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  • Posted by laissefaire65 10 years, 9 months ago
    I really like the "responsility plank" of dave Brat's platform--I take it as if you live here you must contribute--It is my belief that if you live here, citizenship has responsibilities, you should have "skin-in-the-game". Work (if able and able is a broad spectrum) --pay taxes, contributeto you community and your country--no free rides for life--help if you really need it.
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    • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 9 months ago
      You should have "skin in the game". The problem is that when Obama said that people should have "skin in the game", he did everything possible to get as many people dependent as possible. This was a complete contradiction of what he said.
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  • Posted by RonC 10 years, 9 months ago
    Brat is not a TEA Party candidate. The TEA party didn't think he stood a chance and so spent their money on other races. The TEA Party refference comes right out of the progressive talking points of Debbie Wasserman-Schultzzz.

    Brat did get the notice and endorsement of several talk radio hosts, which may be more valuable the TEA party money. Still, the message. Open markets, competition, and America's problems first (close the border) hit Cantor like a billy club at a 1960's sit in.
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    • Posted by $ Sgtill 10 years, 9 months ago
      Progressives want him labeled a Tea Partier to make him easier to defeat.
      Progressives have the Tea Party labeled as terrorists.
      Obama and his progressives have the best propaganda machine since one Mr. A Hitler, and appear to be using several of his best tactics.
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    • Posted by Hiraghm 10 years, 9 months ago
      Did it ever occur to anybody that the Tea Party stayed away so that he couldn't be associated with them (at least not as easily), thus taking away a distracting, contentious talking point from Cantor's campaign?
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    • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 9 months ago
      RonC is correct in that the national Tea Party people didn't deem him worthy of support. The radio talk show hosts were more valuable than Tea Party cash, and they always will be.
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    • Posted by ewv 10 years, 9 months ago
      Newton spent most of his time there on theology, which is what he wanted to do, not physics or mathematics. If he had not been deeply into religion he would not have been allowed there. He was not given an exemption from that and didn't ask for it, regardless of quarrels over more specific requirements within the orthodoxy. No one said he had to be an "ordained minister". Much of his theological musing were tangled attempts to resolve contradictions in the doctrine of the trinity. The history is in Newton's biographies, not "rewriting history". None of this has anything to do with ARI -- only LorinIrvine's obssessive hatred for ARI posing as scholarship exploited as a strawman.
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      • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 9 months ago
        More than a little of Newton's time was spent trying to find out when the world would end by examining Biblical prophecies. During that search, he found a very interesting mathematical order to a number of different things.
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        • Posted by ewv 10 years, 9 months ago
          Numerology is not science.
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          • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 9 months ago
            Numerology is not science. It is a branch of mathematics, which is the language of much of science.
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            • Posted by ewv 10 years, 9 months ago
              Numerology is not mathematics. It is the misuse of mathematics as number mysticism. The Pythagoreans were notorious for that in addition to their valid contributions to geometry. Trying to predict when the wold will end from prophesies in a sacred text is mysticism, not science and not mathematics (which is a science, but a science of method, not a physical science, and not capable of predicting anything in the physical world without reference to facts in the physical world).
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              • Posted by $ jbrenner 10 years, 9 months ago
                I agree that Newton's numerological studies of the Bible is mysticism. However, the kind of numerology that Newton did was an attempt to decipher patterns in the same way that intelligence agencies have attempted to do with regard to their enemies' encrypted messages, as was done successfully just prior to The Battle of Midway. Do not dismiss numerology so quickly; today it is called cryptography.
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  • Posted by Robbie53024 10 years, 9 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Not going to waste my time. If you haven't seen them, then you aren't looking or don't want to see.
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    • Posted by ewv 10 years, 9 months ago
      I have seen a lot and looked for a lot, but have not seen anything justifying these wild speculations mischaracterizing an entire movement and which have no more basis than the rest of his theological pronouncements.
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