News & Events - December 2007

does it give us hope that the Americans will stop this terrible injustice of detention without trial?

2007-12-11 03:42:06 · 14 answers · asked by SLF 6 in Other - News & Events

I believe they flew easyJet. I don't know what their refund policies are.

2007-12-11 03:38:58 · 19 answers · asked by Rock me Amadeus 1 in Current Events

regarding the shooting in America at a church in which 5 people were killed.

Apparently an armed security guard intervened saving many lives.

So my first question is. What the hell is armed security doing at a church? Talk about it being rough over in America. If thats what you need just to go to church, they can keep their star spangled banner thank you very much. Id much rather live in a 'normal' society where you dont need to be armed just to go to a church service.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3982607&page=1

2007-12-11 03:31:30 · 16 answers · asked by dave s 2 in Other - News & Events

I've been hearing on the news that the barmy beurocrats who are in charge of the Ambulance Service, have now come up with another brainwave that they claim will 'improve' the service to the public.

Apparently they have now decided that it would be better for all of us, to have lots more individual Paramedics working alone and driving round in small cars with basic emergency equipment. They would be dispatched to emergency calls to provide emergency treatment and to assess the possible need for more complex equipment and/or transport of the patient to an appropriate A & E Unit.

This is supposed to be about maintaining or improving response times, and nothing to do with cost savings, and we the public are supposed to believe that!

What total claptrap!

The beurocrats claim that it will allow for more efficient use of staff and resources, but it is simply going to delay hospital treatment for those needing it, and will make staff working conditions even worse than they are!

2007-12-11 03:11:16 · 19 answers · asked by jacyinbg 4 in Current Events

i feel like i can't remember anything after i read a newspaper.
is that normal to everyone? then why do we read?
how can i remember the stories or the facts after i read just for one time? what are the skills that i need to develop?

2007-12-11 02:54:22 · 8 answers · asked by mighty_co0l_guy 1 in Media & Journalism

2007-12-11 02:43:00 · 6 answers · asked by portofans1 1 in Other - News & Events

what could qualify Bush to make such claims?

2007-12-11 02:32:28 · 11 answers · asked by SLF 6 in Current Events

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/7138408.stm

2007-12-11 02:21:22 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

http://www.123jump.com/economy-story/Gross-Domestic-Product-Rises-4.9-in-Q3/23828/

2007-12-11 02:06:21 · 9 answers · asked by George B 6 in Media & Journalism

2007-12-11 01:39:06 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

this ambition is part of the so-called New American Century.
I wondered how people feel about this. Should the US be congratulated for having a goal in life, or should it keep its nose out of other countries and try to get its own house in order?

2007-12-11 01:14:46 · 13 answers · asked by SLF 6 in Current Events

I know it gets under the skin of everyone and nobody wants to hear about it. Just for a moment imagine, odds are 100 trillion to 1 lets say, if and only if, there was a US government involvement on 9-11 - and imagine they admitted involvement, what would your reaction be? and what would you want to be done about it?

2007-12-11 01:11:12 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

Adam & 17pdr are the same person?

This is an easy one.

You answer a question asked by 17pdr and then go back to check on that answer and the id has been changed to Adam with Adams avatar.

He's a cheeky monkey who has denied this all along and I now have the evidence in my answer history lol

2007-12-11 00:30:29 · 18 answers · asked by Tabbyfur aka patchy puss 5 in Current Events

2007-12-10 23:42:50 · 20 answers · asked by Lady Claire - Hates Bigotry 6 in Current Events

Legal beagle

2007-12-10 23:16:14 · 4 answers · asked by FRANsuFU 3 in Current Events

Not that I saw him but Jesus, and the rest of us rejoiced when the Berlin Wall came down. Now if Jesus were to visit Bethlehem, (with his lonely planet guide to divided Bethlehem) today, in his Mitsubishi Warrior L200, not as a carpenter but as a "bricky" and started to tear down the wall that separates Palestinians and their homeland and Christians from visiting his birthplace. Would Jesus be stopped and arrested by the IDF - the Israel Defence Force in their Toyota Hiluxii 2.9TDs ?


2 Questions
Would Jesus be stopped by the IDF or would he have Jedi like powers to carry on taking the wall down.... Would you form a barrier around Jesus to stop him being arrested?

Whats better in this sort of terrain, a Mitsubishi Warrior L200
or a Toyota Hilux 2.9 Turbo diesel?

2007-12-10 23:01:29 · 3 answers · asked by openyoureyespeople! 5 in Current Events

under the mistletoe, for a bet or because you felt sorry for them?

I'd do it, for money.

2007-12-10 23:00:59 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/skynews/20071211/tuk-floods-force-christmas-family-into-s-45dbed5_1.html

2007-12-10 22:42:54 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071205/tod-britain-pensioner-health-offbeat-6058bda_1.html

2007-12-10 21:08:46 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20071210/tuk-put-christ-back-into-christmas-6323e80_1.html

2007-12-10 21:07:27 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

Clarence Mitchell has denied that the Tapas group got together to coordinate their versions of events and insisted that it was just "..a get together of friends who find themselves at the centre of a story." So that is what Madeleines disappearance is to them, " a story". I think that those are the truest words he has ever spoken. Poor Madeleine, just a story.
Incidently the meeting was held in the Rothley Court Hotel, built in the 11th Century by The Holy Order of Knights Templars.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-7141148,00.html

My question is this, Don't you find Clarences description of Madeleines disappearance as just a story disturbing? and do you think Gerry is a mason or a Knights Templar.

2007-12-10 20:26:27 · 21 answers · asked by trancebabe 4 in Current Events

if ever a lady needed a make-over its Anne. She looks sad, downtrodden and old. Definetly makes the old saying Money dosen't bring you happiness seem very very true.

2007-12-10 20:04:10 · 21 answers · asked by Manhattan Skyline 4 in Media & Journalism

Secret agent zero is everybodys Hero!!!!!!

I'm not suspended thank you very much, and your nastiness purely because i won't respond to your emails shows i was right not too!
When are these sad little people going to get a life and leave people alone

2007-12-10 20:02:14 · 17 answers · asked by Agent Zero® 5 in Current Events

Do you remember "Education Education Education"?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20071211/tuk-sweeping-education-reforms-to-be-out-dba1618_1.html

So they mess the schools up with there stupid policies now they want another 10 years to fix it.

Your opinions please.

2007-12-10 19:41:50 · 13 answers · asked by Agent Zero® 5 in Current Events

Today's News.

2007-12-10 18:57:38 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_re_us/trucker_unsolved_crimes

I sure hope the authorities check on his whereabouts on Dec 25th, 1996.

2007-12-10 18:39:49 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

BATON ROUGE, La. - Authorities say a Springfield woman was booked on attempted murder counts for allegedly shooting two men whose dog damaged Christmas decorations at her home. Ethel Shannon McKinney, 28, was booked on two counts of attempted second-degree murder and illegal use of a weapon, Jason Ard, a spokesman for the Livingston Parish Sheriff's Department, said.

McKinney and her boyfriend got into an argument with the men over the damaged decorations, and McKinney allegedly fired at the men, Ard said.

One man was hit in the upper torso and arm; the other, in an arm. Ard said none of the injuries were life threatening.

The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. Sunday.

McKinney's boyfriend, Audie Ray Criswell, was booked on two counts of aggravated assault and with disturbing the peace, Ard said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071210/ap_on_fe_st/odd_damaged_decorations

2007-12-10 18:33:43 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

Many people believed him. So why all the lies?

2007-12-10 17:00:29 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

2007-12-10 15:30:02 · 8 answers · asked by ms.l_thoms 1 in Media & Journalism

It seems that a dictatorship will arise, not as an exterior imposition. But one demanded as an imposition from the citizens themselves. This will not happen from one moment to the next, lest a nuclear bomb levels a city. It will happen gradually, from one day to the next it would seem.

Take oil for instance. It would have been helpful, economically, if someone had imposed an 'oil' tax some years ago to inoculate the population and start directing people to a more fuel efficient consumption. The oil tax could have been acheived by say, taxing single drivers so people would use greater mass transportation (buss), etc. However, democratically, the measure was voted down because it was not popular at the time.

What happened? A few years later, the price of gas rises due to the greater demand, and a NATURAL tax is imposed on the population through a higher gas price. Perhaps nowadays, people would be willing to vote in a bill that would tax, say, hummers.

2007-12-10 14:45:46 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events