All categories - 2 August 2007

When none such event ever happened? I'm sick and tired of this awful myth. One news person in the US hinted that the 9/11 terrorists came through Canada... and then publicly admitted he was wrong. But I guess perception is reality right? You speak of the "threat" coming from here...when you have absolutley no justification for making suck claims. It's based on dishonest men speaking lies becuase they can't handle the responsibility for the greatest security fiasco in US history. Stop blaming us for your mistakes, and take responsiblilty yourselves.

2007-08-02 12:08:16 · 9 answers · asked by MattH 6 in Politics

2007-08-02 12:08:06 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce

it was only taken for a short while...(10mg. for one month or so).....it had adverse affects! now CYMBALTA is being taken....w/o backing down gradually is that common practice....can't seem to get any straight answers from this (NEW) Doctor (not one of my FAVES).....ya know insurance and new to an area!!! anyway FEEL AWESOME....I'm just listening to all the HORRER stories.....that say NEVER just stop any medication!!!!so now I'm so curious!!! help anyone please any info would help/or site...thanx L

2007-08-02 12:08:03 · 4 answers · asked by LUCY 2 in Mental Health

if there are places on earth that no country owns how would a country claim such a area for its own and could a individual claim such teritories as his or her own and how would it be done

2007-08-02 12:08:01 · 5 answers · asked by whisper 1 in Law & Ethics

i mean i have it and its not green or anything so why is it called that?

2007-08-02 12:07:53 · 7 answers · asked by catfight_007 1 in Immigration

I am really interested in making my own fonts so that I can personalize my typed paperwork.

Does doing so require any specific programs? And if so, are they something that I can download off the internet in which i can create fonts?

Any information that you have on creating your own fonts would be great.

Thanks in advance.

2007-08-02 12:07:41 · 2 answers · asked by Christina 2 in Programming & Design

Hillary vs. Rudy on health care, is Hillary crazy

Today’s health-care debate previews the fall 2008 election, if today’s presidential frontrunners win their respective party nominations. Senator Hillary Clinton (D., N.Y.) and former mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani (R., N.Y.) are promoting reforms that contrast like midnight and high noon.
As Clinton cheers, Congress moves to reauthorize the State Child Health Insurance Program. Launched modestly in 1997, SCHIP was targeted at kids whose families were too prosperous for Medicaid, but too poor for private coverage. Like nearly every federal scheme, SCHIP is metastasizing. Clinton, her Democratic comrades, and some weak-kneed Republican appeasers are widening SCHIP into a self-contradictory contraption, complete with a tax hike and a fiscal blunderbuss.

“It is one of our most important national priorities to cover all Americans, and that should start now with all of our children,” Clinton said July 16. Of course, it depends on what the meaning of the word “children” is. Washington already lets 14 states cover 670,000 “boys” and “girls,” up to age 25, some of whom have been drinking legally for four years and voting for seven. Ninety-two percent of Minnesota’s SCHIP budget insures adults.

Clinton’s proposal, like the House Democrats’ bill, would cover children in families up to 400 percent of the Federal Poverty Line (FPL), double today’s target. Thus, a family of four making $82,600 could receive federal-government medicine. Meanwhile — the Heritage Foundation’s Rea Hederman estimates — 70,000 “American families are both poor and high-income — simultaneously.” They qualify for SCHIP and the Alternative Minimum Tax.

Madder still, 77 percent of children between double and triple FPL and 89 percent between 300 and 400 percent of FPL already have private health insurance, notes Cato Institute scholar Michael Cannon. Nonetheless, the Democratic House Wednesday night approved $47 billion for SCHIP through 2012, 88 percent above its current $25 billion, five-year budget.

Senate Democrats would fund this extravaganza via a 156 percent cigarette-tax hike — from 39 cents to $1 per pack. Heritage forecasts that 22 million new smokers would have to light up by 2017 to keep SCHIP afloat. So, SCHIP promises to improve children’s health while exploiting adult tobacco addiction. And if those smokers never materialize, future Congresses simply will invoice smoke-free taxpayers.

