Tuesday, November 22, 2011

I told bartender that Bush was the worst then Hitler & murderer, needs to be prison, guy next to me, hit me?

I told the bartender that bush is the worst person to ever walk the face of the earth, he was just mumbling. I said he was worst then hitler, I said he is a mass murderer, I said I hope he goes to prison.





I then said all the people who voted for him are either suckers or evil.





One guy got up and punched me in the face.





I got his license plate number.





How do i press charges?|||If you know the guys name and address, please send it to me so I can send him a thank you letter. Be glad that I wasn't in the bar, I might not have been so nice.





Here are the names of a couple of guys I was friends with.





Ed Kemper





John Fraiser





Google these names, they are pretty nice people when you meet them


(depending upon the circumstances)|||You just asked this same question five minutes ago. Time to put down the bottle.|||You were a big man that didn't care who he offended for any reason, so take it like a man and get over it.|||You're lucky you made it out alive, making dumb a$$ remarks like that.|||y do u need to ask the question again and yea please grow up and learn to take a punch|||your lucky that's all he did. i think you meant to say obama ..not bush|||I think you deserved the punch in the face.


You are pretty obnoxious.





It sounds like you started the ruckus.|||well that was certainly the wrong thing to say in a bar. for all you know that man could have lost family in the holocaust. and i really doubt what bush did is worse than killing 6 million people JUST because they were jewish. and another 5 million more because he didn't like their race or because he spoke against him. at least bush didn't kill you for disagreeing with him like hitler would have done. think next time.|||sounds like you deserved it|||Contact the town's local police, explain what happened and you can file a complaint.








Thousands of complaints are filed everyday- I would just get even and takes the cops months to contact you back.





Good luck.








Oh, and for next time- you can just say that you got into an argurement with a guy at a bar and he punched you. When you have to explain yourself it comes off like you're being arrogant and self concious. People don't like helping arrogant and self concious people.|||Sounds like the guy lost it and hit you, and that wasn't right, but you were a jerk. Don't add to the stupidity by pressing charges, 'cause it sure sounds like you were being deliberately provocative.|||You don't press charges numbnuts... First off, you were in a bar talking politics, second, you were making rash statements that would probably have gotten you punched at church! You should just learn to keep your mouth shut... got that? SHUT IT!|||This is the same story I have seen on here about 15 times for the past week. Fess up and tell us which blog you got your orders from.|||u should have fought his *** dumb pussy|||I agree bush is a goof its the same thing as hitler hitler killed the jews bush killed the muslims but look forget the police what are police there apart of this system its time ppl stand up and be there own warrior find out where he lives get even slit his tires, break his house windows , burn his car scratch it up spray paint it paint his house throw motalve cocktails threw his house windows which every one u choose or if u really wanna get back at him wait at the side of his house one morning after scoping the house for a fe weeks to get his schedule find out one night when hes just getting home or one morning just leaving before the sun rises hide somewhere where u can attack switfly use a baseball bat or metal bar and go at him from behind back of the head he already started the war u have to finish it dont tell the police that way u wont be a suspect for these crimes|||Had I been there you wouldn't be posting on y/a now, you'd be crying for your mama to come getche.|||Call the cops. And you might want to cut the political talk while sitting in a bar.|||Hitler Killed 6 million jews and countless other people...really Bush was awful, but worse than Hitler? Hardly.





Call the police.

How to get STNA experience?

I got my STNA license in November 2010. I must have applied for every STNA job in my city, but every single application said that I needed at least 1 year of experience before applying. How on Earth do I go about getting STNA experience, when no one will hire me to give me experience? I'm completely competent and know I could be a real asset to the health care team. Is there something I'm missing?|||What type of healthcare volunteer experience do you have?





It is important as an entry-level applicant to have some type experience in the field, unfortunately, it usually won't be paid experience.





Rewrite that resume to emphasize your healthcare skills and leave out the other jobs. Get a volunteer job as a candy striped in the meantime.

Get rid of window without tabs?

After downloading google earth on to my new laptop ( windows vista) i got a window called "Google End User License" It has no tabs to close it and I can't get rid of it with the task manager. I have tried rebooting too. Please help!!|||Click on start then control panel and go to add or remove programs,there you should be able to uninstall it,if not it may be some kind of malware requiring a removal program

What did Islam give to the World?

1) Quran: the Best and the only prtoected divine book in its original languse letter by letter, word by word solving all your problems.It is as fresh today after 1450 years as on day 1 and as if not more understanadable eveyr passing day and with every discovery of new scientifci event


2) All modern scieneces e.g. Universities, Colleges, Laboratories, Chemistry, Physics, Algebra, Numeriocals, deceimal system, numeorus chemicals without wich there woudl be not plastic, no computer etc.


3) All Hospitals, surgery, medicine, anesthesia, autopsy, medical licensing and ehtical practice of medicince


4) Great civilization and human rights


5) Respect and honor, right of ownership, equality and right of vote to women


6) Extremely humane laws for Prisoners of wars, wars etc.


7) Sceinces of references


8) Modern postal system


9) Modern Social security system


10) Astronomy, accurate measurement of earth diameter and discovery of orbits etc.


11) Modern maps and tables


12) Modern watches +++|||13) Suicide bombers: killing innocent men, women and children.|||Suicide bombers: killing innocent men, women and children.





the killing of innocent people outlawed by the prophet and Allah just because people do it doesn't mean its right and even the killing of livestick or burning trees is forbiddin Suicide bombers the killing of one soul is not allowed

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|||Ahh, the good old days. When Islam contributed to civilization. When muslims used to practice Ijtihad (independent thinking). We could use a good dose of that type of Islam and not the kind that permeates the faith like the jihadis do today.





http://www.muslim-refusenik.com/ijtihad.鈥?/a>|||Suicide bomber trash.|||Don't confuse Islam with Arabic people in general (and Arabic accomplishments).|||Yeah number 5 is a big one because we all know how respectful Islam is to women.Yeah right|||I truly believe that Yahoo answers ought to require sources. How do you possibly believe yourself?|||The great Arabic societies did give the world many innovations as those mentioned above. Islam gave the world several attempts to overtake the world in favor for an Islamic world government. Shortly after its inception, Islamics went on a conquest to take over the world. Remember the great Turkish Empire, Ottoman Empire, Moorish Empire, and the invasion of the Iberian Peninsula in the early 700s? By 711 AD, the Moors were stopped just below the Pyrenees Mountains and occupied the peninsula until 1492 when they were pushed out by Queen Isabel de Castillo and Ferdinand de Argon. Much of the so called "Spanish cultural influence" is directly influenced by practitioners of Islam. But, ever since Islam began, so of its faithful have attempted to take over the world by force.|||Thanks for all of the great things that occurred in the 10th century, why has the focus of Islam of late been murder and terrorism for such a long time|||Some of you guys a retarded. You judge 1.2 billion people because of a couple hundred people. Americans are in Iraq. 6000 Iraqis have died in the last 2 months. Are all americans bad. Ofcourse not. But if Muslims we're to act like some of the retards that answered this question, all americans are bad. Am I right.|||Death, murder, lies, and pillaging. All done in the name of their imaginary god, allah who is really Satan.|||I hope no one accidently mistakes this joke for truth and believes that load of pooh.





Islam is the johnny-come-lately on the world scene and it's most significant contributions have been and always will be original slavery and conversion by the sword.|||Primarily


1) Pedophilia


2) Airline Hijacking


3) The extension of slavery


4) Second class citizenship of women and non-Muslims


5) Genocide of various ethnicities, cultures and religious communities.


6) The murder of Muslim children through suicide


bombing


7) The fostering of hate towards people who believe


in the Bible


8) The retardation of the progress of civilization where


ever Islam dominates a government


9) The Ill will of freedom loving people every where.





I Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!


9-21-6|||If all of these things were developed by Muslims why do you have to come to the United States to study and learn them?





And then why do you live here instead of returning home. Is it for the freedom you do not have in your home countries?|||Islam gave people a chance to stop questioning and wondering about the mysteries of life. It answerers everything. Just eat it up.

Reliant Robin insures as bike?

If a reliant robin can be driven with a motor bike license, where on earth do you get a motorbike insurer who will insure it as such. The only online quotes I can get have them listed as cars. But these assume you have a car license?|||"If a reliant robin can be driven with a motor bike license..."





Only if you passed your full bike test before October 2000.





"... where on earth do you get a motorbike insurer who will insure it as such."





You don't. Since the law changed 10 years ago, all three wheelers are now classed as a "Light car" for the purposes of insurance (Category B1 on your driving licence).|||When will people ever realise? The insurance companies have a captive market because all vehicle insurance is compulsory and they make up their own rules. This means that they charge what they like, they set whatever conditions they want, and they will use any and every excuse to get out of paying for a claim.





After all, what is your alternative? The government sets a legal requirement on us, then charges us 5% Tax on the f***** premiums!!!! If you don't get insurance, Mr Plod knows straight away and you get your Summons by post without even having to be stopped, courtesy of the national databases that's downloaded to all police patrol cars.





Honestly, what is the point in even asking these questions? the fat gits at Insurance companies just sit their grinning smugly at us all cos they know we can't/won't do anything except roll over and take the full length.|||You could always try the old method - use the phone. Not everything is available on the internet.|||HOW MANY MORE TIMES ? YOU CANNOT DRIVE A THREE WHEELER ON A FULL BIKE LICENCE UNLESS YOU PASSED YOUR BIKE TEST BEFORE 2000 . and it IS a car .|||it used to be insure rated and road funded as a combination (bike and sidecar) 3 wheeler.

What state allows marriage to non U.S citizen?

Hi All. I am trying to find out whether you can get married to a non-u.s citizen who has no ID and social security number and in what states? I live in NY and I am trying to help a friend who has been turned down a marriage license as her fiancee does not have any US ID or SSN. I am really confused now, - how on earth do all the other millions of illegal immigrants get married ? Is this a law ONLY in NY or perhaps the person at City Hall was just being rude? Any advice,help would be appreciated!|||I know in Kentucky and Florida you can get married. I'm sure there are other states as well. A lot of places it's okay if you don't have a social security number, but most people do need to see some type of picture ID card with your name on it. Do some research on the internet. You'll find something.|||chicago thats right, they only ask u for 2 types of id foreing pasport and birth certificate, if they are in other lenguage u can have them traslate in english. no SSn require. 100% sure.

