Current Events - October 2007

2007-10-24 09:58:44 · 10 answers · asked by Yahoo Sucks 5

My instructor says it might be, because a terroist threat. What do you guys think?

2007-10-24 09:51:53 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

[Category: well....Useless]

1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.

2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."

3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.

5. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

6. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.

7. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.

8. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.

9. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .

2007-10-24 09:22:47 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

I hope everyone knows about the Sept. 12 abduction of a 20 year old Black woman who was sodomized and tortured by 6 White people (men and women). I don't see it in the news very often and it makes me angry to think that if the races were reversed, it would've been plastered everywhere. We wouldn't be able to get away from it. But, I feel that the media is really holding back b/c this was a young Black woman who was victimized. I am outraged and sickened that back-woods, redneck, sickos who would do something like this still exist. I like in the Washington DC area, so I often think that I am "spoiled" against blatant, overt racism like this. DC is a pretty much "minority rich" area (not many White people at all). I shocks and scares me that in 2007 people still harbor this kind of violent racism. It scares me more that my American news media doesn't see the value in letting us know about the ugliness of our country as well as the good. We need to be aware in order to change.

2007-10-24 08:06:54 · 11 answers · asked by krisy_80 3

Every chanel is about the Wildfires here in Los Angeles.. its really bad. Is it the same in other states? or just here? I'm starting to get scared for watching so much news about it and the hot weather is not helping. It's scary out here, the sky is a mixture of red and gray. I'm just wondering how other states are seeying this.

2007-10-24 07:39:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

after it was bought to my attention that a regular poster on herewas involved in an industrial accident (i genuinly hope he has a full and speedy recovery)started thinking spend most of my waking hours at work?
my personal enviroment is both dangerous, with the added difficulty of proven dangerous service users, however all systems and procedures are checked and updated as required
whenever an incidient occours, ELAS are contacted and if it comes under RIDDOR the HSE are informed
guess i'm one of the lucky ones- how safe are you

2007-10-24 07:21:57 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I found this hard to believe. It's bad enough when we have to pay for looking after homegrown scum.
When they are released they will reoffend so send them packing.

2007-10-24 07:03:27 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

I say no, they should not be banned.

Its only a couple of weeks around bonfire night and new years night (Mostly)

2007-10-24 07:01:47 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21443093/

2007-10-24 07:01:07 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Seriously. He's a relatively dapper little guy, although he's really short. He has a good haircut and his suits are well-cut. But what's up with the no tie thing? It just looks sloppy. And that scrappy beard! Either grow it out or trim it properly. If you're going to be an evil dictator then look the part. There is no reason to be unfashionable and unkempt.

2007-10-24 06:41:37 · 9 answers · asked by badkitty1969 7

I know a hurricane is different from a wildfire but I think what your seeing at the Chargers Stadium versus the SuperDome during Katrina shows what truely happened in Louisana.

San Diego has systems in place. They have been taking care of more people then those at the SuperDome and FEMA is just now getting there.

Where are the shootings, robbing, looting?

2007-10-24 06:04:19 · 16 answers · asked by USAGUY 3

I don't know how else to find out. I was hoping maybe someone from Chicago and that went to Lane Tech will know. He was my freshmen year English teacher, Mr. Jones. We all know he's passed away but no one knows how.

2007-10-24 06:00:25 · 3 answers · asked by steffi32086 2

If England is a country which is sort of unstable, and the world, led by Saudi Arabia, decided to invade and bomb the country, you live in England, they are killing many people and destroying buildings, your family are dying, your home has been destroyed and you have little or no money and the Saudi's are here to stay and you don't like that.

What would you do in this situation???

2007-10-24 05:45:00 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous

She makes anti-Semitic jokes on the Tonight Show and the host edits it to cover-up, does Jay Leno hate Jews also?

2007-10-24 05:41:25 · 12 answers · asked by lester b 3

£500,000 notes ?
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2198070,00.html

2007-10-24 05:38:09 · 14 answers · asked by Fred3663 7

Iraqi citizens pointing the way to Al-Qaeda cells. WOW!!! Seems as though Bush was right about the surge. GO BUSH!!! GO REPUBLICANS!!!! Kick Hillary to the side. NOW, we can begin to figure out how to get our guys and ladies back home and give Iraq back a safe country. I guess they got sick and tired of having their own radicals kills their own civilians and religious leaders.

