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17 May 09

Seriously, I thought that was metaphorical... [PIC]

Funny how those Christians most focused on Judgment Day ignore the one part of the Bible that directly addresses what will happen on that day -- and from the mouth of Jesus himself:

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27 Mar 09

PimpThisBum.com employs irony on homeless man's behalf - CNN.com

When Sean Dolan saw signs being carried by homeless people, he saw an opportunity. He and his father wanted to drive people to a Web site, so they created PimpThisBum.com as a marketing tool and gave a homeless man a sign with the Web site's address to hold while panhandling in Houston.

Their idea worked.

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19 Jan 08

YouTube - Authors@Google: Bjorn Lomborg

Lomborg argues that should first focus our resources on more immediate concerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS and assuring... a safe water supply—which can be addressed at a fraction of the cost and save millions of lives within our lifetime.

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14 Jan 08

Center for Consumer Freedom :: PETA Killed 97 Percent of 'Companion Animals' in 2006, According to VDACS

the average euthanasia rate for humane societies in the state was just 34.7 percent in 2006. PETA killed 97.4 percent of the animals it took in.

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04 Jul 07

Africans to Bono: 'For God's sake please stop!' — AMERICAN.COM: A Magazine of Ideas, Online

We can continue the endless cycle of need and dependency, or you can create jobs, develop indigenous capacity, and build a sustainable future.

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17 Jun 07

The Wealth Report - WSJ.com : Why the Rich Care About Inequality

Humanity’s greatest advances are... in how... discoveries are applied to reduce inequity... Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care or broad economic opportunity — reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

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30 May 07

If It Feels Good to Be Good, It Might Be Only Natural - washingtonpost.com

Altruism, the experiment suggested, was not a superior moral faculty that suppresses basic selfish urges but rather was basic to the brain, hard-wired and pleasurable.

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30 Jul 06

Neal's Workshop - On Buffett: The 99% Capitalist

Buffett's ideological inconsistency is clear. His failure as a capitalist is his shortsightedness: Buffett has failed to take the determining factors of his success to their logical conclusions.

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26 Jun 06

FORTUNE Magazine: Warren Buffett gives away his fortune - Jun. 25, 2006

"Brace yourself," Buffett warned with a grin. He then described a momentous change in his thinking. Within months, he said, he would begin to give away his Berkshire Hathaway fortune, then and now worth well over $40 billion.

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06 Dec 05

The Seattle Times: Local News: Gates birthday gift is the kind that will keep on giving

So when Bill Gates Sr. turned 80 Wednesday, his son surprised him with this: an 80-year scholarship program for the University of Washington School of Law in the elder Gates' name.

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