer 9 day tour, so I'm probably on the wrong forum!
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I was recently told that both tape and hard drives are dead. I thought that had dispelled that notion in The Evolution of Stupidity: Research (Don't Repeat) the Storage Past, but I guess some out there have not read this article.
I recently was sent a detailed technology study of disk, tape and NAND flash futures from someone at IBM. I found it very interesting reading; not because it proves my point, but because the research is pretty difficult to refute. I am sure there were papers of a similar nature written back in the early 1990s, but I cannot seem to find any of them.
Unless there is some major technology breakthrough, I do not see how storage hierarchies of tape disk and flash change. Major breakthroughs generally cost huge amounts of money to develop and manufacture the technology, and both of these are lacking in the current worldwide economy. Besides money, major breakthroughs require a company take a risk, and most companies today are very risk adverse to say the least.
Technology development requires three things:
A number of technologies developed cannot be manufactured. Without all three things coming together at the right time, the fourth thing--customers buying the product--never comes about. The technology cannot be so radical and so costly that it is not affordable or is just too disruptive to the customer.
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GRENOBLE, France (AP) - Doctors treating Michael Schumacher say the Formula 1 champion was showing surprising improvement that allowed a second surgery for head injuries he suffered during a ski accident, but cautioned that his brain still had extensive bruising.
Schumacher was skiing with his son when he fell and struck a rock Sunday in the French Alps.
"There are hematomes a little bit everywhere," said Dr. Emmanuel Gay, describing the extensive bruising throughout Schumacher's brain. But Gay said surgeons decided upon a second operation after Schumacher's unexpected, though small, improvement on Monday.
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After leading the IL in total bases with Gwinnett last year, Gomez was even better this season, posting a .310/.371/.589 line with 24 homers and 74 RBIs in 100 games. He leads the league in slugging and OPS and ranks in the top four in batting, home runs, RBIs and doubles despite spending significant time in the Majors.
The Most Valuable Pitcher award went to Lehigh Valley right-hander Tyler Cloyd. The 25-year-old Phillies prospect, after going 3-0 in the Double-A Eastern League, proved dominant in his first Triple-A campaign. Cloyd is 12-1 with a 2.35 ERA and has held IL hitters to a .210 average. He leads the league in ERA and WHIP and is tied for the overall Minor League lead with 15 victories.
IL West champs Indianapolis was represented by outfielder Starling Marte and reliever Tim Wood, while Syracuse contributed third baseman Carlos Rivero and outfielder Corey Brown.
Columbus (second baseman Cord Phelps), Durham (outfielder Leslie Anderson), Charlotte (utility man Dan Johnson), Lehigh Valley (Cloyd), and Gwinnett (first baseman Ernesto Mejia) had one player apiece named to the squad. Mejia, who leads the league in RBIs, is the circuit's Rookie of the Year.
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre's Dave Miley was named the Manager of the Year. Miley, who also won the award in 2007, has guided the Yankees to the second-best record in the league thus far despite lacking an All-Star player and a home -- the Yankees spent the entire season on the road while PNC Field was being refurbished.
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Dame Helen Mirren ("The Queen") turns 63 on July 23.
Happy almost birthday, Helen.
The Oscar-winning actress was recently caught by paparazzi while on a pre-birthday holiday in Puglia, on the southern tip of Italy, with her husband, director Taylor Hackford.
Rather than being frightening, Helen's candid bathing suit babe shot reveals a figure that any 20-year-old would die for.
Unlike those mortifying Mischa Barton, 22, and Jerry Hall, 52, snaps, these photos are proof that Helen is, hands down, the hottest mature actress on the market.
And she could still do those racy nude scenes in movies, like she used to do, if she wanted.
"I'm famous for getting my kit off," she told Morley Safer when he asked her if she regretted being nude in so many films. Click here to see the video clip.
What makes this bikini photo really incredible is that the British actress is admittedly no gym bunny.
She's often said that she hates to exercise and refuses to diet.
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Coincidence? Obama lost in every state with a photo ID law
And you thought the Democrats opposed voter identification laws because they prevent people who are entitled to vote from voting. Err.... Not exactly.Curiously, Obama lost in every state that requires a photo ID to be produced before voting. A list of closely contested state elections with no voter ID, which narrowly went to Obama include: Minnesota (10), Iowa (6), Wisconsin (10), Nevada (6), Colorado (9), New Mexico (5) and Pennsylvania (20).And yes, that's enough electoral votes to change the result.
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"Politics is always layered and textured and I think there was a lot that they felt they had to vote for with these candidates. There was pressure from their party.
"[Women are] still in a minority [in Congress]," Giesen continues. "There's a challenge to raise money and there's an attitude about women holding office. There are 14 [female] members of the Senate. You've got to be able to work with the leadership and get on the committees to get things done."
"What they were doing — this is going to sound weird coming from a woman — is they were playing it like a man would play it in politics," says Ann Stone, founder and chair of the Washington, DC, political-action committee Republicans for Choice. "In this case, they were being smart. What would be the greater good for the state? What would be the greater good for women in the long run? Buying themselves some leverage with this vote [with the Republican Party] could very well pay off in the future."
Stone says Republicans for Choice advised Snowe about Alito and, while they opposed his nomination based on his stand on abortion, Stone gave the senator permission to vote for him. "We counseled Olympia when we saw all the Democrats jumping ship and we knew, for example, that Alito could not be stopped," Stone explains. "We basically said to Olympia, 'You do what you have to do. If you need to vote for him, just make sure you get something good in return.' Because she couldn't have stopped him."
She might not have been able to stop him, but Snowe and Collins could have staged a principled dissent in the mold of fellow Mainer Margaret Chase Smith, the famously independent Republican senator whom Snowe regards as her political idol. Smith, who served in the Senate from 1949 to 1973, wasn't perfect either (she aggressively supported the Vietnam War) but she wasn't afraid to take a moral stand even if it meant risking political suicide.
