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I am an American citizen living in Italy.

A few years ago I bought an Icelandic bond through my investment broker and in that time the Icelandic Krona was greatly devalued.

There appears to be a law now that forbids foreigners (me) from holding Icelandic Krona.

I would like to have the Icelandic currency in hand and use it to purchase some goods in Iceland, but my investment house says this is not permitted.

Is this true?

How can I legally take possession of the Icelandic Krona?

Am I the only one who regards Jack Osbourne as a fat, no-talent little rich kid whose Daddy (Ozzy)

bought him whatever little fame he has?

I am a 73 year old married, retired airline pilot living (happily) in Italy.

If anyone exists in this world less political than myself, I have yet to meet him or her, and I intend to keep it that way.

I also consider myself to be, if not the smartest person in the world, fairly intelligent and, above all, fair.

Now I am not taking a position one way or another regarding our President's accomplishments and/or failures during his first 2 years, but I would like to make an observation and then ask my question.

It seems to me that President Obama has been trying his best to get some legislation and some Bills passed. (If that sounds amateurish, I told you I was apolitical)

It also seems to me, that he has had an unusually well-orchestrated series of continued, practically all-out oppositions placed in his path by, sorry to say this, folks: the Republicans.

Now, since I am anticipating hysteria, finger-pointing, denials, false accusations and slights upon my manhood and legitimacy, I want to get to the bottom of this.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a reliable source of facts re: ALL of President Obama's proposed legislation, bills, amendments etc....their outcome and what form of opposition (numbers and which party) these proposals have faced since he has been in office?

Specifically, what I am interested in finding out is: have ANY Republicans voted in favor of ANY of President Obama's proposals since he has been in office?

Thank you very much in advance.

First of all, may we at least recognize that Health Care in the United States will NEVER become a reality unless our taxes are raised?

If you are an advocate of Health Care providers, please do not even bother answering this question.

If the abuses to our citizens by these so-called Health Insurance providers are not apparent to you, there is no reasoning with you.

I keep hearing this question, and it appears to be a valid one.

Why indeed?

You WILL hear an occassional Muslim cleric come forward (probably ordered to do so) and pay lip service to the need for more moderation on the part of his extremist brethren, but that's only so it can be said that: "yes, we did come forward"

No....No.... we're taking about the poor little woman on the street in a bourka coming forward and saying something like: "What's with these nuts flying into skyscrapers?...we LIVE here!"

Answers, my Muslim friends?

Over the years, in Europe, I have watched Larry King's interviews on CNN, scheduled from 1100-1200 noon, as, time and time again, and mostly for the most innocuous happenings, his program has been interrupted for so-called "Breaking News"

Today's interruption simply was too much.

Larry's guest was Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.

At least for 20 minutes, I was treated to one pure gem of an interview.

To hear the Justice's thoughts, expressed in words so sensible and clear, was a breath of fresh air; pure gold!

And then! Interrupted! Breaking News!

Just as Justice Breyer started to talk about the Court's decision re. the Bush-Gore election deadlock!!!!

For the coverage of the Pope's visit to England!

I watched for 15 minutes as the Pope's airplane sat on the ground at the airport, then was towed in,

then the stairs pulled up, then the soldiers marched on, then Prince Philip...etc..etc..etc ad nauseum.

Your opinions please!

I just got done watching Sicko for about the 4th time.

Each time I get angrier and angrier.

Partly for the sorry situation of Universal Health Care in the U.S. and partly for the critics of Pres. Obama's proposed Health Care Plan.

So, my question to you critics of both this movie AND Pres. Obama's plan: What is it about the movie you do not like?

Are his facts in error? If so, which ones?

If his facts are correct, why do you disagree?

If his facts are in error, please give me your reference sources.

Thank you all for your answers.

I'm very interested in the percentage of women who feel that they must be in love prior to having a sexual relationship with a man.

My question, then, would be: (to satisfy the Yahoo censors) "Do you have to be in love with a man prior to having a sexual relationship with him"?

Please feel free to expand on the question beyond simply a "yes" or "no".

Also, I would appreciate it if you would include your age. (confidentiality guaranteed)

On a TV talk show this morning, the inability to visit one's same-sex partner while he was in the hospital (only "spouses" were permitted visiting rights) was mentioned.

We need approval for same-sex marriages because of this? Obviously not.

But we will be re-defining the meaning of "marriage" if there are (and, there probably ARE) other worth-while reasons for doing so.

Now, having said that, is there no other alternative to allowing same-sex partners to live, and function as a legal couple without infringing on the age-old male/female- natural parents of

a baby-to-be definition of the word?

Why does a concept that has been in existence for ages have to give way to a fairly recent change in our structure of society?

Would it not be easier all-round to just CALL it something different?

Does it HAVE to be in a church or City Hall?

Why the pomp and ceremony? Why does it have to be sanctified? Would that hospital been more readily appeased if the same-sex partner had his marriage-license with him? Or a ring on his finger?

What's next with this dumbest of all "god's little creatures"?

I swear......dogs have more common sense than human beings.

No wonder Muslims hate us.

This is not the first time this has happened.

Another rung on Yahoo Answer's slide into the cellar or is there a good reason?

Elizabeth Edwards (wife of politician John Edwards) was on Larry King today.

Another in a long line of "aggrieved" ex-wives, spilling the beans on all of her husband's faults.

I notice that not many men, if any, have been so ungentlemanly, or have had such little class as to let the whole world see their ex's faults.....warts and all.

Does anyone know of any similar books, written by a man, explaining HIS side of the story?

