All categories - 19 July 2007

water marks from sprinkler

2007-07-19 06:04:20 · 3 answers · asked by Willie L 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

2007-07-19 06:04:15 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Is the gender of a child formed out of a fertilized ovum or there are male and female fertilized ovums?

2007-07-19 06:04:07 · 7 answers · asked by Like 2 in Pregnancy

2007-07-19 06:03:54 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-07-19 06:03:52 · 27 answers · asked by Erica 5 in Vegetarian & Vegan

Not therapy hynotism. Other types.

2007-07-19 06:03:48 · 4 answers · asked by David M 1 in Psychology

2007-07-19 06:03:36 · 4 answers · asked by JAMES O 1 in Garden & Landscape

2007-07-19 06:03:31 · 13 answers · asked by xxx 4 in Polls & Surveys

First why do so many of you compare homosexuality with racism??? where in the bible does it ever speak of hating different races????

Man created racism not GOD. It's a slap in the face to black people IMO by comparring thier struggles in the USA with devaint sexual acts.. People of faith are trying to follow the Word of GOD, not by being holier than thou, but by condeming things GOD said are WRONG.

Sex out of marraige, adultery, homosexuality, beastiality a host of other sins are right in the Holy Bilbe that GOD says are
SINS...
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As a society do we have the right to throw out the window things in the Bible people do not like? if that's the case why have the Holy Bilbe? why have any churches

Does the Bible have any meaning when people pick it apart?
If society says the bible has messages of bigotry then are you saying GOD is a bigot?

2007-07-19 06:03:27 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

7)A power unit is there by the bank of the river of 900 mtr width. a cable is made from power unit to power a plant opposite to that of the river and 3000 mtr away from the power unit. The cost of the cable bellows water Rs5 / mtr and cost of cable on the bank is Rs 4/ mtr. Find the pt where the cable cut through the river.

2007-07-19 06:03:05 · 1 answers · asked by snazzy 2 in Mathematics

If a baby droped his head on the floor more than once or twice but now always though what will happen? The baby is in his 7 to 8 months old

2007-07-19 06:02:39 · 16 answers · asked by ren 1 in Newborn & Baby

Mr Bush stated that he will attack the terrorists wherever they are to be found...

well, as Pakistan is the number one terrorist harboring country in the world, why hasn't Bush and Cheney put a plan in place to attack them?

Or do we only attack nations that are weak and without nuclear weapons?

2007-07-19 06:02:38 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

whats with the level with horse and keyboard and switch thing what do i click?

2007-07-19 06:02:29 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Video & Online Games

breakfast 9am
1/3 cup oatmeal [100 calories
1 thin slice of melon [10calories]
8oz green tea [0 calories]
16oz water

it's 10am right now------

snack 11:30am,
1 apple
and 8oz green tea

workout 12pm
35mins on elliptical
1 mile jog
15mins on stationary bike
30situps
and 300crunches.

lunch, 3pm
2 sliced of whole wheat bread [80x2= 160 calories]
1TBSP of peanut butter [95 calories]
1 banana
1/2 cup low fat westsoy soy milk [35calories]

snack, 4:30pm
1 pear, 1 cup of spinach, 10baby carrots, 1 cup of romaine lettuce, 1 tomato, 1 celery stick

dinner 6pm
1/2 cup of soymilk [35calories]
3/4 corn bran cereal [90cals]
1/2 cheerios [50cals]
1TBS of nuts [40cals] 1TBSP sunflower kernels [40cals]

is this good/bad/tips and advise..what can i do better, or anything..give me input. thanks!!!<3

p.s. i'm 14, 5"3, 126lbs. trying to loose 16-20lbs sooon.

2007-07-19 06:02:18 · 11 answers · asked by ♥Doll 6 in Diet & Fitness

I love his work and really want a tattoo by him but I don't care anything about being chosen to be on Miami Ink. Anybody know? I went to his website and it just sent me to the Miami Ink App.

