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Her husband Ollie Dahmer, 70, said while it was fun, it was serious business. He participated last year, and firefighters couldn't find him in the smoke."They couldn't locate me," he said. "We're all kind of joking around, but these kind of drills are important."North Technical High School sent a group of students to volunteer for the drill. Florissant resident Thomas Bradley, 18, took law-enforcement classes at the school.However, he also had another skill to help him on Thursday. "I've taken acting lessons," he said.The "victims" had different kinds of injuries. James Kartmann, 70, of Ferguson, was rolled up in electric wiring, writhing in pretend agony as an electrocution victim. With the help of makeup, Overland resident Victoria Phillips, 17, appeared to have a fracture and a gash on her leg.One by one, firefighters and emergency medical service teams tracked down the victims and treated them.The fire departments will analyze and discuss the results of the drill, said Spanish Lake Deputy Chief Michael Flavin."We'll look at what we did, how much time it took," Flavin said. more

Business may pay for cut in excise GST: Brumby

Fuel Watch price monitoring system could force independent service stations out of business, and tarnish the government's economic reform credentials.

The $28.2 million Fuel Watch scheme is expected to go national by the end of the year, where it will require service stations to nominate their prices 24 hours in advance, giving motorists the chance to buy from the cheapest available outlet.

The scheme is based on the West Australian model, with Mr Rudd insisting the ACCC findings show a reduction in prices by 1.9c a litre.

"It is on this evidentiary basis that the government has decided to proceed with this policy of Fuel Watch," he said.

Opposition Treasury spokesman Malcolm Turnbull said the ACCC explicitly rejected Fuel Watch, warning it could "lead to higher prices through anti-competitive effects," reports The Australian. more

Hunter-Reay Signs To Drive For Rahal Letterman Racing

Ethanol-backed IndyCar Series race driver Ryan Hunter Reay will be giving away $20 gas cards to the first (100) one hundred customers that purchase E85 fuel, beginning at 11:30am, at Pioneer Plaza.

Hunter-Reay was signed to drive for Rahal Letterman Racing (co-owned by 1986 Indy 500 champion Bobby Rahal and late night TV host David Letterman) last June and did not compete in the 2007 ABC Supply / A. J. Foyt 225.

In record-setting fashion, RHR led all 250 laps to score a victory at The Mile in 2005 in a Champ Car World Series championship open wheel event, so he knows how to get around America's Legendary Oval.

Hunter-Reay was the highest finishing rookie in last Indy 500, finishing 6th, and will be in one of the largest IndyCar Series fields ever – 27 cars – to take a green flag at The Milwaukee Mile. more

Business News

B) expects its bicycle business to get a boost because the soaring cost of oil and gasoline makes bikes more attractive for transit.

Jeffrey Schwartz, the company's executive vice-president, says so far bicycles are used mainly for recreation in North America. But he predicted that North America will eventually follow Europe where bikes are "very big" in urban transportation.

TORONTO - RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust's (TSX:REI.UN) sound financial position is opening up opportunities in a slowing economy to expand its property holdings, the shopping mall owner's CEO and president said Tuesday after its annual meeting.

"If anything the difference in the financial climate has actually made more opportunities available to us because we have the capital and the financial clout to do it," Edward Sonshine said. more

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Open Question: does my mom favor my sister?

im sorry this is so long. im just really upset!! :'( my mom ALWAYS talk about my sister. its a constant brag about how great she is, and about her new job, and about her grad and plans for the future. (shes 17 im 16) she has NEVER talked about me to friends and family, but when she does its always about how i pretty much suck at everything. ( i don't actually. she just gets pissed when i don't wash a dish, or sweep the floor wrong) ANYWAYS. she hasn't even made me a baby album! i mean, she made my sister a huge one! and i don't even get one. i told her she should start making one, but she spends her extra time in front of her computer!! if all 3 of us are in a store together and mom sees an old friend who says "these are your girls?!?! their so big!" she introduces us, and goes off about my sister. not a word about me. until the person asks. and usually, when a person asks what my sister wants to do with her life, my mom answers for her (she wants to be a vet) and drolls on and on. but when the person asks me, i have to tell them (pastry chef. and that i want to own an ice cream shop and bakery one day) and its left at that. i KNOW that mom will never talk about me, even after my sister graduates and starts collage, because she will find something new to talk about. (like if she starts a business or gets a GREAT job) will i always be left in the dark? PS. my sister always talks rude and mean to me. example: about 30 mins ago, we left for a walk. my sister had her music on loud. then she turned it off cause we were talking. she said "if you say 1 word about my music i swear i will choke u with bo's (our dog) chain!" and mom doesn't say anything! and if i say something like "shut up" or "ur being so stupid!" mom will scream at me. she has NEVER said anything to my sister on how she talks to me, until i say "MOM!! she could kill me and u wouldn't even care!" then she says something like "____ stop!" but she doesn't. ALSO: she can sit on the computer from like 7pm to 2am and doesn't get in trouble. but i go on the computer for like, 2-3 hours and i get in sh!t. it also seems like mom doesn't trust me to be on after she goes to bed! she will yell at me until i get off, then she goes to bed. AND my mom goes to bed around 11-12 and when she goes to bed she says "OFF NOW" and my sister makes (in a smug tone) a "mhhhmmm" sound. and sits on till whenever! she doesn't do the dishes right (i redo them) and doesn't sweep right (i re sweep after her) and because of that, mom thinks she does everything PERFECT!! and when i tell her i re did them she just says "oh" and goes on doing whatever. and when my dad grounds her off the computer, my mom lets her go back on the next day, even though they both know he was serious. but when i get grounded, i stay off the computer for days/weeks, until my dad says i can go back on. theres a lot of other things, but this post is long enough!! thank you for your time! serious answers only! :) PS. i am considering running away, or for the future, cutting off all ties i have with my mom and sister. i don't want to talk to them after high school >:( PPS. 1 last thing!! mom gets really mad when i don't talk to her, or gets mad when she asks me something and i get mad. but she pays attention when i talk, and she only asks me really stupid questions! like one time i went for a walk with my cousin and when i got back mom asked what hotel they were staying at when they go on vacation, and where her mom went after her parents split up!! i tell her that we don't talk about that stuff (really, we don't) and she gets mad. and says that we don't tell her anything. but its really that she just gets pissed because we don't come home with the right info she needs >:(i really do love them both. and we have a pretty tight relationship, its just that some days (pretty much everyday) my mom/sister ruins the day by doing what i wrote about!!!*not really 'ruins' the day... just sours the mood. and sometimes i have to run outside, or turn the TV volume up so i don't have to hear mom brag!! it disgusts me that much! more

Open Question: What do you think supporters do no not want robbers, burglars, murderers, sex offenders and drunken drivers?

What do you think supporters do no not want robbers, burglars, murderers, sex offenders and drunken drivers supporters say it is best for states mind their own business and and let the federal government take care of immigration , are these supporters for real ?This year, the jail is on track to double the number of illegals in its cells from last year. Currently, there are 14 men in the jail wanted by the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), records show. Among them are accused robbers, burglars, murderers, sex offenders and drunken drivers. Once they move through the local justice system, federal authorities will have 48 hours to pick them up from jail. But how does the jail identify illegals? Suspects brought to the jail who cannot provide identification or who are foreign-born are checked for citizenship through ICE, according to Assistant Chief William Redman. "These people are brought in on criminal charges; we aren't hunting them down," Redman said. "And as a result of that they're being checked." Parts of an Arizona law have sparked national controversy and protest rallies like one held earlier this week in South Bend. If the law survives court challenges, it would allow law enforcement officers to demand proof of a person's immigration status regardless of the reason for which he or she was stopped. If a person is deemed illegal, ICE will generally place a "hold" on him, meaning he cannot be released from custody unless to immigration officials. All of the 14 illegal immigrants in the jail are male Hispanics except for one, according to jail booking documents. Their listed occupations include plumber, cook, car washer, laborer, waiter, meat cutter and unemployed, records show. Some were involved with high-profile crimes this year, such as 19-year-old Miguel Perez. He was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison last week for his role in a December shooting spree. Perez will serve his time and then be picked up by ICE, Redman said. But the increasing number of ICE holds has a flaw: It's expensive. Each inmate in the jail costs the county about $38 a day, Redman said. Those with ICE holds, because they can't post bond and be released, are more taxing than U.S. citizens facing the same charges because they never leave. "It is a financial issue at the local level for us, because we have to house them here," Redman said. The increase of illegals at the jail might be the result of better detection procedures, attorney Monterrosa said, and is not necessarily indicative that more illegals are committing crimes. But others say the jail's identification system is flawed. Local immigration and criminal defense attorney George Caturla said he believes the jail is calling federal authorities on individuals committing petty crimes or minor traffic violations. He said the jail's policy is "illogical" and inconsistent, though he said the St. Joseph County Jail is less aggressive than jails in Elkhart and Kosciusko counties. Redman said there is no written policy for how the jail chooses when to contact federal authorities, but it is consistent. He said the policy "works and it helps." Still, Redman said, it's possible that a suspect being booked at the jail could lie about his birthplace, fake a Social Security number and remain undetected. For Caturla, the basic issue is one the nation is debating: to what extent, if any, should states enforce federal immigration laws? "I would prefer states mind their own business and let the federal government take care of immigration," Caturla said. Just last week, though, the federal government announced plans to expand a fingerprinting program that would make it easier for local jails to identify illegal immigrants. Under the program, the fingerprints of every person booked into a jail would be run through the Department of Homeland Security, the Associated Press reported. It is currently being used in 467 jurisdictions in 26 states, the AP reported. http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20100801/News01/8010393/-1/googleNews more

Resolved Question: What do you think about this relationship?

First of all I'm divorced 6 months ago. Then I've met this guy which I thought I'd give it a chance, I've been out with him manytimes he was extremely kind and polite, I was also helping him about his business (we live in different country although we have the same origin) I trusted him more when one day we went to his place and there's only two of us there 5 hours in the same room and I felt totally safe, he was unlike the other guy who'll try to touch or make me feel uncomfortable. He spent 2 months in my country, we got to know each other more, getting closer, more intimacy. He said he'll never find anyone like me and tht I'm all that he needed and I'm the best woman he has ever met, but due to our tradition he should be married long time ago from the family arrangement but he was in America for 10 years so he's a bit different, I asked him why has has never been married, he said he tried 3-4 times before but when he sit and talk with the girl's family it didn't work out.... Sometimes I felt he's afraid of commitment, he got to talk to my Mom on the phone and he told her how nice I am and that he will take care of me but when he met her he doesn't open up his feelings that much and since the beginning that we met he said he'll talk to my dad if we decided to get married. I met lots of his friends and relatives, also 2 close cousin which he said they're more than a brother to him (he's a single child) they did liked me alot and even courage him to marry me but I've heard him said "not now I don't want to deal with break up or divorce" We've plan to travel the world together, first in Asia and he's going to invite me to his house this December and he planned to buy a house in California for retirement, this September we'll open a company together. Now it has been a week since he left I felt terrible, he called everyday though but he said may be sometimes he can't call everyday but its ok I'm his heart and no matter where a guy goes he'll be back to his heart. While he was here I have all his mails password cause I'm the one who check e-mail and respond for every business contact now he chaged them, Is that something I should worry about? He has also one profile in dating site which he's a premium member but he said he doesn't use it so I hid his profile but from time to time I saw a message sent to another girl he said its not for him, all of his friends are married so when they did anything like this they'll put it through his name, Should I be concern? He has also deleted all the mobile contacts, messages from the girls he knew before and all the mails and photos in his camera... I don't want to be paranoid cause one of the reason he's not yet married was because he said most of women in his country wants to control and treated men like dog which she can pulls him around Now the plan is that he'll come after 1 1/2 month and he'll take yearly visa so after we opened the company we'll travel in Asia... it all sounds promising but sometimes I'm afraid it'll be too good to be true... Any advice at all feel free and Thanks a lot. more

Open Question: Is this letter Blackmail/Extortion?