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|||can you say Post 9-11 Homeland Security Legal Changes???|||everyone|||All States|||Probally Vermont.......and by the way, most are married when they sneak over and then claim 5 or 6 kids for us to support.|||You have to have ID to be issued a license... I don't know of any state that would issue one to a Non-person... You are a Non-person if you do not have an ID .... You cannot even get a death certificate if you do not have a ssn... Illegal aliens are not dumb enough to go to the authorities for a marriage license ... they "shack -up"... it makes the female more qualified for our government Aid Programs.

Happy saturday seniors. what colour and slogan is on your licence plate ?

ours is the new one for the 2010 Olympics here .


it is blue and white and says beautiful British Columbia and the slogan is " the best place on earth ".


i think it is , lol


how about your state or area plaTES .


THANKS ALL . HAVE A FUN DAY . D.|||Ours is white background with blue letters. The slogan is "First in Flight" because of the Wright brothers. We live in beautiful NC. Poppy|||It is Black with Red letters that say, CHEVY THUNDER, oh wait, that's the one on the front,,, |||Orange and green with oranges in the middle and says Florida - The Sunshine State. However, Florida has about 100 different states. I have the plain-jane version.|||My plate says 1896 Centennial 1996, and there is a picture of Delicate Arch. My hubby's plate is white with a skier and the slogan is "greatest snow on earth" and "Ski Utah". It is a very happy Saturday here in Utah!|||I'm in GA and we have the simple official one...white with a peach in the center. (We're the "peach state", tho' half the peaches in our stores are from NC...lol!)





Thanks...you have a great day, too!|||White backgroud, blue letters and numbers. The name Virginia with a red heart. (Virginia is for Lovers)|||There is a barn with a silo and geese flying in the clouds and the words "America's Dairyland" at the bottom.|||Old plates still in use. They're blue and white and say " Birthplace of Aviation" Nothing special and nothing new. Maybe in July I'll get some new plates. That's when mine expire .|||red along the top third, white in the center third where the lettering is and beautiful mountain outline in dark blue on the bottom third. then the atmosphere is sillyed up by the slogan 'famous potatoes'. you can get other slogans on the plates that are more in line with Idaho's beauty, but they charge you dearly for those plates|||Mine has "Ham Radio" on the edges and my call, "WB9QQA". This is a state of Illinois, USA plate. It is blue on white.|||Plain old California personalized plates..White with California written in red, and the personalized letters and #s in blue. I just took a trip down memory lane reading about all the other plates, we have just come home from a 4 month trip touring all those places..I guessed most of them by their description before looking to see where they were from.Thanks everyone for the repeat trips through your states and Canada. We have a beautiful country.

How you know your too drunk !!!?

10. You have to hold onto the lawn to keep from falling off the Earth.





9. Mosquitoes catch a buzz after attacking you.





8. The back of your head keeps getting hit by the toilet seat.





7. Your idea of cutting back is less salt.





6. You can focus better with one eye closed.





5. You fall off the floor.





5. The whole bar greets you when you come in.





4. You haven't had a driver's license in such a long time that you have forgotten what one looks like.





3. Roseanne looks good.





2. You don't recognize your wife/husband unless seen through bottom of glass.





1. You spent more time on the floor than you do standing up.|||Mom, is that you?|||hahahaha|||Not bad 7/10|||I know I'm too drunk when I want to throw up but can't get to the loo because I can't stand up.|||sobering thought.lol|||lol. I know I'm drunk when I say the classic 'But I'm not even drunk!' Haha, or bushes look very inviting places to sleep on your way home. Last time I was drunk I fell in some sick, which wasnt even mine. Lovley!!|||hahaha


brilliant|||Very good|||lol|||When someone calles out TAXI!. lol. People call TAXI when you drop your drink. I think that if you drop your drink its time to go home. lol|||haha..





I'll keep those in mind. :)|||lol crazy|||it is impossible to be too drunk!

Do people realize how much money we could save on healthcare if we would reform the way we license doctors?

Sorry about the length... I promise it is worth the read!





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Besides paying some of the highest prices for health care, we have the dubious distinction of having the most heavily regulated healthcare system in the world. In no other country on earth are doctors and hospitals subjected to as many oversight and enforcement agencies, bureaus and commissions. Rules, regulations, and laws are duplicated, redundant, multiplied, magnified, and contradictory. Laws and regulations covering doctors and hospitals plus all the other parts of our healthcare system now account for over half of all the words, sentences, and paragraphs in our entire body of law.





If regulations could make a healthcare system work better, ours would surely be perfect. In fact, the opposite has occurred. Even those who believe that only government regulation can assure quality health care should face this fact. More laws and regulations are not going to fix our system. If we are truly concerned about the high cost of health care, if we really desire greater safety and higher quality, then we must undertake a dispassionate analysis of the current mess. If we wish to begin effective treatment of our healthcare system, we must first make an accurate diagnosis....





We have to go very far back to the first meeting of what would become the American Medical Association. This meeting was held in New York City in 1846. Twenty-nine allopathic doctors (MDs) attended the meeting. They wanted to establish a monopoly over health care in the United States for those doctors that practiced higher quality medicine, such as themselves. They felt there were too many different kinds of doctors practicing too many questionable forms of medicine. They wanted only doctors that conformed to their brand of medicine to be allowed to practice. They wished to set up their association as a medical elite and obtain a government-enforced monopoly over health care in the United States.





The following year the AMA was officially launched. Members' efforts were at first slow to yield results. One of their first successes was in getting the exclusive right to positions in the federal government. Then, around 1870, the AMA began to find success at setting up medical boards in each state...





Soon after the medical monopoly was formed it began to push its agenda of destroying all competition. A well organized and funded nationwide purge of all non-MDs was undertaken. Over the course of the first half of the twentieth century this medical monopoly managed to shut down over forty medical schools. Their idea was to keep the number of doctors low in order to keep fees up. After WW II the medical monopoly started rigidly controlling how many of each medical specialty it would allow to be trained. So ophthalmologists, orthopedists, dermatologists, obstetricians, and others began to be in short supply. And of course when supplies are low, fees are high. The medical monopoly also managed to outlaw or marginalize over seventy healthcare professions. Protection of the healthcare consumer was, as always, the rationale for this power grab.





Whether the object of destruction by the medical monopoly be homeopaths, midwives, chiropractors, or internet prescribers, the purge is conducted in the same manner. No scientific proof or research data is offered to discredit these practitioners. The entire approach is one of character assassination directed at their profession.





On one occasion the medical monopoly did try to behave "scientifically," but this approach backfired: They tried to show that obstetricians achieved a lower infant mortality rate than did midwives, but when the data was compiled it showed the reverse was true鈥攎idwives had the better record. The medical monopoly quickly abandoned this approach and returned to their proven method of buying lawmakers and writing nasty unsubstantiated accusations in their journals. It seems the public always falls for propaganda that promises greater consumer safety...





We should strongly consider abolishing state medical boards. Do we really need an additional and separate secret police for doctors? If we elect to keep the state medical board system, then governors should not be allowed to appoint doctors to medical boards or pharmacists to boards of pharmacy. This is like putting the foxes in charge of henhouse security! If these are supposed to be consumer protection agencies, then staff them with consumers. The ideal board member is the owner-operator of a small business. Such boards could consult anyone they wish for technical or professional advice.





I am sure that the Federal Trade Commission has looked at this, probably more than once. The legal problem is that the AMA does not directly intervene in the marketplace. The medical monopoly is cleverly divided up into numerous components with legal separations that make it nearly impossible to mount an effective antitrust case. Th|||I don't know much about medicine, that much I confess. I do know that government involvement in it has not improved it since the start of Medicare. The improvements since that time are in spite of government involvement. As far as the AMA, I know nothing of their structure, but the government shouldn't be granting them any kind of monopoly. Maybe they could still exist and do something without government blessing, but if they can't, I'm inclined to think we're better off without them.





Now, the American Bar Association is another matter. They do NOT need to be given input over Law Schools, requirements to take the Bar, or selection of judges at ANY level.





Law would improve greatly as a profession if it were moved closer to a profession one enters through Apprenticeship rather than through a series of standardized tests.|||Doctors are smart people, they should handle their business. I don't see why I need to have input on it. They need to rock their own boat and not ask me to do it for them.|||I believe it. Seems like every industry has a price fixing market controlling cartel going on these days.|||This is clearly a complex issue that I think goes back to lobbying/bribery of congress. Our representatives are traitors and need to be removed, such as putting a term limit on them and getting rid of lobbyist which is supposed to just furnish information for or against an issue, not to give bribes.|||I absolutely agree. The government should not be involved in licensing doctors. That is fascism! The individual knows if they are qualified to be a doctor better than the government does. If someone decides to be a doctor and does not do a good job, they will lose business. That is how the free-market should work. Simple as that.

Have you ever learned anything SURPRISING and not related to football on this forum ?

I learned that American's don't drive on the right side of the road. How on earth did I ever get that driver's license ?





http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;鈥?/a>|||I thought you did drive on the right side since we drive on the left and you drive on the opposite side..........if you get my drift....I've learnt, to my surprise, that Liverpool are more hated than I ever thought they were.....beats me..!!!|||I'm learning a little more every day. Surprising, I'll have to think about that.|||i learned ppl ask really dumb crap not related to football on a form about football. no offense also i learned that ppl get offended easily do you?





just saying..................................鈥?what i noticed.|||I learnt that Italians are junkies.|||I learned that Kids are growing up so fast these days that u almost dont know the difference between a kid and an adult here on Y/As.|||I just learnt that English fans like Frihah got their education wrong and learnt we Italians are all junkies!


thanks for helping me learn this - I would never have done it without your Q|||i learned that people will fight for the dumbest reasons|||I learned much more than I ever bargained for that was not related to football.

I told bartender that Bush was the worst then Hitler & needs to be into me hit prison, guy next to me, hit me?

I told the bartender that bush is the worst person to ever walk the face of the earth, he was just mumbling. I said he was worst then hitler, I said he is a mass murderer, I said I hope he goes to prison.





I then said all the people who voted for him are either suckers or evil.





One guy got up and punched me in the face.





I got his license plate number.





How do i press charges?|||Let it go. You NEVER talk religion or politics in a bar.|||You might get arrested for disorderly conduct and inducing civil unrest in a drinking establishment. Talking about President Bush is one thing, but dissing people who voted for him for whatever reason is not a smart idea, because you might have called that guy's mother a sucker and evil.|||You are in the Wrong place. Questions about Mass murderers belong in the Catholic section.





