All categories - 27 July 2006

2006-07-27 16:15:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Wrestling

2006-07-27 16:15:54 · 7 answers · asked by artrapp23 1 in Family

2006-07-27 16:15:42 · 25 answers · asked by amiruddinjamhari 1 in Marriage & Divorce

2006-07-27 16:15:32 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

what's the best vacation spot you've ever been to?

2006-07-27 16:15:30 · 10 answers · asked by [♥] 1 in Other - Destinations

I went to the pool yesterday and I forgot to put more sunscreen lotion on after I got out of the water. I got really burned on my legs and shoulders, they are as red as a tomato, and I am not exaggerating. I couldn't sleep last night because they hurt so much and they have been killing me all day. Does anyone know how to make it stop hurting as much?

2006-07-27 16:15:24 · 21 answers · asked by Sara Beth 4 in Other - Health

I got an International business degree major and would like to put it to use. It's a broad range, but what do most do afterwards? I'd like to work abroad. Thanks in advance!

2006-07-27 16:15:18 · 2 answers · asked by Zen Master D 3 in Careers & Employment

asides from cold beans from the tin, curtains drawn in the afternoon and daytime television

2006-07-27 16:15:13 · 3 answers · asked by balasubbie 2 in Philosophy

I have blonde hair now but I want it a little bit lighter. What should I do?

2006-07-27 16:15:08 · 15 answers · asked by wyatt 1 in Hair

My county has been declared a state of emergency and my basement has flooded at least twice in two weeks by about a foot. last time there was a neon tetra swimming in the water whicch tells me its coming from the sewers! my landlord has not filed a claim. she fears it will raise her rates or that her ins co will drop her from coverage for trying to file a flood claim w/o having flood coverage! i have no washer/dryer, my water heater is a mess. lord knows what the furnace is like, and not to mention the risk of black mold! FEMA can't help me until she at least files a claim...how can i convince her to do it?

2006-07-27 16:15:06 · 9 answers · asked by phattissimo 2 in Insurance

I just came home from Taco Bell, and the dude gave me mild sauce instead of hot sauce. The little voice is saying go back put on your ski mask and do what you do best. Maybe I should just let it go.The last time I listened to the voice it cost me 7 years. What should I do

2006-07-27 16:15:03 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2006-07-27 16:15:02 · 17 answers · asked by sunshine 1 in Other - Social Science

I heard their new song i think it is called "It's not your fault" or something like that. Did any of you hear that song? Do any of you like that song? Can any one give me the direct link to the lyrics? please i already looked for the lyrics and can't find them. thanx!

2006-07-27 16:15:02 · 3 answers · asked by I Luv Joel Madden!! 6 in Music

No Clinton or Rice just Pancha she will do all the people good. I vote for her . Will you my friend ?

2006-07-27 16:14:55 · 11 answers · asked by Mind Movie 3 in Immigration

2006-07-27 16:14:51 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

My brother went away to summer school down south and I'm using his room for a couple of weeks. Today I noticed many ants crawling around and it was from a lemonade can that fell. First of all I didn't even know ants can even crawl to the 2nd floor. Anywyas I threw the can away but there are still many ants crawling around the curtains and window. What can I do to get rid of them or should I wait until my brother come home (beginning of August) & deal with it.

2006-07-27 16:14:47 · 12 answers · asked by ditzygirl 1 in Other - Home & Garden

Limbaugh vs. Reality

Bogus Economics

LIMBAUGH: On California contractor C.C. Myers completing repairs 74 days early on the earthquake-damaged Santa Monica Freeway: "There was one key element that made this happen. One key thing: The governor of California declared the [freeway] a disaster area and by so doing eliminated the need for competitive bids.... Government got the hell out of the way." (TV show, 4/13/94) "They gave this guy [Myers] the job without having to go through the rigmarole...of giving 25 percent of the job to a minority-owned business and 25 percent to a woman." (TV show, 4/15/94)

REALITY: There was competitive bidding: Myers beat four other contractors for the job. Affirmative action rules applied: At least 40 percent of the subcontracts went to minority or women-owned firms. Far from getting out of the way, dozens of state employees were on the job 24 hours a day. Furthermore, the federal government picked up the tab for the whole job (L.A. Times, 5/1/94).

