All categories - 6 December 2007

and why

2007-12-06 09:29:57 · 24 answers · asked by gr8realestate 2 in Religion & Spirituality

etc, during my stay in a hospital and nursing home?

2007-12-06 09:29:49 · 6 answers · asked by June and Mike C 1 in United States

How do you laugh in french in messenger??? english is hahaha, spanish is jajaja, french is.... ????

Thank you!!!

2007-12-06 09:29:48 · 16 answers · asked by yula 1 in Languages

Does anyone remember the Garfield Board game? I had one back in the eighties, I don't know what happened to it. It had nap attacks, and lasagna cards. Sometimes you had to go backwards.

Is it still possible to get that game? If so where can I but it?


By the way I'm sure you've figured this out, but in case you haven't I referring to Garfield the orange cat, by Jim Davis.

Thanks in advance.

2007-12-06 09:29:47 · 2 answers · asked by Amber K 6 in Board Games

What is Lancelot's goal?

Thank you in advance

2007-12-06 09:29:45 · 3 answers · asked by John M> 1 in Books & Authors

There will be no Nativity Scene in the United States Congress, this year!

The Supreme Court has ruled that there cannot be a Nativity Scene in the United States capital this Christmas season.

This isn't for any religious reason, they simply have not been able to find three wise men and a virgin in the Nation's capital.

There was no problem, however, finding enough asses to fill the stable.

2007-12-06 09:29:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Jokes & Riddles

The postal service receive a letter addressed to Santa? Do they open it and read it, dispose of it, what would the genuinely do with the letter?

Thanks.

2007-12-06 09:29:35 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Christmas

2007-12-06 09:29:28 · 8 answers · asked by ottostever1968 1 in Fashion & Accessories

2007-12-06 09:29:19 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

16:9, 32"

I just need the size of the screen portion, not the frame/trim/anything but where the picture is.

I know they are 32" diagonally but what about hight?

Thanks!

2007-12-06 09:29:16 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in TVs

2007-12-06 09:29:13 · 15 answers · asked by Mokey 3 in Polls & Surveys

Just wondering...lately I have an interest in Greek myths. ( i get strange urges like this all the time :P ) What was she the goddess of? what was her weapon? did she have an animal that stayed by her side? stuff like that

2007-12-06 09:29:10 · 10 answers · asked by Grace ♫ 4 in Mythology & Folklore

Can someone tell me what 'overclocking' is. Thankyou

2007-12-06 09:28:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Desktops

2007-12-06 09:28:55 · 4 answers · asked by <3 2 in Skin Conditions

This teenager will not work, go to school, clean up after himself or his dog, will not take care of the dog, will do nothing but sit around smoking pot and drinking. He is faced with eviction from his residence in one month. But still no motivation. What is going on here? It seems to be worse that just laziness. Does anyone have any answers here?

2007-12-06 09:28:51 · 9 answers · asked by Ann J 1 in Psychology

John F. Kennedy
The Protestant immigrants to the New World brought many things in their baggage, including a deep-seated distrust of Roman Catholicism. Although Catholics had been among the early settlers of the New World, they had been a minority in the thirteen colonies that eventually became the United States. Not until significant numbers of Catholics began migrating to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century did anti-Catholicism emerge as a potent, and ugly, political and social phenomenon.

Although Irish Catholics began to play a major role in local and state politics in the latter nineteenth century, the first Catholic to seek a national office was the popular governor of New York, Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was the Democratic nominee for president in 1928. Anti-Catholic prejudice, the fear that a Catholic president would "take orders" from the Pope, insured Smith's defeat. Methodist Bishop Adna Leonard declared: "No Governor can kiss the papal ring and get within gunshot of the White House." Even liberal Protestants were concerned. The Christian Century declared it could not "look with unconcern upon the seating of a representative of an alien culture, of a medieval, Latin mentality, of an undemocratic hierarchy and of a foreign potentate in the great office of the President of the United States."

Smith's defeat at the polls seemed to foreclose a Catholic from seeking the White House, until John F. Kennedy captured the Democratic nomination in 1960. Much to his dismay, he discovered that many southern Protestant groups still believed in old canards about every Catholic having to obey the Pope's commands unquestioningly. He finally decided to try to defeat the issue by meeting it head-on, and on September 12, 1960, he delivered the following statement before the Greater Houston Ministerial Association.

