News & Events - May 2007

surely the twins need some semblance of normality in their lives amonth on. Oh no, I forget, they are used to being left alone.

2007-05-30 05:38:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

I am polling people to find out what they think of abortion, what they believe( or don't believe) the government should do about abortion, and how they think abortion affects society as a whole.

2007-05-30 05:22:45 · 20 answers · asked by GaelicMel 3 in Current Events

I even caught myself doing it earlier. I saw the headline 'Pope blesses Madaline's' and automatically thought "Yep, that's as he hasn't got the real thing to bless".

Now I'm not an evil person and at the end of the day an innocent child is missing - so WHY are people so against the parents.

Is it as they left her alone?
Is it as the are showing no emotion?
Are people fed up of them being in our faces all the time (similar to what cook Jamie Oliver suffered)?
Are they just an easy target?

Or is there something else ???????

Honest answers please, I would really like to understand what others are thinking.

2007-05-30 05:21:49 · 37 answers · asked by David 5 in Current Events

http://www.costofwar.com/

2007-05-30 05:15:07 · 6 answers · asked by david c 4 in Current Events

I have wondered why it is that Barack Obama has risen to the top tier of candidates so quickly and without an experienced past. Who decided that he was a strong candidate to begin with? When and how did that happen? Is it, perhaps, because it makes white people feel good to support a black candidate? Does it ease their conscience and help to expiate their perceived sins against black people? Do they look forward to the opportunity of saying in front of a black person that they are voting for Obama? Do they fear black people and want to appease them? Do they think Obama is the "safe" black candidate that they have been waiting for?

2007-05-30 05:07:10 · 23 answers · asked by pomosimulacrum 2 in Current Events

Being as Al is a politician it is hard to believe that what he is doing is for the good of us all. I know he has a movie out and a book and he has been jetting around the country making personal appearances. This begins to sound kind of like a business more than someone wanting to make a public service announcement.

2007-05-30 05:01:36 · 6 answers · asked by Chief Yellow Horse 4 in Current Events

When I'm seventy years old I want medias to work different from today. I want them to find their roots, find their purposes, find their meaning. "Which roots?" you probably want to ask now. No, I don't mean that we should go back to the time when news were new when they were one month old. I mean the simple fact that media should help people to understand the world, to help them to get to know how systems like politics, like art, like healt work. But not by simplifyng contents as many medias try to do these days. No, not by making news as short as possible reporting only shocking ot touching news.
Media should help people by giving them as many information as possible. Sure they can't print the master thesis of a physicist directly into the newspaper, so sure there has to be some simplification. But please not in the way media do nowadays by making news that fit in one sentences and catchy headline.
When I'm seventy years old I want medias to be objective.

2007-05-30 04:40:54 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

Taken direct from the NSPCC website

There is no UK law stating the age at which a child can be left at home alone. However, parents can be prosecuted for wilful neglect if they leave a child alone or unsupervised "in a manner likely to cause unnecessary suffering or injury to health" (Children and Young Persons Act 1933). Your neighbour may be having difficulties finding childcare. Perhaps the family is isolated and lacks the support of relatives and friends? As a neighbour, could you offer help with contacting local support services or with childcare? See People to talk to for organisations that offer childcare advice.


Looks like it's going to be wilful neglect then

2007-05-30 04:32:24 · 4 answers · asked by Rik D 4 in Current Events

So in Texas if you are a mom insanity is always going to get you off the hook??? Just read this article and tell me what you think!! Pay attention to the very end of the article!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,276087,00.html

Even if they were insane that does not mean its ok to kill a child or harm a child...they should still be in jail w/ the death penalty.....it may teach parents to get help when they see depression signs........

2007-05-30 04:21:18 · 5 answers · asked by tll 6 in Current Events

Media is playing a great role today in our lives.They make our voice reach everywhere, highlight problems, disclose ministers works.Media is more active now.But problem also comes,The news channels prefer to show a celebrity's activities instead of social activities.Total people killed instead of total people saved,Having headlines of matter which do not concern us directly or indirectly.i myself read newspapers for the truth, because i know the channels will not show the correct news.Obviously the channels want to get themselves attention.
Aaj Tak , Zee News, India TV are not news channels but a discovery channel of India.Should Media be controlled by some type of authority.

2007-05-30 04:06:08 · 11 answers · asked by shaiwal_2997 2 in Media & Journalism

I am sure this has been asked before, but I would like some new and fresh answers. Let's Bush wakes up tomorrow morning and says, okay, let's bring our boys home. *girls too*

What would happen then, in your opinion. This is just hypothetical, and just your opinion, but I want to hear all sides. What can you offer to stand behind your opinion?

2007-05-30 03:39:30 · 18 answers · asked by Des-n-Jes 4 in Current Events

Wouldn't that make the anti-war movement a FAILURE???