Ok So here's the deal, I had a business contract with a guy that was broken and it cost me $30k (I had handed my online business which made $40k a year to him under contract to manage it in exchange for a portion of the profit)...after this I investigated him and found out he had scammed others to the tune of $50k+ over the years....like a handful of folks paid him to make a website for him and he took their money and never made the site and never refunded their money...among other scams he has done... Here's my question is it blackmail or extortion for me to threaten to contact the FBI about this if I give him a chance to resolve or settle this matter and he doesnt? In my mind what he did was fraud and there are other cases of it to back this up...Any Lawyers or Law Students care to offer an advice aside from "get a lawyer"? Thanks Here is an example of something similar to what I might send him..is this blackmail or extortion? Dear Sir, It has become apparent to me that you think this is a game you can get away with and that you can continue to defraud people and get away with it. I have documented over $XX,XXX in Fraud committed by you where you took a person’s money or business (in my case) and received nothing or very little at all in reimbursement back from this. From my investigation of your business doings this would be easily proven in court that these were fraud and not “my dog ate my homework” or “I’m having marriage problems” or any other lame excuse you come up with to justify screwing people out of their money. This is a criminal offense and you could get serious jail time for it. You are playing with fire my friend. (Continued next post) 15 hours ago Your actions have infuriated me to the point that there is no backing off now and you know if I can hold on to this tenaciously for 10 months so far that I can hold on+keep going for another 3 years on the principle that by principal I can’t stand dishonest people. You are stirring up a storm and you will not like the end result. I am not scared of you and I know your fear tactics you play on people. You screw them and then threaten them with legal action if they say anything to others (exercising their 1st amendment rights) about how you screwed them to warn others. This scares others but I see how this entire plot of yours is constructed+what feeds it and what starves it. This is your final opportunity to settle this matter+make things right as well as make things right with (another persons name) since your screwing him around is about to get him kicked out of his place, yet you think screwing up people’s lives is just a game or a “business plan of action”. (Continued Next) 15 hours ago Should a settlement be not be reached with myself AND (another persons name) not be paid by the end of the day on August 1st I will be going to the authorities on this matter (Your Sheriff, Your States Attorney, and the FBI). And I have done very thorough investigating on you my friend; I know all your other businesses, your websites, your accounts at different places and most every other aspect of your business, the contact information of people you have screwed…among other things. This is your last chance to make things right. Be warned….If you balk at this you are going to have a maelstrom of problems ahead of you. (End of Letter) more

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Resolved Question: Roommate advice???????????????

so a friend of mine moved down to my hometown with her boyfriend and they were happy, but she ended up leaving her sweet boyfriend for my brother , that was fine and it was all good... so then she and my brother moved into my basement and well it was okay for a couple of days but then she started having her ex boyfriend over when my brother was gone and getting him to buy her things and take her places.. my brother knew all this and he was being mature and said he did not care.. but anyway while she was living here with her child and my brother and I have my fiance and two toddlers living in this house to, almost right away things went from ok to bad.. she complained alot about everything and almost ignored me... but I tried branching out the friendship branch and asking her to do things with me but she never wanted to she said it was to hot or she didnt feel like it... so we ended up not being close at all and infact it was akward to be around her at all... so anyways here is where i need to know if I overstepped my sisterly duties.. she was planning on leaving my brother for her ex and move back to their hometown however she changed her mind then again and again it was like ping pong.. finally last night she wasnt going to to with him and stay here and that was fine we were all good... but this morning i wake up and she is leaving again i was like okay finally lets just get this over with then she decided last minute she was not going.. i snapped why is she playing with my brother like this he dont deserve and I told her so and she did not like it... she told me" mind my own fucking business" i said well this is my house and you complaining constantly and playing yo you with my brothers heart makes it my business and she didnt like that i was just sick of her drinking and making huge messes and stuff.. it was stressful.. so i just told her she had to leave well she wasnt happy but now she is gone with her ex.. in my opionon if she really loved my brother she wouldn't even be seeing her ex so I told her she had to leave.. now thats shes gone i feel a huge weight lifted off my shoulders.. I know i shouldn't have intervened in their relationship but i didnt tell her go back to her ex I told her to move out!! so i need to know did i over step my sistely duties more

Open Question: Do you Believe That President Obamas a Socialist?

What do guys think of this artical? Barack Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is > brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming > the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social > chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within. > > > > Barack Obama is my college classmate ( Columbia University , class of > '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following > the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University . > They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with > government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken > individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, > Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist > state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for > survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. > Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it. > > > -- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with > health care.Â It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital > and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents > (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving > free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the > national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence > of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a > socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the > middle of a depression? > > > -- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with > health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has > everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the > economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those > powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, > MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. > They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to > Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that > all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and > businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around." > > > -- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's > asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement > addicts in the middle of a depression?Â Certainly not American taxpayers. > But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new > Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal > Democratic voters who are dependent on big government. > > > -- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million > potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system > and bankrupt America . But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat > voters who can be counted on to support big government.Â Add another few > trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free > medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social > Security. > > > -- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat > contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of > dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. > It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying > union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out > (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 > billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those > public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated > salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America . The country goes > broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat > Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the > means. > > > -- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job > creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, > redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing > to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut > taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise > taxes to starve his political opposition. > > > With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and > rapidl more

Open Question: Is there such a thing as a reputable online school?

My specific areas of interest are centered around information technology. My wife, and a couple of my friends go to a certain well known and widely advertised online school, and I frequently hear of the idiot antics of their classmates, and even teachers. "In the state of Canada, the geologic event was Ice", etc... I find it hard to believe that anyone in that institution cares about the quality of the education they are providing. Also, I have a significant amount of experience in IT already, and many of the degree programs that I've looked into consist largely of material that I either already know, or is of largely no interest or value to my career plans. Of course a degree will be broad, and cover things I don't care about, but I would like at least 60% of the material to be new to me. I know that if the only thing I get out of a program is a credential, as opposed to a genuine learning experience, I will never stay motivated enough to finish it. Masters level stuff would certainly be a learning experience, but I don't think I'm ready to give up my life as a technician yet, and it all seems to be 10,000ft perspective stuff. "How can IT help actualize resource allocation models to support my business strategy... blah blah blah...". Certainly it's important to someone, and maybe even me, one day... but not anytime soon. Am I being completely unrealistic here? Should I just grab up a "whatever" degree to check the block and keep learning everything I can through certification programs and self-study? Or is there a school out there where I can pick up a credential that WON'T be openly mocked in a job interview, one that will actually help me to learn things I need to know, or maybe even do both? more

Voting Question: Need Last Minute Advice between 2 laptops please? Buying today!?

I'm finally buying a gaming laptop and I need some opinions to sway my last minute decision. I'm ordering form Xotic PC and I have chosen between: Sager NP8690 (Built on Clevo W860CU) Custom Gaming Laptop - 3 Year Labor* 1 Year Parts Warranty Lifetime -24/7 DOMESTIC Based- Toll Free Telephone Tech Support (Labor Warranty through Xotic PC) Includes FREE Shipping Both Ways for Warranty Repairs - PC Works Suite 2010 Pro Edition - No Office Software - ~Windows 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Installed (64&32-Bit CD Included) w/ Drivers & Utilities CD's - Integrated Fingerprint Reader - 11.1V Smart Li-Polymer battery pack 3800mAh, 42.18Wh - Basic Black Business Case - Included - Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio - Included - Built in 2.0 Megapixel Camera - Intel® Ultimate-N 6300 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module - Internal Bluetooth + EDR - Internal 7-in-1 Card Reader (MS/MS Pro/MS Duo/MS Pro Duo/SD/Mini-SD/MMC/RS) - ~ 320GB 7200RPM (Serial-ATA II 300 - 16MB Cache) - Default - ~Combo 8x8x6x4x Dual Layer DVD +/-R/RW 5x DVD-RAM 24x CD-R/RW Drive w/Softwares - Standard Finish - ~ 4,096MB DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory (2 SODIMMS) (Requires 64-Bit to utilize Full 4GB) - ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD5870 1024MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11 - - IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU - Intel® Core™ i7-740QM, 1.73-2.93GHz, (45nm, 6MB L3 cache) - Standard Dead Pixel Policy - 15.6” HD+ 16:9 LED Backlit Wide screen (1600x900) Super Clear Glare Type Screen And FORCE 1656-ID5 (Built on the MSI-1656-ID5) - 15.4" WSXGA+ "Glare Type" Super Clear Ultra Bright Glossy Screen (1680x1050) - Standard Dead Pixel Policy - Intel® Core™ i7-720QM, 1.60-2.80GHz, (45nm, 6MB L3 cache) - Special! - ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD5850 1024MB PCI-Express GDDR5 DX11 - - 4,096MB (2 SODIMMS) DDR3 1333MHz Dual Channel Memory - Standard Finish - - Combo Dual Layer SuperMulti 8X DVDRW Drive w/ Software (If choosing a 2nd HDD in the Optical Drive Bay no Optical Disk Drive will be included) - - 320GB 7200RPM WD or Seagate (Serial-ATA II 3GB/s) - Internal 4-in-1 Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO) - Internal Bluetooth + EDR - -Intel® Ultimate-N 6300 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN Module - Built in 2.0 Megapixel Camera - Sound Blaster Compatible 3D Audio - Included - Smart Li-ion Battery (6-Cell) - No Fingerprint Reader - Windows 7 Home Premium - 64-Bit - No Office Software - PC Works Suite 2010 Pro Edition - 1 Year Complete Care Warranty - 1 Year Parts with 2nd Day Shipping, 24/7 Telephone Tech Support & Lifetime Labor Warranty To me they seem quite similar except for the price. Sager= $1609 and the Force= $1393 The sager does have a better graphics card and cooling system but the force leaves me breathing room to buy office software for school. I plan to play games such as GW2, WoW, Fiesta, Starcraft 2, MW2, BF2 and all that good stuff. So can anybody help me? more

Voting Question: Tell me what you HONESTLY think about my novel?!!?

