I would be curious how many of the folks who are anxious about the PP are checking their balances every day or even more frequently. The people on this forum who seem to have peace of mind generally say that they don't check very often. I wonder if there shouldn't be a 17th rule added to HB's 16 th...

Circular Logic.  Begging the question.  Assuming your conclusion.  Whatever you wish to call it. I can only take so much of it in any 24 hour period. Speaking of 24 hour periods I once asked one of the prominent creationists on the internet to explain this verse to me about the 4th day of creation....

TennPaGa wrote: Austrian's.

Hes talking about Austrian's.  And there theorys about economic's.

I know, 4 posts late.

The only thing I hate worse than the misuse of apostrophe's is pedantry.

Libertarian666 wrote: Anyone who doesn't know that plurals don't have apostrophes loses a lot of credibility as far as I'm concerned. 

Its very annoying to me also.

One more comment.  Before the "fall or curse" everything was as God intended and time did not exist.  Time and death and corruption began at the "fall/curse". Sounds like standard boilerplate Biblical literalist/fundamentalist Christian doctrine to me. I've read the book of Gene...

why Genesis can be trusted as real history of Creation about 6000 years ago and a global Flood. I have no problem with the concept of intelligent design but if this means I have to believe that the earth was created in 7 literal 24 hour days only 6000 years ago and that the loving and forgiving cre...

What you are missing, moda, is Revelation. Absolutely. Good folks on here like Mountaineer try to convince you of the power of what they think are reasonable arguments but Jesus said "Unless a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God". Either something happens on the inside or i...

My employer plan automatically stops at the cutoff (plus an extra 5k for those of us old enough) but my wife's plan allows contributions beyond the max. I have no clue what that is all about. Why would anybody want to contribute extra to a plan where they might be double taxed, i.e., on the way in a...

hljockey said: I once heard someone say that they are ready to grant animals the same rights as humans when they organize and demand them for themselves. 10+ years ago, I was reading this nonfiction book called Next of Kin about Washoe the chimpanzee, who learned sign language. At one point in the ...

Time to put an end to evil once and for all so that we can all live in peace.

Kill all them foreign bastards.

If you have an interpretation of reality that exists in the 2nd realm, please feel free to share it, but acknowledge that it is subjective, untestable, and that there's no reason we should listen to you vs anyone else. Made me think of the Apostle Paul in the New Testament who claimed to have been ...

moda0306 wrote: Anyone else LOVE pumpkin beers?

Absolutely. I've been drinking Blue Moon lately and when I saw them come out with the pumpkin beer I didn't think I would like it but I was wrong.

Still prefer it with a slice of orange but I think the pumpkin flavor really is nice.

I once heard someone say that they are ready to grant animals the same rights as humans when they organize and demand them for themselves. That pretty much sums up how I feel about it. And a corollary of my own to that idea would be that I'm ready to recognize their rights when they are ready to rec...

The main thing I wonder about is how the computer could know certain things, like the fact that there is a big curve of X degrees up ahead and I therefore need to slow down to Y miles per hour in Z feet. I'm sure they have some technology that does this somehow but I can't help but wonder how foolp...

Am I the only one concerned about computer problems i.e. crashes?  OTOH brings a whole new meaning to blue screen of death. The main thing I wonder about is how the computer could know certain things, like the fact that there is a big curve of X degrees up ahead and I therefore need to slow down to...

http://www.foxbusiness.com/industries/2014/09/08/self-driving-cadillac-brings-industry-closer-to-autonomous-car/ According to this article Cadillac will have one for sale in 2016. I remember listening to Paul Harvey quite a few years ago while he was telling a story about a teenager whose parents b...

Here are the latest Letters.  Each Letter, a short chapter in the book "What They Need to Hear" by Klemet Preus tends to build on prior material.  They begin with " Preface " in my August 6 post; the preface discusses the purpose of the book. Letter 83 - Heaven: The Work of Jesu...

This is the best news I've heard in a long time. I was having pains in my stomach starting some time last year and thinking alcohol might be the culprit I mostly gave it up for almost all of 2014. Didn't help, so when I was on a an Alaskan cruise lat month I decided why not enjoy some wine and beer ...

Even though I'm mostly scientifically illiterate on this subject I think I kind of get evolution and can see some truth in it. But what do you do with the fact that the human brain seems to be programmed to ask where did it all come from and how did it start? Can you really blame people thus program...

moda0306 wrote: Matter is not scarce.  Therefore anything consisting of matter is not property.

You make a lot of intelligent posts but I have to say that is one of the stupidest assertions by an otherwise intelligent person that I think I have ever heard.

On Drudge I saw that this was also a day of fast food workers protesting for a minimum wage of $15/hour. Had to think about that for a moment. This would mean that a two-parent family could make a very decent life for themselves even though neither one of them possessed any marketable skills just by...

Fred Reed's perspective on the Ferguson thing. As usual, much too rational to be taken seriously.

http://www.fredoneverything.net/Ferguson.shtml

So when the temperature monitoring stations pump out numbers that show a cooler summer the deniers cite this as evidence that global warming is a farse. Yet, when the stations put out warmer than average numbers they are broken and dont work well. I make similar observations from the skeptical side...