Current Events - September 2007

Please help. So far I have 9/11, Iraq War, and Katrina. I need 7 more.

2007-09-09 17:03:05 · 3 answers · asked by dustyjjc 2

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/auxiliary/maps_files/BudgetFY2008/US.pdf

What about services for the taxpayers?

Only 5% will go toward education, training, employment and social services... National resources and the environment 3%...


You read it: http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=277&Itemid=107

2007-09-09 17:01:28 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was at my Bank then in a few hours I was on the way to NYC with the American Red Cross Disaster Services. I am including a link to a list of those murdered by the Muslim Terrorist May the victims be remembered and the Terrorist be blotted from the memory of the world. And may the World never forget the true face of ISLAM....

2007-09-09 16:20:17 · 21 answers · asked by cowboy_christian_fellowship 4

2007-09-09 16:05:16 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-09 15:17:20 · 12 answers · asked by JAMES 4

My question is, What was the exact reason for the attacks he did on 9/11. I have been watching the news and there is a video that he sent to bush "reminding" the US that he still has not been caught "duh!!!!" and that there is going to be another attack soon. What is the reason why he is so angry.? I do not remember and i cant think of why..

2007-09-09 14:55:50 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

Would this situation upset you, and am I wrong for not feeling hurt by it, in your opinion?

About 12 years ago, I dated a guy who wasn't sure of his sexuality (I only found out afterward I'd started seeing him). It didn't really bother me, but the relationship failed because we were very different and I felt the need to move on. I was only 17 and he was 16. We remained friends but lost touch after a bit.

A little while later I started seeing another guy... that didn't last long either, and we went our separate ways.

Recently I found out (from an old friend) that these 2 guys got it together and have been a happy couple for years! Good on 'em, I thought. When I told my female friends, several of them were horrified.

I was surprised and didn't understand my friends' reactions. If these two men met later in lifeand realised they wanted to be together, so bloody what? It's no reflection on me. If you're gay or bisexual, then that's how you are, end of story. Why should it get to me?

2007-09-09 14:40:43 · 33 answers · asked by Wildamberhoney 6

it would appear that most of the democrats were elected because of the nation's disgust with iraq war, gas prices, the economy, the environment...i could go on and on. i am a democrat, a disappointed one...it seems like little has been done (except campaigning for the NEXT ELECTION)

2007-09-09 14:36:17 · 7 answers · asked by star 2

Ice-free Arctic could be here in 23 years
David Adam, environment correspondent
The Guardian
Wednesday September 5 2007
The Arctic ice cap has collapsed at an unprecedented rate this summer an levels of sea ice in the region now stand at a record low, scientists sai last night. Experts said they were "stunned" by the loss of ice, with an are almost twice as big as Britain disappearing in the last week alone. So much ic has melted this summer that the north-west passage across the top of Canada i fully navigable, and observers say the north-east passage along Russia's Arcti coast could open later this month. If the increased rate of melting continues, th summertime Arctic could be totally free of ice by 2030

Mark Serreze, an Arctic specialist at the US National Snow and Ice Data Centre at Colorado University, which released the figures, said: "It's amazing. It's simply fallen off a cliff and we're still losing ice." The Arctic has now lost about a third of its ice...

2007-09-09 14:23:34 · 10 answers · asked by Richard V 6

This time to gather his dispersing sheeple behind a War on Iran?

If Bush invaded Iraq because it was selling its oil in Euros, what makes you think it won´t repeat on Iran for selling its oil on Yens?

http://www.PetrodollarWarfare.com


I think another ERRORIST ATTACK IS IMMINENT!

Errorist is correct, since that's all BULLSH does well: ERRORS.

YouTube or Google Petrodollar warfare...

2007-09-09 14:17:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am sick of reading peoples comments about the Portuguese Police, treating them as if they are in some kind of third world country.
You (British) are not that advanced compared to Portugal, I admit you might have more experience in certain cases but that is only because Portugal did not have to deal with the kind of crime you have to deal with here. That doesn't mean that the most advanced technology we have is two way radios and email (this is actually a quote from someone that answered here)
I see all the Mcfans asking for evidence when someone says they think the parents are guilty, so I will ask the same.
Where is you evidence that the police didn't 'do their job properly at the begining'? I doubt I will be getting any answers to this.
I see people complaining that they did not respond quick enough. That is wrong, the police can't come until they have been called, and it was said over and over again that they were not called till after 22.40.

