All categories - 30 August 2007

has kidney failure,anyone know anything about it,and pray for her.

2007-08-30 09:14:39 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

Socialist? Leftist? Collectivist?

I like Leftist Collectivist - I think that sums it up. They vary in degree only but they share a tendency to advocate the same means - subjugation of the individual to the state.

And we should refer to fascists as "Rightist Collectivists" - the use of both terms would make it very clear that we were recognizing that socialists and fascists are merely two rival tribes of collectivists.

2007-08-30 09:14:36 · 27 answers · asked by truthisback 3 in Politics

2007-08-30 09:14:33 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

if the answer is none dont bother answering

2007-08-30 09:14:33 · 62 answers · asked by rock star 5 in Tattoos

Ok well i am a "bigger" girl and when i walk my theighs(excuese my spelling) touch and rub and when school starts i walk alot more which causes my theighs to rub more and that makes them red around the top. They become red about every other week. and it hurts really bad when they rub but then like two days later it stops. is there a way to prevent that? and how do you treat it?

2007-08-30 09:14:29 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Skin Conditions

QUESTIONABLE TIES
Tracking bin Laden's money flow leads back to Midland, Texas
by Wayne Madsen
On September 24, President George W. Bush appeared at a press conference in the White House Rose Garden to announce a crackdown on the financial networks of terrorists and those who support them. “U.S. banks that have assets of these groups or individuals must freeze their accounts,” Bush declared. “And U.S. citizens or businesses are prohibited from doing business with them.”


But the president, who is now enjoying an astounding 92 percent approval rating, hasn’t always practiced what he is now preaching: Bush’s own businesses were once tied to financial figures in Saudi Arabia who currently support bin Laden.


In 1979, Bush’s first business, Arbusto Energy, obtained financing from James Bath, a Houstonian and close family friend. One of many investors, Bath gave Bush $50,000 for a 5 percent stake in Arbusto. At the time, Bath was the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, head of the wealthy Saudi Arabian family and a brother (one of 17) to Osama bin Laden. It has long been suspected, but never proven, that the Arbusto money came directly from Salem bin Laden. In a statement issued shortly after the September 11 attacks, the White House vehemently denied the connection, insisting that Bath invested his own money, not Salem bin Laden’s, in Arbusto.


In conflicting statements, Bush at first denied ever knowing Bath, then acknowledged his stake in Arbusto and that he was aware Bath represented Saudi interests. In fact, Bath has extensive ties, both to the bin Laden family and major players in the scandal-ridden Bank of Commerce and Credit International (BCCI) who have gone on to fund Osama bin Laden. BCCI defrauded depositors of $10 billion in the ’80s in what has been called the “largest bank fraud in world financial history” by former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. During the ’80s, BCCI also acted as a main conduit for laundering money intended for clandestine CIA activities, ranging from financial support to the Afghan mujahedin to paying intermediaries in the Iran-Contra affair.


When Salem bin Laden died in 1988, powerful Saudi Arabian banker and BCCI principal Khalid bin Mahfouz inherited his interests in Houston. Bath ran a business for bin Mahfouz in Houston and joined a partnership with bin Mahfouz and Gaith Pharaon, BCCI’s frontman in Houston’s Main Bank.


The Arbusto deal wasn’t the last time Bush looked to highly questionable sources to invest in his oil dealings. After several incarnations, Arbusto emerged in 1986 as Harken Energy Corporation. When Harken ran into trouble a year later, Saudi Sheik Abdullah Taha Bakhsh purchased a 17.6 percent stake in the company. Bakhsh was a business partner with Pharaon in Saudi Arabia; his banker there just happened to be bin Mahfouz.


Though Bush told the Wall Street Journal he had “no idea” BCCI was involved in Harken’s financial dealings, the network of connections between Bush and BCCI is so extensive that the Journal concluded their investigation of the matter in 1991 by stating: “The number of BCCI-connected people who had dealings with Harken—all since George W. Bush came on board—raises the question of whether they mask an effort to cozy up to a presidential son.” Or even the president: Bath finally came under investigation by the FBI in 1992 for his Saudi business relationships, accused of funneling Saudi money through Houston in order to influence the foreign policies of the Reagan and first Bush administrations.


Worst of all, bin Mahfouz allegedly has been financing the bin Laden terrorist network—making Bush a U.S. citizen who has done business with those who finance and support terrorists. According to USA Today, bin Mahfouz and other Saudis attempted to transfer $3 million to various bin Laden front operations in Saudi Arabia in 1999. ABC News reported the same year that Saudi officials stopped bin Mahfouz from contributing money directly to bin Laden. (Bin Mahfouz’s sister is also a wife of Osama bin Laden, a fact that former CIA Director James Woolsey revealed in 1998 Senate testimony.)


