News & Events - August 2007

2007-08-01 11:48:56 · 3 answers · asked by Kiwi 2 in Media & Journalism

Since 1870, nearly 3 centuries after the first colonial settlements. Christmas has been a national holiday. Usually the complaint was about public mischief or pagan origins. Recently christmas received a few more enemies from the religious/non-religious rivals and commercialism. Individually, christmas persisted but as it is challenged on church/state separation issues and secular commercial interest-it now seems christmas may at the very least lose it's social supports.The questions are: can christmas be saved? can it be returned to it's christian origins and should it be saved in it's current over-commercialized christian-devoid state? Though most of colonial american history christmas did not exist, to lose christmas now would destroy one of the last moral anchors in this society. For all the aspiring grammar teachers, please try to focus on the issue if you must answer. Those who can do ASK, those who can't....

2007-08-01 11:48:14 · 11 answers · asked by Diangel M 1 in Current Events

I've been reading a very interesting book about the Manson murders and the Manson Family called Helter Skelter. Great book. Lots of details about how this deranged man exerted psychological power over vulnerable and impressionable young people to the point where they would kill for him.

Does "The Family" still exist in any way? Does Manson have followers to this day?

2007-08-01 11:20:23 · 9 answers · asked by Zezo Zeze Zadfrack 1 in Other - News & Events

(Maryland)
Freeman, who is being held without bail, was charged with murder under a state law that allows murder prosecutions of those who cause the death of a fetus that may have been able to survive outside the womb.The stillborn fetus found in the vanity was determined to be about 26 weeks old. Investigators still need to figure out how old the others were when they died, when they died, and whether Freeman or someone else was responsible for the deaths. The timing is critical. If the pre-term infants were too young to be considered viable outside the womb, Freeman can't be charged with murder. And if they died before Maryland passed its 2005 fetal homicide law, it may not be a crime even if they were old enough to live outside the womb and Freeman caused their deaths. The fetal homicide law was designed to penalize those who kill a pregnant woman or her viable fetus, but it includes a provision shielding pregnant women from prosecution for actions that result in the death of t

2007-08-01 11:03:07 · 3 answers · asked by lunaticxxcalm 3 in Current Events

thanks

2007-08-01 10:45:10 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

2007-08-01 10:37:02 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

Seems like the media is only focused on the bad things that happen with the Iraq war? Am I wrong? Are there any good things happening over there? Let me know.

2007-08-01 10:28:48 · 16 answers · asked by Dana H 1 in Current Events

2007-08-01 10:15:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

once again, a black man (mike vick) gets in trouble and good ole al comes slithering out from under his rock and is babbling on with the "innocent until proven guilty" crap. yet this is the same man who practically convicted the three duke lacrosse boys himself before the trial even began.

he's also the same guy who applauded and encouraged the vigilance of the protesters who sent death threats to the coach, professors, and the three boys at duke.

and worst of all, after the three boys were found innocent, al STILL hasn't apologized to them.

i guess to al, if you're white, you're guilty even if proven innocent. but if you're black, you're innocent even if proven guilty.

2007-08-01 10:14:38 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

8 of my 9 children have white mothers. I have insisted that they are black since they will have the privilege of real affirmative action--extra traffic stops-longer jail terms--lower wages etc.(white people never ask for their fair share of our woes :) They demand our seats at universities but not our seats on death row--lol. In florida when they added interracial to the census black people complained that it was a plot to dilute our political representation. Hispanics actually can choose black or white. Everyone has come here and tried to pass themselves off as anglo---jews--hispanics--italians--keep clorox in business with all this fake blond hair(which isn't even an english trait but a viking one, they used to rape their wives now most white people try to prove a viking heritage. The sad irony is that most african americans are anglo, we're stuck with anglo names and watered down african features. Our ancestors were actually slaveholders. So we pretend that we are not white

2007-08-01 09:46:05 · 26 answers · asked by Diangel M 1 in Current Events

I guess some of the tourists have returned from their Adriatic vacations by now, so if anyone has ANY kind of information (appearance, direction, brightness, colour, sound, etc...) about this event, could you, please, describe it?
In case you have videos and/or photos, feel free to e-mail me!

P.S. - I have both Croatian and Slovenian news clips and articles. What we're trying to find are actual witnesses' accounts.

Thanks!

(sorry for asking about this event again, but I've been away from the Internet and couldn't extend the previous question on time)

2007-08-01 09:41:25 · 1 answers · asked by ClearSky 2 in Other - News & Events

Thank Jupiter I work nights, because I am not leaving my C/A until then!!!!!

2007-08-01 09:34:17 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

2007-08-01 09:27:46 · 5 answers · asked by marketinsider 1 in Media & Journalism

I need something really catchy that will makes tonsssss of money!!!!!! (oh, and please don't specify it into breast cancer...i
m doin the big picture)

2007-08-01 09:11:09 · 4 answers · asked by Jordan P 1 in Other - News & Events

.. using a combination of asking and answering will it take to do that (excluding any unforseen circumstances like being awarded a "best answer" or having a question maliciously deleted).
Would it make any difference if your number was odd - say 1649?

2007-08-01 09:03:39 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

2007-08-01 08:57:05 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

President Kennedy was born May 29, 1917 . Did Marilyn Monroe sing "Happy Birthday" to him on May 29, 1961 or May 29, 1962 ?

2007-08-01 08:47:56 · 2 answers · asked by I_hate_being_single 3 in Other - News & Events

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

Daves, be warned. Eden has escaped from my cage of wives and is attempting to have me deleted from history by the Inquisitor.

Can you please keep an eye out?

2007-08-01 08:15:09 · 15 answers · asked by Papa Lazarou 2 in Current Events

2007-08-01 07:51:12 · 38 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

took away 32 points from me! Shall I divorce them and change their names from Dave to something else?

2007-08-01 07:26:18 · 14 answers · asked by Papa Lazarou 2 in Current Events

for the public speaking we just introduce ourselves and answer a qustion like if you were a candy bar what would you be and why ( like a Heshey's because it's sweet like me) and for the talent I'm singing a song I wrote.

2007-08-01 07:05:37 · 2 answers · asked by musovogr 2 in Other - News & Events

the club owner that was killed in houston Texas named Michael ...he owned the clubs Lipstick and Michaels cabaret..my friend killed him amd i havv heard her side of the story and i want to read what the public said.it happened about 3 years ago it would heve been a head line but i dont know how to find them.

2007-08-01 06:52:37 · 4 answers · asked by ღOMGღ 7 in Other - News & Events

Simple question. Commentary welcome but please, no hatred or rhetoric needed. Just wanted to know who out there believes what our government tells us.

2007-08-01 06:07:57 · 11 answers · asked by avaheli 3 in Current Events

2007-08-01 05:38:49 · 5 answers · asked by Christina T 1 in Current Events

And we were all thinking that Democrats want d-escalation of the War and sending our troops in harm’s way?
Pakistan is a Nuclear Capable State with an army of over 700,000, armed to teeth by us already; this guy is Naïve, yes Hillary is right I had to admit now.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20070536/

2007-08-01 05:11:58 · 11 answers · asked by Thomas B 5 in Current Events

The conspiracy theorists might argue they have been making a big deal of trying to find Maddy to hide their guilt, but isn't it well past that stage now?

2007-08-01 05:05:47 · 29 answers · asked by James T 3 in Current Events

2007-08-01 04:48:58 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

And Clinton's sex with "that women" certainly did not cost the American taxpayers as much as Bush's lies about getting this country into war with Iraq did - did it?

2007-08-01 04:08:28 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

Rachel Corrie - the American peace activist killed by an Israel military bulldozer when she attempted to block the demolition of a Palestinian home in Gaza

see how she died and what the isreali milittary does in gaza and against palestinain ppl

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0315-21.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa_WFZyN2l8

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/16/1458237

2007-08-01 03:42:23 · 2 answers · asked by SARAH 3 in Media & Journalism

2007-08-01 03:38:18 · 26 answers · asked by Trekky2k 1 in Other - News & Events