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		<title>By: Cameron</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cameron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 16:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chas,
LOL!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chas,<br />
LOL!
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		<title>By: Chas</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 12:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Cameron, as I said, the Personnel Committee and Budget Planning Committee work it out. Being on a Budget Planning Committee is an interesting experience.  It&#039;s different from the Finance Committee, but someone, usually chairman of Finance Comm, is on the BPC.
As per salaries, the Personnel Committee usually comes wanting to give the pastor a parsenage in a gated community, two Mercedes, and a ten million line of credit.  The BPC wants to give food stamps and store coupons.  They ususally come up with something reasonable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Cameron, as I said, the Personnel Committee and Budget Planning Committee work it out. Being on a Budget Planning Committee is an interesting experience.  It&#8217;s different from the Finance Committee, but someone, usually chairman of Finance Comm, is on the BPC.<br />
As per salaries, the Personnel Committee usually comes wanting to give the pastor a parsenage in a gated community, two Mercedes, and a ten million line of credit.  The BPC wants to give food stamps and store coupons.  They ususally come up with something reasonable.
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		<title>By: Cameron</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cameron</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>chas,
I did see your response--thank you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>chas,<br />
I did see your response&#8211;thank you!
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		<title>By: Sawgunner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sawgunner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hard to believe warfighters spent 15 months risking their lives in Afghanistan, living in a deteriorating decrepit 3rd world country only to come back to Ft Bragg NC and then have to live in deteriorating decrepit 3rd world quality barracks.
Your tax dollars at work?!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hard to believe warfighters spent 15 months risking their lives in Afghanistan, living in a deteriorating decrepit 3rd world country only to come back to Ft Bragg NC and then have to live in deteriorating decrepit 3rd world quality barracks.<br />
Your tax dollars at work?!
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		<title>By: llama</title>
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		<dc:creator>llama</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When did I extol the greatness of a Communist China.  I said they could be come a great superpower if handled and taught properly.  They have come a long way in a short time.  The hard part is over but as I said, there is much still to do yet now there is light at the end of the tunnel that never existed before.

Anlir, you once again miss-characterized my words and stretched them to make them appear as horrible as possible but you are famous for it, I expect it but it is the reason you can never be trusted.

Fear, pride and ego cause failure every time.  It keeps people from being willing to do even the most simple things required for success.  I see to much fear here and pride goes before the fall. I ecpect from ther left always but form the Christian right........

If we do our part to force China to change their ways in ways we require in order for them to join the Superpower club, I assure that God will do his and China will change.  But youi better start avoiuding all fear, pride and ego if whe hope to be succussful at it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When did I extol the greatness of a Communist China.  I said they could be come a great superpower if handled and taught properly.  They have come a long way in a short time.  The hard part is over but as I said, there is much still to do yet now there is light at the end of the tunnel that never existed before.</p>
<p>Anlir, you once again miss-characterized my words and stretched them to make them appear as horrible as possible but you are famous for it, I expect it but it is the reason you can never be trusted.</p>
<p>Fear, pride and ego cause failure every time.  It keeps people from being willing to do even the most simple things required for success.  I see to much fear here and pride goes before the fall. I ecpect from ther left always but form the Christian right&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>If we do our part to force China to change their ways in ways we require in order for them to join the Superpower club, I assure that God will do his and China will change.  But youi better start avoiuding all fear, pride and ego if whe hope to be succussful at it.
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		<title>By: drill</title>
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		<dc:creator>drill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There must be blizzard conditions in Hell right now.

For I agree with Anlir on the following:

&quot;To think that China won&#8217;t use it&#8217;s growing financial and economic strength to try and change US foreign policy someday is hopelessly naive. The day will come when they will do something like blockade Taiwan and tell the US that if we interfere they will call in their loans and crash our economy. They&#8217;re going to do what&#8217;s in the national self-interest. Hide and watch.&quot;

Except what China does will not be in the &#039;national interest&#039;; instead, it will in the interest of the few at the top of the totalitarian regime that rides that country like a horseman of the Apocalypse.  

The highly constrained &#039;free market&#039; in Red China only exists as long as the Communist Party and the mammoth Red Army tolerate it - they could care less about Mom and Pop operations on the streets of Beijing.  The major &#039;industries&#039; and &#039;company concerns&#039; that exist in China are essentially nothing but subservient arms of the all-powerful government.  Think National Socialism on a scale that would make Hitler drool.

I do not think the situation with Red China is at all analogous to that of the Soviet Union.  The Soviet Union was a Frankenstein of different cultures, religions, nationalities which never jelled, not even under Stalin&#039;s whip; Red China is much more monolithic.  Tibet is an exception, but is nothing more than a splinter in the hide of the dragon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There must be blizzard conditions in Hell right now.</p>
<p>For I agree with Anlir on the following:</p>
<p>&#8220;To think that China won&#8217;t use it&#8217;s growing financial and economic strength to try and change US foreign policy someday is hopelessly naive. The day will come when they will do something like blockade Taiwan and tell the US that if we interfere they will call in their loans and crash our economy. They&#8217;re going to do what&#8217;s in the national self-interest. Hide and watch.&#8221;</p>
<p>Except what China does will not be in the &#8216;national interest&#8217;; instead, it will in the interest of the few at the top of the totalitarian regime that rides that country like a horseman of the Apocalypse.  </p>
<p>The highly constrained &#8216;free market&#8217; in Red China only exists as long as the Communist Party and the mammoth Red Army tolerate it &#8211; they could care less about Mom and Pop operations on the streets of Beijing.  The major &#8216;industries&#8217; and &#8216;company concerns&#8217; that exist in China are essentially nothing but subservient arms of the all-powerful government.  Think National Socialism on a scale that would make Hitler drool.</p>
<p>I do not think the situation with Red China is at all analogous to that of the Soviet Union.  The Soviet Union was a Frankenstein of different cultures, religions, nationalities which never jelled, not even under Stalin&#8217;s whip; Red China is much more monolithic.  Tibet is an exception, but is nothing more than a splinter in the hide of the dragon.
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		<title>By: Victoria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Victoria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Peter I saw that post.  

&quot;BTW- I am trying to outdo the other 3 top-of-the-list members. How about it V?&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter I saw that post.  </p>
<p>&#8220;BTW- I am trying to outdo the other 3 top-of-the-list members. How about it V?&#8221;
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		<title>By: Victoria</title>
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		<dc:creator>Victoria</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Cheryl,

I&#039;m sure you miss your mother today.  God bless you.

I&#039;m praying for you.  I hope your book is a wonderful success.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Cheryl,</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure you miss your mother today.  God bless you.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m praying for you.  I hope your book is a wonderful success.
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		<title>By: Cheryl D.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cheryl D.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>May 1 is a &quot;big&quot; day in my world: All my life it was my mom&#039;s birthday; though she&#039;s now with the Lord, I can&#039;t help but think of her today. It&#039;s also the day I officially started freelancing five years ago! (I left Chicago April 29, moved to Tennessee April 30, and then ran errands on May 1. Since my computer wasn&#039;t set up yet, I ran to the library to send e-mails to my publishers to tell them I was in business.) Anyway, it&#039;s great to have made it five years.

I just got an e-mail about my willingness to do radio interviews in connection to my second book (it has a great &quot;hook&quot; to current stuff that might help sales tremendously, for any of you who are praying for me--I&#039;d love to see sales shoot up in the next couple months). I e-mailed back that of course I&#039;m interested, and sent a list of questions for stations to ask me--I know from my first book that that helps the station AND it helps me, because I can study the questions and know what they&#039;re most likely to ask. And if they don&#039;t bother to read the book, having prepared questions saves them from asking irrelevant questions; they can still sound intelligent, with less effort.

I also have an elderly neighbor who shares my mom&#039;s birthday, so I&#039;m going to sign off and run down the street and wish her a happy birthday.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>May 1 is a &#8220;big&#8221; day in my world: All my life it was my mom&#8217;s birthday; though she&#8217;s now with the Lord, I can&#8217;t help but think of her today. It&#8217;s also the day I officially started freelancing five years ago! (I left Chicago April 29, moved to Tennessee April 30, and then ran errands on May 1. Since my computer wasn&#8217;t set up yet, I ran to the library to send e-mails to my publishers to tell them I was in business.) Anyway, it&#8217;s great to have made it five years.</p>
<p>I just got an e-mail about my willingness to do radio interviews in connection to my second book (it has a great &#8220;hook&#8221; to current stuff that might help sales tremendously, for any of you who are praying for me&#8211;I&#8217;d love to see sales shoot up in the next couple months). I e-mailed back that of course I&#8217;m interested, and sent a list of questions for stations to ask me&#8211;I know from my first book that that helps the station AND it helps me, because I can study the questions and know what they&#8217;re most likely to ask. And if they don&#8217;t bother to read the book, having prepared questions saves them from asking irrelevant questions; they can still sound intelligent, with less effort.</p>
<p>I also have an elderly neighbor who shares my mom&#8217;s birthday, so I&#8217;m going to sign off and run down the street and wish her a happy birthday.
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		<title>By: Anlir</title>
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		<dc:creator>Anlir</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 21:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When the Llama&#039;s start bleating about the wonders of a Communist nation, one knows they&#039;ve been left out in the sun too long.

Interesting that a conservative Christian would be praising a country that persecutes Christians and has forced abortions.  What&#039;s next?  The possibilities dazzle the mind.

To think that China won&#039;t use it&#039;s growing financial and economic strength to try and change US foreign policy someday is hopelessly naive.  The day will come when they will do something like blockade Taiwan and tell the US that if we interfere they will call in their loans and crash our economy.  They&#039;re going to do what&#039;s in the national self-interest.  Hide and watch.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When the Llama&#8217;s start bleating about the wonders of a Communist nation, one knows they&#8217;ve been left out in the sun too long.</p>
<p>Interesting that a conservative Christian would be praising a country that persecutes Christians and has forced abortions.  What&#8217;s next?  The possibilities dazzle the mind.</p>
<p>To think that China won&#8217;t use it&#8217;s growing financial and economic strength to try and change US foreign policy someday is hopelessly naive.  The day will come when they will do something like blockade Taiwan and tell the US that if we interfere they will call in their loans and crash our economy.  They&#8217;re going to do what&#8217;s in the national self-interest.  Hide and watch.
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