2007-05-30 02:59:08 · 8 answers · asked by bradxschuman 6 in Current Events

Russia has started testing new missles and is challenging new defense initiatives for the missile shield in Europe...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070529/D8PEB1JO1.html

2007-05-30 02:53:45 · 4 answers · asked by ? 3 in Current Events

I thought we were free to express ouselves in this country, other than yelling "fire". I am starting to believe that some in government do not want us to know the truth about some things. I am pretty sure the government does what it may to pacify most from the truth. Is this paranoid. I see it as factual.

2007-05-30 02:48:45 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

2007-05-30 01:45:01 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

It is suggested they are profiting from this? They are going on a jolly?

I don't understand. Do people not have compassion and sympathy? Or is it another case of empty vessels making the most noise.

Ps: I expect the raging vitriole of all those closet pervs out there who are obviously getting off in some way over this matter.

2007-05-30 01:39:10 · 7 answers · asked by Chris B 2 in Current Events

just read about them on yahoo news it says "we have been preoccupied with meeting the pope today to do anything else"
and there is a fat picture of them both in 1st class with a glass of what looks like vodka and coke.I say string em up when they get home.there is so much more to this than meets the eye.

2007-05-30 01:34:39 · 28 answers · asked by Davros 1 in Current Events

Many people who've watched their interviews and followed the story closely say they suspect the McCanns of hiding something.

Are there credible grounds for such suspicion?

2007-05-30 01:20:32 · 24 answers · asked by James T 3 in Current Events

2007-05-30 01:15:09 · 1 answers · asked by selvikumar72 1 in Media & Journalism

i was going to Miami but after the threat of Al Qaida i'm not so sure. I live in Jordan and i think it's safer here.
God be with you, America. Most Muslims do not support Al Qaida.

2007-05-30 00:34:06 · 6 answers · asked by salar b 2 in Current Events

This has got to be the most shambolic show of so called concern I have ever seen in my life. If my kid was missing I would be tearing my friggin hair out and running around like a lunatic yelling her name. Not these two attention seeking twats. Come on, let it go. Get the police involved. Get them back over here and get them charged with friggin neglect and negligent parenting. FFS!

2007-05-30 00:27:32 · 20 answers · asked by hairybear_042000 1 in Current Events

I live in Australia and for some reason it receives a fair amount of news coverage. I'm guessing it is the same in the States.

2007-05-29 23:56:59 · 5 answers · asked by robbob 5 in Current Events

This has gone to far.

Won't the catholic church be against the creation of embryo's that won't survive during the course of IVF?

What do you think?

http://www.talk107.co.uk/article.php?article=3556

2007-05-29 23:55:52 · 15 answers · asked by Lovely Lady 4 in Current Events

telling them they are winning
when not one muslim has converted yet

2007-05-29 23:39:59 · 6 answers · asked by impeachbushnoww 1 in Current Events

should we be worried about this new video

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070530/ap_on_re_mi_ea/al_qaida_american_video

is the threat level higher now that this video was released? should we be on high alert?

when will this war between us end i dont feel safe

2007-05-29 22:33:00 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

That hog did nothing wrong, he just was. And then they killed him, and this boy is regretful: "It feels really good," Jamison said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "It's a good accomplishment. I probably won't ever kill anything else that big."
Why anything big has to be killed at all? They could preserve that hog, and keep him like a local curiosity. It was so big! This boy is a murderer!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/26/AR2007052600461.html

2007-05-29 22:19:34 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

I come from a relativley small town within Scotland.
A local business man generously donated £1 million bucks to help the family in their time of need....
He doesn't appear on front covers of magazines, papers etc
How many celebrities who have multitiudes of money have came forward to show their generosity?
Not many that i'm aware of.
Has there ever been funds set up for other children who have disappeared over the years?
Do you think that all the money donated, is used appropriately?

I pray that she is found safe and well, reunited with her family... x

2007-05-29 22:16:08 · 13 answers · asked by x SexySian x 4 in Other - News & Events

is making one iota of difference?

What you fail to appreciate is that at the same time I am posting them on here, I am posting the same questions and points on about 12 other world wide forums ... including the question about the utter hypocrisy of the McCanns proclaiming themselves to be Catholics whilst undergoing IVF - "Cafeteria Catholics" as they were so graciously called by a certain Father Keith from a Catholic organisation... oh and it is also grounds for excommunication!!!

Are you going to try and remove all of those posts as well? Good luck to you there as I feel you may need it!

.. and keep up the good work as I shall do!!

2007-05-29 22:02:17 · 23 answers · asked by triptipper 3 in Current Events

Probably depends on how much media exposure it gets.

I wonder how he works out the criteria in how people are worthy of his help?

2007-05-29 21:51:01 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

2007-05-29 21:43:56 · 8 answers · asked by why_cant_i_be_me69 2 in Current Events