Current Events - October 2006

I saw the tubes on the news yesterday, basically like long tubular helter skelters and it just struck me that if they used these as emergency exits in buildings then far fewer people would die when evacuating buildings. If they'd had them in the twin towers then maybe more people would have survived as it takes only minutes to get to the bottom instead of having to run down all those stairs and also potentially getting crushed in the panic.

2006-10-10 05:41:58 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-10 05:37:29 · 6 answers · asked by tomb231 1

Today Bush has decided to do a few (he says very little) arial bombings on N Korean nuke sites to demonstrate the world's oppostion to the proliferation of atomic bombs. Do you think we should do this or that we should allow some proliferation of atmoic bombs?

2006-10-10 05:35:47 · 6 answers · asked by SlapADog 4

Thousands of offending videos have been taken offline over the past few days and Google are tring to turn it into a Payview site for premium content.

2006-10-10 05:24:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

The spinach issue was obviously huge - and real. But are the lettuce and carrot juice stories much ado about nothing? Are they the "shark frenzy" stories of 2006?

2006-10-10 05:15:31 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

The “runaway bride,” who took off days before her lavish wedding in 2005, is suing her former fiance for $500,000, claiming he defrauded her out of her share of their assets, including a ladder, a gold sofa and gifts.
Jennifer Wilbanks is seeking $250,000 as her share of a home she says John C. Mason purchased through the partnership with proceeds from $500,000 received for selling their story to Regan Media in New York.
She also wants $250,000 in punitive damages for alleged abuse of the power of attorney she granted for Mason to handle their financial affairs.

He took her back for 1 year after she left him, then they broke up, she now wants the wedding gifts and half of everything even though she left him at the alter. Isn't he entitled to any profit made out of this as a way of compensation? What do you think?

2006-10-10 05:08:39 · 14 answers · asked by LondonLou 3

I find it incredible that so much negative, useless and LIBERAL (of course) energy is constantly wasted whining about non-issues and non-stories like Guantanamo and Bush, when maniacal nincompoops like Kim Jong Il are playing with their latest neclear toys. As ALWAYS, it will take a catastrophe like a nuke falling directly on a liberal's head, or his/her loved ones, to provoke a SANE response from one of these losers.

Where did pure common sense ever go in America and Europe? We don't give our children loaded guns to play with. We TAKE THEM AWAY and SPANK them if they even go near one -- that is, if we aren't from the loony left.

So now "Dear Leader, " the same crackpot who watched his people boil grass to survive and justifiably made Bush' s Axis of Evil along with that terrorist idiot in Iran are rattling sabers constantly while libs look for the good guys to blame. How pitifully typical!

This world is sadly headed in the wrong direction -- and all due to gutless LIBERALS!

2006-10-10 05:00:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was in North Korea recently and everything seemed peaceful,so I am in doubts that they tested a Nuke.

2006-10-10 04:55:14 · 14 answers · asked by Dr. Christopher Carter 2

2006-10-10 04:14:57 · 8 answers · asked by Desperate Dan 1

With the black crime wave showing no signs of abaiting in south africa, twenty thousand murders a year and sixty thousand rapes a year, surely Fifa have to come to a moral conclusion that this is an unfit place to send hundeds of thousands of fans. The only logic for doing this is that the english thug element would soon be brought to heel in a south african prison when the local batty boy sodomises the tattoo scarred bnp dweeb and then passes on the aids virus as his birthday present (one interracial relationship that wont end in a wedding). Surely a country with an aids epidemic and 40% unemployment shouldnt be spending money on facillities it doesnt need and put them into health and education. Their is an outstanding case that North Korea should be awarded it instead knowing the morons that run fifa it will get the 2014 cup.

2006-10-10 04:03:46 · 6 answers · asked by jshflaksdf k 1

I can see when somebody actually has carnal knowledge of a child and have PHYSICALLY done something to a child that they would be considered a pedo, but should EVERYBODY listed on the sex offender registry be considered a pedo?