In 1950, Smith became one of the first to challenge Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose infamous Communist blacklist attacked the powerful and the powerless alike. Smith paid a steep price — she became McCarthy's target, was vilified within her party, and shouldered the nickname "Moscow Maggie."
She then went on to serve three more terms in the Senate.
In 1953, Smith delivered a speech called "Woman, the Key Individual of Our Democracy: Think Well, Then Speak Your Mind," in which she placed integrity above political posturing.
"Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk," she said. "The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is the true test of moral character."
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Canadian private equity firm Onex Corp OCX.TO is preparing to sell The Warranty Group, a provider of extended warranty contracts, which is expected to fetch more than $1 billion, two people familiar with the matter said this week.
Onex has hired Goldman Sachs (GS.N: Quote), Morgan Stanley (MS.N: Quote) and Citigroup (C.N: Quote) to find a buyer for the business, according to one of the people, who wished to remain anonymous because they are not permitted to speak to the media.
The Warranty Group, Goldman and Morgan Stanley declined to comment. Citigroup and Onex did not respond to requests for comment.
Onex bought The Warranty Group from insurance broker Aon Corporation in 2006 for $710 million. Onex put around $510 million of equity into the deal, which also saw the Warranty Group's management participate with a substantial investment.
The Warranty Group provides extended warranty contracts for an array of consumer goods, including automobiles, consumer electronics and major home appliances. It also provides credit insurance and other specialty insurance products.
The Chicago-based company operates with over 1,900 employees and with operations and offices in 31 countries, according to Onex's website.
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text: Your Facebook Friends Can See What You're Watching on Netflix NowJamie Condliffe3/13/13 9:01amFiled to: NetFlixFacebookSharingStreamingTV57EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Brace yourselves and your news feeds: Netflix is finally giving you and your buddies the chance to announce what you're watching on Facebook. That functionality has been available to non-US residents since 2011, but Netflix has been cautious when it comes to the States because of decrepit laws that could've landed it in hot water. A refresher of the problem: The 1988 Video Privacy Protection Act prohibits publishing video rental history. The bizarre law was motivated by paranoid politicians (Robert Bork), and makes it legally complicated for services like Hulu and Netflix to integrate social features that we're used to from other services. (Spotify, for example, publishes the songs you play without thinking twice.)Fortunately, Obama finally signed a bill in January which changed that. From today, users will see two new rows on their Netflix home page. They'll be able to see what their friends have been viewing, and also be able to post updates to Facebook about what they're watching. While it might clutter your shiny new Facebook news feed, it's probably going to do wonders for Netflix, by helping cement the brand's name across the social network. Just, whatever you do, remember that not all your friends need to know that you're currently on a Bunheads bender. [Bloomberg]Reply57 repliesLeave a reply


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helping kids develop strong morals and values
Family morals are beliefs that families have about right and wrong, and good and bad. Morals are the foundation of discipline. Discipline teaches children to make good choices, to cooperate, and follow the rules. This is important, because without the moral basis of "right and wrong," Kids would feel confused about boundaries, and wouldn't be able to make proper moral judgements!
Family values are the moral guidelines that family members believe have worth. When a belief has worth it has value. So if you are teaching your kids no hitting , no fighting, be respectful. Those are all morals you expect your child to practice. So my question is where do parents blur the lines, and think that any of their morals will have worth when they themselves don't follow their own moral beliefs? Like it's not OK for the kids to hit the dog, but it is OK for you? Or don't hit your brother, but you walk over and hit him to make him stop hitting? I don't understand lol. So the moral of treating people and animals with respect is then thrown out the window, and will have little value! If your morals are to have worth, then shouldn't everybody in the family practice what they preach?
Accompanying an emotional component to the learning experience truly is the difference whether something has value or not. These experiences can be good or bad. What I mean is this…you remember all the great things that you did or had during your childhood. You also remember the horrible experiences or even traumatic things. The good memories make you feel good,smile, and have good thoughts. Negative feelings make you mad,hurt, maybe even resentful. Which is why you are less likely to recall these moments in life, although they influence our daily decisions and morals. Some parents feel that where there is pain there is gain???? I know that my kids will fall down and get hurt, or have broken hearts, and maybe even do really stupid stuff like a slip 'n' slide in the kitchen. But in no way would I want them to feel pain. What could they possibly gain from that? How would incorporating unpleasant experiences around a lesson teach them anything? Yes they will learn from broken hearts, or a bump on the head, but as a parent aren't you supposed to try to protect them? Children are threatened with a spanking, or even loss of parental love if they even think about doing something bad.
Statements like:
"Are you asking for a spanking" (what kid would say yes, please spank me?)
Stop crying before I give you a reason to cry? HUH? yes you want your kid to stop crying, so in order to make her stop your going to cause her pain???? This makes perfect sense ha ha!!
The only moral that is being learned is not a positive one. It's showing them how to make threats, or bully people, and using violence to get what they want. I have spanked my kids I am not going to say that I haven't but it don't happen very often, and I always feel horrible after it. I believe if spanking was the right thing to do then why do so many parents feel the need to say they are sorry after? Don't we apologize for stuff we did wrong?
To sum all this up, the goal of getting kids to have positive moral beliefs and family values In treating others with respect has to be a learning experience that exemplifies what parents want their kids to learn
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XIn praising the Boumediene v. Bush Supreme Court decision that granted Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) detainees habeas corpus rights and access to U.S. civilian courts, an unprecedented move, presidential candidate and historical revisionist Barack Obama said the following:
"...that principle of habeas corpus, that a state can't just hold you for any reason without charging you and without giving you any kind of due process — that's the essence of who we are. I mean, you remember during the Nuremberg trials, part of what made us different was even after these Nazis had performed atrocities that no one had ever seen before, we still gave them a day in court and that taught the entire world about who we are but also the basic principles of rule of law. Now the Supreme Court upheld that principle yesterday."