Chapter 1 Turn right, back left, twice to the right, once over to the left again. 3.13.8.9. Those numbers. Those fascinating numbers were stuck in my mind. The directions, told to me by a man who I had been visiting within the county prison for three or four weeks, some unfinished business he had to take care of, or rather, that I had to take care of. But who could blame him? Warren Young had been in prison for half of his life and the last act of crime he did was shoot up a local bank. Leaving three dead, thirteen in critical condition, eight went on to star on television, while the other nine were last seen underneath a freeway. Three. Thirteen. Eight. Nine. Equaling out to thirty-three. Warren Young was a man of genius, if you happened to walk by him you wouldn’t have known. I sure didn’t. He told me he had planned this after I first visited him but since reconnecting with his thirty something year old daughter he wanted someone else to do the job. His old bones weren’t up to the task, he wasn’t the same man from 1976. He was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole and during that time in prison, he told me he had seen a sign from God. But from everyone I interviewed before their last few months on this earth had a change of mind. I was sent to interview him for the 38th anniversary of the conviction, I worked as a journalist and this was sort of a way to break through to the masses. Telling his life from a different perspective. Being a newcomer to The Swainney Tribune this was a job only granted to the veterans of the paper but somehow I got the job. I remembered sitting down in the office that day, the ac had broken and everyone there were barking like dogs, fans stationed at every desk but even that didn’t seem to do anything. I reached down into my desk drawer and pulled out the gathering stacks of misleading stories. Where no day is a carbon copy of the day before it was simply another day in the office. The job didn’t pay that much but it paid the rent for my apartment. Being a journalist wasn’t a pretty job with the long hours I could tell you now that no one at this place broke into journalism did it for the money, or else everyone would’ve walked out long ago. But I wanted to find answers and make a good story, the thing was, not everyone gets that chance to make it happen. Nonetheless it’s a fun job you just got to have the patience for it. The clock had just struck one-fifteen p.m., fifteen minutes before the place closed down for the day. With a huff I placed the papers down and tapped the bobble head doll that sat at the corner of my desk. It was a paperboy with tattered clothing my mom had found it at a yard sale and figured to give it to me. “You don’t think this day could get any worse, do you?” I asked while leaning back in my la-z-boy chair. The paperboy shook it’s head repetitively, his brown eyes looked back at me. “Of course you would say that, you’re an inanimate object.” “And you wonder why we talk about you?” Martha, one of the veterans here at the tribune, said to me carrying several folders in her hand. “Allen you should get to work, those papers aren’t going to make an interesting story on its own.” Grinning, I fumble through the papers. “I’m really trying Martha it’s just,” I paused while running my hand through my hair. “There’s nothing interesting on this table, all of it’s garbage I mean come on. A girl finds her doll beside her when she wakes up? The stories get worst over time, so moronic.” Martha placed her free hand on her side and laughed. “Or I think you just don’t look hard enough,” she sat down on the edge of my desk. “Look the secret to finding your place in this office is to write a damn good paper and in order to do that you must find the story. The one that tops everyone else’s,” she leaned in closer. “You know, some people don’t believe in you but I do.” “Thanks, Martha that really means a lot to me.” And it did. Considering that she was the only person who made the effort to talk to me. She grinned moving her auburn hair behind her ear. Martha was a woman of many stories; she’s been around since the office opened in 1987 and subsequently she’s made a name for herself. A reputation that’s beyond me. I guess you could say she was a “second mother” to me but was still as hard on me as everyone else at this office. “Enough chatting look for work.” She nudged me in the arm and walked into the file room. Focusing my eyes back onto the stack of papers in front of me, I sifted through each pile reading each headline, every story but they were all the same. The last time one of my papers’ had ever gotten out of the office was two years ago and the topic ¾ to say the least ¾ wasn’t all that noteworthy. Guess that’s why it was the worst selling paper in ten years. There wasn’t a day that passed that I had to drop everything to write a whole new portion of work just beThere wasn’t a day that passed that I had to drop everything to write a whole new portion of work just because of the Napoleonic editors here (they were simply perfectionists) and the crazed deadlines here were enough to keep you on your feet every single moment. The ball and chain system of it all was enough to make you go insane but in order to survive in this line of business you had to have a strong mind. more

Voting Question: can someone please help me? i dont know what to do.. depression?

right well basically i am 16 and i think i am suffering from severe depression & NO i am not attention seeking ! well i will explain all the reasons i could be depressed really>> -one of mums exs physically abused me and another sexually abused me, the physical abuser, my mum did not find out about until they split up as neighbours told my mum they heard me and my younger sister screaming alot & the sexual abuser , my mum found out about while they were together, i told her a few people were told & no one believed me, they thought i was lying because i did not like him but i did not like him because of how scared he made me so my mum still stayed with him & i had to live with him for another few years until i decided enough was enough, i could not handle it no more so i went to the police, was in a police station until about half 4 in the morning then was taken to care for the night but then was picked up about 9 in the morning to do a recorded interview , then was sent to a different city for a few weeks while he was on bail and my mum calmed down and when i went back home he was still on bail, i got very horrible messages from his family & things were so funny between me & my mum & i found out he wasnt charged due to not enough evidence & things were funny between me & my mum so she chucked me out so she coul have him back but they split up over something different so im back with her, not sure if she believes me though... -recently me and my ex best friend had an argument over me not telling her my family business, because of that she called me a cunt, a slag, well all the ba names under the sun really, then two of my other old friends who now hang around with her have also started picking on me , even telling me to kill myself & if i dont have enough tablets, they have plenty, they started putting things over the internet about me , saying how i need to watch out if they see me, so i went to the police & they have been warned, i had a choice to get them arrested or warned ut yet the mums have been calling my mum chatting rubbish about me & whenever my mum walks past them they kiss their teeth or something , i havent seen them since so i dont know what they would do to me .. i still think about what they say and i was taken to hospital in an ambulane when it happened (2 days ago ) due to cutting myself to kill myself, i have took overdoses int the past and am planning to take another one. one of the girls ive known since i was 2 . i was even physically bullied at school once by someone much older than me that i di not even know,. i just want to die, i have been so emotional lately, help please??im even planning on stop eating to lose weight more

Resolved Question: I could really use some criticism on this?

Criticism is most welcome, tell me what you think about this? Chapter 1 Turn right, back left, twice to the right, once over to the left again. 3.13.8.9. Those numbers. Those hypnotic numbers were stuck in my mind. The directions, told to me by a man who I had been visiting with in the county prison for three or four weeks, some unfinished business he had to take care of, or rather, that I had to take care of. But who would blame him? Warren Young had been in prison for half of his life and the last act of crime he did was shoot up a local bank. Leaving three dead, thirteen in critical condition, eight went on to star on television, while the other nine were last seen underneath a freeway. Three. Thirteen. Eight. Nine. Equaling out to thirty-three. Warren Young was a man of genius, if you happened to walk by him you wouldn’t have known. I sure didn’t. He told me he had planned this after I first visited him but since reconnecting with his thirty something year old daughter he wanted someone else to do the job. His old bones weren’t up to the task, he wasn’t the same man from 1976. He was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole and during that time in prison, he told me he had seen a sign from God. But from everyone I interviewed before their last few months on this earth had a change of mind. I was sent to interview him for the 38th anniversary of the conviction, I worked as a journalist and this was sort of a way to break through to the masses. Telling his life from a different perspective. Being a newcomer to The Swainney Tribune this was a job only granted to the veterans of the paper but somehow I got the job. I remembered sitting down in the office that day, the ac had broken and everyone there were barking like dogs, fans stationed at every desk but even that didn’t seem to do anything. I reached down into my desk drawer and pulled out the gathering stacks of misleading stories. Another day in the office. The clock had just stroke four, fifteen minutes before the place closed down for the day. With a huff I placed the papers down and tapped the bobble head doll that sat at the corner of my desk. It was a paperboy with tattered clothing my mom had found it at a yard sale and figured to give it to me. “You don’t think this day could get any worse, do you?” I asked while leaning back in my la-z-boy chair. The paperboy shook it’s head repetitively, his brown looked back at me. “Of course you would say that, you’re an inanimate object.” “And you wonder why we talk about you?” Martha, one of the veterans here at the tribune, said to me carrying several folders in her hand. “Allen you should get to work, those papers aren’t going to make an interesting story on its own.” Grinning, I fumble through each paper and turn down each one. “I’m really trying Martha it’s just,” I paused while running my hand through my hair. “There’s nothing interesting on this table, all of it’s garbage I mean come on. A girl finds her doll beside her when she wakes up? The stories get worst over time, so moronic.” Martha placed her free hand on her side and laughed. “Or I think you just don’t look hard enough,” she sat down on the edge of my desk. “Look the secret to finding your place in this office is to write a damn good paper and in order to do that you must find the story. The one that tops everyone else’s,” she leaned in closer. “You know, some people don’t believe in you but I do.”I NEED criticism not just a simple answer. more

Resolved Question: How to get over my Heartbreak?

Hi everyone, I have a confession, I met a girl online and after talking for 6 months we moved in together and lived 3 years of happy life and planned on getting kids and everything, did practically everything together, I stopped hanging out with family and friends and so did she we just focused on each other. I moved to where her family was and even though it was hard to live with them we were happy together. I relied on her so much she was like my mommy really, took care of me, I was kind of lazy so she did almost everything she was the decision maker and I was like the typical house man. Things were rocky for us sometimes because I mainly went with whatever she decided and didn't voice too much opinion, she didn't like that either but I guess she liked being in charge. I was fine with my escapism of video games, alcohol and dreams of military. She started to say she wanted friends and things to change (we were always in love but depressed) so she started to bring some friends from the neighborhood to smoke with in the house male friends, I just minded my business in the bathtub reading my military books. So eventually on the day that my dreadful job fired me and she bought me beer, she woke me up in the middle of the night telling me that she cheated on me with one of those smoke friends. SIGHS, so for a few months I was unemployed and didn't know how to feel about my perfect mommy just betraying me and US! I had massive panic attacks and couldn't go to sleep at night. Eventually that same year I took her to work one day and went home packed all the bags and went back to my family across the country, she didn't even know I left until it was too late. Now it has been two months and we haven't texted in a week and I don't think we will text again, I feel I don't know how like I'm not even real! Will I ever be happy ?Mr ANFIELD ACES, Honest thank you guys for the feedback I always wanted to know what other people thought of this damn situation. And she was messed up like that, mood swings and all. My current understanding is leading me to ask another quesition im gonna post. Thanks guys more

Resolved Question: How does paragraph sound to you?

Tell me what you think? Turn right, back left, twice to the right, once over to the left again. 3.13.8.9. Those numbers. Those hypnotic numbers were stuck in my mind. The directions, told to me by a man who I had been visiting with in the county prison for three or four weeks, some unfinished business he had to take care of, or rather, that I had to take care of. But who would blame him? Warren Young had been in prison for half of his life and the last act of crime he did was shoot up a local bank. Leaving three dead, thirteen in critical condition, eight went on to star on television, while the other nine were last seen underneath a freeway. Three. Thirteen. Eight. Nine. Equaling out to thirty-three. Warren Young was a man of genius, if you happened to walk by him you wouldn’t have known. I sure didn’t. He told me had planned this after I first visited him but since reconnecting with his thirty something year old daughter he wanted someone else to do the job. His old bones weren’t up to the task, he wasn’t the same man form 1976. He was sentenced to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole and during that time in prison, he told me had seen a sign from God. But from everyone I interviewed before they’re last few months on this earth had a change of mind. I was sent to interview him for the 38th anniversary of the conviction, I worked as a journalist and this was sort of a way to break through to the masses. Telling his life from a different perspective. Being a newcomer to The Swainney Tribune this was a job only granted to the veterans of the paper but somehow I got the job. I remembered sitting down in the office that day, the ac had broken and everyone were barking like dogs, fans stationed at every desk but even that didn’t seem to do anything. I reached down into my desk drawer and pulled out the gathering stacks of misleading stories. Another day in the office. The clock had just stroke four, fifteen minutes before the place closed down for the day. And scene. How was it? more

Voting Question: Why is it so hard to move when that all i really want?

Im almost 30 and have been married for almost a yr and obviously need a place for me and my husband. I live with my dad. We are more like roommate's but he still is in my business like a dad. He is very nosy and dependent on me. I don't live with him to take care of him or anything but with finances the way they are it works out better with the both of us. Me and my husband have plans to move out next year and even talking about to my dad goes bad. He accuses me of abandoning me and never talking to him again. He tells me hes gonna die of loneliness. Honestly i feel like that could be true. he is a very lonely person and doesn't really have any friends. He just works all day then home.Moving is the best thing because he doesn't respect my boundaries and he doesn't have a life and wants to do everything with me and my husband and feels sad when we don't let him come along.Just so everyone knows we'll be living in the same city still. I just wanna be able to do this without any guilt CUz i don't feel i should even feel guilty. I think he plays on it cuz he knows it works. more

Resolved Question: what do you think of this plan to open a Star Trek Experience themed business?? Sorry for being so long?