“The Left is pretty blatant about this being their vehicle to move to universal coverage,” one health-policy expert told me. “Make kids think you get health insurance from the government, and in less than a generation, you’re there.”

While Democrats and some lily-livered Republicans ceaselessly invoke “the children” to impose government medicine, Giuliani does the reverse. His just-unveiled health plan rejects public entitlements and tax hikes and embraces private property and tax incentives to extend health coverage overall — beyond just kids.

“America’s health-care system is being dragged down by decades of government-imposed mandates and wasteful, unaccountable bureaucracy,” Giuliani told New Hampshire voters Tuesday. “To reform, we must empower all Americans by increasing health-care choices and affordability, while bringing accountability to the system.”

Giuliani specifically would grant uninsured families $15,000 tax exemptions, and singles $7,500, to help them buy private coverage that they, not their bosses, would own, control, and transport throughout their careers — much like car, home, and life insurance. Funds remaining after insurance purchases could be deposited tax-free into Health Savings Accounts for routine medical expenses.

He also would let Americans acquire health plans across state lines, as they now do with non-medical insurance. For instance, unmarried New Yorkers, who now must buy such unneeded mandatory benefits as in-vitro fertilization, would be free to secure no-frills plans from insurers in, say, mandate-light Ohio.

Giuliani also would curb malpractice costs by capping lawsuit damages and requiring frivolous plaintiffs to cover victorious doctors’ legal bills.

“If a person gets injured, he should be compensated, but he shouldn’t get the brass ring or win the lottery,” Giuliani explained.

Unlike President Bush, whose happy talk fuels Leftist disdain, Giuliani describes Democrats’ ideas with bracing candor. He calls their health proposals “heavily influenced by Marxism.”

“We’ve got to solve our health-care problems with American principles, not the principles of socialism,” Giuliani says. “I know Democrats will say this is unfair, I know they’ll squeal…But I am a realist. I face reality, which is: If you take more people and have government cover them, it’s called socialized medicine.”

2007-08-02 12:07:41 · 5 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

2007-08-02 12:07:41 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

2007-08-02 12:07:36 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Jokes & Riddles

ok, well this is embarrassing...So, about a few weeks ago, i went to my mom's hometown where i have some cousins and a few uncles. Well, I have an uncle there(he's only a few years older than me) and we pick on each other. It's sort of like we play pranks on each other and we never say anything nice to each other or anything. Anyway, after a while I don't know why, but I started to feel like I liked him even though there's part of me that doesn't like him and knows that what I;m doing is wrong. I tried to convince myself that I didn't like him, but when I heard he had a crush on this girl, I got sort of jealous. Don't get me wrong, I KNOW that there could never be anything between us but any ideas how to get this out of my head?

2007-08-02 12:07:33 · 12 answers · asked by pepperland 4 in Other - Family & Relationships

2007-08-02 12:07:30 · 21 answers · asked by al 2 in Marriage & Divorce

my husband and i were married for 23 years. we've came to a point where we had to break up because of his lies. he is a work aholic and a cumpulsive lier. he has been a good husband and been a good man, but he always loved his work and he lies to get what he wants. he is so good at telling lies that i always believed him, and after a while i always knew the truth and it hurts coz i never lied to him. some of his lies were stupid and nonsense. and he says that he left us because of work. he was braught up lying because of his father. he still says that he loves us but can he ever change? is it that difficult to change? i dont think i can trust him anymore. does he need therapy?

2007-08-02 12:07:22 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce

my copy of windows xp, i do not have a floppy disk drive. thanks

2007-08-02 12:07:08 · 7 answers · asked by dodgybloke572000 1 in Desktops

I know very little about dogs. Is this a full German Shepherd or is she mixed with something else? She is about 2 and 1/2 months and so cute. Here is the link. Thanks.

http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/1004/1000082yk6.jpg

2007-08-02 12:06:45 · 14 answers · asked by justmeeh 2 in Dogs

Make you feel like a melted ,Ice Cream,or a Fried Egg for me it is melted ice cream,and then fried egg be nice have fun

2007-08-02 12:06:38 · 16 answers · asked by marsh 7 in Polls & Surveys

It was fun a first, but now, its just old. I've been massaging the area to get the blood flowing, but what else can I do...if I can do anything else that is.

