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  1. I felt the same about them at first. However, I recently read the first two. They are excellent books and very well written. I like them.
  2. More like 8 years after college and ~$85-90,000 by the time it's all over. Many more Residency programs are going to 4 instead of 3 years in duration. Some require even more than that. Med School prior to that is 4 years long. Residency is much the same, in that you receive little respect and put up with a whole lot especially if you're female (although, you do usually get paid some; it equates to what you might make flipping burgers at McDonalds with respect to the hours you put in; my wife was working 90-100 hours per week in her hardest rotations). It's legalized slave labor, IMO, and they work on no sleep for a very…very…long time. Within the last couple of years, however, they've supposedly changed the rules and require that the programs limit the number of hours Residents work to I think it was 80 hours per week. That will never suffice, though, because they've simply got to fill the time slots required. Anyway, it's a real "mother" and a huge stress on the family. I don't know if I'd want to go through it all again if I had the choice. And it was my wife and not me personally. I just had to take up most of the slack with regard to my three young children. Sure, the money is good now but you also sacrifice an awful lot. As arrogant as many are and as disliked as many may be, anyone who says that doctors don't deserve the larger incomes that they make doesn't really understand what's involved. Then there's the risk (very big risk in the case of my OB/GYN wife) of being sued (i.e. There is no OB/GYN Physician care in the county where my wife is from b/c they've run them all off with frivolous lawsuits. There was one case where, after the fact, the jury and judge both admitted that there was no fault in the case but "who was going to take care of this mentally retarded kid who suffered from unavoidable complications during the delivery?" No fault, but it's assumed that the doctor or clinic can afford to pay millions upon millions regardless. It's pretty ridiculous and it's putting many out of practice. One lawsuit like that where they afford crazy amounts like 80 million can put an entire clinic with many physicians out of business. It also makes them practice as selectively as they can with regard to which patients they want to see. Sorry......rant off. Clarification: You receive your MD classification after Med School graduation (4 years). Then, you're required to do a residency in a more specialized area of medicine (3-4 years). So, Ron's statement about 6-7 years for an MD isn't correct. Maybe 7-8 (or more) to "practice" as an MD.
  3. Have you ever in your life intentionally betrayed someone, however small an incident it may have seemed to be at the time? I have. Now that I'm older (and wiser? ), I'd like to be forgiven for my past mistakes. I agree that trust must be earned and that it’s hard to forgive someone who continually wrongs you, but I’d like to think it possible.
  4. Where's AggieDave? Cough...cough... Auburn beat the Vols twice! I agree. Where's Aggie?...
  5. To stop looking at as much of this crap all day long and get more productive things accomplished.
  6. #23 Texas Tech vs. #4 California 45-31 Cal Overrated? I think so.
  7. True Side note: Whoever wrote the quote, it's a good one.
  8. Yes. He not only owns the ball but also owns the game. He can make the rules even if his game resembles that of others on the internet. It’s not necessarily the same and doesn’t have to be. Deal with it. I'm sure it isn't just one "facetious comment” (i.e. sneaky personal attack) in one thread that gets one banned from a forum but rather a history of ones from multiple threads that results in such.
  9. Who said my comment was directed to Kallend? The comment was a general one. Well...with "Re: [Kallend] Am I a Scrooge?" at the top of your post, I thought it was a safe bet that you were replying to Kallend. Interpretation sometimes gets lost in written messages. My bad, if I'm wrong. Anyway, it's pretty easy to just delete the name in the bracket if one wishes to just make a general blah...blah...
  10. Last I checked colleges offered other classes besides math and physics. Right and Kallend is an Engineering and Physics Professor. Last time I checked, there were more classes offered in college too. What's that got to do with the smartass comment to Kallend (smartass is in reference to the comment and not you).