Since our beloved Star Trek Experience has been bound up in red tape and politics for what seems to be a life time. I was doing some very hard thinking about the past and how our forefathers and mothers dealt with such issues as we have here with our predicament. Back in the days of the original series a serious letter writing campaign helped change the minds and hearts of the huge producers and well... the rest is history as they say. But in these precarious times we have seen letter writing campaigns not work, neither does petitions or vocal oppositions. I have seen this countless times in government and in the public sectors where the ones in “control” don't care or respect what us people in the “under class” thinks or wishes it is only about the money that they can squeeze from us! So how do we make a difference? WE the people have to step up and MAKE the difference. Here is my idea , all of us (us being every Star Trekker /Trekkie or any name we go by) chip in and WE build the Experience ourselves. Hear me out before you shoot me down with cat calls and laughter. . In these days when all the news is bad and depressing we would be a ray of sunshine, a place to go for hope for the future. Of course have fun all the way! And if done right make some money along the way. Here is my ideas 1.Every fan chips in $1000.00 Think about it if we get 1000 people to contribute $1000.00 that is 1 million dollars! A million that can buy a large building that can hold a lot of people, displays, rides etc. Of course we will not be in prominent places like the strip in Vegas but more like an empty strip mall or ware house with access to transit and car traffic. Basicly we would rebuild the Experience! But with one big difference WE would be in control of OUR future. I know this is a lot of cash for a lot of us, me included, but those who contribute will then be held as presidents meaning they will be helping make the choices in the beginning, until we set up elections and promotions then everyone is elected into office of Presidents, Admirals, Captains. Each rank responsible for different areas of the Experience. Like accounting, engineering, promotions, etc. More money contributed the higher the rank till elections occur. After set up then we disband and the elections happen with ALL ranks voting so that way everyone has a chance to be anything they want to be and not a place for the rich to buy their way in. Other words you have to work hard to get to the top and not buy your way into the position. Now if one can not afford to contribute there is lots for you to do, you can do sweat equity into the Experience, think about it this way, everyone out there is doing things for a living right? You are all electricians, plumbers, accountants, cooks, etc. So there is our construction crew, and book keeping and different labour sectors. After a set number of hours of volunteering you get your rank into the Experience depending on the number of hours, you put in, the higher the rank. So everyone can move up higher in rank the harder they work until officer rank then you have to be elected. Everyone including the ones that contributed money has to work in the Experience a set amount of hours per month every year to keep their rank active and keep there shares. And this is the beauty of the thing everyone can do something from grunt work to office work to even blogging. There is work for everyone with every physical ability. You can work anywhere in the world, all you have to do is something for the Experience to grow and prosper, for instance you can set up advertising for us on the internet and on local TV, as well as spread the word of us by word of mouth, maintain a web page for us etc etc. The first few years we would need a steady flow of cadets coming into the Experience to make this work, and at this stage of human evolution money as well. We will need to constantly have fund raising actives. As well as contributions from all our new and old members. All money will be transparent and everyone from Presidents to the lowest crew-member can see the books and help dictate where the money goes. As well as what the Experience will look like and where we will go in the future. By way of monthly meetings and online votes and polls. And every crew member that is active will have a share in the Experience depending on rank and years into the project. 2. Now here is the hardest part of all !! Getting Paramount to give us the right to use the images and insignia of Star Trek and all its parts. Basicly getting a licence to use the name!! This will be the hardest part of all, they will be hesitant and unwilling to share. As was the case in Vegas, they just kept bickering till nothing had a ghost of a chance to work. There must be lawyers that is willing to help us with the legal matters that are fans too? There must be loop holes and tricks of the trade to make more

Resolved Question: Why do I feel bad asking for a raise?

I work (construction/home improvements) with one guy, my "boss". Don't really like him, don't talk to him at work.....and he actually complains about it, which annoys me. He's slow, he's lazy, always taking a break to smoke while I continue to work. And now I'm starting to drive him to work (in his car) because he's tired or has a head ache. He's a p*ss, lol. He's also pretty ignorant when it comes to a lot of things. I hate listening to his opinions because its border line racist or sexist, etc. I avoid getting into any discussion with him because he's pretty much a loser. The thing is, I almost feel like I'm allowing myself to be taken advantage of. He works slow and I only know how to work one speed and that's fast. And I do just as good, if not better, than him. I save him time and money, but when we get the job done faster, it's I who makes less and he makes more since I get paid by the day. But I feel bad asking for a raise. Not that I won't get it, because if i don't get the raise, I'll quit and do it on my own. I actually have my license and all that done, my plan was to start a business all along. Which i should probably do anyway..but it's nice to have work now. But I feel there will be an weird feeling after wards. Should I just quit? I have a number of how much I want and if he doesn't come to it, I'm done working for him. But why do I feel bad? He's so stupid, i don't even like him. I'd be happy not to work with him......but for some reason just feel bad or weird, uncomfortable is the best word, I feel uncomfortable about asking for a raise. So a couple things, why do i care, should I care....should i ask for a million dollars a day and see how high he'll pay me, also could see how he reacts or just tell him I'm done working for him? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks more

Resolved Question: Why is Obama killing jobs by stifling business ?

Fareed Zakaria reports in the Washington Post that the 500 largest non-financial corporations in America have $1.8 trillion in cash reserves which are not being invested in business expansion. Most CEOs are not investing because of a plethora of additional and onerous new rules and taxes. In other words, America lacks stable and consistent rules which businesses and individuals can plan their investment strategies. Hence, CEOs are hoarding their cash rather than investing. Zakaria describes the CEOs’ fears: One CEO told me, "Almost every agency we deal with has announced some expansion of its authority, which naturally makes me concerned about what's in store for us for the future." Another pointed out that between the health-care bill, financial reform and possibly cap-and-trade, his company had lawyers working day and night to figure out the implications of all these new regulations. more

Resolved Question: What else can I do I was a victim of fraud being lured into a job under false pretense?

I worked for three weeks for a company called ooh la la in ft myers fl I was originally hired as aretail clerk for $9 an hour but than was asked if I could do a side project at the rate of $20 an hour. I was told I could work from home until the project wa completed and then I would work in the store. I basically went over thier whole marketing strategy, website, seo, e-mail marketing, blog , discussed article writing basically i advised them on my project plan in detail on how they could save thousands of dollars annually, they stole my designs and ideas and hired someone else behind my back without paying me a dime. I turned down other jobs because i was under the assumption I was an employee on the clock these were significantly higher paying jobs as well, they made promises to me that i would be thier permament head of marketing department and filled my head with a bunch of fantasies that they never were going to go through with. They misled me and both owners played me like a fiddle one would tell me one thing while the other would act like they didnt know what was going on. They pretened like they didnt know about design and the web, in fact thier actually pretty saavy, they played me so good. I am furious and craigs list is filled with nothing but cheap scam artist trying to put one over on you. I want to know what else I can legally do to these people as this is personal as they delibertly planned this out from day one and even after I had told them of my financial situation. I have a BA in information technology 11 years of web development experience a degree in graphic design and as a paralegal I was also trained on the job as a marketing professional, Seo expert and public relations. I am exstremely profecient in my field uo to date with all the latest trends. I have been out of work not because I am not good at my job but because so many business are outsourcing thier It Projects oversees. I was applying for the retail job because thier are no web positions open in Bonita where i live. I was decieved and raped for my skills and these people were preying upon desperate workers. Thats why thier add for hire read as this " need a retail clerk with fashion since knowledge of twitter and facebook a plus' why would a retail clerk need to know twitter or facebook? that was so they could narrow down job canidates to web professionals such as myself and exploit them for there services. If i have typos its because I dont care just reply with advice thanks. I beleive it is the same as hiring a plumber for retail and this getting him to divulge how he gets crap out of the toilet and this discard him without paying him an easy way for them to get free services without paying. I reported them to the IRS, BBB, Rip off report, labor and wage division and the attorney generals office as well as osha and consumer and business protection advocate group. I also sent them a bill and a disclosure of services that if they use my project plan any of my designs or ideas that I will take them to small claims court. If they dont pay me for the weeks of service in the sum of 5,000 im sending them to a collection agency.Yes however I was hired as a hourly employee at first and tricked into developing a website - i never agreed to work as a sub contractor I have never been in a situation where I was hired as an employee but than later converted into marketing driector slash web developer as a hired employee, Freelance I usually ask for all the money upfront because clients want the world but never want to pay. i was caught off guard because i was hired a retail clerk not as a web designer I was never paid for either postition. more

Resolved Question: planning to cut my dad out of my life, should i?

my parents have been married for 33 yrs now and recently my dad had an affair. my mother is diabetic and her blood is thinned out so basically shes in a delicate stage. he told my siblings and i that we should get out of his business. but i argue that it is my business because my mother can die if she's not treated right. he blames us because it all turned to turmoil when my siblings and i discovered his affair. he recently has neglected us as a family and that my biggest grudge. He is going out with a girl my age (18 btw im the youngest of 3) buys her stuff pays her bills and then tells us he doesn't have money. he said we will make our lives one day and to butt out of his. is it okay for me to not want to here from him anymore? he use to be a caring father that did anything for his kids. i just cant believe hes the same man and i don't want to carry on a relationship with him. do i have a right? more

Resolved Question: Does Obama's foreign student visa (Columbia University) still allow him to be pres?

WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University. They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it. -- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. Â It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression? -- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kickback hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around." -- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government. -- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America. But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security. -- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America. The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means. -- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition. With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system. Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.If it does, then the above history doesn't more

Resolved Question: Is this scam???????!!!!??!!!!!?

I have an account on sittercity.com for babysitting & I have just received TWO emails and BOTH say their in a "vacation". Is this letter scam: Hi There Thanks for your mail... .We are a loving family and we are looking for a live-in/live out nanny. There may be times where you will not keep my Kathy all week, and in order to compensate for the weekly pay light house keeping will be required. job requires car-pooling, helping with homework and cleaning the house and doing laundry. Must love children, and must be organized, active, clean, enthusiastic, a go-getter, friendly, caring, patient and loving. Kathy our only child and daughter plays a very important role in our family, Ever since she was born,the family has never remained the same for good.I and my husband will do anything to make Kathy and her nanny happy as well.Kathy's' prefect day is a warm morning when she knows she has her nanny around to cater for her.She loves to eat any good food but more of cereals,and she does take nap during the day.There 're just the three of us in the house hopefully you will be the fourth person. If you live-in with us, you'll get to have your own toilet and bathroom,including a personal computer connected to the internet in your room. Now a little about us,I own a shop back home and my husband is an International Business Man which enables us to travel to different continents on vacations. We live a very simple life and we have a big apartment though its just three of us in the house,hope you can join us on a trip someday.. We were formally located in Alabama, where my shop is presently located, i am planning on bringing it over so that i could have more time to monitor it very well... We went for the vacation 1 week after we moved in, so we don't really know places yet.. We are looking for someone that we can treat as part of our family/friend and not just as a nanny/aupair. my husband and I are easy to get along with you, i want to make you feel comfortable and at home, like to act silly, are easy going, and down to earth. We would like our aupair/nanny to be a comfortable care giving partner/companion/sister who is caring, flexible, and will have fun with our family.We would really enjoy a light-hearted, fun, and enthusiastic person who's ready for a neat American experience with a young, active family. We have an extremely supporting family here in the area, and the Kids grandparents play very active roles in their lives. presently we're on vacation on board an European line cruiser and We shall be back, before the July.31th of next month., We'll be paying you $600 per week and we're looking forward to work with you for 6 months also we'll be glad if you continue to work with us. But In other for us to secure you for this Job We'll be sending you upfront payment of $600 Just for us to secure you. Before we left for vacation I ordered for some baby items for my daughter, And i was told that it has been delivered to the states, From my agents in US. There's no way i can send them their money since we're on board a ship right now. The Agents has been very good to me and i don't want to jeopardize the relationship between us.After I and my husband pondered for a long time on how to resolve this issue, Because they are on my neck, I thought that you should be in the best position to help me out.So a check of $2,751 will be sent to you and you will be depositing the check to your account and once you have the money available you will deduct the upfront payment as i had stated earlier and once you deduct the $600 upfront payment then, you will have the remaining money sent to the agent. I hope you understand better.The payment We'll be sending you is just for us to have you booked down. Definitely there would be paid vacations and is negotiable their will be an off day for you depending on the day that you would prefer apart from your work days. I want you to know that we will compensate you for the gasoline. ...........Below is our Offer and Requirements......... You'll be paid $600.00 weekly If you choose to receive your salaries monthly that's $2400 and its okay with us. 1) You must be able to speak English Language.. 2)Is your boy friend or Husband in support of this position for you. 3) hours you re needed 9am-3pm Since my husband will be the one to pay your salaries,because of his time\schedule he would prefer to pay through BANK CERTIFIED CHECK. To show you how committed we are to this position for you,as soon as you send us your FULL NAMES, MAILING ADDRESS,AND YOUR CELL AND HOME PHONE NUMBER. We would send you a CHECK of $600 as an upfront payment to secure the position till we arrive. ..............................Kindly Fill out the Application Form below......................... 1.Are you interested in a full or part more