2006-10-10 04:02:58 · 11 answers · asked by Joshua C 1

Does this mean the Seahawks won't be playing the Patriots in Beijing next year??? That would suck if they won't now.

2006-10-10 03:54:56 · 7 answers · asked by rjakjr 3

2006-10-10 03:53:07 · 3 answers · asked by vickieb1147 1

2006-10-10 01:43:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Muslims are the new Jews. Over 65 years ago (although Jews have been persecuted for centuries ,- Russian pogroms etc) there was an open increase in hostility towards Jewish people and that led to the Holocaust. I can see many parallels of this with Muslims today.

Women with veils have been attacked and their veils pulled off. Although I think it would never happen because people now would never let it happen -you can't help but wonder. The media has whipped up a frenzy about Islam, publishing the wrong facts all the time.

Also to any racist bigots replying- if you have any comments like 'go back home then, you dirty Muslims' then go crawl back under that filty rock you crawled out from.

2006-10-10 01:32:00 · 21 answers · asked by The Face 3

2006-10-10 00:34:24 · 10 answers · asked by Turbot Face 2

In todays modern society how come we have still not managed to harness the waters around our shores and purify them in order for us to use it for everyday purposes.
There must be a way to do this with all the modern technology we have at our disposal,and it would help stop the erosion of the coastline and why not use it for fire fighting and industrial use.
There must be countless uses for seawater,and it would be cheap,and imagine all those countries who are surrounded by oceans and have no water to drink.

2006-10-10 00:19:50 · 19 answers · asked by mentor 5

2006-10-09 23:46:37 · 11 answers · asked by Sherine D 2

2006-10-09 22:47:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-09 22:32:09 · 6 answers · asked by D.Kumar 3

U.S. military deaths in Iraq hit 2,748

AP - Mon Oct 9, 5:31 PM ET

As of Monday, Oct. 9, 2006, at least 2,748 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,176 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

2006-10-09 20:16:54 · 9 answers · asked by MaSTeR 3

If an ex-spouse owes you maintenance and is overseas, would it be the responsibility of the appropriate statutory board (or courts) to reveal the ex-spouse's whereabouts in the foreign country, for purpose of tracking him/her down? Who has the answer to this question?

P.S. Forget about asking to hire pte investigators. :)

2006-10-09 19:36:33 · 1 answers · asked by MyQute 3

2006-10-09 18:21:37 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In Alaska's native villages, the punishing winter cold is already coming through the walls of the lightly insulated plywood homes, many of the villagers are desperately poor, & heating-oil prices are among the highest in the nation.A few villages are refusing free heating oil from Venezuela, on the patriotic principle that no foreigner has the right to call their president "the devil." Residentspay more than $5 a gallon for oil — or at least $300 a month per household — to heat their homes along the wind-swept coast of the Bering Sea, where temperatures can dip to minus-15.,

Over the past two years, Citgo, the Venezuelan government's Texas-based oil subsidiary, has given millions of gallons of discounted heating oil to the poor in several states and cities — including New York, Connecticut, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Maine — in what is widely seen as an effort by Chavez to embarrass and irritate the U.S. government and make himself look good.

2006-10-09 18:07:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

What would be the consequences of NK nuking any city outside its territory? Should the world let that happen?

2006-10-09 17:57:51 · 12 answers · asked by J. D. 2

What would be the consequences of NK nuking any city outside its territory? Should the world let that happen?

2006-10-09 17:57:31 · 8 answers · asked by J. D. 2

2006-10-09 17:09:07 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Well, we should find out!

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2006-10-09 17:06:55 · 11 answers · asked by explorer of life 2

do it ? Was that the day he came this close to killing Osama bin Laden ?

2006-10-09 16:42:24 · 7 answers · asked by missmayzie 7

2006-10-09 16:38:07 · 32 answers · asked by aprille_twiter 1