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they've already ruined it. Only about 18% is going to infrastructure which is instant jobs

lol nobody needs to apologize for their beliefs it is just my wish that people really study their religions texts and laws carefully and decide intelligently if it makes sense to them personally to carry on as their religion dictates. Letting someone else do all the thinking for you is a cowardly and apathetic way to live. It gives us shit like Jihad. The church told people the world was flat and the center of the universe. One day an explorer/scientist said hmm I dun think so. They didn't accept these illogical conclusions, they challenged them and moved our understanding of our world and solar system forward. We see now who was right because they weren't apathetic about the status quo and weren't afraid to challenge conventional thinking. Science admits it when they don't know or understand something and keeps working to solve the mystery religion does not. God did it and you peons need to stfu. Dun exactly inspire spiritual growth now do it? God gave us science and brilliant ppl to decode it so that we could better understand and appreciate all that exists. If he didn't want us to know the telescope, microscope, physics, etc etc wouldn't exist.

its gettin sucky yo

a cylon cylon child.... now they don't need to resurrect they can breed Everyone is totally losing their minds. I did love how Bill made Zarek squirm like a worm on a hook mwahahaha Gotta get that ep for Baltar sound bites X'D

u know what I read u live here

I just want to clear up my position on God/religions/faith. I know that I can sound very anti semitic, and I'm not afraid to admit yes I have become quite a hater. I think Judaism Islam and Christianity are pretty fucked up. It angers me to see people consumed by words written by selected by and bound together by misogynistic prejudice oppressive power hungry men thousands of years ago. Religion was a tool to control social behavior long before law. The world has moved on since those times, unfortunately religious nutbags have not. Long ago when lightning streaked across the sky man did not understand atmospheric science and thus proclaimed lightning the work of a god. Now, that sounds pretty stupid, downright ignorant to our modern minds, but thousands of years ago it was fact not fiction to mankind. It is no more or less foolish to think a man parted a large body of water; ie Moses and the Red Sea. Paleogeology has brought us to the conclusion that it was an earthquake that temporarily blocked the flow of water in the vicinity old Mo and his guys crossed. Let us remember it is and has been an area of high seismic activity. Just like the lightning man had no knowledge of plate tectonics or seismic activity when Moses was kickin it and thus proclaimed a favorable coincidence as an act of another god. ~You should be seeing the pattern by now~ If you can't explain it some god did it. Dumb to us but it was all they had back then. These were scientifically primitive people that assumed the Earth was the center of the universe and still freshly created unaware and uncaring about the previous 4 billion years of planetary evolution. Aside from being scientifically ignorant the writers of the many gospels still clung to today these men were equally ignorant to basic human rights. Owning slaves was fine, subjugating women was fine, killing someone because he didn't share your beliefs system also fine. We don't let that shit fly in our modern America, unfortunately there are still parts of the world where ignorant people cling to ignorant beliefs. I will willingly admit that it is the constant abuse of human rights in western religion that disgusted me enough to walk away. Their writings about god also disgust me. Its human nature to humanize things and thus the early writers gave their god a rather shitty miserable cranky old man personality. This is in complete contradiction to their god being a construct of infinite love and light. Even the most basic logic puts a glaring light on these contradictions; you cannot be pure love if you experience wrath. Period. Never happened, never will. :bingo:Think of in terms of the color wheel and primary colors. Yellow will always be yellow. The only way to make yellow not just yellow is to add another color and when you do that it is no longer yellow anymore as it is a new color like green. This basic principal applies to god. If you add wrath to love its not a being of pure love anymore as you have added the colors of hatred and vengeance. It fundamentally changes god and thus negates him. God is not human and giving him negative human emotions instead of looking for and finding scientific and provable explanations is self defeating to everyone with any faith. So, now I have explained how western religion is abusive and contradictory. Anyone who even remotely paid attention in history class knows this themselves as religion has killed more people then disease and natural disasters via crusaded and other forms of warfare (like witch/scientist hunts). Really makes one wonder why so many millions of people in our modern world cling to such hate filled dogma doesn't it? When I walked away from religion it left me feeling disgruntled on a mail carrier level and feeling empty and cheated. Not once did I ever doubt the existence of god but I was and still am convinced these primitive understandings of god are wrong and self serving to elitist patriarchal societies. I further believe that all religions are praying to the same entity; god was just modified to fit their culture at the time. In short, they got it wrong, didn't care because it served their purposes and then they passed on swill to future generations inducting babies into their faith never giving them a choice or a chance and thus perpetuating religions of hate and intolerance that still rule western and near eastern society today. Ironically it was/is quantum physics - science!- that proves to me that there is a god, string theory in particular. We live in 4 dimensions, 3 to create a point in space and then add time (thank you Einstein) As brilliant minds dig deeper into the mysteries of the universe the concept of 11 dimensions (to compensate for the weakness of gravity) is being given a lot more attention. If there are dimensions strings and membranes we haven't found out there yet - hell we don't even understand dark matter or dark energy but over 1/2 of the known universe is made up of it- it leaves open the possibility that yes there is a god as I'm not a real something from nothing believer and think that our universe was created from another universe collapsing in on itself and ...well kinda farting this one out... or it was the collision of branes that caused the big bang. For me science brings me closer to god and religion is a barrier keeping me (and humans) away from the truth of what god is. Humans evolve or die. Science evolves or dies. Its time for religion to evolve or die. There is no chosen people, just people. Sadly it appears as if it will take giving all these retards their Armageddon - as in we kill them off on a massive scale and their texts and doctrines end up on a shelf next to Huck Fin in the historical fiction sections of our libraries- for the rest of this intelligent species to move on in the universe.

