Other - Society & Culture - 27 March 2007

Thank you everyone who gave all the wonderful information to help me help my kid sister who married a so-called "ex-gay" who cheated on her with a man. He has gone back into the ex-gay programme to deal with it. But now I that I have seen the facts, I am more scared for my sis and VERY angry!

These programmes cost money if you are doing it "live-in" like he does. Money they do not have. Right now, my baby sister is on the verge of a nervous breakdown! She has two little ones to raise! This is just not right! All other forms of therapy or rehab must get approved by a recognised board and there is documented evidence these programmes have a HIGH failure rate! In fact it is not endorsed by ANY recognised American board of medical health professionals.

I don't understand why is this being allowed to continue! It makes false promises! It hurts not only gay people but the straight women and men who marry them plus the kids
Who else has this happened to?
What can do do to stop it?

2007-03-27 08:02:09 · 10 answers · asked by pixie_pagan 4

How do they make them with all of the holographs?

2007-03-27 07:58:19 · 1 answers · asked by ron s 1

Did you do much back-packing around the world. Please share your experiences? Thank you.

2007-03-27 07:57:33 · 8 answers · asked by Birdman 7

Those cardigan sweaters looked like they were concealing something.

2007-03-27 07:55:32 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

AROO?

2007-03-27 07:54:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

I don't mean wars the US started...i mean wars like WWI and WW2 where the first shots were fired by others.

2007-03-27 07:42:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

freaked out
insecure
neurotic
emotional
so don't say you're fine unless you really are.
So, how are you??? really. do tell. :)

2007-03-27 07:38:34 · 11 answers · asked by Forever 6

I NEED HELP QUICK PLEASE PEOPLE... here is the poem rat, o rat by christopher logue

Rat, O Rat ...

Never in all my life have I seen
as handsome a rat as you.
Thank you for noticing my potatoes.

O Rat, I am not rich.
I left you a note concerning my potatoes,
but I see that I placed it too high
and you could not read it.

O Rat, dog;
my wife and I are cursed
with the possession of a large and hungry dog;
it worries us that he might learn your name —
which is forever on our lips.

O Rat, consider my neighbor;
he has eight children (all of them older
and more intelligent than mine)
and if you lived in his house, Rat,

ten good Christians
(if we include his wife)
would sing your praises nightly,
whereas in my house there are only five.

I have to talk about it TOMORROW. say what its all about and theres nothing on the internet, i will be picking best answer tonight, so please tell me what you think? THANKS =]

2007-03-27 07:38:15 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

is it just a song for Nelly fortado or its a fact about life ??

2007-03-27 07:33:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

What a genius!

I saw yesterday the movie Catch me if you can and today I read about him on Wikepedia... What an intelligent guy he was!



ie

2007-03-27 07:32:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-27 07:26:38 · 16 answers · asked by Jeff s 1

I just saw the new video by Nickelback (if everyone cared), and would like to know anything else anyone might know about Margaret Mead or other people featured in this video. Thanks, i appreciate it.

2007-03-27 07:26:31 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-27 07:24:17 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

that she said
1. cows will die if they are not milked?
2. Her Daughter said (real vegetarians don't eat beans)?


so what do you think? is this true? there is more where that came from.

2007-03-27 07:22:08 · 6 answers · asked by chosen_isaiah61 3

How to prevent a husband from doing all these?
The method we 've tried is by talking which is useless.
These bad habits lie greatly in Indian villages,lesser in cities.They are great health hazards which should be prevented. While wife+son will be planning,crying,worrying,being in trouble&in urgent need of money;the husband will enjoy himself nicely at the bar,leaking out personal information&wasting money.He will pay heed to our words for some days&then start the old bad habbits.

The result:= Diverse by wife,wife becoming the saddest person.Husband:no memory,no sense,no peace of mind& at last death.
The idea of keeping smart camera with transmitter will work out I think.
Please sUGGest a way.This the greatest blocking stone of India.


Bad friendship should not be allowed to continue. :=}

2007-03-27 07:21:09 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

How to prevent a husband from doing all these?
The method we 've tried is by talking which is useless.
These bad habits lie greatly in Indian villages,lesser in cities.They are great health hazards which should be prevented. While wife+son will be planning,crying,worrying,being in trouble&in urgent need of money;the husband will enjoy himself nicely at the bar,leaking out personal information&wasting money.He will pay heed to our words for some days&then start the old bad habbits.

The result:= Diverse by wife,wife becoming the saddest person.Husband:no memory,no sense,no peace of mind& at last death.
The idea of keeping smart camera with transmitter will work out I think.
Please sUGGest a way.This the greatest blocking stone of India.


Bad friendship should not be allowed to continue. :=}

2007-03-27 07:19:35 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-27 07:18:24 · 15 answers · asked by Chris 6

I'm the latter, can be amusing

2007-03-27 07:17:28 · 8 answers · asked by Dick Splash 2

You know, if I was born in ''the land of richness'' (and hamburger) , I mean any State, how my life could be?

