All categories - 4 October 2006

Every on Elmo is back.

I doing today a little better than yesterday.


I hope you all doing good today

2006-10-04 08:21:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Friends

Should I work for Primerica

2006-10-04 08:21:19 · 5 answers · asked by John 1 in Personal Finance

Given the story of Exodus and the whole reason that Moses and God worked so hard to free the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt - how is it possible that God and Moses both forgot to put in a commandment that said "Thou Shalt Not Commit Slavery"? Doesn't that suggest that God did not write the 10 Commandments but, rather, that they were written by Men who thought Slavery was natural and normal? To the people of the time freeing all slaves would have been as crazy an idea as freeing all horses. It won't have occurred to them.

2006-10-04 08:21:19 · 9 answers · asked by Alan 7 in Religion & Spirituality

today my x was in my class and the guy i like got so mad my x started to bother him i hate my x and the guy i like was relly mad hes mad he did not to me my x starded talking to me im like noo my x is gowing to bug the heak out of me the guy i like was like i want him to go away im like i love u u know that it was so bad i was like about to cry the guy i like said be nice to your x im like noo im mad hes here and then we both went to the cumputer and just looked up stuff i was giving him hugs but that did not work i don't know what to do im sad my x is gowing to runinit for me and the boy that i like i need advice what can i do to make my guy happy what can i do

2006-10-04 08:21:17 · 17 answers · asked by melissa d 1 in Singles & Dating

The US government recently began siezing prescription drugs being shipped in from Canada and now they are backpedaling and allowing US citizens to import up to 90 days worth at a time. This is the best decision they have made in a while, even if they only made it because of public outcry. Is there anyone who thinks the drug companies should be allowed to make all their money from US citizens while charging Canadians and other countries much less?

2006-10-04 08:21:16 · 12 answers · asked by wwbrad90 3 in Law & Ethics

If you were a senior citizen going on a tour with a large group and the placew where you were going put on an entertainment piece before your departure, what would you like it to be?. magic show, short skit, etc. I am tring to think of new ways to entertain them, beside magice shows, and pajama races. any ideas?

2006-10-04 08:21:14 · 3 answers · asked by Maria 1 in Other - Entertainment

Don't get me wrong, I think it's pretty cool, but exactly why is this painting so interesting?

2006-10-04 08:21:04 · 14 answers · asked by ♥vegetarian♥ 4 in Painting

About 2 or 3 days after sex. I start cramping and then if we di it again it stops for about 2 or 3 more days. What is happening?

2006-10-04 08:21:04 · 4 answers · asked by for_runner0 2 in Other - Pregnancy & Parenting

2006-10-04 08:21:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Television

I know this question has been asked before many times but it is one of my favorites things.
Many of mine are from Clint Eastwood movies, Unforgiven: "deserves got nothing to do with it" , or "Any of you shoot, I'll come back here and kill all you sons a bitches" or "whose the guy that owns this sh*thole." But my favorite is " I was always lucky when came to killing folks."
Dirty Harry: "do you feel lucky, punk? well do ya?"
The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: Tuco says, "You are the son of a thousand men and they are all bastards, just like you."
I have many more but those are some that I remember well. We all know that movies are made up and those lines were written by writers but still they are memorable, none the less.

2006-10-04 08:20:58 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

Alright. Im 14 . I used to live in Tucson , Az . My parents moved to Baton Rouge , LA
I miss it in Arizona , my old next door nieghbors that are like family to me dont mind if i move in with them . I just dont know how to explain it to my parents. I have to go to private school because public school where I live is so horrible. They are overpaying her and I could be living in Az with my old nieghbors have a job at 14 and go to school . I just want to know what i should do. What is your opinion about this?My parents knew the next door neighbors. I miss them so much but i get sad because live in Baton Rouge is so bad . Arizona is better. All I have ever wanted is to grow up with friends and a good edu. I cant do that where i live .

2006-10-04 08:20:57 · 4 answers · asked by Brandon 1 in Other - Education

Just curious. I was 17 in my junior year in high school and had no idea that all of my money could go to bills and groceries and to a 2 year old. I never imagined that I would actually "grow up". That's what I was doing. What about you?

