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To: bentway who wrote (656640)	5/26/2012 2:32:35 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1579932

10. Joseph Stalin "I began to speak of God. Joseph heard me out, and after a moment's silence, said: "'You know, they are fooling us, there is no God. '" 11. Jeffrey Dahmer: “If it all happens naturalistically, what’s the need for a God? Can’t I set my own rules? Who owns me? I own myself.” Biography, "Jeffrey Dahmer: The Monster Within," A&E, 1996 “If a person doesn’t think there is a God to be accountable to, then—then what’s—what’s the point of—of trying to modify your behavior to keep it within acceptable ranges? That’s how I thought, anyway. I always believed the theory of evolution as truth that we all just came from the slime. When we died, you know, that was it, there is nothing … ” 12. William Provine: “Naturalistic evolution has clear consequences that Charles Darwin understood perfectly. 1) No gods worth having exist; 2) no life after death exists; 3) no ultimate foundation for ethics exists; 4) no ultimate meaning in life exists; and 5) human free will is nonexistent.” Evolution: Free Will and Punishment and Meaning in Life, Second Annual Darwin Day Celebration Keynote Address, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, February 12, 1998 (abstract) 13. Dostoyevsky If God is dead everything is permitted. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Brothers Karamazov) 14. Karl Marx Communism abolishes all eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality. 16. Peter Singer "When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount of happiness will be greater if the disabled infant is killed. The loss of happy life for the first infant is outweighed by the gain of a happier life for the second. Therefore, if killing the haemophiliac infant has no adverse effect on others, it would, according to the total view, be right to kill him." 17: PZ Myers "I'm about as pro-choice as you can get...I'm even willing to say that I'm pro-abortion...[I] would like to encourage more people to abort..." what's at stake is a mere embryo, so it's no big loss if it's flushed and incinerated, and I don't have any illusions about whether this is deciding the fate of a human life -- it's not. There's no person..." 18 & 19: Alberto Guibilini & Francesca Minerva “After-birth Abortion: Why should the baby live?” Journal of Medical Ethics 20: Bentwayover [ wouldn't want one myself. I'd have it aborted - but then, I've had ALL my children aborted (I hope). .... http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=25848528 To: SilentZ who wrote (388721) 6/5/2008 2:03:29 AM From: BENTWAY Read Replies (2) of 589566 I think abortion IS murder, but I really don't care, because there are too many humans on Earth as it is, so abortion is a good thing as it reduces those numbers. http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=24649087 ]

To: bentway who wrote (656640)	5/27/2012 10:58:21 AM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 1579932

Minnesota Leads the Nation in Voter Fraud Convictions October 16, 2011 minnesotamajority.org Minnesota Majority today released a report on voter fraud convictions stemming from Minnesota’s 2008 general election. The report finds that 113 individuals who voted illegally in the 2008 election have been convicted of the crime, “ineligible voter knowingly votes” under Minnesota Statute 201.014. “As far as we can tell, this is the largest number of voter fraud convictions arising from a single election in the past 75 years,” said Minnesota Majority president Jeff Davis, “Prosecutions are still underway and so there will likely be even more convictions.” The highest number of convictions ever recorded in the United States came from the 1936 Jackson County, Missouri elections in which 259 individuals were convicted of voter fraud. A more recent five-year probe by the United States Department of Justice identified just 53 convictions for voter fraud nationwide. “It’s mind-boggling to me that as a tiny non-profit corporation, we netted more than double the number of convictions in one year than the US Department of Justice was able to find in five,” said Davis. Minnesota’s recent charges and convictions stem from research initiated by Minnesota Majority. The research identified upwards of 2,800 ineligible felons believed to have unlawfully voted in Minnesota’s 2008 general election. “These convictions are just the tip of the iceberg,” said Davis. “The actual number of illegal votes cast was in the thousands. Most unlawful voters were never charged with a crime because they simply pled ignorance. We have evidence of these people casting illegal ballots, but in Minnesota, ignorance of election law is considered to be an acceptable defense.” At the time of this report, nearly 200 additional cases are still pending trial. But time is running out for any additional cases to be prosecuted. The statute of limitations on election crimes is three years, and will expire for the 2008 election this November. Anyone who county attorneys have not charged by then will go free. “The problem rests largely on our current Election Day registration system,” said Davis. “Most of the fraudulent votes cast in 2008 could have been prevented by using the normal registration and verification processes. But since the Election Day registration process does not include eligibility verifications, it simply leaves the door open to these kinds of abuses.” Minnesota law requires voters to register at least 20 days before an election so that the information they provide and their eligibility to vote can be verified by election workers before they vote on Election Day. However, Election Day registration creates an exception. People who register at the polling place are given a ballot without first being subject to the same scrutiny. “This is an example of why creating two classes of voters is unacceptable,” said Davis. “You shouldn’t be subject to less scrutiny than everyone else, just because you waited until the last minute to register. Less responsible voters are allowed to cut in line and cast a ballot without being validated and this is what happens.” Investigations of voter fraud are also now underway from Minnesota’s 2010 election.