Because. Lord knows, there ARE other sides to the stories.

One never reads, in the wives books, for example, why a wife would wear flannel granny pajamas to bed.......or why she would show up in bed smeared all over with "body cream"........or why she would never stay in bed in the morning when there is jogging to do, or markets to attend....why a marriage would go 10 years without the husband ever receiving a "bravo juliette"......or seeing his wife in black hosiery and garter belt.

Of course...these are all signals she is sending the husband....she's trying to tell him something...OK..understood.....but why go and complain and go public when he finally leaves her for a woman who does not mind wearing high heel shoes to bed?

Someone please tell me where my thinking is at fault here.

To be a member of islam, one practices the tenets of their religion as set forth in their koran (or whatever the proper spelling is this week).....and it must be practised UNCONDITIONALLY!.....yes?....no?

If that is the case, and if the koran preaches subjugation of unbelievers, or death to those who blaspheme the religion, how does any muslim have the gall to consider themselves "peaceful"?

One either accepts the koran, in toto, or not at all......there's no middle ground.

You are a member of islam or you are not.

You cannot selectively ignore those sections of the koran that you do not like.

Have our islamic friends (small "i" intentional) come forth with a reason for selecting the site of ground zero as a site for their new "community center" complete-with-mosque?

I have read that during the early ages, it was common for the brothers of islam to construct mosques on the sites of victorious battles during the early religious wars. There, the construction of a mosque would be a symbol of the subjugation of islam's conquered enemies.

Has the islamic community voiced any particular reason for selecting that particular site?

I haven't read it anywhere, if they have.

Is there anybody out there as sick of hearing and reading about Palestein and Israel as I am?

My friends, this has gone beyond who is right and who is wrong!

This is becoming a very small world, and the noisy neighbors have GOT to go.

The rest of us would like to get some sleep.

The United Nations, that eunuch of a peace-keeping organization, is there ANY clout remaining in it's charter? Why is it even still in existence?

Just read where, in Rome, doctors have successfully transplanted 2 windpipes using stem cell technology (a type of transplant which heretofore was medically impossible)

We in the U.S. instead, were treated to 8 years under the George W. Bush administration to his religious philosophy as to why stem cells should not be used.

I wonder if his religious idealism would have been so shortsighted if a member of his family had been suffering a type of cancer that might have benefitted from an allocation of government funds for stem cell research.

Where does a president of the people (some of whom have no such religious beliefs) come off dictating how funds (which in the final analysis belong to ALL citizens) should be allocated?

How was this ever passed by Congress or the Senate or whatever office should have had a say as to how these funds were to be allocated?

How do personal religious beliefs of a president get to hinder medical research in a Democracy?

Are we (were we) living in the Middle Ages?

T. Boone Pickens, legendary Texas oilman, knows what he's talking about.

I mean, the man has only made umpteen billion dollars in the oil industry.

Is anybody listening to him?

He has been touting natural gas for a number of years now as an effective replacement for a number of uses normally assigned to petroleum.

What's the status, if any, of an increased development in the collection and use of natural gas?

In response to a question posted by a Yahooer named Sid, the following was offered up by a respondent named, appropriately, Rupert G.

First, however, the question was: "What exactly did Sarah Palin do to get her so unpopular in the States"?

The answer, posted by Rupert G, was more of a rant in Palins defense, denying anything remotely

negative attributed to Palin. Too voluminous to quote it all, but the following has to do with how she was literally "sued" out of the office of Governor of Alaska.

I quite honestly have heard nothing regarding these so-called lawsuits.

Can anyone offer any documentation as proof?

Rupert G's partial answer follows:

QUOTE: They forced her resignation at Governor of Alaska because they totally bombarded her with every frivolous lawsuit they could imagine. She worked full time and was almost bankrupted trying to defend herself in the courts. All of the lawsuits have been thrown out of court, but it still prevented her from continuing as governor, so she quit her post for the betterment of her state. She wrote a biography to try to recoup the money she spent trying to defend herself. UNQUOTE

I read this in a comment on the story re: Joint U.S.-South Korea naval maneuvers.

That was this "person's" opinion......that "god" made the U.S. a super power.

There were close to 1000 comments on this news item and the number of comments invoking "god" in one way or another, were so numerous, it almost made me want to throw up.

Is this what this country has become?

A refuge for religious nuts?

God is being invoked for every human foible from LIndsay Lohan to nuclear armament.

Is it too late for me to move to Sweden?

How many of you out there really feel like this? (i.e that "god" has made the U.S. a super power?)

It's 10:45 AM Milan, Italy time.

Let's also see how long it takes our thin-skinned religious friends to get this question removed.

Twice I tried to enter a question re: finding foreclosures and my question was not accepted.

Reason given: "Fault 999"

What's going on?

I read where the catholic church has accused the Associated Press of conducting a "smear campaign" because of their recent headlines concerning, once again, world wide allegations of pedophilia and sexual abuse of minor girls on the part of some of their priests.

"Smear campaign"? by the Associated Press?

What reason would the AP have in wanting to smear the catholic church?

Are these allegations true or are they not?

What news agency or source, acceptable to the catholic church, may we citizens query

in order to get the truth about these allegations?

I am a father and grandfather and I WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH!!

I ONLY HAVE access to newspapers and television!!

I do NOT have an inside line to the truth...... as so many catholics claim to have!!

Every news agency that has reported on these abominable acts by the priests has been accused, by the catholic church, of partiality, dishonesty, exaggeration.....you name it....the church says they're guilty of it.