Current Events - August 2007

MYSTERY British holidaymaker is the latest suspect in the disappearance of missing child Madeleine McCann.

As the vanished child's parents marked 100 days without their daughter at a quiet prayer service yesterday, Portugese police examined a hire car rented by the unidentified suspect.

The man is believed to have flown to Portugal the same day as the McCann family arrived on holiday on April 28.

He is understood to have helped in searches for Maddie after she disappeared on May 3, before returning the car and flying home on May 6.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22229709-2,00.html

2007-08-11 17:58:03 · 11 answers · asked by baba o'reilly 2

2007-08-11 17:27:04 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

so fellow americans whats your opinion of the big mouth in Venezuala? hes dictating and predicting OIL to be $100.00 per barrel , which translates to around $3.85 per gallon! plus hes using cheap talking saying if we try to hurt his govt he will stop the flow to us. isn't it time WE stop Buyng CITGO!!! thats all Venezualas oil,,, your thoughts, thanks

2007-08-11 17:24:53 · 8 answers · asked by alangj91761 4

Am I the only one here to find this post (from the Mirror forum) the stupidest thing I've heard since Shambo last mooed in here?

"A few days i started looking carefully at gerrys blogs... I read that someone said there was a code with the mispelled words in his blogs. for some time i have thought that the repetition of words reads oddly, an educated man would have more range. for example the repetition in this one reads -

focus, missing, settle.

is it a code? stop panicking and focus on her being missing (not murdered?) "


Thoughts please! I find this ridiculous. What about you?

2007-08-11 17:21:02 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

I've heard on the news that they are thinking about bringing the draft back. They said it's possible, but the President hasn't responded on this yet.

What are your opinions on this? Should the draft be brought back?

I think it shouldn't. You can't force someone to fight in a war that they don't want to be involved in.

2007-08-11 16:58:04 · 8 answers · asked by Saohin 1

What is your take on the US going up against North Korea? Do you think we should even attempt starting the war.

2007-08-11 16:30:24 · 4 answers · asked by lv21maverick 1

is ridiculous...is it not?

2007-08-11 15:30:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Losers in a war should expect to be at the mercy of the victors. The Palestinians picked the wrong side to support in WWll. They should not be surprised if they had some of their land taken from them and given to whoever the victors(Ally's) chose.

2007-08-11 14:09:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-11 13:15:38 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Time is getting on and there are still no answers on what has happened to poor madeline.
I just feel so sad for this poor little child, my daughters the same age and i really dont think i could carry on if this nightmare happened to me.
I am slowly starting to belive the word that the parents may have something to do with it. It just all makes so much sense.
i know everyone reacts in different ways but they do seem really calm, i mean its not as if they are being strong for the other two siblings because they are not taking responsability for them.
i feel as if there is something really wrong going on with this family, surely with so much publicity all over the world someone would have had a def. sighting of this girl?
what do you think? i hope im wrong and she returns safe. x

2007-08-11 13:12:20 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

Right now prices are $3 and probably will get up to or over $3.50 for the summer. People will complain. then prices will drop back down to $3 before winter. as programed we will then be happy about it. but we are crying about $3 now. whats the difference between now and winter? next year we will do the same but the price will average $4.

2007-08-11 13:06:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

This may have been raised before given all the different scenarios that have been aired.It is possible that someone could have easily been observing the movements of the family over the course of a few days.I don't know whether her parents had left their children on previous evenings prior to May 3rd.But if they had & someone had been observing them from a distance then this could be the most likely answer.

2007-08-11 12:31:45 · 24 answers · asked by terry 2

i had heard several bad things about the i.c.p. band's followers so i had come on her and asked questions in mean ways about them because i wanted to no more about them and now that there in my town i have met them and they are all very nice people athough they do drink and i'm not for that but any way it wasn't my place to judge and i would like to apologize for that so do yo accept? if you dont that's ok if you do great.

2007-08-11 12:01:01 · 4 answers · asked by hillsofhardin 2

If it is proven that Maddie was abducted by a stranger, will those of us who have doubted her parents post an apology on here?

2007-08-11 11:15:29 · 34 answers · asked by carnival queen 5

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has blacklisted as a "foreign terrorist organization" a Lebanese Islamist group blamed for major fighting at a refugee camp, the Associated Press has learned.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070811/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_lebanon_terrorism

2007-08-11 11:15:18 · 4 answers · asked by puzzling questions 1

My abuse husband has left me yipeee, but is now in cahoots with his parents to brand me an unfit mother and and is continuing to play mind games with me. Just today I found he has gone to his parents where 2 of my children are staying for the weekend and from the brief convesation I had with his father I am getting the impression they are trying to say I cannot cope with my family. Yesterday I was quite distressed as my husband is an extremely nasty piece of work, particularly when drunk and has vowed to drive me to suicide ( his exact words) He is a mental health nurse and has abused patients in the past but got away with it as he is so intimidating and positivley psychopathic.
His plan is now to make me look inadequqte so he has an easy time of gaining residency of the boys. I admit to struggling in the past and am living on my own a long way from my own family
I know this is not news or events but tough I have friends here who I think can give me good advice
Best defence guys?

2007-08-11 10:39:36 · 27 answers · asked by ? 6

this afternoon go back to the Ocean Club complex to use the pool when there are many others available to them and why not take the little ones

2007-08-11 10:01:09 · 32 answers · asked by Angela G 4

2007-08-11 09:47:53 · 15 answers · asked by Jack Mcfarlan 1

Did you know that Michael Jackson is a Muslim, and has been for about a year now? If Islam truly taught terrorism (and I already know it doesn't) do you really think M.J. would have chosen it as his religion?


Last time I asked this, i got about 50 people telling me "Your stupid, Muslims aren't terrorists", something I already know, as I AM a Muslim. Why don't people have the sense to check usernames?

2007-08-11 09:03:33 · 22 answers · asked by norcalislam 3

Couple of days ago Russia has sent an underwater submarine expedition to claim the waters below the North pole as a natural extension of its territory. Now, every country that has its share in the Arctic is starting their own expeditions, to support their own claims on that piece of earth becouse it contains large quantities of oil and especially gas.

That is really one of the last pieces of the globe that isn't being contested , including Antartica and entire Earth's submarine surface aswell.
Now, could we expect the same situation in the future when people start colonising planets around us. Maybe Moon and definetly Mars for the start. True, it will last decades if not over sa century but it will happen eventually. What do you think, will that trigger new neo - colonial " imperialistic" race among nations, parceling out every piece of the land they can grab their hands on.

2007-08-11 08:37:09 · 3 answers · asked by milauwio 1

2007-08-11 08:34:02 · 2 answers · asked by [A] 2

In a shocking survey this week it was announced that top of the summer reading lists of Labour politicians was Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6932841.stm

Does this mean that we are being led by a bunch of godless individuals who are intent on sidelining the Church of Christ even more within the UK?

2007-08-11 08:28:30 · 27 answers · asked by pagreen1966 3

2007-08-11 08:26:28 · 3 answers · asked by justmebackagain 2

2007-08-11 08:03:20 · 21 answers · asked by YahooAnswers 5

is it true they dont use as many brain cells as men

2007-08-11 08:02:41 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-08-11 07:28:55 · 4 answers · asked by juliebent45 1

person, I would love to know how this is the case. Can a dog smell a dead body who has been dead for 15 minutes? why would a dead body of 15 minutes smell any different than a living person.

2007-08-11 07:06:06 · 20 answers · asked by Jack Mcfarlan 1

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1120AP_ODD_Karaoke_Attack.html

Wow!And we thought Simon Cowell was harsh!:)

2007-08-11 05:42:56 · 8 answers · asked by tangerine 7

Why are so many people complaining about Bush but do not take the time to Try and IMPEACH him?

It has been proven that Bush has lied, AND broke laws, yet he is still our president.

Clinton Recived some oral treats, lied about it, and got impeached...what's the deal?

http://www.impeachbush.org/site/PageServer

2007-08-11 05:39:10 · 10 answers · asked by LayLooLaRose 3

I personally do not think we should. Last week they claimed 2 of the women were sick and might die, now they are all said to be healthy and happy (yeah right). If force is used to free them the Taliban says their lives are in danger. Aren't they in danger now? They've already killed 2 of them. How much more in danger could they be?
Do you think that if negotiation fail they will allow the Korean negotiators to walk away? Personally I believe they will be the next hostages what do you think?

2007-08-11 05:11:49 · 3 answers · asked by Choqs 6