what this means is the family planning types of organizations that get govt funding may once again offer abortion education and services without having their funding pulled. yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehawwwwwwwwwwwwww!

I don't see our mangaka saving the series, just ending it. Somehow some way Naruto will win this fight and then be in the hospital for a while just like always. It's possible Kakashi knows an appear dead jutsu but its more likely he's just plain dead. I doubt Orochimaru/Kabuto will be back. It will be the ol' Kabuto went mad absorbing Orochimaru and perished line of crap. I'll go further and say Sasuke wont fight Naruto again, he'll take out who he has to in Konoha and it will be the ol' thats enough bloodshed line of crap. W Paine gone no more Akatsuki and the world has been saved from most of these monsters ... of course there's room for a sequel after another time skip for all the factions to re-organize.....

'twas super cuteeeeeeeeeeeee!

at this point most ppl need to be worrying about keeping their jobs.

West side warming offsets cooling in parts of east side, researchers report This map by NASA shows temperature changes over the last 50 years on Antarctica. West Antarctica, separated from the east by a long mountain range, warmed faster. Temperature changes are measured in degrees Celsius. Challenging warming skeptics who note that parts of Antarctica have gotten colder, researchers on Wednesday reported that overall the continent has gotten warmer since the 1950s, and that even those colder spots would be warmer were it not for the ozone hole."Contrarians have sometime grabbed on to this idea that the entire continent of Antarctica is cooling, so how could we be talking about global warming," said study co-author Michael Mann, director of the Earth System Science Center at Penn State University. "Now we can say: No, it's not true ... It is not bucking the trend." The study does not point to man-made climate change as the cause of the Antarctic warming — singling out a cause is a highly intricate scientific process — but a different and smaller study out late last year did make that connection. "We can't pin it down, but it certainly is consistent with the influence of greenhouse gases" from fossil fuels, said NASA scientist Drew Shindell, another study co-author. Some of the effects also could be natural variability, he said. The study showed that Antarctica — about one-and-a-half times bigger than the United States — remains a complicated weather picture, especially with only a handful of monitoring stations in its vast interior. The researchers used satellite data and mathematical formulas to fill in missing information. That made outside scientists queasy about making large conclusions with such sparse information. "This looks like a pretty good analysis, but I have to say I remain somewhat skeptical," Kevin Trenberth, climate analysis chief at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said in an e-mail. "It is hard to make data where none exist." Shindell said the study, published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, was more comprehensive than past studies and jibed with computer models. West vs. East The research found that since 1957, the annual temperature for the entire continent of Antarctica has warmed by around 1 degree Fahrenheit. The Antarctic Peninsula in West Antarctica has long been known to be warming, but the study noted that all of West Antarctica is about 20 degrees warmer than the east and has warmed nearly twice as fast, said study lead author Eric Steig of the University of Washington. "Significant warming extends well beyond the Antarctic Peninsula to cover most of West Antarctica, an area of warming much larger than previously reported," the authors wrote. Ten ice sheets on the Antarctic Peninsula have receded or collapsed since the 1990s. The Wilkins sheet is poised to break up, held in place by a sliver of ice 1,500-feet wide compared to 70 miles in the 1950s. East Antarctica, which scientists had long thought to be cooling, is warming slightly when yearly averages are looked at over the past 50 years, said Steig. However, autumn temperatures in East Antarctica are cooling over the long term, probably due to the ozone hole. And East Antarctica from the late 1970s through the 1990s, cooled slightly, Steig said. "Efforts to repair the ozone layer eventually will begin taking effect and the hole could be eliminated by the middle of this century," Steig noted. "If that happens, all of Antarctica could begin warming on a par with the rest of the world." Analysis overstated? Some researchers skeptical about the magnitude of global warming overall said that the new study didn't match their measurements from satellites and that there appears to be no warming in Antarctica since 1980. "It overstates what they have obtained from their analysis," said Roger Pielke Sr., a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado. Steig said a different and independent study using ice cores drilled in West Antarctica found the same thing as his paper. And recent satellite data also confirms what this paper has found, Steig added. The study has major ramifications for sea level rise, said Andrew Weaver at the University of Victoria in Canada. Most major sea level rise projections for the future counted on a cooling — not warming — Antarctica. This will make sea level rise much worse, Weaver said. Antarctica's ice contains enough frozen water to raise world sea levels by 190 feet if it all melted, so even a tiny amount of melting could threaten Pacific island states or coastal cities from Beijing to London. West Antarctica is particularly vulnerable because its ice sheet is grounded below sea level and surrounded by floating ice shelves. If that ice sheet completely melted, global sea level would rise by 16 to 20 feet. Shindell predicted that West Antarctica "will eventually melt" over a long period of time "if warming like this continues." A 5.4 F rise could trigger a wide melt of West Antarctica, he said. [/url]

