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he has claimed to have not had any involvement with?

Example: not allowing former White House Political Director Sara Taylor and former White House Council Harriet Meyers to testify on matters that Bush has claimed to not be involved with.

It comes off as he is either lying about his involvement or he is obstructing justice or both.

2007-07-11 06:40:38 · 6 answers · asked by Its Hero Dictatorship 5 in Law & Ethics

Jewel, is a little over a year, she has her own room (a converted closet in our bedroom with a twin size bed and pet gate for a door). She roams the house when we are home and sleeps with us at night. When we leave she is kept in her room. The problem is that she is tearing up her room, first it was the gate, she either chewed or scratched the top. Next it was the walls, she has scratched through the wallboard and gotten into the insulation. Then it moved to the door (which we never close) she either chewed or scratched the wood so much that the door is nearly ruined. At that point we figured she may need to have more space, so we gave her access to the bedroom while we were gone, she proceeded to scratch up the wood floors under the door and scratch at the trim. She went back into her room and is now tearing apart her bed. She has plenty of chew toys and bones and is doing well in obedience training. How can we keep her from tearing stuff up while we are not home?

2007-07-11 06:40:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dogs

Spam is a very cultural thing in case you're wondering. Look at Monty python.

2007-07-11 06:40:30 · 4 answers · asked by : 6 in Other - Society & Culture

and where you want to go?

IT'S A FREAKIN SURVEY!!!

I didn't get to read the answers and it got deleted. :(
You can answer again here.

2007-07-11 06:40:19 · 8 answers · asked by ♥Derryboona♥ 2 in Polls & Surveys

objective to people and argue and stuff but in this life if you dont speak up and take riasks you can be seen as too nice and easy going.And people take advantage of such people!I do prefer to get along with everyone but sometimes you have to get certain things off your chest, you just have to.How do I learn how to do this more often?

2007-07-11 06:40:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

All I have to say, the Boycott is working ....what say you?

2007-07-11 06:40:14 · 9 answers · asked by Dick Richards 3 in Current Events

I routinely see questions asking for proof of God. So I found some logical proof. But to my surprise, every time I use it, I get at least one thumbs down. WHY?

- Proving the Existence of God -

THE BEGINNING

If we do indeed exist, there can be only two possible explanations for such a phenomenon. Either we had a beginning or we did not. The Bible says, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1). The atheist has always maintained that there was no beginning. The idea is that matter has always existed in the form of either matter or energy; and all that has happened is that matter has been changed from form to form, but it has always been. The Humanist Manifesto says, "Matter is self-existing and not created," and that is a concise statement of atheistic belief.

In order to decide whether the theist or atheist is correct we must ask after science to discover what it says regarding this question. In the local 'brane' of the cosmos are a number of galaxies like our own Milky Way. These galaxies are accelerating away from each other with every passing moment. We live in an expanding universe that gets bigger and bigger with every passing day. Now if we suppose that time can run backwards, we could see that all galaxies must come together at a beginning, at a point of universal expansion which scientists call a singularity. This puts the lie to the idea of an eternal universe. It had a beginning.

A second proof is seen in the energy sources that fuel the cosmos. Like all stars, the sun generates its energy by a process known as thermonuclear fusion. In every second, the sun compresses 564 million tons of hydrogen, fusing its components into 560 million tons of helium with 4 million tons of matter released as energy. In spite of that tremendous consumption of fuel, the sun has only used up 2% of the hydrogen it had on the day it was born. This incredible furnace is not unique. Indeed, this process takes place in every single star in the universe, as well as some gas giant planets such as Jupiter in our own solar system.

Now for a simple logical question: Throughout the cosmos there are 25 quintillion stars, each converting hydrogen into helium, thus reducing the total amount of hydrogen existing in the cosmos. Now if everywhere in the cosmos, hydrogen is being consumed, and if that process has been going on 'forever', how much hydrogen should be left? Obviously, the universe should have run out of hydrogen long ago. The fact is, however, that our sun has 98% of its original hydrogen still available.