2007-10-24 05:21:50 · 5 answers · asked by Mark S 6

To help them have a better life and when the average american tax payer ask for a little help they get degraded by their own people. How much of your tax dollars are spend on the war on drugs? The U.S can not account for a Billion dollars that came from tax payer to train the Iraqi Police. The whole world is laughing at you). How can you stop secreterian violence overseas when you have the same hate in your back yard?

2007-10-24 04:55:35 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

Will you be watching it later? All the McCann haters will get what they have been waiting for.. Kate to break down. You will get what you have been craving. A mother in utter distress over her missing child.

Antena 3. Google it. Spanish TV channel.

2007-10-24 04:40:02 · 19 answers · asked by Zed 6

After all, they can afford purchase TWO new homes with the insurance they are going to get for the house they lost along with their riches.

2007-10-24 04:14:51 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

A. Put it into the Religious Manuscript Hall of Fame

B. Put it into the Religious Manuscript Hall of Fame with a big asterix stamped on the cover

or C. Blast it off into space?

2007-10-24 04:03:50 · 7 answers · asked by not_omniscient_enough 1

I was just wondering how it started

2007-10-24 03:19:19 · 11 answers · asked by KutestGrl 2

I am going to try. I am on the East Coast. If I could get people in other parts of the country to try we can then publish the results here. Start midnight tonight.

2007-10-24 02:47:02 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

There was a programme on more4 last night called opinions filmed in 1982. Basically Rushdie was sat there talking about imperialism and racism and how Britain should go through a period of cleansing like the Germans did after WW2. Anyway he opposed racism and used Blacks and Asians as examples. Today i went on wikipedia and searched him and apparently he's against the Racial and Religious Hatred Act, as he believes in freedom of speech. Is this guy an idiot? I mean ok he's againt racial prejudice, but what about religious prejudice? Prejudice is prejudice, no matter who it's aimed at -do you agree?

2007-10-24 01:21:42 · 9 answers · asked by Faith 5

At how quick bush was to declare a state of emergency for the california fires yet when hurricane Katrina tore through new orleans and devestated 1000's of lives it took a lot longer for him to act?
Would i be right in thinking this was politically motivated due to the wealth and power that live in california or am i just being synical?

2007-10-24 01:14:35 · 28 answers · asked by Agent Zero® 5

I can't...!

2007-10-24 00:50:48 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

WHY ARE WEBSITE PROVIDERS NOT PROTECTING THE PUBLIC AND CHILDREN FROM THIS? APPARENTLY THE ABUSE IS GETTING WORSE.

More than seven websites showing images of child abuse are reported to police every 24 hours, a leading online charity has revealed.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said that four out of five of these sites are commercial operations aiming to profit from the trade among paedophiles.

The charity has passed the details of 2,092 sites to Interpol, national police forces and other authorities across the world so far this year.

2007-10-24 00:31:29 · 11 answers · asked by Saucy B 6

Hey,they support it,so join and fight instead of sitting in the safety of the United Staes and waving the flag.

2007-10-23 23:52:47 · 3 answers · asked by nofear_intrepid40 1

These so called 'decent' people who pull up their noses on the word 'politics' and say "tch tch!" , why are they not able to see that politics has got a negative meaning because of the type of people who are in it! Why doesn't anyone from this generation take up the challenge of giving the word 'politics' a positive meaning??

2007-10-23 23:49:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-23 23:16:02 · 5 answers · asked by nev k 1

It was on BBC news this morning that footballers WAGs are good role models for todays young girls because most of them have acheived at least 5 A-C grade GCSE's prior to marrying/ getting together with famous footballers.

This apparently teaches girls that education is important and it gets you places (because apparently a lot of these women now have their own businesses).

It didn't mention the fact that they are supper skinny (unhealthily so) and may have gotten where they are in the business world financed by their partners earnings and not on their GCSE's

Forgive me, I may be an education snob but I would hope that my children will aspire to acheive a bit more than 5 A-C grade GCSE's!!!!

What do you think of this report?

2007-10-23 22:46:19 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous