All categories - 16 October 2007

2007-10-16 07:11:29 · 10 answers · asked by ? 3 in Polls & Surveys

but yourself.
Let me elaborate:

A 33 year old Tipperary (Ireland) man gets life imprisonment for a heinous crime, but he only has himself to blame for being caught:

Sgt O'Riordan said that when Crowe was interview he asked gardaí what evidence they had against him. They told him he had been identified at the scene. Crowe replied "that's bullshit. Nobody saw me. I had a balaclava and gloves."

Justice, is served, clang !!!

If only all criminals were as stupid as him, would make the police's job a lot easier wouldn't it.
Full story:
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/ireland/mhmhkfcwcwey

2007-10-16 07:11:22 · 7 answers · asked by Milking maid 5 in Current Events

I work in Pennsylvania with children with disabilities. I get paid only for the time I spend with clients, not for travel time or time spent doing paperwork. I've worked there for about 6 weeks, I gave them my 2 weeks notices last week. My boss is telling me that I have to redo a lot of my paperwork, which I don't get paid to do. If I don't redo all of the paperwork, can they not pay me?

2007-10-16 07:11:18 · 3 answers · asked by hplss.rmntc 5 in Law & Ethics

I have an opportunity to trade Todd Bertuzzi (Anh - RW) for Robert Lang (Chi - C). Should I accept the trade?

2007-10-16 07:11:17 · 13 answers · asked by Kevin D 2 in Hockey

Something happend to my fish over night and it looks like something attacked him :( all I have it the tank (55 gallon) are goldfish (about the same size) and a couple snails. what could have happend to him?

here's a video : http://s185.photobucket.com/albums/x6/Starlit_rain/?action=view¤t=pets010.flv

2007-10-16 07:11:16 · 10 answers · asked by starlit_rain 2 in Fish

2007-10-16 07:11:16 · 20 answers · asked by fried egg 1 in Polls & Surveys

What do you think a hungry squirrel would choose?

2007-10-16 07:11:10 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-10-16 07:11:05 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Parenting

2007-10-16 07:10:57 · 7 answers · asked by I SAID SO 3 in Polls & Surveys

a few years ago someone gave me a copy of a song that was brand new from an off-broadway show and now i can't remember the name of it or find it anywhere. it was a girl singing about this boy she met and fell in love with who worked in a coffee shop...something about java maybe?

2007-10-16 07:10:46 · 2 answers · asked by jennavere755 2 in Theater & Acting

I've already threatened to cut him off financially but that doesn't seem to bother him - he says you only give me 20 a week for lunch anyway! Which by the way we found out he's spending on dope. So, when we told him we weren't giving him cash anymore we were going to give him gift cards to subway or another restaurant in town for lunch (he's still in high school) he absolutely LOST IT!

2007-10-16 07:10:29 · 51 answers · asked by Kelli A 1 in Adolescent

I say yes. I'm all for capitalism but should it be limited? The gap between rich and poor is getting bigger every quarter of every year. The money made by corporate giants just keeps going back into the corporate vaccum and becomes a vicous cycle thats good for corporate interests but bad for the majority of working Americans. Ridiculous corporate salaries and bonuses both in the private and public sectors have so angered Americans its coming to the point where something needs to be done or else. What other solution is there to keep this country from a future civil class war? Do you even care that one person makes $10,000 a day and another $30? Are u elite, rich, middleclass, poor, or indigent? Give me your perspective of this issue. If something is not done soon to change this unfair greed driven system will it survive much longer? Is there any hope to avoid the future chaos capitalism has created? I will never understand greed. When is enough enough?

2007-10-16 07:10:26 · 13 answers · asked by ? 3 in Economics

I know that being on here provides a certain degree of anonymity, so a lot of people type things they wouldn't say in real life.

For me it's the opposite. There are a lot of things I want to "say" on here but I don't for fear of being misunderstood...or of getting a violation notice of course.