Wrong, Mr. Obama. The Nazis didn't get access to U.S. courts, and they were not granted habeas corpus. They could not challenge their detentions, which is what habeas corpus provides for. The Nazis were tried by......wait for it..... INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNALS held jointly by the USSR, the USA, France, and Great Brittain. The Gitmo detainees were also in process of receiving military tribunal hearings under the Military Commissions Act of 2006, before the liberal wing of the Supreme Court inexplicably declared those tribunals to be insufficient. In fact, the Nazis and the Gitmo detainees had virtually the same rights, until the Boumediene decision elevated terrorists and Taliban combatants to the level of American citizens.
What is strange here is that Obama supposedly taught constitutional law in Chicago, so he should know better than to make erroneous statements like this. I suspect he does know better, and is just playing his supporters for fools. Change you can believe in.
Speaking of Obama - the high priest of global warming, Al Gore, endorsed Obama for president the other day, in an event about as surprising as this morning's sunrise. Gore said something about Obama being for hope and change in his endorsement speech. Thrilling.
But wait, there's more Al Gore news. The Co2 scold, who has cashed in to the tune of about $100 million with his alarmism speeches, has retrofitted one of his mansions to make it more environmentally friendly after coming under fire for hypocritically using more energy himself than does your average small town.
The results of Gore's enviro-improvements ???
You're going to love this...
Gore is now using 10% MORE energy than he was a year ago, according to the Tennessee Center For Policy Research. Here are excerpts from their report:
"A man's commitment to his beliefs is best measured by what he does behind the closed doors of his own home," said Drew Johnson, President of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research. "Al Gore is a hypocrite and a fraud when it comes to his commitment to the environment, judging by his home energy consumption."In the past year, Gore's home burned through 213,210 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity, enough to power 232 average American households for a month.
Since taking steps to make his home more environmentally-friendly last June, Gore devours an average of 17,768 kWh per month –1,638 kWh more energy per month than before the renovations – at a cost of $16,533. By comparison, the average American household consumes 11,040 kWh in an entire year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
You can't make this stuff up. More 'do as I say, not as I do' from the Algorean gasbag.
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There's nothing like a photo gallery of David Beckham in his underwear to brighten your day, right? LOL. Well, the British hottie is at it once again in his latest advertisement campaign for the Swedish retail brand. Ok, you can stop smiling like that now!
But seriously, these never get old, right? I can spend my entire afternoon flipping through this gallery of David (with Madonna's ex-husband, Guy Ritchie) all day long. Also, I think I am going to take up tennis, too, because you never know when a hot soccer player might run through the court with nothing but his underwear on. You never know people, you never know! It's best to be on alert at ALL times. Haha!
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A month ago, Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln," the highest-grossing film of the Oscar nominees ($178 million and counting) with the most nominations (12), was the frontrunner in the Oscar race. But dynamics can change. When Ben Affleck did not earn an Oscar nomination for directing "Argo," he became the underdog and that turned the tide.
That and the charming actor's undeniable appeal as a campaigner fueled his win (see Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, Robert Redford, Warren Beatty and Mel Gibson), but as "Argo" producer George Clooney told me at the Governor's Ball Sunday, "Argo" had already won the Critics Choice and the Golden Globes before the directors' "snub." In other words, it was a strong competitor going in.
There were other factors pushing "Argo"'s best-picture win Sunday night, the first time since "Driving Miss Daisy" in 1989 that a movie won the top prize without a directing nom. After playing to enthusiastic crowds at Telluride and Toronto, "Argo" rocked its L.A. premiere at the Academy. I saw the way the Hollywood crowd responded to this hugely satisfying movie about American heroes. It was a thrilling true story and when ex-CIA agent Tony Mendez stood, the crowd went wild. They could cheer for America for once. And for Hollywood. That uplift was an unbeatable combination. "15 years ago I had no idea what I was doing," said Affleck onstage of his first Oscar win for cowriting "Good Will Hunting." "I never thought I'd be back here. So many people helped me…It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life. All that matters is that you get up."
So what happened to "Lincoln"? The older Academy usually goes for its level of quality, heart, and period seriousness. Why did this widely admired Spielberg movie run out of gas so fast? Part of it was the frontrunner syndrome–a precarious place to be. It was seen as the stuffy honorable history lesson, and that negative meme had teeth. Widely repeated everywhere: "Lincoln" was "boring." Far from the truth, but in the absence of eager campaigners –Spielberg, Tommy Lee Jones and eventual winner Daniel Day-Lewis had to be pushed into doing the minimum public appearances– producer Kathleen Kennedy, writer Tony Kushner and actress Sally Field couldn't carry the day.
Finally, wins for Day-Lewis –winning an unprecedented third Oscar for a lead actor– and production designer Rick Carter had to suffice for "Lincoln." When Affleck won the predictive Directors' Guild, "Argo" became the frontrunner and Spielberg was competing in the Oscar director race with "Life of Pi" veteran Ang Lee, who was simply more popular with Academy voters who recognized that film's extraordinary degree of difficulty. Lee is well-respected, even beloved for his enormous range and depth (with one Oscar win to Spielberg's two). Another uplifting film, "Pi" scored four Oscars, including directing, visual effects (from a house on the verge of bankruptcy), cinematography, and score. It's the second time Lee has won directing without best picture (in 2006"Crash" beat "Brokeback Mountain").
In such a competitive year, the awards were spread out among eight of the nine best picture contenders (only "Beasts of the Southern Wild" went home empty-handed). In fact the six top awards went to six different movies, for the first time since the "Crash" year of 2006, also the last time a best picture winner won only three Oscars. Working Title had a good night as "Les Miserables" nabbed three awards, for supporting actress Anne Hathaway (who won for her single shot song), sound mixing and hair and makeup, and "Anna Karenina" earned a well-deserved costume design statuette. And that rousing neck-chilling "Les Mis" number–featuring the key cast and some 60 total people on the Dolby Stage–didn't hurt to boost DVD sales around the world. (Hugh Jackman agreed to do it first and wrangled Russell Crowe into participating.)
