Opps I meant : if you don't find the criminal you CAN'T profile them.

I all honesty I'm disable and the disease is genetic. I grew up not knowing I had a risk factor for it and it set me back. I decided not to have kids. I also I fear that my little nieces might develope it and if one does then we'll catch it early before damage is done.

But finding those guilty of the would be easily if you had a national DNA database, if you don't find criminal you can profile them.

Jokingly, you wouldn't want to end up on Maury for a paternatey test.

Ok playing devils advocate again suppose you wanted/ needed to trace your ancestry for medical reasons. You could find risk factors some certain diseases like breast cancer or heart disease. With DNA data base you can trace long gone relatives DNA and find out the chances of developing those dieases and therefore adjust you lifestyle choices for a more happier and healthier and long lasting life.

Hey isn't McCain almost as old as Fidel?

Ok playing devil advocate again, suppose your wife secret cheats on you and you end up raising someone elses child. A DNA data base can make certain that when you look in to that child's eye you can say "That's my boy!"

Ok I'll play devil's advocate, a DNA is no different from from say finger prints. Suppose a criminal kills someone, is cut in the stuggle and leaves his DNA on the scene. Well with a DNA data base you easliy find out who the murder and quickly form a manhunt. Plus DNA is exonerates innocent people of wrongful accusation in death-row cases. With a DNA evidence you can make sure the that the people on death-row are guilty of the crime in question. This strengthens the case for capital pushishment by eliminating the argument that people can executed but later found innocent after the all.

In other words a DNA data base would be a not only for disease monitoring, and but also for criminal investigation as well.

For investors, most annual meetings are anything but a hot ticket. They're typically held in small auditoriums and feature an agenda that makes C-Span look like an action thriller. Then there's Wal-Mart, the Arkansas-based retailer whose shareholder meetings are celebrity-packed, high-wattage showcases. Last year's gathering featured the comedian Sinbad and musical numbers by Jennifer Lopez and the cast of "High School Musical." But amid these surprise performances, the most unexpected moment came when shareholder activists were each given three minutes at the podium. Most offered run-of-the-mill liberal criticisms that hit every large company: a Roman Catholic nun urged Wal-Mart to support universal health insurance; several speakers suggested the company rein in executives' huge paychecks. But from the other end of the spectrum came Peter Flaherty, lambasting Wal-Mart for being too nice to unions, too concerned about the environment and too accommodating to gays and lesbians. "People shop at Wal-Mart because of low prices, not because the company is politically correct," Flaherty shouted at the crowd.

Come again? With its deep roots in Red State America and a reputation for upholding "family values," Wal-Mart seems an unlikely target for conservative criticism. It's the company that banned sales of CDs with offensive lyrics, refused to stock racy magazines like Maxim and declined (until 2006) to sell the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill. But in recent years, as it faced growing pressure from liberal activists, Wal-Mart has begun to make changes. It began offering more-robust health-insurance coverage to workers. Its CEO voiced support for raising the minimum wage. It has launched an ambitious environmental program. As a result, while Wal-Mart continues to face criticism from liberal groups, it's now simultaneously being criticized by some conservatives, who say the company's concessions to liberals are hurting its business. "This is kind of a guerrilla fight," says Flaherty, who heads a tiny right-wing think tank called the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), which holds just a few thousand dollars in Wal-Mart stock.

Shareholder activism has been around since the 1940s, when the SEC first began letting investors file resolutions. At first, most shareholders focused on bottom-line issues, but in the late 1960s, Vietnam War protesters began filing resolutions against companies that provided materials (including napalm) for the war. By the 1980s, activists had become a fixture at annual meetings, speaking out on issues like companies' investments in South Africa or the use of sweatshop labor. While conservative pro-life groups have occasionally filed proxy resolutions, says researcher Beth Young of the Corporate Library, shareholder activism has been dominated by liberal interests.