But when it comes down to it, pretty much everything I say to you I would say to your face...and maybe a bit more.

What about you? Do you hold your tongue more often around here than in real life, or are you more brash? Or maybe it's about same?

2007-10-16 07:10:24 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

This morning I missed my english class for the third time this semsester. I e-mailed her saying I was sick, but I did not go to the doctor, and she says If I have a note I'll be fine. Am I screwed? I'm absolutely freaking out! What can I do? Help!

2007-10-16 07:10:15 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Higher Education (University +)

The Catholic Church, through her Popes and Councils, gathered together the separate books that Christians venerated which existed in different parts of the world; sifted the chaff from the wheat, the false from the genuine; decisively and finally formed a collection—i.e., drew up a list or catalogue of inspired and apostolic writings into which no other book should ever be admitted, and declared that these and these only, were the Sacred Scriptures of the New Testament. The authorities that were mainly responsible for thus settling and closing the 'Canon' of Holy Scripture were the Councils of Hippo and of Carthage in the fourth century, under the influence of St. Augustine (at the latter of which two Legatees were present from the Pope), and the Popes Innocent I in 405, and Gelasius, 494, both of whom issued lists of Sacred Scripture identical with that fixed by the Councils. From that date all through the centuries this was the Christian's Bible. The Church never admitted any other; and at the Council of Florence in the fifteenth century, and the Council of Trent in the sixteenth, and the Council of the Vatican in the nineteenth, she renewed her anathemas against all who should deny or dispute this collection of books as the inspired word of God.

What follows from this is self-evident. The same authority which made and collected and preserved these books alone has the right to claim them as her own, and to say what the meaning of them is. The Church of St. Paul and St. Peter and St. James in the first century was the same Church as that of the Council of Carthage and of St. Augustine in the fourth, and of the Council of Florence in the fifteenth, and the Vatican in the nineteenth—one and the same body—growing and developing, certainly, as every living thing must do, but still preserving its identity and remaining essentially the same body, as a man of 80 is the same person as he was at 40, and the same person at 40 as he was at 2. The Catholic Church of today, then, may be compared to a man who has grown from infancy to youth, and from youth to middle-age. Suppose a man wrote a letter setting forth certain statements, whom would you naturally ask to tell what the meaning of these statements was? Surely the man that wrote it. The Church wrote the New Testament; she, and she alone, can tell us what the meaning of it is.

Again, the Catholic Church is like a person who was present at the side of Our Blessed Lord when He walked and talked in Galilee and Judea. Suppose, for a moment, that that man was gifted with perpetual youth (this by the way is an illustration of W. H. Mallock's, 'Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption', chap. xi.,) and also with perfect memory, and heard all the teaching and explanations of Our Redeemer and of His Apostles, and retained them; he would be an invaluable witness and authority to consult, surely, so as to discover exactly what was the doctrine of Jesus Christ and of the Twelve. But such undoubtedly is the Catholic Church: not an individual person, but a corporate personality who lived with, indeed was called into being by, Our Divine Saviour; in whose hearing He uttered all His teaching; who listened to the Apostles in their day and generation, repeating and expounding the Saviour's doctrine; who, ever young and ever strong, has persisted and lived all through the centuries, and continues even till our own day fresh and keen in memory as ever, and able to assure us, without fear of forgetting, or mixing things up, or adding things out of his own head, what exactly Our Blessed Lord said, and taught, and meant, and did. Suppose, again, the man we are imagining had written down much of what he heard Christ and the Apostles say, but had not fully reported all, and was able to supplement what was lacking by personal explanations which he gave from his perfect memory: that, again, is a figure of the Catholic Church. She wrote down much, indeed, and most important parts of Our Lord's teaching, and of the Apostolic explanation of it in Scripture; but nevertheless she did not intend it to be a complete and exhaustive account, apart from her own explanation of it; and, as a matter of fact, she is able from her own perpetual memory to give fuller and clearer accounts, and to add some things that are either omitted from the written report, or are only hinted at, or partially recorded, or mentioned merely in passing. Such is the Catholic Church in relation to her own book, the New Testament. It is hers because she wrote it by her first Apostles, and preserved it and guarded it all down the ages by her Popes and Bishops; nobody else has any right to it whatsoever, any more than a stranger has the right to come into your house and break open your desk, and pilfer your private documents. Therefore, I say that for people to step in 1500 years after the Catholic Church had had possession of the Bible, and to pretend that it is theirs, and that they alone know what the meaning of it is, and that the Scriptures alone, without the voice of the Catholic Church explaining them, are intended by God to be the guide and rule of faith—this is an absurd and groundless claim. Only those who are ignorant of the true history of the Sacred Scriptures—their origin and authorship and preservation—could pretend that there is any logic or commonsense in such a mode of acting. And the absurdity is magnified when it is remembered that the Protestants did not appropriate the whole of the Catholic books, but actually cast out some from the collection, and took what remained, and elevated these into a new 'Canon', or volume of Sacred Scripture, such as had never been seen or heard of before, from the first to the sixteenth century, in any Church, either in Heaven above or on earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth! Let us make good this charge.

Open a Protestant Bible, and you will find there are seven complete Books awanting—that is, seven books fewer than there are in the Catholic Bible, and seven fewer than there were in every collection and catalogue of Holy Scripture from the fourth to the sixteenth century. Their names are Tobias, Baruch, Judith, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus, I Machabees, II Machabees, together with seven chapters of the Book of Esther and 66 verses of the 3rd chapter of Daniel, commonly called 'the Song of the Three Children', (Daniel iii., 24-90, Douai version). These were deliberately cut out, and the Bible bound up without them. The criticisms and remarks of Luther, Calvin, and the Swiss and German Reformers about these seven books of the Old Testament show to what depths of impiety those unhappy men had allowed themselves to fall when they broke away from the true Church. Even in regard to the New Testament it required all the powers of resistance on the part of the more con­servative Reformers to prevent Luther from flinging out the Epistle of St. James as unworthy to remain within the volume of Holy Scripture—'an Epistle of straw' he called it, 'with no character of the Gospel in it'. In the same way, and almost to the same degree, he dishonoured the Epistle of St. Jude and the Epistle to the Hebrews, and the beautiful Apocalypse of St. John, declaring they were not on the same footing as the rest of the books, and did not contain the same amount of Gospel (i.e., his Gospel). The presumptuous way, indeed, in which Luther, among others, poured contempt, and doubt upon some of the inspired writings which had been acknowledged and cherished and venerated for 1000 or 1000 years would be scarcely credible were it not that we have his very words in cold print, which cannot lie, and may be read in his Biography, or be seen quoted in such books as Dr. Westcott's The Bible in The Church. And why did he impugn such books as we have mentioned? Because they did not suit his new doctrines and opinions. He had arrived at the principle of private judgment—of picking and choosing religious doctrines; and when­ever any book, such as the Book of Machabees, taught a doctrine that was repugnant to his individual taste—as, for example, that 'it is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from sins', 2 Mach. xii., 46—well, so much the worse for the book; 'throw it overboard', was his sentence, and overboard it went. And it was the same with passages and texts in those books which Luther allowed to remain, and pronounced to be worthy to find a place within the boards of the new Reformed Bible. In short, he not only cast out certain books, but he mutilated some that were left. For example, not pleased with St Paul's doctrine, ‘we are justified by faith', and fearing lest good works (a Popish superstition) might creep in, he added the word 'only' after St Paul's words, making the sentence run: 'We are justified by Faith only', and so it reads in Lutheran Bibles to this day. An action such as that must surely be reprobated by all Bible Christians. What surprises us is the audacity of the man that could coolly change by a stroke of the pen a fundamental doctrine of the Apostle of God, St. Paul, who wrote, as all admitted, under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost. But this was the outcome of the Protestant standpoint, individual judgment: no authority outside of oneself. However ignorant, however stupid, however unlettered, you may, indeed you are bound to cut and carve out a Bible and a Religion for yourself. No Pope, no Council, no Church shall enlighten you or dictate or hand down the doctrines of Christ. And the result we have seen in the corruption of God's Holy Word.