While some were shocked by the win for Ang Lee, the biggest surprise of the evening was the two wins for Weinstein Co.'s "Django Unchained." At the start of the night, Christoph Waltz won best supporting actor–in this case, demonstrating that a BAFTA win can be more predictive than SAG (which was won by wily "Lincoln" scene-stealer Tommy Lee Jones). At the Governor's ball, Waltz told me that while he's lost awards in Austria, he wins when he works with Quentin Tarantino. Let them both continue!
And Tarantino accepted the win for best original screenplay, beating Michael Haneke, who took home just one Oscar for "Amour," for best foreign language film. Tarantino is well-liked by the Academy, who adored his movie. He dedicated his win to his fellow writers and the actors who brought his words to life. "It's the writers year at the Oscars," he declared.
"Zero Dark Thirty" had to settle for a tie with "Skyfall" in the sound editing race, a rare occurrence that has happened only five other times in Academy history, and accounted for the show going five minutes over its planned three and a half hour running time, said producer Craig Zadan at the governor's ball.
While "Amour" star and the oldest best actress nominee ever Emmanuelle Riva made the trek to Los Angeles to celebrate her 86th birthday after her back-to-back BAFTA and Cesar wins, she lost to 22-year-old ingenue Jennifer Lawrence, who represented the one win for "Silver Linings Playbook," which had scored four acting nominations for the first time since "Reds." Lawrence is now a major movie star who can now bank on both a franchise ("Hunger Games") and an Oscar win. "Beasts of the Southern Wild"'s youngest best actress nominee ever, Quvenzhane Wallis, also emerged from the Oscar season a star, set to topline musical "Annie."
Finally, all the talking in the world about the movie being about mental illness could not change the fact that "Silver Linings" was a delightful romantic comedy. Serious drama trumps comedy at the Oscars, almost all the time. "Silver Linings" lucked out by riding Harvey Weinstein's conservative long-slow distribution plan all the way to bank. What started as shallow pockets wound up looking like genius. With "Silver Linings" and "Django Unchained," the Weinsteins are finally out of the red and making profits again.
And Weinstein contributed more to the Oscar telecast: he made the connection between the Oscar producers and First Lady Michelle Obama, who agreed to present the best picture award live from the White House. Like Bill Clinton's introduction of "Lincoln" at the Golden Globes, some people looked askance at this intrusion of Washington into show business. But Obama was a winning presence on Oscar night. She pulled it off.
Finally, being set in the past was a boon for "Argo," which won its three awards (picture, adapted screenplay, and editing) without courting commentary from Washington–the filmmakers did quickly change a title card to placate the Canadians and give them more credit. Ripped from the headlines, contemporary Middle East CIA drama "Zero Dark Thirty," on the other hand, was hit hard by Washington's politically motivated anti-campaign. Three prominent Senators dive-bombed the film right out of the starting gate–while boosting its box-office fortunes. But finally, "Zero Dark Thirty" was too smart and unconventional for the Oscar arena. Director Kathryn Bigelow, writer-producer Mark Boal and gifted lead Jessica Chastain delivered a memorably tough real-world feminist hero. But the steakeaters in the Academy weren't quite ready to go there.
In the animated feature category, the fierce battle between two Disney releases, Pixar's "Brave" (which won the VES, Editing, Sound Mixing and BAFTA awards) and box-office juggernaut "Wreck-It-Ralph" (which won the PGA, Critics Choice and five Annie awards) yielded a win for "Brave" directors Brenda Chapman and Mark Andrews. They wisely went on the campaign circuit as a friendly team, even though John Lasseter put Andrews in–in usual ruthless Pixar style–to take the film created by Chapman to the finish line. In the end the Academy went for "Brave" as the classier, more beautiful film, compared to scruffy video game-themed "Wreck-It-Ralph."
Sony Pictures Classics had a great night, not only winning "Amour" but best documentary for Sundance hit and multiple award-winner "Searching for Sugar Man," which had the advantage of the entire Academy voting in that category, having been sent screeners. Whether everyone who voted in this category saw all five movies is another question. And one considering in the foreign category, which may need reform– but the right reform.
To the extent that the show performed well Sunday, it was less to do with host Seth MacFarlane, who was both crude and flat as an entertainer, than the mainstream popularity of the films in contention, six of which have passed the $100 million domestic mark. Full list of winners is below.
Best motion picture of the year
"Argo" Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers
Performance by an actor in a leading role
Daniel Day-Lewis in "Lincoln"
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
Christoph Waltz in "Django Unchained"
Performance by an actress in a leading role
Jennifer Lawrence in "Silver Linings Playbook"
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
Anne Hathaway in "Les Misérables"
Best animated feature film of the year
"Brave" Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman
Achievement in cinematography
"Life of Pi" Claudio Miranda
Achievement in costume design
"Anna Karenina" Jacqueline Durran
Achievement in directing
"Life of Pi" Ang Lee
Best documentary feature
"Searching for Sugar Man"
Best documentary short subject
"Inocente" Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine
Achievement in film editing
"Argo" William Goldenberg
Best foreign language film of the year
"Amour" Austria
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
"Les Misérables" Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
"Life of Pi" Mychael Danna
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
"Skyfall" from "Skyfall" Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth
Achievement in production design
"Lincoln" Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Jim Erickson
Best animated short film
"Paperman" John Kahrs
Best live action short film
"Curfew" Shawn Christensen
Achievement in sound editing
"Skyfall" Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers
"Zero Dark Thirty" Paul N.J. Ottosson
Achievement in sound mixing
"Les Misérables" Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes
Achievement in visual effects
"Life of Pi" Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott
Adapted screenplay
Argo" Screenplay by Chris Terrio
Original screenplay
"Django Unchained" Written by Quentin Tarantino


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Keener: When we first came to Phoenix, we realized: People move here for the "weather," but you drive around and you see that everyone is either outside squinting or inside with their shades drawn tight. So we wanted to create a house that was still connected to the outside.
Atherton: The house consists of three rooms: a bedroom on either end of the house and a living room in the middle. Each room faces a different direction, and each receives light in a different way. The west gets extreme sun exposure in Arizona, so we don't have any openings on that side, except for the front door. The kitchen, laundry, and two bathrooms run along that wall and they are very compact, like in a ship or an RV. The hallway is a clear long path that connects everything, with a wall of translucent glass on one side and black plywood cabinets on the other.
