All categories - 16 June 2007

Both my parents were just brutally murdered in front of my eyes. Most people would be traumatized for life, but I just laughed.

Is there a problem with me?

2007-06-16 16:45:37 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

2007-06-16 16:45:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

My ex feels i should go with her since its our son and my current wife has no place going at all.My current wife feels i should go with her as shes my wife and my ex should go by herself at a different time not with me.Please don't say we all go together as my ex and current wife hate each other and would never go for that.I have joint custody with my ex.

2007-06-16 16:45:19 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Grade-Schooler

...cuddle or kiss?

2007-06-16 16:45:08 · 26 answers · asked by Sar 3 in Polls & Surveys

i would love one to wake up my sister,lol.

2007-06-16 16:45:03 · 6 answers · asked by ♥I_rock_you♥ 5 in Polls & Surveys

My husband is currently in the Army and i've always wanted to join but i have a 2 year old daughter from a previous relationship and we share joined custody and i want to know if i do join can he get full custody of my daughter because i really don't want him to get it i was wondering if i do join can my mom have joined custody while i'm gone for basic training????

2007-06-16 16:44:53 · 7 answers · asked by Armywife818 2 in Military

... supposed to still get my period, the doctor said i should and i am getting symptoms of it, but what if when i start taking the white pills it doesn't come, what do i do?

2007-06-16 16:44:52 · 7 answers · asked by samiiialexxxis 2 in Women's Health

Isn't Love what we feel in the moment?

Isn't a committment to love each other every moment and act of faith that we will feel love for each other every moment?

Although we can accumulate experiences and memories that may strengthen or weaken our love for one another, we can't store the love.

It is like a river of water, endlessly flowing before us. Even a dam has to allow some water through.

Isn't that true of Love as well? When we feel it, do we not long to give it away? And when we do not feel it, do we not long for it again?

To float in the river, to be moved by the river wherever it wishes?

Is this not Love?

2007-06-16 16:44:27 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

seriously during the summer last i had perfect vision.. now i am near sighted and i cant see anything beyone 20 ft.. i saw an optomatrist and he prescribed me glasses -1.25. is there something i can do to imprve my eyes, without surgery or anything like that. 15 years old and play quite a few sports

2007-06-16 16:44:11 · 11 answers · asked by Pelops 1 in Optical

That would be good feedback. I mean, it would really puff my ego up to find out exactly how many people I am pissing off.

2007-06-16 16:44:02 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

More often than not I have found myself knowing something was going to happen before it did and also knowing what other people are thinking.

2007-06-16 16:43:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mythology & Folklore

....music with the volume cranked all the way up, somewhere in the middle, or nice and mellow?

2007-06-16 16:42:49 · 42 answers · asked by Sar 3 in Polls & Surveys

Michael Cole keeps asking the same questions. "How does it fell to be chopped by Ric Flair?" and other stupid questions. We get the idea the moves hurt. Getting ran over by Batista knoicks you into next week. So whats the point of asking over and over?

2007-06-16 16:42:46 · 10 answers · asked by Cary F 4 in Wrestling

I kept thinking it's rather good if george lucas creates a sequel of the after Episode 6. If Episode 7 is release in the future, what is the perfect name for it?

2007-06-16 16:42:43 · 9 answers · asked by Shane A! 1 in Movies

I have a 2003 Honda Civic EX Cp with a manual transmission and my clutch has been squeaking for the pass month. It doesn't start until i've been driving for about 5 minutes. After that, whenever I depress the clutch it squeaks. I'm just wondering what I need done to it. I haven't have time to take it in to have it checked out.

