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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
775 Posts |
 Posted - 10/11/2006 : 16:35:39
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I know I haven't been around much since Katrina and Rita turned our lives upside down, but I decided to go back to school to earn a degree before I'm fifty years too old. And, believe me, going back to school full time after almost thirty years and working full time in an oilfield service industry ain't easy. But, I enjoy the education--The work sucks...
I just hope you all have been well, and I'm happy see a handfull of new people posting.
Anyway, here's the real reason for this new thread; I thought you folks might enjoy this series of articles in the New York Times. I realize most of the material is not new to y'all, but it is good to see this in print for the rest of the U.S.. Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/business/churchstate.html
I hope y'all enjoy the read, and everything else. Live well...
Tim
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"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country." Dubya in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 9/6/2004
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2006 : 18:11:25 [Permalink]
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I've been following that at Raw Story.
Welcome back, Tim!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2006 : 18:32:42 [Permalink]
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| Welcome back Tim! I must say, I was a bit worried about what Rita may have done since you reported back after Katrina but not after Rita... Whew. It's good to see you are well. |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
529 Posts |
Posted - 10/11/2006 : 19:00:05 [Permalink]
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YO, Tim: I've come on the Skeptics scene since you done got hurricaned. I hope you've gotten through all that crap okay. I blew town (that being Corpus Christi) way back in 1980 to avoid Hurricane Allen. No fun. I moved back north and now west.
Anyhow. Thanks for the New York Times articles on a very important issue these days here in 'Merica. I used to live in Tulsa, Oklahoma many years back and got to see some of that Jesus is Good Business crap that was just springing up "thanks" to Oral Roberts and Billy James Hargis, two of God's annointed ones, they tell me.
I like your posts, but Jesus, Tim! Would it be possible for you to comment without putting up your picture? You're one ugly lookin' sum'bitch.
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2006 : 05:58:19 [Permalink]
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Tim, LTNS!
I feel your pain on the school thing.... been drudging myself through some as well.... With the goal of getting another degree , and then trying to get into a grad program.
Hope all is well for you in the post Katrina/Rita mess.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Tim
SFN Regular
USA
775 Posts |
Posted - 10/12/2006 : 16:20:00 [Permalink]
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Thanks for the thoughts, welcomes and encouragement. I still won't have too much time to post here but I will enjoy reading a few good debates. Plus, this site sometimes seems like a haven for sanity in an often times screwed up world.
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"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country." Dubya in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, 9/6/2004
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