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Ben Carson's Longshot Presidential Bid Suddenly Looks a Lot More Realistic Oct 15, 2014 Ben Carson's Longshot Presidential Bid Suddenly Looks a Lot More Realistic 5:13 AM CDT Rand Paul? Ted Cruz? Jeb Bush? Chris Christie? More Iowa Republicans are backing Ben Carson than all of them. Phil Mattingly This story contains corrected material, published Oct. 15, 014. “I tend to be an honest and frank and open person,” says Ben Carson, his voice not much more than a whisper. “And I'm coming to learn that you can't actually do that.” He chuckled. Carson is in the Capitol Hill office of his business manager, Armstrong Williams, who’s also a conservative talk radio host, consultant and owner of a handful of television and radio stations. Carson is relaxed, leaning back, legs crossed, in an overstuffed chair. He's been barnstorming the country for over a year, issuing a string of statements that, for an ordinary politician, could be career-killing gaffes. He doesn't believe in evolution, and came close to equating gay marriage with bestiality. He's very, very far from Obama's coalition of the ascendant. But he is now near the top of conservative straw polls across the country. In Iowa, he sits behind only Mitt Romney as the first choice of Republican caucus-goers, according to a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll. He’s on the verge of running for president, close to making the decision, so he has to learn about politics. The real challenge, he says, is not to learn too much. “The reason that is very troubling to me is that it's the very same thing that happened to the Roman Empire.” Ben Carson “We're in the problem that we have now because everyone is being just like everybody else,” Carson says. “I think that's one of the reasons that a lot of people have been trying to convince me that I really should run for high political office even though it's about the last thing I ever wanted to do.” But he listens to the people, he says. And apparently, the Republican Party does, too. The same day as the interview, the Republican National Committee sent out a fundraising appeal under his name. The party's Senate candidates in crucial races around the country tout his endorsement. “We need to wake people up because people have forgotten what America is,” he says. “They've forgotten what the things are that made us great, the very principles and values that are American in nature.” Carson, 63, hardly has the appearance of a fire breather. With glasses, gray fanning out across his hairline, mustache and goatee, he comes across as reserved — even as he ticks through the myriad of reasons for the downward spiral he says he's seen over “the last six years.” “A house divided against itself cannot stand and we're a perfect example of that, and yet you see a war on everything. On women. Income wars. Race wars. Religious wars. You name it, there's a war on it and it's destroying us. And people hate each other and I am not 100% sure that it's not planned,” he says. Surprise! Ben Carson Crushing It in Iowa For Carson, the canary in the American coalmine is political correctness. It’s a theme that’s woven into his stump speech, one that he’s now delivering four or five times a week, in states in every corner of the country — he has only 13 free days on his calendar between now and the end of the year. I ask Carson why he believes this minor moral failing is so crucial. “The reason that is very troubling to me is that it's the very same thing that happened to the Roman Empire,” he says, growing serious. “They were extremely powerful. There was no way anybody could overcome them. But these philosophers, with the long flowing white robes and the long white beards, they could wax eloquently on every subject, but nothing was right and nothing was wrong. They soon completely lost sight of who they were.” Over the course of a 90-minute interview, private reception, and public speech spent hammering away at the president's policies last week, Carson never actually says the words “Barack Obama.” But a large part of Carson’s appeal is that he is an Obama doppelganger, one who uses the moral authority of his self-willed rise from a hardscrabble African American childhood to critique the right’s favorite target. You can call Ben Carson many things — but you can’t call him racist, even as some of his harshest critics come from the ranks of prominent black leaders. “What people will begin to see as they hear what I'm actually saying and read about what I'm actually saying,” he says, “is how do you get people out of the state of dependency?” Carson, in one of the few moments over the course of several hours that his voice rises, says that he hears the criticism that he's a “tool of the Right,” or that he's clever enough to have recognized the pressure points within the American psyche and serves to take advantage of them for his own gain. Are any of the criticisms valid? “I'm sure there must be some,” he says. “But most of the stuff that I see, that I'm arrogant, that I don't care about poor people, that I only care about the rich — that stuff is so far from correct it's almost laughable.” Even his own advisers admit that the gaffes are indeed gaffes. He's equated what he sees as the loss of personal freedom under President Barack Obama's healthcare law to slavery; he called citizens who refused to stand up against the Obama administration the equivalent of those who stood by and did nothing in Nazi Germany; while saying nobody can redefine marriage as anything but between a man and a woman, he figured out a way to make it sound an awful lot like he was comparing homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality. The statements are the biggest impediment to Carson’s further political rise, driving the liberal blogosphere mad (which may be a benefit, of course) and forcing many Republicans to shake their heads. Carson himself refuses to back off the statements, which he says make sense in their full context. Still, he acknowledges that, for a potential presidential nominee, perhaps some restraint is in order. “That's something that you do learn with time,” Carson says “In the political, public sphere sense, you have to be very measured. But at the same time I have to be careful not to become somebody else, which is what happens to so many people in the political sphere.” It is precisely because Carson seems like such a reasonable man that some of his intellectual excursions, expressed in the same quiet tone, come across as jarring. He recommends W. Cleon Skousen's “The Naked Communist,” a 1958 book by the former FBI special agent and favorite of the right who lays out the strategy communists would use to take control of the U.S. “It's really quite amazing,” Carson says. “You would think it was written last year.” But isn't it a stretch to think government officials, the representatives of the inefficient bureaucracy could be that cunning? “The majority of them aren't, I agree with you,” Carson says, leaving the thought hanging — but not all of them. And he has a sunny confidence in his own beliefs that seems somehow drawn from his competence at his profession. “I am very happy to explain my positions to anybody because I think they are very logical,” he says. “And anybody who doesn't think they are logical, I challenge them to explain to me why they are not logical and what their position is.” Carson was the first surgeon to successfully separate twins conjoined at the back of the head. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush, has more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees, and serves on the boards of Kellogg Co. and Costco Wholesale Corp. His foundation, Carson Scholars Fund, is operating in all 50 states and has pledged nearly $6 million in scholarships to students for academic and humanitarian achievement. He was set to retire on a golf course. He bought an organ and was determined to learn to play (“I just love Bach organ music, it just inspires me,” he says.) He was going to learn a few languages. With one speech that all changed. Carson took to the lectern at the National Prayer Breakfast in February 2013 — just a few months away from retirement from Johns Hopkins Hospital, where he spent nearly three decades as the director of pediatric neurosurgery. By the time he finished his 26-minute speech, challenging Obama on health care, taxes, spending and the direction of the country with the president himself seating a few feet away, he was a bona fide star. The Wall Street Journal's editorial board posted a piece titled “Ben Carson for President.” “Honestly, after the prayer breakfast things began to happen that I wasn't anticipating,” Carson says. “Then the question became can you just walk away and do what you want to do and just leave all of those people who were just clamoring and saying you've gotta do this.” A few months later, supporters launched the National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee. It raised more than $7 million in less than a year of existence. It has deployed staff members to Iowa and South Carolina and purchased tables at Republican events throughout the country. The group, according to Federal Election Commission filings, is gathering reams of supporter, fundraising and digital data that could be purchased and utilized by Carson's campaign should he decide to give the green light. It's a little like Ready for Hillary, the outside group pushing for the former secretary of State to jump into the 2016 race. Except the Carson group actually outraised Ready for Hillary last quarter. For Carson himself, months of exploring have started to shift into action. He launched his own political action committee to support his nascent campaign in August (called USA First PAC.) He has named his campaign chairman (Houston businessman Terry Giles.) He even knows the first thing he'd do if elected (call for a joint session of Congress, where he will pledge to bridge the divide that has split the two parties.) Carson's current operation is lean. Candy, his wife of nearly 40 years, is a constant presence in everything he does. Giles, Logan Delany, another businessman, his son Murray, and Mike Murray, the CEO of a direct marketing firm, form his inner circle. He relies heavily on Williams, the consultant and owner of a handful of television and radio stations. Williams is his front door. To get to Carson, you must go through Williams, his friend of more than two decades. They used to speak every morning on Carson's commute to work at Johns Hopkins. Carson says that while he genuinely feels called to 2016, he hasn’t made up his mind. But he’s written a whole book — Take the Risk — about the process of making up ones mind, the premise of which is to assess key moments in his life with four questions. What's the best thing that can happen if I do this? What's the worst thing that can happen if I do this? What's the best thing that can happen if I don't do this? What's the worst thing that can happen if I don't do this? Asked if he's applied those questions to a presidential campaign, he laughs, then briskly runs through his answers: “I have concluded that the worst thing that could happen is everybody hates me and you ruin your reputation and you still lose and that's pretty awful. But when I think about the best thing that could happen, which is we stop fighting each other as a nation, we begin to take a leadership position in the world, we put the constitution back on the top shelf, we stop picking and choosing losers and winners we stop picking and choosing which laws we want to enforce, everybody feels like they are getting a free shake, people begin to trust the government again and we release the economic engine and we provide a pathway for those who are downtrodden to realize the American dream and they forsake the dependency, boy when I think about that versus what could happen to me, there is no comparison.” Williams joins the interview with Carson as the allotted time is about to run out — punctuality is very important in the Carson operation, as in the operating room. “There are very few who actually think like us,” says Williams, who serves as a crucial sounding board to Carson. Sometimes that means punching the holes in the surgeon's arguments. Other times, it's helping him after he “gets the foot in mouth disease,” as Williams put it. Carson is now regularly receiving policy briefings (though Carson declines to name the advisers for fear of “getting them in trouble.“) About a dozen volunteers are sifting through what Williams characterized as “thousands” of requests to volunteer for the campaign. A fully formed political team will be ready to join Carson after the midterms, where most are currently committed to congressional races. (“Lots of talent,” Williams says.) Carson says the outcome of those midterm elections will go a long way to determining whether he gives the operation the green light. (Big Republican wins would push him toward “yes.”) “If people listened to Dr. Carson six months ago, today it's as if you're seeing this transformation,” Williams said. “He's being transformed into a presidential candidate.” Then Carson interrupts him: “I will not evolve into the typical politician.” ---

Maybe we need a dictionary? I'm thinking tilling is used in the sense of turning the soil, where the broadfork is aerating the soil. Apparently there are plants that will break up hard, clay soils also which can then be cut off at ground level leaving the roots to decompose in the ground leaving air pockets for future plants.

Although on just a small scale, I would take standard-sized trash cans. punch a few holes near the bottom, then slowly layer them with table scraps, bags of soil from Home Depot, bags of steer manure, bags of compost, and a dozen or so worms. After a season of "composting", I would plant mainly tomatoes, plus a few berry plants and strawberries in the cans for a temporary home. I think the worms did a pretty good job breaking down the table scraps, and being captive, they didn't run away. I've thought about digging pits for the trash cans to get them out of sight and maybe putting a greenhouse over them. That would be a lot of work digging pits, plus, the landlord might not appreciate the holes. I've also used wading pools filled with my home-made soil and planted strawberries in those, but that's still rather unsightly, too. I've been thinking about getting a rototiller for a big garden, but I'd kind of like to avoid machines. A raised bed tends to need more water, so ground level might be better. So maybe a row of original dirt could be scooped out, a foot or two wide and about 6 inches deep or so, replaced with good soil, then covered with a long structure with plastic, or preferably glass, that can be open to air in the daytime. This would still have to be done on a small scale. Plastic would soon deteriorate, while glass would be permanent. In cold weather a person could run a heat tape along the inside. Another small-scale possibility would be to use a post-hole digger to make six-inch holes a foot or two deep, fill the holes with good soil, then plant individual plants in the filled holes. Or, how about making a raised bed, but lowering it so its top is ground level to reduce watering needs. A beveled trench could be dug on the outside from ground level to the base of the material used to make the "raised" bed, be it wood, plastic, or concrete. I tend to be stingy with garden water to keep the bill down, so would like to find an economical solution for growing a small garden in zone 7-8.