2007-06-16 16:42:37 · 4 answers · asked by Michael T 1 in Honda

2007-06-16 16:42:36 · 3 answers · asked by Joey's Back 6 in Polls & Surveys

i use all
if i'm broke that week-dynamo
for the baby- melapower, or all baby

2007-06-16 16:42:33 · 41 answers · asked by Chads Wife 4 in Polls & Surveys

Why the state goes to war is not a mystery – at least the general reasons are not mysterious. War is an excuse for spending money on its friends. It can punish enemies that are not going with the program. It intimidates other states tempted to go their own way. It can pave the way for commercial interests linked to the state. The regime that makes and wins a war gets written up in the history books. So the reasons are the same now as in the ancient world: power, money, glory.
Why the bourgeoisie back war is another matter. It is self-evidently not in their interest. The government gains power at their expense. It spends their money and runs up debt that is paid out of taxes and inflation. It fosters the creation of permanent enemies abroad who then work to diminish our security at home. It leads to the violation of privacy and civil liberty.
War is incompatible with a government that leaves people alone to develop their lives in an atmosphere of freedom.
Nonetheless, war with moral themes – we are the good guys working for God and they are the bad guys doing the devil's work – tends to attract a massive amount of middle class support. People believe the lies, and, once exposed, they defend the right of the state to lie. People who are otherwise outraged by murder find themselves celebrating the same on a mass industrial scale. People who harbor no hatred toward foreigners find themselves attaching ghastly monikers to whole classes of foreign peoples. Regular middle class people, who otherwise struggle to eke out a flourishing life in this vale of tears, feel hatred well up within them and confuse it for honor, bravery, courage, and valor.
Why? Nationalism is one answer. To be at war is to feel at one with something much larger than oneself, to be a part of a grand historical project. They have absorbed the civic religion from childhood – Boston tea, cherry trees, log cabins, Chevrolet – but it mostly has no living presence in their minds until the state pushes the war button, and then all the nationalist emotions well up within them.
Nationalism is usually associated with attachment to a particular set of state managers that you think can somehow lead the country in a particular direction of which you approve. So the nationalism of the Iraq war was mostly a Republican Party phenomenon. All Democrats are suspected as being insufficiently loyal, of feeling sympathy for The Enemy, or defending such ideas as civil liberty at a time when the nation needs unity more than ever.
You could tell a Republican nationalist during this last war because the words peace and liberty were always said with a sneer, as if they didn't matter at all. Even the Constitution came in for a pounding from these people. Bush did all he could to consolidate decision-making power unto himself, and even strongly suggested that he was acting on God's orders as Commander in Chief, and his religious constitutionalist supporters went right along with it. They were willing to break as many eggs as necessary to make the war omelet. I've got an archive of a thousand hate mails to prove it.
But nationalism is not the only basis for bourgeois support for war. Long-time war correspondent Chris Hedges, in his great book War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning (First Anchor, 2003) argues that war operates as a kind of canvas on which every member of the middle and working class can paint his or her own picture. Whatever personal frustrations exist in your life, however powerless you feel, war works as a kind of narcotic. It provides a means for people to feel temporarily powerful and important, as if they are part of some big episode in history. War then becomes for people a kind of lurching attempt to taste immortality. War gives their lives meaning.
War is the devil's sacrament. It promises to bind us not with God but with the nation state. It grants not life but death. It provides not liberty but slavery. It lives not on truth but on lies, and these lies are themselves said to be worthy of defense. It exalts evil and puts down the good. It is promiscuous in encouraging an orgy of sin, not self-restraint and thought. It is irrational and bloody and vicious and appalling. And it claims to be the highest achievement of man.
It is worse than mass insanity. It is mass wallowing in evil.
And then it is over. People oddly forget what took place. The rose wilts and the thorns grow but people go on with their lives. War no longer inspires. War news becomes uninteresting. All those arguments with friends and family – what were they about anyway? All that killing and expense and death – let's just avert our eyes from it all. Maybe in a few years, once the war is out of the news forever and the country we smashed recovers some modicum of civilization, we can revisit the event and proclaim it glorious. But for now, let's just say it never happened.
That seems to be just about where people stand these days with the Iraq War. Iraq is a mess, hundreds of thousands are killed and maimed, billions of dollars are missing, the debt is astronomical, and the world seethes in hatred toward the conquering empire. And what does the warmongering middle class have to say for itself? Pretty much what you might expect: nothing.
People have long accused the great liberal tradition of a dogmatic attachment to peace. It would appear that this is precisely what is necessary in order to preserve the freedom necessary for all of us to find true meaning in our lives.
Do we reject war and all its works? We do reject them.
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Lew Rockwell
Mises.com

2007-06-16 16:42:16 · 6 answers · asked by MIkE ALEGRIA 1 in Other - Politics & Government

..what happens to it if you live in a 3rd world country like I do??

2007-06-16 16:42:16 · 9 answers · asked by just curious 5 in Polls & Surveys

2007-06-16 16:42:11 · 5 answers · asked by richi 1 in Words & Wordplay

im 15, i like guys at school and ive never hooked up, but i slept over at my friends house and we pashed like alot and she sat ontop of me,
i got up in the morning and i dont know...could i be a lesbian??

2007-06-16 16:42:08 · 37 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

the Red Hot Chili Peppers?? they are my absolute favorite♥. just wondering who else likes them.

Whats your favorite song by them?

2007-06-16 16:41:47 · 20 answers · asked by ♥beautiful 3 in Polls & Surveys

to your house that someone called and asked who died?

2007-06-16 16:41:28 · 7 answers · asked by ? 6 in Polls & Surveys

2007-06-16 16:41:16 · 31 answers · asked by bonnie 3 in Diet & Fitness

Personally I like blue-ish green color.

2007-06-16 16:41:14 · 66 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-06-16 16:41:11 · 38 answers · asked by Sar 3 in Polls & Surveys

All the different churches believe in different things. Is it because they can't agree on much?

2007-06-16 16:40:57 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Can an ordinary rose bush (shrub) be tied loosely to the fan and have it grow upwards? Or does it have to be climbing roses only? I'm not looking for anything hugely tall; just a little growth upwards would be nice.

2007-06-16 16:40:39 · 3 answers · asked by wnnagetdirrty82787 2 in Garden & Landscape

Denny Hamlin? Choose your best pick.

2007-06-16 16:40:36 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in NASCAR

Well, I just got an HD TV. For some reason, it's has over 150 channels

All our other TV's only have about 40 channels, we signed a contract for basic cable

Is this supposed to happen o.O???

I don't mind the extra channels :D, I'm just wondering why

2007-06-16 16:40:12 · 3 answers · asked by tea kettle 3 in Home Theater