2007-07-19 06:02:09 · 7 answers · asked by moxigrl54 1 in Tattoos

2007-07-19 06:02:01 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Do you write to everyone who answers a question? Do you stay in touch over time?

2007-07-19 06:01:59 · 33 answers · asked by ♣Social Butterflygirl 4 in Polls & Surveys

explain if it is aggressive or not and will do good with small fish

2007-07-19 06:01:58 · 12 answers · asked by ekelly66 3 in Fish

some insects are known to be found on every coninent including Antartica, which boast a perpetually cold climate. However, all insects are cold blooded, which means they are incapable of producing their own body heat and therefore require external forms of heat (i.e. the sun) in order to sustain themselves. Same story with some reptiles. That being said, how is it that some insects, including roaches, are able to live in Antartica and other cold climates which lack the heat they require to survive? Where do they obtain heat?

2007-07-19 06:01:58 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Society & Culture

(Junior High and High School students.)

2007-07-19 06:01:58 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Parenting

catholic school vs. public schools?

2007-07-19 06:01:57 · 6 answers · asked by Sam M 1 in Teaching

why is my diplay colours settings not changing? It stays in 16 even when i restat my computer. When i startup the window logo is in colour (not the best colour though) but when it reaches the desktop it's all grey. Why? and what can i do to change it?

2007-07-19 06:01:56 · 4 answers · asked by Kim Y 1 in Monitors

do you know of any good/free chat rooms

2007-07-19 06:01:40 · 6 answers · asked by Chaos 3 in Polls & Surveys

Help, a friend of mine is at her wits end. Her daughter is 16 months old and just gets mad when her mother gets near her. She only wants to be near her daddy. When the child wakes up in the morning and her mom goes in to say goodmorning, the baby gets mad and cries or fusses. She also throws temper tantrums when mommy tries to do things for her.
Both parents work full time and the child's aunt is the babysitter. My friend is so sad and is trying to cope. She thinks the child doesn't like her. Please help :)

Thank you

2007-07-19 06:01:38 · 9 answers · asked by Who Loves Ya Babe 4 in Toddler & Preschooler

Similar to Yahoo!Answers, but primarily for people with questions relating to Christianity?

2007-07-19 06:01:24 · 17 answers · asked by Searcher 7 in Religion & Spirituality

My oldest will be four on Sept 3. The baby will be one on August 18. Do yu think this is a good idea or will the oldest have a problem.

2007-07-19 06:01:22 · 20 answers · asked by leilajayde06 2 in Toddler & Preschooler

2007-07-19 06:01:21 · 4 answers · asked by Sarah D 2 in Insurance & Registration

Were American Indians Really Environmentalists?
By Thomas E. Woods
Posted on 7/19/2007
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The traditional story is familiar to American schoolchildren: the American Indians possessed a profound spiritual kinship with nature, and were unusually solicitous of environmental welfare.

According to a popular book published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1991, "Pre-Columbian America was still the First Eden, a pristine natural kingdom. The native people were transparent in the landscape, living as natural elements of the ecosphere. Their world, the New World of Columbus, was a world of barely perceptible human disturbance."

If we are to avert environmental catastrophe, the not-so-subtle lesson goes, we need to recapture this lost Indian wisdom.

As usual, the real story is more complicated, less cartoonish, and a lot more interesting.

In his 1992 book Earth in the Balance, then-Senator Al Gore cited a nineteenth-century speech from Chief Seattle, patriarch of the Duwamish and Suquamish Indians of Puget Sound, as evidence of the Indians' concern for nature. This speech, which speaks of absolutely everything in the natural world, including every last insect and pine needle, as being sacred to Seattle and his people, has been made to bear an unusually heavy share of the burden in depicting the American Indians as the first environmentalists.

