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THE OFFICIAL CALIFORNIA PLUS BOOMER 'N WHISKERS THREAD! (pg. 1131)
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| Mebot |
wow what better way to celebrate 4 long years at a university, than to start drinking and partying at 2 in the afternoon, have a water-slide and pool outside, beer pong, jello shooters, jagerbobmbs, horseshoes, bbq and more stuff outside?????
yeah i was drunky mcbeerface last night, i passed out by a car in a parking lot and my friends found me later on, and took me back to the party and i drank some more and climbed through a window. |
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| Boomer187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mebot
wow what better way to celebrate 4 long years at a university, than to start drinking and partying at 2 in the afternoon, have a water-slide and pool outside, beer pong, jello shooters, jagerbobmbs, horseshoes, bbq and more stuff outside?????
yeah i was drunky mcbeerface last night, i passed out by a car in a parking lot and my friends found me later on, and took me back to the party and i drank some more and climbed through a window. |
horseshoes.....sweet, I am there.
So you gonna be dunkie McBeerface again tonight....thats awesome. |
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| Mebot |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
horseshoes.....sweet, I am there.
So you gonna be dunkie McBeerface again tonight....thats awesome. |
yeah we'll see, this was just the graduation party for Radford. Our graduation isnt till next weekend, so im sure there'll be trouble then.
yeah come on over,bring your bathing suit too. just dont walk barefoot in the kitchen cos you'll get diseases and worms on your feet:eek: |
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| DaveSZ |
How much percentage of one's income do you think should be taxed?
33%?:D
40%?:)
45%?:toothless
50%?:disbelief
60%? :nervous:
I think anything over 50% is probably excessive, but it should also depend on how much money you make. I wouldn't have a problem with Bill Gates being taxed at over 50%, but I would with someone who makes $20,000 a year.
Echo and Sara, what percentage of income is taxed in your countries? |
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| DaveSZ |
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...4-2004May9.html
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Chechen President Killed in Blast
At Least Five Killed, 50 Wounded at Packed Stadium
By Susan B. Glasser and Peter Baker
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, May 9, 2004; 12:51 PM
MOSCOW, May 9 -- A powerful explosion ripped through a crowded stadium in the war-torn republic of Chechnya Sunday, killing the region's pro-Moscow president Akhmad Kadyrov and dealing a serious blow to the Kremlin's claims that the situation there has stabilized.
The blast in Grozny's Dynamo stadium also killed five others, including the chairman of Chechnya's State Council, and a local Reuters news agency journalist.
Col.-Gen. Valery Baranov, the top field commander of Russian forces charged with pacifying the separatist republic, was seriously wounded, and about 50 others sustained injuries, according to Russian news accounts from the scene.
President Vladimir Putin, who handpicked Kadyrov to run the republic and had once again proclaimed his Chechen policy a success as recently as his Friday inauguration to a second term, announced Kadyrov's death Sunday afternoon in televised remarks. Putin called him a "real hero" who had been "confidently leading his republic to a peaceful life."
Appearing at Putin's side in the Kremlin was Kadyrov's son Ramzan, visibly shaken, who said his father had made a "conscious choice" to take on such a dangerous task. Ramzan Kadyrov has been accused by human rights groups of running a private militia in Chechnya and killing or terrorizing political opponents of his father.
Putin announced that Sergei Abramov, the Chechen prime minister, would step in as acting president. And speaking to World War II veterans at a Red Square parade, he said that "retribution" would follow. "It will be unavoidable for terrorists," he said.
Kadyrov, the former chief mufti, or Muslim religious leader, of Chechnya, advocated a holy war against Russia in the mid-1990s but changed sides when the latest round of the long-running conflict there began in 1999. He was elected Chechen president last October with more than 80 percent of the vote. International observers and human rights groups said the vote was rigged.
The blast that claimed Kadyrov took place during anniversary celebrations for the Russian victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, and television cameras recorded scenes of gore and pandemonium as the explosion wiped out one whole section of the stadium's white bleachers.
