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" If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Why I use Clipmarks
As I was sitting in my chair,
I knew the bottom wasn't there,
Nor legs nor back, but I just sat,
Ignoring little things like that.
~Hughes Mearns







   
 
 
 
   
 
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Bumps In The Road?
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by debbyski  Yesterday 7:11 PM    2
 I am somehow imagining a road-sign posted by an artificial G-spot clinic: "Beware of Over-Sensitive Zone" :lol:
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Bringing Marley Home
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by debbyski  Yesterday 4:31 PM    2
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Where The Preaching Goes Too Far
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by debbyski  Yesterday 3:51 PM    3
 There is no war on evangelical Christians here and they are not being thrown to the lions. As this article states, they are childishly chafing against societal shifts. They don't want to see civil rights for us all because they believe God discriminates and it's their view of religion/politics or the highway. They will always find "token" gays to mimic their views because those poor souls think loving their oppressors will win them approval. But spreading these views to parts of the world with less freedom is downright dangerous and unconscionable.
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The Globlization Of Gay Bashing
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by debbyski  Yesterday 2:54 PM    1
 "This destitute nation is the kind of place that you may have seen in late night infomercials where flies buzz around the lips of starving children. Yet, the good citizens of Burundi have time to chant and hold signs demanding the imprisonment of homosexuals. n Nigeria, lawmakers are debating a bill that would imprison gay people who live together and jail anyone who doesn’t rat out the gay couples. What we are seeing in front of our eyes is the globalization of gay bashing. The United States has exported marketing techniques and church structures to culturally homophobic countries. The sexual minorities caught in these nations do not have the same freedoms that we enjoy in the west, so they can’t fight back. They are essentially voiceless and fearful – allowing insidious myths and stereotypes to go unchallenged. With gay people effectively demonized and hatred promoted by civic and religious leaders, hysteria on gay issues ensues. "
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A Memory Like An Elephant
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by debbyski  Yesterday 1:30 PM   
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Evil Can Be A Teacher
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by debbyski  Yesterday 1:15 PM   
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Making A Comeback
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by debbyski  Yesterday 12:50 PM   
 Now if we could only get the richest man in America to realize the importance of producing our own goods. So I salute you Mr. Buffet for at least recognizing the importance of rail and how it could jump start our economy. Now--have the guts to give your rail workers that would earn your profits a fair share of that profit--and invest back in quality American goods that don't exploit the poor by paying some of your profits back to the workers with a fair wage, and create some American jobs :) Then--you can prove to me that the rich want what is really best for our economy.
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Americans Buying Less
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by debbyski  Yesterday 11:16 AM    2
 Quite frankly, why does it surprise everyone that this pyramid scheme finally fell? People simply did not have the money to buy all these goods and the banks gave credit to those who were not credit worthy. When people maxed out on their personal credit cards, banks gave easy lines of home equity loans. It had to all fall because people didn't have the money to buy these goods and now they have to live within their means. It's a good lesson for consumers--sadly one that is probably cyclic in nature.
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Living On Nothing But Food Stamps
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by debbyski  Yesterday 10:50 AM   
 "The main cash welfare program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, has scarcely expanded during the recession; the rolls are still down about 75 percent from their 1990s peak. A different program, unemployment insurance, has rapidly grown, but still omits nearly half the unemployed. Food stamps, easier to get, have become the safety net of last resort."
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Audience Laughed To Forget Troubles
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by debbyski  1-2-2010    3
 "The Hangover" was highwaylarious!!!!! And so was "It's Complicated." It's a good thing. People need some kind of an outlet.
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Gay Republican Guilt Camp
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by debbyski  1-2-2010    10
 And you can bring your "straight" female friends who substitute the heterosexual relationships they so crave but cannot attain for themselves, all the while being secretly attracted to you!! ;) And don't provide pics of yourself--or no one will show up, boo, hoo, hoo :(
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Happy New Year
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by debbyski  12-30-2009    8
 New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Thank You David Bowie
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by debbyski  12-30-2009    6
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Scaring Us Into Stupidity
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by debbyski  12-30-2009    6
 "Have we learned anything from the revelations that the Bush administration lied us into the need for a war in Iraq, lied about the need for torture, lied about the reason for spying, loss of constitutional rights, and an overwhelmingly powerful executive branch? Have we learned anything from the discovery that unnecessary war, torture and panic over sporadic terrorist attacks create more terrorism and reduce national security? Or will our fear of the underwear bomber and other terrorist acts scare us into stupidity again, as it did so many people during the Bush years?"