  11. Unless the professor is biased. Then your statement is false. It's hard to be very biased in math or physics.
  12. Yes, but he will get away with it....Just like always. Uh huh...
  13. Kallend, are you now professing to believe in Jesus and the written Word? Good for you! However, You should really keep things in context, especially when quoting from the Bible. Keeping a close watch on him, they sent spies, who pretended to be honest. They hoped to catch Jesus in something he said so that they might hand him over to the power and authority of the governor. So the spies questioned him: "Teacher, we know that you speak and teach what is right, and that you do not show paritiality but teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right for us to pay taxes to Caesar or not?" He saw through their duplicity and said to them, "Show me a denarius. Whose portrait and inscription are on it? "Caesar's", they replied. He said to them, "Then give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's." They were unable to trap him in what he had said there in public. And astonished by his answer, they became silent. Luke 20:20-26 Explained: Believers "under normal circumstances" must pay taxes and submit to governmental authority, even through our highest loyalty is to God. We must obey secular government except when it conflicts with the law of God. Jesus was making the point that God is the supreme authority. It has nothing at all to do with separation of religion from government. Jesus never suggests that the Roman government should remain secular and not acknowledge God.
  14. I don't think many at all are suggesting "government based on religion (i.e. Iran's theocracy)." Religion should not control government. There should not be any "state sponsored religion" as the 1st Amendment dictates. Religion, however, was never meant to be taken out of government. The phrase "Separation of Church and State", which has been made very popular these days, clearly expresses against "state controlled government. It does not express that religion should not be included in government at all. It's just meant not to control it and everyone is free to worship (or not worship) how they please. Given the strong religious principles of people in those days, it is ridiculous to suggest that our Founding Fathers meant to remove God completely from their new government. That is an extreme notion and is wrong.
  15. 1st Try Score: 84% Avg Error: 69 miles Time: 571 Secs 42 perfect out of 50 turns Indiana screwed me up the worst. Fun game! I guess I'd better study some geography given the average scores here.
  16. 12 Days of Kwanza Bwahahahaha!!! Hopefully not a repost. If so, I appologize. New to me, though. Hillarious!
  17. And your choice for "folks at the top" would have it all figured out by now, right? Or would they follow their past reputations and just cut and run like fu$%ing cowards?
  18. Then I guess our brightest minds are just opting for a "cop out." Why don't they just take the all too common stance these days of denying a creator since they can't prove that it exists? We've progressed an unfathomable amount since the days when weather, fire, earthquakes were attributed to gods. Even with the wealth of knowledge that we've aquired to this point and our exponential increase of it, we still can't get around the problem of exactly what set everything in motion or why? Did anything exist before time began? How does one account for the incredible complexity and apparent design of things? To say that everything just happened by chance and progressed randomly is a giant "cop out" in my opinion.
  19. I’m not trying to express anything as simply as you made out in your comment. As was pointed out earlier, even some of our most brilliant minds (i.e. Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking) do not discount the real possibility of there being a Creator. I’d say they’re pretty reputable. After much research, both seem to be more on the Deist rather than the Atheist side of the spectrum. I nor anyone else can’t scientifically and unequivocally prove to you that God exists, however, there is much evidence pointing in that direction. The stumbling block for all of our greatest of our scientists, which will continue to be the case, is described very well by Stephen Hawking. The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. -- Stephen Hawking I don’t think he’d be laughed out of the room for submitting a letter to any respectable scientific journal. I’m not discounting science and the search for truth. Just the opposite. I just recognize that the design and complexity of our universe could not have happened by chance and that we should try and figure it out with that in mind.
  20. Pot...meet kettle. Kettle...meet pot.
  21. Maybe her performance warranted termination but I don't think it should have been based (i.e. the last straw) on her not showing up for your Christmas party. That shouldn't have been in the equation at all. Even her private conversations at the other Christmas party really have nothing to do with work. You're a scrooge!
  22. What Christians call the Old Testament contains more than 300 references to His coming. If we use the science of probability, the chances of just forty-eight of these prophecies being fulfilled in one person to be right at one in 10 to the 157th power. That's a 1 followed by 157 zeros! Here are just 15 prophecies that foretell His birth:
  23. All of the polls that I saw recently showed that troops supported Bush, his administration, and policies something like 4 to 1. You must just have all the quitters and whinners coming through your office. Those who just thought they'd be getting risk-free college tuition paid for by just having to wear a camouflage uniform.