I'm not sure what the bias against the capitalism is here, since capitalism is only a label we put on an aspect of economic system that's there in some form or shape in all commercial human relationships, be it barter or monetary. The responses on this thread merely point out that Apple doesn't corner market on digital devices. It just creates marketing campaigns that makes it seem so Apple is "designer electronics" in a nutshell. A gucci of the electronic world. That's all it is.

We can read the bible over and over again and think we know passages well. Sometimes we don't stop to ask questions about verses and pay attention to what's really being said. Who is our Comforter/the Holy Spirit? John 14:16-23 (KJV) 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; · 1 John 2:1 “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:” · The word advocate in the bible text above is the same one used in John 14:16 Transliteration: paraklétos Phonetic Spelling: (par-ak'-lay-tos) Short Definition: an advocate, comforter, helper, Paraclete Definition: (a) an advocate, intercessor, ( a consoler, comforter, helper, © Paraclete. 17 Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. · Jesus is telling his disciples “the world” {those who don’t know or accept Christ} cannot receive the Spirit of truth (Comforter) WHY? Because they do not see him or know him. · Jesus continues to tell the disciples that they know the Spirit of truth/Comforter, WHY? Because the Spirit of truth/comforter was dwelling with them at that time AND Jesus said he shall be “ in you” * Who was that? Jesus was dwelling with them at that time. 18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. · Jesus plainly told them these words above. “I will come to you” · He was telling the disciples that he would be their comforter and would not leave them comfortless. · Matthew 28:20 “teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. · Christ has promised that HE would be with us always. 19 Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also. 20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. · At what day? The day when the comforter/spirit of truth shall be in them. Christ told his disciples again, “Ye in me, and I in you” 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. · Those who know and keep his commandments is loved by Christ and of his Father. · AGAIN: Jesus say’s ”and will manifest myself to him.” 22 Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world? · Did you notice how Judas said Lord (Jesus) how is it you will manifest (show) yourself to us and not the world? (Those who don’t believe) 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. · Again Jesus tries to make it plain for them to understand · The conditions are: Love Jesus, keep his words (commandments) and Christs Father will love him also. · Notice the wording next “WE” Who is we? · Jesus plainly told us; Christ Jesus and the Father would come unto him AND make our abode with us. · “abode” is a place of residence { 1 Cor 6:19 “What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?’} · If the Other bible text’s: Galations 4:6 “God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts,” · Who is the Spirit of his Son? This has to be Jesus the Son of God. 2 corinthians 3: 17 “Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.” What about at Jesus baptism? 2 Corinthians 5:19 “that God was in Christ.” · How was God in Christ? By his Spirit Matthew 3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:” · EGW “Never before had angels listened to such a prayer as Christ offered at his baptism, and they were solicitous to be the bearers of the message from the Father to his Son. But, no; direct from the Father issues the light of his glory. The heavens were opened, and beams of glory rested upon the Son of God, and assumed the form of a dove, in appearance like burnished gold. The dove-like form was emblematical of the meekness and gentleness of Christ. While the people stood spell-bound with amazement, their eyes fastened upon Christ, from the opening heavens came these words: "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." The words of confirmation that Christ is the Son of God was given to inspire faith in those who witnessed the scene, and to sustain the Son of God in his arduous work. Notwithstanding the Son of God was clothed with humanity, yet Jehovah, with his own voice, assures him of his sonship with the Eternal. In this manifestation to his Son, God accepts humanity as exalted through the excellence of his beloved Son. “ {2SP 60.2} · From the above quote it can be said that “the light of his glory” & “beams of glory” that come From the Father are His Spirit (his person/ omnipresence) The Holy Spirit. EGW Quotes; “Cumbered with humanity, Christ could not be in every place personally; therefore it was altogether for their advantage that He should leave them, go to His father, and send the Holy Spirit to be His successor on earth. The Holy Spirit is Himself divested of the personality of humanity and independent thereof. He would represent Himself as present in all places by His Holy Spirit, as the Omnipresent.” 14 MR 23 " All who love Christ will be loved of the Father, and He will manifest Himself to them. In all their emergencies and perplexities, they will have a helper in Jesus Christ. {SW, September 13, 1898 par. 1} That Christ should manifest Himself to them, and yet be invisible to the world, was a mystery to the disciples. They could not understand the words of Christ in their spiritual sense. They were thinking of the outward, visible manifestation. They could not take in the fact that they could have the presence of Christ with them, and yet He be unseen by the world. They did not understand the meaning of a spiritual manifestation." {SW,September 13, 1898 par. 2} Those who believe the truth should remember that they are God's little children, that they are under His training. Let them be thankful to God for His manifold mercies and be kind to one another. They have one God and one Saviour; and one Spirit--the Spirit of Christ--is to bring unity into their ranks. {9T 189.3} Aug 24 1905 Ephesians 6:12. But they would not be left to fight alone. He assured them that He would be with them; and that if they would go forth in faith, they should move under the shield of Omnipotence. He bade them be brave and strong; for One mightier than angels would be in their ranks--the General of the armies of heaven. He made full provision for the prosecution of their work and took upon Himself the responsibility of its success. So long as they obeyed His word, and worked in connection with Him, they could not fail. Go to all nations, He bade them. Go to the farthest part of the habitable globe and be assured that My presence will be with you even there. Labor in faith and confidence; for the time will never come when I will forsake you. I will be with you always, helping you to perform your duty, guiding, comforting, sanctifying, sustaining you, giving you success in speaking words that shall draw the attention of others to heaven. {AA 29.1} In John 17:3 Christ was praying to His Father in heaven. “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” · According to this verse which Jesus spoke, we are to know the only true God –the Father and Jesus Christ His Son; This is eternal life. The Father(God) is a person, His Divine Son Jesus is a person, The Holy Spirit is a person, however not a separate person to the Father and Son. The Holy Spirit is the spiritual manifestation/presence of Jesus, our comforter, helper, advocate. When we have the presence of Christ in our lives (Holy Spirit) we have the Fathers presence through Christ. Jesus said that He was the only way to the Father. Jesus is in heaven as our High Priest and he also abides {himself} in our hearts. Only Christ can be our comforter as he was tempted in all points as we are and rose again to give us His Righteous life that only HE could give. This is how we can be overcomers with His/Christ's Righteous life.