By late afternoon, Russian news agencies reported the death toll could reach more than a dozen. Russian officials announced they had detained five people in Grozny in connection with the blast. Among the dead were Khusain Isayev, the Chechen state council chairman, and Reuters journalist Adlan Khasanov, 33, who had worked for the agency as a photographer and television cameraman since the late 1990s, the agency said.
© 2004 The Washington Post Company
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-nancy9may09,1,4093110.story?coll=la-home-local
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Stem Cell Funding Is Put in Spotlight
Nancy Reagan makes a rare speech urging more research, which is limited by U.S. policy.
By Stephanie Chavez, Times Staff Writer
In rare remarks aimed at influencing national public policy, former First Lady Nancy Reagan told a star-studded crowd Saturday night that stem cell research must be pursued "to save families from the pain" of debilitating illnesses, such as Alzheimer's disease, which afflicts her husband, former President Reagan.
"I am determined to do whatever I can," she said after receiving a standing ovation at a gala fundraiser in her honor at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
She told the crowd, which included Michael J. Fox, Harrison Ford and James Taylor, that Alzheimer's had taken her husband "to a distant place where I can no longer reach him." She added that stem cell research held hope for a cure.
"I don't see how we can turn our backs on this," she said. "We have lost so much time. I just can't bear to lose any more."
In the past, she has discreetly made known her views in support of stem cell research. But Saturday's event marked the first time that she had spoken publicly in favor of the research, for which President Bush limited federal funding in 2001, following a politically charged debate.
Before Saturday's event, Fox, who has Parkinson's disease, said the former first lady's strong support of stem cell research would be a "tremendous boon."
"She's so revered by the entire cross-section of the country, they trust her judgment when she says, 'This is about helping people who we love,' " said Fox, who has a foundation that supports stem cell research
"She's looked at it, thought about it and prayed, and realized it is the right thing to do," he said.
Actor Ford read letters from former Presidents Clinton, Carter and Ford.
President Ford's letter said: "We are so proud of your strength over the last challenging years."
In his letter, Clinton said: "She has demonstrated a deep and abiding commitment to supporting a field of research that could save countless lives."
After a video tribute to the Reagans, Fox presented the former first lady with a Caregiver's Award, a tribute to her commitment in caring for her ailing husband, 93, who revealed 10 years ago that he had Alzheimer's disease. The former president no longer makes public appearances and is cared for by his wife in their Bel-Air home.
Reagan was escorted to the event by longtime family friend and entertainer Merv Griffin. She approached the podium in tears and told Fox, "I have such admiration for you. Your children must be so proud."
The event included speeches from people who suffer from diabetes, as well as a leading scientist in the field, Larry Goldstein of UC San Diego.
The $500-a-plate dinner was expected to raise about $2 million, the first time the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has held an event specifically aimed at funding stem cell research.
Scientists believe embryonic stem cells hold the key to curing a range of diseases that afflict nearly 100 million Americans as researchers learn how to mold the cells into pancreas cells for diabetics, replacement brain cells for people with Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease or heart cells for cardiac patients. Stem cell research holds promise for those with spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis and other afflictions.
The Bush policy limits the use of taxpayer money, which funds most U.S. medical research, to experiments on a narrow set of stem cells that had been taken from human embryos before August 2001. A broader policy would be immoral, he said, because it would cause more human embryos to be destroyed for their stem cells.
Bush's decision was a relief to many abortion opponents and religious conservatives, politically potent Bush allies.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, however, said it was unacceptable, and that research that began with the destruction of human embryos was tantamount to murder.
Prominent scientists and disease advocacy groups criticized the decision, saying that it would prevent them from jump-starting one of the most promising fields of medical research.
As a respected Republican figure, the former first lady is expected to give a high-profile boost to a renewed effort to reopen the debate on stem cell research.
"When the wife of one of the most popular presidents, a strong conservative, makes a public statement that this research must go forward with all haste … it further demonstrates in a dramatic and vivid way that the yearning for cures trump politics and trump ideologies," said Daniel Perry, president of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research.
Just last week, more than 200 members of Congress, including conservative Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) and other abortion opponents, signed a letter to Bush urging him to change his policy to allow funding of research on embryonic stem cells derived from excess in vitro fertilized embryos developed to help infertile couples have children. An estimated 400,000 such embryos are held in frozen storage, and they are likely to be destroyed if not donated to research with the couples' consent.
The letter urges the changes because the researchers have found that only 19 of the original 78 embryonic cell lines authorized for federal research funding are still available — and they are contaminated, making their use for humans uncertain.
Also, more and more research is moving overseas, the letter states.
Trent Duffy, a Bush spokesman, said Saturday that the president's policy remained the same, "which is we remain committed to the promise of research on existing stem cell lines."
He said that though "we respect those with different views, we can't allow for federal funding that would encourage the destruction of human embryos."
Federal law, however, does not prohibit private sector or state funding for stem cell research.
California has emerged at the forefront of this biomedical field with the passage in the last two years of several laws that encourage stem cell research. The laws authorize the use of human embryos and establish ethical and legal standards for their use.
California voters could be propelled into the debate if a statewide initiative qualifies for the November ballot. The California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative proposes a $3-billion general-obligation bond measure that would fund stem cell research over a 10-year period, and would represent the largest state public funding source in the nation.
A $350-million annual spending cap would be established, and principal and interest payments would be deferred for five years, said Fiona Hutton, a spokeswoman for the measure.
Supporters of the measure, which include more than 25 disease advocacy groups, 10 Nobel laureates and other scientists, have submitted more than 1 million signatures to the secretary of state's office, which will decide whether it qualifies for the ballot.
Campaign finance disclosure statements show that the measure received $1.8 million in contributions from Jan. 1 to March 31, including a $500,000 donation from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.
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| Boomer187 |
holy crap. I just watched the whole Front Line show they had, The Jesus Factor, watch it here....
and I am scared, its great to be religious, but religious extremest scare me to death. Kerry better win. |
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| DaveSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Boomer187
holy crap. I just watched the whole Front Line show they had, The Jesus Factor, watch it here....
and I am scared, its great to be religious, but religious extremest scare me to death. Kerry better win. |
You know when even Ronald Reagan's wife thinks things are ed up, THEY'RE ED UP.
I agree with you Boomers, and it's critical that Kerry win this election.
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Bush sold public land to a mining company that was worth millions for $875 dollars:
http://www.moveleft.com/mov...company_etc.asp
God that makes me sick.
We can change presidents, but we can't remake the environment after it's been despoiled. |
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| Boomer187 |
Results
You got 17 out of 20 correct
hehe. |
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| anuneventrade |
| It's going to be so much more difficult to say goodbye to certain people than I thought. :sadgreen: |
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| Echo of Silence |
| quote: | Originally posted by DaveSZ
You know when even Ronald Reagan's wife thinks things are ed up, THEY'RE ED UP.
I agree with you Boomers, and it's critical that Kerry win this election.
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Wow, I'm so glad that she has the courage to speak out in support of stem cell research.
Also, from the jesus factor site
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...icals/vote.html)
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Will religion matter in the 2004 election?
… Religion is going to be more important in the 2004 election in part because evangelical voters are going to be crucial to Bush's re-election. Religion is also going to be more important because of 9/11. We're just much more conscious of the whole world and the interaction between Islam and the rest of the world. And the extent to which Americans feel threatened by terrorism and fundamentalist Islam will probably be an asset for President Bush.
There's also just a sense at this point that Bush pushed the envelope in talking about personal spirituality. And it worked for him. So I think that the Democratic candidate is going to need to figure out how to talk about faith, personal faith, as well. If the Democrats decide to say that personal faith is something that only Republicans talk about, they're going to lose the election. And they're really going to show people that they're out of touch with the mainstream of Americans.
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It would be better to keep religion and politics separate but it looks like that's not going to be feasible in this election. |
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| DaveSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by anuneventrade
It's going to be so much more difficult to say goodbye to certain people than I thought. :sadgreen: |
Who are you saying bye to?
Get on MSN if you have time.
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