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Interpretation.
He also borrowed $180,375 from Harken at very low rates; the company's
1989 and 1990 SEC filings said it "forgave" $341,000 in loans to
unspecified executives.
So what did Junior do for all this money? It's hard to say exactly,
but things happened for Harken after Junior came on board: it got a
$25 million stock offering from an unusual bank with CIA ties, it won
a surprise exclusive drilling contract with Bahrain, a small Mideast
country, and an Arab
4 of ?
Deal #3: A Big Slice of the Texas Rangers for a Little Money (and a
Big Profit)
The third unusually easy deal for George Bush Junior was his involvement
in the Texas Rangers baseball team. In a nutshell, he was offered a piece
of this valuable franchise for only $600,000, by supporters of his dad
who also bailed out his failing oil company. He recently sold his stake
for $14 million to a Texas millionaire with lots of businesses regulated
5 of ?
Party Hearty: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'N Roll?
For almost half his life, Junior was distinguished mainly by his
hearty appetite for partying. A Newsweek profile by Evan Thomas,
describing his college years, says he "seems to have majored in
beer drinking at the Deke House." After he formed his first
company (which failed), Thomas writes, "By his own account, Bush
spent a lot of time in bars, trying to sort out who he was. He had
a kind of
'Day of Prayer' Hijacked by the Religious Right
From: <owner-auscs@list.us.net>
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Subject: AU Press Release on National Day of Prayer
Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 7:57 AM
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 28, 1999
Contact: Joseph Conn or Rob Boston
202-466-3234 Telephone
202-466-2587 Fax
www.au.org
NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER HAS BECOME A PLATFORM FOR RELIGIOUS RIGHT
PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN, CHARGES AMERICANS UNITED
Americans United Says National Day of Prayer Task Force Promotes
Inaccurate 'Christian Nation' Version of History
The annual National Day of Prayer has been hijacked by Religious
The Faith Healers
We have a !delightful! group on the Oregon Coast (Tillamook County)
that is going one better. They found out that people could access
'porn' websited via the library's computers, and they are telling
people to vote against a 5-year tax levy that'll close all the
libraries in the county if it doesn't pass, unless the library
installs web filters on the two computers that are available in
the main library.
Better to have everybody in the county a whole lot
Another Speaker Goes
My fundy friend at least has enough contact with reality to claim
that I'm an example of the falsity of the belief that once saved,
always saved.
MB
Debate?
Who died and appointed you moderator?
Debate?
Wise choice.
Randi did a little investigation of glossalia. He took some
recording equipment into a tongues-speaking church, and made
some tape. He then took out the preacher's 'interpretation'
of the babble, waited a couple of weeks, and played it back
to the preacher, requesting an interpretation.
Surprise! The preacher interpreted it to mean something totally
different from his original 'interpretation.'
I forget how the preacher explained the two totally different
interpretations, but it might be in Randi's book _Flim
Debate?
What he doesn't seem to understand is that those words he is
omitting are OUR glossalalia. Poor dear!
Grynspan's Site.
Contrary to populat belief, the above does not refer to the
value six hundred and sixty-six. It is a six, a six and a
six, which has nothing to do with a value at all. Remember:
at the time, 'they' did not use the same number system that
we do, and the value six hundred and sixty-six would have
been written with C's, X's and I's.
The Faith Healers
I don't know why this pops into my head, but if I lived in
Tillamook County, I'd be plugging the tax levy with the
argument that I knew about beastiality as child. I leaned
about it on Sunday in church. Other than that, I never
heard the word at all.
I wonder why it is okay to discuss subjects like this in
church, but gets everybody's tailfeathers all ruffled if the
topic of approached anywhere else.
Religion after 2000
That is quite possibly (probably?) the case. I know my Louie
will do nearly anything to please others. It is a bit of a
problem, and we have to watch who he comes into contact with,
so he won't be told to do something illegal, harmful, or otherwise
stupid. It is hard to imagine somebody trying to hard to please
others, yet having no concept of the feelings of others.
Staal's shell game
That statement is absolute proof that fundies exist only
because of intellectual laziness.
Complex to Simple.
This chest-beating, ape-man attitude around sports is a fairly
recent phenomenon. In my day (grin) we were competitive, but
we also knew how to mind our manners off the court. I was on
the all-city championship basketball team, and don't once recall
anybody on that team thinking that they were better than anybody
else because of their ability to play the game. I also don't
recall anybody being jealous of us because we were on the team
and they weren't.
Correction
I have only nine years of formal education, also. The difference
between you and me is obviously that you quit learning when you
left school, and I had just begun.
Don't use your lack of formal education as an excuse for your
ignorance.
5 of ?
Oh, I don't agree. At the time Willy was carrying on with
hundreds of other women (his words to Monica Lewinsky, not
mine), Hillary had no way of knowing that this opportunity
would arise.
Possibly, but she had a daughter to think about. What she
has done to Chelsea is unforgivable. If Chelsea ever manages
to have a decent relationship with a man, it'll be nothing
short of a miracle.
Yes. I don't know what can be done about the
Suppression of Facts (c)
I see some posts from George Rudzinski. He was banned for
claiming to have destroyed a prized book that was lent to
him by another participant. The book was irreplaceable
because of all the margin notes and highlighting in it.
5 of ?
You only have to read the book to find out what she's done.
You can't be married to a chronic womanizer and not have
screaming fits about it from time to time. In addition,
she is in a perpetual foul mood that she takes out on
everybody around her.
How can your father be a chippy chaser of monumental
proportions without it affecting your attitude toward
men and life in general?
He is am embarrassment to Chelsea, and the poor
5 of ?
To make myself clearer than I did earlier today, I'll say this:
Bill Clinton admitted to Monica Lewinsky that he had had HUNDREDS
of women since he married Hillary. That makes him a VERY abusive
husband. Hillary graduated from Yale Law School. She also graduated
from a highly respected college prior to entering Law School. She
is in an economic position where she could have left Clinton anytime
she wished and taken care of herself and Chelsea in style.
If
Debate?
I'm really not worried about anything that an ordinary person
can run from, but it does worry me that those baggy clothes
are an excellent way to smuggle a rifle or several pistols
into a school.
I'm sure that's true. I'm also sure that teachers ought to
be monitoring the kids' behavior from the time they start
school, and there ought to be zero tolerance for any form
of bullying or hazing. The old 'golden rule is our standard'
philosophy.