joeb, the whole article was about how Apple supposedly destroyed Finland's economy all by itself. That was a ludicrous comment. One company (not the giant Microsoft -- just Apple) singlehandedly destroyed the whole economy of a nation? I don't buy it. The issue has nothing to do with whether I or others feel badly for people who may have lost their jobs. In fact, you are making a judgment call that we have mocked the unemployed. Where do you get off doing that? Nobody here mocked the unemployed. How about showing your fellow C/A members a bit of respect and not accuse them of something that wasn't done?

I really like Ben Carson. If he can stay who he is and not be corrupted by power and influence he can be a major influence for good in this country. His honesty is his best quality, and he has a lot of good qualities. He's a very good man. Who knows? Maybe he can start a new direction in politics: honest politicians.

Gail, I would say the author of that statement doesn't really understand God in the least. His rules, and His people, matter so much to Him that He sacrificed His own Son to do four things: 1. To show how much His rules really matter. 2. To show how much His loves His people. 3. To show what His rules really are. 4. To show it is possible to lives according to His rules.

I wouldn't really call what the guy in the picture with the broadfork is doing no-till. He is tilling the land, he just isn't using a rototiller or a plow. They talk about mulching, which is very good for the soil but leave out composting, at least in this short segment on the subject. When I was a kid we had a huge garden, and a huge compost pile by the time spring came around. We had some of the best produce around from our gardens too. I got spoiled back then and still find the produce in the grocery stores really lacking in quality, taste, and size. Our compost piles were probably 6'-8' tall and 15' or so in diameter. I can still remember how I hated crawling on top of those piles with a pitchfork to turn everything in the pile over every month or so. It was a lot of hard nasty work, but the gardens we had were very good.

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