Resolved Question: I feel like my husband lied too me or am i over reacting?

I waited later in life to get married because it was hard for me to find a man with my old fashion values. I want to be a stay at home mom. I want a clean house hold and I want to cook 3 square homemade meals a day. I thought I found that with my husband , we dated for 3 years we spoke on numerous occasions on how I would be a house wife, stay at home mom and active in church. We got married in March after wards he complained that I did not clean his house and cook as much as I promised. I explained it is because I work over 40 hours a week and I am tired. Well I just found out he lied about the finance s and I cannot have children right away as planned and I probably will not be able to be a stay at home mom. Anyone who knows me knows I love children and want a big family . Also I want to be the best wife I can be but I can’t workings much as I am. I am not super woman. I asked woman at work how do they handle being a wife and working they tell me things like they split chores or they do not make breakfast for their husbands. I tried talking to his sisters since I do not have any they say they do not want to hear about my marriage and I should not put my business on the street. I wish I had sisters or some female I could go to. I have tried talking to him and he gets mad and tells me to come up with the money. Also because of the economy we cannot sell his house. I do not require much. My old apartment was basement of someone’s house. I take the subway train to work every day. I do not need the latest car or clothes I just want to take care of my family and be active in church. That does not seem right to me. Should I get a divorce because he lied to me? I am not happy.@ pearl i think you misunderstand me. He lied about his values. I would rather not keep up with the Jones and take care of my family. He lied about the mortage & debt so i have to work. I can walk to Church and to the super market I do not need a car or latest clothing. Staying at home at least until my children are in school is a value to me not a fun wish. more

Resolved Question: why do credit cards cancel on you if you have credit issues elsewhere?

So up until I was laid off in 2008 from a full-time job, I had near perfect credit. I always always always paid my biills on time and was seldomly ever late for any of them. I had a few credit cards. I have/had a MasterCard, a Kohls card, a Old Navy card, and another card from my bank that I never used or even activated since the account was only for overdraft protection. Keep in mind I have/had a near perfect record with MasterCard since like 2002. I ALWAYS paid my balance off in FULL not just on that card but any card I used I always made a habit of paying them off in full. So everyone knows that the only way to apply for jobs these days is via computer. Well my motherboard on my computer went bad so I had to buy a new laptop so I opened a Best Buy Credit card. During that time I also had a TEMPORARY contract job and thought I would be able to make the payments. Well about a week after I had charged the amount to the card, wouldn't you know that my contract temp job ended early. Then to top it off I had also during that time charged a small amount to my Kohls card thinking I"d be able to pay it off -- needed clothes for that job. Well keep in mind that was like last August. Well when the contract ended earlier than it was supposed to, I was stuck with two bills I could not pay. Unemployment benefits only pay out so much. So I had to prioritze my bills. I paid the things that had to be paid like my car payment, student loans, insurance, cell phone (I have the bare minimum no frills cell phone plan and it's the only phone I have) and groceries -- I applied for food stamps but was told I made too much on unemployment benefits. This pretty much left me with nothing left over to give to the credit card people. I paid them a few times when I had a little left over but those payments were far and few between. So I mean when you don't have money to pay even the bare minimum on cards you just don't have the money. And I tried to tell those companies that I was unemployed and asked for help and all they wanted to do was put me on some type of payment plan even though I tried to tell them I did NOT have any left over for that. So I mean they just didn't get paid. So I mean I can understand those particular companies not liking me. But what I don't understand is why other companies have to stick their nose in your business and close your other cards that you didn't even have problems with. My bank closed my card with them that I have for overdraft protection and have never ever even used it for that or anything else. Will Mastercard close on me next? It's like I have a perfect or near perfect history with them by themselves (both the bank and mastercard), but my credit got messed up by Best Buy and Kohls. Why should the bank and/or mastercard even care? My debt is NOT with them. I don't understand. I mean yes I know I didn't pay Best Buy and Kohls like I should have but you can't squeeze blood from a turnip. I mean shouldn't they look at my past history and see that the only reason my accounts went delinquent is due to falling on some hard times? I know the simple solution would be to get a job. And TRUST ME I am looking but I'm not getting any phone calls back for interviews. Any explanation as to why credit cards that I didn't even use are closing on me based on a couple other cards would be appreciated. Thanks. more

Resolved Question: When will Democrats wake up?

Many of you parroting the propaganda of the administration, as well as their extension, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS and ABC, apparently not able to think for yourself, or look at what's going on. which is what the Liar in Chief, Barrack Obama is counting on. He can tell you whatever he likes, and you'll believe it. Democrats are the party of big business, big oil and corruption; it's now been exposed. Much like the criminal continually accuses others of stealing, etc. The Democrats have long tried to pin this on Conservatives. It's apparently Democrats that are the biggest culprits here. NOW we know Why is your president personally destroying 16% of Louisiana's economy with his petty moratorium that he has no right to impose; but has already started driving the rigs out of the gulf. They won't wait around and lose $500,000 per day. And they're not coming back. Nice Job you communist piece of garbage...i mean Mr. President Obama's health care plan was written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand. It was passed by a Congress that had not read it. Will be funded by a Treasury Chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese and financed by a country that is broke. What could possibly go wrong? Also, we have an Attorney General who refuses to enforce the law; and files petty law suits against political enemies The most corrupt, duplicitous, arrogant and divisive administration in U.S. historyNot to mention the fact that Obama lent Petrobus billions of dollars for offshore drilling, deeper than BP was drilling. And that is where these rigs are headed. And that his buddy George Soros is heavilly invested in this Brazillian oil company, Petrobus. Not fishy at all, huh?... WAKE the "F" UP!!! PLEASE!!!He continually appoints communists, criminals and tax cheats to administration posts and to become czars (bypassing congressional approval)Every part of his agenda is not good for America or Americans. Cap and Trade is the biggest money making and wealth redistribution scam in history. Immigration reform, which will be "Amnesty" is just to buy another voting block for Democrats, since they'll be getting badly beaten in November. Already planning a lame duck session to ram some more Socialism down our throats, against our will http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704293604575343262629361470.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTopDigitalMaddness, I stand by my statements. This "IS" the most corrupt, duplicitous, arrogant and divisive administration in U.S. history. I'm well aware of other corrupt presidents, Woodrow Wilson, Garfield, FDR, etc.And I single out Democrats, because they are the one group that can do something about this, now that they've seized power. But many of them blindly parrot White House propaganda, in spite of overwhelming evidence that all is not well, and heading in the wrong directionAnd I single out Democrats, because they are the one group that can do something about this, now that they've seized power. But many of them blindly parrot White House propaganda, in spite of overwhelming evidence that all is not well, and heading in the wrong direction more

Resolved Question: For those who voted for Obama, are you starting to feel buyers remorse?

* Gitmo still open for business after Obama promised to shut it down in 2009. * More troops being sent to fight and die in "Bush's Wars" * Promised no new taxes on those making under $250K a year, but raised the cigarette tax, is proposing cap & trade, and is allowing Bush tax cuts to expire in January (will affect anybody making over $25,000 a year) * Said he wouldn't force Americans to buy insurance. But then told Congress last September "Under my plan, individuals will be required to carry basic health insurance.” * Said he'd have all health care negotiations on C-Span. I didn't see those, did you? * Promised "“When there’s a bill that ends up on my desk as President, you the public will have five days to look online, and find out what’s in it before I sign it.” * Promised to cut spending, yet increased the national deficit from $400 billion to over $1.7 trillion in his first 9 months in office. So I was just wondering if those of you who voted for Obama got what you voted for? Or is this the "hope" and the "change" you were HONESTLY expecting??? more

Resolved Question: Renting a house to open a day care center?

Hi! :) I'm a 22 year old college student who has had a difficult time pin pointing exactly what I want to do for a college major. I am African and didn't start college until last spring despite my age because of immigration clearance purposes(hence I couldn't attend college until after). I am now a legal permanent resident here in the US. I have been doing babysitter/nanny jobs since I was 14/15 and still do, then attend school in the evenings. I hate that I'm very inconsistent with what major to take on(everything from nursing to public health to accounting to pharmacist etc). I realised that I sometimes pick a lot of my potential majors based of how much money I'll possibly make after I'm done with school(partially because I definitely want a family of my own and I generally like all around stability), which is the wrong approach. I took a few child development courses in high school, complete with pre schoolers that would come in once a week or so for us to care for, which I liked. A few weeks ago, I started thinking about child care as a career and maybe majoring in early childhood education, then possibly open up my own private pre school/early childhood development program center after my Bachelors. Another thing is I've definately always wanted is to be my own boss in some sort of way. I like cooking as well(and thought of owning my own bakery/tea shop) & thought of doing culinary arts but schools are so expensive and I'd rather cook mostly for family and such anyway. Anyway, in the mean time, I'm thinking of opening my own day care center next summer. I realise I'm getting older and I have to do something for myself(and can't live at home for forever) so this coming school year, I want to take courses at my college that'll get me an early childhood edu/management cerftificate(it's 2 semesters so I'll be done by May next year) along with complying with the legal guidelines for running a child care center, and open my own in home day care. My main and concern right now is where I'd run this from. I live in an apartment now and know for sure that that wouldn't quite be appropriate or legal. Is it possible to rent a small house for purposes of running a day care center? I know there are a lot of laws to follow and insurance of course but is it realistic to plan things out this way, renting a home for business purposes essentially. Sorry my post is quite long but any help will be appreciated. Thanks/Merci! : ) more

Resolved Question: Why do Conservatives insist that Obama has done nothing positive?