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We All Want To Know
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by debbyski  12-29-2009    10
 "We will probably never find that cosmic connection to our lost royalty. Someday I will visit Norway and look up those ancestors. They died not knowing the fate of the universe, and so will I, but maybe that’s all right." TN told me once she felt closer to knowing God through science. Well, she has her way and I have mine, but we all want to know :)
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The Loss Of A Teardrop
debbyski
by debbyski  12-28-2009    6
 My favorite playwright. :)
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What The Dead Leave Behind
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by debbyski  12-28-2009    66
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Innocence Undone--Frame By Frame
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by debbyski  12-28-2009    3
 "But I’m pressing on, determined to learn just how much of my life is based on false pretenses. I am dreading what I am going to find in “My Favorite Martian” and “The Addams Family”; highly skeptical that “The Flying Nun” was either really flying or really a nun. But there’s one show, at least, that I’m sure won’t let me down: “Mister Ed,” about the talking horse. I know that was real. Heck, you could see his lips move." :)
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When It Becomes Up Close And Personal
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by debbyski  12-28-2009   
 “It’s like anything else,” Ms. Valdez said in an interview. “When it becomes close and personal, it’s not hateful anymore.”
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I'll Be Damned If I'll Let You Misrepresent Me
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by debbyski  12-26-2009    4
 {{Blueridge}} says: Motive: Her romantic advances were rejected. There is no "hate crime" law for this, and depicts a similar scenario to one proposed in a Clipmark here, in its horrific reality. She will get life, while the "friend" she hated, got death. "Crimes of passion" are born of those who are not gratified in trying to obtain their selfish pleasures (like the men of Sodom who were storming Mayor Lot's House to "make sport" w/ two visitors, to take them by force). Passion is not "love", it is self-love, for personal gratification, and holds the targeted "romance" object as personal property, which they claim possession of mentally (giving birth to unjust jealousy), and therefore usurp to themselves a claim to use force to obtain or revenge. Sometimes in crime, other times something less. Note too the murderer was portrayed as a victim for "coming out as a lesbian". Astonishing.
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When Saving Costs
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by debbyski  12-26-2009    4
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Home Found In Narazeth
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by debbyski  12-26-2009   
 It is a gift to me also to see the historical significance of what it means to follow Christianity. It poses the very important question: How did the religion of Jesus become pro-rich, pro-war and only pro-American? For Christians, it is a provocative question that should haunt us in what often seems to be a Christ-forgetting country.
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U.S Soldiers Are Waking Up!
swampfoxz
by swampfoxz  12-26-2009    1
 YES WE CAN! REAL HOPE FOR AMERICA!
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What Would Jane Think?
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by debbyski  12-26-2009   
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The Real Gift In A Downsized Christmas
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by debbyski  12-26-2009    8
 "We're all here," she said with a cheery grin. "Nobody is sick. We made it through the year. Thank God."
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Even Bacteria Get Lonely
thisnamecantbetaken
by thisnamecantbetaken  12-25-2009    3
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Can Lesbians Be Attracted To Men?
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by debbyski  12-25-2009    17
 I think sexuality is much more fluid than people would like to believe and I hate it when people want to put boundaries on other's. For some women the same sex attraction is so clear cut that there is no denying it. For others, it may be not so well defined. I think anyone who steps outside these boundaries in the gay community also risks a certain backlash--but as a group of people who have been historically oppressed, I hold them to a higher level of acceptance.
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What A Friend We Have
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by debbyski  12-24-2009    1
 "Scriv­en wrote this hymn to com­fort his mo­ther, who was across the sea from him in Ire­land. It was orig­in­al­ly pub­lished anon­y­mous­ly, and Scriv­en did not re­ceive full cred­it for al­most 30 years. Scriven grad­u­at­ed from Trin­i­ty Coll­ege. Aft­er his fi­an­cée drowned the night be­fore they were to mar­ry, he moved to Can­a­da in 1846. There he taught in Wood­stock and Brant­ford, On­tar­io, and was a tu­tor for the Pen­gel­ly fam­i­ly near Bewd­ley. It was there he met and be­came en­gaged to Eliza Roche, a rel­a­tive of the Pen­gel­lys. In what seems too amaz­ing to be co­in­ci­dence, Eliza died short­ly before their wed­ding. Following the death of his second fi­an­cée, Scriven joined the Plym­outh Breth­ren, help­ing the aged mem­bers of the com­mun­i­ty."
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The Holiday Gift This Country Needs
debbyski
by debbyski  12-24-2009    4
 "We also need to invest in our infrastructure, and not just the obvious physical things like our old bridges and trains but more importantly our human infrastructure. We must continue to push for "Medicare Part E - Everybody" - so we can rebuild the social safety net to encourage entrepreneurialism - and along those lines let's fix the bankruptcy bill, and strengthen social security. Finally, we need to think of work differently. Lincoln once said that labor is superior to capital because it precedes it. Nobody gets rich until somebody makes something. We once had an economy that valued laborers - the true producers of wealth - and the middle class. You know. almost everything on this gift list was, in their day, enthusiastically endorsed by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower. And Barry Goldwater. And Richard Nixon. Somehow this country went insane in 1981 when Reagan took power and declared that "greed was good" and America was to be reinvented."