The trouble for Gore is that the version of the speech he cites is a fabrication, drawn up in the early 1970s by screenwriter Ted Perry. (Perry, to his credit, has tried without success to let people know that he made up the speech.) Still, it was influential enough to become the basis for Brother Eagle, Sister Sky, a children's book that reached number five on the New York Times bestseller list in 1992.

Earlier versions of the speech, also cited by environmentalists, are suspect for reasons of their own. But experts say that the intention of Chief Seattle is clear enough, and that it wasn't to say that every created thing, sentient and non-sentient, was "holy" to his people, or that all land everywhere had an equal claim upon their affection. "Seattle's speech was made as part of an argument for the right of the Suquamish and Duamish peoples to continue to visit their traditional burial grounds following the sale of that land to white settlers," explains Muhlenburg College's William Abruzzi. "This specific land was sacred to Seattle and his people because his ancestors were buried there, not because land as an abstract concept was sacred to all Indians." Writing in the American Indian Quarterly, Denise Low likewise explains that "the lavish descriptions of nature are secondary" to the purpose of Chief Seattle's argument, and that he was saying only that "land is sacred because of religious ties to ancestors."

Environmentalists who have cultivated the myth of the environmental Indian who left his surroundings in exquisitely pristine condition out of a deeply spiritual devotion to the natural world have done so not out of any particular interest in American Indians, the variations between them, or their real record of interaction with the environment. Instead, the intent is to showcase the environmentalist Indian for propaganda purposes and to use him as a foil against industrial society.

The Indians' real record on the environment was actually mixed, and I give the details in my new book, 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask. Among other things, they engaged in slash-and-burn agriculture, destroyed forests and grasslands, and wiped out entire animal populations (on the assumption that animals felled in a hunt would be reanimated in even larger numbers).

On the other hand, the Indians often succeeded in being good stewards of the environment — but not in the way people generally suppose.

Although we often hear that the Indians knew nothing of private property, their actual views of property varied across time, place, and tribe. When land and game were plentiful, it is not surprising that people exerted little effort in defining and enforcing property rights. But as those things became more scarce, Indians appreciated the value of assigning property rights in (for example) hunting and fishing.

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"The real story is more complicated, less cartoonish, and a lot more interesting."

In other words, the American Indians were human beings who responded to the incentives they faced, not cardboard cutouts to be exploited on behalf of environmentalism or any other political program.

In some tribes, family- and clan-based groups were assigned exclusive areas for hunting, which meant they had a vested interest in not overhunting, and in making sure enough animals remained to reproduce for future years. They likewise had an incentive not to allow people from other families and clans to hunt on their land. In the Pacific Northwest, Indians assigned exclusive fishing rights that yielded a similar kind of stewardship: instead of catching all the salmon, some were left behind with an eye to the future. Whites who later established control over salmon resources unfortunately neglected this important Indian lesson.

Indians have not always recalled that lesson themselves. Consider the Arapahos and Shoshones on Wyoming's Wind River Reservation, who in recent years (and with the help of all-terrain vehicles and high-powered rifles) have all but wiped out entire animal populations. Whatever happened to their spiritual kinship with nature?

In fact, this is the predictable result when wildlife is said to belong to everyone. There is no incentive to preserve any stocks for the future, since anything you might leave behind will simply be killed by someone else. Without property rights in hunting, there is no way (and no incentive) for anyone to prevent such short-term, predatory behavior. That's why Indian tribes assigned these exclusive rights — it was the best way to preserve animal species and provide for the future.

Say, doesn't this lost Indian wisdom bear repeating?


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Thomas E. Woods, Jr., is a resident scholar at the Mises Institute. He is the author of 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask. His other recent books include The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (a New York Times bestseller) and How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. Send him mail. See his archive. Visit his website. Comment on the blog

2007-07-19 06:01:11 · 8 answers · asked by MIkE ALEGRIA 1 in Other - Environment

2007-07-19 06:01:11 · 61 answers · asked by Banshee 7 in Polls & Surveys