All categories - 28 February 2007

Anyone else think that commercial for Boniva osteoporosis med. with Sally Fields is the stupidest thing? The big selling point she makes is that her "friend" has to take the time every week to take her other brand of med. pill, but Boniva is a monthly dose...what a stretch here-is that the best point they can make about Boniva? Who in the world doesn't have 8 seconds a week to take a pill? As if commercials aren't bad enough, but really...gimme a break!

2007-02-28 03:28:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Television

If you know it is more than 4.000 deads, plus thausands of thausands of young soldiers in state of abandon with out medical care. I was watching a program and I got in tears looking handsome boys and girls no arms no legs or worse brain damage. I saw pain in their faces and in his families.

2007-02-28 03:28:18 · 11 answers · asked by maria r 1 in Law & Ethics

i really need 2 know

2007-02-28 03:28:17 · 14 answers · asked by . 2 in Trivia

2007-02-28 03:28:12 · 14 answers · asked by mumof3 3 in Other - Food & Drink

I have the Dish dvr. I had some shows on the dvr that I put onto a vhs tape so I could transfer that to dvd. Once I put the shows onto the vhs tape, I deleted the shows off the dvr. I accidentally hit the record button on the vhs and recorded over about 2 hrs on my tape. Is there some way I can get these back? Does dish have them stored in memory somewhere and they can recover them? Or am I just screwed? Thanks!

2007-02-28 03:28:10 · 5 answers · asked by blueroan2000 3 in TiVO & DVRs

Every night for the past week..there has been a guy sleeping in the sauna room at the gym I go to...he doesnt work out, and smells...he sleeps in the sauna from midnight to 5am when its supposed to be closed...

Other members have noticed as well....Should I tell management...or let them do their job on their own
?

2007-02-28 03:28:09 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Diet & Fitness

maths

2007-02-28 03:28:03 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

I'm getting ready to graduate college with a 4yr degree in Criminology. I'm also a SGT in the US Army reserves. When I was 17 I was diagnosed with depression, but with treatment I became better. Its been 5 years since I've had treatment and I've been okay until about 1.5 years ago my symptoms came back with a vengeance. Its been up and down ever since. I have been putting off seeing anyone for help because I am afraid it will stigmatize me and make me an undesirable applicant for jobs or for promotion when I admit I have received treatment. I can't just lie about it, my treatment would come out in my background checks and I would have to explain why I was taking certain meds. I know I need help. It’s getting difficult for me to do anything, let alone live my life. But if I get the help I need, will I be unable to get jobs with the federal government, state police, or other organizations because of my depression? Will I be unable to go overseas if my unit deploys? What should I do?

2007-02-28 03:28:01 · 9 answers · asked by Acadia 1 in Careers & Employment

My visa is expiring in June and right now I'm applying for the 3-year extension. I have to travel to London for work sometime in April/May - anyone know if I'm able to come back into the states once I leave and come back before it expires? I just want to make sure I don't jeopardise my chances of getting back into the US.

2007-02-28 03:27:59 · 4 answers · asked by Lady B 1 in Immigration

Feel like...
nothing came.....

2007-02-28 03:27:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Trying to Conceive

2007-02-28 03:27:58 · 14 answers · asked by Chris 6 in Other - Football

2007-02-28 03:27:58 · 6 answers · asked by Dozy 1 in Respiratory Diseases

NEWS online print edition
Print Article Email Article Most Popular Change Type Size Another chief of police slain along border
Chris Hawley and Yvonne Wingett
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 28, 2007 12:00 AM

MEXICO CITY - As drug wars raged along other parts of the U.S.-Mexican border, things had remained mostly quiet in the Sonoran town of Agua Prieta.

Not anymore.

On Monday, assassins gunned down Police Chief Ramón Tacho Verdugo, spraying more than 40 bullets at him in an ambush outside police headquarters in this town near Douglas. The motive is murky, but it almost certainly involved control of the smuggling routes into Arizona, Mexican and U.S. officials said Tuesday. advertisement




"Rival organizations are vying for control of these lucrative corridors," said Ramona Sanchez, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. "(Tacho's murder) is a reminder of how violent these criminal organizations are, and they will continue to use whatever means they need."

Tacho's death followed a number of drug-related killings in Agua Prieta and the Dec. 9 arrest of Carlos "Calichi" Molinares from nearby Naco on drug-smuggling charges in Tucson.

State and city police were on high alert and patrolling Agua Prieta for fear of further violence, said José Larrinaga, a spokesman for the Sonora attorney general. Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano was "very concerned" about the attack and asked federal and state law enforcement officials to meet with border sheriffs to exchange information about border violence, said Dennis Burke, her chief of staff.

With Tacho's death, Agua Prieta joins a growing list of Mexican cities where hit men have gunned down police chiefs. At least 12 have died in the past year, including top lawmen in the border cities of Tijuana and Nuevo Laredo.

The killings have many police thinking twice about taking the top post. The Sonoran town of Naco, for example, has had 12 police chiefs in the past three years. The last one to resign was Tacho's brother, Roberto Tacho Verdugo.


An Old-West lawman


With his cowboy hats and Western shirts, big belt buckles and wide mustache, Ramón Tacho looked the part of the Wild West sheriff. He had a talent for music and had even recorded an album of traditional Mexican music and corridos, romantic cowboy-style ballads. That style helped make him one of Agua Prieta's most high-profile officials, said Ray Borane, mayor of Douglas, which lies just across the border.