As far as your charges go, I would suggest you iron them yourself. Perhaps you could look at Yahoo Yellow Pages under Dry Cleaners if you need them done professionally.|||Wow! All beaten up, but possess the wherewithal to generate a brand-spankin' new Y!A account to relay your story to the hungry denizens of this area.





What type of a bar lets trolls drink there, anyway?|||first you go into a bar. then you don't talk about religion or politics its that simple. also, it sounds like alcohol makes you stupid. keep in mind that it makes some people violent.|||call the local authorities.





and btw, comparing anyone to hitler is offensive. blindly calling half the country suckers and evil tends to piss people off.|||You voted for change right?





Yeah, you can't do that anymore, change.





Obama changed the drapes in the Oval Office.





Change ftw?|||Ineffectual troll is ineffectual.|||call the police and file a report......... if ya wanna be a snitch.... ya should have hit him back...|||Call the police and report it or go to the station and report it.|||i think your an idiot for not keeping something controversial to yourself in a bar with drunk guys.|||You were a big man that didn't care who he offended for any reason, so take it like a man and get over it.|||Umm, first of all, put down the drink. You are slurring with your written words.|||Take pictures of your face and call the cops on him|||Ask Bush!|||You talk too much.|||uhh yeah. why did you put this on the religion section?? there must be a legal section on here somewhere..|||call cops, it won't do anything unless that guy left a reasonable mark on u tho|||uh huh...|||du ! by calling the cops within a hour.





he obviously voted for Bush hu?|||**** you man he should sue you|||I would. the truth hurts, and some folks can't stand to hear the truth

I told bartender that Bush was the worst then Hitler & needs to be into me hit prison, guy next to me, hit me?

I told the bartender that bush is the worst person to ever walk the face of the earth, he was just mumbling. I said he was worst then hitler, I said he is a mass murderer, I said I hope he goes to prison.





I then said all the people who voted for him are either suckers or evil.





One guy got up and punched me in the face.





I got his license plate number.





How do i press charges?|||Assault and battery, go to the police to press charges. The license plate will help run him down|||Don't try to press charges for your idiocy. I hate Bush as much as the next person but seriously there is absolutely no comparison to Hitler. Everybody that tries to compare modern U.S. presidents, whether Bush or Obama to Hitler should be ashamed.





We may be in a war, however, none of our presidents have rounded up over 6 million people of Arab descent and started brutally murdering them. Hitler was a monster. Bush made mistakes. He isn't president anymore for which we can all be glad. Just get over and look to the future.|||Todd, Todd ,listen to me throw the license number away . Go back to that bar and have a couple of drinks and relax . Then around 9:30 pm order a round of drinks on the house , when you get the tab refuse to pay it ,just give the bartender some more of your enlightened political views on George Bush . Talk loud be proud .|||This particular version of your standard BS question gets a C-. You really just aren't very good at this. Try a story where you walk into the University of Chicago School of Law and strike up a conversation in the faculty dining room where you say that Obama was on the faculty for twelve years without ever making a single contribution to legal scholarship. Then tell us the Dean of the faculty punches you in the nose.|||I just watched a show on Hitler on the History Channel. If Bush were really that bad, I doubt you'd be here to talk about it.





So let's just stick to the facts: Bush was a terrible president and even most of those who hate him do not realize the true level of damage he did to this country. But that doesn't make him Hitler.|||That's cause republicans defend the right to free speech. Call the police and press charges for assult. You also should go to the emergency room for those severe pains you are having in the area that he hit you. Then call a lawyer in the morning and sue the hell out of him.|||I'd stay away from the police, if I were you. Obviously you are drunk, because your grammar is abominable. Your second paragraph makes no sense. Stay away from the police if you don't want to be arrested.|||ask the folks that helped you when you reported this at WALMART.





I'm glad that I have a life and don't have the time to post bogus repeat questions on Yahoo.|||i couldnt agree with you more. but you were not to smart by voicing your opinion in that manner in a bar room. take your lumps and learn from it. i hate bush with a purple pasasion|||I really must say, these stories are getting more and more creative. You can almost write in complete grammatical sentences.


Peace|||i wouldn't press charges but i would quit drinking. it seems to have made you very stupid. well it's probably not just the drinking.|||do u know who hitler is cause anybody who thinks stupid stuff doesn't have the right to an opinion. That guy should press charges on u.|||Too late. You should have called police at the time of the incident. Next time keep your mouth shut.|||Theres a lot of brainwashed people out there who don't react well to a healthy dose of truth|||You mean you felt numb as a plate.





Please say you'll never procreate.





I say that not from scorn or hate.





But, would YOU want so wan a fate?|||You shouldn't say stupid things in public, Todd. It's OK to say them from the safety of your mom's basement, however.|||you deserved it... im a democrat but bush was not nearly as bad as hitler i would have done the same thing|||No Todd you need to stop drinking it is affecting your judgement.|||Call Bush at Homeland Security. Maybe he can help you out.|||Learn to be more respectful and you won't get your azz handed to you.|||You were a big man that didn't care who he offended for any reason, so take it like a man and get over it.|||Go back to the Gaza, The Mosadd is waiting for you.|||Puberty isn't going very well is it?|||good for him!

How are our eurovision entries funded?

Where does the cash come from which pays for our people to go to serbia to be insulted? Is this anything to do with licence fees? How is it paid for, because I'd hate to think that we are all paying for this nonsense. While Andy Abrahams song wasn't earth shattering or anything it was certainly not the worst thing there and deserved more votes. Are we paying for eastern europe and beyond to insult us?|||we along with france germany a spain bankroll the eurovision! thats why we dont have to qualify. so we are paying a considerable amount of money for a pointless political, song contest?(if you can call it that) as wogan said he does think we will do it next year, as even he thinks its gone too far and not about the music any more.|||They're not insulting us, they're just too tied up with politics to care about the music.|||Well it definitely isn't about the music any more or else Charlotte Perelli (Sweden) would have won last night.





I'm not sure who funds it. It is on the BBC so I assume that the license fees do pay for it in a way.|||it is a load of rubbish isn't it. Why don't we just quit now and feed starving kids instead.

How do i get end user licence aggreement off my screen?

this happened when i downloaded goggle earth|||click I agree or I accept

Is it legal to send/transmit one-way signals to space?

Before you tell me about how all Radio,TV, satellite transmissions/signals are unwittingly sent (leaked) to space as well, let me clarify my question. ... What I am asking is: Can you "legally" transmit signals to deep space without them being meant to be picked up on Earth by a receiver (i.e. a TV, a radio, a satellite, etc.)? Or is there a law against a one-way transmission to space? ... Also, do you need an FCC license of sorts to transmit signals to deep space? Serious answers only please. In other words, kindly refrain from cute, "ET call home" commentaries :-)|||You seem to recognize that ANY transmission is a one-way EM signal to space. What I'm not sure you recognize is that ALL EM signals are "thrown out", and only if a receiver is specifically designed to pick up the frequency can the transmission be received.





So I think what you're really asking is can you transmit an EM signal without an FCC license? The issue is that the EM spectrum is EXTREMELY crowded and very specific wavelengths are specified for different purposes. For example, a specific bandwidth is dedicated to FM radio. Stations then buy FCC licenses to transmit on specific frequencies within that bandwidth. 106.7 MHz in LA is dedicated to KROQ. The transmitter is located in LA - outside of the transmitting range, the same frequency can be allocated to another station (say, San Diego). On the other hand, if you're in LA and you want to transmit your signal into deep space at 106.7 MHz, you will disrupt people trying to listen to KROQ. That's illegal. As expected, the government "owns" large bandwidths at several locations within the EM spectrum for national defense and public use.





I'm no expert, but I do know you can transmit on HAM radio frequencies. This bandwidth is specifically dedicated to amatures who simply want to transmit whatever they want. Which means someone MAY pick up what you want to send, but they may not - you can send whatever you want (as long as you don't violate any other laws, like terrorist threats or child pornography). I don't know if you have to register with the FCC to use the HAM radio frequencies. My guess is that you probably do.





There are frequencies that are not controlled by the government. If you want to buy a small laser pointer and start flashing Morse code into the heavens, you can do that. But in the US the EM spectrum is tightly controlled by the FCC.|||I think, if you are using a transmitter powerful enough to send a one way signal into space, the FCC may require you to have a license as there is no way to contain the signal from being heard by anyone else here on Earth.|||u need a license....copyright of wat u gona put up there...and if u interact with government or military signals...u could go to jail. look it up......|||There's so much other traffic going through the air, that I doubt they'd care if you sent a transmission. Are you a visitor from above? WIll you take me with you? I'm serious!|||Any Radio Frequency signal powerful enough to broadcast into space will require an F.C.C. license. Not to mention a transmitter/antenna system powerful enough. Have you considered even what frequency and modulation method will be used.|||Just out of curiosity, are you wearing a tinfoil hat right now?|||Maybe you'll get a signal back with an answer from whoever???monitors that sort of thing|||FCC license is necessary I believe, like previous guys said it could interfere with govt. or military operations

The Conservatives last election manifesto?

Included such earth shattering ideas as


"Stop the pensioners cold weather payments"


"Stop the pensioners free TV lIcences"





Does anyone know if these two manifesto's are still in the melting pot?|||Probably, it麓s a recurring theme isn麓t it?





Before John Major was PM he was responsible for a change in the rules about pensioner麓s cold weather payments, stipulating that the weather had to drop below "x" degrees for "x" number of days.


Playing with the weather and cynically stopping a huge percentage of the payments.








|||Ah the Caring party.The Compassionate Conservatives.





Those ideas are probably still in the pipeline, but are kept quiet. Not exactly vote winners are they?|||No.





The new one is mandatory euthanasia for the over 65's.|||The only Conservative policies that are set in stone are to release terrorists after 48 hours and to reintroduce foxhunting.Soft on terrorists but tough on foxes.|||I doubt it. But what have Labour actually succeeded at?|||Lest we forget. Keep it up friend.

How to explain organic, ancient, physical Church?

(Bible as source) I have learned that Jesus Christ established His Church on earth by training 12 disciples/apostles. I have also learned that these 12 disciples licensed other disciples (Paul's letters to these disciples he trained).