2006-10-04 08:20:54 · 8 answers · asked by brandiwhine 4 in Other - Society & Culture

Has anyone else ever experienced dizziness and feeling sick when they get out of a really hot bath?

2006-10-04 08:20:52 · 14 answers · asked by jojo 1 in Other - General Health Care

and/or solve: 3/x+3 =12x+19/x^2+7x+12 - 5/x+4

2006-10-04 08:20:42 · 5 answers · asked by honest abe 4 in Mathematics

And why do people say he was just a good person or a prophet? He claimed to be God, so he can't be a prophet. Please give me good answers as to why you say Christ did not exist or why he isn't God, because all I have seen are empty answers.

2006-10-04 08:20:40 · 17 answers · asked by Daniel K 2 in Religion & Spirituality

Other than deodorant.

2006-10-04 08:20:40 · 1 answers · asked by xXcheerXx 3 in Other - General Health Care

I read that even the front O2 sensors are under the car in a 96 ford taurus so i decided to go to a mechanic (especially since the car was smoking today). He said 2 cylinders out of 6 dont have enough compression and i need a new engine. Is it true theres no other way to repair the cylinders except by replacing/rebuilding the engine?

2006-10-04 08:20:36 · 10 answers · asked by goldenboyblue 3 in Maintenance & Repairs

2006-10-04 08:20:33 · 8 answers · asked by MIYANNA N 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-10-04 08:20:31 · 28 answers · asked by bob 1 in Television

2006-10-04 08:20:29 · 7 answers · asked by jimmy f 1 in Other - Dining Out

I've been dating a muslim guy for 4 years now, I'm a hindu girl. We are very much in love. His parents have known from day one about our relationship. They are OK w/ it. My parents have no idea. Any suggestions on how to break the news to them. Also it's kind of difficult because i'm very succesful and have been working for the past 2 years, and have been promoted twice. I make really good money. On the other hand my boyfriend has not finished college yet, he's struggling and lazy to do so....his family is very well educated and so is my family. I think this is going to be a second issue w/ telling them. That he has not completed his degree and doesn't have a great job. What should I do?

2006-10-04 08:20:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

punched when you werent looking real hard in the gut? when,by who and what happened?

2006-10-04 08:20:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Actually we went a bit further from kissing, we were kinda necking but we did not do anything besides that because we heard my wife's car pull up to the driveway and we acted all normal as she came in so she doesn't know!

2006-10-04 08:20:25 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Family & Relationships

1. and one time at band camp
2. are we having fun,yet
3. the name is Bond.....JAMES Bond
4. Good mooooooooorrrrrnniing Vietnam
5. call 911,call 911
6. who ARE those guys

2006-10-04 08:20:23 · 4 answers · asked by I am Sunshine 6 in Other - Society & Culture

Playstation 2 does not work any more :-(

It reads the disc - sort of, but before the title screen appears the game freezes and the console makes really funny clicking/mechanical sounds.

If it does manage to play a game, the cut scenes will freeze and the sound will start jumping and the PS2 will start making dodgy sounds again.

What could be wrong with it?

2006-10-04 08:20:23 · 4 answers · asked by HP 5 in Video & Online Games

Who do you think Meredith will pick on Grey's? Derek or Finn?

2006-10-04 08:20:21 · 5 answers · asked by Melissa 3 in Polls & Surveys

Feds to target Ariz. employers of undocumented workers

Dennis Wagner and Daniel Gonzalez
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 4, 2006 12:00 AM

Federal authorities in Arizona are expected to crack down soon on businesses that knowingly hire undocumented workers, joining a nationwide effort to bust employers most responsible for the job magnet that attracts illegal immigrants to the United States.

Russell "Pete" Ahr, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Phoenix, said the agency's worksite enforcement unit has been beefed up to pursue felony charges against those who willfully use unauthorized labor.

"It is active now," Ahr said of the unit. "It is conducting investigations. There are going to be visible results in the foreseeable future. ... We're not fining (companies) anymore. We're going after criminal indictments against the owners." advertisement




During raids, some illegal immigrants are likely to be arrested for deportation. But, Ahr emphasized, ICE agents will not conduct random sweeps to round up undocumented workers. They will use tips and intelligence to identify business operators who purposely violate the law.

Ahr declined to say what industries or types of businesses may be targeted.

