Credulity encourages us to believe without thinking and skepticism encourages us to disbelieve without thinking. Both are folly. The credulous person accepts tales of the supernatural without bothering to find out if they are a) true or b) from God. The skeptic reflexively rejects the supernatural, not on the basis of the evidence, but on the basis of a personal dogma which rules out the supernatural in advance of and in the teeth of whatever evidence there may be.

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Waste Management Turns Landfill into Fuel Pump : Gas 2.0
Source: gas2.org
Waste Management, one of the biggest garbage companies in the country, says it will be able to produce 13,000 gallons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) daily from just one landfill in Northern California.
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UPDATE 2-Big bank break-up idea gains ground in Congress
Source: Reuters
WASHINGTON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - An independent U.S. senator on Friday introduced a bill that would give the government the power to identify and break up financial firms that are "too big to fail," an idea that is catching on.
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The LAPD fights crime, not illegal immigration
Source: The L.A. Times
Earlier this month, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that 11 more locations across the United States have agreed to participate in a controversial law enforcement program known as 287(g).
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Ron Paul on the Economy, Healthcare, Intervention and Michael Moore
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It's nine minutes worth watching.
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On Invoking God to Defend Mammon Â« naked capitalism
Source: nakedcapitalism.com
The efforts to try to burnish the image of bankers have gone from being unconvincing to ridiculous. I am certain we will see Jon Stewart comment on the latest twist, of trying to claim that God wants banks (and therefore bankers) to make a lot of money.
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