He has: -Created an Advanced Manufacturing Fund to invest in peer-reviewed manufacturing processes -Increased minority access to capital -Required economic justification for tax changes -Changed standards for determining broadband access -Established a credit card bill of rights -Expanded loan programs for small businesses -Extended and indexed the 2007 Alternative Minimum Tax patch -Closed the "doughnut hole" in Medicare prescription drug plan -Expanded the Senior Corps volunteer program -Required insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions -Gave tax credits to those who need help to pay health premiums -Required large employers to contribute to a national health plan -Required children to have health insurance coverage -Expanded eligibility for Medicaid -Expanded eligibility for State Children's Health Insurance Fund (SCHIP) -Required health plans to disclose how much of the premium goes to patient care -Established an independent health institute to provide accurate and objective information -In non-competitive markets, forced insurers to pay out a reasonable share of their premiums for patient care -Eliminated the higher subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans -Expanded funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners -Increased funding to expand community based prevention programs -Signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -Increased the Veterans Administration budget to recruit and retain more mental health professionals -Fully funded the Veterans Administration -Assured that the Veterans Administration budget is prepared as 'must-pass' legislation -Expanded the Veterans Administration's number of "centers of excellence" in specialty care -Appointed a special adviser to the president on violence against women -Fully funded the Violence Against Women Act -Directed military leaders to end war in Iraq -No permanent bases in Iraq -Sent two additional brigades to Afghanistan -Strengthened and expanded military exchange programs with other countries -Made greater investment in advanced military air technology -Made U.S. military aid to Pakistan conditional on anti-terror efforts -Gave a speech at a major Islamic forum in the first 100 days of his administration -Allocated Homeland Security funding according to risk -Created a real National Infrastructure Protection Plan -Increased funding for local emergency planning -Stood down nuclear forces to be reduced under the Moscow Treaty -Appointed a White House Coordinator for Nuclear Security And that's just a third of it. A third. If you say these are all negatives, make sure you read them first, as there are things in there to help veterans, so if you say they are all crap, you clearly hate the veterans. Source: http://politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/rulings/promise-kept/?page=1 more

Voting Question: Is an email a bad way to tell him how I feel?

My guy and I have been together for almost 6 months now. This past month we haven't seen each other he says he's been very busy, since he just inherited his family business, but I feel like he is running from me. I keep trying to make plans with him but he is ALWAYS working. I am currently on Vacation, and I am just wondering if it is a bad idea to write him an email telling him how I feel. Telling him that I still care about him and that I want to be with him, and asking him not to run? I will be back from Vacation in four days...and I would rather tell him face-to-face but four days just seems so far away. and even then i dont know if he will be too "busy working" for me again. PLEASE HELP!! more

Resolved Question: If Obamacare is like Romney care, isn't that admiting it will fail before it starts?

President Obama said earlier this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is "essentially identical" to the Massachusetts universal coverage plan that then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in 2006. No one but Mr. Romney disagrees. As events are now unfolding, the Massachusetts plan couldn't be a more damning indictment of ObamaCare. The state's universal health-care prototype is growing more dysfunctional by the day, which is the inevitable result of a health system dominated by politics. In the first good news in months, a state appeals board has reversed some of the price controls on the insurance industry that Gov. Deval Patrick imposed earlier this year. Late last month, the panel ruled that the action had no legal basis and ignored "economic realties." In April, Mr. Patrick's insurance commissioner had rejected 235 of 274 premium increases state insurers had submitted for approval for individuals and small businesses. The carriers said these increases were necessary to cover their expected claims over the coming year, as underlying state health costs continue to rise at 8% annually. By inventing an arbitrary rate cap, the administration was in effect ordering the carriers to sell their products at a loss. Mr. Patrick has promised to appeal the panel's decision and find some other reason to cap rates. Yet a raft of internal documents recently leaked to the press shows this squeeze play was opposed even within his own administration. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704324304575306861120760580.html more

Resolved Question: What's does this girl want?

I'm 34, a forward caste from tamilnadu , a business grad from a regular college and i met a Punjabi bhatia girl, 24, and we started liking each other in the end of May. She seemed to compliment me in so many ways and I fell for her. She gave me all the leads and I proposed. She behaved as if she was expecting it for a long time and said she'd never find a guy as good as i am but she needs time. She had already seen 2 guys...both grads from I.I.T, in their late 20s, but refused as she thought they were too demanding and didn't value her. She gave all physical cues to suggest she could love to be with me. I had already started introducing her to my friends by then as the one i want to be with. The day after I had proposed, she got very intimate over the phone discussing even sleeping positions with me. She had a very abusive Punjabi boyfriend for 5 years with whom she was still in touch. But the following night after being so intimate she suddenly distanced herself from me. When i confronted her about this, She said even though she had already closed the chapter in her heart she didn't want to leave him now. He was going through a difficult time and she thought 'he really needed her'. I told her that if she had already closed the chapter in her heart what she was feeling about him needing her was all bullshit. She further went on to say said her parents are most imp to her and and all decisions at home are collective and her family would never accept this relationship and if so she wont marry me. And if i thought this was bullshit too she "doesn't care what i think". I was so involved with her....really at the peak and i was shattered. She later admitted that she had walked into the relationship but went back again. I felt cheated. I tried persuading her. She was with me albeit at a distance.I felt certain repulsion but still went ahead. We made love 1 evening and next day my whole world fell apart. The repulsion grew so huge I wanted to run away from everything. I was very ashamed and in a daze and couldn't understand why this was happening as I had never thought of leaving her irrespective of the brief tension in the relationship. She grew more committed in this period and said she wants to be with me forever. I fought my way back into this relationship after a 10 day struggle as i had never intended to cheat her. Things were great, like heaven, for 4 days and she reiterated her commitment to me and discussed further life plans together. 2 days back her parents called her and told her they want only a Punjabi boy and this relationship was not okay. She cried a lot and i tried to make her comfortable and give her strength. Even offered to go to her place and talk to her parents but she is not letting me do it. She only kept talking about sacrificing love for her parents and relatives. Even now, she does not say i love you though she says she misses me only when i ask her. She talks of intimate nights with me after wedding. She wants phone sex and forces me into it but wont say she will marry me. I cant have such intimacy now because i feel she's gonna leave me shortly. But she says she will find a way through. I feel you either love someone or you don't. I told her i loved her and could leave the whole world behind to be with her. She knows but wont commit. She already know my background and past life struggle and age difference and she says she has no objection/ issue with anything. When I ask what she's gonna do if parents don't agree she says she doesn't know. I'm lost. I love her and dream only about her. She inspired me to bring myself back from the dead. I did and now i feel cheated again. She said she forcibly spent 2 nights with her boyfriend, they only fondled and she is a virgin. I trust her and accepted that and even said i would accept her even without her virginity. I love her so much. I want us to be together. How can someone be so intimate yet so non-committal? Whats is she doing and what is she gonna do with me? more

Resolved Question: Is Obama's economic policies working, if so why and if not, why, and what can he do to save the economy?

So apparently the stimulus isn't working, the multiplier effect didn't really take root as it should have, recipients of the stimulus money seem to be saving their money instead of spending it so that it could have a ripple effect across the economy, seems to me the MPS is at it's highest in years. The Health Care bill has had companies saving and hiring less because of future expenses. Banks are already reluctant to lend money and now more regulation will be out there which will make them even more reluctant to lend, which will force companies who rely on lines of credit to cover expenses in the short term will very little monetary options, and could ultimately force them out of business. The only way he could save us, is to repeal his health care plan and create incentives like the Health Care savings account, and allow interstate commerce of Health Care. Make these insurance companies compete with each other. No cap and trade bill, it's a job killer and anyone that took Econ 101, and 102 would know this. Instead subsidize companies in the renewable energy sector, because this will eventually bring increase technological advancement in the field and make it more cheaper than what we have currently. The financial reform bill should include freddie and fannie, and no new taxes, because in the end the consumer will take the tab. We could argue all day long about how the Prez's economic policies will affect the SRAS and AD, but it's definitely not working. more

Resolved Question: 10 questions that every intelligent Christian must answer!?

http://godisimaginary.com/video10.htm Watch it. Very education well thought out examples with no foul language or anything. Any Christians who actually watch it, i give you props. Or read the transcript: Transcript In this short video, I am going to assume that you are an educated Christian. You have a college degree, and you have been trained to think logically and rationally about the world we live in. For example, you might be: - An Engineer or Scientist - A Doctor, Pharmacist or Nurse - A Teacher - A Manager or administrator - A Government employee - A Business owner - An Account rep - An Executive - A Lawyer - An Accountant - A person working in the Financial sector or Human resources - An Architect or Designer - A Software developer In other words, you are a smart person. You know how the world works, and you know how to think critically. If you are an educated Christian, I would like to talk with you today about an important and interesting question. Have you ever thought about using your college education to think about your faith? Your life and your career demand that you behave and act rationally. Let's apply your critical thinking skills as we discuss 10 simple questions about your religion. Here is an example of the kind of thing I am talking about: As a Christian, you believe in the power of prayer. According to a recent poll (http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42061), 3 out of 4 doctors believe that God is performing medical miracles on earth right now. Most Christians believe that God is curing cancers, healing diseases, reversing the effects of poisons and so on. So here is question #1: Why won't God heal amputees? It's a simple question, isn't it? We all know that amputated legs do not spontaneously regenerate in response to prayer. Amputees get no miracles from God. If you are an intelligent person, you have to admit that it's an interesting question On the one hand, you believe that God answers prayers and performs miracles. On the other hand, you know that God completely ignores amputees when they pray for miracles. How do you deal with this discrepancy? As an intelligent person, you have to deal with it, because it makes no sense. In order to handle it, notice that you have to create some kind of rationalization. You have to invent an excuse on God's behalf to explain this strange fact of life. You might say, "well, God must have some kind of special plan for amputees." So you invent your excuse, whatever it is, and then you stop thinking about it because it is uncomfortable. Here is another example. As a Christian, you believe that God cares about you and answers your prayers. So the second question is: Why are there so many starving people in our world? Look out at our world and notice that millions of children are dying of starvation. It really is horrific. Why would God be worried about you getting a raise, while at the same time ignoring the prayers of these desperate, innocent little children? It really doesn't make any sense, does it? Why would a loving god do this? To explain it, you have to come up with some sort of very strange excuse for God. Like, "God wants these children to suffer and die for some divine, mysterious reason." Then you push it out of your mind because it absolutely does not fit with your view of a loving, caring God. Third question: Why does God demand the death of so many innocent people in the Bible? Look up these verses: - Exodus 35:2 – God demands that we kill everyone who works on the Sabbath day. - Deuteronomy 21:18-21 – God demands that we kill disobedient teenagers. - Leviticus 20:13 – God demands the death of homosexuals. - Deuteronomy 22:13-21 – God demands that we kill girls who are not virgins when they marry. And so on… There are lots of verses like these. It doesn't make any sense, does it? Why would a loving God want us to murder our fellow human beings over such trivial matters? Just because you work on the wrong day of the week, you must die? That makes no sense, does it? In fact, if you think about it, you realize that it is insane. So you create some kind of rationalization to explain these verses. Question #4: Why does the Bible contain so much anti-scientific nonsense? You have a college degree, so you know what I'm talking about. You know how science works. You happily use the products of science every day: your car, your cell phone, your microwave oven, your TV, your computer. These are all products of the scientific process. You know that science is incredibly important to our economy and to our lives. But there is a problem. As an educated person you know that the Bible contains all sorts of information that is total nonsense from a scientific perspective. - God dok i couldnt get the whole transcript to fit.. if you go to the videos link, its right below it. more

Resolved Question: I talked to her and this was our conversation?

