Current Events - June 2007

Americans seem to care very little about what the government does with their tax money. The money that has been spent on Iraq war for instance can be put to better use like fixing the healthcare system , education, public housing or social security etc. Despite spending over 400 billions dollar in Iraq, Americans don't necessarily feel safer and gas price going lower. What is the purpose of this war. Doesn't America need to take care of its own people before taking care of foreigners? Besides the people in most countries including majority of Iraqis think Iraq was better off before than now. I for one feel that ensuring security of America is not a one shot deal like Iraq war but on going concern that has to be addressed and planned and implemented in legitimate manner. FYI, I am neither Democrat nor Republican nor French.

2007-06-04 06:08:46 · 3 answers · asked by mozart8 3

2007-06-04 05:13:45 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

do we want Al Queda or the Saudi's running things? You can't change a country by fiat.

so, are we willing to leave Iraq to either one of these choices...changing one bad guy for a worse guy

2007-06-04 04:18:29 · 6 answers · asked by vote_dummy 1

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_re_eu/russia_us_missiles

2007-06-04 03:42:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-04 00:07:57 · 3 answers · asked by pomosimulacrum 2

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1268571,00.html

Do you generally believe in psychics? I do - not crystall balls, of course, but a power in some people that so few possess. Those people may have these powesr but be deprived of sight or something else...

2007-06-03 23:55:52 · 11 answers · asked by S from Dublin 3

If it is a Ltd Company they can close it at anytime and keep the money is that correct?

2007-06-03 23:49:01 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Lots of people have mentioned that they thought the money donated to help find Maddy, would have been used to fund a private investigator.

How do you know that this isnt the case, surely this would be secret to protect the investigation and investigator.

Just a thought!

2007-06-03 23:26:58 · 11 answers · asked by LEXY 4

Should assisted suicide be legal? If yes, what should be the criteria? Explain

2007-06-03 23:10:10 · 6 answers · asked by Silkeez 3

Get this please...NO ONE supports Madeleine's parents in leaving their babies alone.
Its not even debatable. What they did was inexcusable & i'm aghast to think how they chose to do it.
So whats the blah blah blah about???
People truly concerned about Madeleine should support them in whatever way they believe is best to get THEIR baby back
and channel their minds positively towards creating awareneness for other missing children.
The McCanns will be charged with child neglect for sure & are facing (worse for them their Madeleine is facing)
the worst possible punishment of not even knowing whether their baby is alive & if she is,
the horrors she is facing. You want to hound them for leaving the babies, do it...if it makes you
feel better & proves a point to other irresponsible parents. But passing slick comments on what they do/don't & how/why & when they met the Pope &
analysing their every single gesture, expresssion & twisting their comments does not make for an objective
debate but just a cruel witchhunt. I fail to understand how such comments will help Madeleine.
As much as their actions baffle me, i will not judge them, as am certain they are being advised by experts
who know more about such situations than any of our wiseguys on YA.

Statements about "standing up for Madeleine & not her parents" are so pointless.
We all stand up for Madeleine & other missing children. Who wouldn't???
Our hearts ache for her & for all the other little ones lost.
As clever (& entertaining) as some of the observations of the guilty parents may seem, have any of our wiseguys
on YA even stopped to think about the damage they may be causing??? Such comments suggest that
Madeleine's parents are heartless & frivoulous & don't deserve her. Is that what we want the abductor / potential abductors
to hear??? C'mon guys, pause awhile & think about the hurt you can cause before hitting that submit button...

2007-06-03 23:07:59 · 4 answers · asked by Faith 6

Over the last 10 years I could probably count on two hands how many children in the UK have been abducted and murdered, or not found, springing to mind is poor little Jamie Bulger, and the tragic case of Jessica and Holly. There was a little boy age 7 I think who disappeared from Becton in East London, he was never found and there have been other children....thankfully in this country children are not abducted and murdered that often so that it does not make the news.

The majority of missing children (ive took a look on the missing persons website) have been taken by a parent, now I know for the other parent left behind, these children are missing, and the pain must be horrific. But, they are mostly alive and well.

So, its unlikely that these missing children would get the sort of media attention as a missing child abducted by a stranger.
If Ben Needham had disappeared now instead of 1991 he would have been all over the internet as well.

2007-06-03 22:26:03 · 14 answers · asked by LEXY 4

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91210-1266272,00.html

they mention money as the first way to help, the poster second

2007-06-03 22:10:59 · 16 answers · asked by mrs r 2

Its been a month. Portugal can be reached in a few hours. The twins- do they need some semblance of normality yet? Surely the Team can be based here, our International airports are excellent, with frequent flights out.

What do you think?

2007-06-03 21:50:08 · 34 answers · asked by babyshambles 5

i wanted to know if this blog that Mr McCann is writing is avalible to read now?
how do i find it?

thanks everyone x x

2007-06-03 21:05:31 · 6 answers · asked by ? 6

What do you guys think about her going to prison? Will it make an impact on her lifestyle or will she just come out as clueless and careless as before? Thoughts?

2007-06-03 20:53:00 · 14 answers · asked by wenchiepirategirl 3

The things he is writing about don't help anyone find his daughter. It's just boring minutiae of his life - ".....had a bite to eat. Blah...blahh!!!" How can someone one focus on food when they have a missing child? I'd be too sick to eat! I understand the need to keep a diary and write down intense emotions, but shouldn't it be private until the issue is resolved?

2007-06-03 20:47:42 · 10 answers · asked by Pixxxie 4

So now theres press saying that they've scared a 'ransom' away. Do you think this is the case? That because they've made suc a fuss no one will now come forwards? (Notice how the press is starting to destroy them already.)

