All categories - 21 August 2007

So I have been breastfeeding for 5 weeks.It was going so good and I was really encouraged.

Now all of a sudden, on my right nipple there is a little crack and looks like it is bleeding....it is extrememly painful to nurse on that side so I pump, and even that is painful but not so much.

I am wondering if it is normal to have it be going good and then take a step back like this?

And would it be terrible if I just pumped this side while I heal?

Thanks for your help.

2007-08-21 07:08:02 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Newborn & Baby

how can i reduce the look of swelling and dark circles under my eyes without using make-up or creams. they irritate my skin

thank you

2007-08-21 07:07:56 · 10 answers · asked by babesboobear 1 in Other - Skin & Body

Mexico will undoubtedly require international aid to assist in their recovery following the devastation wrought by hurricane Dean.

It is only right that the United States join in this international effort and help the Mexicans recover after this disaster.

Clearly, Mexico has suffered tremendous human losses in this natural disaster, and it just so happens that the United States has roughly 11 million Mexican Citizens living in this country illegally.

By returning these criminals, we would help Mexico recover any population losses it may have suffered and remove countless, gang members, drunks, and other alien criminals from the United States. (If these "people" are as "hard working" as Mexico claims, they should be glad to have them back.)

This is clearly a win-win situation and should be implemented immediately.

2007-08-21 07:07:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

By Ken Schoolland


I hear it from some of the nicest people one would ever meet. Some dear friends of mine, whom I respect very much, say that all illegal immigrants are criminals because they broke the laws that control who may come into this country. And since these immigrants are criminals, we don¡'t want that kind of person here.
Sadly, such accusations confuse what is legal with what is moral. American history is filled with people who broke unjust laws and were morally justified in doing so.


Legality ≠ Morality
The American Revolution was fought by men and women who broke the laws of England and of King George III. Had they been arrested, as was Nathan Hale, they would have been hanged for treason to the Crown. If breaking the law makes one a criminal, then the Founding Fathers were all criminals. But no one still believes that today.
Dred Scott and thousands of other slaves defied the Fugitive Slave Acts and ran away, "stealing themselves" from Southern plantation masters in the early 1800's. Those who were arrested were returned to their slave "owners," and anyone found trying to help them escape to Canada was prosecuted as well.
Thankfully, many juries exercised jury nullification. Declaring that the law was unjust, juries often refused to convict operators of the Underground Railroad. No one today would claim that a runaway slave was a criminal. Indeed, anyone who forcibly returned Blacks would now be considered guilty of having collaborated with the slave masters — albeit legal slave masters.
In the 1930's there were hundreds of Jews who came to American shores aboard the SS St. Louis, forcibly sent back by immigration quotas to perish in Hitler's concentration camps. Thousands or millions of potential refugees watched in desperate disappointment.
But suppose those passengers had defied immigration law and jumped ship in Miami harbor. Would anyone today call them criminals? I think not. Indeed, those who returned Jews to their persecutors might be considered guilty of collaborating with villainy — albeit legal villainy.


Treasures of the Earth
It may be illegal for people to seek freedom and opportunity in this country, but it isn't immoral. I admire the courage of immigrants who leave all that is familiar to them, risking life and limb on stormy seas and deadly deserts, in order to move to a strange land where everything is unfamiliar and potentially hostile.
Most of our ancestors moved for freedom and opportunity and we are the beneficiaries. Thank God they weren't arrested and sent packing, as were violators of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Indeed, we might wonder if we could have mustered the same measure of courage if we had been in their shoes.
It is convenient and simple to exclude new newcomers by calling them criminals. But the real reason is much more complex. For some people it is a fear of other races. For others it is a fear that newcomers might work hard and will "take" jobs. Others fear the opposite — that newcomers will not work hard and will take welfare.
In the first case, many immigrants are great entrepreneurs who offer jobs to Americans. Other immigrants take jobs, but they never "take" jobs that are not willingly offered to them by eager employers.
I often ask audiences: "Suppose you are an employer and you know only one thing about two job applicants in front of you: one is native-born and the other is an immigrant? Who would you expect to be the harder worker?" Audiences overwhelmingly favor the immigrant. Why? Americans are surely good workers. But the very act of migration is seen as proof of vigor, ambition, determination, and courageous self-reliance.


Choice: Employees Right, Employers Right
Americans have a moral right to make these choices for themselves — as employees and as employers. Says Robert W. Tracinski, a senior writer for the Ayn Rand Institute:


"The irrational premise behind our nation's immigration laws is that a native-born American has a 'right' to a particular job, not because he has earned it, but because he was born here. To this 'right,' the law sacrifices the employer's right to hire the best employees — and the immigrant's right to take a job that he deserves. To put it succinctly, initiative and productiveness are sacrificed to sloth and inertia.
"The 'American dream' is essentially the freedom of each individual to rise as far as his abilities take him. The opponents of immigration, however, want to repudiate that vision by turning America into a privileged preserve for those who want the law to set aside jobs for them — jobs they cannot freely earn through their own efforts....Any immigrant who wants to come to America in search of a better life should be let in — and any employer who wants to hire him should be free to do so."

To the legalist, however, who places law above moral right, the employer who hires as he pleases is a criminal. The legalist wants stricter penalties against employers who defy state mandates on hiring. Once again this is reminiscent of historic laws that were used to criminalize employers who dared to hire Blacks, women, and Jews. Violations were illegal, maybe, but not immoral.


Welfare Magnet?
But what of the immigrant who takes welfare? Isn't this a burden on society that must be stopped?
Yes, it is. But politically powerless newcomers are no more responsible for the welfare system in this country than they are responsible for the tyranny and corruption in a country that they are fleeing. Okay, stop the flow of welfare, but at the same time remove the plethora of [anti-] labor laws that make it difficult for newcomers to be hired.
It is wrong to assume that most immigrants come to America to get on the welfare gravy train. If this is true, then immigrants would be moving away from states with the lowest welfare and into states with the highest welfare.
My research (The Journal of Private Enterprise, Spring 2004) demonstrates that the opposite is true. In overwhelming numbers, both the native-born population and the foreign-born population through the decade of the 1990's moved away from states with the highest welfare and into states with the lowest welfare. While there are some high profile exceptions, most immigrants seek opportunity, not welfare.
The brilliant economist, Julian Simon, demonstrated that immigrants are a great source of productivity and economic growth. They always have been. Simon declares that most wealthy industrial nations will depend on the productivity of immigrants to provide revenues for the increasingly costly welfare demands of a native-born population.


Moral Principles
Governments do not decide morality. Governments behave morally when upholding moral action and behave immorally when suppressing moral action. Morality is based on principles far more constant and profound than the variant whims of majority votes.
The people who understood this best, were those rebels who defied the law of the day to pen these words: "WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men Are Created Equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
To George Washington this meant, "...­the bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions, whom we should welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges."

2007-08-21 07:07:53 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Immigration

I don't know if this is normal but I tend to shy away from reading other people's work when i'm writing for fear i'll somehow become influenced by their writing style and subconsciously change my own.

Can your style/tone be affected by what you read if you're currently working on something, or does it help your writing?

2007-08-21 07:07:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Books & Authors

2007-08-21 07:07:44 · 7 answers · asked by Aeryn Sun 6 in Polls & Surveys

they are two different people with different levels of experience.

2007-08-21 07:07:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Celebrities

2007-08-21 07:07:38 · 5 answers · asked by Guard_Junki 1 in Military

I just heard that Oscar the cat that climbs in the bed of dying patients at a nursing home has been found dead. Unverified reports say that a dented bedpan was found nearby and that Oscar had become increasingly unpopular since all the media attention about his special abilities. I have to wonder if all the news coverage didn't paint a big target on his head.

What does something like this say about us? Whatever it says...it can't be good.

2007-08-21 07:07:38 · 9 answers · asked by kathy_is_a_nurse 7 in Current Events

1. GOD does not Exsist
2.Evolution is the only answer on how life was created
3. When you die..no afterlife..turn to dust that is it.
4. The only knowledge you can acquire is from man and what he un-covers
5. The Bible, Torah, Qu'ran are fairy tales..
6. No such thing as Miracle Healings..People are lieing or delusional
6. No such thing as a Near Death Experience..People are having brain delsuions
7. Life in Outer Space might exsist but GOD didn't have anything to do with it.
8.Morality and Rules were created by man...
9.Perfection will never exsist
10.Life would be great if everyone realized GOD does not exsist and humanity has no need for religion?

2007-08-21 07:07:34 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I have heard many different answers from Muslims and its confusing. Some say that is his name and some say that, that is how you say God in Arabic.
If that is God in Araic then what is God's name? It can't be "God", that is just a title.

2007-08-21 07:07:15 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-08-21 07:07:08 · 12 answers · asked by Julie 1 in Singles & Dating

yes, no or maybe so? If so why if not why?

2007-08-21 07:07:03 · 5 answers · asked by the truth, do you hear me 1 in Religion & Spirituality

Someone told me you can just pay what you can "afford." Well, if I can only "afford" $5 or $10 a month, will I get all my assets seized or something?

2007-08-21 07:06:52 · 11 answers · asked by Lawn Jockey 4 in Insurance

Me and my boyfriend have been together for 2 years plus, and have talked about marriage and kids (when the time is right) and all the names I have LOVED for a long time and had wanted to name MY future kids.. he hates.. But then again, his taste is uh-- well, he wanted to name his son Cage. lol. Here are my picks...

