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If you voted yes on Prop 8, you're a bigot.

You believe that your bigotry is somehow justified because it is affirmed by the Bible is severely unoriginal. The Conquistadores in Latin America murdered plenty of indigenous tribes and were completely 'justified'. Trail of Tears? Manifest Destiny? The Holocaust?

What about divorce? Isn't it false pretenses to claim that divorce is somehow less against the Bible? Or eating shellfish, or wearing pply cotton blends for that matter? Where are your measures banning crab legs? In Deuteronomy, adulterers are supposed to be slain.

Since it is apparent that homosexuality "naturally" occurs every single generation since even before Christ, how fair is it to say that it is unnatural? Keep your Bible out of my Constitution. We separate church and state for a reason.

California's famed liberal bias led me to believe that No on 8 had a pretty good shot. People I spoke with all told me the same thing. No on 8. Were you embarrassed to say it out loud?

But there's hope. According to exit polls, the youths were on the side of the Constitution. Apparently, "all men created equal" was out of fashion for those older than 40. This trend rises with age. All we've got to do is wait a few more generations, and we'll be all that's left. Let's hope it's a long winter.

Your title really caught my eye! I guess this is the real trick to getting people to read your stuff, you draw us in with the title...

I look for that, too, which is why I decided to make the post. It's rare to get a payment with an hour for something like this, but this is now a set pattern, as I've had them pay out within the hour before. They are definitely legitimate and an easy way, in my opinion, to earn income.

By the way, this is again what I love about Review Stream. I reached payout minimum again today so emailed them and requested payment. I had it in my account less than an hour later. I love this site!

Most forum scripts work in a similar fashion - first you'll need a place to put it - I generally put it as a subdirectory to my main website - so like here: the main site is BurningKnife.com - and the forum is Burningknife.com/forum - so you can see that it's in a subdirectory.

There is another way to do it, where the URL would be forum.example.com - and the advantage there is that search engines see that as a completely different website from 'example.com'.  Whereas the way I have it set up, search engines know that the forum is just part of my website, it's not two different websites.

Once you've decided where to put the script (forgot a step here ... you'll now need to go download it!) - you FTP the script to your chosen directory - I use FileZilla, it's free and it works quite well. Next step will be to log into you Cpanel - and create a new MySQL database - I usually use a name that will tell me what the database is for... so I might call it 'forum'.  On most servers, this would be added to your website name... if you have 'Example.com', many servers will reference you as 'examplecom' - and your newly created database would be called 'examplecom_forum' (note the underscore).

Next, you need to create a username, using the same CPanel MySQL script, click on the link at the top right that says: "Jump to MySQL Users"... and here's a trick - you don't need to chose another name!  So I create a 'user' called 'forum' - the website changes it to 'examplecom_forum' - so the name is the same as the database... Be sure to make a note of the password you use.

Next, using the same CPanel MySQL script that you used to create the database and name - you must tell the server that the 'name' has rights to that 'database name'.  You usually just click the same "Jump to MySQL Users" - and you should see something that says: "Add User to Database"... select the name & database, click "Add", and then click the "All Privileges" checkbox.

That's basically it for the database creation.

At this point, it's going to depend on what forum script you're using - some scripts will just about completely self-install - others will be a tad more difficult, they might involve setting file permissions.  But they will all need to know the database name, database user, and where the database is - so the answers will look like this:

Localhost
examplecom_forum (database)
examplecom_forum (username)
Password123 (Username password)

I'm most familiar with SMF (Simple Machine Forum), which is free and powerful, but other forum scripts will have similar setups. I just took a look at phpBB.com - and it will be quite similar to what I just laid out above - it's a script-based forum just like SMF.  They also have a really good forum on their site to help people through installing their script - and they'd be more familiar with their script, I've never run a phpBB forum before. So just go to their site, and -download- their current version, I suspect that it probably has an "install.txt" file inside the zip... most scripts do.  phpBB is an advanced enough forum that I don't think you should have too much trouble installing it - their instructions should be clear enough, I suspect.

But above are the basic steps - if someone has experience with phpBB and can correct anything I've said here - please jump in.

Thanks! I am with Forum Boosters already, but it seems impossible to reach their 100 post thing! I find all these places to post and just as I start getting enjoying the forums or my posts building up, the link is no longer available on my account? As a matter of fact, this place is the perfect example, I have posts and threads going, now forum boosters took it down :( Oh well people are nice here, but won't make any money here now :(

First, it's Bush's policies that have lead to the recession - despite the fact that our economy is still growing, even if at a rather slow and anemic rate.

But now that it's 'discovered' to be a worldwide phenomena - and Bush clearly doesn't control policies in other countries, why - it must be that our 'bad' economy is causing the chain reaction around the world!  Nonsense, of course.

'News' in an election year always seems tinged with politics, doesn't it seem?

We're just getting started, this site only 'opened' a week ago - so you're in on the ground floor, so to speak.  Hopefully, lots of changes coming - more articles, better organization, and my download area really needs to get filled.

Thanks for dropping in!

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