Hydrogen is the most abundant material in the universe. Everywhere we look in space we can see the hydrogen 21 cm line in the spectrum - a frequency of light only given off by hydrogen. This would not be possible unless we indeed had a beginning.

A third scientific proof that the atheist is wrong is seen in the second law of thermodynamics. In any closed system, things tend to become disordered. If an automobile is never repaired, for example, it will become so disordered that it will eventually cease to run.

Getting 'old' is simple conformity to the second law of thermodynamics. In space, things also get old. Astronomers refer to this aging process as 'heat death'. If the cosmos is "everything that ever was or is or ever will be," as Dr. Carl Sagan was so fond of saying, then nothing can be added to it to improve its order, or to repair it. Even a 'bouncing' universe that expanded and collapsed forever would eventually die because it would lose light and heat with each expansion and rebound.

The atheist's assertion that matter/energy is eternal is scientifically impossible. The biblical assertion that there was indeed a beginning is in complete agreement with scientific principals.

THE CAUSE

If we know that creation has a beginning, we are faced with another logical question - was creation caused or was it not caused? The Bible states, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." Not only does the Bible maintain that there was a cause - a creation - but it also tells us what the cause was. It was God. The atheist tells us that "matter is self-existing and not created." If matter had a beginning and yet was uncaused, one must logically maintain that something would have had to come into existence out of nothing. From empty space with no force, no matter, no energy, and no intelligence, matter would have to become existent. Even if this could happen by some strange new process unknown to science today, there is a logical problem: In order to say that matter can come from nothing, we would need to invalidate all scientific laws dealing with the conservation of matter/energy, including those of chemistry. Aand conservation of angular momentum would have to be wrong, invalidating all of physics. All of our laws of conservation of electric charge would have to be wrong, invalidating all of electronics. In order to believe matter is uncaused, one has to discard most if not all known laws and principles of science. No reasonable person is going to do this simply to maintain a personal atheistic position.

The atheist's assertion that matter is eternal is wrong. The atheist's assertion that the universe is uncaused and self-existing is also incorrect. The Bible's assertion that there was a beginning which had a cause is supported strongly by the available scientific evidence.

THE DESIGN

If we know that creation had a beginning, and that the beginning had a cause, there is one last question for us to answer - what was this cause? The Bible tells us that God was the cause. We are further told that this God did the causing with planning, reason and logic. Romans 1:20 tells us that we can know who God is "through the things he has made."

The atheist, on the other hand, will try to convince us that we are the product of Chance. Julian Huxley once said: "We are as much a product of blind forces as is the falling of a stone to earth or the ebb and flow of the tides. We have just happened, and man was made flesh by a long series of singularly beneficial accidents."

The subject of design has been one that has been explored in many different ways. For most of us, simply looking at our newborn child is enough to rule out chance. Modern-day scientists like Paul Davies and Frederick Hoyle and others are raising elaborate objections to the use of chance in explaining natural phenomena. A principle of modern science has emerged in the 1980s called "the anthropic principle." The basic thrust of the anthropic principle is that chance is simply not a valid mechanism to explain the atom or life. If chance is not valid, we are constrained to reject Huxley's claim and to realize that we are indeed the product of an intelligent God.

2007-07-11 06:40:12 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

We can at will using our minds select any portion (freq/wavelength) of the spectrum wouldn't that be cool? What would you see or like to see, hmm?

2007-07-11 06:40:09 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Science

of the perfect body? (obviously woman describe men and vice versa)

2007-07-11 06:40:04 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

It wont make up for all his failures but his legacy would improve.

2007-07-11 06:39:59 · 40 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I need to know of any and all Nightclubs in Vegas that is 18 and older... I know of one, but I know there are a few more, they are just hard to find online cause of all the other nightclubs...

2007-07-11 06:39:58 · 3 answers · asked by Kate 1 in Las Vegas

So lets say you have close to 500,000 small files (2-4Kb image thumbnails) on a server. You have a website that will display 200 or so thumbnails on one page and approximately 10,000 views of these pages on any given day. So if you can do the math you likely have several people at any one moment trying to load 200+ thumbnails.