2007-09-09 13:57:12 · 24 answers · asked by ♥ Mummy ♥ 5

Bin Laden branded `virtually impotent'

WASHINGTON - Seemingly taunting Osama bin Laden, President Bush's homeland security adviser said Sunday the fugitive al-Qaida leader is "virtually impotent" beyond his ability to hide away and spread anti-American propaganda.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_bin_laden

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I'd say the administration has lost it again. It's not the fact that he has to hide, it's that he is a living martyr to many. He doesn't have to say a thing to get attention, his message has been loud and clear since he started.

The message, despite what most of us believe, its not to destroy the west, its to stop fugging with the middle east and propping up repressive regimes. Plus slowing down oil production and increasing the price so his people still have a life 100 years from now.

I think he has a point.

I don't like what he's doing, but then again, no one in the west is listening. Can you blame him?

Peace

Jim

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2007-09-09 13:56:59 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

please explain.

2007-09-09 13:52:24 · 14 answers · asked by rusalka 3

2007-09-09 13:51:14 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-09 13:50:09 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

How lame is that?

When you criticise the McCanns then you are racist against the Scottish!

Idiots

2007-09-09 13:43:14 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-09-09 13:25:57 · 17 answers · asked by ziggy 2

2007-09-09 13:22:41 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

Ok, there is footage of buldings getting hit, there is footage of somthing hitting the pentagon and a mark in the PA field, so why do people think it was set up by us Or the government? I hate Pres. Bush and his cabinet and everyone who leads underhim but I don't think he would do that.

Do you think it was fake?!

I do not....and REMEBER 9/11!!!

2007-09-09 13:21:22 · 11 answers · asked by . 3

unbelievable,you better think again, a neo nazi ring was just broken up in Israel, all nice jewish boys.
source CNN NEWS

2007-09-09 13:19:11 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

If not, then why? He claims to be a fluent speaker?

2007-09-09 13:09:08 · 1 answers · asked by Thursday 1

What happens when you push corrupt, inept, resentful Portuguese police to do their job?
Frame a mother

2007-09-09 12:54:27 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

It is a great source of income for many people in this country. Most of our soldiers who are there want to be there. There are great things happening there that is never depicted on the news, such as human welfare, schools and hospitals.
Also, the death toll there is not as ridiculous as everyone makes it out to be. Several hundred times more Americans have died in drunken driving accidents here than the amount that have died from the war since it started.

2007-09-09 12:36:34 · 10 answers · asked by Buckwheat 3

2007-09-09 11:46:23 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know the place is full of fools, but really... what sort of sick minds keep a celebration thread going for 50 pages about something like this? http://forums.mirror.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=9638

Just curious as to people's opinions on a bunch of people celebrating this, when the main point of the whole thing has clearly been forgotten completely.

2007-09-09 11:42:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

from the news of the world today

PORTUGUESE police are concentrating on what they claim is a missing half hour in accounts of the night Madeleine disappeared.

The McCanns told detectives they believed they arrived at the Tapas restaurant at 8.30pm.

But months into the investigation, Portuguese detectives now allege they did not turn up until almost 30 minutes later.

Friends' statements show there may be differences of opinion over what time Kate and Gerry arrived with some of the pals stating it was just before 9pm.

Police want to quiz the couple again over what they call the "missing half hour".



A police source said: "We believe the timetable of events that evening is crucial to the inquiry. We want to know how they could make such a mistake over the time they arrived."

Early on in the investigation the McCanns said they got to the restaurant at 8.30pm.

Based on arrival timings given by their dining companions, that would mean the tragic couple arrived first before their friends.

But police sources say statements given by those pals show the McCanns arrived just before 9pm—and that by then all of their friends were already there.

Checked

The statements claim that Russell O'Brien, Jane Tanner, Matthew and Rachel Oldfield were first to arrive at around 8.45pm.