(Early Church fathers as source) I have learned that His Church has always contained the Truth and the Tradition Christ established through these apostles. Groups of dissenters would pop up once in awhile and Christ's apostolic Church would be sure to clarify that they were heretics and note that they were not truly Christians. The ancient Christian Church was 1st divided by disagreement over the filoque and then there was a new church called Orthodox. In the 1500s, Luther accidentally inspired another new church to be started. Then it got out of control and many new churches started. My Evangelical friend says she is inspired by the Holy Spirit when she reads the Bible and she extracts that there is only one church. Why can't I get her to face reality?|||You should be aware that, from the Orthodox Church's perspective, it was the Roman Catholic Church which broke away from Orthodoxy. After all, the original Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed did not have a "filioque" clause, nor did the whole ecumenical Church ever agree in council to include the "filioque" in the creed. Rather, the "filioque" was a Roman innovation which the rest of Orthodoxy rejected on account of its theological impact on the equality of the Holy Spirit with the other two persons of the divine Trinity.|||if the church started now not 2000 years ago it will be clased as a cult now run by 12 nutters|||The reality is that the Church is like a Tree.





The Tree started in the Old Testament growing up all the way to the day of Pentecost where the Fruits were manifested.


Then there was a period of darkness which was the Dark Ages. That was when the Seed was planted into the ground again and began to grow up through Polycarp, St. Patrick, Martin Luter, John Wesley, and many early Pentecostal preachers too. The Tree has been growing in knowledge and grace and the Fruits of the Spirit are just about ready to be picked again at the Top of the Tree in another original restoration of the Original gifts that were given at the Upper Room.





It's one Church that God has been building up in various ways and degrees throughout various places in the world.





It started in the east on the eastern people in Jerusalem, came down through Germany with Martin Luter, through England with John Wesley, and


finally here at the western hemisphere of the USA.





"There shall be Light in the evening time"





He doesn't come for a literal building "church"





The one Church is the people themselves who have made themselves ready to be One with Him in His Word.|||Your friend is believing that there is only one church because there is only one church, the people that believe that Jesus died on the cross for our sins and the original teachings of Jesus Christ.|||As I see it, Christ was into "theonomization" and shared fellowship with in the "body of God's church" on Earth. I don't reall him saying that "Verily,verily I say unot you, Ye all must create a theocracy that rules with an iron fist, in My Name - despite the fact that you all are fallible and veritable goofballs!" Your friend may just be trying to get back to the times of the early Christians predating the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine|||Stop putting so much effort into trying to change your friend's point of view.|||I think we as people should stop obsessing about how other people practice their beliefs or what denomination they belong to, or how the church was in the past, and look at our own lives as believers.





What it comes down to is this: do we accept or reject Jesus Christ as Lord, fully God and fully human, as the One who died a horrible, brutal death for our sins past, present, and future for all mankind so we could go to heaven...and not hell.|||As the church grew throughout the known world many Local Churches popped up. Paul was commissioned to preach by the church in Epeiphes. The apostles didn't even send him out. The idea that the church has central control outside of Christ himself is in error. A believer is a King and a priest to God. What more authority does one need than that?|||When you consider that "The Church" is the body of Christ, then it is simple. There is one church, one God, one way.

Dont you think parenting should be licensed?

How many of you can relate to this?





New blood joins this earth


and quickly he's subdued


through constant pain disgrace


a young boy learns their rules





with time the child draws in


this whipping boy done wrong


deprived of all his thoughts


the young man struggles on and on he's known


oo a vow onto his own


that never from this day


his will they'll take away





what I've felt


what I've known


never shined through in what I've shown


never be


never see


won't see what might have been








they dedicate their lives


to running all of his


he tries to please them all


this bitter man he is


throughout his life the same


he's battled constantly


this fight he cannot win


a tired man they see no longer cares


the old man then prepares


to die regretfully


that old man it was me|||I think that you should be required to get a license to reproduce. We already have too many people in the world anyway, so we certainly don't need anymore bad ones who were raised by people with poor parenting skills.





But, in order to make parenting and reproduction a licensable thing, you'd first have to figure out how children should be raised. Everyone has their own idea. Some of them are great, some are terrible. There's no one right way. If there was a licensing program for parenthood, I think it should focus on:





A. Do you have the financial resources to adequately provide for a child?





B. Do you understand how children's mind's work? (Maybe make all people who want to have a kid take a child psychology class or something)|||METALLICA. I wish however unpractical as it may be.|||That would be awesome. You need a license for everything else.|||Parenting should not be licensed because we could not come to an agreement on what standards make good parenting. Parenting should be upgraded through educational efforts in schools and churches.


My simplistic theme to any parental education would be that we need to overcome selfishness. The child's needs are important. Then we get into what the child truly needs..... many will start disagreeing on points here. I will say that the child's primary need is to love God. The parent's job is to slowly help the child decrease a need/dependence for the parents and increase a need/dependence on God.|||Heavens, no - one more thing for the government to screw up. We've seen how well they've done with licensing drivers. And doctors. And licensing marriage.





Start by making them license politicians and see how well that works. Then perhaps licensing prostitution. Then maybe we can talk about licensing reproduction.|||i can relate, but the thing is i have a rebel soul. just like james hetfield - who sings this. all that restrictiveness certainly didn't quelch his ambition to prevail.... and apparently he has! children need a certain level of restriction to learn boundaries - but apparently this song takes the restrictiveness to an extreme. if you think about it, you are suggesting that the government restrict the people when it comes to the choice of becomming a parent. that is ironic, considering what the song is about. we are all dealt a certain hand and it's up to each of us to do the best we can with it. there are some horrible parents out there, but the best we can do is overcome it and vow to do better with our own children.

Where can i buy a jerboa rodent?

this is a picture of one:


http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/photos/and鈥?/a>


I really want one because they are so cute. If this is an illegal form of trade or you have to have a license to own one please tell me but i think they are the cutest things on earth and i recently lost my pet rabbit so i want one!


thanks guys|||Why don't you just get another pet rabbit?? They are so cute, so much cuter than a jerboa rodent?





if you insist, try this.........I saw a similar question here.........








http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/ind鈥?/a>





good luck|||You might want to read this article first. It says, in part, "During the 1990s, desert jumping rodents called jerboas were imported to Texas from Egypt as pets, according to Alan Green, a wildlife expert. Many new owners fell ill with a strange rash that defied treatment." http://sports.espn.go.com/outdoors/gener鈥?/a>








That article also states:





"A wild animal will be in the bush, and in less than a week it's in a little girl's bedroom," said Darin Carroll, a disease hunter with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.





While exotic pets from Africa, Asia and South America can be cute and fashionable, scientists fear that bacteria and viruses they carry can jump to humans and native animals. Recent statistics raise the alarm.





Zoonotic diseases 鈥?those that jump to humans 鈥?account for three quarters of all emerging infectious threats, the CDC says. Five of the six diseases the agency regards as top threats to national security are zoonotic, and the CDC recently opened a center to better prepare and monitor such diseases.





The Journal of Internal Medicine this month estimated that 50 million people worldwide have been infected with zoonotic diseases since 2000 and as many as 78,000 have died.





U.S. experts don't have complete totals for Americans, but partial numbers paint a serious picture:





Hantavirus, which is carried by rodents and can cause acute respiratory problems or death, has sickened at least 317 Americans and killed at least 93 since 1996.





More than 770 people have been sickened since 2000 with tularemia, a virulent disease that can be contracted from rabbits, hamsters and other rodents. At least three people have died. The plague, another animal-born disease, has sickened at least 22 Americans and killed at least one.





Three transplant patients in New England died last year after receiving organs from a human donor who had been infected with the lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus from a pet hamster. There have been 34 U.S. cases since 1993.





More than 210,000 Americans were sickened between 2000 and 2004 with salmonella, and at least 89 died. Most infections come from contaminated food 鈥?but up to 5 percent have been linked to pets, especially such reptiles as iguanas and turtles. And last year, at least 30 people in 10 states were sickened with a drug-resistant form linked to hamsters and other rodent "pocket pets."





Some of the scariest diseases to emerge since 2001 also have been tied to exotic animals: One of the first times the deadly Asian bird flu reached the West was in eagles smuggled aboard a plane to Europe. Likewise, severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, is believed to have jumped to people from caged civet cats in a Chinese market. The cats are believed to have gotten the virus from bats."








I would advise anyone interested in having an exotic pet to consider the risks.|||Margecut, who actually reads those long answers? geez.


Just purchase a rodent that isn't so hard to find.

They say the average person has over 250 numbers associated with their existence on Planet Earth?

(Suddenly looking down at my license and credit cards...OMG!...Mine are all 6's...They're all 6's!...Now screaming in horror...)





Happy Halloween Everyone...How are ya' doin' tonight...?


Welcome to MY world, folks...Welcome to Damn Laid Back's Lair of Evil...(demented laughter)...tonight we well "scare" each other with our "L"oven"...that's...a play on words with "love" and "oven..." Get it? Boo!)





(Looking around now in stunned terror)..





"Well...We're gonna need more booze than this, people..."|||I was kidnapped as a baby. They hid messages in my diapers. I escaped through the bath water.|||happy halloween|||i love my oven. how's that?|||Mine are all 11's.|||Welcome to the Matrix





111000100001010010100101001010


000110010101001010010100010100


010100101001001100010010010010


110011001010110110101001111001


100101010010101001001010010010


101010100100101001000100100100


010100101001001100010010010010


110011001010110110101001111001


100101010010101001001010010010


101010100100101001000100100100


010100101001001100010010010010


110011001010110110101001111001


100101010010101001001010010010


101010100100101001000100100100|||Is that what the matrix looks like Tyler?


Looks like basic computer programming to me.





Happy Halloween|||but are the 6's tattooed on some part of your hot bod ?


i f so,then I'd be scared,and have to go find a sharp wooden stake and mallet,to save us all,nothin personal ya know.|||I'll take mine straight up...





What can I bring?|||Doing well, thanks. Bring that booze over here, will you? Yamster's the devil!|||Yamster's dinner tonight. Hairy rat that he is.|||Added together they still don't


add up to 10.|||I have over 350 people in the address book of my Blackberry. Do you think I have too many, should i start cutting people off?|||you have an issue with 6's??








Damn!





we could always use more booze





I hate you for making me think of number so early in the morn.|||Hey there sexy!

Is it legal to send/transmit one-way signals to space?

Before you tell me about how all Radio,TV, satellite transmissions/signals are unwittingly sent (leaked) to space as well, let me clarify my question. ... What I am asking is: Can you "legally" transmit signals to deep space without them being meant to be picked up on Earth by a receiver (i.e. a TV, a radio, a satellite, etc.)? Or is there a law against a one-way transmission to space? ... Also, do you need an FCC license of sorts to transmit signals to deep space? Serious answers only please. In other words, kindly refrain from cute, "ET call home" commentaries :-)|||The radio spectrum is shared among nations of the world and there are certain frequency allocations agreed to by all the countries. Subsequently, each country allocates those frequencies to their people based on the initial shared agreements across the world.





In the US, the frequencies are allocated to users via FCC licensing. To do any transmitting here, you need a valid license except for some experimenters bands around 1750 kHz (limit .1 watts) plus a few others and of course for personal communications devices like portable phones and cell phones and some hobbies but once again the power is very limited there...





The FCC doesn't care where you think you're transmitting energy. It's the frequency they worry about and even with the most sophisticated of antennas, you will always leak radio signals in every direction. If they catch you transmitting (they have a pretty broad monitoring system) they may warn you or if you're interfering with commercial or emergency communications they may go straight for litigation and impose fine up to tens of thousands of dollars.and possible jail sentence if you lose the case.





Anyways to get any decent signal out, you need a few million watts, and an array of dish antennas and even if you have a sophisticated receiver on the other end, your signal will be corrupted by galactic noises and signal attenuation and the only way someone can pull your signal out of the noise it to know exactly what pattern you are sending and precisely on what frequency.|||yes ,and some people use light as well, and all and all people do it all the time and some trying to here somethink back the big ear that was in ohio did some of this, you way go on line and look up .|||If you transmit from a normal transmitter its going to be picked up on earth. How much of earth will pick it up depends on the strenght of your signal. Any transmitter from a ham radio on up you need a liscense from the FCC. Aside from that if you find a transmitter strong enough and get a liscense to transmit on a specific frequency then yes you can legally transmit. No law against trying to send a message. Ive thought about trying to do that myself. Going to be expensive though. A 100k watt radio station has a limited range.|||It would depend what part of the radio frequency spectrum you use in the U.S. Most of it is regulated by the FCC; an unlicensed operator or one who is in violation of FCC regulations is at some risk of having his transmitter confiscated IF he interferes with the authorized use of band on which he's transmitting. That being said, lots of "ham" operators are into "moon-bounce" transmissions, where they literally use the earth's moon as their communications satellite (it takes a LOT of power). Ham operators are generally limited to 1500 watts of power. That may not sound like much, but my own handheld tranceiver only requires 5 watts of power, so 1500 can be a lot. It's not a question of whether you intend the signals to be received, but whether you interfere with the legally-assigned usage of the frequency you've chosen that really matters, and most transmissions of any real power do require some sort of license to produce, except in an emergency situation.





I'm including a link to the FCC's frequency allocation chart to give you a better idea of what's going on out there in the "ether" ;-)|||That redio waves are of some special type and huge such that satellites or tv do not catch it. ( they are huge) if it is catched by any satellite, it ignores it bcoz there are no settings in that satellite where to transmit that wave....


the radio waves cannot reach at any specific place because of dark matter..


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dark matter|||Its illegal.|||Its so way legal.

What would you have penalties be for DUI"S?

Ok, in the world where I am Earth Czar this is what I think might happen with DUI offenders.


1st offence (No wreck involved): fine and community service working with police like ride alongs or with people who have been hit by drunk drivers


1st offence (Wreck) bigger fine, lose of driving privledges for 6 months with 6 months of ride alongs/community service


1st offence (death) lose of license. You most continue to work/ and live at a shelter, you must pay to live at shelter You have visitation with family but nothing except work and shelter. You are basically on house arrest just not in your house. You work so you continue to provide for your family but you also have to give a percentage to a fund that pays families funeral expenses and helps families devatstated by DUI. If you choose not to work and be in the house you go to jail for 20 years. NO chances


This is just a short outline not a complete thought but people are tired of multiply DUI's and noone caring Thoughts/Idea|||1ST offense - Fine, loss of license for 6 monthes





2ND offense - Fine, Jail Time, loss of license for 1 year





3RD offense - Fine, jail time, loss of license indefinitely





*The length of time between offenses should NOT matter. 3 strikes and you're out, period.|||1st offense, 30 days in jail with Hillary naked





2nd offense 90 days in jail with Ruth Bader Ginsburgh Naked





There would be no 3rd offenses, no body is that much of


an alcoholic .|||1st offense-go directly to jail-no if's and's or but's-for 3 months solid. right on the spot u go 2 jail





2nd offense-go 2 jail for 3 years-no reduced sentence, good behavior, or any of that crap.(this is assuming u did not kill anyone when u got the dui)


I know a guy who is finally now going to jail after his 4TH DUI!!!!!! 4TH! and only sentenced 2 years-he will b out in 9 months! he'll probably do it again only this time kill a family in a minivan or something. god love our court systems. if he would have been caught with pot though he'd be locked up for 15 years. what the hell is wrong with our government?|||take away there car and give them a bus pass blacklisting them from purchasing a car or renting a car for a year and punish those willing to loan them the use of thier car with heavy fines|||First offense, your driven 20 miles from your car and ordered to walk back to it, works in Turkey.|||1st Offense - 20 lashes with a whip across the back.


2nd Offense - Pistol Whipping by arresting officer and any other available officers they can call.


3rd Offense - Pretty much death, if you have not learned your lesson by now.





Make it publicly well known what the penalty is, and bad, will cut bad on it.|||1st , 2 nd , 3 rd Offense...... 1 year in Jail and lost of lic.


3 years in jail and lost of lic..


LIFE|||1st offense, Life in prison.|||Simple... if you drink and drive the first offense (over the legal BAC limit because you willfully and with afore thought consumed enough alcohol to place you over the limit and you were driving impaired) penalty should be instant withdrawal of your driving privileges (total ban - not just a "restricted license" which allows you to drive to work) for 6 months. If you drive during this period your driving privileges should be suspended for a further six months.


If you re-offend you should receive a driving ban of ten years plus 6 month jail term. If during either the first or any subsequent offenses, an injury or wreck is the result then Instant 10 year ban plus 5 years jail time and pay restitution to any victims.


If the penalties are stiff enough then maybe idiots won't drink and drive.|||hey CHRIS, don't really care if anything happens to YOU if you drive drunk, but i do care about innocent people,,,by the way until you have a family member killed by a drunk driver (like myself and countless others), i believe you will remain an a**hole|||I've got a great punishment for drunk drivers: Civic Service.





Make them spend their weekend nights giving free rides to all the other drunks that are out partying. Have them check in with the police officer in the area and do a breathalyzer (to jail if they fail.)





It reduces drunk driving by keeping *new* drunks out from behind the wheel and the guy already caught has to put up with a bunch of drunks.





Saves a bunch of lives, but probably wouldn't bring in as much revenue. Taxi companies would probably protest as well.|||Well DUI just means driving under the influence.





Hence, nobody was drunk. If they were they would be DWI.





I think for a DUI the cop should pour out the beer or whatever on the side of the road and give the empty trash back to the driver.





It's really not that big of a deal. Many people can handle A beer.





Think about how many times you drank 1 beer and were just fine on the road. It's not big deal. It's just blown out of proportion.|||There should be no penalties for DUI. If people want to drink a few and get behind the wheel then that's their own business you nazi.

Can the U.S. government use satellites or other surveillance to watch anybody at any time inside their home?

What is the best map service available to the public online? Google earth, mapquest, etc???? Can you read license plates and see faces and go back to specific days??|||No. No one can see through walls and roofs, even with a satellite.





They would have to be on the ground and can only identify heat sources and shapes, with special equipment. They would have to place mini cameras inside of your home to watch you, and make an absolute identity.





Google Earth is by far the best so far of all of the mapping software. Some of the satellite photos are over three years old and do not reflect the current landscapes, do to changes from construction.





No one can spy on you from a satellite inside of your home. They have the capability to take photos of your home and the surroundings but that is all. It is possible that you might be visible if you were outside and stayed outside for a while. This way they could transmit your image while you were outside, but never inside of your home.





Remember that the satellites move in orbit around the earth and the earth also spins. This is why sometimes the signals of satellite television are lost for a while and the equipment has to be rotated or adjusted. It would be astronomically expensive to dedicate a satellite to watch one person and their home.





This is a simplistic description but you can get the idea.|||There is a limit to what satellite surveillance can do. It cannot see inside people's homes. You'd have to be an object of the most intense interest for the government to want to track your movements closely. Photos published in _The New York Times_ detail the secret Iranian nuclear facility near Qom in astonishing detail; they obviously came from a satellite.





I doubt that you can get access to anything better than Google earth. You can't go back to specific days, but you can see property, land, and people's houses and sometimes see rather astonishing sights. I was washing my car when it was parked on the street in front of my house, and I found out later from someone who looked up my address that Google had been taking photos that day; there I am, in filthy T shirt, with a sponge, scrubbing away. However, that was just chance.|||A little tidbit of info regarding US spy satellites - they are so powerful that they can pick up a softball as clear as day on a field and you can even see the shadow of the softball on the grass. (assuming it is a sunny day)|||If you are rich anything is possible, let me know when you get rich, im curious too.

My life is over!!! Please HELP ME!!!!! what on earth should i do?

I am completely crushed!!! I lost my sweetheart! My ex-boyfriend dumped me off at th the bus station and someone stole my bag with ALL of my IMPORTANT documents in it. My birth certificate, medical papers, copies of mi ID, my social security number,tax information, my nursing license, my computer ALL GONE!! I called the lost and found at the bus station and they cannot find it!!! THIS IS A NIGHTMARE!!!! I feel like I lost my LOVE and my LIFE!!!! I don't think that I can survive this!! What do I do? I brought all of those important documents because I moved in with him and i need those papers for work and a new ID!!!!! I AM COMPLETELY HERTBROKEN!!!!!!! HE JUST DUMPED ME OFF AT 3AM and left. I haven't loved anyone but him since my ex-husband. I DONT WANT TO LIVE ANYMORE!!!!!! I feel like ending my life and I think that this is the perfect time to do it!!!!|||ok here is the best advice for you, i picked your question becuase i hope i can help you. First, you life is not over, yes u are having a hard time but do not focus on the negatives! I could not imagine having my info stollen. Now about the boyfriend, yes it will be hard and you already know this becuase u say it yourself, but realize that there are billion of people on earth and u will and can find someone that is better than him, I promise you. Patience is a virtue. So what you need to do FIRST AND FORMOST is file a report do what you have to or whatever the case maybe to find out about getting all of ur info. if you need help, go to a church tell the pastor what is going on....they wont entitle you to attend services they might suggest it but its up to you. now the reason why Im telling you to go to a church is because I am a christian and I do NOT believe in a HAND OUT....i believe in a HAND UP....you need help up and a church will give you that hand. Now you need to worry about yourself right now, this life is about you. think about it.....im on the outside and im looking in....so its easier to diagnos the promblem that what you see becuase you are on the inside looking and its hard to cope. But when you get all of your info taken care of then focus on the healing process of your bf....i promise you its gonna be hard.....but whatdoesnt kill you makes you stronger it may not seem like a lot of since today but it will soon come together for you in the future. I don't know if you are a woman of god, but remmeber you will never be turned away from god and he will see you through all of this. I promise you! In Summary:


Go file the reports


Go to a church close by talk with the pastor or priest about helping you....you may feel like you just cant do that but thats the LEAST of your worries right now.


when you get your info taken care of focus on the healing process of ur bf. i am so serious about what i have told you and please take my advice i would love to know you are ok....im not a weirdo or a freak....i just read your story and I felt covicted to try to help you. |||What sort of belief do you have in life? A broken relationship and couple of lost documents is small and unimportant when compared to life. If you think it is the end of the world, think again.. Life is so sweet and enormous by itself that these are negligible matters..





If you don't get the documents in a couple of days apply for duplicates. You are one of the millions who loose their boyfriend and one in a billion who lose documents.. Cheer up and look for a new BF and try to get the documents back or go for the duplicates.. Best of Luck|||no whatever you do DONT ending your life is never a choice because you have to take into consideration of all the other people you will be hurting other than yourself and (if your religious) you may have not fullfilled your purpose in being on this earth AND suicide is a ticket to hell but im sure the documents ect. will turn up soon your boyfriend will patch things up and you will be on top of the world again.|||Pray and please don't end your life, you have to much to live for. Someone stole my cousins purse and she ended up just fine. I would start by calling around and canceling all of your credit cards and debit cards. You can also apply for a new social security card. I also think you can put an alert on your curent social serurity number.|||I suggest that you get off the internet and pray. Was you're life worth ending before you met this person? Well then its not worth ending now. People impact our lives but that's as far as it goes. Other people don't make you who you are. You have to ask yourself, "why am I so messed up over someone who obviously doesn't give a dogon about me". Why should you end your life so that he can continue to live his happily.


Girl you need to pray!|||OMG you need help we can't give you.





Get to a shelter, and start rebuilding your life! You need to learn to trust again, but it should be a long, and careful process. You have been totally abused! And you need to learn how to trust yourself first.





As for the papers, they are papers. They will take some time, patience and work to replace, but they are only paper, andyou can do it.





Be strong! |||Okay, calm yourself


If he left you he didn't love you, that means it's time to move onto someone who does, and deserves you!


As for the document things I'm not possitive, but you may be able to get other coppies of them if you contact the companies or whatever they're called-they'll understand.|||ok take a second here and breathe deep. you can deal with the boyfriend later ok ignore him, hes minor








first of all get your documents in order. cancel any cc' you might have and go to the local social security office and tell them. your nursing license- contact your state board.








just calm down here-theres procedures to getting back every one of those things.


|||Suicide is a very selfish answer. Think of the people who will miss you. At first, you might choose to believe that no one will, but REALLY think about it. There are alot of people who will.





Also, call the cops and report to them what happened with your ex boyfriend.|||Praying is about right...I know that sucks but people come and go...we learn our lessons on the kind of people we associate ourselves with by the situations we deal with because of them. We also learn how to be a better US. Sometimes we are the ones who need work and need to be humbled so we go through humbling experiences. Just pray. Go home and get your documents back. We have all had to start from scratch at some point in our lives. I suggest you start at the DMV|||Call the police... government, you shouldn't be worrying about your boyfriend save yourself first, get all your docs first... and cops and... blah blah blah blah get the government police and all that lawyer stuff, after that get a boyfriend...





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praying won't help, TAKE SOME DAMN ACTION


yeah cops is the first place... if all fails come back here.|||Did you leave the bag in the car when he dropped you off at the bus station? Why did you call the bus station if you were there? Sorry something doesn't jive in your explanation of what went down. |||That is what happens when your hope is in something other than God. Only God can fix your problem, and is up to you to decide if you will give him the opportunity. |||bad things come in 3's so expect one more thing to go wrong...then it will get suddenly better...this allways happens to me...mabey you will win somthing or meet someone...depend on the way you thing and see things but i relise its not a known fact but this allways happends too me good luck.|||If he'd do that to you, you're better off with out him.





For your papers, your State Department should carry copies of all those.





And it's not worth hurting yourself.





'Bout all I can tell you. Sorry.|||Everyone has the same feeling in the same situation .But try to find ur documents or provide new ones.If ur bf left u don't blame ur self and pray.|||Every single thing on that list is replaced easily enough. You, can not be replaced.|||I believed you until you said you lost your computer.





If this should happen to be true, hang in there. There are better men than he.|||I'm sure this is all just a big joke. Just relax, I'm sure your sweetheart will show up with your bag in one hand and flowers in the other and scream "Gotcha!" |||NO DO NOT END UR LIFE THAT WOULD BE THE WORIEST THING U COULD DO!!!! MEN COME AND GO UR LIFE IS TOO PRECIOUSE GET THE PROPER AUTHORITIES TO HELP U CANCEL THINGS BUT PLASE DONT END UR LIFE|||Pity Party..Pass the popcorn. If your computer is GONE, where the blood hell are you typing this from? |||yes indeed pray or wait for a miracle|||awww :( i'm sorry :I y did he dump yU?|||CHOOSE LIFE! Please, dont kill yourself. God will take care of you. Dont do it! Everything happens for a reason|||Well you can pray.|||there are many mountians you must climb.. this is probly just one of them..








this will soon pass.|||Go try and pet a skunk! |||:( im sorry this is happening.go on freecreditreport.com okay.good luck okay that will help with your s.s numbeer.or go to lifelock.com.|||This is the perfect time to pray.


I'll pray for you too.


I'm sorry for your troubles. Calm down. You just need to make a few phone calls to get those things replaced. They're probably in the bottom of a trash can right now. People who grab bags at bus stations are after some quick cash, not out to steal your ID. Life will go on. God has a reason for this happening. Maybe He wants you to trust Him more. Someone who would leave you at 3:00 a.m. is not someone you want to spend the rest of your life with. Better days are coming. You seem to have access to a computer which is a good thing. Don't end your life. God has a plan for your life and suicide is not it. Psalm 147:3 says "He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds." Psalm 34:18 says "The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit." Call on the Lord to help you.


Jesus loves you. He died for your sins and rose again that you might have eternal life. John 3:16|||You can survive this!


First thing tomorrow, make sure you report that you lost things like a birth certificate and SSN, and whatever else you lost. You'll have to do some running around but people lose things and the companies and government who provide them understand this and can accomodate it. In Canada, you can go to the health care office if you lose everything all at once. I'm sure there are similar services in the states - go to the government offices and ask.


About the boyfriend... ***** him. Any man who leaves a woman at a bus terminal at 3 am does not deserve a woman at all. Even if he is dumping her. There are men who would not even leave any kind of woman out on the streets at 3 am and that is the kind of man you can find. be independent... I'm sure you have survived worse, and it made you better off. Think about it!|||well. you can commit suicide if you are a weak minded coward. No? then you can start thinking about where to get that purse back...go step by step here..forget about your sweet hear here..i mean think about rebuilding you life. It is like building a house you know? you can't be worrying about how to build a roof if you dont even have the base foundation set up!! Oh yea...another thing you can do is you can seek revenge upon whoever that gives you misfortune. In this case is your boyfriend. take his life and take all his belongings. No? weak minded coward!!


Anyways there is one last thing you can do...you can blame everyone around you and start slapping everyone around you. Dont even blame yourself. you are not at fault here. the people who are at fault here is your boyfriend and the person who stole your stuff. (may be they are the same meaning your bf stole your stuff). Anyways blame them and slap them, hate them, and bring out the vengence in you! No? Weak minded coward!!


Oh wait i said it was the last but no there is one more thing you can do. you can be a loser and start crying crying crying in the corner of your room until an arch angel shows up to help you...but chances are...anyways..May Allah have mercy on those weak minded cowards.

If the fish in the rivers belong to Corzine do the people of the Earth belong to Obama?

One of my neighbors, an incredibly nosey NJ DEP (Division of Environmental Protection-Fish Game and Wildlife) officer knocked on my door and informed me that he had heard that I was keeping striped bass, that I had caught in the Passaic River, in a fish tank (this is true BTW).*





After I told him that I had a fishing license and refused to allow him to enter my apartment to search for these fish, he told me that the NJ fishing license only permitted me to either catch and release or eat the fish but, because it didn’t specifically say that I could keep them in a tank, I was not allowed to do so.





He then went on to say that “All the fish and other wildlife in the state of New Jersey BELONG TO JOHN CORZINE” and that “doing anything with the wildlife other then what JOHN CORZINE EXPRESSLY ALLOWS (ME) TO DO in the permit amounts to poaching and carries a potential ten year prison sentence(!!!)”





How can wild animals, and fish of all things, BELONG TO JOHN CORZINE!?!?!?!?!?!





The last time I checked, John Corzine was little more then a bad governor with ties to corrupt politicians, not a god (and God is the only one who could possibly exert dominion/ownership of the animals).





However, if John Corzine does ‘own’ the fish in the rivers, does B. Hussein Obama then OWN the people of this nation and Nancy Pelosi OWN the air we breathe??? How does any of this fit the fact that we are (allegedly) a republic “of the people”??? Ownership of all the wild animals by the ruler sounds more like something that was practiced in ancient Egypt when it was ruled by the Pharaoh god-kings…





*The State of NJ stocks the Passaic River with Striped Bass and, due to the polluted nature of the river, most, if not all are dead and floating on the surface of the river within three weeks. Isn’t this a great use of our tax dollars???|||The answer is no, and that DEP officer misspoke on every aspect. The fish don't even technically belong to the state, let alone the governor, as far as I know.|||Throw him the hell off of your property, and inform him that the fish are the property of the PUBLIC( that's you and me) that he and Corzine serve.|||What does the president have to do with the guy in charge of Fish and Game in New Jersey?|||Obama gimme pie and cake|||no, they don't belong to him, no he doesn't and no she doesn't, that has nothing to do with us being a republic of the people, that sounds like the waste of the tax dollars comes in when they don't take care of the water they stock the fish with, and finally congratulations on your great talent to spin any retarded story into an anti-obama rant...|||You rant about how it all affects YOU but not how it affects EVERYONE so I suspect a selfish motivation behind this. I have a feeling there is more to this story than you're saying and that you are breeding and selling the fish or just breeding and using the fish for your own consumption or as pets. Pun intended: sounds fishy to me! I'm going to take a stab at this without actual research on NJ but here's how AZ law is: An urban fishing license does not grant permission to harvest wildlife for aquariums, breeding, or commercial purposes; it is a "limited use" license. Wildlife is "regulated" by the [and for people of the] state not just for YOU otherwise everyone would just go catch them and they would go extinct [like the buffalo nearly did and numerous other species HAVE]. The lake is artificially stocked for citizen's with an urban license and for a specific purpose or use therefore they are the property of the state [once again meaning the people of the state]. Instead of ranting about it why not look up the NJ fishing regulations (but I have the feeling you knew what you were doing) and elect honest politicians [if you can find one in NJ]!

If illegals cannot get government benefits how on earth could it affect the whole entire immigrant community?

Question..why do illegals always play the disrupt families %26amp; scares them card every time they are confronted with complying with American laws ?CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - Some groups say that a bill pending in the Wyoming Legislature to cut some state services to illegal immigrants would disrupt families and scare even legal immigrants from seeking help when they need it.





House Majority Floor Leader Colin Simpson says thousands of illegal immigrants in Wyoming now receive benefits. His bill would block them from services ranging from driver's licenses and non-emergency health care to post-secondary education and food assistance.





Bille (BILLY) Metzger runs a program in Jackson that teaches English to immigrants and helps immigrant families adjust to life in the United States.





Metzger says that specifying that illegal immigrants can't receive government services would affect the entire immigrant community. She says that even many legal immigrants are already uncomfortable with dealing with the government.





http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.a鈥?/a>|||It's all about trust, many legal immigrants will not seek help that they may get due to bad experiences and the lack of knowledge of their situation. There are a lot of both illegal and legal immigrants that do not know their case status and fear loosing any opportunity to stay in this country. And don't let people like those idiots that wrote above me don't understand what these immigrants do for this country, whether they are illegal or not they bring a lot of revenue to this country( even more than what they supposedly make the government spend)|||Most immigrants come to the U.S for a better life and freedom.





I know that It may sound strange to a American born person the fact that maybe even a legal immigrant person would feel afraid to claim benefits that they do have a right to use.








Most people in this places come from areas that the free speech and questioning of the government never happens..








Sometimes the information does not get across because they feel afraid of losing what they have.|||Personally I don't like dealing with the government and I was born here. But I have been harassed by Border Patrol Agents whenever I run a load down to Texas or any of the border states really. I've served in the military and still I'm made to feel like I have to prove I am who I am. What a load of BS.


So I can only imagine what a legal immigrant has to deal with on a day to day basis.


What about that young man in L.A. that was deported to Mexico not too long ago and is now sueing the government and L.A. county? He was born in the U.S. and still they deported him. He, from what I understand, is mentally challanged and could not really answer questions to his nationality to the satisfaction of the powers that be. So off to Mexico he went. After 3 months of living there his parents finally found him and brought him back.


The problem is that for the most part people don't see legal and illegal all they see is Mexican decent.|||The illegals must somehow transfer their fear of government to the legals. This is unfortunate and their remedy is wrong. Personally, I believe if we remove the illegals and reinforce support for legals, that will bridge the gap and lack of trust.





Tonight, my wife delivered our first child. One of the attending RN's was a legal hispanic. She has assimulated wonderfully and demonstrated she is an American as well as a wonderful person, gifted nurse and has greatly benefitted from the American dream as well as assisting us in our new born. I was proud of her and glad she chose the path she has chosen.





As such, I feel some of the best moves we can make to rid ourselves of illegals would be to: kill the jobs, amnesty ideas, benefits, anchor baby rights and deport illegals. At the same time, help legals with english, education and better encourage assimulation. Give them the tools, remove spanish from mainstream necessities such as government, signage, and other areas to lessen their dependence on spanish and increase their understanding of the need to learn english. In that process, much assimulation is possible. I cant help but feel if the illegals were gone, those here legally would feel more comfortable about assimulating and would surely lose much of the negative stigma drawn to them by their illegal couterparts and increase the possiblities of increased confidence and personal success for the legals.|||the only ones it would affect in any form or fashion are those that should not be here anyhow and besides do they not always argue that they are only here for a better life and only want to work at jobs no american wants to do so then why would they need these programs anyway if this is the agenda that they have|||Can't get benefits my **** ....................





Go down to any Government office and see who's standing in line.|||Screw the illegals they should have been shot upon entry for homeland security purposes. Their government certainly wouldnt help us if we were in their counrty why should we help them.|||Because they lied to us and hoped we wouldn't notice......they do, they are and have been using and abusing the services ment for citizens.|||Don't get me started on those worthless criminals.

What kind of cameras were used in Planet Earth?

What kind of high speed cameras were used in the Oceans one- when the Great White Shark eats the Seal?





Where can I find one of those cameras?


How much will it cost?


What accessories can I buy to make it so that I can put the videos on my computer? My computer is Windows, not Mac.


Can I put the video(s) I make on a DVD? What accessories do I need to do that?





Also, what are the underwater cameras that they used?


Where can I get those? How much will they cost? etc... (same questions as the high speed cameras)





I would like to get my SCUBA license soon, and go out and video underwater life for fun. I am 18 years old. Also, does anyone know any safe places to SCUBA in Florida (I live in Gainesville)? I don't wanna get eaten on my first day out in the water!|||Well.


I can't answer all of your questions but once you see the brand names of the cameras in my answer you can check eBay, Best Buy etc.





I dive in Florida a lot but mostly the caves down there. There are some safe boat dives with some charters I've dived with in Key Largo.


Your local dive shop can coach you through...it's what they do, they'll start you safe.





Here are camera answers...





Planet Earth Cameras


The workhorse camera of the series was Panasonic's AJ-HDC27 VariCam, chosen because of its distinctly clean image and variable frame rate capabilities (up to 60fps). Sony HDW-750 HDCAM cameras were also used in several instances. In a couple of locations, where the loss of an HD camera would prove too great a risk for the continuation of the shoot--in the remote jungles of Guyana, for instance, and also for a year-long Antarctic shoot of penguins--35mm and Super 16mm cameras were used because they were known quantities and parts could be replaced easily in the event of a breakdown. However, the Panasonic VariCam endured environmental adversity in deserts, mountains, caves, oceans and forests to prove itself to be admirably rugged and reliable.


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Does America remain on the map of earth anymore?

Raymond Davis. He is a staff member of the US consulate in Lahore, shot dead two Pakistani men last Thursday in a crowded part of Lahore (Mozang Chowk); according to him in self-defence. A vehicle of the US consulate rushed to Mr Davis’ ‘rescue’ ran over a third person, who also died. A murder case was registered against Raymond Davis, who was handed into police custody. A case has also been registered against the driver of the US consulate vehicle that ran over a third person, but the driver has yet to be apprehended.


the US is asking that Raymond Davis, as a diplomatic functionary, should be handed back to them


why Davis did not contact 15 Police Emergency, and called his men, who rushed to the spot and crushed an innocent youth under the wheels of their vehicle. Similarly, it could not be ascertained as to why he captured the youths lying on the road with multiple bullet wounds in his cell phone before making an attempt to escape from the scene.


The White House validates that ‘Raymond Davis’ is not his real name, is Raymond Davis a Black Water Agent ...


Instead of cooperating with the authorities, the US administration is pressurizing the Pakistani government to release Mr Davis


What was he doing at a busy area of Lahore, Mozang while carrying a weapon. Mr. ‘Davis” was a sharp-shooter and was armed


Raymond was driving a car with fake license plate, equipped with spy and satellite communication equipment and seems that he was on some special mission. he also used an unlicensed weapon. His passport stamped lastly with business visa and not with diplomatic visa. And what about the unknown SUV came to help him from wrong side of the road and killed 3rd person and and ran away??? if this happens here in US then will it be allowed such murdered and their partners to walk away without having proper justice?Dr. Afia siddiquie a previously lost women with her 2 child abducted from Pakistan, amazingly found in Afghanistan Jail under US army custody, then brought to US court and after a trial she got life in prison she was sentenced by the U.S. judge to 86 years in prison


. She was blamed to try to attack a US soldier in jail( Just an affort of attack and not killed anyone). which is again a mystery that how she got there first in Afhanistan and how it's possible that a very weak lady can attack a US soldier? was there any camera footage for this attack which is normal to have it in these facilities? The point is that if Dr. Afia siddiquie can be tried out and she can be given a life in jail punishment then Raymond Davis also be tried as per the Pakistani laws. Justice should be for All!!!|||Oh no, it really is gone! It was on the globe yesterday, but now all I see is Africa and Asia!





edit: never mind, I found it on the other side. That was close.|||You seem to have this all figured out my leftist friend is there a question here we can answer or are you just trying to impress us with your vast knowledge. Your rant has many details you can not possibly know for fact some are just emotional rants|||no it disappeared in y2k..





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How on god's green earth do you actually "get in a car" in gran turismo 2?

i have seriously tried everything i can think of. i'm playing on psx. i've gone to north city, south city, west city, east city, go race, machine test, car wash, whell shop, home, license ... EVERYWHERE, ACTUALLY EVERYWHERE THERE IS TO GO FROM THE MAIN MENU!!!!! everything leads me to "get in a car" ... which, believe me, i would LOVE to do, especially seeing as how this is a car racing game. as far as i can tell i have 10,000 "credits" but no car is that cheap. the cheapest car i've found is 11,000. i'm going to set this thing on fire in a few minutes.|||Have you gone to the used shop yet? Those cars are all cheaper, and are there specifically for you to buy as a first car. There are TONS of them for $5000 or so.