Experts suspect warming, fear 'prelude to bigger, more abrupt changes' Jen Chase / Colorado State Forest Service via AP Pine trees killed by beetles are shown in their rusty red color near Grandby, Colo., west of Denver. A new study found forest mortality has doubled and tied warming temperatures to drought as well as beetle infestations. View related photos The mortality rate of old-growth forests across the West has more than doubled in recent decades, and those forests are now losing more trees than they gain, according to a new study that identified the most probable cause as warming temperatures.The trend is happening at every elevation, in trees of different sizes and of various species, researchers with the U.S. Geological Survey and universities reported in the peer-reviewed journal Science. "Our long-term monitoring shows that tree mortality has been climbing, while the establishment of replacement trees has not," USGS scientist Phil van Mantgem, a co-leader of the research team, said in a statement. Tree mortality doubled in just 17 years in the Pacific Northwest and 25 years in California. Mortality rates in states farther inland took 29 years to double. The authors ruled out several factors — including air pollution, crowding and fire suppression impacts — as being significant drivers since the trend has been consistent in all areas and among all age groups studied. Moreover, "because mortality increased in small trees, the overall increase in mortality rates cannot be attributed solely to aging of large trees," the researchers wrote in Science. In contrast, increasing regional temperature during that time was correlated with tree deaths. "Regional warming and consequent increases in water deficits are likely contributors to the increases in tree mortality rates," the researchers said. Van Mantgem noted that "average temperature in the West rose by more than 1 degree F over the last few decades. While this may not sound like much, it has been enough to reduce winter snowpack, cause earlier snowmelt, and lengthen the summer drought." That warming also favors insects like the mountain pine beetle, which has devoured forests in recent years. 'Effects compound over time' The long-term impact could mean thinner forests, smaller trees and changed habitat for animals. "Tree death rates are like interest on a bank account — the effects compound over time," said USGS scientist and research co-leader Nate Stephenson. "A doubling of death rates eventually could reduce average tree age in a forest by half, thus reducing average tree size." "That may be our biggest concern," said Stephenson. "Is the trend we're seeing a prelude to bigger, more abrupt changes to our forests?" Jerry Franklin, a University of Washington researcher on the team, noted that forests can probably maintain functional capacity as long as they "don't go over a tipping point." Tracking vital signs like mortality are vital to figuring out where that tipping point is, he added, but no one is doing that. "We need to be doing a lot more," he said. Carbon sources? The researchers also noted that the high mortality rate could turn Western forests from carbon sinks, where they absorb the greenhouse gas, into carbon sources, emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as they die — further speeding up the pace of global warming. "An alarming implication of increased mortality rates is that the fundamental structure of these forests could be undergoing change," Franklin said. "The forests may stabilize at lower overall levels of biomass resulting in less carbon stored in the forests." The areas studied were 76 forest stands 200 or more years old in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Canada's southwestern British Columbia. Researchers counted trees and looked back at records kept for more than 50 years at multiple sites. worry about methane decomposition will cause

or hes trying to convince the whitey evangelicals hes more then just a black man w a scary name