Tacho was head of Sonora's state detective force before becoming police chief in Naco, then in Cananea. He took over Agua Prieta's police force in September. Borane said Tacho was a good lawman and had made some important arrests.

But his flamboyant manner also fed rumors of ties to drug traffickers.

"Because of things people said about him - his way of dressing, acting and the way they executed him - it was said he was 'compromised,' " said Luis Arvayo, a reporter for El Imparcial newspaper who covers crime in Agua Prieta.


The attack


On Monday, Tacho was walking to his car with a group of aides at about 5 p.m. when a Jeep Grand Cherokee and a Jeep Liberty roared up to police headquarters. Gunmen inside opened fire with AR-15 assault rifles, firing more than 40 bullets at the police chief, said Larrinaga of the Sonora Attorney General's Office.

Tacho was hit in the chest, stomach and leg. Another bullet grazed a paramedic at the nearby Red Cross headquarters.

Police returned fire, and the two vehicles sped off. The Grand Cherokee was found abandoned a few streets away. Tacho underwent emergency surgery at Agua Prieta's Latino Hospital but died about 90 minutes after the attack, Larrinaga said.


Drug wars come home


It was the most brazen assassination in Agua Prieta since gunmen killed the regional commander of the Federal Preventive Police in July 2003. The Arizona border had been mostly quiet since then, even as pitched battles raged between drug lords in Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana and other border points.

Police commanders are frequent targets in those places. In June, gunmen killed Nuevo Laredo's police chief less than seven hours after he took the job. In November, an assistant police chief in Tijuana was found shot and dismembered near police headquarters.

The Arizona border is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. That cartel has struck an alliance with the neighboring Juarez cartel, leading to relative peace along Arizona's southeastern border.

But on Jan. 19, Tacho's officers arrested a Sinaloa man on charges of carrying out the execution-style slaying of two men in an Agua Prieta backyard on Jan. 3. And on Thursday, two drug-smuggling suspects were found dead, their faces slashed with a knife or razor.

Larrinaga said it was still too early to tell if Tacho's death was part of a broader drug war in the area. He said that murders statewide have declined in the past year.

"We can't consider this a red flag yet," Larrinaga said.

2007-02-28 03:27:56 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

Don't you wish you had so many loans like I do and a "lousy career"?

2007-02-28 03:27:51 · 13 answers · asked by tip zz 2 in Politics

2007-02-28 03:27:46 · 7 answers · asked by Lawrence W 1 in Celebrities

The policies of the Bush Administration has been to reduce (eventually eliminate) the tax burden on UNEARNED Income (dividends, capital gains, inheritances). This transfers the tax burden to those who work for a living.

Is this fair? If anything should be tax-exempt, shouldn't it be what people WORK for?

I live off an Investment Portfolio. Bush has reduced my taxes, but I think it isn't fair. And when my parents die, I will become a millionaire. The GOP would let me get it all tax free. But it's the working stiffs who would be stuck with paying to keep America going.

This is an elitist tax policy. Why do Rightists support it, and talk a lot of pseudo-populist nonsense?

2007-02-28 03:27:46 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Politics & Government

2007-02-28 03:27:40 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-02-28 03:27:35 · 4 answers · asked by KATHY A 2 in Military

2007-02-28 03:27:35 · 10 answers · asked by iLoveCats 1 in Women's Health

india have 25 states

2007-02-28 03:27:33 · 11 answers · asked by rajesh_sadiya 1 in Other - India

I would like to build my own easel, but cannot find the ratchet part. Can anyone recommend an online store?
Thanks!

2007-02-28 03:27:32 · 2 answers · asked by missa 1 in Painting

i really love him does he?

2007-02-28 03:27:31 · 4 answers · asked by Stephanie D 2 in Singles & Dating

2007-02-28 03:27:20 · 4 answers · asked by charityh2001 1 in Dogs

3 bananas + 100 ml milk + 30 grams chocolate = greatest shake

atleast better than regular milk and u get a complete diet from this

2007-02-28 03:27:19 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kartoffelsalat.jpg

It looks like tinned potatoes swimming in greasy spit.

I apologise for the silly question. Still laughing myself silly, but, apologies.

2007-02-28 03:27:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cooking & Recipes

2007-02-28 03:27:13 · 6 answers · asked by Sparky girl 3 in Polls & Surveys

isaac the future painter? the superman/flyboy? the girl who has a multi personalities / see the other her in the mirror? claire the unbreakable? hiro who can stop the time and change everything, he also can teleport! or ... ?

2007-02-28 03:27:10 · 8 answers · asked by cuti3 2 in Polls & Surveys

2007-02-28 03:27:06 · 13 answers · asked by crazyhayashi 2 in Religion & Spirituality

My 5.5 mo old son used to take his naps in the living room,either in his bouncer,on a pillow on top of the couch or play gym. I got him taking naps in his crib. I'm just wondering if he now socializes his crib for nap time instead of bedtime? Because I've been having problems with him waking up at night and him refusing to go back to sleep in his crib.

2007-02-28 03:27:03 · 15 answers · asked by KDB 3 in Newborn & Baby