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Seems to me that the founding fathers would not recognize our current form of government. I advocate voters booting every single incumbent in office, limit terms of government service in the house and senate to four years, rescind their lifetime pay and lifetime healthcare benefits, and expect them to once again represent the people and NOT special interests and big money. What do you think?

Seriously, "how do I masturbate better", "anyone know any interesting sex games?" Come on people, this section is for HEALTH questions. Wish yahoo would create a section for sex education.

I just read an article that points out that people in general and even our government treat the women back from Iraq as non-persons. They make it seem these women did not fight and therefore were not really "soldiers". Well wake up america, women have died in combat in Iraq, women have been wounded in combat in Iraq and women take every single risk that the guys do. SHAME ON US for allowing this to happen!!! What are we going to do about it?

I have always felt it was trust. If you cannot trust someone, you cannot be a true friend to them, nor can they be to you.....so what's your opinion?

anyone else having difficulty getting into yahoo email?

There are a great many people who are trying to feel good without facing the fact that life IS hard work, that we're constantly faced with difficult decisions, and that we are responsible for how we treat others.

When we had a more cohesive society, it may have been easier to feel good because the rules were clear. It has been observed that a fundamental change of focus in our culture has come about because a sense of well-being has become our only goal, rather than a by-product of pursuing a superior common goal. Individuals ceased to be thought of as public citizens whose behavior was evaluated according to an external moral standard; instead citizens began to be thought of as sick and whose behavior was an uncontrollable manifestation of medical illnesses. In other words,we used to feel good or bad about ourselves because we were comparing ourselves to the standards of our society; now we see feeling bad about ourselves as a disease, feeling good as a fundamental right. In the old days, if we felt bad, we changed our behavior; now if we feel bad, we take a pill. There were of course dangers and disadvantages inherent in evaluating ourselves by social standards, but it was a system that had generally served humanity well enough for all of recorded history. Now, we are in completely uncharted territory.

I about bust a gut, best answer sent to me thirty times for one question, wow.

Just wondering how you deal, how do you cope with knowing your flesh and blood is out there, their life on the line every single day that they are deployed? Mine is, and I don't think I am coping too well. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

"You Worry Me"

> This pilot hit the nail on the head in his open

> letter. He needs to be awarded a Medal

> for having the TESTICULAR FORTITUDE to say all

> this in a very profound way!

>

> The newspaper stated today that some Muslim doctor

> is saying we are profiling him because he has been

> checked three times while getting on an airplane.

>

> The following is a letter from a pilot. This well

> spoken man, who is a pilot with American Airlines,

> says what is in his heart, beautifully.... Read,

> absorb and pass this on.

>

> "YOU WORRY ME!"

> By American Airlines Pilot - Captain John

> Maniscalco

>

> I've been trying to say this since 9-11, but you

> worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked

> down the streets of this country that I love, that

> your color and culture still blended with the

> beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country.

>

> But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and

> it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it

> anymore. People from your homelands, professing to

> be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my

> fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20

> years now I don't fully understand their grievances

> and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the

> inhumanity of their attacks.

>

> On September 11, nineteen ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked

> four jetliners in my country. They cut the throats

> of women in front of children and brutally stabbed

> to death others. They took control of those planes

> and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of

> proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents,

> elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches,

> fearless public servants, and children's mothers.

>

> The Palestinians Celebrated, the Iraqis were

> overjoyed as was most of the Arab world. So, I

> notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't

> want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and

> prejudice that have destroyed the soul of these

> terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational

> American, trying to protect my country and family in

> an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to

> tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim

> terrorist.

>

> How do I differentiate between the true Arab /

> Muslim-Americans and the Arab Muslim terrorists in

> our communities who are attending our schools,

> enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities

> under the protection of OUR constitution, while

> they plot the next attack that will slaughter these

> same good neighbors and children?

>

> The events of September 11th changed the answer.

> It is not my responsibility to determine which of

> you embraces our great country, with ALL of its

> religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with

> all of its faults. It is time for every Arab/Muslim

> in this country to determine it for me.

>

> I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a

> right to know, whether or not you love America? Do

> you pledge allegiance to its flag? Do you proudly

> display it in front of your house, or on your car?

> Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah

> will bless this nation, that He will protect and

> prosper it? Or do you pray that Allah will destroy

> it in one of your Jihads? Are you thankful for the

> freedom that only this nation affords? A freedom

> that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of

> thousands of patriots who gave their lives for this

> country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by

> also paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love

> America?

>

> If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to

> start letting ME know about it.

> Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be

> flooding the media at this time with hard facts on

> your faith, and what hard actions you are taking as

> a community and as a religion to protect the United

> States of America.

