Do anybody really think the Democrats would seriously look at a Republican plan?

It's a political ploy, folks.

Not true, Zed. Truth is there is no level of proof hard-core theists can produce.
No one knows what Jesus looks like. The popular images of him come from the minds of artists.

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And there in lies a fatal flaw when discussing the shroud. There are actually two questions when dealing with the shroud. Each question is independent.

1) Is the shroud real?
2) Who is the man on the shroud?

Many times, people answer the first question based on their belief of the second and that is a fallacy since the questions are independent of each other.

Oh, before his death, Rogers changed his position and believed the Shroud was authentic.

As far as the representativeness of the sample - until I have read their reasoning in detail, I won't say anything beyond what I already have. It's somewhat interesting, though, that I can't seem to find that explanation anywhere on the site.

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The sample was from an invisible reweave. One patch was taken from the shroud and cut up and sent for C14 testing.

A theory came about around 2000 stating sample was taken from a middle ages French reweave. Ray Rogers, part of the original STURP team who studied the shroud in the 70s, wanted to disprove this theory. Rogers believed it was fake. He still had a few strands of the shroud. He found it there were cotton strands spliced with linen.

Rogers had terminal cancer and was dying. He sent the sample to Los Alamos lab to get a second opinion. They confirmed it. In fact, while they were studying it, a cotton strand became undone from the linen.

Thus, the C14 results were skewed because the sample was bad.

I never said he slowed down. I said he was told by a union guy to slow down.

Actually did what?

Link?

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Anecdotal evidence for me. My dad is a retired accountant for Caterpillar. When the UAW had their big strike in the 90s, many office staff worked in the factory. A few union guys didn't strike and one of them trained my dad. After a few days, my dad was cranking out parts and the union guy told him to slow down since it was making his prior production look bad.

It is time the common American learnt some manners.

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Compared to whom?

Well, duh. This is politics. They all lie.

Could it also be possible that they wanted to help other atheist to not be afraid to express their non-belief?

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The irony, of course, is that many atheists want the religious to keep to keep their religion to themselves.

*Reporter's note: This case seems to represent yet another example of the double-standard being applied across the country in relation to so-called hate crimes. By all accounts, McIntyre's alleged assault was a completely unprovoked attack, brought on by his own stated anger against white people.

Is it such a leap to think that if the race of the attacker and victims were reversed, that law enforcement would at least be considering hate crimes charges?

So English teachers should be teaching kids safe sex?

more than half of them are fucking by that age anyways

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And more than half of them are drinking. So with that logic, let's teach them cool drinking games in school.

Anything else is simply too much for their delicate sensibilities

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Yea, cause we know this is appropriate subject matter to learn in school...

That's all this soup of blood and corn, shit and sperm and peanuts floating around me. Even with my guts unraveling out my ass, me holding onto what's left, even then my first want is to somehow get my swimsuit back on.

God forbid my folks see my dick.

My one hand holding a fist around my ass, my other hand snags my yellow-striped swim trunks and pulls them from around my neck. Still, getting into them is impossible.

You want to feel your intestines, go buy a pack of those lamb-skin condoms. Take one out and unroll it. Pack it with peanut butter. Smear it with petroleum jelly and hold it under water. Then, try to tear it. Try to pull it in half. It's too tough and rubbery. It's so slimy you can't hold on.

A lamb-skin condom, that's just plain old intestine.

Seriously, people, you want kids reading that in school?

A friend of mine, when he was thirteen years old he heard about "pegging." This is when a guy gets banged up the butt with a dildo. Stimulate the prostate gland hard enough, and the rumor is you can have explosive hands-free orgasms. At that age, this friend's a little sex maniac. He's always jonesing for a better way to get his rocks off. He goes out to buy a carrot and some petroleum jelly. To conduct a little private research.

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At home, he whittles the carrot into a blunt tool. He slathers it with grease and grinds his ass down on it. Then, nothing. No orgasm. Nothing happens except it hurts.

Then, this kid, his mom yells it's suppertime. She says to come down, right now.

He works the carrot out and stashes the slippery, filthy thing in the dirty clothes under his bed.

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This Navy brother says how Arab guys get their dick hard and then insert this metal rod inside the whole length of their boner. They jack off with the rod inside, and it makes getting off so much better. More intense.

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This must be why girls want to sit on your face. The suction is like taking a dump that never ends. My dick hard and getting my butt eaten out, I do not need air. My heartbeat in my ears, I stay under until bright stars of light start worming around in my eyes. My legs straight out, the back of each knee rubbed raw against the concrete bottom. My toes are turning blue, my toes and fingers wrinkled from being so long in the water.

And then I let it happen. The big white gobs start spouting. The pearls.

Totally inappropriate. Especially considering the popularity of the choking game among teens.

Didn't Rcade promote her site too when it first launched?

Considering both Drudge's are biased and pick and choose the stories that get posted...

Chocolate is food for the soul.

Democrats issued a statement saying their 1,990-page measure "lowers costs for every patient" and would not add to federal deficits.

yet...

Has not yet been "scored" or given a cost estimate by the Congressional Budget Office, so its cost is still unknown.

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Can we get a political false advertising law?

The petition has 44 signatories so far

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Alllllrighty then!

Or we could bring up Bush's fault cause we all know that's original.

all the origina ideas have been taken dammit!

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Apparently so. One propaganda machine (White House press) calling out another propaganda machine (Fox News).

Doesn't the White House have more important things they should doing?