I met this lady in the workplace around six months ago. I felt attracted to her from the get-go but I decided not get involved with her because I wanted to take care of my job first. I avoided and ignored her as much as I could. After four months, we met in the public transit on a Friday. We talked for the first time on that ocassion. I asked her what were the things that she loves to do on a weekend and she told me a list of six things. Then, I told her "maybe we can do one of those things someday". She said "fine, I will give you my phone number". Then I saw her flirting with another guy and I backed off; she tried to get close to me again. A few weeks later, we had a business trip together. There was another co-worker in that group. We ended up going out in the other city. Actually, we (she and I) ended up having dinner together. She told me the story of her life on that night. Nothing happened after that. We came back to our city and it was like if we didn't have any dinner. We never talk in the office or when people are around us. One day, she met me alone in a conference room and we talked again. She told me that a friend of her had written a book about her. It is the story of her and a past realtionship of her. She told me that because of her French background, people think that all French people are passionate and things like that. I asked her "do you consider yourself a passionate woman". She replied "no". Then, the conversation was ended because other co-workers approached. Recently, I met her in the public transit again when we left the office. It was also a Friday. She asked me "what are you going to do on the weekend?". I said "I am going rafting, and you?". She said "we'll go to a barbecue and then we'll go to see the fireworks" (there was a celebration at the main square of the city that night). I never asked who the "we" were. Then I asked "what are you going to do the rest of the weekend?". she said "nothing". Then I continued the conversation "so what do you like to do in the summer?". She told me "I like outdoor activities". I told her "I am planning to do rock climbing, hiking, rafting and kayaking, would you like to do one of those things?". She answered "yes". She also let me know that her roomate had taken vacations for ten days (so it meant that she was alone during those days). We continued talking and when we arrived to her station, she told me "well, I hope you have a nice weekend". Then I said "why don't we go to have a cup of coffee and continue chatting?". She replied "next week, I will give you my phone number and we'll go for the coffee". I don't know why she gave me this answer. She gave me her phone number when we were in the busness trip. Can you please give me your comments? more

Voting Question: Is a Major in Business and Minor in Child Development a good plan?

I want to start my own day care company. All over the country eventually. I know I have to be in business but also in Child Development. Its kind of confusing. All I know is that I need a plan. Is a major in business a good start? more

Resolved Question: Is this Obama's real objective?

In case you haven't figured out what's happening, here's a wrap-up of the program: WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Overwhelm the system [Image] WAYNE ALLYN ROOT Barach Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within. Barack Obama is my college classmate ( Columbia University , class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University . They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it. -- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care.Â It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression? -- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around." -- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression?Â Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government. -- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America . But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government.Â Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security. -- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America . The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means. -- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition. With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as soci more

Resolved Question: Is this Obama's real goal?

Resolved Question: Dilemma between new job and holiday!?

*Sorry its in a different catagory but no one seems to answer business ones especially since this is more of a moral question.* Ok well I've needed a job for quite a while now and still do. Last week Thursday and Friday I did a work trial for a cafe near my house. At the end of Friday I was told by someone who portrayed themselves as the owner that they had to just try out one more girl on Monday and that he'd call me Monday night to let me know if I'd gotten the job. Suprise suprise Tuesday came and I still hadn't heard anything. So called them just before closing and was informed by a lady that she was in fact the owner and that she was the one who needed to see me work as its her decision on who gets the job. Disappointed by this and definitely felt that I'd been used as cheap labour. Either way she asked me to come in the next day (Wed) to do a 2 hour work trial so she could decide. I agreed and in fact was asked to stay on and do the whole day. At the end of this day, I was told by the woman I will be working with that she has recommended me as the replacement and even the owner said herself that although she had one more girl to do a work trial who she wasn't sure about , that she was pretty sure I was her choice and that I'd get a call Friday evening to let me know. Now the job is a very hard one. There are only 2 people running the cafe at any time. One woman takes order through phone and in person and makes sandwiches. My job would involve all cooking, cleaning, making and preparing ingredients for both our duties and so much more. It would be 5 days a week Monday to Friday 8:30am to 3pm. Now the only problem is that when the owner asked me did I have any holidays planned I said no. This was in fact a lie as I have 3 weeks of holiday booked from the first week of August. The only problem is that while I would have been able to quit before, they in turn mentioned that they had their own holiday booked so while the owner would have stepped in herself to cover me, that's not possible and they won't have the spare hands to train anyone else at the last minute. Now I'm a little bit torn, I do need the job and I see no reason why I should cancel my holiday just because they are going on holiday too, and why should I give up the chance of of a job and money just because they only have two people working in an entire cafe. I have decided that I will probably just work for 3 weeks and then give them two weeks notice that I'll have to leave which should leave them enough time to find a replacement and have them trained up However I dont think I'll tell them the truth and ill lie instead, my mother is waiting for a double knee transplant and I will have to be her full time carer and take care of my two younger sisters but I'll just lie about when the operation takes place. I know its a bad thing to do and I do feel bad about it but do I really have any other choice. Does anyone have any opinions? Good bad or neutral? Any employers want to give their opinion? Thanks very much x more

Resolved Question: Is this a nanny scam?

I emailed for this nanny job I found on craigslist and this is the email I received- Hello my name is Mr.steve dennis , My wife died three months ago of breast cancer I don't wanna talk about this but I think it is important since you would be working as Jessica's Nanny.Jessica is 17 month old . I am out of the city based on my business that is really booming here and my Girl will be arriving shortly back to the city , precisely on July 10th, Jessica is here with me right now for holiday . After a serious discussion with my father-in-law concerning a proper care for my Girl, we finally decided to search for a good and responsible Nanny/babysitter.If You are a student you can go for your classes and report to Jessica as soon as you are done with classes The monthly pay is $2600.00 for live out and $2400.. for live in. We will be responsible for your transportation which in exclusive of your weekly salary regardless of the distance. You will be working with my sister and also a housekeeper for a while before I fully arrive back to the city We are strongly searching for someone of well mannered attitudes, neatness and good sense of relationship. We are a Christian family and we love our religion so basically everything we do is according to our doctrines, I don't mind your religion but just letting you know so we don't offend you.. If you are interested in this offer, please answer all the questions below so i can have a brief idea of You 1) What academic qualifications do you possess? 2) Do you have any relevant certificate to back up your babysitting/Nanny career? 3) How old are you? 4) Are you married? 5) Do you have a valid Bank Account? 6) Tell us more about your temperament .. 7) Can you handle money if you are given an assignment to carry out? 8) Is your husband/Girlfriend/parent in support of you doing this job? 9) which city are you located in?? 10)How would you spend a time with my daughter though out a day?" 9:00 am~ 7:CPM 11)What kind of activities would you plan for her? Let me know if you will be available for the work offer. If youhave any questions as regards this offer, feel free to get in touch with me..You can work during the Weekend if you can work during the week due to other job or studies. I await a response at your earliest convenience. If the hours are not okay by you let me know. you can also send me an email to .... dennis.steve83@agent809.net i will respond back immediately Thanks Steve Dennis -After that I answered the questions and asked a few of my own question. Such as, "you say you will be responsible for my transportation? How would this work? And what are the days I would be tending to your daughter? Is it 9am - 7pm everyday?" he replied thanks for your details' ,it really would help me make a choice, which I've done, please I want you to understand that my daughter is still little Girl, She deserves all the care and love from you, I will be paying you for the first week before Jessica arrive on July 10th,She will come with me Immediately after you get your payment from my company..in advance, you will be paid by check.they are paying because they have agreed to be in charge after the death of my wife. The payment will be in excess cos the check will be for nanny and our traveling ticket fare , so when you get the check you will deduct your money out and send the rest to my agent so he could arrange for our arrival. I want you to send me your full names and full detailed address so they can send the payment this week because me and my Girl will be arriving before July 11th. I am very happy that I found you and I want you to promise me that you will look after Jessica and take her as your own Girl too. I really appreciate your help,A picture of you would be nice so i can show to my daughter ..just hope she wont wrap you up...LOL... Tell me your schedules, how you want to fit in,I'll get the address of my new home and give you all details after speaking with my agent, for now, please confirm to me if you accept my offer to cater for my lovely Girl.Please feel free and provide your following details for documentation and information for my company to send the check to you. Full name: Current Address: City, State Zip Code: Phone Number: Nationality : personals email: Thanks steve dennis -He obviously did not answer any of my questions. So I asked him before I give him any of my information would he please answer my questions first "I will not be in your area until July 25th, at the soonest. Is this a problem? Also, I do not have a car, so you will be in charge of my transportation?" He replied, Well my company going to get you a car to be driving my daughter around and do you have drive's lic and i need your information asap - I replied, "It sounds like you need someone on July 10th. If I cannot be there until the 25th is that a problem? I&#3 more

Resolved Question: Women. After reading my rant, would you get a bad no-no vibe from me?

I hope not. And no. By saying what I am about to say does not mean I play for the other team. I know things can easily be taken out of context these days. I am a guy who never had a girlfriend a day in his life. The closest I came to a girl was a gentlemen's club where I got a booby hug and a lap dance. That was nice. I am in pretty good physical shape and strive to get better and am almost done college. Heres the thing. I have successfully put myself in a heaven spot in my life. Since life did not turn out the way I planned. Meaning, no trips to other countries. No exotic women. No hanging out with friends(guys or girls) since I have none really. No well paying job(at least not yet). I'm more likely to get a decent paying job before anything else lol. My heaven spot is I LOVE herb(Mary Jane). Always have. I want to marry a plant and call her MJ! MJ is a woman who does not argue, give you problems, makes you feel all warm inside, loves video games, movies, and comics as well as pets. We have so much in common together and we hate the government as well as big businesses. We love the Earth. It seems that any woman in the course of my life has either been playing with my emotions by pretending to be interested or has made fun of me. I say thats OK. It's OK because I no longer care. HAHAHAHAHA. Without you I have more money, no STD'S, no kids(don't want any), have lots of time to myself. I tried to be liked by the opposite sex but now I have learned to enjoy smoking MJ and looking at when I feel the urge that others feel when it's time to be with a female. I could say to myself in th mirror that I am sorry for the way things turned out but what fun would that be? I have decided to become my own best friend and watch over my own back. Kinda like an independent operator. I go to the movies by myself and love the fact that I am going against what is the social norm in our culture LMAO. I hurt noone and bother noone. I keep to myself but am not anti-social. I can think of others and be nice to those who are deserving of kindness. I am fearless against my enemies and laugh when they look at me with a snear. What do you think? Either answer you chose will not offend me in the least. I just love hearing from ya's. more

Resolved Question: Would you call me a Rags-to-Riches story?

was born in 1981. The fourth of 5 brothers & one sister. My siblings were born in 1976, 1978,1980, 1984 & my sister in 1994. We had a three bedroom house in the low suburbs. Our parents worked very hard. They both had two jobs. Still, times were hard. We all had to get jobs when we were 15 to help the income. We all went to a Catholic school, only because the Parish payed for all the students. When my oldest brother was 15 he started selling pot on the side. We all followed up on his business. When i was 15 i took business to the next level. By the time i was 17 i took in $1,500 a week. We were able to pay all our bills & i personally had $500 on my own. When i was 21 i had become a Navy SEAL. After 6 months in i heard my father was dying. I arrived 2 days before he died. The insurance was able to move my mom & sister into a new, much bigger, nicer house. I left the service when i was 23. I used pension money & savings from my drug days to buy up alot of stocks. I managed to sell half of them a few months before the Recession started. I met the woman of my dreams soon after i returned home. She was 19 then & i was 25. Four years later we married. Today i'm 29 & loving life. I've been married three weeks & it still feels like the wedding night. Our annual income is about $600,000. $150,000 from my job & the rest is from the stocks i still have. My mother is 60 now & my sister is 15. My mom has a part time job as a teacher aid & has enough money to live comfortably for as long as she lives. She's sick now but the diagnosis is better than it was a few months ago. My wife & i are planning our first child soon. She's a housewife by choice & i love that. She was fired from a day care 6 months ago. It's always been a dream of mine to have enough money to support my wife. I truly think i've achieved the dream. In a couple years i'll come home to a beautiful wife & kids. Dinner will be on the table & i'll eat & have a nice evening with my family. Please answer honestly. Would you call this rags-to-riches? more

Resolved Question: Would you call me a rags to riches story?

