All categories - 22 April 2007

I have a essay I have to write for an english project and I need some information on what percent of taxes go to public schools and colleges in the state. Could you also please include the URL of the site with the information on it so I could read it?

2007-04-22 07:00:27 · 14 answers · asked by gymnasticsispainful 2 in Civic Participation

what would you do if u wanted to be friend with someone with whom you don't even dare to talk?!?

2007-04-22 07:00:16 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

Recently I have been having problems sleeping. I either can't fall asleep at all, or when I do I just wake up a few hours later; and even when I get over 10 hours of sleep, in the morning, it feels like I got no sleep at all. Then the other day, I say the sleep number bed on tv and thought it looked perfect, but when I saw some ratings online, they weren't that good. So if anyone knows of a good mattress, PLEASE let me know about them!

2007-04-22 07:00:09 · 7 answers · asked by vipto 2 in Other - General Health Care

2007-04-22 07:00:03 · 38 answers · asked by Caribbean Belle 6 in Polls & Surveys

"“ For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind."

Also Isaiah 66:22--"For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith Jehovah, so shall your seed and your name remain." (ASV)

2 Peter 3:13--"But there are new heavens and a new earth that we are awaiting according to his promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell."
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How are the heavens made new?

2007-04-22 06:59:58 · 8 answers · asked by Micah 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-04-22 06:59:49 · 2 answers · asked by Lorenzo M 1 in Programming & Design

I've been doing a lot of researches lately. I'm surprise to find out that USA doesn't treat disabled peopel too well until not too long ago (mid 1900's).

Even today they still doesn't. Many disabled people I know struggles with their life because it's so difficult for them to get any amount of respect from anyone. In order to earn the same respect as everyone else, they have to work twice as hard.

Before that, they use to put disabled people in mental hospital and leave them in there for their whole life.

From my research, I cannot find any evidence of European treating their disabled people like that (beside Nazis time). In fact they have large amount of successful disabled people compare to USA.

When I was in Europe, despite of being deaf, I feel so much more relaxed and accepted. I feel like I can approach to anyone and they would take time to at least try get know to me instead of simply shut me out like as they does in USA. I've met a lot of deaf people from there and they

2007-04-22 06:59:39 · 6 answers · asked by Honor Among the Demons 4 in Other - Cultures & Groups

Does that make me an idiot or a good baseball fan for not jumping on a good team's bandwagon?

2007-04-22 06:59:37 · 14 answers · asked by KC Slim 5 in Baseball

http://teenwag.com/poll?n=1595

2007-04-22 06:59:33 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Men's Health

It is ironic that liberals want to blame conservatives and Republicans for the Virginia Tech disaster. Indeed, far from being a validation of liberal policies towards gun ownership, the fact is, the Virginia Tech catastrophe, is quite the opposite. What happened in Blacksburg, Va., on Monday proves that liberal policies have, once again, failed to protect the innocent.

The first evidence that liberal ideas either contributed to, or were the cause, of the VA Tech tragedy is that of the very words of the murderer, Cho Seung-Hui. A videotape and some writings he made before, and during the killing spree, which he sent to NBC, revealed his motivation. Among his reasons were his resentment of "rich kids," and their "Mercedes," their "golden necklaces," their "trust funds," their "debaucheries" and their "hedonistic" lifestyle.

This hatred of the "rich" is right out of the leftist and liberal Democratic Party philosophy of class warfare. It is they who are always demonizing the wealthy - claiming they want to starve the poor, or send the poor to war for oil so they can profit from it. Democrat leaders like Charlie Rangel, Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid, and Howard Dean, among others, routinely portray the wealthy as greedy and evil.

The second substantiation that liberal concepts caused the massacre was that the murderer, despite having a history of criminally insane behavior, was not incarcerated. Almost 18 months ago, a Virginia court order, dated December 13, 2005, stated the murderer "is mentally ill and in need of hospitalization, and presents an imminent threat to self and others as a result of mental illness..." He was taken by police to a psychiatric facility, Carilion St. Albans Behavioral Health Center, where the next day Dr. Roy Crouse, a psychiatrist found that he was "mentally ill," yet did "not present an imminent danger to himself/others" and did, "not require involuntary hospitalization." (This is contradicted by another form signed by a Judge Paul Barnett which states the murderer is a danger to himself, yet recommends outpatient treatment).

The killer was represented by an attorney at that time. This was a requirement established "civil libertarian" attorneys. Indeed the "danger to himself or others" sole criterion for involuntary hospitalization is the direct result of the "civil libertarian" philosophy of not placing mentally ill people in institutions. Indeed, "civil libertarians" are quite proud of the fact that they changed these laws. They rejoice that they caused millions of mentally ill people to roam the streets and make it difficult for them to be arrested. This was essentially codified by a 1975 Supreme Court ruling.

The third proof that liberalism was responsible for the Virginia Tech carnage was the leftwing policy that Va. Tech's campus was a "gun free zone." Guns were not permitted to be carried on campus. Consequently, the students were unable to defend themselves and kill the murderer.

Compare this to Pearl (Mississippi) High School, Vice Principal, Joel Myrick, who in October 1997, realized that a 16-year-old student was killing students. Myrick went to his vehicle got his gun and returned in time to stop the killer. Myrick, by doing this, was in violation of the Gun Free School Zones Act of 1990.

