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They are just creating money out of thin air to get around that.
an article entitled "Where did the government get the $85 billion to bail out AIG?" should provide some interesting discussion on this matter. luckily, i happen to have one right here:
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Even if only 10% of muslims buy into extremist interpretations of the Qu'ran that's more than 100 million people who want to kill me and my family.
no one wants to kill you and your family. trust me, your not that important. being an "extremist" does not automatically make one a terrorist. i dont see anyone labeling christian fundamentalists as terrorists, when clearly they are on the extreme end of christiandom. also, dont make up statistics unless you can site a source.
regarding all posters claiming that Islam is a religion founded on violence: it may be true. i am an atheist middle eastern, have never read the qu'ran, and do not pretend to understand islam. but i do know that while islam may have been founded upon violent principles, many of its followers are peaceful and much more spiritual than christians. my family members that are religious pray for hours a day-hours.
you cannot label an entire religion as violent when your only source of exposure is clips from a biased right-wing media bent on misguiding you to support a failing political war. many religions have been founded upon a degree of violence, and it is important to take that into account before derailing one religion and upholding another.
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what the hell, i think ill ask a third time (and probably go unanswered again).
can someone sticky this topic?
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I think resistence exercises are better than excercises that just test your strength. And remember to do sets of low numbers instead of just going for high numbers in a row (do five sets of 30 pushups instead of doing 150 in a row). It is better to let your muscles relax.
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wow, amazing. why did you bump this up?
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there is another thread for this dude, just post it there and i will help you. along with the other posters.
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jesus is a representation of christianity and the reason the crusades happened.
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i had some experience with knee problems also. playing lacrosse a few years ago, i fractured my tibia just below the knee. when i went to the doctor though, he missed the fracture on the x-ray and told me i was fine.
a year or two later, my knee starts to swell up like a grapefruit and i can barely sleep from the pain. after going to many doctors, most of whom thought it was bone cancer, one single doctor realized there was a fracture that had been infected for a few months now.
after a biopsy and months on antibiotics, my small fracture was fixed. after 2-3 years.
anyway, i dont know the extent of your injury, but you can probably still do some light-weight low-impact conditioning to strengthen the muscle around you bone. try some quad. and hamstring lifts on a machine.
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It's easy to recommend with hindsight. I'll agree, regulations should have been stricter and regulated tighter, but that's the nature of a capitalist economy. Free enterprise. If someone makes a terrible idea, and enough people follow it, the economy suffers as a result, and those who have no net wealth of their own and have to borrow in order to afford a house (i.e., us) are hit hardest.
At first you're defending the bailouts and then you're preacing about the capitalist economy. Sounds pretty ironic in my eyes, after all the american capitalist matra was a bit like "weak ones deserve to go to bankrupt".
I also find it pretty damn hypocritical how the same people who have been privatising pretty much everything and preaching about neoliberalism are now doing bailouts. Seems to me that the trend is to support certain kind of policy as long as we don't need to follow it by ourselves.
america is a mixed economy; a free market with limited government intervention.
if the government intervenes to stop an enormous insurance company from going bankrupt, it doesnt immediately make it hypocritical.
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It's the same principle. You can't accuse Islam of being bad because it was founded on violence, and then conveniently gloss over the fact Jesus used violence himself.
Disrupting a marketplace... killing people who won't believe you... disrupting... killing... disrupting
yep, I see what you're getting at
christians never killed people who didnt believe in their god?
maybe the crusaders and spanish inquisition were just minor disruptions
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im just going to throw a discussion starter out there, maybe you guys will be interested:
as the federal government starts to bail out large companies such as AIG and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, a two-sided debate arises. while some feel that it is important for the government to help enormous companies such as these out of bankruptcy, others feel the government is gaining too much power in the economy (for example, their 80% stake in AIG now).
how do you feel?
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http://www.milienzo.com/2007/07/10/epuron-advert-will-make-you-smile/
As the site says, watch it once, then watch it again. I think it's one of the best ads I've ever seen.
i think it was a good commercial, but i dont see the genius in it. anyone care to explain?
edit: wow...just watched it again and was thinking "wind". damn clever.
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Thanks Pez. I just found out that I shouldn't be doing leg exercises due to soccer injury in the past. :thumbdown:
you could probably still do some machine workouts to strengthen the muscle. what kind of injury was it specifically?
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Name: Hand-painted wooden ball-in-cup
Description: Mexico's favorite toy for over 340 years.
Production cost: $2
Cost to buy: $5
why spend your time not catching a ball in a cup when you could be catching a ball in a cup?
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just got back from my workout.
hanging leg lifts are killer. i was going light today so i only did 30 leg lifts, then 20 lifts for each for obliques.
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as a persian, albeit an atheist, i can tell you that many middle easterns, muslim or not, do not wear the "headscarf" and find it ridiculous.
scully sc i dont know who you are, but you come off as an arrogant bigot.
people are quick to point out the violence of the koran but seem to forget all the stonings and crucifictions in the bible. not to mention the sects of christianity that practice self-flagellation.
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why was halo 3 taken out of the poll when this topic was started specifically for halo 3?
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edited first post to include other businesses such as Lehman Brothers, AIG, and Merrill Lynch.
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Anyone know of another tricep exercise besides the tricep pull and skullcrushers?
i have a good free-weight tricep workout i can show you. it will be hard to explain but ill try.
its similar to skullcrushers in motion, but it used a dumbell. raise your arm and point it directly above you, with the elbow slightly bent and pointing in front of you. bend your arm back from the elbow to bring your fist close to your shoulder blade. that is the motion involved, now just add weight. you can also use both arms in the same motion with a single dumbell.
i used to do 45 lbs, but have stopped doing this particular exercise.
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i doubt i did, but im not sure.
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'r' is pronounced as a soft 'd' in spanish. if you are not pronouncing them as a soft 'd' its a mispronunciation. its not supposed to be a hard 'r' sound like in english.
The 'r' is rolled, not pronounced as a 'd.' If you are not pronouncing them with a roll of the tongue it's a mispronunciation.
'rr' is rolled. 'rr' is not the same letter as 'r'. if you're going to try to rebuke what im saying, then at least be grammatically correct.
'r' is pronounced as a soft 'd'. just as 'v' is pronounced as a 'b' and 'd' is pronounced 'th', there are many nuances to the language newcomers butcher. i speak regularly with spanish speakers that have been speaking the language for more than half their lives, and they have corrected me on this issue many times.
i wont argue past this point, as i know i am correct and it makes no difference to me whether or not you mispronounce words. any argument past this one is simply devoid from the topic, so i will not respond.
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i hadnt played team slayer for months. basically i left it at 33 and went off to get other skills to 40, then came back randomly because my friends wanted to play it.
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i won five games of team slayer in a row but i didnt go up. whereas my friend went up 3 levels after one game, then 2 after another.
i wasnt really trying to get my rank up, but what the hell?
How many did you LOSE before on that rank?
none. i rarely lose when i try, only when im betraying or just trying to lose on purpose.
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i doubt bin laden is still alive. a guy with diabetes, hooked up to a dialysis machine, and living in a cave isnt likely to live long.
anyway, you specifically are not his target.