Would moving these thumbnails to a usb memory key offer a speed increase? Seek times on these flash memory sticks are incredibly fast compared to SATA drives but then you're confined by the USB bus speed.

Opinions and experiences?

2007-07-11 06:39:42 · 3 answers · asked by ibuyoptions 1 in Other - Hardware

ind values for mand b in the following system so that the solution to the system is (-3,4)
5x+7y=b
Mx+y-22

2007-07-11 06:39:39 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Mathematics

I have a comet goldfish and it died this morning and i want to know why. All the other fish in the fish tank are fine and that one died. The water is clear the food that I give the fish is for goldfish. when i went to the store where i got my fish from he said that the filter doesnt have to blow bubbles but i want to know ur opinion.

2007-07-11 06:39:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Fish

2007-07-11 06:39:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I've decided I am no longer doing OPK's...trying to do things a bit more naturally. What a bad month to decide this because I am so confused.

I still track CM. AF ended CD 6. ON CD 9 (only just before bed) I had a small amount of dry sticky CM. The afternoon of CD 10 I had a TON TON TON of EWCM (I guess I skipped the lotiony stage?), then by today, CD 11, I have almost no CM left...it is still a bit moist by my cervix but that's it.

So it sounds like I had 4 stages of CM in a matter of 60 hours...and started my cycle early (I normall don't ovulate until Cd 12 or 13). Do you think that I ovulated or was this some sort of fluke?

Why would I O so early and why in the world would it all go so quickly? I mean, I barely had enought time to notice I had EWCM before I was dry(ing) again?!?!

Is this somethingt o be concerned about or could it just be a normal (abnormal) cycle? We did the BD both days just to be sure (CD 9 & 10), so I guess I will wait and see.

2007-07-11 06:39:25 · 2 answers · asked by Jax 4 in Trying to Conceive

After all, it is only christians who preach from the bible, and so many of them contradict each other is it any wonder there is confusion?

Who needs Satan when you have several million christians arguing with each other over what this means and what that means?

2007-07-11 06:39:16 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I had a great idea for a movie to film with the youth group at my church, however, only a few peopleshowed up for it, and now they want to change my movie. How can I get enough people to commit and film before the summer's over?

2007-07-11 06:39:03 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

2007-07-11 06:39:02 · 14 answers · asked by tillbaka i tiden 4 in Polls & Surveys

I always feel awkward dealing w/ death and don't know how to behave or know what to say/ or not say. I get on edge, but I really want to help, b/c she loved her son so passionately that it breaks my heart to see her have to go through this pain. Any help or ideas are welcome

2007-07-11 06:39:00 · 18 answers · asked by cocoa9901 1 in Mental Health

or in other words, how do you picture yourself in ten years ..

2007-07-11 06:38:58 · 21 answers · asked by Ipek K 7 in Turkey

A friend won't give me the Bill of Sale to the car I'm buying from her until I present her with one.

2007-07-11 06:38:51 · 1 answers · asked by Anglcake 5 in Law & Ethics

2007-07-11 06:38:44 · 4 answers · asked by Cheif 1 in Reptiles

mustache, beard etc????

2007-07-11 06:38:43 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

There have been a couple of posts on YA claiming that the BNP represents white British Christians. Is this really so, or does the statement by the council of churches in 2005 still stand (in which they encouraged Christians not to vote for the BNP)?
By the way, I'm an atheist, British and non BNP voter. I will not report as long as you don't call names.

2007-07-11 06:38:42 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-11 06:38:38 · 2 answers · asked by Gina Marie :] 1 in Movies

A friend won't give me the Bill of Sale to the car I'm buying from her until I present her with one.

2007-07-11 06:38:33 · 2 answers · asked by Anglcake 5 in Law & Ethics

just kidding so no serious answers please

2007-07-11 06:38:28 · 19 answers · asked by . 3 in Religion & Spirituality

Is sunday not the first day of the week and is it not a pagan holy day for those who pray to the sun god? "...the man of sin will change the law and the times..." Is this action not consistent with this biblical verse?

2007-07-11 06:38:28 · 10 answers · asked by Luyanda M 1 in Religion & Spirituality