2007-03-27 07:15:54 · 6 answers · asked by Cowboy 3

Halle Berry is not BLACK!!! She has a white mother and a black father. Beyonce's mother certainly isn't all black, and Beyonce herself has Europian features. People keep trying to be polictically correct, but stop lying about what you think is beautiful. Obviously the majority of the USA does not find the classic features of a black women beautiful, or else we would hear people using them for examples of beauty instead of these mixed, light bright and almost white girls as the standard. We like certain people in our movies to play the main roles, and certainly the women are rarely ever fat, just like they rarely are ever dark-skinned black.

This is a calling, a contest even for anyone that can name some actual black beautiful women in Hollywood. But be aware, almost 80% of them are not all black. Naomi Cambel is parcially asian, Alicya Keys, Vanessa Williams, new Ms America, Tatyana Ali, etc are all mixed. No women like Beyonce that have Europian features either please!

2007-03-27 07:14:11 · 11 answers · asked by Oshihana 2

They're so bad, but so funny. Same with holocaust ones and racist ones. Why do people find these kind of jokes funny?
And if you know any dead baby jokes could you please tell them? =D

Peace

2007-03-27 07:02:08 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-27 06:55:05 · 12 answers · asked by sweetchick 1

For the umpteenth year running we're in line to win the £250,000 prize draw (some hope!). What gets me is that you get sent a load of bumph and have to tear off coupons and press stickers in place and return the lot (in the 'No' envelope, in our case). Then, next month you find you've been shortlisted for the prize draw and have to glue sticker A to form B (why don't they just do it themselves and save the postage?) and send it back. On and on, ad infinitum.
Why don't Readers' Digest just save themselves the time and postage and just have the draw and let you know if you've won. And do the 'No' envelopes actually get entered for the draw? My suspicion is that they get chucked in the bin?
Who can enlighten me?

2007-03-27 06:54:10 · 5 answers · asked by gorgeousfluffpot 5

Why is it people always try to claim they live in a very dangerous neighbor and make it sound like it's a war zone?

I've lived in part that many says is suppose to be the most dangerous city in USA which would be Washington DC (look up Gallaudet University and area around it). It wasn't even half as bad as people make it out to be. In fact I never really have any problems whole year I lived there.

But yet it seems like half of the people claim their city is so dangerous that people carry machine guns and grenades around, dead body laying all over the place, and other stupid stuff.

Why would anyone care to show off about living in a such area? I sure as hell don't want to live in a such area and I'm very happy to be where I'm at right now (a very nice and safe city). What happen to wanting to live in a decent area and have a decent house and stuff like that? Are american really getting dumber everyday or what?

2007-03-27 06:52:16 · 11 answers · asked by Honor Among the Demons 4

I do. For you (non) parents out there, get your stuff together and get your little preciouses off the cell phones.

2007-03-27 06:50:12 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm sorry do-gooders, but I'm going to resist any more of my hard-earned cash going to the "disenfranchised" out there as long as I see these people who clearly are not working chattering away on cellphones. And don't tell me about the "rights" of people, there is no right to a cellphone, healthcare, housing, you name it. For a list of rights consult your nearest Constitution.

2007-03-27 06:48:29 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous

I do. For example, I believe that if you are a male who has fathered a child and you are jobless and collecting welfare, your job is to move a pile of rocks from one spot to another spot and back again until you complete a full 8 hour day of this. No moving the rock pile, no taxpayer cash goes into your pocket. Actually giving filth like this some taxpayer cash is egregious enough, but I guess I would settle for this compromise.

2007-03-27 06:45:31 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

If the man has known the woman for many years and now they have random sex (couple of times every few months or so), what does that mean for the man? Are men able to compartamentalize their feelings that easily? I.e., they used to be sort of friends, and now they have sex. And that's all there is to it? Or could there be more meaning?

2007-03-27 06:42:11 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous

I had to ride a bus yesterday to go get my car from the shop.. I was amazed at what I saw... two teenaged punks were talking to each other in ghetto speak (one black, one white so don't go there). I'm sitting there thinking there's two more losers that me and all the other productive people of the world will have to support. Of course the do-gooders will insist that all these worthless twerps need is more taxpayer cash to make them less "disenfranchised". Uhhh, it's just frustrating. What do you think?

2007-03-27 06:41:56 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

In the 1970's and 1980's there was a Commercial posed for the Tostie Pop lollie pop with an owl asking the question:

"How Many licks does it take before you crack open the Lollie pop?"

Me? I can lick it for about 20 licks before I must shove it into my mouth and chew on it....

What Actor or Political Individual do you think can lick it longer before they would have to chew on it?

2007-03-27 06:37:12 · 1 answers · asked by darcyaf1 3