Yet, in spite of all reviling of the Roman Church, the Reformers were forced to accept from her those Sacred Scriptures which they retained in their collection. Whatever Bible they have today, disfigured as it is, was taken from us. Blind indeed must be the evangelical Christian who cannot recognise in the old Catholic Bible the quarry from which he has hewn the Testament he loves and studies; but with what loss! at what a sacrifice! in what a mutilated and disfigured condition! That the Reformers should appropriate unabridged the Bible of the Catholic Church (which was the only volume of God's Scripture ever known on earth), even for the purpose of elevating it into a false position—this we could have understood; what staggers us, is their deliberate excision from that Sacred Volume of some of the inspired Books which had God for their Author, and their no less deliberate alteration of some of the texts of those books that were suffered to remain. It is on consideration of such points as these that pious persons outside the Catholic fold would do well to ask themselves the question—Which Christian body really loves and reveres the Scriptures most? Which has proved, by its actions, its love and veneration? and which seems most likely to incur the anathema, recorded by St John, that God will send upon those who shall take away from the words of the Book of Life? (Apoc. xxii., 19.)

2007-10-16 07:10:13 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

is there even such thing? and yeah im a nerd lol

2007-10-16 07:10:09 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

2007-10-16 07:10:09 · 20 answers · asked by §чﺀﺀчβчﻯ†a 5 in Polls & Surveys

2007-10-16 07:09:57 · 4 answers · asked by mx3baby 6 in Toddler & Preschooler

Or Should Government be chasing down Pedophiles and Illegal Aleins?

2007-10-16 07:09:48 · 10 answers · asked by ShadowCat 6 in Politics

2007-10-16 07:09:47 · 8 answers · asked by Missa 1 in Law & Ethics

2007-10-16 07:09:42 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-10-16 07:09:38 · 3 answers · asked by EaAUma 3 in Chemistry

Please give me your opinion on the increase in school shootings.....Why do you think this is occuring and are there any REAL preventative measures we could take? What is your opinion on the media hype do you think the media makes it worse?

2007-10-16 07:09:28 · 7 answers · asked by stina_420247 S 1 in Other - Society & Culture

2007-10-16 07:09:22 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Video & Online Games

...after they have blocked all the liberals from answering their questions?

2007-10-16 07:09:18 · 8 answers · asked by Free Radical 5 in Politics

I have attended 4 universities and only put in the app that I had attended 3. I lied because i really want to attend this university and the last university I attended I didn't do so well due to the fact that I stop going to school because I had just found out I was HIV+. I did't do so good the last semester and if i would had added this university, I don't think I would had been accepted. What are the chances they will find out? What should I do?

2007-10-16 07:09:16 · 3 answers · asked by Beto C 1 in Higher Education (University +)

I had sex early on Saturday morning, and although it is only Tuesday, I believe I can detect a change in my body. On Sunday afternoon, I felt "full" in my uterus area, had cramps across my lower abdomen, and when I lay down, my uterus felt taut. Today it feels kind of tingly, it still feels full, and I have the occasional twinge of pain. Starting yesterday, I had what seems like extra discharge. It also feels like I have gas pains, but have hardly passed any gas in 3 days! Might these be early signs of pregnancy? It is still too early for me to get a positive test result, but I want to know if I should maybe get a bit excited!

2007-10-16 07:09:13 · 13 answers · asked by Jilltapw 2 in Pregnancy

2007-10-16 07:09:10 · 9 answers · asked by gabbs 1 in Pregnancy