Ironically, eight months before the Virginia Tech student killer was able to walk out of psychiatric facility, in April 2005, another VT student was disciplined for carrying a gun on campus. A VT spokesman said, "We think we have the right to adhere to and enforce that policy because, in the end, we think it's a common-sense policy for the protection of students, staff and faculty as well as guests and visitors..."

An armed VT student or VT students might have prevented the slaughter just as Joel Myrick did at his Mississippi high school

Liberals need to be very careful if they want to use the Virginia Tech incident to validate their ideas because, if anything, it disproves them.

They also discredit themselves by claiming that nearly all studies disprove that guns are used in self-defense. This is patently false.

The May 1997 National Institute of Justice report titled, "Guns in America; National Survey on Private Ownership and Use of Firearms cited two studies that furnished significant - if divergent - numbers for defensive gun use.

The National Crime Victimization Survey data concluded that guns are used about 108,000 per year for self-defense. The National Survey of the Private Ownership of Firearms determined that people defended themselves with guns 2,500,000 times per year. Philip Cook, the director of Duke University's Public Policy Institute and a member of the apolitical National Consortium on Violence Research, states that the actual figure is somewhere in between these two.

Whatever the actual figure, the fact is that while there are about 10,000 gun homicides each year, there are more people who use guns to protect themselves. It is also worth noting that federal government data states that about 15 percent of murderers have a prior homicide conviction and that about 65 percent have a prior felony arrest.

2007-04-22 06:59:32 · 15 answers · asked by GREAT_AMERICAN 1 in Politics

for a few weeks lol

2007-04-22 06:59:26 · 23 answers · asked by brian b 2 in Polls & Surveys

is there a level 2 personal licence holders theory test for BIIAB licenced retail i can practice on?

2007-04-22 06:59:23 · 1 answers · asked by KELLY G 1 in Beer, Wine & Spirits

2007-04-22 06:59:11 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

question posed in You magazine today

2007-04-22 06:59:09 · 3 answers · asked by pam.mcnicholas 1 in Words & Wordplay

2007-04-22 06:59:07 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dogs

im an ex convict who needs to travel to alaska via automobile how do i do this with my background ex felon

2007-04-22 06:59:06 · 6 answers · asked by trace j 1 in Other - United States

Please if anybody can help me I need help!

My daughter is 18 years old. She has been seeing her boyfriend now for 2 years. She's a senior in high school and has two proms to attend this year. One is the weekend of May 18th and the next is the weekend of May 25.

Here is the problem... my daughter and I made a deal that if she attended her cousin's graduation party on May 25th the weekend of HER prom (her prom is on Friday 24th) her cousin's graduation from college is the next day the 25th. The deal was that if she attended her cousins college graduation party and skipped out on being with her friends for prom weekend that during her boyfriend's prom I would allow her to have her so called "prom weekend" with her boyfriend. That would be the weekend of the 18th.

Now...I recently found out that the weekend of the 18th my husband's family is throwing a birthday party for his father it's a good 4 hours away.

2007-04-22 06:58:55 · 19 answers · asked by pigs go oink 1 in Singles & Dating

My mother passed away a while ago,so i sometimes i cry about it or other things,then after i just have this somehow warm and eerie feeling inside me,so i get up to look around the room and nothing is there(my house is not haunted!)when i cry i always go into my bedroom and it is not haunted either!

2007-04-22 06:58:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

how do you find what n equals if...
10v^2=13v+3
i know that u have to get zero on both sides but then do u factor it and then what?

2007-04-22 06:58:51 · 9 answers · asked by Cassie B 2 in Mathematics

2007-04-22 06:58:51 · 14 answers · asked by abc 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Inbetween wolrld war I and world war II

2007-04-22 06:58:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in History

2007-04-22 06:58:47 · 5 answers · asked by Arefia A 1 in Cooking & Recipes

a puppy sleeping on the floor next to them??

i do! he looks so adorable!

2007-04-22 06:58:47 · 10 answers · asked by cute as a button!.♥ 6 in Polls & Surveys

A Survey - Thanks

2007-04-22 06:58:46 · 8 answers · asked by Lolitta 7 in Polls & Surveys

How does my friend go about obtaining legal citizenship in the U.S. both of his kids were born in the U.S. but he wants to become a citizen (drivers license ect.)

2007-04-22 06:58:24 · 4 answers · asked by josified 3 in Immigration

Mine is pretty simple.......

"If you harm someone, you're harming yourself in the process."

2007-04-22 06:57:48 · 24 answers · asked by T-Vol 5 in Polls & Surveys

2007-04-22 06:57:43 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Ethnic Cuisine

"The art is from the twentieth century."

I've got El arte es del siglo ....

but I'm having trouble with the twentieth part. Thanks!

2007-04-22 06:57:18 · 8 answers · asked by Psycho Dork 2 in Languages

The best thing about being a guy/girl is....

2007-04-22 06:57:17 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Im planning a ski trip for my family next january and was owndering if Vail was a good choice. If not what's better in colorado?

2007-04-22 06:57:17 · 5 answers · asked by Chyea 1 in Snowboarding