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It's the same for the God. Usually it goes in rounds, like "so how everything started when there was nothing - where the first matter came from?" question from Christians, and the opposite question "how everything started when there was nothing - where the God came from?" from atheists. Funny thing that Christians could not accept that something relatively simple as matter "came from nothing", but have no problem accepting that something that complex as supernatural deity - a God - came from nothing as well. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

For me it's $90 now and $68 8 months ago. I usually spend 3 tanks a month; no big deal. Even if gas prices increase to $12/gal it won't come even close to average Bay Area mortgage payment anyway. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

The whole purpose of religion all the time was to CONTROL people. And that is what it is still used for. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

I don't think a lot of Muslims will agree with you. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

You ARE gambling, since you do not have any proof you're praying a right God. Imagine how it would suck when you, praying Jesus your whole life, die and face Allah who puts you in Hell because you weren't Muslim. I'd say you'd suffer even more than me in this situation - because I didn't pray anyone, and you made a wrong choice praying the wrong God. So who is gambling? :P * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

You're considering the God like your neighbor. Imagine you walk through the forest. And see an ant hill. You have a kind of superpower against the ants. Will you use it, and kill them all if you know that some of them (or even all of them) don't give a shit about you? Or you just continue walking, and forget about it in a second? * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

It's too shallow. You could molest children, take bribes, sell drugs and pay no taxes - and be one hundred percent abiding those Ten Commandments. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

Wow! I was going to write exactly the same thing. Thank you for saving me some time :) *applauds* * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

Use Linux. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

If all those so-called environmentalists reduced THEIR electricity usage, we'd probably need no windmills. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

Did he throw her out of the house (and out of the family) after that? * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

No, it was not mess. It was very clever exploitation of the entitlement generation's main feature - their "entitlement" to get rich by doing nothing. It was no different than casino or lottery ads showing real people who won a lot of money. Yep, I only heard about those nameless people, but never seen or read a direct interview with them. So far _every_ interview with yet another "predatory lending victim" shows that the main reason people jumped into this was to make money, and they KNEW they cannot afford to keep this property. And if you talk about the people who believed everything they were told, and signed the papers without looking on them - they were not clueless, they were fools. Maybe. I, however, know several people who not only LIED about their income in the loan application - they even falsified paystubs to support claimed income. I agree that some mortgage brokers kept their eyes shut on obvious false information, and probably some even suggested their cliens to lie in loan applications. However nobody was FORCED to get a mortgage in such a way, and it was always the person's decision. Thanks for the link. I was listening to the story, but missed a lot (my English is still far from perfect). I do not agree with everything there though. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

This is my position as well. I understand what motivated the buyers and the lenders - but they are adults, and they made their own investment decisions. Which ended up being poor decisions. I don't laugh at them, and sometime I feel sympathy for them, but I do not want to help them. They need to suck up their losses and move on, without burdening those who acted more prudently. It does not work for most San Francisco Bay Area. If you rent the property for $X/month, when you buy it, it seems to cost you at least 2*$X /month. However you'll get a deduction for those money, and being able to deduct at least 60K/year from your income, it sometime makes it "close" to rent. I wonder if it works for Manhattan either. The market is very irregular now. There are areas where the single home prices did not drop at all - like Cupertino, parts of Sunnyvale or some West San Jose areas in CA. However other areas of Sunnyvale and San Jose dropped dramatically - sometime more than 20%. I agree it's not a good time for investment, but it's not bad time to buy a place to live - you still need to live somewhere, and the rent is going up like crazy. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

How the f.ck it happens that a complete liar and utter failure like Hillary Clinton can even be considered for a POTUS slot, and actually pursuing it??? * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

I fail to see how past results could guarantee future performance just because the candidate belongs to the same party. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

So what? Each long-term politician is full of shit one way or another. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

So if it doesn't happen (and I hope won't happen), would it be valid to guess what _might_ happen according to her own words? * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

And I would vote for him just for that. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

Did he promised to move troops out of Iraq, provide a "free" healthcare to everyone and help "distressed homeowners" (speculants)? * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

Wait until you see NEO DEMS in action. Even that little I occassionally heard and read means that in four years you would be surprised that several trillions were ever a concern to you. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

Damaging a State property is a crime. What I've seen was a black garbage bag worn over the camera. It was there for three weeks. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

It is common business sense, not a political correctness. Business do not run their ads (and pay a fortune for that) to make political statements - they do it to make money. And yes, this works - the main reason I did not become (and will never be) Vonage customer is because of their crappy ads. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

The media is annoying with their coverage of anything. When they do not speak about Barack vs Hillary, they speak about some complete crap like "new britney boyfriend" or "paris hilton" (which I only recently understood is a woman, and not a hotel in Paris). Just ignore the media altogether, and read Internet news. At least there you could select what to read. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

The first one. A God-fearing Christian should not be concerned with ugly ones - they could actually make them think about God even more. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *

This policy is understandable - they need to protect innocent Christians who cannot think about God anymore when they see a hot female (or male, like mr. Craig) body. Sometime I really wonder why the women here are not forced yet to cover their faces. * Don't pray for me if you wanna help - just send me a check. *