The crackdown comes at a time when illegal immigration is a hot political issue, with grass-roots lobbying, election campaigns and congressional feuding over reform.

In December, the Republican-controlled House passed an enforcement-only measure that calls for more border security and mandatory verification of employment documents. A bipartisan Senate bill would enhance enforcement, but it also provides for the legalization of undocumented immigrants who are vital to some U.S. industries.

Congress adjourned last week without taking final action on either measure.

The workplace enforcement effort evolved gradually, with ICE agents in some jurisdictions cracking down on employers as early as 2004. The Department of Homeland Security publicly touted the program in April, when ICE agents arrested seven managers from a pallet-manufacturing company. During raids at company sites in 26 states, including Arizona, 1,187 workers were discovered with false documents.

Since then, the prosecution of employers has accelerated. As of August of fiscal 2006, agents had arrested 668 business owners or managers in the employment of undocumented workers, 525 more than in the seven prior years combined.

Although the increase seems dramatic, the total number of prosecutions remains fractional in an economy with an estimated 4.9 million private employers and 7.2 million undocumented workers. By some estimates, undocumented workers make up 5 percent of the nation's workforce.



Against that backdrop, critics say a smattering of criminal cases suggests political tokenism.

Steven Camarota, director of research at the Center for Immigration Studies, an immigration control organization in Washington, D.C., said President Bush is trying to placate conservative Republicans in hopes they'll accept an amnesty program.

Camarota added that, although he welcomes any enforcement increase, the prosecutions are merely an increase "from nothing to a little."


Do-nothing history


The ICE campaign comes after years of ignoring those who hire undocumented immigrants, largely due to politics.

In the 1990s, administrators at ICE's predecessor, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, tried to shut off the unauthorized labor force in several industries, only to be beaten down. In Nebraska, for example, raids on meatpacking plants, one of the state's key businesses, prompted such a backlash from community and congressional leaders that the INS gave up. The same happened in other states where key industries were targeted.

The pressure from industry, combined with advocacy from civil rights groups opposed to immigration sweeps, virtually eliminated interior enforcement programs.

Brazen violators occasionally were hit with civil sanctions, but ICE officials acknowledge the fines were so insignificant that employers shrugged them off as a cost of doing business.

Enforcement efforts against business owners are hampered by other factors:


• Convictions are difficult to obtain because investigators must prove an employer knowingly hired unauthorized workers.


• ICE agents have been preoccupied with national security. Since 9/11, their top priorities have been identifying potential terrorists and screening employees at airports and other key installations.

The result: In 2002, only 19 business operators nationwide were arrested for immigration violations.


Hot-button issue


If terrorism changed ICE's priorities, it also helped make immigration a hot-button political issue. Suddenly, the Bush administration was withering under criticism. Some complained about the lack of raids to find illegal workers. Others groused about the hypocrisy of targeting immigrants while doing nothing to business owners who profit from them.

Bush has long argued for a comprehensive reform measure that includes border security, interior enforcement and a legalized immigrant workforce.

Advocates on both sides say the ICE campaign was spawned by politics rather than a sincere effort to crack down on employers.

"These are strategies to appeal to a very conservative base," said Michele Waslin, director of immigration policy research for the National Council of La Raza.

Waslin said history has shown that enforcement won't deter illegal immigration because it fails to recognize the need for low-cost labor. Instead, she said, worksite raids spread fear.

Ahr, the ICE spokesman, said that his agency is reversing a long history of lax enforcement and that the job has to be done incrementally. Already, he said, more companies are signing up for a voluntary program that enables them to verify employee documents.

"As more of these criminal cases are made, with the publicity they get, we expect people to say, 'Golly, I might not be next on the chopping block, but I might be next,' " Ahr said. "(Illegal immigration) is driven by the magnet of illegal employment. It's all well and good to bolster the border. But, unless you diminish the magnet, that border effort won't work."

2006-10-04 08:20:18 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

i have tried everything all he does is scream no and start to cry. sometimes he will eat chicken noodle soup but thats it and only when its just me him and my 8 week old.

2006-10-04 08:20:15 · 24 answers · asked by Amanda A 1 in Toddler & Preschooler

2006-10-04 08:20:15 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys