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  • How much did the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Insurance Co. donate to Joe Wilson's 2006 congressional campaign?

    I need to know how much money Congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina received from the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Insurance Company for his 2006 mid-term election.

    3 AnswersElections1 decade ago
  • Are goodbyes always sad?

    Today, I bid a fond farewell to Yahoo Answers people. I will not open it again. Yahoo Answers has provided me with an ability to share my vast experiences and educational knowledge, being able to help others. But life is too short for me to have to put up with an individual who has taken all my pleasures away, simply because I have a high education and am a professor in a Chinese university.

    This person also sent me an e-mail and wrote horrible things about my mother, who passed away in 2002. She was a wonderful Christian woman who loved life and helped others.

    I have been receiving treatment for liver cancer; this has left me with very little to do, except enjoy Yahoo Answers. But my life is truly too short to have to put up any individual and his crazy tees.

    He has lost to me, although I was merely competing with myself. For some ungodly reason, he thought his meanness and smirks at others was cute, telling foreigners to learn English, while he can barely speak English.

    18 AnswersCommunity Service1 decade ago
  • Why are the USA lawmakers going to send more troops to Iraq, just because Bush promised the Iraqi PM?

    The Iraq PM has spoken against the Israel fight against Hezbollah, even though Iraq is supposed to be a USA allly. Isn't it time for “We the People” to delete some of these stupid lawmakers. As for Bush, do the people need to send letters to congress to tie his blood-stained hands? How many more USA soldiers are going to die?

    By the way, I am a decorated Vietnam War veteran. I don't need to be asked if I love my country. I make these comments because I do love my country and I know Bush is dividing Americans and causing poverty. This Iraq thing is not a war on terror; it is Bush showing he is the man. I know; everyone is a dumb A$$ except Bush; he knows everything.

    A man who professes to know everything is either a dictator or a fool.

    2 AnswersGovernment1 decade ago
  • Atheists, can you provide any evidence that God does not exist?

    It seems the Christians, Jews, Muslims, and other religions have documentation that describes and explains God. Even the Dead Sea Scrolls are religious. But, there are no scrolls that say there is no God. I find this fascinating that a great majority of the world believes in God, but the Atheists have no documentation at all to give them anything, except emptiness.

    28 AnswersReligion & Spirituality1 decade ago
  • Are you a Vietnamese living in the Quan Loi/ Anloc area?

    I was in the First Infantry Division during the Vietnam War; I was based at Quan Loi and was assigned to the Anloc air strip many times.

    I am seeking an Amerasian lady that would be 37 years of age. I believe her mother's name was Phoung, or something like that. The 37 year old woman was born in Anloc City in the province of Binhlong in South Vietnam in either February or March of 1969.

    2 AnswersOther - Vietnam1 decade ago
  • Did George Bush fail economics in College? Did he fail Christian values for fellow Americans in Church?

    Budget woes hit Army posts nationwide

    By LIZ AUSTIN, Associated Press Writer Thu Jul 6, 3:51 PM ET

    FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas - A diversion of dollars to help fight the war in Iraq has helped create a $530 million shortfall for Army posts at home and abroad, leaving some unable to pay utility bills or even cut the grass.

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    In San Antonio, Fort Sam Houston hasn't been able to pay its $1.4 million monthly utility bill since March, prompting workers in many of the post's administrative buildings to get automated disconnection notices.

    Fort Bragg in North Carolina can't afford to buy pens, paper or other office supplies until the new fiscal year starts in October.

    And in Kentucky, Fort Knox had to close one of its eight dining halls for a month and lay off 133 contract workers.

    "Every time something goes away it impacts a person ... a soldier or their family or one of our civilians," said Col. Wendy Martinson, garrison commander at Fort Sam Houston,

    5 AnswersOther - Politics & Government1 decade ago
  • Is Aishwarya Rai one of the most beautiful women of all times?

    I have been watching beauty pageants for over forty years and can't remember a single woman as totally beautiful as Aishwarya Rai.

    19 AnswersOther - Beauty & Style2 decades ago
  • Why do most nations ban Muslim girls from wearing the Muslim head scarf?

    Corinthians 11 (3-10)

    But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered, dishonoreth his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoreth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn or shaven; but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered. For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

    The United States is the only Country with a Muslim Minority that has laws to protect the Muslim head scarf in schools. Americans are not such infidels. (It is not a Christian issue)

    2 AnswersOther - Society & Culture2 decades ago
  • What is the meaning of this literary work?

    Yes, I the awakened

    (March 3, 1968)

    As that wondrous song bird lands upon expectations of glee, tears are tumbling like boulders felled by landslides. Her heartbeat blows inward upon a wayward breeze; but the wayward thwarts my bliss like a beguiled serpent. There, the thunder is calling from the distance as marauding darkness is ever closer; slap after slap upon my face are stinging hail stones that are tormenters for this warrior from the far shore.

    That blackness spawns tremulous wind-blown protrusions; they are fashioned death arrows. Every barb is of well honed steel, targeting this heart, ruthlessly without worry of the deadliness. As my gazes are past the marauding darkness, the beguiled serpent is serenading her heart. But hark back at my sadness soul; the wondrous song bird sang melodious accolades, knowing my heart is protected by a golden shield.

    2 AnswersOther - Arts & Humanities2 decades ago
  • In South Carolina, USA, should Lieutenant Governor Andre Bouer be above the law?

    He was just in a plane crash in upstate South Carolina.

    Lieutenant Governor Bauer drew attention earlier this year when the Associated Press found he had been stopped at least twice for speeding — once in December of 2005 and once in February — but was let off without a ticket.

    A normal citizen can't get this kind of royal treatment. Even the court system discriminates against white males. The courts even took out a warrant for the arrest of a man who lost a job due to injuries, and is unable to pay alimony. (no children). Is this life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Or, is this a case of judges being swayed by slick lawyers who have a father in the state senate?

    3 AnswersLaw & Ethics2 decades ago
  • If you take a plane from New York to California, which group would you be afraid to be on the plane with? Why?

    1.Atheists

    2.Buddhists

    3.Catholics

    4.Evolutionists

    5.Genieism

    6.Hindu

    7.Islamic

    8.Protestants

    9.Spiritualists

    10.Taoism

    21 AnswersReligion & Spirituality2 decades ago
  • Do Muslims not allow the women to enjoy the fruits of human rights? I am just seeking clarification.?

    The International Human Rights organizations are always making the argument about the Muslim women being mistreated. This was also taken up in the last UN meeting on human rights.

    15 AnswersReligion & Spirituality2 decades ago
  • Why are Mormons not inclusive?

    The thing I am disturbed about is their practice of not being inclusive. I dated a Mormon girl when I was a senior in high school; they really don't desire outside races. They learned I am half American Indian and asked me to go to another denomination.

    The other thing I have wondered is why they decided to dress up like American Indians and slaughter a wagon train of non-Mormons who were going west during the expansion west. Those people, who were murdered, were merely doing as other Americans; they were looking for a better life and a place they could worship in peace.

    11 AnswersReligion & Spirituality2 decades ago
  • Do you think traditional Chinese tea gives adequate benifits, or is it a myth?

    Since living in China for over four years, I have not used any medicine that is made from chemicals, and my doctor is a practitioner of Chinese Traditional Medicine. I drink Lo Han guo and Guangdong Herbal tea religiously.

    Since using the regiments of traditional medicines and teas, I stopped a thirty year smoking habit; there were zero withdrawal symptoms. I have written five 85000 word novels and over three hundred poems. I was the English linguist who edited the English, Latin, and Greek for the Journal of Human Anatomy, an international medical journal. I gave an hour long speech at the Southern Medical University, without notes or prompters. I led several seminars at the First Military Medical University and Southern Medical University. I was tasked to hold the seminars in English, requiring me to know ten fields of medicine. All the students were professors and instructors. The best part, I am dyslexic.

    3 AnswersAlternative Medicine2 decades ago
  • Who is Saba in the Muslim Religion.?

    He caused two dams to burst; they sent flood waters into the gardens; he caused the righteous to partake of bitter fruits. (I read this somewhere)

    7 AnswersReligion & Spirituality2 decades ago
  • This poem is a $1000 winner in a literary contest. What does it mean?

    Our two Hearts

    By: Larry C. McCormack

    (5-16-1988)

    Even as needful peers languish, my seeks are towards the far and grassy knoll of yonder passage. Even as all stillness of daydreams and thoughts upon passing softness of white are slowly pass, your trail is my eventuality; as I breathlessly listen to melodious songs.

    Oh hear my drumbeat; the cadence is my bequest, as hearkens are patiently hindering nigh descending the rampart high. But lo your rise from that beyond of my seeking, it sounds like thumps of galloping horses, as musical echoing with hearts that are a beauteous make.

    3 AnswersPhilosophy2 decades ago