Now that's changing. Flaherty, a former grass-roots organizer for Ronald Reagan, argues that conservatives have been slow to recognize that today it's corporations, not government, that drive many big social changes. That's been true recently on issues like gay rights, health-care costs and the environment. So since 2006, Flaherty and the five-person staff at NLPC have been filing proposals and attending annual meetings. So far this spring, they've spoken at the shareholder meetings of General Electric, Boeing and Anheuser-Busch; next week they're at United Airlines. And they're not alone: the right-leaning Free Enterprise Action Fund (FEAF), a tiny libertarian mutual fund, filed resolutions with 20 companies this spring, including Wal-Mart. Most of the FEAF resolutions argue that companies should be more skeptical and resistant as environmentalists push them to reduce their carbon footprint. Some investors apparently agree: at last week's ExxonMobil meeting, where a group of Rockefeller heirs unsuccessfully urged the company to broaden its focus on renewable energy, a speech by FEAF manager Steve Milloy received loud applause.

Environmental issues are at the heart of Flaherty's complaints about Wal-Mart, too. In a 46-page report the NLPC will release this month, staffer John Carlisle writes that Wal-Mart customers aren't buying many of the organic products it's begun stocking; that the energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs it's been touting aren't really good for the environment (because they contain mercury), and that its support for legislation to cap carbon emissions will only hurt consumers and its bottom line. (Wal-Mart responds that its environmental initiatives "are not only good for the environment—they are good for our business, too.") The NLPC says Wal-Mart is naive to think incremental compromises will ever really placate liberal critics. "The more Wal-Mart tries to appease the Left, the more the Left demands," the report concludes.

While most corporations look on them as gadflies, shareholder activists occasionally do bring about change. Many U.S. companies divested South African holdings under pressure in the 1980s, for instance. But most shareholder resolutions garner very few votes, and Flaherty's group is getting limited traction so far; its resolution against Wal-Mart didn't get enough votes last year, so it lost its spot on the agenda at Wal-Mart's 2008 meeting, which takes place this week. Some observers think political discussions don't belong at annual meetings in the first place. "The corporate ballot box is not the best place to have debates on broader social topics," says Charles Elson, a University of Delaware governance expert. But as long as businesses grapple with fast-rising health-care costs, the growing concern over the environment and other hot-button political issues, corporate meetings will likely see more strange bedfellows indeed.



Ok so conservatives are against the CEO of Wal-Mart because he advocated for a raise in the national minium wage, against offering better medical benfits for its employees, against changing it's environmental policies, against ExxonMobile to look into renewable energy.

Is there anything positive that conservatives are for?

Their religious leader said he was Christ, that he could open the seven seals, and they thought he revive the dead, they tried to send a grenade through the mail, they were arming themselves for the coming apocalyse.

If that not a cult then I don't know what is.

In religion are lunatic fringes that believe the end of the world is at hand. Think Waco Texas and Branch Davidon cult back in the early 90's. Think Y2K. Think "Left Behind" movies.

I remember after the World Trade Center bombing in 2004, a group that generically calling themselves "christians" coming into my store and giving out ominous warnings of a war that suggested the end.

I've heard this story before, the cold war being one of them

There was Christian sect in the late 1800s that believe the was at hand according to their leader's calucations of biblical text. They prepared themselves for end and waited to be taken on the calucated date, nothing happened. Later the leader re-calucated the date for 4 years later, 4 years pass nothing happened and the sect disbanded.

More recently was the Bible Code, but critics contend that such a code could be applied to Moby **** and have the same out come.

Personally I think such beliefs are best described as psychotic. Trying to make connections where none exist, deciphering religious text to make mystical revelations, beliefs of being the second coming of Christ, belief of mystical powers of in a leader are all the signs of the manic phase of bi-polar disorder or maybe schizoaffective disorder.

Religious beliefs should not be taken to extremes or practice as such to dilute the positive benefits of the faith. Flexibility in changing to meet realistic and comtempory times would do make religion relevent today. In other word keep an open mind.

Rabbit you got the Bible thumpers there!

So the rich are going to hell. Can you imagine Don Trump with his millions of dollars, many marriges, and gambling casinos, not going to hell?

Could many of the "miracles" and angels in the Bible are actually events of extra terestrials vistation of earth?

Samson great strenght came from his long hair, was he an alien?

The burning bush on mount Sinai, a communication with aliens?

The destruction of city of Gamora, a death ray blast from space ship?

The pyramids are said to be built with alien techology.

Or is the other way round? Aliens are actually angels.

The Rich think that to be prosperous you have to the big house, the luxuory/sport car, the big bank account and other material wealth but the Biblical sense of prosperity is family, friends, health and sprirtual wealth.

When you look at Jesus's life he spent it in proverty but had friend with his disciples, feed the plenty with bread and fish, and heal the sick. Though Jesus was decendent from nobility he didn't live like nobility.

So there is a clash of rich/material wealth and poor/spritual wealth. Jesus said to chose spritual wealth.

Jesus taught that you should not put your faith in material things but build your faith in sprirt and then you will be able to receieve the kingdom of Heaven.

When you look the the new capitalist churches that say material wealth is the reward for believers "faith" then that is totally backward to what Jesus taught.

I'm window shopping for a new religon something that closer my personal belifes.

Any easy to read book, like the Buddism for dummies? LOL!

Can someone tell me more about Buddism?
I tried read up on it but some concepts are hard to grasp.
The idea of "not self", the belife of that it's not reincarnation but more like "rebirth", and other stuff that I can't recall confused me.

Cops bust teens' root-beer kegger

WAUSAU, Wis. - Cars lining the street. A house full of young people. A keg and drinking games inside. Police thought they had an underage boozing party on their hands.

But though they made dozens of teens take breath tests, none tested positive for alcohol. That's because the keg contained root beer.

The party was held by a high school student who wanted to show that teens don't always drink alcohol at their parties. It has gained fame on YouTube.com.

Dustin Zebro, 18, said he staged the party after friends at D.C. Everest High School got suspended from sports because of pictures showing them drinking from red cups.

The root-beer kegger was "to kind of make fun of the school," he said. "They assumed there was beer in the cups. We just wanted to have some root beer in red cups and just make it look like a party, but there actually wasn't any alcohol."

Zebro purchased a quarter-barrel of 1919 Classic American Draft Root Beer, and by 10 p.m. Saturday, the scene outside his rural Wausau home had all the makings of a teen drinking party — cars, noise and kids.

Kronenwetter Police Chief Daniel Joling said an officer was dispatched to the home March 1 on a complaint of cars blocking the road.

Juveniles began coming out of the house after the officer used his squad car's loudspeaker to warn that cars would soon be towed, Officer Jason Rasmussen wrote in his report.

Nearly 90 breath tests were done, and officers even searched locked rooms for hiding teens.

"It was a tremendous waste of time and manpower, but we still had a job to do, and our officers did it," Joling said. "If one kid had come there, even hadn't drank there, but had come there and had been drinking and had left and crashed and burned, then what would the sentiment be? Why didn't the police check everybody out?"

School Superintendent Kris Gilmore did not immediately return a message Friday.

A passion vacation
in the beautiful jungle
where exotic drugs are smuggled

I learned of a cavern
which I flirtatiously entered
and in the center
stirred a sea of fire
grew a devilish desire
to jump in
and commit sexual sin

Could you give blame?
I saw a visual high
in the flicker of flames

a fatal fantasy of flesh
of naked bodies
burning with sweat
oh the sight mesmerized

The cure of the alure?
A calm call from my brother
commands me to leave
and my lustful feelings subsides

Red I was saying that if everything in the universe is God/energy then why would God/energy go through the process of converting itself into matter then into life then into thoughts of "Defind God... or Is there a God? or Questions believers are afraid to answer?"