>

> Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the

> death of the innocent because I worry about who you

> regard as innocent. No more benign overtures of

> condemnation for the unprovoked attacks because I

> worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not

> interested in any more sympathy. I am only

> interested in action.

>

> What will you do for America - our great country -

> at this time of crisis, at this time of war?

>

> I want to see Arab-Muslims waving the AMERICAN

> flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting

> "Allah Bless America " I want to see young

> Arab/Muslim men enlisting in the military. I want to

> see a commitment of money, time, and emotion to the

> victims of this butchering and to this nation as a

> whole.

>

> The FBI has a list of over 400 people they want to

> talk to regarding the WTC attack. Many of these

> people live and socialize right now in Muslim

> communities. You know them. You know where they are.

> Hand them over to us, now! But I have seen little

> even approaching this sort of action. Instead I have

> seen an already closed and

> secretive community close even tighter. You have

> disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed

> security guards at your facilities. You have

> threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for

> protection from reprisals. The very few Arab/Muslim

> representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were

> defensive and equivocating.

>

> They seemed more concerned with making sure that

> the United States proves who was responsible before

> taking action. They seemed more concerned with

> protecting their fellow Muslims from violence

> directed towards them in the United States and

> abroad than they did with supporting our country and

> denouncing "leaders" like

> Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat.

>

> If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance

> and peace and love for all people, then I want

> chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from

> popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is

> it if the teachings in the Koran are good, and pure,

> and true, when your "leaders" are teaching fanatical

> interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance?

>

> It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE if huge

> numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the

> teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a

> degenerative form of the religion. A form that has

> been demonstrated

> to us over and over again. A form whose structure

> is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and

> suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the

> prisons around the world. A form whose members (some

> as young as five years old) are seen day after day,

> week in and week out, year after a year, marching in

> the streets around the world, burning effigies of

> our presidents, burning the American flag, shooting

> weapons into the air. A form whose members convert

> from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms

> against the great United States of America, the

> country of their birth. A form whose rules are so

> twisted, that their traveling members refuse to show

> their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the

> name of Islam.

>

> We will NEVER allow the attacks of September 11,

> or any others for that matter, to take away that

> which is so precious to us: Our rights under the

> greatest constitution in the world.

>

> I want to know where every Arab Muslim in this

> country stands and I think it is my right and the

> right of every true citizen of this country to

> demand it. A right paid for by the blood of

> thousands of my brothers and sisters who died

> protecting the very constitution that is protecting

> you and your family. I am pleading with you to let

> me know.

>

> I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my

> friend, as a fellow American.

>

> But there can be no gray areas or ambivalence

> regarding your allegiance and it is up to YOU, to

> show ME, where YOU stand. Until then. "YOU WORRY

> ME!

recently a man asked me what I needed to be ultimately pleasured...

so I told him in explicit and definite terms exactly what I, and I think most women, need to be ultimately pleasured, which includes more of a verbal than actual physical stimulation. He proceeded to say that what I said seemed too manipulative for his taste. So, tell me, why does a man want to "manipulate" a woman's body to the max and balks at "manipulating" her mind, when she even tells him that is what she needs? I suspect it is because this particular man was rather young....but I am not sure. Any opinon guys?

I quit smoking three days ago, the withdrawal isn't pleasant but it is bearable...but, today, I passed out and have been feeling wasted all day. Checked my BP and it was 84/ 50, HR was 68. (Norm for me is 116/78 HR 90) Question is, did the medication cause the hypotension with the nicotine out of my system?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070622/ap_on_hi_te/ja...

I am not Wiccan, tho I respect that organization, but I love an excuse to celebrate!!!!

I am spending five points to make this statement, and I will never again address sunburn!! Due to increases in greenhouse gasses, the radiation we recieve from the sun is magnified, much like a magnifying glass will condense the sun's rays to the point of starting a fire. People who never in the past burned are burning now. USE SUNSCREEN, limit the time you spend in the sun. Deaths from skin cancers called Melanoma are at an all time high and are climbing. The damage you do to your skin in your youth, will result in cancer when you are an adult. Protect your children, protect yourselves or pay the bloody fatal consequences!!!!!

I went to answer a health question and got a pop up window saying I'd filled my quota of answers....level six is supposed to be able to answer unlimited questions.....computer glitch?

tried to respond to your query but the email wouldn't work. blood is supposed to clot, that is what it does when it is no longer circulating. So if you don't have severe pain and clots the size of your fist or larger, don't worry about it.

He moved out here to be with me, and it isn't working for me. He is perfectly happy. I don't want to cause unnesessary pain, but I can't go on like this either.