Why has no nation on Earth ever had a successful private, for-profit, universal health insurance system?

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Before answering the question above, please read my answer below. If you disagree with my facts and logic, please tell me why I am wrong. Then I will tell you why you are wrong. That is the way grownups do it. If you only want to type a sound bite, go away.


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Profit-making is incompatible with the prevention and cure of sickness. Healing sick people is not a service in the same sense that fixing a car is a service.





The auto-repair industry serves its customers profitably in a free market for several reasons that do not apply to the health care industry:





1. The cost of an auto repair rarely exceeds 50% of the cost of acquiring an equivalent vehicle and is usually less than 5% of that cost.





The patient cannot acquire another body. The cost of an illness may exceed the combined cost of a buying a home and raising a family of university graduates.





2. Garages stay in business by making good decisions and providing good service.





Health care providers stay in business (retain their medical license) by conforming to industry standards. The health care industry (as opposed to the health care INSURANCE industry) does not want customers. They do not have to attract customers. There is no point in advertising for customers. The doctor regrets that the patient needs his help. The patient regrets being a patient.





3. Auto repair is based upon commodities: widely available parts, repair manuals, tools, and mechanics. Costs are well known and prices are regulated by competition





Health care equipment is highly technical and very expensive. Doctors are mostly specialists, often researchers with few students. They sometimes build their own equipment. The customer’s life may depend upon finding the right doctor. If that doctor does not have a contract with the patient’s private insurance company, the claim will be denied. (http://www.creators.com/liberal/froma-ha…





4. All drivers can afford to drive – until they can’t. If too many drivers can’t afford to drive, some garages may suffer or fail. It’s tough on the ex-drivers and ex-garage owners, but that’s the free market.





Patients must be served whether they can afford to pay or not. If they cannot pay, the cost must be shifted to others.





In particular, children and students cannot afford to pay for their own care. But they must receive the finest possible health care (and education) regardless of the wealth or poverty of their parents.





This requirement is enshrined in our Constitution’s Preamble which vows to “promote the general Welfare and to secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and to our Posterity.” Posterity is our nation’s ONLY product. We MUST do it right. Spending large public funds on the postponement of death for a few very uncomfortable months is an irrational betrayal of our heritage and our national interest.





For the above reasons, universal health care costs can only be met by payments of deductible claims made through an insurance system financed by premiums that are subsidized for the poor. Costs are paid from the insurance pool. For statistical and administrative reasons, the larger the pool, the lower will be the premiums. The risk is spread over a larger population. That is why single-payer policies are the least expensive: everybody is in the same pool. This is a mathematical CERTAINTY.





Breaking the insurance pool into a hundred different pools adds important costs: financing, administrative, advertising, customer selection, claims denial, high executive salaries, and profits. These additional costs (over 25% of the total current cost and over 33% more than the single-payer costs) represent a “tax” paid to private insurance companies by all its customers with no benefit to the consumers.





The usual objection to single-payer is government inefficiency. And reduction of Medicare and Medicaid costs are part of the legislation before Congress. But the Veterans Administration provides excellent care to millions of veterans suffering a wide range of problems at a very reasonable cost compared to private industry.





Government rationing of health care is another objection. But, without exception, every private health care insurance company has a large building with an entire floor or two devoted to a department that does nothing else but ration health care. These claim deniers are answerable only to their highly paid management, not to Congress or to a State Legislature or to the voter. The only recourse to denial of a claim is to file a suit through the court system and pay the lawyer.





There are now insurance solutions approximating single-payer before Congress. They need your support.|||As you say, it is because of the unique situation regarding health care. In the United State between the health insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the food industry there seems to be three-headed monster that has a goal to keep the populous in ill-health. The result is that we have a health care system that is more reactive to sickness rather than proactive in promoting wellness (which would mean a whole lot less profit for all three of those industries).





And to your answer . . . very well thought out. I am indeed in favor of a sinlge payer VA-like system.|||To answer your question correctly, it's because the term "Universal" implies "monopoly" . Monopolies are not known for being innovative.

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|||A private for profit health insurance system doesn't actually serve a patient, it serves share holders. Inevitably an health system which actually doesn't serve patients is going to lead to a crisis in public heath.|||I'm sorry, I don't understand your question. A private, for profit, universal health care system? So, do you mean, one private company with a monopoly on health insurance?





To respond to a couple of the previous answers...





The health insurance industry is definitely not service work. The line of thinking that somehow providing health insurance is like providing an education is just wrong. Health care practitioners, on the other hand, ARE doing a service job.





These are totally separate things. The reason someone becomes a doctor is to heal people. But, people don't get a job with a health insurance company because they like to heal people, they do it because they like working in the insurance industry.





There is no way to equate the health care practitioner - health insurer relationship to any other industry.|||Because, as you've figured out, it doesn't work. Communism, like universal healthcare, looks good on paper, but it doesn't work either.|||There are private hospitals within some universal health care systems and they do make a profit however the concept of universal health care is treatment before profit. It's called humanity.|||ANY business run by ANY government will fail due to the natural tendency of bureaucracies to perpetuate themselves without limit, increasing costs and red tape just to support the needs of the bureaucracy.





Libs just don't get that government and business DON'T mix...|||You mean aside from the USA ? I don't know. Maybe some of our financial experts in the health care industry can help them out. If their socialist leaders are willing to listen that is. God bless.|||You cant compare it to garages





Insurance companies arent going to waste time on long term prevention when they can just insure healthy people and drop sick people from coverage





Its too easy for them|||Haha. I like your style cowboy.|||healthcare costs money and it ain't free. so it's not a right paid for by other people.|||The VA system is quality health care? Have you ever been to a VA hospital? They are dirty, crowded and under serve our Veterans. Ask any Veteran what they think about the VA system.


What service does the Government provide that is self sustaining and efficient? Before you say the post office, please remember that they are currently going bankrupt and are closing branches.


You want to cut a large expense from health care, how about tort reform? many of the procedures performed are done as a medical legal procedure, this is done to protect physicians from unnecessary lawsuits by predatory lawyers. Notice how Obama and the Democrats don't want to talk about Tort reform. I also noticed you didn't mention it either. Can a Veteran sue the VA administration?|||Because you cannot have success and profit both. If the people are paying through the government for their health care, why should anyone make a profit out of them. Actually, now I come to think about it, that creeping selling off of service provision to private comapanies is what's happening here in the UK and what do you know? It's still isn't working. Making a lot of American companies a lot richer as a result, though.|||does a garage work on a car knowing they won't get paid? no. do you buy a lexus or porsche if all you can afford is a cobalt? no. if you can't afford it than you don't get it. its the same in any business whether its health car, car care, home remodeling, etc. i would not expect a doctor to work for free as i would not want to work for free. that's why health insurance is so high, doctors and hospitals have to make up for the people that expect free health care cause they can't afford it|||As an RN with a BS degree, I believe while Obama's plan is flawed, it's really the only game in town. Either we get health care or we keep going on without it. Illegals get it free. Welfare recipients and poor people get all kinds of care funded by the government now. That won't change with whatever plan goes into effect. Under the law now, all poor children are entitled, children of working families are not if the parents are not covered. Therein lies the rub.





What I want to see is making the Senators, Legislators and Congress get the same coverage as the REST of us. Until that happens, lawmakers will always be held to elite status and way above the rest.|||What is your definition of success in health care? If you're talking about having the best rates in actually saving lives.. then the current US, for profit health insurance system is a success.





Certainly not something Obama is going to mention, but the US health caree system is the best in the world at SAVING lives. We pay a lot, but it's the best.





Secondly, using the VA as an example of good government health care shows how poorly you've through this argument through. The VA is HORRIBLE. It is the symbol of everything that is WRONG with government run health care.|||I did not drop out from high school. My GPA was 3.75, If you are trying to persuade, then might I suggest not insulting your audience.





On government inefficiency, I guess you missed yet another article all over the news today about how SS recipients are going to receive less next year, with even less in 2011. IF the government can fix either SS or Medicare, then I will be all for considering UHC. But, alas, despite me being a presumed high school drop out, I am not that naive.





edit: Our military is the best in the world in spite of the inefficiencies of the government that funds it.|||let's say I own an acre of land, and I plow it, purchase seeds, plant wheat, harvest the wheat, take the wheat to a mill and pay to have it ground into flour, purchase ovens, purchase pans, roll the flour into loaves and baked it into bread. I did this with every intention of selling my bread and making a profit. You are my neighbor. You put a swimming pool on your acre of land and grew pretty flowers. Winter comes around. You are hungry. I have bread, You ask me for free bread, I tell you I need paid for my bread. You get the government to take my bread, because you convinced the government that based on your need, you have more of a right to my bread than I do.








Next growing seasons rolls around....What in the hell makes you think I'm going to plant any wheat?








Same thing here. You are walking up to the table with NOTHING but your need for health care. You want a small portion of society, "the rich," to pay for your health care, based on nothing more than your need.|||The answer is simple. Paying less for procedures doesn't make them cost less to provide. The problem does not lie solely in the profit being made by insurance companies. The cost of practicing medicine is incredibly high. Even a single payer non-profit plan will not eliminate that problem. Unless something is done to address cost, rationing will occur at all levels, private and public. I also ask that you speak with a veteran who's had serious health issues and had to rely solely on the VA. I think you'll find that many are not receiving the excellent care that you speak of, nor do Medicaid recipients. Medicare recipients fare a little better, but most of them have supplemental private plans to make up for the gaps in the public coverage.|||Good thing you truly weren't addressing HS dropouts or you'd have more auto mechanics responding ;)





You are one of the fortunate ones who has NOT apparently been grossly ripped off by a mechanic's garage. Many, on the other hand, have. My neighborhood garage price gouged me on a muffler which was fixed in April and STILL rattles like there's a pissed off cat inside.





Greed breeds corruption in private industry and govt.





I had to contact my State Atty General regarding my car's auto dealer mechanic. I brought my car in for a faulty belt, which fell off in a parking lot. I had to have the car towed to the dealer to get fixed. THEN I received the recall on that very GM car only to find that since my problem happened BEFORE GM admitted there was a prob and the letter went out my repair bill was not covered.





No mal-practice insurance coverage in the auto repair industry. It's a crap shoot.|||for the reasosn below








making money from healthcare? - how american





healthcare is about looking after people where i live not about making profits











to sum it up: only a fool would have big business run health - - now if you can get a government that cares about its people more that oil and money there is hope