Current Events - May 2007

Ullrich, Pantani and now Basso. How come did LA's doctors manage to hide the truth for so long?

2007-05-07 21:43:12 · 6 answers · asked by capitaine flam 2

be rewarded for his criminal activities by being allowed into the power sharing in Northern Ireland?
Should he be in jail?

2007-05-07 21:25:28 · 9 answers · asked by Carl N 2

The US has been at war, hot and cold since 1941. They are now fighting a hidden enemy. Terror. (I dare anyone to point a gun at a concept!) Does the US use constant war to drive its economy? Does anyone have a better answer?

Please don't tell me a global policeman story. It doesn't stand up to scrutiny

2007-05-07 18:28:44 · 10 answers · asked by whatsafish 1

This is a question for those who design homes or residential structures too ...... if you are going to rebuild your homes .....

HAVE YOU THOUGHT TO TRY A NEW MILLENNIUM TORNADO-PROOF DESIGN FOR YOUR NEXT HOME?

I'm not an architect or building designer and I don't even live in a tornado zone, but I was wondering ... isn't it possible for victims of the recent, horribly destructive tornados, who want to rebuild and still want to live in their area, to find a more effective, 21st century structure to live in, in "Tornado Alley" and anywhere else tornados appear?

Has anyone thought of building a hurricane-proof home at least partially subterranean, or with a solid basement for their new home or at least a sturdy "Safe Room?" This, I feel would allow people to live where they want but lose less in the next disaster. I just don't think it would be prudent to build a home that will easily be knocked down AGAIN if another tornado comes around.

What will you do?

2007-05-07 16:53:36 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

And you wonder why your paying so much at the pump! We're talking $9.28 Billion in PROFITS, yes, PROFITS. That's after all costs of shipping and whatever are factored in. And this is only in 3 months! They're profiting more than 3 BILLION a month. And you wonder why schools are falling apart, healthcare and social security are non existent, and most of. This is just EXXON too, which is just ~1~ of many Oil Tycoons. And Exxon is still spending money to fix that Valdez disaster, or their profits would be higher. I ask you, since when did hogging up all the money in America, only to claim we can't fund programs for the PEOPLE, become accepted? People get soooo pissed off when Rosie says 9/11 was an inside job......but let C.E.O's profit BILLIONS only to watch poverty unfold right before their eyes is accepted? Man, the back of our money should say 'In Media We Trust', not God. Google Search - 'Exxon 2007 Quarter Profits' .... or see ...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/

2007-05-07 16:22:01 · 9 answers · asked by rob20850 3

Are these the people who could have been in power? Sure glad the good guys won.

2007-05-07 14:18:50 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

What I would ask you to do is for the entire month of June, not buy gasoline from any Exxon/Mobile gas station.
One day as in the May 15th boycott is not enough to make an impression,but a month is.
Between now and mid June we can figure out who the lucky winner for July will be.
I realize this will mean driving all the way around the corner to buy your gas at the Shell station,but if it gets the oil companies attention it will be worth it.
I would also ask that you enlist as many participants as possible, e-mail every one you know and ask them to do the same. If you have a Myspace or any other means to get the word out ,please do.
Even if you are sceptical, please participate.

So, will you help?

2007-05-07 14:00:27 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

What kind of protest are you prepared to do when the oil companies declare MORE obscene record profits this quarter? And can Congress do anything abou tit?

2007-05-07 13:40:25 · 10 answers · asked by eddie9551 5

I am sooo friggin' sick of hearing questions like, "So, what part of New Orleans are you from?" every time I mention that I lost everything in Katrina. How come no one remembers that New Orleans received their flooding AFTER Katrina razed Mississippi's Gulf Coast and other parts of Louisiana (besides New Orleans), and tore up parts of Alabama, too? Hey, at least New Orleans had roofs to sit on...most folks in Mississippi didn't even have roofs left!

2007-05-07 12:44:57 · 7 answers · asked by futureteacher0613 5

thanks.

2007-05-07 12:31:32 · 16 answers · asked by Dash 4

The audience laughed aloud at a verbal slip by Bush when he said the Queen had dined with 10 U.S. presidents and had helped the United States "celebrate its bicentennial in 17 ... ." Bush caught himself and corrected the date to 1976." (probably after 30 cue cards were being waved in his face...*S*)


Bush joked that the Queen just "gave me a look that only a mother could give a child."

(Wonder what she was REALLY thinking....)

2007-05-07 12:21:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

A quick google search will show you that there's a potentially Huge Gas Boycott being scheduled for May15th. Now granted, the problem is dependency, and how much gas you USE. I understand that even if sales fall %50 on May15th, they'll probably rise 100% on the 16th, cause now people are on Empty :-). Once again, the problem no doubt is DEPENDENCY. Never the less, I think Americans should come together, and excerise our Consumer Buying Power.

It's not going to change the world, we're not leaving Iraq on May16th. In order for that to happen, the 'Status Quo' must be changed, and that's nothing short of a Revolution. Trillions of Dollars are at stake, and they won't give it up without a fight.

In closing, we need to start concentrating on Cheaper/Renewable energies that are widely available. Water - Electricity - Magnetic - Helium3 - Hemp Seeds. The list goes on an on. Please Google 'Stan Myers' for proof, fully functional water powered vehicles have already been invented.

2007-05-07 12:05:40 · 12 answers · asked by rob20850 3

There's millions of people in the United States that are having a hard time with the high gas prices. Is there anything we can do? I mean besides banning the gas stations for a day, because it's obvious that doesn't work.