Keener: Because of practical and budgetary reasons, we didn't have the luxury of using crazy materials. Concrete block has been a part of building in the desert for a long time. The screen that wraps three sides of the house is just a standard thing you see everywhere down here—–generally used to shade parking lots and kids' playgrounds. The floor is concrete. The walls are drywall. Our interest was in using standard things on a relatively unremarkable site and creating something that was more than the sum of its parts.
Atherton: The design process was fairly rigorous and very slow. We were the clients and the builders and the designers, so we were really our own worst enemies. Instead of just going to Home Depot and buying everything, we tried to make as many things as we could by hand, so that they would agree with the rest of the house. We wanted to accomplish as much as we could with just a few materials.
Keener: Basically the only things in the house that we purchased were the plumbing fixtures and the appliances. We made all the cabinets—–in the bathroom, kitchen, storage closets, and hallways—–ourselves, out of plywood that we dyed black. For a while the sinks and tubs were going to be concrete. But it never felt right. In the end we made them by hand, out of marine-grade plywood and marine epoxy resin.
Atherton: One of the challenges we faced was that at some point, the design started to reject ideas.
Keener: It was important that the rooms be pure spaces. The curved walls are just there to capture the light conditions from the windows. We've been very meticulous about locating distractions—–like closets or light switches—–in the hallway. We wanted to make something quiet enough to receive what's going on outside. It helps that we don't carry a lot of furniture with us. Before we moved into the house we lost our lease on a rental and shared a five-by-ten storage unit. It wasn't even full; it was like half full. People come in and they say, "Whoa, art would look so good on these walls." But I've never felt like this house is missing anything.
Atherton: There are some uncon-ventional aspects to the house, but we're also using it as an architecture studio, and a pavilion, and a warehouse. If we're interested in something, we can bring it in and experiment with it. When we were working on an art installation, we had two 300-pound blocks of ice in a tub in the middle of the room. At one point there were 800 yards of fabric piled up. We have a dog, and when we had all that fabric lying around, he loved it, he was like "Oh my god, it's furniture." And then it was gone.
Atherton: Our friends know that this house lacks a certain amount of comfort, but everyone adapts to what it does have. When people come over to eat, we usually sit on the floor—–we keep it really clean—–or outside. We've all adapted to what it means to not have a dining table. We don't have a couch. It can be a bit of a problem. Like when we have our girlfriends over it's hard to make them just sit on the floor or on a chair. And it's very presumptuous to have the bed as the main piece of furniture in the house. One of the nice things about having a girlfriend is, she has a couch at home.
Keener: The house isn't static. A photographer friend uses the place for fashion shoots. The other weekend we had 40 people in the living room listening to a classical guitar, bass, and flute trio. One night this woman played a solo piece on the violin in the dark, and the moonlight was bright enough to cast shadows on the screen from the oleander outside. It was so beautiful.
We have been fairly open with sharing the house with folks and that's been really rewarding. It always surprises me with how grateful they are and how pleased they are with the experience that they have here. I think that people appreciate being in something so clear and consistent. They use words like "peaceful" and "Eastern" and "meditative" and "calm" to describe the space.
Atherton: There are lots of examples in history where an architect builds a home, and from that home, his ideas develop, and he becomes more fully realized as an architect. It doesn't necessarily make the best or easiest home. But it does set a trajectory for future projects. We were both interested in building something that we could learn from.
Jaime Gillin
When not writing, editing, or combing design magazines and blogs for inspiration, Jaime Gillin is experimenting with new recipes, traveling as much as possible, and tackling minor home-improvement projects that inevitably turn out to be more complex than anticipated.


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August 5, 2008
Christian Said:
"Prayer does work. It comforts the christian when he's clueless. It's an utterly selfish thing to do; that brilliantly has the excuse of being the opposite. Depending on your view, the answer will be yes or no. Yes, if it comforts you in any way to practice it. No, if you look at the external results.
BTW: My parents gave me my name. I stick with it out of honour to them; not because it fits."
Yeah… me too.
August 2, 2011
Mortals constantly want to expand their knowledge on the creation of who they are. Since science emergence, scientists are able to investigate the creation of humans, earth, and even the universe. Clearly the earth seems beyond perfect and nothing should be in the way of its existence, never came into consideration to some. Ancient people lead themselves to believe in an imperceptible higher immortal, possibly for some sense of comfort, or even an intellectual reasoning. Finding such an immortal creature was an impossible task. To these ancient people, this invisible immortal being was the explanation of the uncertainty of their environment. The thought of a higher power monitored all their actions provided them exceptional reassurance. That only gave them more of a reason to believe in such a fictional character. A theory that provided reassurance and an explanation for the creation of earth are basic concepts for the planet and humans existence. With death, is when most endured pain and found reassurance in this non-existent being. Creating this immortal being to watch over their everyday life would keep them safe and guard them in their afterlife. Demise is inevitable, and it can be shatter one's heart, and bring chaos to life. Most individuals are un-comfterable with the topic of death and with an immortal being they are able to find comfort in their death, as well as their loved ones.
October 12, 2008
This is, more or less, the epitome of every awesome thing that ever existed.
December 4, 2008
This simulation was apparenlt created by an atheist who believes all believers in Christ are idiots and don't know when they are being made fun of by some lonely person stuck in a basement with no life and no happiness whose only goal is to try and make everyone else feel bad just as they do.
July 28, 2012
Or it was made by a person that wanted to highlight the stupidity of fundamentalists' arguments.
December 5, 2008
Oh, what I'd give for a nice basement. Or even just a cellar; you know, somewhere to store the wine or humourless Christians etc.
January 20, 2009
christains are not humourless i do in fact think its funny you would lie to stick a person in a basement and still feel you are phycologally superior
January 20, 2009
Christians, not christains.
I, not i.
It's, not its.
Pharmaceutically, psychotropically, or possibly pie-logically, not phycologally.Superior? Intellectually-speaking, without a shadow of a doubt.
