July 1st, 2008 From: Raymond J. Zbylut To: Public Pulse Omaha, World Herald Omaha, NE RE: Public Pulse Rebuttal "Love it, or Leave it!" This is the message...
I like it, but a) It's the policy of the WH to never publishes immediate rebuttals in the Pulse. You are not allowed to defend yourself. I think they figure...
Jim Bechtel
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Jul 1, 2008 12:26 pm
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Some things that are different about us: a) Manifest Destiny; a whole continent to ourselves b) A-bombs c) No other developed nation has murder rates remotely...
Jim Bechtel
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Jul 1, 2008 12:34 pm
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My wife and I would like to attend. I'll email you off line. Kent...
one thing I often ask jokingly of my two history teacher friends in passing in the hallways is "which war are you lecturing on today"...........violence is...
I agree with you that other cultures have killed brutally and on a large scale. However, with our technology nowadays, I have to give the number one spot on...
Many Christians insist the Bible is the literal word of God. "Yes, that's widespread and again it's because of a certain lack of sophistication from a literary...
On a somewhat more positive side, something also different about us is freedom......lots of brutality in some of the dictatorships now and in the past. Read...
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What the? Ugh! Grrr! When are these glassy-eyed religious knot heads going to realize that atheism has nothing to with any form of dogma? We simply reject...
Nations Dates Forces Comments ARGENTINA 1890 Troops Buenos Aires interests protected. CHILE 1891 Troops...
Jim Bechtel
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Jul 2, 2008 1:00 am
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Highest in the world, and since that's on a per capita basis (per 100,000) it's higher than that of any police state dictatorships. It's possible that China's...
Jim Bechtel
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Jul 2, 2008 1:11 am
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It's hard to imagine a place with higher deaths by violence than Iraq, with all the ethnic cleansing of Sunnis by Shiites and vice versa, war & insurrection,...
Jim Bechtel
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Jul 2, 2008 1:28 am
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... From: Council for Secular Humanism <nbupp@...> Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 3:52 PM Subject: CSH Press Release: Obama Concession to...
Psychopharmacology. " 'Rarely in psychological research do we see such persistently positive reports from a single event in the laboratory.' .. volunteers...
Jim Bechtel
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Jul 2, 2008 1:53 am
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I believe there is a representation, and a couple of omissions: In the 1967 Detroit riots, it was the Michigan national guard that did all the shooting. Then,...
What I've said a lot before -- and found wholesale agreement among my liberal Christian friends (including my liberal Christian wife): the Bible was inspired...
Chris Peters
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Jul 2, 2008 2:39 am
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While I agree that this is unfortunate, these announcements always seem to be presented in a kinna sociopolitical vacuum. This is why the president of...
I found this on This Modern World website... Jonathan Schwarz says "the fossil fuel industry may have all the money, but we have all the talented sketch...
Apparently American Atheist president Ellen Johnson was railing consistently for atheist not to vote because NONE of the candidates bent over backwards enough...
Heh, heh. PZ.. GREAT stuff! ... http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/theology_is_a_deceitful_str ate.ph ... Omaha@yahoogroups.com] On ... my ... the...
I expected a response to mine about finite resources (Hubbert/oil & Borlaug/food), but I was pleasantly surprised that it's not a lunatic rant (maybe...
Jim Bechtel
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Jul 2, 2008 4:38 pm
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Hi, I'm new to the list and would like to introduce myself. I work at UNO as a Linux System Admin. I found the list while researching Atheism and separation...
Hey, REASONnaires, Last Sunday I gave a sermon on God, Science & the Problem of Perfection at the Unitarian Church here in Lincoln. It was pretty well...
I like it. Made me kinna dizzy sometimes, though. Images would've been a big help for me. I've heard more sermons this year that haven't pissed me off than...