There, according to one of his biographers, "he knocked religion out of the campaign as an intellectually respectable issue." Anti-Catholicism, of course, could not be eradicated that easily, but Kennedy's meeting the issue forthrightly limited the damage to those whose prejudices would never respond to reason. And with his election that November, barriers to Catholics in American politics melted away.

For further reading: T. H. White, The Making of the President 1960 (1961).


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ADDRESS TO SOUTHERN BAPTIST LEADERS
I am grateful for your generous invitation to state my views.

While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that I believe that we have far more critical issues in the 1960 election: the spread of Communist influence, until it now festers only ninety miles off the coast of Florida -- the humiliating treatment of our President and Vice President by those who no longer respect our power -- the hungry children I saw in West Virginia, the old people who cannot pay their doctor's bills, the families forced to give up their farms -- an America with too many slums, with too few schools, and too late to the moon and outer space.

These are the real issues which should decide this campaign. And they are not religious issues -- for war and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barrier.

But because I am a Catholic and no Catholic has ever been elected President, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured -- perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again -- not what kind of church I believe in for that should be important only to me, but what kind of America I believe in.

I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute -- where no Catholic prelate would tell the President (should he be a Catholic) how to act and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote -- where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference -- and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the President who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish -- where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source -- where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials -- and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

For, while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew -- or a Quaker -- or a Unitarian -- or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that led to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today, I may be the victim -- but tomorrow it may be you -- until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped apart at a time of great national peril.

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end -- where all men and all churches are treated as equal -- where every man has the same right to attend or not to attend the church of his choice -- where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind -- and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, both the lay and the pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.

That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe -- a great office that must be neither humbled by making it the instrument of any religious group, nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding it, its occupancy from the members of any religious group. I believe in a President whose views on religion are his own private affair, neither imposed upon him by the nation or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.

I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty (nor would our system of checks and balances permit him to do so). And neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test -- even by indirection -- for if they disagree with that safeguard, they should be openly working to repeal it.

I want a chief executive whose public acts are responsible to all and obligated to none -- who can attend any ceremony, service or dinner his office may appropriately require him to fulfill -- and whose fulfillment of his Presidential office is not limited or conditioned by any religious oath, ritual or obligation.

This is the kind of America I believe in -- and this is the kind of America I fought for in the South Pacific and the kind my brother died for in Europe. No one suggested then that we might have a "divided loyalty," that we did "not believe in liberty or that we belonged to a disloyal group that threatened "the freedoms for which our forefathers died."

And in fact this is the kind of America for which our forefathers did die when they fled here to escape religious test oaths, that denied office to members of less favored churches, when they fought for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom -- and when they fought at the shrine I visited today -- the Alamo. For side by side with Bowie and Crockett died Fuentes and McCafferty and Bailey and Bedillio and Carey -- but no one knows whether they were Catholics or not. For there was no religious test there.

I ask you tonight to follow in that tradition, to judge me on the basis of fourteen years in the Congress -- on my declared stands against an ambassador to the Vatican, against unconstitutional aid to parochial schools, and against any boycott of the public schools (which I attended myself) -- and instead of doing this do not judge me on the basis of these pamphlets and publications we have all seen that carefully select quotations out of context from the statements of Catholic Church leaders, usually in other countries, frequently in other centuries, and rarely relevant to any situation here -- and always omitting of course, that statement of the American bishops in 1948 which strongly endorsed church-state separation.

I do not consider these other quotations binding upon my public acts -- why should you? But let me say, with respect to other countries, that I am wholly opposed to the state being used by any religious group, Catholic or Protestant, to compel, prohibit or prosecute the free exercise of any other religion. And that goes for any persecution at any time, by anyone, in any country.

And I hope that you and I condemn with equal fervor those nations which deny it to Catholics. And rather than cite the misdeeds of those who differ, I would also cite the record of the Catholic Church in such nations as France and Ireland -- and the independence of such statesmen as de Gaulle and Adenauer.

But let me stress again that these are my views -- for, contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for President [but the candidate] who happens also to be a Catholic.

