All categories - 14 August 2007

Just mentioning the word is enough to make people's jaws drop. Considering that most other Western countries are socialist, why is it so alarming?

Is it the high taxes they have? Is it our phenomenal health care system we just couldn't go without? Is it the 1 month vacations they get that we are appalled by?

I don't want to live in a socialist country personally. Had to add that in there, though I know many people will be typing their response before reading that and will say "then move". But I don't see it being THAT much worse. In some ways it is better, some ways worse. But I don't think it warrants the gut reaction it gets in the U.S.

As Americans, we have been conditioned to have a knee jerk reaction to the idea of Socialism. I think it's a left over from the cold war mostly, and not much based on logic.

2007-08-14 08:14:37 · 31 answers · asked by Earl Grey 5 in Politics

I know what they do, only allow electricity to flow one way through them, but what goes on inside a diode, in laymans terms please.

2007-08-14 08:14:31 · 4 answers · asked by Gray 3 in Engineering

I always struggled with this, belief in God is one thing but arguing that one religion is better than another seems pointless to me and appears to be in the main the result of geography, if you're born in the Middle East you will likely be a Muslim

2007-08-14 08:14:29 · 11 answers · asked by kano7_1985 4 in Religion & Spirituality

I know you have to have FireRed in the gba section but I want to know where they're found

2007-08-14 08:14:23 · 5 answers · asked by DownToTheTriarii 2 in Video & Online Games

I interviewed for a job on Friday- one that I really hope I get. I actually forgot to send a thank you note after the interview, and it didn't occur to me until Tuesday. So I sent my interviewer an email thanking him and expressing my interest in the position.

Was this bad etiquette, or was it acceptable?

2007-08-14 08:14:11 · 5 answers · asked by Nicole 3 in Other - Careers & Employment

(Just thought it was time to put a new spin on an old favorite).

2007-08-14 08:13:29 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-14 08:13:25 · 1 answers · asked by tricksy_mama 2 in Injuries

Why would any candidate want to provide amnesty to people who are destroying US citizen's lives by stealing their Id's & SS#'s, their credit history, their retirement funds, etc.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00235
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/11/195329.shtml
http://www.yournextpresident.net/thefacts.php

2007-08-14 08:13:25 · 5 answers · asked by Naturescent 4 in Elections

the UK call their friends mates?

2007-08-14 08:13:24 · 2 answers · asked by peace.live.love.laugh 4 in Polls & Surveys

a list of them?

2007-08-14 08:13:22 · 10 answers · asked by Lindsay 2 in Other - Music

Ok, I went to hot topic school clothes shopping. I found a Guns N Roses shirt, but Slash had a cigarette and the school won't allow it, then I found another one, but this one had guns on it, but its GNR what can you say, the Guns weren't really shooting anything it said Gusn N Roses then had two guns with Roses wrapped around them, I was just wondering if anybody else thinks its stupid? Serious answers please.


The way I look at it, its GNR, their shirts are gonna have guns and Slash ALWAYS has a cigarette hanging out. Stupid or Not?

2007-08-14 08:13:16 · 12 answers · asked by Layne 6 in Rock and Pop

i have alot of transmission fluid and oil stains on driveway. how can i remove them?all help is greatly apprecated thanx

2007-08-14 08:13:12 · 8 answers · asked by Timothy S 1 in Other - Cars & Transportation

2007-08-14 08:13:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Garden & Landscape

funny story.... result i have half of my eyelashes on one eye... LOL. how long does it take to grow back??? how cani cover up... without fake lashes?? its like length wise half are gone, and width wise also... if that makes sense.. HELP! please!!!

2007-08-14 08:13:01 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Hair

2007-08-14 08:12:58 · 4 answers · asked by dear1791 1 in Immigration

i need to get a bachelor's degree, and i work about 50 hours a week. online courses are the only way i can think of to get a degree. i did a few courses about 6 years ago an the local community college, but im not really expecting any of the credits to transfer. any good tips?

2007-08-14 08:12:50 · 4 answers · asked by swatthefly 5 in Higher Education (University +)

I am trapped in a dark room with no electricity and I lick the wall mold for my daily meal. Dont worry I still say grace before meals. I need to escape but I only have a few things in this room.

The items are:
3 quetips
A flash light with no battery
1 battery
windex
a couple of porno magz.
a picture of Britney Spears (before her head was shaved)

using these items can anyone suggest an escape method?

Last thing I remember before finding myself in this room is eating these weird looking mushrooms off of a tree near a swamp.

2007-08-14 08:12:42 · 3 answers · asked by Naked*fatman 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

Good. . . .I am compassionate.

Bad. . . .I procrastinate

~I am having a heck of a time getting my questions to go through. . .grrrr. : )

2007-08-14 08:12:35 · 29 answers · asked by sparkles9 6 in Religion & Spirituality

to live in and economy, and best women?

i personally think the United States, u?

2007-08-14 08:12:28 · 18 answers · asked by some person 1 in Other - Society & Culture

Watch this video, and tell me what you think about it.
I was crying for a long time, since I have a little sister her age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWow42TCwzg

2007-08-14 08:12:21 · 10 answers · asked by Nessa. 6 in Parenting

i am an HM in the navy DEP and i really want to change to a culinary specialist. i brought it up yesterday and the recruiter never called me back. i keep hearing its good money in the civilian area but my heart is in culinary and that area of the civilian world. i qualified for it but i bet i have to wait for a spot to be open. so what should i do my recruiter tip toed around it. i respect that he got me in HM but i don't see myself going far career wise.

2007-08-14 08:12:18 · 3 answers · asked by Saved by Faith 2 in Military

What do you think about the houseing problem?

2007-08-14 08:12:16 · 10 answers · asked by RTR!! 1 in Renting & Real Estate

"THOUSAND OAKS, Calif., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A class action lawsuit has been brought against a Thousand Oaks car wash operating in violation of California labor laws. The suit alleges that the owners of the Thousand Oaks Hand Wash hired undocumented workers and subjected them to slavery-like conditions, including forcing them to work for free for the first month and denying them overtime pay. If they stayed long enough to earn the right to be paid, they received well below minimum wage and they endured constant threats of deportation."

The suit alleges that Hand Wash, which is located at 2725 Thousand Oaks Blvd., knowingly employs undocumented workers whose lack of English skills and fear of immigration services make them easily exploited.

Hand Wash allegedly refuses to pay its employees for up to as much as the first month, after which employment may be severed without compensation if Hand Wash is not satisfied with their performance.

2007-08-14 08:12:11 · 20 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Immigration

Think about it, we could get on with ignoring religion, like England...

=0)

2007-08-14 08:12:10 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Some folks feel it is disrespectful when Mormons do vicarious baptisms for and in behalf of their ancestors. Neither the baptism nor the circumsion would bother me if done with love and concern for my dead ancestors.

2007-08-14 08:12:09 · 14 answers · asked by Doctor 7 in Religion & Spirituality

its about a kid that gets a watch and has the ability to stop time with his watch

2007-08-14 08:12:02 · 4 answers · asked by pingy b 1 in Movies

Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani vowed Tuesday to stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States.

Did he forget something? An Italian American is an American of Italian descent. The phrase may refer to someone born in the United States of Italian heritage or to someone who has immigrated to the United States from Italy.

2007-08-14 08:12:01 · 13 answers · asked by Diego V 1 in Elections

2007-08-14 08:11:55 · 3 answers · asked by madi 2 in Other - Education