2007-06-03 20:29:53 · 3 answers · asked by UniBeauty 5

2007-06-03 19:07:25 · 2 answers · asked by Monique Q 1

First of all,I'm not against the Americans as a whole. I'm against the US government and their army. When will they leave Iraq? It's been too long since they have occupied Iraq! They abuse Iraqis on their own land. They keep on complaining and broadcasting worldwide how lots of American soldiers get killed in Iraq.If so, why don't they just leave Iraq?Their wasting the lives of their soldiers and great amounts of money in Iraq for what? The truth is Iraqis have greater death toll rates since the foreign troops came in! Is it because they want Iraq for it's oil?Is it because they want a permanent base in the middle east to have access on other near countries?

Saddam is already dead. Pres. Bush has no "bad" leader to further fight with in Iraq. They already brought him down. Next, there were NO proofs of nuclear weapons found in Iraq! Lying was their main ways to get into Iraq. In fact, US is one of the countries that has the most number of nuclear weapons! This is plain hypocricy.

2007-06-03 18:58:23 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

This is a genuine question, not a cover for a McCann bashing session!!!

I frequently read the plea to 'leave the McCanns alone as they already feel guilty enough/will have to live with the guilt for the rest of their lives' etc.

But what is it that makes you come to this conclusion? Why is this what you think? We have all seen the same footage/interviews/newspapers and so on and yet there are two distinct camps of opinion. The Anti McCann camp tend to quote the McCanns themselves and point to visible actions to support their case, whereas from what I have seen their supporters tend to go with an emotional response which has no value in a reasoned debate... I'm prepared to listen and to re-assess my opinion if presented with reasoned argument and facts/opinions based on observation and sources, so how about starting with this question?

2007-06-03 18:50:08 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am sure there are many evil people behind him ...
bless all of us!
Peace

2007-06-03 17:14:04 · 6 answers · asked by wishinew 2

This article by Stefanie Marsh appeared in the Times - I hope this link works but I am also reproducing parts of it below.... finally a journalist starts to question the mass, mawkish hysteria of the British public ....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1865968.ece

……..My mood doesn’t do a U-turn every time Cuddle Cat is mentioned on ITV News. I care, of course I care, it would be inhuman not to, but if you really want to know, I think the public references to a private thing such as a child’s soft toy are in poor taste, as are the overfamiliar abbreviation of the girl’s name to bring us closer to the scene of this wretched mystery. Worse than the abbreviations are the people who correct the abbreviators: “It’s Madeleine, not Maddy. That’s what the parents call her,” in an offended tone as if they know her, or have been personally affected. People talk about “feeling the McCanns’ pain”, but we do not………..Where the welfare of a child is concerned one must, in Britain, now be obsessed – especially when there is a whiff of abuse. And not merely obsessed but hysterically, visibly, mawkishly so. Once you are obsessed, it is necessary to wear your hysteria on your sleeve. Or, as MPs did with yellow ribbons, on your lapel. More important still is the need to reassure yourself that everybody else feels the same. That the vicarious worrying is not just normal behaviour but required. There is a tyranny here………………Misery Lit, ie, memoirs of child abuse, “have emerged as the liveliest new category of books”, reports The Bookseller.Five to ten of these books come out every month. A high-ranking publisher friend tells me that the books’ lurid titles are made up at brain-storming meetings before the manuscript has been seen or in some cases, written.
So we have: Please Daddy, No; A Child Called “It”; Don’t Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal; A Girl Called Karen: A True Story of Sexual Abuse and Resilience; and Damagedto name a handful. The stand-out Mis Lit success story, Sickened: The True Story of a Lost Childhood, has sold 500,000 copies. Of the top 100 bestselling paperbacks in 2006, 11 were misery memoirs; with total sales of 1.9 million copies.
Why are these books so popular? Like the McCann case they deliver a predictable emotional charge and allow the reader to experience a strong sense of vicarious self-pity.

2007-06-03 16:56:29 · 17 answers · asked by dteacher1uk 5

We could let third world countries bid on sending their citizens to Iraq for us. Sure they wouldn't be great fighters but its the old strength in numbers theory. At the very least they would dilute the terrorist and steal their day jobs.

2007-06-03 15:18:39 · 2 answers · asked by Marmeladov 3

2007-06-03 15:12:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0604/p09s01-coop.html

2007-06-03 14:58:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-06-03 13:42:46 · 10 answers · asked by Timelord 4

2007-06-03 13:03:30 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

quoting ap wire and hillary...
As a senator from New York, "I have seen first hand the terrible damage that can be inflicted on our country by a small band of terrorists."

Still, she said, "I believe we are safer than we were."

Obvouisly by making that statement Hillary admits to liberal extremists Bush was right.

1.) knowing we needed to defend ourselves, isnt it clear surrender has no justification.
2.) how can she expect any sober sane individual to elect her in this country when her party knowingly and willingly jeapordizes the safety of our troops for millions of dollars to spend on peanut storage and other pork barrel projects.
3.)now that the extremists have begun to understand their error to a point, wouldnt it be nice to just get the xxx out of the way and let the conservatives who understand the threat of al qaeda and jihad is real simply finish the job without threat, again in september of leaving our soldiers vulnerable for sake of political gain and tax dollars

2007-06-03 12:54:09 · 7 answers · asked by koalatcomics 7

We will be known by the tracks we leave behind...............You must be the change you wish to see in the World..........

2007-06-03 12:45:30 · 12 answers · asked by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7

The wielding of Power depends so much on $Money and so little on ideas, that all of the organizations that America has formed to pursue progressive ideas to promote the Public interest has been badly weakened...

2007-06-03 12:35:49 · 3 answers · asked by dca2003311@yahoo.com 7