When President Bush announced he is hot on the trail of the money used over the years to finance terrorism, he must realize that trail ultimately leads not only to Saudi Arabia, but to some of the same financiers who originally helped propel him into the oil business and later the White House. The ties between bin Laden and the White House may be much closer than he is willing to acknowledge.

2007-08-30 09:14:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

if i want to say i have many friends, do i say yo tengo muchas amigas or yo tengo amigas muchas?

2007-08-30 09:14:25 · 6 answers · asked by monkeygirla 2 in Homework Help

HOW DO YOU FIGURE THESE OUT ???

1) on a winter morning the temp was -6 degrees. by noon the temperature increased by 10 degrees. what is the noon temp

2)on three winter mornings the temp was -6 degrees -14 degrees and 8 degrees find the average temp.!!!!

2007-08-30 09:14:11 · 11 answers · asked by realist86 3 in Mathematics

This may be a dumb question but i am a new mom and i cant really tell a diaper is wet. They absorb it so well!!

2007-08-30 09:14:08 · 21 answers · asked by niks 2 in Newborn & Baby

This is a serious question. If I were to get in like a car wreck or something and got amnesia and didn't remember anything about my life...would I still be an atheist, would I feel like theres no god? Or would I be indifferent towards the idea of a god? Is there a possibily that I could become religious again, or would I most likely become an atheist again?

I'm just curious how that would work...

2007-08-30 09:13:58 · 21 answers · asked by Moxie! 6 in Religion & Spirituality

My wife was plannig on cheating on me with her boss she already kissed him I read it in one of her journals that she keep for taking notes in at church. any ways she was planning on having sex with him until I confronted her about it her boss is a married man as well what should I do short of killing them both?

2007-08-30 09:13:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Marriage & Divorce

question?

2007-08-30 09:13:43 · 16 answers · asked by Death.Note.fan 5 in Polls & Surveys

My last name is Britt

2007-08-30 09:13:35 · 4 answers · asked by Doug 1 in Family

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2007-08-30 09:13:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

MADDY'S DEATH. can someone tell me if this is true intercepted telephone calls and emails between the McCanns and their friends have comfirmed the death of Madeline say Police, acording to one Portuguese newspaper to-day the intercepts are said to have been made in a joint operation conducted by Portuguse and Brittish Police officers, Diario de Noticias it says that Maddys parents kate and gerry maccann and their friends who were holiding at the ocean club ,will be brought in for futher questioning. they want to focus on a three -hour period in which only the MacCanns saw Maddeline.

2007-08-30 09:13:31 · 11 answers · asked by Muriel L 5 in Other - News & Events

Besides finding my name in the phone book, of course!

2007-08-30 09:13:30 · 7 answers · asked by Lisa the Pooh 7 in Polls & Surveys

I'm hearing Dana White terminated Babalu's contract and he's out for good, if it's true what are your thoughts on the whole situation?

2007-08-30 09:13:24 · 12 answers · asked by Will W 4 in Martial Arts

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2007-08-30 09:13:20 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-08-30 09:13:06 · 4 answers · asked by Just Me 4 in Military

I want to do something for my boyfriend- something sweet, that shows how much i really Love and Appreciate him. I want it to be something original- besides the whole romantic dinner for two, long walk on the beach cliche. Something small and sincere. Any ideas/experinces you'd like to share?
Thanks so much!

2007-08-30 09:13:01 · 1 answers · asked by patilli2 2 in Singles & Dating

I am going through a divorce and one day while getting my stuff moved from my house, I noticed some illegal items that belong to my exwife, so I took pictures of them. I am trying to keep the house that we purchased together, but she is fighting me on it and wants to keep it for her self even though she does not have a job. I have good suspicion that illegal activites are being commited from this house. I admit that I have participated with her in these illegal activities in the past, but I do not do that anymore. I would like to use the pictures to show the court how irresponsible she is but I fear that will implicate me. Can I bring these pictures to my lawyer and tell him the whole story with out worrying about getting myself in trouble?

2007-08-30 09:12:57 · 14 answers · asked by Whatever 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-08-30 09:12:50 · 22 answers · asked by Lila 1 in Singing

Also any good homemade minnow trap idears...much abliged.

2007-08-30 09:12:20 · 4 answers · asked by scottychop 2 in Fishing

Was the Police Officer who arrested the Republican Bathroom Sex Perv. Craig himself a Republican who actually voted for him?

2007-08-30 09:12:17 · 2 answers · asked by Its me 4 in Politics

2007-08-30 09:12:06 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Chemistry

i sure in the hell don't

2007-08-30 09:11:58 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-08-30 09:11:34 · 9 answers · asked by kelly 1 in Singles & Dating

2007-08-30 09:10:44 · 20 answers · asked by larry c 1 in Celebrities