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I wanna cheat on my girl friend with this girl she is so burning hot but I am afraid I will get caught and don't want to loose my gf. she would kill me and dump me in a heart beat. how do I cheat on my gf without her knowing, what she don't know won't hurt her right???

2006-09-03 08:30:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

For me, I think it would be the one that included the famous ski jump that Bond performed in "The Spy Who Loved Me." But I could be forgetting something, so don't hold you breath. Thunderball's could be a close second. How about you?

2006-09-03 08:30:08 · 6 answers · asked by Redeemer 5 in Movies

are you on the computer? it can be on any web page.

2006-09-03 08:30:07 · 11 answers · asked by Kimberly B 1 in Other - Entertainment

It's a bouns track for her first album. It avalible on the UK verson of the cd. But itunes Doesn't have it. And I can't find it anywhere else.

2006-09-03 08:30:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Music

In the last fifty years, we have grown accustomed to governments whose policies on specific issues may be good or bad, but which essentially institute incremental changes to the status quo. The major exceptions have been Thatcher and Reagan, but even their programs of dismantling systems of social welfare seem, in retrospect, mild compared to what is happening in the United States under George Bush – or more exactly, the ruling junta that tells Bush what to do and say.

It is unquestionably the most radical government in modern American history, one whose ideology and actions have become so pervasive, and are so unquestionably mirrored by the mass media here, that the population seems to have forgotten what “normal” is.

George Bush is the first unelected President of the United States, installed by a right-wing Supreme Court in a kind of judicial coup d’etat. He is the first to actively subvert one of the pillars of American democracy: the separation of church and state. There are now daily prayer meetings and Bible study groups in every branch of the government, and religious organizations are being given funds to take over educational and welfare programs that have always been the domain of the state.

It is the first administration to openly declare a policy of unilateral aggression, a “Pax Americana” where the presence of allies (whether England or Bulgaria) is agreeable but unimportant; where international treaties no longer apply to the United States; and where – for the first time in history – this country reserves the right to non-defensive, “pre-emptive” strikes against any nation on earth, for whatever reason it declares.

It is the first – since the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II – to enact special laws for a specific ethnic group. Non-citizen young Muslim men are now required to register and subject themselves to interrogation. Many hundreds have been arrested and held without trial or access to legal assistance-- a violation of another pillar of American democracy: habeas corpus. In Guantanamo Bay, where it is said that they are now preparing execution chambers, hundreds of foreign nationals – including a 13-year-old and a man who claims to be 100 – have been kept for almost two years in a limbo that clearly contravenes the Geneva Convention.

Similar to the Reagan era, it is an administration openly devoted to helping the rich and ignoring the poor, one that has turned the budget surplus into a massive deficit through its combination of enormous tax cuts for the wealthy (particularly those who earn more than a million dollars a year) and increases in defense spending. (And, although Republicans always campaign on “less government,” it has created the largest new government bureaucracy in history: the Department of Homeland Security.) The Financial Times of England, hardly a hotbed of leftists, has categorized this economic policy as “the lunatics taking over the asylum.”

But more than Reagan – whose policies tended to benefit the rich in general – most of Bush’s legislation specifically enriches those in his lifelong inner circle from the oil, mining, logging, construction, and pharmaceutical industries. At the middle level of the bureaucracy, where laws may be issued without Congressional approval, hundreds of regulations have been changed to lower standards of pollution or safety in the workplace.

Billions in government contracts have been awarded, without competition, to corporations formerly run by administration officials. In a country where the most significant social changes are enacted by court rulings, rather than by legislation, the Bush administration has been filling every level of the complex judicial system with ultra-right ideologues, especially those who have protected corporations from lawsuits by individuals or environmental groups, and those who are opposed to women's reproductive rights.

Most of all, America doesn’t feel like America any more. The climate of militarism and fear, similar to any totalitarian state, permeates everything. Bush is the first American president in memory to swagger around in a military uniform, though he himself – like all of his most militant advisers – evaded the Vietnam War. (Even Eisenhower, a general and a war hero, never wore his uniform while he was president).

In the airports of provincial cities, there are frequent announcements in that assuring, disembodied voice of science-fiction films: “The Department of Homeland Security advises that the Terror Alert is now . . . Code Orange.” Every few weeks there is an announcement that another terrorist attack is imminent, and citizens are urged to take ludicrous measures, like sealing their windows, against biological and chemical attacks, and to report the suspicious activities of their neighbors.

The Pentagon institutes the “Total Information Awareness” program to collect data on the ordinary activities of ordinary citizens (credit card charges, library book withdrawals, university course enrollments) and when this is perceived as going too far, they change the name to “Terrorist Information Awareness” and continue to do the same things. Millions are listed in airport security computers as potential terrorists, including antiwar demonstrators and pacifists. Critics are warned to “watch what they say” and lists of “traitors” are posted on the internet.

The war in Iraq has been the most extreme manifestation of this new America, and almost a casebook study in totalitarian techniques.

First, an Enemy is created by blatant lies that are endlessly repeated until the population believes it: in this case, that Iraq was linked to the attack on the World Trade Center, and that it possesses vast “weapons of mass destruction” that threaten the world.

Then, a War of Liberation, entirely portrayed by the mass media in terms of our Heroic Troops, with little or no imagery of casualties and devastation, and with morale-inspiring, scripted “news” scenes – such as the toppling of the Saddam statue and the heroic “rescue” of Private Lynch.

Finally, as has happened with Afghanistan, America has received very little news of the chaos that has followed the Great Victory.

It is very difficult to speak of what is happening in America without resorting to the hyperbolic cliches of anti-Americanism that have lost their meaning after so many decades, but that have now finally come true.