At 8.55 David and Fiona Payne were said to have turned up with Fiona's mum, Diane Webster.

Some statements indicate that the McCanns turned up two or three minutes after the Paynes.

If these new timings are accurate police are questioning why Gerry would go back and check the children just 5 minutes later.

He is reported as saying he checked the apartment and all three children were sleeping at 9.05pm.

This was confirmed when on his way back he stopped to speak to Jeremy Wilkins, another guest at the resort he had met playing tennis earlier in the week.

At 9.10pm Jane Tanner said she crossed Gerry's path on her way to check her own children.

Around that time she says she saw a man carrying away a child she now believes was Madeleine.

She describes the man as aged 35, dark-haired. wearing beige trousers and black shoes. She said the girl, who appeared to be sleeping, was toddler age, bare-footed and wearing pink pyjamas like Madeleine's.

No one else out that night reported seeing this man.

Portuguese cops have piled on the agony for the McCanns by retracing their steps and naming them both as official suspects. They believe the couple may have been involved in the disappearance of three-year-old Madeleine. And they think one may be covering up for the other.

Officers are probing a "three-hour window of opportunity" on the theory that during this time Madeleine was killed in the apartment and her body hidden somewhere nearby.

It starts the last time the children were seen alive by anyone but their parents and ends when Kate and Gerry were seen in public.

The last time Madeleine was seen alive was by staff at the Ocean Club creche at 6pm.

The McCanns were then alone with their children for almost three hours at the most if they did arrive at the Tapas restaurant at 9pm.A police source said: "The couple are being monitored to see how they react to every new piece of information they receive.

"The pressure has slowly been mounting on the McCanns over the last month as new information has been fed into the inquiry." Sources say the couple have been kept under surveillance following the discovery by a dog of the smell of death in their apartment on August 1.

Police now claim they have detected blood in a Renault Scenic car hired by the McCanns 24 days after Maddie's disappearance.

During questioning, GP Kate was asked why she had washed Madeleine's favourite toy "Cuddle Cat". Cops believe she has was trying to hide forensic evidence of her daughter's death.

Washed

The police claim the smell of a corpse was found on Kate's T-shirt, jeans and on Cuddle Cat.

Kate says she washed the toy on August 5—four days after police dogs picked up "the scent of death".

She insists she washed the toy simply because it was covered in dirt and sun tan lotion.

Portuguese police are relying heavily on a Cracker-style profiler who has been studying the McCanns' behaviour. The profiler has reportedly claimed that he suspects that the couple, from Rothley, Leics, could be "distracting" themselves from the horror of what they might have done by getting involved in the massive media campaign.

Doubts have also been cast over the lack of emotion and the controlled composure of the couple since their daughter disappeared.

The profiler has told cops that this matches that of a couple who are united and focused in a bid to cover up a tragedy.

But former Chief Inspector Albert Kirby, who led the hunt to trap the killers of toddler James Bulger, said: "There is very little time for the McCanns to have murdered their daughter and disposed of her body.

"And they would have had to carry her body a short distance away and concealed it without anyone spotting them. The body would have also had to remain concealed and unfound for a long time despite the police search.

"The Portuguese police must believe that one of them managed to conceal the body in a flat or a bush."

2007-09-09 11:26:37 · 18 answers · asked by elsie1912 4

and it wasnt pleasantries either. I don't know the truth of this or not, but if it was true then I thought that was quite bad with the twins being in the house. Then I realised that the twins wouldnt have heard anything as they are 'deep sleepers' according to Gerry. (remember they didnt even wake with Kate screaming or strangers picking them up).

2007-09-09 11:18:55 · 22 answers · asked by dave s 2

I'm frequently criticised by some McFanns for only ever doing McCann Q&A's under News Current Events.

Can you recommend any other YA catogories that you think I will be interested in Q&A's and why ?

2007-09-09 10:50:00 · 13 answers · asked by 17pdr 4

2007-09-09 10:47:38 · 9 answers · asked by doug b 1

Who precisely are they supposed to be attractive to - visually impaired Tibetan nuns?
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt they are not....

2007-09-09 10:47:16 · 18 answers · asked by UK girl - England'shire 2