2007-05-07 11:28:35 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

I just recieved a chain letter that read as following:
Dear
Children started this chain letter in 1996. If not broken in the spring of 2007, it will be entered in the Guinness Book of World Records, along with the names of everybody that took part on it.
This chain letter has not been broken, so please keep it going. All you have to do is type or copy this letter and send it by mail.
Mailing this letter is FREE. No stamps are necessary. Just write “Guinness Book of World Records for Children” in the spot where the stamp should be. The reason you have to send it by mail is so the post office will know who broke the chain.
You have four (4) days to send this letter to seven (7) people under the age of 16. The day you get this letter counts as one of your four days.
In a few days you will get a thanking letter for your part.
It would be really cool to see your name in a Guinness Book of World Records. SO PLEASE DO NOT THROW THIS LETTER AWAY!!
Thank you,
Your Friend,

2007-05-07 10:40:28 · 15 answers · asked by sum1 w/ @n @nsw3r 5

2007-05-07 10:10:41 · 11 answers · asked by lil freak 1

2007-05-07 09:06:06 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

>>Do not pump gas on May 15th
>>
>>
>>In April 1997, there was a "gas out" conducted nationwide in protest
>>of
>>gas prices.
>>Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.
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>>On May 15th 2007, try not to go to a gas station in protest of high
>>gas
>>prices. Gas is now over $3.00 a gallon in most places.
>>
>>The average car takes about 20 to 30 dollars to fill up.
>>
>>If everybody did not go to the pump on the 15th, it would take
>>$2,200,000,000.00 (that's BILLION) out of the oil company's pockets
>>for
>>just one day, so please do not go to the gas station on May 15th and
>>lets try to put a dent in the oil industry for at least one day.
>>
>>If you agree (which I can't see why you wouldn't forward this email)
>>with Don't pump gas on May 15th
>>
>>STOP THE GAS PRICE MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-05-07 08:35:13 · 13 answers · asked by TheApocalypticOrgasm 6

I'm looking at footage from the tornado in Kansas Friday. It looks like the town was wiped out. No buildings intact. Where did the survivors ride out the storm?

2007-05-07 07:56:35 · 2 answers · asked by PMS 24-7 3

2007-05-07 07:55:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seriously, do they think that money and power really buys them everything in this world and puts them above the law? If it wasn't so pathetic I would laugh hysterically!

Welcome to reality Paris....maybe you'll finally start to grow up now...a good reality shock was just what she needed don't you think? Awakenings come about for everyone in due time.

2007-05-07 06:55:10 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous

When civilians injure civilians, isn't that crime?

War involves states.

Crime is addressed by persistent investigation, forensic studies, identification of those responsible, taking them into custody and bringing them to trial in open court where all relevant facts are brought out into the open for public view.

The first rule in forensic examination of evidence is that you disturb nothing until your studies are completed. Criminal investigation of the WTC attack was prevented by the immediate bulldozing of the site and the removal of all remaining steel which was melted down in a foundry. What was the big rush, anyway?

If successful criminal investigation of the WTC event had been conducted, then by now we might have seen Osama Bin Laden apprehended and put on trial, as the Israelis did with Adolf Eichman.

Isn't calling a crime an act of war used as a means to whip up emotions and get the people to give up liberties to a leader who appoints himself a "wartime president"

2007-05-07 06:08:07 · 17 answers · asked by fra59e 4

I've heard a lot of uproar about the Sarkozy victory. What does this mean for France and what does this mean for U.S.-French relations?

2007-05-07 04:35:58 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm French but I've been living in London for ages and I do feel a bit shameful for my mother country.

2007-05-07 03:40:14 · 19 answers · asked by Graveland 4

I've been searching for the history of Great Britain. I'll be taken an examination about UK.

2007-05-07 03:34:53 · 1 answers · asked by mc_sohib 2

What's the deal with gas prices? As far as I know there have been no hurricanes in the gulf yet and no major changes in the middle east in the past few months. What are they using for the excuse now, also with it getting hot outside they can't say that it is b/c of heating oil. What's the deal? Prices are higher now than they were after the whole Katrina mess and only getting higher.

2007-05-07 02:27:13 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am referring to how the current administration, just like in George Orwell's novel, 1984, is using the threat of terrorism to try and scare us into submission. The Bush administration has adopted an "If you're not with us, you're against us" mentality. It is using the smokescreen of "national security" to justify its constant attempts to rewrite the constitution and take away our civil rights, much like the policies of the government and its Thought Police from George Orwell's novel. If you doubt that there is any validity to what I am saying, just listen to Elisabeth Hasselbeck's reasons for supporting President Bush and his administration. Elisabeth Hasselbeck, and so many other people like her have already become psychologically enslaved by Big Brother Bush and his army of Thought Police Republicans. Am I the only that has noticed this?

2007-05-07 01:49:41 · 6 answers · asked by romer151 4

2007-05-07 01:23:13 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Another collossal FEMA failure ?

2007-05-07 00:58:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

With all the talk and nonsensical suits bieng filed anymore, it is absollutely astounding that a Judge would try to bilk some Korean immigrants for 65M over a pair of pants lost then found and was offer the pants AND 12K and is still suing. Any thoughts on this or am I just blinded in obscurity on this one?

2007-05-06 20:43:56 · 10 answers · asked by yadda yadda yadda 4

coyotes already admitted smuggling in 1000's of turbine heads from Mexico into the US...who's side is Bush really on ???!!

2007-05-06 16:28:49 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous