News & Events - October 2007

2007-10-23 14:20:55 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

The fires are burning my house, WHY?
A few years ago, our neighbors took a petition around the neighborhood wanting to ban controlled burning around the hills. Their reasons were, to stop the smell of smoke, to reduce pollution and to stop the ashes from getting into the swimming pools and clogging the filters. Now, after a few years of uncontrolled undergrowth, the hills are all burning and darkening the sky with heavy smoke. The smell of burning cars and houses is terrible. The pool water was used to fill fire trucks with water after the houses burnt or was near burning.

Can we sue the ones who signed the petition to stop controlled burning that led to the destruction of our neighborhood? It seems like they are the ones liable for the destruction. Were a few ashes in the pool worth it

2007-10-23 13:51:30 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

It seems almost like the people in the Gulf Coast's hurricane Katrina were not considered to be as important as those in southern California's fires. Don't get me wrong, I am very glad the response is much better. But when all is said and done, we all come into this world naked and leave with nothing (except what we have done or not done)! Whether we like it or not, it all boils down to... we are ALL the same!

2007-10-23 13:34:45 · 15 answers · asked by care4ub0y 2 in Current Events

like what do u guys view of them?and why?

lets be respectable though!

2007-10-23 13:31:39 · 4 answers · asked by billy a 2 in Current Events

2007-10-23 13:31:21 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

La Crescenta is pretty smoky.. and the sky is sorta reddish
and it's hot
but other than that .. i'm pretty safe
just wondering

2007-10-23 13:27:00 · 4 answers · asked by ♥ mimi ♥ 7 in Current Events

2007-10-23 12:47:07 · 12 answers · asked by Lessster 2 in Current Events

2007-10-23 12:34:07 · 7 answers · asked by wow 4 in Current Events

2007-10-23 11:54:08 · 3 answers · asked by Military Supporter! 6 in Media & Journalism

We're CA. We're more powerful than France. yet, we're cutting it close...most are still out of control and there's plenty more dry brush to burn ...Please! don't make us rely on the Fed...they'll use on high-altitude flame retardant spray operations . Call your local fire department ask them to send something, anything...a dalmation, i don't care.

2007-10-23 11:43:50 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

[Category: Last Resort] lol
http://chosetec.darkclan.net/origami/
I guess I couldn't find anything better than this...sadly...


What are your special skills/talents?

2007-10-23 11:21:16 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

whining link
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071023/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_deaths_decline

quote
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch points to what the military calls "Concerned Citizens" — both Shiites and Sunnis who have joined the American fight. He says he's signed up 20,000 of them in the past four months.

Keaveny attributes the startling decline to a decrease in attacks by militants who are being rounded up in big numbers on information provided by the citizen force — which has literally doubled the number of eyes and ears available to the military
People are fed up with fear, intimidation and being brutalized. Once they hit that tipping point, they're fed up, they come to realized we truly do provide them better hope for the future. What we're seeing now is the beginning of a snowball," said Keaveny, whose forces operate out of Forward Operating Base Kalsu, about 35 miles south of Baghdad.
AND THIS IS THE PEOPLE THAT DONT WANT US THERE???
LMFAO!
LIBERALS...GOTTA LOVE EM(SIC)

2007-10-23 11:15:19 · 5 answers · asked by koalatcomics 7 in Current Events

in California?

2007-10-23 11:13:49 · 8 answers · asked by butterfliesRfree 7 in Other - News & Events

i'm doing this thing called Model United Nations for my school. we choose a country and then write a resolution about a specific problem in our country and what we would like the UN to do about it. my country is Japan and i'm hoping to do our resolution on the illegal sex trade/human traffiking going on in the area. does anybody have any good web sites that i could go to to find some facts or something about it?

thanks!

2007-10-23 10:28:34 · 7 answers · asked by artsy indie chick 2 in Current Events

I am asking this because I have seen a lot of posts over the past few days about bullying on here and I would just like to know people's personal experiences and whether they were resolved or ongoing.

Thanks in advance

2007-10-23 10:13:42 · 38 answers · asked by loved 2 in Current Events

Why the hell do people who do not live in this state think we all own million dollar homes?
This is a very serious disaster! What is up with all this hate spewing?
There are a half of million people being evacuated from their homes.

2007-10-23 09:56:27 · 6 answers · asked by Seedna 4 in Other - News & Events

Could be a famous quote also!

Thanks

2007-10-23 09:29:37 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

2007-10-23 09:16:28 · 7 answers · asked by ♥Wendy♥ 1 in Other - News & Events

what do you think?

2007-10-23 09:13:45 · 10 answers · asked by garnes d 2 in Current Events

seems like southern California is turning to ashes. I'm afraid of fire spreading to San Francisco, where my sister lives. Where the hell is Superman when you need 'em? He can turn all those fire into ice with his blow and turn a river to ice and can chuck it to the fire! superman sucks!

2007-10-23 08:55:39 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

I'd go with Moore, Pilger seems quite boring in comparison.

2007-10-23 08:35:30 · 7 answers · asked by Darrell 4 in Media & Journalism

The ashes are your home.

2007-10-23 08:23:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

They rebuilt New Orleans, still below sea level. Those fires in California are just a regular thing, Florida’s Hurricane season is just an annual cycle. Should people living in places that get constantly hit by the same natural disaster be eligible for Federal assistance? Seems like a lost cause, building something over and over knowing that it will just be knocked down again.

2007-10-23 08:19:58 · 10 answers · asked by rayb1214 7 in Current Events

These fires are going to cost so much in reconstruction. One of our largest states is going to need so much help so again how can our government justify still asking for billions to fight this BS war?

2007-10-23 07:44:58 · 13 answers · asked by A.V. 2 in Current Events

what ex footballers/ ex celebrities are now newspaper columnists

2007-10-23 06:58:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

it was on yahoo news yesterday.it was 10-22-2007 honoring a fallen hero navy seal lt.murphy.the story was being told by the lone survivor of the seal team,and his parents and president bush

2007-10-23 06:57:25 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

Read this link before you answer: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071023/hl_nm/honduras_aids_dc

How could the Catholic Church be so foolish and selfish?

2007-10-23 06:56:52 · 5 answers · asked by Stephen L 6 in Current Events

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - The rapid spread in Latin America of the virus that causes AIDS is made worse by the Roman Catholic Church's stand against using condoms, a U.N. official said on Monday. Some 1.7 million people across Latin America are infected with the HIV virus or full-blown AIDS, & the epidemic is spreading swiftly with up to 410,000 new cases in 2006, up from as many as 320,000 new cases in 2004, according the UN AIDS program, UNAIDS.

"In Latin America the use of condoms has been demonized, but if they were used in every relation I guarantee the epidemic would be resolved in the region," said Alberto Stella, the UNAIDS Coordinator for Honduras, Nicaragua & Costa Rica.

The Catholic Church, which holds sway in Latin America despite the rise in evangelical churches, opposes all forms of contraception & instead promotes abstinence as a way to avoid spreading AIDS. "The fact young people start to be sexually active between 15 & 19 without

2007-10-23 06:38:04 · 7 answers · asked by lilith663 6 in Current Events

2007-10-23 05:56:57 · 1 answers · asked by rickywood1234 1 in Other - News & Events

Just seeing what peoples views are on the question...

2007-10-23 05:52:34 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events