Perhaps one can only recite the facts, and I have mentioned only some of them here. This is, quite simply, the most frightening American administration in modern times, one that is appalling both to the left and to traditional conservatives. This junta is unabashed in its imperialist ambitions; it is enacting an Orwellian state of Perpetual War; it is dismantling, or attempting to dismantle, some of the most fundamental tenets of American democracy; it is acting without opposition within the government, and is operating so quickly on so many fronts that it has overwhelmed and exhausted any popular opposition.

Perhaps it cannot be stopped, but the first step toward slowing it down is the recognition that this is an American government unlike any other in this country’s history, and one for whom democracy is an obstacle.

2006-09-03 08:30:01 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2006-09-03 08:29:56 · 2 answers · asked by jakebasketball88 1 in Music

I'm on Metformin right now. My doctor wants to see me in two months to check and see if I've ovulated. He wants to give the Metformin time and see if I can get pregnant by using it only (I have PCOS)
He did say there was a risk of multiple births when taking Clomid. He said there were more cases of twins than he could count but in his 23 years he had two patients on Clomid that had triplets!

My husband and I want a baby, but I'm not so sure we want 3 at one time! Two might be okay...but even still, I'd like to have one.

I want to hear from other women who have been on Clomid and find out if you conceived 1, 2 or 3 children.

Please, if you haven't been on Clomid or know someone very close to you that has, don't bother answering. All I want to know is how common twins and triples are when using Clomid.

Thanks.

2006-09-03 08:29:50 · 5 answers · asked by tdh05 2 in Trying to Conceive

2006-09-03 08:29:44 · 13 answers · asked by cmitch2497 1 in Buying & Selling

i hav heard that an expert on computers can see cookies that u have deleted is that true

2006-09-03 08:29:40 · 12 answers · asked by nick 3 in Other - Computers

fall asleep when anyone will sing a lullaby for u during ur bed time ??....and wht are ur hangups for getting sleep....like no sound..no light etc ??

for me...nothing matters...juz give me my bed..thatz it...lol..i dont care whether therz sound..light...etc :)

2006-09-03 08:29:39 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

but he's got a gf and is 4 years older i've known him since i was 2 years old. what should i do?

2006-09-03 08:29:37 · 17 answers · asked by beebee 1 in Other - Family & Relationships

why do most non americans not like american people???
im english and i cant see nothing wrong with american people. in fact i think they are one of the kindest nations in the world. ok u get some idots but dont we all!!!!
i got american friends and i go over there a least once a year and i never had any problems with them at all.
it is not true most people judge america though the press and its wrong!!!!
just because bush is an bit of an idot that does not mean other americans are to.
i been to many places in the world and i have to say there no better place in the would then america.

2006-09-03 08:29:36 · 25 answers · asked by alan h 3 in Other - United States

who do you think should win?

2006-09-03 08:29:29 · 14 answers · asked by chrissnina 2 in Television

Are you a parent? What do you say to your child/ren? Why or why not?

2006-09-03 08:29:29 · 2 answers · asked by Sara 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Serious question. I think they taste better with sugar. But I'm conserned about the whole health thing.

2006-09-03 08:29:19 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2006-09-03 08:28:59 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

I know what it means but. will i be able to get out of it?

2006-09-03 08:28:57 · 6 answers · asked by bones042004 1 in Singles & Dating

about 30 minutes please!

2006-09-03 08:28:56 · 8 answers · asked by Helena 1 in Diet & Fitness

Im scared of being a loner and being uglier than other people i hate. >.<

2006-09-03 08:28:45 · 36 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I am 48 years of age, and divorced, I have met a lovely lady that lives in France....I sold everything to live with her for 3 years, managed to find work for 16 months, for a very low wage, but hoped things would get better...however they didn,t..

So after many arguments I decided to leave and return to the UK, however I miss the lady in question...

The reason I can,t get on was my inability fo not learning the language...

So the question do I go back, do I get over it, and find another lady, or be a nobby no mates and live alone....my other problem is I love dark skin, and she was from Sri Lanka, and Had everything I wanted....Or am I expecting to much..

Please help, as been alone isn,t good either, but realise Frace isn,t goo for me either..............

2006-09-03 08:28:33 · 8 answers · asked by peter_bain2003 3 in Singles & Dating

1. Do you cry every day

2. Do you laugh every day

3. Do you come to yahoo answers everyday

4. Do you pray/meditate every day

5. Do you tell someone you love that you love them, every day

6. Did you tell jim darwin in an im, sean i love you, today?

7. Did you give today

8. Did you think today

9. Did you ask yourself who am I today

10. Who are you today

11. Who will you be tomorrow

12. What did you dream about last night

13. What will you dream about tomorrow.

14. Is today the greatest day of your entire life?

15. Is this, the greatest question, you've ever been asked?

16. Will you, put your heart into the answer?

17. Will you put your soul into the answer?

18. Will you leave a part of who you are, for the world to see, in your answer.

19. Will you teach me something new, in your answer.

20. Thank you, I love you.

2006-09-03 08:28:29 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I'm trying to download some tunes on to my ipod and would love to get some of the tunes that i used to listen to in high school (96-01) but i cant remember half of the groups i listened to.Does anyone know of a website or even some of the artists? I managed to remember Dru Hill, Damage, Blackstreet and Another Level. any suggestions?

2006-09-03 08:28:26 · 11 answers · asked by cutie pie 2 in Music

I was such a goofball last night. It was the alcohol. I'm not normally like that. HOW EMBARRASSING!

To all who think I have an alcohol problem: This is only the 2nd time in my life that I have ever been THAT snockered. I don't have an alcohol problem. But thanks for the concern of my last question. lol

BY THE WAY, GOOD MORNING EVERYONE!!

2006-09-03 08:28:19 · 12 answers · asked by ? 5 in Polls & Surveys

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