2007-08-02 12:06:34 · 6 answers · asked by Ana Makes Art. 3 in Dental

A teacher asks her class, "If there are five birds sitting on a fence and you shoot one of them, how many will be left?" She calls on little Johnny.

"None, they all fly away with the first gunshot."

The teacher replies, "The correct answer is four, but I like your thinking." Then Little Johnny says, "I have a question for YOU. There are three women sitting on a bench having ice cream. One is delicately licking the sides of the triple scoop of ice cream. The second is gobbling down the top and sucking the cone. The third is biting off the top of the ice cream. Which one is married?"

The teacher, blushing a great deal, replies, "Well I suppose the one that's gobbled down the top and sucked the cone."

"The correct answer is the one with the wedding ring on... but I like your thinking."

2007-08-02 12:06:31 · 3 answers · asked by Lisa O 2 in Jokes & Riddles

okay so i need to create 2 lesson plans (math related) which has to do with a museum school trip. i'm not a teacher but this is for one of the prereq. clasess for the credential program. it's an art museum! how can i possibly relate this to math?????? HELP!


i was thinking maybe something abou tthe architecture or ... i dunno! no clue!

2007-08-02 12:06:25 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Teaching

She seems to be lying about everything.
http://www.apopularitycontest.com/my_poll.php?ID=5728

2007-08-02 12:06:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Celebrities

Agreed that it has a cool interface and looks.. but it lacks technology.. Doesn't have an Generic Operating System, doesn't have stylus for scribbling.. Bluetooth is limited use. Can't install softwares.
HTC makes pda phone which are 100 times more advanced and feature rich for 1/4 the price.

2007-08-02 12:06:08 · 24 answers · asked by Me 2 in Polls & Surveys

3CH4 + 3CO2 = C6H12O6

Can this be done on a global scale to remove two of the worst greenhouse gases around? Without cutting down any trees?

2007-08-02 12:06:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Global Warming

I listen to Fall Out Boy and Panic! At The Disco...The Academy Is...and bands like them...also AC/DC and classics...but whenever I am in the car with my mom and I go to put a cd she goes do you have to listen to them? And I say yes...then I turn it up loudish and she is like why do u blast ur music...I have an iPod and I always have it with me...but at times I forget it...so I let the whole car rock out...why doesn't she like my music?

2007-08-02 12:06:03 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

Yahoo wanted me to post this in--sports(swimming&diving).
Why?

2007-08-02 12:05:59 · 14 answers · asked by special sock puppet 5 in Polls & Surveys

name some of them-mistakes

2007-08-02 12:05:22 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Advertising & Marketing

2007-08-02 12:05:03 · 6 answers · asked by Jonathan C 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

i Wanna Know Because I don't Feel Like Collecting Blu-ray or HD-DVD.

2007-08-02 12:05:01 · 4 answers · asked by dude_lamothe 2 in Other - Electronics

I have saved up $20,000 to buy a car, how do I negotiate with the dealer so I won't have to finance anything, what would be the best approach. I don't want to pay more than my $20,000 Dollars

2007-08-02 12:04:47 · 2 answers · asked by Sergio S 1 in Buying & Selling

The Senate sent Bush a bill Thursday to make lawmakers pay for private plane rides & disclose more about their efforts to fund pet projects & raise money from lobbyists.

Democrats, however, hailed the 83-14 Senate vote as proof they are fulfilling their 2006 campaign promise to crack down on lobbying abuses,

The bill would require senators, & candidates for the Senate or White House, to pay full charter rates for trips on noncommercial planes. House members & candidates would be barred from accepting trips on private planes.

The final vote was 83-14

Are you surprised that all 14 senators
who voted against the bill were Republicans?

Or are you more surprised that
GOP Sen. Ted Stevens was one of the 14 voting against
the bill to disclose the facts of each earmark, etc?

2007-08-02 12:04:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics