Current Events - September 2006

We've already learned that the U.S. has been building PERMANENT facilities in Iraq since the initial invasion. So what's all of this "we'll stand down when the Iraqis stand up" rhetoric.
It seems the only way to stop the carnage and misery affecting our troops is for every single combat troop to lay down his/her arms and declare

"ENOUGH IS ENOUGH".

Iraq: A daily scene of death., destruction and devestation.
Iraq: Modernized weapons, innovative weapons
Iraq: A massive graveyard
Iraq: Designed to mess with the mind. Permanently.
Iraq: ......And, All we have created are
dead troops marching, cadavers bringing up the rear.

2006-09-01 09:26:01 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

was Camilla the winner?

2006-09-01 09:23:28 · 8 answers · asked by Astra 6

Is it right that our Government can collect whatever information it desires for no particular reason......?

Is this not a complete betrayal of the Data Protection Act???

2006-09-01 09:19:49 · 11 answers · asked by Hedgehog 3

yesterday and no-one remembered?

2006-09-01 09:16:51 · 7 answers · asked by Astra 6

2006-09-01 09:05:27 · 17 answers · asked by devonlad06 1

2006-09-01 08:56:24 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

If you are one of them could you please sign this petition : http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/868590117?ltl=1157139658

My friend Deanna Cremin was murdered in Somerville MA 11 years ago. Her case is still unsolved. We are trying to get 5000 signatures to have her case get aired on COLD CASE FILES. A state trooper told her mom Kathy Cremin to try that show. We are also trying for ANY show that will help her case. Please tell everyone you know to sign it! This is not a scam...google Deanna Cremin and you will see that this is very true....unfortunately!!

Thank you so much for those who are willing to sign it!!!

2006-09-01 08:50:46 · 3 answers · asked by tombo611 1

I want to keep myself updated and with current trends with current events in each area.

2006-09-01 08:00:56 · 9 answers · asked by chirag p 1

I need to make up town names help please

2006-09-01 07:52:39 · 5 answers · asked by Alexis D 1

I was watching the news the other day and they had a story on how in the year 2027 there will be a meteor which will circle around the earth and create 100ft tidal waves around the world. At this point they are predicting if it strikes in the atlantic ocean all of the east coast will be destroyed. This of course includes new york and florida also with the other states. Then after another 7 years the same meteor will be sucked in by the suns gravitational force and circle back around and come by earth again.
As a result, the number of asteroids that have been identified and reliably charted now stands at about 26,000, up from 10,000 in early 1999. ``And it took 198 years to get the first 10,000. That's how dramatically things are moving,'' said Brian Marsden, director of the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union, the international repository of data on asteroids, comets and meteors.

Scientists have identified and charted about 1,413 near-Earth asteroids, so called because their trajectories have the potential to intersect with Earth's orbit. Five hundred of those are 0.62 mile in diameter or larger.

A key unit of measure for asteroid hunters is the Astronomical Unit (AU), defined as the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, or 93 million miles.

The closest near-miss on record occurred December 9, 1994, when an object the size of a large house and called 1994-XM1 passed within 0.0007 AU, or 65,000 miles of Earth, well within the moon's orbit of 238,000 miles.

The next close-call for Earth is expected August 7, 2027, when a 0.62-mile-size object called 1999-AN10 passes just outside the lunar orbit at 0.00265 AU, or 245,000 miles.

Still uncertain is what authorities can do if scientists find an asteroid or comet on a collision course with Earth. ``I don't think we'd give Bruce Willis a call,'' joked Yeomans, referring to a role the actor played in the movie ``Armageddon.''

Scientists say the biggest threats should be known decades in advance, theoretically giving the world's leading nations enough time to organize a safe, effective response plan.

Some scientists favor space vehicles capable of pushing an Earth-bound object off course. Others suggest some objects could be shattered into dust by a well-aimed intercontinental ballistic missile.

But for the moment, NASA is working to gain a clearer understanding of the mass and weight of different objects, whether they be comets, stoney asteroids, chunks of solid iron, or space-going piles of rubble.

``There have been some studies trying to identify which characteristics of an asteroid or a comet we would need to know to deal with it effectively. We have to know its structure, its density, its size, its mass,'' Yeomans said.

NASA's NEAR Shoemaker mission to the asteroid Eros last February yielded a wealth of knowledge about the biggest space rocks. On July 4, 2005, the spacecraft Deep Impact is scheduled to blast a football-field-size crater into the comet Tempel-1 so that scientists can get an idea of what comets are made of.

``So, the first goal is to find 'em, track 'em and characterize each of the several classes,'' Yeomans said.

``The thinking is that, more than likely, we'll have several decades to deal with such a thing. And this might be a more rational approach than having nuclear arsenals at the ready, because in that case, the cure might be worse than the disease.''

2006-09-01 07:41:08 · 24 answers · asked by ohyea1221 1

It has freaked me out that a poor little girl can be put in that situation and the police did not follow up clear leads that would have led to her captor. Allegedly, the police decided he seemed a law abiding citizen. It resonated given that only a few years ago there was the Belgian case of a man keeping a number of girls in a "cell." I do believe the incurable sickness of paedophilia is fuelled by the internet - and for me once they are arrested for looking at any of the vile material should be locked away indefinitely. These incurables should not be on the streets.

2006-09-01 07:18:20 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Kathy Augustine was the state treasurer of nv but died of a heart attack at age 50. They have now been investigating her husband chaz higgs who tried to committ suicide the day of her funeral. They said the toxicology report who take a few weeks. has anyone heard the results. its been over a month.

2006-09-01 07:15:00 · 2 answers · asked by humorme! 3

I wonder if he omitted the murder in order to get back home and out of Bangkok to keep from getting into trouble over there. And did he also know it would be a free ride home

2006-09-01 07:08:16 · 10 answers · asked by ellajen1 1

2006-09-01 07:04:25 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

North Carolina attorney general Cooper claims that North Carolina has an aggressive drunk driving campaign, but his cousin, Katherine Cherry Cooper is a convicted drunk driver who is now wanted for absconding from supervised probation and rehab. Even though all of the proper authorities have been notified as to her whereabouts, she still remains free to endanger the lives of other people. This is not the first time she has walked away free because of her affiliation with Mr. Cooper. What do you feel about an Attorney General that has different rules depending on who you are?

2006-09-01 06:28:22 · 2 answers · asked by expertloghomegal 2

i think the U.S. has done this many times before. I mean, if you look at it, the U.S. said that the Soviet Union, People's republic of China, North korea, and many others have to stop their nuclear weapons program. and now look, Russia and China both have nuclear weapons, and what the U.S. said did nothing. So right now, the same thing is going to happen. Iran is not going to stop.

2006-09-01 06:01:10 · 11 answers · asked by xiy 3

2006-09-01 05:52:32 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-09-01 05:48:56 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

......yet so much controversy just recently when, although UNrecognized as a separate military WITHin AN 'OFFICICAL' Lebanese government military, Hizzbollah gave measely $12,000
payments to each INNOCENT Lebanese family whose homes/apartments had been destroyed by Israeli bombs?

Israel gave these now EX-settlers' families tens of thousands of dollars EACH.

This was US tax dollars funding new housing for these families.


The monies these Lebanese families received did not come from American taxpayers.

...and before you zero in on Hizzbollah's contributions, look at it this way also....It' s like your credit card company or mortgage company when payments are overdue: They don't really care where you get the payments from. They just want to be paid.

...The DISPLACED INNOCENT Lebanese people didn't much care where the money came from either. They just wanted a roof over their heads.....and food to eat

2006-09-01 05:45:50 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Shes on a roll

2006-09-01 05:20:24 · 2 answers · asked by bad-dreemz 2

why is everthing in the news allways so negative, and shows about death or dying?

2006-09-01 04:58:37 · 10 answers · asked by Herm04_09 2

Ok so tommorrow.. i will be 22. I am a huge party girl.. and have lots of plans.. but today is my bestie's (boy bestie) birthday.. i wanna do something special for our birthdays.. gimme stuff.. love yall

2006-09-01 04:45:35 · 12 answers · asked by misskaykai 2

LOL. the person with the most clever answer gets the points.

2006-09-01 04:38:10 · 7 answers · asked by stickan8 3

Please help me understand it a little better. What is it exactly and how is it really affecting us?

2006-09-01 04:19:14 · 9 answers · asked by berthabuttjenn 1

My pet hate is pushy sales tactics when I'M JUST LOOKING -oops, too late, I've left the shop now and it's all because you wouldn't leave me in peace! If I need help I will ask YOU, not the other way round! Ok???

2006-09-01 04:18:00 · 35 answers · asked by J C 3

Israel is worse than the prodomently muslem nations aroud it. it engages in state sponsered terror with absolutly no effort to hide it. for example, operation wrath of god. after the munic massacre, Israeli inteligence tracked down the perpatrators and,insted of bringing them to justace rather than bring them to trail like any reasonable nation would, they systematicly hunted them down and killed them in ways spcificly designed to cause maximum fear. if thats not terrorism i dont know what is. also the israeli government has a nasty habit of assaenating high up members the plaentenian leadership under te guise of "fighting terror" just because they want to keep the palestians in check. also in lebonon the israeli government targeted sanation, electrical and other munisipel sites to crearte unlivable conditions, then destroyed briges and roadways to prevent the helpless lebonese civians from escaping the carnage.

2006-09-01 04:01:41 · 16 answers · asked by pockettanx90 3

Are the current europeans abandoning Israel to the genocidal drive of jihadists the same way their ancestors abandoned the jews in 1939 to the hands of Hitler and the nazis ?

2006-09-01 03:18:06 · 24 answers · asked by FauxPas 2

2006-09-01 02:59:25 · 8 answers · asked by cognito44 3

2006-09-01 02:54:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is in no way having a go at anyone at all. I am just curious why we do this in Australia when we can create our own crude oil? Its baffled me for a long time. Also petrol?
Forgive me for my ignorance, I just dont know!!
Reason I put it in this category is that I coudnt think which one would be more suitable & that the price of petrol is so high now.

2006-09-01 02:32:49 · 10 answers · asked by Mrs D 6