Girls::
Taegan Rae (ok a little bit different)
Sophie Ann
McKeeley (keeley) Anne
Harper Grace (ok, a little different too)

Boys::
Landon Jace
Keegan Nikolas
Trevon Alexander
Carson Alex

2007-08-21 07:06:46 · 19 answers · asked by *-whitz-* 4 in Baby Names

I was put into a class - the wrong class - in mathematics and now I have to go through things at the level below my colleages are at.

I am 15 and I KNOW I still have a chance of doing Higher Mathemmatics but why am I so depressed? Low self-esteem? I am in a classfull of kids who make noises even though I got a A in physics in my fourth year they STILL won't let me go there.

MInd you I DO plan on staying in school for the whole of the duration.

How can I work on through. It is concentrically annoying...I feel like I am the brainiest one in class...I probably am...

How I shut up and see positive thoughts and not negative ridiculing ones?

2007-08-21 07:06:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Primary & Secondary Education

I have a serious problem, my husband of 14 yrs has been involved emotionally with a female at his job. I found him writing notes to her in the middle of the night & now that they no longer work together I can't get him to open up with me so that this situation can have the closure I need to move forward. The whole situation was extremely devasting as any of our close friends would openly admit they were envious of the closeness / relationship we shared. I just can't seem to get past it without knowing how this could have happened but he refuses to discuss it with me. Granted we had for the 1st time in our lives together been apart b/c of our jobs 5 days & nights outta 7 & we were recovering from our seemingly healthy 3 year old being diagnosed w/ AML. I was very emotional & in hindsight very withdrawn at times but if thats indeed "why" he felt the need to develop this inappropriate relationship, why can't he just say that? I try not to think about it all but I can't stop myself??????

2007-08-21 07:06:31 · 6 answers · asked by katie-2fish 1 in Marriage & Divorce

I bought some Mollies at the weekend, 4 adults and somehow a wee one sneaked into the bag, so I ended up with 5. Bargain!!

Just came in from work tonight and dscovered 11 new babies. Buster Bargain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My anxious question is this...... Will the adults eat the babies or will they be safe.I also have 3 Clown loaches in there...

Any advice please :o)

2007-08-21 07:06:24 · 8 answers · asked by Bodieann 4 in Fish

2007-08-21 07:06:20 · 5 answers · asked by jakesp35 1 in Baseball

2007-08-21 07:05:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Physics

i dont know what style i should do. i have an oval face, dark brown (almost black) hair, my hair goes about 6 inches past my shoulders, and i have layers and side bangs. what do you think i should do with it; because i'm getting kind of bored with my hair.

2007-08-21 07:05:43 · 2 answers · asked by wheezy baby 4 in Hair

do you like her???


if yesss, whats your favorite Fairouz song??

2007-08-21 07:05:16 · 17 answers · asked by ABANDONED 5 in Lebanon

Oh its gonna be some game,
goooo onnn the bhoys in blue!

2007-08-21 07:05:16 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Ireland

I found this quote of Kanye online. and personally i think he's full of himself. he thinks he has the best lyrics in the world! i can think of 5 ppl right away that better lyrics, plus better performance and delivery than him: Nas, Common, KRS One, Dead Prez, even Jay Z has better lyrics.

“I feel like my lyrics are, if not THE, then equal to, the realest lyrics out,” he says. “I connected with so many people without talkin’ about guns and drugs. … It’s harder to go to work 365 days than shoot a person in one day.

When people come up to you like, ‘That was really good,’ you’re supposed to play stupid, like, ‘Wow, you really think so?’ Because people can’t really handle the truth,” he continues. “But I am the truth. I’d rather be hated for what I am than loved for what I’m not.”



tell me what u think of this quote. i hate him even more now. i hope his album flops, which it may not cuz of his record label. they'll push it everywhere.

2007-08-21 07:05:11 · 4 answers · asked by ? 4 in Rap and Hip-Hop

Well I LOVE to sing!! and I'm pretty good...but I could be better....is something that could help me improve my voice or something without taking voice lessons...?

2007-08-21 07:04:56 · 5 answers · asked by XD 2 in Singing

2007-08-21 07:04:50 · 3 answers · asked by C 1 in Religion & Spirituality

I ask for people to follow links to mine .....especially when they are in R&S.....

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070821105917AAoto94&pa=FYd1D2bwHTHwLL1hFeM6RIOy4c5KuZ9dKCy3E5P6nvNWhA--&paid=asked&msgr_status=


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How do You Increase the Answers to Your Questions.....?

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2007-08-21 07:04:43 · 6 answers · asked by Madam Naka 7 in Polls & Surveys

The lie is to help them heal...but is it worth it?

2007-08-21 07:04:28 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

If so, what is the furthest west that an atlantic hurricane has ever traveled? Just curious.

2007-08-21 07:04:14 · 4 answers · asked by Toledo Engineer 6 in Weather