September 29, 2011
lol u can look those words up on the internet and spelling proves nothing, some studies show that atheists actually do score higher than christians anyway lol.
Pwn Greenland
January 20, 2009
@Beth: pwnt, biatch.
March 22, 2009
That was funny 🙂
April 11, 2009
You're a loser
April 12, 2009
Is this supposed to be funny or serious?
April 12, 2009
If you have to ask then you've failed at life already. Please try again.
Oh and "Curt and Randy" hahahaha. Sorry. Just seen your "website" and rightwing republican redneck "best friends" with that piece of crap referring to anything here or elsewhere on the web as losery is one of the funniest things I've seen in a long time. Actually, 1234 if you're after funny then you should go there.
April 24, 2009
All things work for good for those who love the lord
Romans 8:28p.s. that "Do you Christians not pray for a cure to cancer" all of the awnsers are wrong. try to find a good response to that bible verse
if anyone does catch me at 'email@example.com'
May 10, 2009
this is to francis scudellari
tell me whats fun about athiesm?
we christians have salvation
jesus is going to come and take the people that stayed faithfull to him.
tell me, how is christianity not fun? answer that question
jesus died for you so live for him-
George caraballo
June 23, 2011
It's not about fun.
tell me why are there two different genealogies for Jesus
did he forget who his ancestors were.
June 10, 2009
I had a go of your little challenge and firstly would like to point out that you have represented the majority of Christians well. This is sad to say as I am a Christian who believes the masses of Christianity do not understand the basic answers to questions such as why does God not heal people of Cancer. So if most Christians don't even know, how can we expect atheists who are assessing what we believe to know either. But let me shed a little light on the matter.
Firstly I would like to point out that Jesus never said that he was going to abolish all pain and suffering while he was on earth. No instead he too died and suffered so how can we expect anything different. But he did perform miracles while he was alive to show that he does hold the power of sickness and death. So today we live in a time after Christ which theologically could be described as the 'now but not yet'. The 'now' is the fact that Jesus came into this world bring with him the kingdom of God, and all who put their trust in Him will enter into that kingdom, but while we live we are still subject to the functions of this world, we will get sick and we will die. The not yet though is our hope that one day Jesus will return and then the systems of this would will no longer apply and we will be free from sickness and death.
So I concluded by saying the Bible clearly shows that all people will become sick and die and to think other wise is only superstitious but where you say God is cruel because he could stop this I say He is loving because I can see the eternal picture that in time I will be restored and will not be plagued but sickness and death in the time to come.
George caraballo
June 23, 2011
Would you say that If you were in Canaan when the Israelite s were murdering them for their land ( The promised Land ) that was occupied by people ( all mighty god ) couldn't create a new land for his people. they had to steal and lie to the Egyptians and invade Canaan. and murder countless people in the way there that had nothing to do with Canaan ( Jericho ) a walled city was destroyed for what reason??????
September 5, 2009
i like it when people fight over me, makes me feel special.
George caraballo
June 23, 2011
There has been plenty of blood spilled in your name.
October 7, 2009
I have a question for all the athiest!? If you do not belive in god and want nothing to do with him why do you spend so much time argueing with christians about his existence?
George caraballo
June 23, 2011
For the same reason you guys keep preaching and knocking on peoples doors and such. we have a message that has to be preached to all the corners of the earth.
most atheist are former Christians and are not, Ignoramus like you may think.
To TL
October 8, 2009
To enlighten. To educate. To teach. To better.
I'm afraid you can't use the "well, if you don't believe in it why do you spend so much time talking about it to those of us morons who do?" argument unless you can first demonstrate that the religion you follow springs up naturally and without any outside interference in each and every follower. You're not born a believer in any of the hundreds of different and conflicting religions and your particular flavour didn't suddenly spread without somebody somewhere talking about it to somebody else who didn't believe it. Children do not believe in any particular space fairy until they're told about them. Why don't we make a deal? Atheists won't talk about idiotic beliefs in religion to the religious so long as the religious don't ever speak about their religion to anyone else not already a believer too, extending to – especially – offspring. Can't say fairer than that!
November 29, 2009
Actually, i hate to break it to many of you. Atheism is in fact a religion. It's a set of beliefs and corresponding behavior that shapes your interaction with divine things. What is in so many ways, an obvious truth (the reality of God), you simply choose to ignore.
The assumption that something that cant be proven with human made science kit doesn't exist…now that's pretty daft. Very few of the world's greatest truths cant be proven in a lab. I find it almost funny that many atheists openly admit to Jesus being (at least) one of the greatest men in history…yet simultaneously consider him to have been completely delusional!
It's also (almost) amusing how atheists also somehow consider themselves as somehow more 'intellectually gifted' than the average joe. Ha!
George caraballo
June 23, 2011
NOT believing is not a religion…. no matter how YOU may want to put it. there is no church that we go to there is no entity that we serve in any way, there are no 10% of our money going anywhere, there is no long lost library of books ( Bible ) there are no kids being raped by our priest.
look up Religion in the dictionary.a belief is not a religion ( kids believe in the Easter Bunny ) Santa clause. etc Kid are religious the church of the eater bunny
October 25, 2012
those are false arguments. Santa Claus and eastern bunny are insults to Jesus and have no biblical support. Easter is easter starting from ancient Israel and no christmas should be celebrated because Jesus told us only to keep the Supper and to remember his death. Society gives us a valid reason to be a Christian who restores the biblical truth, removing false doctrines of the pagan holidays, not becoming Atheist because of the false doctrines 😉
when you use false arguments it means atheism is also false.
November 29, 2009
Max: thanks for popping by and adding some religious gibberish; I was just thinking that this page didn't quite have enough religious gibberish. Let's address a few points:
Atheism is a religion? No it's not. A lack of a set of beliefs is not a set of beliefs. I know I'm on shaky ground trying to interject logic to a religious nutjob and wasting my time but let's try this example: my cat is a cat and I am not a cat. Because I am not a cat I am not a cat. You might argue that being not a cat makes me some sort of cat – the not a cat sort of cat – but in actuality I still remain not a cat at all. Same thing with atheism. It's not a belief; it's not a religion. Although you may want protection for your delusions from those who can argue so well against your insanity by trying to include them as somehow equal but inferior to you, the fact is that you're an imbecile. Okay? Cool.
The phrase "obvious truth" is a wonderful argument and I'll make sure to use it myself when I've nothing to support my statements. Your DNA discovered at the scene of a crime? Don't worry! Sorry officer, but the obvious truth is that someone else did it. What camera that recorded everything? Well, the obvious truth is that someone tinkered with it. My confession a few minutes ago? The obvious truth is that I was possessed by fairies. Fairies don't exist? The obvious truth is that they do. And so on. Wonderful. Remind me not to debate you. Without a hammer.
Many atheists openly admit to Jesus being one of the greatest men in history? Really? Can you name, ooh, let's say, a handful of these many atheists? Since I'm not aware of any and learning things is something I like. I know that's asking for evidence to back up your claim and I know you're not big on that but, perhaps, after all we've been through…? Personally, I think the idea of Jesus was admirable, if misguided and no longer relevant; as to his existence though… I'll take a historical record in lieu of his body as supporting evidence (eek! Sorry about the 'e' word again) and, sadly, there's none. Historians (and there were a great many) mention Pilate and the census that took place and various other things that apparently occurred at the time but, strangely (or not really, if you think about it (thinking huh? What a novelty!)) the miracle man who heals the sick and lame gets overlooked? How very odd! I'm just sure you know why that was though. Let me guess? Two shooters on a grassy knoll in Area 51 called Elvis dressed in black and erased the records. It's an, er, obvious truth of course. What other possible explanation could there be?
I'll let you get back to colouring in now.
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done with YOUR persecution
February 3, 2010
wow, this is truely a stupid little "game"
you claim to have knowledge, reason, and thought…and yet you belittle innocent people and like to shove YOUR beliefs down their throats. just like the people you've come to hate.
hahah, i bet you like to bring up shit like the crusades, too. yeah, blaming people today for something that happened hundreds of years ago that doesn't even have to do with the people you're arguing. so they were christians? yeah, well stalin was an atheist, and look at all the religious people he killed. but let me guess, thats' different, right? cos he had a good reason? yeah, i bet you're "logic" would tell you that.
hahaah, i laugh at you, you've become so much like the people you've come to hate! i bet you find it nice and comforting to stay in your little circle of "thought", i bet that the fear and uncertainty inside you compells you to stick to your paradigm and act like a complete dick to people you don't know…but it seems that you like to take the good ole' fashion "anonymous" route. yes, it is MUCH safer to be behind a computer screen, isn't it? i mean, at least then you can just refuse to pay attention to any arguments that could trump yours. awwww, so callow. it seems that you can't grasp the concept of the BELEIF in atheism. since, oh, i dunno…SCIENCE DOESN'T MEAN THERE ISN'T A GOD. but hey, it must be nice to stick to a a very black and white, materialistic and frigid paradigm. as for christianity…well, you MUST feel some sort of threat if you have to go about attacking christians on the internet. oh yeah, and all those blanket statements and generalizations are really something! i mean, they MUST be true, right? christians aren't people, are they? no, they gotta be like…like, ohhh, rats! hmmmm, ring a bell? i can think of a couple of dictators that sat right on top of their high horse, polluting the air around them with their arrogance, planning out atrocities for a "good cause"
nice. way to contradict yourself.
George caraballo
June 23, 2011
We are being blame for ADAM'S sin I guess that's OK because it helps your cause, I guess you have no scripture knowledge, cause all you use is profanity and insults, very christian of you, I've posted 5 to 6 post so far without insulting anyone. or calling any one a D^ck. Lets make a deal you pray to your god to bring Fire from heaven and kill all the atheist & I'll pray to mine to stop yours from doing it. Lets see who wins……
I guarantee MY GOD IS GREATER……
Forgetful Idiot
April 10, 2010
i think there needs to be more answer alternatives. atheist fuckwits.
April 13, 2010
this christian vs atheist game, has nothing whatsoever what it will be like if you faced a true atheist, it has some key facts but the answers which you are given is really irrational and make no sense to what you could really say, this is terrible ways to practice, if you want to really practice on bringing an atheist to christ, for one, dont talk to them about christ that will just draw a person away, going by your actions is what will make people wonder and really bring someone to the lord, and christianity is not religious james 1-26 says for any man who is religious but does not have a tight reign on his tongue is vain, so therefore, god is against religion for it is man made. And another thing, those who dont believe in christ, look around you, this year of 2010, theres been more earthquakes ever in history, 90 million miles out of the earth, there is a huge asteroid that looks like the star of david and is shaped like a cross, which is headed this way according to astrologers, theres more wars, more disesase, more famines, more weather changes, global warming is coming to place, its all signs, whether you believe or not is your choice, but i tell you this, if it is to be true, i have everything to gain, if it's not, i had nothing to lose in the first place, because death i will no nothing, but i know better than to think that we will rot in the ground afterwards, we didnt come from monkeys or just some sort of BANG, if it was a big bang, god did it because its the only way possible, i do respect science, but they go by guesses and chance, so i dis-agree with what many say on the bible, unless you read the bible yourself, you will never know the truth. and the real truth comes from god, those who dont believe, you want to see god or better yet hear him, why should he come to those who hate him? although he's right next to you, but you refuse him, and spit in his face, but yet he still loves you unconditionally.
George caraballo
June 23, 2011
There has always been the fear of the LAST DAYS look up on google earthquakes, there has been far worst earthquakes in the past, & storms, and war and rumors of war. read Apocalypse for you self. The time is at hand, Christ told the disciples they wouldn't even have time to preach to all of Jerusalem, so please stop preaching what you don't know about read it most of the doctrines and lies though in the churches are man made
April 17, 2010
Mark: you of so little faith the bible even states of people just as you, you are the perfect example of the end of age, man will be more selfless and into themselves then god, you want proof, look around you, everything happening is signs of the bible, every sunday and some random weekday we now have major earthquakes in non-godly areas, the bible clearly states in matthew 24: 4-14 states the end of age, you can say its always happened throughout history but i tell you this, never in history of this year has there ever been so much destruction and havoc then ever before, many anti-christ have taken reign, many more diseases, many more wars, but yet, you are so foolish to blame the most high god, he tells us all to prepare for death, the lord never said he was going to take away all suffering, the times of destruction go back to adam and eve, god gave them the choice to do good or do wrong, just as we are today, if god knew you were evil, he would never create you for god can not be near those who are evil, and even those who are good, without the son within you and the holy spirit you can not enter the gates of the kingdon of heaven just because you are "good" you deny christ, and another thing, god never made evil, satan did, when satan was cast out of heaven only then did the beginning of evil begin. We are now at the times of soddom and gommorah and the days of noah, you of the many i pray for. Instead of using Logic Mark, pay attention to this world of which you are so blindly living in, everything that you see is taking place within the bible, god's words are my proof he exist, and no matter what you do, you will never be able to backfire the words of god, for you know nothing of him and until you do, from dust you were created and dust you shall return. UNLESS you repent for your wrongs and give your life to the lord Jesus Christ, until you stop being so blind of the world, you are flesh and nothing more. Who are you to ask god for proof? why should god listen to those who refuse him and deny him and belittle him? God has every right to punish those who are against him, there are no half and halfs you are for him or you are against him, god does is a merciful god, but as he watches over you now, he only can continue to stand besides you and knock on your hollow head to let him in your heart. God is a loving god, for he has not yet given up on you nor will he ever, but you are the one who give up on him.
George caraballo
June 23, 2011
ADAM & EVE were innocent like children how do you expect for them to know what was right or wrong before sin entered the world. contradiction. Eve ate first but her eyes were not open until she got Adam to eat to then they notice they were naked. come on people open your eyes. If she ate first she would have knowledge before Adam and would have covered her self before him….. common sense would tell you….
think about it the first creation was LIGHT and he separated the light from the darkness. night and day….. What happened to that light, gods first creation on the fourth day when he created the sun moon and stars…
Forgetful Idiot
April 22, 2010
god is real
April 22, 2010
god is real
May 20, 2010
God can not exist, because something would have to had come from nothing. If God can come from nothing, anything can come from nothing. God is unnecessary, and your god was invented by humans with no understanding of the world around them, simply as a device to trick the stupid ones into giving the smart ones a share of their crops, so their sky wizard would let their crops grow. Religions have existed since the dawn of man, and it's just the result of a vestigial Darwinian drive not to kill yourself as soon as you understand that it all counts for nothing and you just rot in the ground.
January 3, 2011
This is rather silly; the simulation ignores a slew of reasonable rebuttals to the questions. This is more an indicator of the poster's lack of study in Christian philosophy than a succinct argument simulation. I like the idea of an argument simulator, but it needs work. It's interesting how the only stalemate condition is about personal belief. The poster might enjoy trying to rebut Aquinas.
Give me a shout on youtube if you want to debate any of this.
January 7, 2011
The game was mediocre, I find the comments section the most fun filled place!
Creationists making themselves look like buffoons is quite fun.
Picard *facepalm*
March 28, 2012
explain big bang thts nothin outta somthin vice versa huh dumb muthamutha
October 25, 2012
You should include this option in your answers dropdown menu."There were/are cases of cured cancer after prayer meetings."
Old people that claim to be cured by God after prayer, sometimes confess that this it was their reason to repent.
Cancer as a disease is caused by the pollution/bad food/synthetic hormones/etc. Try living on a virgin world with no technology, no car exhaustion, no mobile antenas, and you'll get no cancer…. -
October 25, 2012
being Christian is about belief in Jesus who died because of our sins, inherited from Adam, the perfect man who fell into sin. Belief in His resurrection, and belief that through Jesus we will be resurrected in the future of mankind, after His second coming. That is Christian faith. If you speak only of God and prayer you might as well say "Islam versus atheists". Don't forget that.
Christian faith is about Jesus the Son + God the Father + the Holy Spirit (one component of both). Also belief in the evolution theory means removing Adam as first man, and removing Jesus who is a descendant of David, descendant of Adam. One true Christian cannot accept evolutionism.
So, don't remove Jesus from the equation when questioning Christians, you might end up bullying them to fulfill the prophecy and to actually strengthen their belief by bullying them – "All men will hate you because of me, but he who stands firm to the end will be saved." Mark 13:13 NIV 😉
October 25, 2012
Some clerics say that ghosts are actually daemons trying to convince people that the dead are spirits.the Bible clearly says that all men return in the ground after death (not Heaven or Hell). I repeat, RETURN in the ground. The dead cannot feel, speak or feel emotions, they are DEAD. There is no soul floating outside the body, we cannot communicate with the dead etc. Heaven or hell accessible immediately after death are lies of the catholic and orthodox churches.


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What I Learned in College
With back-to-school season upon us, Julie Sugar reminisces on what she learned at college…as an educator, not a student. Julie's reflections remind all of us, in turn, about the immense, powerful, and sometimes under-appreciated role allies play in creating inclusive space for everyone.
I found my voice in college—though not as a student.
I worked for nearly three years at the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU, where I wore (as all Hillel professionals do) many hats: running internships, staffing trips, advising clubs, and more. One group I advised was Keshet, NYU's club for LGBTQ Jews [no relation to the Keshet that runs this blog!] and their allies. Keshet had been larger and more active in the past, and was quite small when I started. Then, with time, incredible student leaders, and staff support, the group blossomed and became a renewed presence on campus. On a personal level, I learned so much through the experience:
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At first, I felt insecure and tongue-tied. I was sensitive enough to know the impact of insensitivity, and the fear of saying something wrong (LGBT? GLBT? Add the Q? What's the deal with the word "queer"? Can I call myself an "ally"?) was overwhelming.
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