LIMBAUGH: "Banks take the risks in issuing student loans and they are entitled to the profits." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Summer/93)

REALITY: Banks take no risks in issuing student loans, which are federally insured.

LIMBAUGH: "Don't let the liberals deceive you into believing that a decade of sustained growth without inflation in America [in the '80s] resulted in a bigger gap between the haves and the have-nots. Figures compiled by the Congressional Budget Office dispel that myth." (Ought to Be, p. 70)

REALITY: CBO figures do nothing of the sort. Its numbers for after-tax incomes show that in 1980, the richest fifth of our country had eight times the income of the poorest fifth. By 1989, the ratio was more than 20 to one.

LIMBAUGH: Comparing the 1950s with the present: "And I might point out that poverty and economic disparities between the lower and upper classes were greater during the former period." (Told You So, p. 84)

REALITY: Income inequality, as measured by the U.S. Census Bureau, fell from the 1940s to the late 1960s, and then began rising. Inequality surpassed the 1950 level in 1982 and rose steadily to all-time highs in 1992. (Census Bureau's "Money Income of Households, Families and Persons in the United States")

LIMBAUGH: "Oh, how they relished blaming Reagan administration policies, including the mythical reductions in HUD's budget for public housing, for creating all of the homeless! Budget cuts? There were no budget cuts! The budget figures show that actual construction of public housing increased during the Reagan years." (Ought to Be, p. 242-243)

REALITY: In 1980, 20,900 low-income public housing units were under construction; in 1988, 9,700, a decline of 54 percent ;Statistical Abstracts of the U.S).In terms of 1993 dollars, the HUD budget for the construction of new public housing was slashed from $6.3 billion in 1980 to $683 million in 1988. "We're getting out of the housing business. Period," a Reagan HUD official declared in 1985.

LIMBAUGH: "The poorest people in America are better off than the mainstream families of Europe." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)

REALITY: Huh? The average cash income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans is $5,226; the average cash income of four major European nations--Germany, France, United Kingdom and Italy--is $19,708.

LIMBAUGH: "There's no such thing as an implied contract." (Radio show, quoted in FRQ, Spring/93)

REALITY: Every first year law student knows there is.

LIMBAUGH: "Ladies and gentlemen, we now know why there is this institutional opposition to low tax rates in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party. It's because [low tax rates] are biblical in nature and in root. When you can trace the lowering of tax rates on grain from 90 percent to 20 percent giving seven fat years during the days of Pharaoh in Egypt, why then you are tracing the roots of lower taxes and rising prosperity to religion.... You can trace individual prosperity, economic growth back to the Bible, the Old Testament. Isn't it amazing?" (Radio show, 6/28/93)

REALITY: Amazingly wrong. Genesis 41 is about the wisdom of instituting taxes, not cutting them. After Pharaoh had a dream that prophesied seven fat years to be followed by seven lean years, Joseph advised him to "appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years...and lay up corn under the hands of Pharaoh." In other words, a 20 percent tax on the grain harvest would put aside food for use during the famine. Pharaoh took Joseph's advice, and Egypt avoided hunger during the famine.

Weird Science

LIMBAUGH: "It has not been proven that nicotine is addictive, the same with cigarettes causing emphysema [and other diseases]." (Radio show, 4/29/94)

REALITY: Nicotine's addictiveness has been reported in medical literature since the turn of the century. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's 1988 report on nicotine addiction left no doubts on the subject; "Today the scientific base linking smoking to a number of chronic diseases is overwhelming, with a total of 50,000 studies from dozens of countries," states Encyclopedia Britannica's 1987 "Medical and Health Annual."

LIMBAUGH: "We closed down a whole town--Times Beach, Mo.--over the threat of dioxin. We now know there was no reason to do that. Dioxin at those levels isn't harmful." (Ought to Be, p. 163)

REALITY: "The hypothesis that low exposures [to dioxin] are entirely safe for humans is distinctly less tenable now than before," editorialized the New England Journal of Medicine after publishing a study (1/24/91) on cancer mortality and dioxin. In 1993, after Limbaugh's book was written, a study of residents in Seveso, Italy had increased cancer rates after being exposed to dioxin, The EPA's director of environmental toxicology said this study removed one of the last remaining doubts about dioxin's deadly effects (AP, 8/29/93).