I do not speak for my church on public matters -- and the church does not speak for me.

Whatever issue may come before me as President, if I should be elected -- on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling, or any other subject -- I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be in the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressure or dictate. And no power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise.

But if the time should ever come -- and I do not concede any conflict to be remotely possible -- when my office would require me to either violate my conscience, or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office, and I hope any other conscientious public servant would do likewise.

But I do not intend to apologize for these views to my critics of either Catholic or Protestant faith, nor do I intend to disavow either my views or my church in order to win this election. If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate satisfied that I tried my best and was fairly judged.

But if this election is decided on the basis that 40,000,000 Americans lost their chance of being President on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people.

But if, on the other hand, I should win this election, I shall devote every effort of mind and spirit to fulfilling the oath of the Presidency -- practically identical, I might add with the oath I have taken for fourteen years in the Congress. For, without reservation, I can, and I quote "solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution so help me God."

Source: New York Times, September 13, 1960.

2007-12-06 09:28:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-12-06 09:28:42 · 2 answers · asked by cHariZ_geLO 1 in Military

Assume both are of the same age which sex is more likely to be able to go without sex for an extended period of time ~ like two years?

2007-12-06 09:28:29 · 64 answers · asked by ezxqz 4 in Singles & Dating

2007-12-06 09:28:27 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

2007-12-06 09:28:26 · 10 answers · asked by mia 11 m 1 in Botany

2007-12-06 09:28:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Skin Conditions

I have been awake for about 24 hours now.... Its 8am, I had three V's lastnight at about 3am, and I am still wide awake... I need to go out tonight for a friends going away party, so I should get rest, but the shops open in half an hour, and its very tempting....

What would you do?

Should I go shopping and sleep later, or just go to sleep?

(Lol, I know this is stupid and random, and, just to shut you up ahead of time, yes I can make decisions for myself thankyou very much...)

2007-12-06 09:28:11 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

what do you think?

2007-12-06 09:28:01 · 6 answers · asked by picmybrain 3 in Philosophy

Is there anywhere I can buy a 60gb PS3 online or from a retail outlet (shop). (anything but eBay)

2007-12-06 09:27:50 · 3 answers · asked by Hmm 1 in PlayStation

Artery The study of painting!
Bacteria Back door to the cafeteria!
Caesarean Section A district in Rome!
Cat Scan Searching for kitty!
Colic A sheep dog!
Coma Punctuation!
Congenital Friendly
D & C Where Washington is!
Dilate To live long!
Enema Not a friend!
Genital Not Jewish!
Impotent Distinguished, well known!
Labor pain Getting hurt at work!
Medical Staff A doctor's cane!
Morbid High offer!
Nitrate Cheaper than day rate!
Outpatient Person who has fainted!
Pap smear Fatherhood test!
Pelvis Cousin of Elvis!
Post operative Letter Carrier!
Recovery Room Place to do upholstery!
Rectum Damn near killed him!
Secretion Hiding something!
Seizure Rome Emperor!
Tablet A small table!
Terminal illness Getting sick at the airport!
Tumour More than one more!
Urine Opposite of "You're Out"!
Varicose Near by!
Vein Conceited!

2007-12-06 09:27:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Senior Citizens

the name of the food
i need ingredients
details(please)
where it comes from.
how its made and or how it derived.

2007-12-06 09:27:20 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cooking & Recipes

2007-12-06 09:27:19 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

I am considering to move to California. I dont necessarily have to be in LA but at the same time would like to be in an area which is alive.

Can you please suggest the towns which are affordable for a person earing 30k and is not extravagant. Suggest places on the CA outskirts which are not to far and I could take under consideration.

Thanks.

2007-12-06 09:27:18 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - United States

The clouds according from the earth moves fast from one direction to another direction and the cloud contains water which we get as rain. ok.. we know the cloud born from the evaporating water etc., ok..but, when the cloud crosses each other lightning born and strikes the earth. 1. how from a cloud which contains water the fire borns and 2. why it comesdown instead going up ? when we see from the earth, the clouds crosses each other without action? which time fire born while crossing?

2007-12-06 09:27:15 · 5 answers · asked by Tamil from Vellore 7 in Earth Sciences & Geology