I was born in 1981. The fourth of 5 brothers & one sister. My siblings were born in 1976, 1978,1980, 1984 & my sister in 1994. We had a three bedroom house in the low suburbs. Our parents worked very hard. They both had two jobs. Still, times were hard. We all had to get jobs when we were 15 to help the income. We all went to a Catholic school, only because the Parish payed for all the students. When my oldest brother was 15 he started selling pot on the side. We all followed up on his business. When i was 15 i took business to the next level. By the time i was 17 i took in $1,500 a week. We were able to pay all our bills & i personally had $500 on my own. When i was 21 i had become a Navy SEAL. After 6 months in i heard my father was dying. I arrived 2 days before he died. The insurance was able to move my mom & sister into a new, much bigger, nicer house. I left the service when i was 23. I used pension money & savings from my drug days to buy up alot of stocks. I managed to sell half of them a few months before the Recession started. I met the woman of my dreams soon after i returned home. She was 19 then & i was 25. Four years later we married. Today i'm 29 & loving life. I've been married three weeks & it still feels like the wedding night. Our annual income is about $600,000. $150,000 from my job & the rest is from the stocks i still have. My mother is 60 now & my sister is 15. My mom has a part time job as a teacher aid & has enough money to live comfortably for as long as she lives. She's sick now but the diagnosis is better than it was a few months ago. My wife & i are planning our first child soon. She's a housewife by choice & i love that. She was fired from a day care 6 months ago. It's always been a dream of mine to have enough money to support my wife. I truly think i've achieved the dream. In a couple years i'll come home to a beautiful wife & kids. Dinner will be on the table & i'll eat & have a nice evening with my family. Please answer honestly. Would you call this rags-to-riches? more

Voting Question: Should I leave my hubby?

So here is the story, my "hubby" ( not really married but engaged for the past 4 years) and I dated briefly in highschool until I found him making out with some girl in my house at my birthday! (I bring this up becuase it set a foundation I think for me not trustsing him) Cut to 12 years later, we run into each other and I give him a shot to prove he is not the same person as he keeps stating. Things move pretty fast. We are madly in love and young and party. We move in together after a couple months and after 6 months I get pregnant. We stop the party life and get into the parenting life. Now cut to 3 years later. I have found that the qualities I want in a husband/father figure are not his qualities (I know, I should have thought of that before hand but that is just not the way it worked out so please no lecture on that)! There is no abuse or anything like that. He is a pretty good father who loves his child with all his heart. He is pretty much willing to do anything I ask. Here is where I am on the fence....I dont feel that I can count on him. I am tired of being the one who always has to come up with activities for out family to do, plan them and execute them. I take care of everything pretty much in out family from scheduling to bookkeeping to taxi. I feel like he is just along for the ride. I dont feel like I have a partner so much as just another child that I have to constantly check up on to ensure they are taking care of business. He has no ambition or drive to better himself or his situation (he has a rocky past which has posed much problems for us but he just takes this attitude of "I cant do anything about it). We are in couple counseling and sometimes I feel like things are getting better but most of the time I dont! I dont trust him to make the good decisions or follow through on anything. I constantly have to "nag" him to do anything or take care of business but then he complains that I am always nagging and controlling....which is true because I HAVE TO be that way or he would just sit on his ass in front of the television all day! I am so unhappy and think that it is not healthy for our child to see our constant bickering (not full on fighting but tension is still in the air). I dont know if it is just me having unrealistic expectations of him or if he really is just a dead-beat. I feel like in my gut I want to leave but I dont want to make the wrong decision so I have been paralyzed to make any decision at all. more

Resolved Question: Help Interpret this dream for me?

Recently, I have auditioned for an entertainment company to be trained under a Korean agency and later on debut as a singer/dancer, actor, or whatever. So just last night, I had two parts to my dream. One of them came true. The part that came true was that I had planned to watch a movie with my friends tomorrow and this guy I liked messaged me and said he couldn't go to the movies until around 3PM. Well, this morning when I woke up, I received a message from him on facebook that said he couldn't go to the movies until around 3 or after wards. So that part of my dream came true. The second part however, I'm not sure if it will come true but I dreamt that I made the cut meaning I had a callback and if I passed, I'd be trained under the company and move to Korea. I was backstage and there were three judges behind a table. When it was my turn to sing, I went up and I was really nervous but I sang a Chinese song. After I was finished singing, someone clapped their hands and the judges smiled at me. I bowed and thanked them. Okay, usually, I don't really care about dream interpretation and stuff but this is really awkward. I know dreaming of becoming a celebrity is only a mere fantasy and I've told myself that if I don't ever become one, I would just live a regular life and study business or whatever. But thinking about this even more, three months ago, I KIND OF had the same dream. Three months ago, I had a dream that I ran away from home and went to Korea to pursue a music career. During the first few days I was there, I had auditioned for a company called SM Entertainment and I had passed thus having me become a trainee and later on debuted as a singer. So is there supposed to be some kind of meaning to this or am I just being stuupid? Haha. Sorry if this is long & if you're wondering, I'm only 14 but most people train at this age and later on become a singer around the ages of 16+ /: more

Voting Question: Relationship Help!!!?

I have a gut feeling when people are starting to act suspicious by behavior and action patterns. Anyways me and this girl have been going out roughly 6 to 7 months and things were real good at first in the beginning. We used to talk a lot at night on the phone some 2+ hours or so each night, and we used to be almost joined at the hip. Well after I finished taking care of business and getting a further hold of my education while she is still trying to get hers I have noticed strange things. Oh yea I need to mention she is bi-sexual, which is cool to me as long and you know the limitations within a relationship of what to do and not the do. I have dated bi-sexual females before and I do not know why I keep trying with them I have noticed they real confused that they cant make a decision to choose to be with a guy or a girl. Anyways she is 6 to 7 weeks pregnant by me and I want to truly be with this girl that is why I am trying to get a higher education as quickly as I can I am 22, but I want to provide things for my child. I have noticed a lot of strange behavior from her since the whole pregnancy deal. She has been avoiding me a lot and we barely speak on the phone, and when we do she is always complaining about this and that. I could help her with those issues if she would not blow me off when we are suppose to hang out on certain days. I know she needs a lot of rest and what not, but how do you say we are the meet somewhere then 30 minutes later your too sick to go anywhere. My main conclusion is that she is talking to someone else, because they are getting most of the attention that we used to have in our early days of the relationship and time. I have not been able to physically see her in over a week, and the phone calls are brief and short. She wants to be real contradicting saying "baby I miss you, I need you" to me it seems like she is hiding something from me and is trying to cover it up by reassuring me she actually misses me and keep me from thinking somethings up. Well here is my plan in a near future when my child is born. I am going to take full custody of my child and I will not allow my child to be in contact with poisonous blood in the family I only want my child to be around good examples mostly in life. A bad mother should be at top of the list of people to avoid...We have plans to get married and move together, because of the child and actually before that, but I am slowly falling from that idea. Right now I just want whats best for and for my future son or daughter. She can frankly then openly go spend the rest of her time with whoever is taking it up and I hope they have a good life, but karma is a b*tch and will come back to haunt you. What should I do and how should I approach her on this issue...she is a emotional type and when I try to tell the dumbest faults she does in the relationship she goes through this major guilt trip. If you know its wrong then why do stuff over and over again I guess it is hard to learn new things when bad habits have been programmed over the years. I do not want her to try and abort my child, and if she does try to can I charge her with some kind of legal action? more

Resolved Question: Am I ready................................?

First off let me say that I've *never* owned a horse in my life (*neither* have any of my family members.) Anyways, I've been riding since I was four, (I'm thirteen now. --9 years) and lately I've been considering asking my parents whether or not I can get a horse of my own. (I'm half leasing a horse at the stables I ride at currently.) I'm confident with horses and I'm fine working/riding with them and I can detect/treat their basic injuries and illnesses. However my entire family DOES NOT like horses.. I know that if I ever got a horse I would be fully caring for it, I'm also planning on getting a job when I'm 15. We would be able to afford costs (I.E. Farriers, Floating, Tack/Supplies, Vets/Vaccinations, Food costs, Accidents..etc..etc.) And I have A LOT of free time, my teachers don't hand out a lot of homework and our school district doesn't have that many tests. + the only sport I do is of course horse back riding. Overall, I would be free for about 10 hrs. a day on weekends and on week days. (DAILY.) I can groom, tack up, muck out, and my friends who have horses can recommend good businesses for farriers, equine vets.. etc. BTW the breed I would love to start with would be a Shetland. (YES, I know I'm to big to ride them, I would plan on adopting one that was CART trained.) And I know that they can be VERY moody at times or their entire life but I'm patient, and I can work with them. (If there happens to be anyone who reads this question who has had experience with Shetlands, please share!) ......So, do you think I'm ready? (Thanks for reading this, I know it was kinda long! :)) P.S. I would plan on keeping the horse/pony on .5-1 acre (may not be enough,) although it may have to live alone (In which case I would spend *A LOT* of time with it) or with a goat as a companion. + their would be a stall for it at night, and the stall would also serve as an in/out shelter during the day. THANK YOU SO MUCH! =)I know that horses/ponies require A LOT of love, care and money. And I know that a Shetland is the same amount of work as a regular horse. more

Resolved Question: What do you think of this observation about Obama?

By Wayne Allyn Root/Submitted by Bill Cherry Barack Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within Barack Obama is my college classmate (Columbia University, class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University . They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it. -- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression? -- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around." -- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainlynot American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government. -- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America . But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security. -- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America . The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means. -- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition. With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system. Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan. more

Resolved Question: Primary Market and Secondary Market for Day Care?

In my business school we a project right now. We need to write a business plan for a small business in Canada. I chose to write a business plan for DAY CARE. Well, I almost finished it but I just DONT KNOW what should i write for my PRIMARY MARKET and SECONDARY MARKET. In Day Care I can "take" children 6 month-7 years old. I can speak Russian, Romanian and English. Therefore, I was thinking of writing for my primary market Russian and Romanian speaking-children and for my Secondary Market children from english-speaking families. Maybe I could also write for my Primary Market - families with a high income and for my secondary market families with a medium/low income? I can admit all children aged 0.5-7 year old but I dont know how can I divide them in my Primary and Secondary Market? Can you give me some hints of what could be good primary and secondary market for Day care? more

Resolved Question: I have been dating for two months!?

I know nothing is perfect in a relationship but I had to ask your opinions, This guy I have been dating went on a business trip came back and ask to see me but I had already made plans for that evening with friends and I told him I could see him the next evening and he could let me know if that was acceptable..mean while I know he had he daughter there and the laker game was on that night and he is a big fan,, but he never called me for two days.. I finally got a text and a voicemail saying he was sorry he disappeared on me and he had no excuses or at least any good ones.. I have not called him back. I was very upset that at least he could of told me he was busy and we could make it another time. But he didn't even care enough to make an excuse... What do you think? more

Resolved Question: Received bankruptcy court summons from company I don't know?

I received a letter saying that a health care company/hospital is taking me to bankruptcy court for Chapter 11, something about Sale and Bidding Procedures. I have never been to this hospital and therefore never received a bill. I received the letter today - two business days from court date. What should I plan on when I get there? Do I need an attorney? I have debt, about 5000 in credit cards but I work two jobs and pay my bills. I can't afford court fees and am afraid to let it ride. more