LIMBAUGH: "The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane -- or put your children on a plane -- if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks." (Ought to Be, p. 135)

REALITY: A one in five AIDS risk for condom users? Not true, according to Dr. Joseph Kelaghan, who evaluates contraceptives for the National Institutes of Health. "There is substantive evidence that condoms prevent transmission if used consistently and properly," he said. He pointed to a nearly two-year study of couples in which one partner was HIV-positive. Among the 123 couples who used condoms regularly, there wasn't a single new infection (AP, 8/29/93).

LIMBAUGH: "Most Canadian physicians who are themselves in need of surgery, for example, scurry across the border to get it done right: the American way. They have found, through experience, that state medical care is too expensive, too slow and inefficient, and, most important, it doesn't provide adequate care for most people." (Told You So, p. 153)

REALITY: "Mr. Limbaugh's claim simply isn't true," says Dr. Hugh Scully, chair of the Canadian Medical Association's Council on Healing and Finance. "The vast majority of Canadians, including physicians, receive their care here in Canada. Those few Canadians who receive health care in the U.S. most often do because they have winter homes in the States--like Arizona and Florida--and have emergent health problems there." Medical care in Canada is hardly "too expensive"; it's provided free and covered by taxes.

2006-07-27 16:14:43 · 2 answers · asked by tough as hell 3 in Government

2006-07-27 16:14:41 · 5 answers · asked by artrapp23 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-07-27 16:14:40 · 2 answers · asked by gerardo 3 in Dancing

2006-07-27 16:14:36 · 14 answers · asked by Really 1 in Singles & Dating

I understand that they need somewhere to ask questions too, but does it make anyone else crazy that the "pregnancy and parenting/teen and pre-teen" catagory is filled with teen and pre-teen gibberish?! This catagory is for the parenting of teens, not for teens!

2006-07-27 16:14:29 · 6 answers · asked by redpeach_mi 7 in Adolescent

So there is this guy and i like him SOO much, and in all my other relationships i have found myself pushing myself away from those guys and when i am with this guy ti isn't like that at all! But here's my problem, my parents hate him and don't want us together at all...i need to know a good solution

2006-07-27 16:14:27 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Family & Relationships

I want the icky stuff gone immediately

I recently started just drinking water and NO FAST FOOD

my skins clearing up ... but is there anthing else i can do to detox asap?

2006-07-27 16:14:26 · 10 answers · asked by Mj 4 in Alternative Medicine

i tink there is no good answer to a question...prove me wrong!

2006-07-27 16:14:21 · 15 answers · asked by mike 2 in Polls & Surveys

This morning while I was getting ready for work, my leg started itching real bad, on the under side,where the upper calve, meets the thigh. I didn't think anything about, when I got to work, it started itching really bad again, along with a burning sensation, I assumed it was burning, due to the friction, with me having jeans on. When I got home, there was a huge whelp, in the entire area, that was itching, along with redness and a blister like bubble, was in the middle of this huge whelp. The blister was small, but when I started itching it, it got bigger. I plan on going to the doctors tomorrow, if it's still swollen. What do you think it could be? Other than the burning sensation, I feel fine.

2006-07-27 16:14:17 · 7 answers · asked by A_WWE_FAN_4LYFE 6 in Other - Health

i have been lightly bleedin for 2 days w/ no cramps but on the third day i had cramps n was bleeding as if it was my normal period, could this b a miscarriage? i am 7 weeks pregnant.

2006-07-27 16:14:16 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy

He has a big identical brother named Toby.

2006-07-27 16:14:16 · 22 answers · asked by kitten lover3 7 in Other - Pets

It happens quite too often...is this coincidence or what?

2006-07-27 16:13:55 · 50 answers · asked by bumpy100 2 in Other - Cars & Transportation

if u hunt is it because u just just want to look good in front of poeple or want to make poeple jelous cause you have dead animals on ur wall....or is it because u just like to kill things...or r u bored with the regular meat such as cows chicken and pigs...who by the way r beaten and are treated in inhumane ways......why do u hunt...y does anyone??

2006-07-27 16:13:47 · 12 answers · asked by frogs-for-you 1 in Other - Sports