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Why Is The Catholic Church Firing Women?
debbyski
by debbyski  12-24-2009    1
 "In the last 30 years there’s been a dramatic expansion of the body of teachings to which Catholics must assent wholly to remain in good standing. As Horton pointed out, “They speak a great talk of justice for the world, but in their own church they don’t recognize it.”
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Kalle Anka och hans vänner önskar God Jul
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by debbyski  12-24-2009    3
 "It was largely an accident of history, specifically the history of television in Sweden. The show first aired in 1959, when Swedes were just starting to own televisions. As did the fact that, for years, Christmas was the only time when Swedes could see Disney animation—or any American cartoons—on television. For many Swedes, there is something comforting about knowing that every year there is one hour, on one day, when you sit down with everyone in your family and just be together."
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Heterocide: Teen Girl Killed by Lesbian Friend
blueridge
by blueridge  12-24-2009    5
 Motive: Her romantic advances were rejected. There is no "hate crime" law for this, and depicts a similar scenario to one proposed in a Clipmark here , in its horrific reality. She will get life, while the "friend" she hated, got death. "Crimes of passion" are born of those who are not gratified in trying to obtain their selfish pleasures (like the men of Sodom who were storming Mayor Lot's House to "make sport" w/ two visitors, to take them by force). Passion is not "love", it is self-love, for personal gratification, and holds the targeted "romance" object as personal property, which they claim possession of mentally (giving birth to unjust jealousy) , and therefore usurp to themselves a claim to use force to obtain or revenge. Sometimes in crime, other times something less. Note too the murderer was portrayed as a victim for "coming out as a lesbian". Astonishing.
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Why We Gift
debbyski
by debbyski  12-23-2009   
 :)
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The Copenhagen That Matters
debbyski
by debbyski  12-23-2009    2
 "My fellow Americans, the fact that the recent Copenhagen climate summit was a bust in terms of solving our energy/climate problems doesn’t mean that we can ignore those problems — or that we can ignore how individual countries, like Denmark, have effectively addressed them. With unemployment in Denmark at about 4 percent, compared with our 10 percent, maybe we should at least consider putting a few of its ideas on our table."
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Our Inner Selves
debbyski
by debbyski  12-22-2009   
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What Happened To All That Hot Air?
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by debbyski  12-22-2009   
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GOP'S NEW PRAYER GURU
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by debbyski  12-22-2009    1
 "Engle's role as leader of TheCall has now received some mainstream media notice but the source of his influence is still largely unknown. Lou Engle serves, alongside Sarah Palin's prayer group leader Mary Glazier, on the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, one of the key leadership groups wielding influence over a sprawling, global new incarnation of the religious right known as the New Apostolic Reformation. Peter Wagner was advisor for Rick Warren's dissertation for a Doctorate of Ministry from Fuller Theological Seminary. In a mid-December statement from Rick Warren, Letter To Uganda's Pastors, Rick Warren lied about his connection to Wagner."
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I Can Find A More Worthy Charity
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by debbyski  12-21-2009    2
 "But think about those numbers, think about the power of the Salvation Army. It is a massive Christian evangelical organization — with a quasi-military structure and raising $2 billion a year — and it promotes discrimination against gays and lesbians in its employment policy; at local levels of government, going so far as to threaten to close soup kitchens in New York if the city enacted domestic partnership legislation; and at the national level of government, including negotiating with the Bush administration to guarantee that faith-based groups could discriminate against gays and keep their federal funding. We can find charities more deserving of our dollars and our volunteer time."
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Selling Their Souls For Fun And Profit
debbyski
by debbyski  12-21-2009   
 Gay Republicans are like any other Republicans, particularly those mean spirited souls seeking a substitute for a relationship with a heterosexual male that find safety in the twisted kind of intimacy of the denial of personal responsibility their party preaches. They can deny it all they like and they can use their gay friends as distractions but their strain of Republicanism has never been about betraying their principals, but acting on them, such as the concentration of wealth and power in fewer hands, the nation's political polarization, and the disrespect for the system of checks and balances on which our democracy is built. Those are the GOP GOALS.
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The Rich Rule Over The Poor
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by debbyski  12-21-2009    4
 The rich rule over the poor, And the borrower is the slave of the lender. (Proverbs 22:7 ESV) And so it goes. King George and his band of bandits got us into this mess with conservatives cheering him along every step of the way while he created a mountain of new federal debt, the largest contributors to which were Bush's tax breaks for the rich. Their hero of the hour shamelessly exploited 9/11, fear and the "war on terror" as a pretext to take the ax to civil liberties and to shroud their policies and actions in secrecy. So don't cry me a river now and cloak it with a biblical quote. You are the ones who wanted to mythify Bush as a great leader--pull your crap out on someone else who is idiotic enough to believe in it, but don't pretend you can cash in to God's love by supporting benefits that go to the wealthiest of Americans and contradict the message of Jesus of serving the poor. It's disgusting and so are you.
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